Lin Wen is not bad-looking, introverted, and has cultivated a steady attitude in the face of bear children over the years, even if he is lame, he feels gentle and elegant, without a trace of embarrassment and resentment, this peaceful attitude is very convincing.

At least at this moment, the people in the building didn't think much about it, they just thought that Lin Wen really came up with this method for everyone's sake.

Local students, who wanted to copy books, borrowed books and went back to copy, and there were many people in the building, and the atmosphere eased.

Taking advantage of the fact that Lu Rui, who was running to read the book, his eyes turned, and he dragged Lu Li and Zhou Tong forward, and quietly asked Lin Wen, "Shopkeeper Lin, you see that we are also local students, can we borrow the book back to read?" ”

Lin Wen raised his eyes to look at them, and then smiled gently, "No. ”

Lu Rui was smiling along with him, but when he heard these two words, his face suddenly became bitter, and he tried to persuade him: "You see that we all know the roots, if I dare to lose the book, can't you go to my house to find me?" If nothing else, our husband is in your building. ”

Lin Wen shook his head, looked at them with a gentle gaze and said: "There is no such rule in the reading building now, and the county lord has repeatedly emphasized that everyone is treated equally, not to mention that you are a child of the world, even if our patriarch is here, you can't borrow the book to read." ”

Lin Wen said with a smile: "Do you want to stay in the building to read, then borrow a copy and copy it back?" ”

Lu Rui choked, where could he copy the book?

His handwriting is good and neat, but it's hard to keep it neat after writing a book, don't think he hasn't tried, he's also tried to earn some pocket money on his own.

However, the operation was too difficult, and he gave up after two efforts, and he didn't lack that money anyway.

In order to avoid people occupying a book for a long time, the reading building has made a provision that those who take over the task of copying books must hand in enough words every three days.

This word count rule is still very low, and people who are used to copying books can complete the task by copying for an hour every day.

Not necessarily with Lurie.

And they still have to go to school, they only have one day off every ten years, and they usually have a lot of homework, so how can they have time to copy books.

The three of them sighed regretfully, and could only hold the book and continue to squat in various corners, enduring the cold wind blowing from the back and the sore legs of the squatting to endorse the book.

Zhou Tong couldn't help muttering: "The speed of printing books in the Reading Building is too slow, and we can't buy books if we want to." ”

Lu Rui and Lu Li don't have a lot of money, but Zhou Tong is rich, but unfortunately several of the books he likes are single or double volumes, and all the books are placed in the reading building for people to see, and the Hanmo Zhai next to it has no sales at all.

There are books he hasn't seen, and there are no books sold in Hanmo Zhai, let alone other bookstores, so he can only squat here honestly and read them.

The three of them huddled together to keep warm, and sincerely sighed: "It would be nice if there was floor heating." ”

The scholar who was also hunching his neck on the side answered in a low voice, "There is no floor heating, so it's good to close the window." ”

Zhou Tong glanced up at the other party and said in a low voice: "The building is full of wooden bookshelves and papers, you can't see open flames, won't it be dark if you don't open the window?" ”

Not to mention the window paper, the room will be darkened when that thing is pasted.

The scholar also knew this, so he just whispered, and then sighed and looked down to read.

It's so cold now, how can I go down again?

Lin Qingwan is also thinking about this problem, but the development of this world is limited, and many things have not been made, so she has the heart and power.

She does not want to come up with things that do not belong to this era, the development of history has its own process, and the productive forces of science and technology should progress together with the productive forces of agriculture, so as to improve the relations of production, otherwise one of the three will cause a big contradiction before it is too presumptuous.

When the contradictions are sharp, the society will be in turmoil.

Now the situation in the world is chaotic enough, and she doesn't want to bury more chaotic ambushes in the future.

The history of this world is different from hers, according to her time trajectory, the Northern Song Dynasty has already been established at this time, even if the border passes are still unstable, but at least the Central Plains is unified, and the people will not suffer from war every year.

But the world is still in disarray, and she just made a bamboo paper and a movable type print in this era.

The influence of bamboo paper will not be very large, and the movable type printing, which originally had a huge impact, is now only used in Lin's Book Company, she is not sure when this method will be used, but in her world, this invention was in the Song Dynasty, but the real large number of applications was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Her teacher once lamented that the cold reception of movable type printing had slowed the spread of knowledge in China, delaying its supposed role by 400 years.

And now she is just trying to make it happen again.

Although she has never made a steam engine, she knows the principle, and the craftsmen can always make it after ten or twenty years of research, but she doesn't want to do that, it is not something that belongs to this era, and rash appearance will only disrupt the order of this world.

Once the relations of production collapse, it will inevitably be chaos again, everyone's wish is hé píng, she doesn't want to create chaos, so Lin Qingwan thought about the stove, and the people in the reading building continued to blow the cold wind.

There are no lights, and neither is the glass!

However, as the weather became colder and colder, Lin Qingwan began to let people boil hot soup and put it at the door of the reading building, so that not only the people in the building could drink it, but also those who passed by.

At first, it was only the people who read books in the building who would make soup to drink, but later Lin Wen personally made a bowl for the little beggars who were watching on the sidelines, and everyone knew that the soup in this pot was not only for the people in the building, so more and more people came to drink soup every day.

If you're lucky, you'll even get egg drop.

That's right, there are eggs in the soup.

The chickens raised in the orchard and the ducks raised on the pond lay a lot of eggs, especially during this time, the chickens and ducklings have grown up and begun to lay eggs, and the harvest is too big to sell out for a while, so Lin Qingwan is so generous to cook soup for everyone.

The beggars were familiar with the men in the reading building, so they occasionally leaned against the door to talk to them, and a few of the younger children would occasionally look at the people in the building with envy, and the big beggar patted their heads and said, "Don't look around, that's not something you can see." ”

Lin Wen, who was immersed in copying things on the counter, raised his head when he heard this, looked at the beggar at the door and said with a smile: "The old man's words are not right, the reading building is open to anyone, they are also people, why can't they read it?" ”

The old beggar didn't expect Lin Wen to talk, he was a little flustered for a while, withdrew his hand helplessly, and then explained: "Reading is a sage business, how dare we lowly people touch the sage book?" ”

Before Lin Wen could speak, a gentle voice said: "The old man's words are wrong, the noble and the low should not be divided by status, but by character, this child's eyes are clear, and your old man is not a big mistake, where is the lowness?" ”

Lin Wen heard the voice and hurriedly put down and limped out of the door, "The ninth sister is here." ”

The old beggar also recognized Lin Qingwan and hurriedly knelt down.

Lin Qingwan grabbed him and said with a smile, "Old man, don't torture me." ”

The old beggar looked at his bursting, black hand and retracted in shame for a moment.

Lin Qingwan also saw it, and instead held his arm and straightened the person directly before looking down at a few children.

"You're so young, why don't you go to Yuzentang?"

The old beggar hurriedly said: "These children are all from Yushantang, but they have nothing to do in winter, so they come out for a walk." ”

Lin Qingwan looked at the ragged clothes on their bodies, frowning slightly, the Lin family donated a batch of fabrics to Yushantang during the winter solstice, and other families also have the habit of donating things to Yushantang during the holidays, why are these children still dressed like this?

Lin Qingwan secretly remembered it in her heart, squatted down to look at a few children, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to go in and read?" ”

An older boy whispered, "We can't read." ”

"It's okay, you can learn if you can't read," Lin Qingwan said with a smile: "It's not difficult to get in, just wash your hands and feet, and don't make noise when you go in." ”

The little boy was stunned and asked, "Is it okay to wear rotten clothes?" ”

"The rich and the poor are never within the scope of the rules of the reading building, we only care about cleanliness."

These words are very meaningful, and the onlookers in the building are thoughtful, but the little boy only listens to the literal meaning, his face flashes with excitement, he glanced at a few friends, and then bit his lip and said: "We are illiterate, no one will teach us." ”

Lin Qingwan smiled and asked, "How do you know that no one wants to teach you if you haven't tried?" ”

She pointed at Lin Wen and said to them: "This shopkeeper Lin used to be a gentleman, if you want to learn, go and ask him, as long as you impress him, I think he may be willing to teach you." ”

The eyes of several children lit up, and they looked at Lin Wen with blazing eyes.

Lin Wen twitched the corners of his mouth and stood aside relentlessly.

It was Lin Qingwan who said that most of the people in the reading building are readers, and it is not good for the long-term development of the reading building, and it is not in line with her original intention, so he asked him to find a way to bring more other people into the building to read.

It makes more sense to add one more farmer than two more scholars, so I just thought about convincing these beggars to enter the building.

He just wants everyone to know, look, even beggars can enter the library, who else can't come in?

But he didn't expect Lin Qingwan to give him such a job directly, didn't he not only want to be the shopkeeper of the Reading Building, but also teach Mr. Jiān Zhí?

Don't know he's busy, he's tired?

However, at this time, facing these children with sparkling eyes, his heart couldn't help but soften, and he couldn't open his mouth if he refused.

Lin Wen finally sighed and said to a few children: "Go back and get some hot water to wash your hands and feet, and I'll find two books for you to read tomorrow." ”

The children cheered lowly, and saluted Lin Wen and Lin Qingwan in the same way as those scholars, and then jumped and left.

The old beggar opened his mouth wide, and only then muttered: "The times are different, the times are different......"

Lin Qingwan heard his muttering and said softly, "It's always getting better and better." ”

The old beggar raised his head and said with tears in his eyes: "That's because with someone like the county lord, the children are lucky, much better than us." ”