At the beginning of August, just after midsummer and crisp autumn, Shen Xi was also studying in the new school, and he was less than nine years old, and he was already studying with fourteen or fifteen-year-old students.

He sat at the front of his class so that he could easily see the blackboard.

With the blackboard, the teaching efficiency of the school has been greatly improved, and when other schools heard about this good thing, they all asked for someone to make such a piece.

In the past, Shen Xi was short and easy to be bullied among his classmates, but in the new school, his status was not ordinary. Hui Niang, the owner of the school, is the president of the Chamber of Commerce, and the instructor Feng Yanqi and a few gentlemen attach great importance to him, and the students here are all children of the Chamber of Commerce, Shen Xi is among all the classmates, even if he is young, he is at the level of a big brother, and no one dares to provoke him.

After school that day, a classmate named Li Qi, who was sitting behind Shen Xi, patted him on the shoulder: "Shen Xi, a few of us are going to the wine shop today to get drunk, will you go?" ”

Li Qi is five years old and fourteen this year, and he should get married in two or three years.

These people are now in the rebellious period of their youth, they don't like to go to the river to catch fish or go up to the tree to dig birds' eggs, which only children like to play, and they are learning to do adult things.

"We're still studying, isn't it appropriate to buy drunk?"

Shen Xi directly refused. In these years, as long as he is a scholar, almost all of them will drink, and even Feng Yuqi will ask his wife and children to buy a few taels of wine on weekdays, invite a few old friends to drink, and recite poems.

Li Qi said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, Li Baidou has a hundred poems about wine, a dignified seven-foot man, only a thousand cups are not drunk, then it is called ability...... Don't worry, we don't tell outsiders that you drink lightly, just drink two cups and taste the taste. ”

"I'm being watched by my family now, so go by yourself." Shen Xi still waved his hand and rejected Li Qi's kindness.

Li Qi was not reluctant, several of them were older children, and they originally brought Shen Xi to show friendship to this young school, but they also knew that Shen Xi was young and it was not appropriate to contact wine too early.

Wait for Shen Xi to pack his schoolbag and go out. Yang Wenzhao waited at the door with a runny nose. Seeing Shen Xi, Yang Wen grinned and greeted, "Little cousin, I want to come to your house to play." ”

Yang Linghe is one of the earliest members of the Chamber of Commerce. He asked his son to come to the new school to study, in order to save the shackles for his husband. In Hui Niang, a school for the children of the Chamber of Commerce, each child only needs to pay some basic book fees. The funds required to run the school are either allocated from the quarterly fees of the Chamber of Commerce or borne by Hui Niang.

Half a year down. The number of students in the school is more than 90.

Although Yang Wenzhao is the same age as Shen Xi, Yang Wenzhao is still studying in the Mengtong class at this time, in addition to reading "The Analects", and then reading enlightenment books such as "Three Hundred Thousand" and "Kindergarten Qionglin".

"If you don't come home from school, aren't you afraid that your father will beat you?"

Yang Wenzhao's body shrank, and he smiled: "As long as I turn around and say that I am at my little cousin's house, my father and my mother will not beat me." ”

Shen Xi thought that every time this kid went to play at home, he would be bullied by Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er, two little Lori, but he was still tired of fart, like a little masochist. Sometimes Yang Wenzhao was bullied too badly. Shen Xi couldn't stand it, but he still flocked to it.

Shen Xi sighed: "Are you afraid of being beaten into a pig's head?" ”

Yang Wen Zhaole said: "The two sisters are very good to me, not only play with me, but also give me good food, how can they bully me?" ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, the relationship is to buy this kid with a little good food and drink. For the sake of Yang Wenzhao's body, Shen Xi declined Yang Wenzhao's request to be a guest at home, Shen Xi wanted to make the two little Loli into ladies, Yang Wenzhao's existence, but there was a guide to the two little Loli on the road of witches. This opening must not be opened.

Coming out of the school, Ning Er was already waiting at the door.

In the past, Shen Xi was alone in school and after school, but in the summer, there were kidnappers in the city, and several boys were lost one after another. Hui Niang and Zhou panicked, since then, Shen Xi had to take turns to pick up Ning'er and Xiu'er when they went to and from school, just for fear that something would happen on Shenxi Road.

"Little master, when you go back in a while, can you help me talk to grandma and let grandma give me a day off?" It's time to get back to the drugstore. Ning Er suddenly said in a sincere tone.

Shen Xi glanced at Ning'er: "Sister, something?" ”

"I didn't ...... It's okay, I'm ...... I have a relative here, I want to go and see it tomorrow......" Ning'er was a little flustered.

Shen Xixin said that he might be going to meet his lover.

Ning Er is the most scheming of the five maids, from the beginning of wanting to "seduce" him, he knew that Ning Er knew some means to win over men. But Shen Xi thought about it carefully, Ning'er didn't seem to have a chance to get out of the pharmacy except for picking him up and dropping him off from school, and it was unlikely that he would know a rich son-in-law, maybe a certain son-in-law was "hooked up" with her when he went to grab medicine.

"The pharmacy has been very busy in the past two days, and you may not be able to turn around, why don't you wait for a few days to ask for leave during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"He ......," Ning Er paused, "and he will leave in two days." ”

Shen Xi pursed her lips, Ning Er's excuse is too bad, what about relatives, not to mention that she is not a local, but was sold by Ya Po from other places, even if she really has any relatives, it is impossible to find out that she is in Tingzhou Mansion City.

Shen Xi said: "Then when my aunt comes back, I'll try it." ”

After all, Ning'er is almost sixteen, it is the age of spring, and it can't be said that people want to find a partner to marry, when Hui Niang bought them back, she said that she would marry them out in the future, and she was not ready to stay by her side as an old girl. But Ning Er signed a fifteen-year deed of sale, and she wanted to leave after only two years, which was a little unreasonable.

Besides, if there is really a rich son who takes a fancy to her, he will not marry her back as a wife, at most she will be a concubine, and when the time comes, it is better to stay in the pharmacy to make money to support herself, and when she earns enough dowry in the future to marry an honest person, she will have a settlement for the rest of her life.

When he returned to the pharmacy, he saw that Hui Niang had come back a long time ago, which made Shen Xi a little surprised.

The pharmacy business was only deserted for a while, and after Hui Niang invited the troupe to act, and by the way, she found patients to show up to do "advertising", and the pharmacy's business was even better than when it was the most prosperous at the beginning of the year.

On weekdays, Hui Niang is basically busy with the affairs of the Chamber of Commerce and the silver number, even if she comes back early, she will go to the printing workshop to inspect it.

After a year, the printing workshop received several batches of orders for color comic books from Su Shaqi, and basically never stopped working, and now the workshop not only prints color comic books, but also black and white comic books. The workshop has been expanded several times, and now the daily printing of comic books in the printing workshop in the capital of Guangting Prefecture remains at about 2,000 copies, and the racks of printing tools are like machines that make money.

After August, the printing workshop will start printing New Year's pictures for sale at the end of the year.

It can be said that the printing workshop has been on the right track, and before the silver horn has not become bigger and stronger, this is basically the most profitable business in Tingzhou Mansion.

"Xiaolang, you came back just in time."

Hui Niang called Shen Xi to the counter, brought Shen Xi a chair by the way, and asked him to step on it, "This is a colorful comic book sent by the shopkeeper Su, saying that there was a pirated copy in Nanjing, and that it may be a technology stolen from us...... Look. ”

Shen Xi took a casual look, except for the difference between the front and back covers, and the color of the paper, the others were very similar to the genuine in terms of workmanship, and even the thickness of the paper was about the same.

"Auntie, what does Shopkeeper Su mean?"

Shen Xi has always felt that Su Shaqi is an old fox, and now that he has cooperated in the color comic book business for more than half a year, this old fox may be ready to play tricks again.

"You want us to lower the price."

Hui Niang's words did not meet Shen Xi's expectations, "If there are pirated comics on a large scale on the market, it will have a great impact on shipments, and it will not work if the price is not reduced...... But the comic book has always been a decision made by you, and this time my aunt still listens to you. ”

Shen Xi shook his head directly: "No." Who knows if this is a ghost by himself surnamed Su? ”

Zhou interjected: "We make a lot of money, it's not easy to have an old customer, and it's not impossible to make a little less now." ”

"Mother, aunt, we are only responsible for printing comic books now, it is Su Shaqi who really controls the sales channels, and he is the most likely to make trouble behind his back, before we did business with him, he had found someone to copy our black and white comics...... This kind of pirated color comic strip, I think it is clearly printed by our printing workshop. ”

Hui Niang said in surprise: "How is this possible? This workmanship...... This color is nowhere near as good as our ......."

"Auntie, you may not know, the comic books we print are all our local Fujian paper, Nanjing's pirated comic books, it is impossible to transport paper from Fujian, you see this paper, the same as the paper used in our workshop, even the pressing process is the same. The surname Su can do things in printing, but he can't fake this paper. ”

Hui Niang looked at it carefully, but she didn't know how to distinguish the quality of the paper at all.

"Xiaolang, are you saying that Shopkeeper Su used the comic strips we sold him, and after finding someone to use fading and other processes to make a difference, he pretended to be pirated copies on the market, and took the opportunity to lower the price with us?" Hui Niang thought for a while.

Shen Xi nodded: "That's true!" ”

Hui Niang was a little worried: "Then if we ignore it, Shopkeeper Su will cut off our order, and the loss will be ours after all." ”

Shen Xi said with a smile: "It's best if he breaks the order, aunt, haven't you forgotten that we are behind the Chamber of Commerce now...... Since a few months ago, the Chamber of Commerce directly purchased spring tea from Dongting, West Lake, Taihu Lake, Yueyang and other places, and in the summer, it contacted landlords in Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong and other places, and had a stable supply channel for rice and wheat. Nowadays, we can purchase local products from all over the Ming Dynasty, why can't the things we produce be sold through this channel? We can't always rely on Su Shaqi to sell our comic books, and now we should open up the market by ourselves. ”

After all, the printing workshop is the most profitable of several shops and workshops, and she suddenly said that she cut off the channel to open up the market by herself, and Hui Niang is not very confident. After thinking for a while, she said: "This matter is still decided by my sister, after all, my sister is the big shopkeeper of the printing workshop." ”

Zhou shook her head, almost all the major decisions of the printing workshop were decided by Shen Xi and Hui Niang after discussion, and she didn't want to ask.

Hui Niang finally said: "If the shopkeeper Su really wants to break the order, then go back and ask those merchants who often come and go to Tingzhou Mansion to see if they are interested in undertaking business......

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