There was a thunderstorm at night.

Shen Man walked out of the Taige of the Gate Prison and ran to the library where the Tianwen Gate was located. Along the way, the sporadic light rain turned into a sudden heavy rainstorm, mixed with bursts of thunder, and the electric light illuminated Shen Man's figure one after another.

After passing through the corner gate, I finally arrived in front of the library pavilion.

The hallway was lit up, but it was almost empty. The Yin Yang Prison is under martial law at night, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except for the Taige of the Gate Prison. But in the past few days, Lian Yi was forced to go to the library to read books, so the library was also brightly lit.

Shen Man looked up, but saw that the towering eaves of the three-story library pavilion were raining continuously, like a curtain hanging down from a high place, forming a rain curtain. Dust and smoke rose on the ground, and there seemed to be a screen of true qi lingering around the library in the wind and rain.

At this moment, the library is not like a human world, but like a fairyland.

Push open the quaint door and enter Shen Man. The room was pitch black, and after Shen Man got used to the darkness inside, he found that in the wide hall on the first floor, there seemed to be a red light flashing in the northeast corner.

Shen Man thought that it should be Lian Yi, so he shouted "Lian Yi" softly while raising his feet and stepping over the threshold to enter.

But I didn't want a vague shadow to suddenly appear on the left. Shen Man was startled.

"Who is it?!"

"Who are you, I ask?" The shadow spoke human words, and was a little older than the voice.

Shen Man looked at him, but saw that the furrows on his face, his bald head, and his coarse cloth clothes were very ugly. With a lamp in his hand, he was looking at her with a pair of small eyes.

"Who are you?"

As soon as the old man saw Shen Man's face, a glimmer of brilliance suddenly appeared in his godless eyes, and then it was fleeting.

"I'm the caretaker of this library, and they all call me Dingbo."

"Hello Uncle Ding, my name is Shen Man, and it was the gate supervisor who asked me to come here to find Lian Yimen."

Dingber's hand was spread out.

Shen Man was puzzled, "What?" ”

"Where's the door?"

"The door?" Shen Man was puzzled, "The gate supervisor didn't give me anything. Maybe I'm in too much of a hurry, and I made a temporary decision, so you let me in and find Lian Yimen first. The door will be filled at a later date. ”

Ding Bo was about to close the door and push Shen Man out.

Shen Man was anxious, "Ding Bo, it's stormy outside, can you let me in?" I can make up one tomorrow, you are accommodating. ”

Dingbo had already closed half of the door, and was about to close the other.

Shen Manpao pulled the door and pleaded with a shy face, "If you don't call Lian Yimen to come out, she will definitely be able to confirm my identity, she knows me." ”

Ding Bo's movements slowed down, Shen Man thought that this could be done, and he breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't want Ding Bo to push his hand at this time, and Shen Man was pushed out of the door by surprise.

Then the door "clicked" and closed tightly, leaving no gap.

Only then did Shen Man accept the reality, he was blocked by an old man in front of the library pavilion.

By this time the rain was already heavy, and there was a crackling sound on the eaves. The wind carried the rain into the Taige, and Shen Man was at the gate, although there was an eaves to cover it, but it would still be blown by the cool breeze of the rain.

If you spend the night like this, you will definitely get soaked, and you will have a cold at least or a cold at worst.

Shen Man sat in the corner with his legs curled up;

Tang Jiuyue knew that she still needed a door to enter the Library Pavilion? If she knew, why did she let herself come and not give her the door? Did she deliberately let herself hit a wall, and then obediently returned to the palace?

After a while, Shen Man felt that his eyelids were heavy, and the bones in his body were trembling, and when he didn't know what to do, a voice said above his head, "Hey, it's dehydrated." ”

Shen Man followed the sound and looked up, and saw a head poking out of the window above, although it was dark at night, he could also see her bright and moving face through the lamp hanging in the eaves.

It's Lianyi.

"It's really you, what are you doing here, hydrating?" Lian leaned on his cheeks and asked.

Shen Man suddenly felt a spirit, stood up and said, "Lian Yimen, take me in." I came a long time ago, and I was ordered by the gate supervisor, but Ding Bo, who guarded the door, said that there was no door and would not let me in! ”

"You wait." Lian Yi retracted his head.

After a while, a rope was thrown out of the window, and Shen Man smiled bitterly, "Can't you lead me in?" ”

Lian Yi said, "There is only this way, you can't love it." ”

Shen Man was helpless, pulled the rope and said, "Are you sturdy?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense," Lian Yi is also an anxious child, "tie your body around your waist, and I'll pull you up, but it's just a blink of an eye." ”

Shen Man couldn't help but think of the heroic appearance of her wielding a kitchen knife to chase and kill the black feather chicken in Chenzhou, and really believed her, wrapped the rope according to her instructions, and just said "Okay", a force flew up with her, and in a blink of an eye, she arrived in the library pavilion.

"Lack of water, you said Tang Jiuyue asked you to come?" Lian Yi was not an outsider, so he called the name of the gate supervisor directly, and he was not polite at all.

Shen Man rubbed his arm and said, "Well, the gate supervisor said that I would accompany you to read the book and read the papers tonight." ”

"Hmph, are you going to accompany me or send someone to spy on me?" Lian Yi walked to a row of bookshelves with his hands behind his back, frowned and said, "There are so many books here, I don't think I want to go out for a year." ”

Only then did Shen Man have the opportunity to look at the collection of books here. What you see is truly amazing.

This library is a three-story building, covering an area of 20 acres, and each floor is five feet high. From the bottom to the top floor, the area is shrinking a little, but the third floor is still magnificent and has an amazing collection of books.

Each floor contains tens of thousands of books, stacked on top of each other on wooden shelves. Some of the treasures would have been locked in a special cabinet made of Nanmu, and the key was in Dingbo's hand, and Dingbo would not open the door until he wanted to see it.

Lian Yi and Shen Man are now on the second floor, and it seems that Lian Yi has just begun to flip through the books here.

Shen Mandao, "There are no less than 10,000 books here, all of them are about Yin and Yang Dao?" ”

She knows very little at present, she has only seen a copy of "The Theory of Determining Heaven" from Ning Xu, and Ning Tao also boasted that it was the only book that their prime minister searched for from outside, and even the gate supervisor had never seen it. At this moment, seeing that there were so many books in the library of this Tianwen Gate, he felt more and more that Ning Tao was bragging.

"Yin-Yang Dao is the general category, this is just the library of the Astronomical Gate, there will be some books on the Yin-Yang Dao, but there will be more and more detailed books about the Astronomical Gate. If you want to study the Yin and Yang Dao, you can only go to the Taige Library of the Gate Supervisor to see, but it is more difficult to enter there than here, it is said that some books can only be seen by the next Gate Supervisor, and you and I are not qualified to reads;. ”

Lian Yi said as she flipped through a book in her hand, which seemed to have been read by no one for a long time, raising a cloud of dust. provoked Lian Yixiu to frown slightly, and coughed a few more times.

Shen Man stood up and glanced at the bibliography as she did.

"You said Timber won't let you in because you don't have a door?" Lian Yi asked.

"Hmm." Shen Manhui.

Lian Yi laughed "poof".

Shen Man was puzzled.

Lian Yi continued to laugh and said, "Either Tang Jiuyue forgot about it, or Ding Bo deliberately embarrassed you not to let you in." The old guy always looked for an opportunity to embarrass the people who entered the cabinet, in order to ask for a bribe. You're a fool, stupid to be shut out, and if I hadn't found you, would you have to spend the night outside on a rainy night? It's no wonder if you don't get sick! ”

Shen Man replied, "I didn't think about it that much. ”

When I first arrived, I begged Miss Tang, if I really accidentally violated her and broke her rules, it would only make people embarrassed. I don't want to upset Miss Tang, and I don't want to go back to the palace to be at the mercy of others, so I should be careful now.

Lian Yi casually pointed to a row of books and said, "Since I asked you to come and read with me, you can pick a few books to read, so that you can pass the time." ”

Shen Man nodded in response and came to the bookshelf to pick up books. I don't know why, I subconsciously wanted to find Ning Xu's book "The Theory of Determining Heaven".

"Lian Yimen, is there a book here called "The Theory of Determining Heaven"?"

"Yes, in the third column of the second row at the top of the staircase." He didn't even raise his head, but sat at a low table with a book in his hand and copied and wrote.

Shen Man walked over and passed by a door, the knocker was made of copper, carved with a majestic lion head. But the knocker was already rusty, and the whole door was gray, as if it hadn't been opened for a long time.

Shen Man looked at Lian Yi at the end of the road, then looked at the door, pinched his hand, pressed the curiosity in his heart and walked in the direction of the stairs.

But after a few glances, I really saw the book "The Theory of Determining Heaven".

Lian Yi heard Shen Man's footsteps, raised his head and said, "The Theory of Determining Heaven is a book in the category of astronomy, and the content of the lecture is also real. Are you looking for this book, are you interested in astronomy? Or, are you interested in the path of yin and yang? ”

Shen Man said, "I've just heard people talk about this book, so I can read it casually." ”

Lian Yi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said, "To be honest, the students who study the Yin and Yang Dao practice Tongzi Gong, and most of them start learning basic skills when they are young. When he reached adulthood, he began to delve into various types of Yin and Yang Dao, such as the Tianwen Gate, the Dan Gate, and the Arithmetic Gate. It usually takes more than 10 years to get started or even proficient. If you say you're interested in it now, even if that lime himself teaches you around the clock, you won't have anything to gain without thirty years. ”

"Thirty years ......" Shen Man was really taken aback. The "Theory of Determining Heaven" in his hand seems to have become particularly hot.

Lian Yi flipped through the book in front of a page and said, "The Theory of Determining Heaven is a good book, but I recommend you to start from the most basic point of view, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach it." ”

Shen Man paused, still holding the Theory of Determining Heaven, sat on the ground, and replied, "I'll take a look at this book first, and if I really can't understand it, I'll find something else." ”