Chapter 19: A Little Try
When school was about to end in the afternoon, Li Yanqing was called to the study by Yao Ding, Yao Ding had a gloomy face, and put the white paper with couplets written in front of him, "This is what you wrote!" ”
Yao Dingying's claw-like fingers tapped on the table, "I know your words!" ”
"It was written by a student. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" Li Yanqing admitted.
"Where did you copy this couplet?"
Li Yanqing bowed his head and said, "It was the student who realized it by chance. ”
"There are several books on this couplet, "Shangshu", "I Ching", "Lisao", "Zhuangzi", have you read them all?" Yao Ding stared at him fiercely.
"The students have read it."
"Give me a few words of silence for every book."
Li Yanqing was telling the truth, his father borrowed a lot of books for him, these books were available, and he read them well, and he took up the pen and silently said two sentences in each of the four books.
"The Zhuangzi. Getaway" recite it to me! ”
This is Yao Ding's favorite article, and he decided to take Li Yanqing's school entrance examination to the end.
"There is a fish in the North Underworld, and its name is Kun. The Kun is so big that I don't know how many thousands of miles it is; Turned into a bird, its name is Peng. Peng's back, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is......"
Li Yanqing suppressed his voice and frustrated, and recited it in one breath, word for word.
Yao Ding asked him to memorize "Lisao" again, Li Yanqing still memorized it word for word, and then he believed that Li Yanqing was not lying, but Yao Ding was still expressionless, and asked coldly: "Who told you that I have a blank couplet here?" ”
"When the students went to the hut, they saw out the window that Master's window was not closed."
Yao Ding glanced at the window, and indeed from the window, he could see the white paper on the wall, and he asked sharply, "Why did you enter my room without permission?" ”
Li Yanqing hesitated for a moment and said, "When the student saw the horizontal criticism, he thought of this couplet, and his hands were itchy for a while, so he wanted to write it and send it to the master. ”
"Give it to me?" Yao Ding's eyes widened.
"The student knows it's wrong!"
Yao Ding glared at him for a long time before finally nodding, "Since you know your mistake, stretch out your hand!" ”
Li Yanqing stretched out his palm, Yao Ding took out a bamboo whip and whipped him three times on his palm, and then said: "Last time, Wang Gui was whipped ten times by me, do you know why?" ”
"Students don't know!"
"Three lashes because he trespassed into my study, and the other seven lashes are to teach him to lie, which you are more honest than him, so seven lashes are waived."
Li Yanqing secretly screamed luck, and he hurriedly lowered his head, "The student won't dare next time." ”
Yao Ding said with a dark face: "Go!" In the future, don't show off your so-called knowledge in front of me. ”
"Students know their mistakes!" Li Yanqing saluted and retreated.
Yao Ding waited for him to go away, then took out the couplet written by Li Yanqing, read it carefully, and felt great in his heart, this couplet may not be written by himself, he has always thought that his grandson is a prodigy, but compared to Li Yanqing, his grandson is still far behind!
He simply took down the blank banner on the wall, and with a stroke of his pen, he actually liked this couplet to the extreme.
Reading is correct, reading is easy to change, reading is quiet, reading Zhuang is taken, reading Chinese is strong, and the most flavorful volume is in the years;
With the chrysanthemum, with the plum, with the lotus, with the orchid, with the begonia, with the rhyme, must call themselves the gods in the flowers.
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Master Yao's three whips were extremely hard, making Li Yanqing's hands hurt unbearably, but he was afraid that Yue Fei would see and laugh at him, so he had to endure the pain and pretend that nothing happened.
Li Yanqing originally wanted to use this opportunity to change his master's attitude towards him, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating, and he became a shower of knowledge in the eyes of his master, which made him annoyed and slapped his ass on the horse's hooves.
After school, Li Yanqing walked out of the school dejectedly, and suddenly heard someone calling him on the other side of the official road, when he looked up, it turned out to be his father Li Daqi, he was overjoyed, the frustration in his heart was swept away, and he hurriedly ran over.
"Daddy, when did you come back?"
Li Daqi was also very happy, took his son's hand and said: "I just came back, I heard Aunt Hu say, you went to the school to study, I rushed to the school again, Qing'er, you.... How exactly do you do that? ”
Li Daqi was surprised and excited, not only was the huge debt he owed forgiven, but the family also rebuilt the brick house, and even the housekeeper Liu, whom he hated deeply, was driven away, Li Daqi felt like he was in a dream, just a few days, his fate was completely reversed, all because of his son.
Li Yanqing scratched his head a little embarrassed and said: "Daddy, don't ask, I'll tell you slowly in the future, or you go and ask the fourth uncle, he knows the reason better than me, I'm still confused!" ”
Li Daqi nodded, "Okay! I'll go back and ask your fourth uncle. ”
"Daqi, this is Ling Lang Yanqing?" Shopkeeper Luo, who came back with Li Daqi next to him, asked with a smile.
Only then did Li Yanqing find that there was a person behind his father, who was white and fat, with a persimmon face, who looked featureless, but had a kind face.
"It's my son."
Li Daqi smiled and introduced to Li Yanqing: "Qing'er, this is the shopkeeper Luo of the county bookstore. ”
Shopkeeper Luo was quite polite, and invited their father and son to dinner in a tavern in the town, he asked for a pot of wine, ordered a few dishes, and laughed with Li Daqi and his son for a while, and then turned back to business.
He took out Li Yanqing's manuscript, put it on the table and asked with a smile: "Yanqing, your father said that this is a book written by you, right?" ”
"It's my self-amusement, which makes Shopkeeper Luo laugh."
"Otherwise, I read it carefully all night last night, it was very wonderful and well written!" Shopkeeper Luo gave a thumbs up.
Next to him, Li Daqi was a little embarrassed and said: "I said a long time ago, this book is a child's whimsy, don't praise him too much." ”
Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper Luo is here, he doesn't just want to come and relax, right?" ”
Shopkeeper Luo secretly thought in his heart, this kid is very good at talking!
"Where! Where! ”
He immediately said to Li Daqi with a smile on his face: "Daqi is too modest, if it was just nonsense, the owner of my family would not let me come here, Yanqing, let's talk about this book!" ”
Shopkeeper Luo put the manuscript in front of Li Yanqing, "Did you write this manuscript?" ”
Li Yanqing was secretly stunned, it wouldn't be that the Northern Song Dynasty would have copyright! He asked: "I don't quite understand what Shopkeeper Luo means, is it that other bookstores have printed this book first, and your bookstore can't print it anymore, does the government have such regulations?" ”
Shopkeeper Luo shook his head, "There are no specific regulations, but there are rules in the industry, everyone is doing this business, some rules to talk about, I bought a manuscript and printed it is very profitable, then you also hurry up and stereotyped printing, this is called not talking about the rules, generally speaking, the big bookstore does not bother to do this kind of thing, just some small bookstores, mercenary, very unruly, so we must go to the Chen Guanfu in advance, and print the name of the bookstore on the page, and also print the 'has applied for the boss, shall not be reprinted", once it is found that someone has pirated it, it will immediately go to the Chen Guanfu and destroy the board for punishment. ”
When Li Daqi heard that he was going to punish the crime, he was very nervous, and hurriedly asked his son: "Qing'er, did you write this book yourself?" ”
Li Yanqing smiled slightly, "Has Daddy ever seen the same book at home?" ”
Li Daqi is right to think about it, his son has hardly left the house for more than a month, but he told him some stories about Sun Wukong before, presumably he remembered it, so he made up a new story.
"Shopkeeper Luo, my son is very talented, he never forgets to read, he is well-versed in the past and the present at a young age, and he especially likes to tell stories, and this book is made up by him telling stories to the neighbor's children."
Shopkeeper Luo nodded, "Ling Lang is indeed a young man, different from ordinary children, I actually just ask according to the usual practice, whether the person who does our job is plagiarizing other people's books, you can see it at a glance." ”
Speaking of this, he said to Li Yanqing very sincerely: "I came today for two things, first, our bookstore wants to buy this book and sell it by stereotyped printing, and second, I hope you will continue to write. ”
Li Yanqing immediately smiled and asked, "How much money does Shopkeeper Luo plan to give me?" ”
Li Daqi's face sank, "Qing'er, don't ask such a thing?" ”
Scholars are ashamed to talk about money, Li Daqi is forced by life and has to pay baht, but he is very high in his bones, and he doesn't want his son to bend his waist for a few pennies like him.
But Li Yanqing is much more realistic than his father, if it weren't for earning money to support his family, what would he do if he stayed up all night writing books?
Shopkeeper Luo waved his hand, "Yes, I'm here for this, so be it!" According to a normal notebook novel, how about forty yuan per pen? ”
Li Daqi was taken aback, he thought that five or six yuan was about the same, after all, it was something written by a child, and he couldn't get on the table, and he didn't write that he actually gave forty yuan, and how many manuscripts he copied to earn ten yuan.
Li Daqi hurriedly said: "Forty yuan is too much, ten yuan is enough, don't spoil children." ”
Li Yanqing said to his father slowly: "Daddy also underestimates Shopkeeper Luo too much, as Shopkeeper Luo, will he come to us for a mere ten yuan?" ”
Shopkeeper Luo had heard that Li Daqi's son was a second fool, and he had always despised it, and he even suspected that this book was written by Li Daqi, but now he found that this child was much more shrewd than his father, which really surprised him.
Shopkeeper Luo didn't dare to despise it anymore, and hurriedly explained to Li Yanqing: "Although our bookstore is a small shop, it is also honest and trustworthy, Tong Suo is not deceitful, forty yuan is indeed the price of a notebook novel, the little official must know that a book sells for fifty wen, and you have to pay the engraving labor, ink and paper money, the general wool paper is not good, and we must use green paper, we have to sell at least 2,000 copies to make money, if it is not for the nod of the proprietor, I really can't give forty yuan." ”
Li Daqi was a little angry, when did his son learn to bargain like a businessman, and the shopkeeper Luo treated himself well, how could he make him embarrassed? Li Daqi lowered his face and said in a long voice: "Qing'er, I'm not allowed to say it again." ”
Li Yanqing saw that his father was angry, so he pushed the manuscript to Shopkeeper Luo, "Then forty times!" ”
Shopkeeper Luo was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Then when does the little official plan to give me the next book?" ”
Li Yanqing scratched his head and pretended to be very embarrassed, "I'm too busy with my studies now, I'm afraid I don't have much time, and I can't say for a year and a half, I'll try my best!" ”
Shopkeeper Luo was stunned for a while, he finally understood the power of this kid, he thought about it again and said: "Otherwise, I will give thirty percent of the basic moisturizing money, and the other two thousand copies are the boundary, and I will give you twenty percent of the more than two thousand volumes, how about this plan?" ”
Li Yanqing heard that he was willing to give him 20%, and the price was quite kind, so he smiled and said: "Then we will make a decision, after the Spring Festival, I will hand over the next part to the shopkeeper, you settle the bill with my father, and I will go back to do my homework." ”
After saying that, he was afraid that his father would blame him for falling into the eye of money, so he turned around and ran away.
Li Daqi had no choice but to apologize to Shopkeeper Luo: "The child is not sensible, please bear with Shopkeeper Luo." ”
Shopkeeper Luo smiled wryly, "If my son has Ling Lang Yicheng's 'ignorance', I will burn high incense for my ancestors." ”
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