"Shopkeeper Zhu, you better read the content on this paper first, and then we will talk about something else." Zhao Wuregret could only interrupt his compliment, otherwise the afternoon would have passed again.

Zhu Shiping was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, Zhao Wuregret came to print it by himself, but he let himself cross it, he picked up the top piece of paper and looked at it carefully.

"Good, good, good,"

"How can it be?"

"It's wonderful, the Great Sage is mighty."

Zhu Shiping was fascinated, sometimes clenching his fists and shouting, sometimes roaring loudly, and the guys below thought that there was a quarrel above, so they rushed up with their sleeves, but walked down in ashes.

Zhao Wuregret and Wei Zihan looked at each other and smiled, and couldn't help but feel very interesting about Zhu Shiping's excited reaction, looking at the girl's smile like a flower, his heart moved, Zhao Wuregret reached out to the jade hand and grabbed it, but she avoided it, and stared at himself with disgust, but the bright eyes like spring flowers and bright eyes like the autumn moon were not lethal, but it made Zhao Wuregret's heart itch.

When he was about to make any moves, he only heard a loud 'snap', and Zhu Shiping roared, "What about the following?" Why isn't there any more?"

The two turned their heads and saw Zhu Shiping turning over a few pieces of paper, and immediately burst out laughing.

Zhu Shiping seemed to be taken aback, and after a while, he remembered that there were two more people in the study, came back to his senses, and said apologetically, "I'm really ashamed, I was so fascinated by it that I neglected the distinguished guests." ”

"It is the best affirmation that the next novel can get the eyes of the shopkeeper, so what is the slackness."

"This novel was written by Childe? I wonder if there will be any follow-ups?"

"Of course there is, this book has a total of about 820,000 words, but the rest of it is not brought."

Hearing the previous words, Zhu Shiping was overjoyed, but the latter words made his expression darken, "I don't know where Gongzi's family is?" In the next can send a carriage to follow the son to fetch the later chapters. ”

Seeing Zhu Shiping's anxious look, and looking forward to the sales of Journey to the West, Zhao Wuregret asked calmly, "Is this book from the shopkeeper good?"

"Of course, I've never read such a strange book, it's unheard of."

"Then I wonder if your bookstore may print?"

Speaking of this, Zhu Shiping lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "If Gongzi believes me, I can carve out the template in a year and a half at most." ”

"As for the commission," Zhu Shiping gritted his teeth, "as long as the cost is five hundred yuan." ”

"Five hundred?" Zhao Wuregret thought about it, obviously sorry for the value of Journey to the West, and didn't speak, he picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Seeing Zhao Wuregret's expressionless face, Zhu Shiping was also a little displeased, he only charged 500 yuan for the cost, which is equivalent to helping him for nothing in the past year and a half, does he still want to post it to him? If it weren't for the fonts and punctuation he had created earlier, if it weren't for the fascinating book......

"Four hundred and fifty," Zhu Shiping said indifferently, "For the sake of Zhao Gongzi's talent, it doesn't hurt to post it upside down at all." ”

"Wait," Zhao Wuregret sat up straight, "Did you give me these four hundred and fifty times, or did I give it to you?"

Zhu Shiping was dizzy for a while, and almost fell to the ground, helping him engrave and print himself, and actually asked such an idiot who took the money to whom. Could it be that he spent more than a year carving countless wooden boards, and in the end he had to give him a few hundred more times?

Zhao Wuregret was also dumbfounded, he worked hard to copy, cough, create hundreds of thousands of words of masterpieces, forget it if he doesn't give himself the income from his labor, and he still has to paste money into it, are you a fool?

"Isn't Zhao Gongzi joking with the old man?" Zhu Shiping said with a little anger, "820,000 words, it will take more than a year for more than 20 masters in my bookstore to complete the carving, during this period, the materials and wages alone will cost more than 500 yuan, and I will pay the price of 500 yuan. ”

Zhao Wuregret turned his face away, only to see Wei Zihan covering his small mouth, also looking at himself in disbelief.

I can't help but want to slap myself, and I negotiated the price without even figuring out the problem, which is really wronged.

It turns out that at this time it is still carved on the wooden board, and it is necessary to carve it word by word on the wooden board, not to mention the time-consuming and laborious work, and the wood printing is not durable, at most it can only print about a thousand books will be deformed, this is still the best situation, some carved boards can not be used so many times, then you have to re-engrave a new pair.

But movable type printing does not have this problem, in terms of efficiency is more than 100 times faster, wood board engraving you have to start over again if you make a mistake, and movable type only needs to change one.

Told Zhu Shiping about the method of movable type printing, but now he was trembling with tears in his eyes, as soon as Zhao Wuregret finished speaking, he knelt on the ground, "Zhao Gongzi is simply a lucky star from heaven, and the world's scholars are hopeful." ”

I didn't expect such a big reaction, so I hurriedly pulled him up, "Then according to the shopkeeper's calculations, printing with movable type, how much does a book cost?"

Zhu Shiping looked much more respectful, "Although the small one has not been counted, it will not exceed one-tenth of the wood board carving at most." ”

"Okay, now let's talk about the printing of Journey to the West, your bookstore will print it, you will sell it, and then the capital will be deducted, and the profit will be deducted, how about I have seven and you three?"

"I am willing to only collect the capital, and all the profits belong to the son, I just want to ask the son to announce this movable type printing method to the world, so that the world's scholars can afford to buy books."

Hearing this, Zhao Wuregret couldn't help but look at this middle-aged man again, if what he said was sincere, then this person's character was really good.

"Movable type printing will not be announced to the public for the time being, and when the books you print are better than others, and they are cheaper than others, naturally someone will come to the door, but the income of Journey to the West will give you 30% of it, because you still have to pay for the printing costs in the early stage."

The two agreed on the printing matter, because movable type printing is still in the theoretical stage, although Zhao Wuregret is definitely incomparable, but if it is not made for a day, it will not be considered a success.

In addition, Zhao Wuregret also explained one thing, that is, let Zhu Shiping take the first few times of Journey to the West, let storytellers everywhere spread the legend, and make a name for himself first, but don't joke that no one will buy the book when it is printed.

and Wei Zihan walked out of the Ten Thousand Books Bookstore, and the two walked all the way back, watching her cut water and looking at herself shyly, thinking that it was the 'talent' revealed today that disturbed the girl's heart, which had to strike while the iron was hot.

So he said generously, "It's almost time for dinner, today Zihan, you walked with me for an afternoon, why don't you just have a light meal?"