Datang romantic little landlord

Who would have imagined that Afro was also at a loss, she had never heard of a quill at all.

It was the beautiful boss who pulled Li Wangyou aside and explained in a low voice, which made Li Wangyou suddenly realize.

The beautiful boss was studying in the United States. When she visited the museum, she paid attention to the introduction of the quill pen, and she still remembered it very clearly.

The European quill was only invented around 700 A.D., but now it is the second year of Zhenguan, in 628 A.D. Aphrodite naturally doesn't know what a quill is.

As for how to make a quill, the beautiful boss remembers the text description in the introduction, first of all, it needs to be degreased.

There is a thin layer of oil on the feathers of birds, which will stink after a long time, so it must be removed.

Put it on a steamer and steam it, and then wash it to remove the grease from the feather.

Then use a knife to clean the root of the feather, and then harden the pen barrel.

Insert the root of the feather into an iron pot filled with sand, heat it for a quarter of an hour, and take it out after cooling.

Finally, use a knife to cut the root of the quill pen into the shape of a pen, and cut a slit in the middle like a pen to serve as an ink tank.

Li Wangyou experimented several times and damaged several crows' feathers before finally successfully making two or three quill pens.

After being dipped in ink, the quill pen can write on paper very smoothly, and the ink marks are clear. When used, it is not much different from the fountain pens of later generations.

Li Wangyou was very satisfied with his hands-on ability.

But before Li Wangyou could show off proudly, he watched the beautiful boss stretch out her slender hands, grabbed a few quills, and snatched them away...

"Hey, hello, what are you doing? Robbery? Are you a demon? Someone is robbing here!" Li Wangyou shouted quickly, trying to protect his work.

The beautiful boss cast a sideways glance at him, and shook her pink fist threateningly: "Hmph, I taught you how to do this, and I charged you a little tuition, shouldn't I? Do you have an opinion?"

Except for Li Wangyou, who was forced to practice brush calligraphy by his grandfather since childhood, few modern urbanites know how to use a brush.

Su Changqing naturally doesn't know how to write with a brush, but he has to.

In the four-wheeled carriage, she also had to record a lot of things every day.During this time, Su Changqing could only pinch his nose and write extremely ugly handwriting with a brush.

Although Li Wangyou didn't say it clearly, the smile in his eyes often made the beautiful boss's teeth itch with hatred.

She was also confused for a moment, forgetting that she could make a quill to write.

When Li Wangyou said that he wanted to make a quill pen, the happiest thing was the beautiful boss.

So after the quill pens were finished, Su Changqing reached out without hesitation and forcibly seized the right to use these quill pens.

Facing the threat from the beautiful boss, Li Wangyou immediately admitted cowardly: "No, I have no opinion, what should be done, everything should be done."

The beautiful boss raised her swan-like neck proudly, and proudly left with her "trophy".

Quietly she left,

as she came quietly;

wave your sleeves,

Take not a single cloud with you,

Only took my quill...

Li Wangyou looked at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle with tears in his eyes, full of sadness and grievances. At this moment, he just wanted to chant a poem... In desperation, he turned his eyes to Niu Wu again.

Before he could open his mouth, Niu Wu gave him a disdainful look, grabbed his bow and arrow and strode out.

Ma Dan, this song is also very important, how dare you despise his husband!

Li Wangyou became more and more speechless, even Niu Wu dared to despise him, what is the majesty of this patriarch?

After Niu Wu brought back a few crows that were shot to death by arrows, Li Wangyou was busy again before finally using the quill.

Using a quill pen to copy the book is much faster than using a brush, and with Ma Zhou copying it for him, Li Wangyou's writing is even more flamboyant, so fast that he almost flies.

In one night, Li Wangyou copied almost two chapters, which made him extremely satisfied.

Sure enough, tools are the ladder of human progress.

After solving the problem of copying books, Li Wangyou's hard life is over.Although it still takes a lot of time to copy books every day, the efficiency is much higher.

Every day, he let Niu Wu ride a horse, sent the manuscript he had copied to Chang'an City, and handed it over to Ma Zhou and Yan Liben for them to copy and draw illustrations.

Ma Zhou and Yan Liben enjoyed it so much, they didn't feel hard work at all, instead, they could see the latest "updated" chapters every day, and they were extremely satisfied.

Sometimes even Niu Wu was delayed by something and went later, and he would be complained by Ma Zhou and others.Niu Wu could only roll his eyes silently, sure enough, there is a disciple as long as there is a teacher.

One day Li Wangyou gave himself a day off because he was lazy and didn't want to copy books.

As a result, Ma Zhou and Yan Liben waited eagerly in Chang'an City, waiting left and right, but they couldn't wait until Niu Wu came to deliver the manuscript.In a moment of anxiety, I simply ran to Dingzhou Village on horseback to "urge the manuscript".

This kind of door-to-door "reminder" behavior made Li Wangyou speechless.

I could only comfort them with good words, and repeatedly promised that Niu Wu would send them the manuscript tomorrow, and finally sent the two disciples who were eager to read the content of the subsequent chapters back.

Seven days later, Li Wangyou finally received the freshly printed "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sent by Fangzhu Sun.

He also informed Li Wangyou that Sun Ji Bookstore in Chengdong City of Chang'an will officially start selling the first volume of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" tomorrow.

Li Wangyou also placed high hopes on this.

He planned to go to Dongshi himself the next day to see how the Four Great Classics, which he copied so hard, would be received in Datang.

266 Sales are dismal

In the afternoon, outside Sunji Bookstore in East City of Chang'an, Li Wangyou had a gloomy expression on his face.

He came to Chang'an today, of course, to see the sales situation of the Three Kingdoms that he copied so hard, but he didn't expect that it was completely different from the lively panic buying scene he had imagined.

Sun Ji Bookstore is not too small in Dongshi.

There are three door-front rooms, which sell various hand-copied scrolls, rubbings of inscriptions, as well as consigned calligraphy and paintings, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and also undertake seal cutting and other businesses.

Business is pretty good.

In the bookstore, there are quite a few scholars dressed as scholars coming in and out.Li Wangyou observed for a while, and saw that several transactions had been made in the bookstore.

However, some people bought the volume of two copper coins, but few people paid attention to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which sold for [-] cash.

The engraved and thread-bound version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is quietly placed on the counter in the bookstore, inconspicuous at all.

There are no advertisements, no publicity, and no shop assistants yelling for publicity.