Chapter 427 Returning the Book
Kevin has been working diligently for a few days since he took a part-time job as the administrator of the Royal Archives.
In his spare time, he devoured various books in the archives. Except for some private royal records, most of the books were open to administrators.
I thought there would be a lot of people here, but it has been deserted for several days. It seems that the royal disciples are not particularly studious.
But this just suits Kevin's heart, so he has more free time to study.
On this day, his superior gave him a chore to copy a somewhat damaged ancient scroll. Kevin was busy from morning to noon, and his wrists ached from exhaustion. His supervisor gave him very strict requirements. The handwriting in the new book he copied must be neat, word for word, and no traces of outlines should be smeared.
This is really hard for Kevin. He is not a professional copyist. Sometimes he accidentally misses a word and the entire piece of paper becomes invalid.
I was so busy that I only copied a fifth of it at noon. My stomach was already growling, so Kevin decided to go out to fill his stomach first.
He stood up and looked at his results all morning, sighed and said, "It would be great if there was a printing press here."
"Printing press? What is a printing press? ”
A female voice came from not far away.
Is someone coming?
Kevin raised his head and looked out the door.
I saw a pretty and cute girl walking in.
Kevin asked politely: "Who are you?"
The girl raised her head proudly and introduced herself: "I am the granddaughter of Duke Dias, the current prime minister of the empire, and the cousin of His Highness Felix - Lady Vivian Dias. Please salute me quickly."
"Hello, Miss Vivian."
Kevin bowed to her cautiously.
"What do you want to do here?"
The girl pouted: "Hey, you haven't told me what a printing press is!"
"Oh, sorry." Kevin quickly introduced to her: "A printing press is a machine. As long as it is coated with a kind of ink called ink, it can easily print the typed text on the paper and then bind it into a book. It can become a book, and there is no need to copy it word by word by hand. "
The girl rolled her eyes, touched her chin and said: "Interesting, if there is such a machine, there will be no copying machine in the world. Wouldn’t all the writers be unemployed? "
Kevin shrugged: "Maybe."
The prime minister’s granddaughter frowned: "You won’t lie to me, if this is true. How come I have never seen or heard of this kind of machine? "
Kevin quickly explained: "This kind of machine has only been invented a few years ago, and it is thousands of miles away. Aldo, it will probably take a long time to reach Gabela. "
The girl covered her mouth and said in surprise: "Yeah, it's my second aunt's country, that... is really far away."
Then she whispered: "Hmph, such a good thing was actually made by Aldo "
Kevin heard this and complained in his heart: "There are many new things that you have never seen in Aldo."
He picked up the notebook on the table for recording, and there were some. Show off and said: "This kind of paper is also passed from Aldo."
This time Vivian ignored him, but shouted outside with some displeasure: "Ms. Coleridge , Aren’t you here to do something?”
Only then did Kevin notice that there was another person not far away, dressed like a court lady. After hearing Vivian's call, the person walked over slowly. Kevin felt a little familiar. Judging from the figure, he seemed to have seen it somewhere before. .
Ms. Coleridge's face was covered with a veil. As she came to the table, Kevin could see her face clearly. What a pretty face, this was Kevin’s first impression.
Then he was surprised to notice that the other person had white hair, and even his eyebrows were white.
Although this woman's skin color is as white as milk, it is a normal white color. It can be judged that she is not suffering from some disease that Kevin knows about.
It's amazing. Kevin has seen black hair, blond hair, brown hair, and red hair, but he has never seen young people with white hair. It is rumored that there is a female consultant next to Earl Grayman with green hair, but Kevin has not seen it. Pass.
Seeing Kevin's dazed look, Ms. Coleridge seemed to be used to this reaction and did not show any displeasure.
She reminded gently: "Mr. Administrator, I am here to return the book."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I will handle it for you right away."
Kevin He hurriedly found the borrowing record and started rummaging through it.
"Please sign here."
Vivienne on the side saw Kevin like this and said disdainfully: "Humph, all men have the same virtue."
Just here When Ms. Coleridge was about to hand the book to Kevin, she suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute!"
Then she snatched the book and flipped it over with a rough approach. Seeing this made Kevin feel distressed.
She flipped through the book and shook it again, but found nothing, so she threw it on the table, leaving Kevin confused as to why she did this.
After the formalities were completed, Ms. Coleridge smiled and said to the prime minister's granddaughter: "Miss Vivian, do you want to continue to follow me?"
"Of course!" Vivian's eyes widened. Yuanyuan said, "I will keep watching you until you show up."
"Although I don't know why brother Felix trusts you so much, my intuition tells me that there is something wrong with you. Huh!”
Kevin looked at the two of them with a wry smile. It seemed that the relationship between the two women was not very harmonious. Although he didn’t know the specific reason, it looked like one beautiful woman was interested in another. The subconscious hostility of beautiful women is aroused.
Ms. Coleridge smiled helplessly, as if she were facing an unreasonable child.
"Then just follow me. I still have a lot of work to do."
She turned around gracefully and walked out the door, while Vivian followed angrily.
However, the moment Ms. Coleridge turned around, Kevin's eyes caught her expression at that moment.
Cold and indifferent.
It seems to match the silver-white snowy hair, making people feel like they are in an ice cellar.
Could it be that her gentle words and smile just now were all fake?
Wait a minute, Kevin remembered what Vivian just said, brother Felix? Isn't that the eldest son of His Majesty the Emperor?
When Kevin followed his mentor and senior into the palace for the first time, he met His Highness.
That was a palace lady accompanying him, it seemed...it seemed to be this Ms. Coleridge.
No wonder we felt so familiar when we first met.
"Well, filling my stomach is important, I have to rush back to copy books!"
Kevin shook his head, expelled the palace politics scenes he had read in novels from his mind, and walked out quickly.
(End of this chapter)