nycdaug Chapter 138 Morning News (Request for Power)
Chapter 138 Morning News (Request for Power)
Li Qiao's wife saw her sister-in-law working with her head down and making dumplings faster and faster. She felt that she could not fall behind, so she stopped chatting and immediately speeded up.
When we divided up the family business, my mother said that if anyone was caught slacking off at my younger sister's place, they wouldn't have to come anymore.
For such an easy job, Taohua increased their salary to forty cents.
Two people take turns every month, and each person can work for fifteen days, so they can earn more than half a tael of silver in a month.
Who in Shadi Village doesn’t envy them for having such a beautiful girl?
The sisters-in-law thought so too.
As long as my younger sister keeps running the breakfast shop in Ruyi Building, they can continue to do business.
At the end of the year, I can save more than six taels.
In the past, the entire family could not save this much money.
The men went out to sell frozen foods, although it was only for three or four months in the summer, they could still earn two or three taels of silver.
There is little land and grain in Shadi Village. The two taels of silver can be used to buy grain, which can feed several people in the family.
After their husbands came back from selling frozen foods, the wives of Li Shan and Li Qiao said goodbye to Li Taohua.
All the breakfast was sold out, leaving only a few frozen treats, and Li Taohua was ready to close the stall.
There were empty buckets on the way back, so Li Taohua and Lin Dajiang took a donkey cart back.
"Uncle Jiang. Uncle Jiang."
Lin Dajiang was driving his donkey cart halfway when he met Ping An.
"Uncle Jiang, our wheel is broken."
Lin Dajiang slapped his thigh and said to Gu Changsheng beside him: "I don't know how to practice! Changsheng, where are you going? How about I take you there first?"
"Godfather, I'm going to find Jingzhe."
News came from Lin'an Prefecture that Chaowen Bookstore had published a Chaowen Tabloid, imitating the Lin'an Tabloid, and even the content of the stories inside were similar.
The most important thing is that one issue of Chao Wen Bao only costs eighty cents.
It was twenty cents cheaper than the Lin'an tabloid.
When I heard the news after school at noon, I rushed to Shanglin Village without even having time to eat.
"Get in the car. Your stepmother and I are used to walking, but we are not used to riding a donkey cart. Come on, come on, get in quickly."
Gu Changsheng said a few words to Ping An, nodded to Lin Dajiang and Li Taohua, and then got on the donkey cart.
He had to hurry to Shanglin Village.
Half an hour later, Lin Jingzhe heard Gu Changsheng's urgent call, which made him think he had heard it wrong.
Normally Gu Changsheng wouldn't come at this time.
When he went out, he saw Gu Changsheng jumping off his donkey cart. "Hey, why did you come here on my donkey cart? Are you skipping school?"
"Where's your sister?"
Lin Jingzhe looked at him suspiciously and pointed inside the house.
"Call Xiaoman out, we're going to look for Ci'an."
"What's the matter? What business do you want to discuss?" Lin Jingzhe asked.
Gu Changsheng had a serious look on his face and just asked Lin Jingzhe to move faster.
"Xiaoman!" Lin Jingzhe knocked lightly on Lin Xiaoman's door.
Lin Xiaoman, who was in the space, was so frightened that he quickly flashed out.
She was taking care of the fruits and vegetables in the backyard in the space. Although there is a one-click collection function, it has a disadvantage, which is that it cannot be collected according to the degree of rawness and ripeness.
As long as she used the one-click harvesting function, even the fruits and vegetables that had not yet grown could be harvested.
So Lin Xiaoman could only operate it manually.
"Xiao Man, Chang Sheng is here to discuss something with you and Ci An."
Lin Xiaoman thought that Gu Changsheng had come to pick up the manuscript early this time, so he took the stack of rough-edged paper he had written on with his handwriting when he left. When he saw Gu Changsheng, he asked, "That's strange. Why did you come to pick up the manuscript so early this time? Fortunately, I rushed to finish the story yesterday."
Gu Changsheng shook his head and lowered his voice, "I'm not here to collect manuscripts. Lin'an Prefecture has published a tabloid called Chao Wen. The layout of the tabloid is exactly the same as ours, and the stories inside are also similar. The key is that the price is low. A copy of Chao Wen tabloid only costs 80 wen."
Then he took out the Morning News tabloid from his lapel and said, "Look, this is the first issue of the Morning News tabloid."
Lin Xiaoman took the Morning News tabloid.
Most of the stories in it are about scholars' counterattacks, and a few stories are highly consistent with the stories they wrote.
She wrote "Notes on the Judge of the Dali Temple's Case Solving", and there was an article in the Chaowen tabloid "Strange Stories of the Magistrate of Zhima County Solving Cases", and the stories in them were almost the same.
Except that the protagonist, Lord Mo, the Minister of Dali Temple, becomes a county magistrate, the rest of the content is almost exactly the same.
Lin Xiaoman was almost angry to death.
The story that I worked so hard to write was plagiarized by someone else. They easily changed the names of people and places and wrote a new story.
You have to know that when she wrote about Lord Mo solving a case, she pulled out dozens of her own hair.
It’s so deceiving!
"The owner of Chaowen Bookstore has always been at odds with my father. Whenever Jixiang Bookstore publishes a storybook, Chaowen Bookstore will also publish a similar storybook a few days later. This time, the Lin'an tabloid is no exception."
Gu Changsheng was quite melancholy. It seemed that there was no good solution for Chaowen Bookstore.
Not long after, the three of them arrived at Xie Ci'an's home.
After knocking on the door, the old servant saw that they were the young master's friends, so he didn't ask any questions and took them to the study.
"Master, Master Lin and the others are here."
Hearing the voice, Xie Ci'an turned around and saw that the three men looked unhappy. He immediately put down the brush in his hand and went out to meet them.
"What's going on? Why are you all so sad?"
Lin Xiaoman said nothing and handed the Morning News tabloid in his hand to Xie Ci'an.
Xie Ci'an took it and understood everything when he saw the four big words "Morning News Tabloid" written on the paper.
"The price is cheaper than the Lin'an tabloid?"
Gu Changsheng nodded, "Eighty cents a copy. Ci'an, take a look at the story inside, it's exactly the same as what you wrote."
Xie Ci'an slowly welcomed them into the study.
A quarter of an hour later, Xie Ci'an closed the Chaowen tabloid and said, "It has already happened. There is no point in getting anxious. Chang'an, the other party is trying to use price to pressure us."
Gu Changsheng nodded, "As long as we lower the price, Chaowen Bookstore will also lower it. If we sell it for 80, Chaowen Bookstore will sell it for 70."
Lin Xiaoman felt that she could accept normal competition, but what was disgusting was that the other party directly plagiarized.
Could it be that in ancient times, plagiarism could be openly practiced?
She thought that most scholars would not do such a thing because they cared about their reputation!
"Are we just going to let the Morning News copy the story we wrote? Is there nothing we can do?" Lin Xiaoman said indignantly.
Xie Ci'an glanced at Lin Xiaoman and said, "The author in the Morning News does not use his real name like us. Today he is called Chrysanthemum Guest, tomorrow he becomes Penglai Sanxian, and the day after tomorrow he becomes Lin Zhongjunzi. Do you know who the person who wrote the story is?"
Lin Jingzhe: "Is there no other way?"
Xie Ci'an fell into deep thought.
Although Lin Xiaoman was angry, she knew that what Xie Ci'an said was the truth.
What can be done to minimize the impact?
Lin Xiaoman held his chin and thought hard, when suddenly an idea flashed through his mind.
Nowadays they sell them one issue at a time, each issue costs 100 wen. So could they learn from modern magazines and package and pre-sell a year's or half-year's worth of Lin'an tabloids in an annual format? Since they are pre-sold in a package, the price would naturally be cheaper.
In this way, we can capture the loyal customers of Lin'an Tabloid.
After all, not everyone has the money or determination to buy a year's or half a year's worth of supplies at one time.