Chapter 55 Romance and Martial Arts
Ouyang Zheng had already left the school, but another picture appeared in Xu Jie's mind. The poet Li Bai had white sleeves fluttering and a sword was on his waist, making him famous. The wealthy man invited him to the banquet, and Master Cen and Danqiu Sheng drank with him.
There are countless delicious foods and precious wine. Li Bai drank hundreds of cups of wine, wrote poems and recited poems with his pen. The rich man did not expect that Li Bai could drink this way. Obviously, he didn't bring enough money to buy expensive wine.
Then Li Bai said drunk: "You invite me to drink, how can you say you don't have money to buy wine? Go and get wine directly. Take out all the colorful horses outside your door and the fur coats you wear for wine. I will stop drunk tonight and save this eternal sorrow together!"
When the wine is over, Li Bai is very happy, and there are bells, drums, delicacies and jade that are not expensive. Only those who drink it leave their names. I am born to be useful, and I will come back after all the money is gone. There is also the pride of life that must be happy, and the mirror in the high hall is sad and white hair...
Thinking of this, Xu Jie kept laughing again.
"Brother Wenyuan, how many drinks can I drink at noon?" Ouyang Wenfeng had already come forward, and another black and thin young master Ouyang was following behind him.
Xu Jie was very excited: "Water together should also eliminate the eternal sorrow."
At this time, many people began to go out in the hall. However, another old man walked in and slowly sat in front of him, but ignored those who came out. Instead, he opened a book on his own, took a photo of it and started to give a lecture.
Let’s talk about it again, which is the meaning of the scriptures, explaining the words of the saints in detail.
However, Xu Jie and two young masters Ouyang had already left the school, and there were still fifty or sixty people in the school to start listening, and they wrote quickly and took a lot of notes.
Among the people in this school today, there are not only scholars, but also a few scholars who are only one step away from the Jinshi and the first grade. This step is probably two years, or maybe it is a lifetime.
The three of them walked out together and couldn't walk far, and the bustling street was again.
I passed by the bloody land last night again. The blood on the ground still had black marks. There were countless pedestrians, but no one looked down at the blood of the people stepping on his feet.
Going further ahead, I went to the place where the girl set up a stall by the alley. However, Xu Jie didn't expect that the little girl was actually placed on the street at the intersection of the alley, and there were many things in front of her, obviously selling something.
Xu Jie took a few steps closer, and the little girl obviously recognized the person, so she smiled at Xu Jie. Xu Jie looked down at the girl. A broken basket was filled with scattered long and small bumps, and the handwriting could be seen on the bumps. There were many wooden objects next to it, with different shapes.
"Hello, young master." The little girl greeted her.
Xu Jie also asked with a smile: "Have you guessed all the lanterns yesterday?"
The little girl looked a little ugly when she heard this, shook her head and said, "No, I heard that there was a murder case in front of her last night, and most of the tourists dispersed. There are still five lanterns that I can't guess."
Xu Jie felt a little guilty when he heard this. Things in the world always had causes and consequences. So Xu Jie asked, "What are you selling today?"
"The movable type printing items sold were left by my grandfather. My mother said that there was a small printing workshop at home, but my father was only concerned about studying and did not do it. Today, my mother asked me to sell these ancestral things." As the little girl said, as if she remembered something again, she hurriedly said: "Young Master, I owe you a lantern last night. You are here to wait, and I will take the lanterns back to you."
Xu Jie understood this time. The long lumps with characters in the basket were made of clay, with typesettings, ink brushing, etc. Next to them, Xu Jie said, "There is no hurry to lanterns, so I'll ask you how to sell this thing?"
The little girl asked after hearing this, “Young Master wants to buy it?”
"I bought it if the price is right." Xu Jie replied. A small wealthy family with a printing workshop fell to selling ancestral goods on the street. The head of the family went to become a monk and left orphans and widows to die for themselves. It was really a pity. If it weren't for the fact that it was impossible, who would be willing to sell the ancestral goods. Perhaps the lantern was not guessed yesterday, and the two of them could not fill their stomachs.
The little girl was overjoyed when she heard the sound, turned her head and walked a few steps into the alley beside her, and shouted: "Mom, someone wants to buy it, you come out soon."
The young woman walked out of the corner of the alley last night. Looking at it during the day, she looked even more beautiful. Her waist was slender and her face was fair, but her hair was a little messy.
When the woman saw Xu Jie and the other two, she was slightly polite and said, "Can you master pass on the printing technique?"
Xu Jie was embarrassed to look at it more, waved his hand and said, "It doesn't work."
When the woman heard this, she said, "Since the young master does not understand the printing technique, it is useless to buy it. Let's leave it to others to buy it. If it cannot be sold today, it can be sold at a low price to other printing workshops."
Obviously, the woman knew last night that she had received Xu Jie's kindness, so she didn't want to get favors and charity for no reason today.
When Xu Jie heard this, his mind flashed and asked, "Madam, can you use the printing technique?"
The woman nodded after hearing this, and said with a gloomy look: "Although I am a wife, my father-in-law also learned such skills when he was alive. However, now my family has lost its capital and can't afford such a business."
The woman also has a bit of the intention to keep her face for herself, but she also said that doing such a business really requires a little capital, buying ink and paper, and hiring people to do things, and it really requires a considerable amount of capital. Even if you want to print the most common Four Books and Five Classics, you still need to have these books as samples. I think this family has almost sold the books.
Xu Jie nodded and said, "Then I bought this thing. I just need to print some things. I also asked my wife to help me with it, and calculate the wages."
When the woman heard this, she hesitated a little. After hesitating for a moment, she asked again: "Young Master, do you want to open a printing workshop?"
Xu Jie replied after hearing this: "I didn't think too much about it. I'll try printing something first. If it's possible, then open a workshop. There are still a group of kids at home, so I always have to find a living."
Xu Jie was either kind-hearted or had some other thoughts. However, the woman was also thinking whether she wanted to be favored like this, and even wondered if this young man had any other thoughts or something. After all, she had to weigh it.
However, the family still has foreign debts to pay. If there is no foreign debt, the woman can barely survive. If she thinks like this, she will try to make money and go hungry because of foreign debts. The foreign debt owes nothing more than the monk who has not yet become a monk who cannot get fame and fortune in the exam, but also has to be friends with scholars, respect the teachers and be good friends with classmates. Even if she fails to get fame and fortune in the future, she will be able to make a fortune in the future. If there are so many good classmates who are good at the exam, and if they become officials in the yamen, they will be able to count on their status.
It just became a waste.
The woman looked at Xu Jie a few more times, then looked at the two of Xu Jie's side, trying to see a good or bad, and finally nodded and said, "My mother's surname is Wu, and her nickname is Lanxiang. If the young master doesn't dislike it, she will help her to do some typesetting and printing. I don't know where the young master wants to place these things, as if there is a big house."
The woman didn't even use her husband's surname to introduce her, so she could see how resentful the woman was to the man who became a monk.
Xu Jie smiled when he heard this, reached out to bring up the basket, which was quite heavy, and asked again: "My surname is Xu, my name is Jie, the name is Wenyuan, how much do you pay for these things?"
Wu Lanxiang replied: "Five liang is enough."
Xu Jie took out a ingot of silver from his arms, took out another broken silver, put it on the basket, and said, "Sister Wu, just send all these things to my house. It's the third room on the right side of Gongchen Lane. There are many kids in the house who can also free up a big room. You can help you settle it. I will come back and discuss the printing matter with you later. For that broken silver, you will hire a frame to pull it away in such a car so that you won't run back and forth."
When the woman heard this, she was moved, a feeling of being trusted. She almost wanted to cry in her eyes, and her family fell. If she had such a husband, she would have been cursed by her own scruples. She had no choice but to borrow money and food. If she could not borrow it, it was a blow to her self-esteem. The young man in front of her put a considerable sum of money here, but the person did not follow her. The woman hadn't felt this sense of trust for a long time.
The woman nodded repeatedly and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Xu, I will definitely deliver the things."
But the little girl also said, "Young master, I will send it to you as well, too."
Xu Jie looked at the little girl and asked with a smile: "Little girl, what's your name?"
"My name is Li...Wu Xiuxiu."
"Well, a good name, beautiful and wise." Xu Jie reached out and touched the girl's head, then turned around and looked at Ouyang's brothers and sisters, and said, "Let's go, and go drink."
The woman looked at Xu Jie's back, as if she was crying, but she seemed to be determined. She picked up the ingot of five taels of silver, looked at it for a few minutes before putting it in her arms, and then went to pack up the property in front of her.
The little girl didn't know much, but she knew she didn't have to go hungry anymore. She happily helped her mother pack up the pieces in front of her.
After walking a little further, Ouyang Wenfeng asked, "Brother Wenyuan really wants to open that printing workshop?"
Xu Jie didn't think about it and said, "That depends on the situation. If possible, it doesn't matter if you open one."
Ouyang Wenfeng nodded and said, "Brother Wenyuan is kind-hearted and cannot see others as miserable."
Ouyang Wenqin also understood why Xu Jie did this, and continued: "A person who does good deeds and accumulates virtues will be favored by God, and he will be able to do more good luck. If he gets blessed in the future, it is no problem to roll the name outside Donghua Gate."
Xu Jie shook his head again and said, "I want to write some romance novels when I have nothing to do. Maybe I can earn a lot of money to support people."
Ouyang Wenfeng was stunned when he heard this. He had heard of any romance novels and asked: "I have only heard of novels such as story-books, what are romance novels?"
Chapter completed!