Early in the morning of the second day, Yan Qingge slept well, got up and dressed casually, except for a white jade hairpin ring, he did not wear any other jewelry, and he cleaned up refreshingly.

The carriage in which Yan Xiuyu came to pick her up arrived. Yan Xiuyu was wearing five different shades of purple wide-sleeved gauze clothes, layered on top of each other, embroidered with dark gold lines, that is, cool and solemn, his hair was tied up with a golden crown, and his eyes were as shining as stars, if it weren't for Yan Qingge's long acquaintance with him, he was afraid that he would be jealous of his beauty.

"Brother Xuan, is it in the study? Tell him to go with him. Yan Xiuyu shouted into the room.

Le Xuan walked out, and as he walked, he didn't forget to stuff a book into his sleeve, ready to read it when he was bored later.

He very much didn't want to go to any poetry club with Yan Qingge and Yan Xiuyu. But Yan Xiuyu couldn't do anything, so he had to agree.

Sanxiao got into the carriage and arrived at Yan's house after a while.

It was still early before the messy summer poetry meeting began, Yan Qingge did not take them to Mingxinzhai, but led the two to Qingxingyuan.

After Yan Xiuyu knew that this was the courtyard where Yan Qingge lived, the smile on his face never broke, and from time to time he pestered Yan Qingge and asked her to take her around. When Yan Qingge wrote to him in the past, he once said that he had long wanted to see this courtyard with his own eyes.

Le Xuan's attention was not here, he said to Yan Qingge: "Qingge, I heard that the Yan family's library is very good, can you take me there?" ”

Yan Qingge smiled: "Okay." ”

Yan Xiuyu's eyes lit up: "Are all the travelogues and notes you lent me to see before from that library?" ”

Yan Qingge nodded and smiled: "Yes." But don't be disappointed when you go, I haven't had time to go, and if the book is not kept properly, it is most likely to become moldy and moth-eaten. ”

Le Xuan was puzzled: "Isn't there anyone in your family who takes care of and cleans that place?" ”

Yan Qingge helplessly spread his hands: "In the early years, there were, but later my father didn't care about it, so I often sent my maid to dry books and sweep the dust." But when Aunt Hai came back last year, she kept all the keys to the house with her, and she didn't let go, so I couldn't send someone to clean it anymore. If you want to go, you have to wait first, I'll go and ask someone to ask Aunt Hai for the key. ”

Le Xuan was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.

Yan Xiuyu's face was really big, and after a while, the maid sent by Yan Qingge sent the key to the library.

Le Xuan and Yan Xiuyu followed behind Yan Qingge and arrived at the Zhenyi Hall where the Yan family collected books.

When the Yan family built this True Righteousness Hall, they put a lot of thought into it. Zhenyi Hall is built in the middle of nowhere, but the place is not small, inside is the layout of the courtyard, a circle of houses is opened from the inside, because there is no wall partition, the roof is supported by pillars, and a window is opened around the house, which is both light and ventilated.

But as soon as Yan Qingge opened the door and smelled the smell in the house, his intuition was not good.

Because in addition to the dryness of the dust, and the musty smell of the book, she also smelled a pungent rat noise.

The most feared thing about the place where the books are stored is not mold and moth-eaten, and there is nothing about dust, but rats are the most annoying. Most of the books they have eaten can only be lost.

At the same time, Le Xuan's face changed greatly, he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him, where is this library, it is clearly the Shura field of books. How did the Yan family treat books? It's basically a tyrannical thing, just wait for the sky to thunder and split.

The three of them walked around the house, and the ground was full of fragments of books bitten off by rats, and even a few rats did not avoid people, and blatantly slipped past their feet in broad daylight, and it seemed that they had actually made a nest here with the library as their home.

More than 10,000 books have been bitten by rats for nearly a year, and they have been destroyed, and there is not one in ten, and even the foot of one bookshelf has been bitten off, leaning against the wall in a crumbling posture.

Yan Qingge walked out with a cold face and said to the few maids he brought: "Guard the door, don't let others in." ”

It's a big trouble right now, and there are a lot of lonely books in those books, if you don't want them to be lost, you can only endure the nausea and put together the fragments that were bitten by the rats, and copy them one by one.

The project is so big that some part of the book may have been eaten by the rats, and there will never be a day to see it again.

Yan Qingge's head was swollen, and he tried his best to calm down, but he couldn't calm down at all.

The Yan family has not been completed like this, and the most valuable thing is nothing else except these books. This is the result of the accumulation of dozens of generations of the Yan family in the past six hundred years. Except for the royal family, it is impossible for any other family to have such a collection of books as the Yan family.

Even the titles handed down from the ancestors, because of the successive generations, are already the lowest level when they come to Yan Songnian, which means that if Yan Songnian does not have the ability to earn a higher title, what his son can inherit after birth is only a commoner - although so far, Yan Songnian has no son.

This library book, in Yan Qingge's opinion, is more important than anything else, it records the previous glory of the Yan family, and also carries the hope of the Yan family to rise again, but because of negligent management, it has become like this.

It seems that the Yan family is really going to end. The Yan family, who personally destroyed these inheritances, is no longer enough to be called a family.

She walked fast and went straight to Mingxinzhai.

Because the women's wall of Mingxinzhai was extremely short, only up to a person's waist, far away, Yan Qingge saw seven or eight girls playing in the courtyard, making happy giggles.

Among them, Yan Shuyu and Yuan Niannian are impressively listed.

Yuan Niannian seemed to have a good relationship with Yan Shuyu, they laughed together from time to time, and even held their arms intimately, and after a while, they helped each other brush their hair. I don't know, I really think they are like sisters.

Those girls also saw the people coming, and the three of them got closer and closer, especially Yan Xiuyu, whose beautiful face became more and more dazzling as he grew up, making a few girls who could see his appearance clearly instantly turn crimson.

When she arrived today, Yan Shuyu "secretly" told them that she had invited Yan Xiaowang as a guest this time. Except for Yuan Niannian, their family backgrounds are not very high, and they haven't seen the prince before.

Yan Shuyu saw Yan Qingge and a few people coming, stepped forward to greet her, and said with a smile in her mouth: "Sister, you are finally here, and I also said that I would ask someone to invite you." Then, she said to the girls behind her: "This is the little prince of Yan, and this is the young master of the Le Zhuangyuan family." ”

Hearing the identities of these two people, the girls let out a small exclamation, looking at Yan Shuyu with a bit of reverence in their eyes, this poetry meeting was not only attended by the prince, but also the young master of the champion family, they really came to the right place.

At this time, a white-clothed girl with a figure like a weak willow supporting the wind stood up, she stared at Yan Xiuyu, looked at it with undisguised appreciation, and said: "The folk girl Zhang Jing visited Yan Xiaowangye, and she is one of the four talented women in the capital. The folk girl has always been unable to understand something, and asked Yan Xiaowang Ye to solve her doubts, the folk girl wants to know, why everyone calls you Yan Xiaowangye, is Yan Wangfu really like the rumors outside? ”

Hearing this, Yan Xiuyu's face became gloomy and terrifying, he glanced at Zhang Jing murderously, clenched his fists, and said, "Get out!" ”

At this time, everyone knew that Zhang Jing had touched Yan Xiuyu's reverse scales, and the good scene was cold and silent by Yan Xiuyu. Zhang Jing's face instantly turned pale from ruddy to paper, her snort was unsteady, and she seemed to be about to faint in minutes.

This girl is worthy of being Yan Shuyu's friend, she dares to ask anything, she is so cold and unscrupulous, she will die on this mouth sooner or later.

In fact, Yan Qingge's background Yan Qingge already knew. Yan Wangfu is indeed a double king, Yan Xiuyu and his brother both have thrones.

Yan Xiuyu's elder brother Yan Wangye inherited the throne of Yan Wangfu, but Yan Xiuyu inherited the throne of Ning Wangfu from his mother's side.

Yan Xiuyu's mother and Shui Ying's mother have the same surname, and both have the surname Yun. The surname Yun is a unique surname of the Ning Wangfu lineage, Shui Ying's mother is from the side branch, and Yan Xiuyu's mother is the serious daughter of Ning Wangfu.

Back then, King Ning took his four children to accompany the emperor to the grassland to hunt, but unexpectedly encountered the epidemic, all five men in King Ning's tent were recruited, and none of them returned to the capital alive.

Princess Ning was a fierce one, and immediately wrote to the emperor, begging the emperor to take back the hereditary throne of Ning Wangfu. She would rather have the royal palace end the inheritance from now on, and she didn't want the few surviving concubines in the palace to inherit the throne.

This request is actually very much in line with the emperor's wishes, but if he really did it, it would be too chilling for the hearts of the people in the world, after all, the five people who died in Ning Wangfu were accompanied by hunting and encountered misfortune.

At this time, the emperor received news that Princess Ning had a biological daughter who married into the Yanwang Mansion, and the second son born by this girl was sick in the womb and was born without knowing pain. The emperor asked many imperial doctors, and they all said that this child could not be raised. So, he happily told Princess Ning that this throne was sealed by Taizu and could not be easily deprived, and he wanted to give the throne to King Ning's mansion to keep. Princess Ning is reluctant to let her concubine inherit, so how about letting your own grandson inherit it? It's just that because Yan Xiuyu is not surnamed Yun after all, this throne cannot be hereditary, and it can only be sealed until Yan Xiuyu.

Princess Ning didn't know the emperor's careful thoughts, but even so, she was already very satisfied.

In fact, Yan Xiuyu, the prince, just listened to it well, but in fact, he was vain, and it didn't bring him any benefits, but made Yan Xiuyu feel aggrieved. When he was very young, he overheard the discussion of his subordinates that the emperor was willing to give him the throne because he saw that he was a short-lived ghost.

Bastard! The master is not a short-lived ghost!

Yan Xiuyu thought hatefully, and glanced at Zhang Jing with murderous awe, Zhang Jing asked him how the throne came about, didn't he want him to explain the matter of the short-lived ghost.

These girls had never seen such a fierce person as Yan Xiuyu, and they were silent one by one.

Yan Qingge gently pushed Yan Xiuyu on the back, and changed the topic and said, "Brother Yu, we have something to do." She turned her face to Yan Shuyu and said, "Tell Aunt Hai to come out!" How has she managed the housework in the past six months? Just now we went to the library, and none of the books in it were gnawed by rats. ”

Yan Shuyu is younger than Yan Qingge, and before she began to read, she followed Yan Songnian to southern Xinjiang to take office, and after she came back, she had never been to the Yan family's library for half a step, and she didn't know the importance of the library. Hearing Yan Qingge's unceremonious request to see Aunt Hai, her nose wrinkled slightly, and she said, "Why are you looking for my mother, isn't it just a few books." The rat gnaws the book, it must be the elegant one among the rats, and it is the luck of the book to be eaten by it. Sisters, don't you think? ”