Seeing that the New Year is coming, the people in Tongcheng can't feel the atmosphere of the New Year in previous years.

Compared with the Central Plains, Tongcheng has been peaceful for a long time, the land annexation is extremely heavy, and under the peak of the literary style, there are also many official eunuchs. Among these wealthy families, there are many good and bad, and there are few things that are committed by arson, and even the Fang family has a Fang Yingqian, not to mention the rest of the family.

But now what makes the people of Tongcheng panic is not the righteousness of the rich women, but the list articles that have been posted everywhere recently.

"There are 100,000 male soldiers such as the Eight Kings, Ge Li Eye, and the King of Sweeping, and they will attack Tongcheng ...... This news made Tongcheng completely shaken, the thieves poisoned the Central Plains, no one in the world knows, if they break into Tongcheng...... Fang Ziyi also got the news, it was Fang Yizhi who talked about it, and he smiled as he spoke: "Zining, are you afraid?" ”

"I'm not afraid, my brother-in-law is powerful, all the wicked people, there is a brother-in-law to clean up!" The boy Ning still said that it was that lively face, she clenched her little fist, and said viciously.

One is that you mean Ke Xian, he is going to Nanjing with me. ”

"No, Kecheng's brother-in-law doesn't know anything except archery, and he has always ignored me, I'm talking about Jimin's brother-in-law, Ziyi's sister's uncle, not Ziyao's sister's uncle!"

Fang Ziyi's face suddenly turned red, while Fang Yizhi laughed: "If Ke Xian hears it, he will definitely cry bitterly!" ”

Seven, "Brother Mi, you don't want to make a fool of yourself." Fang Ziyi said softly.

"Haha, okay, okay, don't worry, there won't be anything, it's just a mediocrity." Fang Yizhi said:

"However, the time I was away ...... Are you going back to White Hart Villa to stay, or back to the city? ”

"I want to go to Hosoyanagi Courtyard!" Fang Zining jumped up:

"Sister, shall we go to live in the Hosoyanagi Courtyard?"

"It's talking nonsense more and more, how can you go to the Hosoyanagi Courtyard!" Fang Ziyi's cheeks were red again.

"Yes, my sister hasn't married yet, if she does, I can ......go live with me," Fang Zining said with some regret.

Her childish words made Fang Yizhi laugh again:

"Ziyi, this is urging marriage."

Fang Ziyi gave him a blank look and ignored him.

At this moment, a servant woman communicated in front of the door: "Yu Gongzi, who has nothing to do, has arrived and is waiting in the front hall." "Huh?"

Fang Yizhi was stunned: "Say Cao Ying, Cao Ying has arrived...... Ziyi, do you want to go with me? ”

Fang Ziyi glanced at him fiercely, if the two did not have a marriage contract, although it was a little abrupt to meet like this, it would not be a big deal, but since there was a marriage contract, there were some things to pay attention to.

She didn't want the servants below to talk about it, not only for fear of hurting the reputation of the Fang family's daughter, but also for fear of affecting Yu Guozhen's reputation.

"This is a gift from Yu Gongzi to the two young ladies." The servant woman brought up the thing in her hand again.

It was two volumes, Fang Yizhi wanted to pick it up, but he was snatched by Xiao Zining, looked at the words on the book, and happily handed the thick one to Fang Ziyi, but the thin one was kept:

"This is my sister's, this is mine!"

Fang Ziyi took the book and smelled a strange ink fragrance, which was different from the ink she used to use, and she couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Then she saw the words in the book and couldn't help but sigh.

In the middle of the book is the four words "Shixue Weiyan", which is not surprising, in the correspondence between Yu Guozhen and Fang Yizhi, what is "Shixue" has been defined, and Fang Yizhi called it "Yu's Shixue", so as to distinguish it from the Confucian Shixue advocated by Zhang Pu and others today.

To Fang Ziyi's surprise, this font was clearly her handwriting!

Fang Yizhi tilted his head to see this handwriting, and he was also stunned:

"When did Ziyi write this for Jimin?"

"I have never ......" Fang Ziyi's face was slightly red, and his hand gently stroked the line of words in the lower right corner. Shixue Weiyan is a large character, each word is two inches in size, and the line in the right corner is much smaller, only a quarter of an inch in size.

"Give Miss Fang Ziyi a Save deposit.

When Fang Yizhi saw this line of words, he sighed: "This line of words is Jimin's handwriting...... Hey, these words are printed, not written, he is generous and willing to be so devoted! ”

A block of engraving often costs several taels of silver, so the cost of printing a book is extremely high.

"This ink is so fragrant, sister, let Mr. Xiao and brother-in-law send us some of this ink next time!" Zi Ning also smelled the scent of ink and said happily.

Fang Yizhi turned his head sideways to look at the book in her hand, but on the page was written the four big characters "Kindergarten Initial Solution", which Fang Yizhi had never seen.

This is a movable type carved from Liu Ruyi's handwriting, and it is normal that he has never seen it.

The lower right corner is also a line of small words, "Give to Miss Fang Zining to Save", no wonder Fang Zining saw it and distinguished which one was hers and which one was Ziyi.

Fang Zining opened the cover, and there was a pattern on the title page, which was written by Liu Ruyi, so it was naturally very exquisite. At this time, the book printing industry was quite developed, but it was still quite rare to have as fine as what they had in their hands.

Fang Yizhi couldn't wait to see this, and at the beginning of the year, Yu Guozhen asked him for a manuscript and promised to print his article, and now it seems that he finally fulfilled his promise before the Chinese New Year. He hurried to the main hall, and shouted when he entered the door: "You are a good person, you value light friends, and only bring gifts to Ziyi, but there is no mine!" ”

Yu Guozhen was flipping through the book, and when he saw him coming, he pointed out with a smile: "Brother Mi, these are all brought to you, if you say so, then I will give them all to Sister Ling!" ”

Fang Yizhi saw that it was a basket of books, he ran over, sniffed the fragrance of ink, and remembered Zi Ning's words: "Guozhen, what kind of ink are you using, this taste is a little different!" ”

"Haha, the Yu family's secret, the daughter-in-law is not passed on to the daughter, in the future, Sister Ling can know, but Brother Mi can't know!" Yu Guozhen said half-jokingly, he is not stingy, but this matter is related to his plan to compete for the right to speak in public opinion, although Fang Yizhi is extremely righteous towards him, Yu Guozhen can be sure that when he parted ways with Donglin and Fushe, Fang Yizhi's first choice will still be Fushe.

This ink is actually very simple, it is nothing more than castor oil and ordinary ink, and it didn't take Yu Guozhen too much time to debug the best formula.

"Stingy!" Fang Yizhi snorted and didn't say anything more, he knew that this must be something made up by "Yu's Shixue".

Snatching a book from the basket, like the two books given to Fang Ziyi and Fang Zining, the paper used in this book is quite good, because the water power is still borrowed when cutting, so it is cut extremely neatly, and there are no burrs at all. The cover of the book is printed with the three big characters "Storm Collection", but the handwriting is Fang Zi lxa.

"Huh?" Fang Yizhi was stunned, he had never heard his father say that he had written for Yu Guozhen.

"I used the boss's words, and I didn't report to the boss in advance, so I don't think the boss will meet with my junior." Yu Guozhen said.

"I'll see what's in this 'storm set.'"

Fang Yizhi opened the book, and on the title page is the introduction of the book collection written by Song Tikai, to the effect that this book is published every three months, and the book is divided into two parts, the first part is the article and poetry of all parties today, and the latter part is Yu's practical learning. Seeing this, Fang Yizhi laughed: "Jimin, you are cunning, this is clearly pulling the tiger skin to fill the banner!" ”

Yu Guozhen laughed at it, if he directly pushed out his practical learning, those readers would not be willing to read too much, but if the master works of the article at this time were added, it would be different.

For example, in the first issue of "Storm Collection", there are poems by Fang Ziyi, Fang Yizhi, Qian Qianyi, Wu Weiye, Chen Zilong and many others. The opening chapter is Fang Kongyi's "Confucius Huayi's Identification", followed by Fang Yizhi's "Yashan Three Hundred and Fifty-Four Years of Sacrifice", followed by a series of poems, each of which is followed by a commentary.

"Who wrote this poetry review for you, you must not be able to write it!" Seeing those comments, although they were a little immature, they were often in a word, Fang Yizhi smiled and said: "Caiyun returns to the guest...... This name is a bit boudoir, could it be your maid Liu Ruyi? ”

"Haha!" Yu Guozhen laughed, Fang Yizhi didn't guess wrong.

After the poem, there is Yu Guozhen's "A Brief Overview of Taixi Letters and Numbers", which has letters and their pronunciations, twisted Arabic numerals and their Chinese meanings. These Eastern and Western wisdom are not unfamiliar, but ordinary readers may not know about them.

The next article is "The Voyage Experiences of the Franc Man", but it imitates the tone of a Franc Robot and puts forward the theory of the circle of the earth. Fang Yizhicai read the opening chapter and praised: "This article can only be written by no one who helps the people, and only by helping the people and studying physics can it be written." ”

After reading a page, Fang Yizhi held down the book again and smiled bitterly.

"How?" Yu Guozhen asked with a smile.

"I can't read it, if I read it again, I won't have the intention of reading the Four Books and Five Classics in the future......"

Yu Guozhen laughed: "That's the little brother's fault, since that's the case, the little brother will take these books back and send them after the secret brother is in high school." ”

"Don't think!" Fang Yizhi's whole person threw himself on the basket and hugged it.

It's not that he lost his temper, at this time, it is not easy for a reader to get a good book, and the price of a beautifully printed book for collection can even be sold for 1,200 taels! The price of ordinary books, such as popular novels at this time, ranged from 500 to 1 tael, but the exquisite printing was far less than the one given by Yu Guozhen.

Movable type printing was also available at this time, mainly copper movable type, but the cost was high and expensive, and the printing quality was not satisfactory. The lead type used by Yu Guozhen is actually a lead-antimony alloy, and its special surname is better than that of copper type.

Fang Yizhi put down the "Storm Collection", and soon found another "Fang Mi's Poetry Collection", when he saw his poetry collection, he laughed, laughed twice, and glared at Yu Guozhen angrily: "What about the pen, you printed my book, why didn't you give me the pen?" ”

"Sell it." Yu Guozhen said shamelessly:

"If you can't sell it, you don't want to polish it."

"Okay, you Yu Jimin!" Fang Yizhi picked up another copy, but it was "Mr. Renzhi Says Easy", which was a collection of Fang Ziyi's research on the "Book of Changes", Fang Yizhi couldn't help but open it and read it, and then sighed: "If the boss sees this, I'm afraid I can't help it!" ”