[Red Mansion] Mrs. Lin, the Buddhist family

After a period of "hard work", Lin Ruhai can be regarded as having done all the test questions to be published by his own bookstore, and asked some close friends to help correct the mistakes, and he himself corrected some mistakes according to the classics Finally, he handed over more answers than the test set to Jia Shu.

After this battle, Lin Ruhai really felt that some small knowledge points that were almost forgotten in the past, all of them were recalled!

What's more, because when doing the questions, I found that there were still many contents in the book that I didn't fully grasp. After Lin Ruhai found out those contents and studied them carefully, I felt that my knowledge was better than before!

Lin Ruhai hesitated, should he find out those test questions that were not selected by Jia Shu and do it again!

When Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Shu, his face was complicated.

Jia Shu looked amused, leaned over and kissed him, and then sent someone to the printing workshop with the answer.

She didn't expect that Lin Ruhai could actually complete all the test questions she was planning to publish in half a month——

Although the characters in the ancient books are as big as buckets, and there is not much real content in a book, and there is also a quill pen that she specially found someone to make, but the test questions that are as high as Lin Ruhai's thighs can be made so quickly, and it is impossible. It is enough to show that Lin Ruhai has really been working hard on the questions during this period of time.

Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Shu's leaving back, took a deep breath, and then went back to the bedroom and lay down on the bed. Taking advantage of this rare rest, he lay on the bed and slept all day before recovering.

Then, when he was on duty again, his mental state was completely different.

Because Ji Ru never hurt Lin Ruhai when he was in trouble, and later because Lin Ruhai was promoted to a bachelor's degree attendant and presided over the compilation of the book, and then promoted him to participate in the compilation of the book, the relationship between the two developed by leaps and bounds.

Although he is not considered a best friend, Ji Ru is already Lin Ruhai's best colleague in the Imperial Academy.

Ji Ru could see Lin Ruhai's state in the past two days, but because he didn't make any mistakes when compiling the book, and he seemed to be just tired and in a good state of mind, he didn't ask any more questions.Seeing his flushed face now, Ji Ru walked up to him: "What happened to you a few days ago? It seemed like you didn't sleep at night. Although Bachelor Lin is still young, he still needs to pay attention to his body."

In fact, Ji Ru wanted to ask him if he had too much trouble with his younger siblings at night, but it was really hard for him to ask about such things.

Lin Ruhai didn't understand the true meaning of Ji Ru's words, so he just nodded and said: "My sage is so kind, I am willing to publish the test questions from previous years and publish them in a book. My bookstore was selected by the sage to publish a book. I just have something to say, and I want me to do it in advance. , when the time comes to sell it, there will be a reference.”

Ji Ru didn't know the way to do it, but because he heard that the books of Lin Ruhai's family bookstore had a good reputation among scholars, and he even had a set of Liu Daru's teaching supplementary books sent by his friends, he subconsciously said: " Now, I wish Lin Xueshi's new book to sell well, and the business is booming."

Lin Ruhai nodded with a smile: "I would like to borrow your good words."

Ji Ru paused, and said: "When Liu Daru's book came out, a friend gave me a set of teaching aids, and I was worried about how to return the gift. It happened that my friend's family had a distant nephew who was about to participate in the spring festival. Hey, the test questions in your book store should be a good choice. Those test questions are supposed to start selling?"

Lin Ruhai nodded.

Ji Ru smiled and said, "Can you reserve two sets for me in advance? I'll have someone pick them up at your bookstore sometime?"

Ji Ru didn't say no to the money, it was just a little convenience, Lin Ruhai naturally didn't refuse.

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After Jia Shu got Lin Ruhai's answer, he printed thousands of books in less than two days. Considering the number of juren gathered in the capital, this number is not too much, but it is still enough to deal with the business on the first day. .

Just when Jia Shu asked people to send the books to the three bookstores, which were about to open for business, those civil officials who had opposed printing the test questions into books at the beginning opposed it again in the court.

Emperor Qisheng sat on the dragon chair, looked at the censor standing below with cold eyes, and suddenly smiled: "Why, you civil servants don't even care about face?"

The censor shuddered and almost knelt down.

But thinking of the third prince's instructions, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Return to the emperor, the Lin family bookstore got the test questions much earlier than others, which is unfair to other bookstores who went to the Ministry of Households to buy test questions after hearing the news. "

Emperor Qisheng laughed, knowing that he was the person standing behind the Lin family bookstore, but still wanted to be fair to him?

Turning his eyes, Emperor Qisheng glanced at the third prince: "Third prince, come and tell me, what is fairness?"

Really thought that he stayed in the palace all day, so he didn't know that the third prince had the most books in the capital, there were more than a dozen of them?

Doesn't he know who will benefit the most from suppressing the Lin family bookstore?

The third prince was stunned for a moment, why did this matter have something to do with him again?

He turned his head to look at the censor, could this person be an official under his command?How has he never seen it?However, the fourth-rank censor really can't catch his eyes, and it's not surprising that he doesn't know him.

But when did he let his subordinates go up to pry the corner of his father's wall?

Now the emperor and the prince have a very good relationship, even if these princes have great abilities, they cannot pose a threat to the prince.All the brothers except the prince knew that the most important thing now was to pull the prince down first. Besides, they also had to find ways to win more attention and love from the emperor.

He was not stupid when he faced Emperor Qisheng at this time.

The third prince shivered violently, and suddenly realized that he had been cheated by a certain brother.But when the emperor asked, he couldn't help but answer: "Go back to the emperor, my son thinks that this is the best."

The censor looked at the third prince in disbelief, opened his mouth to say something, but finally lowered his head dejectedly, his whole body was shrouded in despair.

Emperor Qisheng saw everything in his eyes, and he became more suspicious of the third prince in his heart: "Tell me, what is fair?"

The censor knelt down directly: "Back to the emperor, I think that a day should be set for all bookstores to sell test questions together."

Although he had already been given up by the third prince, he had already spoken, and he did not dare to speak back at this time.

Emperor Qisheng looked at the third prince with more serious eyes.

In the court hall, photographed by the majesty of Emperor Qisheng, every one of the civil and military officials dared to speak out.

Of course, it may also be because many officials also found ways to get some dividends in other bookstores after they found that they could not stop Emperor Qisheng from selling the test questions to make money.Even if they knew that it was best to refute the censor's words at this time, so as to appease the emperor's anger, but for their own benefit, everyone else pretended to be quail,

Emperor Qisheng laughed angrily: "Okay, okay, since you all said that, I will see if all the bookstores sell test questions together, and see if there is any bookstore that can surpass the business of the Lin Family Bookstore."

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Lin Ruhai was happy that he was finally freed from the mountain of test questions. Even when compiling a boring book, he was always smiling and full of interest. When other colleagues who were compiling the book looked at it, they felt that something good had happened to him.

Apart from Ji Ru, there were naturally other people who noticed the difference between Lin Ruhai and the previous few days, so some people curiously asked Lin Ruhai for gossip.

Lin Ruhai didn't feel the need to hide anything, so he told his colleagues about the news that the Lin Family Bookshop was about to release a new book.

Because Ji Ru is just a common man, even though he was transferred by Lin Ruhai to edit the book together, he was busy with all kinds of trivial matters because of the lowest official position. How hot but without a clear understanding.Even the books given to him by his friends are too busy to read.

But these have become bachelor officials, and they only need to take care of the overall situation on weekdays, and they also have subordinates to help with other trivial errands, and the daily check-up time is much earlier than Lin Ruhai.

Even because of the recent revision of the book, I am very concerned about the books on the market.The colleagues who edited the book bought Lin Ruhai's book and read it, but they didn't feel much about it.But Liu Zhengqing, a great Confucian, also published books in Lin Ruhai's bookstore, which made them have to look at Lin Ruhai's bookstore differently.

So when he heard Lin Ruhai's words, he felt itchy: "Scholar Lin, can you save a set for me? I'll send someone to pick it up from the book shop. Don't worry, I'll let my servant bring enough money."

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "They are all questions from the previous Chunwei and Palace Examinations, which are of no use to us."

The person who came to ask questions was not disappointed: "I won't need it, so I can give it away."

Only then did Lin Ruhai agree.

The man was satisfied, and hesitantly reminded him: "If your book store wants to sell test questions, I'm afraid it will have to wait."

Lin Ruhai was taken aback: "Why?"

Didn't Emperor Qisheng say before that the matter has been resolved, so they can rest assured to sell the test questions?

The person who came told Lin Ruhai what happened in the court before: "This kind of thing has been decided a while ago, and it stands to reason that there should be no more changes, but since someone took the lead in picking things up, the scientific examination questions It is not surprising that there will be the current result of the entanglement of interests behind the scenes. If the emperor directly dismisses the opinion of the censor regardless of the opinions of all the officials, no one would dare to gossip."

But obviously this matter seems to involve the third prince, the emperor was really angry, and finally it came to such a result.

Lin Ruhai is not stupid, after hearing this, he knew that this matter might be used as a raft again and dragged into the fight for the heirloom.

After a while, as expected, the emperor summoned Lin Ruhai again.

This time, Lin Ruhai knew exactly what the emperor called him to do.

As soon as it was time for lunch, Lin Ruhai went back to Lin's house in a carriage and told Jia Shu about it.

But this matter has been settled, the emperor has already said in front of civil and military officials that all bookstores should sell at the same time, so can he take it back?

No joke, Emperor Qisheng would never do this.

Even after returning to the upper study room to calm down, he also understood that the third prince was designed by someone.

But he wanted to snatch the chair under his butt from the prince, but he didn't even know that the officials under his command were bribed, and even the court declared that he had assassinated him. When the emperor?

-

In half a month's time, the spring of the new subject will begin.

During this period of time, scholars from other parts of the Great Xia gathered in the capital to adapt to the local environment, review their homework, and go out to socialize to build their reputations.

Tang Yuanwei from Jiangnan is one of them.

However, he is different from other students in that, under his father's arrangement, he defected to his father's good friend, Uncle Ji, very early on.Because Aunt Ji's natal family is a well-known businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, Tang Yuanwei stayed quite comfortably at Ji's house.

Of course, he would have been happier if his father hadn't sent two sets of teaching aids written by Liu Daru, who was selling very well in the capital, to Jifu.

But there is no if in the world.

Even though Uncle Ji didn't care, and even took more care of him because of his father's actions, Tang Yuanwei felt embarrassed. During this time, he hid in his room to review his homework and did not want to see Uncle Ji.

One day, his friend came to the Ji Mansion to look for him: "Have you ever heard that the Lin Family Publishing House has released a new book?"

Tang Yuanwei's mind moved immediately, he got up and was about to run outside.But he quickly settled down: "Do you know the content of that book? Is it something we can use?"

"Hehe, I have already inquired about it a long time ago. This time, after reading Liu Daru's teaching aids, His Majesty felt something and felt sorry for the difficulties of our students in studying, so he decided to cooperate with the Lin Family Bookstore and prepare to use the spring exams and palace examinations of the previous years. The test questions were published in a book, so that my students can have a solid foundation before Chunwei."

"And this time it's not just the Lin family bookstore, other bookstores in the capital can also buy test questions with money from the household department..."

"Since that's the case, why don't we go directly to the household department to buy test questions?" Tang Yuanwei asked strangely.

His friend was stunned for a moment, then he dragged him and ran out without hesitation, shouting to him as he ran, "Don't think about how hard it is to buy books at Linjiashudian. Zensheng is good? Even if you have something to ask, wouldn’t it be better to go to the place and ask those who have already bought the test set?”

Moreover, his friend murmured in his heart: Even if the test questions sold by other bookstores are the same as those of the Ministry of Households, the test question sets sold by Linjiashu are absolutely different.

For some reason, he had such a premonition in his heart.

However, after all, the two of them didn't rush to the Lin Family Bookstore directly after hearing the news, and they didn't take a carriage on the way. When they arrived in front of the Lin Family Bookstore, they found that there was already a line of nearly [-] meters outside the door.

The two were taken aback, and after looking at each other, one lined up, and the other hurriedly asked someone to inquire about the situation.

His friend walked fast, and soon ran to the end of the line to join the queue, while Tang Yuanwei ran to the door of the store, watching someone bought a full five test question sets, and dared to stop him: "Dare to ask this brother?" ho..."

Tang Yuanwei's eyes were firmly fixed on the five books in this person's arms. He glanced at them just now and couldn't see them clearly, but now he was a little astonished, "Why are the books so big this time?"

The books in this bookstore are always about the same size, almost without exception, but this time the book published by Lin Family Bookstore is more than double the usual size.

The man looked at Tang Yuanwei proudly, stretched out his hand and gestured for the size of the book: "Brother, don't you think the size of this book is the same as the paper size of the test questions in previous years?"

Tang Yuanwei was also admitted all the way through the county examination office examination Qiu Wei, and he immediately reacted after being reminded.

Tang Yuanwei smiled at the lucky man who had already bought the book: "Brother, I don't know if this book is different from the test questions we usually do in the exam?"

The man waved his hand and replied with a smile: "It's no different, the book published by the Lin Family Bookshop this time is the test questions for the Chunwei and Palace Examinations in previous years."

Tang Yuanwei was about to be disappointed, so he heard him say, "It's just that this Lin Family Bookstore has summarized different types of test questions together. If I am not good at a certain type of question, I can specialize in that part. And the test questions in this book , They are all carefully selected, there is absolutely no repetition, and it will not waste my money."

"Of course, if you just want to buy test papers, the Lin Family Bookstore specially made a set of test questions that haven't changed much. It contains a whole set of test papers that haven't been split. Some of them were published in previous years. But if you finish the test questions that are not used, you should be able to know your current level of knowledge."

"How do I know if the answer is correct after I have done the question?" Tang Yuanwei was a little puzzled.

The man laughed: "Brother, I don't know. The owner of the Lin Family Bookshop is Lin Ruhai, a former scientific researcher. After his family printed the book, he even asked Lin Tanhua to do all the test questions again," he said. He took out a book, "Look, this is Lin Tanhua's answer."

The man wanted to say more, but who would have thought that someone else bought the book later, and seeing him explaining to Tang Yuanwei, he grabbed him: "You told him so much, maybe he didn't plan to buy test questions at the Lin Family Bookstore, but he was also caught You said that you are moving, can you use your brains, wouldn't it be better for you to have one less person to buy books?"

After the man came out, he ran away with a pile of books in his arms, as if he was worried about being stopped by Tang Yuanwei.

And the student standing in front of Tang Yuanwei also became embarrassed: "That... I will take my leave first..."

Throw down this sentence, turn around and run.

Tang Yuanwei still wanted to wait for other people, but found that the other people didn't intend to stay after buying the book.

Tang Yuanwei had no choice but to go to his friend.

After such a long time, the queue position of friends has also moved forward.

"How about it, can you find out the specific situation?"

Tang Yuanwei quickly told what he just found out, and said, "I don't know much about other things, but Lin Tanhua's answers to the questions, I really want to buy a copy."

No matter what these scholars think of Lin Ruhai, it is an indisputable fact that Lin Ruhai passed the Tanhua exam. If you compare your own answers with Lin Tanhua's, you can almost know how far the level between yourself and Lin Tanhua is. This time the scientific examination can also have some bottoms in my heart.

His friend had the same reaction after hearing it.

Just looking at the long queue in front of him, he was a little frustrated: "Can you go to other bookstores to buy test questions, and then go to Linjia Bookstore to buy Tanhualang's answers?" He glanced at Tang Yuanwei with an embarrassed expression, "I In the past few months in the capital, I have spent more than half of the money... I heard that the test questions in other bookstores will be cheaper."

Tang Yuanwei was stunned, and advised him: "I still have some money, why don't I lend it to you first, and return it to me when I return home?"

His friend hesitated: "It's all the same test questions, there's no need..."

In fact, if this book publishing event was not too close to Chun Wei, he even wanted to wait for Tang Yuanwei to buy the book, borrow the book and copy it directly——

That's what he did for Liu Daru's books before, otherwise the money in his hand would not last at all.

Tang Yuanwei frowned: "Didn't I say that just now, that kind brother said that the contents of the books in the Lin family bookstore were all messed up, and I heard that some content was deleted. Lin Tanhua's answer must correspond to the Lin family book If you go to other bookstores to buy books, after you finish writing the answer sheet, you may have to waste time looking for the answer, the key is to waste time and worry that you won’t find the answer. Now that Spring is around the corner, why waste all this time?"

His friend was quickly persuaded by him, and he clasped his fists at Tang Yuanwei in embarrassment: "In that case, please ask brother Tang to lend me some money, and I will definitely return it when I return home."

Tang Yuanwei believed in his friend's character very much, and patted him on the shoulder: "What's the matter? I'll just buy two sets later."

It's just that the two of them got the news a little late. When the team was about to turn to their place, the shopkeeper of the book store actually came out to apologize to them, saying that the answers were sold out, and if they wanted to buy books, they had to come back tomorrow.

"Shopkeeper, we have worked so hard to line up for such a long time, and you dismissed me as soon as the book is sold out, isn't that bad?"

The shopkeeper has also been used to such scenes during this period of time, and he didn't change his face when he heard this: "My guest, it's not that we don't want to sell books, but it's because we have gone to the printing shop to pick up the goods four or five times today, and they are not enough. If it’s late today and it’s almost curfew time, we really don’t dare to go to the printing shop to pull goods and sell them.”

Seeing that many students looked unhappy, he hurriedly comforted him, "Furthermore, even if I send someone to the printing workshop to collect books immediately, at this point, he can only be stopped outside the city gate, and cannot enter the city gate at all. "

Because the printing workshop smells bad and there is a lot of sewage, printing workshops are absolutely not allowed in the city.If you want books, you can only go outside the city to get them.

But there was a curfew in ancient times, when the time came, not to mention entering and leaving the city gate, even doing business in the city was not allowed.

The other students who didn't buy the books were suddenly anxious: "Then what should I do for those who haven't bought the books?"

"Students, don't worry. Our boss has already sent the craftsmen in the printing workshop to rush to work day and night. Books such as "Five Years of Spring and Three Years of Palace Examination" have already been stored, which is twice as many as the number of students who signed up for this year. Come tomorrow morning, everyone will definitely be able to buy it!"

"That's what you said!"

"There is no need for the old man to deceive you."

The other students then dispersed.

Tang Yuanwei and his friends were a little frustrated, because this time the Lin family bookstore was not publicized in the whole capital, so that when they got the news, it was already afternoon, and the friend ran to Tang Yuanwei's house to inform the news, and the two ran to Lin's house The book shop wasted a lot of time, so that the two waited hard for a long time, but they couldn't buy the book.

The two looked at each other and were about to leave.

Tang Yuanwei's eyes widened suddenly, and he pointed at a servant who entered the Lin family bookstore without anyone noticing, and exclaimed: "That person seems to be my uncle Ji's personal servant!"

Tang Yuanwei's friend paused: "You didn't admit your mistake?"

"How can I admit my mistake?" Tang Yuanwei said, "Uncle Ji sent me many things in the past, all for Wen Mo to show up. Even if I mistake Uncle Ji's younger brother, I won't admit to Wen Mo."

"Then why don't we wait here?" Although he knew there was little hope, what if the boy named Wen Mo could buy the test questions?

Tang Yuanwei hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Let's wait, I really want to know why Wen Mo appeared in the Lin Family Bookstore."

The two found an inconspicuous place, and after standing still, they stared straight at the door of the Lin family bookstore.

After a while, Wen Mo walked out of the bookstore with a wooden box in his arms.

Tang Yuanwei went up with his friends: "Wen Mo?"

Wen Mo stopped in his tracks, turned around, and recognized Tang Yuanwei almost immediately: "Master Tang, why are you here?"

He looked at the man next to Tang Yuanwei again, and said clearly: "Master Tang heard the news and came to the Lin Family Bookstore to buy books such as "Five Years of Spring and Three Years of Palace Examination"? Have you ever bought it?"

He seemed a little embarrassed, "Master asked Lin Tanhua to leave two sets of books for you. If you buy them, you can..."

Tang Yuanwei looked at Wen Mo in surprise: "Uncle Ji and Lin Tanhua know each other?"

But after thinking about it, Uncle Ji and Lin Tanhua are Jinshi of the same discipline, so it would not be surprising if they knew each other.

"Uncle Ji really left two sets of books for me?" The surprise came so quickly, he still can't believe it.

Wen Mo laughed: "After the master knew that Tanhua Lang's book shop was about to publish a book again, he also guessed that it might be hard to find a book, so he asked Lin Tanhua to reserve two sets."

Thinking of the master's instructions, he simply opened the wooden box and handed a set to Tang Yuanwei's friend, "The master knows that Mr. Chen and Master Tang are inseparable, and Mr. Tang has been taking care of Mr. Chen before, so he also left it for Mr. Chen." One set, I hope Mr. Chen will not dislike it."

This is a book from the Lin Family Bookshop. Chen Dai was too happy to get a set, so how could he dislike it?

But he has no communication with Ji Ru, and the relationship with Tang Yuanwei is to take care of each other. If he accepts this set of books, he always feels ashamed.

Tang Yuanwei persuaded him from the side: "The supply of this book is in short supply now, those students who bought the book will go back and publicize it, and there will definitely be other people who will come to buy it, and there are even some students who have already bought test question sets from other bookstores. We will come tomorrow No matter how early, you may not be able to buy books."

Hearing this, if he doesn't pick up the books, Tang Yuanwei will have to accompany him to buy books tomorrow.

There was a warm current in Chen Dai's heart, and it was not good to delay Tang Yuanwei's time to review his homework, so he nodded: "Now I don't have any money, brother Tang will advance the money for these books for me first, and I will pay back the money when I return home." you."

After finishing speaking, he took the few books in Wen Mo's hands, and opened them impatiently, and a line of large characters on the title page came into view——

Answer the test paper, or it can be used to imitate the environment of the dormitory.

Chen Dai blinked, but didn't quite understand the meaning of these words.

Tang Yuanwei leaned over to take a look, and said hesitantly: "This is to let us build a house by ourselves, even like Chunwei, where we will spend nine days doing problems, three meals a day, and the reincarnation of the five grains will also be solved in it? "

Chen Dai looked at Tang Yuanwei blankly: "Is that true?"

-

This time, the Lin Family Bookstore sold test question sets, because other court ministers interfered, and in the end it became the result of competition with other bookstores.

Other bookstores imitated the Lin family bookstore, and found many beggars in advance to advertise on the street, which attracted a wave of customers for them. On the contrary, it was the Lin family bookstore, because the beggars were all paid away by people from other bookstores. , In the end, no one helped to shout and publicize.

The shopkeepers were so anxious at first that they were frothing, and even planned to hire adults to help them shout, but this idea was stopped by Jia Shu: "The word-of-mouth of Lin's bookstore has already been established, and now there is no need for much publicity."

"If you don't promote it, doesn't it mean that no one knows that our bookstore also sells test questions?"

Jia Shu didn't care: "Those students may have a hot head at the beginning, and they will only focus on those bookstores. But after discovering that almost all bookstores in the capital are selling the same test set, wouldn't someone come to the Linjia Bookstore to look at it?" Condition?"

As long as someone came to check the situation, Jia Shu believed that with Lin Ruhai's answers, those students would definitely not go to other bookstores to buy test questions.

And as soon as there were more people like this, the Lin Family Bookstore also sold test papers, and the news that there were test paper answers sold in the Lin Family Bookstore naturally spread.

Based on the word-of-mouth accumulated by the Lin family bookstore before, I believe that even students who have bought the test questions will never let the Lin family's "Five Years of Spring and Three Years Palace Examination" be missed.

Because she followed Jia Shu's arrangement before and never made any mistakes, although the three storekeepers didn't quite agree with her statement, they finally decided to follow Jia Shu's words and implement them meticulously.

Seeing that the three still had doubts, Jia Shu said, "If you are worried about the business of the bookstore, why not just hire one or two people to dress up as students, and then go to other bookstores to promote it?"

Child care is not something that is only available in modern times. The ancients used it proficiently.

Smiles immediately appeared on the faces of the three shopkeepers.

But Jia Shu didn't think it would be of great help to the business of the Lin Family Bookstore. Although the Lin Family Bookstore had made sufficient preparations, they sold at the same time. In order to attract customers, other bookstores even lowered the quality of books in order to reduce costs and They fought a price war. Even if there was publicity, the sales volume would not be able to meet their expectations two days before the sale.

In fact it is.

On the first day, what the three bookstores originally thought was that the bookshops could directly sell out more than 1000 sets of test questions and Lin Ruhai's answers.

But in fact, that morning, although some people went to the bookstore to buy books, the number was much smaller than the students at the gates of other bookstores.In the afternoon, there were quite a lot of students at the Lin Family Bookstore, but there was not enough time, and the expected quantity was not sold at all.

The second day was much better than the previous day, and the turnover almost doubled, but in the end, only more than 800 sets of books were sold, which is indeed more than other bookstores, but it still failed to meet expectations.

Until the third day, there were many students who went to the Lin Family Bookstore to buy the book that Lin Ruhai answered the question.

Shopkeeper Hu looked puzzled: "It's not that I don't sell it, it's just that the layout and content of our Lin Family Bookstore are different from other stores, and the owner's answers are all based on the content of the Lin Family Bookstore. It's useless for you to buy it."

Those students thought that shopkeeper Hu was unwilling to sell Lin Ruhai's answer books to them because they bought test questions from other bookstores, and almost made a fuss at the door of Lin's bookstore.

The shopkeeper Hu felt sorry for the money in the pockets of these students. After all, there are only a few rich people in this world, and those businessmen cannot take the scientific examination, so most of the students who passed the examination are not rich enough.

But this little distress is not worth mentioning in front of his own interests.

Shopkeeper Hu looked at the noisy students with a calm expression: "What, the old man has already said in advance, if you go back and find that the content does not match the test questions you bought, don't come to me." After finishing speaking, he turned his head, "Xiao Kong , Get books for these Juren lords!"

Because of Shopkeeper Hu's attitude, those originally determined students began to feel guilty.

But in the end, it was the desire to take advantage that prevailed——

They have already bought test question sets from other bookstores, and if they buy another set, they really don't have enough money.

Furthermore, even if the answers sold by the Lin family bookstore do not exactly match the content of other bookstores, there is always overlap?Although it was a bit difficult to find, they were naturally willing to spend more time than spending more than a dozen taels of silver on the test questions.

Not everyone can understand the truth that time is more valuable than money now that spring is around the corner.

But all of this has nothing to do with Chen Dai and Tang Yuanwei who have already got the book and are really planning to follow the book and imitate a room number to do the questions.

After Tang Yuanwei got the book, he tossed and turned at night and couldn't sleep at night. In the end, curiosity and anxiety got the upper hand. He simply got up from the bed, asked someone to light the lamp, and opened the book by himself to read.

At first, he just read it, but later, he couldn't help but took out a pen and paper and began to write.

The more he wrote, the more excited he became, and the more excited he became, the more he wanted to continue, until he encountered a difficult problem, he just felt his mind went blank, and when he didn't know how to solve the problem at all, all the previous excitement turned into frustration.

Seeing this, the book boy next to him hurried forward to interrupt Tang Yuanwei's thoughts: "Master, it's already this time, you should go to bed."

Tang Yuanwei looked at the question and shook his head repeatedly.

The book boy was in a hurry: "Master, didn't you say that you will get up early tomorrow to imitate a numbered room and get used to the environment of Chunwei in advance? What if you go to bed late and can't get up tomorrow?"

Tang Yuanwei was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "That's true."

After speaking, he put down the pen and paper, got up and returned to the bed.

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Early in the morning of the second day, Tang Yuanwei got up before dawn because he was thinking about the questions that he hadn't answered yesterday.The book boy looked distressed, but he obediently waited on him to wash up and eat, and asked people to build the number room directly.

Tang Yuanwei was holding his things and was about to enter the numbered room, but he heard the porter come in and say that it was Mr. Chen Dai who came to look for him.

Tang Yuanwei had no choice but to put down the things in his hands, walked to the gate of the courtyard, and found that Chen Dai was already looking for him under the guidance of the servant: "Brother Chen."

Chen Dai was carrying a burden, and with a wry smile, he cupped his hands to Tang Yuanwei: "Brother Tang."

Tang Yuanwei was surprised: "Brother Chen was in a good mood when he went back yesterday, why did he come here today with a sad face?" His eyes fell on the burden in Chen Dai's hand, "This is..."

Chen Dai sighed: "The inn is noisy, so it's not a place where you can work on problems with peace of mind. And the boss doesn't allow me to occupy the vacant space to build a number room, so I'm going to seek refuge with Brother Tang."

He probably also knew that his words and deeds were not pleasant, so when he said this, his eyes wandered and his face flushed, obviously feeling very embarrassed.

But he has studied hard for decades, and now he has the opportunity to test his level in advance before Chunwei, so he naturally doesn't want to let it go.

Tang Yuanwei is about the same age as Chen Dai, and has similar experiences. He understands his thoughts very well, and even laughed loudly: "I still think it's a big deal. If Brother Chen told me yesterday, I just asked the book boy to build one for you." room number."

Then he looked at the book boy: "Why don't you call someone over?"

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The Chunwei exam is divided into three sessions, one session lasts three days, except for the tuba, eating, drinking, and sleeping in a small cubicle.

The key point is that the cold spring is steep, and these students who are going to take the scientific examination can only wear a single shirt.The environment is poor, the pressure is high, there is not enough food and sleep, and it is cold. Every exam is a great test for these students' bodies.

Back then when Lin Ruhai participated in Chunwei, even though he won in one fell swoop, he was carried home by the servants of the Lin family on the day of the exam.

Many students who participated in Chunwei were not qualified for their knowledge, but because of their poor health, they were helpless in the end.

Jia Shu asked people to write such a sentence on the title page of the test paper collection that was not deleted much, because he heard Lin's mother talk about some things about Lin Ruhai's participation in the imperial examination back then, and wanted to remind these students, so that they could learn in advance. Get a feel for the environment of Chunwei, and then you won't have to fail the ranking due to lack of preparation.

Of course, because most of the literati are weak, Jia Shu worried that some students who were so poor that they fell ill before the end of the spring would fall ill because of rash attempts, and missed the scientific examination. He also made people write "the weak are forbidden to try" on the back of that sentence. , If you get sick and miss the imperial examination, you will be responsible for the consequences", but Jia Shu is not sure how many people take this sentence to heart.

In fact, there are not a few people who take Jia Shu's words to heart.

As the spring is approaching, most of the candidates at this time think about insurance, and they must not make mistakes.Even if someone wanted to try the Chunwei atmosphere in advance like Tang Yuanwei and the other two, they gave up the idea after seeing the last sentence.

They all stayed quietly in their rooms and concentrated on doing the questions, looking at Lin Ruhai's answers and comparing the gap between themselves and Lin Ruhai.

Of course, during this period, those who bought at other bookstores