Yang Huairen suddenly remembered that this Qin shopkeeper was one of the top booksellers in Tokyo at that time, and his business was doing well, which confirmed that every line had a certain line of Taoism.

There are more bookshops in Kaifeng Mansion that do book printing and selling, and Qin's shopkeeper can be a leader in the industry, which shows that he really has the talent and brain to do business.

The same is the printing of books, Qin's shopkeeper knows how to use the most trendy font to make movable type molds, when Sima Guang was the prime minister, people used Sima Ti, and when they changed Lu Da to prevent Chunren as the prime minister, they changed Lu Ti and Fan Ti, and now Zhang Dian is the phase, and people immediately changed the chapter style.

Maybe everyone thinks that they are all reading books anyway, and it doesn't make much difference who prints the books in whose font they use.

But this is also to say, in private, which scholar does not buy books printed in his font in order to curry favor with the most powerful people in the court today, so as to learn their font?

When taking the imperial examination, if you don't know how to be the prime minister's font, it is difficult to get a good evaluation of the test paper written in the font of others.

This is the atmosphere among the literati in reality, if you don't give in, you will only lose the list, no matter how high you think you are?

Of course, this is not just what the shopkeeper of Qin can think of, but other booksellers are not as capable as the shopkeeper Qin, and the ink treasures of those who are in power are not easy for an ordinary small bookseller to get.

Not only that, the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji was very respectful of Han culture, and also encouraged the people of Liao to read and write, and learn the ideology and culture of sages.

Qin's shopkeeper realized the business opportunities of Liao, sold the books to the Khitans, and went to the Dading Mansion in Dading, Zhongjing, Liaozhong every year to sell books, and brought back a large number of furs and sold them into silver.

Yang Huairen thought of this, and suddenly connected the fellow uncle that Yang Lotian said with Liaoguo, and asked urgently, "You mean, you heard the news of your father from your distant cousin of the same township?" ”

Yang Lotian lowered his head embarrassedly and muttered, "Well, when I met this cousin that day, I casually chatted about family life and some things in my hometown."

As he spoke, he suddenly said in a hurry that when he followed the shopkeeper Qin to Liao to sell books, he met the father who ran away from home many years ago......"

"So you're going to Liao to look for him? Don't blame him for abandoning his wife? ”

Yang Lotian hurriedly shook his head, "No! At first, the apprentice thought that the cousin was joking, or just looked away, the apprentice's father was Han, why did he appear so far away from the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, Liao State?

But when my cousin saw that I didn't believe me, he said that it wasn't a joke, he not only met, but also said hello and said a few words, and the apprentice's father also asked him if the apprentice's mother and son were doing well. ”

"So when you heard that he still remembered your mother and son, you relented? So you want to go to Liao to find him? ”

"It's not soft-hearted, it's ...... It's ......"

Yang Lotian seemed to be very embarrassed, "I just want to ask him face to face, why did he leave our mother and son alone and go away by himself?"

If he wants a better life, then forget it, and he will only be regarded as a passerby from now on, but what if he is also in trouble?

For example, for example...... After he went out, he was captured by the Khitans and taken back as a slave? It's not that he doesn't want to go home, it's that he can't help himself?

If this is the case, can the son, who is a son, bear to watch his father suffer at the hands of a foreign race and not ask? ”

Yang Huairen fell into deep thought, like Yang Letian's conjecture, Yang Huairen has not heard of it, not only the Khitans, but also the Western Xia people often take away some poor and powerless people from the border areas of the Great Song Dynasty, and then return to their own country to sell them like livestock.

These people were sold to Fanbang, and they could only do some low-level work, and their lives were miserable.

Yang Huairen is also a son, so he can naturally understand Yang Letian's feelings, he originally thought he was an orphan, but now he suddenly found that his father was still alive.

He thought that his father abandoned his wife and left home, but now he found that there was another possibility, that his father was taken away and sold to Liao to work as a coolie, and he was tortured in the world.

Now he wants to find out what happened back then, and he wants to rescue his father who is in deep suffering, which is indeed a normal idea.

Yang Huairen patted Yang Lotian on the shoulder, "Master understands." It's just that you should have told Master about this earlier, and Master is not an unreasonable person, and if he knows about this, he will definitely take you to Liao Kingdom in a bright and bright way, and will help you find your father. ”

Yang Letian's eyes were red with excitement, and he suddenly got up and knelt in front of Yang Huairen, "Master's kindness to the apprentice is as heavy as a mountain, and the master's kindness is unforgettable!" ”

Yang Huairen dragged him up again, "How many times have I told you, where did you get so many courtesies, if you want to do this again, Master really thinks that you have seen something else." ”

"Uh-huh, I know."

Yang Huairen remembered Fang Cai Yang Letian's words, and asked again, "Then your cousin from your hometown, do you know what your father is doing in Zhongjing Dading Mansion now?" Where do you live? ”

"This ...... Uncle Cousin really didn't say anything, it seemed that they were in a hurry to meet at that time, and my father behaved very carefully, as if he was afraid of something, they only talked a few words, and he left in a hurry.

Uncle Cousin naturally couldn't know whose house he was a slave in, let alone what kind of work he did, but I remember that at that time he had an apron wrapped around his waist like the one worn by the cooks in our back kitchen, and he also had a vegetable basket on his arm, and that day, he should have gone out to buy vegetables. ”

Yang Huairen asked again suspiciously, "Hey, you can't, your father is also a cook, right?" ”

Yang Letian's eyes widened suddenly, "Master, the apprentice remembered one thing, although I was still very young at that time, I still have some impressions in my memory that no matter which family in our village married a daughter-in-law, or the elders had a big birthday, they would come to the house and invite my father to cook big dishes for them."

At that time, my father always took me with me, who had just been able to walk, and he always stuffed a piece of food in his mouth for me to taste.

I can't even remember what he looked like, but the smell is still fresh in my memory when I think about it now. So I begged for food and got to Kaifeng Mansion, so I thought about going into a restaurant as a buddy. ”

It turned out that Yang Lotian wanted to become a cook, and it was his father who gave him the initial enlightenment influence, Yang Huairen smiled comfortingly, "Don't worry, your father may be a cook in a restaurant in Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, and when we get to the place, the master will immediately send someone to find out his whereabouts." ”