thump.
thump.
Following two muffled sounds, the two upright bodies that had just been standing at the door fell limply to the ground.
Su Yi pulled their bodies behind the grass on the roadside and extinguished the paper lanterns in their hands.
Looking back, Wang Lin had also arrived in front of the Library Pavilion and opened the door to the Library Pavilion with the replica key he had taken from Jin Yiwei in advance.
"Your Majesty, could this be the treasury of this pavilion elder? Why are you so defensive?"
"It seems that there are indeed a lot of gold and silver jewelry inside."
Although Su Yi is highly skilled in martial arts, he is not as good as his sister Su Hongxiu in terms of observing words and thinking.
What he said seriously now seemed a little funny in the eyes of others.
However, Wang Lin still had a serious look on his face, and took out a fire stick to light a candle.
Then, while walking with the candle in his hand, he said: "This is not a treasury, but the library of the Li family."
Although Su Yi has a young mind, Wang Lin talked to such an extent that even if he didn't point it out, he knew that this was just a building used for other purposes.
And with so many servants arranged, either there is something valuable in it, or there is something wrong with it.
However, seeing Wang Rin's solemn expression, Su Yi did not continue to ask any more questions. Instead, he took the candle from Wang Rin's hand and helped Wang Rin light it.
As the cotton thread in the candle gradually burns, the candle flame becomes bigger and bigger. It was only the size of a soybean at first, but now it looks very long, leaving a swaying shadow in the dark room.
It is precisely because of this that everything in front of them can be seen more clearly by the two of them.
Su Yi looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. No wonder I heard others say that studying is good before I was sold.
Mr. Ge has read so many books, no wonder he can become Mr. Ge and dominate the government and influence the wind and rain in the Great Xia.
The pavilion in front of me seemed quite empty except for a table in the middle. It's not that there are no books in the library, but that the books are neatly stacked on the shelves close to the wall.
Looking around, I felt like I was surrounded by scriptures and books, but still showed a sense of elegance.
Going up a few more floors, the structure above is similar to the one below, except that the space above is getting smaller and smaller. At the top, there is only one room-sized existence left.
But in this room, there is something inside. I saw that this was the only floor among the many floors where there were no books.
"Your Majesty, everything on this floor is made of bamboo tubes." Su Yi sniffed the room with his nose and asked about the unique smell of bamboo.
"Look around and don't move." Wang Lin said as he walked to the shelves where these bamboo tubes were stored.
That's right, this is the only floor in the library without books.
Instead, there were dossiers bound together by slender bamboo tubes.
On the bamboo tube, the time of the dossier and the name of the dossier were scrawled with a knife.
Others are letters.
And on the table, there is also a sharp dagger.
This is different from what I saw downstairs before. The desks downstairs were extremely clean, but the desk in front of me seemed a bit messy.
"It's strange. Could it be that the servants of the Li family only cleaned the downstairs and left one room unattended?" Su Yi asked a little strangely.
"There is another possibility." Wang Lin touched a dagger on the table and looked at the blunt dagger on the table: "That is, in this whole building, this is the only floor where there are real people. In use!"
After listening to Wang Lin's words, Su Yi seemed to understand something for a moment, and felt his hair standing on end.
Now, he finally understood why Wang Lin's expression had been so serious since he first came in.
There are thousands of books in the entire building.
However, this is the only layer that is actually put into use.
In other words, collecting books is just an excuse. In fact, what is being stored for hiding is these bamboo tubes in front of me!
Wang Lin looked at Su Yi and knew that he had understood something, so he continued to explain:
"I heard that Mr. Ge spent a thousand taels of gold to build this building."
"But now it seems that the four floors downstairs are almost unused, and only the fifth floor above is finally of some use."
"Even a cover-up requires so much effort."
"Then the thing you want to cover up must be even more terrifying."
After hearing Wang Lin's words, Su Yi shuddered.
Wang Lin stepped forward, carefully removed a bamboo tube, and examined it carefully.
After a while, another one was removed.
The contents of these bamboo tubes are different, but all of them are important events that happened in the imperial court. There were even some memorials that were pressed at first sight but were not presented to the emperor.
The owners of these memorials were all accusing the Li family of controlling the court, making officials miserable and all people displaced.
However, now that things have happened, the owners of these memorials are either bloodied in the court or paraded in the streets and beheaded.
What's more, he had already committed suicide by taking poison for no apparent reason, and was hidden in the loess with all his doubts.
Wang Lin's face turned pale when he saw it, and he moved to another pile of bamboo tubes.
These bamboo tubes are different from the ones just now.
If we talk about what we just said, it is the courtiers' unyielding tribute to Li Zhang and others.
So this pile is a bunch of secret letters exchanged between Li Zhang and his cronies. The words in them are so treacherous that they almost didn't plan to rise up one day and change the Great Xia Dynasty.
"Dog thief."
Wang Lin became angrier as he watched, and cursed in a low voice.
Wang Chen has been in poor health in recent years and has repeatedly tolerated this group of people in the court. But what we got in exchange was not the repayment of these so-called literati and capable ministers, but their ulterior motives!
However, Wang Lin did not completely lose his mind.
Seeing that some time had passed, Wang Lin stuffed the letter in his hand into the bamboo tube and put it back in its place.
"It's almost time, let's go first."
Guessing that the group patrolling the courtyard was about to arrive again, Wang Lin decisively led Su Yi downstairs.
Sure enough, on the way downstairs, Wang Lin had already seen through the small window the two people holding lanterns in the distance, walking towards them.
Perhaps it was a mistake in their busy schedule. Just when the two of them returned to the first floor and were about to quickly lock the door and leave, Su Yi inadvertently touched the bookshelf on the side.
What Su Yi didn't expect was that the bookshelf in front of him suddenly started to move when Su Yi pushed it!
Buzz.
With a buzzing sound, the entire bookshelf in the library deflected slightly.
Subsequently, countless lampstands in the library were lit instantly!
The entire library was suddenly brightly lit!
