Ye Chen dove into the pile of books. The books collected from Luojiazhuang were all kinds of books, very diverse, including history books, military strategies, some travel notes, medical books, and even quite a few storybooks.
Many of those history books and military strategies have become single copies, and those travel notes were actually written a hundred years ago. Ye Chen thought that when everything settled down, he would take these travel notes and take Qiu'er to visit each place one by one to see what was different from a hundred years ago. It would be a pleasure.
But how could there be so many booklets? Ye Chen was puzzled. Would anyone in such an organization read these things? He had no interest in them, so he couldn't read them at all and just tossed them aside.
He read those history books, military strategies and travel notes so intently that he forgot to eat and sleep, hoping to find some connections in them as a starting point to eliminate Luojiazhuang.
"Husband, it's time for dinner. Jixiang has made a lot of delicious food!" Chen Qiu came in from outside. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Ye Chen sitting on the ground, surrounded by piles of books.
"Why are you sitting on the ground? What if you get sick in such a cold day?" Chen Qiu went over and pulled Ye Chen up from the ground.
"It's okay. I'm sitting on the futon."
"That won't work either. Although Wuzhou isn't as cold as Kyoto, it's the coldest time of the year and the ground is very cold."
"Aren't we going to eat? Let's go." Ye Chen put down the history book in his hand and reached for his cloak.
"Hmm, hm? Husband, are you also reading Huayueji?" Chen Qiu lowered her head and picked up a notebook that Ye Chen had thrown aside.
"I searched out these things from Luojiazhuang, but they're of no help in investigating Luojiazhuang, so I just threw them there." Ye Chen tidied up his clothes and looked at Chen Qiu, "Why aren't you wearing a cloak? Wuzhou may be as bad as Kyoto these past two days." Chen Qiu didn't like wearing a big hood when she went out. If she was going on a long trip, she would wear one to keep warm. If she could go indoors at any time, she wouldn't wear it. She would just wear a small jacket, which she found more convenient.
"Husband, can I take a look at this storybook? Since I have nothing to do these days, I might as well give it to Xing'er to help her cheer herself up."
"Well, if you want to see it, come here and watch it with me, okay?" If Ye Chen wanted Chen Qiu to do something, he would just say it directly. He didn't want to be like he did in his previous life, saying nothing and then not being able to explain anything in the end, hurting her and himself.
"Okay," Chen Qiu smiled and nodded in agreement. Anyway, Ye Chen's request to her was always for her to stay by his side.
After the poison was cleared, Xing'er's injury was only an external one, but there was a hole on her shoulder blade after all, and it would take a hundred days to heal the broken bone, so her left hand was always hanging on her neck.
Black Hawk has also woken up. Although he still sleeps a little longer every day, at least he can eat and take medicine without two people feeding him bit by bit.
"Xing'er?" Chen Qiu poked his head in from outside and called Xing'er in a low voice.
"Is Black Hawk asleep?" Chen Qiu came in and leaned over the screen to take a look at the sleeping Black Hawk inside.
"I've been sleeping for a while." Xing'er moved inside and let Chen Qiu sit down.
"Here, I found this storybook from the study. You have nothing to do anyway, so just use it to kill time. Also, these are some travel notes. You can read them to Black Hawk when he wakes up. He can't get up yet, so these can help him cheer himself up." Chen Qiu handed the two books in his hand to Xing'er.
"Thank you, ma'am." Xing'er looked at the names of these storybooks, and the corners of her mouth twitched a little. These were things for young ladies to read, mostly about love. Fortunately, there was also a travelogue.
"By the way, tell me after you finish reading and I will get some for you. My husband found a lot of books from that villa. He said he couldn't use them. I thought it would be nice for us to use them to relieve boredom, so I picked out a few for you." In front of Xing'er and Mingyue, Chen Qiu was not the wife of a duke, but just a lady who grew up with them.
Chen Qiu accompanied Ye Chen in the study, just reading history books or travel notes, and occasionally writing something on paper.
The other one just looked at the storybook, sometimes covering his mouth and laughing, sometimes secretly wiping away tears, and neither of them disturbed the other.
But two days later, Chen Qiu couldn't bear to read it anymore. "It's boring. It's all the same, just the names and places are changed, the stories are the same. Who is so bored to write so many similar stories, and change so many names?" Chen Qiu opened another storybook called "The Palace Locking Plan", but the stories were the same, only this time it changed from a lady and a scholar to a princess and the top scholar, the same story of an infatuated girl and an unfaithful man. Chen Qiu threw the storybook aside, and no longer had the feeling of crying and laughing as when she first read it, and the feeling of worrying about the people in the story.
"What's wrong? Qiu'er, why don't you read anymore?" Ye Chen put down the book he had just finished reading, stood up and poured a cup of tea for Chen Qiu, then added some charcoal to the brazier.
"I won't read it anymore. These storybooks all tell the same story. The only difference is that the names of the people and the places are changed. Even the words they say are exactly the same. It's meaningless." Chen Qiu couldn't understand why so many of them were written. There were nearly a hundred storybooks in total. How could it be interesting to tell the same story over and over again?
"Same? Have you seen them all, Qiu'er? Are you sure they are all the same stories? What stories are they? Can you tell them to your husband, Qiu'er?" Ye Chen sat on the couch next to Shen Qiu and took the tea that Shen Qiu handed to him.
"Well, it means this woman is a lady or a princess. Anyway, this one is a lady and that one is a princess."
"The woman is a young lady, and the man is a scholar. For the sake of money or status, the man did everything he could to make the woman fall in love with him. In the end, the man married into the woman's family, and then step by step gained the trust of the woman's family and began to take over the business or secrets of the woman's family. After the man became more powerful, he killed the woman's family and imprisoned the woman. The man took over all of the woman's property. If it was a story about a princess and a number one scholar, in the end the man would become the emperor, kill the woman's family, and trap her in the palace to torture her. That's about it. All the storybooks have this kind of story." Chen Qiu could now recite everything the man was going to say in the storybook.
"Oh? Is that so? Can you let me see the notebook about the princess and the number one scholar?" Ye Chen suddenly became a little curious. As far as he knew, Li Hao, the founding emperor of Daxia, was a number one scholar and married a princess of the time, who was also the favorite princess of the emperor and empress at that time. The most important thing was that Daxia was a dynasty established after Li Hao's rebellion, but it was a short-lived dynasty, which lasted only a hundred years from its founding to the founding of Dayin.
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