"Why?" both brothers leaned over to read the book, and the elder brother flipped through the pages with his pale, cold hands. They looked like taximen studying what exactly was in the body, and "I can't think of such a person who would choose to commit suicide!"

"And why did he give it to you? I doubt very much that your book is real!" said the younger brother.

The elder brother agreed, and coughed dryly.

"I'll take a look at it for you!" the elder brother looked at Ji Ran and asked, "Have you checked the inside of the cover?" He gestured to a book on the table, "There's a prime example there." Brother, tell him. ”

"You see the bottom left corner of the book's cover," the younger brother smiled excitedly. As if he had found something interesting, "Do you see this Lu character? This is the mark of a master!"

Ji Ran glanced at it for a while, and then found a word less than half an inch.

But it's twisted and crooked, and I can't see a word at all. So, he set his sights on his brother again.

The elder brother continued to study the Devil's Bible.

"It's a good book," he said, "exactly as it should be." It doesn't look like it's been copied out and worn, except that the upper left corner is pierced by something, and everything else is fine. ”

"What do you think of its paper?"

"I'll have to try. The elder brother was a little surprised, licked his lips, as if to add some warmth to himself, and then tapped the edge of the book with his thumb, and listened carefully to the sound of the pages, as if listening to a book, "Great paper, you know, this book was compiled hundreds of years ago, and there was always a difference between paper and now. ”

"Of course, it's also possible that it's a replica made of old paper. Another added, "We do that sometimes." ”

"Rotten books are printed on rotten paper. ”

The elder brother shook his head in agreement and sighed as he continued to study the book.

"This is a fine piece of paper, and the way it was made has long been lost, at least in this respect, the book should be old. ”

"Yes, it's Zuo Bo paper. Another said, "And it's paper he made himself." ”

"So this book is okay?" Ji Ran pointed out, "Is it real?"

"Not really!" The elder brother took another sip of the cigarette pouch in his hand and said playfully, "We can tell you a secret, the imitation of the Devil's Bible is also made of this kind of paper, which is said to have been obtained by Mu Yunxiao from a black marketeer for a lot of money. ”

"So you're not sure?"

"Yes, we can't be sure now. ”

"But didn't you say that your father was involved in copying, and why can't you tell the difference?"

"To tell you the truth, if the book hadn't been damaged, we would have been able to tell the difference. My brother took another puff of his cigarette.

"My father left a small mark in the upper left corner of the book, where it was completely destroyed by the knife, but now I can't do it. But I can show you a little secret!" the brother pointed out.

"A little secret?"

"Not bad!" explained the younger brother, "it's a little secret hidden in the illustrations. ”

"Illustrations?" Ji Ran said, "Are there any secrets to these illustrations?"

"Of course, look here!"

The elder brother put down the cigarette pouch in his hand and pointed his rough finger at an illustration.

It's a picture of a samurai riding a horse.

But Ji Ran didn't find any marks.

"I didn't see anything!" Ji Ran looked at it carefully again, but still felt that he had found nothing.

Originally, Ji Ran was about to say something more, but the younger brother interrupted him and said, "Actually, the original author of this book left a small mark on each illustration. ”

Ji Ran looked at him in confusion.

"I don't know what you're referring to, I didn't find anything!"

"These marks are not so easy to find, or they are meaningless. The brother said with a smile, and then, as if playing a trick, he pulled out a piece of polished glass that had been polished into an oval shape out of nowhere.

"What is this?" Ji Ran looked at the old man and asked suspiciously.

"Magnifying glass! This gadget allows you to see things you wouldn't normally see!" the younger brother was laughing, but explained truthfully.

"It's a signature that can only be seen with a magnifying glass under every print...... Brother, show him. ”

The elder brother wiped his hand on his blouse, trying to wipe off the sweat of his imaginary hands. Then let Ji Ran use a magnifying glass to look at the illustrations on those pages.

"Every print," he explains, "you see that in the lower right corner of this illustration there is a Muzi's signature, which is the mark of the illustrator." However, as far as I know, the signature of the illustrator of this book is not Muzi, but the character 'Lu'."

The younger brother nodded in agreement with his brother's inference, and then picked up the cigarette pouch that his brother had put down just now and took a few puffs.

"So this is a fake?" Ji Ran was a little frustrated.

"No, look here" The younger brother, who was still smoking, seemed to have discovered something. Hurriedly pointed to another illustration with a three-headed man, and shouted: "This, look at this, the signature of this painting is the word 'Lu'!"

Ji Ran hurriedly looked at the place where his finger was pointing, and sure enough, he found a different signature!

"What does this mean?" asked Ji Ran suspiciously.

"Now there is only one explanation!" the elder brother and the younger brother looked at each other, as if they had thought of something together, and paused for a moment before continuing: "Someone has rebound the Devil's Bible. Now it seems that perhaps each of the three Devil's Bibles is true, and perhaps every one of them is false. ”

"In other words, I have to collect all the books to know the secrets of the books?" asked Ji Ran with a wry smile.

"Not bad!"

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By the time Ji Ran returned to the Golden Grotto, it was already afternoon, and he looked at the magnifying glass in his hand with a wry smile, and could only laugh at himself that he hadn't found nothing today.

However, to his surprise, Liu Yiyi came to visit in person.

At that time, Ji Ran was still obsessed with the study of illustrations, and Liu Yiyi knocked on the door at this time.

is different from the previous state of not being pink at home, and now Liu Yiyi has painted makeup that is not thick or light.

"I didn't expect Madame to come to the door in person," Ji Ran asked.

To be honest, Liu Yiyi in front of him was very amazing, even Ji Ran felt a little dazzling, and Ji Ran, who had nothing else to say, had to ask a little embarrassed.

So, Liu Yiyi came in by herself and stopped at the table where the devil's Bible was placed.

"Are you still investigating?"

"Of course!"

She looked away from her books and calmly walked around Ji Ran's guest room.

In the end, she finally saw the sword that was standing at the head of the bed by Ji Ran.

"You're a swordsman?"

This is a very standard logical deduction.

"Yes, I'm a swordsman. Ji Ran nodded without surprise.