Chapter Ninety-Seven: Asking for Debts

In the following days, Song Kai told the story of "A Chinese Ghost Story" to Qing Niang every day, and Qing Niang wrote down the original story in her free time at night.

There is a paper mill in the tea garden, although it is not big, but the first batch of paper comes out, there are enough tens of thousands, and the quality is naturally not as good as the rice paper made of bamboo, but it is not bad, at least you can write and paint.

Song Kai also asked the people in the paper mill to make toilet paper from waste materials, and the price of toilet paper was much lower than that of ordinary paper.

The printing house on Red Dust Island also began to prepare the first edition of movable type printing, in fact, the first edition is the most difficult, because all the font molds need to be fired in the present form, and after a certain amount of font molds are stored, it will be easy to print in the future, but the font molds need to be rearranged and integrated.

Song Kai thought about it again and again, the first book was still a book of four books and five classics, after all, these books were not worried about no sales.

The Four Books and Five Classics circulating on the market now are very expensive, and many students actually copy them from each other, while ordinary people have no books at all.

These books are considered primer and orthodox, and if the price drops, even ordinary people will buy a few copies for their sons to study.

Being able to read and write is a big deal.

The only drawback is that the characters engraved by these people under their hands are too ordinary.

But that's the only way to go, if every word is required to be carved perfectly, then the book will have to wait a few years.

Song Kai positioned the Four Books and Five Classics as the content to be published in the first edition. Although the words are a little ugly. However, Song Kai still designed a very beautiful cover. Of course, it should be marked with the font size of Hongchen Inn Publishing House.

Wei Wushuang's condition has improved a little, although she can't move freely, she can already get out of bed, and every day when the sun is good, Qingniang will help her turn a few times.

Seeing Song Kai's movable type printing, Wei Wushuang frowned, although she didn't know much about worldly things, she also understood. This thing is going to cause a revolution, a revolution in knowledge.

Song Kai also understands this, so he doesn't plan to promote movable type printing books all at once, and is just making some money on his own first.

Moreover, Song Kai did not tell Xue Weihai about the movable type printing book.

Every afternoon and evening, it is the speech time of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the young lady beats Song Kai's leg every time while listening carefully to the story, in fact, the young lady can see it. Many times Song Kai deliberately rubbed his chest with his washed feet, but the little girl was not disgusted. On the contrary, he was a little happy and shy, always thinking in his heart, who made him a young master.

Wei Wushuang also listened very seriously, although she never expressed it, but every time Song Kai told a story, she would lie comfortably on the bed, imagining in Song Kai's voice and story.

A few years later, Ning Caichen was admitted to the Jinshi, and Xiaoqian also gave birth to a boy. Later, Ning Caichen took another concubine, and Xiaoqian and her each gave birth to a boy. Their child later became a famous person as well. ”

Song Kai's voice fell, with a bit of aftertaste.

There was silence in the room for a moment.

"Finished?" After a while, Wei Wushuang on the bed suddenly spoke.

After saying this, Wei Wushuang himself was embarrassed, asking like this, doesn't it mean that he has been eavesdropping on other people's stories.

Song Kai didn't care, and nodded, "It's over, the story is over." ”

"!" Wei Wushuang came out and said, "How can a ghost give birth to a child, a ghost sucks people's yang energy." ”

Qingniang shouted: "Don't say it, don't tell it, just this story, this story is good, this is really good." ”

After speaking, Qingniang wiped her tears.

The story of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Song Kai is a combination of the original text of Liao Zhai and the movie version of A Chinese Ghost Story, which is more perfect than the story of the movie version, and more intense and beautiful than the Liao Zhai version, which is naturally very attractive.

Song Kai laughed, "If you like it, remember to write it down, let's print it in the next book." ”

"Huh? Are you sure? Oh my God, young master, I dare to say, the whole city of Suzhou will go crazy by then! Qing Niang shouted.

There was a hearty laugh outside, "What a madness, how could Suzhou City be sealed?" ”

Song Kai stood up, walked to the door, and arched his hand towards the visitor, "Old Xue, it's so late, why did you come to the island?" ”

The person who came was Xue Weihai, the sun had set at this time, and it was winter, it was indeed very cold, and it was estimated that it would snow in a few days.

Xue Weihai laughed and said: "You won't be in Suzhou City these days, if you don't go to me, of course I'm going to come to you." ”

With that, Xue Weihai walked into Song Kai's room, followed by Zhou Ce.

Song Kai hurriedly closed the door, "Old Xue, come in and warm up." ”

The room in the middle is relatively small, the stove is very large, and there are two beds next to it, one is Wei Wushuang's, the other is Qingniang's, and Song Kai's bed is in the other room.

Seeing a woman lying on the bed, Xue Weihai was a little embarrassed, laughed, and said, "It's really Meng Lang who came, I don't know that the lady has rested." ”

Wei Wushuang just nodded, "It's okay." Then he reached out and wrapped the quilt tighter.

Song Kai didn't say Wei Wushuang's identity, not that Song Kai didn't believe in Xue Weihai, but Song Kai knew that he and Xue Weihai seemed to have forgotten their friendship and had a lot of affection, but on the issue of right and wrong, he and Xue Weihai had different views.

For example, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, which was about to fall, Xue Weihai could risk his old life, and even sacrifice Song Kai's life.

Song Kai didn't have much sense of belonging to the Tang Dynasty, whether it was the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, or the Sui Dynasty, in fact, they were all the same, as long as everyone was safe, it would be fine.

"What's going on in Suzhou City? During this time, I didn't dare to go back, for fear of being arrested at this moment," Song Kai asked Xue Lao to sit down next to the stove and said with a smile.

Xue Weihai rubbed his hands, sat with his back to Wei Wushuang, shook his head and smiled: "It seems that Song Kai also has times when you are afraid, and there are times when you are confused and miscalculated." ”

"What foolish miscalculation?" Song Kai asked.

"Hehe, this time, that assassin has really made a great contribution," Xue Weihai got up, rarely saw him smile so happily, "That assassin, it is said that she is still a woman with big arms and a wide body, although she did not kill Xuan Dongliang, but it scared his courage, and so far Xuan Dongliang is hiding in the mansion, only saying that he is seriously ill and has not recovered, in fact, he has no courage to go out." ”

Zhou Ce put down his big knife, squeezed it over, and said with a smile: "It's not just that you don't have the guts, but you also have no face to go out." ”

Xue Weihai laughed.

Song Kai was stunned for a moment, and then he also laughed, and said, "But because of his thing, it was clicked!" ”

Xue Weihai glanced at Qing Niang, Qing Niang was turning around and lying on a small table writing something, she didn't listen, so she nodded, "This matter, it's true, I went to Huichun Hall to investigate, and several famous doctors of the Sun family were left in the Xuandongliang Mansion, firstly, to continue to treat, and secondly, to be afraid that these people would go out of the mansion to chew the root of their tongues." ”

Song Kai clapped his hands and laughed, "This assassin really eliminated harm for the people, but, is that assassin really big-shouldered?" I heard that it was a beautiful woman, how could you describe it as a yaksha. ”

Xue Weihai smiled, "Song Lang, you just like to think nonsense, it is said that the female assassin can fight against Xuan Dongliang without losing his strength, how powerful do you think that Xuan Dongliang is, Zhou Duwei is not his opponent, if the female assassin is not a big shoulder, wide body, round waist, how can he do this?" ”

Song Kai was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.

Wei Wushuang on the bed pouted angrily, and then he also laughed.

"Why is Song Lang smiling so happily, could it be that my inference is wrong?" Xue Weihai was originally happy, but he was a little uncomfortable when he saw Song Kai smiling like this.

Song Kai hurriedly waved his hand, put aside the topic, and asked, "Old Xue, is there chaos in the city now?" How could Crepe Dongliang be willing to suffer such a loss? ”

Xue Weihai waved his hand, "If you want to say that the second credit of this female assassin is to kill the dog-headed military master Ma Xingtao, now the five hundred soldiers are out of order, some time ago the city searched for female assassins, naturally it was a big chaos, and some people took the opportunity to arrest the women of the good family and forced them to do something unreasonable, Zhou Duwei ordered someone to dress up as a female assassin, and took advantage of the night to kill dozens of his soldiers, and now those soldiers are also honest, and they don't dare to arrest any female assassins anymore, hahahaha......"

Song Kai was also happy when he heard this result, and said with a smile: "In this way, I am really relieved, it seems that my Hongchen Inn does not need to give one-third of that crepe Dongliang." ”

"Oh, I'm here for this," Xue Weihai stopped smiling and looked at Qing Niang.

Song Kai said: "Old Xue, it doesn't hurt if you say it, these two are all henchmen, you can believe it." ”

Xue Weihai nodded, "Now that the military salary is tight, Song Lang, the caravan has not returned yet, you can see the matter of your salary, you ......"

Song Kai said: "Don't worry, Old Xue, I already have a backup plan, the first batch should be able to pay you five thousand yuan, which is enough to last for more than half a month." I believe that by that time, the caravan had already returned. ”

Xue Weihai glanced at Zhou Ce, and Zhou Ce nodded.

Xue Weihai sighed and said: "Thanks to Song Lang, it's just that where did you get this money?" ”

Song Kai smiled, "I'll know in a few days." ”

Xue Weihai didn't care, laughed, and said: "Since Song Lang still remembers that I Xue borrowed money, then I can rest assured, after the beginning of spring, it should be an opportunity to act, and during this time, please take care of Song Lang." ”

After speaking, Xue Weihai stood up, he came today, mainly to ask for money, since the goal was achieved, it was inconvenient for him to sit more, and he was ready to leave.

"It's so late, why don't you stay on the island," Song Kai said.

"No, Song Lang, you are naturally an idle cloud and wild crane, chic and free, but the old man doesn't have your life, I have to go back to deal with some documents, and I say goodbye,"

After speaking, Xue Weihai and Zhou Ce turned to leave, and their figures disappeared into the night. (To be continued......)