Chapter 40: Granny
As I passed the cracked wordless stele, I subconsciously slowed my steps until I passed it, and then walked quickly to the arched door of the library.
The gate is supported by two embossed stone columns, and inside is a five-meter-long aisle with an arched top in the same shape as the main gate.
Walking down the aisle, you will find the inside of the library.
At the very center is a hexagonal counter, which is the dedicated counter for librarians.
As I entered the hallway, the librarian looked up at me and lowered his head again.
With the hexagonal counter as the center, eight desks more than ten meters long are placed radially, and the desks are flanked by neatly arranged chairs.
Between every two long desks, there are three much shorter desks in a zigzag shape.
Viewed from above, these neatly arranged desks look like a giant flower!
The library is designed with a four-storey hollow corridor, which makes the view very wide.
Each floor is about five meters high, and the cloisters have wooden balustrades, which look very old, but they are still very strong, at least as far as I can tell, there have been no incidents.
The circular walls of each floor are filled with bookshelves, some of which are old books that already exist in the library, and some of which are modern books that have been added later.
In order to make the books that are put into the library at the back fit with the original books and the style of the library, the cover and paper of the books are designed according to the original books in the library.
The bookshelves are four meters high, and ladders are often used to retrieve books.
Every second shelf stands a black pillar topped by an orange lamp.
The ceiling of the library is a large European-style oil painting ceiling, with female and male patterns, as well as the gods who ride in a flying car in Norse mythology.
There aren't many people in the library right now, but on Saturdays and Sundays it's a different story, and it's hard to find a spot.
Glancing at the aisle, I saw Lu Chenghuan, she was on the second floor of the corridor, just opposite me, walking around the corridor to the right.
I quickly climbed to the second floor with the black wooden handrail of the stairs, quickly caught up with Lu Chenghuan, and walked side by side with her.
I lowered my voice and whispered, "How's it going, did you catch it?" ”
Lu Chenghuan shook his head: "Hmm~ I chased it in, and it disappeared, I suspect that it is hidden in the bookshelf, or in the cracks of the books." ”
I turned my head and swept around the library, standing here and looking elsewhere, the shelves on the fifth floor of the cloister were densely packed, and the books on them were even more terrifying.
I took a cool breath: "There are so many bookshelves, when do you have to find them!" ”
Lu Chenghuan tilted his head and looked at me with white eyes: "Do you have any better way, say it and I'll listen to it!" ”
I didn't blink an eye: "What's happening in the library, what belongs to the library, ask the librarian to know best!" ”
"Poof!" Lu Chenghuan squirted out, almost stumbling down, she held on to the bookshelf and rolled her eyes: "You should ask me to come out and take a look." ”
A gloomy voice sounded from behind him: "Two little classmates, are you looking for an old woman?" ”
I turned my head, and a frightened face immediately entered my eyes, and my pupils suddenly dilated, and I exclaimed, "Oh my god, what the hell!" Whoa—"
The next moment, I was hit on the head, and I screamed in pain, with tears in the corners of my eyes, and squatted on the ground with my head in my hands.
"No noise in the library!"
It was a very serious voice.
Lu Chenghuan was apologizing for me: "I'm sorry grandma, he didn't mean to, it's just that you were too elusive, and he was accidentally scared." ”
I looked up, and it was an old woman in a hooded black robe standing in front of me, her face was wrinkled, her eyes were slightly sunken, her teeth were gone, her mouth was deflated, and she was holding a wooden staff in her hand.
Obviously, it was this old woman who gave me a stick on the head and hit me in the head.
Although I was beaten with a beating, one thing is certain, my grandmother is really healthy!
It hurts me so much! Can it be unhealthy?
At the same time, this grandmother has another identity, librarian!
I was like a schoolboy who had committed a crime, with my head bowed and my neck shrunching: "Yes, I'm sorry, grandma, I know that I was wrong, and I will never make a loud noise in the library again." ”
The old grandmother threw the wooden cane casually, nodded slightly, and looked relieved: "You can change your mistakes, and you are still a good child." ”
"Ahh There was a scream from below, and I quickly glanced at a student who was reading a book and was knocked unconscious on the desk by a stick.
, this is smashing people with a wooden stick if you don't agree with a word!
Lu Chenghuan gasped and glanced at the old grandmother.
I wiped my sweat: "Grandma, you are ......"
The old grandmother glanced at the fainting student below, and her eyes were very disappointed: "It's the third time I've brought spicy strips into the library, and if I don't change my mistakes, I have to teach a lesson." ”
Spicy, spicy, spicy strips?
I hurriedly looked again, the stunned student tilted his head and lay on the desk, still biting two spicy strips in his mouth, and there was a pack of uneaten spicy strips on the stool legs and feet, obviously the spicy strips were clamped by him with his legs, and after being knocked unconscious, his legs could not be clamped anymore, so he fell to the ground.
At such an age, not only is his eyesight so good, but he is also so accurate!
It's too 6!
My admiration for the old lady of the library is like a surging river, endless!
I waved my fist and said righteously, "Grandma is right!" This kind of person who eats alone should be beaten! By the way, Grandma, when did you come up? I didn't hear any movement. ”
The old grandmother's demeanor was very indifferent, as if she was detached from the world: "The old woman is used to staying in the library, she walks lightly, it's normal that you didn't hear it, just now you seem to want to ask the old woman for help?" ”
"We ......"
"Well, grandmother, I want to ask you if you just saw a red thing flying in!"
As soon as Lu Chenghuan said two words, I interrupted and rushed to say it.
After saying that, I felt that I had asked in vain, such a thing as a star core, if ordinary people saw it, they would have already been in a commotion, how could it be as quiet as now!
Lu Chenghuan glared at me with two big eyes, and I stubbornly pretended not to see it.
The old grandmother was not surprised, and had a very temperamental temperament that was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves.
She suddenly put her thin and wrinkled right hand into her left sleeve, and when she took it out, a red spar was held in her hand: "Oh? You're referring to this thing, right? Before this little classmate came in just now, it fell on the old woman's workbench. ”
I blinked, dumbfounded, at the star core she was holding in her hand.
Hmm, that's a ...... Well, how to put it, I can't describe my mood at the moment in words.