After Xie Zhangshi finished speaking, he made a "please" gesture and led the way.

Entering the back door, as soon as the curtain was lowered, the small and fragmented human voices in the bookstore were immediately blocked, and he led him to walk a little longer, and after two wings he arrived at the middle hall, in which sat two old men, one holding black, and the other holding white.

Xie Zhangshi took a few steps forward and respectfully saluted the two, and then beckoned to Ji Qingling and the others.

Seeing that he came with two children, the white chess player put the chess pieces in his hand back into the chess box, looked up interestingly and said, "Where did this doll come from?" ”

Xie Zhangshi said: "Mr. Qian, these are the two guests who came to the shop to book books, I thought that you have studied the works of Shenning monks, so I took it upon myself to bring them over for you to taste and appreciate their books, and please don't blame Mr. ”

The old man who was called Mr. Qian smiled, touched his gray beard, turned to the other old man and said, "Tasting? Lao Xie, you are not honest as a person in charge, this is using me as a coolie......" After he said this, he seemed to feel a little inappropriate, so he stopped his mouth, and after a while he asked, "Where is the book?" ”

Only then did Xie Zhangshi say to Ji Qingling and the others: "This is Mr. Qian Maiqian of Liangshan Academy, he has been a Confucian for many years, and he is very famous here. He also introduced another person, "This is the contemptible owner, also surnamed Xie." ”

Ji Qingling was a little surprised and asked, "But Mr. Houzhai?" ”

At the beginning, she and Gu Yanzhang inquired around Jixian County, and learned that there are two most well-known academies here, one is called Qingming, No. 1 Liangshan, many of the professors are contemporary Confucians, and the most famous one is Qian Mai, whose students call him Mr. Houzhai.

Ji Qingling's heart moved.

Money Houzhai!

This is a well-known Confucian!

After a few years, the new emperor will succeed to the throne, and will summon this inconspicuous old man into Beijing to confer officials, he does not participate in any court in the struggle for power and profit, and is dedicated to learning, and his reputation among the scholars is very high.

More importantly, he is the Bole of "Gu Yanzhang" in history.

It was he who discovered Gu Yanzhang's talent and specially reminded him that made Gu Yanzhang's master pay attention to him.

She was thinking about how to deal with it, but she heard Xie Zhangshi stroking her palm: "Exactly." Please release the book. ”

Ji Qingling simply put this matter aside, pulled Gu Yanzhang's sleeve, and stepped forward to salute the two old men together, and then put the burden on the Eight Immortals table on the side.

In her previous life, she was used to seeing the powerful ministers and Confucians, and her mother was born in a family of etiquette, no matter where she was, she had no stage fright, and the etiquette was very smooth, and the two old men couldn't help but nod secretly.

Mr. Qian smiled and said to Mr. Xie on the side: "This chess is set up like this, don't mess it up, we'll play it again tomorrow." As he spoke, he walked to the table of the Eight Immortals and looked at the four volumes of "Records of Sleepy Learning".

His expression was relaxed, but the more he looked closely, the more solemn his expression became, and the way he read the book was very strange, he didn't look at the cover, he didn't look at the title page, but he turned directly to the back, and looked at the spine for a long time.

Xie Zhangshi came out with a tray early, and put gloves, a small jar of wine, bamboo sticks, knives and other things on it.

Mr. Qian put on his gloves, took a bamboo stick, picked up the cotton rope used to fix the spine, and stepped forward to sniff it carefully, his movements and behavior were quite strange.

He watched here, but Xie Lao did not step forward to join in the fun, but ordered someone to serve tea, and asked Ji Qingling and Gu Yanzhang to sit down.

"I don't know where the two little friends are from, and the accent doesn't look like we're from Jixian County." Xie Lao said with a smile.

Whether it is him or Mr. Qian, he has a very strong bookish flavor and is also very approachable, which makes it easy for people to feel close at first sight.

Ji Qingling replied crisply: "I don't hide it from the old man, my brother and I are from Yanzhou, and we came here to study." ”

After Xie Lao asked the sentence just now, he originally looked at Gu Yanzhang, who wanted to answer was actually a young one, but it was rare to have the feeling of looking away.

He is old, and for a child of Ji Qingling's age, he has to be a little more tolerant, and when he hears the name Yanzhou, he immediately understands. Because I knew that Yanzhou had been slaughtered, and the two children came here in distress, it was not good to take this to ask carefully, but I was afraid of touching each other's sadness, so I said: "The child is ambitious, Jixian County's learning is not easy to seek, you took this ancient book here, and you want to come to the family There is also some background, do you know the origin of this book?" ”

Ji Qingling had been waiting for him to say this, and said "here" in his heart, and hurriedly moved out the words he had thought out earlier, and said: "This is my mother's dowry back then, my mother's ancestor was an official in Jingzhou, and was entrusted by someone to keep this thing, but who knew that the owner of this book died early, and all kinds of books entrusted to the outside were gone." ”

Xie Lao said "oh", and asked again as if chatting: "Ask a word of arrogance, I don't know my mother's surname?" ”

Ji Qingling replied generously: "My grandfather's surname is Hong. ”

The two chatted back and forth for a long time, at first Xie Lao just asked some superficial introductory knowledge, and later, seeing Ji Qingling's answers fluent and speaking in a very orderly manner, he asked deeply, but the more he talked, the more surprised Xie Lao became, his face was not obvious, but his heart had already turned up turbulent waves.

This is a genius who came out of nowhere, at a young age, the four books and five classics are well memorized, and all the sons and hundreds of schools know it in their hearts, regardless of whether the origin of this child's self-report is true or not, just look at his full stomach of poetry and books, with his age, it is simply a genius.

Thinking of this, Old Xie hurriedly focused on Gu Yanzhang again, and asked a few questions on the side.

Gu Yanzhang got Ji Qingling's instructions, he can answer one word, never say two words, he has outstanding appearance and pure temperament, this answer seems to be sincere, and it highlights that he has a proper family education.

Xie Lao secretly looked at the dress and demeanor of the two, and had already made up his mind in his heart, no matter how valuable the books they brought over, they would try to buy them at a high price, just to contribute to the students with such qualifications, so that they could concentrate on learning. In the future, as long as one of them can soar, his own business will be regarded as a big profit.

The tea of the three of them was changed four or five times, but Mr. Qian over there still did not react, Xie Lao called him a few times, and when he saw that he did not reply, he instructed Xie Zhangshi: "Go and see how Qian Lao is doing." ”

Mr. Qian didn't let them wait for a long time, he quickly walked over, frowned and said to Xie Lao: "This book has strange ......" and turned to Ji Qingling and Gu Yanzhang and said, "Can you store these four volumes with me first, and wait for me to refer to them in detail." ”