My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 61

The autumn wind was bleak, Lu Ping wrapped up his somewhat thin Confucian shirt tightly, and couldn't help but quicken his pace a little.

Lu Ping is very irritable now, next year will be the year of the imperial examination, he failed twice in a row before, if he fails the exam again this year, he will really be ashamed to see Jiang Dong's elders.

"Breaking the question and breaking the question, why do you always feel that something is wrong?"

Lu Ping talked to himself while walking, he was very dissatisfied with his essay, especially in the stereotyped question, the reason why he failed in the last imperial examination was because of a problem in this step.

"My lord, stay!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a person rushed out from the corner of the street and stopped Lu Ping at once.

Lu Ping was taken aback, and just about to reprimand him, the other party laughed first: "My lord, I see that you have a full forehead, a full nose bridge, big and energetic eyes, and you look rich and noble, and you will definitely be the first in high school next year! "

He didn't reach out to hit the smiling person, not to mention that the other party boasted that he was going to high school, and he poked Lu Ping's itchy spot. He couldn't get angry anymore, and asked with a clear cough, "Who are you and what's the matter?"

I saw that Lu Lu was in his 40s and [-]s, with long sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks and a shrewd face, and he was wearing a thick cotton robe, which looked very bloated.

"The villain, Wang Si, usually earns his living by buying and selling books. Judging by his wealth, he will definitely be on the list next year. Therefore, I would like to ask you, do you need to buy some books?"

As Wang Si said, he lifted the cotton gown on his body, and saw that the gowns on both sides were full of hidden pockets, filled with various books, no wonder it looked so bloated.

"No need, I'm a decent person, you should sell these books to others!"

Lu Ping immediately waved his hand and said, he has seen this kind of peddler a lot, stopping someone on the road and asking "Do you want a book?", usually the books they sell are not serious books.

What's even more hateful is that some people sell decent books as unscrupulous ones, and Lu Ping has been fooled a lot in the past.

"My lord misunderstood, here are all serious books, you see here are the Four Books, and here are the Five Classics, and they are very cheap, one volume only costs 160 characters!"

Wang Si hastily explained.

He used to sell unscrupulous books, but now that the imperial examination is approaching, the entire capital is full of candidates, so the imperial examination books are very popular, and now he has switched to selling the Four Books and Five Classics.

"One volume is only 160 characters! So cheap?"

Lu Ping also showed surprise when he heard the words. You must know that when you usually go to a bookstore to buy books, the minimum cost of a volume is two hundred characters.

"Wait, there must be something wrong with the quality of your book?"

Lu Ping reacted suddenly, and immediately questioned, unless there is a problem with the printing quality of the book, it is impossible for it to be so cheap.

"Young master, you have wronged the villain. If you don't believe me, you can take a copy and read it. If you have any questions, I will give it to you for free!"

Wang Si said again very sincerely.

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be lying, Lu Ping was even more curious, so he reached out and took a copy of "Shang Shu" from the other party's robe.

"Huh? The printing is really good!"

Lu Ping saw that the text on the pages of the book was neat and neat, almost no worse than the books sold in the bookstore, which made him also greatly admired.

"Young master knows the goods. This is a new book. It is of good quality and cheap. Do you want to buy a few?"

Seeing Lu Ping's heartbeat, Wang Si immediately increased his strength.

"I've already memorized the Four Books and Five Classics by heart, it's useless to ask for them."

Lu Ping returned the book and said that he memorized these Four Books and Five Classics when he came to the capital, besides wrapping up his clothes, so there is no shortage at all.

"You don't lack the Four Books and Five Classics, but you definitely lack this!"

As Wang Si spoke, he took out a booklet from the back of his robe, and sent it to Lu Ping with very precious hands.

"A collection of stereotypes?"

Lu Ping became interested when he saw the title of the book.

"My lord, these are the articles written by the champions of all dynasties when they participated in the imperial examinations since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Although the topics are different every year, the essence of stereotypes is the same. Would you like to buy it back and refer to it?"

Wang Si said courteously again.

Lu Ping opened the book and looked at it. He felt that the articles inside were really good, so he asked, "How do you sell this book?"

"It's all the same price, one volume is one hundred and sixteen. This book has two volumes, a total of 320 articles."

Wang Forty answered quickly.

"Okay, I bought it!"

Lu Ping finally nodded, and took out the treasure note from his bosom as he spoke.

Wang Si also happily took out another volume and the second volume, and handed the two books to Lu Ping.

Lu Ping gave Wang Si a new 320-wen banknote, and then took out an old [-]-wen banknote with a chipped corner and handed it to the other party, saying, "Here, exactly [-] Wen!"

No matter how broken the banknotes of later generations are, as long as they are generally intact, their face value will generally not change.

But the Ming Dynasty’s treasured banknotes are a strange thing, because when the Ming Dynasty issued the treasured banknotes, they never thought of recycling them, resulting in many old banknotes facing invalidation on the market.

Many people are unwilling to accept these old banknotes, and they can only discount them if they want to circulate them. For example, [-]% of the new one-hundred-wen treasure banknotes are folded into [-] cash, and [-]% of the new treasure banknotes are folded into [-] cash, and so on.

Of course, everyone has different definitions of old and new, which also leads to confusion in the discounting of old banknotes, and ordinary people will be cheated if they are not careful.

Wang Si took the old banknote and looked it over carefully for a while, then accepted the old banknote and cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, sir!"

After buying two useful books, Lu Ping's steps became brisk.

However, when passing by a bookstore, Lu Ping suddenly stopped again, because he suddenly remembered that the knife of paper he bought last time was almost used up.

So Lu Ping turned his head and went into the bookstore, and the clerk immediately stepped forward to say hello, "What do you want to buy, sir?"

"Here comes a knife of bamboo paper!"

Lu Ping said, bamboo paper is cheap, and of course the quality is not very good, but he is only using it to practice articles, and he doesn't need very good paper.

The buddy promised, and immediately brought a knife of paper.

After paying the bill, Lu Ping was about to leave, when he glanced inadvertently, and suddenly saw a volume of familiar books on the shelf of the book shop, with the four characters of "Steight-legged Collection" impressively written on the cover.

Lu Ping touched the book in his arms, and then curiously asked the clerk, "How do you sell this volume of stereotyped essays?"

"The guest officer has good eyesight. This volume of stereotyped essays has just been delivered. Each volume is 150 characters!"

The guy replied with a smile.

"What? Only 150 words!"

Lu Ping screamed.

"That's right, it's only 150 Wen, which is much cheaper than before. Would you like to come and write a volume?"

The guy didn't know what happened, and he still recommended it very attentively.

"Dead profiteer!"

Lu Ping finally came to his senses and cursed angrily.

"Hey? It's fine if you don't buy it, guest officer. Why are you still scolding me?"

The buddy immediately became upset. Although his shop is indeed quite treacherous, there is no need to scold him face to face, right?

"I'm not scolding you. I was cheated on the corner of the street. One volume of stereotyped collections sold me 160 cash, and the second volume cost [-] cash. It's not cheap at all!"

Lu Ping explained angrily.

"its not right!"

Hearing this, the clerk was very puzzled and said again: "There is only one volume of stereotyped essays, and I have never heard that there will be another volume?"

"what!"

Lu Ping was shocked again when he heard the man's words, and hastily opened the two volumes of stereotyped collections.

Only then did Lu Ping realize that the contents of the two volumes of stereotyped collections were exactly the same. He had only read the first volume just now, and because he thought the book was cheap, he did not read the second volume at all.

"This dead profiteer, if Lu is in high school, he will definitely wipe out all of you profiteers!"

Lu Ping was furious. From now on, he will be at odds with these profiteers!

(End of this chapter)