When Qi Min saw the three of them, he immediately ran over with a smile, and the three of them retreated several steps together. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Wait!" Li Xiangzhi looked around in horror, only to see Qi Min followed by a servant girl in her twenties, but her face was expressionless, her facial features were upright, and her face was yellow.

"You...... You...... How did you get here? ”

Qi Min said with a displeased face: "Didn't you say yesterday, I'm going to go out with you!" ”

Wen Zhengming said embarrassedly: "What we mean, how can you hide it from your family...... Well, it's your father-in-law......"

Qi Min suddenly smiled and said, "My husband can't control me!" I can come out if I want to, hehe! ”

Li Xiangzhi glared at Zhang Mengjin fiercely, and the meaning of that look was: Didn't your uncle use my strategy?

Zhang Mengjin pouted helplessly: I used it, but the effect is not good!

I really don't blame him for this, even if his painting skills are high, how can he draw a woman into three points, not to mention that he painted it after he went home, let him show it to his subordinates, and people are generally blind. He doesn't know how to sketch.

Zhang Mengjin moved his body, grabbed a shopkeeper, kept whispering, and his eyes still drifted to Qi Min from time to time.

Qi Min looked at Zhang Mengjin suspiciously, and Li Xiangzhi immediately said, "Ahem...... This Second Lady Su, we went to a vulgar place, how could we let you be like this...... Such...... Uh......"

Wen Zhengming said: "A ...... with noble status and elegant temperament"

"Yes, yes, you're not the right place to go."

Qi Min's youngest daughter pursed her lips and said, "But I just want to go with you to see it, I'm too bored, they don't play with me at all, and it's not fun." ”

The two of them looked at Qi Min's expression, and their scalps tingled for a while. At this time, Zhang Mengjin coughed lightly: "My printing workshop is near the northern suburbs, and the location is relatively ......."

"What's the big deal, the farther away the better, it's best to leave Suzhou City and go out to play!" Qi Min said with a look of hope.

Wen Zhengming said helplessly for a while: "Aren't you afraid of meeting bad people." ”

"Giggle...... I'm not afraid, this Suzhou City...... Uh-no! There is no place to be afraid to go in this Suzhou Prefecture. Qi Min looked proud. Then Qi Min frowned and said, "If you don't take me there, I will burn down your shop tomorrow." ”

"Ugh!"

Zhang Mengjin was either afraid of the little girl's bold words, or dragged his hind legs, if he made any rumors, it would not be good.

"The little lady can go if she wants, but on the way we only care about going to ours, if you don't want to go, or if you feel bored, then we don't care, you just have to leave."

"Okay, gentleman's word, the horse is hard to chase!"

Zhang Mengjin also felt a burst of disdain in his heart: "Who is a gentleman with you, yellow-haired girl, not a yellow-haired woman!" ”

Wen Zhengming spread his hands and said, "Let's go!" ”

After about half an hour's drive, Li, Zhang, and Wen plus Qi Min's master and servant came to a village in the far north, the place is big, but it is more remote, and the people who live are not rich and noble, so the land price here is not very expensive compared to Suzhou City, and it is not cheap.

"How much is such a big workshop worth now?" Li Xiangzhi asked casually.

"This place is big, covering an area of nearly one acre, and there are about 1,000 taels."

"So expensive?" Li Xiangzhi was slightly stunned, one thousand taels was already a lot.

"Our Suzhou is developing rapidly now, not to mention that this is still in the city, even the manors outside the city are about to be bought out. That's a reasonable price. If it weren't for this thousand taels of silver, my father wouldn't have been worried, but he sold it directly, but this printing workshop could have done business before, so it's a pity to sell it! ”

The large courtyard covering an area of one acre is vacant and empty, but there are many workers who are busy working in it.

Qi Min said curiously: "This is where the book is printed?" I'm going to see how they work. ”

The helpers in the yard saw a few people coming in, and when they saw Zhang Mengjin, they all called out in a friendly manner: "Young master!" ”。 Now that the printing workshop has changed hands, everyone understands in their hearts that these low-level workers have no education and are not qualified to change jobs, and the only thing they can do is to please the new boss.

Li Xiangzhi looked at the printed paper covered with Li in the yard, and his eyes were straight. At a cursory glance, there are as many as forty or fifty employees, and I heard Zhang Mengjin mean that now that novels are hot, the printing house must make money, but this workshop is so small that it receives a list on weekdays, such as small yellow books, or those clumsy yellow pictures of the market, or the same, plus some low-priced self-funded books. After Li Xiangzhi heard this, he was speechless, these things that are not in the flow can support this workshop, which shows that the printing workshop is still profitable.

"Meng Jin, look at these papers, they're too bad." Li Xiangzhi picked up a finished book and flipped through it.

"I asked the steward here, and these books were popular in the market, and they were sold to poor scholars. Although the paper is a little worse, there are still people who come to buy it. ”

"What do you mean...... Piracy? ”

"A must!"

Li Xiangyi rolled his eyes and said: "No wonder this workshop has not improved, this is Xiao Daoer, if you want to operate it formally, you have to go on the right path, what kind of money can you make from low-end road goods?" Making money from rich people is the right way. At least the paper should be put up, the typesetting should be fine, and then sign a super god writer such as Chendong, Dancing, Tomato, and Jixia Pseudo-Xueshi......"

Zhang Mengjin smiled bitterly: "How can I not understand these Taoists, but you don't know how high the cost of this printing workshop is, the top two printing workshops in Suzhou City alone must have a starting capital of more than 50,000 taels, and the labor consumption is hundreds or thousands." ”

"Uh...... Ahem, these capitals must be unaffordable for ordinary businessmen. ”

"Oh, it's boring...... It's all boring stuff. At this time, Qi Min, who was tired of playing, said with interest.

Li Xiangzhi was disdainful for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Second Mrs. Su, this is something that is not interesting in the first place, it is better to ...... You two, please go back first, right? ”

"No, I finally ran out to play, and I just went back, so I wronged my hard work for this day."

"Then I can't help it, I'll have to stay here later...... Oh, stay for three or five hours. ”

"What? Three or five hours? It's going to be the middle of the night, isn't it? ”

Zhang Mengjin said sharply: "Yes, that's right, we originally planned to spend the night here tonight." ”

Qi Min pursed his lips and reproached bitterly: "I hate it, I really hate it!" ”

When Zhang Mengjin saw Qi Min's youngest daughter's posture, he suddenly looked confused, and he was a little stupid.

"Hey! Mengjin, why do I feel a little bad? ”

Zhang Mengjin suddenly broke free from the confusion, and Li Xiangzhi snorted at the two.

I saw seven or eight people coming out of the inner courtyard, all dressed neatly, and stepping out in unison with their burdens. Li Xiangyi knew at a glance that these people were the head of the house, and they were either dug into the corner of the wall or changed jobs by themselves.

"Steward Liu, Zhang Caotou...... What are you? "Zhang Mengjin is not a fool, so he naturally understands what they want.

That Steward Liu said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "Gongzi Zhang, please forgive Liu for not waiting for him." A few of us are asking you to resign. ”

Suddenly, some of the busy workers in the courtyard suddenly stopped what they were doing, and they all looked at Zhang Mengjin and others with some anxiety.

Zhang Mengjin hurriedly said: "Steward Liu, although it has only been half a month since our Zhang family took over this workshop, my Zhang family is still very confident that the workshop will continue to be cultivated." If you are not satisfied with today's wages, you may wish to bring it up, as long as it is reasonable, I Zhang Mengjin still has some right to call the shots. ”

A few people muttered for a while, and the Zhang head said: "I am dissatisfied with Zhang Gongzi, and I have already signed a contract with the Liu's workshop in the south of the city, so ...... Please also Zhang Gongzi Haihan! ”

Li Xiangzhi, Zhang Mengjin, and Wen Zhengming were stunned for a moment.