If it were an ordinary, illiterate person, he might be overjoyed.
Mei Wenxin is different.
He was very scared and anxious.
Having read books all his life and taking history as a guide, Mei Wenxin knows that free things are the most expensive, and he also knows that all gifts from fate have a price secretly marked behind them.
Although it is not the exact words, the meaning is correct.
Smart people in this world generally see things the same way.
Mei Wenxin is just... desperate.
The bronze mirror not only echoes his expectations, but also verifies his fears.
On the bronze mirror, a picture appeared again.
On the picture, there is a sharp bend in the Longjiang River. The water is rushing and there are some hanging branches. The branches and leaves are like the little hands and feet of a daughter's house. They hang timidly into the water and sway from side to side along the rapids, like children washing their feet.
, while playing and having fun.
Next to one of the weeping willow trees, a book box was tipped over with its lid open. More than a dozen gold cakes were scattered on the ground, reflecting the bright and attractive golden light in the moonlight.
A lot of gold.
Mei Wenxin, given his previous experiences, did not doubt the wealth code given by the bronze mirror.
After the pictures on the bronze mirror flowed past, it suddenly stopped at a scene of gold all over the ground.
Afterwards, things calmed down.
Mei Wenxin covered the bronze mirror, quickly took the rice paper that had been given to him when a wealthy family paid him to copy the book collection, and painted on it the scene that appeared in the bronze mirror.
Mei Wenxin could not afford such rice paper either before or now.
Just the few pictures at home were saved by deliberately using smaller fonts when he was copying the books collected by wealthy families, and also by trying not to waste paper by writing typos.
Mei Wen cherishes his credit and paints with great care.
Finally, a picture of gold hidden in bookshelves on the banks of turbulent willows appeared in Mei Wenxin's pen.
He looked at it carefully and carefully.
First of all, the turbulent water and the willow bank are extremely special and can be said to be the iconic features outside Longmen County.
Mei Wenxin recognized where it was at a glance.
He then roughly judged the time based on the position of the bright moon hanging on the weeping willow tree. It was up and down during Chou hour.
Mei Wenxin struggled repeatedly. After a whole day, he went to bed early at night, but couldn't sleep. Finally, as soon as midnight passed, he got up with his clothes on.
Mei Wenxin secretly left the city without disturbing his wife and daughter.
He is a local, even if he does not have the status to open the city gate at night, he still knows some inconspicuous ways to get in and out of the city at night.
These similar methods, such as the collapse of a city wall in a certain place and no one cares about it, can climb out; a dog-walker in a certain place can get out; a sewer in a certain place can still get out of the city even if it is a little dirty...
The big shots don't know it, and the county magistrate doesn't know it either, but the poor people at the bottom living on the edge of the city don't know it.
Mei Wenxin was also a poor man born and raised in Longmen County, and he knew it.
After successfully leaving Longmen County, about half an hour before the ugly hour, Mei Wenxin found the place where the gold was hidden in the bookcase on the bank of the willows in the rapids.
Mei Wenxin cautiously did not approach, but quietly found a place to hide and waited carefully.
This wait lasted for nearly half an hour.
In this half hour, Mei Wenxin scanned every weeping willow tree on the willow bank, and was extremely sure that neither the book box nor the gold had appeared yet.
He waited more and more patiently and carefully, even though the river breeze was cold at night and Mei Wenxin had to hold back even a sneeze.
...
"What a scholar."
"This is not something a nerd can do."
Chen Yang couldn't help but marvel when he heard that Mei Wenxin not only did not arrive on time, but also did not arrive late, but instead arrived a little earlier and carefully waited in advance.
This kind of scholar who has both ideas and the ability to execute them will eventually succeed, whether in this world or on Earth.