Chapter 171 What kind of book is so cheap!

"Princess Saint Ann's call for submissions this time is open to everyone. It is said that even the adults working in the Imperial Academy have given questions!"

The smooth scholar's expression was slightly embarrassed:
"I am not very knowledgeable and cannot compare with the adults.

I asked eight questions, but only one of them barely earned me five hundred coins."

"Five hundred coins!"

The candidates around him who heard him talk about this for the first time suddenly exclaimed:
"You are worthy of being Princess Saint Ann, giving so much at once!"

"One question is worth five hundred coins. It's over. I'm getting more and more worried about the price of 'Three Years of Imperial Examinations, Five Years of Simulations'. Is it really so high that we can't afford it?"

"Brother Ma, how about you help me come up with two questions? I'm also worried that I don't have enough money!"

"Yes! Brother Ma..."

"Go away! Where do I get so many questions for you?"

Marathon's tall and sturdy figure stood out among the skinny students.

Now that a group of people were gathered around, it became even more obvious.

Yun Shu only raised his eyebrows slightly, and the other three secret guards hiding in the dark left quietly.

The frenzy of selling questions is getting more and more intense.

Almost everyone was led to believe that the price of "Three Years of Imperial Examination, Five Years of Simulation" would be much more expensive than ordinary books.

Even Zheng Qiaozhan, who was just quietly waiting to buy books at the beginning and had no intention of selling questions, couldn't help but ask two questions and successfully got one or two taels of silver.

Yunshu watched quietly on the second floor of the teahouse the whole time.

It was not until there were fewer people selling questions that she gestured towards Tangjia Qingsong Bookstore.

The next moment, the stall collecting questions at the entrance of the bookstore suddenly closed.
Immediately afterwards, a young servant with a very festive look picked up the gong and drum and struck it violently -

clang!
The sudden sound of a gong silenced the noisy crowd outside the bookstore.

"'Three Years of Imperial Examinations, Five Years of Simulations' will be on sale soon! Everyone, pay attention! Everyone, pay attention!"

The boy who was beating the gongs and drums stood on a chair and banged them twice more, shouting at the top of his voice to ensure that everyone nearby could hear him:

"A total of 500 copies of 'Three Years of Imperial Examinations, Five Years of Simulations' are printed this time, and each person is limited to one copy. Everyone present has a copy, so there is no need to scramble for it. Please line up in advance.
Anyone who cuts in line or causes trouble will be disqualified from purchasing! "

“We still have to queue up…”

There was a small commotion among the crowd, but perhaps they were shocked by the sentence "Anyone who cuts in line will be disqualified from purchasing the product."

Despite some minor complaints, these candidates still lined up obediently:
"I don't know how much this book costs. If there aren't enough, wouldn't my queue be in vain?"

Dangdang Dangdang!
Seeing that the noisy sound had started again, the servant standing on the chair struck the gong again:
“The price of this copy of Three Years of Imperial Examinations, Five Years of Simulations is one hundred coins. If you don’t have enough money, it’s not too late to go back and get it now!
I'll say it again, "Three Years of Imperial Examinations, Five Years of Simulations", one hundred coins per copy, if you didn't bring enough, you can still go back and get some now!"

"What? One hundred coins a copy!"

The crowd was completely boiling until this moment:

"He didn't mean a hundred taels of silver, and I heard it wrongly as a hundred coins?"

"I guess I heard it right? What kind of book costs one hundred taels? I heard it was one hundred wen!"

"But he said he didn't bring enough and it's not too late to go back and get it now... Who would come to buy books without even a hundred coins?"

"But what kind of book can be bought for only a hundred coins? Before the advent of printing, a book would have cost at least five taels of silver. Even after the advent of printing, the cheapest book sold for at least three taels of silver!
This hundred coins... can't it be just a few pieces of paper?"

"But didn't Princess Saint Ann say that this book not only contains all the provincial examination questions for the past three years, but also typical answers and annotations? It won't fit on a few sheets of paper!"

"But..." "Someone bought it!"

While the people in the queue at the back were still anxiously wondering whether the cheap book that cost a hundred coins a copy was a scam, a cry of surprise broke out from the front:

"It's such a thick book! How can such a thick book only cost a hundred coins? It's almost like giving it away for free!"

"Where? Where?"

The people who heard the noise at the back quickly stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to find out what was going on:
“Why didn’t I see who bought it?”

"Isn't it there? Are you blind?"

The sharp-eyed person spotted the figure in front of him immediately and pointed it out to his friends:

"That's it. See? It's in his arms!"

"Hiss... is that a book?"

Those who just shouted that they didn't see it were dumbfounded:

"I just saw him, but I thought he was holding a brick!

Such a thick stack, even the white paper must cost several taels of silver, right? Is it really only a hundred coins?"

"This must have been given to us by Princess Saint Ann herself!"

Some scholars immediately became Yun Shu's die-hard fans:
"Princess Saint Ann really cares about us poor students!
She knows that we cannot compare with those students from aristocratic families in this aspect, so she tries her best to help us narrow the gap!
I must pass the exam this spring! I will never let Princess Saint Ann and His Majesty down!"

"That's right! We must not let down His Majesty and Princess Saint Ann's high hopes for us!"

……

Outside the crowd, some people who came to investigate the situation left quietly.

Soon, the situation at the door of Tang family's Qingsong Bookstore was reported to the prince in detail.

boom!
The Eastern Palace lost another exquisite teacup.

The Prince's tutor sighed softly and said helplessly:

"Why is your highness so angry? The higher Princess Saint Ann is praised now, the more miserable she will be when she falls.

As much as those ignorant untouchables love her now, they will hate her in the future."

"I know!"

The prince said angrily:

"But I just can't stand listening to those lowly people!

They keep calling me Princess Saint Ann, but have they ever taken me, the Crown Prince, seriously?"

"They are just a bunch of ignorant fools. Sooner or later, they will know who will be the future master of Tiansheng Dynasty."

I have watched the prince grow up since he was a child, and I have seen his temper become more and more violent over the past six months.
Knowing that it was useless to say more at this time, the Prince's tutor could only turn his head and continue to ask the servant who came back to report:

"Did you get the Marathon thing done?"

"Your Excellency, it worked. I saw it with my own eyes!"

"it is good!"

A satisfied smile appeared on the face of the Prince's tutor:

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing..."