Lord of the House

Liu Yue'er heard from Niang Yun that there was another distinguished guest in the house, so she got up and got up, dressed neatly, and went to the main courtyard to serve her. She happened to be extravagant and asked her attendants to bring gifts. She was not a greedy person, but she saw Tan Tan The wooden plate was filled with the official silver ingots with white flowers, and my heart was also startled.

The Marquis of Jinan is really polite, the official silver standard big ingots, one is fifty taels, one tray is sixteen eight hundred taels, two trays are one thousand six hundred taels, and there is also a brocade box containing four longan. The size of the white pearl is worth several hundred taels of silver.

Lin Fu squinted at Yin Zi and Zhu Zhu for a short while, then smiled and said to She Feihu: "Young Master is so polite, how can Lin Fu dare to do such a generous gift? If Lin Fu doesn't accept it, he will look down on Young Master. , Young lady and young lady..." He instructed Lin Jingzhong, who was standing beside him, "Jingzhong, please accept the generous gift of the young master for me first."

At this time, there were not a few people who hated the She family in Jiang Ning, but there were not a few people in the DPRK who placed their hopes on the She family. This kind of thought, the generous gift of She Feihu, of course he is disrespectful.

Lin Jingzhong was really afraid that Lin Bie would be foolish enough to refuse She Feihu's generous gift. He thought that it was really worth taking the risk to save She's aunt the day before yesterday. She's aunt's innocence is more precious than these thousands of silver and four pearls the size of a longan. Now, he is not at all uneasy about receiving this generous gift for Lin Fu.

She Feihu thought that Lin Fu would shirk one or two. He was thinking about how to persuade Lin Fu to accept this gift. He thought that Lin Fu would accept it so happily, as if he was waiting for them to bring gifts to his door. Startled for a moment, after a long while, he laughed loudly: "Lin Juzi is really a happy person, Feihu likes to meet happy people..."

Song Jia was calmer at this time, but looked at Lin Fu from the corner of her eye, thinking that this person is talented, courageous, decisive, and has a thick skin that ordinary scholars do not have. If Feihu can win over this person, it will be a great help. Just looking at him like this, no amount of money and jewelry can impress him. If a hero is stuck in things, he can't be called a real hero. How can he win over him?

She Mingyue didn't want to come here today, but just persuaded her brother and sister-in-law to come over. She was a little unhappy in her heart. She sat next to her, and the smile on her face was stiff. I thought to myself that he was really greedy for money. At this time, when I saw Liu Yue'er walking in, I thought to myself: Who is this woman? so beautiful.

Song Jia was still thinking about how to win over Lin Bie. She saw Liu Yueer, who was lazy and sleepy, came in. Seeing Liu Yueer's clothes, she also misunderstood Liu Yueer's identity for a while. Leaning up a little, he asked softly, "Song Jia came to disturb you..."

When Liu Yue'er saw that Mrs. Shaohou was calling herself her boudoir name, she knew that she had also misunderstood her identity, and hurriedly said, "I came here to listen to Mrs. Hou's and Miss Hou's orders..."

Only then did Song Jia know that the beautiful woman in front of her was the beautiful maid of Lin's house. She felt a little unhappy, and secretly said: Lin Fu's family hides the beautiful maid, but she covets Su Mei's beauty. It seems that men in the world are heroes, but **** is common. I thought in my heart that he had this problem, but it was easy to handle, and I was afraid that he was a fake Taoism that couldn't get in.

Liu Yueer stood by and waited, also peeping at the young lady and Mrs. She, thinking that Miss She is childish, and the young lady is really beautiful. She is in Shiliang County and in Jiangning these days. I have never seen a woman more beautiful than the young lady of the Marquis of Jin'an. I thought that maybe when the little girl grows up, she will have such a face, but I don't know what that Su Mei looks like, and I think she will not be better than this young lady. Bad.

Lin Fuke didn't care what the women were thinking, he took the time for She Feihu and She's aunt to have a cup of tea in the wing room, and then sent them out as a gift, and returned to Lin Jingzhong's room with Liu Yue'er, and told him Said: "You can directly credit the silver, and keep the four Nanzhu for me, I have another use..."

"It's said that Nanzhu is famous, but this is the first time I saw Nanzhu today," Lin Jingzhong said. "These two plates of silver can buy a big boat. After the Chinese New Year, it costs a lot of money to buy land and boats." He laughed again, "Now I see the silver in my eyes, it's really insulting."

"This silver is also what we paid for our hard work," Lin Fu said with a smile, took the brocade box containing the pearls and put them in his arms, and said, "People in the world say that Nanzhu is good, and the hard work of the pearl pickers is anyone's. I won't ask. The ancestors of the She family also made their fortunes from this Nanzhu, who would have thought that the She family would become a prince today?"

The New Year is approaching, and the Yamen shops are preparing to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Nothing can be done at the beginning of the year and the end of the year. Even if Lin Fu goes to Jiangdao Prison to become a prison officer, he will not go to the official office until after the New Year. to take office. Lin Fu put the pearl brocade box in his arms, and went out of Lin Jingzhong's house with Liu Yue'er and went back to the main house.

Liu Yueer was thinking about the four longan-sized pearls in her heart, thinking that Lin Fu would probably take these pearls to please Su Mei, so she yawned, and asked Lin Fu what else to serve while cleaning up the leftover tea on the desk. Bie also felt a little sleepy and said, "I'll take a nap. If Zhao Shuhan comes over at night, I'll have to talk to him all night..."

"You guys are also true. If you don't talk about things during the day, you have to stay at night. Sitting for a long time at night will hurt your body." Liu Yue'er said.

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For the past few days, Lin Fu had been chatting with Zhao Shuhan all night and revising the manuscript. It was not until the night before the New Year's Eve that the manuscript was finalized. Helped to make two copies of the manuscript.

"Ah... It's really hard work," Zhao Shuhan's physique was not as good as Lin Fu's after all. Although he didn't have to go to the yamen to sit in the hall, he studied and revised the manuscript in the dormitory, but once he succeeded, he still felt back pain.

"It's worth the hard work," Lin Fu said, looking at the three stacks of manuscripts in the brocade box neatly, "I will send the manuscripts to Zhengyetang tomorrow, and I will let them rush to work. To the incense book smell."

"Haha," Zhao Shuhan also laughed happily, who wouldn't want his years of hard work to be published, watching Qian Xiaowu collect the manuscript, he said, "Wait a minute, there is one more thing I want to revise. a bit."

Qian Xiaowu/I don't know where else to revise, so I put down the box containing the manuscript.

Zhao Shuhan picked up the pen and began to write a word "Lin" after his name on the cover page of the manuscript. Lin Fu hurriedly grabbed Zhao Shuhan's wrist and said, "Brother Zhao, you are hurting me, and Lin Fu dare not do this. In the name of deceiving the world..." Then he instructed Qian Xiaowu, "Quickly remove this cover and rewrite it."

Zhao Shuhan said: "For several days, I have benefited a lot from talking with Brother Lin. Brother Lin has no credit for the final draft of the prison book? If you don't write your name, I am stealing your credit..." Zhao Shuhan stood there, turned out the manuscript, and listed dozens of items, "Look, if you hadn't reminded me, where would I have thought of it?"

"The magnificent masterpiece of 100,000 words, I only have a few words, how can I be qualified to be listed?" Lin Fu said.

"Brother Lin, if you want to refuse, it doesn't matter if you don't engrave this prison book," Zhao Shuhan also had a tough temper. He picked up the three boxes of manuscripts to leave, "I'll pay you the money the next day."

"Brother Zhao, you are hurting me." Lin Fu sighed helplessly.

"What do you have to harm me?" Zhao Shuhan smiled, and wrote Lin Fu's name in small letters on the cover pages of the three manuscripts, and said, "Before and after the Chinese New Year, when I have free time, I will stay At home, according to what you said, write the method/theory of the study of the prison book; if the book is finished, your credit will be even greater, if I don’t list your name, wouldn’t I be more ashamed?”

Lin Bie shook his head and smiled bitterly. He never thought of using this method to become famous in the world. Although Zhao Shuhan insisted so much, although he felt ashamed, as long as people were always greedy, he would push the boat and stop pushing it, leaving Zhao Shuhan to use it in the house. After the dinner, let Zhao Hu set a car to send him back to the house.

Before the New Year's holiday, Zhao Shuhan wanted to stay at home and concentrate on writing the manuscript of the research method of prison books. Lin Fu took a manuscript and brought it to Lin Jingzhong the next day to discuss the engraving of the manuscript in Zhengye Hall.

Zhengyetang Caidong Ye Kai, who specializes in paper and bookstores in Jiangning, is also a native of Dongyang, and he and Lin Tingxun are in-laws. He saw that Lin Fu had only been in Jiangning to set up the Jiyun Club business for a month. He also knew that young people should not be deceived, and Lin Fu, who was backed by Gu Wuchen, should not be deceived. He saw that Lin Meng had to give Lin Fu three points. At this time, if you have something to ask for, you are naturally polite, and the engraving fee is 20% off. Even so, the hundreds of pages of the prison book can be regarded as a masterpiece in this world. It costs two hundred taels to engrave a hundred books. .

Engraving manuscripts, printing ink on paper is a cost, and hand engraving is also a larger cost.

Lin Fu understands that although movable type printing technology has come out early in the world, both clay movable type and copper movable type materials are easily deformed, and he cannot find a suitable printing ink to cooperate with clay movable type or copper movable type to make the printing beautiful, and the general situation of the bookstore is more Willing to carve lettering on the whole mulberry board.

It was difficult for Lin Fie to understand these. He took a copper movable type ink and tried it at Zhengyetang. He found that it was difficult for ordinary ink to be applied to the typeface made of copper. Even if Zhengyetang tried some special inks, the effect was not good. He thought to himself that even if he switched to lead to make typefaces, the key issue was to find the right printing ink.

Whether it is the material of the typeface or the material of the ink, Lin Fu learned that the engraving bookmakers in the bookstore have been studying it for hundreds of years. It's just that the scale of general bookstores is limited, and there is a lack of sufficient communication and communication between bookstores, so it is difficult to support large-scale material screening.

Although movable type printing has a history of four or five hundred years, its practical effect is not good, and naturally it has not been applied on a large scale.

This is precisely the big drawback of miscellaneous learning. If there is a state to support systematic material selection, why can't movable type printing be applied on a large scale for four or five hundred years? If there is sufficient communication and communication, future generations can at least avoid many detours on the basis of predecessors; if materials science itself is guided by systematic theories, the direction of screening will be clearer, and the time will naturally be shortened.

There are more than 100,000 characters in the prison book, and the UU reading www.uukanshu.com needs more than 300 carvings for a set. The smaller the characters, the more difficult it is to engrave, and the larger the characters, the more paper and characters are needed to print; if a page is engraved with a wrong character, it must be re-engraved. If the engraving plate is damaged during the printing process, it must be re-engraved. Generally speaking, if you are not in a hurry, there are not many prints. The bookstore only produces two sets of engraving plates for cross printing; if you are in a hurry, three or four sets of engraving plates will be printed at the same time. Even if the engraving plates are damaged, the printing operation does not need to stop. .

There are nearly 700 carved panels in the two sets, and the materials, labor and losses used for these only cost more than 100 taels of silver, which is mainly due to the low human cost. Thousands of years later, it is difficult to imagine a master craftsman who can carve a carving board like a work of art. The wages for carving a board for more than six hours a day are less than thirty copper coins.

Generally speaking, the more manuscripts are printed, the more the cost of hand-carved panels will be diluted. If one edition of Liyuan lyrics and songs written by celebrities in the world can be printed in thousands of copies, the number of famous books such as the Four Books and Five Classics will be printed more. To use, these books can dilute the cost of engraving and make profit.

Prison Books, as a small class of miscellaneous studies, are beyond the imagination of ordinary people to be able to sell 100 copies when printed.

"Counting our efforts over the past few days, printing a hundred books will cost 4 taels of silver each to return the book." The printed book cost 200 taels of silver, which made Lin Jingzhong, who followed Lin Fu, feel heartbroken for a while. , On the carriage that came back, he said to Lin Fu: "Zhengyetang is really greedy, Ye Kai said politely, if he really doesn't earn our money, this book can be printed for one hundred forty or fifty taels... This is Books are still a small matter, and you really want to engrave miscellaneous books on a large scale in the future, so it’s not a waste.”

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