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"Brother Yun, is Ranran really gone? Where did she go?"

As soon as Yun Yi arrived at the bookstore, Li Mochuan couldn't wait to step forward and ask.

"She went traveling around. I can't tell you where she went." Yun Yi said with a smile.

Li Mochuan was stunned and continued to ask questions hurriedly.

But no matter how he asked, Yun Yi only had one sentence: "We will meet if we are destined to."

Li Mochuan had no choice but to look around based on what he knew about Jian Ran.

"Sir, here are this month's account books, and the list of books that need to be purchased next month. Please take a look."

After Li Mochuan left, the shopkeeper handed a stack of account books to Yun Yi, along with a long list of books.

Yun Yi checked the list of books, deleted the three best-selling books of the month, and handed them to the shopkeeper.

"These three books will be on hold for a month, and then released later."

After all, opening a bookstore is also a business, and appropriate hunger marketing is still needed.

Of course, he couldn't be too hungry. After all, some of the books had already been sold. Other bookstores could print and distribute the books themselves if they saw market demand. He needed to distribute the books before other bookstores did.

As early as the first time he came to Jiangnan, Yun Yi had visited all the bookstores in the Jiangnan area and had a general understanding of the types of books that the locals liked.

Only after doing a good market research can he become proficient in selling his books.

In addition, Yun Yi also followed Yun Hui to several gatherings of literati and intentionally made friends with some literati with more easy-going personalities.

After purchasing their articles and poetry collections and reaching long-term cooperation, use marketing methods to build their reputation, thereby making their works more valuable.

Anyone who walks into this bookstore knows that Yun Yi is the youngest son of former Prime Minister Yun Mingcang.

Some people agree with his business behavior, while others think that he has tarnished the learning of the sages and tainted knowledge with the smell of money.

Yun Yi had heard the rumors, but he didn't care.

He is doing business, not charity. Although he charges money, the price is very fair in the market.

Over the years, the bookstore has been doing booming business.

And in the third year, we expanded our business and opened branches.

Just when Yun Yi was doing business in full swing, Jian Ran returned home in the fourth year after leaving.

During these four years, she had experienced a thief stealing her wallet, a shady hotel she stayed in, and a good friend she made who turned out to be a liar.

At one point, he was penniless and had to write letters for people in the villages when he passed by, and only then did he earn a few copper coins and a hot meal.

She wanted to go home countless times, but Jian Ran always held on.

She didn't think she was suffering for nothing, she just felt that if she wanted to travel thousands of miles, she couldn't rely entirely on her family.

While traveling, in addition to those bad things, Jian Ran also encountered many warm moments.

The washerwoman who took the initiative to help her light a fire and roast fish by the river, the woodcutter who kindly showed her the way in the mountains, the fisherman's family who helped her cross the river, and the auntie who cooked ginger soup for her when she was sick.

It was a mixed bag of good and bad, as Jian Ran witnessed a scene that was different from the inner chambers of the capital.

Four years after leaving, Jian Ran received a letter from Yun Yi.

Yun Mingli is sick and wants to see her.

They rode back as fast as they could. Fortunately, Yun Mingli just caught a cold. However, four years had passed and her mother had aged a lot. Seeing her in such a state, Jian Ran didn't dare to leave anymore.

Yun Yi knew that because of the thoughts he had with Jian Ran outside, she would definitely change.

But looking at her refreshed look, his eyes still brightened.

Indeed, once you’ve seen the wider landscape, you won’t be trapped by the disputes within the walls anymore.

Now because of Yun Mingli, Jian Ran stopped, but she already had the courage to start again.

It is worth mentioning that Li Mochuan has never found Jian Ran in these four years.

It was not until he received the news that Jian Ran had returned to Jiangnan that he rushed here from somewhere unknown.

Faced with Li Mochuan's proposal of marriage, Jian Ran refused again.

In the past, she had a crush on Li Mochuan, but she never responded because she was afraid that she would quickly fall in love with someone else like she did with Li Moci, which would bring her endless troubles.

Now she directly refused because she made it clear that she loved her own nature more, and she would not stop for anyone except her blood-related mother.

"Ranran, do I really have no chance?" Li Mochuan asked without giving up.

"Li Mochuan, if I had not left four years ago and was moved by your sincerity, perhaps I would have willingly married you and returned to the capital with you to enjoy wealth and glory."

"But now, I know very clearly that this is not the life I want."

She managed to survive when she was penniless and starving and could only pick wild berries on the roadside to fill her stomach. The things that Li Mochuan could bring to her could no longer impress her.

Jian Ran looked at Yun Yi, who was concentrating on calculating accounts in the pavilion not far away, and said slowly: "When my cousin first opened the bookstore, he asked someone to write a poem and hang it in the shop - This place where my heart is at peace is my hometown."

No matter how dangerous the situation was, her heart was always at peace.

She chose to leave because she wanted to find that feeling, and now she feels like she has found that feeling.

Jian Ran was clearly right in front of him, but Li Mochuan felt that she was so far away from him.

Perhaps, he also needs to travel thousands of miles to be closer to her.

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Three years later, Yun Mingli passed away. After three months of mourning for her, Jian Ran continued on her journey. This time she chose to travel west to visit the Western Regions where she had always wanted to go.

Just like last time, she set out on the journey alone, and by the time Li Mochuan knew about it, she had already walked a long way away.

But fortunately, this time he knew where her destination was, and he could follow the path she took.

One month after Li Mochuan left, news came from the capital.

Li Moci and Jian Yuan passed away.

It is said that Li Moci killed Jian Yuan with a single knife, but because the larvae in his body were connected to the mother worm in Jian Yuan's body, he also died soon afterwards.

Is it because you don't want to be tortured by the poisonous insect anymore that you choose to end it completely?

Questions popped up in Yun Yi's mind, but they quickly passed by and were completely forgotten.

Because the owner of the bookstore came over and brought him some not-so-good news.

A scholar who had been cooperating with a bookstore for a long time and exclusively publishing a collection of poems suddenly sold his newly written poems to other bookstores for printing and distribution.

Is it a breach of contract?

That needs to be discussed in detail.

Yun Yi immediately took the signed document to the government office and filed a lawsuit to seek an explanation.

It was clearly written on the document that their bookstore was the only one that published and published the poetry collection. The evidence was irrefutable.

Let those who are ignorant of the law experience the iron fist of the law.