Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

Chapter 189 The South Tower Library

Liang Kangsheng's guess was correct. Father Liang meant to ignore it. To be honest, he is not angry now, so he can think soberly about how to persuade his wife how to treat Zhuang Qingze. If he doesn't talk to him at this time, he will naturally Feel guilty.

And according to what Liang's father and Liang Kangsheng discussed before, the best way for the Zhuang family to cut off contact with Zhuang Qingze is to gradually alienate them. As long as there are fewer meetings and fewer bonds, the relationship will naturally weaken.

At this moment, Mrs. Zhuang was in a fit of anger, so she immediately agreed to Father Liang's proposal, not to see her younger brother who was beaten so badly that he might not be able to get out of bed for a month or two.

After two days, Zhuang's anger has passed. She was worried about her brother after all, and with the entrustment of her deceased parents, she began to hesitate again, thinking about whether to go and see her brother's injuries. What's the matter, is there anything she wants to do.

But after thinking about it, the things my brother did outside are undoubtedly harming the Liang family. The husband is not angry, and he didn't blame her for not saying anything. Instead, he kept comforting her. He just asked her not to let her see his brother. If she can't do all the things, wouldn't she hurt her family's heart.

After weighing it over and over again, the Zhuang family did not visit Zhuang Qingze in the end, nor did she ask someone to bring him anything, and fulfilled her promise to Liang's father at the beginning.

In fact, Mrs. Zhuang still has another idea in her heart, that is, her younger brother's wrong doing must have chilled Mrs. Liang's heart. When he comes to the Liang family to apologize in person, it at least shows that he understands what he did wrong, and she will be gracious when the time comes Shameless, please forgive him.

The final facts will let Mrs. Zhuang understand that what she imagined was different from the reality. Until the end of July, when the Liang family's newly opened wine was shipped away by various businesses, and the Liang family's bookstore opened, Zhuang Qingze never came to the Liang family once.

The Liang family’s new wine this year has the “Dukang” system. Only one tank failed halfway, and the others were brewed. Among them, two tanks of wine brewed with mountain spring water have a clearer taste than wine brewed in wells.

Liang's father didn't know it at the beginning. Liang Kangsheng didn't tell him when he used the mountain spring water. After all, the Liang family used the well in the winery for many years. If he changed the water rashly, Liang's father would definitely not agree.

Now the wine has been fermented, and Liang Kangsheng told the whole story after Liang's father found out that the taste of the wine was different. It turned out that this kind of wine with a slightly different taste was brewed with different water.

During the brewing, Liang Kangsheng thought of many ways to hide the truth from Liang's father. Fortunately, the result was good. The wine brewed with the mountain spring was indeed as the fairy system said, and the taste was even better.

"Son, if Dad knew that you would definitely disapprove of your "reckless behavior", but you have a sense of propriety, so you used two cans to try it, it was very good, and the wine produced was also good, as expected of a child of my Liang family!" Father was in a good mood, the corners of his mouth almost grinning behind his ears.

If other people cut it first and played it later, even if good wine was brewed, Father Liang would not have exposed the matter so easily, and it would not be the case with Liang Kangsheng.

His son is in good health and is willing to learn the craft of brewing wine. To be honest, this has already satisfied him, not to mention that his son is still willing to spend his time studying, even if the wine is spoiled, he has to behave happily.

Father Liang did not sell the two cans of mountain spring water, but sealed it in the old cellar. He also planned to use mountain spring water to make wine next year. However, the ancestral well water in the winery must not be used. Inherited from generation to generation.

No wonder Liang's father was cautious, the main reason is that the wine brewed from mountain spring water is now just new wine, which tastes good, but generally speaking, it is not very tasty.

Therefore, if this kind of wine has been kept for a few years to become an old wine, it will still taste better than the old wine made from well water, so Father Liang will really use mountain spring water to make wine.

During the time when the winery opened cellars to count and sell wine, Liang Kangsheng and Liang's father were busy with the winery, Qu Yi tried every means to draw Zhuang's attention to the bookstore, and first used the money he got from selling beans. Repair shop.

These two shops have not been used for too long, just like the houses in disrepair, they look dilapidated, but in fact they are not as bad as they look.

First of all, the beams and columns are all good, so there is no need to replace them. Secondly, the original walls were all repaired with green bricks. Overall, there is no problem, and there is no need to build new walls.

It's just that the roof tiles have fallen off, the walls have become dirty because of this, the plaster on the walls has fallen off, and some messy things have fallen on the ground, making the inside and outside of the house look mottled and messy.

Probably the condition of the house is much better than expected, and Zhuang’s mood has improved a lot with the naked eye. She got busy after looking at the house. After looking at the house, she asked someone to go to the brick kiln to buy tiles. If she wanted to open a new bookstore, she had to use those above. Tiles have been replaced over the years.

Then, the messy things left in the two shops were removed and cleaned, and the wall adjacent to the shop was demolished to connect the two shops.

After tidying up the main parts such as tiles and walls, and replacing them with new window grilles and door panels, the two shops instantly took on a new look, looking transparent and bright, without the sense of dilapidation before.

Quyi was busy with Zhuang's, the house was cleaned out, and a gardener was hired to plant a circle of orchids outside the bookstore, but there were no books in it yet, the shop seemed to have a poetic atmosphere.

To clean up the two shops, not to mention the 18 taels of silver used up, Liang's father also subsidized 20 taels of silver for selling wine, and only then did the bookcases, desks and other non-book things be added.

After Liang's father and Liang Kangsheng finished their business in the wine shop, they took time to visit their own bookstore and found that the bookstore was better than they thought, no wonder they spent so much money.

The next thing to do is to wait for the books in the bookstore to be in place. When he decided to build a bookstore at the beginning, Liang Kangsheng contacted a good printing house in Yang'an County to print fifty sets of the Thirteen Classics of Mengxue, including "Three Character Classics", Thirteen books for enlightenment for children, including "Hundred Surnames", "Thousand Characters", "Zengguang Xianwen", "Poetry and Poems and Rhymes".

Among them, three hundred thousand is the most basic. Some children who only want to read and do not continue to study for the imperial examination will only learn these three books, so Liang Kangsheng printed fifty more sets of these three books alone.

Next is the Four Books and Five Classics. The Four Books and Five Classics are suitable for students who want to read books and prepare to take the imperial examination. Generally speaking, there are not many such students in small counties, so Liang Kangsheng only ordered [-] sets in the book printing house.

The annotations on the Four Books and the Five Classics are also readable by scientific research students. He himself compiled a set of annotations that have been widely circulated by famous scholars of the past dynasties and contemporary great Confucianists, and printed [-] sets.

It is very cheap to find a book printing house to print books as long as they do not re-engraving. For example, Mongolian books have fewer words, less paper and ink, and a set is only a little more than one tael. All the Mongolian books cost 80 taels of silver.

The Four Books and Five Classics are thicker, a set of nine books is close to two taels of silver, and thirty sets cost 54 taels of silver.

The annotations of the Four Books and Five Classics are thicker, some are even two or three times the size of the original books, and Liang Kangsheng has many books in his hand, so he sorted out a total of 250 books, six of which are not engraved by the printing house, and are separate. It is another sum of money for the craftsman to pay for the engraving, and these books cost [-] taels of silver.

In addition, there is no need to prepare too much for the remaining books. It is more appropriate to find someone to copy the books, and it is enough to copy three copies of one book.

Lin Lin always spent nearly 400 taels for these books. Fortunately, Liang Kangsheng took out the private money saved by himself and Qu Yi at the beginning, otherwise the income of the winery this year would not be enough to print the books.

At the beginning, Mrs. Zhuang thought about filling the entire bookstore with five or six hundred taels of silver. In fact, it cost 600 taels of books for just two rows of bookshelves. Enough.

But it’s just that it costs a lot of money, so many books are enough to sell for a long time, other bookstores can have more books, in fact, most of them are non-scientific books.

When all the books are complete, there are books on almost every floor of the bookshelf, so that the bookshelf will not appear empty, but the total number of books is not large, and it will not appear cramped with too many books in each grid.

"Son, is the plaque for our bookstore ready?" Father Liang looked at the bookstore with satisfaction, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he was. Although a lot of money was spent preparing the books, looking at such a transparent and bright bookstore, he felt Well worth it.

"Brother Yi asked about it, and said that it is the last time to paint the paint today, and it will be fine when the paint dries." Liang Kangsheng is also very satisfied with his bookstore.

Liang Kangsheng insisted on asking Father Liang to pick up the name of the bookstore. Father Liang was literate, but he had no literary talents. He was worried that the name he had figured out was not good enough, so he looked through a lot of poetry collections.

Who knew that the more he read it, the less he knew what to choose, and finally he casually flipped through the book and closed his eyes and pointed out - I closed the South Tower to read the Taoist book, and the quiet curtain is in Xianju.

Considering that the location of my bookstore is in the south of Yang'an City, and the Liang Family Winery is also in the south of Yang'an County, I simply named the bookstore "Nanlou Library".

In July, when the weather was the hottest, the red cloth on the plaque of Nanlou Library was removed, and firecrackers were set off to officially open for business.

Mrs. Zhuang has completely forgotten about her younger brother Zhuang Qingze these days. She is so busy that she almost hits the back of her head. She falls asleep as soon as she closes her eyes at night. She has no time to think about her younger brother. Finally, she opened the business. She just thinks so Well worth the busy days.

Although there was no publicity for the opening of the library, Liang Kangsheng was one of the talented scholars in Yang'an County after all, and many people came to support him on the opening day. This way, this small library has entered the eyes of scholars in Yang'an County.

Wei Yang, Zheng Xin and other classmates who were familiar with Liang Kangsheng looked at the "poor" two rows of bookshelves in the library, and teased that although the Liang family library was small, it was famous but ambitious.

However, there were people when the library opened, and when the guests left at noon, the library became extremely deserted. The reason is very simple. The Liang family’s Nanlou library sells few books and the location is remote. The prices of other bookstores were low, and it was difficult to attract enough customers at the beginning.

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