Shen Nanwei rolled her eyes inelegantly, "I'm not bored at home."
There were quite a few new stories in the village, and she enjoyed listening to them every day.
"So you mean for me to teach you how to read?" Shen Nanwei accepted the primer and paper with a smile, but when she looked at the writing brush, Jiang Tanyue interrupted before she could say anything, "It's the cheapest one, and so is the inkstone."
This still took up a significant portion of their expenses.
In this era, knowledge was truly expensive.
Learning was a costly affair.
Although the art of papermaking had already been developed at this time, the technology of movable type printing had not yet emerged. As a result, book prices remained high. Therefore, copying books for others had become a way for poor students to make money.
Many students borrowed books from their classmates, copied them, and returned them afterward.
