42. Mysterious text
Long
The team finally sent the old man and grandson of Qin,
In order to be able to buy a good price, he was also worried that those officials would not be able to recognize the real treasures, so when Old Man Qin was queuing, he specially sent Wu Guan to the column.
"Granddaughter, give the book to Mrs. Wu!"
"Hey, I know grandpa!" The little girl was holding the broken book in both hands, as if she were holding her most precious thing.
Because of her family's poverty, she hasn't eaten candy man for a long, long time.
In order to save money, the grandfather and grandson even eat only once a day.
But even so, the food for that meal was mostly running water.
"Uncle Wu, my grandfather said that if he gives you the book, you will give us gold, is it true!"
"It's the grandfather, not the uncle, the granddaughter doesn't dare to shout, she wants to hit the board!" Old man Qin hurriedly reminded.
The little girl suddenly shrunk her neck and looked at Wu Guan apologetically.
Wu Guan smiled slightly, he naturally wouldn't care about such a trivial matter.
He knew Old Man Qin, and his family was very poor, so Wu Guan had secretly decided that he would give as much as possible no matter what the book was like in the future.
Wu Guan took the book and first glanced at the appearance.
If you want to stay for a long time, paper depends on what kind of material it is made of.
On the other hand, it is more critical, that is, to see what kind of maintenance and maintenance is required.
These two things directly determine how long things like calligraphy and painting can be kept.
Wu Guan can feel it from the touch, the book is very worn, and the preservation is not very complete.
It has reached the point where even if you carefully flip through it, you are likely to tear the paper off.
Wu Guan can judge from the feel of the hand that the texture of this book is extremely poor, and it should be written on the cheapest paper.
If it were a normal place to collect used books, I'm afraid I wouldn't want these things.
But because what the master wanted was the content inside, Wu Guan still looked through it very seriously.
As soon as he turned to the first page, he almost tore off the paper, which made both the grandfather and grandson extremely nervous.
They want to live, and they need money to live.
Basically, all the things that can be sold at home have been sold, and this book Old Man Qin has also found many places to collect old books, but without exception, all of them do not accept his books.
There were even two families who drove him out directly.
Wu Guan looked at the dense text on it, and found that he didn't know a word.
Those words that meander like tadpoles are not the standard text of the otaku world at all.
The world of Liaozhai once had an era of great unification one hundred and fifty years ago.
The rulers of the time unified the written word, unified weights and measures.
Although this has provided convenience for everyone in the world, it has led to another problem, that is, many ancient characters have disappeared in the long river of history.
"Old Qin, do you know the words on this?" Wu Guan asked.
Old Man Qin shook his head helplessly.
When he was a child, his grandfather kept educating him, which was the most precious thing in his family, so Old Man Qin would always treat him as a baby.
As for the content and how the text is read, he is not clear.
Moreover, Old Man Qin was very sure that his grandfather might have listened to what his grandfather said, and the specific value of this thing was not clear.
Wu Guan shook his head, if he didn't even know the owner, then it would be really difficult for anyone in this Qinyang Town to know this book.
If someone else took this book, Wu Guan would have directly rejected it.
But after looking at Old Man Qin's grandfather and grandson, he could only sigh helplessly and said:
"Collect, give a penny!"
This is already a very high price, after all, one penny of gold is enough for two people to live for a year.
But Old Man Qin seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and he said with some embarrassment:
"Master Wu, this is our family's heirloom, see if you can add a little, our family is counting on this to live!"
Wu Guan also sighed and said, "Old Qintou, as the county magistrate of this county, how can I not know the situation of your family!" ”
"I'll be honest with you, your book is not recycled, and I'm very kind!"
It's not that Wu Guan is ruthless,
First of all, the money is not his, but the master asked him to collect the books, so what he has to do is to use as little money as possible and collect more books.
Second, there are too many poor people under the world.
By relief,
There will never be relief.
.........
Inner hall, living room.
There were all kinds of books on the floor of the huge inner hall, and from a distance, even the whole room was almost filled with books.
Lu Wu sat at the door, flipping through the contents one by one.
Fortunately, what he was looking for was books about the Kaiyang tribe before they entered Qinyang Town, so most of the books were just glanced at and put aside.
Just these books, it was completely because of a glance at the yamen, and most of the books had been blocked out.
Otherwise, Lu Wu's workload will reach a point where it is completely impossible to complete.
The book Lu Wu was holding in his hand was the genealogy of a certain family.
This genealogy is different from the others because it records a large number of people, hundreds of people drawn from any one generation.
This is the genealogy of the Yang family, the largest family in Qinyang Town, which records in detail the actions and death days of everyone in the Jiaoyang family, including the surname of the spouse.
It can be said that this is an extremely detailed family tree, even comparable to the sleepless household register of the earth.
The reason why Lu Wu paid attention to this family tree was because he found that the Yang family was very open-minded about intermarriage and did not have some surname requirements.
You know, the more remote the place, the stranger the customs.
In almost many places, there are rules for not marrying with the same surname, and in addition to this one, there are many surnames that do not intermarry with each other.
For example, it is often possible to find a rule in the genealogy of the surname Yue, that is, the saying that Yue and Qin do not intermarry.
Of course, it is said that this is because Qin Hui killed Yue Fei back then, so the Yue family cannot marry the Qin family.
Qin Hui killed Yue Fei, this statement is biased, but similar regulations can indeed be seen often.
But the genealogy of the Yang family that Lu Wu saw at this time was incomprehensible.
Not only does it seem that there is no restriction on the surname, but it is also extremely common to marry with the surname.
What's even more surprising is that he even saw the marriage record of his family from above.
Of course, these two belong to cousins and cousins, although they are a family, they have already come out of five suits.
Lu Wu found it interesting, so he simply took a quick tour page by page,
But when he flipped through the whole book and saw the back of the book, his eyes suddenly froze.
[Qin, no intermarriage! ] 】
A large line of text appears on the back of the book, again in the color of blood.
Lu Wu's eyebrows had already turned into Sichuan characters, and he muttered to himself:
"Yang.... Qin.... Unmarried.... Qin! Yang! Town? ”
Lu Wu put down the book and quickly ran towards the door of the yamen!