The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 169 "Brother Zhi"

It is said that the rabbits are left to the children. Every time the children go up the mountain to look for rabbit grass, the tenant farmers of the Qin family will let an adult watch them. First, they are worried that the children will encounter danger on the mountain, and second, they also prevent them from digging the wrong rabbits. Grass, rabbits do not eat.

The rabbit grass found in the early morning has to be dried in the sun before it can be eaten by the rabbits. The water that the rabbits drink is also changed every half a day, so that these delicate rabbits will have diarrhea.

When Lin Xiazhi came here this time, he gave the tenant farmers of the Qin family the reward for raising rabbits. Last month, if they didn't raise rabbits for a few days, they naturally wouldn't give them ten cents for each rabbit. They gave them twenty cents for raising eleven rabbits.

Half a month after the Little Rice Cake Full Moon Banquet, Cheng Luanjing finally revised the story of Cowherd and Brother Zhi, and named it a name he was very satisfied with: "Zhi Brother".

Whether the name is good or not, Lin Xiazhi will not complain about it. After all, he is not a serious Jingguo person, but judging by the appearance of Li Xiu and Yang Yusheng, Cheng Luanjing's name is probably, maybe not bad?

Thinking back to the love stories that were famous in ancient times in the previous life, it was inevitable that they were named after the protagonist, so it seems that there is nothing wrong with Jing Geer directly naming the story "Zhi Geer".

Cheng Luanjing revised "Zhigeer", Cheng Wenliu naturally wanted to fulfill his original promise and publish a book for Jinggeer.

A copy of "Zhigeer" has only [-] words. If you ask someone to copy the book, the cost of hand-copying alone will cost half a tael of silver per copy, and you have to produce blank paper yourself.

If you find a book printing house to print, one booklet with a good arrangement is enough, and printing [-] copies, plus typesetting fees, paper and other expenses, only half a tael for printing one booklet.

After reading Cheng Luanjing's story, Cheng Wenliu thought it was really good, and the subject matter was very innovative, so he asked the book printing house to print [-] copies.

Five hundred copies are quite a lot, and Cheng Wenliu planned that if they couldn't sell them all in Jiangning County, they could take them to Lishui County.

Cheng Wenliu's thinking was not bad, as far as their family's financial resources were concerned, they could afford to print [-] copies even if they didn't sell any of them.

Lin Xiazhi read Cheng Wenliu's letter the next day, and understood what he meant from the lines. He didn't plan to reply to the letter. After thinking about it, he asked Cheng Wenliu to print [-] more copies.

Ever since the two got engaged, Cheng Wenliu harassed Lin Xiazhi in the form of letters. He wrote a letter almost every day. Sometimes the content was not important, and sometimes it was about business. The letter was put aside and ignored.

The future husband dared not listen to what the future husband said. Cheng Wenliu sent people to the book printing house after receiving Lin Xiazhi's reply, and told the boss of the book printing house to print [-] more copies.

The owner of the printing workshop is a lover of reading, and so is his husband, who especially likes to read these love stories. book.

After all, Brother Jing is young, and his choice of words and sentences are inevitably immature. If such words were put in the past, the boss Fu Lang would definitely throw them away after a few glances.

Holding the book to the end in one breath, he didn't even drink his saliva in the middle. Seeing that the cowherd was about to be murdered by the wicked coachman, he held his breath and was nervous for them. Seeing that Zhigeer and the cowherd were forced to separate , Brother Zhi was arrested to heaven, Niulang was also wronged by the county sheriff and imprisoned, he was sad and angry at the same time.Later, with the help of the city god, Niulang left his cell to study hard, and was tortured by the fire from the sky. The two finally reunited after suffering.

The boss, Fu Lang, startled the owner of the printing shop who walked in at this time, thinking that his husband had lost his mind.

"You are not serious, I am so touched by reading the story book." The boss Fulang returned the manuscript of the story book to the boss, "Who is the person who wrote this story book? It is really good, waiting for you to print it out I’m going to buy a copy and come back to collect it.”

"I don't know. The second young master of the Cheng family in Jufulou sent it here for printing. I have to ask him later if he wants to print the author in the storybook." The words of the owner, Fu Lang, reminded the owner of the printing workshop.

"It seems that it's not a well-known author, but I don't know if he will write other stories in the future. This book is really good."

"I originally arranged for this book to be typeset tomorrow. Since you said it is so good, I will adjust it to today. I want to see how good this book is." The owner of the printing shop was a little surprised. Although Lang likes to read story books, it is the first time that he likes to this extent.

"You can figure it out for yourself. I can print it out early so I can go to the bookstore to buy it." The boss, Fu Lang, was still immersed in the storyline of "Zhi Geer", wiped the corner of his eyes and said to the boss, "I'll arrange it. It's supper."

Waiting for the owner's husband to prepare the dinner, the family waited and waited but couldn't wait for his husband to come. Just about to send the youngest son to ask his father to come over for dinner, the owner of the printing shop appeared at the door.

The boss, Fu Lang, asked casually, "Is the printing shop busy? Why did you come here so late?"

The owner of the printing shop's face turned a little red under the dim light. Seeing that everyone didn't pay attention, he found an excuse to fool him.

It turned out that he stayed in the study just now to prepare for the typesetting of the book "Zhi Geer", just thinking that his husband loves this book so much, and he was curious to read it.

Unexpectedly, he was also invested in it after seeing it, and almost forgot to eat.After eating, the boss of the book printing shop went back to the study on the pretext that there was still something to do in the book printing shop.

When the boss of the book printing shop left, the boss Fu Lang recalled the boss's abnormal appearance just now, calculated the time, and suddenly realized that he had something to do with the book printing house, he obviously forgot the time while watching "Zhi Ge Er", and didn't expect to eat.

The owner of the printing and study room heard his husband calling him, so he quickly pretended not to hear him and left quickly.

The boss Fulang likes to read the storybook, and naturally his friends also like to read it. For the sake of confidentiality, he can't show the book to his friends, but he can tell them that his printing office is printing a beautiful storybook , called "Zhigeer", you can go to the bookstore to buy it in a few days.

The news was passed on one by one, and this "Zhigeer", which was still in print, became popular among Fulang circles in Jiangning County who liked to read scripts.

There aren’t any good books recently, and everyone read the good story books they had read several times over and over again. Finally, there is a new story book. Although it is written by an unknown author, the husbands who read the story book don’t care whether the author publishes it or not. To be famous, they just need to look good.

Cheng Wenliu got the word from the owner of the book printing shop and asked Cheng Luanjing what to call him. Cheng Luanjing bit his pen and thought about it for two days, and finally named himself "Fang Wai Gongzi".

He thought that whether it was "Zhi Geer" he had already written, or the medicine apprentice and the white snake that he was actually writing, it was not a love story between human beings. people to write.

Since then, this pen name has followed Cheng Luanjing and appeared in various scripts created by him. For a while, there were rumors outside that Mr. Fang Wai was really from Fang Wai.

The circle of Fu Lang, the owner of the printing shop, and Cheng Fulang's circle did not overlap. Cheng Fulang's friends were older, so they didn't see the ending until "Zhi Geer" became popular.

At the age of Cheng Fulang and others, reading the storybook is just a way to pass the time. Only unmarried buddies and young husbands who have just married will be fascinated by the stories depicted in the dialogue book.

So even though they knew that Cheng Fulang might know who the author was, they didn't go to ask about it. Instead, bookstores and book printing houses often received letters from wealthy people asking about the author.

Since none of the books were published under their real names, it must be because they did not want to be known by others. The printing press and bookstore themselves did not know who the author was, and they did not reply to these letters after receiving them.

At the beginning, the [-] copies printed by Cheng Wenliu were almost sold in Jiangning County, and they were priced at two taels of silver for one copy. , and some said that they wanted to take it to relatives in other counties.

The remaining [-] copies were shipped to the bookstore in Lishui County for sale. Cheng Wenliu and the owner of the bookstore in Lishui County were not familiar with each other, so someone sent a copy to the bookstore owner for a trial reading.

Those who can open a bookstore in Lishui County will not be blind. After reading the story written by Brother Jing, he directly wrote a recommendation sign and hung it on the door, and bought all [-] books.

The families of the students who can study in Lishui County have some money. When they saw the old way of recommending the book "Zhigeer" in the bookstore, they opened the trial copy curiously.

In the past, the stories were all down-and-out geniuses from rich families, but "Zhi Geer" is very novel, and the protagonists are the cowherd boy and the fairy brother in the sky.

Ever since, the book "Zhigeer" became famous in the circle of students in Lishui County. After the students bought it back, their family members would naturally read it, especially their older brothers and younger brothers, who were more or less literate. After reading "Zhi Geer", it suddenly became the favorite of these buddies.

In May, Cheng Wenliu's unexpected and Lin Xiazhi's expected love for the story of "Brother Zhi" became famous in Lishui County.Many bookstore owners wrote to the owner of the book printing shop in Jiangning County, asking him whether the book "Zhigeer" would be printed. Now there is only one bookstore in Lishui County that sells it. They are jealous.

Whether or not to reprint depends on the author's wishes. The 500 copies printed before have been sold out, making a profit of 1000 taels of silver. Excluding the bookstore's commission and other expenses, the net profit of [-] taels is almost as good as that of Cheng Wenliu's men. The profit of the business is over a month.

He directly decided to print another [-] copies for Cheng Luanjing and sell the book to other counties.

Once the volume of printed books increases, the cost will be lower than before. Previously, the book printing house charged half a tael of silver, which is 420 renminbi. If you print [-] copies, you only need [-] renminbi per copy, which is [-] renminbi lower.

Just when Cheng Luanjing's words became popular, the county magistrate sent messengers to invite Lin's family to go to the county government.