Chapter 66: No Electricity
Soon three months passed, and things finally straightened out. There are five barracks in the Imperial Forest Army, one is used as a community for the settlement of displaced people, one is used as a university park, one is used as an industrial park, and another is used as a training base for private troops. Only the last piece of land remained, and this land Lin Xia was useless, but he already had a plan in mind.
In April 278 of the Charlemagne Empire, if there is anyone with the most complicated feelings on this day, it is Alex, the mayor of Xilin Town.
Alex was in the town government's office, holding the tax report for the first quarter in his hand, and looking at the tax numbers recorded on it, he was very complicated.
Alex has been the mayor of Xilin Town for many years, and the tax revenue of Xilin Town has been very stable, with an annual tax revenue of 3,000 gold coins. In the first quarter, because it was not the farming season, the tax was generally around 500 gold coins, but the tax recorded in this report was 1,200 gold coins.
Alex thought he was wrong, and after rubbing his eyes a few times, he looked at it again, and it was still 1,200 gold coins. He thought that the tax officer had made a mistake, so he called the tax officer again and confirmed it repeatedly, and the tax revenue in the first quarter really reached 1,200 gold coins.
After confirming that it was correct, Alex went to the Xilin family's manor as soon as possible, but he couldn't find Lin Xia and asked the housekeeper Campbell. Campbell didn't know where Lin Xia went, but he remembered that Lin Xia didn't come out again after entering the study. The two went to the study to look, and saw that many of the green bricks under the study had been warped, but Lin Xia did not study again.
Alex went to the community, the university park and the industrial park, but in the end he didn't find Lin Xia. But the tax is up, and Lin Xia must arrange how to deal with this tax.
Lin Xia's people were not found for two days in a row, so they had no choice but to follow the usual practice, leaving two-thirds to the town government and one-third to the housekeeper Campbell.
After Campbell received one-third of the 400 gold coins, he kept 200 gold coins for the family to use in the castle repairs, and the other 200 gold coins were given to Antonio in the imperial capital.
In previous years, Campbell would have left only 150 gold coins, of which 50 gold would be handed over to Antonio, and 100 gold would be reserved for repairing the castle and manor.
But this year, because the tax was far higher than in previous years, Campbell took it upon himself to make an assertion, and instead of handing it over to Antonio in the usual proportion, he took half of it and handed it over to Antonio.
Lin Xia actually didn't go anywhere, he was still in the castle, but under the castle, maybe this could be regarded as the underground of the castle.
It all started two days ago.
Lin Xia was drawing drawings of clothing design in the study alone, and felt a little tired, so he wanted to get up and walk and paced in the study.
As he walked, Lin Xia felt that the green bricks under his feet were a little strange, and he felt slightly higher than the other green bricks. Squat down and look.
Remembering that Tang was a gold fan, Lin Xia happened to remember that one of the "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" was hidden underground in a certain room in Prince Kang's mansion, and Tang would hide things underground.
While Lin Xia carefully inspected the floor tiles, he also ridiculed Tang in his heart, he was not creative in hiding things, and he was all imitating Mr. Jin.
Sure enough, one of the green bricks was slightly taller, and if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't be able to see it.
Lin Xia used the Tang knife he carried with him to pry open the floor tile, and sure enough, there was a handle under the green brick. Lin Xia didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and directly pulled the handle up.
There was a loud rumble in the room, thanks to the fact that it was night, and Lin Xia was the only one in the castle. I saw that the bookcase next to the wall slowly parted from the middle to the sides, revealing a stone door.
There are ten square grooves on the stone door, divided into two rows of five grooves on the left and right.
Lin Xia looked at these squares curiously, and found that these squares were about the same size as the green bricks underground, so he found the green bricks that he had just knocked out, and saw the word "cover" written in square words under the green bricks.
Lin Xia tried it, and sure enough, he could put the green bricks into the groove.
It seems that there are ten green bricks with Chinese characters on them in this study, and these ten green bricks are the password to open this stone door.
Lin Xia directly began to warp the green bricks underground, and after warping a few green bricks, sure enough, another one had the word "treasure" written on it, and it was also a simplified character.
After confirming his guess, Lin Xia continued to warp the green bricks, and waited until more than half of the green bricks in the study were warped before he gathered ten green bricks with square characters.
Lin Xia put these green bricks together, and after scolding in his heart, he put the ten green bricks in turn into the groove on the wall.
The words on the wall of the blue bricks are: Heavenly King Cover Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon.
After the green bricks were placed, the stone door really opened.
Lin Xia looked at the scene behind the stone gate, his expression was a little dazed, and at the same time, his heart was full of excitement, and he wanted to shout, Huaxia, I'm back.
Behind the stone gate turned out to be a modern library, rows of bookshelves, the shelves were full of books, Lin Xia believed that this must be the way home.
Lin Xia was surging at this time, his mind was full of his parents and fiancée, as if he had forgotten that he was in Charlemagne's continent, and rushed directly into the library.
As soon as I entered the library, the stone door behind me closed. Lin Xia turned around to check, there was still a stone gate there, and he was in the middle of the library.
At the same time, the bookcase in the study slowly returned to its original state, and even the handle under the blue bricks disappeared, and there was no trace of the stone door at all.
After entering the library, Lin Xia's heart calmed down a little, remembering that he hadn't said goodbye to Antonio from Charlemagne's continent, Hongxing's brothers, and the townspeople of Xilin Town, and felt a little regretful, but since he returned to Huaxia, there was always a way to go back.
Lin Xia looked left and right in the library, and was surprised to find that there was no one in the library. But anyway, let's find the exit of the library and go home.
This library is very big, Lin Xia turned around for a while to find the door of the library, but the door couldn't be opened no matter what, Lin Xia was ruthless, luck was really angry, and reached out to pull the door.
This door seems to be just a glass door commonly used in the library, with the power of Lin Xia's true qi, the glass door can be broken with a casual pull, but this door is unexpectedly unmoving.
Lin Xia was in a very urgent mood now, and directly pulled out the Tang Dao, transported the true qi to the peak, wrapped the black fighting qi around his body, slashed out with a knife of fighting qi, and slammed into the glass door.
However, it did not cut open the glass door as Lin Xia expected, but the glass door completely absorbed this earth-destroying aura.
Lin Xia still didn't give up, and the continuous fighting qi was cut out, and it didn't end until the true qi in his body was exhausted. But the glass door of this exit has not changed at all, and there is not a single scratch.
Lin Xia sat on the ground with a languid gaze, looking at the glass door with blank eyes, he had some reactions now, I am afraid this is not the way home.
But what exactly is this, and why is there a modern library on Charlemagne's continent?
Lin Xia rested for a while and decided to take a look in the library, maybe he could find out the clues.
The first to walk to a bookshelf, take out a random book on the shelf, look down, it turned out to be "Postpartum Care of Sows", after opening the whole Chinese characters.
Turning the first page, the publication date is November 6, 2015, and the price is 25.6 yuan. Look at the content in it that is indeed related to sows. This is a serious Chinese book.
Lin Xia walked through the shelves one by one, and looked at the titles of the books at random, the books in this library are very rich, including history, literature, social science, and economics and management.
But Lin Xia can basically conclude that this is the library of a certain university, because a large part of the books here are university textbooks.
Unconsciously, Lin Xia walked to the librarian's place, where there was also a computer.
Lin Xia sat down in the administrator's position, reached out and touched the keyboard on the table, and typed at will, but unfortunately the computer monitor was black, because there was no electricity here.
There was no electricity, Lin Xia sat up from his seat all of a sudden, and he suddenly found that there were too many strange places here.
There is no electricity in this library management, Lin Xia looked up at the ceiling, the ceiling light was not turned on, since there is no light, why is the library bright, and what is it used to illuminate here.