Because what the School would be teaching was the very first beginner level, and the children would be starting from scratch, they actually didn't need many books.
Just elementary books were enough, and she figured they wouldn't be able to enroll too many children at the start anyway, so there was no need to prepare a lot of books; when there were more children later, they could slowly add more.
So they only took twenty copies. Since the shopkeeper knew Xiaoxiao, and after hearing the books were for the children at the School, he gave them a big discount. Of course, he also wanted Xiaoxiao to do some writing for him again, but Xiaoxiao refused. She would never do it again; she couldn't go around flaunting the ancients' poems and essays anymore. Before, she'd had no choice.
These twenty copies were all hand-copied, so the price was much cheaper, and fortunately the money Silver and Li Chuntao brought was enough.
The three of them left the Bookstore soon after buying the books.
