In the slightly dimly lit study, clear light shines through the skylight left above the ceiling. The light was just right, reflecting the faint light that fell on the small area in front of the desk, casting a hazy veil over the room.

Through the thin curtain of light, a pretty figure was sitting upright in the hazy halo.

There was silence all around, but there was no sense of fear, fear, darkness.

The elegant scent of books surrounds the room, elevating the fantastical atmosphere to the climax.

"Rustle~~" The crisp sound of turning the book came from the fingertips as the green fingers came into contact with the paper.

His eyes looked at the book seriously, sometimes frowning, sometimes stretching......

She didn't read quickly, and she didn't have the kind of embarrassment on her face because of her deep knowledge. Even if there are some areas that she doesn't know yet, she smiles and shakes her head, and by the way, she makes a note on a small note, and then finds something in another book that she doesn't know yet.

It's not so much reading as enjoying.

Yes, it's not like you're reading a book...... With the girl's heartfelt joy, it was like she was enjoying a feast.

Enjoy the baptism of the sun and the bath of knowledge.

Gently lift the corner of the page with your fingertips and turn the page of the book that has been recorded in your mind.

"Nail~~" A crisp sound came from a small bell beside the girl.

She looked up, then lowered her head again.

This is a simple alarm system set up at the door, a simple structure composed of a few silk threads and a small bell, which is simple but very easy to use. Her doors were never closed, they were just hidden, and if anyone came in, she would know as soon as possible.

Security concerns?

Although it is a big problem, it is true that Wenshan Road is not far from the police station, and the law and order has always been very good, and there has never been any accidents. And most of them are places where some lonely old people retire, and there are really nothing worth stealing.

High risk, low reward...... In this society where there are many smart people, I believe that no fool will come!

Besides, she is very confident in the layout of her house, and those ubiquitous psychological hints are not pretty. Just by seeing those things, I believe that no one will be hostile to them, and it is already great to be able to overcome the fear in my heart!

"Excuse me, is the tenant here?" a slightly gruff voice came from outside the study.

"Yes, please come in. Raising his head, Wen Xu echoed faintly.

"Hello. "Some old wooden doors were pushed open, and a middle-aged man of about forty-five or sixteen years old who looked like he had some experience walked in. He has a square face, big eyes and a wide nose, giving people the feeling of being an extremely old man.

"Lend knowledge?"

"Yes. ”

"What is needed?"

"Knowledge of English level 3. ”

"Yes, but please explain where you came from and why you need knowledge. Seeing that the middle-aged man's face changed, Wen Xu explained: "There is no need to worry about anything, it is just a routine inquiry out of professional ethics, and generally I will not refuse the lease of knowledge." Well, it can be as concise as possible, but please don't lie, I can tell the truth from the false...... Deception makes me unhappy. ”

"I'm a clerk at a nearby company. Hehe, speaking of which, I'm also a veteran there, and I've served it for so many years, and if nothing else, I could have gotten a very good benefit. However, because of the company's poor management last year, it has been acquired. With that, he made up his mind to see how the mysterious girl reacted.

Maybe it's an occupational disease, he is good at observing words and feelings, and from the other party's expression, he will change his expression on the premise that the content remains the same, so that it is close to his goal.

But......

"Please continue to ......" The girl's expression remained unchanged, neither impatient nor urging.

She...... Maybe she's just listening.

I don't make an evaluation, I don't make a definition, I just listen.

The middle-aged man organized the language and continued: "Because of the change of boss, he is not satisfied with us old employees. Later, it was announced that our industry also needs to have the appropriate English level so that we can communicate with customers well. Hey, this sentence is starting to hurt those of us who have never learned English in our lives. Hehe, he's kind enough to leave us a month to study......" He smiled self-deprecatingly.

"I heard about you from my daughter, and I tried it too...... I didn't expect it!" He was also amazed, after all, this kind of thing is too incredible.

"Eligible and available for rental. ”

"You know the price to pay. ”

"Yes,"

"In that case, although the level of knowledge of English level 3 is not high, but if you can't produce knowledge that is roughly equivalent to what seems to me, I can't tell you what kind of knowledge you are prepared to pay. ”

"Professional-level chef skills, which I learned from a hotel chef out of my own interest" The man came with a clear readiness, and his answer was quite crisp and ...... The knowledge of selection is also very particular. Not appearing to the public will not affect his own life.

"By the way, according to the hotel chef, I already have a professional level. ”

She nodded with satisfaction, revealing a gentle smile: "This gentleman, this is completely fine, in my opinion, the level of this knowledge is higher than that of Level 3 English." Well, I'm going to give you a subsidy when I borrow it, how about a good 'translation proofreading'?"

"Thank you, I'm satisfied. What I got was more than I expected. ”

“...... Come on!"

"Now confirm your start of trading and confirm the knowledge level. Wen Xu looked at him quietly, lowered his head, and then put the slender finger on his forehead and eyebrows.

"The knowledge level is confirmed, the transaction is established, and you are sure to pay?"

"Sure!"

As the middle-aged man answered, something seemed to appear in the surrounding air...... From the original ordinary, enter the mysterious realm.

.........

Wen Xu returned to the big library that he had built in his mind after five years of hard work from scratch.

It is a circular building, surrounded by walls, and the floor is the color of a dim yellow old book.

If you look closely, it's also a small book. The whole building has no roof, and the ring is surrounded by walls and bookshelves, and countless knowledge has been organized by her to sort out conceptual books.

Not only in the shelves, but also in the entire circular space, there are books made of condensed knowledge.

She stood quietly in the center of the large library, stretched out her hand, and a white hot stamping book flew into her hand automatically. Then he brought a small note beside him.

Extending along her fingertips, she read the knowledge of the middle-aged man from the other party's mind, and after finding the target of the transaction, she pulled it out, and then put the white hot stamping book and small notes into the other party's mind. Control these two condensations of knowledge to merge into each other's consciousness.

After doing the appeal and everything, Wen Xu breathed a sigh of relief.

The silence in his eyes slowly disappeared, and he returned to clarity and clarity.

"Open your eyes, you think back, confirm the knowledge in your mind. ”

When the middle-aged man saw this, he hurriedly opened his eyes and searched for it in his mind. Sure enough, the knowledge of English came to his mind as he searched for it, and it was as familiar as if he had studied it for many years, and he didn't even feel much strange.

He felt as if a hand had just reached into his head, extracting something from his secret mind, and with the loss of something, a sense of emptiness coming from the depths of his heart......

Then, something different was added, filling up the originally empty mind.

Wen Xu withdrew his fingers, looked at him with a smile, and said calmly: "The price has been paid, and the reward has been paid." I hope you can make good use of this knowledge, and if you use it well, even if I take it back in the future, you will not lose it again. ”

Sensing the extra knowledge in his mind, the man thanked him repeatedly.

The middle age is gone, and she reminisces about the newly acquired knowledge.

Perhaps, I can try to cook myself in the future.

"Forget it, there's not a lot of time, it's too wasteful. Thinking like this, Wen Xu's clear eyes revealed a trace of fear, and she shook her head, erasing the fear of time and not letting herself fall into a negative silence.

.........

After seeing the guests leave, Wen Xu immersed himself in his own world again.

She doesn't like to waste time, and she doesn't have any extra time to waste.

In this world, there is only one thing that can make her new life desire: knowledge.

What she didn't know, what she hadn't yet explored, the feeling of exploring in the dark fascinated her.

"Whew, I have a good harvest today~"

Fingertips swiped over the dim pages of the book, opening a new page.

There are many ways to acquire knowledge, and knowledge leasing is perhaps the quickest way to do it. It was quick, but it was definitely not her favorite. The knowledge gained through one's own reading, through one's own learning, the sigh of satisfaction that comes from the deepest part of the soul...... This is the pursuit of the text order.

However, there is an end to the life of a person.

Just a few decades is too short, and it's scary.

Yes, every time she sighs for time, she feels negative.

-- How much knowledge can I know in such a short period of time?

Even if I study diligently every day, it is still too small compared to the endless ocean of knowledge.

So she feels lucky about her specialness.

Since the age of ten, whenever she sleeps, she always enters a magical place.

The distant space shimmered and was not very bright. Like countless stars...... Everything during the day is played back in the form of a fragment...... In the return visit until they will never forget again.

Perhaps many years ago, the name Wen Xu was a representative of genius. Wen Xu, who grew up in a merchant family, completed college when she was eleven years old, and when she was twelve years old, an accident caused her to lose her family. But she was lucky to survive and was specially recruited by Tsinghua University...... By the way, this is not a university on the surface, but a research institute in name.

After that, there is no after.

After two years at Tsinghua University, rumors about her disappeared in a very short period of time, and she herself did not appear in any public places.

It didn't take long for all the people associated with her to collectively forget about her.

She's free!

"Teacher...... Oh, I'm looking for endless knowledge and the pleasure of free reading. Rather than dedicating your short life to your so-called great research. Speaking of which, psychology is a wonderful thing, and you shouldn't have let me get in touch with it in the first place. Otherwise, I might be stuck there. ”

Slowly looking at the knowledge in the book, she looked at it very slowly.

Not because of memory or comprehension, but because of ...... She's enjoying the process.

Since she entered the institute, her life has been very good, and she has not suffered any unfair treatment, and there are not too many restrictions on her freedom. But she didn't like it...... The scope of her reading was inadvertently limited by some people, and the only books that could be dismissed were certain specialized subjects, which made her very dissatisfied.

She retorted, but was kindly told by the teacher: "Life is limited, people cannot be omniscient, that is not scientific." ”

"Hmph, I don't care if I'm omniscient or not, I just enjoy the process......"

Squinting and humming, she was satisfied with her decision.

.........

Since entering the consciousness space for the first time, it has only been a chaotic haze, and there is no concept.

Out of her own preference, she began to interfere with the Chaos Zone of her own will.

After a year, the mysterious place in her consciousness began to change with her conscious intervention.

The originally chaotic space transformed into the ideal large library in his mind...... Knowledge is a book, and every knowledge and every skill will form a book in that big library after learning it, and it will be neatly placed in your big library.

One of them is called: Strong Hints of Color Structure.

Thanks to it, the text order is free. Read your favorite books and learn your favorite books...... No longer pay attention to the tough demands of those teachers or scholars, just obey your own heart.

What you love is the goal of learning.

Slowly, slowly...... In this kind of unrestrained learning, the big library in Wen Xu's mind seems to have changed a little...... Books can be taken out, or a part of consciousness can be taken out...... Knowledge, can it be rented?

Born into a merchant family, she sighed at that time:

"Knowledge lending - it should be a good career. ”

In the middle of the night, Wen Xu went out to buy some ingredients.

Judging from the structure of knowledge, you can make a good meal.

Knowledge is rented, and the transaction is not just a memory. And the feelings associated with memory, the way of thinking, and that sense of familiarity that comes from consciousness...... It's all contained in that memory. Therefore, there is no such thing as knowledge rental: the failure of accepting knowledge, but not being familiar with it, without a knowledge structure, and not with a particular way of thinking.

Even if the knowledge is never known, only through the exchange of knowledge, that person can use it 100%, as its original owner did, and there may be a slight difference, but it is definitely not large.

Her dinner was simple, a well-seasoned Yangzhou fried rice, a bowl of seaweed egg soup, and if anything special, it was fried rice mixed with tomato sauce to make the whole bowl of fried rice tinged with an attractive tomato red. This is the secret recipe for that serving, and the fried rice seasoned with tomato sauce is quite delicious.

"Wow, that's really good, aren't the other complicated dishes even more delicious?"

She squinted, happily imagining.

However, this is just a fantasy, after all, it takes too much time to prepare the ingredients and cook the dishes.

It's too much luxury for her!

After enjoying Meimei, Wen Xu began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Even though the food she cooks is quite delicious, she decides not to touch the kitchenware again...... Delicious things are always a waste of time, buying ingredients, handling ingredients, cooking, decorating, putting away dishes...... Of course, the enjoyment of happiness should not be counted among them~~

"Ahh ”

With a sigh of gratitude, she returned to her study.

Books, a room full of books...... She has been to many places in the past two years, and each place has not been for a long time, but every place she has visited, she will find a way to fill it with books, and there are books full of them. There is no limit to the genre and the subject matter...... New, old. Classical, surreal, fantasy, realistic...... None of that matters.

Only books that carry knowledge are fine.

"Meow~~" A small cat meow sounded in this room filled with books.

"It's you~" The girl who was reading a book stopped, smiled softly, she came to the window, and stroked the kitten's two little ears: "Is it that the master doesn't like you? In this case, you can be with me~ Well, I will tell you stories every day~~"

"Meow~" screamed, and the kitten got out of the girl's arms.

Under the dim light, its lovely face with wonderful leaves is reflected.

The cat half-squinted, and pointed to a book on the bookshelf with its little paws - "Night Talk, Drunken Dreamland"

A plain but warm smile appeared on the girl's face: "Okay, okay, today we will talk about ......"

Under the moon, a quiet girl in a beam of moonlight held a kitten in her arms.

She held a thick book in her hand and read the contents of the book slowly and clearly.

The kitten lay quietly in her arms, squinting and listening......