"Then where are you going? Go home? Yesterday the madam said you have a sister, are you going to find her?"
Hongge didn't speak, staring at the tea, silent for a long time: "I have no home for a long time. As for my sister... I don't know where to find her."
A child who is only six years old and cannot speak is probably in danger.
"What about you? Are you going home?"
Gu Jiu shook his head: "I need to stay for two more days."
"If you don't know what you want to do, you might as well try to break away from the current situation. If a person likes the present, he will not feel painful and confused. I plan to start a storybook business, will my sister do it?"
"Talk business?" Hong Ge turned around and said jokingly: "Why do you need so much money? These ten taels of silver are not enough for you to get married?"
"But before I get married, I have to marry myself first. Ten taels of silver can't buy me a good life, and the ten taels of silver I want are far from what I can give you."
"Sister, do you want to start a storybook business with me? I can write storybooks myself."
Hong Ge's eyes were shocked and she looked at Gu Jiu in disbelief: "You can write a storybook?"
"Yes." Gu Jiu nodded. The only difference between the text here and the ones she had encountered before was traditional and simplified. She was completely competent.
Hong Ge looked at Gu Jiu with obvious doubts in his eyes: "Do you... have a scholar in your family?"
Gu Jiu: "...No, my cousin studies, I can learn it by just watching."
Hong Ge was silent. After a while, she took out her deed of betrayal from her bag and pointed at a word on it and asked, "What does this read?"
"red."
"What about this?"
"Song."
"Hiss." Hongge took a breath. She only knew these two words, and a sister in Hongxiang Pavilion told her when she was sold.
Hong Ge looked at Gu Jiu with astonishment in her eyes. There was no way for a woman to follow her husband in reading and writing. The fact that the person in front of her had such ability was a sign of talent. But it's a pity that it's a woman.
"Okay." Hongge nodded: "If you can really write a story, the rest will be much easier."
"I saw that the story books sold on the street are all in small volumes. How do I get that thing?"
"They are all bought in bulk. There is a store in the west of the city that sells this kind of booklets."
There is an endless stream of visitors to Hongxiang Pavilion every day. Regarding all kinds of news, the people in Hongxiang Pavilion may not know less than the people outside.
What's more, she had already planned to leave, and she was quite concerned about this kind of news.
Gu Jiu:! ! ! So simple!
"Then I'll go out and buy some paper and pen now!"
It was better to choose the day than to hit it. Gu Jiu immediately ran out of the inn and bought the storybook he had read during the day before the stall closed.
Different text types have different writing styles. If you don’t judge before writing, the probability of failure will be very high.
Pens, inks, paper and inkstones were much more expensive than Gu Jiu imagined, and it took a full tael of silver to buy them all.
"The sisters in the pavilion also like to see this kind of thing."
In the inn, Hong Ge said while flipping through the booklet Gu Jiugang bought.
"You don't see it?"
"I have to save money to redeem myself. I can't bear to part with it."
"Then I'll write it for you in the future, and it won't cost any money." Gu Jiu picked up the brush as he said it. He hadn't written calligraphy for so long that he was almost rusty.
Hongge smiled: "Okay."
The core of the booklet is nothing more than four words: Love cannot be achieved.
Gu Jiu wrote very quickly. He wrote the story that night, revised it, and showed it to Hong Ge. After the latter offered his insights, it was time again.
Early the next morning, the two of them went to the west of the city and bought fifty blank pamphlets, two copies each, a total of one hundred copies.
"Aren't you afraid that I will lie to you? There are only ten taels of silver in total. Aren't you afraid that it will be wasted?" After Gu Jiu finished copying another book, Hongge couldn't help but ask.
Gu Jiu rubbed his wrist and said nonchalantly: "The ten taels of silver were given to me by you, so there's nothing to worry about. Besides, I already have nothing, so why worry about starting all over again."
Hongge didn't say anything, just took the written book to the window to dry.
That afternoon, the two set up a small stall and started testing the results.
"Xiaojiu, do you think we should hawk a little bit?"
"I'm a little shy."
Hongge: "...Really? I really didn't see it."
Gu Jiu chuckled, looking at the people coming and going, his eyes swept back and forth among the crowd, and he simply located them based on their clothing.
The next second, Gu Jiu picked up the book and stepped forward to stop one of them.
"Miss, we have a new storybook, do you want to read it?"
The woman in green clothes who was stopped looked at Gu Jiu's shabby clothes and felt a little disgusted, but the smile on her face was genuine.
Looking at the brochure handed over, he reluctantly took it.
"How is it sold?" The woman in Tsing Yi originally planned to scroll down twice, but she didn't expect that she had never seen this version.
"Twenty coppers."
"Then I want a volume." He said and took out twenty copper coins from his wallet.
"We will release new ones in the future, also at this location. If you like it, you can come back and see the new ones next time."
"OK."
After the others left, Gu Jiu took the copper plate and shook it happily towards Hong Ge.
After that, Gu Jiu followed the same pattern and sold dozens of copies.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Hong Ge looked at the ten books that were pushed in front of her and subconsciously avoided them.
"Sell it, don't we have a cooperative relationship? You won't help sell it?"
"I don't know how. You can sell it yourself. I don't want any money."
Hearing this, Gu Jiu picked up the book and stuffed it into her arms: "Sometimes people have to learn to make a complete break with the past. If I don't tell myself, who knows what I used to do? Even if they know, what can I do? ?I don’t despise myself, who is qualified to judge me?”
Hongge wanted to find a new life, but she couldn't forget her previous life.
Wandering and spinning back and forth, brave and cowardly.
Hong Ge wanted to say something else, but Gu Jiu pulled her out of the shop.
As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After two successful attempts, the introduction of Hongge became more and more natural.
When he went back in the evening, Hongge looked at the large amount of copper coins and felt a little unbelievable.
“You can actually make so much money in one day!”
Gu Jiu bit into the sesame seed cake and nodded in affirmation: "Excluding the money for buying books, the inn and our meals, we can have about 800 cash left a day."
"You can earn hundreds of dollars that year!"
"Yes! But I will go back the day after tomorrow morning."
Hongge was stunned for a moment: "Then how long will it be before you come next time?"
"Five days. There is a car coming to the city from our village every ten days. It stays in the city for five days and then returns." But I don't know how Gu Zheqi came here. I didn't see him in the car that day. .
Hong Ge nodded: "Then during the few days you are gone, I will find someone else to copy it and make a profit from the price difference."
"Okay, I'll leave all the money from today's sale with you. I'll write another version tomorrow, and then I'll sell the two alternately."
"Give it all to me this time?"
"Yes." Gu Jiu nodded: "But we will split it in the future. I want 60% of the profit."
"I'll give you seventy percent."
"so good!"
"You can both write storybooks and hawk, so I'll do you a favor. It'll be really uncomfortable if you take too much."
Hong Ge touched the copper plate and wanted to laugh unconsciously. She was sold when she was twelve, and now she is eighteen. It took her six years to save seven taels of silver, but now she actually earns one tael a day!
…
Since he was going back tomorrow morning, Gu Jiu took time out today to buy cloth, needlework, pastries and two little rabbits.
"Xiaojiu."
Early the next morning, when Gu Jiu was leaving, Hongge suddenly called her.
"Give me a new name. Hongge was given to me by the madam."
"good."
…
"You, why are you here?" The people in the car who were laughing were stunned when they saw Gu Jiu.
"Because I want to go home! Uncle, I won't take any of what you said, don't you forget it?"
The uncle looked at Gu Jiu as if he were a chicken that could escape, with eyes full of disbelief.
"You didn't go to deliver anything?"
"I went, and the boss gave me a sesame seed cake."
The scene fell into silence for a moment, but Gu Jiuke ignored that and climbed into the carriage.
At first, she thought the system was a trap. She was clearly short of money now, so what was the use of giving her some space? Now that I see these people, I truly realize the meaning of space.
In the evening, the carriage arrived in the town. Gu Jiu got out of the car and bought a few buns before heading home.
When he was almost at the door of his house, he suddenly realized something was wrong. Gu Zheqi should still be in the city at this time! Why do so many people gather in front of my house?
As I walked closer, my uneasiness became more obvious, and I involuntarily quickened my pace.
"Auntie, what happened at my house?" Gu Jiu asked the middle-aged woman outside who stretched her neck to look inside.
"Girl Jiu! You're back! Mr. Zhao from the town sent someone to kidnap you!"
Gu Jiu:! ! !
Hearing the movement, everyone who was originally blocked in a tight block consciously made way for a way.
Gu Jiu looked along the path that everyone had moved out of the way, and saw a fat middle-aged man with two skinny boys standing arrogantly in their yard.
"Let me tell you, you have already taken the money, and you have also signed the signature. Now if you don't be careful, we adults will make it hard for you to walk away!" The middle-aged man pointed at Ye Qingyi and Gu Jing and shouted. road.
As for the others, they didn't show up at all.
"Then who signed it?" Gu Jiu walked through the crowd and walked up to Ye Qingyi and Gu Jing and asked.
The man's eyes were originally small, but now he squinted his eyes as he looked at Gu Jiu.
"Are you Gu Jiu?"
"No! I have never signed or pledged anything with you, so it's definitely not me you're looking for!"
The man's face was filled with fat, and he looked at Gu Jiu in confusion, then shook his head impatiently, and waved his hand: "I don't care about you, anyway, I have to take people away today!"
"Were you present when that person signed the signature?" Gu Jiu guided him step by step in a very calm manner.
"Here! A woman! As long as she appears, I will definitely recognize her!"
"That's easy. Xiao Jing, go to each room and see who is pretending to sleep!"
"good!"
Neither of them were hard-working people. She couldn't believe that they were still working outside at this hour.
"Sister, the door can't be opened." Gu Jing pushed the door hard and turned around to say.
Gu Jiu smiled: "It seems that you have a guilty conscience by closing the door at this time. Sir, I am afraid that the person you found is hiding inside."
