Chapter 467: Business
Li Yao smiled, and now she finally knows why, this person can be snatched by the family, in fact, everyone is not stupid, it is because the imperial concubine, Fan Ying, who is clothed and beautiful, and the youngest servant of the criminal department, are pampered together, and they have no vices, so they are naturally the target of the family.
"Do you have to fix new books before they hit the shelves?" Li Yao decided to get down to business, which was the main reason why she came today.
Downstairs, on the table where people used to read books, sat some servants. They seemed to be very busy, and the table was full of new books, but even if it was a new book, in Li Yao's opinion, it was simply a book ruin.
Basically, they're an assembly line, the first one with a full load of new books in front of them, and a thick dozen kraft papers. The first servant was very skilled and had a whole brown paper. And in their hands were beautiful new books, on the beautiful blue covers, pasted with earthy brown brown paper, and even the spines were pasted;
The second servant took the kind of awl that put the soles of his shoes, and laboriously sewed the large thread of the quilt, and re-threaded the book;
The third servant's job was noticeably easier, and when a book was written, he wrote the title and number on the spine and on the paper. Read books, don't look at him relaxed, he writes very slowly, because if you make a mistake, you have to start again. After the third person is finished, he has to stamp the book seal of the library building and the number below, and the numbers are all printed, which looks ugly!
This made Li Yao, a perfectionist, unable to bear to look at it directly. But when I looked up again, I saw that the books on the shelves were like this.
But she understood, when the people in the capital were used to coming to the library to read books. The loss of books here is very large, so each book is no longer for collection or good-looking, but more practical attention.
Now she really admires the lazy imperial concubine in the deep palace. What kind of grand ambition would make her do such a great thing.
"You don't need to be there, you don't know how many people we come every day. Look here, the mother's favorite book, here, we have to change a batch of books in three months. There are too many people borrowing. You see, no one reads the Book of the Law except Liu Da. It's very clean here. Mrs. Fan Ying took Li Yao to visit, of course, next to the Law Book. There is also a small compartment, and the books there are also miserable.
Li Yao stretched out his hand and pulled out a copy to see, this little grid is full of detective books such as "Bao Gong's Case". Compared to the books of the Law on the side. Sure enough, it's not a grade at all.
Think about it. The books that have just been turned over a lot, and the books that will be used for the exam have also been turned out of shape. So even if it's really mushy and it's set again, it's actually scheduled to be updated.
"So I told my mother, I want to read, is it wrong?" Li Yao suddenly looked back at Mrs. Fan Ying. In fact, when she received the budget, she was shaken, is this really what she wants? She might as well ask the imperial concubine to send her a batch of books. She doubted she could do it that well.
"Why? It's like a mother likes to read, and now her books can read deeply. So you say you want to read a book. The mother supported it. It's because she is now a person who loves to read books and can read books. Mrs. Fan Ying smiled and led her into the last cubicle.
This is a relatively independent compartment, and the books on the shelves are the same as those popular books outside, and from the pages, they all feel like they are about to be turned over.
Li Yao took a copy casually, it turned out to be just a local chronicle, every place has a separate place, what is there to see about the local chronicle? Put it back and draw another one, it turned out to be a legend from the same place, and Li Yao stood in place and flipped it up.
She really hadn't read much of the local chronicles, which were generally compiled by the magistrates, which was one of the achievements of the local government. This kind of book, in fact, is really uninteresting in Li Yao's opinion. After turning a few pages, he glanced back at Mrs. Fan Ying. His eyes were full of doubt.
"See, there's a small room here, which is where my uncle reads. And the books in this cabinet are the only ones in the entire library that are not allowed to be borrowed. It can only be seen here. Otherwise, why did my uncle prepare a place here to read books? Before, we only looked for a few big cars of local chronicles, and these were selected by us. And over the years, businesses around the world have also been paying attention to the collection of local papers. So now, as long as it is the place of our Daxing Dynasty, there is no local chronicle that cannot be found here. Nowadays, as long as there are officials on assignment, there is no one who does not come here to read. Mrs. Fan Ying's tone was full of pride.
"So my library building doesn't need to be too big, Niangniang can really save it." Li Yao was a little frustrated, laughing as she spoke, but in fact, her tone was full of helplessness.
Although I was very touched by Mrs. Fan's pride, this pride also stung her. It's jealousy, but I didn't expect that this pride could make her feel jealous, because she felt that she would never reach this height.
She looked around just now, and it was really a little sad, this is the place she has been looking forward to reading, but there are not many books suitable for women. Not to mention, it can be seen by girls who have not left the cabinet.
"Why don't you want to think about it, Niangniang, looking forward to seeing you jump out of the world's barriers?" Mrs. Fan Ying chuckled softly.
Li Yao looked at Mrs. Fan Ying puzzled, they were not in a circle, so they had only met her once in the palace before. And at that time, she was silent, and when she didn't pay attention, she could make people forget her existence.
And at this time, in her own place, when it comes to the cause she loves, everything seems completely different, and she looks beautiful at this time. Now she can't believe the rumors that Mr. Fan Da has married an ordinary wife.
"This is actually what Niangniang did for her son, although Niangniang is not a little prince yet, but this is Niangniang's original intention. She wants to find all the strange books in the world for her son, and the real rare books and out-of-print books are kept in a special basement for the little prince to collect in the future. ”
Li Yao was still puzzled, why did Mrs. Fan tell herself this, Niang Niang prepared the world's strange books for her future prince, and then the library building was an incident, and an attached thing was made like this? She wanted to say that this was an unintentional insertion.
"Niangniang never wanted to do big things, and neither did our uncle. When the uncle built this building, he chose the mausoleum, you know? In order to save money, we spent a little freight at that time, but to buy other building materials, in fact, it was also freight. In order not to plant flowers, he used plug stones as a martial arts field, looking at it in order to strengthen his body, but in fact, it was to save money. So we spent almost nothing on this building. And we have a printing shop for these books, and we usually sell books at a good profit, otherwise, who can afford to raise them? But now, I think that our family has so much business, and this library is the most satisfying for me. ”
"Why?" Li Yao knew that the Fan family was absolutely rich and rivaled the country, but Mrs. Fan, who was so rich that she was the richest in the country, actually told her that the most satisfying "business" was this library. However, they are against the library as a business? Does the mother know? (To be continued.) )
PS: This chapter should be the one I changed the most, I didn't overturn and rewrite, just keep deleting, some dialogue, and then, write the most suitable sentence. As for the broken article, it's not that you broke it, but that I changed the scene.