The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 280 Checking the shop (2)
The two heavy doors were gently pushed open by the servant, he took a step back, bowed and waited for the master to enter first.

Su Xiazhi stepped into the room without hesitation.

The room still kept the messy look it had when it was sealed off. The tables, chairs, and benches were stacked crookedly in front of the west side, and the two rows of tall bookshelves from the roof to the ground on the east side wall were nothing but empty spaces.

The Zhou family committed a serious crime of privately creating the almanac, so the original books on the bookshelf must be inspected as evidence of the crime.

There are still many dust marks of different sizes on the facing wall, and one can tell at a glance that the calligraphy and paintings hung on it.

A shop is a row of four houses connected together. Except for the beams erected, the house still maintains its original appearance. The bottom has been divided into two halves by a partition, and each half looks extraordinarily large.

"It's not small!" Su Xiazhi looked around the room slowly.

"There is also a back door." The boy said standing on the other side of the partition.

The back door was single and unlocked. Su Xiazhi walked from the front to the back and found that the backyard of the shop was not big. It was just built with two well-regulated houses, and a courtyard wall was added to enclose a neat yard. What is rare is There is a well in the yard!

It also takes a lot of money to build a well. When I bought these facades, I thought they were just a few bare houses, but I didn’t expect to spare a well!

I looked into the well with my probe, and I could still see the water surface reflecting the blue sky above my head... You've earned it, Su Xia thought beautifully.

The two houses were turned into a mess, papers were scattered all over the floor, and there was no place to stay.

"Good stuff!" Su Xiazhi squatted down and picked up a piece of paper that was scattered on the ground to have a look, and then said to the boy: "I've collected it all, and used it for the children in our school to write!"

"Yes!" Obtaining the master's order, the servant hurriedly squatted on the ground to pack up.

"I didn't expect that Zhou Lizheng, a local rich man, would start such an elegant business!" Su Xiazhi read it back and forth and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's true that people can't be judged by their appearance."

"My master doesn't know that the eldest son of the Zhou family is also a student of Mr. An, and I have met him here." After entering this shop, the servant remembered many things, he squatted on the ground and said.

"The eldest son of the Zhou family? Isn't it Zhou Cunxiao?" Su Xiazhi curled his lips when he heard this: "Don't mention this person in the future, especially when he's in my house, don't even talk about Zhou's affairs."

"Yes." Since the master said he couldn't mention it, the boy didn't mention it anymore.As for why he couldn't mention it, that's not his question.

"Pretty good paper, a lot of it is dirty." The paper on the ground was picked up, and it was impossible to hug it all. The boy looked at the soiled paper with some regret and said.

"It doesn't matter. How can children pay so much attention when they learn to write. The dirty side can still be used if it is turned over. As long as it is not broken, it will be taken away." Su Xiazhi often buys these things for scholars, naturally he is right She knew the price of paper well, so she was reluctant to waste a single sheet.

If you can save a little bit, let the people in the village spend money to send the children to study. This is already a embarrassment for them who have a hard life.

"Master, shall we still open this shop?" The servant carried a bag full of papers in his hands and sent them to the mule cart outside.

Su Xiazhi picked up a few more books from the floor of the shop and handed them to him: "Open. I'll talk about it after I figure out what to do."

After looking back and forth, Su Xiazhi got a general impression of this shop, and asked the servant to lock the door again, while she picked off all the remnants of the seals on the doors and windows.

"Boss, where shall we go next?" After waiting for Su Xiazhi to get into the car again, she asked while sitting on the handlebar in front.

"Just walk around these two streets, don't be too fast, and then let's go to the Collection Book Hall."

When going out, An Yi gave Su Xiazhi a sheet with the title of the book the children wanted to read, and Su Xiazhi was going to buy it after strolling around the street.

"Okay!" Uncle Ba Shi agreed, and drove the mule cart slowly on the street where there were not many pedestrians.

The boy was familiar with the situation here, so he pointed to the houses and shops on both sides from time to time to introduce Su Xiazhi.

Just when Su Xiazhi was listening seriously, the servant suddenly stopped talking, and hid to the side of the car window, looking at Su Xiazhi nervously.

Su Xiazhi glanced at him, and then looked outside: "That's the academy run by An Ju." A simple and well-repaired gatehouse flashed past the car window, and she didn't even see the plaque inlaid on the gatehouse clearly. The mule cart drove past.

"Cut, what's so scary about this?" Su Xiazhi gave the boy a disapproving look, and she still lay on the car window and looked out: "What kind of academy, I can't even see a single student, and there are only two old men chatting at the door... ..."

"One of them is Master An." The young man swallowed and said in a low voice.

"What's the matter with Mr. An? I just finished talking to you, so it's useless to co-author! Why do you see him like a mouse seeing a cat!" Su Xiazhi felt that the boy was a little disappointed, but he was still a half-grown child after all. He was originally a timid master, and it was impossible for him to grow up all at once.

An Huaiyuan's name Su Xia has been mentioned by many people, but he has never met him.

Hearing that the boy said that one of the two old men talking at the gate of the academy was actually him, Su Xiazhi looked at it seriously.

"Which one is it..." Looking at the faces of the two old men, Su Xiazhi suddenly shouted: "Mr. Xiucai, I just want to go to the school to find you!"

The two old men who were talking looked towards the direction of the mule cart at the same time, with puzzled expressions on their faces, "Is someone calling Mr. Xiucai?" Deng Heng, Mr. Xiucai, looked forward vigorously.

"Mr. Xiucai!" Su Xiazhi jumped off the mule cart neatly, walked quickly to Deng Heng and saluted, "I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Yo!" Mr. Xiucai clapped his hands, turned his face to the thin old man standing beside him with his hands behind his back, and said, "You don't know her, but you must have heard of her. She is the wife of your favorite student Min Xiucai, and her name is... "

"Su Xiazhi." In the gap between Mr. Xiucai's speech, the thin old man answered, staring at Su Xiazhi with a half-smile on his face and said: "I really didn't expect that."

(End of this chapter)