The wonderful life of modern women in ancient times

Lin Xi bypassed the market and drove the carriage to the pen and ink shop!

As soon as she stepped into the shop, she saw a book boy about ten years old carrying a large pile of books and carefully placing them on the table in front of the shopkeeper. The table was already piled with piles of books and papers!

Lin Xi sniffed his nose and a faint musty smell came!

"Shopkeeper, all the books have been moved down!"

The servant boy wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to the shopkeeper.

"Xiao Fu, hurry up and set up a board in front of the shop to air these books. Oh! They've been left here for too long, they're going to get moldy!"

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he picked up a pile of books from the table and walked out of the shop!

The book boy picked up a few boards and followed closely. As he walked, he asked in confusion: "Boss, why are there so few people buying books this year?"

The shopkeeper had just turned the corner of the bookshelf with the book in his arms. He walked carefully towards the door of the shop while talking to the book boy.

"Alas! The common people can't even get enough food to eat, who has money to buy books? Didn't you see that all the students in Master Chen's school dropped out?"

After saying that, he sighed deeply and continued to walk towards the door. The books in his arms were piled too high, blocking his sight, and he didn't see a door bolt lying on the ground!

As a result, he accidentally tripped over the door bolt, stumbled, and fell forward with the book!

"careful!"

Seeing this, Lin Xi hurriedly reminded him, but it was too late. She flashed forward, first caught the books that fell forward into her arms, and then used her shoulder to push the shopkeeper to help him maintain his balance!

At this time, Xiaofu, who was following behind the shopkeeper, also reacted. He quickly threw the board aside and came over to support the shopkeeper!

"Thank you very much, young lady. Xiaofu, hurry up and take the book from the young lady's arms, so as not to make her smell musty!"

The shopkeeper held a portion of the books, smiled and nodded to Lin Xi in thanks, then told the servant to take the books from Lin Xi's arms.

Xiaofu hurried forward, bowed to Lin Xi to thank him, took the book and put it aside, then took the book from the shopkeeper's arms so that he could receive the girl!

"Little girl, do you want to buy a book? Or a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?"

The shopkeeper patted his clothes, then looked at Lin Xi and asked with a smile.

This is the first customer to come to the shop in the past five days!

"I need some introductory literacy books, as well as writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone!"

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper brought Lin Xi to the front of the shop. Xiaofu had already set up the board and started hanging the books to dry!

He picked up a book from the wooden board and handed it to Lin Xi, saying, "Girl, you see, these books are for literacy enlightenment, but they are a little damp and hard to sell. Thanks to you just now, otherwise my old body would have fallen! I'll give this one to you! Please don't despise it!"

Hearing this, Lin Xi took the book handed over by the shopkeeper, flipped through it a few times, and found that the content was very suitable for children's enlightenment!

I looked at the book on the wooden board again and saw that the edge of the book had turned yellow and had mold spots, but it did not affect its use!

She thought for a moment, patted the wooden board, and said to the shopkeeper, "No need, thank you very much, shopkeeper. I need a large quantity. How much do these books cost? Just give me a fair price!"

"How many copies do you want, young lady? These books are hard to sell. I'll give them to you at a lower price, just enough to cover the cost!"

The shopkeeper looked at Lin Xi and asked happily.

He didn't expect that someone would want this moldy book. He was so worried just now! He would sell as many as he could!

"If the price is right, I'll take them all!"

Lin Xi originally thought that if the books were expensive, he would buy a few fewer copies, and then go back and ask Chen Yan and Lin An to help the kids copy them!

Now that she has come across this moldy book, if the price is right, it could save her a lot of trouble!

"There are a total of 150 books. They were originally sold for five cents each. How about I charge you two cents each now? And I'll give you these slightly moldy stacks of paper as well. Although the paper is a little rough, it's enough for the kid's enlightenment!"

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he looked at Lin Xi anxiously.

While flipping through the books to dry in the sun, Xiaofu secretly glanced at the two of them and muttered in his heart: Girl, please be kind and take them, so that I don’t have to take them out every day to flip through them to dry in the sun!

Lin Xi walked over to the piles of paper and looked through them. She just wanted the team members to learn how to write, but she didn't require them to write very well. Although the quality of the paper was a bit poor, it was completely fine for the team members to use. These piles of paper could last everyone for a long time!

After thinking about it, she clapped her hands and said to the shopkeeper, "Okay, I'll take them all. Shopkeeper, please take me to see the pens, inkstones, and paper!"

The shopkeeper was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly told Xiaofu to carefully pack the books and papers and move them to Lin Xi's carriage!

Then he turned around and led Lin Xi into the shop to look at pens, ink, paper and inkstone!

Xiaofu was busy and happy!

That's great! This girl can solve a big problem for their shop!

When the shopkeeper heard Lin Xi say that if the price was right, he would buy 150 sets of pens, ink, paper and inkstone. His beard twitched with joy. He said something to Xiaofu and took Lin Xi directly to the warehouse in the backyard.

"Girl, this is for a kid who's just starting out. You don't need to buy something too good. This one will do!"

Half an hour later, Lin Xi drove the carriage towards Huichun Hall with the selected pens, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as books and papers!

The shopkeeper stood at the door of the shop until Lin Xi's carriage was out of sight, then he happily stroked his beard and walked into the shop.

After Xiaofu put away the board, he approached the shopkeeper who was sitting behind the counter and asked curiously, "Shopkeeper, what do you think that girl bought so many books and pens, inkstones, and paper for? How can someone have so many children?"

"Why do you care so much? It's good enough that our books, pens, inkstones, and brushes can be sold. The sooner we sell them, the sooner we can go back home. There are refugees from Guanxi Prefecture coming to Linshan County. I'm afraid this place will be unstable in the future!"

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he sighed, and quickly took out the warehouse account book to see how many books and pens, ink, paper and inkstones needed to be processed!

Xiaofu was very happy thinking that he would be able to go back to his hometown to see his parents soon!

Seeing the shopkeeper busy, he picked up the rag and started wiping the bookshelf!