Moon Emperor

Chapter 163 The Secret in the Book
Su Yan was speechless after hearing this, "You can even afford roast chicken, so I'm afraid you won't be cheated out of just a small amount of money?"

"By the way, besides selling second-hand books, does he sell other things?"

Just at this time, Xiao Er had already reported the name of the dish and came back to the front. He replied: "The book seems to be only available today. When I passed by in the morning, I saw that he had two broken books on display. Yesterday he sold two pieces of fake jade." , and said it was a treasure handed down from the ancestors."

Su Yan nodded, still not completely sure that the old beggar is a liar, at least in this world, books are actually quite valuable things, and it is not so easy to get them.

The shopkeeper on the opposite side asked curiously at this time: "How much have you been cheated this time?"

Su Yan stretched out his hands and made a "ten" gesture.

"One hundred Wen?" The shopkeeper guessed uncertainly.

Su Yan shook his head with a heavy expression.

"Usually money?" The shopkeeper was taken aback this time, "This amount is a bit large, you can report it to the official."

"Ten Guan." Su Yan gave the correct answer.

The shopkeeper almost staggered when he heard this, "Well, this old guy is so brave, isn't he afraid of being beaten to death?"

Xiao Er even slapped his thigh, "Oh, hey, so much money! If I were that old bastard, I'm afraid I would have left the city to flee for my life."

Su Yan didn't intend to go out to catch up immediately, but quickly flipped through the books without giving up, and asked, "Where did you say that the old beggar got this old book?"

The shopkeeper looked around curiously, and responded, "There is a time-honored book store in the east of the city. You can wait until you finish your meal, and you can go there and ask."

Xiao Er nodded again and again, "I think it's probably from there. We're just a book store, so it's impossible for him to steal it?"

Su Yan slapped the meal money on the counter directly, "I'll go now, the food will be served when I come back."

When the shopkeeper saw the broken piece of silver, he immediately beamed with joy, "Okay, you go, you go, I guarantee you can eat hot dishes when you come back."

After leaving the restaurant, Su Shenshen went out to search several nearby streets, but he did not find any trace of the old beggar.

So he walked like the wind, and first went to the bookstore on the east side of the city. The sign of this store is called "Time-honored Store". There are rows of new and old books in the store, and wooden boards are hung to accept the engraving business.

As soon as he entered the store, he saw a young scholar in a long gown reading a book behind the counter. He didn't notice the customers coming in.

It wasn't until Su Yan's figure approached that the young man raised his head.

Before he could speak, Su Yan put the "Watching Qi Technique" in front of him, "Do you guys sell this kind of book?"

After quickly flipping through it just now, Su Yan can be sure that there is no cultivation method recorded in this book. At least not on the surface. For details, you have to go back and study it slowly.

The scholar picked it up and looked at it, "Looking at Qi? I have no impression. We don't have many books on metaphysics here."

Su Yan's mood suddenly cheered up a bit. If it's not that kind of bad street stuff, or if it's not bought in this bookstore, there may be room for change.

The young scholar flipped through a few pages and was a little unsure, so he yelled into the back room, "Father, there is a customer who wants to buy a book called "Looking Qi Technique", do we have it?"

After a while, an old-fashioned old man with half-white hair lifted the curtain and came out. He looked at Su Yan strangely, then picked up the torn book and read it again, "Yes."

The scholar was a little embarrassed, "Where is it, I'll get it."

The old man waved his hands and bent down.

It was only then that Su Yan noticed that the left foot of the bookshelf next to it was a bit shorter than the right foot. In order to keep the shelf stable, a broken book was placed on the left foot.
Hey, hey, isn't it? !

As expected, the old man took out the tattered book from the foot of the bookshelf, which was even older than the one in Su Yan's hand, and even more dilapidated, even the cover was worn through.

"No, here you are, two hundred Wen." After finishing speaking, the old man still looked at his son, "Why are you standing there? Take a useless book and use it as a cushion, so as not to let the shelf collapse."

The scholar was busy, so he randomly found the most shabby, oldest, and unwanted book, and put the book under the shelf as it was.

"A book like this needs two hundred coins?"

At this time, Su Yan's eyes were almost in a state of darkness, but he still wanted to make a final attempt to compare the two books for similarities and differences.

"Paper needs money, ink needs money, and craftsmen's wages. If it weren't for this broken book, I wouldn't sell it so cheap." The old man cited many reasons, or he said that his store had never sold books at such a low price.

"Then do you guys recycle my book? How much is the price?" Su Yan raised the book in his hand.

The old man shook his head, "No, no one buys this kind of stuff that can only be read by a magic stick, and I can't sell it if I take it; I don't know what year and month it was in my hand, it was mixed in with other books .”

Su Yan was speechless, but still paid for the book.

"Is there only one copy here? Is this one in my hand sold from you?"

Seeing that the guest paid generously, the old man's attitude softened a little, "I just have one copy, although I don't know where yours came from, but I can see the font and font size, the two books should be from the same batch ], it’s not worth anything anyway.”

Hearing this, Su Yan asked about the old beggar again, but both father and son said they had never seen this man, let alone know his specific deeds.

After confirming that the two were not lying, Su Yan compared the contents of the two books on the spot.

The result is exactly the same!From the first page to the last page, there is no difference in word, except that one book is torn and the other is even more torn.

Su Yan, who was completely speechless, first stuffed two books into his bosom, and then went out to find the old beggar.

It has to be said that this old beggar seemed to have evaporated from the world. With the means of Su Yan, a third-level monk, he searched for a long time inside and outside the city, but he couldn't find him.

In the end, Su Yan had no choice but to try "counting with fingers", which had a worrying success rate, but in the end, he chased in the direction of the calculation, and after chasing for a long distance, he didn't see anyone.

This made Su have to admit defeat.

It was night time when we returned to Lanfang County. Su Yan opened a room to stay in the restaurant after dinner. Seeing his disheveled appearance, the shopkeeper and the waiter didn't dare to touch him anymore, so they tacitly didn't mention it. thing.

In the guest room, Su Yandi did not know how many times he took out the two "Looking Qi Technique" for comparison, and finally he realized that this is a waste of life!

I saw someone Su opened his mouth, spit out a mouthful of silvery white flames, and directly burned the two books clean!

Seeing the books disappear in ashes, Su Yan's mood gained a short period of peace and so on!

A trace of jade white flashed in the two pools of black ash that fell down. Su Yan stretched out his hand to fish out the ash, and pinched a small piece of jade chips with his fingernails very precisely. It was only one-fifth the size of a fingernail at most.

What shocked Su Yan was that this piece of jade didn't fall out of the "Looking Qi Technique" given by the old beggar, but the one he bought from a book store.

(End of this chapter)