Chapter Twenty-Eight: Selling Poetry and Writing

After the three brothers entered the city, they were quite restrained, and the standard appearance of countrymen entering the city, the Wang brothers were because of low self-esteem, after all, they were ugly and poor...... Afraid of being beaten?

Li Su is in awe.

The ancient capital of Chang'an, more than 2,000 years of dynasties, this most majestic ancient city only glowed its youngest and most prosperous appearance when it was in the Tang Dynasty.

"In the past, I was drunk with flowers and willows in Chang'an, and the five marquis and seven nobles had the same glass of wine. In front of the heroic man, **willing to fall behind others......"

Good poetry! This poem is suitable for selling to the powerful, and I am embarrassed to show it if I don't give two pieces of money.

"Affectionate only spring court month, like leaving people to shine on the flowers", good poetry! This poem should be sold to the scholars who chant the wind and the moon, clean their money bags, and watch them destitute with these poems......

"Ten years of Yangzhou dream, win the name of Bo Xing", good poem! This poem can be sold to ...... Prostitute/Client? Forget it, this poem is not for sale, keep it for yourself.

Li Su walked all the way to think about how to start the business, and the Wang brothers looked around curiously, although Taiping Village was only sixty miles away from Chang'an City, but the brothers had only entered Chang'an City a handful of times since they were young.

On the way, he stopped a pedestrian and asked him how to go to the blacksmith shop, and the pedestrian was very enthusiastic in pointing out the way.

At that time, there were not many blacksmith shops in Chang'an City, and although Datang was the most tolerant era, tolerance was not unlimited. Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries after the collection of weapons gathered in Xianyang, worried about too many civilian weapons, afraid of subverting his rule, the old Li family is more atmospheric, did not do such an excessive thing, but the blacksmith shop can build weapons of the industry is still more sensitive, and the locksmith company in later generations, Chang'an's blacksmith shop must be registered in the official government to make a name.

Chang'an City according to the number of heaven and earth, a total of one hundred and eight squares, each square set up a square, each mile set up a division, the nearest blacksmith shop from Li Su is located in the west of the city of Shengye Fang, all the way to ask a few passers-by, the three finally found the blacksmith shop.

Taking out the movable type printing layout that had already been drawn, the blacksmith pondered for a long time, shook his head and said that he couldn't do it, mainly because of the lack of materials and the lack of carvers.

Li Su has long been mentally prepared, the materials are indeed not easy to get together, in the blacksmith shop, pig iron and steelmaking are naturally not lacking, but movable type printing needs lead and tin, which is not easy to find, and the carver master is not easy to find, probably to the stationery shop that sells the four treasures of the study.

The blacksmith carefully pondered the movable type printing plate, and estimated a rough number, making a few thousand small lead blocks is a big project, less than two dollars to do, and the blacksmith is very enthusiastic to point out the maze.

In addition to the blacksmith shop in this world, there is also a group of strange people who also sell all kinds of metals, whether they are monks or chemists, anyway, they close the door every day to study the art of immortality, in order to refine the elixir of immortality, this group of people is more persistent than terrorists, what mercury, lead, cinnabar, messy things dare to stuff everything into their mouths, not only into their own mouths, but also into the emperor's mouth, what a group of people who are dead-Sun Simiao, a Taoist friend, can actually live to be one hundred and two years old, It is really an outlier and is not representative in any way.

The Zongsheng Palace in the city is a Taoist temple, which is a Taoist temple given by Emperor Gaozu himself, and if you go to that group of terrorists, you will be able to buy lead and tin.

Li Su understood, but he didn't go to Zongsheng Palace, because ...... No money.

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Only with money can they do things, so Li Su and the Wang brothers had to wander around, looking for opportunities.

Now that the Wang brothers finally know the purpose of Li Su's entry into the city, the two of them can't help but be a little puzzled.

"Selling poetry? Why do you sell poetry? ”

"Lack of money, of course."

Wang Zhu became more and more incomprehensible, scratching his scalp and said, "Poetry is a thing...... It should be considered a knowledge, right? I haven't heard of selling knowledge, isn't it good to keep knowledge for yourself? In the future, I might be able to make a name for myself......"

Li Su sighed: "I can probably remember dozens or hundreds of poems like this, it doesn't matter if I sell a little, besides, I'm only fifteen years old, is it really good for a teenager to be famous?" Fortune and misfortune are unpredictable. ”

In this era, Li Su still has a deep guard mentality, he wants to make money and doesn't want to be famous, so he has this choice.

The Wang brothers were speechless, this was no longer a problem that their simple minds could consider, and Li Su couldn't talk to them in detail.

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Shengye Fang is not far from Chang'an West City, there are many foreign traders here, wrapped in a big turban wrapped in an embroidered carpet like Hu Shang led a long horse and camel, the back of the livestock was full of exquisite silk and porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, the face was piled with a kind smile like a spring breeze, and the people of Chang'an who passed by straightened their waists, and did not look at Hu Shang from the corner of their eyes, and passed by them with a calm expression.

Self-confidence, strong self-confidence.

This is Li Su's first impression of the people of Chang'an, in a glorious era, even the ordinary people have that kind of self-confidence temperament, a foreign country is not in the eyes, the true meaning of "all nations come to the dynasty" can be seen in the people, from the inside to the outside reveals the "heavenly kingdom" of the magnificent style.

Inexplicably, Li Su's mood became excited.

More than a thousand years later, women did not hesitate to commit to foreign countries for a foreign green card, and the national self-confidence at that time had probably dropped to a distressing level.

There was a noodle stall not far from the blacksmith shop, and Li Su glanced at it casually when he passed by, and then, his eyes lit up.

At the table of the noodle stall sat a strong man, less than twenty years old, who was munching on Hu cakes, sucking Hu spicy soup, sweating profusely, but wearing a silk silk cloth, which looked very luxurious.

Li Su smiled, business is coming.

Walked to the strong man in a few steps, sat down at the table, and then bowed his hand to the strong man: "Brother Tai, please." ”

The strong man looked up, and Li Su saw his appearance clearly, just like Wang Zhuan, this guy had dark skin, a horizontal face, and was very ugly. ――It seems that the handsome guy of the Tang Dynasty is really a scarce resource, and Li Su couldn't help but sing a cheerful song in his heart.

The brothers of the Wang family also saw the appearance of this strong man clearly, and the three of them looked at each other for a long time, all showing expressions of sympathy.

"What's the matter?" The strong man's urn voice was angry, Li Su's handsome appearance may have stimulated him, and his tone was not very kind.

The difference in everyone's appearance is too big, and there may be no common language, Li Su decided to bypass the greetings and go-chat, and went straight to the topic: "Does Brother Tai know how to read?" ”

"I don't recognize much, what's wrong?"

roughly estimated the appearance of the strong man, well, it should be a bold faction, and ugly people can generally only take this route.

took out a stack of papers from his arms, Li Su flipped left and right, picked out a poem from it, and handed it to the strong man.

"In the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not been returned. But make Longcheng Feijiang, don't teach Hu Ma to do Yin Mountain......" The strong man read it again, his eyes suddenly lit up, he slammed the table, and shouted: "Good poem! This poem is good, read it to lift your spirit, boy, who made it? ”

"Ownerless." Li Su smiled lightly.

"Ownerless?" The strong man looked at him in confusion.

"Brother Tai is gorgeously dressed, he must be a child of a rich family, and he is not short of money, right?" Li Su looked at him eagerly.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ There is no shortage. The strong man's expression seemed to be a little more amused.

"How about selling this poem to you for two dollars? This poem can be signed in the name of Brother Tai, and he swore to the sky that he would never leak it, and if he violated the oath, he would teach me to ......" to look around left and right, blessed to the heart, and pointed to the Wang brothers and said: "Teach me to become as ugly as them." ”

With tears in the corners of their eyes, the Wang brothers looked up at the sky, and let out a long sigh of sorrow.

The strong man looked at the appearance of the Wang brothers, and then recalled his appearance, feeling very awkward, and there was nowhere to get angry.

"Two bucks?" The strong man wrung his eyebrows and groaned, not only did he not have the slightest indignation at being insulted, but raised his eyebrows slightly, and seemed to be a little moved.

Li Su was overjoyed when he saw this, very good, he finally met a Sven scum, and everyone's moral bottom line was at the same level.

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