Tianxiang Tower

Ma Jin and Wu Fatty Niu ran out of the side door of the backyard. The three of them lowered their eyebrows and looked listlessly for their own carriage.

Niu Ben is listless because he got drunk yesterday and has not recovered yet, so he is in a bad mood.

Fatty Wu was listless because he had just played with Xiao Taohong in the morning and was a little tired.

Ma Jin's listlessness was purely what made Shui Yiyi's little nipples angry.

You said if you want to take revenge on me, what wine would you like to drink? You can use a beauty trick to trick me into bed and ravage me hard, and squeeze me into a human, which is not as good as this...

The more Ma Jin thought about it, the more angry he became. He went to Tianxianglou with Fatty Wu. He stayed overnight and did nothing serious. Instead, he made a big ugly man and had a very poor experience.

The three found their own carriage and took Fatty Wu to the inn. They said goodbye to Fatty Wu. Ma Jin and Niu Ben took the car back to Niujiazhuang again.

When I arrived at Niujiazhuang, Niu Ben's alcoholism had not yet completely recovered. He shouted dizzy, said hello to Ma Jin, and went back to his bedroom to rest.

Ma Jin looked at Niu Ben's back staggeringly, and after drinking two taels, he became like this bear. If it were him yesterday, his uncle Niu Hong would have to send a white-haired man to the black-haired man...

After calming down, Ma Jin went to the main hall to find Niu Hong to talk. The uncle and nephew had a good conversation. They had lunch together at noon. During the meal, Ma Jin and Niu Hong agreed that on the sixth day of the lunar month, the Niu family's caravan set out. The upper part of the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties will be sold to various places with the caravan.

In the afternoon, Ma Jin went to see Niu Ben again. Seeing that he was almost recovering, he comforted him and asked him to go to Jingding Xianglou to find him to play.

Then, Ma Jin said goodbye to Niu Hong and his aunt Yang, and took Zhou Fuhai and Bao Bao to leave Niujiazhuang and return to Dingxianglou.

As soon as he returned to Dingxiang Tower, Ma Jin instructed Zhou Fuhai that if there was nothing important, he would not disturb him, and he would go into seclusion and rush to get the manuscript.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, not only the day when the Liu family caravan set off, but also the day when the Dingxianglou and Xinhua Bookstore reopened. Before this, Ma Jin would see An Yi's manuscripts in the middle.

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On the fourth day of the lunar month, Lu Er, who had finished his annual leave, also returned to Dingxiang Building and began to prepare for the reopening of the sixth day of the lunar month.

Dingxianglou has now become famous. Although it is not certain whether Ma Jin will speak or not this year, with the superb cooking skills and novel dishes of the little fat Bao Bao, Zhou Fuhai is sure that Dingxianglou's business will definitely reach a higher level this year.

This can be seen from the fact that since Ma Jin fell ill and could not speak, the popularity of Dingxianglou has not only not decreased, but has increased.

Zhou Fuhai is planning to hire two more chefs now. Now that Dingxianglou's business has improved, Bao Bao and Lu Er are too busy in the kitchen, and there are also two friends who are doing odd jobs in the hall in front of him.

So on the fourth day of the lunar month and the fifth day of the lunar month, Zhou Fuhai ran several times and asked some acquaintances, and finally recruited the right candidate.

Two chefs, one named Niu Zhan, was in his early forties and was recommended by Niujiazhuang, Ma Jin's uncle Niu Hong. He used to be a chef in a restaurant in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province. It is said that he is proficient in frying, stir-frying, cooking, stewing, stewing.

When he first came, Niu Zhan saw that the chef was a young fat man and was quite unwilling to accept it. As a result, the fat man didn't even make the recipe Ma Jin taught him, and just showed off his knife skills.

Niu Zhan looked at the tofu shredded tofu that was cut thinner than his hair in front of him, and knelt down directly. If he hadn't been old, he would have kowtowed to worship Bao Bao as his teacher.

Another chef is Yang Baolu, a native of Baoding Prefecture, Hebei Province. He has a good cooking skills and can also make authentic donkey meat dishes. Even Ma Jin praised him for his sauce donkey meat.

But this Yang Baolu is a bit reckless and stupid. He usually likes to drink some wine. He will be crazy when he drinks too much and talks nonsense, which makes Zhou Fuhai very upset.

The three newly recruited guys were all carefully trained by Yashang. They were quick-witted and diligent, which saved Zhou Fuhai a lot of care.

Since then, Dingxianglou has four chefs and seven guys, and gradually restored the glory of his old boss's road when he was alive.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the lunar month, An Yi came to Dingxiang Building to find Ma Jin. The upper part of the 20,000 copies of the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties had been loaded, and the workshop in the backyard of the bookstore will be reopened tomorrow. This time he came here specifically to ask Ma Jin for manuscripts.

As soon as An Yi arrived in the backyard, Ma Jin walked out of the study. He rushed slowly in the past two days and finally finished writing the middle part.

The whole book has 170,000 words, from the devil king who ascended the throne in the Wagang Village, and the rebellion of the kings and soldiers in the world have risen everywhere. It is about the treacherous minister Yu Wen and the devastating Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and Li Yuan founded the Tang Dynasty and wanted to seize the country.

An Yi took the manuscript and reported to Ma Jin about the progress of the bookstore renovation. The printing workshop behind has been renovated, which is nearly twice the size of the original workshop. The shop in front is still being renovated. It is expected that it can be completed before the Lantern Festival, so that the book sales will not be delayed.

During this period, Anyi was not idle. Not only did he hire a group of honest and reliable printing workers, but he also eliminated some of the bad workers he had recruited randomly because he was anxious to rush goods. The remaining people, both in terms of character and technology, are trustworthy.

Anyi not only recruited new workers, but also recruited four new men. It turned out that there were only two men in the store, so I was too busy. When there were many customers, Anyi transferred a few clever apprentices from the backyard workshop to the top.

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"Now major bookstores are stocking up molds. I have worked hard to buy a few more sets of molds and made up twenty sets. We have more than 60 workers who work overtime and can print more than 2,000 copies a day. After the Lantern Festival, there will be nearly 30,000 copies in the store." An Yi said to Ma Jin.

"Well, don't be so hurrying. In this way, I'll give you another five days. New books will be released on the 20th day of the first lunar month. Then you can just store 30,000 copies in stock for me." Ma Jin shook his hand and signaled Anyi not to be anxious.

According to statistics made by An Yi, the upper part of the Sui and Tang dynasties sold by Xinhua Bookstore will be less than 20,000. Including the market occupied by other pirated booksellers, Ma Jin roughly calculated that the market in the capital should be between 30,000 and 50,000, plus the few county towns around the capital, the maximum is no more than 80,000.

If you can't chew too much, Ma Jin asked Anyi to stock 30,000 copies, which is enough.

Ma Jin explained some matters to Anyi before leaving.

Ma Jin asked Zhu Hu, who had already returned from vacation, to arrange a carriage to take An Yi back. He went to see the new Niu Zhan, Yang Baolu and his friends, and encouraged them a few words, and Ma Jin went back to the backyard.

When he arrived at the study, Ma Jin carefully put away the lower part of the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and began to consider his next plan.

Ma Jin planned to stop talking about the storytelling for the time being. It was not that he was unwilling to do so, but that he was afraid of getting into trouble. After all, it was too eye-catching. Now that the matter of the Eighth Prince is not over, Ma Jin has no intention of telling the storytelling.

After thinking of a safe way to deal with it later, it was not too late for him to start talking about it. He still likes to talk about the past and the present, and he feels like talking about the past and the present.
Chapter completed!