Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 22 The Surprised Shopkeeper

"Guest officer, please." Xiao Er, with drooping eyelids, motioned for someone to come in, and said subconsciously, but when he saw Du Jinning and the two, he frowned and waved: "Come on, this is a bookstore, not you guys. Wherever you can wander, hurry up."

The shopkeeper raised his head and glanced this way, but ignored it, and his eyes fell back to the pages of the book.

Du Jinning frowned, and said to Chen Shi: "Mother, let's go to the opposite side." Pulling Chen Shi around, he left.

"Ah Hui..." The shopkeeper suddenly called out to Xiao Er at the top of his voice.

Xiao Er hurried forward, smiled at Du Jinning and said, "This... little brother, what book do you want to buy? I'm really sorry for neglecting you two just now, I will accompany you."

Du Jinning thought for a while, but still stopped, glanced at the shopkeeper who had stopped on the book, and asked Xiaoer, "I have a story book, and I want to ask if you want it."

Xiao Er was stunned: "Aren't you here to buy books?" His face changed, and he wanted to turn his back on him, but he was not sure what the shopkeeper was thinking, so he turned around and took a look inside.

The shopkeeper also heard Du Jinning's words. He raised his eyes from the book, looked Du Jinning up and down, frowned and said, "What script? Who wrote it?"

Du Jinning took out some folded papers from his pocket, walked up to the shopkeeper, and handed the papers to him: "Look at it first."

The shopkeeper took the paper and looked at Du Jinning and Chen Shi again, the suspicion in his eyes was not concealed at all.But he didn't speak any more, and lowered his head to read the script.After reading a few lines, he suddenly raised his head, looked at Du Jinning again, and then lowered his head to look at the script again.

Du Jinning has rich experience in writing novels in modern times, and he knows how to submit them best.When she first copied the story, she no longer densely wrote a piece of paper in hairpin lowercase like she did in the first draft, but cut the paper into the size of a book, from left to right line by line. She wrote the characters as big as the characters on the "Three Character Classic" and other books that Du Yinsheng gave her. Such a piece of paper can't write many characters. After copying more than 4000 characters, it will become a not-so-thin book. booklet.She also didn't bind it, and wrapped dozens of pages in order with a rag, leaving the first to sixth pages outside so that they could be shown to the shopkeeper of the bookstore.This will prevent the shopkeeper from reading the story, making excuses not to buy it, and writing the story silently after she leaves.

And the story was cut off on the sixth page instead of other places, because she wrote novels in her previous life with good chapters, and she always stopped abruptly at the most critical moment of the story, which was tantalizing.Although the chapter dog is always scolded by readers, it is still a good way to attract readers to turn down the page.

This move was used by her in ancient times, and it would definitely have a miraculous effect.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper read the six-page paper in his hand, and when he was eager to read down to know the next part, he found that it was gone.

He raised his head and asked Du Jinning, "What about the rest?"

Du Jinning pulled out the paper from his hand, the shopkeeper subconsciously clenched his hand, grabbed the paper tightly, opened his mouth and was about to scold, when he looked up and saw Du Jinning's silent but calm eyes, he swallowed the words abruptly go back.

The child in front of him does not seem to be simple.

He let go of his hand, allowing Du Jinning to take back the beginning of the storybook, but he still asked: "What about the rest? Could it be that it hasn't been written?"

"Of course the story is finished. But the shopkeeper has to talk about it first, whether you want to buy this storybook, and how much you can give, and I will show you the rest after the negotiation." Du Jinning said lightly.

The shopkeeper froze, looked at Du Jinning with a bit of astonishment, and then looked Du Jinning up and down again.

Du Jinning was not afraid of his scrutiny, she just stood there quietly, neither humble nor overbearing, with a calm demeanor, her eyes were like a deep pool, quiet and deep, making it impossible to see what was going on in her heart.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper frowned, and his expression gradually became serious.

He thought for a while and asked, "How long is this story?"

"This is six pages." Du Jinning shook the paper in his hand, "A total of 89 pages."

Great stories are naturally as long as possible.The shopkeeper's reader's heart was lifted high, and he wished to snatch the book from Du Jinning's hands and read the rest of the plot.If this is the case for a person like him who spends his time exclusively on scripts, it is conceivable how attractive he is to other scholars.

He thought for a while, then stretched out a finger: "One hundred Wen." As he spoke, he fixed his eyes on Du Jinning and Chen Shi, for fear of missing the expressions on their faces.

Originally, Mrs. Chen didn't have much confidence in selling scripts.Although she thinks the storybook is well written, there are many good stories. In the past, when she read the storybook, people even wrote one or two poems on it, which seemed to be very high-end.The most important thing is that those scripts were written by low-ranking scholars or Tongsheng. For their sake, bookstores are willing to buy them.Although the plot of Du Jinning's storybook is bizarre and attractive, the mother and son may not even be able to enter the bookstore, let alone sell the storybook.Even if they can get into the bookstore and people want to buy it, seeing their shabby clothes, it is impossible to give a high price.It's good enough to sell.

So at this moment, when she heard that the shopkeeper was willing to ask for a book and returned a hundred Wen, her eyes lit up immediately, and her surprise was beyond words.

Du Jinning stuffed the paper into his bosom, and said to Mrs. Chen: "Mother, let's go and have a look at the opposite side."

The shopkeeper saw Chen's expression in his eyes, and changed his original view of Du Jinning in his heart, thinking that the mother and son were not experienced in the world.

Seeing that they were about to leave at this time, he said calmly, "That's because I'm kind in business, so I'm willing to pay a hundred pennies; if you go to the bookstore opposite, they probably won't even let you in. How about you?" Think about it, don't come back to me when the other side can't sell it, I won't be able to sell another one hundred coins. And there are only two bookstores in this city."

After hearing this, Mrs. Chen became more anxious, tugged on La Du Jinning's sleeve, and gave her a sharp wink.

"Mother, you listen to me." Du Jinning didn't shy away from the shopkeeper and Xiaoer, and said to Mrs. Chen frankly, and then pulled her out.

Seeing her going out, the shopkeeper panicked.His business is not as good as that of the other side. If this word can be kept in his hands, attracting some people to buy it every day and driving popularity, his business will gradually improve.But if the other side gets the script, the other side will be icing on the cake, and he will be even worse.

"Two hundred Wen, two hundred Wen, I'll give you another hundred Wen, what do you think?" He raised his voice.

Chen stopped abruptly because of Du Jinning's forward steps, and looked at Du Jinning.

But Du Jinning acted as if he didn't hear it, he didn't even change the rhythm of his footsteps, and walked towards the opposite bookstore step by step.

(End of this chapter)