While Shen Qi was looking at them one by one, Liu Yichuan took the manuscript of "The First Engraving of the House" to a large house in the backyard, which was where the four siblings engraved the books in the back, and all kinds of materials and tools were ready.

Liu Yichuan has a desk by the window of the big house, with pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it, but the white paper used to transcribe the articles is different from the ordinary one, it is a thin and almost transparent paper.

Liu Yichuan has already begun to transcribe the words on Shen Qi's manuscript on this kind of manuscript paper, and the neat and powerful small block black characters are written line by line, which is extremely smooth. Looking at the other window of the room, the boss Liu Hanchang was selecting a suitable stereotype from a pile of purchased wooden boards, because their "Kyushu Qi Journal" has more pages, so this publication is larger than ordinary books, and the area of stereotypes has also increased accordingly.

Liu Hanchang quickly found a suitable large stereotype, made of wood with a delicate and hard grain, and when his second brother Liu Yichuan had transcribed Shen Qi's manuscript according to the typesetting format of the publication, he could start carving. After the engraving was completed, he handed over the engraving to the third brother Liu Jiadong for printing, and the printed pages were finally handed over to the fourth sister Liu Cuiru to bind into a book.

The general process of this engraving printing technique is to paste the neatly copied manuscript on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, and the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper is attached to the front of the board, and the characters become inverted, and the strokes are clearly legible. The engraver uses a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout that has no handwriting, and it becomes a yang script with a convex font. When printing, first use a brush to apply ink to the raised font, then cover the paper on top of it, and then take a clean brush and gently wipe the back of the paper, and the handwriting will remain on the paper. When the paper was taken down, a page of the book was printed.

The four of them are very familiar with these processes, and Shen Qi is very relieved to hand them over, and he has read five Zhiwei novels in his study, and he feels dissatisfied, either the story is not exciting, or the style is problematic, and some are written in a different way and messy.

Hey, why is it so difficult to find a good article, is it because Anxi County is too small and doesn't have too many talents?

Shen Qi was a little tired from looking at it, and threw the remaining manuscripts he had read on the table with one hand, and none of them were satisfied. But even so, he gave a comment with cinnabar at the end of the manuscript, hoping to help them.

"Shopkeeper, another batch of manuscripts has been delivered, do you see it now?"

Just when Shen Qi was not very satisfied, a maid came to report at the door, although Shen Qi knew that there must be a lot of bad drafts, but he still asked the maid to send all the manuscripts in.

There are also more than a dozen copies of this latest batch of manuscripts, and Shen Qi picked them up and read them page by page, and some of them were just a few hundred words in front of them and then they were left aside with comments.

After reading more than ten copies, Shen Qi still didn't find any works to be taken seriously, and when he saw the last one and thought it was another bad draft, Shen Qi's eyes suddenly lit up.

This time the manuscript has an elegant fragrance, which is emanating from the ink, and then looking at the handsome font, it looks like a girl's handwriting, and it seems that this manuscript is voted by a woman.

Shen Qi cheered up and saw that the title of this manuscript was "Xiaoxiao Twilight Rain", the author called himself "The Girl of Words among Flowers", and the content belonged to the romance novel. Shen Qi lifted his spirits and finished reading it in one go, but he still felt unfinished.

This "Xiaoxiao Twilight Rain" is written about a young girl Lu Wanrong who is in sorrow all day long, and one day she met a scholar Qin Shangyi who passed by with a book basket in the stream behind her home. Qin Shangyi asked her for directions, originally to go to the exam, but later when he returned from high school, he waited by the stream for three days, just to thank Lu Wanrong for her guidance. After waiting for three days in such a foolish way, Qin Shangyi finally waited for Lu Wanrong to come to the stream again, and the two saw each other again, talked happily, and gradually fell in love.

Later, Lu Wanrong took him home to meet his father, who intended to marry his daughter to him, but because Qin Shangyi was determined to make a name for himself, he said that he would wait for a while to reconsider. On a light rainy evening, Lu Wanrong sent her sweetheart away with an oil-paper umbrella, agreeing to come back to get married when he was in high school again. But she didn't want it to backfire, Lu Wanrong and her sweetheart were separated for three years, and there was no news of him.

Lu Wanrong waited by the stream for this, hoping that her sweetheart would suddenly appear one day and fulfill the promise of the day. Especially in the evening when it rains, Lu Wanrong will hold a gorgeous oil-paper umbrella and look at the river.

Shen Qi found that this "Twilight Rain Xiaoxiao" is extremely long, with more than 10,000 words, presumably the author of this self-proclaimed flower poet girl completed it earlier, just in time for Shen Qi's solicitation here, she submitted the masterpiece. Such a length must also be serialized.

Shen Qi likes this style very much, in the faint grievances, full of various subtle emotions of women, the most rare thing is that there is an indescribable atmosphere between the words, which has always firmly grasped Shen Qi's mood, which is the key to the success of this article, and it also shows that the author of the flower girl is very talented, if she can become a contract literati in Shengda Bookstore, she will definitely be able to become the world novel in the "Kyushu Qi Magazine" in the future.

Shen Qi felt excited when he thought about it, and he wanted to see the flower girl herself sooner, presumably a pretty woman full of sorrow.

"Come, a few of you. ”

When Shen Qi was overjoyed, he rushed straight out of the study, and several servants guarding the store came over, waiting for Shen Qi to speak.

"Listen, do any of you remember the appearance of the submitter of this "Xiaoxiao Twilight Rain", tell me too!"

Shen Qi saw that there was no address left on the manuscript except for the signature Huajian Girl, so he was really anxious, and fortunately, the servant who received the manuscript had some impressions of this novel, so he described the appearance of the other party.

Shen Qi, who was anxious, chuckled in his heart when he heard this, and listened to the maid's description, the messenger was actually a woman wearing a black veil and only revealing a pair of eyes, presumably because she didn't want people to recognize her. However, Shen Qi still got some useful information, that is, the girl herself is only about fifteen years old, with dignified and decent manners, and she has the style of a lady.

Shen Qi suddenly felt that this girl in the flower was someone he knew, but he felt that he was thinking too much, and there were probably many women like this in Anxi County.

After a pause, Shen Qi, who was itching and anxious while holding the manuscript, instructed several servants:

"If she comes in a few days to ask if the manuscript has been reviewed, please let me know as soon as possible, and if I happen to be absent, you must remember to follow her and find out where she lives. ”

Shen Qi's solemn order, several servants nodded again and again, not daring to be negligent in this matter.

In this way, the second manuscript in "Kyushu Qi Magazine" was confirmed, and Shen Qi happily took the manuscript to Liu Hanchang's four brothers and sisters, still excited on the way, and he even thought abruptly of opening a column for the flower girl in "Kyushu Qi Magazine" to make her popular.