Finding two books in a row made Yang Jing even more excited. In the next half day, he searched almost all the books on all the bookshelves in the study. As a result, he found more than 30 books recorded in the notebook on these bookshelves, and the publication dates all corresponded to the numbers written in the notebook.
These books are unique in this study and are not published in other years.
At this point, Yang Jing could already be very sure that the number 19** behind the names of the books in the notebook was the publication year of these books.
What disappointed Yang Jing was that even though he had found so many books that met the requirements in the study, he was still a long way from the fifty or so books recorded in his notebook.
Obviously, some of the names of the books recorded in the notebook were either written down by Alfred after he saw them somewhere else, or they were cleared out by the servants after Alfred's death.
But it doesn't matter, there is a guy here who grew up with Alfred.
After asking Butler Seldon, Seldon tried to recall and said, "Sir, after Mr. Dupont passed away, I remember that some books were indeed taken away by Madam Vanessa, but I really can't remember which books they were."
Yang Jing knew that Vanessa was Alfred's wife, and there were large photos of the two of them stored in the manor.
Since her husband died, she naturally wanted to take away some important relics. It was estimated that Alfred liked to read those books when he was alive, so Mrs. Vanessa regarded them as important relics and took them away.
"Alex, I want to ask you to do something for me these two days." After thinking about it, Yang Jing knew that the books that were taken away would not be found, but these books were not rare ancient books, but books with a large circulation. Although they were mostly published forty or fifty years ago, there should still be a lot of them in existence. Therefore, even if those books were not available, they could be found in the market or library, so Yang Jing prepared to let Shedon buy these books for him.
"Sir, you are so polite. Just tell me what you want to do."
"Well, it's not that difficult actually. I have a list here, can you help me buy these books?"
As he spoke, Yang Jing pulled over a piece of paper, and then, relying on his memory, he wrote down the titles of the books that he had not found in the study. Of course, the focus was still on the year of publication.
"Alex, I need these books to look up something, but they are not here." Yang Jing pointed to the messy books on the bookshelf, which were his "achievements" for most of the day. "These are the names of the books I wrote down. I would like to trouble you to buy them for me. But please note that you must buy them according to the publication year I wrote. If it is not published in that year, don't buy it."
Butler Seldon's eyes fell on the slightly messy bookshelves. He frowned slightly, but then he took the list with a smile and looked at it. He said, "Sir, the books you need were mostly published in the 1930s and 1940s. Such books should be hard to find in the market now. I need to arrange for people to go to some libraries in big cities to look for these books. Such old books are only available in those large libraries."
Yang Jing nodded and said, "As long as there is a way to buy these books, I don't care about the cost. Alex, I'm sorry to trouble you with this matter."
"Don't worry, sir. I will take care of this for you. Well, if everything goes well, you will be able to see these books tomorrow night. Of course, since most of these books were published a long time ago, if things don't go well, you may not be able to see these books until a day later."
Yang Jing smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you're two days late, but you must buy these books back for me."
Butler Seldon nodded and said, "Sir, the restaurant will prepare dinner for you in an hour and a half. Today we will have Mexican food, which is the hometown cuisine of our chef, Mr. Carlos. I'm sure you will like it."
Seeing Yang Jing nod in agreement, Butler Xie Dun nodded slightly and left the study.
Yang Jing returned to the large desk and sat down. He picked up a book he had just found and placed it in front of him. He then took out the two notebooks from the storage space and spread them out. His eyes kept moving back and forth between the book and the numbers behind the title of the book in the notebook...
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