The busiest place had to be outside the yamen's special pavilion for selling newspapers, where many people gathered specifically to buy the newspaper.
Next was outside the Yonghe Bookstore.
The shopkeeper stayed up late last night overseeing the reprinting of books to avoid mistakes, and only got to bed very late, yawning when he woke up in the morning.
As soon as he told the bookstore's waiter to open the shop doors, he was startled by the crowd of customers outside.
"Waiter, do you sell 'The Imperial Examination Path' here? Where is it? I'd like to buy two copies."
"Waiter, I want to buy this book too, I need three copies..."
"Hey, I came yesterday, queued all day and still couldn't get one. You said today it would be available, don't let me wait in vain again."
