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Chapter 42 The Bookstore

Chapter 42 Bookstore

There is only one bookstore in the town, Burke Bookstore. Since most of the book buyers are intellectuals and upper-class people in Bailu Town, the bookstore is small in size with only two stores, but the layout is quite elegant and quiet.

"Uncle Burke, I heard that you have brought in a batch of new books, where are they placed?" Boker called as he came in. His family was a regular customer of the bookstore, and he naturally didn't care about maintaining the peace of the bookstore.

"Over there, there are a total of fifteen new books. Be careful when you read them. I only bought two or three of each book. If you break it, you will have to pay for it." The store owner Burke pushed up his single-frame glasses and continued.

He settled his account at the counter.

Fifteen new books, eight of which are biographies. Claude has always called these biographies as flattery novels or chicken soup novels, that is, a famous nobleman or parliamentarian, or a successful person asks someone to write about his successful experience.

This book is nothing more than talking about how many hardships he has experienced in life, what kind of emotional torture he has endured, and finally embarked on the road to success, etc...

Whoever believes it is a fool. For Claude, he has had enough chicken soup novels in his previous life. These biographical novels in this world simply insult the name chicken soup novels, because most of the routines are the same, which is to change them.

It’s just a name, time and place. In fact, the ultimate purpose of publishing these celebrity biographies is to make money and to deceive.

The other five are knight novels. In the Dark Ages, a brave and fearless knight fell into the hands of an evil magician in order to save a beautiful princess or noble lady. After experiencing an arduous life-and-death struggle, he finally embraced the beauty.

Return, and help the evil magicians clean up their treasure house, enrich their own pockets, and gain both people and wealth...

Claude thinks that replacing the evil magician with a dragon seems more convincing, but the dragons in this world don't really like to capture beautiful women and bring them to their dragon dens to listen to their screams. Most of their characters are

Because they were coerced by the evil magician, they had no choice but to become his thugs or mounts. In the end, they would either help the protagonist rebel or be killed by the protagonist, or else they would be replaced by someone riding on them...

Five chivalry novels with similar similarities. These were once Claude's favorites when he first traveled through time. He was so excited to read them. But now he has understood that the so-called chivalry novels are all random fabrications by the authors and have nothing to do with history.

.Those authors wrote such knightly novels just to support their families and to be consistent with the political attitude of the kingdom. This is understandable and understandable.

The remaining two books, one is a travelogue on the mainland. A diplomat from a kingdom served as the peace envoy of the Kingdom of Hicks in the northern part of the mainland. After staying there for five years, he returned to China and wrote a book about his experiences in the Kingdom of Hicks.

Travel Notes, this is a good book, I should buy it.

There is also a latest research report on marine animals and plants. After eight years of research, pharmacy experts extracted a dye from the purple Atero seaweed. The dyed fabric is difficult to fade.

This adds another kind of fabric color to the kingdom. This book mainly talks about the artificial cultivation of Atero seaweed and its purchase price guide.

Perhaps this new book called "Atro Seaweed" should also be bought and let my father decorate his study room. As the administrative director of White Deer Town, Mr. Molsang will show his profound knowledge and keep up with the research trends of the Kingdom to the guests.

This knowledge can even be used as a reason to ask the town government to allocate a batch of funds for Bailu Town to research seaweed farming and use it to develop people's livelihood. As for the failure of research, the funds become tuition fees, which is a common thing, and everyone understands it tacitly.



In the end, Claude bought four books, "Atero Seaweed", "His Kingdom Chronicles", as well as a knight novel and a biography, which cost a total of two riaso and two sunars.

No way, Claude didn't want to buy so much, but he remembered that the two riaso he asked his father for at that time was for buying books, so he had to spend so much money to buy books.

I didn’t want to buy biographies, but Mr. Morsant liked to read this kind of novels the most and often used the examples in the books to educate his children. Claude had to buy one just in case. To be honest, he really

There are no other books to buy. As for knight novels, Claude thinks that this book will be a good pastime when he is a child. It’s because he was used to holding mobile phones in his previous life. Now he squats on the toilet without reading a book. It’s really boring.

Not coming out...

"Claude, come here and take a look." Erikson called to him in a low voice from the corner: "There is something good..."

"What are you doing, acting like a thief?" Claude walked over.

Erikson raised his finger to his mouth: "Shh, keep your voice down, I'm going to show you something good..."

A book was thrust into Claude's hand. It was a manuscript. I don't know where Erikson found it. He opened it and understood. Claude laughed. He didn't expect that there are also books in this world.

Uncle Xiao Huang, it also contains a few illustrations that are very attractive to men and women. Although it is a small copy, you can still see that the copyist has carefully drawn the illustrations. The proportions of the human body are normal, although they are not a bit exaggerated.

It's like an abstract painting. Especially the key parts are painted very clearly. No wonder Ericson's face turned red and he looked like a thief.

I flipped through it casually and briefly read the content. Well, this book "Little Emperor's Uncle" tells the story of a noble lady who went to the royal capital to bribe those high-ranking officials with her own body in order to keep the title of her father who failed in business.

The plot is extremely fiery and intense, and the action is described in great detail. It is extraordinary...

No wonder this novel can only be a handwritten copy and not an officially published book. In the kingdom, such a small emperor's uncle is a banned book. As long as he is caught, the writer will have to be sentenced to at least five or six years, and the copyist and the reader will not be punished.

The penalty is three months of hard labor. This mainly depends on the mood of the law enforcer. Of course, if you have a good relationship, you can also turn a blind eye.

"Where did it come from?" Claude asked.

"Uncle Burke's private collection...do you think it looks good..."

"Absolutely..." Claude threw the book back to Erikson: "When you grow up and experience many women, you will no longer look down on books like this..."

"It sounds like you have experienced many women..." Ericson quickly put the book away: "Claude, you said I bought the book, copied a few copies when I got home, took them to school and sold them to my classmates. What did you say?

Will it make money?”

Claude stared at Ericson and warned in a stern voice: "Ike, if you miss, just go ahead and do it. If you buy a book and want to read it yourself, I won't stop you, but if you want to copy the book and sell it, You only come up with such an idea if you are crazy. As long as one classmate buys this copy from you, soon all the classmates in the school will know that you have such a banned book. The more you sell, the more you sell. The closer you are to misfortune. Once this matter spreads and is known to the teachers at the school, your ending can be imagined. Even if your father is the famous Captain Otruni, he cannot prevent you from being captured and served as a labor force... …”

Erikson: "..."

"I was just thinking about it..." Ericson muttered unconvincedly: "Whoever dares to tell the teacher, I will beat him to death..."

"Idiot, do you think that the classmate who told the teacher will say it in front of you? When you find out who the whistleblower is, it will be too late to regret it. Such small manuscripts are expressly prohibited by the kingdom, and the copyists who deliberately distribute them will have a greater influence.

It’s not much different from the writer’s crime.” Claude patted Erikson on the head: “Go and return it to Uncle Burke.”

In addition to the four books, Claude spent four sunars to buy a piece of cyan hard paper, which was used for writing, and twenty pieces of better quality Manli paper. This was what he prepared

Go home and copy the magic recipe book as a birthday gift for your mother.

Compared with the cheap papyrus produced in the three southwest counties, which is rough and slightly burnt, the Manli paper, a specialty of the southern part of the kingdom, costs as much as one pfenni a piece, but the paper is white, delicate and smooth, and has always been designated for government documents.

Office paper, used for copying official documents and archiving documents.

For example, Mr. Morsant, the administrative director of Bailu Town, often brings home some excess office paper, but most of these papers become homework books and scratch paper for Claude and his sister Angelina.

Picture books, or folded by Claude into Xiaopang Dun’s favorite paper airplanes, paper boats, paper lanterns and other gadgets...

Because the Manley paper he purchased was relatively large and not the cut into small pieces that his father brought home from the town hall, Claude rolled up the paper, wrapped it up and held it in his hand.

Behind the tent, he saw Erikson secretly stuffing the little copy into his arms. It seemed that this silly boy had bought the copy.

"How much?" Claude leaned over and asked softly.

Erikson was startled unexpectedly, and was relieved when he saw it was Claude: "One Riazor, plus eight Sunars."

"What?" Claude was shocked. The four new books he bought were only five or six sunars each on average. He didn't expect that the little emperor's uncle's manuscript was worth three new books: "Why is it so expensive?

?”

"Uncle Burke said that it takes a lot of effort to copy paintings, and it is a banned book, so it cannot be sold openly, so the price has gone up. There is nothing he can do. There is no way to wholesale this thing. Occasionally, it depends on luck to get a copy, and the purchase price is very high.

It’s too expensive, and he only has this one..."

"Shit, I don't believe his nonsense." Claude said to himself, no wonder Erikson would think of copying a few copies and selling them to his classmates. This thing is really expensive. It is really not cost-effective to buy it and read it by yourself.

.

"Let's do this," Claude thought for two seconds and gave Erikson an idea: "After you finish reading it, you can resell it to Boa, or rent it to him. This way you can recover at least half of your capital."

"Then do you want to read it? I can resell it to you at a cheaper price, or make a copy for you..." Ericson was just following the wind and climbing along the way.

"Go away, I don't want to read such a childish book!" Claude pushed Erikson away.

On the way back to school, Bockal slapped his forehead and remembered something.

"By the way, Claude, did you hit your sister Anna after you came home yesterday afternoon?"

"What did you say?" Claude was stunned: "No, I can't bear to hit my sister. She is so good, why should I hit her? Yesterday afternoon I went home and went directly upstairs to sleep. Why did you say

Did I hit her?"

"It's not you... Yesterday, when Vero and I delivered the mountain antelope hind legs, python meat and mountain deer jerky to your house, we heard your sister Anna crying quietly in the kitchen alone.

She stopped crying, wiped her tears and came out to pick up her things. We asked who bullied her, but she didn’t say, but her face turned red as if someone had slapped her. We thought you had just come home not long ago.

, I thought you slapped her, so we didn’t ask..."

Verricro also nodded beside him: "We really thought you slapped her, so today we want to advise you not to teach your sister such a lesson..."

Claude's eyes turned red all of a sudden. After traveling to this different world and becoming Claude, his sister Angelina and his brother chubby Blovik had made him truly recognize his identity as an older brother.

He felt the love between siblings and brothers. In his previous life, he was an only child. What he envied most was that others had brothers and sisters...

"Albert..." Claude gritted his teeth and read out the name. He thought of last night when his father taught him a lesson when he called him for dinner. Albert didn't say a word. After his father left, Albert

Claude immediately understood the way he was hiding from himself. He was the one who dared to slap his sister. He was a gangster and bullied the weak. He had to give this guy a hard slap when he got home tonight.

No lessons can be given...


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