Chapter 1219： admit defeat

With Wenxiu News taking the lead, the distribution of Children's Newspaper, Sinology Newspaper and Geography and Customs Newspaper went smoothly. Xiaobao and Xiaoxiong, who were far away in the north, sent congratulatory letters in advance. Mu Yangling was very happy, and the people in the newspaper office were very happy. Seeing that there was no trouble, the minister was reluctantly happy.

The people were even more happy when they saw the excitement, but Xiao An and the others couldn't be happy at all.

They went to the newspaper office with money to place an order, but were told that it was out of stock. Because the Wenxiu Newspaper was reprinted, too much paper was consumed, so many orders were compressed, and the few of them who came late simply did not receive it.

The three children were dumbfounded, so wouldn't they be defeated without a fight?

Tiger Head shouted: "This is not fair!"

Xiao An and Little Lion nodded heavily. They had no more paper. How could their sales be comparable to Wenxiu News?

The guards behind    saw that the little masters' eyes were red, so he suggested: "It's better to transfer paper from other places, and let the people in the newspaper office work overtime to rush the printing, and they can always print more."

Xiao An slowly shook his head and said, "It's useless. The paper used for printing newspapers is different from ordinary paper. It needs to be specially customized. Even if other paper workshops have paper, they won't be able to use it."

Because there are few newspapers in this world, in order to write more content, the paper is set to be large.

In this era, writing on such a large paper was not used. The rice paper used for painting was quite suitable. However, Mu Yangling sold a newspaper for five cents.

In order to save costs, the paper used for newspapers is not very good. It can be made with straw and straw, which is extremely cheap.

And this kind of paper is not used for anything other than selling it to the newspaper office to print newspapers, so the paper shop negotiates the order with the newspaper office to make paper again, even if there are surplus emergency newspapers, there are not many.

If you want to blame Wenxiu Newspaper, it sells so well. It keeps printing and printing. Even if the paper workshop has been working overtime, it cannot supply paper.

So, no need to compare, the sales of the three newly issued newspapers are lower than that of Wenxiu News.

Xiao An and the others could only enter the palace dejectedly and admit defeat.

Mingzhu blinked at them, did she forget to tell them not to bet?

Li Jinghua was amused to see their dejected expressions. Just as he was about to explain, he saw his daughter grab her and coughed softly: "I would like to accept the bet, are you willing to accept it now?"

Hutou snorted: "We don't accept it. We only lost when the paper workshop ran out of paper. Do you know how much money we raised?"

"When a horse stumbles in a war, can you tell the enemy that it doesn't count and let everyone go back and prepare the horses before starting the fight?" Mingzhu raised her head and said proudly: "In short, if you lose, you lose. already."

Hu's head tilted his head and thought about it. He looked at the little lion and Xiao'an, both of them nodded and conceded, "Then when do you think we will start working?"

Li Jinghua couldn't help laughing when he saw a few children who were in a good mood, and let them make trouble, and went to deal with the palace affairs first.

So, when Qi Xiuyuan routinely took his two young sons to play in the imperial garden, he saw Xiao An and the four carrying big scissors cutting flowers and trees, while his precious daughter was standing there pointing fingers, and the third and fourth were on the side. Running around happily, while supervising them to work quickly.

Qi Xiuyuan couldn't help but smile, led the fifth and sixth to the left and the other, and asked Eunuch Wan as he walked, "I heard that a few children made a bet that if they lost, they would trim the imperial garden?"

Eunuch Wan lowered his head and smiled and said, "Yes, it is said that Princess Zhu was blocked at the entrance of the study room early in the morning, and several little masters were dragged to the imperial garden as soon as they went to school. They said that they couldn't leave the palace tonight if they couldn't do it."

Qi Xiuyuan was in a happy mood. He felt that a few boys were the right thing to do, lest they be too complacent recently, but he said with a smile: "It's good to be active, lest they always sit in the study with their bones hard."

Eunuch Wan smiled. He didn't reveal the emperor's careful thinking, and he didn't mention the naughty spirit of the little masters. He just said that every day riding, shooting, martial arts classes, etc., they can't do it without exercise, how can their bones be hard? ?

But after Qi Xiuyuan turned the corner and saw the flowers and trees that Xiao An and the others had trimmed, the smile on his face could no longer be maintained.

He covered his chest and pointed at the flowers and trees and asked, "What are those?"

Eunuch Wan also opened his mouth wide, and then looked at the tiger head and the little lion who were pruning the flower tree by light effort, twitched the corners of his mouth and comforted the emperor: "Your Majesty, the little masters only pruned this piece..."

So everything is still in time.

The fifth prince and the sixth prince's eyes lit up, they broke free from the father's hand and ran over, screaming, and looked at the two cousins ​​who were jumping up and down with light power with admiration.

Hutou saw that his cousins ​​were all looking at him, and suddenly jumped up the branches, the big scissors in his hand quickly cut off the branches and leaves that grew, and then tapped on the branches to jump to a higher level, look at Cut off the branches and leaves that are not pleasing to the eye.

The fifth prince and the sixth prince immediately clapped their hands and cheered for Hutou.

The little lion was unconvinced when he saw it, so he just walked up the tree trunk with light work and quickly, pruning it as he walked, and it flew up parallel to the ground. Several children saw branches and leaves falling off wherever he walked.

This time, even the third and fourth, who were running around the tree, stopped, and the four youngest cheered for the two of them together.

Mingzhu also blushed with excitement, but when she saw that this flower tree was different from what she thought, she shouted: "You cut it wrong, what I want is the shape of a rabbit, who told you to cut it randomly, you guys Does it look broken?"

Only then did Qi Xiuyuan know that those strangely-shaped flowers and trees were originally from his daughter's little head. What's the matter? What about the people who are serving you around?"

Only then did everyone see the emperor standing far away and the eunuchs and guards behind him.

Mingzhu stepped forward happily and said, "Father, I sent them all away. Do you think the Imperial Garden looks much better now? This is the pattern I came up with after thinking about it all night."

The tiger head simply stood on the branch and couldn't get off. Carrying the big scissors, he looked down and said loudly: "Uncle Huang, we pruned according to Mingzhu's intention, and it has nothing to do with us."

The little lion also squatted on the tree trunk and couldn't go down, and his body was still hidden behind the leaves. He heard his brother's words and shouted, "Yeah, we are willing to accept the bet, no matter how we cut it, we will listen to the pearl."

Mingzhu jumped her feet, "I didn't let you cut it randomly, I asked you to cut it into a bunny shape!"

The little lion got out from behind the leaves and shouted to her: "Our first pruning mistakes are inevitable. Anyway, there are so many flowers and trees, there will always be one that can meet your requirements. Don't worry."

Pearl was not in a hurry when he thought that the Imperial Garden was so big.

Qi Xiuyuan was so angry that he fell backwards, cooperating with them is not enough to harm so many flowers and trees, but also want to harm the entire imperial garden?

There are many rare flowers and trees in his garden.

Looking at what the two children are cutting, Qi Xiuyuan is relieved. Fortunately, the two stinky boys obviously want to show off their skills, so they choose tall kapok for trimming. Although the cutting is ugly, it is not too expensive and the loss is not big. .

He pointed at the little lion and the tiger's head and said, "Get the two of you down. If you dare to attack my imperial garden again, I will let your mother come into the palace and beat you!"

Qi Xiuyuan looked around and saw that Xiao An and Wen Su, who were still in sight just now, were gone, he had a bad premonition, and he asked, "Where are Xiao An and the second child?"