Hearing that the owner of the paper printing shop was Lu Tong, Han Beiqing chuckled: "It turned out to be him!"

Guo Zhuang looked at Han Beiqing: "Miss also knows Boss Lu! It's him, how many people in Huaining County refer to Boss Lu for dinner."

"You just said that Lu Tong didn't allow the printing shops in the city to splash dirty water into the drink? Why is that? He doesn't need water to print paper, and he can do it wide." The point is that those stores really listen to him, which is strange.

Dalong looked at Han Beiqing in surprise, and secretly wondered in his heart: the girl actually knew that the paper was printed, where did she know it. Haven't heard of her ever going to a printing shop?

"Miss doesn't know, in order to reduce costs, our printing shops here use home-made paper." Guo Zhuang bowed his head and explained: "Huaining County is full of trees all over the mountains, and almost every household of our people can make paper."

"When I was a child, a merchant came from out of town, and I found that we have a lot of trees here. He built a lime kiln and a paper shop in the county seat. Hire the people in our county to work, although the papermaking process is complicated, but it is not limited to the location. Many people take pulp from the paper shop and go home and clean the paper themselves. Then I will take the dried paper to the paper shop and hand it over to the family, and exchange it for some money to subsidize the family."

Guo Zhuang recalled the scene when he was a child, he was a native of Huaining County, and talked about the customs of Huaining endlessly.

The process of making paper requires a large amount of lime, and several lime kilns have emerged. For convenience, the lime kiln poured water into the water in the city nearby. And the common people who make paper, no one will spend extra effort to throw dirty water out of the city, and pour it directly into the nearby drinking water.

So much so that the Xiaoqing River in Huaining County, which runs through the entire county, has become a big stinky ditch in the sewage canal.

Even the nearby rice paddies are polluted by the river, making it impossible to grow food. For a while, the people's grievances arose, and the people around Huaining County were even more miserable, often bullying and beating people in Huaining County.

Lu Jiayuan was the largest local pharmacist, and Lu Tong began to dominate the market of the city's paper industry. Officials in the state government put pressure on Huaining County to ban the spilling of dirty water into the Xiaoqing River.

The paper mills and lime kilns were all driven out of the barren mountains outside the city. The word is at the head, how can the businessmen who have made a lot of money easily listen to the words of the Lu family. But Lu Tong used thunderous means to clean up the one with the most opposition, and swallowed up all the lime kilns and paper mills of others.

The rest of the people saw that the government was on Lu Tong's side, and he was the leader of the horse gang, who was born in black and white. They moved their businesses outside the city, and then for various reasons, they ran away from each other.

The remaining families are honest and obedient, and they are the first to look forward to the Lu family.

Han Beiqing suddenly realized, no wonder he was in the small study that day. Lu Tong gave an order, and Zhao Tiandong was immediately so frightened that he ran out.

"The Lu family's ability to reach the sky with one hand, you didn't even find out?" Han Beiqing looked at Da Long with reproachful eyes, and Da Long was also shocked. Chinese Net

"Lu Tong is so ruthless, no one even told me." Dalong himself is also very uncomfortable, he has never made such a big mistake after doing things for Han Beiqing for so long.

"Boss Lu is a very good person, without him, I don't know what would happen to Huaining County today. Although Boss Lu has a bad temper, he never bullies the people. Very loved by everyone, really, Miss, Boss Lu is a very good person."

Guo Zhuang's appearance of defending Lu Tong aroused Han Beiqing's great interest. A local squire, with the face of a bully all day long, why would the local people be so supportive.

"Just because he drove the lime kilns out of the city?" Dalong was also puzzled, and couldn't help but step forward and interject.

"After the lime kiln was smashed, the river in the city was still dirty. It was Boss Lu who paid for it, and other wealthy families in the city also donated money to clean up the Qinghe River. It took more than two years for the river to clear up. Until now, the management and maintenance of Xiaoqing River has been done by the people of the Lu family."

This was unexpectedly Han Beiqing, but he didn't expect Lu Tong to be a conscientious squire.

"The Lu family must have other businesses besides crude medicine shops, paper making and printing." Now there is no need for Dalong to inquire again, just ask Guo Zhuang.

"Dart game, Lu

The boss lives in the Yuanfeng Dart Bureau on weekdays." Guo Zhuang blurted out and saw Han Beiqing looking at him with interest. Suddenly thought of something, and quickly lowered his head.

Seeing Guo Zhuang's hesitant appearance, Han Beiqing saw that he didn't know whether to tell him or not.

"Say what you want, and don't say what you think you shouldn't know." Han Beiqing doesn't like to persecute others, there are many ways to buy people's hearts, and he is not in a hurry.

"Say something else." Han Beiqing's words changed, and he reached out and picked up the paper that had not yet been bound on the side.

"There are many printing houses in Huaining County, why do you need to bind books yourself?" And the tools for binding books are not advanced enough, and Han Beiqing, who was reading it, frowned frequently.

"Because it's expensive, it costs a lot of money to do an extra process. Many bookstores are bound into books by their own buddies, and there are not many customers in the bookstores, so we have to do something." Guo Zhuang pointed to the paper in this inner room: "Miss, I am very skilled, it won't take two days, oh no, I won't sleep tonight, *** can be installed in one night."

"I've said it all, and I'm not in a hurry." Han Beiqing picked up another bound book from Guo Zhuang, looked through it carefully, and nodded in approval: "The craftsmanship is really solid, and the booklet is well bound."

Guo Zhuang breathed a sigh of relief, but heard Han Beiqing say: "Nowadays, this kind of butterfly costume with beautiful appearance and efficient binding method is indeed popular."

"But one of the big flaws of this packaging is that it has to go through two blank backs when you flip through the book. It takes two turns to see a page, which is too much work. And..... ..... here."

Han Beiqing pointed to the inside of the page: "The paste is easy to scatter and attract insects. I can't turn it over a few times, and the book will rot."

Guo Zhuang smiled disapprovingly: "That's true, many customers will come to the door to help with the binding two or three times. As long as they are regular customers in our bookstore, they will bind them for free."

"There are other ways to bind now, and two or three years ago, the students in Lin'an Mansion gradually did not use this. If we want the bookstore to continue to operate for a long time, we must keep pace with the times."

Han Beiqing put the book aside, looked up and said to Da Long, "Go back to my study and get two books that I bind. Let Guo Zhuang take a look and ponder a new way to bind books. I think there are no tools in Huaining County, so you take my tools and let the blacksmith shop make five sets for later use."

The store has been read, and Han Beiqing already has a number in his heart.

Raising his feet and walking out, he thought of one more thing, turned back to Guo Zhuang and said, "How did you solve the lunch before?"

Guo Zhuang bowed his head crampedly: "I, I don't eat, I read on an empty stomach to wake up."

"In the future, there will be a lot of work in the store, and you can't do it on an empty stomach. Let's do it, Lao Cao and they will come here for lunch in the future. I saw that there was a miscellaneous courtyard behind this inner room, which was quite large. In the future, let them come here to rest, and save themselves from running at both ends."

Han Beiqing stood at the back door, looked at the yard full of debris, and gave a faint order.

"Lunch?" Guo Zhuang looked at Dalong in disbelief with a look of surprise.