Chapter 88 Vicious competition in the industry caused by Youyou novels
Chapter 88
The first class in the school began, and Yang Qian could be considered successful and retired and returned to the mansion.
After a few more words of obedience from my mother, I resigned and left the house.
It's just that this trip to Lifu is naturally different from the first time I went to Xingyang.
There are four more strong servants around him, plus the little guy Zhili, there are five people in total.
But this time, Yang Qian did not ride in a carriage, but on horseback, with a donkey cart following behind him.
The driver was still Uncle De who drove the carriage last time.
This time he was demoted and forced to get a car, but he still looked cheerful. There were some gifts in the car that Han asked Yang Qian to bring to his sister and brother-in-law.
Zhili also had a short bow on his body. Although its shooting was far inferior to the hard bow left by Qin Qiong, it was still better than throwing stones.
After walking for a long time, we finally arrived at Xingyang City.
"Brother, why are you here?"
After receiving the news, Yang Wan greeted Yang Qian who entered the Chen Mansion with a face of surprise and surprise. She took Yang Qian's hand and looked at Yang Qian up and down.
"Could it be that you are here to tell sister the good news that you have a glimpse of the sky and have been approved by His Majesty?"
"Sister, you also know?"
"I'm your sister. Can I not ask about you? There are many good stories about you in Xingyang.
I didn’t expect that my silly little brother who only knew how to study behind closed doors in the past has become so powerful.”
Looking at the eldest sister Yang Wan who looked happy, Yang Qian's face turned a little dark. "Sister, are you sure you are complimenting me?"
"Oh, okay, my sister made a mistake." Yang Wan smiled awkwardly.
"It turns out that the famous Gongshi from Xingyang is here. Please forgive me for being so far away from my brother-in-law..."
Brother-in-law Chen Qin arrived late and greeted Yang Qian.
I saw my brother-in-law Chen Tai with a haggard look on his face. I was afraid that my brother-in-law was not having a good life these days.
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When I entered the house, I saw my sister making tea soup with a warm look on her face.
The familiar taste and familiar formula made Yang Qian shudder.
"Sister, there's no need for that. We are siblings, so there's no need to be so polite."
Yang Wan glanced at Yang Qian and said angrily.
"Don't you like to drink Niang's tea soup the most? Why, you look down on your sister's tea soup?"
"..." Yang Qian opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Don't worry, your sister's tea soup is as good as your mother-in-law's."
The brother-in-law Chen Tai on the side looked at Yang Wan making tea soup there.
The warmth in their eyes collided between the two of them. Looking at the dog food scattered on the floor, Yang Qian became more and more uncomfortable.
"Actually, I came here today to visit my sister and brother-in-law, and to deliver these things that my mother told me.
This time, I came here for my brother-in-law."
Chen Tai was stunned, his eyes fell on Yang Qian, and he pointed at his nose with a cute expression. "For me?"
"That's right, the servant who came back told me something about my brother-in-law's shop."
Yang Qian clicked on the question and did not continue. He saw that the affection and affection on his brother-in-law's face gradually dissipated.
What replaced it was unspeakable depression.
Fortunately, Yang Qian finally let out a sigh of relief as he no longer had to stare at the dog food all over the floor.
Yang Wanjian's hand that was making tea soup paused for a moment, then continued to move while explaining.
"Your brother-in-law also doesn't want to worry the family, so he said that this matter is in Xingyang, not Xingze anymore..."
"No matter where we are, are we still a family?" Yang Qian raised his head and looked at his eldest sister Yang Wan.
Seeing Yang Qian's gaze, Yang Wan's eyes turned slightly red, she blinked and smiled.
"Of course, if you don't dare call me sister, I won't take care of you."
Yang Qian said naturally.
"That's right, you are my sister, my biological sister. If there is something going on in your family, how can I, as your younger brother, still stand by and watch?"
"But this is my brother-in-law's business..." Brother-in-law Chen Tai said weakly.
"Aren't you my brother-in-law?" Yang Qian turned his head to look at his brother-in-law and said angrily.
"I know, brother-in-law, you don't want to disturb your mother-in-law, but now things have come to this.
Can things get better if we just ignore them?"
"Okay, how can I talk to your brother-in-law?" Yang Wan raised her hand and patted Yang Qian lightly, her eyes turning and falling on Chen Tai.
The good-tempered Chen Qin rubbed his face in embarrassment.
"It doesn't matter, my brother-in-law is absolutely right. I originally thought of handling this matter myself, but I didn't expect..."
Brother-in-law Chen Tai made up his mind and naturally told the whole story. The matter was actually not complicated.
There are several shops in Xingyang City that sell pens, black paper and inkstones and also copy books.
However, in terms of scale, only my brother-in-law’s family has been in business for three generations.
There is also Deng's shop, which is comparable to the other two and is considered the two largest.
They all support more than ten book copywriters, and for the other three shops, it is considered good if one family can support three.
My brother-in-law's family has thirteen copycats. Previously, he bought a quite wonderful novel about "Paiyou" (note) from Dongdu, copied it and sold it.
But what they didn't expect was that the Deng family actually bought the same Paiyou novel.
So when two booksellers appear on the market and both sell the same literary works, there will naturally be a problem.
Deng sent a steward to ask his brother-in-law's family to stop copying and selling this novel.
Although there are only two volumes of the Paiyou novel I bought from Dongdu, it cost only ten thousand dollars.
But why do you, the Deng family, want Chen's Bookstore to stop copying and selling it?
This kind of behavior is simply a model of bullying and domination.
The elder sister handed the cooked tea soup to her brother-in-law and said with an annoyed look on her face.
"Although your brother-in-law has a good temper, he is also too unreasonable, so naturally we cannot agree to it.
But in the end, the other party simply took the initiative and spent a lot of money to win over the seven copyists who had an appointment."
"Although I submitted the petition to the county government office, there are people in the Deng family in the county government office, so I can't touch them at all."
After listening to his sister and brother-in-law talking for a long time, Yang Qian finally figured out the matter.
He said to his brother-in-law who was a little excited and angry.
"Brother-in-law, what is the content of the Paiyou novel you mentioned? Can you lend it to me to read?"
The brother-in-law agreed and walked quickly towards another room. He quickly brought a copy of the novel "Wuyou".
Yang Qian took it and looked at it, and couldn't help grinning. "Is this the thing? How dare you sell my brother-in-law to you?"
There are two such novels in my father Yang Ning's study in my house. They are short stories written in classical Chinese.
In order to be suitable for reading, novels written in these classical Chinese genres also need to rhyme and demonstrate literary talent.
However, it greatly reduced the readability of the story, which made Yang Qian feel very awkward. The two books at home could no longer read after turning a few pages.
I originally thought that this thing was similar to the Four Books and Five Classics, which were all in one volume.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be equivalent to a volume of five strings?
Yang Qian's whole body is in bad shape. It seems that knowledge is wealth. This saying was more useful in ancient times.
Note: Paiyou novels are ancient classical Chinese novels. In the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, there were storytellers specializing in the court, and they belong to the category of Paiyou.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Zhi once recited the "Paiyou" novel to Yuhu in Chunmen, Handan. "Novel" and "Paiyou" were connected together, and they were used for recitation, which shows that it was already a literary form of oral speech at that time.
For example, "The Biography of Li Wa" written by Bai Xingjian, a writer of the Tang Dynasty.
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