Chapter 196 (One Hundred and Ninety Six) Fake Book
"Secret Code...but it was always here before the fire!" Qiu Hanran said.
"What? "The Secret Book of Tiecang" is missing? Have you read that book?" Tie Wandao asked in as low a voice as possible.
"I haven't seen it!" Qiu Hanran replied.
"Then how do you know that the book is the "Tie Cang Secret Code"?" Tie Wandao asked curiously.
"The words 'Tiecang Secret Code' are very obvious on the cover. I have an impression of it after seeing it," Qiu Hanran said.
"What?" Tie Wandao didn't expect Qiu Hanran to say this. He looked directly at Qiu Hanran and continued to ask: "Is everything you said true?"
Qiu Hanran looked into his eyes and said, "There are absolutely no lies!"
"Oh..." Tie Wandao's expression had changed from anxious to puzzled.
Qiu Hanran looked at Tie Wandao and did not dare to say anything.
At this time, Xiang Sibin happened to come back, and he said that he had something to report to Tie Wandao.
Qiu Hanran breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his master coming back.
Tie Wandao and Xiang Sibin entered a relatively hidden room in the palace and locked the door. Qiu Hanran stayed in the palace to guard.
Tie Wandao didn't understand why Qiu Hanran said that the book had the words "Tiecang Secret Code" on the cover, because when he came here to read the book before, there were no words on the cover. Xiang Sibin whispered to Tie Wandao: "The book with the words on the cover is a fake. After you reminded me last time, I made a fake one and put it in its original place."
When Tie Wandao heard what Qiu Hanran said, he finally felt relieved. He said with a happy face, "That's it!"
"The reason why I made it have words on the cover is so that people who want to steal the "Iron Cang Secret Book" can easily find this fake book. After they steal the fake book, they will take the fake book as the real one and no longer need to worry about the real book. "Xiang Sibin said, "This time there was a fire in the Gusuo Palace, but fortunately the real book was not inside."
"You are indeed thoughtful! But what's in the fake book?" Tie Wandao asked.
"It's all a bunch of random symbols, drawn randomly, even I can't understand them."
Tie Wandao thought for a while and asked: "If the person who stole the book cannot understand it, will it be easy to suspect that it is fake?"
"The fake book has the word 'Part 1' on the first page. The person who stole it couldn't understand it, so he might have thought that he had to find 'Part 2' to solve the mystery." Xiang Sibin said softly.
"In other words, you have a next chapter here?" Tie Wandao was very interested in this matter.
"I only made the first part at that time, not the second part. I found out that the first part was stolen and I was working on the second part before I had time to finish it. After I finished it, I put the second part in another place in the palace and sent it to People are secretly monitoring the situation in the palace. If the person who stole the first chapter is not willing to give up and steal the second chapter, we can catch him, and then we will naturally know who wants to steal this "Iron Cang Secret". Anyway, no one outside has read the real "Tiecang Secret Code", and my disciple Qiu Hanran didn't know it at all. When he became my disciple, I had already put the fake book in the place where the real book was. The first thing he saw when he came here was the fake book." Xiang Sibin said, "I was preparing to report the matter to you after I found out that the previous chapter was missing."
"Well, although it was a fake book that was lost, the theft itself cannot be underestimated. The theft of the fake book means that someone has already taken action on the real book!" Tie Wandao said.
(End of chapter)