Mo Ziwan didn't know that Han Shuxian went to the bookstore again for her. After being called up by Song Nanzhi, she took the books she got back from Mo Yun Bookstore to Han's house after breakfast. What she wanted to read today was from the bookstore. The book she brought back to be copied was "The Analects of Confucius" from the Four Books. It was also the book she was studying with Han Shuxian. However, the book she brought back had a lot of annotations in it, which is why she had to copy it. reason. The Analects of Confucius can be purchased in bookstores, but the annotations in the book cannot be purchased.
Mo Ziyuan looked at the book in her hand seriously. While looking at the book, she was also thinking about how to copy so that the book would not look messy.
Although there are annotations in the book, readers can understand the meaning of the book very well, but there are too many annotations, and they are annotated casually. They are messy and the words are a bit crowded. In addition, the books are a bit old and not very well-preserved. The ink has smudged in some places. Overall, it looks a bit tiring to the eyes.
It seems that half an hour later, he started copying the book. First, he copied the sentence from the first chapter. Confucius said: Isn't it easy to learn and practice it over time? Isn't it wonderful to have friends coming from afar? Isn't it wonderful that people don't know and are not surprised? Are you a gentleman?' Copied it. After copying, he put down the pen first, read the annotations in the book again, and then looked at the paper on which he was finishing copying the first Analects.
After thinking for a while, I picked up the pen and prepared to copy the approval document according to the method of marking the notes at the end of modern articles. Prepare to copy the words or phrases annotated in the original text to the end of the text, and then add the annotations after the words or the end of the text.
Of course, if there are separate annotations for the entire sentence in the book, such as words and words, the entire sentence should be copied down first, and then annotated. In short, the original text and annotations must be copied separately.
Half an hour later, Mo Ziwan finished copying the first chapter. After copying it, he first showed it to Han Chunlin beside him.
Han Chunlin took the book copied by Mo Ziyuan and said, "Can I make money like this?"
Mo Ziyuan did not answer directly, but said: "I don't know either. After Uncle Han comes back, I will ask Uncle Han if he can copy it like this? If it is possible, I will continue to copy it like this."
Han Chunlin glanced at the dark "The Analects" written on the table, and compared it with the elegant, neat and extremely clear words in his hands, and affirmed: "It will definitely work, your writing is even clearer than what is written in this book. Then he pointed to the Analects on the table and said, "This book is too messy. I don't even want to read it."
Mo Ziyuan's eyes lit up after hearing this. Even children felt that they could see it more clearly when they copied it like this. Adults would definitely feel the same after reading it. It seems that the copying method I arranged this way is feasible. He tilted his head and looked at Han Chunlin's handwriting today. Today's writing was a lot neater. Although it was a little neater, it was still far from good, and he needed more practice. He said, "Uncle Xie from the bookstore has agreed with us." Let’s copy the book. As long as we finish copying the book, we can make money.”
Han Chunlin looked at the book on the table, and most of his thoughts of making money disappeared instantly, and said: "It's so thick, how long will it take to copy it?"
The Han family is not like her family who is so poor that they can hardly take over the pot. The reason for letting him copy is just to let him practice calligraphy more. He said: "We also practice calligraphy every day, and if the calligraphy is not written well, it will be bad." I was punished for writing too much, and from now on my daily calligraphy practice will be changed to copying books, so that I can write and make money at the same time."
After hearing Mo Ziwan's words, Han Chunlin thought the same thing. He practiced calligraphy every day. After all, he was writing. If he copied books, he could still make money. As for his own calligraphy? Can you keep up with Mo Ziyuan's progress in copying books? Can you persist in copying it to the end? He didn't think much about this, nor did he think about it. He just thought that he had to write anyway, so he just copied the book, and he responded readily: "Okay!"
Mo Ziyuan felt happy when he saw his willingness to agree, and immediately said: "Then let's go tell Auntie now and ask Auntie to help you cut the paper." Her paper was cut by Song Nanzhi alone, and she pressed It was cut to the size of the Analects of Confucius book I brought back.
Han Chunlin responded readily, "Okay."
After answering, the two of them ran to Yu Silian hand in hand, waiting for Han Chunlin to excitedly announce to Yu Silian that he was going to make money by copying books. Her mother was shocked!
He looked at his stupid son in surprise. Where did he find the courage? But after looking at Mo Ziyuan's eyes, she still said with a look of relief: "Okay, I'll cut the paper out for you right now. When your father comes back and tells you how to copy it, you can start copying it."
Seeing Yu Silian's happiness, Mo Ziyuan silently said modestly to Han Chunlin: I also want you to have a relaxed childhood, but in order to make your uncle and aunt happy, you have to work hard! From now on, I will urge you to copy as many books as possible every day.
At night, when Han Shuxian heard that his stupid son was also copying books, he smiled knowingly and looked at Han Chunlin in an amiable manner, "Okay, then you can keep the money you earn from copying books." , you can use it however you want, your mother and I don’t care about you.” Of course you don’t need to care about it, because you can’t make any money, so how can you care about it?
After deciding that Han Chunlin would copy the book, Mo Ziwan showed Han Shuxian the first Analects she had copied.
After reading it, Han Shuxian said: "Just copy it like you did. If you can't sell it, I can only say that the person selling the book is a pig!"
With Han Shuxian's affirmation, Mo Ziwan's confidence greatly increased and she responded crisply: "Okay."
After confirming the book copied by Mo Ziyuan, he added: "After you copy one article, give it to your brother Chunlin and ask her to copy it with you."
"Okay." Mo Ziwan responded crisply again.
Next, in addition to studying with Han Shuxian every day, Mo Ziwan basically spent her spare time copying books in the room. This room was either in her own house or in the Han family's study room. In short, it was already occupied by copying books. Mo Ziwan spends most of her time.
Mo Ziyuan took longer to copy the book, and Han Chunlin also wrote a lot more words. At this time, he was no longer as cheerful and energetic as when he agreed. Not to mention that he looked sad every day, but he no longer wanted to copy. I am interested in making money from books. The reason why I continue to copy books is because I still have to write the same number of words without copying books.
Twenty-one days later, Mo Ziwan finally finished copying the "Analects of Confucius" she had brought back. The new copy was much thicker than the old one. Of course, this was due to placing the annotations separately and adding more paper.
On the day when he went to the county town to return the books, Han Shuxian took Mo Ziyuan and Han Chunlin with him. Of course, Han Chunlin's book was not copied after all. Not only was it not finished, but half of it was still missing.
When the three of them came to the bookstore, Xie Wenhua was not at the front store.
After Han Shuxian explained the purpose of his visit to the waiter at the bookstore, the waiter replied: "Sir, please wait a moment, I will ask the shopkeeper to come over." Although Xie Wenhua was not in the front store, he also told him that as long as Mo Ziwan came to return the book, he would Asking someone to inform him was not what he said in front of Mo Ziyuan before, just give the book to the second brother.
After the waiter said that, he turned around and went into the backyard. Xie Wenhua was mostly in the bookstore on weekdays, but not so much in the front shop, but mostly in the backyard.
'Moyun Bookstore' has been open for two years. Although the books sold in the store are quite complete, they are not distinctive. Like most bookstores, the sources of books are provided by the imperial bookstore. If you want to sell some There are no books in the world that can only be obtained by copying, but copying comes very slowly. So in the backyard, he found someone to engrave, but the engraving effect was not good, and the engraving took longer than copying the book. Until now, he has not come up with a better way to solve the engraving problem. The problem.
The waiter walked out quickly after entering the backyard, and Xie Wenhua came out at the same time. After Xie Wenhua came out, he greeted Han Shuxian: "Brother Han!"
When Mo Ziyuan and Han Chunlin saw Xie Wenhua coming out, they also shouted: "Hello, Uncle Xie!"
Xie Wenhua looked at the two little kids and said, "Okay!" Then he asked, "Why don't you come to my bookstore by yourself this time?"
Mo Ziyuan looked at Xie Wenhua, thinking to herself that he really didn't like to open the pot, but she replied obediently: "Uncle is free today, so he came with us." After that, he said: "Thank you. Uncle, I have finished copying the book you gave me."
When Mo Ziwan was talking, Han Shuxian opened the cloth bag in his hand. Inside was a yellowed book, and the other was a newly bound book. The yellowed book was exactly Mo Ziwan took back the copied "The Analects of Confucius" from this bookstore, and the newly bound one was the "New Analects of Confucius" that had just been copied.
Xie Wenhua took the two books handed over by Han Shuxian and placed the old books on the counter. He picked up the manuscript and opened it. As he opened it, he was instantly attracted by the content inside. First of all, the page is clean and tidy, and the font is in neat regular script. This is not the point. The most important thing is the layout of the page. The front end of the page is the sentence of 'The Analects of Confucius', and two lines below the sentence are Cai's comments. All the comments are screwed out individually. The words, words, and original sentences are in the front, and the comments are at the back. Whether it is one word, one word, or a long sentence, they are all in one line, neatly at the back.
Xie Wenhua looked at Han Shuxian and said, "You gave me a good idea! The book copied in this way is not only clear, but the layout also looks very neat."
Han Shuxian glanced at Mo Ziwan and then said slowly: "I don't have such leisure. When I was copying, I felt that copying like this would not make my eyes tired when reading, and I could see more clearly. It just means more writing." A lot of words were written.”
Xie Wenhua looked at Mo Ziwan after Han Shuxian's words and praised, "Wanwan is not only good at writing, but also good at knowledge, and also has a delicate mind." After the praise, he continued: "Don't worry, my uncle will definitely not copy the many books you have." You will suffer a loss." After saying that, he untied the purse hanging next to him, took out a small silver ingot of two taels of silver and handed it to Mo Ziyuan: "Here, this is the money for you to copy the book."
Mo Ziwan looked at the money handed over by Xie Wenhua and didn't know how much it was, but because he said he wouldn't treat her badly, she didn't ask. She just said, "Uncle Xie gave me a lot of pens, ink, and paper last time." Inkstone, please ask uncle to deduct it from the money for copying books this time."
Xie Wenhua was slightly surprised! This kid is really lovable! She said, "Aren't you worried that I'll confiscate it for you?" She had never asked how much it would cost to copy books from her past days as a job seeker.
Mo Ziyuan shook her head and said: "Don't worry, it's okay to take it away. You have to spend money to buy the pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
