Peasant Girl Bookseller

Chapter 237 Chapter 230 Six References
"Mr. Ji's words are getting thicker and thicker, which is quite the essence of the Three Friends of Suihan." Cao Xueqin looked at the words on the door plaque and said with a smile.

"Brother Cao made fun of me again."

"My sister's name is well chosen, and the word Ji Tanhua is really well written, and they complement each other. Let's go in and have a look, and see what kind of surprises my sister and husband have for us." Yong En said with a smile.

This is the first time for Yong En to come to this place, and Mai Xiang, Huai Ci and Ye Dafu are doing the preliminary work.In the later stage, he just sent a few people over, so he can't wait to see the abilities of Mai Xiang and Huai Ci.

"It's just a prototype, there are still many ideas that haven't been formed, so you are not allowed to laugh at me." After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she led everyone into the gate.

Everyone followed Mai Xiang into the yard. The yard covers an area of ​​about [-] acres in total, but the current construction area is less than one mu. It is a small courtyard with an open space in the middle. Mai Xiang plans to use it to plant flowers and plants. Because it is not yet the season, there are only a few bare trees now.On both sides are Chaoshou corridors, the left side room is the office area, the right side is the living area, the front row is the printing workshop, and the upside down is the warehouse.For the remaining large area, Mai Xiang has not yet planned it out.

Mai Xiang led everyone to look from the left. There are three offices in total. One is an editing and typesetting room, one is a carving room, and the other is a publishing room. The layout of the offices is similar to that of modern times. live.

Ji Xiaolan looked at the wooden sign on the door, nodded, and said with a smile, "That's right, that's what happened."

"My brother-in-law helped me find these people, I really don't understand this." Mai Xiang laughed.

"What material is your template made of? About how many tens of thousands of characters are there?" Cao Xueqin asked. He never thought that Mai Xiang, a little peasant girl, would actually become a bookseller. sell books.

"There are about [-] characters, and they belong to Li Mu."

"Let's go and have a look." Cao Xueqin became curious. He is also a layman in this line of work.

Mai Xiang led everyone to the workshop. When entering the door, there were twelve large cabinets along the wall. They put the characters in the twelve cabinets in the order of the twelve earthly branches. Each cabinet had two hundred drawers, and each drawer Divided into twelve small grids, each grid stores four large and small movable wooden characters. Each drawer is marked with a certain character and the number of calligraphy and painting, and a special person is responsible for picking it up.

"This is interesting. I heard that there is a rotary typesetting tray, which puts Chinese characters on two large turntables. It is very convenient for two workers to push the turntables to pick up the characters." Ji Xiaolan said with a smile.

"Ah? Why didn't I know? I borrowed this method from my godfather's book." Mai Xiang said with some regret.

"From my book?" Cao Xueqin was stunned.

"The book of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling in the Department of Boming."

"Haha, you girl, I can't blame your teacher for always calling you a ghost. I just wrote it casually, but you can think of practicality. You are better than the husband." Cao Xueqin laughed loudly after hearing this, and then A little proud.

In fact, the meaning of Yi Maixiang is to search according to modern pinyin. The problem is that there is no pinyin in ancient times. How can she explain it to everyone for a while, not to mention that it takes a lot of time for temporary trainers.

This sorting method was thought up by Huaici. Huaici was inspired by the "Kangxi Dictionary". Only then did Mai Xiang know that ancient Chinese characters were arranged with 214 radicals. The radicals are ordered by strokes, and all The tribal capitals are grouped into 12 episodes named after the twelve earthly branches, so there are twelve big character cabinets.

"Actually, if you want me to say, this method is also good, not slower than pushing the turntable by hand." Yongen watched the typesetting worker over there call out a word, and the character picker here could find the Chinese character accurately after a little thought. If you are proficient, the speed will only be faster, and he still wonders if he should also change the printing method used by the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

"Come on, let's see what the printed thing looks like." Mai Xiang has never seen ancient printing.

After hearing this, Huai Ci hurriedly took Mai Xiang's hand, and said, "Sister, don't go, I'm doing typesetting. My sister wants to see it, so it's the same here."

Huai Ci felt that the workers over there were all grown men, unlike the people picking up characters here, they were all children without hair, so she didn't want Mai Xiang to get too close to them.

"Okay, it should be so." Yong En and the others hurriedly agreed.

Mai Xiang had no choice but to give up after hearing this. From a distance, she saw several people busy with their heads bowed on a wooden plate, as if they were embedding Chinese characters one by one into the wooden plate, and someone was comparing it with the manuscript.

After leaving the publishing house, everyone went to Fuyunlai, and Mai Xiang sent someone to pick up Wula Duomin and A Muxin. The three of them asked for a small private room alone, and the three sisters hadn't talked together for a long time.

"It's rare for my sister to think of me today. In this first lunar month, I sent someone to pick me up several times, but they didn't come." When Amu Xin saw Mai Xiang, she complained first.

"Second sister, am I not busy? I am busy earning some milk powder money for our little Gege. Besides, the second sister also knows that I have always hated those who are lively and don't like to listen to and watch theatre, so I am not afraid to say it The second sister made a joke, and I can't understand those babbling things, so I don't have to go and make people laugh." Mai Xiang hugged A Muxin's arm and laughed along.

Because Amu Xin has a lot of her husband's family and her mother's family, and because her father will go to the Northwest after the Lantern Festival, and A Mu Xin also has a lot of money this year, so this first month, there are several days of opera wine at home, because many little sisters Having seen Mai Xiang before, Amusin wanted to bring Mai Xiang into their social circle, but Mai Xiang had no interest at all.For this reason, Amu Xin was really angry with Mai Xiang for a few days.

"Cousin, look, I just said something, my sister has a car waiting for me, you are used to her, and I don't even pay attention to her." Amu Xin smiled and twisted Mai Xiang's little girl. Face.

"Hey, when did this girl's face become so pale and tender? Is this the little girl I met at the Temple of the Reclining Buddha?" After Amu Xin finished speaking, she deliberately touched Mai Xiang's face.

Mai Xiang didn't want to suffer, so she pinched Amu Xin's face, and said with a smile: "Second sister still said me, second sister's face is moist, there is not even a small pimple, how do you take care of it? of?"

"Okay, the two of you are still going on. One is a woman who is going to be married, and the other is also going to marry. Why do you not have a steady look when you get together?" Uladomin glanced at Mai Xiang worriedly, She misunderstood what Mai Xiang said.

After Mai Xiang finished speaking, she saw that Uladomin was watching her research, but she didn't react for a while, she touched her little face, and seeing Uladomin's smile was a little weird, Mai Xiang quickly realized that her words were ambiguous.

Although Mai Xiang has never had a relationship with a man and a woman, there are many people living together around her when she was in college. The roommates often joke with each other, and when they see someone with a good complexion, they will tease whether they are moisturized.

Mai Xiang didn't expect the same meaning in ancient times, so she couldn't help but blush.

"Sister, I didn't say anything about you, why are you blushing?" Amusin asked narrowly from the side.

"Elder Sister, look at Second Sister, she knows how to make fun of me, if you do this again, I won't have dinner with you." Mai Xiang had no choice but to act like a baby to Uladomin.

"Okay, when you leave the cabinet, I will be in charge of asking her to prepare a dowry for you to make amends. Our Mai Xiang is also [-] this year, and we should leave the cabinet next year." Uladomin touched Mai Xiang's small face, quite Some of my family has the feeling of growing up as a girl.

"Elder Sister, why are you doing this too?" Now that Mai Xiang's face turned red, it was hard to think about it.

"The dowry is not a problem. It's not for anything else, but for the dividends my sister gave me for a year. I should also prepare a dowry for my sister." Amu Xin winked and smiled at Mai Xiang.

"I'll remember it. I'll have a look at that time. Is there anything good that I can catch my eye." Mai Xiang simply admitted it openly.

"Virtue, you're panting if you say you're fat, and I dare to open a dyeing workshop if I give you some color. Even if I only give you a piece of grass, it's your second sister's intention, and you have to give it." Amu Xin said obliquely He glanced at Mai Xiang.

"Yes, I will confess. Does the villain dare not confess?" Mai Xiang raised her hands and clasped her fists and smiled.

"Okay, let's be serious, sister, my ama went to the northwest this time, and I heard Lord Belle say that if you're lucky, you can buy some jade ore from the locals, why don't I tell my ama to let His subordinates went to find some high-quality sheep fat jade and brought them back. We made some good things and gave some to my sister as a dowry. By the way, I heard that the people there are sparsely populated and the animal fur is cheaper than ours. There are too many, let them bring some rare animal furs by the way, and now my sister's dowry is also complete."

Mai Xiang rolled her eyes when she heard this, and said, "Second Sister, your father is going to do big things, okay? You still need to bother him with such a small matter?"

"That's right, uncle is a person who does great things. I'm ready for the big furs that my little sister married. When the housekeepers in the house go to collect rent from their hometown in the Northeast, I will tell them to collect some light, warm, beautiful and practical animals. Come here with the fur." ​​Uladomin said hastily.

"I said why my sister always wants to make me a big woolen dress every year. It's too expensive. I usually don't go out, so I don't have a chance to wear it." Mai Xiang laughed hurriedly.

"Why no chance? It's not a chance to see us? Also, don't be too careless about Wanjia coming, Wanjia is just a little squire, and Wan Chengyao is just a sixth-rank sesame official. They used to How did you treat your brother-in-law, you give them back, you are short of money or lack of support, you still let them abuse you, beat you out as soon as possible." Amusin said.

"What do you mean?" Uladomin asked hastily.

"Hmph, you ask her." Amusin glanced at Mai Xiang displeased.

(End of this chapter)