Chapter 50: The Big Sale
Shopkeeper Liao is in a good mood today.
Although Ninghua Study has been sitting on the throne of "Xianyang No. 1 Bookstore" for many years, Liao Gu, who is nearly half a hundred years old, has not relaxed for a day. No, I just bought a batch of new books yesterday, which is the latest work of Zhai Guo's popular novel writer "Heavenly Remnant" -- "The Sword Swings and Falls", which has been placed in front of the door of the study early this morning.
Since Zhu Xi, a scholar of Zhai Guo University, pirated his "Junchen Said" by a bookseller of the Jiangnan generation five years ago, the old man was angry and found several of his students who were officials in the Jiangnan generation - among them, the lowest official position was also the prefect.
Taking this incident as an opportunity, Zhai Guo launched a vigorous "crackdown on piracy, starting with me" campaign, and how many pirated booksellers were arrested, anyway, those guys who offended Old Man Zhu were all burned clean along with their pirated books.
Naturally, this matter was not done by the imperial court, but Zhu Xidong's "lynching". The old man is quite responsible, and directly told the emperor that the minister is just unhappy for the people of the world, and if he wants to kill him, he will kill you.
The emperor naturally would not go against the people of the world, not to mention that Zhu Xi was still his own teacher, and there was no way at the moment, so he had to stop it, but in order to avoid this kind of thing in the future, Zhai Guo soon promulgated a law on punishing pirated booksellers.
Since then, until now, although piracy has not been completely eliminated, it has subsided a lot, at least the works of those celebrities, no one dares to touch them.
Of course, Liao Gu naturally won't do piracy business, Ninghua Shuzhai is a household name in Xianyang City, he can't smash his own signboard, and according to this momentum, other bookstores in Xianyang City will inevitably be squeezed and closed, and the book business in Xianyang City will not be his own words.
Thinking of this, Liao Gu smiled slightly, touched the long beard under his chin, today's "Sword Swing and Blue Fall" debuted, I can't say that I can make a lot of money again, Tianzhuzi is a famous artist, the five novels he wrote before, they are all big sales, in short supply, and it is estimated that it will not be an exception when I think about it today.
"Master, master!" When Liao Gu was estimating today's income, a young man ran in from the front hall in a hurry, and said as he walked: "Something's wrong, there's something big!"
"What's wrong?" Liao Gu was startled, and saw that the man was a guy who was doing things in the study, so he hurriedly stood up and asked, "Didn't there be a fire, or did someone make trouble?"
"No......" The guy seemed to have run all the way to death, and some of them didn't catch their breath, and said, "There is a new bookstore in Beicheng......
"What should I do? When Liao Gu heard this, he glanced at the guy blankly, and said angrily: "I'm shocked!
"No, sir, you listen to the little one," the guy swallowed his saliva and said with a nervous expression: "That bookstore only opened today, so I don't know where to get strange books to sell, and many customers who came to our bookstore to buy books have all been lured!"
"What!" Liao Gu slapped the table, he was also a little cultivated, and when he slapped it, it shook the table: "What kind of 'strange book', it can't even compare to the novel of the Heavenly Remnant?"
The guy listened, but he said: "The little one doesn't have any silver taels on his body, please send some ...... first."
When Liao Gu heard this, his heart was even more annoyed, but he didn't want to wait any longer, he had cultivated to the fourth stage of the Yellow Order, so he was naturally much faster than that guy, and he didn't think much about it at the moment, but he changed into clothes and went out on his own.
Beicheng is not close to Liao's house, Liao Gu did a meal, and then found the bookstore that the guy said, sure enough, from the storefront, it was indeed unheard of before.
Looking from afar, I saw a circle of people at the door of the bookstore. Liao Gu knew in his heart that this was right, so he walked over, only to see that on the plaque, there were four big words written "Twilight Study".
Twilight Study......
Liao Gu thought to himself in his heart, but he didn't know what the meaning of this name was, so he stepped forward to see what kind of "strange" method the "strange book" in the guy's mouth was.
"Don't crowd it, everyone! Everyone has a share!" Suddenly, a man's voice came from the crowd: "Line up well, quality first!"
The voice...... It sounds familiar.
Liao Gu looked at the voice and saw a young man in his twenties standing at the door of the study, and that man was actually the current head of the Dongman Sect who had been insulted by him a few days ago!
How could that shitty get such a catchy novel...... No, or is this novel the same nondescript thing he showed me that day?
That's absolutely impossible, how can anyone look at something that doesn't go on the table?
"Yo, who should I be so familiar with?" Suddenly, a voice came from behind Liao Gu, he turned around and looked, only to see Twilight Rain Shihan, who was still standing at the door of the store, but at this time he had already run behind him, looking at himself with a smile: "I'm really sorry, the store opened, and I actually forgot the old man in the bookstore in Xianyang City, no way, this guest officer and old man are waiting to buy books, we really can't pull away." ”
Liao Gu was angry and depressed in his heart, but he didn't have a good seizure, so he had to laugh and say: "Where is it, the contemptible person just happened to pass by, and when he saw a new bookstore here, he had the heart to take a closer look, but he didn't expect it to be the business behind the head of Duyu." ”
"Your mansion and your account are not close to here, and it is difficult for Boss Liao to come and pass by so far. Twilight Yu Shihanyi exposed Liao Gu's little lie with a smile on his face, and saw that his face was blue and white for a while, so he changed the topic and said: "But the shop is petty and troublesome, where can it compare to the Ninghua study of Liao's shopkeeper, it is just to earn money, and I will have to rely on Boss Liao more in the future." ”
In the two sentences of Twilight Rain and Ten Cold, the words "Ninghua Study" and "Boss Liao" are accented, but they attract the eyes of many guests, Liao Gu and Ninghua Study's reputation in Xianyang City naturally needless to say, but as a peer, he did not stay well in his own bookstore, but ran to the door of someone else's store, plus the business of this Dusk Division Study was booming on the first day of opening, and the discerning person knew why this Boss Liao came at a glance.