Chapter 299 Book Friends Tea Party
With the development of Weisen State’s publishing industry and business exchanges, many living habits have also spread to other places.
For example, "Book Bar", the book bar here is like a paid library. After entering the door, you pay and you can sit until the sun goes down. After dark, it will be more expensive to light up the lights.
On the walls around the first floor are bookshelves and long tables and chairs for reading. In one corner there is a place to eat, and a counter selling pens, ink and notebooks.
The second floor is a private room with a very good environment, air conditioning, and good snacks and tea, suitable for quiet reading.
The young man who just asked Frederick to help him queue up was called Aiman Damen. He warmly invited Frederick to a book bar near the study and told the proprietress that all the expenses of this gentleman would be charged to his own account. Then we came to the box upstairs.
His name is written on the sign nailed to the door of the box, which is obviously a long-term rental.
Frederick saw that there were many books on the bookshelves here, most of them were literary works. In addition to Qingju, the author of today’s collection of poems, and his own name, there were also many books that he had never heard of. .
Ayman explained: "This building belongs to my home. This is where I read and relax. It is much more relaxed than at home."
Frederick understood that it turned out to be the landlord .
These books were all printed in Weisen State, but there were too many books now. Naturally, he could not read them all, so he picked up a travelogue on the southern coast of the Inner Sea written by Pu Lanwen.
After seeing him take the book, Aiman said apologetically: "I will be very fascinated when I read the book later. If you have anything, please help yourself."
Frederick expressed his thanks. .
Aiman was really serious about reading. Not long after, a waiter brought tea and snacks without even raising his head.
This book "The Sea Breeze Returning to Hong Kong" is based on the theme of family affection. It contains 30 new poems and 30 old poems with the same theme. This is the traditional practice of poets nowadays. Firstly, it increases the thickness of the book. Secondly, it increases the thickness of the book. Come to see the difference between new poetry and old poetry.
Open the book, each poem is printed on the left, and the relevant illustrations are on the right, which is very beautiful.
The box was quiet except for the sound of turning books from time to time. Soon Aiman began to recite with great emotion.
The time came to noon, Aiman just drank a little tea and ate a few biscuits, and continued to bury his head in the book.
Frederick was also looking at the travel notes intently, while thinking about the next course of action.
At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the door to the box was suddenly pushed open, and a girl rushed in and pulled Aiman out. At the same time, she shouted: "Hurry up, the second lady is having a tea party in the afternoon, please name her." I want you to participate!”
This girl was about the same age as Frederick. Although she was wearing a cute skirt, her arms looked like she could kill a cow with one punch. Ayman was immediately dragged up from the sofa.
"Anais!" Aiman shouted, "We have guests!"
The girl named Anas discovered Frederick at this time, and her face suddenly turned red. .
Aiman said to Frederick with apology: "I'm very sorry, this is my fiancée."
Frederick stood up and said: "It doesn't matter, since you have something to do, then I won’t bother you anymore.”
Aiman thought for a moment and said to him: "If you are free, how about joining the second lady's salon with me? She likes to listen to the guests telling stories about the outside world."
Anas was also there. Helped: "Yes, yes, the second lady is not in good health and cannot travel far away. She likes to listen to stories." Frederick saw that their clothes were all made of pure cotton. Although they were fine, they were not silk like those of the rich and powerful. The second young lady must also be in their circle, so she agreed with the intention of getting some money.
However, he was wrong. The local area is rich in silk, so young people with personality do not wear silk products, but wear woven cotton from Weisen.
So Frederick took the carriage of Anas, the youngest daughter of the knight commander under Earl Valli, and accompanied Ayman, the youngest son of the count's steward, to a villa on the hillside of the castle. He met Valli in the back garden. Yvette Vallee, second daughter of the Earl of Leigh.
The two were awkward for a second when they met, but Yvette immediately returned to normal, pretending that she had not seen the hair-shedding gorilla at the lake a few days ago, and politely welcomed the guests from afar.
Frederick also pretended that he had never seen her before and introduced himself politely: "Charles Smith from Wesson, thank you Miss Yvette for your hospitality."
The tea party was in the garden. It was held under the shade of a tree. Eight people sat around on a fine carpet. They were all young people in their teens and twenties, evenly split between men and women. Everyone except Frederick had a copy of "The Returning Sea Breeze" in front of them. Today's The theme speaks for itself.
Yvette asked the servant to bring some food to Ayman and Frederick, and said with a smile: "I am sure that Ayman forgot to eat lunch while reading, and also caused trouble for the guests."
< br>Others laughed, obviously this was not the first time this happened.
The tea party soon returned to the main topic. Under the auspices of Yvette, everyone began to express their opinions on the "Returning Sea Breeze" that had just arrived this morning.
The discussion among book friends focused on the fact that the author, Mr. Qingju, also started writing sonnets in the past five years, and the most intense debate was on the format of the poem.
The poetry of this era is dominated by religious hymns. Whether it is the Church of Light on the northern shore of the Inland Sea, the Church of Earth God in the far west, the Church of Nature in the far north, or the Church of Fire in the southern continent, their requirements are almost the same. The longer the poem, the better. If it has no more than thirty lines, it would be embarrassing to call it a poem. The more quotations from scriptures, the more beautiful it is. It is best if every line has its source.
There are also short poems of ten to twenty lines, but they are used by troubadours to entertain people at banquets and to make money in taverns.
It wasn’t until the appearance of Wesson Daily that the limited page limited the length of poetry, and poetry within twenty lines began to flourish.
After two years of development, the length of the poem was mainly fourteen lines.
The formats of these sonnets are different, mainly 4-4-3-3, 4-4-4-2, 8-6, and the rhymes are also varied.
Especially Mr. Qingju, the poems he wrote have all kinds of formats and rhymes.
Some people think one is better, others think the other is more beautiful, and they argue endlessly.
Frederick just listened silently, smiling.
After about an hour, Yvette felt that she seemed to have neglected the guests from afar, so she followed the topic and asked Frederick: "Have you read the poems of Lord Qingju?"
Frederick replied: "My Sardinian textbook is her poetry."
This is no nonsense. Readers all know that "Green Orange" is a pen name, but only a few people know her true identity, including Philip Very strong.
It is impossible for him not to know her, because this "Green Orange" is the eldest daughter of his master Richard Nall, the heir to the largest mafia family in the south of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the second largest family of the Weissensee Papermaking Group. Major shareholder Katie.
(End of this chapter)