Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

In fact, the bookstore that Liang Kangsheng wanted to open was slightly different from ordinary bookstores. He planned to wait for his mother to agree to open this proposal, and the store at home had already started packing up before mentioning it, which might be better.

Both the teahouse and the bookstore are unfamiliar to the Zhuang family. She listened to her son clearly saying that she wanted to open a bookstore, and naturally she would not object easily. Her son was going to study, and the bookstore at home was just convenient for him to read.

It’s just that the money needed to open a bookstore is estimated to be a lot, and books are not cheap. The most common books cost one or two taels of silver, and a shelf of books costs at least one or two hundred taels.

Thinking about it carefully, if it is changed to open a bookstore, I am afraid that five or six hundred taels is not enough to read. Zhuang's heart can't help but tremble. This cost...

Seeing Zhuang's complexion that clearly wanted to agree but suddenly turned sour, Liang Kangsheng wondered if his mother had other worries, but because Brother Yi was embarrassed to speak directly, he winked and asked Qu Yi to go out first , he asked to understand.

Qu Yi received Liang Kangsheng's eye signal, and found an excuse to go out. He has almost finished brewing the summer fruit wine recently, and he will go to have a look every day to observe the changes and make a record. I handed over my work to other people, so that people can do things based on what he wrote down.

When the mother and son were left in the main room, Liang Kangsheng sat beside Mrs. Zhuang and said, "Mother, what are you worried about? If it's about the shop, you might as well tell your son directly."

Zhuang didn't want her son to worry about money with her. In her heart, his son should focus on studying, so she shook her head and said nothing.

Liang Kangsheng accompanied her patiently: "Mother, if you don't tell me about your son, you won't know. We are a family. I have married my husband and started a family. I don't think of myself as a child who doesn't have to worry about family affairs."

After a pause, he continued: "It's just that if you have something that is inconvenient to talk to your son, then you should remember to discuss it with your father, or we can discuss it together as a family to solve the problem."

Liang Kangsheng's words reminded Mrs. Zhuang of something she had seriously considered earlier. Her son had grown up, and she had to get used to his son's changes, and she had to get used to letting him handle family affairs together.

After thinking about it, Zhuang told Liang Kangsheng that she was worried about opening a bookstore. The first was the expensive books, and the second was where to buy so many books because her store was too big.

As for whether anyone will come to buy books after opening the bookstore, she is not very worried. In recent years, the country of Dayu has a prosperous country and the people are safe, and more and more people are willing to spend money to send their children to study. It will go bad, but as long as it is well protected against insects and water, it will be fine for a few years in the bookstore.

Liang Kangsheng originally planned to share his thoughts with his family after the books were opened. Since his mother was worried that opening the bookstore would cost too much money, he should share his thoughts with her in advance.

In the final analysis, Liang Kangsheng's idea had something to do with the location of his bookstore, and he also took into account the large area of ​​his own store.

His plan is to only make a few bookshelves, and make tables and stools in other places like a tea house. People who come to the bookstore can sit in the bookstore and read whether they buy books or not.

Leaving aside the bookstores in places like the provincial capital and the prefectural capital, at least the other bookstores in Yang’an County are located in lively neighborhoods. Such locations are destined to not be cheap, so the bookstores are relatively cheap. It is relatively small, and the layout is compact. At most, one or two tables and stools are placed in the corners for people to rest.

Arranging most of the vacant spaces in the shop as desks, you don't need to prepare too many bookshelves, and naturally you don't need to prepare too much money for the issue of book preparation.

The second point is what books are sold in the bookstore, which is also very important.

Nowadays, ordinary bookstores sell a lot of books, including the Thirteen Classics of Enlightenment, including [-] books, the Four Books and Five Classics, which will be the focus of scientific examinations, and various annotations about the Four Books and Five Classics. The articles written by masters of the past dynasties also have the experience of contemporary literary giants and Confucians.

The rest are some other categories, such as history books, arithmetic, agricultural books, astronomy, geology, etc., as well as anthologies, poetry anthologies, travel notes written by literati who like to write articles and poems, as well as large-volume and fast-updating vernacular books, etc. wait.

Regular books can be printed or copied by yourself. For some books that need access, you need to look at the skills of various bookstores, such as county examinations, government examinations, hospital examinations, rural examinations, and even collections of scientific examination examiners.

This is very important for candidates who are about to take the scientific examination. After all, the preferences of the examiners, especially the chief examiner, may eventually affect the results of the scientific examination.

Before Liang Kangsheng proposed to open a bookstore, he had seriously considered what books his bookstore would sell. Enlightenment books and scientific examination books were a must. Should they consider it?

It is undeniable that storybooks are very expensive, but in the same way, even well-written storybooks will only sell well during the period when they are most popular, and then they will not be able to sell. The master who wrote the story book, generally the famous master signed with the big book shop, and their family probably couldn't find a way.

The examiner's anthology is the same as the storybook, even more likely to be dusted in the shop than the storybook, and it is even more unsuitable for the Liang family.

The township examination and the general examination are in the provincial capital and the capital respectively, and Tongyang'an County, a small county, is completely out of reach, and the examiners can't get in touch.

The examiners of the county examination, government examination, and courtyard examination are local officials. Although they are relatively close, local officials will not be so casual in publishing anthologies. Get in touch.

After taking various factors into consideration, Liang Kangsheng's idea is to only sell elementary school and scientific examination books for the time being, and just collect some other books.

Although there are not many kinds of books in Liangjia Bookstore, everyone can sit and read books in Liangjia Bookstore, which is the advantage of Liangjia Bookstore.

Zhuang listened to his son finish his thoughts and considerations one by one, and the worry in his heart was slightly reduced. If it was just books for elementary school and scientific examinations, the money needed would be much less. After all, these books are the most common and there is no need to look for them everywhere. , Just find a reliable printing house and print a batch, the cost will be much lower.

Liang Kangsheng watched the wrinkles between his mother's brows smooth down, and believed that she was really relieved now. He said a few more words before going back to read. Tomorrow it was time to go to his wife for class, and he had to write down what he had written yesterday. A good article has been transcribed.

With the matter of the bookstore distracting Zhuang's mind, although she still misses her brother in her heart, at least her condition looks much better than before, and she won't be preoccupied just by looking at it.

At noon on the fourth day after Zhao Hongmei was angry, Zhuang Qingming's reply finally arrived at Liang's house.

When the letter arrived, the Liang family had just had lunch, Father Liang hadn't gone to the wine shop, the whole family was together, Zhuang couldn't wait to open the letter, but the content of the letter made her feel as if she had been hit in the head, and her mind was stunned. up.

Zhuang Qingming's narration was very fair, and he didn't intend to cover up for Zhuang Qingze. It directly explained why Zhuang Qingze was brought back to the clan.

It was because the people in the clan found out that he was doing business in the name of the Liang family wine shop and the Zhuang people, and he was not trustworthy, and added water to the wine.

In addition, the Zhuang people also found that he spoke bad things about the Liang family winery outside.

Zhuang Qingze will be beaten with a total of thirty lashes. It is not ordinary whips used by the clan to punish people who do wrong things. They are specially made. Had to stay in bed for a month or two.

Considering that Zhuang Qingze had left the Zhuang clan to live outside, after beating him according to clan rules, the clan arranged for someone to send him back to his current residence.

It was because Zhuang Qingze had to be taken with him on the road, so the journey was relatively slow, and he believed that he would arrive on this day.

In other words, the Zhuang family received a letter from the Zhuang clan, which meant that Zhuang Qingze had also been sent to Yang'an County.

At first, Zhuang almost fainted when she saw her younger brother being whipped thirty times by the clan, but later she understood the reason why her younger brother was beaten, and she suddenly had the feeling that her brain was torn into two halves.

On the one hand, as a sister, she feels sorry for her younger brother who was beaten, and on the other hand, as the Liang family, she finds it difficult to accept what he has done to him.

Mrs. Zhuang was the only one in the Liang family who didn't know. When she suddenly heard that her younger brother had done such a thing, she felt very embarrassed and had no face to face her husband and son.

If Zhuang Qingze stood in front of her right now, she might not be able to control herself from asking him why he did this.

It can be said that he used his brain to make more money by adding water to the wine, but he said something bad about the Liang Family Winery outside, and why?

Zhuang's expression was blank for a while. She never thought that the younger brother she treated with all her heart and soul would do such a thing. The previous unhappiness could at most be regarded as his lack of consideration.

Both Liang Kangsheng and Qu Yi looked at Zhuang Shi worriedly. They had made various preparations beforehand, but it turned out that such a thing was so hard for her to accept. If she knew anything else, wouldn't she be even more stimulated? .

Liang's father made a look to let Liang Kangsheng and Qu Yi go first, and he stayed to talk to his wife alone and enlighten her.

As a mother, Zhuang certainly did not want to expose her fragile appearance to the children, so Liang Kangsheng and Qu Yi did not force them to stay, and obediently left the dining hall.

Qu Yi and Liang Kangsheng walked out slowly, discussing in low voices: "I really didn't expect the clan to dispose of my uncle so quickly. I thought I would look at our family's intentions again."

"Hurry up, there's no need to ask us about such trivial matters. If we do, we'll be left behind." Liang Kangsheng was satisfied with the treatment of the Zhuang family, and it wouldn't be too much to beat him a few more times, "I just hope Dad can persuade you Mother, I don't know what father will say, my uncle has already been sent back, so I guess mother should leave him alone."