Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 23
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Although she has no concept of prices in this era, it is her good habit to ask when she doesn't understand.In the past few days, she has also inquired about prices from Du Fangfei, Du Yinsheng, and Mrs. Wang next door. She knows that the price of rice here is that one tael of silver can buy two stones of rice. In modern times, one catty is six taels. In this way, one tael of silver is equivalent to about five hundred yuan in modern times.

And one tael of silver is one thousand Wen, and the shopkeeper of Shuxiang Pavilion gave her two hundred Wen, which is equivalent to one hundred Yuan in modern times.One hundred yuan to buy out a novel with about [-] words is the price of cabbage in the modern online literary world with abundant mass production, let alone the ancient times when text resources were scarce.A copy of "San Zi Jing" costs [-] Wen, "Hundred Surnames", "Thousand Characters" and other books are even more expensive, pens, ink, paper and inkstone are also very expensive, and the cost of reading and literacy is extremely high.Wanting to buy her script for one or two hundred wen, the shopkeeper is a dream come true in his daytime, but he is just bullying them to be shabby and ignorant.

Since Du Jinning was ill and had a "dream", she had a very strong idea. In the past few days, Mrs. Chen no longer treats her as a child, but as the backbone of the family.At this time, seeing her go out without even giving a wink, and the shopkeeper directly added another [-] Wen, she realized that the price of this story book might be far more than [-] Wen.She quickly followed Du Jinning and walked towards the opposite side together.

"Hey, our shopkeeper called you, little brother, did you not hear or something? Two hundred coins, our shopkeeper has already given you an extra one hundred yuan. If you are not satisfied, you can discuss it again, why bother?" Hurry to leave? If the other side doesn’t let you in, if you think about turning back, our shopkeeper may not be able to offer you this price if the shopkeeper is in a bad mood.” Xiaoer got the hint from the shopkeeper and hurriedly chased after him, wanting to go La Dujinin's hand.

He welcomes and sends them off every day, and he looks very winkingly. He also knows that Du Jinning is the one who decides for the mother and son.

But he didn't want Du Jinning to be a man on the surface, but a woman at heart. Chen felt guilty about this daughter, and was always very concerned about her reputation.At this time, seeing that Xiao Er went to pull Du Jinning, her face changed drastically, and she shouted: "What are you doing?" She rushed forward and pushed Xiao Er away.Xiao Er was caught off guard and staggered, almost falling.

Xiaoer looked down on the mother and son, but when she saw that Chen Shi dared to push him, she became furious, pointed at Chen Shi and cursed: "What are you doing? Is this city where you run wild? Dare to beat people..." He turned his head and looked around, but he didn't seem to find the person he was looking for. He waved to a child standing on the street watching the excitement, and said to him, "Go, get the official officer, Brother Liu, and tell him that there is someone here." Hit people."

Chen's complexion suddenly changed.

Country people are most afraid of getting into a lawsuit.The people in the city are related to relatives, so if they get involved in a lawsuit, the country people will definitely suffer.And if the incident spreads to the village, the family's reputation will be ruined.What's more, their situation was special. If Du Chensheng and Niu knew that they didn't work and came to the county and got into trouble, they would really die miserably.

"Heh..." Du Jinning took a step forward, stopped in front of Mrs. Chen, and sneered at Xiaoer, "What's the matter? If the business fails, you want to grab it? My uncle and grandfather are unable to travel, so they asked me to sell his scripts, you guys If you don’t sell it for [-] yuan, now you think it’s impossible to grab it?”

They were already standing in the middle of the road, there were many people coming and going, and the bookstore opposite was very close.She yelled this very loudly, not only the people on the road, but also the customers and shopkeepers in the bookstore heard her words, and everyone looked this way curiously.

"Where is one hundred coins? It's obvious that my shopkeeper paid two hundred coins..." Xiaoer subconsciously wanted to refute, but as soon as he said this, he secretly screamed that it was not good. He turned his head and saw his shopkeeper looking gloomy. face stood behind him.

He swallowed forcefully, and was about to explain a few words, when he heard a fat old man in his fifties coming out from the opposite side, smiling and saying: "I want to buy a script for one or two hundred Wen, and if I don't sell it, I want to use an official post." To scare people? Your Shuxiang Pavilion is really full of tricks and abductions. No wonder everyone is afraid to go to your store to buy things."

"You...you are talking nonsense." The shopkeeper of Shuxiang Pavilion blushed and said angrily, "Zhang Rishan, you have robbed me of a lot of business by improper means, and I haven't said anything about you yet. The words that the little brother brought are not many words, and the story is so-so. I think he is pitiful, and it is very fair to give him the purchase price of two hundred coins. How come it has completely changed in your mouth? It really is in your heart. There are ghosts, everything you look at is a ghost."

Du Jinning saw that the two old men were quarreling, and it seemed that the old grudge was deep, and the quarrel was probably endless.She hurriedly said before Zhang Rishan, a fat old man in Boya Court, said: "There are not many words and the story is average. I will show the story book to the shopkeeper and see what he says." Then, she took out the six pages of paper. Come out, put it in Zhang Rishan's hand, and confidently said to him who was a little dazed, "I have read this story, and there is no one who can say it is not good, except for this shopkeeper..." She raised her chin and looked at the bookstore in Shuxiang Pavilion. The thin shopkeeper gestured.

Zhang Rishan frowned, and although he didn't throw away the papers, he didn't even look at them. He let them stay in his hands, and said to the thin shopkeeper Wang Yao with a sneer, "With your tongue-in-cheek ability, you can It can't change the fact that you lost your reputation, which led to the fact that there are few people. It's obvious who has a ghost in his heart."

Seeing Zhang Rishan only caring about arguing and not looking at the scripture in his hand, Du Jinning frowned.Obviously Zhang Rishan didn't take her and this story seriously.

She was about to reach out to take back the script, when a man's hand with slender knuckles suddenly stretched out beside her, and took the few pieces of paper over: "Let me take a look at the script."

Du Jinning was taken aback for a moment, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a familiar face.Isn't the tall and thin boy standing beside her wearing a stone blue gown, Zhang Hongwen?Isn't he going back to the academy for classes?Why are you here?

Seeing the scriptbook in his hand, Du Jinning was startled, and turned to look at Mrs. Chen.Chen's face was also full of astonishment and sluggishness. Immediately, a flustered expression appeared on his face, and he looked at Du Jinning as if asking for help.

Du Jinning gave her a reassuring look. Looking back, she saw that Zhang Hongwen was seriously looking down at the storybook. He didn't intend to greet her. stood aside and waited.

(End of this chapter)