Chapter Seventy-Eight: Harming Yourself and Benefiting Others

Very simple things, now more and more tortuous, Li Su deeply felt that the choice of not rushing into the court was extremely correct, he couldn't afford it, and he couldn't play it.

Cheng Chumo was not in a good mood, and he came to Taiping Village this time to apologize to Li Su.

"It's all my fault, smashed your shop, and the secret recipe for printing your books has been passed out, rest assured, the Cheng family will help you keep an eye on it in the future, looking at the world of Datang, if I know who has opened the same book printing business as you, this thing must have been done by him, not to mention abolishing him first." Cheng Chumo's chest snapped.

Li Su felt that Cheng Chumo's apology was unnecessary, and said with a smile: "Others have already targeted my printing technology, even if you don't smash my store, you will still come, and this matter has nothing to do with you." ”

"It's my fault, don't push it, there is no way to flow out of the secret recipe, you can only make up for it with money, you calculate how much you lose, and the Cheng family will make it up for you." Cheng Chumo's responsible attitude made Li Su appreciate it very much.

Li Su humbly refused: "I don't want the money, go back and persuade Uncle Cheng, I will be seven and three in the brewing workshop, and I will die outside your house in the middle of the night if I mention five or five points." ”

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"Your family has swept Chang'an for a while, and you are worried, do you have any suspicions?" Li Su asked the main question.

Cheng Chu didn't answer, hehe smiled.

Li Su couldn't help but give him a hint: "I'm afraid things have to be investigated from the source, such as ......"

Cheng Chumo quickly answered, and said in unison with Li Su: "For example, who gave her the Buddhist scripture that my mother (Lingtang) wanted to print." ”

After finishing speaking, the two of them shook their heads, and then looked at each other and smiled.

The Buddhist scriptures are indeed the source, if no one lends the Buddhist scriptures to the Cheng family's mother, there will be no such thing as Cheng Chumo smashing the shop behind, and there is no such thing as others hiding behind to pick up cheap things, who lent the Buddhist scriptures to Cheng Chumo's mother, that person will not be able to get out of the relationship.

"I can't see that you're also a wake-awake person." Li Su boasted.

"I'm not awake, my father is awake, he has already thought of it, he hasn't done it for the past few days, he plans to let the Cheng family establish a prestige in Chang'an City first."

"Who is the person who gave the Lingtang Buddhist scriptures?"

Cheng Chu smiled silently: "It is a Fengyi Lang from the sixth grade, surnamed Sun, nothing to wander around in Shangshu Province, nothing can be the main loose official, his mother-in-law used to know my mother at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chang'an's Furong Garden, but also quite good at stammering, come and go, the old lady thinks she is a clever person, so she often invites her to come to the house as a companion to chat some gossip, Buddhist scriptures are her ...... to the old lady"

Li Su blinked: "An official from the sixth grade, I'm afraid I don't have the courage to provoke your family, right?" ”

Cheng Chu pouted silently: "Lend him three more guts to try!" This thing is not over, it is deep, and it is estimated that the fire is almost the same after digging for two more days. ”

Okay, Li Su felt that he didn't need to talk nonsense, Cheng Biting Jin Jing, there was no need to worry about it at all.

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The matter was divided into two things, one was to investigate the source, and the other was that someone in Chang'an County forced Zhao's shopkeeper to confess, and the secret recipe of movable type printing was leaked.

The source has its own Cheng family to work on, as for the leakage of the secret recipe......

Li Su is not in a good mood, no matter how complicated things are, in fact, it is himself who suffers in the end.

Movable type printing is his only source of income at present, and now the store is smashed, the secret recipe has been leaked, and the shopkeeper is also in prison, a good thing that was originally very noble and served the Tang intellectuals has now become so disgusting.

The family's new house was almost built, but Li Su was in no mood to oversee the work.

The sun on the river beach was already a little scorching in summer, and it was not so comfortable to sunshine, Li Su sat in the shade of the tree, silently calculating the accounts.

Count left and right, it is still a loss, this account cannot be filled, even if the Cheng family now finds out the person behind him and crushes the bones and ashes, it is still Li Su who loses.

It's a loss!

Li Su looked up to the sky and screamed, a person who traveled through time, mastered the high technology that was hundreds of years ahead of the times, and knew 500 years before and 1,000 years later...... It's still a loss!

"I heard you crying wolf and being bitten by a dog?"

Dongyang's smiling voice came from behind him.

Li Su hung his head and waved at her lazily, which was considered to have been said hello.

"What the hell is going on?" Dongyang approached only to find that Li Su's face was not very good, his white was blue, and he couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Look at my face, do you have any comments?" Li Su pointed to his face and said.

Dongyang Qiao's face flushed, and she quickly turned her head, holding back a smile and throwing down a word: "Ugly." ”

"It's not ......objective," Li Su sighed: "Forget it, you may have stayed up late reading recently, and you are a little blind...... Don't you notice the word 'bad luck' engraved on my face? And the two words engraved are still flying white ......"

Dongyang looked at him carefully for a while, and nodded very seriously: "Sure enough, there are words engraved...... Did your dad beat you up again? ”

"My dad beating me up isn't bad luck at all, okay? If you see my father slashing me with a knife one day, that's bad luck......"

Dongyang paused for a moment, then sneered.

In the laughter, a piece of paper full of words appeared in front of Dongyang.

Dongyang's laughter stopped, and he looked at the piece of paper in amazement: "What are you doing?" ”

"Contribute to the imperial court!" Li Suyi was speaking, and his expression was so righteous that he was not pumping.

"What contribution?"

"The last time I used dirt to make a model on the beach, remember?"

"Yes."

"Do you know what model I'm making?"

"I don't know."

Pointing to this piece of paper, Li Su said: "It is called movable type printing, with it, the popularity rate of books in my Tang Dynasty is outrageously high, and within a year, we can achieve the Datong realm of 'everyone has practice, everyone has books to read'...... Uh-huh. ”

Dongyang didn't dare to take the piece of paper, but stared at him vigilantly: "...... How much money do you want? ”

"Free delivery."

"Don't believe it! Let's be honest! ”

Li Su: "............"

Without this trust, has the friendship come to an end?

Pointing to the secret recipe, Li Su explained one by one, Dongyang's eyes widened, and he quickly understood the mystery of movable type printing.

Looking at him in surprise, Dongyang's expression was complicated: "This is an amazing thing!" With it, there will be more and more books in the Tang Dynasty, and there will be more and more literati...... You came up with it? ”

"Of course."

"Now you're going to give it to the court for nothing?"

"Yes."

"Are you crazy?" Dongyang stood up suddenly, his expression becoming more and more surprised: "This is not like you, you are not so selfless, what about you who died asking for money before?" ”

Li Su began to reflect on his character......

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PS: There is one more ......

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