As soon as Gu Jingyun entered the room, he saw that his daughter was poking out her buttocks and trying to get up, but the strength of her leg bones was obviously not enough, so she turned over with an unsteady thump, and lay on her back facing the roof.

Gu Jingyun couldn't help laughing out loud, stepped forward and hugged her in his arms and said, "You are still young, and it will take at least a month before you can sit up, what's the rush now?"

The chubby An An smelled the scent of ink, and reached out to grab the book in his hand.

Gu Jingyun gently opened her finger, handed it to Baolu and said, "This is the printed "Qiongzhou Chronicle", please take a look."

"So fast?" Li Baolu took the book and said in surprise, "Didn't it only take two days?"

Gu Jingyun coughed lightly, and handed his finger to An An to play with, "Since the manuscript has been published, it is natural to print your book first."

The truth is that the bookstore had no other work to do, so they started work as soon as they got Baolu's book, and printed a thousand copies in two days according to Gu Jingyun's order.

Gu Jingyun didn't say anything, but Li Baolu made a rough guess with just one glance at him.

Recently, she was checking the accounts. Their Zhuangzi shop and the caravan jointly opened with Master Zhou Dahe were all profitable. There was only the bookstore, which didn't even earn enough wages, let alone the cost of maintaining the bookstore.

Li Baolu couldn't help feeling a little sad when she looked at the book in her hand.

Seeing this, Gu Jingyun put An'an on the couch, sat next to her, hugged her and smiled, "Don't worry, the bookstore doesn't make money now, but I must find a way to make it the number one bookstore in the capital, and even in Dachu." .”

"Isn't the First Bookstore the Royal Bookstore?"

"I will let Yunlu Bookstore surpass it."

"Why?"

"Depending on you and me, relying on the resources we have, but now is not the time. Wait for you to grow stronger and Niu Niu to be bigger."

Li Baolu was a little ignorant, and vaguely guessed something, but seeing the gentleness in Gu Jingyun's eyebrows, she didn't ask anything, since he hoped that she would not worry, then she should be carefree.

Gu Jingyun took the book in her hand, smiled lightly and said, "Let's start with the book in your hand."

"ah?"

Gu Jingyun didn't explain, but put the book aside, turned around and picked up his thrashing daughter, and said with a smile, "Let's go, let's go play in the garden."

An An showed a big smile when she heard the words, and clapped her hands clumsily, obviously very happy.

Li Baolu quickly put aside all doubts and followed the father and daughter to play in the garden. The world is not as big as a daughter.

At this time, the sun was setting, and the heat of the day had subsided a lot. Immersed in the orange-red sunset, An An was so happy that she kicked her legs. Regardless of being in her father's arms, she leaned over to pick flowers and weeds.

Gu Jingyun hurriedly took two steps back, but he was still no match for An An, who had sharp eyesight and quick hands, and tore off a bunch of flowers. Seeing the flowers in his hand, An An giggled happily, her eyes rolled around, obviously still thinking about it. Destroying flowers with hot hands.

Li Baolu took the child from Gu Jingyun's arms with a smile, and patted her buttocks lightly, "Tell me, how many flowers and plants have you wasted this month? You can't walk now, so you can walk and run in the future." What's the deal?"

Seeing that she fell into the hands of her mother, An An lowered her head a little bit disappointed, and begged her father twice, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", seeing her daddy only looked at her with a smile and didn't move, she couldn't help lowering her head a little sadly.

In the hands of her mother, she can no longer play with flowers and plants.

However, the child’s emotions come and go quickly. After blowing the wind and seeing a few beautiful flowers, An An became excited, pointing to the grass, and the flowers chatted with their parents in a "chirpy" way, excited. .

Li Baolu didn't care what she said, and nodded in agreement the whole time: "Yes, this flower is red, isn't it very beautiful..."

"Wow, this piece of grass is so long and green. How long has it been since Qingling and the others have weeded? Oh, the grass has squeezed the flowers so that there is no place to stand, right..."

The smile in Gu Jingyun's eyes got deeper and deeper, and seeing his daughter's approving "hmmm" responding, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Even though it was not the first time he saw such a scene, he still couldn't help but feel a warm feeling from the bottom of his heart, which melted his heart directly.

Gu Jingyun stretched out his arms to hug the two of them, and said with a soft smile: "Let's clean up the east room, open up two rooms and build her a game room, just like Niu Niu's. She can go in and play after she can crawl."

Li Baolu struggled, "Isn't the East Wing reserved for the children? If it is opened up as a game room, where will the children live in the future?"

"When she gets older, let her live in the side room, and we can take care of her. If she is old enough to live on her own, let her move to Luomeiyuan. My mother is now living in Qixiayuan with Master, and Luomeiyuan is empty. It's on."

"When the children grow up, they will all move to Luomeiyuan. If there are many children, Luomeiyuan will be divided into two small courtyards, and then expanded. The boys live in the front and the girls live in the back."

Li Baolu nodded, "That's good, then I'll write to ask my mother."

Gu Jingyun nodded, "By the way, I would like to ask when they will come back. The Mid-Autumn Festival will be two months away. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival may be a big event. Uncle told them to come back for the festival."

"Is His Majesty's health getting better?"

Gu Jingyun nodded, lowered his voice and said: "Your Majesty wants to sit in Zen, and whether he can make it or not depends on the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet."

Li Baolu was taken aback, thinking that the emperor had hardly asked about government affairs for more than a year, and the prince was handling state affairs, so she sighed quietly: "That's good, Your Majesty can recuperate at ease."

Gu Jingyun was noncommittal, and he wanted to propose the Zen position as early as when the prince was specially allowed to supervise the country so that the emperor had time to recuperate.

But he also knew it was difficult, and since he was the prince's teacher, it was really sensitive for him to mention it, so he restrained himself from mentioning it.

And for more than a year, he often went to the palace to play chess with the emperor. Naturally, he had already seen that he also had that intention, but he still couldn't make up his mind.

Gu Jingyun didn't dare to mention it all the time, for fear that if he mentioned it, it would damage the bond between father and son, so he only played chess and talked about other things.

He thought he still had to wait, but he didn't expect the emperor to make up his mind so quickly. On this point, Gu Jingyun really admired the emperor, it wasn't someone who stood in the supreme position and was willing to take the next step and give up that supreme position to others.

Li Baolu also admired the emperor, "Zen, this matter can be recorded in the annals of history."

Gu Jingyun nodded slightly.

"Are you sure?"

Gu Jingyun said in a low voice: "Your Majesty told the prince."

The chances of regretting it are very low.

Gu Jingyun squeezed her hand and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has always attached great importance to the administration of officials. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival should prepare some unique gifts for the officials."

Li Baolu blinked, "For example?"

Gu Jingyun reached out and tapped her forehead and was about to speak when An An suddenly yelled.

The two hurriedly turned to look at her.

An An was very angry, and she was so angry that she was talking about her mother "chirping". Obviously, she felt that her parents were only talking about themselves and had forgotten her.

"What a jealous person, I can't forget her for a moment." Gu Jingyun smiled and hugged her in his arms.

The couple immediately forgot the topic just now.

Although Gu Jingyun temporarily forgot, but before entering the palace the next day, he still brought Baolu's "Qiongzhou Chronicle" with him.

"Qiongzhou Chronicle" records all the people and events in Qiongzhou, the customs there, especially the living conditions of sin village, their labor, taxes and labor, one story after another tells people how much they miss the past and their ancestors Life, how to work hard and struggle under the oppression of the status quo.

Then give in weakly.

Li Baolu is a criminal herself, and was even thrown into the deep mountains and old forests because of taxes. No one can experience the fear and panic of facing death at close range better than her.

So the words she wrote can almost be engraved into human bones.

She hopes that people who have read this book can find a way to change the living environment of the offspring of criminals, and even if they can't, she warns the world not to commit crimes lightly.

Especially the officials in the court. She wrote a total of twelve stories in her book, eight of which involved officials. The ancestors of those criminals were all sentenced to exile for committing crimes during their tenure. The charges were also varied. , Gu Jingyun feels that there is no other book that is more suitable to express the emperor's importance to the administration of officials.

Who is an official who does not know the law?

However, there are still many officials who are corrupt, accept bribes, neglect their duties, and even abuse the people. Why, it is just a fluke mentality and being moved by interests.

However, after seeing the life of the criminals in Qiongzhou, how many people still have that luck?

This Mid-Autumn Festival is destined to be the most frightening and wronged Mid-Autumn Festival for officials, because in the past, the emperor gave the officials moon cakes and lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but this year the palace sent moon cakes and a book.

Not only the officials in the capital received the book, but also the magistrates.

The 1,000 volumes of books that Yunlu Bookstore just printed were sold to the imperial court at a low price before they were put out.

It is rare to lose money when doing business with the imperial court, and Yunlu Bookstore is naturally the same. Although the price is lower, they still make a lot of money by selling so much in one go.

Still in a state of loss, but at least with income, the workers of the bookstore cheered up and devoted themselves to the printing of new books.

Li Baolu had just handed them the semi-vernacular version of "Qiongzhou Chronicle", and they wanted to print it, marking the word "complex version" on the cover to distinguish it.

The people in Yunlu Bookstore were happy, and Li Baolu was also happy when he got back a sum of money, but the officials in the court were a little worried, and some people became even more frightened when they read the book about the fate of the criminals.

Thinking of the recent rumors in the palace and the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, all the officials were a little startled.

Could it be that His Majesty Daan wants to regain control of the government and rectify the administration of officials more seriously?

But before they thought about it, the Mid-Autumn Festival came, and the palace was going to hold a grand banquet. The standard for banquets was relaxed to four ranks, and each official could bring two family members to the venue.

Although the palace didn't give specific instructions, everyone knew that the palace wanted to show the second prince.

Many officials were excited and brought their daughters or granddaughters of the right age to participate.

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