Chapter 1178 1160. Behind a Book
The calm, gentle and calm tone naturally carries a sense of magnanimity and style.
Maintaining this tone in normal times will make people think that the speaker is knowledgeable and trustworthy.
Maintaining this tone during debates and disputes will make the other party feel that their strength is useless, and they may even begin to doubt whether they are really wrong.
Now Sakia’s tone and the man opposite him are in this situation.
This man came from the battlefields of the Civil War. Of course he had seen through the cruelty of the Nilfgaardians.
But when faced with the other party's well-founded questions, his originally angry and impatient tone turned out to be hesitant and unable to say anything insightful.
He just kept repeating words like 'black dog' and 'Nilfgaardians are all shameful liars'.
On the contrary, it made him appear even more untrustworthy, and like an illogical and manic fool.
But this man is not an unreasonable or messy person.
He himself felt that his mind was in a state of confusion. He knew that he had nothing more to say, so he spat hard to the side, turned around and left.
After walking out of the pavilion, he passed by Lan En who was approaching.
But he did not argue, and the suffocated mood made him just glance sideways at Lan En, and then continued to move forward.
The armor parts on his body and the scabbard of the half-hand sword made a clanging sound.
While chewing marigolds, Lan En looked at the back of the man walking away with his head buried in amusement.
He stepped into the pavilion. Sachia, who had a black hardcover book open in his hand, was still sitting on the railing of the pavilion.
The slender legs, which were tied with armor parts but still retained the beauty of the body, were stacked, entangled, and straightened at will.
The page of the book turned with a clatter. The dark-blond-haired Sakia did not raise his head, but spoke calmly.
"It's weird, isn't it?"
"Well" Lan En raised his eyebrows under the hood, "What are you talking about?"
"The man just now." She raised her eyebrows from the page, glanced at the tall figure walking into the pavilion, and continued.
“He wants to go to bed with me, I can feel that he really wants to. Because his eyes have been circling on my chest, waist and thighs before our argument started. But he didn’t even think about it. You don’t want to talk to me for a while. It’s strange, right?”
Lan En didn’t answer the question this time.
He just tilted his head and looked at the cover of the hard-cover book that the other party was holding in his hand and looking through.
"Sir Nelvin's "A Study of the Customs and Institutions of the Nilfgaard Empire". The study of the Nilfgaard Empire is of reference value, but it is not great."
Lan En just took a look and then crossed his arms and spoke calmly and rationally, just like the tone Sakia used when speaking to the man just now.
And as expected, Sakia's reaction was as expected by Lan En.
"Oh? It seems that you are a learned person." The woman closed the book and lowered it naturally, while her eyes were fixed on Lan En.
"So can someone like you answer the questions I just had?"
"A credible book, a description of Nilfgaard, and Nilfgaard The contradiction between what the Gadians are doing now? ”
There is a bit of gunpowder in these words, that is, a bit harsh.
This is normal, because when something a person believes in is impacted in front of her, most people will feel a little resistant.
Just now she said, 'What I am confused about is the conflict between the Nilfgaardians in the book and the actions of the real Nilfgaards.' But in fact, you can tell from the tone that she is actually more inclined in her heart. The appearance of Nilfgaard in the book.
But Lan En still had that calm and steady tone.
“First of all, we have to define what a ‘credible book’ is.”
"This book is a reliable book in the field of Nilfgaardian research." Saskia originally held the book between her arms, and raised her naturally hanging arm to signal to Lan En.
The strong and beautiful eyebrows were also staring at the other person's face, which was mostly covered by the hood.
“King Vizmir of the North awarded the author a medal. In other words, this is a book recognized by Nilfgaard’s enemies, right?”
“To put it simply Look, the logic is correct.”
Under the hood, Lan En’s thin lips curved in a small arc.
But this small arc was immediately keenly captured by Sakia, and an unknown fire emerged from his heart.
Of course, in terms of tone, Sakia still suppressed this inexplicable anger.
"It seems that you are saying that I am short-sighted?"
Lan En smiled and did not continue, just pointed at the hard cover book in the other person's hand.
“Sir Nelvin used a very clever way of writing-please forgive me for describing his method in this way-bypassing many things that had to be said before making this book end with this The appearance is in front of you.”
Lan En took a step forward and turned to one of the pages just by the feel of his hand and Mentos' record without even looking.
His fingers, which were wearing steel-plated leather gloves, tapped on one of the words.
"In this passage, he lightly ignored Nilfgaard's slave system and described it vaguely, as if he attributed all the glory and prosperity of the city of golden towers to 'Nilfgaard. Virtuous people are born with the knowledge of glory and hard work."
The capital of the Nilfgaard Empire is called Nilfgaard City, also known as the City of Golden Towers. It is said that the roofs of all the buildings in that city are golden, and the reflection of the sunlight is as brilliant as the divine realm.
Sakia, who originally had a puzzled face, hesitantly followed Lan En's finger down and re-examined this passage in the book.
But Lan En hasn’t finished speaking yet.
He quickly turned another page.
"And here, Sir Nelven described the Nilfgaardians' concept of equality, as well as mutual friendship and solidarity, and the elimination of discrimination. Sorry, I almost laughed just now."
“But it’s really not good, because this joke is a bit out of place for Nilfgaard, just like telling a joke in hell.”
At this moment, Sakia no longer had the calmness and decisiveness she had when she asked the male warrior just now. She looked at the tall man wearing a hood and cloak in front of her with confusion.
"In fact." Lan pointed out the three place names in the book and showed them to Sakia.
“In the Nilfgaardian Empire, the farther south and in the center of the empire, the more proudly people can call themselves [Nilfgaardians].”
“Nilfgaardian People in Forgaard City can say this, and although they are reluctant, they also allow people living in Vicvaro to say this."
"But at most, the Alba River Basin can be added. Except for the people in these places, anyone who dares to say that he is a [Nilfgaardian] will get good results.”
"But fortunately, most people in other places don't want to be called that."
"Ebin, a vassal state of the Nilfgaard Empire, had a rebellion just last year, and then there was an area directly "Killed empty, what do you think the people in that place would look like if they were called Nilfgaardians?"
Sakia opened her mouth slightly at this time, and she frowned at first. With the book in his hand, he looked up again at the lips that curved into a cold smile under the shadow of the hood.
“But even if you say that, the author of this book may have used a vague narrative technique, but after all.”
Lan interrupted Saatchi mercilessly. Yacon, who was originally decisive and strong, became hesitant and a little unsure.
"But after all, the author of this book was knighted by King Vizmir, right?"
"Yes, that's right. But dear lady, have you ever found out whose author this book is? "Written with funding?"
Saqiya opened his mouth: ".Subsidized?"
"Scholars who study foreign customs and systems need to travel, and even travel for a long time. We need to take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and these things cost money."
Lan En said with a smile.
"If a scholar is not so obsessed with writing his own book that he has to pay for it, then he must find an investor. Either the school where they work, or social funding or something."
Sakia When I first heard about 'school where I work', I wanted to turn to the title page of this book to see if there was any relevant funding information.
But Lan En shrugged.
“But the sponsor of this book is not Ossenfurt University, but Princelav Stesa.”
“It was very famous and had a high status in the past few years. A Temerian Earl"
"Stetha?" Saskia murmured the name thoughtfully. "That Stetha who was killed by [Hunter Lord] because of human trafficking and close association with Nilfgaard?"
"But why did Vizmir do it?"
"Because Statha was Foltest's cousin, and was very popular when he was alive."
Lan was not surprised, even a little bored, because he had received too much information in a short period of time. And Sachia, who was a little dazed, said.
“Vezmir is happy to give Statha a little more publicity and face, as long as he can cause Foltest some trouble at the same time.”
Saskia blinked.
"Even if this book and this author are saying good things to his enemies?"
Lan En smiled and shook his head.
"Compared with causing Foltest to feel troubled and consume his energy, what is a book? What is it to give an honorary title that is not actually sealed to a professor who is already famous?"
The witcher's finger touched the cover of the hard-cover book again, making a slight 'dong-dong' sound.
"So. Do you have any idea about the definition of 'credible book' now?"
The female warrior curled her lips and looked down at the book in her hand again for a while.
There was a soft sound of 'bang', and finally the finger that was sandwiched in the middle to act as a partition was pulled out, and the whole book was completely closed.
"So there is so much complexity behind just a book?! Really"
She hesitated for a while, her lips moved, as if she was thinking about the words.
"It's really a great experience."
Sakia raised her head and carefully looked up and down for the first time at the tall man in front of her, whom she had never seen before in the temple.
Finally, her beautiful eyes were fixed on Lan En's left hand.
"Hmm, you're not bad, at least you have flowers." She raised her eyebrows and said lightly with a little complacency, "You also want to sleep with me?"
( End of chapter)