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Xiao Li carried Lu Yuan's backpack, which still had some mountain products in it, and took him to the pastry shop, where he bought him some osmanthus cakes and candied fruits.

It’s not that he was reluctant to buy it, but the young man was reluctant to buy it. As for the osmanthus cake and candied fruit, the young man was only willing to accept them after he mentioned the heroine.

"Everyone in the village knows that I sent cakes to Lu Youfu. Didn't you say that others can't compare with you? Then do you also have cakes that I sent you, and more than her?"

Lu Yuan was still inexperienced after all. She had clearly been fooled before, but she still believed him again.

"Then...a little more is fine, not too much, don't spend this money."

After all, it was because the young man felt that he had no money, otherwise why would he be reluctant to spend such a small amount of change?

For a moment, he didn't know whether he should feel sorry for the young man for being too frugal, or feel sorry for himself for not being able to spend the money.

While Lu Yuan was watching the waiter weighing the cakes, he asked another waiter to pack some candied fruits.

This time he didn't let Lu Yuan take the money, but took out the change to pay the bill himself and put it in the backpack.

When Lu Yuan found out, he was sitting on an ox cart heading back to Yangliu Village, and it was too late to go back.

Xiao Li did not go back with him, but just sent him to the place where the ox cart was and let him ride the ox cart.

It was not until the ox cart set off for Yangliu Village and his figure was no longer visible that Xiao Li turned around and walked towards the north district.

When I was almost back to my new house, I passed by a bookstore and heard sighing from inside.

"Boss, is this bookshop really going to close? Your writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstone are the cheapest in all of Nan'an County. If you close, we..."

"Can't you think of another solution? If there's anything we can do to help, just tell us, boss. We'll do our best to get it done. We just hope you don't close the bookshop."

"Teacher, I know you've always provided cheap pens and ink for the students. In the future, the academy's pens, ink, paper, and inkstone will all be purchased from you. But now you want to..."

They were all young men's voices, and they all contained a hint of sob, which made Xiao Li curious.

Why is this bookstore so popular?

When he walked into the bookstore, he heard the voice of a middle-aged man who sounded obviously tired.

"I bought this bookshop from its owner a year ago. Everything has been going on as usual, but the bookshop has been running out of money for a long time. Even if I wanted to keep it running, I couldn't."

The shopkeeper was about fifty years old, with a pale face and thin body, a goatee, and was wearing a blue robe that was washed to a pale color.

Those who didn't know him would have thought he was a poor scholar who couldn't even afford to eat, rather than the owner and manager of a bookstore in the county.

Xiao Li stood behind the group of scholars and looked at the shopkeeper with interest.

The shopkeeper was not short, but he was still a little short in front of a group of young students, so he did not notice Xiao Li who had just entered.

Although those students were all wearing long robes, it was obvious that they were not in good condition. They were washed white and had patches on them, and the sleeves were obviously fuzzy.

After hearing what the shopkeeper said, the students' eyes were red. They wanted to say something but didn't know what else to say.

They had always thought that the bookstore was still owned by the previous owner, and they didn't know that the previous owner had been planning to close the bookstore a year ago, but the shopkeeper couldn't bear to buy it.

If the bookstore could make money, why would the owner want to close it down?

Over the past year or so, they knew that the bookstore's business was getting worse day by day, but they didn't expect that it had already been in a state of deficit, and was entirely supported by the shopkeeper's hard work.

They were not ignorant young masters from wealthy families, and they knew how righteous the shopkeeper's behavior was.

It was precisely because they knew this that they could no longer utter their pleading words.

After listening for a while, Xiao Li roughly understood what had happened.

About a year and a half ago, a new bookstore opened on the next street. It had the most popular storybooks. If you wanted to buy the storybooks there, you had to buy other things like pens, ink, paper, and inkstone. Those who had money on hand thought it didn't matter where they bought them, so they all bought them from that bookstore.

Nan'an County is so small, and there are only so many scholars. The amount of pens, ink, paper, and inkstones consumed is limited. As more people go there, naturally fewer people come here.

As time went by, this bookstore, which relied on selling cheap pens, ink, paper and inkstones, only had students from poor families coming to buy things.

However, the things the bookstore sold to them were not profitable at all. In the past, the business was maintained by students who had plenty of money. If they stopped coming, the bookstore would be difficult to sustain, not to mention that it had to pay money to continue operating for another year.

It is undeniable that the shopkeeper is kind and righteous, but he is also extremely foolish.

Being poor cares themselves, being wealthy cares the world.

There is nothing wrong with capable people worrying about the people of the world, but having no ability but having bad intentions will only tire others and yourself.

In Xiao Li's opinion, people like the shopkeeper who spend all their money to do good to others are extremely foolish.

But this had nothing to do with him. After watching the excitement, he was ready to leave. As soon as he took a step forward, he heard the voice of the shopkeeper behind him.

"Sir, are you looking for any book?" The shopkeeper only saw him walk out, and he looked very unfamiliar. He was sure that he had never seen him before, so he thought he was here to buy a book.

Xiao Li paused, then retracted his foot, turned around and walked to the counter.

"Is the shopkeeper done with his work?" He glanced at the students meaningfully.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then gave them a forced smile, "Everyone, go back first. If you can think of a way, I will continue to run the bookstore even if I have to sell everything I have."

"Okay, I believe you, boss."

"Me too, boss, please think about it carefully. We are waiting for you."

"Boss, take care of yourself. If you can't think of a solution, forget it. It's okay if everyone uses less paper."

After a cup of tea, the shopkeeper finally sent all the students away, "Sir, aren't you here to buy books?"

"It's obvious."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper was slightly stunned, then smiled and shook his head, "It seems that the young master was stopped by me. It is I who delayed his time."

Xiao Li was too lazy to be polite with him, "What are your plans after closing the bookshop?"

"What else can I plan? Sell the bookstore and go back to my hometown to farm!" Perhaps he had come to his senses, and the shopkeeper showed a sincere smile.

Fortunately, his wife did not mind that he had lost all the family fortune and was willing to accompany him back to his hometown. Otherwise, there would have been no hope in this life.

Xiao Li tapped the counter intermittently, "How do you sell it?"

"How else can you sell the title deed and the land deed together?" The shopkeeper saw that he seemed interested in buying and led him inside. "There's a yard behind the shop. I'll take you to see it."

The yard at the back is not big, about 20 square meters, with an elm tree planted on it and a well not far away.

There are two living rooms on both sides of the main hall, which are now empty; there are also two rooms on the west side of the yard, the larger one is the storehouse and the smaller one is the kitchen; on the east side of the yard are the stable and the toilet, which is also empty now.

Not counting the bookstore in front, the yard in the back is about 50 to 60 square meters, and including the bookstore, it is nearly 100 square meters.

Xiao Li had no interest in opening a bookstore. It would not have any impact on him if he bought it, and it would have even less impact if he didn't buy it.

The shopkeeper saw that he looked indifferent the entire time and was unsure of what he was thinking. As they walked back to the bookstore in front, he asked him nervously, "Sir, do you want to buy this place?"

Xiao Li didn't ask whether he wanted to or not, but just asked him, "How much silver do you plan to sell it for?"

Seeing that he didn't refuse directly, the shopkeeper smiled a little more and said, "I bought this place from the boss. Including the warehouse and the books in the bookstore, it cost me a total of one thousand taels. The boss is a kind person. It's like he half sold and half gave the yard to me.

I renovated the shop when I took it over, and now a year has passed, and I've sold a lot of the things I bought. If you're interested in buying it, just give me seven hundred taels."

Xiao Li nodded to indicate that he understood, and glanced over the various books on the bookshelf.

The original body often went to bookstores to read and buy books, and remembered the prices of books.

Storybooks and the like are relatively cheap, ranging from a few dozen wen to half a tael of silver. Books for the imperial examinations are mostly more expensive, basically starting from one or two taels, and there are still quite a few of these books here.

If you calculate carefully, most of the seven hundred taels were probably used to buy these books, and the shop and the yard combined probably didn't even take up half of the money.

Even if there is no bookstore here in the future, I won’t lose much money if I resell these books.

Xiao Li bought this place without thinking too much.

When he put away the house deeds, land deeds and deeds, the shopkeeper also carefully kept the seven hundred taels of silver notes close to his body.

The shopkeeper felt relieved after getting rid of a worry. However, seeing that the boy was so young, he was a little worried that he would repeat his mistakes.

"Sir, are you planning to open a bookstore after buying this place? If so, don't do what I did. You can hire someone to write some storybooks and sell them along with the books in the bookstore, like Lanqing Bookstore did."

Lanqing Bookstore is the newly opened bookstore that uses storybooks to attract customers and sells them in bundled form.

Xiao Li looked at him strangely. "Since you knew you had to do this, how did you end up selling the shop?"

"..." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, and after a while he sighed with shame, "To be honest, I have tried, but the stories I collected were all rubbish, not even comparable to the stories from the French Bookstore."

Hearing this, Xiao Li understood.

To put it bluntly, it's fate.

Lanqing Bookstore has the most popular storytelling books, but the owner can't find anyone who can write a storytelling book that is comparable to it.

But this is also his ability, and he deserves the compensation.

If it were any other aspect, Xiao Li wouldn't necessarily be able to guarantee that he could do it, but if it were a story, he was afraid that even the entire Nan'an County combined wouldn't be able to defeat him alone.

Not to mention the four famous classics that are well-known both at home and abroad, just picking out a few of the routines in the online novels that emerged in later generations is enough to open the eyes of people of this era.

After all, that was the era of the Internet explosion, and anything that could form a fixed routine must have been tested by countless readers.

Moreover, people of this era are rarely as knowledgeable as readers of later generations. It is definitely a hundred times or a thousand times easier to satisfy people of this era than in later generations.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, the shopkeeper thought he had heard it, so he couldn't help but say a few more words.

"If you need someone to write a storybook, you can consider those students just now. They..."

"Poor family? Kind-hearted? Helpful?"

"Sir, have you figured it out?"

“……” There are so many complaints but nothing to say.

Xiao Li originally thought that the shopkeeper was a little too kind-hearted, but now he thinks that the other party may not be too kind-hearted, but simply blind.

No matter how indignant those people were just now, it was ultimately because their own interests were endangered.

It would be more accurate to say that they were worried about themselves rather than the shopkeeper.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

It has never changed from ancient times to the present.

Even after thousands of years, this principle will still apply.

There is no word "speechless" in this era, but the shopkeeper inexplicably summed up his silence in four words: speechless.

Xiao Li had originally considered asking the shopkeeper to continue to stay in the bookstore to help, but now he has changed his mind.

Good intentions can be cured, but blindness cannot be cured in a short time.

If you try to rescue them by force, they might think you are deliberately slandering them.

No need, really no need.