Chapter 22 Boss Lin's leisurely life
After meeting for the first time, Xie Sanyuan no longer hindered the two from meeting, and after coming into contact with movable type, the bookstore owner, who was already in a state of mixed eating and waiting for death, seemed to have rekindled the second spring, and he was busy running around most of the day.
After the two signed the deed, Xie Sanyuan quickly set up a new workshop, and then spent most of the day in the new workshop, thinking about how to get the movable type out early.
In this process, Lin Zhao provided a lot of suggestions and opinions to Boss Xie, but as a layman, he did not participate too much in the development process, and most of the time he stayed in Sanyuan Bookstore to watch the store.
Soon, almost a month passed.
During this time, Lin Zhao went back to take care of Zhao Xie who was sick in bed at night, and went to Sanyuan Bookstore to see the store normally during the day, and occasionally sat with Xie Sanyuan to discuss some problems in the workshop, of course, during this time, he also wrote a few letters to his mother to report his safety, which probably meant that he was studying in the city and asked his mother not to worry.
Lin Zhao's mother, Lin Erniang, is very obsessed with fame, no matter how hard she has lived for so many years, she has not complained at all, she only thinks that her son can find a way out in the scientific examination, if she knows that her son is working in the city, most of them will come to the city and arrest Lin Zhao back.
For the sake of his own great cause, Lin Zhao had no choice but to lie to his mother, saying that he had found a school in the city, and the reason why he didn't tell his mother that he was studying in the Lin family's family school was because with Zhang's mean nature, he would most likely tell Lin Erniang about the situation in the city.
During this time, with Xie Sanyuan's unremitting efforts, the first set of wooden movable type has been basically made, and this morning, Xie Sanyuan was very excited to return to Sanyuan Bookstore with a white paper full of black characters.
At this time, the clothes on his body were almost covered with ink spots, and it was obvious that this Boss Xie had worked very hard in the past month.
"Lin Zhao, look, this is our first set of movable type printed single pages!"
At this time, it was already April, Lin Zhao was calculating the income of the bookstore in March at the counter, after hearing the boss's words, he stopped the brush in his hand, took the paper and looked at it, only to see that although there were still some unclean ink on this paper, the overall handwriting was already very clear, although it was inferior to the traditional engraving, but it was not bad.
Lin Zhao put down the piece of paper and said with a smile to Xie Sanyuan: "The owner is moving so fast, to this extent, it can already be sold in the bookstore, which one is the owner going to print first?" ”
Xie Sanyuan's eyes were bloodshot, and after he sat down and took a sip of tea, he said: "I've been busy with this all this time, and I haven't thought about which one to print, Lin Zhao, you have a more active mind, which one do you say we should print first?" ”
Lin Zhao lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said slowly: "That...... How about printing a thousand copies of "Blue Mountain Collection" first? ”
The Blue Mountain Collection is the texture of Lin Jian, Lin Jian Lin Yuanda, in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty has a bit of fame, as a native of Yuezhou, his reputation in Yuezhou is greater, but there are not many people who buy books in this era, so even if it is Lin Jian's hometown Yuezhou, there is no engraving of the Blue Mountain Collection.
Xie Sanyuan pondered for a while, and said: "Large-scale printing, you have to inform Yuan Dagong, and you have to share some money with Yuan Dagong." ”
"I'll say this, and you can print it."
Lin Zhao smiled and said: "But most of the people who read books want to write books, and Yuan Dagong will be happy when he knows that we will print books for him." ”
Xie Sanyuan nodded and said, "In this case, from tomorrow, I will start printing the "Blue Mountain Collection", but the pricing of this book still needs to be discussed." ”
"Even if the owner goes to print, the matter of selling books will be left to me, and I can sell all of them in two months at most for a thousand books."
The Blue Mountain Collection now only has a manuscript, and the price of the bookstores in Yuezhou should be between the consistent money and the consistent five hundred dollars, and the cost of printing it is much lower.
Tanhualang's book!
Who in Yuezhou City doesn't want to climb the relationship with Yuan Dagong? Which scholar doesn't want to worship under the Yuan Da Gongmen?
Xie Sanyuan nodded, and just as he wanted to continue talking, he heard his daughter's crisp voice outside the store.
"San Lang, it's time to eat."
Xie Sanyuan's originally excited face immediately became gloomy.
In the past month, he hasn't stayed much in the bookstore, so when his daughter came to deliver food, Lin Zhao was usually the only one in the store, but he didn't expect that in just one month, his daughter's name for this kid has changed!
Xie Sanyuan walked out with a dark face, and saw his daughter, walking happily towards the bookstore.
Xie Sanyuan made a straight face and said unhappily: "One mouthful, one Sanlang, don't you see that your father is also here?" ”
Xie Yuran didn't know that his father was also there, and when he saw Xie Sanyuan standing in front of him, he immediately blushed a little, bowed his head and said, "Daddy is also here, I thought Daddy was in the new workshop." ”
Xie Sanyuan snorted, reached out and took the rice basket from his daughter's hand, and said, "Okay, you go back, I still have something to talk about with that kid." ”
At this time, Lin Zhao also walked out of the bookstore, and he nodded at Xie Yuran in thanks: "Sister has worked hard." ”
Xie Yuran first glanced at his father, then raised his eyes to look at Lin Zhao, and then lowered his head.
"Then I'll go back, you eat early, don't get cold."
After speaking, she turned around and left, just took four or five steps, glanced back at Lin Zhao again, and then hurriedly ran away.
After she walked away, Xie Sanyuan returned to the house with the rice basket, ready to sit down to eat, after opening the rice basket, he saw half a roast chicken in the rice basket, and Boss Xie was even more furious.
"No wonder your kid has gained a lot of weight in the past month!"
Lin Zhao was not angry, and sat down with a smile.
"Don't be angry, maybe it's for the owner to eat?"
"Nonsense!"
Xie Sanyuan said angrily: "If it was given to me, how did it send it to you first?" ”
Lin Zhao took the food out of the rice basket with a smile, put it on the table, and reminded: "The owner should eat quickly, it should be cold in a while." ”
"When our workshop earns money, I will buy a roast chicken for the owner to drink a day."
Xie Sanyuan pursed his lips disdainfully, and then sat down angrily.
He was angry, but after eating, he left the bookstore and went to the new workshop to work, the Blue Mountain Collection is a collection of Lin Jian's poems and essays over the years, most of which are articles written by him, adding up to nearly 100,000 words, movable type printing needs to typeset those words, which is also a time-consuming work.
After Xie Sanyuan left, Lin Zhao sat behind the counter and began to shake his head to calculate last month's account books, when a guest came in, he got up to greet the guest, occasionally some little maids walked into the bookstore, and did not buy books, just looked at Lin Zhao with a smile, sometimes some bold maids would deliberately put some sachets and other things in the bookstore before leaving.
Lin Zhao didn't care either, he usually put it away carefully, and when he saw it next time, he would return it to others.
Compared with Boss Xie's busy life, Lin Zhao is more like the owner of Sanyuan Bookstore.
Soon it was evening, Lin Zhao closed the shop as usual, locked the door and went home.
This kind of leisurely life, Lin Zhao is still very happy, at least it is much more comfortable than herding cattle in Donghu Town, the only bad thing is that I don't know how my mother is doing in Donghu Town.
At this rate, by the end of the year, he should be able to bring his mother from Donghu Town to the city.
Of course, this era is different from the previous life, the previous life said that if you live away from home, you will live away from home, but at this time, there are clans and rules, Lin Zhao is a young man leaving home, it is not a big deal, but it is not very easy to bring his mother out.
Especially there is also an annoying big mother.
The young Lin Zhao walked on the streets of Yuezhou City and let out a long sigh.
There are many more things that need to be broken by him.