A month later.

Zhou Huan leaned on the recliner and looked at a book while waiting for his bookstore to open. His attitude made the guys not far away have a sense of foreboding, what store owner actually didn't care so much when a new store opened?

There was a loud bang in the distance, which shook the window paper, and the shopkeeper on the side scolded angrily, but this did not affect Zhou Huan.

This was originally a cloth shop, but because the business was not good, the boss was not good at it and it was handed over to Zhou Huan a month ago. After Zhou Huan disposed of all the cloth, he opened a bookstore here.

In the vicinity of the bookstore, there is the rudder of the famous Perak Hall Kyoshi in the rivers and lakes.

However, this rudder was not in Jingshi, but in a town thirty miles away from Jingshi.

The Lei family of Perak Hall, but this Lei family is not the Lei family of Middle-earth.

The empire has been established for three hundred years and has expanded a lot, especially Chen Yunying's westward expansion has further accelerated the exchanges between the East and the West, and countless people of all colors and colors have come to the empire.

When there are more people, there will naturally be an organization, and where in Guangdong, there are also a large number of foreigners who have formed an organization, Perak Tang, and they have at the same time given themselves a Chinese surname Lei.

Those barbarians don't understand the principle of peace and harmony and overcoming rigidity with softness, thinking that martial arts need to be strong and fierce, and at the same time like to yell and shout when making moves, overwhelming the other party in momentum, they think that the thunderbolt in the sky is the most powerful thing, so they named it Thunderbolt Hall.

Thunderbolt Hall has been established for more than 100 years, and has always been a second- or third-rate organization in the rivers and lakes.

However, in the past 20 years, some of them have developed a powerful weapon, called the Thunderbolt, which is very powerful when thrown, and with poison needles and other things, it can blow up the master.

Now the popping sound next door is the effect of a thunderbolt, and when he heard this voice, Zhou Huan sighed slightly. When the science and technology chapter of the Three Classics was serialized in the Beijing Times, although Zhou Huan did not release the detailed formula of gunpowder, he also mentioned the most basic thing, that is, the gunpowder refined by the alchemy of the ancients.

But think about it, the smartest and most capable people in this world are studying the true qi and controlling the strongest power, even if these foreigners get the cheats, but the Chinese culture in it cannot be learned thoroughly for a period of time, and those so-called unity of heaven and man, the five elements gossip is not native to the local people to understand that there are always some problems.

Therefore, these barbarians embarked on different paths, some of them changed their demons, adding their own religions, legends and other things to the local martial arts, so as to invite the gods to form their own system, and the other was with the help of foreign objects, like armor and sharp weapons, etc., and I don't know who found the secret recipe for the purification of gunpowder and carried it forward.

Zhou Huan opened a bookstore here for two reasons, first, after leaving the empire for so many years, he needs to understand some knowledge, and reading books is the best choice, but it is too troublesome for the imperial library to wait for books to borrow and return books, and he can't read while eating, and he can't take a lot of books at once and flip through them in a mess, etc., and he has money now, in this case, why not open a bookstore and buy a lot of books he likes to read?

Second, he wanted to know what kind of firearms were made by Perak Hall, whether they were gunpowder or explosives, and whether there would be a better application.

Hundreds of rivers enter the sea, there is tolerance, and the appearance of the Thunderbolt Gate is not a bad thing in Zhou Huan's opinion.

By the way, the weights and measures of this era have changed, seventy years ago, Chen Yunying restructured, replacing the hour with the hour, meters, centimeters, etc. became the unit of length, one catty is five hundred grams, and one kilogram is quantitative.

"Boss, you open your business like this, you don't have the excitement of the surrounding neighbors, and you don't advertise in the Beijing Times, and the business is ......"

"It's okay, I don't open a bookstore to make money, of course it won't prevent you from making money, every month you get a month's salary in advance, and you can go home to see the baby after opening the door for half a day every day, so it's not better." ”

There are two guys in the shop, both of them are twenty-seven or eighteen widows with children on the same street - compared to hiring those sturdy men, Zhou Huan feels that they need a job more, these two women have a good heart, they are also very diligent, and it is also very convenient to receive female customers.

The two female clerks stopped talking, and the boss made it very clear when he hired them that the salary would be paid in advance, and it would be very generous, but they must not ask the boss what to do, what to ask for, and to make random ideas.

Shortly after the opening, a horse-drawn carriage passed in front of the bookstore, and a girl lifted the curtain on the cart and looked at the bookstore's sign.

After a long time, the girl covered in black gauze got out of the car, her steps were very careful, as if the outside world was full of fierce beasts, and she walked very cautiously, like a wounded kitten.

"Don't call her, let her find a book to read on her own. ”

Zhou Huan glanced at the girl, he had seen this kind of woman, social phobia or physical contact phobia, etc., simply put, she was a very timid girl, and then looked at her hands, there were burn marks on them, and he knew why.

"The books in the store are free, and there are chairs next to them, so you can read them whenever you want. ”

Zhou Huan's bookstore doesn't have any idle books such as the Legend of the Condor Heroes, the Condor Heroes, and the Smiling Proud Jianghu - because Zhou Huan feels that it is not to his taste, after the great Confucian who wrote the rebirth of Zhao Xjing died in the war, it is really a pity, and Zhou Huan specifically wants to keep him.

Most of the bookstores are some reference books, knowledge books and some travelogue things, and Zhou Huan thinks that people who can read these books in the bookstore are good people.

After the girl took two books from the bookstore, she came to the counter to check out, Zhou Huan looked at the title of the book, and then looked at the scattered silver she took out, and shook her head.

"You can rent a book, ten copper coins a day, can you really understand this kind of book?"

This is a mechanical book written by a master of the Tang Sect, the things in it are very deep, and it is impossible to understand without a foundation, and the price is also very expensive.

The girl nodded, then shook her head again.

"If you can read it, I have a lot of books on this subject here, and it costs a lot of money, how much money do you have enough money to buy? ”

Zhou Huan waved his hand and let the girl leave, perhaps because his attitude was too resolute, the girl didn't dare to argue, and after bowing to Zhou Huan, she turned around and left.

Speaking of which, people who can read this kind of book are really powerful.