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Di Wei covered his head, "It hurts, Peng Ge, why did you hit my head?"

"Why do you think I hit you? Are you f * cking Chinese? This is one of the backbone of China that I am talking about! You want to interrupt laozi? Do you believe me when I slap you? " Xiao Peng glared at Di Wei, who fell silent.

Xiao Peng held his waist, pointed at Di Wei and said, "Listen up, I don't care what your nationality is, if you want to work with me, you better remember it, you're Chinese! Without exaggeration, I can say that 'Yichang's Great Retreat' changed the fate of a nation in China! It's fine if you don't know it as a banana man, but once you know he doesn't respect you, be careful that I don't really hit you! "

Di Wei held his head, "Peng Ge, there's no disrespect from me, from tomorrow on I will seriously study Chinese history, isn't it fine to learn Chinese?"

Xiao Peng gave a sly smile, "You're the one who said that! "Then don't blame me."

Seeing Xiao Peng's expression, Di Wei had a bad premonition.

Knowing that Xiao Peng was going to New York, Di Wei had been thinking all the way about where he could go to play in New York City, Park? Nightclub? Broadway? Times Square? Even to the Garden of Madison Square. After all, this was his first time in New York after growing up in the western part of the country.

But he really didn't expect that his trip to New York would be like this: Xiao Peng actually took him to the New York Public Library for three days! If it wasn't for him understanding Xiao Peng's wealth, he really wanted to shout out, "Peng Ge!" "You're so stingy!"

Logically speaking, the New York Public Library was a place that every visitor who came to New York visited. After all, this was the largest public library in the Star-Spangled Countries, and one of the five famous libraries in the world: not to mention the Library of Congress, which was not a public library.

The New York Public Library, which had been completed and put into operation since 1911, was already the most famous landmark building in the city. It was where all the movies, such as Spiderman and The Great Escape of New York, were to be viewed.

A white palace-like building with two stone lions at the door is usually described in movies about New York.

This place could be said to be the most impressive library. If someone who didn't understand the situation were to see this place, they would definitely think it was a palace. The entire library was made of milky white marble, and the interior was incomparably gorgeous. Standing here, it was difficult to connect this with the library; it was more like a hall of art.

As the poet Borges said, 'Paradise, should be what the library looks like,' and this should be the library he describes best.

The most important thing is, 'A place where you can enjoy everything for nothing'! It was completely open for free and didn't need any documents. When entering or exiting, all they needed was a simple check by the security personnel to check the backpacks of the incoming person. So every day a lot of tourists from all over the world come to visit.

However, they would usually just take a few pictures and leave after a round of touring. How could they be like Xiao Peng and Xiao Yun, who stayed here and read for three days? There was an old man standing beside him, carrying the books back and forth.

At first, Di Wei even suspected that Xiao Peng was purposely messing with him. In any case, he was just sitting there seriously reading and learning, and then looking at Xiao Peng, flipping through books one by one! His flipping speed was extremely fast, and he had even finished flipping through a book before flipping through it again …

Next, no one knew what he was doing.

What was even more infuriating was that he would flip through the books seriously every day. He would only stop when it was time to eat dinner and not go out for a big meal. He would just eat a sandwich in the small restaurant in the library before going back to continue flipping through the books.

On the second day, he finally understood why Xiao Peng was flipping through the books so seriously.

Di Wei was not the only one who noticed Xiao Peng's odd behavior; other people did as well. On the second afternoon, when Xiao Peng finished his meal and went back to flip through the books, an old man with glasses walked over to him and whispered, "Young man, what are you doing here?"

Xiao Peng looked left and right to speak to him. He lowered his voice and said, "I'm reading a book." At the New York Public Library, you couldn't hear any loud noises. People who didn't have any quality came here and lowered their voices.

The old man had a 'are you kidding me?' look on his face. "Are you reading a book?" His voice rose a lot as he said this, and everyone was looking at him.

Xiao Peng frowned and shushed him with a hand gesture, "Of course I'm reading. What do you want?"

The old man identified himself. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Tony Marx, the curator of the New York Public Library. I've been keeping an eye on you for a long time. You've been standing here reading very seriously. What the hell are you doing?"

Xiao Peng was speechless. "Director Marx, could it be that this library doesn't allow people to read books at too high a rate?"

After hesitating for a moment, he said, "How can you prove that you are reading a book? "Sir, every book resource in our library is very important, so I am very afraid that you will cause any damage to the books. After all, your method of flipping through books is too easy to harm the books."

Xiao Peng frowned slightly, "I have always been very careful when I flip through the books. I have always been very careful. Not a single book was damaged." After saying so, he didn't even look at Tony and Marx, but continued to flip through the books.

Tony Marx did not know what to say. He looked at the bookshelves, his eyes turning. "You've read all these books?"

"Right." Xiao Peng didn't even raise his head as he continued to return the book.

Tony Marx pulled a book out of the bookcase. "My friend, if you've read it, you should be able to remember its contents, right?"

Xiao Peng didn't even raise his head as he gave a "hmm" in response.

Tony Marx continued, "Then you have to remember the contents of the book. Can you repeat the contents of this book to me? "

Xiao Peng still did not raise his head. "Why not? I don't have to prove it to anyone when I read a book. "

Tony Marx thought for a moment and said, "It's not good for you to stay standing and reading. If you prove it, you can go over there and sit down to read. I'll help you move the books, okay?"

Xiao Peng tilted his head to the side to look at the old man after hearing what Tony had said. "Fine, I'm just tired of standing here."

Tony Marx listened. Fuck, what do you mean? Do you really think that you can order me around? After some thought, Tony Marx put the book back on the shelf and took out another: "Have you read this book?"

Xiao Peng took a look, "Ehh, that's right. But then again, you're really bad. "

He looked at the cover. It was actually Adams!

Secret work: On Moral Emotion!

It didn't matter what kind of book it was, as long as the title had the word 'On' in it, the content would be the same. Tony Marx was obviously trying to make it more difficult for him.

"Tell me about the contents of the first chapter and the fifth chapter of the first book."

Xiao Peng curled his lips. "Two different virtues have been established based on these two different efforts, namely, the bystander's efforts to understand the emotion of the client and the client's efforts to reduce their emotions to the degree that the bystander can agree with. On the basis of the former, we have established the virtues of gentleness, amiability, justice, modesty, and leniency; while the virtues of the sublime, the dignified, the respectable, the self-control, the self-control, and the control of all passions — which subjugate all our activities outside our nature to our own dignity, honour, and the rules necessary for our conduct — arise from the latter. What? Do you want me to memorize it? "

Tony Marx was stunned. He only wanted Xiao Peng to introduce the contents of this chapter and see if he had read it. Yet, Xiao Peng recited it directly to him? Tony Marx casually pulled out another book from the shelf. "Then memorize this one for me."

However, Xiao Peng directly shook his head: "Are you sure you want me to memorize these books?!"

Tony Marx laughed. "Why refuse? Are you sure you can't recite it? "

Xiao Peng shook his head, pointing at the book in Tony's Marx's hand. "Take a look at what book you're holding."

Tony Marx looked at the book in his hand and shook his head with a bitter smile. "Alright, this is my fault. I didn't pay attention. Let's switch to another one."

The book in Tony Marx's hand was a very old book called Four Years of Struggle against Lies, Foolishness and Cowardice.

Many people did not understand this title, but if there was another name for it, it would definitely be known by everyone. This was the famous "My Struggle"! It was the autobiography of Adolf Hitler! A book once known as the 'Bible' in Nazi Germany!

This book had always been a forbidden book, so it was rarely seen on the market. It was obviously one of the earliest editions, because it had the first name printed on it.

Every country or society had its own definition of a forbidden book, such as Salinger's The Watcher in the Wheat Field, which had once been banned in the Stellar States; Rushdie's Satanic Cantos, which had offended the Muslims and had been banned by the Iranian religious leaders, and so on; but few books could be regarded as fiendish worldwide, as Hitler's fascist autobiography My Struggle was.

However, the Pandora's box had recently been opened, and in 2016, when the rights to 'My Struggle' expired, the Bavarian state government, which had previously owned it, could no longer restrict its publication, and the book was free to circulate on the market.

Now that "My Struggle" has been republished, its sales are astonishing and it has become one of the world's best-sellers. Although it was sold as a scholar's annotation, the book was introduced from a literary point of view. But even so, the astronomical sales figures left everyone dumbfounded.

This world was crazy at times.

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