A woman went into the city to sell a donkey and a goat. There was a small bell tied around the goat's neck. Three thieves saw it. One of them said, "I'll steal the goat. The woman won't find out."
Another thief said, "I'll steal the donkey from the woman."
The third thief said, "That's not difficult. I can steal all the woman's clothes."
The first thief quietly approached the goat at a bend in the road. He untied the bell and tied it to the donkey's tail. Then, he led the goat away. The woman looked around and found that the goat was gone. She began to look for it.
At this time, the second thief came to the woman and asked her what she was looking for. The woman said that she had lost a goat. "I saw your goat," said the thief. "Just now a man was leading a goat into this wood. We can still catch him."
The woman begged the thief to help her lead the donkey while she chased after the goat. The second thief took the opportunity to lead the donkey away.
When the woman came back from the forest, she found that the donkey was gone. She walked on the road and cried. As she walked, she saw a man sitting by the pond. He was also crying. The woman asked him what happened.
The man said, "They asked me to take a bag of gold to the city. I was too tired. I sat by the pond to rest and fell asleep. In my sleep, I pushed the bag into the water."
The woman asked him why he didn't go down and fish up the bag.
The man said, "I'm afraid of water because I can't swim. If anyone wants to fish up this bag of gold. I'll give him twenty gold ingots. "
The woman was overjoyed. She thought, "It's because someone else stole my goat and donkey that God gave me happiness."
So, she took off her clothes and dived into the water. However, she couldn't find the bag of gold no matter how hard she tried. When she climbed out of the water, she found that her clothes were gone. It turned out that the third thief had stolen her clothes.
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Under the pavilion in the workshop, Li Zexuan read the second article written by Little Fishy. "A Woman in the Wild After Her Clothes Were Stolen by a Man." He was lost in thought for a moment.
There was no doubt that this news article was a complete clickbait. The content was completely different from what you would think when you first saw the headline.
But behind this piece of news, there was actually a trace of philosophy. This way, the entire piece of news was instantly raised to a whole new level. This Li Yu's perception was not low!
"Little Yu 'er, who told you this story?"
After a moment of silence, Li Zexuan looked up and asked.
Li Yu replied, "I heard this from an auntie in our shop yesterday. The incident happened to a woman from her family. I thought that if this incident could be written, everyone might be able to understand a lot of things after reading it. For example, greed will always be punished. Don't trust people easily. Trust people easily and you will have to pay the price."
"Mm, not bad. You've come up with new tricks for the news!"
Li Zexuan nodded and praised.
His previous purpose of publishing the newspaper was to entertain the public and at the same time, attract investors and make some money. He did not expect Li Yu to be able to draw parallels and trigger another function of the newspaper, which was to educate the public. Moreover, she used a very lively and interesting method to educate the public. This was really rare. This girl's way of thinking was always very unique and creative!
"Hehe, thank you for the compliment, boss. So boss, did I pass? Can I be a reporter for Datang Daily in the future? "
Li Yu heard Li Zexuan's praise and immediately beamed with joy.
"Mm, you passed on my side. Brother Ma, what do you think?"
Li Zexuan turned his head to look at Ma Zhou and asked.
"I think it's okay. These two articles have already captured some of Lord Jue's essence. Little Yu 'er is indeed qualified to enter the editorial department of Datang Daily."
Ma Zhou nodded and smiled.
"Mm, that's good. Little Yu 'er, you'll work under Steward Ma from now on. Your salary will be based on what I've told you before. The more you work, the more you get!"
Li Zexuan heard Ma Zhou's agreement and said to Li Yu.
"Oh ~! Thank you, sir. Thank you, Uncle Ma! "
Li Yu heaved a sigh of relief and cheered.
Ma Zhou could not help but feel that he had aged a few decades in an instant.
"Little Yu 'er, you still owe me five strings of money before. You have to work hard to repay your debt ~!"
Li Zexuan deliberately teased. He did not care about that little bit of money. He said that purely to tease this little girl.
"Hmph, I know ~!"
Li Yu pouted and said with dissatisfaction.
"Hahaha!"
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"Brother Ma, how's the compilation of the dictionary going recently?"
After teasing Li Yu for a while, Li Zexuan left the pavilion and followed Ma Zhou into the house and asked.
"Lord Jue, the compilation of the dictionary is almost half done. It is estimated that it will be completed in half a month!"
Ma Zhou replied confidently.
"Eh ~? That's fast? "
Li Zexuan was surprised. He thought that the amount of work required to compile a dictionary was so huge that it would take at least one or two years to complete it. He did not expect it to be so fast!
"Mm, that's true. Crown Prince and King Wei have given us a lot of manpower and resources to compile the dictionary. Moreover, the dictionary that we are compiling this time is mainly based on the foundation of Shuo Wen Jie Zi. We have also introduced pinyin and perfected the definitions of some words. In fact, the workload itself is not huge. That's why the progress is so fast."
Ma Zhou explained with a smile.
"Oh ~ ~, I see!"
Li Zexuan nodded thoughtfully. After a while, he asked, "Brother Ma, how are things at Qiqu Culture recently? How many books can we supply to them every day? "
Ma Zhou was now one of the higher-ups of Qiqu Culture, so he was very clear about these things. He answered without thinking.
Without hesitation, he replied, "Recently, the printing department has hired a lot of new people. The scale has expanded a lot. Now, we can supply about 2000 books to Qiqu Culture every day. The variety and quantity of books will continue to expand. Now, in front of Strange Culture, there will no longer be thousands of people crazily snatching books like when it first opened. Moreover, there are more and more people who believe in Lord Jue's prophecy that 'books are as expensive as scallions'. "
Li Zexuan nodded happily and said, "Mm, that's good! But ~ ~ but the scale of Qiqu Culture is getting bigger and bigger. How are the other bookstores in Chang 'an City reacting? Did they do anything out of the ordinary? "
"This ~ ~ ~"
Ma Zhou heard and frowned slightly. His face darkened and he said, "In recent days, with the increase in the number and variety of Qiqu Culture books, the other bookstores' business has become more and more difficult. Some bookstores will send people to the workshop to talk to me. They also want to buy a batch of cheap books from the workshop and sell them. I did not dare to agree to this privately. I was planning to wait for you to come and make a decision personally! Of course, there are a lot of bookstores that chose to fight to the death. However, they always have many tricks up their sleeves. Pang Sige recently caught a lot of people with unknown intentions around Qiqu Culture … "
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