Genius Doctor's Fifth Young Miss novel Chapter 557

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They went back and stayed there for a night and updated Sima You Lin and the others about their lives in the sect. They came back on the morning of the second day. Bei Gong Tang and the others headed to class directly while she went to ask how to get to the library. After a few twists and turns, she finally reached after walking for half an hour.

When she saw that rather worn down building, she really wanted to curse. The sect was so rich, so why couldn’t they maintain the library a little better?

She entered the library and initially thought that the outside was worn down but the inside would be much better maintained. At the very least, it should be different from the collection of books she had in the general’s residence.

Who would have thought that it would be exactly the same upon entering. It was worn down and yellowed with tattered books. Only the books on the higher shelves were a little better off.

Sima You Yue saw the aged marks on the books, and was rather curious about how long this library had been around for.

It could be due to the fact that everyone had gone to class, that the library was rather empty. There were only a few handfuls of students here and there.

When she entered the door, there was an old desk in the corner. There was also a worn out rocking chair behind the table. An old man rested upon that rocking char.

This should be the guard that Wu Lingyu reminded her to show some respect to? He seemed like an ordinary old man.

Just as she was appraising him, the other party opened his eyes.

“New student?”

“Yes.”

“Place your name plate down and enter.” The old man closed his eyes after speaking.

Sima You Yue recalled the name plate that her direct instructor had given her when she first reported, and placed it on the table before heading inside. After taking two steps in, she came back and ask, “May I ask, where the medicinal books are kept?”

The old man opened his eyes and sized her up, saying, “The area at the back of the third floor. And the area behind the fifth floor.”

The bottom three levels of the library contained your average books. They were arranged based on how often one would come to use them, and thus, the medicinal bookswere placed at the very last position on the top floor. The fourth and fifth levels contained the more rare and uncommon books, and were arranged as such. Medicinal books were also arranged at the back of that.

“Thank you.” She said as she headed to the third floor via one of the corner staircases.

After heading to the area containing the medicinal books, she carefully selected some of them. Hugging them to her, she went to the door on the first floor.

“I want to borrow these books.” She placed the books on the table as she spoke.

That old man stood up slowly. When Sima You Yue saw him like this, she wondered when the chair would finally fall apart and cause him to tumble.

Thinking about this, she couldn’t help but smirk.

The old man glanced at her and she immediately wiped the grin off her face. He looked over at the books she brought one by one, and took out two books from the pile, returning the rest to her.

“You can’t take these two books out of the library. Apart from that, everyone can only borrow five books at a time.”

So there were actually books that she couldn’t take outside with her. However, she took a look at those two books, and they were taken from the very last shelf. She recalled how those shelves were of a different colour from the others. It could be that the books up there couldn’t be taken out of the library.

“This is your token. Keep it well, you may leave.” The old man said when he saw Sima You Yue in deep thought.

“Do I not need to place these two books back?” She asked.

“Can you find their original placement?”

“I still remember it.”