Chapter 253
Flipping through the book in his hand, in fact, this collection of stories has been read by Xiang Tianming many times, and even every sentence on it is familiar to the extent that he can recite it. However, this did not bring any substantial help to Xiang Tianming. Maybe I didn't read enough books, or maybe I didn't find a book that would make a difference. Xiang Tianming closed the book and stretched. Get up from the table and walk to the window and push it open. The warm breeze outside the window blew away, blowing away the fatigue that was still a little, and Xiang Tianming squinted his eyes to enjoy the gift of spring.
"Aunt Alta~" was blowing the wind, and when he heard the voice calling for himself from the window, Xiang Tianming opened his eyes, looked downstairs, and looked at his niece, who was not much younger than himself, who was stretching out her hand from a carriage and waving it, beckoning to this side. Xiang Tianming also had a smile on his face, waved his hand, turned around and left the window, and walked downstairs. Like the eldest brother, the second brother, Raines, moved out of his parents' estate after he got married and moved to a nearby house, but he still came back here whenever something happened. It seems that it won't be long before the eldest brother will return. Thinking of the eldest nephew who was the same size as himself, Xiang Tianming's mouth also brought a smile to the corner: It seems that the new book has arrived.
Yes, because Alta is a girl, she grows more advanced than men of the same age, and because of her higher seniority, since she was a child, Alta's two nephews have been the objects of her own teasing, so that now the two nephews who have become trainee knights will still shrink their heads when they look at their aunts, as long as Arta stretches out his hand, these two trainee knights who have grown more than Arta will still bury their heads and make it more convenient for Arta to pat on it.
However, since Xiang Tianming threw himself into Alta's body, he has no interest in playing tricks on his nephew. Because he learned that he didn't have the talent to become a priest, he turned his attention to Xiang Tianming, who was among the various books, and began to ask his parents for various books. Because of their love for their youngest daughter, and the fact that they seem to think that their daughter will begin to distract herself in other ways after learning that she is not talented, not only will they try to buy all kinds of literature and books, but the couple will also let their two sons buy books for their sister. As the owner of the warehouse and the captain of the merchant fleet, they have a huge business network in their hands, and as long as it is a version that is still circulating, they can buy it. When they returned to their parents' house, Crick and Raines would bring the books and literature they had bought, and bring them to their sister by the way.
Seeing that the Rains family had returned here, it was estimated that there was a trade relationship between Raines and Crick again. Interestingly, every time Raines' fleet wanted to rent the storehouse in the Tower, the two brothers would return to their parents and argue in front of them over the difference in rent of ten taels a day. At the same time, their wives would sit next to them and talk to their mothers. On one side is the husband's business quarrel, and on the other side is the wife's family party, every time I see this scene, Xiang Tianming feels very interesting.
Downstairs, my niece got out of the carriage and walked into the hall one step earlier than her parents and brother, looking at Xiang Tianming who had just come down from upstairs, she smiled and greeted: "Auntie!"
Alta, who devoted herself to Tianming, is just sixteen years old this year, and this niece Abi is five years younger than her, and the eleven-year-old girl is in the innocent grade. And for the two brothers who have begun to enter the church for knightly training, it is still this aunt who is not much older than himself, and it is easier to play together.
Xiang Tianming bent down slightly, directly lifted up his niece who was running towards him, and then turned around in the hall, seeing that the second brother Raines, who had just entered the living room, shook his head. The two of them were almost playing, and Xiang Tianming put down Abi and greeted the second brother who was already standing next to him shaking his head helplessly and the second sister-in-law who was covering her mouth and laughing.
The second sister-in-law covered her mouth and smiled, watching the interaction between her sister-in-law and her daughter was also very interesting: "Abi heard that he was coming over today, so he got up early this morning and clamored to come over to play with his aunt." "Is that so?" Xiang Tianming bent down and looked at Abi, who was shorter than herself: "Then let's go, my aunt will take you to play." What do you want to play?" said as he walked towards the other side with Abi, the second brother Raines shook his head slightly as he saw his daughter being taken away by his sister like this, and walked towards his father's study with his wife.
It's another warm day. Today's Xiang Tianming did not spend a day in the study as in the past, but took his niece to play in the garden, the two of them ate mud on their original white dresses, and their faces were the same as those of the cat, in the mother's lesson, the two smiled and walked into the bathhouse that had been put into the hot water, and wanted to take care of themselves before eating.
The two aunts and nephews were also restless in the bathroom, soaking in the hot water together and playing water fights, until the bath water, which was still a little hot, was almost cold.
"Why did you come out so slowly?" the two wiped off their heads in the room, changed into clean clothes, and walked to the dining room with a smile. When the two arrived, they found that the eldest brother had already taken his wife and son to sit in the seat, and the second brother and sister-in-law opposite him were also waiting. In the right position, father and mother are already waiting for them, and it seems that there has been some time. Looking at the two who had just come in, Henie asked a little strangely. Alta was just about to speak when a sneeze came out, startling Heney. Henie knew what was going on at a glance: "You said you were so old, and you were still messing around with Abi." Look, it's cold now, isn't it?" waved to Tianming: "It's okay, just drink a glass of hot milk later." Henie also couldn't do much about this hurt daughter, but to talk a little. Xiang Tianming didn't care much about it, and after taking her niece to sit down, she waited for her father to announce the start of the meal: she had been playing outside with her niece for an afternoon before, and she was already a little hungry. Tonight was not bad, because it is a harbor city, and all kinds of seafood are naturally indispensable. Looking at the plates of seafood that are valuable in reality, Xiang Tianming likes it very much.
Waiting for the eldest brother and second brother to go back in the evening, Xiang Tianming returned to the study and looked at the new books that were already on the desk, "Haha, I have something to do in the past few days." Many of the books sent today are all kinds of story books, and too, only the sales of such books are still relatively high, and there is no market for real literature. However, since it is a legend of the gods, there will be various adventures in it. I wish I could have it, too.
After reading for a while, Xiang Tianming put the books on the bookcase, walked to the door of the study and locked the door, and carefully took out the parchment scroll that he had hidden there to record runes from the corner. Spread them out on the desk, and even with his eyes closed, Xiang Tianming was able to place each rune in their corresponding place.
But today there was some surprise, because today the maid put the book on the desk and moved the position of the oil lamp on the table a little. Xiang Tianming, who didn't notice this, accidentally touched the oil lamp when he was placing the drawings with his eyes closed. A little sparkling lamp oil dripped from the oil lamp and landed on the parchment spread on the table.
"Boom", the originally processed parchment is a very stable paper, not to mention just a little lamp oil, even if it is thrown into the furnace, it will take a long time to burn it, but these parchments with runes are completely unreasonable and quickly burned, just when he opened his eyes, Xiang Tianming found that the parchment on the table had all turned into ashes, and the wooden table below had no burn marks at all. If it weren't for the paper ash still on the table and the slight burning sensation on his skin, Xiang Tianming wouldn't know if what happened before was true.