Started as a mute girl? I prospered in the lean years

The sound of firecrackers for the opening of the study echoed throughout the street. Soon, many people gathered outside Zhuli Study. Even if passers-by did not come forward to watch, they would slow down their pace and stand on tiptoe to take a closer look, and then leave with admiration in their eyes.

Jiang Wei has a pure mind, and the pictures of beauties she paints are free from any vulgarity or seductiveness. Naturally, the viewers do not have any extra romantic thoughts, but only feel that the pictures are beautiful, which attracts people to stop in front of the pictures and take a closer look at each one. Their eyes sweep over the people in the pictures inch by inch, and finally fall on the words written in small regular script with flowers in the hairpin below.

The content of the inscription is nothing more than an introduction to the beauty's name and origin. The handwriting is beautiful but reveals her elegance.

Such paintings are very tempting to scholars who are accustomed to enjoying elegant things.

The youthfulness of the past has faded from Lu Hui's handsome face. Now he has a smile on his face, and he doesn't look out of place among the group of scholars.

A scholar in blue came forward to ask for the price. Lu Hui took a look at his clothes and knew that he was rich. He smiled and replied, "Thank you for your kindness, sir. However, our shop is a small business. Large paintings of beauties are painted by professionals. It takes a lot of time and effort. I'm afraid it will take some time before we can sell them..."

When the scholar showed a look of boredom, he changed the subject and showed the beauty note in his hand, saying, "It seems that you really like it. I wonder if this little beauty note suits your taste?"

The scholar in blue shirt looked at it for a moment, then looked up at the picture of the beauty. He immediately saw that this beauty letter was a smaller version of one of the pictures of the beauty.

He reached out and took it. The beauty paper was small and exquisite. The beauty on the painting was smiling sweetly and charmingly. He couldn't let it go and couldn't help asking, "Are there any other beauties?"

"Of course there are. If you like, you can just buy a whole set of Beauty Notes, or you can buy a book from my Bamboo Study. Each book will come with a piece of Beauty Note. The latter is more cost-effective, but I'm not sure if it's what you want."

The blue-shirted scholar's eyes lit up and he praised, "This method is quite unusual."

After thinking for a while, he asked again: "Since these beauties are characters in the book, why have you never heard of the 'Red Mansion'?"

Lu Hui's smile deepened. "My lord, you may not know that our shop not only sells books on the market, but also new books that are not available on the market. The beauty you saw is the character in the new book."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to the waiter beside him, who immediately handed him the book in his hand with great tact. The scholar in blue shirt flipped through it briefly and soon stopped. He was surprised to find that there were also paintings interspersed in the book. There were not many but they were very vivid.

Lu Hui continued to introduce, "The new book is not yet finished. If you are interested, you can take a look first."

The scholar was called Lu Hui. He was polite and courteous, unlike other businessmen who were full of money. His words and deeds made people feel comfortable, and I had a better impression of Zhuli Shuzhai.

He asked about the price of a set of Beauty Notes, and after asking, he immediately decided to buy a set and also took a copy of the new book.

The onlookers heard almost everything Lu Hui said. Some of them were tempted but wanted to wait and see. Now that some of them had made a breakthrough, they were ready to make a move.

After watching the blue-shirted scholar leave, Lu Hui bowed to everyone again and said, "Please know that only ten copies of the entire set of Beauty Notes will be sold per day, first come first served!"

Now some people could no longer sit still and pushed forward to buy. The crowd rushed forward and soon all ten copies of the beauty paper were sold out.

The rest of the people were not discouraged. The introduction on the beauty picture also attracted a lot of people's attention, and many people wanted to buy the new book to read.

Some people thought that it was just a bunch of miscellaneous books and were not very interested in them, so they walked into Zhuli Study and looked around, picked out a book they liked, and got a piece of beauty paper before leaving happily.

The whole scene was seen by Shen Huaixu and Jiang Wei, who were sitting on the roadside eating wontons not far away. Jiang Wei looked at the crowd huddled together like a ball of thread not far away, and her face flushed with excitement.

During the days when she was painting the beauties, Ah Xu was by her side to cheer her on, and she never slacked off at all, but she was still worried that she could not paint the people or things that Ah Xu described.

Her master was a serious person who seldom praised her. Her painting was influenced by Ah Xu, and her master always said her paintings were a bit weird. Therefore, she was not very confident in her painting skills. During the preparation stage of Zhuli Study, she had always had a vague worry in her heart.

Now it seems that she was worrying too much.

She never expected that her paintings would be liked by so many people.

Picking up the cold tea and drinking it all, Jiang Wei asked Shen Huaixu, who was concentrating on eating wontons, "Ah Xu, isn't the price of our beauty notes a bit high?"

She felt that they were just a few small pieces of paper, at most a little thick, with pictures drawn by her and some small decorations on them. Even the pictures she drew by herself no longer needed her to do it herself after she drew them for the first time.

She never thought that these could be sold for so much money.

"What's so high? It's not high at all." Shen Huaixu put down his chopsticks and took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth.

"Whether it's books or beauties, people can only enjoy them if they have money. The target group chosen from the beginning for this business is those who can afford it."