Zhao Yao originally thought that the Li family's library was one building, but he didn't expect it to be three buildings.
These three buildings don't look high. There are only three floors above the ground, but there are three floors underground, which means there are six floors in total. The three buildings add up to a total of eighteen floors. These eighteen floors are filled with books.
The three buildings of the library are connected to Ningshui Pavilion, Ningyong Pavilion and Ningqi Pavilion respectively.
The books in Ningshui Pavilion are ordinary books, most of which can be seen outside.
Ningyong Pavilion contains ancient calligraphy and paintings.
What is stored in Ningqi Pavilion is the only copy that has been lost.
Walking into the library feels like walking into the world of books.
Zhao Yao was deeply shocked by the books in the Li family library. He felt that the Li family's collection of books was more than the books in Lanyuan Pavilion.
Relatives and friends can borrow the books in the Ningshui Pavilion of the Li family. The ancient calligraphy and paintings in Ningyong Pavilion are never loaned out. The only copy in Ning Qi Pavilion can only be borrowed by the Li family, and the permission of the head of the Li family is required.
The fourth prince can read the books in the three buildings of the Li family at will, and does not need Li Pushe's consent.
With the fourth prince accompanying him, Zhao Yao could follow him into Ningyong Pavilion and Ningqi Pavilion.
Zhao Yao was not interested in the ancient calligraphy and paintings in Ning Yong Pavilion. He looked at them for a while and then left, calling the fourth prince to take him to Ning Qi Pavilion.
There was someone guarding the door of Ning Qi Pavilion. He was an old man with gray hair but high energy. His face looked harmless, but his eyes were very sharp.
When he looked over, Zhao Yao thought of Ling Yun's murderous eyes. This old man looks ordinary and has no imposing manner, but it can be seen from his eyes just now that he is not an ordinary old man.
When the old man saw the fourth prince, his gentle and ordinary face immediately showed a respectful look. He was about to stand up and salute the fourth prince, but the fourth prince raised his hand to stop him.
The fourth prince introduced Zhao Yao to the old man: "This is my tenth brother."
"I've seen ten..." The old man was about to salute Zhao Yao, but Zhao Yao stopped him.
"I'll bring my tenth brother to see the original copy."
The old man nodded slightly and said warmly: "Please."
The fourth prince led Zhao Yao into Ningqi Pavilion and introduced to Zhao Yao: "Uncle Wen is an old man of the Li family. He has guarded Ningqi Pavilion his whole life."
"Then isn't he extremely knowledgeable and talented?"
"Yes, it is said that he has read all the books in the Li family library."
Zhao Yao looked surprised: "That's really amazing."
The layout of Ningqi Pavilion is the same as Ningshui Pavilion and Ningyong Pavilion, surrounded by shelves of books on all sides. No, it's not a book, it's a bamboo slip.
"Fourth brother, why are they all bamboo slips?"
Zhao Yao walked to a bookshelf on the right, so he picked up a scroll of bamboo slips and found that the bamboo slips were somewhat new and not old at all.
The cover of the bamboo slips is engraved with characters that Zhao Yao has never read. He curiously opened the bamboo slip and found that the words engraved inside were the same as those on the cover. They were words he had never seen before and did not recognize.
This character looks very similar to the character they know now, as if the character was taken apart, little by little, and then put back together again.
"Fourth brother, what kind of word is this? Why haven't I seen it before?" It doesn't look like a foreign word.
The fourth prince took the bamboo slip from Zhao Yao and said with a smile: "This is a character created by the Li family."
"Ah, self-made characters?" Zhao Yao's pretty and cute little face was full of shock, "Fourth brother, can the Li family create their own characters?"
"Well, this is an ancestor of the Li family who summarized many words and then created words that belong to the Li family."
Zhao Yao was shocked: "You can actually create your own words, that's amazing!"
"Does this text look weird?"
Zhao Yao nodded and said, "Well, it seems like he took apart the characters we are learning now and then put them back together again in a weird way."
"Yes, these characters refer to the characters we know now and the characters of various countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period." The fourth prince pointed to the characters on the cover of the bamboo slip and said to Zhao Yao, "This is "Book"."
"Book?" Zhao Yao looked at the strange characters on the bamboo slips and said with disgust, "How does this look like a book?"
"Don't you feel like an open book?"
"If you put it that way, it really looks like it." Zhao Yao asked curiously and doubtfully, "Fourth brother, why did the ancestors of the Li family create their own writing?"
"One is to protect the books, and the other is to keep it confidential."
"Keep it secret?" Zhao Yao was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Don't you want others to take it away?"
"Yes." The fourth prince introduced, "Only the Li family can learn the Li family calligraphy."
"Fourth brother, do you know them all?"
"We know it." The fourth prince continued, "Using Li family characters to copy ancient original copies can not only protect the original copies well, but also prevent the contents of the original copies from being spread outside."
"Fourth brother, this is wrong." Zhao Yao's little face showed a very serious expression, "Since it is an only copy, it means it has been lost. What we are doing at this time is not to hide them and prevent outsiders from knowing. But spread it out and let more people know about it, so that the book will not be lost again.”
"If you hide your books like this and don't let others know about it, then if something happens in the future, won't it be lost again or even disappear? Is this okay?"
"I think books should be passed down from generation to generation, rather than hidden from generation to generation."
"Fourth brother, your grandfather's family is wrong to do this." Zhao Yao said seriously, "Li Pushe is a gentleman of the Imperial Academy, and his duty is to teach and educate people and spread more knowledge, but Li Pushe It’s wrong for families to hide the most precious knowledge in the world.”
The fourth prince felt that what Zhao Yao said was very reasonable, but many families would have their own collection of books, and they only wanted to teach them to their own family members.
"Tenth brother, this cannot be changed."
Zhao Yao thought to himself that when he went to the fiefdom in the future, he would build a library in Zhao Yao's world in his dream so that everyone could go in and read.
"Fourth brother, these are all unique copies copied in Li family characters. What about the original unique copies?"
"It's kept in the underground library." After the fourth prince finished speaking, he saw Zhao Yao looking at him with bright eyes and smiled apologetically, "Tenth brother, I can't show you the only copy in the underground library."
"Why?"
"They are all well preserved and cannot be opened easily, otherwise the original copy will be damaged." The fourth prince said, "I have never read it."
"So that's it." Zhao Yao said with a disappointed face, "I don't know the Li family characters, so I can't understand these bamboo slips."
"Want to see the original copy?"
Zhao Yao nodded repeatedly and said, "I want to see it."
"If you want to read it, I can teach you the Li family calligraphy."
"Ah?" Zhao Yao asked in astonishment, "Fourth brother, isn't it true that only the Li family can learn the Li family's characters? Can I, an outsider, learn it?" Although the Li family's characters are weird, once you learn them, you can understand the Li family's characters. He is willing to learn from the collection of books.
"You're not a stranger to me, so I can teach you."
"That's right, I am the cutest and most beautiful younger brother of Fourth Brother!" Zhao Yao said with a proud smile on his face.
The fourth prince's eyes were filled with a smile. He reached out and rubbed Zhao Yao's little head, and said in a gentle tone, "Yes, you are my cutest brother."
Zhao Yao hurriedly raised his hand to the fourth prince and swore: "Fourth brother, don't worry, I will never teach others what I have learned."
"good."
"Fourth brother, is this a secret between the two of us?" Zhao Yao said with a smile, "If I have any secrets that I cannot let others know from now on, I will write them to you, fourth brother, in Li family characters."
"this is a good idea."
"Fourth brother, I will study hard." Just after he finished speaking, Zhao Yao suddenly remembered something. The characters Zhao Yao used in his dream seemed to be called simplified Chinese characters, which were different from Da Zhou's characters.
In the dream, the characters in Zhao Yao's world seemed to have changed into simplified Chinese characters from generation to generation.
He felt that the simplified Chinese characters of Zhao Yao's world in his dream were quite beautiful and simpler than those of Da Zhou. The most important thing is that it is easier to write than Da Zhou's handwriting.
Since the Li family has the characters Li, should he come up with the simplified Chinese characters for Zhao Yao's world in his dream.
"What are you thinking about?" The fourth prince took the bamboo slip and gently tapped Zhao Yao's little head.
"Fourth brother, I'm wondering if it's difficult to learn the Li family calligraphy?"
"It's not difficult to learn, you can learn it." The fourth prince said, "From now on, you go to my room every night, and I will teach you the Li family characters for an hour."
"okay."
Seeing that it was getting late, the fourth prince took Zhao Yao out of Ningqi Pavilion and went to his courtyard. He has his own yard in Li's house, and Zhao Yao will live with him tonight.
It was a coincidence that they came back and met Li Houci who came to deliver sweet soup.
Li Houci first saluted the fourth prince and Zhao Yao, and then said: "This is the sweet soup that my grandmother ordered me to make for your two highnesses."
Seeing Li Houci, Zhao Yao sweetly called out: "Sister Houci." Then he said with a bright face, "I like to drink sweet soup the most."
The fourth prince took the food box from Li Houci and said, "Thank you."
"Your Highness is welcome." Li Houci smiled softly, "Then I won't disturb your Highnesses."
"Sister Houci, won't you sit down for a while?"
"No, it's getting late, so I won't disturb your two highnesses from resting." Li Houci bowed slightly, then turned and left.
"Let's go in."
Zhao Yao winked at the fourth prince and said, "Fourth brother, why don't you let Sister Houci come down and drink sweet soup with us?"
"It's getting late, and it's not appropriate for her to stay here with me."
"Fourth brother, do you like Sister Houci? Will Sister Houci become my fourth sister-in-law in the future..." Before he finished speaking, Zhao Yao's little head was knocked hard by the fourth prince.
"No nonsense."
Zhao Yao chuckled mischievously: "Fourth brother is shy, I won't say anything anymore."
"Do you still want some sweet soup?"
"I want to drink." Zhao Yao said obediently, "I won't say anything."
After Li Houci personally delivered the sweet soup, he returned to his yard.
Li Houen and Li Houshan were waiting for her in her yard. Seeing her coming back, they hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, are they back?"
"Just came back."
"Why did Your Highness take the tenth prince to our library?" Li Houen said with some dissatisfaction, "Forget about Ningshui Pavilion, Ningyong Pavilion and Ningqi Pavilion do not allow outsiders to enter."
"To His Highness, the Tenth Prince is not an outsider." Li Houci looked helplessly at the unhappy Li Houen, "Hounen, why are you so dissatisfied with His Highness?"
"The tenth prince is not worthy of His Highness being so kind to him."
"Whether he is worthy or not is not up to you. The tenth prince is the younger brother of His Highness and a guest of our house. Put your dissatisfaction aside." Li Houci warned with a cold face.
Li Houen was frightened by Li Houci's stern look, and nodded obediently: "I understand."
At this time, a man in black suddenly appeared in He Lianfang's room.
He Lianfang handed him a letter. After he received the letter, he disappeared without a trace.
The secret guards hiding in the dark and monitoring did not notice the presence of the man in black.
The second update is here.
Two updates totaled more than 8,000 words, so there was no third update tonight.
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