The mood of waiting is different from any other time before.
This time Ye Youze was wearing clothes that were made at home. They had not been worn many times and were brand new.
He had not been to work for more than twenty days, and he no longer had that lingering odor of sweat.
He was in good health, his clothes were clean and without patches, and his younger brother was at the top of this year's list of students. Ye Youze was full of confidence.
Even when others passed by, he no longer subconsciously lowered his head to avoid them, and his tall and thin body stood straight.
Chu Qi took out the things and saw the big brother at the door at first sight.
I don't have a lot of stuff. I took half of my clothes with me when I went to take the exam, so this time I only have half of them left, which is seven or eight sets.
There are also few shoes and socks.
The only things that have weight are books.
Fortunately, books are expensive, and poor students only buy the most necessary books, and save as much as possible on those that are not very necessary.
Therefore, the original owner did not have many books.
It filled about half of the exam box.
Ye Youze took the initiative to take the test box:
"Little brother, I'll help you get it."
Chu Qi dodged it by leaning to the side. She was strong and didn't want to make her elder brother so tired. She handed the clothes and other things to Ye Youze and said casually:
"You take this, the exam box is lighter, I'll carry it."
Ye Youze weighed the bag. He, who always had an expression of "I'm easy to fool", said suspiciously this time:
"The test box will be lighter? I don't believe it. You bring it over and I'll carry it with you."
Chu Qi said helplessly: "It's just a little lighter, don't you still believe me? When will I take on heavy work?"
Thinking about his life habits since childhood, Ye Youze deeply agreed:
"That's right...Okay, little brother, you carry it first, and I'll take care of it when you get tired."
Afterwards, Chu Qi took Ye Youze to the bookstore to find Li Yue.
Li Yue sat behind the counter eating walnut kernels, crunching one at a time, feeling very comfortable.
Because the school was on vacation, there were fewer students coming to the bookstore to buy or borrow books, and sometimes you wouldn't see many at all in a whole day.
"Boss." Chu Qi came in and greeted with a smile:
"How have you been lately?"
Li Yue heard a familiar voice and looked up in surprise. Seeing Chu Qi, he swallowed the walnut residue in his mouth, stood up and greeted her with a smile:
"Brother Ye, no, Ye Bangtou! Congratulations to Brother Ye for getting the top spot, that's awesome."
After a round of compliments, Li Yue obviously had no intention of continuing to reminisce about the past, and said directly:
"Brother Ye, your copy of Love Songs of Jianghu has almost sold out. Every two days, a book boy comes to ask me when the latest chapter will be released."
The scholar did copy out the previous chapters and sell them, but all he sold were old chapters.
The guests who have already seen the latest chapter can't wait any longer and want to send their servants to check when the latest chapter will be released every day.
Even if the guest is not in Yu Town, he will send servants to ask.
If they were not aware that Mr. Chu Qi’s sales pattern was to release a new chapter every two days, they would have wanted to ask once a day.
Before Chu Qi knew it, her story had already become famous in the area and had readers everywhere.
Speculations about who "Mr. Chu Qi" was have intensified, but no one has discovered him yet.
Although Chu Qi often went in and out of bookstores, no one suspected her because she was a student.
And the workplace is in a small cubicle behind the bookstore.
Unless the host opens the door and invites people in to watch, ordinary guests will not be able to notice it.
"I haven't written it yet. Why don't I write it here today?"
Chu Qi suggested.
Li Yue raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Okay, okay, just write here."
He rubbed his hands, looking a little excited. "The school is on vacation now. If you have time, write more. The more you work, the more you earn."
Chu Qi was thinking this, she half-jokingly said:
"If I could, I really hope to write hundreds of articles a day to sell to you."
"Hey, a few hundred articles is fine. I'll charge as many as you write."
Li Yue grinned.
So Chu Qi decided to make money in the bookstore first.
With no income during this period of time, her wallet has emptied rapidly and now she has less than 500 coins left.
Among them, the most expensive part is hiring a doctor.
There is no other way. Saving grandfather’s life is the most important thing. Chu Qi doesn’t want anything to happen to his relatives.
You can earn money again if you lose it, but when you lose your loved ones, they are really gone.
Now Chu Qi's manuscript fee is still one cent for every ten words. She wrote here for about half a day. She had the plot in her mind, and she just had to write it down. So she wrote about ten thousand words in half a day.
The total amount was one thousand and ten coins.
After taking the money, Chu Qi decided to go home.
On the way back, Ye Youze said with emotion:
"Is it so easy for all intellectuals to make money like you? I work hard all day carrying bags at the dock, but I only earn five cents. Sometimes I earn even less than five cents."
Chu Qi was holding a cage with two quacking yellow-feathered ducks in it.
She poked the duck's head with her finger and said nonchalantly:
"It's not easy for intellectuals to make money. I'm just an exception."
If it were so easy for all the literate people in the world to make money, there would be no such term as "poor scholar".
"Brother, I feel much more relieved when you say that." Ye Youze said with a smile:
"If I knew that it was easy for scholars to make money, I would have vomited from reading books back then. I would still study hard."
It would have been fine if he had been stuck in the mud forever, but seeing Chu Qi earn hundreds of copper coins with his own eyes, and the work she did was not physical, Ye Youze felt a little uncomfortable.
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