Lin Ruoxi, who was still dressed as an ugly monster, sat in the small pavilion on the mountain, fulfilled her original promise, and personally played a song for Zhu Fu. Without discounting, she was physically and mentally devoted, and the music she played with her hands on the jade pot ice guqin was not only brilliant in technique, but also endowed it with the feelings and soul it deserved.

Zhu Fu, who doesn't understand the rhythm of music, but can appreciate it from the bottom of his heart, stood opposite her, closed his eyes and listened quietly, which can be described as a feast for his ears. He can't wait for the end of the song, his heart is as calm as water, and he feels that everything around him is so beautiful. After hearing the final closing sound, he slowly opened his eyes and applauded Lin Ruoxi softly to show his respect for her.

"After the song is over, should you also tell me the second episode of "Dream of Red Mansions"?" Lin Ruoxi, who was light and breezy under the clouds, and her heart was full of urgency, took the tea delivered to her by Qiu Yue as soon as she raised her hand, opened the lid of the tea, gently blew a piece of tea floating on the water, and took a sip to moisten her throat.

Zhu Fu, who sat down directly on the stone bench opposite her, said calmly: "The song you played just now is the first time you have fulfilled "Dream of Red Mansions", not the second time you want to buy in advance. It is said that the fact that you have set aside a thousand taels of silver to buy this book is enough to show that you attach great importance to it. So, how about we talk about this deal? ”

first said "oh", and then handed the tea cup back to Qiu Yue's hand Lin Ruoxi, as long as he can get his hands on what he likes, he doesn't care about a thousand taels of silver at all, after all, it is difficult to buy a thousand taels of silver, and he said: "Since you are a happy person, then I am also very simple." Give me the book, and the thousand taels of silver will be yours. ”

"Looks like you've misunderstood me. What I want is not just a one-time piece of silver, but a long-term relationship between us. Zhu Fu, who has a sum of money in his pocket and is not as flustered as in the past, has time and enough patience to talk. My understanding of money has always been to believe that it is meaningful to spend money, so as to reflect its value, so as to bring physical and mental pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness to yourself. Knowing what is called monopoly price and what is called maximizing returns, he did not plan to sell it all at once, but had another long-term plan.

"Your taste is so heavy. Could it be that you have fallen in love with Miss Ben? I might as well tell you the truth, not only am I ugly, but I also have disabilities in my legs and feet. If you think that if you marry me, you will not only get a large amount of dowry from me, but also be able to possess the beautiful maids who marry me by my side, but you have a wrong idea. I, Lin Ruoxi, only recruited sons-in-law, and never thought about marrying others. If you want to join our Lin family, it's not impossible. It's just that I'm going to tell you the ugly things before. You are very good at behaving and being able to serve Miss Ben, but I can give you a piece of silver every month. Understanding the deviation, Lin Ruoxi, who came out on the quirky side, smiled.

"Miss Lin San, not only are you really good at laughing, but you also think too much! Something like that, that's a shame for my ancestors of the Zhu family, and I resolutely don't do it. Although I, Zhu Fu, don't look better than Pan An, I can be regarded as having a nose and eyes, and good facial features. Compared to you, I am indeed poor. However, I am poor and poor, marry you, forget it. After all, you have to be beautiful, and it's not something that ordinary people like me can appreciate. Even if I don't think about myself, I have to think about what my children will look like in the future. Zhu Fu, who was competing against each other, originally wanted to talk to her about business cooperation and selling the book "Dream of Red Mansions" for middle and high-end people.

Lin Ruoxi, who is not angry and is still as calm as water, has been tired of hearing other people's praise for her since she was a child. She is not unclear that she not only has the appearance of a country and a city, but also has the wisdom of a talented woman. Other people's compliments and reconciliations to themselves are either fake and have plans, or they are taken for granted, and only the truth of talking to Zhu Fu like this is commendable.

"You don't want money, and you don't look down on Miss Ben. So what exactly do you want? Lin Ruoxi, who was interested, looked at him with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and said without hurrying or slowing.

"I originally planned to talk to you, the daughter of a merchant, about publishing a book, but I was misunderstood by you. It's a profitable business, but it can benefit both of us fifty-fifty of the money. Zhu Fu, who only sold her for 1,000 taels of silver at the beginning, still thought that he should not make a one-shot deal, but take a long-term view and be a fair copyist.

"To be honest, my Lin family really doesn't look down on a small business like yours. You can see that you have never done business and do not understand the business experience. If I didn't strike you, even if you had a net profit of one or two pieces of silver, you wouldn't be able to sell a thousand copies, and the profit would not exceed a thousand taels of silver. As you say, if we divide it fifty-fifty, it will not be more than five hundred taels of silver into your pocket. What's more, there are new books on the market that sell so expensive? I can guarantee that no matter how wonderful and popular your book is, within three days of its release, all kinds of manuscripts and reprints will appear all over the world...... Circulating in the market in various forms. Not only that, but in terms of price, I'm afraid they're only one-tenth of what you would rate. "It's not Lin Ruoxi, who is usually a lady, but she didn't bluff him, but sought truth from facts.

When he heard this, Zhu Fu, who seemed a little discouraged, of course knew that there was no intellectual property protection at the moment. If someone pirates your original work, then they can afford you. Otherwise, when Cao Xueqin spent her whole life writing "Dream of Red Mansions", she did not hear that he became rich, but died in poverty and illness.

It's not that Zhu Fu, who doesn't know that "Dream of Red Mansions" is not an ordinary reading, but he also knows that it is in the future, but it is the first of the top ten books that he can't read. At the beginning, the reason why I told Lin Ruoxi about it was that it was targeted by the main body of the market. If a person like her is born in the next generation, she will be a veritable and out-and-out female literary youth.

In the book market of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the books of the official economy, the best-selling wild books are probably those that meet the public's taste, such as "Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty/History", "The Secret Story of Yang Guifei and An Lushan" and so on, and even novels with color. Thinking of this, he felt that the taste trend of the present and future generations was similar, and there was not much change, after all, the color of the food was also.