Volume 1 Front-End of the Story Chapter 12 The Book of Gems

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After Bai Yujing came out of the Furong Garden, he thought in his heart that he had been out for a long time, and he should go back, otherwise it would be dark when he returned to Yanfu, although he was not necessarily scolded, but he was always a scholar, and he should not stay out for too long.

Although, Bai Yujing also wanted to see how beautiful the night of the inner city street was, and listened to those male servants in the Yan Mansion say that the night market in the inner city was noisy and prosperous, with thousands of lights and candles reflecting the blue clouds, and there were women inside and outside the pavilion. Those who are looking for pleasure come in an endless stream.

Bai Yujing walked along the inner city atlas that he had seen in his memory for a long time, and stopped at the door of a two-story book building, only to see four big characters engraved on the plaque, "Qingsong Bookstore".

"That's right, this is it, it seems that the buildings marked on the map that my eldest brother showed me are all places where they should be..."Bai Yujing thought to himself. He also knew that only a big mansion like Yanfu could have the ability to do such a map.

Bai Yujing walked into the Qingsong Bookstore, and saw a Mr. Lentten wearing a scholar's hat and a cyan robe, standing behind the counter at the door, looking at a pair of paintings, presumably this is Mr. Qingsong over there.

Bai Yujing likes to read, and he has more respect for people who love to read, and he respectfully salutes when he enters the book door. Maybe Mr. Aomatsu was so engrossed in it that he didn't seem to notice him. Bai Yujing didn't care, he began to look at the bookshelves left and right in the room.

Bai Yujing didn't specifically want to read any books, he just felt that after he returned to Yanfu, the Yan couple would come back in a few days, he didn't know what to do, after all, except for reading, no one taught him anything else, according to his idea, he would participate in the imperial examination in the future and be a civil official.

"Hey, refining the body, this is actually a book for cultivation..."Bai Yujing suddenly felt happy in his heart, and took it out directly from the middle of the bookshelf, and opened it to read. The book is not thick, it is quite thin, most of the book is about how to exercise, and some parts of the body need to be paid attention to, and there is no more.

Bai Yujing's love for martial arts is no less than literature, not to mention how the eldest husband he read from the book can be powerless with his hands, or the scene in the dream of the blood jade queen who once opened the mysterious treasure box and obtained, it is not just a good literary work.

Bai Yujing looked at the body refining book in his hand, and with his intelligence, he could naturally see that this body refining book was the foundation of cultivation, but this seemed to be too simple, no matter how you looked at it, it was not comprehensive, let alone compared with those strong people in the dream who fought in the big battle, this was not comparable at all.

Bai Yujing took the book in his hand, looked at the place that was pulled out of the shelf, there were some books called Refining Body Decision on this shelf, he took it out and looked at it one by one, they were all almost the same books, and then he began to look for it on the entire first floor, but as a result, he didn't find anything satisfactory. After thinking about it, he walked to Mr. Aomatsu, the owner of the book counter.

"Mr. Qingsong, excuse me, may I ask if there are other books on the body refining outside the first floor?" Bai Yujing came to the bookstore owner, and this time the shopkeeper noticed him.

"Refining the body?...... This son, do you want it?" Mr. Qingsong had some doubts in his heart.

The young man in front of him does not look like a child of a common people's family, but the people who can live in the inner city are all relatively wealthy, after all, it is the former imperial city! Is there really a poor person living in the imperial city? The answer is naturally no! Whether it is the inner city or the outer Guocheng, the so-called common people are relatively speaking, and when they leave the southern city, they are rich people outside. It's not that you can't buy a book of body exercises at home.

"Yes, Mr. Qingsong..."Bai Yujing said very calmly, he naturally knew why the bookstore owner was puzzled, but he didn't answer it.

"Since you want it, then young man, you can wait a while..."Mr. Qingsong looked at Bai Yujing's demeanor that he wanted to see, thought about it, and called out to the bookstore guy who had been sorting out the bookshelves, after all, some customers took the book out and read it again and did not necessarily buy it, and it may be misplaced again when they are put back, and it will be difficult to find it at that time. After the bookstore guy came over to take care of the book counter, he went up to the second floor.

Bai Yujing watched Mr. Qingsong go up to the second floor, and waited at the front desk of the bookcase, he was not in a hurry, but he was very happy in his heart, knowing that the book of cultivation exercises had been settled.

After about a moment, Mr. Qingsong came down and came to Bai Yujing with a relatively antique green book in his hand.

"This is also a book for refining the body and deciding the exercises, ten taels of gold...," Mr. Aomatsu said.

When Bai Yujing heard that he wanted ten taels of gold, he was horrified in his heart, one tael of gold was equal to one hundred taels of silver, and one tael of silver was equal to one hundred copper coins.

Earlier, he ate a bowl of Yangchun noodles for only twenty copper coins, you must know that when he ate in Yanxian County, it was also five copper coins, it turned out that even if ordinary goods were in different places, the price would be too different.

This refining book actually costs a thousand bowls of Yangchun noodles, if it is in his family's village, it is enough to eat nearly half a year's rations!

Bai Yujing only understood at this time, why no one taught him to practice martial arts, a beginner's body refining cheatbook costs so much money, and the road after that is definitely not something that he can afford to cultivate as a scholar now. He didn't know how many times he struggled in his heart, whether to buy it or not? He was desperate, it was very important to study, but if he didn't have the force to help him, what would he do if he encountered danger in the future, just like the eldest brother, he also went to cultivate with his ancestor. So, I made up my mind to buy it!

"Sir, can I pay with this moonstone?" Bai Yujing's heartache reached into his arms to open the mysterious box, took out a moon-shaped moonstone and handed it to Mr. Qingsong, this moonstone was given to him by his eldest brother Yan Xiao, and it would emit bright moonlight at night, which was used for him to study at night.

"Huh? Yes, this moonstone is worth ten taels of gold, and I don't take advantage of the young man, so I'll find you five taels of gold. Mr. Aomatsu's eyes widened in surprise, feeling so surprised and surprised.

As the saying goes, "Gold is easy to find, gems are hard to find".

Bai Yujing took the gold handed over by the bookstore owner and put it into the money bag in his arms, and walked out of the Qingsong Book Pavilion all the way down Mr. Qingsong. After going straight to the north, I came to the entrance of the East and West Avenue, and walked back to Yanfu along the road.

At this moment, Bai Yujing wants to return to Yanfu as soon as possible, for martial arts, as said in the book, "The eldest husband should be like holding a pen and dyeing ink to scold Fang Xuan, holding a three-foot green peak to swing the world..."