"Scholar Jiang is here. It's been a while since I've seen you."
As soon as Jiang Shuyun entered, she ran into Manager He of the bookstore and quickly greeted him.
"Manager He's well wishes. He had some family matters to attend to recently and couldn't come over."
Jiang Shuyun had been copying books at this bookstore. His handwriting was neat and he used the official script. Manager He liked the books he copied very much, and they sold well.
Printing technology existed in this era, but it wasn't widely adopted. Most books for the imperial examinations were still handwritten. As a result, paper was relatively cheap, but books were not.
"What do you need, Scholar Jiang?"
"Manager He, I'd like to copy more books, this time the Four Books and Five Classics. Is that alright?"
Jiang Shuyun knew that the Four Books and Five Classics were compulsory subjects in the imperial examinations, and he needed to review them to gain new knowledge and integrate the original owner's memories. By copying the books, he could review them to gain new knowledge and also understand them properly.
"Of course, you'll always need books for the imperial examinations. Which one do you plan to copy first?"
"The Analects and the Great Learning, I suppose. Also, Mr. He, do you have any good travelogues you could recommend? I'd like to learn about the local customs and culture of different places."
Jiang Shuyun couldn't forget what Mu Yi'an had told her, including the agricultural and medical books. She would ask Manager He about them later.
"Travelogue, local customs and culture, you know what, there is actually one, it was sent over by the Fucheng Bookstore a while ago."
Shopkeeper He went up to the second floor and took down a book called "Dali Jiuzhou Zhi" (Records of the Nine Provinces of the Great Li Era), which was quite thick.
"This is a new book this year. It is said to be a record made by a scion of a prominent family who has been traveling around for many years. He spent many years traveling to every inch of the land of Dali, recording the local customs, crops, and even drawing maps of the distribution of villages and towns in various places. Of course, these are all simplified maps."
Manager He also kept a copy for himself, and he quite liked reading it. It was written very realistically, and he had been to some of the places, so he didn't write anything wrong.
Jiang Shuyun took it and slowly looked at it. Manager He didn't disturb him. He knew that Jiang Xiucai wasn't the type to just look and not buy, otherwise he wouldn't have let him browse through it directly.
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