Just a quick calculation, you are a fugitive!

Su Chen followed the sound.

Between the rows of bookshelves, he suddenly saw a gray shadow desperately pulling out a book.

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She muttered while trying hard.

"Take one more book, it's okay if you don't understand it, you will understand it in your next life."

"This one is a bit heavy, change it, this one is thin..."

"Why do you clamp the books so tightly? Can't you stack them one by one? It's embarrassing for an old woman like me!"

...

As he got closer, Su Chen could see clearly.

It was an old woman in her seventies or eighties, who was naturally dead. She was wearing a shroud, her face was gray, and her hair was silver.

"Huh, I finally pulled it out. I'll give it to Qiao'er."

The gray shadow floated to the door and skillfully stuffed the book under the crack of the door.

"Why buy so many locks? Lock all the windows, crazy, books can only pass through here now."

"It's a bit thick, how about tearing it open?"

"I can't seem to tear it apart... Let's keep stuffing it in."

Su Chen: "..."

Looking at the old lady's clumsy movements, he shook his head helplessly.

She's a nagging old lady.

Not very smart, not very agile.

If it weren't for the soul, such a thief would have been caught eight or ten times.

But... who is Qiao'er to her?

Did he steal the book for her to read?

Su Chen didn't disturb the old lady with doubts.

It took the old lady a long time to pull the book out of the door, and then she staggered out with the book in her hand. Just after leaving the library, she ran into a drunk.

The drunk staggered, holding an empty bottle in his hand, tilted his head and poured it into his mouth. When he lowered his head, he saw a book floating in the air.

He was stunned and tilted his head.

Just as Su Chen was about to step forward to block his sight, he heard the drunkard chuckle: "Hallucination, it must be a hallucination."

"I'm not drunk, even if it's a hallucination, I'm not drunk!"

The old lady said "What a sin", holding the book and walking a few steps away from the drunkard, she couldn't help looking back.

"Drinking every day, you will die from alcohol sooner or later."

"No, it's better to die tonight!"

Su Chen: "!!!"

"Poor Qiao'er, she didn't meet a kind person. If I had money, I would definitely send Qiao'er to school to learn to read. As a college student, she would have a stable job, no longer have to paste matchboxes, and would not be harassed by drunkards in the middle of the night. Qiao'er could marry a good family..."

So this old lady really stole the book back for Qiao'er to read?

But Qiao'er had never read the book, could she understand these?

Just like that, listening to the old lady's mumbling all the way, Su Chen followed the old lady to an alley behind the library.

That was a utility room expanded from the alley corridor.

The door was crooked, with a big gap.

The old lady skillfully stuffed the book through the gap and passed through the door to catch it. Su Chen hesitated for a moment, but did not go in, but looked inside through the gap.

There was indeed a simple small bed in the utility room. The bed board was made of several wooden strips, covered with a broken mat, and on top of that was a piece of cardboard. On the cardboard, a girl of fifteen or sixteen was curled up at the moment.

The girl was wrapped in a worn-out quilt, covered with an old cotton-padded jacket, and on top of that was a quilt made of messy old clothes.

The old lady put the book next to the girl's pillow, reached out to touch it, and soon started to mutter again.

"You can't touch it, you can't touch Qiao'er."

"If you touch Qiao'er, she will get sick, and if she gets sick, she can't work, and she won't have money to buy food."

"Poor Qiao'er!"

The old lady muttered as she retreated towards the door, and became happy again.

"Qiao'er, can grandma go to your dream?"

Into a dream?

Su Chen raised his eyebrows, and saw a small wisp of gray air coming out of the old woman's body and entering Qiao'er's head. The sleeping girl turned over with a murmur.

"This child, kicked the quilt again!"

The old woman said, and did not move.

Su Chen knew that she must have really fallen asleep, so he simply scanned the utility room.

Soon he frowned.

If the books were stolen by the old woman for Qiao'er to read, they should all be here. Why... there is not a single one?

Strange!

Su Chen was afraid that he did not see clearly, so he took the old woman into the utility room while she was dreaming, and searched inside and outside, but still could not find it.

Could it be that Qiao'er took her to read somewhere else?

It is possible.

After all, the old woman just said that Qiao'er wanted to make money, maybe take her to a place where she works. She has not been to school, and maybe someone there can teach her?

Su Chen returned to the outside of the utility room.

Ten minutes later, the old woman made a move.

"Qiao'er is awake?"

Su Chen: "???"

Sure enough, the girl on the bed wiped her eyes in a daze and sat up. When she saw the book beside the pillow, she was stunned and her eyes turned red instantly.

"Grandma~ wuwuwu~"

The old lady hurriedly comforted: "Don't cry, Qiao'er, don't cry, grandma is here, grandma is here..."

She wanted to go up and wipe the girl's tears, took two steps, and then stepped back, stamping her feet anxiously.

"Qiao'er, don't cry, crying will bring bad luck."

"You will catch a cold if you have snot and tears."

"Don't cry, why don't you listen~"

...

The girl sobbed for a while, picked up the book, put it on her face, closed her eyes to feel it, and soon put it down in disappointment.

She got out of bed and put on the old cotton coat.

The cotton coat was too big for her body.

The patches on the cotton coat were also crooked.

The girl wrapped herself tightly in her cotton coat, stuffed the book into her arms, opened the door of the old cabinet at the door, and took out a box of...

Matches?

Su Chen looked at the girl opening the door in confusion.

He moved away and watched the girl walk to the end of the alley.

The old lady followed her about two meters behind her.

She still kept mumbling.

"Qiao'er, why are you out on such a cold night?"

"Don't come out at night again in the future, there are so many drunkards outside."

"You kid, do you want to make more matchboxes again? Hey~"

...

The girl stopped.

The old lady's mumbling also stopped.

Su Chen looked carefully and found that there was a tower of cherishing words in front of the girl.

The so-called tower of cherishing words is a place for burning things with words written on it.

The ancients believed that words were very sacred, and things with words written on them could not be profaned casually. Even if they were useless, they had to be burned sincerely, so there was this tower of cherishing words.

This custom has been passed down from generation to generation. It is unknown when the custom of burning items with words in the Word-Saving Pagoda began. Not only can one be literate in the next life, but one can also have endless blessings and fortune.

Therefore, not to mention that there are many Word-Saving Pagodas in Cuicheng City, there is also one at the end of Niuwei Village.

After a brief suspicion, Su Chen recalled the words of the old lady and said: "!!!"

The case is solved!

Seeing the girl take out a match and light it, and was about to put it under the book, Su Chen strode up and pulled the book away.

The old lady exclaimed: "Hey, another drunkard, I will scratch you to death!"

She wanted to rush over to grab Su Chen, but was stopped by Su Chen with a power net.

The old lady was stunned and looked at Su Chen in disbelief.

"You, you are not a drunkard?"

The girl was also surprised.

She subconsciously retreated to the wall, and ran forward two steps. When she found that Su Chen did not catch up, she stopped and turned around, looking at him vigilantly.

"You, you..."

Su Chen shook the book in his hand.

"Your grandma stole this book from the library."

The girl was stunned: "No, my grandma wouldn't steal anything."

The old lady also reacted now.

She was angry: "Nonsense!"

Su Chen: "???"

"I saw you steal it from the library with my own eyes and followed you here."

The old lady insisted: "The intellectuals in the library said that stealing books is not stealing!"