After the fall of the previous dynasty, a batch of books treasured in the imperial palace of the previous dynasty went missing and have not been found since then. Gu Xinglang believed that what he saw at this moment were the books that people had been searching for for hundreds of years.
Yu Xiaoxiao stared at Gu Xinglang's face and said, "Are you smiling?" She really wanted to be alone and bang her head against the wall. How could this guy in her family be smiling?! Her Royal Highness felt hurt.
"No," Gu Xinglang raised his hand and wiped his face, saying, "Let's take a look at what these books are."
Yu Xiaoxiao squatted aside. She felt dizzy after just looking at the words on the book a few times. They felt like enhanced versions of traditional Chinese characters. She couldn't recognize a single word.
Gu Xinglang picked up a piece of tortoise shell and looked at it carefully.
Yu Xiaoxiao felt something that looked like ash but not like ash. She took a handful of it and looked at it. She found that it was rotten paper. She looked further away and saw a piece of bamboo. She reached out and touched it. The bamboo broke into a pile of bamboo chips.
"All the paper and bamboo books in this room have rotted away," Yu Xiaoxiao said to Gu Xinglang, "Can we leave now?"
Gu Xinglang shook the tortoise shell in his hand towards Yu Xiaoxiao, his eyes gleaming with joy, and said, "This is a formation!"
Yu Xiaoxiao..., a person who is used to carrying guns and firing cannons, really has no interest in formations. No matter how exquisite the formation is, can it withstand her lightning and thunder?
Gu Xinglang squatted down, pulled out several turtle shells and looked at them, and said to Yu Xiao: "These are all!"
Yu Xiao: "Oh, what master wrote this? Why did he use turtle shells as paper?"
"When the previous dynasty was founded, there was a master of formations named..."
"You don't need to tell me the dead man's name. If you tell me, I won't have the chance to meet him," Yu Xiao said, "Just tell me why he used turtle shells as paper."
Gu Xinglang thought for a moment and said, "He is used to this? Paper and bamboo will rot over time, but this tortoise shell is just covered with dust. Isn't this master very far-sighted?"
Gu Xinglang looked at the formation carved on the tortoise shell with great interest, and gestured on the ground with his fingers while looking.
Only then did Yu Xiaoxiao realize that her little Gu also had the potential to be a crazy fan. "Then do we have to take all these things away?" Yu Xiaoxiao asked again.
Gu Xinglang nodded and said, "Of course."
All right, Yu Xiaoxiao stood up. If Gu Xinglang wanted them, she would have to find a way to take away all the stone slabs and tortoise shells in this room. "Just look at them first and pick out the ones you like. I'll go to Xiongxiong and the others to see if there's anything else that can be loaded."
Gu Xinglang looked at the tortoise shell in his hand, without raising his head, and just nodded.
Yu Xiaoxiao came out of the stone chamber and flew to the opposite side.
The head of the family asked before Yu Xiaoxiao even landed on the ground: "Princess, what are these treasures?"
Yu Xiaoxiao said listlessly: "Books."
"What?" The big boss thought he must have heard it wrong, so he stretched his ear towards Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Say it again, what is it?"
"Books!" Yu Xiao: "Do you understand? It's a book!"
The boss looked at Yu Xiaoxiao with his mouth wide open.
The expressions of the former pirates were almost all dull.
Yu Xiaoxiao threw the half-sack of burial objects she was carrying onto the ground and said, "This is what I found. We'll divide the things up later."
The eldest master said, "No, Princess, after all your efforts, what is in that hole is a book?"
Yu Xiao: "Yeah, how did I know that the people in the previous dynasty were so boring? No wonder the country was destroyed."
The eldest boss asked, "What is the prince consort doing in there?"
Yu Xiaoxiao curled her lips and said, "He likes those books very much. It seems that I have to clean up a study room for him when I get home."
Although the Second Master was disappointed, he still asked Yu Xiaoxiao after hearing what she said, "Princess, you won't give these things to His Majesty?"
Yu Xiao: "Just half a bag of jewelry and a room full of books. What does my father need?"
The second in command nodded immediately and said, "Princess is right."
Yu Xiaoxiao sat on the ground, opened the cloth bag, turned her mouth, and said to the pirates in front of her: "Come on, take a look at what you like, each of you take one, as the wages for running errands today."
The boss sat down next to Yu Xiaoxiao and rummaged through the contents of the cloth bag. Although these gold, silver and jade artifacts had rust and changed color due to their age, the workmanship was top-notch and none of them were bad in quality. If they were not their owner's beloved possessions during his lifetime, how could they be buried with their owner?
"Princess," the eldest boss and Yu Xiaoxiao smacked their lips and said, "These are all good things."
Yu Xiaoxiao sighed and said, "After working so hard for so long, we only made this little fortune. Instead of spending this time on hunting more rabbits!" None of these things were big. It would have been great if she could find a gold brick. But in the end, let alone a gold brick, she didn't even find a single gold bean!
The boss almost vomited blood. How many rabbits can this bag of treasures be exchanged for? ! (You have to forgive the ignorance of an alien population from another world o(╯□╰)o)
"Take a look," Yu Xiaoxiao called to the former pirates, "one for each of you."
The eldest boss said, "Princess, these are worth a lot of money. Do you really want to share them?"
Yu Xiao: "Really?"
"Really," the boss nodded.
The flesh on her body began to hurt, but Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the brothers surrounding her and gritted her teeth and said, "Share it, I keep my word." Want to give someone something as a gift, but don't give it away when you know it's valuable? Yu Xiaoxiao couldn't do such a despicable thing.
The big bosses didn't dare to reach out.
Seeing that the group of friends didn't dare to take action, Yu Xiaoxiao took action herself. Each of them put one in their hands. She couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, so she just took one at random and distributed it to them one by one. Soon, each of the big bosses had one.
"After you get out, go ask Boss Qian for an estimate of the price," Yu Xiaoxiao said to the pirates in front of her, "It's up to you whether you sell it or keep it. I personally think you should keep it as your wife's capital."
Yu Xiaoxiao put a jade bracelet in the boss's hand. She wiped off the dust on it, blew on it and wiped it with her sleeve. The original deep green color of the jade bracelet was revealed. Even after being covered by the boss's hand for a while, the jade bracelet was still cold. "This is cold jade!" The boss waved the jade bracelet in front of Yu Xiaoxiao's eyes.
Yu Xiaoxiao lowered her head and tied the bag tightly again, saying, "I can't eat it anyway."
The boss...
"We have to carry the books out of that room later," Yu Xiaoxiao told the brothers, "Everyone has worked hard. I will treat you to a meal when we return to the city. Uh, Xiao Gu likes these books very much, so be careful when you carry them."
The second in command patted his chest and assured Yu Xiaoxiao: "Princess, don't worry!"
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