Ji Jingbai looked at her resentful little eyes for a long time, then lowered her eyelids, put the chopsticks back, and after eating a bite of beef noodles, she said: "Eat quickly, didn't you say that you want to go to the bookstore to buy something, and we will go when we finish eating." ”

Seeing that he had eaten noodles and didn't have the heart to give her beef anymore, Ye Guoguo immediately said happily, and then, he had a very good appetite and buried himself in eating noodles.

After eating the noodles, Ji Jingbai walked to the noodle stall owner and gave money for two bowls of noodles.

During this period, I passed by a man passing by in front of a noodle stall.

At the moment when he passed by, Ji Jingbai gave the man a token and ordered something almost inaudible.

It was so fast that no one noticed anything unusual.

As soon as he paid for two bowls of noodles, Ji Jingbai accompanied Ye Guoguo to the bookstore.

Ye Guoguo is to buy books.

I still buy a book that only has one side written and the front handwriting can be seen from the back.

This 'engraving printing' is carved on the wooden board and then printed, so how to carve the words on the wooden board? Is it still carved with the anti-body character?

This is actually very simple, that is, the manuscript that needs to be printed on the wooden board, the back of the manuscript can be seen in front of the word, and the front of the manuscript paper and the wooden board are attached to each other, from the back of the paper, the word is the anti-body, the engraver uses a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout without handwriting, and it becomes the anti-body yang text that the font protrudes.

And she bought this kind of book for this, and pasted each page of the book as a manuscript on a wooden board to carve it into a reverse font, and then she asked someone to copy the manuscript to be printed.

Fortunately, although the papermaking technology in this world is not so developed, and paper is expensive, there is still a difference between single and double sides of books.

But generally only a book with words on one side is more expensive than a book with words on both sides, because it consumes more paper, and it is naturally thicker.

The bookstore is all hand-copied books, each of which is neatly handwritten and extremely standard, otherwise it would not be sold, and naturally it would not be sold on the shelf.

Ye Guoguo thought about it, and first bought the commonly used books for printing, especially the 'Four Books and Five Classics', which must be read by readers, which is also a must-have book for the imperial examination.

Among the books, the four books and the five classics are not sold at all.

Ye Guoguo also thought about it, and the first batch of four books and five classics were printed and sold, and as for other commonly used books, they were slowly carved and printed.

Therefore, as soon as Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai entered the bookstore, they first bought the Four Books and Five Classics by name, and then bought a lot of other commonly used books.

Including the Four Books and Five Classics, Ye Guoguo bought a total of nearly 200 books; It's just a one-sided word, which is much more expensive than a double-sided word, and it cost her a full hundred taels of silver anyway.

The books with words on one side are really thick, and these nearly 200 books, when they are put into the carriage, are about to fill the space in the carriage.

Engraving printing also needs paper and ink and other things, and it needs to be bought in the bookstore, but Ye Guoguo didn't plan to buy it today, and there was no place to put it at home, so she still waited for her workshop to be built, and when there was a place to put it, she would buy it again.

At that time, it must have been the time when her books began to be printed.

After buying good books, Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai went home.

As soon as their carriage left the town, the man who passed by Ji Jingbai in front of the noodle stall, dressed in a dark costume and cloak, with an expressionless face and a menacing attitude, poured into the Mingjin Academy with the county order and a group of officials.

As soon as he entered the academy, he raised the gold medal in his hand: "Passing on the emperor's edict, Lu Xiuyun, the president of Mingjin Academy, formed a party for personal gain, aided and abused, dereliction of duty and morality, and many people in the academy were deeply harmed, stripped of their scholars, put into prison, and convicted according to the law." ”