Annie came out of the Liu family and went directly to a bookstore.

In this time and space, there has been woodblock printing, but the printing cost is too high, so the price of printed books is also high.

Therefore, what ordinary students use the most is hand-copied books.

Because handwritten copies are popular, there is a lot of book copying business in bookstores.

Annie knew that the owner of this bookstore was a scholar from a poor farmer family and was as good as a scholar. He was unwilling to teach, so he opened the bookstore with the support of the Yue family.

After all, they are both doing business, opening bookstores, selling pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and so on, which sounds more expensive than the merchants nearby.

Because the boss comes from a poor family, he takes great care of poor students.

In his bookstore, he not only gave more rewards than other companies, but also provided more pens, ink, paper and ink.

Often, after copying a book, some of them can be left, so that students can also get more paper and ink for writing.

Of course, the boss also said that he would give him a few more pieces of paper just to prevent the copying of the wrong ones.

As long as the person who copied the book was careful enough, he would naturally not use the extra paper and ink strips.

The boss's move not only gave benefits to those scholars, but also preserved everyone's face - they are not giving alms, but earned by those who copy books based on their own real skills!

"Scholar Zhou, do you want to copy books too?"

The owner of the bookstore was named Xue. After hearing Annie's words, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Zhou Yaozu is a celebrity in Qi County. He passed the scholar exam at the age of thirteen and is like a child prodigy.

Unfortunately, the amazing talent that was back then was just a flash in the pan. In the following decade, the child prodigy fell from the altar and had long been "into everyone".

But Zhou Yaozu is still famous because he was obviously from a farm family, but he was fooled by a few rich children.

He often went to restaurants, brothels and other high-end consumer places to attend "poetry meetings", which attracted many people who had high expectations for him to shake their heads.

Boss Xue was originally optimistic about the youngest scholar in Qi County, but unexpectedly, Zhou Yaozu began to not learn well, and wrote some limericks on weekdays, which was useless to spend his years and talent.

Zhou Yaozu has long been used to enjoying this kind of thing, and has never thought of copying books in the bookstore to make money.

So, when he heard Annie's request, Boss Xue subconsciously turned his head to look at the sun outside. Hey, the sun did not rise from the west.

When Annie saw Boss Xue’s appearance, she pretended to smile bitterly, “I made Boss Xue laugh. She used to be frivolous and unwilling to worry, but now she realizes that she is very wrong.”

After reading the sun, Boss Xue felt that his actions were a bit rude, and hurriedly said, "It's not too late to make up for the bribe. Zhou Xiucai has been studying for more than ten years and has a very good writing style in the first-hand library. If you want to copy books, the old man will welcome you."

I usually copy a book, about three to five thousand words, and rewards for ten words.

The paper and ink used for copying books are provided by the bookstore.

When newcomers come to copy books, they must pay a certain deposit to the bookstore.

If you really don't have money, you can write a receipt.

After all, books are not cheap these days, and people's bookstores are worried that someone will take the books but will not return them directly.

Maybe Boss Xue was trying to make up for the misconduct just now, or maybe he wanted to show kindness to Zhou Yaozu, so he said generously, "Scholar Zhou is not an outsider, so you don't need a deposit or something. Just write a note."

Annie hurriedly said, "Thank you for your care, and everything is as per the rules of the bookstore."

Annie estimated the time, three to five thousand words. If she copied it carefully, she would probably be able to finish it in half a day.

Of course, she also had to go around the fields and could not copy them all day long.

In this way, you can copy a book in one day.

Zhoujiaao is more than 20 miles away from the county town, and the transportation is basically carried by now.

It takes more than an hour to go to the county town.

It is not easy to enter the city, so you can only reduce the number of visits.

Anne planned to go to the city every ten days.

So, Anne took ten books from the bookstore, as well as corresponding paper and ink strips.

In addition, Annie bought some cheap paper and ink for her and her children to practice calligraphy.

There were a lot of things, so Boss Xue asked her to give her a bag.

He came out with a large bag of things in his arms, and Annie looked at the sky and found it was getting late.

She was going back quickly, and she would walk at night if she was later.

Annie has been in the city these two times and was lucky. When she walked out of the village, she encountered a ox cart from the neighboring village. In order to hurry, Annie spent a few cents to ride the ox cart.

In the future, we can't spend money indiscriminately. Annie also sets an example for the third generation of the Zhou family.

It’s not good that she just told the children that “making money is not easy”, so she just took a leisurely ride in the ox cart.

Moreover, when riding a ox cart, you only take a one-way cart, and there is no ox cart to ride on the return trip.

Annie walked with a bag, striding heavily.

While walking, she was thinking. Well, when she mentioned the ox cart, she could actually add a ox cart to her family.

The ox that pulls a cart can plow the land, pull things, and do some cargo and people during the slack farming period.

Zhou Jingxian is in poor health, but he thinks he is the head of the family and doesn't want to lie at home to have idle meals. He does a lot of farm work on weekdays.

But his physical condition is there, and he will get sick every time he does too much.

Sometimes when he gets sick, he spends more money on medical treatment and taking medicine than he earns when he works!

Since Anne has become Zhou Yaozu, she must fulfill her due responsibilities and obligations for him.

She should do filial to the elderly, be friendly to her brothers and sisters, raising children, and taking care of her nephews.

Annie nodded and bought a ox cart and asked Dad Zhou to drive the car. She was not tired and could still make some money.

It just so happened that she won 100 taels of silver from the gambling house, which was enough to buy cows and car frames.

Annie's journey was not slow, and it was already evening when she got home.

Zhou Xiande and Zhou Xiancheng went to school again, and Zhou Xianren, Zhou Xianxin and Zhou Xianyi were also sent to the school.

After school, the five children were not idle, but according to Anne's request, they were very busy.

Zhou Jingxian sat in the main hall and watched, and found that several grandchildren had gone to school and became more sensible.

Zhou Xianren and the other two would not stay at home to work when they were not in school, but would run out to play wildly and would never come back until mealtime.

Unlike now, everyone is afraid that they will have no work to be seen by their father (or uncle) and then taken to the ground, and they are rushing to work.

Even Zhou Yufang's work was snatched away by several cousins.

Looking at the lively appearance in the yard, Zhou Jingxian had an illusion: Their Zhou family is about to flourish.

The descendants are sensible and know how to be ambitious. The Zhou family will definitely become more developed in his hands!

Annie came back at this time, and as soon as she entered the door, she met Zhou Jingxian's emotion and hopeful gaze.

"Dad, I went to the bookstore and took some books back to copy them. This way I can make money and review the articles in the book."

Annie and Zhou Jing first reported.

"It's good to copy books."

Zhou Jingxian was becoming more and more satisfied with his eldest son. In just three days, the eldest son seemed to be reborn.

In the past, the eldest son just said it nicely, but did not take any practical actions.

Now, perhaps the third time I failed the exam, it was too exciting for the eldest son to make him change so much.

Zhou Jingxian was very happy with the change of his eldest son. He had a premonition that such an eldest son might really be able to pass the imperial examination in three years.

The more satisfied Zhou Jingxian is with his eldest son, the more he feels sorry for him.

Alas, when did the boss do farm work? After only two days of work, he got tanned and lost weight.

If you don’t go to the academy, you can just study at home. There is really no need to work in the fields.

Zhou Jing first thought about it and wait for two more days to let him know the hardships of farming.

At that time, even if his son doesn't give up, Zhou Jingxian will drag him home.

After all, Zhou Jingxian was not desperate about Zhou Yaozu and hoped that he could be the juren and become an official.

"There's another thing, Dad, I've been to the county town these days and found that the ox cart driving business in the neighboring village is very good."

Annie started talking about the ox cart again, "Dad, I have a thought. Look, our place is far away from the county town, and it is not convenient to go to the city to buy things, or sell eggs, and sell vegetables. It is not enough for a ox cart in the neighboring village. Why not buy a ox cart as well."

"Buy a ox cart?" Zhou Jingxian was a little moved.

Their family originally had plowing oxen, but they sold it a few years ago to raise money for Zhou Yaozu to take the exam.

At that time, Zhou Jingxian cried for a long time with a heartache.

"A good ox costs ten or twenty taels of silver. How can our family have so much money?"

Zhou Jingxian quickly shook his head, "In addition to the car frame, a ox cart costs at least thirty taels of silver." I can't afford it!

"Who said our family has no money?"

Annie smiled, turned around and returned to the east wing, and soon came back with a bag.
To be continued...