North and South groceries

This novel written by Tang Jian is not long, and the words are very concise. In order to give readers a better reading experience, Luo Yong hired someone to add illustrations to this novel.

Because there are fewer words and more pictures, the final effect is basically that each paragraph is accompanied by an illustration, which looks a bit like the fairy tale books that Luo Yong bought for him when he was young.

Luo used people to make engravings, ink and copy them, and then color them after copying. Finally, they were bound into volumes and pasted on the cover. In this way, the first batch of novels were printed.

The cover is also very delicate, it is made of high-quality paper, on which is printed a handsome young man in white folded clothes, with a bustling city in the background and a blue sky...

"Does the guest want to buy wine?" On this day, the distillery had just sent away a group of customers, and another group came immediately.

As soon as the spring of this year came, the number of Hu merchants coming and going in Changle County gradually increased, especially those merchants from Gaochang Yanqi and other places, and they kept coming and going on this business road, buying needles, wine, and bacon. They were not idle throughout the winter, and there were only a few merchants who came here before, but gradually more and more came later.

"Now this baijiu is still sold at a [-]% discount?" asked the few Gaochang merchants.

"Exactly." The old man on the cabinet replied: "Since the county magistrate said that this liquor has been sold at a [-]% discount for so long, it would be inappropriate to increase the price now, so he said, in the future, the liquor They will all be sold at a [-]% discount.”

Those Gaochang merchants were very happy when they heard about it. This is their first time in Changle County. I heard from those who went back that the baijiu in Changle County is sold at a [-]% discount recently. Worried that I can't keep up with this good price.

"I want the best one, come with us for a hundred altars." They have discussed how much liquor they will buy in total this time around, and since the price is not a problem at this time, they just need to buy according to the previously planned quantity .

"Okay. One hundred jars of liquor!" The old man on the cabinet told a young man next to him, "These guests have come from a long way, and the journey is long, and it is not easy to transport the goods. You and them will bring out one hundred and one jars. "

These merchants in Gaochang heard about it, and they all felt that the store in Changle was really meticulous and thoughtful.

Soon, the batches of baijiu were moved to the open space in the hall. These Gaochang merchants carefully inspected these wine jars, picked up a jar from time to time, weighed it, and finally confirmed that there was no problem before placing it on the table. Pay at the counter.

The old man on the cabinet accepted the silver they brought, checked the quality carefully, weighed it, and accepted it after confirming that it was correct.

Then he took down a few books from a wooden shelf behind the counter: "The county recently published a new book, and you can get a free one when you buy 50 taels in this store. These five are for you. Just for entertainment, I hope guests will come to our Changle County often in the future."

Those Gaochang merchants saw that these books were beautifully printed, so they didn't think much about it, they accepted them and put them in their pockets.

Afterwards, I took it out and looked at it carefully, and I found it quite interesting, but after all, as a man, after reading this storybook about a woman's love story, I passed it after reading it, and I didn't feel much.

Beautiful, novel story.

After returning to Gaochang State, just after entering the city, a local rich man asked them to buy wine, so they gave this rich man a pamphlet by the way.

I never thought that this would be a big deal. Within two days, I heard that the daughter of the rich family was paralyzed, and so were the little girls who played with her. They talked all day about going to Baidie City, What else do you say that non-white teenagers don't marry!

After the five booklets were sent out, the girls in Gaochang City would be overwhelmed.

Women are born full of fantasies about love. However, in this closed age, women's imagination of love is greatly restricted, and their imagination is restricted by the environment. The novel opened a door to a new world for them.

This kind of romance novel routine, even among those young women who have read countless books in the 21st century, has also been popular for a long time.

Not to mention those little ladies in the seventh century who have not been baptized by a large number of romantic novels. For them, such a story, such a novel, it is a brand new, groundbreaking, and infinitely fascinating. exist!

In the following days, local merchants continued to bring back this book from Lishi County, and each copy could be sold for a very high price.

The publication of this "Song of White Stacks" has brought a huge shock to women in the world, and at the same time, its impact on the marriage and love market is also unprecedented.

It is heard that someone bought white cloth from a small country west of Gaochang, sold it to Gaochang City, and sold it at a very good price. Rich families with unmarried young men in the city rushed to buy it.

In the city of Chang'an, which is thousands of miles away from Gaochang, there has also been a wave of white stacking craze recently.

Luo Yong sent a set of engraving blocks and a few sample books to the city of Chang'an, and Xing Er started printing them immediately. In a few days, the book "Song of White Stacks" was on the shelves of Nanbei Grocery, and those who cooperated with Nanbei Grocery Shops have also set up a small bookshelf at the door of their house, and put a shelf full of "Song of the White Stack", which costs five cents a book, and sells as much as it can every day.

Not only Chang'an City, but merchants from those surrounding towns, as well as Luoyang and other places also came to purchase.

It is estimated that it will not be long before this craze will spread all over the Central Plains, especially those wealthy and prosperous cities.

Now in this city of Chang'an, which little lady has never heard of the story of "The Song of Bai Die"?

When a group of girls get together, the topic is often inseparable from "Song of White Stacks". The names of the male and female protagonists in the book are known to everyone, and almost all of them will develop Two-dimensional idols Adoration came.

As for the white folded cloth and white folded clothes, I heard from some well-informed people that there are some places in the Western Regions that can indeed produce this cloth, and it is indeed very rare.

It is said that there is a plant that can produce white velvet flowers. The local people picked the velvet flowers, peeled off the inner flower core, and spun the white velvet into threads and cloth. Cloth is quite expensive.

The women in Chang'an were fascinated by the story of Baidie City, but many men did not take it seriously. The Baidie boy in Baidie City, and the beauty of the boy who is unparalleled in the world, were all made up to deceive people, but those women believed it.

On this day, several young men gathered together to discuss this matter, and they were quite upset.

"These women are really brainless."

"It's just a fictional script, which can make them so intoxicated."

"I heard that the little lady of the Xie family said that she wants to withdraw from the engagement?"

"She's afraid she's a demon."

"How did I hear that your family is going to propose marriage to Mrs. Ye, then Ye's life and death are not right."

"She is dreaming right now, how can she respond?"

"She, Ye Niang, said that she was temporarily blocked by a demon, and she couldn't turn her head around. She told my family to wait."

"Then can you wait?"

"I'll wait for her? Do I really think that Xu Si won't be able to get married in this life?"

"Then what are your family's plans?"

"My Yeniang has already gone to help me find out about the Zheng family."

"I advise you to take it easy. I heard that the woman from the Zheng family has been suffering from demons recently. Even if I mentioned it to her, she probably wouldn't respond."

"She shouldn't be useless. Marriage has always been the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker."

"Don't make trouble and run away from home again."

"There are enough women who have run away from home in Chang'an City."

"It's just cheaper for the north and south groceries."

"I heard that Webster's daughter, Jiao Didi, a young lady of the noble family, defied her parents' orders and went to work in the north and south groceries. The family wanted to dry her out and told her to suffer some hardships outside before going back. I thought it would take more than a year to do this.”

"Sometimes the fate of parents is not easy to handle. Those who are dying or living, hang themselves or jump into a well. There are few parents in the world who can really be ruthless."

"It's really not a good thing to be ruthless."

"If you want me to say, Naluo's coffin board is the worst. If you publish some kind of broken book, it will make these little ladies in Chang'an City abnormal."

"Isn't it just to sell the white cloth? Didn't I hear that they are currently growing cotton in Changle County?"

"It's too dark!"

"No matter how good his white folded cloth is, I just won't buy it anyway!"

"Yes! Just don't buy it!"

"Whoever buys it is an idiot!"

These little gentlemen were filled with righteous indignation, and they agreed to resolutely resist the white cloth, so as not to let the wishful thinking of the coffin board succeed.

However, a few days later, there was a news from Nanbei Groceries, saying that a batch of white folded cloth had arrived recently, and this year was the only batch.

This batch of goods is that Luo Erniang, who lives in Longxi, has gone through untold hardships to buy white folded flowers from Hu merchants in the Western Regions, and let the female workers in her own workshop carefully weave them into white folded cloth. None of them are dyed, it is the original color of the white jasmine flower. After buying it back, gentlemen can find someone to dye it by themselves, and then cut it into clothes, or directly make clothes without dyeing.

On the day when this batch of goods was put on the shelves, the groceries from the north and the south were almost overwhelmed by the servants of each family. It was really like a robbery. The fabrics on a small shelf were robbed in a blink of an eye.

A few days later, some handsome young men dressed in white folded cloth appeared in Chang'an City.

Not to mention, this white folded cloth is quite different from linen silk. This cloth is fine but not greasy, cottony but not slippery. Compared with linen, it is a bit more delicate, and compared with silk, it is a bit more friendly. Simple, young gentlemen walking on the street in this white folded clothes, it is a brand new landscape in Chang'an City.

As for the teenagers who had sworn before that they would never buy white diapers, they were now having a fight with their own Ye Niang.

"Aye, I heard that there are also white cloths in the Western Regions, why don't we send our family to buy them?"

"The Western Region is thousands of miles away from here, who are you going to ask to buy it for you?" His father ignored him.

"If there is no white cloth, I am afraid that my marriage will not be possible in this life." The young man refused.

"Oh! There are only a few people in white folded clothes in Chang'an City, and the others will not get married. You should study hard and don't think about whether you have these."

"If you don't buy me a white fold, I won't study."

"What did you say?"

"Stop reading!"

"See if I don't beat you to death, you unfilial son!"

"If you don't read, you don't read!"

"Don't run, you wait for me!"

"..." How can I jump like a chicken and a dog.

Speaking of which, if these young ladies who are of marriageable age are left in the later generations, that is, at the age of the second grade of junior high school, if the secondary attribute explodes, it will really be very lively.

Recently, because of the white folded cloth, many people's families are like chickens and dogs jumping around. The wishes of the teenagers are very simple, they just want to wear white folded clothes.

As for the little ladies in Chang'an City...

It is popular for young women to go out in groups recently. They ride Yan'er and fly outside Chang'an City to pick mulberries. They hang a bamboo basket on the handlebars. They go out in clean and beautiful clothes every morning, and get wet again in the evening. When the dirt came back, he rode Yan Erfei through the streets and alleys in a disheveled manner.

"Tsk tsk, look at their dirt."

"Needless to say, he must have rolled in a ditch again. He wants to go to Baidie City."