The residence that Yan Heng purchased in the county seat is a small mansion with one entrance, that is, a main hall and two wings.

The main hall and the side rooms are rectangular patios, with a sink under the patio and a drainage channel around the pond.

When it rains, rainwater falls from the patio and collects in the sink, and when the water is full, it overflows into the drain and then discharges out of the hospital, so that the hospital can be kept dry all year round.

This kind of building was often called Hui style architecture in later generations, and the biggest feature is the patio and horse head wall.

But what really reflects the essence of this type of architecture is not the size of the courtyard, but the carvings from the door number to the walls to each brick.

The small courtyard purchased by Yan Heng was built by a tea merchant, and the carving is naturally very exquisite, exquisite and vivid.

Father Yan Zhun was also very satisfied with this, and even Xiao Yan Song jumped up and down the stairs happily.

Only Yan Heng didn't have the heart to look at the decoration in the house, he was now walking and watching on the street of Fenyi County, and after walking about five hundred steps, he saw a bookstore.

Now it's just two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and the bookstore has begun to close, and Yan Heng can see that the business of this bookstore is not good.

Yan Heng couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when he saw the word "sell" hanging in front of this bookstore.

Although they have bought a shop on the most prosperous street, but to open a bookstore need printing equipment, thanks to the invention of movable type printing in the Song Dynasty, now in the Ming Dynasty, there is a relatively mature movable type printing process, and the promotion is also good.

Even the small bookstore in front of you has its own printing workshop.

Yan Heng asked the owner of the bookstore to agree and walked into the printing workshop of the bookstore.

In this workshop, Yan Heng can also see that there are hired workers fiddling with copper square characters, and the division of labor is very clear, some are installing copper blocks according to instructions, some are brushing ink on stickers, and some are simmering and correcting.

Yan Heng could see that the employees in these workshops were very skilled and diligent, even if the bookstore owner was not in front of him, he was not lazy, but one by one he had a sad look on his face.

"Alas", when Yan Heng came to the front of the bookstore, he happened to see the bookstore owner sighing.

Yan Heng didn't need to ask to guess why the owner of the bookstore sighed, because there were very few people who came to buy books in the entire bookstore, except for a few Confucian classics and some legendary scripts and almanacs left by the former Song Dynasty.

"Dare to ask this old gentleman, how do you sell this bookstore?"

Yan Heng asked, and the owner of the bookstore, an old man, said: "Since the guest officer intends to buy it, you can look at it and give a price." ”

Yan Heng looked at it, he was not optimistic about opening a bookstore in this area, after all, it was very close to the low-level people's settlement area in the county, and there were many manual laborers in this area. ”

"I don't want your shop, I just need the paper, ink and fonts in your house and the printing equipment, plus the contract of this group of hired workers, how about I give you a total of fifty taels?"

A set of courtyards is only a few dozen taels of silver, and now he Yan Heng does not want this shop, as long as worthless equipment and printing workers who are already unemployed, so he raises a relatively low price.

The boss readily agreed, he himself was actually reluctant to sell the shop, after all, it was also an ancestral thing, but he didn't know how to run a bookstore to end up in such a situation.

In fact, the boss has long wanted to turn his bookstore into other shops, but these printing employees who follow him have signed a death contract, and they don't know anything else.

And he, the boss, has to support the families of these hired workers, so it is difficult to change to other shops, so he can only sell the shops directly and distribute some money to the old employees who have worked hard with his family for decades.

Now that Yan Heng only needs a set of almost useless things printed and hired workers who have become a drag on his boss, there is naturally no reason not to allow this boss.

As a result, Yan Heng easily obtained a complete set of printing equipment and a group of skilled employees.

Yan Heng returned to his shop with this group of employees and this set of printing equipment.

The shop he bought himself was between the Yuanhe Wharf and Xuxue, which was the most likely place for Confucian scholars to appear, and it was also the most lively place.

And this shop is not small, it is still two entrances, the front hall has no left and right wings, directly facing the street, the pavement door is almost as wide as the same wall, and it is composed of a rectangular wooden board inlaid in the sill groove to form a whole plank.

Now Yan Heng unlocked the lock, asked the hired workers to take off the wooden boards, and asked the hired workers to move the printing equipment to the back hall, which was naturally to be used as a printing workshop.

In the wings on both sides of the back hall, the east wing is the storeroom, and after the hired workers have cleaned up the cobwebs and dust, they can put some dry materials such as lime and sand, and then they can put the printed matter later.

The west wing is two large rooms, one is a large shop where the hired workers sleep, and the other is the kitchen, which is naturally the place where the hired workers make a fire and cook.

These hired men knew that they had become Yan Heng's people, and in fact they were equivalent to his Yan Heng's servants, but for them, it was already good to be able to continue to work, so they didn't care who the master was.

The hired men were afraid that the new owner would blame them for being lazy, and they were busy asking if they would start working next and what they needed to print.

Yan Heng took them directly to a tavern for a big meal, and asked about the origin of each employee, and even told these employees that he would give them a tael of wages a month, and apologized for his lack of manpower and sufficient funds to make food.

However, the hired workers were grateful, and did not complain about not having enough to eat, because the only hope they had before was that the whole family had enough to eat.

In the Dream of Red Mansions, the monthly salary of the eldest maid, that is, a first-class slave, is generally one tael of silver, and it can be seen that the monthly salary of one or two silver is already considered a high salary in this era.

And now Yan Heng, as the new master, gave them a salary of one or two silver a month, which was unimaginable for them, and he couldn't help but think that the young man in front of him was a kinder person than the previous master, and he was grateful for it.

"Childe's words are simply tormenting us, Childe is so gracious, not only invite us to eat so much good wine and food, but also give us wages, how dare we be greedy enough, people who are not greedy enough are thundered by the sky, and Childe also has a big kitchen here, we can buy rice and vegetables by ourselves, and it doesn't cost much, Childe can rest assured."

The hires all said so.

Yan Heng was also very moved after hearing this, he really didn't expect that in the Ming Dynasty, the requirements of such a skilled old technician could be so low.

But Yan Heng still made a promise, saying that in the future, he would expand the shop and give each family a separate bedroom and kitchen.

The employees hurriedly praised Yan Heng for being considerate, and they all said that they were used to the Chase shop, and everyone was already familiar with each other, so there was no big problem.

Yan Heng was very satisfied with this.

And from this moment on, his bookstore will officially open.

Yan Heng named the title of his book "Wenqu Study", which is naturally to seek good luck for customers.

After all, the people who came to the bookstore these years are basically people who are engaged in reading, and they all think that they are literary stars.

Yan Heng's name for this book shop is to capture this psychology of the literati.