By the end of May, the number of chapters in "The Book of Strange and Strange" had increased to six. Zhu Xiu selected several stories suitable for adaptation from "The King of War" and "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". After careful compilation, he compiled them into a book with a style of writing and rhythm of sentences that are more suitable for today's reading.

In addition to "White Snake", five chapters have been added, namely "Du Shiniang", "Boya's Piano Break", "A Chinese Girl", "Painted Skin" and "Xin Shiniang".

In the years when there were no keyboard codes, I only rely on the pen to record it, or the brush, and only Zhu Xiu knew how painful it was.

In less than two months, after sorting out these five articles, Zhu Xiu felt that he had exhausted himself.

In mid-April, Zhu Huiniang asked someone to bring a letter back, saying that she had reached an agreement with Zhang Dongzhu of Zhengye Bookstore. Zhu Huiniang represented the author "Kongxuzi", and accounted for 40% of the book's sales.

Zhu Xiu was quite satisfied with the distribution ratio and agreed very happily. When he asked Zhu Damao to go to the county town, he took the other five articles to Zhu Huiniang.

Zhengye Bookstore is not large in scale, but it is full of all organs. It has its own carving craftsman, which is more convenient to print.

It is estimated that at the latest by the end of June, the first batch of "Single and Strange Records·Volume 1" published will be available.

Zhengye Bookstore contributes money and efforts and is responsible for sales, and it is not an exaggeration to occupy 60% of the profits.

You should know that this is an era without copyright protection. Books, like all patents, will not be protected. Once popular, a large number of followers will appear, and the income of book shop operators and authors will decline in a landslide.

In addition, woodblock printing has begun to be widely used across the country, and book printing has deviated from the original hand-written era, so this kind of pirated product will only be faster.

Zhu Xiu was prepared for this, and he could only earn a while of hot money when writing books. When the new book spreads, countless copies will appear, and the book shop and him will not have any profits.

If "The Book of Strange News" is successful and popular, the pseudonym "Kongxuzi" can bring him a huge reputation. Unfortunately, this is contrary to his low-key and steady attitude towards life. Zhu Xiu has no plans to reveal his identity for the time being.

Let’s try this book “Single and Strange Records: Volume 1”. If the initial returns are pretty good, you can consider continuing to compile subsequent documents.

In addition to editing books and teaching Wang Ang and Wang Zhu brothers to study, the thing that Zhu Xiu spent the most energy on in the past two months was to prepare for further participation in the textile industry.

After all, stranding and training yarn is the upstream of the entire hemp textile industry supply chain. It has low technical content and almost no threshold for entry. It has low added value for products. It cannot become a climate by selling yarn alone.

Zhou Jincai is the best example. He worked in a hemp skein workshop for more than ten years, and at most it made the Tao family the richest man in Taozhu Village, barely reaching the well-off level of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

For ordinary people, this is of course a good job.

But Zhu Xiu claimed to be a time travel talent and a son of the times. How could he be satisfied with being a rough workshop owner?

In the spirit of doing everything and loving everything, Zhu Xiu decided to advance his business towards the depth of the textile industry.

Zhu Xiu asked Zhou Jincai that, whether it is spinning hemp or spinning silk, these days, they are all pedal spinning wheels that appeared since the Jin Dynasty. This kind of tool is relatively low in efficiency and has a slow textile speed.

This is consistent with the knowledge about the development of textile tools that he knew in the history of ancient science.

After the investigation, Zhu Xiu decided to draw a large spinning wheel that appeared in the Song Dynasty and began to be used on a large scale in the early Yuan Dynasty...

Zhu Xiu knew it himself. Although there were such mechanical detailed drawings in the "Wang Zhen Agricultural Book" stored in his mind, he was just a liberal arts student who studied history and his hands-on ability has never been a strong point. It would be really difficult for us Zhu Xiaolang to create it with him.

Even if it was drawing drawings, the painter who was based in Zhuxiu Abstract School kindergarten took nearly two months to grind countless charcoal pens before he could barely complete a relatively accurate drawing.

The next thing to do is to find a skilled carpenter, preferably a craftsman with experience in spinning wheel production, discuss and study together, and see if this multi-spinned spinning wheel can be made.

Zhu Xiu hasn't told Zhou Jincai about this yet, so he can let him run a new hemp-slinging workshop with peace of mind, and wait until he has made enough money and has enough capital accumulation.

The coursework in the village school is approaching the end of the students who are about to take the county school recruitment exam.

In addition to Zhu Xiu and Tao Sheng, three other students finally met the requirements of Ge Lide and Liu Da after these three months of hard work and were able to represent the Shuikou Township School and take this year's county school exam.

Although the county school recruitment does not limit the number of applicants, if the grades do not meet the standards, it is useless to take the exam. If you do too badly, it will damage the reputation of the school.

Therefore, each township school will select students with the best and most confident grades to take the county exam every year. In addition to some individual candidates, the number of people taking the county exam in Zhushan County will not be less than 100 each year.

On the second day of June, Zhu Xiu returned to the village school.

There were only five people in the school who took the county exam, and the rest were all pretending to go home.

According to convention, at this time of each year, Ge Lide would spend a lot of money to temporarily hire a gentleman from Fangshan Academy to come to the village school to conduct three-day intensive training for the candidates.

Originally, Zhu Xiu didn't want to come, but Ge Lide asked him to participate.

A gentleman in his thirties, with a fair and gentle man named Song Tongzhi stood in the school.

Perhaps because of the halo of a lecturer at Fangshan Academy, Tao Sheng and three other classmates looked up to him, sat upright and looked serious, and his attitude was much more upright than Liu Da gave lectures in the past.

Although Song Tongzhi and Liu Da were about the same age as Liu Da, they were not admitted to the Gonglang in the Township. They were both students of Fangshan Academy, but in the Fangzhou academic community, Song Tongzhi was worth more than Liu Da and had a higher value.

Because Liu Da did not get into the Gonglang in the Township, nor did he apply for an internal job at Fangshan Academy to become a lecturer, he was eventually persuaded to retire because he was too old.

Song Tongzhi did not get into the Gonglang in the village, but passed the internal application for the academy and successfully stayed in the academy to teach.

So one of them can only be a lecturer in a village school, and the other can be a teacher at Fangshan Academy. Whether in terms of income or fame, Liu Da is three streets away.

Song Tongzhi has been here at Shuikou Township School for two consecutive years. Zhu Xiu was the first to see him, and it was the first time he met Zhu Xiu.

Perhaps because Ge Lide said something to him before, Zhu Xiu always felt that Song Tongzhi was paying too much attention to him.

In order to find out the details of these five students, Song Tongzhi prepared a test paper and sent it to the five people, which immediately attracted a lot of wail.
Chapter completed!