Su Yan was speechless when he heard this, "You can even afford roast chicken. I'm afraid you've gotten more than just a small amount of money from me, right?"

"By the way, besides selling used books, he also sells other things?"

Just at this time, the waiter had finished naming the dishes and came back to the front. He replied: "The books seem to be only available today. I passed by in the morning and saw two tattered books on display. Yesterday, he sold two pieces of fake jade.

, and said it was a treasure passed down from ancestors."

Su Yan nodded, still not completely sure that the old beggar was a liar. At least in this world, books are actually quite valuable and not so easy to get.

The shopkeeper opposite asked curiously: "How much have you been cheated this time?"

Su Yan stretched out his hands and made a "ten" gesture.

"One hundred Wen?" the shopkeeper guessed uncertainly.

Su Yan shook his head with a heavy expression.

"Amount of money?" The shopkeeper was surprised this time, "This amount is a bit large, you can report it to the official."

"Ten passes." Su Yan gave the correct answer.

The shopkeeper almost staggered after hearing this, "This, this old guy is so brave, he is not afraid of being beaten to death?"

The waiter slapped his thigh and said, "Oh my god, so much money! If I were that old guy, I would have run out of the city long ago."

Su Yan had no intention of going out to catch up immediately, but quickly flipped through the books without giving up, and asked: "Where do you think the old beggar got this old book?"

The shopkeeper looked around curiously and responded, "There is a time-honored bookstore in the east of the city. You can go there and ask after you finish your meal."

The waiter nodded again and again, "I think he probably got it from there. We are a bookstore here, so it's impossible for him to steal it, right?"

Su Yan directly slapped the meal money on the counter, "I'll go now, and the food will be served when I come back."

When the shopkeeper saw the broken piece of silver, he immediately beamed with joy and said, "Okay, you go, you go, I guarantee you can eat hot dishes when you come back."

After leaving the restaurant, Su extended his consciousness to search the nearby streets, and sure enough, found no trace of the old beggar.

So he walked like the wind and first went to the book store in the east of the city. The sign of this store was called [Time-honored Brand]. There were rows of new and old books in the store, and wooden boards were hung to handle the engraving business.

As soon as he entered the store, he saw a young scholar wearing a long gown, reading behind the counter. He didn't notice the customers coming in.

It wasn't until Su Yan's figure approached that the young junior raised his head.

Before he could speak, Su Yan placed the "Qi-Wang Technique" in front of him, "Do you sell such a book?"

After quickly reading through it just now, Su Yan can confirm that there is no cultivation method recorded in this book, at least not on the surface. The details will have to go back and be studied slowly.

The scholar picked it up and looked at it, "Qi-gazing technique? I have no impression. We don't have many books on metaphysics here."

Su Yan's mood suddenly cheered up a bit. If it wasn't the kind of trashy stuff on the street, and if it wasn't bought in this bookstore, there might be room for improvement.

The young scholar flipped through a few pages and felt a little unsure, so he shouted into the back room, "Dad, there is a customer coming to buy a book called "Qi-Wang Technique". Do we have it here?"

After a while, a staid old man with half-white hair opened the curtain and walked out. He looked at Su Yan strangely, then picked up the old book and read it, "Yes."

The scholar was a little embarrassed and said, "Where is it? I'll get it."

The old man waved his hands and bent down.

Su Yan then noticed that the left foot of the bookshelf next to him was shorter than the right foot. In order to keep the shelf stable, a broken book was placed on the left foot

Hey hey hey, isn’t it?!

As expected, the old man pulled out the tattered book from the foot of the bookshelf. It was older and more damaged than the one in Su Yan's hand, and even the cover was worn through.

"No, here you go, two hundred coins." After saying this, the old man looked at his son and said, "Why are you standing there in a daze? Bring something useless over here to cushion it. Don't let it fall down."

The scholar was so busy that he randomly found the shabbiest, oldest, and no one wanted book, and stuffed it under the shelf as it was.

"Such a shabby book costs two hundred words?"

Su Yan was almost in a state of darkness at this time, but he still wanted to make a final attempt to compare the two books to see if there were any similarities or differences.

"Paper costs money, ink costs money, and craftsmen's wages. If this book hadn't been in such a state of ruin, I wouldn't have sold it so cheaply." The old man gave many reasons, or he said that his store had never sold books at such a low price.

"Then will you recycle my book? How much will it cost?" Su Yan raised the book in his hand.

The old man shook his head, "No, no one will buy this kind of thing that only a magician can read, and I can't sell it even if I take it. I don't even know what month or year it was, it was mixed in with other books."

."

Su Yan was speechless, but she still paid for the book.

"Is this the only one you have here? Is the one I have sold from you?"

Seeing the guest paying generously, the old man's attitude softened a little, "I'll just take this one. Although I don't know where yours came from, I can tell from the font and size that the two books should be from the same batch."

】, it’s not a valuable thing anyway.”

Su Yan heard this and asked about the old beggar again, but both father and son said they had never met this man, let alone his specific deeds.

After confirming that the two men were not lying, Su Yan compared the contents of the two books on the spot.

The result is exactly the same! From the first page to the last page, every word is exactly the same, except that one page is broken and the other is even more broken.

Su Yan, who was completely speechless, first stuffed the two books into his arms, and then went out to find the old beggar.

It has to be said that this old beggar seemed to have disappeared from the world. With the methods of Su Yan, a third-level monk, he searched inside and outside the city for a long time, but he was nowhere to be found.

In the end, Su Yan had to try the "pinch and count" method with a worrying success rate. As a result, he chased in the direction he calculated, but he chased for a long distance without seeing anyone.

This forced Su to admit defeat.

It was already dark when we returned to Lanfang County. Su Yan checked into a room after dinner at the restaurant. Seeing his shabby look, the shopkeeper and the waiter did not dare to touch his bad luck again, and they made a tacit agreement not to mention this.

Things.

In the guest room, Su Yandi took out two "Qi Watching Technique" countless times to compare them, and finally he realized that this was a waste of life!

Su opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of silver-white flames, burning the two books clean!

Seeing the books disappear into ashes, Su Yan's mood gained a brief moment of peace and so on!

A trace of jade white flashed in the two pools of black ash that fell down. Su Yan reached out to fish it out from the ash, and very accurately caught a small piece of jade shavings with his fingernails. It was only one-fifth of the size of a fingernail at most.
Chapter completed!