There is such a good-looking little lady in this world! Cheng Qi looked at this girl carefully, and only felt that his soul flew into the nine heavens in an instant: but seeing that this girl's willow eyebrows were like daisies, apricot eyes were flowing, and her face was blown apart without Shi Yong's powder, and her slightly painted vermilion lips seemed to contain cherries. The clavicle under the light gauze is delicate and slightly concave, and the double-peaked tomb buds at the bandeau are clearly visible.

Cheng Qi stretched out his hand to help the girl up, and saw that she was wrapped in a gold ring with green silk, with pearls hanging from her ears, and a jade bracelet on her fair wrist. "Girl......"

"Thank you, Lang Jun...... The thief just ......" The girl was about to raise her foot to chase after her, but she let out a coquettish cry and bent down in pain.

"I'm going to break my foot." Cheng Qi helped her: "I'll send the girl to see the doctor first...... That thief didn't rob anything just now, did he? ”

"I don't have any money." The girl held Cheng Qi's shoulders and jumped like a little rabbit: "I just snatched away a new book I bought...... The robbers are really strange now, how can they change to robbing books? ”

Cheng Qi helped her walk forward, and secretly peeked at the lively pair of white rabbits on the girl's chest: "Maybe it's a thief...... Girl, you're talking about the guy who hit me just now, that kind of person really doesn't look like someone who would be interested in books. ”

Fortunately, there was a simple clinic not far away, Cheng Qi helped the girl to the bench at the door and sat down, and with a bang, a little girl in a blue dress came out of it: "Who...... There's a sick person, grandpa...... There are sick people coming! ”

Cheng Qi and the little girl helped the girl in, and saw that the doctor sitting in the hall was a white-bearded old man, the kind that made people feel very relieved at first glance. The traditional medicine of the motherland is half experience and half psychology, no matter which half, the feeling of a white beard is more comfortable than that of a hairless kid with a hairless mouth.

Sure enough, the old Chinese medicine doctor knew if there was one as soon as he made a move, the girl just twisted her foot, and the old Chinese medicine doctor took less than five minutes to get it for her, and put a pair of plasters on it, and the girl was able to walk on the ground immediately-Cheng Qi regretted that he didn't have the opportunity to look at the crystal jade feet of this beautiful girl twice--Thanksgiving Buddha and Bodhisattva, the girls in this plane do not have the vice of foot binding, and they don't know how cute they are with a pair of heavenly feet and crystal jade.

"Okay, I'm fine." The girl tried it, changed into her red embroidered shoes and walked a few steps: "Thank you for this Langjun." ”

Cheng Qi hurriedly introduced himself: "In Xiajiangdong Cheng Qi, I haven't asked the girl's name yet. ”

"The little woman's surname is Zhang - Gong Chang Zhang, and the single name is a pei character - the cultivation of pei." The girl said generously: "I'm an auditor of Kaoting Academy-hey, are you the senior Cheng Qi who wrote novels?" ”

"Ouch, don't you dare to call yourself a senior." Although Cheng Qi is very useful in his heart, he still has to pretend to be his grandson: "It's just some small skills of carving insects, which are not enough to worry about." ”

Zhang Pei looked him up and down, his big eyes full of admiration: "I really didn't expect to meet you like this...... I love your novels so much......"

Oh, I really looked at the yellow calendar when I went out today, and I can see a little fan girl on the road casually. Cheng Qi is called a beauty in his heart.

He hurriedly shushed and asked, "That thief snatched a book from you just now...... What is the book? Is it precious? ”

"It's not expensive, it's an ordinary book I just bought yesterday - if there's anything special, it's because it's a book published by the teachers of our academy themselves, and it's only sold in a bookstore."

"It's a professional book." Cheng Qidao now has a good understanding of the publishing system of the Great Song Dynasty, the publishing office of the Great Song Dynasty is not a censorship organ but a filing authority, and the publishing system is quite relaxed, as long as you can afford the publishing fee, even a donkey can publish a book. The role of the Copyright Office is to record - in the future, if someone starts a lawsuit for the right to publish, it will be up to the Publisher to register first. Generally popular novels, such as Cheng Qi's "Smiling Proud Jianghu", are openly registered in the Publication Registration Office of the Political Envoy Department of Liangzhejiang Road, and whoever wants to "pirate" in the future can use this as a basis to settle accounts with him. Another role is the registration of scientific inventions, somewhat similar to the later patent office and academic proceedings office. Bianliang was the academic center of the Great Song Dynasty, and the most important daily routine of the Kaifeng Prefecture Publication Registration Office was to register various inventions and creations, and to compile thousands of papers according to academic categories and send them to all over the world.

Of course, it is very easy for well-known professors to publish books, such as Zhu Xi, the founder of Zhu Zixue, Zhu Laofuzi, who can sell hundreds of thousands of copies of any poem he writes, and Wang Yangming of Yuyao, whose quotations are also reprinted, and the royalties are rolling like the water of the Yangtze River. However, ordinary scholars, who have spent half a lifetime of hard work, can produce a maximum of two or three hundred copies, send dozens of copies to relatives and friends of the same industry, and then use another hundred copies in the classroom, and entrust another hundred copies to the bookstore on the edge of the academy for consignment, which can be sold out in a year or two if they are lucky, and cannot be sold out in decades if they are unlucky. For example, the Goryeo scholar Wehom – who wrote several monographs before he became famous, all of which did not sell well enough to be sold to a waste paper mill to pulp in a fit of rage – now anyone who has a first edition of the book "The Theory of Reason" by the scholar of Weholm can be said to be better than a thousand gold, and any museum, even if it has a treasure, can be called a treasure.

Professional books are like this, whether they sell well or not has little to do with the quality of the book itself, but the fame of the author. For example, Zhang Peiruo was holding a scholar of Weiholm University in his hand, and he wrote a full page in anger: "Gou Zhongwen, I am a mother!" "So now, there are people who want a thousand words - Gou Zhongwen, the director of the academy where Weholm served during his visit to China, is famous for his ignorance and lack of skills. The reason why he left a name for future generations is because he was narrow-minded and forced Wei Huomu, the "No. 1 genius in Haidong" at that time, to become a visiting professor at Jimei Academy in Xiamen, Fujian Province - Jimei Academy has become a benchmark banner of empiricism in the academic world from an obscure small academy in the southeast because of this.

To this day, in the History Museum of Tokyo University Shoin, there is a "Thinking Wall", and the first name on the wall is "Virtuous, incompetent for industry, shameless for the heart". Alumni often visit here, and they inevitably spit on this person, which can be regarded as a tradition for four or five hundred years.

The topic is a little farther away, in fact, the only thing Cheng Qi is curious about is that since what Zhang Pei is holding in her hand is not the first edition of the only book of the Wei University, nor is it the handwriting collection of Mr. Yang Ming, but just the unsalable academic treatise of an ordinary middle-aged master in this school, why was it robbed? Could it be that the current robbers and strongmen are also studying hard and are bent on taking the doctoral exam?

But such a thing is obviously unlikely. Cheng Qi accompanied Zhang Pei back to the bookstore - the book was gone, and the girl had to buy another one.

This bookstore is not big, but it is also a façade. There is a sign hanging at the door, "Three to the Book House" - the name is allusion, Zhu Fuzi of this dynasty said that reading should be seen with eyes, mouth, and heart.

The three book houses were full of all kinds of books from the door to the house, and an old gentleman was holding a book behind the counter and reading it with relish, and he didn't care if someone came in. Cheng Qi knew that this was the habit of the bookstore in the college, and those who had money could choose at will, and after picking one, he went to the counter to settle the bill. Poor students can stand and read books for nothing, and they won't say anything if they don't spend a penny. Most of the bookstores here are also half-talented, somewhat bookish.

Zhang Pei looked for it on the bookshelf in the middle of the room: "Hey, strange...... There were several copies when I came to buy them yesterday, but why are they all sold out now? ”

The boss raised his head: "Oh, isn't this Xiaopei?" What books are you looking for? ”

"Uncle, it's the book "The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire" - I bought it yesterday, and I will buy another copy today."

"It's weird." The boss said to himself, "This book is so good to sell today? Someone just wrapped up all the books in the store. I also said that some professors have designated this book to be used in class. ”

Cheng Qi vaguely felt that something seemed wrong: "Wasn't this book easy to sell in the past?" ”

The boss picked up an account book: "I see, this book can't sell two or three copies a day normally, but Miss Zhang Pei bought one yesterday and sold three copies in addition." Ten copies were sold as soon as the door opened today—Miss Zhang, why do you want to buy another one? ”

Cheng Qi gave Zhang Pei a look and motioned her to keep quiet. I said to my boss: "We just think this book is very good, can you let us see who bought it?" Maybe we need to buy a little more. ”

The boss happily showed him the ledger - yesterday before Zhang Pei, a history lecturer named Huang Yong bought a copy, and two students after her bought a copy each. Cheng Qi wrote down their names separately and asked, "Do you remember who the person who came to buy books this morning was?" ”

"I don't know him, he's a bearded man with sunglasses." The boss said: "It's a bit strange to wear black, I looked at him a few more times and he was not very polite." ”

After saying goodbye to the boss, Cheng Qi accompanied Zhang Pei to walk under the forest: "This thing looks getting stranger and stranger." He said to the girl, "If you don't mind, would you like to find out with me?" ”

The girl's heart was pounding: "Can I...... I've read your book "Murder on the Train" and "No One Left Alive...... It was so wonderful, I didn't expect to be able to ...... with you."

"Please don't use you." Cheng Qi smiled and grabbed the girl's soft: "Please call me brother." ”

The girl's face turned red all of a sudden, but she didn't pull out her soft from his hand, she nodded shyly and timidly, as if she acquiesced to Cheng Qi's actions.

Cheng Qi triumphantly held the girl's weak and boneless little hand; "So, let's go and find out why the black bear is interested in the laws of Eastern Rome."