The bookstore owner Li Yue has been making a lot of money recently because he is the exclusive bookstore selling the story of "The Fox Becomes a Spirit and Returns Gratitude", and other bookstores have no channels to sell it.
Just talking about this town, Jiangfuzi College has gathered scholars from all over the country.
Although almost half of the students come from poor families, the purchasing power of the remaining small number cannot be underestimated.
For this purpose, Li's bookstore specially hired a scholar to copy "The Story of a Fox Becoming a Spirit and Repaying Gratitude", and sold a limited number of 20 copies of the first and second chapters per day.
A piece of paper can hold about 500 words, and two chapters are four sheets of paper.
All four pieces of paper were made of low-quality paper, with a cost price of two cents.
The scholar's wages were fifteen cents a day.
The necessary expenses, including paper, pens, ink, and the scholar's wages, totaled about sixty-five coins a day.
Li Yue priced the chapters at seven cents per chapter, so twenty copies would be two hundred and eighty cents. After deducting the cost, he made a net profit of about two hundred and fifteen cents a day.
These are only the first two chapters, and the ones on the right are not on sale yet.
You have to know that in the Qian Dynasty, you could buy a meat bun for two cents. Although the so-called meat bun didn’t have much meat in it, it was meat after all.
The bookstore made a net profit of more than one hundred meat buns a day.
In about five days, Li Yue earned back the 1,050 yuan in royalties that he had given to Chu Qi at the beginning.
That’s why they say it’s easy for businessmen to make money. On the seventh day, when Chu Qi was copying a book.
The boss Li Yue went out and bought two bowls of hot minced meat noodle soup, five cents each, and placed them on the small desk behind Chu Qi.
He greeted, "Brother Ye, are you hungry? Stop copying and come and eat noodles. I'll treat you."
There were not many customers in the store at this time, so he sat down and ate a bite first.
The noodles are handmade, each one is chewy and elastic. The noodle soup seems to be an exclusive secret recipe. To exaggerate, the aroma can be smelled from ten miles away. Sprinkled with chopped green onions and pre-marinated minced meat, it is so delicious that you want to swallow your tongue into your stomach.
If a noodle shop can be sold for only five cents, it must have real skills. This noodle shop is also the favorite of many wealthy students.
There was no reason not to eat the free noodle soup, so Chu Qi put down her pen and sat in front of her boss to eat.
Li Yue swallowed a mouthful of noodles and asked her, "Your stories are selling very well now. Many people want to know who the author is. Are you interested in telling others who you are?"
Chu Qi ate the noodles slowly and said with a smile:
"I'd better not say anything. I saw that the teachers in the school were all reading it. If I stand up and they find out that it was written by a yellow-haired boy, they will despise me and not want to buy it. What should I do then?"
Li Yue thought it made sense. There were already many rumors among readers that this story was written by an old gentleman who was well-versed in history and current affairs.
If Chu Qi, who is only fifteen years old this year, came out and said that she wrote it, I'm afraid there would be an uproar.
So Li Yue ignored this topic and discussed the rest of the story with Chu Qi.
Chu Qi said, "I can write one chapter every two days, so there are about thirty chapters left."
Li Yue nodded: "Then let's follow the previous rule, twenty words per penny."
Chu Qi had no objection, "Okay."
Next, Chu Qi began to sell one chapter every other day, with the number of words ranging from two thousand to two thousand five hundred, and the income stabilized at around one hundred coins every two days.
During this period, Chu Qi did not stop studying during the day and made up for the lessons in her dreams at night.
Before she knew it, her total study time had exceeded thirty years!
At this time, there were still two full months left before the Tongsheng Examination.
Most of the candidates for the Tongsheng examination were around ten years old, and the older ones were around fifteen years old.
Their mere ten years of hard study are no match for Chu Qi's more than thirty years.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chu Qi has a huge advantage among them, just like a senior high school student facing a group of elementary school students.
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"The Fox Becomes a Spirit and Repays Gratitude" is about to come to an end.
In order to make a final profit, the owner Li Yue advertised at the door of the store, saying that the finale would be on sale tomorrow, limited to thirty copies, and because the number of words this time is more than before, it will be sold for an extra eight cents.
And after this sale, it will not be sold anymore for the time being.
After all, these are miscellaneous books that there is no need to read again after reading them once, and in recent years, the students who have been studying in Master Jiang's School and are able to buy them have almost bought them all.
Li Yue decided to wait until most of the students had left before selling the items.
At that time, what will be sold are not individual photos, but whole books.
Chu Qi earned more than a thousand coins a month from this book, which not only covered her daily expenses but also gave some to her family.
After selling the story of the fox, there were still two months left before the Tongsheng examination began.
Because the exam was being taken in Yuzhou, Chu Qi only needed to set off half a month in advance to rest, so he still had a month and a half to study.
The source of money cannot be cut off, so in order to make money, Chu Qi began to serialize stories about martial arts.
Her pen name is based on her real name Chu Qi.
The original owner of this life was called Ye Qingyun, and had nothing to do with Chu Qi himself.
For some reason, when Li Yue asked her what her signature was, she inexplicably wrote her own name.
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Zhao Shi is a student from Jiangfuzi College who comes from a relatively well-off family.
He usually studies with the company of a servant boy, and lives in a binary house bought by the Zhao family here. He has a special cook to take care of his meals and drinks.
My only worry is reading.
The bookstore opened by Li Yue is closest to Jiangfuzi College. If students want to read books or rent books, they usually go to Li Yue's bookstore to save trouble.
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