Chapter 25: The Singing Room

"Sir, are you here for our show?"

The music teacher said to me, wearing a single-lens glasses with a gold thread hanging down from the side of the glasses that hung all the way to his chest. Hearing his words, the girls all laughed with sneer, and I didn't have to look to know that one of them didn't smile, not even the corners of her mouth moved.

"I'm sorry '''I was painting the roof downstairs and was careless.' I lied.

"Really?" The man moved his shoulder, "Miss Messira, how many lads have climbed up these days 'accidentally'?" ”

A red-faced girl said, "Four! Climbed up and came up four! ”

The gentleman bowed his head to the young lady, "Yes, four, like four musical symbols joined together," he said, plucking four notes with the keys, and then turning to me, "Listen, young man." I've told the adults that the girls' singing room always comes out from under the bottom. After hearing this, I told me not to worry. The Count said that the next time whoever dared to come nonsense, he would send him out and be beaten with four whips, with a whip smeared with salt. Young man, are you ready for punishment? ”

"I'm sorry, sir."

The music teacher grinned, and suddenly said in Swadiya, "Ladies, for the sake of this stableman, please sing a chorus of 'To the Sky for Love'." With that, he and the girl beside him began to play.

I don't know if the title of the song is "To the Sky for Love" or "Love for the Sky", because the music teacher's pronunciation is very strange. The only thing I could hear was that the music teacher was sarcastically mocking me.

I interrupted him and raised my voice in Swadia, "Sir, I admit that I heard you playing, so I wanted to come and have a look." But as soon as I climbed the ladder, the butler came, and I was afraid, so I climbed up. ”

The music teacher's performance came to an abrupt end, he didn't expect a stableboy to speak Swadia, and the girls around him also stopped laughing playfully, and the eyes of several girls became very curious, maybe they were as surprised as the music teacher.

"Oh? Do you speak Swadiya? ”

"As much as you have," I said, "probably more than you." Also, I'm not a stableman. I'm Victor'''. "I was going to say a long list of names, but I remember that the heroes in the story would always give long names and then set the mood to the extreme. But I'm just Victor, and I don't deserve any other name, no father's name, and no family title.

"Victor what?" The music teacher waits for the following.

"Only Victor."

"Hmm," the music teacher pursed her lips and asked no more thoughtfully, "Well,"

Before the music teacher could speak, there was a knock on the door of the singing room, "Mr. Goth? Mr. Goth? I heard Jack say that someone has crawled into your singing room, do you see him? That bad thing? ”

The girls in the room looked at me in unison.

Jack! It's Jack again!

The music teacher snapped his fingers, then made a note, "Ladies, do we need to give our guests out?" ”

The girls immediately frowned, shook their heads, and said in a loud voice, "No, sir, of course not. ”

"This fool is more interesting than the previous one," said the Messira, "and he speaks Swadia. Don't send him out, please, Mr. Goth! ”

Music teacher Goth looked around at his students and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Of course, of course, as you wish, Miss." ”

He paused for a moment and whispered to me, "Mr. Ma Fang, who can speak Swadia, you can go to my study next door to avoid it." ”

I turned around and left, and hurried to the next door.

Just as I entered the room, the door to the singing room opened. I turned around and peeked through the crack in the door, and saw a thin old man pushing Jack in.

"Mr. Goth, this stupid Jack said he saw someone coming up the stairs." The old man said, "He asked me to tell you." ”

"Oh," the music teacher touched his nose, "yes." Mr. Jack? I remember crawling out of that yourself, didn't you? ”

"Yes, I confess," said Jack, with his hands spread and his legs staggered, in an awkward gesture, "I confess my mistake to you once again. I'm just making up for it this time, Mr. Goth. I saw a guy named Victor coming up the ladder, and I swear, that's him. I saw his leather pants, clearly. ”

The old butler stood aside with a serious face, "Mr. Goth, is that so?" If so, let me take that kid away. The adults have explained, and I will punish him severely. ”

My heart was pounding, and I saw some of the girls' faces flushed, and it must have been a very exciting moment for them.

"Nope." Goth's face was still calm, "If I remember correctly, the last person to climb up there was this Mr. Jack in front of you." He performed a few handkerchiefs to the girls, and they ended up with bird droppings everywhere. Uh, I mean, no, I didn't see any Victor coming up from the ground. All I saw was you and your Mr. Jack interrupting our rehearsal. ”

The old butler's face darkened, and he turned his head angrily to glare at Jack, "Boy! Are you kidding me? ”

Jack looked like he was crying, "I really saw it!" I swear to my mom! ”

"Get out! You idiot, unless your mother is the Virgin Mary, I'm going to beat you up today! The old butler squeezed his teeth, and then pushed Jack out of the room, and then turned back to Goth and said, "Sir, if anyone dares to harass you in class, you will come to me, do you know where to look for me?" ”

"I know," said Goth, smiling, "thank you, kind sir. ”

The old butler nodded, then the smile disappeared, and he turned his head and scolded Jack as he walked out. He slapped his palm on Jack's back, causing dust to fall off Jack's clothes.

When the old man and the young man had disappeared in the doorway, the girls burst out laughing.

Music teacher Goth pressed his fingers to his lips, "Ladies, get ready, We're Victorious!" 》。 ”

He played.

The girls hummed in the afternoon sun, and the crisp and melodious song came through the doorway, "'Victory, we have driven away the enemy, and their armor is scattered across the field. We are victorious, our knights are back! They sang and laughed, and one of them laughed.

I fidgeted in my study, thinking about what to do. Although he escaped Jack and the butler, he might have to pass Mr. Goth in the meeting, and it seems that this Goth is more difficult to deal with than the butler and Jack combined. But when I think that Jack has fallen into bad luck, I don't think I can be worse than him, and I don't care, but it's a pity that Kaja's impression of me may be even worse.

I felt something scratching my foot, and I looked down to see that it was the cat on the second floor.

I pushed it away with my foot, "Don't bother me, I don't have bread for you." ”

It tilted its head to look at me and meowed, and I stopped looking at it and turned to look outside. The song continued, "'Here comes the knight, the armor is shiny. Like a pine forest, like a great river''''''

Finally, in the midst of a burst of laughter, the singing ended. After the Goth had said a few words, there was a cheer from the girls, and then they dispersed in a mess.

I left the door and stood in the middle of the study.

The door creaked open, and Goth walked in with his coat on his arm. He closed the door, then hung his coat on the hook behind the door. When the cat saw him, he walked over, he bent down, grabbed the cat, stroked the hair on its back, and walked behind the desk. The cat seemed impatient with his petting, shook its head patiently, and then jumped away with a 'meow' and ran to my feet again.

Goth raised his eyebrows, looked at his cat, and wondered, "I say, Victor, you have not only won the protection of the girls, but also the heart of my cat." ”

"Ah, sir, I didn't know it was your cat. I saw it on the second floor and fed him some bread crumbs. ”

Goth looked surprised, "Crumbs? I don't even eat this bastard when I feed the little fish. It ate your bread crumbs? ”

"No, sir, it sniffed and ran away."

Goth pouted, "I feel better." ”

He opened his drawer, tossed his glasses and a few pieces of paper into it, then pulled out a box of quills and a small bottle of ink, and then he took a knife from a small wooden box and began to sharpen the quill.

"Your name is Victor?"

"Yes," I nodded, "Victor." ”

"I didn't ask you just now, I think you should know what I'm curious about: Is your name that simple? I thought I'd read something about your father and family. ”

"No, sir." I said it honestly, and then I added, "You know Lord Alexey. ”

"Yes. The nephew of the old man. I know him, there's a young lady out there who is his'Er''''Forget it, nothing. So, what do you have to do with him? Then, his mouth turned round, "Oh, what I should have thought, what I should have thought" '''Are you here to see your half-sister?'' ”

My eyes widened, amazed at Goth's divergent thinking, "Nothing happens, Mr. Goth. I was picked up from the river by Lord Alexey. ”

"It's an outdated excuse, Victor, and people always use it to protect their reputation."

"But, sir. I really don't have anything to do with Lord Alexei. Their boat, the Wilderness, was sailing down the Blue Ice River, and when they found me, I was already dead. Then they took me to Fandra, then to Kudan, and then back here. ”

"Sounds bizarre." Goth scratched his head, "This time, Young Master Alexei came back and brought a lot of people. Renault, Christopher, Miss Catherine'''" His twinkling gray eyes stared at me, "Do you know Miss Catherine?" ”

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"Victor?"

"I don't know" I don't know her, sir. It has nothing to do with her. ”

"Oh, don't be nervous. I don't mean anything else. She was out there just now, I thought you knew her. Her face changed when she saw you. ”

"Yes," I said bitterly. I'm afraid I'll embarrass her. "I'm here with her, Kaja '''Miss Catherine should have some impression of me.''

His eyes were the same as those of Count Kalinin, although they did not have that kind of intimidating spirit, but they still made people nervous, as if he had seen through them.

"Oh," he said, visibly disbelieving, "I see. ”

He sharpened a pen and took out a few more to work on.

"Sir," I said, swallowing a mouthful of saliva, "I can sharpen your pen if you wish, and Master Alexei taught me how to do it when I was on the boat." ”

He glanced at me, then stood up and placed the knife and pen barrel on the table, "Come on." He turned and groped for books on the shelves.

I pinched the quill with my left hand and began to sharpen it with my right hand, and the rolled crumbs fell on the table. Goth put the books on the table. By the time I had sharpened five pens, he exhaled, "Alright, Victor, that's enough." ”

He took my pen and looked at it, "It's rough, and the service life is about a fifth less, but it doesn't matter." I don't quite have you sharpening a pen. ”

"I'm not a stableman."

"Are you His Royal Highness the Prince?"

"Not really."

"But since you can speak Swadia, it's a bit of a loss to be a stableman. Did the Earl let you go? ”

"Yes," I said with some grumbling, "Lord Alexei had intended to take me with him, but the Count threw me into the stable. ”

"Oh, then your Young Master Alexei didn't think of a way?"

"Figured out?" I put the pencil sharpener in the wooden box, and "he came and told me some stories about peasant women who became queens, and said, 'To be queens, you must first become queens.'" Then they arranged for someone to teach me how to ride a horse, and said that they would teach me how to use a sword and a gun, and it was said that I would learn archery in the future. ”

"Yes," he nodded, "you should be happy." With Young Master Alexey, you can't learn such things. If you follow him, you can only run errands at most, do some work of passing on words and carrying things, and it will be too boring. ”

"But you don't know, I'm just feeding the hay every day, fighting with other horse boys, and helping the squires brush the horses."

"Things are going to get better day by day."

"Well, that's right." I thought for a moment and said, "Now that the horses know me, I let them smell my hands; One of the three boys had made friends with me, and that was Jack, who was always looking for fault; The squire''' He was the one who taught me how to ride a horse. ”

He exhaled and pondered for a moment, "Do you know how to write?" ”

I hesitated, then grabbed his pen and wrote the Swadian alphabet from left to right, then the corresponding Vekia alphabet, and finally began to write some Salander characters from right to left.

"Alright," he stopped, "maybe one day you'll be able to write a masterpiece like 'Great Love.'" Okay, when do you usually get your stuff done? I mean, after feeding the horses, cleaning the stables or something? ”

"It's fine before noon, and then I'll have to feed it again when I go back in the evening. There was nothing to do in between. ”

"Would you like to come and help me sort things out? It's going to the east, and there's a lot of stuff to sort out. It doesn't need to be complicated, just know the first letter of the book, put the books in alphabetical order, and put them in the box. Can you do it? ”

I thought to myself, to help Mr. Goth, so that I could come to the Inner Fort every day and see Kaja.

He thought I wasn't happy, and then said, "I'm a graduate of Winterspring University, one of the first graduates. If you want to learn, I can teach you a lot of things, engineering, alchemy, mathematics, logic, of course, my family is a musical family, I guess you can't learn this either'''I can't spare the whole time to teach you, but once in a while, there is still time. Can you come? ”

"I'm coming," I said, "I'm coming every day." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )