Liaozhai Great Sage

"Ah?" Du Chunhua was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then she reacted, her face turned red to the base of her neck, and she lowered her head again, almost buried in her proud chest.

"This, how can this matter be said here."

Li Xiuyuan smiled indifferently, but after all, it felt good to tease this maid.

"Okay, let's go. Now that we are all out, let's go for a stroll in the city and buy something to go back. Although everything is ready in the house, some things are still not ready. Young master, I am going to take the Juren exam soon. , I have to buy some books and paper, the previous salute was soaked in water, and now they can’t be used anymore, um, thinking of it, I have to go to the Town God’s Temple to burn incense.”

He still has some personal matters to go to Cheng Huang.

But let's forget about it in broad daylight right now, the Chenghuang will not come out in broad daylight, and will look for him at night.

Jibaozhai!

Along the way, Li Xiuyuan finally found a place that sold pens, inks, papers and inkstones. He looked up and saw a plaque that said Jibaozhai was hung on the door of the store, and there were scholars coming and going.

"Look inside."

Just as he was about to go in, he saw a scholar standing at the door of the store in a daze, looking at a notice posted outside the store, reading word by word: This store is recruiting copyists, and requires correct handwriting and good character , willing to bear hardships and stand hard work, the monthly money is twelve taels.

"Twelve?"

The scholar was overjoyed and shouted: "Where is the store? Does your store invite someone to copy books? I'll answer."

Li Xiuyuan glanced at the scholar and said in amazement: "Guo, Guorong??"

Chapter 1: Ning Caichen

Guorong?

The scholar heard that someone seemed to be talking to him, so he couldn't help but looked at it suspiciously.

"Is this brother calling me?"

The scholar gave a salute and said: "Brother, I made a mistake. Xiaosheng's name is not Guorong. Xiaosheng's surname is Ning, and his name is Caichen. He is a foreigner. He is here today to take part in the academy examination, to test for talents."

Ning Caichen~!

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself: Sure enough.

This Ning Caichen, who looked exactly like someone from his previous life, still appeared in Guo Beicheng.

I came out of Guobei County, went to Lanruo Temple, met a thousand-year-old tree spirit, saw Nie Xiaoqian's tomb, buried Xiaoqing with my own hands, and now met Ning Caichen here again.

It can be said that the protagonists of A Chinese Ghost Story have all appeared on the stage.

Looking up at this episode of Bao Zhai again.

Li Xiuyuan immediately shook his head and smiled slightly. This may be some kind of fate. It seems that there is an invisible thread connecting all these together. Waiting for a certain right time, a certain right time, to stage a soul-stirring scene. Humans and ghosts never love each other.

And his own existence seems to have personally promoted all of this.

"If she didn't have herself, Qingmei might have been hit to death by a carriage when she was a few years old, and she wouldn't have died under the thousand-year-old banyan tree, and she wouldn't have cut down the thousand-year-old banyan tree because of my anger. The demon will not appear... The story of A Chinese Ghost Story will not be staged, but I have appeared, and they have also appeared, it seems that nothing has changed."

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but fell into thinking.

It's a chicken-and-egg question.

"Brother, if you have nothing else to do, Xiaosheng is going to this Jibaozhai to apply for copying books." Ning Caichen saluted.

Li Xiuyuan came back to his senses and said: "Guo Rong, wait a minute, oh, no, Brother Ning, wait a minute."

Ning Caichen said: "I don't know what else is going on with this brother?"

"I was a little abrupt just now. Li Xiuyuan in Xiaguobei County, like brother Ning, also came to Guobei County to take the college entrance examination. The meeting today reminded me of an old friend from the past. I was distracted for a while. Please forgive me." Li Xiuyuan saluted .

Ning Caichen said: "Brother Li is being polite, Xiaosheng won't be offended, but Xiaosheng has something else to do, so he can't talk with Xiongtai anymore."

After finishing speaking, he hurried into Jibaozhai again.

Soon, I saw his yelling voice: "Shopkeeper, is the store recruiting people who copy books? Xiaosheng came to respond."

Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and immediately remembered that Ning Caichen seemed to be from a poor family, and he was a serious poor scholar.

However, although Ning Caichen is poor, he is a very talented person. It is easy to get a scholar in the examination, and he seems to be able to become a Jinshi in the end. If the court is not corrupt, he can be an official in another place in the future.

"Young master, who is this Ning Caichen? Why does the young master seem to know him, but he doesn't know the young master." Xiaodie beside him said.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "He is a scholar with good moral character, at least much better than Wang Ping, and he is worthy of association."

Ning Caichen is indeed much stronger than Wang Ping. Wang Ping would be confused by the painted skin monster and almost lost his life. Instead, he helped Yan Chixia destroy the thousand-year-old tree spirit.

The experiences of the same scholars are similar, but the results are completely different.

Although Wang Ping also has morality in his heart, he lacks moral integrity.

"Let's go, go to Jibaozhai to have a look."

This episode of Baozhai is really different. As soon as Li Xiuyuan came in, he could smell the fragrance of books and ink, and there was faintly clear and melodious piano sound, which made people feel like entering an elegant gathering place for literati. It's like a shop selling pens, inks and books.

"This place is really nice."

Li Xiuyuan took a glance, but saw all kinds of books neatly placed on the bookshelves here.

Four Books and Five Classics, strange tales, biographies of famous people... There are even some rare copies that have never been seen before. If there are people who love books here, they will be ecstatic.

Li Xiuyuan was quite curious and couldn't help flipping through a few books.

He found that as long as these books are common books, they are all rubbings, but as long as they are orphans, they are all copied by hired people, with different handwriting.

"It's probably because I'm afraid that the orphan copy will be rubbed and leaked, and the value of the orphan copy will be lost. That's why I hired someone to copy it. It can not only ensure that the only copy is not leaked, but also add a bit of elegance. Appreciate the copyist's Brush and ink handwriting." Li Xiuyuan thought to himself.

He is both a scholar and a businessman, so he can tell Jibaozhai's methods at a glance.

Now that children from all over the world are gathering in one city, the ink, paper and inkstone must be consumed a lot, and this unique book must be selling well, so Jibaozhai put up notices and hired people to copy the books.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Xiaodie? Why are you here? Didn't you leave Guo Beicheng and go to another place? Why are you here again? This is really great. I don't know if Miss Qingmei is back. Xiaosheng is very kind to Qingmei. Miss Qingmei's piano skills have always been on her mind, when Miss Qingmei left, Xiaosheng got drunk all night because of it."

At this time, a scholar came down from the second floor, his eyes lit up when he saw Xiaodie, and he greeted him enthusiastically, it seemed that he knew Xiaodie.

Xiaodie's expression changed slightly, and she immediately hid behind Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan immediately put down the book in his hand when he heard the voice, and said, "This brother is also a scholar, isn't it a little too rude?"

The scholar saw Xiaodie hiding behind Li Xiuyuan, lowering her head slightly like a maidservant and not speaking, and immediately understood what was going on.

It turned out that Xiaodie followed this man.

This servant girl is here, I am afraid that the young lady also followed him.