Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 24 Competing Bidding
Shuxiangge and Boyage are old rivals. For several years, they have always wanted to completely run each other away, so that their own bookstore can monopolize the most prosperous street in the county.Now that Zhang Rishan's Boya Court has the upper hand, and there are so many customers in the store, it's not easy for him to stand at the door of the store and quarrel with this old rival who is too idle. So he choked with Wang Yao, then called Jin to retreat, and turned around to go back to his bookstore.

"Ah, this script is so beautiful." Zhang Hongwen exclaimed suddenly, raised his head, looked at Du Jinning eagerly, stepped forward and asked, "Little brother, are you planning to sell this script?" How much? Can you sell it to me? Where is the rest, can you show me first?"

Zhang Rishan paused, then turned to look at the few pages in Zhang Hongwen's hand.

At first Du Jinning said how good her words were, but he didn't care.Du Jinning is too young, and Mrs. Chen is a woman. Even if someone wants to ask someone to sell the script, it should not entrust these two people who are not very literate and knowledgeable. It can be seen that the script does not know where these two people came from. picked up.Because of this, when Du Jinning asked him to read the script, he didn't even bother to read it.Wang Yao has said that, if the words are really not good, and they are only worth one or two hundred coins, then he will have to make a face for Wang Yao, and he will give in?At this moment, he heard a scholar speak a good book, and even wanted to pay for it, so he thought he could take a look.

But before he asked Zhang Hongwen which pieces of paper he wanted, a scholar next to him stretched out his hand and took the few pieces of paper: "Show me." A scholar who was familiar with him also came over, everyone Look at the original.

The corners of Zhang Hongwen's mouth twitched, and he glanced at Du Jinning suggestively.

Du Jinning naturally knew that Zhang Hongwen was helping her, and quickly took out the rest from his arms in cooperation, but did not hand it to Zhang Hongwen, only raised it in the air, and said: "What you saw is just the beginning, and the wonderful things are still here." later."

She didn't answer the price question.

She wanted to go shopping in the bookstore, ask the prices of those scripts, and then set a price for her own scripts, but who knew that the snobbish shopkeeper and the waiter didn't let her in at all.She really has no idea about the price of this ancient script, if the price is lower, wouldn't it be a big loss?Anyway, some people are watching the beginning of this now, and after they finish watching, they will pay a price before considering it.

Zhang Hongwen's eyes lit up when he saw the manuscript in her hand.

Although his father was Li Zheng, his family was not much better off than the Du family, with only [-] to [-] acres of land, it was not easy to send him to school, and he had no spare money to buy scripts.Usually when I am tired from studying and want to have fun, I just borrow my classmates to have a look.The reason why he asked for the price was to make a plea for Du Jinning to help her.But he didn't want to read the beginning, so he couldn't help but want to read on, and had the urge to buy this storybook.

"This...you have to buy it to see it?" he asked.

Du Jinning nodded; "Naturally." Worried that Zhang Hongwen might misunderstand, she blinked at Zhang Hongwen twice.

Zhang Hongwen was very surprised.This fourth younger brother of the Du family, he also met a few times when he went to the Du family to visit relatives during the holidays. Usually, she always shrinks aside, taciturn, and seems very timid.But today's words and deeds are quite different from his usual behavior. He is bold and clever, much better than ordinary children. It can be seen that she is hiding her clumsiness at home.

His eyes fell on the manuscripts held by those scholars, and the doubts and surprises in his heart increased a bit.

"Okay, it's very well written." Now that the scholars had finished reading the manuscripts, they raised their heads and applauded loudly.

"Little brother, how do you sell this script?" asked the scholar who first asked Du Jinning for the manuscript.

"This... I don't know how suitable it is." Du Jinning wondered, "This is my first time to sell."

"One tael of silver, okay?" said the scholar.

Mrs. Chen was overjoyed when she heard the words, but she didn't dare to speak out, for fear of ruining Du Jinning's plan, she just stared at Du Jinning.

"This..." Du Jinning hesitated for a moment, showing a troubled expression.

"On weekdays, we buy scripts in bookstores, each of which costs five or six hundred cash. If I give you a tael of silver, that's already doubled. It's enough sincerity." The scholar was a little dissatisfied.

It turned out that Zhang Rishan watched those scholars leaning their heads to read those few pages of the manuscript with great interest, so he couldn't help but also went up to take a look, and couldn't take his eyes away after this look.At this time, Du Jinning seemed a little moved when he saw the scholar's bid for one or two taels. He hurriedly shouted: "Wait a minute, I will give this little brother one tael or five taels of silver."

As he said that, he cupped his hands to the scholar who bid, and said with a smile: "Young master, when I print out the scriptures, you can buy them for only five or six hundred cash. And the book can be printed for everyone to buy together." Appreciate, I think all the gentlemen who like the story book will also be grateful to the young master."

Speaking of this, the scholar couldn't bid anymore.He handed the manuscript to Zhang Rishan; "Okay then." There was a bit of reluctance in his expression.

"Wait a minute." Du Jinning stretched out his hand and took the manuscript in his hand, "My uncle and grandfather entrusted me to sell this book. The old man told me that I would not sell it without two taels of silver." He sincerely told Zhang Rishan He cupped his hands, "It's not that I want to raise the price, but my uncle and grandfather spent a lot of effort in writing this storybook. The selling price is low, and I can't explain it to the old man when I go back."

After speaking, he said to the scholar again: "If you can pay me two taels of silver, this book will be yours."

Although that scholar was wearing a stone-blue Confucian uniform like other scholars, but if you look closely, you will find that although the material of his clothing is closer to fine cloth, not as shiny as satin, there is a very soft layer on the surface of the fabric. Light, we can see that the weaving process of the fabric is very unusual.The jade pendant hanging around his waist is even more crystal clear and of excellent quality.As soon as Du Jinning passed by, he knew that this was a low-key local tyrant who was not short of money.If he wanted to spend two taels of silver to buy a book he liked, it was no problem for him.

In fact, she originally wanted to sell the book to the shopkeeper of the bookstore, even if the price was lower.After all, it is impossible for her to write just one book, and there are countless stories in her stomach to write out in exchange for money. It doesn't matter if the price of the first or second book is lower, as her reputation is known, the subsequent prices will naturally rise.

But neither Wang Yao nor Zhang Rishan is a kind person.Not to mention Wang Yao, Zhang Rishan kidnapped this scholar morally, so that he would stop competing with him for scripts, which harmed the interests of her, Du Jinning, but Zhang Rishan said it in front of her, and said it so confidently, it was completely unreasonable. Put her in the eye, it really pissed her off.If she allowed Zhang Rishan to do this, Zhang Rishan would think she was easy to deceive, and would only lower the price even more in the future.Anyway, it is selling story books, why is it not selling?It is right to get the money.

(End of this chapter)