Ever since the beauty paper made its debut at the Double Ninth Festival Poetry Meeting, every day when the study opened, a group of scholars, warriors, wealthy people, craftsmen, and even maids and servants of girls would crowd into the store...all of them urging to buy the painted paper.
Because Mr. Wang clarified that the maker of the Beauty Paper was a loyal man, his brothers and friends did not mention the name "Cui Beauty Paper" when they sent people to buy it, but just said they wanted to buy "Cui Paper". But this saying was originally spread from somewhere else, and when they were queuing up, they would hear someone asking for "Cui Beauty Paper".
The person in the know smiled silently in his heart, but did not correct the misnomer. Moreover, this slightly erotic name was very easy to pronounce, so that the two shop assistants who were sometimes too busy to think clearly would ask the customers: "The Cui Meiren paper is sold out today, would you like a copy of Shen Yuan Collection? The top three poems and Tang An's first "Yong Wan Ning" also have a picture of a beauty on the back of the page, and a copy costs only one tael and five cents of silver.
"A box of eight sheets of beauty paper costs two taels of silver, but you can buy a color-printed set of four beauties and the latest collection of poems by a talented scholar in this county for only one tael and five cents. Think about it, sir. This is equivalent to buying a collection of poems with color pictures for only five silver coins. Is there any book in the world that is so cheap?"
Some people who love poetry bought it, some people who don't love poetry but love painting also bought it, and some people bought it just to collect their family's prints. Thanks to the color picture, usually only the talented people who participated in poetry meetings were willing to buy two or three copies of the poetry collection as gifts, but this time we sold about 200 copies.
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