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Chapter 61 Paper is expensive

Because the village chief felt sorry for the silver, he found a place to eat. The county magistrate gave Gu Xin a hundred taels of silver. The village chief said he didn't want anything. Gu Xin took the silver and planned to buy some tables and chairs for the school, but the unexpected money was still comfortable.

After dinner, Gu Xin went to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones. She spent a total of thirty taels of silver. This ancient paper was really expensive.

"Uncle, you said that this Dayin Kingdom is not short of trees, why is paper so expensive?" Gu Xin asked.

"Dayin Country does not have papermaking technology. This paper is naturally expensive in Qingxiao Country. What is the relationship between girls and trees?" Zhou Jianbo asked.

"Ah! It's okay, it's okay, uncle, let's go to the bookstore to buy some books back." Gu Xin said.

"Girl, this book is expensive. When I go back, I will copy a few copies for you." Zhou Jianbo said

"It's just a lot to earn money. Uncle, let's go." Gu Xin wanted to see how expensive this was.

A few people came to Say Gu Xin bought arithmetic books, two agricultural books, and for the sake of farming convenience in the future, they bought a few more books for admission, spending a total of eighty taels of silver.

When I was young, I was addicted to studying. My family was poor and I had no way to write to read. I always borrowed it from a book collection home and recorded it by myself, and returned it after a day. The sky was cold, the inkstone was strong, and my fingers were not flexed and stretched out, so I was not lazy. After recording, I walked away and sent it to me, and I didn't dare to cross the contract. In the past, I didn't take this passage seriously, but now I truly realized the meaning of this sentence. It is really not easy for poor students to read.

The ancient minds of papermaking and movable type printing are just that. If the wood is in the forest, the wind will destroy it; if the piles come out of the shore, the current will rush it; if the movement is higher than others, the people will criticize it. If the paper is really made, it will not be burned by others as a monster.

Alas! Nothing is important, but life is important. Where can I find someone who knows how to make paper and is not suspected, and is best to be respected.

Gu Xin sighed, wanting to make papermaking public, but she doesn't want to be suspected that she did it.

"Girl, isn't the money enough? This is the money you transferred to your uncle yesterday. Buy whatever you like?" Zhou Jiangong took out the 100 taels of silver and said.

"Uncle, I have money, I just sigh that reading is not easy," Gu Xin said

"What else can Xin'er buy? If you don't buy it, go home." Goode said

"Dad, I want to go to the grain store to have a look," Gu Xin said

"There is enough food at home, so you don't have to buy it." Goode said

"Dad, I just go and check it out, don't buy anything." Gu Xin knew that Gu De felt sorry for Yinzi

"Let's go, go home after you finish watching." Goode had no choice but to make him just one daughter, just be happy if his daughter is happy.

When I came to the grain shop, Gu Xin Gu Xin actually saw corn, and it was placed in large areas, including corn kernels and cornmeal.

What's going on? The corn seeds I collected were everywhere as my treasure.

"Young Master wants to buy coarse grains." The waiter asked Gu Xin, who had been staring at the corn.

"How to sell this coarse grain?" Gu Xin came back to her senses and asked.

"The young master's coarse grain costs five cents per pound" replied the waiter

"How to sell rice and white flour?" Gu Xinlai has been through so long and has never asked about the price of food. Now the family has to live more carefully and earn more money.

"Young Master's white flour is thirty in stock and rice is 20 in stock." The waiter said.

"Please weigh 100 kilograms of corn flour and 100 kilograms of white flour. After weighing it, put it on the ox cart outside," Gu Xin said.

"It's a young man, so I'll call him the young one."

I only spent 200 kilograms of grain to buy two taels of silver, but I spent 140 taels of silver to buy books, pens, ink, paper and ink. It shows how difficult it is to read. If I can't go home and study how to make paper, otherwise how much money would be needed for so many children.

Gu Xin paid the money, and Gu De said it was getting late, so he should go home early. In fact, he was afraid that Gu Xin would buy something again. Gu Xin and his men walked home in a ox cart. When they were about to leave the city gate, they saw a group of people around the entrance of a restaurant. Gu Xin, a good person, naturally stretched his head and drilled in.

Gu De wanted to pull Gu Xin back, but Gu Xin opened the crowd and went inside.

"You sheep will kneel down and cry." Someone in the crowd said.

Only then did Gu Xin see an old man holding an ewe in the middle of the crowd, followed by a newly born lamb. Qi Qi was kneeling on the ground in the ewe, with tears lying in his eyes, as if he was praying for something. A middle-aged man stood in the direction of the ewe head, probably the owner of the restaurant.

"Boss, you're adding some money," said the old man.

"You sheep have just been given a cub. The meat is not delicious. It's good to give you a few taels of silver. If you don't sell it, go away quickly." The middle-aged man said.

"Boss, see if there are patients in my family and I urgently need money to see a doctor, can you add some more?" The old man said earnestly, and he looked like a middle-aged boss bent down to salute, hoping to add some more money.

"Boss Guo, just add some. Look, this sheep has kneeled down for you. How can this sheep get five taels of silver?" someone said in the crowd.

"You said it's light. I bought this small business for five taels of silver." said the middle-aged boss.

When the old man heard this, he looked at Xiyi's eyes like the person talking in the crowd. The person shrank into the crowd to reduce his presence. It seemed that he was another person who was talking sarcastic. The old man withdrew his gaze and saw the middle-aged boss again, but the boss straightened his back and did not mean to increase the price.

"Is this five tael of silver expensive?" Gu Xin asked the people around him.

"It's not expensive, but who has free money to buy it and can't cultivate the land. The sheep has just been given a cub, the meat is not good, and the restaurant is unwilling to collect it." The man replied.

"Don't you sell the 4 taels of silver? If you sell it, I'll buy it." Gu Xin walked up to ask and asked.

"Sell, the young master wants to buy it." The old man asked.

When people saw a young man wearing black clothes, a fair-looking and handsome face, they wanted to buy it. They thought it was a buyer from a wealthy family who was having fun. The sheep were sold and there was no fun. People dispersed in groups. Gu Xin led the old man to the ox cart, and happened to meet Gude, who could not squeeze in and was waiting anxiously outside.

"You kid, why are you busy and going wherever you go?" Gude said, lit up Gu Xin's forehead and said.

"Dad, look, I bought a sheep and a little lamb, and I will kneel down and shed tears." Gu Xin held the sheep in the old man's hand to show Gude as if he offered treasure.

"Young Master, look at this money," said the old man.

Gu Xin took out ten taels of silver and handed it to the old man. The old man took the silver and saw ten taels of silver: "Young master has no change to find it, can you give the young man a broken silver?"

"Don't have to look for me, your family doesn't have a patient, go back quickly. If there are ewes that have just given birth to a baby at home, go to Hengshan Village to find me for five taels of silver. My name is Gu Xin."

After Gu Xin finished speaking, he got on the ox cart with Gu De and left. The old man wanted to return the silver to Gu Xin. When he thought of his only son in the family, he was injured by the robbers and was still lying on the bed. Wuyin was waiting for him to take the silver to go back to treat the disease. Looking at the direction of Gu Xin's departure, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, and standing not far away Mu Xiuyu saw all this.

Gu Xin didn't know that the old man kowtowed to him, and was sitting in the ox cart listening to Gu De and the village chief's scolding, saying that Gu Xin spent money indiscriminately and buying this ewe was useless.

"Dad, this is what the master asked him to buy." Gu Xin pushed everything to Chen Yi.
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