13. Sell scripts
The matter of Pei You and Jiang Wan happened between the two families, and no one would spread it, so naturally no one knew.
In the next few days, Xu Fenggu carefully observed Jiang Wan's expression every day, afraid that she would not be able to think about it, but Jiang Wan ate well and slept well, and she couldn't see anything abnormal. When she said that she wanted to buy some paper, pen and ink back, Xu Fenggu did not refuse. She found the chestnut tree in the back mountain, and in the past few days they have gone to pick up chestnuts and sell them, and they have really made a lot of money, and it doesn't matter if the money earned is all for her to spend, she can play if she wants, it's better than being bored.
With Xu Fenggu's contribution, Jiang Wan followed Jiang Funian and them to the county seat to sell chestnuts, and took Jiang Gu to separate from them halfway, and bought ink blocks, paper, and a kind of brush that was thin and small, with a hard tip that could be used as a fountain pen. In Jiang Wan's opinion, inkstones are not necessities, and if they can be saved, they will not be saved.
After shopping, Jiang Wan took Jiang Gu to play happily, bought some snacks before meeting her father and mother and going home together. They come to sell chestnuts, mainly to vendors who make fried chestnuts with sugar, as well as grocery stores, and generally do not set up their own stalls to sell them, which is time-consuming and may be discovered by people in Yamashita Village.
After selling it a few times, all the chestnuts on the back mountain were picked up, and they were really out of reach on the trees, thinking that they had already earned nearly seven taels of silver by selling chestnuts, Jiang Funian and Xu Fenggu decided that the matter would end here and continue to restore the original days.
Jiang Wan didn't object, she took the paper and pen she bought, and began to transcribe the rest. Pei You's words are very good-looking, the pen walks the dragon and snake, the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, and they are all wind and bones together, when she sees his words, she can't help but think of his person, and the way he focuses when he reads and teaches literacy.
It's a shame not to be able to hook up with him anymore.
Jiang Wan took out a piece of paper written by Pei You and prepared to leave it for collection as a souvenir, and she transcribed the contents of this page herself. It's been so busy for several days, and it's the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Wanwan, we have to have a good time in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year." Xu Fenggu said with a smile, "It's rare to make a windfall this year and make a lot of money." Tomorrow we will go to the county seat and buy some things and come back. β
Jiang Wan smiled: "Mother, you have to remember that your wealth must not be exposed!" When you come back from shopping, remember to take a rag bag so that no one can see it. β
Seeing that Jiang Wan was laughing at the same time, Xu Fenggu's heart finally let go of the fear that had been worried for a long time.
"Mother's saved. Do you want to go along? Xu Fenggu asked.
Jiang Wan didn't really want to go out, but when she thought that her script was finished and it was time to take it out and submit it, she smiled and said, "Okay." β
When they arrived at the county seat, Jiang Wan and Xu Fenggu and their soldiers were divided into two ways. Before, she had already asked what bookstores in Changping County could print independently, and began to submit articles with Jiang Gu, a bodyguard. went to the nearest bookstore first, Jiang Wan asked Jiang Gu to wait outside, and she walked in by herself.
There was no one in the bookstore, there was a little second who was drowsy, Jiang Wan looked around casually, and found that there were a lot of books in the bookstore, so she was a little relieved, walked over and knocked lightly on the counter.
Xiao Er woke up suddenly, rubbed his eyes and looked at Jiang Wan, and the corner of his mouth hooked into a bright smile: "Girl, what do you want to buy?" β
"I don't buy things, I sell things." Jiang Wan said softly, "Can you ask the shopkeeper to come out and talk?" I sell the original manuscript. β
Xiao Er looked at Jiang Wan with a surprised face, it was the first time he met a woman who came to push the original manuscript of the script, and after thinking about it, he didn't refuse, so he asked her to wait a while, and went to the back to find the shopkeeper by himself.
After a while, a middle-aged man about forty years old walked out, he had already heard Xiao Er talk about the situation, and he was not surprised at the moment, he arched his hand and said straight to the point: "This girl, the contemptible surname is Huang, you can call me Huang Shopkeeper." I heard you have a manuscript for sale? Can I take it with me? β
"Shopkeeper Huang, I brought the original manuscript of the script." Jiang Wan took out the stack of papers and handed it over.
The shopkeeper Huang took it, looked at it a little, and had a serious look on his face. What he saw earlier was naturally Pei You's words. The shopkeeper himself is a half-hung reader, can't write good articles, can't practice good words, but still has an appreciation for good words and good articles, the word in front of him, floating like a floating cloud, like a dragon, as if he can see a high-spirited scholar through the back of the paper, write these words in one go, the words are amazing.
"W-That's what you wrote?" Shopkeeper Huang looked at Jiang Wan in surprise. He didn't believe it was written by the woman in front of him. He hadn't read the contents of the book carefully, but with this word alone, he wanted to take it.
Jiang Wan shook her head, her face was gloomy for a while, she took out a handkerchief to cover her eyes, and said with a choked voice: "This is written by my fiancΓ© who died young. I am more in love with him than Jin Jian, but God will make people, he is not in good health, and I died not long after I got engaged, the first few words are written by his own hands, after he died, I can't bear to see the pearl of the book he wrote is dusty, so according to what he said before, he finished writing for him......"
Jiang Wan said, then lowered her head to the side, covered her eyes with a handkerchief, and sobbed softly.
"This ...... This girl, please mourn. Shopkeeper Huang didn't expect that he would provoke such a sad story with one sentence, and he apologized on his face. He saw that she was still dressed as a girl, and after hesitating for a moment, he still called her "girl".
He flipped it back, and sure enough, he saw two kinds of handwriting behind it, which were completely incomparable with the previous words.
"I'm sorry, every time I think of my fiancΓ©, I can't help but cry." Jiang Wan raised her eyes that were rubbed red by herself, and looked at the shopkeeper Huang sadly, "Shopkeeper Huang, please take a look, do you accept the original manuscript of this book?" β
"Wait a minute." The shopkeeper Huang was already moved with compassion at this moment, and motioned to Xiao Er to ask Jiang Wan to sit down and rest for a while, while he himself flipped through the notebook in his hand.
Shopkeeper Huang read the book very quickly, and he didn't know what to say for a while after reading it. At first glance, this statement seems to be no different from the popular stories in the market, but when you think about it carefully, it reveals a different flavor. He is the shopkeeper of the bookstore, and he also has a keen business eye, and his pity for Jiang Wan will not make him completely lose his judgment, according to the content of the story of this book, he feels that this book may be very popular with women. In this world, women are required to be virtuous and virtuous, and it is natural for a man to marry a wife and take a concubine. Wives should be tolerant and generous, but judging from the situation in his family, his wife was not at all happy with his concubine. In this book, the scholar and the widow were separated several times, but he became an official but pushed off the marriage in the capital and came back to marry the widow.
Shopkeeper Huang was pondering, and when Jiang Wan saw that he had finished reading it, she got up and walked over, and asked with a worried face, "Shopkeeper Huang, I don't know...... What do you think? β
The shopkeeper Huang came back to his senses and decided to accept this book, so he smiled and said: "Girl, this book has a delicate story and a moving plot. β
Jiang Wan was overjoyed, she was originally prepared to have to run a few more houses if she was rejected, but when she heard him say this, she settled down, and said with a slight smile: "Thank you Huang Shopkeeper." If I can see this book printed by Fu Zi, I will be very happy to think that my fiancΓ© has a spirit in heaven. β
Shopkeeper Huang smiled: "Yes." I wonder what name the girl plans to use to print this book? β
There was no payment written in that stack of papers, so the shopkeeper Huang asked this question.
Jiang Wan thought for a while and said, "Let's call it a scholar." β
Shopkeeper Huang was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "Scholar, what a scholar." β
Shopkeeper Huang is a kind person, and after determining that he was going to accept this, he discussed with Jiang Wan how to pay the manuscript fee. There are two ways to pay manuscript fees, one is to give a sum of money to buy out, the other is to give a sum of money first, and then pay according to the number of books sold, of course, the second type of money given in advance is not as much as the first one. Originally, the second type was the treatment that only celebrities who often published their scripts had, but when he saw that she was pitiful, he also gave this choice.
Jiang Wan only wanted to make a one-time transaction, so she simply chose to buy out. Shopkeeper Huang was afraid that she didn't know the difference, so he explained it again. It's just that seeing Jiang Wan's resolute attitude, Shopkeeper Huang followed her.
The two signed the contract, and Jiang Wan got the buyout price of ten taels of silver at one time. Faced with such a large amount of money, Jiang Wan was a little sad - inexplicably felt a feeling of breakup fee. Although, she wrote it herself.
Before leaving, Jiang Wan said to Shopkeeper Huang: "Shopkeeper Huang, on the cover of this book, you may be able to write sentences such as 'adapted from real events' and 'one life and one couple'." β
The shopkeeper Huang was stunned for a moment, then thought about it and felt very reasonable, and sincerely thanked: "Thank you Miss Jiang, girl go slowly." β
Jiang Wan nodded, turned around and walked out.
Jiang Gu was already impatient waiting outside, if Jiang Wan hadn't told him before, she might have stayed inside for a long time, he would probably have rushed in.
"Sister, why have you stayed so long, have you bought any books?" Jiang Gu asked. He didn't know that Jiang Wan was here to sell scripts, and in fact, Jiang Wan didn't sue the rest of the Jiang family.
"What do you think this is?" Jiang Wan asked Jiang Gu to come over and show him that she had gotten the hot silver.
"Oh my God!" Jiang Gu's expression changed, "Sister, you, you robbed someone else?!" β
Jiang Wan knocked Jiang Gu's head hard, pretending to be annoyed: "Do you think your sister and I are such a person?" And do you think I can snatch someone with such a weak body? β
She said, smiling and walking forward: "Let's go, let's go and meet my father." Touching the silver in her arms, the corners of her mouth became more and more hooked. The breakup fee is the breakup fee, it's silver.
Jiang Gu's head was full of puzzlement, and he was stunned for a while before he hurriedly chased after him: "Sister, sister, you wait for me!" What the hell is going on, you tell me quickly! β