Ye Maosheng looked disdainful and said: "Those are them, a bunch of short-sighted vulgar people, why should we be familiar with them? As for the bookstore business... I don't want to make money from this in the first place, so what are you afraid of?"
"I'm not afraid that it won't be able to open. It's not easy to find such a good place." The Zhou family lives close to each other. Zhou Yusheng can completely predict that if the reputation of this bookstore can increase, there will definitely be more scholars renting nearby tomorrow.
stand up.
One, this bookstore has a huge amount of books, and you can read them for free, which is really convenient for many people who are short of money; two, it is cold in winter, and if you can use the charcoal fire here, everyone will feel better.
As for the geographical advantage of his family, he might be able to rent a few more rooms next year, and then his two brothers wouldn't have to work so hard.
"That's it..." Ye Maosheng said thoughtfully, "Maybe we can help find a way."
"What can I do?"
"Let's make business better here."
"You and I don't know how to do business, how can we make it better?"
Ye Maosheng glanced at Zhou Yusheng and disliked him for being a bit stupid: "There are so many scholars in our academy, there are always people who want to buy books, right? Anyway, you have to buy them elsewhere, why not buy them here. The price is fair, and the bookstore is very humane. If you don't take care of its business, who will you take care of?
?”
Zhou Yusheng understood: "You are planning to..."
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When another classmate arrived, the three of them discussed it and immediately wrote an article about this bookstore and posted it on the wall of Baishan Academy.
Ten praises for Yao's Academy, one praise...
After reading the whole article, the words are not very flashy, but every sentence is practical. It not only introduces the area of the bookstore, the types of books collected, but even praises the huts inside.
Many people who had never lived in that kind of hut couldn't help but go to Yao's Bookstore to see a "fun" experience.
Seeing this, some gentry were surprised: "You can actually go to the latrine like this?!"
I immediately had the idea to install one in my home.
Nowadays, there are two types of so-called latrines. One is the "barrel", which has a dedicated servant responsible for washing it and using perfume to diffuse it to prevent odors.
The other type is generally used by servants, which is to dig a pit in a secluded place, put up wooden boards, and put a house on top, thus forming a simple version of "thatched house".
The former one is okay, there is no peculiar smell. After all, the servant will take it away and wash it off after the poop; but the latter one needs to be cleaned after a while, which will take a long time, especially when the weather is hot, and the smell will be strong.
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In order to prevent the smell from getting on their bodies and smelling the mistress, the servants would try their best to hold it in or change their clothes in time.
The gentleman praised this kind of hut, not because he was considerate of the servants, but because he had never seen such a convenient, clean and tidy hut. He felt that if this thing was done well, he could have one in his courtyard.
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With this thing, will it be so troublesome for him to go to the toilet in the future?
Lou Qing, the gentleman's son, went to the bookstore's waiter without saying anything and asked about the latrine.
Waiter: "..."
——Everyone comes here to read books, so why do you, a handsome and well-dressed young man, come here to inquire about their hut?
The waiter couldn't make the decision in this kind of thing, so he had to call in the steward.
Soon, Gu Qingling heard someone reporting this matter. After being slightly stunned, she suddenly realized: Is she a little too "limited"?
She only stared at the prescriptions in her hand, but she didn't know that apart from those prescriptions, the "convenient measures" in her head about improving life were actually good ways to make money.
Gu Qingling curled up her lips and was in a good mood, so she invited Mrs. Yao over to give her explanation.
Finally, Lou Qing met the eldest wife of the Yao family, who told him that it was too late this year and the weather was too cold to start construction. Next year, the Yao family would launch a "construction team" specializing in building new huts, and he could do so in advance.
Reserve.
Lou Qing was pleasantly surprised. He didn't have much hope in the first place. He didn't expect that the other party had such a plan. It was such a coincidence. He thanked him repeatedly.
After seeing off Lou Qing, the maid next to Mrs. Yao, Xia Tao, came over and said congratulations: "Congratulations to the eldest lady, congratulations to the eldest lady. It seems that the old lady trusts the eldest lady very much, otherwise she would not entrust such an important matter to the eldest lady."
.When the new construction team is built in the spring of next year, the eldest lady can wait for the cashier."
Mrs. Yao glared at her: "How do you know that I can collect cash? I haven't even seen the construction team yet. They just said they wanted to build it, and they didn't just pay the money and start the work. What if?
What will you do if you regret it later?"
"How is it possible? He came to the door eagerly and handed over the invitation. He originally wanted to ask us to help him build a new latrine. If nothing unexpected happened, how could he go back on his word? But..." the eldest maid Xia Tao said doubtfully, "Lou
I didn’t know what the new-style hut the young master was talking about looked like, but it actually surprised him to look like that.”
"You haven't seen it?"
The eldest maid Xia Tao shook her head: "The Yao Academy was rebuilt by the old lady herself later. I only know that it took a lot of time and invited a lot of people, but what is the specific look... I haven't really gone there yet.
Visited."
Mrs. Yao decided to take some time to go there and have a look.
In the evening, she mentioned this matter to Uncle Yao.
Uncle Yao was startled at first, but then he came to his senses and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that someone would actually take a fancy to it... However, the new-style huts over there in the academy are indeed different from the ones here. You have to have time tomorrow,
You can go and have a look, and you will know when the time comes.”
His mysterious face aroused the curiosity of Mrs. Yao: "Even if it is different, it is still a place for servants to go to the toilet. How can he, a gentleman, have never seen the world and be so surprised? And now the bookstore is open.
, there are a group of scholars coming in and out. As a woman, I am too embarrassed to join the crowd of men..."
"Not only are the new-style huts built in the bookstore, but also the academy behind it. You can go to the academy to see it. It was also when I was studying there that I realized that you can do so many tricks in the toilet, but the area is a bit large and it takes up a lot of space.
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Mrs. Yao didn't know whether it would cost a place or not, but after hearing what Mr. Yao said, she became even more curious.
When Yao Anxin went to school the next day, Mrs. Yao went there with her.
"You are also going to the academy? Mom, what are you going to do?" Yao Anxin was a little surprised when she heard that Mrs. Yao was going.
She has been studying there for so long, and her mother only went there at the beginning, and then never again. Why is her mother suddenly going there again?
Mrs. Yao was embarrassed to say that she was going to see the new-style huts, so she made an excuse: "It's cold, isn't it? I'm worried that you won't be used to it there, so I wanted to go and have a look."
"Mom, what are you worried about? There are charcoal fires in the classroom and study room, and the people below will prepare the soup in advance. It's not cold at all. You'd better worry less and rest more if you have nothing to do."
When Yao Anxin was talking, she noticed that her mother's complexion had improved a lot during this period, probably because the prescriptions given by the old lady were working.
