Yuchuan stood up and walked to the two, calling out,
“Wife Lord.”
Nian Jiaojiao paused her conversation with Tong Ziyao and looked over quizzically,
“Chuan'er, what is it?”
Yuchuan smiled faintly,
“Didn’t Wife Lord say before that I should find something I like? Now Chuan’er seems to have found it.”
Nian Jiaojiao raised an eyebrow,
“Oh? What is it?”
Yuchuan replied,
“Chuan’er is quite interested in playing the zither. I wonder if I can learn it together with Wife Lord?”
Nian Jiaojiao was a little surprised but readily agreed,
“Of course, that would be wonderful!”
Then, she turned to Tong Ziyao and said,
“Young Master Tong, I’ll have to trouble you to teach one more person.”
Tong Ziyao looked deeply at Yuchuan and said with a smile,
“It’s no trouble at all. It’s a good thing Young Master Xu is eager to learn.”
Yuchuan seemed to remind him,
“Then thank you, Young Master Tong. However, men take their wife’s surname after marriage. Young Master Tong can just call me Physician Consort Nian.”
Tong Ziyao nodded agreeably.
The two smiled at each other.
Just as the group was enjoying a moment of ‘harmony,’ Tong Fu rushed in.
She shouted as she ran,
“Jiaojiao! Jiaojiao! Something big has happened! Something big has happened!”
Her booming voice successfully attracted everyone’s attention.
Nian Jiaojiao handed the zither she was holding to Yuchuan, then poured a cup of tea from the stone table and offered it to her.
“Xiao Fu, slow down.”
Tong Fu took the teacup and drank it in one gulp, panting heavily,
“Wait, wait a moment, you, I, I need to catch my breath first... *huff! huff!*”
Tong Ziyao looked at his sister, who was becoming more unrestrained and had a stronger Jianghu aura. He shook his head inwardly.
Fu’er is really becoming more unrefined.
However, she’s also becoming more mature…
Thinking this, Tong Ziyao felt a sense of relief.
At this moment, Tong Fu, having caught her breath, exclaimed excitedly,
“Jiaojiao, we’re going to strike it rich! No! The most important thing is that *you* are going to strike it rich!”
Nian Jiaojiao’s first reaction was whether the other party had encountered a scam.
After all, running a bookshop wasn’t a highly profitable industry. How could one get rich overnight?
So, she said with some concern,
“Xiao Fu, what exactly is it? Explain it clearly.”
Tong Fu chuckled and said,
“Jiaojiao, all the books in our bookshop related to you have been swept clean, and the new books I was about to receive have also been pre-ordered.”
Nian Jiaojiao remarked,
“That’s a good thing.”
Tong Fu continued,
“And there’s more! Someone wants to buy the transcription rights to your books!”
Nian Jiaojiao frowned,
“Transcription rights? Then what books will Qinglian Bookshop sell in the future?”
Tong Fu shook her head,
“Transcription rights aren’t what you’re thinking. They just want to copy them themselves; it won’t affect our book sales.”
Nian Jiaojiao nodded and asked indifferently,
“Oh, how much are they offering for the transcription rights?”
Tong Fu extended two fingers, trembling.
Considering Tong Fu’s earlier mention of striking it rich, Nian Jiaojiao guessed,
“Two thousand taels?”
Tong Fu did not lower her fingers, indicating Nian Jiaojiao should continue guessing.
“Twenty thousand taels?”
That was indeed a fortune, Nian Jiaojiao nodded.
However, Tong Fu’s fingers were still not lowered.
This time, Nian Jiaojiao couldn’t figure it out. “Could it be… one hundred and twenty thousand taels?”
Tong Fu finally couldn’t hold back and announced loudly,
“It’s not two thousand! Nor is it twenty thousand, and definitely not one hundred and twenty thousand! It’s TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND TAELS!”
Upon hearing this, everyone present was shocked.
Nian Jiaojiao was even dizzied by this windfall.
“Two hundred thousand?”
Tong Fu nodded vigorously like a pecking chick in affirmation.
“Which unfortunate soul, oh no, which wealthy patron wants to buy them?” Nian Jiaojiao asked.