After making up his mind, he put down the book in his hand and went to the counter.

"Shopkeeper Tong, check out!" a maid-like person, holding several pamphlets in his hands, placed them on the counter.

"Xiaomei, I'm here to buy books for your son-in-law again. The female shopkeeper took the book, and while settling the accounts, she smiled and accosted the maid.

The maid said, "Yes, Childe likes to read these books. ”

Jiang Yun listened to it next to him, it turned out that these talented and beautiful books are not without a market among readers, and there are only a lot of people like the young scholar just now, but they are generally afraid of face, and they all look at it in private and don't want to make it public.

I only heard the female shopkeeper joke again: "Xiaomei, don't you like to watch it." ”

The little maid smiled shyly and said: "Of course Xiaomei likes to watch it, but it's just to look at it and pass the boring time, the stories of those talented and beautiful women in the book have nothing to do with Xiaomei after all, Xiaomei is just a maid, and she doesn't have the life of that young lady." ”

The female shopkeeper teased her: "This is maybe, maybe one day there will be a great talent, and he will take a fancy to our little Mei girl, and it will be love at first sight, Gege-" The female shopkeeper laughed as she spoke.

The little maid suddenly blushed, and spat: "Shopkeeper Tong, what are you talking nonsense, there are nothing in the book, and you come to make fun of Xiaomei!"

The female shopkeeper smiled, took a book, and said: "I'm not talking nonsense, why not, for example, this 'Jade Hairpin' is about a scholarly genius and a maid who fell in love at first sight, and finally made a private lifelong decision. ”

"Really. The little maid was not shy anymore, and hurriedly took the "hosta record" in the other party's hand, turned a few pages, and said happily: "Shopkeeper Tong, this book is also available!"

The female shopkeeper agreed, and finally finished settling the accounts, and said, "There are five books in total, a total of three hundred and eighty yuan." ”

The maid took out a dime of silver from her arms and said, "This is four coins of silver, and you can call it the shopkeeper." ”

The female shopkeeper found dozens of copper coins for the other party, and the maid took the book, took the copper coins she was looking for, and said goodbye and went out.

Jiang Yun read it on the side, and was surprised in his heart, five thin booklets, a total of 380 yuan, on average, a booklet sells for more than 70 yuan, this price is really not low, it can basically be worth a serious thick book of scriptures and history.

Sending off the guests, the female shopkeeper had already noticed Jiang Yun on the side, and then greeted: "This son, are you here to buy books, the books in this store are all high-quality products, everyone's work, the son can choose at will, buy a few copies if you like it, you can read it yourself, you can give it away, in short, it must be worth the money." ”

She thought that the other party was not going to be a child, so she enlightened that she had met many such guests before, as a reader, but she didn't buy these "improper" books, but she knew that these people were potential customers of the study, and once it was explained, it would be very beneficial to the study's business.

Jiang Yun secretly admired the other party's marketing methods, but shook his head and said, "Today, I am not here to buy books, but to have a business, and I want to discuss it with the shopkeeper." ”

"A business, what business?" asked the female shopkeeper, looking at the other party puzzled.

Jiang Yun didn't beat around the bush either, and said bluntly: "There are such vernacular novel manuscripts below, I don't know if your study can accept submissions?"

As soon as he said this, the female shopkeeper immediately understood, in fact, Yan Zhai is also a big study, with its own printing workshop, and usually accepts some manuscripts, but the requirements for manuscripts are very high, and people like Jiang Yun who come to submit manuscripts have not been without it before.

The female shopkeeper still smiled and said: "Speaking of which, Benzhai does also accept manuscripts, but now only the manuscripts of famous artists are accepted, and the manuscripts of newcomers are no longer accepted for the time being." ”

Although the tone was polite, he had undoubtedly rejected Jiang Yun's request to contribute. In the past, Yan Zhai also accepted the manuscripts of the newcomers, but in the end the market effect was not ideal, and the study lost money, and then gradually did not accept the manuscripts of the newcomers, and only accepted some famous works.

Hearing the rejection in the other party's mouth, Jiang Yun smiled slightly, and said: "Why did the shopkeeper refuse so quickly, did the famous master also start from a newcomer, I believe that as long as the shopkeeper reads my manuscript, he will not be disappointed." ”

The female shopkeeper listened, but still disagreed, in fact, the newcomers who came to submit before, which one was not full of confidence, said the sky, but in the end the facts proved that their manuscripts were failures, not many people love to read, many newcomers do not grasp the essentials of this kind of novel, in the book also talk about what sage words, the way of loyalty, a sanctimonious guardian, so that it can attract those boudoir ladies, the village girl is strange.

She shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, this son, the rules of this book are like this, and now only famous works are accepted......"

"Under the west chamber of the moon, the windward door is half-open. The shadow of the flowers on the wall moved, and it was suspected that the jade man was coming. Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Yun shook his head and chanted a poem.

As soon as this poem was read, the female shopkeeper was immediately shocked, and the following words were swallowed back immediately.

She couldn't help but chew on this poem, although it was only a small poem, but it depicted the scene of the tryst between talented and beautiful people, and the state of mind vividly, such as seeing the person, such as hearing the voice, it was simply wonderful.

"This is a little poem in my story, and my manuscript is called 'The Legend of the West Chamber'. Jiang Yun said unhurriedly.

The female shopkeeper has been aroused by his poem on the west chamber of waiting for the moon, and feels that she can't underestimate the young scholar in front of her, who is not amazing, and changed her previous attitude of refusal, and said with a smile: "Then please ask this son to come up with a masterpiece and let the concubine take a look." ”

Jiang Yun can't take it out now, this book of the West Chamber is still in his stomach, and he hasn't written it, so he said: "The book hasn't been finished yet, please wait for three or two days, how about it." ”

"Okay, when Childe finishes the draft, I'll send it. The female shopkeeper looked a little regretful, which showed how much the poem shook her, and she already had the desire to see it.

After deciding this matter, Jiang Yun asked a few more words, and then said goodbye and left, as for the manuscript fee, he didn't talk about it for half a sentence, he knew that before the other party saw the "West Chamber", no matter how much it was, it would be redundant, and the price given by the other party would not be too high. Only when the "Legend of the West Chamber" comes out and the other party sees it, can he have a bargaining price.

After leaving the Fat Yan Zhai, Jiang Yun didn't wander around the town anymore and went back to the academy directly.

In the next two days, except for going to the academy in the morning to listen to lectures, Jiang Yun basically stayed in his small courtyard residence for the rest of the time, closed the door, and went all out to copy the West Chamber.

To be precise, the Legend of the West Chamber is a drama script in the Yuan Dynasty, a masterpiece of realism in the classical drama of the previous days of the Celestial Dynasty, and had a great influence on the creation of later novels and dramas with the theme of love.

Since this is the case, as Jiang Yun, who has specialized in the study of Yuanqu and Ming and Qing novels, has studied this book very deeply, and he has read it from beginning to end no less than a dozen times, and most of the plots and words in it are still remembered in his mind.

In particular, its lyrics are gorgeous and beautiful, rich in poetic artistic conception, and Jiang Yun can basically recite the words and sentences in it.

Later generations of experts who studied Yuanqu and Ming and Qing novels gave high praise to this script, such as the proposition that all lovers in the world would become dependents, with a clear anti-feudal etiquette and feudal marriage system of thought, with Taoist philosophy of goodness like water, simple beauty, the pursuit of freedom and so on.

But Jiang Yun felt that these could be ignored, this script was essentially a novel about love and love between talented and beautiful women, and this was enough for him, as long as there was this theme, it was enough to attract a large number of readers here, including those boudoir ladies, village maids, and some sullen readers.

This novel is completely in line with the routine elements of the popular talented and beautiful novels here, and the plot and text are superior, so Jiang Yun has no doubt that after this book comes out, it will be very popular, and as long as this goal is achieved, it is safe for him to make some money from it.

That evening, he lay down at the stone table in the courtyard and continued to copy the records of the West Chamber. The original text of this West Chamber has more than 50,000 words, because it is in the form of a Yuanqu script, it is divided into 5 books, 21 folds and 5 wedges.

He underestimated the amount of work to be done, and originally thought that it could be completed in three or two days, but now it seems that it will definitely not be completed in this time, but with another two or three days of effort, it will be about the same.

"Hirakawa, is Hirakawa here!"

was copying here, and there were a few calls outside the courtyard, and listening to the voice, it should be Yan Zheng and Zhou Shimin, two fox friends, who came to the door again.

Although Jiang Yun was a little impatient with the arrival of these two fox friends and dog friends, he couldn't pretend that he didn't hear it and ignored it, so he put down his pen immediately, got up and opened the courtyard door, only to see two people standing outside, and sure enough, it was Yan Zheng and Zhou Shimin.

"What are you doing in Pingchuan, I haven't seen you come out and walk around for the past two days. As soon as they met, Yan Zheng asked with concern.

Zhou Shimin replied for Jiang Yun: "Do you need to ask more, Pingchuan must be studying hard behind closed doors, and in a few days, the quarterly examination of the academy will arrive, which is related to the registration quota for the county examination." ”

Yan Zheng said: "I've heard of this, but how do you look at the people of the world, you don't care at all, don't you have a good idea of this quarterly exam." ”

Zhou Shimin shook his head and said: "That's because I know that the top ten recommended places in the county test have nothing to do with me, since there is no such possibility, why bother with it." ”

After a pause, he said again: "But Pingchuan is not like me, work hard, the top ten in this quarterly exam are still very promising." ”