Jiang Yu told Patriarch Ma about the strange phenomenon that he and Su Yu'er saw, Patriarch Ma changed color when he heard this, Jiang Yu looked at him and asked curiously, "Patriarch Ma, is there anything wrong?"

The Ma patriarch twisted his beard and was silent for a long time before he said, "What the city lord has encountered should be the legendary Purple Stone Mountain. ”

"Purple Stone Mountain, what is that?" Jiang Yu was a little stunned. Ma Patriarch's face was gloomy, and he said: "That is the legendary Death Mountain, around that mountain, purple gas is permeated, it is rumored that as long as you touch a little, you will die, even if you are strong, it is useless, it is precisely because of this, for thousands of years, the east of the barren state is a large area of death that no one dares to touch." ”

"...... like this" Jiang Yuxin said that if the rumors were true, he and Su Yu'er did not rush up, it seemed wise, he thought about it and asked, "Is there any other legend about Zishi Mountain?"

Patriarch Ma thought for a moment and said, "That's all I know, huh...... If the city lord wants to know more, he can go to the Lin family in Muyun City to ask, the Lin family is very knowledgeable. ”

"That Lin family?" Jiang Yu wondered. Because as far as Jiang Yu knows, there are two families surnamed Lin in Muyun City, but these two families started in business, and the patriarch Jiang Yu knows them, so I really don't know how these two families could know about Zishi Mountain.

Jiang Yu asked carefully before he learned the details. It turned out that the Lin family that the Ma patriarch was talking about was not the two Jiang Yu thought, and after the Ma patriarch hurriedly named Jiang Yu where he was going, he left, after all, for him, it was the most important thing to go to the Han family now to discuss how to do business together.

As soon as the horse patriarch walked on his front foot, Su Yu'er walked in. Seeing Jiang Yu frowning, Su Yu'er asked, "What's wrong?" Jiang Yu told him what happened before. Then he said: "The address given to me by this old man seems to be a place where only the poor people of Muyun City live, could it be that in this kind of place, there will be any high-ranking people?"

"Maybe. Su Yu'er smiled and said.

"Come with me. Jiang Yu said, taking Su Yu'er with him, following the direction pointed out by the Ma patriarch, to find the so-called Lin family.

After the two people wore civilian clothes, they walked through the streets and alleys, and soon arrived at the place. I saw that it was just a very ordinary house in front of me,

"Miaolin Thatched Cottage. Jiang Yu raised his head and looked at the words on the plaque in front of the door and read it out, although Jiang Yu didn't know calligraphy, he could also see that the four words dragon and phoenix danced, and the words were written very beautifully.

"This plaque looks like it's been a long time. Su Yu'er looked sideways at Jiang Yudao. Jiang Yu nodded slightly, although the plaque was made by Seiko, there were already cracks on it, and on the plaque, there was already a large piece of dust, as if no one had wiped it for a long time.

"Will there be people living here?" Jiang Yu scratched his head, and thought about pushing the door to go in to take a look, but he heard as if someone was singing inside, but the song was so ugly that it couldn't reach his ears at all, and Su Yu'er also frowned. And soon, Jiang Yu smelled a smell of wine, he pushed open the door, and walked in with Su Yu'er, and saw that the courtyard of this house was in tatters, things were littered everywhere, and on the ground, there were many broken scrolls. At the side of the steps of the main hall sat a drunk man in his thirties, almost topless, in patched trousers, half-leaning back, drinking.

"Hey!" Jiang Yu stepped forward and called out to the drunk, the drunk quickly took a sip of wine with hazy eyes, then looked at Jiang Yu and said, "If you want to pay the account, come back another day, there is no more today...... Yo, the chick who came to ask for the account today looks good......"

In a word, Su Yu'er's face turned red and she was speechless. Su Yuer is everyone's best girl, knowledgeable, intelligent, and can be regarded as a female talent. If it is said that mediation is possible. But she was afraid of running into an unreasonable ruffian, and then she would have no choice. For example, here, if Yu Bingchen was here, he might have gone up and slapped that drunk, but Su Yu'er couldn't do it.

Jiang Yu crossed his hand and signaled that Su Yu'er didn't have to speak, he would talk about it.

"Hey, wake up first!" Jiang Yu came to the drunk, his fingers flicked lightly, and a faint aura rushed into the drunken's body, and the drunkard instantly jumped up as if he had been electrocuted, and in an instant, he was sweating profusely, and he almost became incontinent. The wine also woke up at once. He looked at Jiang Yu and asked very fearfully, "You...... Who are you?"

"Is this the Lin family?" Jiang Yu didn't answer his question, but asked directly.

"That's right, this is the Lin family, who are you looking for?" the drunk man asked.

"I'm here to inquire about Purple Stone Mountain, how much do you know about Purple Stone Mountain?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Zishi Mountain, what is that??, the name of a new wine, I can try it......" Before he could finish speaking, he burped and drank to the sky.

"Husband, come and see this. Su Yu'er picked up some broken scrolls from the ground and said to Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu turned his eyes over, and frowned, the scrolls were all yellowed, and at first glance they were old books, like such torn scrolls, and a lot of them could be seen everywhere in the courtyard. Jiang Yu was about to ask about these books, when he suddenly saw more than twenty people who looked like family members coming in from outside the door.

"Go upstairs in the backyard and move everything you can!" The person at the head of the group beckoned those people behind, walked through the corridor and went straight to the backyard, and when he saw Jiang Yu and Su Yu'er, he completely ignored them. Jiang Yu and Su Yu'er looked at each other, and they both felt a little strange, so they both went to the backyard to look, and saw that there were two small buildings in the backyard, although they looked dirty on the outside, but in terms of layout, they were quite elegant.

I saw those people who looked like housekeepers, rushing into the building, and began to move all kinds of tables and chairs out of it, as if they had come to move.

"Hey, what are you doing, why do you mess around in other people's houses?" Jiang Yu couldn't help but ask out loud. Although Jiang Yu was wearing civilian clothes, there was a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, which made people know at a glance that this person was not easy to mess with, and the woman next to him was also very handsome, and the head of the family looked at them and said respectfully: "The two of you are the Lin family?"

Jiang Yu and Su Yu'er both shook their heads. The first Ding said: "Then you see the drunk man at the door, he is from the Lin family, he owes our owner money, and he hasn't paid it back many times, there is no way, we have to come over to move things and pay the account." ”

"This ......" Jiang Yu was a little speechless, and said in his heart Did the Ma patriarch bring himself into the ditch, how could this kind of person who doesn't pay back the money he owes and drinks all day long know about Zishi Mountain.

The head of the family is also talkative, and when he saw Jiang Yu, he couldn't stop the chatterbox, and continued: "This Lin family was also wide before, but the descendants of the descendants were not angry and lost the family business, and in this generation, it is even more so, only the only seedling outside, but he only knows about alcoholism all day long, and he is a wasted person." Our owner also sees him as pitiful, so he has been lending him money, but people can't get used to it, you see that he is not like this now. ”

As he spoke, those family members had already moved out a lot of things, and Jiang Yu and Su Yu'er both found that in addition to some dilapidated furniture, there were also stacks of books, and Su Yu'er took two or three books from the air to look through them, and was surprised. whispered to Jiang Yu: "Husband, they are all very useful books. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Yu nodded. He turned his eyes to the leader and asked, "How much does he owe you?"

Hearing Jiang Yu ask like this, the family frowned and said, "I don't know what the relationship between you and the person in front of you is, but even if it is a meeting in Pingshui, I also advise the two of you, don't worry about this nosy, that person is a bottomless pit and can't help it." ”

Jiang Yu smiled and said: "People don't know how to improve themselves, no matter how much others help, it's useless, I naturally know this." I just wanted to ask, have you made an agreement with him that you want to use these things to settle the account?"

The leader nodded, took out a note from his waist, and said, "Look, he signed it himself." ”

Jiang Yu looked at the note, and sure enough, it was to the effect that he was using the house as a mortgage or something.

The family Ding continued to Jiang Yu: "Our owner is a good person, and this IOU says that everything here belongs to our owner, but this house is still left to him, and we only need these rags." To tell the truth, these rags, even if this house is all added together, it is not worth a few dollars, and our owner is just angry in his heart. ”

"That's ......" Jiang Yu thought for a while and said, "That's it, his money is seventy taels of gold, right, let me pay it back, but how about everything here belongs to me?"

"It's all yours?" the family was a little stunned, Jiang Yu nodded, making sure he was not wrong. The guy scratched his head, a little puzzled, and said, "That's a good feeling." He said in his heart that if he could collect the accounts directly, it would be better than moving so many useless things back, and his group would be relaxed, and the owner would be happy.

Jiang Yu took out two pieces of gold from his pocket and threw them directly to the family, who checked them with his hand, and immediately smiled, he knew that these two pieces of gold were more than seventy taels of gold. I'm afraid that he will hesitate two or three times, he said in his heart to hurry up and take his group of little brothers, go to the money village first, exchange the gold for a golden ticket first, and give seventy taels to the owner, and the rest is all he and his little brother's, so much money, almost a year's wages.

The head of the family gave the IOU directly to Jiang Yu, and then recycled it, signaling those who were still moving to put down all their things. Then he consulted with the men, and then they went away. As soon as they left, Su Yu'er stepped forward and picked up the books one by one and flipped through them. Jiang Yu also came up to take a look, and soon found that there were digital marks on each book, as if this was a rule only in the bookstore, in order to facilitate reference, and also to prevent loss. Jiang Yu picked up a book casually and found that the marks on it were already more than 17,000. In other words, there are at least 17,000 books in this library, if not lost. Jiang Yu and Su Yu'er walked into the two small buildings together to take a look, and found that there were still some books that had not been moved, all of which were counted together, and it was estimated that there were only three or five thousand volumes, which was by no means as many as seventeen thousand.

"It's a pity!" Su Yu'er frowned and said a little sadly. Jiang Yu knew that what she said was a pity, naturally it was the destruction of these books. The ancestors of the Lin family are estimated to be scholars, otherwise there would not be so many collections, and the younger generations are not angry, and they have ruined these collections, looking at the torn books outside, you will know the fate of most of the books.

"I know why that old man is here. Jiang Yu looked at the piles of books, and suddenly smiled and said. When Su Yu'er heard this, she said: "He probably asked your husband to come here to consult these collections, I took a look, the collection here is varied, there are everything, geography, biography, medicine, mining, scriptures, anecdotes, everything, this descendant of the Lin family is really guarding the golden mountain, but I don't know how to use it." ”

Jiang Yu sighed lightly, seeing that Su Yu'er was still looking through those scrolls, he walked to the front yard alone, and saw that the drunk man had already fallen asleep, and while sleeping, he was still tickling. Jiang Yu shook his head helplessly, took out an ingot of gold from his pocket, and stuffed it directly into the drunken man's arms, saying in his heart that life or death, he couldn't control a lot, and the fate of all living beings was to be grasped by himself.

Jiang Yu walked around and walked back to the study building, and saw Su Yu'er holding a book, came to Jiang Yu's side, and said, "I found it." ”

"Huh?" Jiang Yu was stunned, and saw Su Yu'er hand over the thick book, Jiang Yu looked through it, and found that it was a thick catalog book, which is the book that records the catalog of the books in this library, which book has what number is there, and what the content is roughly marked, and the record can be said to be very, very careful. Jiang Yu turned directly to the last page and found that the scroll of the last mark had reached more than 120,000, that is to say, this Lin family used to be a family with a collection of 120,000 books, and it was possible to collect so many books, so you can imagine how brilliant the Lin family should have been in the past.

"It says there are 120,000 books, but when you count them here, it's just over 4,000 volumes. Su Yu'er said regretfully. She suddenly asked Jiang Yudao, "What about these books?"

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "What should I do, I paid the money, of course, I took it back from my house, is it difficult to stay here and exchange the wine money for that drunk?"

"Okay......" Su Yu'er sighed lightly. Jiang Yu smiled and said: "Yu'er doesn't have to sigh, how people live, others can't control it, he likes to get drunk and dream of death, then let him go." It's not that he didn't want to save him, he himself didn't know what was the use of repentance?"

Su Yu'er was speechless, and finally together with Jiang Yu, she put those scrolls into the Ruyi bag one by one.

"These books are mine. But I'm paying for it. Jiang Yu joked to Su Yu'er.

When Su Yu'er heard this, she smiled playfully and said, "Isn't the husband's thing my thing?"

Jiang Yu gently scraped the tip of Su Yu'er's nose. Jiang Yu actually knew very well that Su Yu'er was good at reading, no matter what kind of book she had, and if she could collect so many books that she hadn't read, she would definitely be happy in her heart.

After returning to Jiangfu, the two of them sorted out the books together, looking for those books that might be related to Zishi Mountain, and after five or six days, the two of them finally found three books about Zishi Mountain in the sea of books. The first is a book on collecting herbs, which mentions the effects of a different herb that grows near the Purple Rock Mountain, as well as the points of collection. The second book is a book of gods and ghosts, which records some stories about encountering demons and monsters in Zishi Mountain, which seems to be absurd. And the third book, the name is very bluffing, is "Miscellaneous Records of the Life of the Ancestor Muyun", a book about the life of Li Muyun recorded by Li Muyun's apprentices.

Jiang Yu carefully read the three books, but he was still confused. Su Yu'er has also seen it, but it is also unknown.

"It seems that these books cannot solve our doubts. Su Yu'er sighed lightly. Jiang Yu lay down and closed his eyes and was silent. I heard Su Yu'er continue: "Among the three books, the one that collected the medicine did not explain the location of the medicine, and according to the spirit grass described in the book, I didn't see it that day. Authenticity is questionable. As for the ghost story, it is even more absurd and ridiculous, like a story, but the style of writing is crude, and if it is a record of reality, it is too exaggerated and bizarre. Only this book related to Li Muyun seems to be somewhat useful, and at the end of the book, it was made clear that after those demons retreated, they used their demonic power to create a natural enchantment to isolate the human race. Although it was only mentioned like this, the Purple Stone Mountain, if you talk about the reason for the achievement, is only one possibility. ”

Jiang Yu thought for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, and said to Su Yu'er: "These three books, taken out separately, can't explain anything, if the three books are put together, maybe there will be an unexpected effect for us." ”

"What?" Su Yu'er was puzzled.

Jiang Yu jumped out of bed, picked up the book on the biography of gods and ghosts in his hand, and said to Su Yu'er: "For example, the content recorded in this book, you also said that this book, if it is a novel of gods and ghosts, has a crude style and is not good-looking. That's because, I suspect that this book is not a mythical novel, but a record of reality. ”

"A record of reality?" Su Yu'er was stunned, immediately shook her head, and said, "Impossible, what is written in this book is exaggerated and bizarre, how can there be such a monster in the world?"

Jiang Yu shook his head and said: "The so-called world is so big, there are no surprises, in these eight states and nine islands, there are many things we don't know, and even if the record is bizarre, it may not be inaccurate, it's just that the people who record this thing don't have so much knowledge." ”

Su Yu'er shook his head, indicating that he still didn't understand, Jiang Yu sighed, and said: "We are all people with cultivation, when we see demon beasts that can fly, can change, and can spell, we all think it's nothing, after all, they often come and go, and those who have not cultivated, the prisoners with shallow knowledge, when they see those strange and bizarre, they naturally record exaggerated and unreliable, so this book of gods and ghosts, most of them are people who don't know how to cultivate, and they have encountered demon beasts that he has never seen, so the record is so exaggerated, that is to say, ......"

"If you can see a demon beast, it means that the Purple Stone Mountain may not be invulnerable?" Su Yu'er guessed.