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Most of the people who came in were illiterate. Li Yin did not take them to read those books that were too complicated, but instead led them to the children's enlightenment book area.

The books here are the most basic, including picture books, short stories, and comic strips.

"Look at this, old man."

Li Yin took out a picture book, opened the first page and handed it to the old man.

This book does not have a table of contents. The content of each page is pictures and Chinese characters, and the pinyin is marked on the Chinese characters.

The old man wiped his hands on his coat a few times, then handed it over carefully.

Looking at the book, it was a picture of the wild.

The old man stretched out his index finger and pointed at the grass in the painting. There was a thin line on the grass, pointing to a word outside the painting.

He asked Li Yin: "Grass?"

Li Yin held the old man's hand and slowly moved his index finger from the picture, along the black line pointing to the grass, to the word "grass".

She said, "Cao, Laozhang, this is the word Cao."

"Oh! This is grass!" The old man stared at the word for a long time.

When the old man looked up at Li Yin again, Li Yin pointed to another word. The black line next to that word was connected to the sun in the painting.

"'日', this is the character for sun."

The old man pointed at the sun with his index finger and started to imitate it: "Sun, this is the sun!"

Li Yin continued to point to the next word: "Bird, this is the bird character for little bird."

"Bird! This is the word for bird!" the old man said in a loud and firm voice.

After he said that, he stopped reading and his hands trembled slightly.

His lips trembled as he asked Li Yin, "My dear, you just said that I can read this book for free?"

"Yes, the books in the library are all free to read. You don't have to worry about getting them dirty or wrinkled. This is considered normal wear and tear, and you won't have to pay for it."

Li Yin met the gazes of the people and said, "Not only can you look at it, you can also borrow it."

"As long as you leave your home address and ask the village headman to be your guarantor, the people in the village will verify it and issue you a library card. Then you can pay a deposit of ten cents and take the book home to read."

"But the retention period for each borrowed book is only half a month, which means that everyone has to return the book within half a month. If you haven't finished reading it, you still have to come here to register and return the book, and then borrow it for another half a month."

"What if someone doesn't return the book on time?" asked a citizen.

As soon as these words came out, the people around him glared at that person angrily.

I told you to read the book for free, so what? You don’t want to return it?

"No, no, I'm just worried that something might happen and I'll be late in returning the book..."

The man instantly got scared. He didn’t even think about not returning the money.

"That's fine. You can ask someone you trust to return the book with your library card."

"Or if you really were delayed by something, you can explain it next time you come to return the book. But you can't always put it off. If you exceed the time limit three times in a row, the village will confiscate your library card, and you won't be able to apply for a new one within a year."

"Even if you are really late, you can only be late for half a month at most. If you are late for longer, Zhuangzi will send someone to look for you! And your library card will be confiscated by then."

"That's great! If the weather is bad and I can't get into the city, I won't have to worry about not paying the tuition!"

"Yes, this picture book can also let my child read it."

"..."

The people applauded, and some even worried that there were not enough books.

In this regard, Li Yin could only try her best to ensure that hundreds of more copies of each type of enlightenment and literacy books were printed, and the others could only be read in rotation.

Two or three days later, with the reputation of Nuzhuang as its name, the library quickly became popular in Chang'an.

Just as Feng Sanxi had expected, many poor students came with dry biscuits. When they were hungry, they ate them with hot water. When they were sleepy, they lay on the table to sleep. Many of them stayed up for two or three days in a row.

The students would not leave until they had finished eating the biscuits.

Fortunately, this library is large and can easily accommodate hundreds or thousands of people, otherwise there wouldn’t even be a place to sit.

Seeing that the library was gradually getting on track, Li Yin no longer paid attention to its affairs.

Xiaosong, who is in charge of the glass factory, is almost going crazy and keeps asking her to come over!

The entrance to the library.

A low-key and restrained carriage stopped.

"Chen Liuzi, please drive your carriage further away. It's quiet here. Don't disturb the people who are reading."

Wang De got out of the car first, then moved a seat for Li Shimin.

"Master, we are at the library."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Shimin lifted the curtain, stepped on a stool, and searched for a long time for a position.

"Don't use this stool for me next time. It's very troublesome."

He clearly lifted up his robe and jumped down.

Wang De responded.

The carriage left and the two stood at the entrance of Liuweizhai.

"It's really well built." Li Shimin was envious. He didn't want to live in that palace anymore. He wanted to live in a concrete house.

I heard from my sister that the cement house will need to have windows installed and wiring laid.

He didn't know what it was, but it sounded good.

Li Shimin read the rules on the blackboard outside the door and said to Wang De, "Let's go in."

The entrance is the activity area with a large front desk where a young lady is sorting out the information of people borrowing books.

There is a window on the street side, with tables and chairs.

On the wooden board hanging on the wall, there are three big words written: "Activity Area".

Li Shimin took a look and found that the table was very strange. It was a long bar against the window sill. The stools were thin and tall, and everyone had to put their feet on the horizontal bar to sit on it.

At this moment, there were several students sitting here, eating dry biscuits with hot water, and looking at the streets outside the window from time to time to relax.

Li Shimin took Wang De to the front stage.

Seeing someone coming, the lady at the front desk put down her work and looked at them with a smile.

"My two guests, is there anything I can help you with?"

"My dear, I just want to ask, why are the tables and stools over there so weird? Aren't they uncomfortable to sit on?"

Li Shimin did not tell Li Yin about this visit. He felt that there was no need to trouble his sister to come in person for such small matters.

"My dear, this is the style that Master Li deliberately designed."

The young lady said, "The activity area is mainly reserved for everyone to eat. The space is not big, so people cannot stay too long. We have to make room for other readers to eat. This design by Master Li is just right."

"..." Li Shimin, it turns out that he wanted to make others feel uncomfortable: "Master Li has a strange idea."

"Can you read all the books here?"

"Yes, my dear, you can find what you want to see according to the categories on the cabinet."

Li Shimin thanked him and walked inside with Wang De.

The most numerous books in the library are not classics, but agricultural and children's books.

At this time, an old man in sackcloth was standing in front of a bookshelf filled with children's books, flipping through the book in his hand attentively.