Chapter 330

Standing behind the door of a study, Luo qingluan looked at the mess in the street and smiled on her lips.

Xiao Ningyu could not resist dozens of pursuits no matter how she was a princess. Debt merchants and vendors, let alone not everyone knows her identity. In addition, there are only two attendants around. Xiao Ningyu is being pulled in the street. She scolds angrily and has no image. Instead of finding her, she is entangled by countless people.

"Hum, you deserve it!" Xu Lian was excited and funny. "Who makes her unkind and dare to provoke the young lady?" She was the one who helped just now. Otherwise, Luo qingluan alone could not make the situation so fierce.

Xu Wei hugged his arms and didn't speak. He doesn't care what happens outside. As long as he can protect the princess, let alone a princess, he's not afraid even if the emperor comes.

Slowly, the farce in the street began to disperse, and a group of people chasing Xiao Ningyu ran away, and they didn't know the outcome. Those watching the excitement around either catch up or keep busy with their own business. Passers by also restrained their mood, still busy with what to do.

I've seen the excitement. I have to take care of my own business, don't I?

Finally, Luo qingluan could be quiet. He turned his head and looked at the study that had just let himself avoid Xiao Ningyu.

On the wall hung a plaque with gilt words "Baiwei study". When she calmed down, Luo qingluan immediately smelled a smell of ink and the special smell of paper in the air.

At first glance, there are all bookshelves. Each bookshelf is filled with at least thousands of books. Some are blue leather covers, some are kraft paper covers, and even simple bamboo slips. I feel that this study has been open for many years and has a lot of years of experience.

Unconsciously, Luo qingluan went to the threshold and picked up a book to read.

This book is nothing special. The content is some poems and songs. She doesn't know the author's taboo, but from the quality of poetry, she can guess that it is estimated that it is the usual works of some famous students who want to make money and sell them here for money. The paper is snow-white, the handwriting is clear, and there is an obvious smell of ink. It is estimated that it was just printed.

"But miss likes this kind of poetry collection?" Behind him came an old man's voice. Luo qingluan looked back and saw a gray haired shopkeeper. The old man looked at her with a kind face and pointed to her hand and said, "these are not good. If the young lady is really interested, I have some better ones."

It seems that some people are infected by the surrounding environment. The shopkeeper didn't go to the theatre just now because of the noise in the street. He didn't come out until this meeting. It seems that he is probably not a nosy person. Looking at him, although his face is full of wrinkles, there is a trace of wisdom in the bottom of his eyes, which is obviously some knowledge.

Luo qingluan was also very interested in such a person. With a faint smile, she put down the book in her hand: "I don't know what books are sold in the old man's study?"

"Poems, songs and Fu, astronomy and geography, agronomy and medicine, music scores, chess scores, biographies... I have some here as long as the young lady can say." The old man smiled gently, but his words were full of pride.

Luo qingluan's eyes lit up: "isn't the old man's study everything?"

"Not exactly, but almost." The old man said faintly, "my Baiwei study is the largest and most complete in Dongwan. Even sometimes his Highness the prince will come to me."

"Oh?" In this way, Luo qingluan is more interested.

Originally, she was just hiding from Xiao Ningyu temporarily, but now she accidentally found such a comprehensive study. How can she stroll around. Thinking of her dark house business in Xichu, she once earned her first pot of gold by selling brochures, which made her a little closer.

"Miss, do you want to buy a book?" Xu Lian asked.

The old man said with a smile: "even if the young lady doesn't buy it, it's OK to borrow it. The rent is very cheap. It's just 20 Wen for a book."

"Old gentleman, can the books here be rented?" Luo qingluan was surprised. In so many bookstores and bookstores in Xichu, they only sell books and have never heard of renting books. Before, she thought this model had not been developed in this era, but she didn't want to see it in Dongwan.

Seeing that Luo qingluan was really interested, the old man asked her to go in and talk about it in detail. He also asked the waiter to bring tea, looking like a long sigh. After he said it, Luo qingluan understood what was going on.

"I see." She nodded and lost her smile. It's not that others didn't expect, but that it's not so easy to start a business.

"My Baiwei study was subsidized by the crown prince, otherwise I couldn't support it at the beginning. Later, there was more money to turn around and more books to buy. Of course, the guests came to me to buy books. Even if they borrowed books, everyone wanted to choose more and more kinds, right?" The old man said with emotion, with a happy look.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yuqi is still such a person. He can take the initiative to help an ordinary old man open his study. It can be seen that he is kind and helpful. The old man is also a grateful person. Although he knows that he is a civilian, he can't help Xiao Yuqi at all, but since then, whenever Xiao Yuqi comes to visit him, he never charges him a penny. Even if he occasionally gets out of print books, he sends them to him at the first time.

The more he knows, the more Luo qingluan knows about Xiao Yuqi, and his favor is also true. Of course, this is definitely not the love between men and women, but the appreciation and sympathy between friends.

But now, Luo qingluan's mind is still on this Baiwei study.

There have been so many things happening recently that she has no time to calm down and read. She thinks of the countless contents she has seen from the ghost doctor in her previous life, including some top secret versions and classics. Otherwise, how could she be now?

Luo qingluan's speech and insight also refresh the old man. He has always treated his guests like this, but he rarely meets as wise and spiritual as the woman in front of him. He not only talked about some content, but also completely kept up with his topic. Sometimes she said a word and read a poem, but he didn't hear it, but it was wonderful.

Is there any book in the world that he hasn't read?

On this thought, the old man felt that Luo qingluan had an extraordinary origin. Even if she doesn't come from a rich family, she is definitely a scholarly family. Otherwise, she can't bring up such a smart daughter.

"The old man's shop is really big. I don't know how many books there are?" Luo qingluan asked.

There were more than ten bookshelves in the lobby of the study. She saw that there was also the second floor. She had just come too close to notice whether there was a third floor. She didn't expect to see so many books in any study. She had the feeling of returning to the library of her previous life.

"There are 16825 copies in the study today," said the old man. He engraved them in his mind like a mold, and his memory is quite clear: "in addition, the young lady borrowed 38 copies before she came, and there are three copies scheduled. It is estimated that the guests will come to pick them up in the next two days."

The memory of the old man was so clear that Luo qingluan couldn't help laughing.

They talked for a while. Xu Lian and Xu Wei kept behind Luo qingluan. After a while, other guests came to the study again and again. The old man pleaded guilty and went to work again. Plus two hired guys, it's just right.

Seeing that Luo qingluan was so interested in the study, Xu Wei couldn't help asking, "since Miss wants to read, I'd better buy it back."

Reading is indeed some interest, but Luo qingluan knows that she is busy and is about to have little time to spare. If she had not been attracted by some special study in this family, she would not have stayed so long.

From the information the old man said just now, Luo qingluan learned that the profit of the whole Baiwei study in January was about 500 Liang. Although it was more than the income of ordinary people, it was a loss for such a large store to earn so much.

If it weren't for the old man's shop itself, I'm afraid Xiao Yuqi secretly funded it. It's estimated that it would have been beyond its income. Luo qingluan has always been very fond of people who love books. She used to write those words just to make money. If you really want to see her, she is not interested. But at this meeting, she moved a bunch of the old people's thoughts.

Even if it's to repay the kindness that made her avoid Xiao Ningyu just now? Even if it was unintentional, she would admit it.

When he saw off the guests in the store, the old man looked a little tired and stooped slowly. When he saw that Luo qingluan was still in place, he was surprised and embarrassed: "sorry, I was busy just now and didn't care to greet the young lady. If the young lady likes the books here, it's better to choose one and count it as mine for you."

"Please sit down, sir. I have something to ask you." Luo qingluan said seriously.

"Just now, the old man said that the income of this shop in January is only about 500 Liang silver, but I read so many books that I should have a good business. Why is the income so small?"

I think of the first bookstore I met in Xichu. Although Luo qingluan didn't manage it personally, only the brochures she sold could make thousands of liang of profits in January, and she could get at least 1000 yuan a month. But although this Baiwei bookstore has so complete contents, why doesn't its revenue even half that of an ordinary bookstore?

When Luo qingluan asked about this, the old man shook his head with emotion. Luo qingluan thought it involved trade secrets, The old man said the reason: "it's not that I'm stubborn and don't want to make money. My family still has three children, eight grandchildren and the living expenses of the whole family come from here. The prince's highness gives me some help from time to time, but I've received so many benefits from the prince's highness. How can I want his money?"

Although there are many books in the study, most of them patronize students who read books. Occasionally talented and enlightened dolls are brought by their elders to buy books, but these alone can only get enough food and clothing.

"For example, if you cherish one of the four books and five classics, you can read it for seven or eight years, not to mention that some poor people can only borrow it from each other or buy one together. So, how can the business of the little old man be better than that of other stores?"

Speaking of this, the old man suddenly became solemn: "but even so, I won't do that kind of shady and dirty business like some bookstores."

Luo qingluan was surprised. He was so angry. What business did other bookstores do? Still dirty?

Just after asking the exit, the old man remembered that Luo qingluan was a woman and smiled a few times: "this kind of thing is not easy to bring Miss pollution's Fang to listen to. It's just something that some low-level people see. It's just a matter of the world's declining trend and humiliating gentleness. It's better not to mention it."

It was so obvious that Luo qingluan didn't react again. He was also a little stupid.

What the old man said, is that what she did in the dark house?

Little yellow book? Spring palace map? Hehe, it's embarrassing enough!