The next day, Shen Mingjun still did not go to Wang's house to work, but continued to accompany the old lady to find the eldest brother, Shen Mingwen ran away from home very resolutely, and there was no news when he left the city.

Although the old lady scolded fiercely, she was more worried than anyone else, and after thinking about it, she felt that her son might have returned to the countryside, so she specially sent someone back to Taohua Village to inquire.

Shen Xi didn't care about these things at all, and went directly to the new pharmacy every day after school, and Hui Niang directly put down the work in her hand and took him to find someone who knew how to print.

According to Shen Xi's knowledge, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the prosperity of commerce and handicrafts and the development of social and cultural development, the demand for books among the people increased greatly, which promoted the development of the printing industry, and Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Jianyang in northern Fujian were filled with a large number of printing workshops.

At this time, the engraving printing technology has developed to the point of reaching the peak, wooden type, copper type has also been widely used, at the same time, a kind of horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical weight, square font, widely used in printing, this is the later generations called Song style.

Ninghua is located in a remote area, and people who are proficient in printing books are extremely rare, but since they have decided to get involved in this industry, they can't find others to print on their behalf, and the printing workshop must invite experts to operate, and the tools also need to be bought now, mainly movable type and ink, and then some simple shelves, and paper. The finished books of this era were all thread-bound, and after printing, they had to arrange the page numbers for binding.

The last time he opened a tea shop, Shen Xi went out with Shen Mingjun, and he often needed Shen Xi to come forward to make peace, but this time he opened a printing workshop, and with Hui Niang, who can speak well, Shen Xi only needs to follow behind his ass as a small follower.

Because Hui Niang is the head of the Ninghua Pharmacy Chamber of Commerce, she is considered a person with status and status in the city, and as soon as she hears that it is the "goddess doctor" who comes forward, even if she doesn't know how to do it, she will recommend someone to come and try it.

Hui Niang saw them one by one, and finally selected a few familiar hands who had been engaged in printing in Jianyang, the "House of Books" and the "Famous State of Science", but returned to their hometowns for various reasons.

Once you've chosen a choice, the next step is to choose the location of the workshop and discuss the purchase of tools.

It was only three days before and after, and the matter was almost all done, and on this day, Hui Niang and Shen Xi returned to the pharmacy to talk to Zhou, and Zhou was surprised, he didn't expect the new business to be prepared so quickly.

"My sister still has the ability, if I let my family go out without conscience to do this, ten days and half a month may not work." Zhou praised from the bottom of his heart.

"My sister made fun of it, after all, you don't need to open a shop with a façade, the rented place only needs to be clean and tidy, and the light is good, a small workshop, the scale will not be too big for the time being, according to my sister's meaning, first print some books and try to sell them, if it's a good business, let's print it again."

Shen Xixin said that Hui Niang would do business, even if she felt that this business was profitable, she would not blindly invest too much at one time, and first print some to see how the market reacted, so that she could determine how big the demand was, and even if she lost money, she would not lose too much money.

In the next few days, Shen Mingjun never returned home, after all, his brother was missing, and he was worried and comforted his mother at the same time.

Because of the loss of his eldest son, Li had to temporarily put down the matter of taking over the tea shop, and Zhou felt that the business had been returned to the family, so she had no reason to take care of it, and there was no one to take care of the tea shop.

In the end, Han Wuye felt that something was wrong, and personally came to the pharmacy to ask the meaning of the proprietress of the Zhou family.

“…… I said madam, no matter how you say it, you are also the shopkeeper of the tea shop, you are so handy, how can we people live? These days, no one cares about the income of the shop, and the customers are many and miscellaneous, and it is a mess, which is really hard to get old. ”

Han Wuye's face was full of helplessness, even if he had a share of the tea shop, he still worked part-time after all.

In the past, although Shen Mingjun delegated power, he got up early every day to open the shop and close the door at night, and Shen Mingjun personally came to do it, collecting money and settling accounts every day, plus paying wages and dividends, Shen Mingjun also did a good job, and now Shen Mingjun and Zhou's family don't go, everything has to be done by Han Wuye, Han Wuye finished the accounts, and he was worried that the shopkeeper would suspect him of deducting it privately, and he didn't even dare to take his share of the dividends.

Although the guys below pay a lot of money every day, in the past, Shen Mingjun felt that the guys were tired, and he would always give some comforting "work-study awards", which was also the method proposed by Shen Xi to make the guys motivated.

Now that no one is in charge, Han Wuye doesn't dare to send money casually, and Song Xiaocheng and a few new guys are quite complaining.

"Fifth Master Han, it's not that the concubine doesn't want to go over, you have also seen it, this pharmacy is also busy, and I still have to take care of the children...... Otherwise, the daily intake, you always calculate it and send it over, I will calculate it myself, if there is no problem, the tea shop will be temporarily handed over to the fifth master to take care of it. ”

Han Wuye was a little anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Mrs. Shen, you not only want to torture me, but also torture me. I'm just a storyteller, the shopkeeper of this tea shop, but I can't do it. What about the little shopkeeper? Why don't you see him, the little shopkeeper has the most ideas on weekdays. ”

Encountering something difficult, Han Wuye finally remembered that there was also Shen Xi, a "wise star", looked around, and finally heard a sound of reading from the backyard, it turned out that Shen Xi was teaching Lin Dai and Lu Xi'er to read.

Han Wuye invited Shen Xi to the front and wanted to hear what Shen Xi meant.

In the tea shop, Shen Xi, the little shopkeeper, is still very popular, and even people like Han Wuye who are old and sophisticated admire Shen Xi's wisdom.

"Fifth master, since my mother said that you are in charge, you can take care of it. The business was originally run by your old man, and you deserve it. ”

Shen Xi said with a bit of compliment, "Besides, the business of the tea shop, you make more money, you get a lot of money, and your purse is empty if you make less money, think that even if my father and my mother don't believe in others, can they still trust you, the fifth master?" ”

Shen Xi is quite smart about business, and is not limited to a corner, his own business, you can ask others to manage it, just like the company hires professional managers, not everything needs to be done by behind-the-scenes funders, in his philosophy, daily operations and decision-making can be completely separated.

With Shen Xi's words, Han Wuye felt as if this was the case.

When the tea shop was first opened, the Shen family's father and son, plus him and Song Xiaocheng, now the number of buddies has increased, but he is also a veteran, and he gets a lot of money.

In order to avoid Han Wuye's storytelling and management of the shop being too tired, he simply decided that he would only talk about books for two hours a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, mainly responsible for the content of the new storyteller, and the rest of the time, he would ask other storytellers to talk.

Han Wuye's face was full of sadness when he came, and his face was full of ease and joy when he left, before the old lady of the Shen family officially sent someone to take over the tea shop, he was the shopkeeper of the tea shop, and even the attendance award only needed to be listed in the account book and tell Shen Mingjun or Zhou.

In a blink of an eye, on the first day of April, Shen Mingwen had been missing for seven days.

In the past seven days, not only Shen Mingjun was busy looking for his eldest brother, but even the people in the Shen family's big house and side branches in the county were also annoyed by the Li family's visit.

In the past, the Shen family had something to do, the Shen family gathered together, and the Li family always had his eldest son who was competitive and promising to be admitted to Xiucai in the future, which caused others to be unhappy, and now that Shen Mingwen is missing, others don't like to ignore it at all, after all, the generation from Shen Xi's grandfather has been separated, and each family lives its own life and has nothing to do with each other.

Finally on the afternoon of the first day of the fourth lunar month, Shen Mingjun heard that there was a Xiucai who was on a study tour and had met his eldest brother, saying that he was taking a picture in the official road post station on the north to Shaowu Mansion. Li didn't say a word, let Shen Mingjun hire a carriage, and chased him to the north without hesitation, and there was no news for two days after he left.

Zhou was very angry, in the past, her husband always used the excuse that he was too busy to come back to accompany her, but now he doesn't even do work for other people's things, and he even leaves his home aside.

Every day, Shen Xi was careful not to light the old lady's powder keg, in addition to going to school, he was helping Hui Niang get a printing workshop.

After this period of checking and filling in the gaps, the tools and materials for printing this book are finally ready, and there is no need to find any department to review what books to print this year, and there is no need to even go to the government to report them.

The scale of the workshop is not large, two book printing masters plus two helpers, a total of four people, the first to be printed is "Say Yue Quanchuan" and "Tong Lin Biography", the use of copper movable type, the first volume of the two books are printed 150 pages. Shen Xi has seen the sample draft, the font is too large, there is no punctuation between the lines, and it is quite difficult to read.

Although Shen Xi knew that China had punctuation marks as early as the pre-Qin era, there has been no unified standard, and at the same time, there is no habit of using it.

When he wrote a book for Han Wuye before, in addition to the blank space for the first two words, he also intended to leave blank space between the two sentences. I don't think it's anything when I write it, but when I print a book, I need a lot of blank type, and the book will look nondescript when printed.

Most of the books printed in these years were "textbooks" such as subsets of classics and histories and medical books, and after all, novels were meant to be read by people in the market, and the lack of gaps between passages would bring dyslexia and affect the readability of the stories.

In the end, Shen Xi decided to take the risk, as a revolution in the printing industry, and added some commonly used punctuation marks to it, mainly commas, periods, colons and quotation marks, which basically made a book read smoothly and easy to understand, without any problems in sentence breaks.

When Shen Xi showed the "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" and "The Biography of Tong Lin" that he had re-proofread to the master who printed the book, they also felt good, although it felt a little "alternative", but Shen Xi was the person in charge of the printing workshop after all, and even Hui Niang, who invited them to come, said clearly, but whatever Shen Xi asked them to do, they would just do it.

On the afternoon of the third day of the fourth lunar month, the first volume of "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue" was printed, with a total of 42,000 words in ten chapters.

Hui Niang was overjoyed after reading it, and the main reason why she was in favor of printing books was to facilitate her own reading.

After getting the sample book, Hui Niang was a little absent-minded when she had dinner, and after eating it in a hurry, she asked Ning'er and Xiaoyu to clean it up, and she was reading intently in front of the counter with a tung oil lamp.

Because Shen Mingjun didn't come back, Zhou's take the two little ones back almost until the second watch, originally Zhou stayed and chatted with Hui Niang about some women's private words, and each other could relieve the depressed mood, but Hui Niang only cared about reading books at the moment, and even the good sister who talked about everything on weekdays was put aside.

In the dead of night, Zhou took the two little ones back, Hui Niang didn't have the heart to go out to send them, Zhou came home and even said that Hui Niang had a magic barrier, Shen Xi laughed and said nothing.

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