Section 308: Book Collection
In order to be fed, the poor need to work hard every day, and there is no time to rest, and many nobles may not be much easier.
Nobles like Aubrey, in order to manage their huge territory, often start to deal with various things after breakfast, such as regular inspections of the territory, the handling of important decisions in the city, etc., and often meet the small lords of their subordinates to quarrel, this one said that the villagers in the Zhuangzi cut the dealer in the Zhuangzi, and the knight who immediately said that the little lord led people to injure the villagers of the Zhuangzi, and the quarrel continued, and it often took several days to mediate before stopping.
So it's not that the bigger the aristocracy the more comfortable, but some less eye-catching existences, and life is much more comfortable, such as Comrade Xival.
Shival now lived every day the perfect life that Norman had dreamed of before, and it seemed that all he had left in his life was to eat, drink, and be merry. After several days of dinners, he continued to hold a dinner party for many people, and Norman was still on the list for this dinnerโof course, by the light of Master Hugo.
โ...... Mr. Adolf, your wonderful dance is still deeply imprinted in my mind, and I can't help but immerse myself in it every time I think about it!"
Shival said this to the first person on his left side, his eyes did not take half a minute off the other person's body, and his face was smiling, and the joy in his eyes could not be stopped.
The man Shival was looking at was a guy dressed like a tramp with messy hair, none other than Adolf Streipike, who had participated in the dance competition today.
In several competitions of today's dance competition, Mr. Adolphus showed his strong dancing prowess that did not match his appearance, and after the first one, he won the first place in the dance competition without any suspense, and Aubrey also announced on the spot that he would be hired as Sunny's dance teacher, finally confirming the gossip that had been circulating before.
Aubrey seemed to be in a hurry, and the class was scheduled for tomorrow, and Mr. Adolphus was given the right to live in the Lord's Mansion to facilitate the dance lessons.
According to Shival's style, if he were Aubrey, he would have a dinner party first! But Aubrey, the lord of Douala and the marquis who controlled a territory around Douala, was obviously not as hungry as his son, so he did not have a dinner party for this Mr. Adolf.
Aubrey doesn't do it, but Shival likes to do it, as soon as he gets in touch with it, he immediately relies on his identity as the son of the city lord, and easily turns this Mr. Adolf over and gets it to his own dinner, which is one of the reasons why Shival is so happy now, after all, this gentleman will be his sister's dance teacher next, and the contact time with his sister will be very much, if he can have a good relationship with him and let him talk more about himself by his sister's side, it will be very beneficial to the relationship between their brother and sister.
"Thank you, Mr. Shival, for the compliment,"
Adolf didn't say much on today's dance floor, but now he looks quite talkative, "Although the aristocrats nowadays have studied the arts of music and dance, and many artists are nobles themselves, but for a person of Mr. Shival's status, it is still rare and rare to love art so much."
This person is quite temperamental, although he is talkative, although he talks a lot, and he says obviously good things, the expression on his face is not flattering, but neither humble nor arrogant, which also makes his words more convincing.
When Xival heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Yes, I am very passionate about art, but unfortunately, I am only enthusiastic about art, but my talent is not very good, so I have not been able to achieve any excellent results until today......
Norman listened to their conversation as he ate a piece of meat skewered from the tip of the knife in his hand.
Sitting next to Norman were Chen Qinghe and Ji Ruoxi, the three of them formed a happy family, and Pirno sat opposite them.
Today's dinner party is mainly for Adolf, but Shival may feel that it is a waste, a few more dinners can be gathered, and it can't be wasted, so he pulled their family over and continued to tackle the problem by the way. And now, listening to Shival's emotions soaring to the point of exceeding a value set by Norman's heart, he unknowingly touched the calf of Ji Ruoxi, who was sitting beside him.
โ...... I think so too,"
Ji Ruoxi said this and answered Xival's inquiry just now.
Although the guest of honor is Adolf, Shival's ability to deal with people is still okay, and he has never forgotten Master Hugo on the other side, and he will throw the conversation over from time to time when chatting, so that Master Hugo will not feel that he has been left out.
After briefly expressing his opinion, Ji Ruoxi seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked in a middle-aged man's voice: "Mr. Shival, can I use your library? I want to inquire about something." โ
What Ji Ruoxi said was vague, and this was also the language style that Norman set for her.
In the Norman, or more precisely, Templar characters, Master Hugo was a true master craftsman, but for some reason he fell into disappointment. He was supposed to spend his life in that remote country, where he even completed an important step in his life and married a wife, but fate was unforgiving, under the blind rolling of the wheels of history, in a coincidental situation, Master Hugo showed his ability in Douala, and this accident was accurately caught by Sival......
Well, it's probably such a script, and the synopsis of Master Hugo's role is roughly like this, which basically solves the contradiction between their current situation and Master Hugo's creation of a magic weapon, so Ji Ruoxi will not deliberately cover up "his" identity as a master craftsman, but use daily vague language to deliberately mislead Xival, so that he can understand the characters set by the Knights Templar little by little.
After two days of frequent contact, Sival did indeed follow the path they had drawn as the Templars had predicted. Now hearing Ji Ruoxi say this, he naturally thought about it for a while, and then his eyes lit up as if he had thought of something, and even temporarily shifted his main attention from Adolf, and said, "Of course you can!" It just so happens that I have recently greatly increased the number of books in my library, and it is very convenient for Mr. Hugo to find something if he wants to find something, and if there is any type or specific book that is not available, Mr. Hugo can inform me, even if it is something that is not a book, it doesn't matter......" Obviously, he thought that Master Hugo was impressed by his enthusiasm and planned to show him his crafting ability, and now he went to the library to prepare more and build a weapon that was sharper than the one he sold to Byron.
I didn't expect it to be quite easy.
Norman, the real interrogator, was relieved when he heard this affirmative answer.
When Ji Ruoxi heard this, he naturally asked, "Has Mr. Xival bought a lot of books recently?"
Shival smiled, "Yes, for the same price as in the past, I can buy almost ten times as many books as before, and the variety is much richer, is there any reason not to buy them? โ
That Mr. Adolf had a naturally hesitant face, and a deep hairstyle, but his mouth was the opposite of his temperament, and he was much more active.
Now as soon as he heard the topic come to this, he interjected without Shival asking himself: "Is it a book from the Nikaheim Chamber of Commerce?"
When Shival saw that Adolf also knew that the subjects on both sides of him were entangled in the same topic, he smiled even more happily, and said repeatedly: "That's right, it's the books of the Nikaheim Chamber of Commerce, they have allowed me to expand my library at once." Unfortunately, Francis' trade routes had just expanded to this area, and the goods he could bring were relatively small, and it was said that in Nicaro the books of some nobles even had to be stored in a library the size of the main hall......"
Norman asked Ji Ruoxi to make such a request, hoping to see if there were any Potions-related books, if there were any, read more, after all, a lot of the Potions knowledge in his body was scattered fragments, if he could get in touch with a little more Potions knowledge, complete some fragments, and even grow on the existing basis, then the refining of the antidote would be more successful.
Now that Shival says that his library has expanded and expanded, it means that it is more likely that he will find Potions-related books in it, which is a good thing, but what Norman did not expect was that this benefit was actually caused by his own actions in the first place.