"It's hard to invite..." Mingda thought, "It's hard for even the Imperial College to invite a few seniors to give lectures, let alone our Ming School, which is a women's school."
Bai Erlang and Zhou Man looked at each other and gave her advice together, "Promise it to be beneficial?"
"Use favors?"
"But what kind of friendship do I have with them?" Mingda looked at Zhou Man, "In terms of friendship with them, I can't compare to you."
Zhou Man said "Yeah" and began to think seriously. Finally he shook his head and said, "No, I can't help them with my favor. Why don't you try to ask Duke Zhao first?"
Bai Erlang nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, please invite Duke Zhao first. With a precedent, it will be easier to invite him later."
Mingda began to think about it. If she went to wallow in front of her uncle, could he come and give a lesson to her students in the girls' school?
"I'll try later. Come on, let's take the two of them out for a walk."
Students from the Imperial College, the Imperial Medical Office and various academies all had field holidays, so there were particularly many students in the nearby streets.
As soon as Zhou Man and his two children entered the bookstore with their two children in hand, they were startled by the crowd inside.
Then Mingda said with a pleased look on his face: "You see, the students in our Jin Dynasty are eager to study and their studies are prosperous. In the future, our women's school will also have a place."
As soon as he finished speaking, three scholars came to the counter, pushing and pushing each other with their hands folded, arguing: "I was obviously the one who saw this first."
"What did you see first? I said I saw it first. I caught it first! When buying a book, it should be based on who gets it first."
"I'll pay double the price, shopkeeper, sell it to me!"
"Who are you looking down on? I'll pay three times!"
"If I don't give it out, I will get it first and buy it at the normal price. Shopkeeper, will you keep your word?"
A scholar next to me couldn't help but ask: "What book is so precious?"
"The White Consort's "Journey to the West" is the last one."
"It's true that the bookstore knows that this book is easy to sell, so why does it print so few copies?"
"Forget it, I heard that the bookstores of Princess Residence now publish all the books by the Prince Consort. The Prince Consort's books are easy to sell. As soon as they are printed, booksellers pick them up in large numbers. Few of them fall into the capital. There are also some
The booksellers couldn't get the goods from the bookstores, so they bought them from the bookstores and shipped them out, so there were fewer books."
Zhou Man and Ming Da turned to look at Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang's face was bright, he suppressed a smile and said: "You are indeed eager to learn."
Zhou Man said "tsk", patted the two children's little heads and said: "Go and choose the pen you want."
The two men immediately ran away on their short legs, and the servants quickly followed.
Zhou Man looked around and looked at the books in the bookstore, "There are still many empty bookshelves in my library."
"You still have time to read the idle books outside?" Bai Erlang said, "Didn't you tell me that buying a book without reading it is equivalent to not buying it."
"What do you know? If I don't read it now, it doesn't mean I won't read it in the future. If I don't read it, it doesn't mean the children won't read it," Zhou Man said, "Looking at the shortage of books now, you should buy them when they are available."
Zhou Man stepped forward, called the waiter and asked, "What new books have been published recently?"
The clerk was new here and didn't recognize Zhou Man, so he said directly: "The White Prince Consort has recently published a new book called Sea Charts. It tells the story of a young man's adventures at sea. We are selling very well. Madam, do you want to read it?"
look?"
The shopkeeper over there had just settled the lawsuit of the three scholars. When he looked up and saw Zhou Man, he immediately went to greet him, "Why are Master Zhou here? Please come in quickly. Recently, there was a "Collection of Poems of You Shao" sent from southern Gansu. Do you want it?
Don’t you want to look at it?”
He turned to the young man and said, "This is Mr. Zhou from the Imperial Medical Department, the senior sister of Bai Consort. Is his Mr. Zhou still available? Don't introduce me randomly."
Bai Erlang and Ming Da came over. The shopkeeper was even more surprised when he saw Bai Erlang. He didn't pay attention to Ming Da at all. He left Zhou Man behind and grabbed Bai Erlang. "Bai Erlang, it's rare for you to come here today. Do you have anything you like? Our store can deliver it."
Prince Consort."
"Consort?"
When people buying books on the side heard this, they all turned to look at it and immediately crowded over, "Are you the White Prince Consort? Prince Consort, I wonder if there is a second edition of "Journey to the West"?"
"Yes, yes, we can't even buy this book, so why not print some more."
"Actually, I think Journey to the West can be written more, such as how cowpox was planted bit by bit in the end."
"How did you get it? Didn't you get the pox?"
"I was vaccinated, but when I was vaccinated, there wasn't much risk. But the first batch of people who took the test were definitely in danger, and they didn't know whether they would live or die. Isn't it worth writing down in detail to have such courage?"
"I want to know more about the details of the war in Gaochang. I can write more about it..."
Bai Erlang was frightened by their enthusiasm and retreated repeatedly. A scholar noticed it and hurriedly said: "Let's not talk about the content of the book for now, Bai Consort. I have a copy of "Journey to the West" in my hand. I wonder if I can ask Bai Consort to put it on the cover of the book.
Then give a line of text to a certain question?"
"It's so shameless. Why should Bai Consort give you an inscription? There are so many of us who have never bought Bai Consort's book. How can we let him inscribe it?"
"That's right, that's right, you can't ask the question!"
Bai Erlang backed away continuously, his eyes glancing at Ming Da and Zhou Man who were squeezed in the back. For fear that something might happen to them, he hurriedly turned around and left the store, taking away a group of people, "Thank you for your love, there is no need for an inscription."
Everyone chased after Bai Erlang and went out. Other people in the store who didn't have that intention saw him and followed him out...
The store suddenly emptied out, leaving only Zhou Man and Mingda.
Xibing and Jiulan supported Zhou Man and protected her belly with their hands. Seeing that everyone was gone, they breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We were scared to death."
Zhou Man looked at the stunned shopkeeper and gave Mingda a hand: "Let's buy it another day."
Mingda came back to his senses and said, "Okay."
He immediately called people to pick up the two children and left.
The shopkeeper came to his senses and chased him out. He looked at Zhou Manmingda who was going to the left, and then at the scholars who were chasing Bai Erlang to the right. He couldn't help waving to the right: "Gentlemen, do you still want the book you selected?"
Already?"
Bai Erlang ran with his two servants for a long time before getting away from the people behind him. By the time they reached Jiudetang, he was already gone.
Seeing him running into the box, Mingda immediately poured him a cup of tea, "How long have you been running?"
Bai Erlang stretched out two fingers and said, "Three streets."
Mingda looked at the two fingers he stretched out, and couldn't help but pull out another one. After gathering three fingers, he felt comfortable.
Bai Erlang took back his hand, exhaled and sighed: "I didn't expect that I am so famous now. It's strange, I go to and from the Yamen every day and no one blocks me, right?"
Zhou Man: "Everyone is so busy on weekdays, but we are not always as free as today."
"I don't care what you say, I am famous anyway. It seems that more people admire me than you and Bai Shan." Bai Erlang became happy: "It even looks like there are more people than Senior Brother Yang."