Zhang Yaowen actually knew this reason, but he knew that Shen Qi still had the idea of wanting to see it.

"Jokes, Shen Qi, don't think too much about it, let's go now. ”

Zhang Yaowen said, Shen Qi no longer delayed time, locked the door of the store, and rushed to the county government with them.

Not long after, Shen Qi, who entered the county government again, went straight to an abandoned house, which was originally the place where Zhang Yaowen raised the little ghosts, but now the little ghosts here have been overtaken by him by asking the mage.

Since the battle with Shen Qi, Zhang Yao Wenming Bai did not escape because of Shen Qi's benevolence, but because the matter of raising a little ghost to ask the good luck was not very reliable. Instead of pinning the hope of the long distance of life on these gods and ghosts, it is better to do a good deed every day and change your peace of mind.

"Shen Qi, little friend, please see, they are all piled up in the corner, and they were originally planned to burn all the stolen goods accumulated in a few days. ”

In this dim room, Zhang Yaowen ordered people to open a few windows, and the original sense of darkness was completely gone, Shen Qi looked around, except for an incense case and many sundries, he did not see the colorful clay statue of the little ghost. Of course, he didn't know that Zhang Yaowen had raised ghosts here.

With the bright light, Shen Qi walked to the corner and flipped through a pile of books that were stacked in a mess, many of which were already moldy.

Well?

Suddenly, Shen Qi's eyes lit up, and a book with a blue cover came into his eyes. This cover is exquisitely made, with exquisite patterns engraved on it, and is a stunning woman scratching her head and caressing her fragrant shoulders.

"Shen Qi Xiaoyou has a good eye, this "Golden Vase Plum" from the content engraving to the cover production, and even including the binding is a fine product that the county has ever seen. ”

Zhang Yaowen and Wang Huairui stood behind Shen Qi, and when they saw Shen Qi picking up this book, they both unconsciously moved a little closer.

Shen Qi flipped through the book casually, and saw that the inside was matched with pictures and texts, of course, although those carvings were lifelike, they were mostly unsightly.

He turned to the last page of the book and saw text explaining the cost of the book. The total of the book is 100 times, and the cost of engraving, printing, binding, paper, ink, and brushes is 16 taels of silver.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver is about equivalent to more than two hundred yuan now, and sixteen taels are converted into paper money for later generations, as much as more than 1,700 yuan, and the key person engraver in the process of printing a book, the highest salary for a month is only a few taels of silver, and the salary of most carvers will not exceed two taels.

In ancient times, the cost of a book alone required so much, so most of the people who could afford books were middle- and upper-class people, and for ordinary lower-class laborers such as carvers, menzi, soap li, umbrella sedan chair drivers, and ferry workers, buying books was tantamount to a pipe dream.

So don't believe that you can buy a book for a few pennies or a tael of silver in costume TV.

After reading the cost of this book, Shen Qi sighed, and secretly said that he had to save some flowers for the 10,000 taels of silver tickets in his hand.

"The production of the book is good enough, so please take me to see the four of them, maybe they don't want to come out." ”

Shen Qi threw the book in the pile of books, and when he got up, he was eager to see them.

"Okay, Shen Qi, please come with me. ”

Zhang Yaowen knew that he was in a hurry to prepare for Shengda Bookstore, so he took him out of the room, and on the way he also introduced the situation of the four people.

The four of them were originally a family, and the family belonged to the family that specialized in engraving books for generations, and the craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation has reached the peak in their hands. However, later they offended the powerful and began to raise their own silver taels after they settled in Anxi County, recovering other people's books, and finally developed to engrave many obscene things for profit, so they attracted the attention of the government.

Among them, the eldest Liu Hanchang specializes in carving, carving skills in everyone's realm, carved flowers, birds, insects and fish, men, women and children are all lifelike, ingenious; Cursive, are handy, the form of the god has, but the formation of pen power is not simply from the written words, so he failed to practice pen power, like the previous gray robe scholars, calligraphy has not yet entered the stream, but practiced a section of pen power; the third Liu Jiadong is responsible for engraving, the ancient engraving and printing skills are skillful, there is no bad thing for him to engrave; the fourth Liu Cuiru is a teenage girl, ingenious, binding books fast and good, but I don't know if she will blush when binding these "Spring Palace Maps" and the like.

Along the way, Shen Qi secretly remembered the situation of their four Liu siblings, and then entered a dimly lit dungeon, filled with foul and musty smells.

Shen Qi knew that this kind of dungeon was for people who had no pen power, so Qi Changqing was not here, and then several large prisons covered with straw appeared in front of him, one person in each room, and in the last cell was a girl, although her hair was scattered, but it was difficult to hide her pretty appearance.

"Shen Qi Xiaoyou, he is the boss Liu Hanchang. ”

The three of them first stopped in front of the first cell, where there was a middle-aged man covered in dirt and a beard sitting on a small bed made of wooden boards.

"Dog officer, what are you doing here!"

But Liu Hanchang, who had a stubborn and arrogant personality, soon stopped looking at Shen Qi and scolded Zhang Yaowen next to him, instantly making the atmosphere tense.

"Okay, you Liu Hanchang, this official originally wanted Shen Qixian to pay the ransom for your four brothers and sisters, so that you can be released from prison more than half a year early, since you don't know what to do, then lock you up for more than half a year!"

Zhang Yaowen's words made Shen Qi's intention clear, Liu Hanchang looked at the young man in a gray and white robe outside, and then understood why he looked at him more, he had a unique scholarly temperament.

"Who are you?"

After a pause, Liu Hanchang, who didn't care about Zhang Yaowen's intimidation at all, sat up straight, and his dark face was facing Shen Qi.

"Shen Qi of Xianghua Township, just because I appreciate the engraving skills passed down from generation to generation by your Liu family, I hope to work with you to open a bookstore, I believe that as a big brother, you don't want your younger siblings to continue to be imprisoned with you. ”

When Shen Qi said this, Liu Yichuan, Liu Jiadong, and Liu Cuiru in the three back cells all walked to the door of the cell to look, and when they saw Shen Qi's appearance, they had warm expectations in their hearts, after all, staying in the prison for too long would make them go crazy.

The so-called eldest brother is like a father, and now whether they can go out or not has to listen to the opinion of Liu Hanchang, the eldest brother, and Shen Qi's last sentence hit the sore spot in his heart.

After being silent for a long time, Liu Hanchang suddenly sighed, and then sneered at Shen Qi:

"During this time, I often heard your name in prison, and you are not yet sixteen years old, and you have actually practiced the second stage of pen power, which can be called a ghost, but you should know that the four brothers and sisters of our Liu family fled to Anxi County because they offended the powerful, and that powerful person is not something you can offend. ”

Liu Hanchang stopped saying that, and continued to look up to the sky and laugh, and the people who listened were quite stimulated.

Unexpectedly, just when he thought that Shen Qi would retreat because of this reason, he overshadowed Liu Hanchang with a louder laugh and said:

"If there is anything you can't offend, tell me who the powerful man is. ”

Liu Hanchang was suppressed by the righteousness between Shen Qi's words at this moment, and before he could speak, Liu Cuiru in the last cell shouted in a crisp voice:

"That powerful person is the Fujian town guard, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan!"

Geng Jimao, Geng Jingzhong's father, was one of the three feudatories during the Qing Dynasty, and had great power in Fujian, where he could control and influence local officials, control his own army, and control local taxes.

Fortunately, Quanzhou was not under Geng Jimao's control, so Liu Hanchang and the four fled here to hide.

Shen Qi was attracted by Liu Cuiru's beautiful voice, and saw that she was estimated to be sixteen or seventeen years old, but he was not frightened by Geng Jimao in his heart, besides, the king of Jingnan and the governor of Fujian, Li Shutai, were busy fighting with Zheng Chenggong's descendant Zheng Jing in the area of Kinmen, Xiamen, and presumably did not have much energy to take care of the four of them.

Even so, Shen Qi still knew that this move would offend Geng Jimao's father and son, who were king in Fujian, and he was really not afraid of offending them, so he looked at Liu Cuiru at the door of the cell and said:

"So what's the matter, as long as you are sincerely attached to me, I am willing to use my skills to protect you!"

Although he said this proudly, the second Liu Yichuan suddenly sneered in prison:

"What are you capable of, and how can you keep our brothers and sisters safe?"

Being questioned so much, Zhang Yaowen and Wang Huairui both felt that these four people were extremely hateful, and just when they wanted to persuade Shen Qi not to pay attention to them anymore, Shen Qi patted his chest and laughed heartily:

"I have a great avenue in my body, I can make a stroke of genius, I can calm the chaos of the world, and the ordinary people in the world dare to compete with me, and I don't think I can do anything!"

As soon as the words fell, Shen Qi, who was full of arrogance, suddenly heard an explosion in his head, and then a shining golden text emerged, illuminating the entire cell through his body in an instant.

Zhang Yaowen and Wang Huairui, who were closest to him, were so frightened that they retreated to the corner of the wall one after another, and the senior brothers and sisters of Liu Hanchang in the cell stared blankly at Shen Qi, who was in Jinwen, only to feel that his aura changed suddenly, as if a great immortal of the divine realm had descended.

At this moment, Shen Qi was also shocked, his arrogant words were born in response to the situation, and he didn't want to touch the "Wonderful Pen Ghost Talent Chapter" taught to him by Shui Mozi. He suddenly saw a few lines of indistinguishable golden text become clear between the lines of golden text in his mind, and it was the shocking words he said.

Only then did he understand why he had not been able to see this golden text clearly, it turned out that the content of it was originally indefinite, only because of his state of mind changed, and he was born and died, and it was only now that he figured out how to practice this "Wonderful Pen and Ghost Talent".

Just when the golden light on Shen Qi's body was shining brightly, Shui Mozi, who was in the Shen family, suddenly woke up from the painting, and said in surprise in the painting:

"It's really appalling, now that the Divine Dao has been eliminated, he can still comprehend the gist of cultivating this golden text so quickly, isn't it that he will be able to use the cultivation of pen power as a bridge in the future, and the fellow cultivators will be able to realize the path together, and finally break through the constraints of the human law?"

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