The woman Li Yixuanzhi is full of pride, and it is true, seeing that she is only twenty years old and the same age as Qiu Shaohu, it is indeed a great achievement that a woman can make such a big foundation into a small study.

It's just that she is also quite lively, and she doesn't seem to have the calmness that a big bookseller should have.

Qiu Shaohu didn't care, he had seen a lot of strange people and strange things over the years, not to mention that Mu Fang was also a great strange woman he had known, so he just said: "I'm looking for a book related to the sea conditions of Chaomen, that book may not only write about the cycle of tides, but also some changes in the coastline of Chaomen in the past, please ask Shopkeeper Li to help me find it." ”

"Oh?" Li Yixuan showed a thoughtful expression and said, "What are you looking for this book for?" ”

Seeing Qiu Shaohu's slightly vigilant gaze, Li Yixuan smiled and said, "I don't want to know what you want it for, I'm just curious, someone would take the initiative to find such an unpopular book." ”

She is not a character, but perhaps because she has been immersed in books all year round, she has an intellectual open-mindedness in her laughter.

"Unpopular?" Qiu Shaohu was puzzled.

"Since it is Zhile Zhai's sea book, there is only that one - "Haiwen Record Reference"."

"This book was originally a reference book collected by an unknown student from afar to write a story about the strange people on the sea, but the response to the novel was not good, so I thought about selling this anthology and trying to make up for some of the losses."

"But I didn't think that this "Haiwen Record Reference" is even more unpopular, so far only one copy has been sold, or half sold and half sent, a wealthy businessman saw the past relationship with our Zhile Zhai, and specially accepted it."

"I guess I still have some other copies printed in the same batch." Qiu Shaohu guessed that the rich businessman in Li Yixuan's mouth should be a person outside the field.

Unexpectedly, Li Yixuan shrugged his shoulders, made a helpless expression, and said, "It's long gone." A total of 1,000 copies of the same batch were printed, but they didn't sell well, and the rest could only be kept at the bottom of the box, and they had long been disposed of. ”

"Then ......" Qiu Shaohu pondered, if this was the case, he could only go to the master and get the book back.

But firstly, the other party may have already given the book to the others in the resting place, and secondly, the other party should be in prison now......

"If you really want it, there's another way." Seeing this, Li Yixuan said, "Come with me." ”

She led the way in front, and Qiu Shaohu followed the other party, bypassing the screen in the front hall and walking to the courtyard behind another long corridor, where there were also many bookshelves in a room, but the surrounding decorations clearly showed that this was a private space. The books and materials placed on the shelves are not as neat as those in the front hall, and they are all a little random and messy.

"The writing manuscripts of the nameless students are basically here, and those related to the sea book are in the ......" Li Yixuan said as he made a move, and his true anger surged, and the books on the left shelf hung in the air one after another, and placed them on the table in an orderly manner.

Qiu Shaohu was a little surprised, so many books can be recruited in one go, this kind of accuracy and strength, ordinary martial artists are difficult to match, I can't imagine that Li Yixuan seems to be a weak woman, and she actually has such a kind of cultivation, no wonder she can support such a big family business.

As for why the author's manuscript is here at the bookseller, Qiu Shaohu is not surprised.

Zhaoguo's style of study is relaxed, and market novels are popular. In order to facilitate publishing, booksellers have developed a well-established cooperative relationship with authors, and a considerable number of books are booksellers who ask authors for manuscripts, so it is reasonable that authors will have some manuscripts deposited here.

"The collated manuscript for writing the "Reference to the Maritime Record" is basically here." Li Yixuan said: "But looking at it like this, I don't know if I can find what you need." ”

Looking carefully at these sorted books, Qiu Shaohu was indeed a little dumbfounded.

The disorganized notes and the paper everywhere make people believe that they say they are manuscripts and that they are going to throw them away.

It seems that this nameless student who wrote the book is not a person with a plan, and he does things quite casually.

However, this is a pain for outsiders, and it takes a lot of effort to sort out what they need from this messy manuscript.

Qiu Shaohu had no other way but to look at them one by one.

From beginning to end, the content of the distant unknown students is that there are many anecdotes and few pragmatics, and the local legends and myths are as detailed as possible, but the stories about the customs and customs are basically passed by. Including the so-called "Haiwen Records", they are basically the diaries of other literati and the writing of landscape poems, and there is not much to use.

Perhaps that's why this book isn't so inconspicuous.

However, in such a large number of documents, Qiu Shaohu still found some details.

"In the middle of summer, when you soak the beach with seawater, you can get ten taels of coarse salt after one night, which has a slight astringency." Qiu Shaohu saw a sentence randomly recorded in a notebook and said: "This is the record of Ouguo in the "Biography of the Southern History of the Kingdom", which is the place where Chaomen is now. ”

Li Yixuan glanced at him in surprise, "Although the Biography of the Southern History is one of the official official histories, most of the records are palace secrets. For the secular world, they are basically passed by. At the beginning, the unknown student also rummaged through the books to find such a detailed sentence, I didn't expect you to remember it so clearly. ”

Qiu Shaohu already has the ability to remember, but when he read the original book, he really didn't pay much attention to these details.

Now that I think about it, the situation recorded in "The Biography of the Southern History" is extremely inconsistent with the present.

Because near Chaomen Port, there are only tidal flats and swamps, which are humid all day long, and there is no dry place, and there is no beach that can be salted as recorded in the book!

What went wrong?

While thinking about it, Qiu Shaohu immediately searched in the manuscript again, and soon saw such a piece of content:

“…… With the soldiers of the country, from Yuzhou to the south coast for 500 miles......"

The historical record of Linguo is in the "Records of the Zong Dynasty", which is 500 years ago, and the location of Yuzhou has remained unchanged.

To the south of Yuzhou, the closest place to the coast is also Chaomen, but now it is estimated that the farthest distance is only 400 miles at best, and there is a 100-mile error in the middle.

Qiu Shaohu thought that "The Biography of the Southern History" was also written thousands of years ago, and it was far away from the present, could it be that there was any other change in the middle?

"Is there a map of the coast from the past?" Qiu Shaohu thought of a possibility, "If you want to be before, at least a hundred years ago!" ”

"Right here." Li Yixuan really found out a coastal map of Chaomen in the past from the messy notes, which should have been rubbed down from other atlases by unknown people from afar, and was drawn during the Yang Kingdom period of the previous dynasty, from which it can be seen that the coastline at that time, compared with the present, had to extend a hundred miles forward, which was very different from the present.

And right next to this picture, there is also a note, quoted from the "History of the Yang Kingdom" by the current Zhaoguo Guanxiu, which is also consistent with the content of the historical records that he had seen in Qiu Shaohu's memory:

“…… In the 20th year of Xianzong, there was a great earthquake on the southeast coast, and many coastal people were killed and injured. Since then, the sea has eroded, making it difficult for those who live by sea to sustain themselves, and most of them have migrated inland......"

During the reign of Xianzong of the previous dynasty, it has been more than 200 years ago. This incident was a sensational and tragic natural disaster at that time, but under the washing of the world, it was gradually no longer mentioned and disappeared from everyone's minds.

Earthquakes and sea erosion, will the coastal landform near Chaomen completely change and retreat back hundreds of miles since then?

Most of the current population of Chaomen migrated to settle here after that, due to the turmoil in the north, and it is not clear what happened here before that.

As soon as he thought of this, Qiu Shaohu's inspiration appeared.

He seemed to understand why, including the Lingchuan Sect, so many people couldn't find the previous sect of the Hidden Cave later.

The exact location there should have sunk to the bottom of the sea along with the earthquake of that year!

In this way, only when you go out to sea by boat can you find out where you are offshore.

But now that the resting place has also got the book, I'm afraid it already knows about it!

Qiu Shaohu immediately prepared to leave here and go to the port to find out.

But before that, there's one more thing.

"You don't have to give the money." Seeing that Qiu Shaohu was about to make a move, Li Yixuan said, "For your sake, I read these notes again and found that there are still some contents that can be sorted out. Perhaps based on the changes in the harbor, finding someone to write a story and selling it for a good price is a windfall. ”

This female shopkeeper of the bookstore has a special open-mindedness.

"Then thank you very much, and I will say goodbye in a hurry." Qiu Shaohu saw that Li Yixuan was still sorting out these manuscripts, so he left here alone.

Walking to the front door, on the bookshelf next to him, while Li Yixuan was not paying attention, he picked up a book, flipped through it to the end, and then put it back and left here directly.

On the last page of the book, he saw the issue number unique to Zhile Zhai.

There is nothing strange about this book, today's booksellers, each with its own issue number, unique, are all filed with the official family.

What Qiu Shaohu cared about was that the issue number here was exactly the same as what he saw on the burned "The Legend of Qien" at that time.

Not only that, "The Legend of Qien" was written by Yangzhai Hanke, and all the books of Yangzhai Hanke on the market are printed behind the issue number of the Zhilezhai family, and there has never been a second one.

This shows that all the books of Yangzhai Hanke have only been registered and published in Zhilezhai.

What is the relationship between Yangzhai Hanke and Zhilezhai?

What are the secrets of "The Book of Deeds" and its author?

The clue that I thought was cut off appeared in front of me again in a peculiar way.