"What do you mean?" Wan Rong's eyes twitched from the faces of the five bookstore owners in front of him. He really wanted to kick these guys who went back on their word and fell to the wind to death. "If I remember correctly, those books were sold at the beginning, but now they actually want to return all the books?"

Manager Liu smiled bitterly, but his tone was a little tough: "Boss Wan, that's not what he said. There have always been cases in our bookstores and bookstores. Books that cannot be sold can be returned. You can't let us buy all the books ourselves, right?"

"Hmph, I can't see it! Those scriptures that are used for the imperial examinations can be sold a lot every month. I won't be in a hurry if I delay more days. What are you anxious?"

"But now it's different. Now your scriptures are no longer in your mind." Another shopkeeper raised his courage and said, "So we think that not only today, but also in a few months, it's better to return them to you."

"You..." Wan Rong was immediately annoyed, slammed the table, leaned forward, staring at them, and said, "Don't forget that you all took the benefits of our Wan family at the beginning, but now it's not that easy to separate the relationship. I really think that my Wan family is easy to bully!"

Seeing that he was angry, the bosses looked ugly, but their attitude still did not change. Just when Wanrong wanted to have a very fine attack, the closed door was pushed open. Wanai, who also had a gloomy face, strode in, and did not look at them directly. He only said to his younger brother: "The melon that is forced is not sweet, you and I don't have to force them anymore, just let them return the books."

"But..." Wan Rong could not swallow this breath, and wanted to say something angrily, but was interrupted by him: "Isn't it just that Gujia Bookstore has published several large books, and do you want to go back to cooperate with him? I, Wanjia, haven't taken him seriously yet, you are just doing it yourself. But there is an ugly saying I can put it here. Today you return all the books, and the price in the future will not be as cheap as before!"

"Thank you, Boss Wan, we have written it down." When these bosses heard that they agreed to withdraw the book, they were all very happy. They no longer cared about Wanrong's bad face and Wanai's threat. They smiled and bowed to thank him, and then left in a hurry, obviously to arrange the return of the book.

Seeing them leaving, Wan Rong was so angry that he waved his hand and swept the teacup on the table to the ground: "A group of ungrateful wolves, but they didn't expect that they would bite him back in the end!"

Wanai's face was not good either, and now their bookstore was in a bad state. The novel has been suppressed by the gods and has not improved. There are thousands of unsold volumes of "The Romance of the Immortals" in the warehouse. Now that the scriptures they have high expectations have been returned in large quantities, it is really difficult to do business here.

But even so, he comforted Wan Rong: "Okay, don't be angry about these villains. In fact, they should have known the essence of these people long before they easily turned to us!"

"But I just don't agree. The Gu family can make us passive by printing a few books. What big scriptures are so good, so people would rather spend two more money to buy theirs? And how did they print the books in just a few days? Didn't Gu Kui say before that they still had many problems that they had not overcome?"

"Don't you understand? We were deceived by that guy early in the morning! Eighty percent of what he said to us was true, but the remaining 20% ​​of the key was false, in order to paralyze us, make us feel complacent and relax our vigilance. The shortage of silver in the Gujia Bookstore was true before, but who would have thought that they would actually go to the Fucheng to borrow money from our Wanjia family! The printing of that book is the same thing, look at this!" Wanai said, taking out a book of the Analects of Confucius published by the Gujia Bookstore from his sleeve and handed it over.

Wan Rong took the book and glanced at it. The anger on his face faded a little. When he opened the book and looked through the contents a few times, his eyes turned even more angry: "They have really done it? This book is much clearer and more convenient than before, and there are illustrations, which look more beautiful!"

"Yes, we are not against our will. If these two books are placed in front of us, it is only two cents of silver, we have to choose their reading. Hey, this ancient confinement is such a good method. When we know that the price is not our opponent, we actually came up with such a different way of finding a way."

Seeing Wan Ai feeling of admiration, Wan Rong felt even more uncomfortable: "Then let's admit defeat? This is the opportunity we finally got. If we fail like this, I'm afraid we will be completely unable to raise our heads at home in the future. There are also our three rooms..."

Wanai snorted: "Of course you can't admit defeat like this! In my opinion, things are not going to be a turnaround. You have read it too. His book is much better than ours, and the cost will be extremely high, far from being reflected in the gap between two coins. Do you know what this means?"

Wan Rong immediately understood: "You mean they are doing a loss-making business?"

"Just doing a loss-making business, his Gujia Bookstore may lose one or more money if he sells an extra book like this! Their purpose is also very clear, that is, to force us away with this trick. And as long as we leave, they can raise the price of the book again. After all, what supports them to do this is just the five thousand taels of silver sent by the Changfang."

"I must sue these guys with elbows outwards in front of the old man!" At this point, Wan Rong suddenly felt a sudden change in his heart and understood what the other party meant, "So as long as we persist, we don't have to do anything, the Gujia Bookstore will completely collapse."

"That's right, when we were in Jiangcheng County for one day, they could only lose money to sell books, but their capital was limited after all! I was thinking about whether we could learn to change the version, but now it seems that this trick is more effective and simpler. So what we have to do now is to keep calm and see what else they can do!"

"Brother, you are right, just follow your wishes. I want to see when they can last. Then I will let the fence-bearers kneel in front of me one by one and beg me to give them the book!" Wan Rong said gritting his teeth. Obviously, the stimulation that the incident just now gave him was too great.

Wan Ai just smiled and did not persuade him again. Whether it is the Wan family or his brothers, their face is still very important. How can he let the bullys of a few small bookstores be forgotten?

In the next half month, they decided to be patient and stopped doing any business. They just stayed in Jiangcheng County to see how Gujia Bookstore operated. Gujia Bookstore continued to be lively and busy, and batches of newly printed books were distributed every day, as if they were really trying to drive them out at all costs.

And just one day after mid-September entered, the two brothers who were playing chess and drinking tea received a message that made them uneasy: "Two masters, Gujia Bookstore just delivered a batch of new books to each bookstore, which seemed different from the previous ones."

"Then go and buy it and have a look." Wan Rong's heart thumped and he said quickly.

"I have sent someone, and I should bring the book back soon..." After the man finished speaking, a guy outside rushed over with a hurried look: "Two masters, this is a new batch of books in the bookstore, all... are paintings..." Then he submitted them in.

Wan Rong immediately got up and took it, but found that it was just a small book, which looked half smaller than the previous Four Books and Five Classics. There were also paintings on the cover, and four large characters were written - The Romance of the Gods, and below it was the smaller "Volume 1".

"Hasn't Feng Shen released a long time ago? Now that the book is reduced, can you buy it again..." Cheng's character was unable to be exported because Wan Rong had already opened the pages of the book, and then he was surprised to find that the pages here were all pictures-

The first page is pitch black, with a little white in the middle. You can vaguely see a figure squatting in the darkness, holding an axe in his hand. On the right side of the picture is a column of words: "Billions of years ago, heaven and earth were originally one, which is chaos, no day and night, no growth of all things, until the great god Pangu came to the world and suddenly woke up one day..." It is exactly the content of the opening of the Romance of the Gods.

The originally disdainful expression on Wan Rong's face changed and became extremely solemn. With his fingers moving, he turned the book back. The second page is the scene where Pangu opened the world, and there are also words on the side to introduce it. Then Nuwa created humans and Fuxi was born...

In this way, the first volume is in the most brief language to express the story of the book of Conquering Gods until King Zhou wants to be beautiful in the form of pictures. Although it is far less specific and exciting than the novel, it has a different sense of freshness with pictures.

At this moment, Wan Rong's hand holding the book was already trembling slightly, and his forehead also oozed with fine beads of sweat in this cool autumn. Even though his expression changed drastically, Wan Ai came over to read it with him. He could see how much impact this painting had on the entire book market.

"How much money did you buy this book?" Wanai suddenly reacted and stared at the mate and asked.

"Six...six cents..."

"A small book is so expensive? Are there many people buying it?"

"It wasn't much at the beginning, but after I bought it, the bookstore business improved a lot because of the amazement of many people."

"It's true!" Wanai shook his head with a wry smile, "You and I have underestimated Gu Yuezi. It turns out that he has made plans long ago and will not leave any room for us at all. The cost of this book is more than half lower than that of the scriptures, but the price is 70% or 80%, so their profit points are there. It's really high."

After pausing, he smiled bitterly again, "And they had a plan, and they were already preparing for this album when they put the paintings into the scriptures a few days ago. This time, their counterattack was so fierce that we lost without any wickedness!"
Chapter completed!