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Chapter 2 The Book of Stone Carvings

What did he say? The best black stone powder?!

Two...two pounds!

A few young men were stunned. Xuanshi Powder Mo was an absolute luxury in the Great Chu Dynasty. They bought it at a cost of money, and it costs several taels of silver per coin. The best Xuanshi Powder Mo in Taigu Fang is the best, and the top Xuanshi Powder Mo is comparable to gold. How could he buy it like this?

Too bullying!

Two pounds? One pound is sixteen taels, two pounds are thirty-two taels, which is equal to three hundred and twenty coins. According to the price of top-grade black stone powder, it will cost at least nearly thirty taels of gold! If it is replaced with silver, it will be nearly 3,000 taels of silver. If it is replaced with copper coins, it will be millions of copper coins.

The Great Chu Dynasty was not rich among the seven major countries, and its national income was relatively low. One hundred copper coins were enough for an ordinary family of three to eat for a month.

"Okay, why are you still standing there? Let's go to the warehouse to get two kilograms of high-quality black stone powder. Remember, you need the best one!" The shopkeeper Jin, wearing a golden wide-edged robe, rubbed his hands with a smile on his face, obviously without any surprise.

Because, he knew that there was a super prodigal second lady in the Shen family in Dajing!

Lin Yi grinned, and was not polite. He raised his legs and sat directly on the chair of the Grand Master beside the shopkeeper Jin with a golden sword.

This is a special seat for Storekeeper Jin, carved from thousands of years of red sandalwood. On weekdays, people don’t even touch it. But when they saw Lin Yi sitting on it, Storekeeper Jin didn’t even frown. Instead, he held the back of the chair with a smile on his face, for fear that Lin Yi would fall from it.

Soon, the longjing, which was flowing with a faint fragrance, was presented directly to the rain.

Lin Yi picked up the cup and sipped it lightly, as if he was not satisfied, so he threw the cup aside, then raised his legs and hummed a small song, looking leisurely.

"Haha... Lin Yi, what are you thinking about the matter I told you last time? Don't worry about your contract, it's up to me! Let me tell you, as long as we work together, we will definitely be urged!" Manager Jin looked at Lin Yi with anticipation.

Cooperation? The shopkeeper Jin from Taikoofang is a famous and wealthy party in Dajing. He actually wants to find this poor cooperation? Several young men looked at each other again, looking disbelief.

"Let's talk about it!" Lin Yi waved his hand directly, looking impatient.

He actually refused?! The young men immediately felt that their IQ was not enough.

"Okay, then you must remember... By the way, you can take a look at this little meaning." As soon as the shopkeeper Jin waved his hand, a servant took a bag and handed it to Lin Yi with a respectful look on his face.

"I heard that your Taikoo House has recently made a few stone carved 'ground books'?" Seeing the bag handed to him, Lin Yi was not polite at all. He reached out and put the bag in his arms, and then said to Manager Jin.

"That's right, but that thing is too heavy and can only be placed in the backyard. If you want to see it, you can only go to the backyard." Manager Jin was slightly stunned and then said directly.

"Okay, then go to the backyard to have a look." Lin Yi turned over and jumped out of the Grand Master's chair, then walked straight to the backyard. Manager Jin smiled secretly and immediately followed Lin Yi.

Stone carvings? That's a rare thing. It's just for this guy to read it for free? Moreover, after reading this kind of thing, the price will be reduced...

However, the earth books are not so simple to understand. A person like him probably doesn’t even know the divine text?

But who is this guy? Why did the shopkeeper Jin from Taikoo House curry favor with him so much?

The strong curiosity made several young men follow quickly.

Taikoo Square, which can obtain the Tianzi brand, is first-class in Dakyu in terms of scale and quality of goods. The front yard is indeed luxurious and expensive, but the back yard is more confident. The precious antiques fill the entire back yard like they don’t have money.

Various precious weapons and armor were also arranged neatly on the surrounding mahogany racks. Lin Yi skipped these directly. There were too many tricks in the Shen Mansion, and only the few roaring beasts locked in the iron bars could make Lin Yi look at them more.

In the Great Chu Dynasty, it is no surprise to raise monsters, and the most valuable one is the baby beasts.

Lin Yi did not get close to him. If he approached the cub before he had no strength, he would be seeking death! After all, that was a monster with a bad temper and would spit out fire...

In the middle of the backyard.

Four huge stone tablets were lined up in a row, covered with thick red cloth, and were separated by a circle of fences, with four large characters with vigorous pen tips on them, "Please do not cross them."

Lin Yi directly stepped over the fence and flipped in. Manager Jin smiled but did not stop him.

When several young masters saw this attitude, they followed suit. However, Storekeeper Jin pushed his body straight and directly blocked the young masters with a serious look on his face.

"You are blind, don't you read the sign? Please do not cross it!"

"Shopkeeper, let alone climbing over, he pulled off the red cloth and was still touching!" Several young men saw Lin Yi touching the stone tablet with his hands at a glance. The unbalance in his heart suddenly appeared.

"Haha, if the young masters were also from the Chen Mansion, they could naturally go in and touch them." Jianguan Jin smiled. He did not mention Lin Yi's identity as a servant, but only said the word Chen Mansion. It was not that Jianguan Jin deliberately concealed it, but that in his heart, Lin Yi did not treat him as a servant.

"Chen Mansion!!!" The faces of several young men suddenly turned pale. Look at me, look at you, they all understand the meaning of these two words in Dajing. No matter how curious they are in their hearts, they have no shame to stay any longer and flee.

Lin Yi, who was touching the stone tablet, glanced at the corner of his eyes and looked at the young masters who were leaving quickly, and ignored them at all.

His attention was completely attracted by the three stone tablets in front of him. He touched his left and right, and Lin Yi seemed very happy.

Good material, very hard and solid.

This is Lin Yi's preliminary judgment, as for the next step...

When Lin Yi carefully looked at the ground books carved on the stone tablet, he cursed Manager Jin in his heart.

This is the book of the earth?!How can I understand this trick?

Well, the words on this are probably divine texts...

In Shen Mansion, Lin Yi has also read the magical text, but they are all viewed from afar. This is the first time to watch it at such a close distance. The stone tablets that are so close are densely packed, like tadpoles, with figures of different sizes engraved on the stone tablets.

It's really complicated!

Lin Yi thought he was extremely smart, but he was also a little dazzled by these graphics. If he couldn't understand it at all, if he had to memorize it by rote, he didn't know how many brain cells would die.

The biggest problem is that you can't understand at all and don't know what you are writing...

"Lin Yi, you may not understand the divine texts before you learn the divine texts. I have a book that specializes in translating divine texts, you can refer to them!" Manager Jin saw Lin Yi's confused look and naturally guessed Lin Yi's thoughts.

"Take out the translated books early... You are still a businessman, do you understand integrity? As a punishment for your dishonestness, this book was confiscated!" Lin Yi directly took the "Shenwen Translation Tongjian" from the shopkeeper and translated it.

"Haha..." Looking at the "Tongjian of the God Text Translation" snatched by Lin Yi, Shopkeeper Jin felt ache. This is a small ancient book on line, worth five taels of silver, just flying like this? The brat is really getting more and more shameless, but I like you, forget it, just act as an investment. After thinking about it, the Shopkeeper patiently explained to Lin Yi: "Our Great Chu Dynasty is not the strongest national strength, so the translation of this God Text has only been published in about one hundred words."

As Manager Jin said, there are only one hundred words!

The "Translation of Divine Texts" in my hand, there are two divine texts on each page, and there are notes and translations next to them. Lin Yi finished reading them in less than a quarter of an hour.

"Only one hundred words?" Lin Yi was obviously not very satisfied. If this were replaced by the Chinese language exam on Earth, it would probably be the first grade of elementary school...

"You have also seen that this divine text is too complicated, and it is not so easy to translate it. Every country regards the translation of the divine text as the foundation of the country. Some powerful divine texts will not be published casually. These hundred words are considered to be the common divine texts of the seven major countries, and the meaning is the most simple, so they are written into books and spread to the people."

"That's how..." Lin Yi thought about it and understood that according to the definition of this world, every divine text has the opportunity to motivate the power of heaven and earth. Mastering the new divine text is equivalent to mastering more powerful powers. Although there are covenants between the seven major powers, it is impossible to be selfless to be public.

After understanding this, Lin Yi stopped talking and began to try to silently read the earth book on the stone tablet in comparison with "The Translation of the Divine Text".

However, this local book is really too complicated. Each of the three stone tablets has almost hundreds of divine texts engraved on it. Each divine text is composed of extremely complex graphics. Even compared with "Tianwen Translation Tongjian", Lin Yi only understood a rough meaning...

One of them seems to be written by the power of heaven and earth to activate the rocks, and then fall in what posture, and what kind of power it will produce after falling down. There are also descriptions of the rocks...

It turns out that the so-called earthly book is a text description, engraving this text on some objects. As long as the description of this text is reasonable and conforms to the way of heaven and earth, then this object can also produce the power of text description, and the power of this local book should be to stimulate mountains and rocks!

Thinking of this, Lin Yi also thought of the whip in Shen Feixue's hand...

The trick can produce purple flames directly, and it is probably full of divine texts. It is just because Shen Feixue's arrogant personality has always been holding the whip to "do evil", so the divine texts on the whip are probably also blocked by purple flames.

However, no matter how Lin Yi read it, he felt that the description of scenes and rocks in this local book is quite average... Can this kind of thing be called a local book?

Lin Yi will not comment on this.

Do you dare to write more profoundly?

After all, Lin Yi was also a part-time novel who wrote millions of words. He didn’t say that his writing skills were very good, such as idioms, sentence making, personification, metaphor, parallelism, prose, argumentative essays, and narrative essays, and using them freely.

It seems that people in this world are spending more energy on studying divine literature and do not study much literary value, but if divine literature is also a type of text, then...

Lin Yi clearly knows that the true power of words does not lie in the number of words in the words, but in the profound meaning contained after the combination of words.

Just like writing an essay, you may write more than 2,000 words in one go and the exam paper is full, but it may not be as high as others who write 800 words.

For example, a poem can have profound meanings, and a song can also contain the murderous intent of millions of soldiers. There seems to be no poems in this world, let alone the four great classics and the Four Books and Five Classics...

Lin Yi thought contemptuously.
Chapter completed!
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