That night, Zuo Youyou rolled around in bed, couldn't sleep, got up in a fit of anger, and circled around the hotel lobby.

"Dr. Xia, you can't sleep either?"

Dr. Xia pointed to the phone in his hand, his face solemn. Seeing her face, Zuo Youyou obediently held his breath.

Dr. Xia made a phone call, his face gradually becoming ugly: "What do you mean by lack of direct evidence?" Now that it has been proved that Bai Dayin did not have a good relationship with the Japanese, the accusations of the British auction house have been invalidated, and now let us submit direct evidence? ”

"If you haven't sold, you haven't sold, how can you submit evidence if you haven't sold? How do I prove that Passerby A is not my dad? ”

For the first time in his life, Zuo Youyou saw an angry expression on the face of the breezy Dr. Xia.

"Isn't the auction house just a hooligan? Bah, where do I go to find evidence now? Dr. Xia raised his voice.

Dr. Xia hung up the phone, and Zuo Youyou hurriedly asked, "Is there a problem on the British side?" ”

Dr. Xia sighed: "Yes, considering the international impact, try not to make too ugly trouble in the courtroom, and the three parties of China, Britain and the joint investigation team sat down for consultation again before the trial. But the British side clings to the law and believes that our evidence does not address the allegations. ”

"That ......"

"Stay in Jian Xingzhou to continue to participate in the Nanjing Book Fair, we will now buy the nearest flight ticket and return to Huaxia Shulin immediately." Dr. Xia said.

In the early hours of the morning, it was not yet dawn. Zuo Youyou and the two seniors sat on the plane, preoccupied.

"Zuo Youyou, you have been following the project of East Asian economic historical materials, think about it again, are there any other clues?"

Zuo Youyou covered his head: "I'll go back and flip through the ledger again!" ”

Lao Shi patted Zuo Youyou's shoulder and handed her a box in a deep voice: "Huaxia Shulin, passed down from generation to generation." It's also time for young people to take the lead. ”

Zuo Youyou took the small box with some sadness: "Master! Don't worry, I-"

She opened the box.

It contained half a box of black coffee.

Zuo Youyou: "...... I thought it was at least a seal. ”

Lao Shi said earnestly: "This is what Mr. Bai passed on to me." I'll hand it over to you today, and you have to keep it well. ”

Didn't Lao Bai always retire from illness for several years?

Zuo Youyou glanced at the production date in disbelief, the life of coffee is longer than her working years.

"It's true that the torch has been passed down from generation to generation." She said.

The three of them got off the plane and went straight to Bai Xinshu's overtime room. At this time, the morning had just come, and Zuo Youyou finally deeply understood Bai Xinshu's sinister intention of coaxing them to stay in the overtime room for free.

Every free house in the world has quietly marked the price.

Zuo Youyou plunged headlong into the ocean of ledgers,

"The ledger can talk." Zuo Youyou pulled his hair in pain, pointed to the ledger and roared, "Then you are talking!" ”

The ledger is as immobile as a mountain, and he looks at the joys and sorrows of the world with a cold eye.

Zuo Youyou refused internal friction and chose to blame √

was roaring, and Jian Xingzhou's phone came in:

"You big liar!"

Zuo Youyou was not angry: "How did I lie to you?" ”

Jian Xingzhou said sadly: "We made an appointment to participate in the Nanjing Book Fair together!" Let's take a stroll around Nanjing after the book fair! As a result, I woke up and was left alone? ”

Zuo Youyou calm: "Yes, I lied, how about it?"

Zuo Youyou refused to reflect and chose to put a bad √

Jian Xingzhou was speechless: "Zuo Youyou, I have been ...... I thought you wanted to ...... with me Whining. ”

Zuo Youyou frowned: "You don't have to make trouble, okay?" ”

Jian Xingzhou was sad and angry: "Am I unreasonable? You don't feel guilty? ”

Zuo Youyou said coldly: "You have to reflect on yourself, why don't you leave others, but leave you." ”

Zuo Youyou: "Tell me yourself." Come up and accuse others, are you a sensible adult. ”

Zuo Youyou: "In case of trouble, you have to find the reason from yourself." ”

An evil light flashed in Zuo Youyou's eyes.

Jian Xingzhou was turned into residual blood in a few seconds by Zuo Youyou's words, and the young man's thoughts were broken, and he hung up the phone angrily.

Zuo Youyou's face was full of straightness.

"What kind of nerves, what to accompany or not, it's so numb." Zuo Youyou muttered, looked down at the account book, "What else are you talking about...... lie?"

A bolt of lightning struck her mind.

Lie?

If people lie, will ancient books lie?

Ancient books can speak – ancient books can tell lies!

"What if the ledger lies?" Zuo Youyou muttered, "What if there is an error in the data in the ledger? What if the ledger has a code and concealment? ”

She stood up suddenly, clutching the notebook in her hand: "What if the account book of Wantaihe shouldn't have been handled in an ordinary way?" ”

If Bai Xinshu is here, he will definitely applaud Zuo Youyou.

When she learned to look at historical materials with a critical eye, she completely got rid of passive absorption reading and transformed into a research-oriented ancient book talent.

The ancients had their own thoughts.

In many cases, due to the political, economic, and ideological background of the time, the ancients would avoid censorship and avoid sensitive words when writing.

At that time, there was no English and pinyin, and there was no such slippery method as picture reversal, but the review was obviously much stricter than now, and if you were not careful, you would lose your life.

Therefore, the ancients would keep half of the sentences they wrote and delete the other half, deliberately leaving traces of fractures in the sentences, and even deliberately leaving contradictions and paradoxes, using all kinds of unreasonableness to remind future generations to discover what he really wanted to express.

There were many ancients who did this, both in the East and the West.

In the West, there is a hermeneutic term called "double writing", also known as "subtle writing", which specifically describes this suggestive way of writing by the ancients; In the East, this is the so-called "endless words and infinite meanings", and the so-called "few words but subtle semantics".

Plato, who Zuo Youyou once touched porcelain, is a good hand at avoiding censorship. For example, "Ideal Country" can be called a complete set of audit evasion.

Therefore, read the metaphorical writing of the ancients full of hints, dig out the clues between the lines, make bold inferences, and successfully verify it-

This has become one of the pleasures of reading in ancient and modern China and abroad.

Cunning ancients, cunning literature!

Zuo Youyou slapped his head: "It's my preconceived idea, and I presuppose that the content recorded in this account book is true!" I should go and find out what else is wrong with the ledger now! ”

"I don't believe it, the ancients didn't make false accounts!!"