The next day is the sixteenth day of the first month, and it is the day to settle accounts with Guan Jiaze and others to share dividends. Du Jinning had breakfast and was about to go to the Boyue Teahouse in the east of the city when someone outside the courtyard asked, "Is Young Master Du at home?" ”

When she went out to take a look, she saw Zhuang Yue standing at the door.

"Shopkeeper Zhuang, is something wrong?" She hurriedly walked over and asked, and then let the person into the house, "Come in and talk." ”

Zhuang Yue followed her into the hall and sat down, and then spoke: "Yesterday, the shopkeeper of the scholarly bookstore came to me and said that he wanted to buy your "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Tianlong Babu" scripts, and offered the price of six taels of silver each; This morning, the shopkeeper of Boya Pavilion also came to me and said, "Give eight taels of silver a book, and buy your "Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu". ”

"Oh?" Du Jinning looked at Zhuang Yue, blinked, raised his hand and arched at him: "Thank you Shopkeeper Zhuang for taking such a long distance, come and tell me in advance, I accept the favor of Shopkeeper Zhuang." ”

Zhuang Yue laughed, raised his hand and returned the salute: "Young Master Du is polite, Zhuang Yue was carried by his grandfather, who was a big shopkeeper in the capital, and after twelve years, he achieved the position of the third shopkeeper of the silk shop in Lishui County, and stayed in that position for five years, which can be regarded as the head." If it weren't for the Seventh Young Master and Young Master Du to open a teahouse together, after opening two branches, Young Master Du would recommend him to be a big shopkeeper in the next place, and he asked Young Master Du to make the teahouse trade prosperous, Zhuang Yue would not have such a beautiful scenery in his life. Zhuang Yue can have today, thanks to the support of Young Master Du, some trivial things, why worry about it? ”

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Smart people are like that, needless to say, everything is in plain sight.

Originally, Zhuang Yue could wait for Du Jinning to go to the teahouse for a while, but he came over in person in advance and told Du Jinning about it, just to sell Du Jinning a favor.

Although this was originally written by Du Jinning, whether it is sold or not, and to whom, it is Du Jinning's own business, and it has nothing to do with Guan Jiaze, Qi Muyuan and Zhang Hongwen. But the teahouse still has a copy of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu", which the teahouse bought for two taels of silver.

Although when he sold the script to the teahouse, Du Jinning had already declared that other copyrights were left in his hands, but in this era, there was not even the word "copyright", and everyone had no concept of the interpretation and division of copyright. So copyright or something, everyone thinks it's completely inappropriate.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is about 1.2 million words, and "Dragon Babu" also has about 1.5 million words. At present, Du Jinning sells this booklet, because the brush writing is relatively large, and a thick book is only about 25,000 words. In this way, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" can be divided into almost fifty volumes, and "Dragon Babu" is sixty volumes. If it is calculated according to eight taels of silver, it is almost nine hundred taels of silver.

Wealth is moving, perhaps for Guan Jiaze and Qi Muyuan, who are wealthy, this bit of silver will not make them abandon their conscience and betray their friendship, Zhang Hongwen also dare not have dissenting because of his low status, but what if? The human heart is the thing that cannot stand the test. Besides, it's not up to them to decide whether they want these properties or not, they have families and clansmen.

Therefore, it would be great if this matter could not be brought to the table as a business matter in front of all the owners of the teahouse.

Deal with it privately, even if Guan Jiaze and the others know, they subconsciously feel that it is Du Jinning's own private matter, and it does not involve the question of how much money he makes, if he doesn't take it seriously, maybe it will be over after it, and it will not affect the friendship between them.

Zhuang Yue can carry his master Guan Jiaze behind his back to sell himself such a favor, and Du Jinning will naturally not hide his plans from him.

She said, "I didn't plan to sell that. ”

Zhuang Yue was taken aback: "Young master...... "He knows the Du family's background." Although I don't know how long those two scripts are and how much they can be sold, wouldn't it be a fool to put the profits you have and not make money?

"Young master, I won't tell you anything, although there are no copies of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu" on the market now, but that is because we are more strict in this regard, we would rather not make so much money, and not let the storyteller repeat the content of the storytelling too much; And every storyteller signed a red deed with us and set a high amount of compensation; Every Xiao Er stared closely at the tea guests in the audience, not letting them write while listening to the book. Otherwise, these two books would have been placed in the bookstore, and they would not have spent a lot of money to buy them from us. ”

Zhuang Yue persuaded bitterly: "But this is only temporary. If there is money to be made, they don't care whether the book has a beginning or an end, and they will definitely let those who have a better memory remember the plot, and then write a similar one and sell it on the market. Rather than letting others remember and try to exploit loopholes, it is better for you to make this money. ”

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet." Du Jinning smiled, "I don't sell it, I plan to open a bookstore by myself, and I will print my books for sale." ”

"Ah, I see." Zhuang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and also agreed with Du Jinning's approach, "Although I don't do the bookstore business, I don't know the profits, but since those two bookstores can get eight taels of silver a piece, the income is very considerable." With their virtue, they can buy your book for eight taels of silver, and when the time comes, after removing the cost of printing and the income from peddling, they will surely make a profit of fifty or sixty taels or more. Instead of letting them earn this money, you can open a bookstore and make this layer of income. ”

Du Jinning didn't answer this, but brought up another topic: "The grandfather of the shopkeeper Zhuang is the big shopkeeper of the Guan family, and I think the deeds of your family are all in the Guan family, right?" ”

Zhuang Yue was silent, nodded and said, "Yes." "He is a smart person, and he doesn't need to say any more to know what Du Jinning is going to say.

I heard Du Jinning say: "If the shopkeeper Zhuang is free, I will use the shopkeeper Zhuang as my big shopkeeper to operate all my business." ”

This is Du Jinning's true words.

Zhuang Yue is a person who is steady, shrewd, and has excellent vision, and the most important thing is that he has a good heart, and he faintly admires her. If she had such a big shopkeeper to help her do things, it would be much more convenient in the future, and she would not have to rely on the Guan family and the Qi family due to lack of manpower.

While relying on others, it is natural to be subject to others. In the future, if she gets into trouble with this Guan and Qi families because of interests or other things, as long as they draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, the business tower she has worked so hard to build will completely collapse, which she cannot tolerate.