"Brother~" As soon as Li Ling entered the house, he saw Yue'er running out of the house quickly. While shouting, he hugged his empty left arm and swayed and refused to let go.

Although the two brothers and sisters have only been separated for two days, the little girl seemed to be intimate as if she hadn't seen each other for a year. Even after entering the house, she still held Li Ling's arm in both hands, as if she was about to hang it on it. Li Tong was there in the room, and she laughed when she saw this: "Dalang is back. Yue'er has been talking about when you will be back in the past two days. Didn't you say that you can arrive before dark today? Why did you come back at this time?"

"Uh, something happened on the road, so it was delayed for a while." Li Ling smiled. In fact, when he first entered the city, he also thought about it. Why would he take the risk to help Shao Qiuxi leave the city? If he was really taken to the government on the spot, the consequences would be unimaginable. The only explanation is that he was a little resistant to these lower-level protesters, and he also wanted to enjoy the adventure?

"Brother, we are still waiting for you to come back and have dinner together. Today is Mid-Autumn Festival." Yue'er left Li Ling honestly until then and sat down at the table next to her. There were several dishes on it, but they were a little cold and there was no heat.

Li Tong did not go into it in depth and said with a smile: "Just come back in time. The food is cold, so I will take it to heat it up, and then let's have a reunion dinner together."

"Okay, Uncle Tong is here." Li Ling also said with a smile. After the other party brought the food out, he took out two clay men from the bag and handed them to Yue'er: "Here, I'll give you a gift."

"Ah, what a beautiful little man..." Yue'er fell in love with the two little men made of colored clay, took it over and looked at it carefully. Then she took another candy and put it in her mouth: "So sweet, delicious!"

"Don't eat too much, I'll have to eat later." After Li Ling reminded him, he took out the yellow bracelet from his arms and put it on Li Yue'er. The extra bracelet on his slender and white wrist really adds a bit of different beauty: "And this one is made of copper, but I will buy you a better one in the future."

"Well, it looks good, the ones I bought are all good." Li Yue'er smiled happily, looking at her wrists wearing bracelets, but even the two little clay men were put aside by her. She said that in the past, she had a silver bracelet, which was something that my mother left for her, but later she was taken as a gambling by her father. She had cried several times for this. Although it was just a copper bracelet, it was enough to make her happy.

Seeing his sister's smile as if she was in a flowery state, Li Ling felt a sense of joy, and suddenly felt that it was not bad to live a peaceful life like this.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, the people and the moon are reunited. At least for Li Ling, the current Li family is a reunited family...

...

Two days later, the money from Wanjia Money House was finally sent over, with three boxes, two big trucks, and more than ten men who looked very majestic, which made Gu Gang, who was originally quite strong, look a little thin in it.

After counting the silver and seeing the boxes being transported into the store, the craftsmen who were already nervous on their faces cheered. Now they felt confident. They were really worried that they could not start work because they lacked money, and eventually the bookstore that had been operating for many years would go bankrupt.

Gu Yuezi and Manager Wu were even more happy. The former immediately ran to Qingfenglou to prepare a banquet for these car escorts who came from afar, while the latter called Qi and shouted: "Okay, we have been resting for several days before. Now the money is in place, and everyone's wages will be paid as much as possible today. You have to make more efforts and print out the booklets you want as soon as possible!"

"After the shopkeeper's instructions, let's go, let's do it now!" The foreman in charge was also in high spirits and shouted loudly. The leader rushed to the workshop behind. Everyone else was full of energy and followed him back.

After a while, the factory that was still deserted before was already full of enthusiasm, carved paper, dyed paper... Everyone was in their own position and devoted themselves to their busy work.

When Li Ling heard the news, he saw such a busy scene. Gu Yuezi, who was the boss, walked around and kept encouraging everyone. Seeing Li Ling coming, he hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "Brother, you really helped me this time. I really didn't expect that Wanjia Money House would lend us so much money, five thousand taels, enough for us to do everything we thought! It's not an exaggeration to say that you are the great benefactor of our Gu family. Please bow your hand!" As he said that, he bent down and bowed.

Li Ling hurriedly supported him: "Brother, don't do this, I dare not take credit. The money bank is willing to borrow money because our bookstore has its own strength, so I just run errands. By the way, how about that big scripture? Could it be released?"

"It's almost done, let's go and see!" Gu Yuezi was not that entangled person. After Li Ling said this, he laughed it off and only wrote down the love story. Then he took Li Ling to the place where he had already been settled, pointing to the pages of the book that had not been bound yet and said, "Actually, it was a good effect after coming out two days ago. Please take a look."

Li Ling carefully picked up a page of the book. It was an article in the Analects of Confucius. Looking carefully, the font on it was more than half larger than ordinary books. The next one was an embroidered painting. It was the scene when Confucius and his disciples sat on the Tao, and it looked quite decent.

"how?"

"It looks good. The cost of this book is much higher than before, right?"

"It's 20% more, it's mainly because it costs more paper and ink, but as long as it's more real, it's not too expensive."

"Would we lose or make a profit if we sell it all at the original price?"

"At least there is no profit, and we have to include the materials that failed to test prints before."

"But this is worth it. I think as long as it is at a price, even if it is more expensive than the scriptures of Wanjia Bookstore, most people will still choose to buy our big scriptures. After all, there are portraits in our books, which is more labor-saving, right?"

This made Gu Yuezi nodded repeatedly: "That's natural. I've checked it. Now many old boys in the county are complaining that the scriptures are too small, and it's hard to read at night. Now that there are big books, they will naturally choose ours."

Li Ling smiled and said, "In addition, we can spread the news, just say that in order to give back to the scholars in the city, our Gujia Bookstore has printed large scriptures at any cost. Unlike other bookstores, they still use small books to fool everyone!"

"This idea is good, and it's time for us to vent our anger." Now that the money is in place, Gu Yuezi's waist has also become hard, and he immediately smiled, "As long as he can win back a city from the scriptures, the subsequent things will be easier."

"In addition, I have another idea. Can all the painters keep them?"

"Of course, you have said it a few times before. You have to keep all the painters in our county in your hands. Why would I not listen?"

"That's good, listen to me, the scriptures are just used to fight against Wanjia Bookstore, and they don't point to it to make money. The real place to make money is here..." Li Ling whispered his next strategy, and then stunned Gu Yuezi.

After a while, he hesitated and said, "Can this method really work? Is there anyone reading such a book?"

"Why don't there? Do you think there are many people in our county who study and take the imperial examination, or are there many others? Of course, it is the latter, and there are much more. So as long as we turn these people into our customers, are we still afraid of not making money? And as long as we do as I mean, even those who are illiterate can like to read our books!"

Gu Yuezi, who had already admired Li Ling very much, hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Then do what you want, but what book should you start with?" Speaking of this, he looked at Li Ling again and had an idea, "Since it was your idea, let's start with your God. That book has been very popular recently, and there is nothing more suitable than it."

"As well... it's okay." Li Ling nodded and agreed.

When Gujia Bookstore was in full swing, the atmosphere in the backyard account room of Wanjia Bookstore was full of depression.

The two brothers Wanai and Wanrong sat opposite each other with dark faces and didn't say anything for a long time.

After a while, Wan Rong gritted his teeth and said, "We finally opened up the situation here in Jiangcheng, but someone came to drag him down later. It's so outrageous! They were all guys who were messing with each other in the house, and they actually borrowed money to the Gu family. Do you really think about the old man and don't care about them?"

Wan Ai also sighed softly: "The eldest house and our three houses have always had a rift. But they were not so blatant before, and actually helped outsiders deal with their own people! We must report this to the old man and let him preside over justice for us. But at this point, the most important thing is to do a good job in business, at least to squeeze the Gu family out of this year.

"Don't be too nervous. In fact, the situation is still beneficial to us. After all, several bookstores now have closer relationships with us and our books are cheaper. Are you still afraid that any new version of the scriptures they have produced? No matter how much they do, is it just a collection of classics, history, and books?"

Wan Rong nodded: "I know this. I will talk to the owners of those bookstores. It would be best if they could stop selling Gu's books."

"That's a bit difficult. We can't afford such great benefits. But there is one thing you have to grasp, that is, you must not let the books of the Gu family overwhelm us. We must be cheaper than theirs. Humph, isn't it just 5,000 taels of silver? We brought a full 20,000 silver. Just by fighting for consumption, we can also kill them!"
Chapter completed!