After eating this lunch, Chu Tianxiu and Li Yu returned to Yu Garden.

Chu Tianxiu was busy with Zu'er, tinkering with his papers, making a fine paper book, and preparing to write his own books.

Li Yu and Di'er were in the study.

The papermaking workshop is in full swing, and the next few batches of dusk paper have been continuously sent to Yuyuan, except for the earliest small batch of paper that was sent to the small bamboo forest to fill the thatched house. There was too much left, and they were all hoarded in the vacant wing of Yuyuan.

Xiao Duhou gave her dozens of catties of Duhou paper.

The faint paper in her hand is so worried... I can't run out.

Li Yu was curious, and even secretly tried it shyly to see how easy it was. Is it really as fanatical as the Confucian scholars, and go to the small bamboo forest in order to ask for a piece of paper.

Sure enough, it's easy to use and very comfortable.

Husband is really a person who knows how to enjoy!

"Poems"

"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island. My Fair Gentleman, Lady! ”

Li Yu used a sharp brush to try it on paper.

A line of delicate mosquito and fly Lishu small characters, falling on the pale pink dusk paper, the pen is extremely smooth and comfortable. There was not the slightest sign of the ink spreading and blurring.

Di'er lay on the side and watched, her eyes widened in disbelief, and she was extremely surprised, "It's so beautiful! The county lord's handwriting, coupled with this pale pink paper, is like a dream. Di'er never thought that paper books could be written so beautifully! ”

Li Yu's heart is also happy.

Listening to Zu'er, in order to make her like it, Xiao Duhou deliberately added plum blossoms to the pulp and made it into pink paper, which smelled faintly fragrant.

Just this heart, it didn't live up to the five thousand taels of silver she spent.

"During this time, I copied all the bamboo slips of "Poems", "Spring and Autumn", "Liutao" and "Sun Wu" on the bookshelf with paper books, and it is estimated that I can be busy writing until Chinese New Year's Eve. In the future, I will no longer have to hold those bamboo slips weighing a few pounds to read, and my hands will be sore after reading a volume. ”

Li Yu rubbed his jade wrist and said with a smile.

"County Lord, but we have too much paper, even if we finish writing all the bamboo slips on the bookshelf, we won't need much paper. I can't use up the more, but my uncle insists on not wanting to take it out and sell it in a bookstore. The output of the workshop is very large, and the paper produced is all piled up in the wing, and it is almost full of a wing. ”

Di'er was worried.

Li Yu thought for a while, put a stack of hundreds of faint papers, and said, "Di'er, you will send this stack of faint papers to Princess Xiang Ling."

Last time, I asked her to say a few kind words to the emperor for her husband, so that he could go out smoothly, and I don't know how things are going.

I haven't thanked me yet, and I don't have a suitable gift. These new papers, rare things that can't be seen on the market, she will definitely like them when she sees them. ”

"Well, this paper is so beautiful, who doesn't like it! It's always snowing these days, and there's nothing to do in the house, and the princess just uses new paper to write, which is wonderful. ”

Di Er smiled and nodded, and immediately went to Princess Xiang Ling's mansion to send the newly baked stack of faint papers.

When Princess Xiang Ling saw these faint papers, she really liked them very much.

But Di'er's strange thing was that Princess Xiang Ling's expression seemed to be a little complicated.

...

The thatched house in the small bamboo forest of Pingwangfu was directly closed by an order of Pingwang Li Rong personally, so as not to damage the reputation of Pingwangfu again.

When the Confucian scholars and scholars of Jinling City heard the news, they were immediately full of sorrow.

Although they bitterly scolded the little faint marquis's conceiving style, they regarded such extravagant style as the object of struggle and criticism.

But they can at least get a piece of dim paper for free in the small bamboo forest thatched house, taste the freshness, and try how good the new paper is.

Now, the thatched house has been shut up by the prince in a fit of rage, and he can't even get a single one.

It's miserable.

In the whole market, there is no faint paper to sell, and they can't even get a single piece of paper. I don't know how to get the faint paper again.

Those who scolded the little faint marquis disappeared in an instant.

Before, the number of faint paper taken out by some Confucian scholars from the small bamboo forest was about one or two hundred, and the price of the speculation skyrocketed, and thirty or forty copper coins could not buy the goods.

Many Confucian scholars have seen the faint paper with their own eyes and know how good this new paper is, although it is expensive, it is worth the money.

It is hard to find faint paper, but its fame is getting bigger and bigger, and it has almost spread all over Jinling City.

Even the ladies of the gates and residences heard about this and were extremely curious. They don't write, but... I want to use it.

The ladies sent their cronies, maids, and grandmothers to the Pingwang Mansion to ask for paper.

There is nothing to sell on the market, but there must still be faint paper in the Pingwang Mansion.

They have their own way, they don't go through the front door, they go through the back door. Through the old maid of Pingwangfu, and then find Zu'er and Di'er in Yuyuan, isn't this paper!

It can be seen that it is not that there is no paper, the key is to find the right person.

The county lords, county lords, and eldest ladies of the mansions in Jinling City, who had some friendship with Li Yu, directly sent people to ask the county lord.

As long as you give enough money, there is always a way to get a faint paper.

I got the faint marquis paper from the Pingwang Mansion and came back to try it, and the ladies and ladies all sighed, "Little Dull Marquis, he is really the top man in the world." It's unbelievable that he actually used such a high-quality incense paper to wipe the filth! ”

"Jinling's No. 1 gentleman, deserves its name!"

"Whoa! Little Dusk Marquis, this gentleman.... It's so good at enjoying it, let's enjoy it too. ”

The talk of surprise among the ladies of the various gates even reached the palace. Even the concubines and concubines in the palace privately sent palace maids to Pingwangfu to buy paper.

They don't talk about the price, they just buy 100 or 100 pieces.

...

Li Rong, the king of Ping, recently went to the Taiwei Mansion to deal with military affairs, and he was a little annoyed and a little inexplicably happy.

I don't know where the bureaucrats of the Taiwei Mansion and those small officials inquired about the news, saying that the Pingwang Mansion is very useful.

They found him in private, asking for a little bit of faint paper to write... Not much, just a dozen, a hundred.

They are all officials of the same dynasty, or colleagues, and they come to the door for paper, so it is difficult for him to refuse.

Ah!

Look at them, it's just a few pieces of faint paper, and it's not a big deal, so eager to do it. Ming'er, he sent someone to ask the virtuous son-in-law to come.

What a troublesome thing!

The corners of the prince's mouth couldn't help but rise.

...

this day.

Xie Lingyun came to Pingwangfu again, and came to the door to ask to see his aunt Xie Liyuan.

"Nephew, I'm coming back to my aunt and asking for some faint paper to make books. ... This paper book is so convenient, go to other scholars to learn, no longer need to take heavy and inconvenient bamboo slips. It is very beneficial for my nephew's education. ”

Xie Lingyun blushed a little.

He once visited the palace and went to the thatched house in the small bamboo forest to get one. Take it back and write, and be amazed. But one is not enough.

The bamboo slips in his study were piled up into a hill, and it took at least a few hundred pieces of dim paper to replace them with paper books, which was barely enough.

The second lady was upset when she heard this, and her face was also embarrassed.

In the past few days, I don't know how many people have been looking for various relationships and ways to come to her, but she has refused.

It's not hard to get a paper.

The problem is that she has just had a secret fight with Li Yu and Xiao Duhou in the past few days, and she doesn't want to be left behind, so she goes to Xiao Duhou to ask for paper.

It's just that this Xie Lingyun is the nephew who has the best relationship with her in the Xie family, and he is also the first poet talent in Jinling that she is quite optimistic about.

The second lady pondered for a moment and asked, "I heard from someone that the Shen Mansion has recently released a new kind of paper, called Shen's paper, which is being sold, and it is only five copper coins. Why don't you buy some Shen's paper to use? ”

It's all paper, so it's not much worse.

"I've seen it, that Shen's paper is just the previous hemp paper, it has been slightly improved, it is too coarse, and the quality is very different. Nephew... I still want to use faint paper! ”

Xie Lingyun hurriedly complained.

He often had to go out to exchange literature with other lords and eunuchs in Jinling City.

A group of scholars each took a snow-white and beautiful faint paper.

Only he, Xie Lingyun, was holding a roll of yellowed and rough Shen's paper in his hand?

Does he still have face?

Can the Xie family afford to lose this person!

Shen's paper is five copper coins, and the paper is twenty copper coins, and there are only a few copper coins. He drew the beauty of the faint paper, and he was not stingy with these coppers.

Otherwise, others still think that he is the grandson of the Xie family, the prime minister, and the poor have no money to buy paper.

"That's it, you go back, my aunt will send someone to bring some paper."

The second lady thought about it, and also knew that face was very important to the children of the Xie family, and she must not be left behind, so she sighed.

In order to facilitate the nephews of the Xie family to study, they will not lose face in front of the gate lords and the children of the official eunuchs.

She could only put down the face of the second lady and send the chief manager of Qian to go to Yuyuan to find the little faint marquis, and even a little faint paper.

I remember that Xiao Duhou said that you can get paper with twenty coppers.

...

Mr. Qian got the instructions of the second lady and went to Yuyuan to ask his uncle Xiao Duhou for paper.

Coincidentally, his nephew also begged him today, wanting to spend twenty-two copper coins a piece of paper and take a batch out to resell.

Anyway, my uncle is, whoever gives the silver will give the paper. This changed hands, and he made a difference in the price of a few pennies for a piece of paper.

The money came legitimately, and he was not greedy, and he was not a bribe, so he was naturally willing to help him go to his uncle to ask for paper.

The two things were simply done together.

When the manager came to Yuyuan, he saw that the door of a wing room in the courtyard was very lively, and there was already a group of maids and grandmothers from the mansion and official family who didn't know which mansion or eunuch family they were, carrying some bulging things in their arms, and were queuing up in anticipation.

A few servants were shouting, "Line up, twenty copper coins a piece, a bag of one hundred pieces of silver and two taels of silver." Not sold in bulk, limited to 10 packs! ”

Chu Tianxiu crossed Erlang's legs, sat on the Taishi chair in the courtyard, shook the fan, and baked the stove under his feet, watching this lively scene.

Zu'er got the watermelon from the greenhouse and was feeding him the watermelon, smiling.

Manager Qian was a little strange, and hurriedly came to Chu Tianxiu's side, and immediately smiled, "Uncle... That one... The villain is a little trifle..."

"Buy paper?"

Chu Tianxiu glanced at Chief Manager Qian.

"Yes, yes!"

Manager Qian hurriedly nodded yes.

"Let's get in line!"

Chu Tianxiu pointed to the maids and grandmothers.

Manager Qian looked at the wing room surrounded by everyone and was directly dumbfounded.

This room is full of packets of faint paper.

On the other side of the chamber, there was a silver chest that was opened one by one, and there were scattered silver ingots one by one.

A few servants shouted and took the paper while collecting the money, and there was no time to collect the silver.

Look at the number of these silver ingots, at least there are a thousand taels of silver. There wasn't a single copper coin in it, because my uncle didn't sell paper in bulk.

"It's... It's only been a few days, and you have received a thousand taels of silver? ”

Mr. Qian's heart trembled.

He was in charge of the money and grain treasury and the income and expenditure ledger of the Ping Wang's Mansion, and of course he knew what this meant.

This is clearly a cornucopia!

Originally, it could all be under the control of the second lady and him. How big is the oil and water in this, just squeeze a little difference out, and you can eat a mouth full of oil!

His heart suddenly felt extremely sour.