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Yuan Manniang: It's too roll at home, huh, I can't roll!

Chapter 17: Sacks

"This is good, like an engraving, straight and easy to read."

"I think this is good, smart and not dull."

Lu Xu nodded while listening to this, and nodded when he heard that. They argued and finally chose the engraving. Lu Xu is a pity, he thinks any of the seven is very good.

The child who always talked to him noticed the other ones and asked Lu Xu, "This is all written by your brother?" ”

Lu Xu smiled: "Yes!" What do you see? ”

The child pondered for a while, "The words are neat, but it's a pity that the charm is insufficient." ”

Lu Xu froze a little when he laughed.

The child returned all the paper to him, "Enough copies of the book!" ”

The shopkeeper also felt good, and asked the guy to bring Lu Xu a piece of paper and asked him which book he wanted to copy.

Lu Xu collected his emotions and concentrated on fooling the shopkeeper to borrow the book, "Since you have already selected the engraved characters to write, it is better to copy according to the typesetting of the engraved book, what do you think?" ”

The shopkeeper thinks it's good. Of course, it is best to be able to copy the engraved copy.

Lu Xu then smiled and said: "I won't tell you, my brother's family is poor, and most of the books at home are old books, if they are copied, I am afraid that they are not as easy to sell as carved books." ”

Shopkeeper: "......"

Lu Xu took out the note, "It would be best if you could borrow me some books, any of these books will do." ”

The shopkeeper was happy, "Wouldn't it be better for me to lend you some more ink?" ”

Lu Xu shook his head, "That's not necessary, we can grind the ink ourselves." ”

The shopkeeper snorted, took the note with a smile, and then said, "If it's some Mongolian books, it doesn't hurt to lend them to you, it's not cheap for you to list these, if you take my books and run away, who will I go to?" ”

Lu Xu: "If you write down my address and hometown, you can come to my house to find me." ”

Shopkeeper: "I don't have that time, and I don't know if what you say is true or not." What you say is true, and I can't set that precedent. I see that you also do some small business, and I also understand that if I borrow you today, someone else will borrow it tomorrow, and if everyone comes to borrow it, borrow it for ten days and a half month, and don't pay it back for half a year and a year, I don't have to open this bookstore. ”

Of course, Lu Xu understood that he was also a little difficult for a while.

The shopkeeper said: "Why don't you buy this book, and when you finish copying it, as long as it is not damaged, I will buy it back at the original price, how about it?" ”

The child who picked up the book had been quietly listening to their conversation, and when he saw that Lu Xu had a difficult face, he took out the silver from the money bag, "This is a good idea, are you short of silver, I can lend it to you." ”

Lu Xu shook his head, took out the broken silver that he exchanged for today from his arms, and went outside to dig out the copper coins under the car, and gave them to the shopkeeper, "That's all I have now, can you sell me a copy first, if it's not enough, I'll wait for me to sell the goods, and then send them together?" ”

When the shopkeeper saw that he had a backbone, he only took his broken silver, "I believe you once, and you can get it together within three days." ”

He took the proofreading book that Lu Xu had just read from the bookshelf and handed it to Lu Xu, "If you make up less than four taels in three days, you can use it again to change the original." ”

Lu Xu: "I must make enough!" ”

He asked his man to put oiled paper on his schoolbag, and carefully carried a few words of Yan Junqi into his arms.

The child who bought the book suddenly asked, "Little brother, is your brother your own brother?" ”

Lu Xu shook his head.

The child asked, "Is it your relative?" ”

Lu Xu: "Just neighbors." ”

The child who had read too much of the book was suddenly moved, "Then don't buy it, I also have this book, I'll give it to you!" ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Shopkeeper: "......"

You didn't say it sooner!! He and the shopkeeper just finished the performance with affection and righteousness, how could they dismantle the stage so quickly? He still has to count on the shopkeeper to help sell it!

Lu Xu hurriedly refused: "Thank you for your kindness, I have already told the shopkeeper that I will ......"

The shopkeeper waved his hand, "The little master has a good heart, and he is the best of both worlds, so you can admit it!" If you come in the future, what I said today will be the same, how can I sell you, the book will not be damaged, and the original price will be recycled. ”

Lu Xu thanked the shopkeeper and the child one by one, and was embarrassed to return the book, took back the silver and got the paper, and followed the child back to his house to get the book.

The child asked him why he helped his neighbor borrow books, Lu Xu briefly fled the Yan family to their village and became neighbors with his family, and the two fathers had an accident at the same time, and they took pity on each other and said, focusing on Yan Junqi's hard work in times of difficulty, and he still studied hard, not to make money, but to copy books because of life.

The child's heart was stirred when he heard this, and he said generously: "I have many books at home, and your brother can borrow which one he wants to read!" ”

Lu Xu was happy, remembering what he said before that Yan Junqi had no charm, and asked, "Little master, what do you mean when you say that my brother's words are neat but have no charm?" ”

The child casually said that he had forgotten it, thought about it, and said honestly: "I don't understand it either, in short, compared with the calligraphy I saw, it is worse than the charm." ”

Lu Xu was speechless, and slandered me when I was a child, and when I was a child, I used a pencil to draw pen words and the charm of the calligraphy!

"Do you have a notebook at home?"

"Naturally! My uncle loves calligraphy the most. ”

"Probably borrow me?"

"Okay."

The two of them talked as they walked, and neither of them noticed that there was a thug not far behind them.

The little thug saw clearly that it was Lu Xu, and ran back to the gambling house to find Song Liu: "Sixth master, I saw that kid, and he has a child!" ”

When Song Liuyi heard this, he threw the dice and asked someone to carry a stick and take the sack, "Go, follow me!" ”

They chased Lu Xu straight to the north of West Street, and the thugs who reported the news asked, "Sixth Master, are you all set?" ”

"Hmm." Song Liugang wanted to ask someone to put on a sack, but when he saw the appearance of the child who was with Lu Xu, he pulled the person suddenly, "Slow down, slow down!" You take a look for me, is it the child of the Ma family who is with him? ”

The thug looked closely, "Look at the image." ”

Another person on Changming West Street: "Sixth Master, yes, the front is the back door of the Ma family." ”

The thug who reported the message asked, "Then are we still going to do it?" ”

Song Liu slapped him on the head, "Fart!" ”

He didn't want to be chased and beaten by his eldest brother and second brother.

Another said: "Maybe he just came to Ma's house to sell snails?" ”

Song Liuyi thought it made sense, and asked people to lean against the wall together, poking their heads out to look at Ma's house.

I saw Lu Xu put the cart next to the door of the Ma family, watched from the door, and followed the young master of the Ma family into the door with a few bags of snails.

Not long after, the young master of the Ma family sent him out again, gave him a very thick cloth bag, and faintly heard the young master of the Ma family say, "It's not enough for you to come to me again!" ”

The tone sounded quite polite and intimate.

Song Liu retracted his head, hugged his chest and frowned, and wondered: "It's evil, how can a poor boy from the countryside still get in touch with the Ma family?" Is it an evil sect? ”

His little brothers, you look at me, I look at you, shook their heads in unison and nodded in unison.

"What about us?"

"Don't worry, take a look first, and then beat him up when you figure out the relationship between him and the Ma family, go!"

Lu Xu didn't know that he had just escaped a beating, and he was annoyed when he walked to the embroidery workshop, and he forgot to ask the name of the child!

It's so embarrassing, but fortunately he still remembers the way, so let's apologize next time.

Lu Xu sighed and entered the embroidery workshop.

There are two cloth villages in Guanyang, one side is on East Street, the other is on West Street, and the cloth village on West Street sells silk and satin in addition to selling cloth, and there is a ready-to-wear shop next to the embroidery village on the other. After buying the cloth from the cloth village, you can go to the ready-to-wear shop to tailor clothes, and you can also go to the embroidery village to choose patterns.

Lu Xu suspected that this was a family deal.

He took out the cloth bag from the cart and carried it into the embroidery village.

East Street also collects embroidery pieces, grocery stores and cloth villages, but Lu Xu is confident that her little stepmother and Yan Junqi can also see the embroidery workshop embroidered by her mother.

The shopkeeper of the embroidery workshop first saw the embroidery of her little stepmother, and pouted, "Don't ask you to run for nothing, these thirty wen, these thirty-five wen, I will accept it." ”

Lu Xu looked at him picking, but he didn't see any difference between the thirty and thirty-five ones.

"Would you like to take a look at this bag again?"

The shopkeeper nodded, untied the cloth bag and looked at Yan Mu's embroidery.

Yan's mother embroidered mostly mandarin ducks and big flowers, heavy work, complicated, the shopkeeper looked more carefully, but her brows were furrowed deeper than that of his little stepmother, and her appearance was somewhat disgusted, and she sighed for a long time, "The embroidery is quite careful, one hundred wen, I'll take it." ”

Lu Xu responded, they hadn't settled the bill yet, and there were guests in the store, Lu Xu stepped aside and let the guests pick first.

The people who came in were all women, and he didn't want to get too close, standing in the farthest corner to see how people chosen.

The female guest saw that there was an embroidery piece on the counter, so she took a look at it first, and the young lady headed by it flipped through it and didn't look at it, and asked the shopkeeper to take something else, but the accompanying mother-in-law chose an orchid embroidery piece from the pile embroidered by Yuan Manniang, "Miss, do you think you can use this to make a handkerchief?" ”

The young lady nodded, "Okay." ”

In the end, the young lady chose some flowers and plants and left.

The shopkeeper collected the money and asked Lu Xu to come over to settle the bill.

Lu Xu took advantage of the fact that the shopkeeper had not yet cleaned up the embroidery samples he had just taken out, and hurriedly asked, "Can I take a look?" ”

The shopkeeper looked at him.

Lu Xu: "I look at the same, I am a layman, but the distinguished guests pick and look, it seems that the same flower, but very different, the same lotus, the price is much different." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "It's a big difference here." ”

He picked up the comparison between Yan's mother's embroidery and Yuanmanniang's embroidery and showed it to Lu Xu, "Your aunt's embroidery is good, the stitches are fine, and it's better than your sister's embroidery." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

The shopkeeper continued: "But it's a pity, it's a little bit worse, and it's a little bit worse. ”

Lu Xu: "Dare to ask what level and what kind of artistic conception?" ”

The shopkeeper also picked a pair of mandarin ducks from the pile of expensive ones and showed him, "Look at this one, it is embroidered by a famous embroiderer in the city, this pair will cost 100 yuan, and it is easy to sell." ”

Lu Xu solemnly took it and looked at it carefully.