Chapter 111 Reading Room
It's rare to see these three people walking together.
Ivan stood between the two candidates for the succession, and was obviously shorter. Ursula and Zebulon had been pampered since childhood and had fair skin, but the difference was immediately apparent when compared to the pale, bloodless skin of the younger brother in the middle.
From this point of view, Ivan's health is really poor.
Edith looked around but couldn't find a suitable hiding place, so she just walked past.
"Edith?" Ivan was the first to notice her presence and his eyes lit up.
The other two people also looked over.
Edith could clearly feel Ursula's gaze paused at her cloak, and she inferred that she was observing her newly added badge. Zebulon coughed twice awkwardly, nodded slightly, and greeted Edith: "Good afternoon."
Ursula bowed last without saying a word.
Edith could only return the greeting. Ursula watched her movements and raised her eyebrows slightly: "You have learned etiquette very well."
Only half a year into entering the academy full of aristocrats, she no longer has the slightest trace of commoner temperament - she is truly a genius who learns everything quickly.
Edith accepted the compliment generously and attributed all the reasons to Hedda: "The Turner family has strict rules. If you teach more, you will learn faster."
She stood up straight and wanted to say goodbye and leave immediately, but Ivan suddenly spoke up and chatted with his sister as if no one was around: "So mother's proposal to enter the court through commoners is not ill-thought-out - you see, even the etiquette differences that the opposition keeps talking about can be easily mastered as long as you are willing to learn."
Edith's eyebrows jumped, and her mouth, which was about to open, closed quickly.
Ivan really relies on his poor health and the queen's favor to say anything.
Ursula frowned.
She silently glanced in Edith's direction, then looked down at her innocent brother, and swallowed the accusation in her throat. "That's not what I'm worried about." She said softly, pressing Ivan's head, "Okay, let's not talk about this here."
Although she had some new suspicions about Ivan because of the previous family dinner, she couldn't help but comfort her beloved brother when she saw him. Ivan pouted and looked angry, acting different from what Edith had seen before: "What can't you say? Sister, don't you think highly of Edith? Then why do you want to stop mother from completely relaxing the restrictions?"
"I don't think it's right either." Zebulon chimed in, "Mother's ideas must be the result of careful consideration. Since we can't find out the reason, we should just follow her lead and try to acquire the ability to think independently as soon as possible."
Edith couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Oh no.
How come their positions have completely changed?
She remembered how Zebulun was firmly against changing the policy when she heard the other party use the sound transmission array in the inner library. The queen at that time just threw a sentence to Ursula that she also agreed, which made Zebulun jump with anger.
How come now Zebulon agreed and Ursula objected.
"I believe Miss Griffin will be able to enter the association through her own efforts. Even if she stays in school as a teacher, it will be much better than entering the palace." Ursula did not directly answer the questions of her two younger brothers. She looked very tired, and her delicate makeup could not cover up the blue complexion underneath. She looked a little bit forced. "Well, sorry, we have to go - there is a family dinner in the palace tonight."
Edith said goodbye and stood aside to watch them leave.
So, in Ursula's eyes, entering the Guild and staying in school was far better than entering the court?
......
"Of course, my aunt is not stupid."
It was Amy again. He proudly moved the books and sat in front of Edith, slapping the table and boasting about Joyce: "You don't know, my aunt——"
"Be quiet, or you will be disqualified from using the reading room."
Amy heard the administrator's cold warning from outside the door. She instantly stopped talking but still gave a thumbs up stubbornly: My aunt, OK!
"It's okay. Normal talking is allowed in the reading room. You just slammed the table too loudly." Tuttle couldn't stand it anymore and stretched out his arm to slap Amy.
Edith felt very fresh: "This is the first time I know that the college has a reading room that can be rented."
When discussing random things, Heda and the others can solve them in the dormitory, but it is not easy to discuss with Tattle and others. We can't always gather in the cafeteria and talk while stuffing food into our mouths and spraying.
Finding an empty classroom didn't seem very discreet, and leaving the academy collectively was too eye-catching, not to mention that she was currently prohibited from leaving the school.
She raised this question at dinner, and Tuttle immediately gave an answer: "Rent a reading room."
The reading room is located on the side of the library, below the librarian's office. This classroom is application-based, and requires filling out a long application form, so few people come, but it is said that the first ten applicants will be accepted - Edith tried it, but she didn't expect that the form was filled out at dinner, and the approval was approved on the spot.
"This isn't fair!" Amy complained. "I was in the top ten, and even in the top five. I tried filling it out once before, but why didn't I get approved?"
"Maybe because the reason you filled in the application was that you wanted to draw a magic circle here..." Lin Qi remembered that application and looked up at the sky, "There is a library warehouse underneath, there is no soil for you to dig."
Edith nodded at the table, signaling everyone to be quiet: "So, if we talk here, people outside can hear us?"
"Yes, but the administrator will be in charge of the library soon. No one else will come into the house until closing time at night." Tuttle answered immediately, "If you still feel unsafe, you can cast a soundproofing spell - but you need to be careful that the administrator senses us and comes back to open the door to ask what we are doing."
"There's nothing special to talk about tonight, so let's not cast the soundproofing spell for now and build trust with the administrator first." Edith nodded.
After hearing a bang from the door, they confirmed that the other party had left the floor, and then they sat down and relaxed. Edith signaled Amy to continue the previous topic. Amy had been thinking for a long time, and finally became excited again: "My aunt has always been against the Queen!"
Because of this, the relationship between my aunt and other pro-Queen members of the family was not good. Some who encountered setbacks directly attributed the problems to Joyce's failure to please Her Majesty the Queen.
"My aunt is very smart. I heard from my family that she always ranked first in school. She was selected to be a spell assistant in the third grade. In the fourth grade, she completed all courses and got first place in the league, and then joined the association directly." Not to mention that she didn't go to the fifth grade, she only went to the fourth grade for one semester.
Joyce was very smart, with a good academic record, a decisive and efficient character, and most importantly, the support of the Walker family. He was promoted all the way, and after the previous president passed away unexpectedly, he worked hard and finally became the youngest president since the establishment of the association.
"A legendary life," Edith said with emotion. With an excellent background, excellent character and ability, the whole world will make way for him.
"Yes, my aunt is so smart, if she thinks something is wrong, there must be something wrong - or, don't you think it's absurd that the queen agreed to let commoners enter the palace?"
"Of course it's absurd." Tuttle nodded in agreement, "The royal family has always valued bloodline the most."
Unexpectedly, Joyce, who was the first to make reforms to relax the entry conditions for associations and left a loophole in the rules for civilians to exploit, expressed his opposition to this matter.
"And Ursula, who was originally supportive, has also expressed her opposition..." Edith closed her eyes and thought, "It can be basically concluded that the Queen's main purpose in recruiting commoners is not to recruit talented people."
What would be the purpose?
Is he afraid that Joyce's action of recruiting civilians will win too much favor and eventually gain the support of the people to overthrow the current Dragon's Back Kingdom, so he takes action in advance?
"It seems unlikely." Bell shook his head. "As far as I know, there are no civilian researchers above two stars in the association..."
Gray is the descendant of a fallen noble after all, but he still cannot escape the fate of being suppressed even though he joins the association for research, let alone ordinary people.
Tuttle knew the most about this matter. He sighed and said, "We finally found a chief, but he died within a day of taking office... Mr. Scott was at least a four-star researcher at the time, and according to my parents, he didn't get promoted simply because he was not old enough. The civilian benchmarks that could have been set up quickly, one died and one was expelled, and now there is no one who can take the position at all."
He had seen the researcher Gary once before from a distance. His parents took him to visit the Pharmaceutical Association, and they happened to see her hurriedly coming out of the laboratory with a heavy bag of information. She didn't even glance at them, her expression was calm, she walked with a breeze, and disappeared at the end of the corridor in an instant.
Tuttle didn't even realize that this was the civilian researcher his parents had mentioned.
How could that be? She looked no different from the noble ladies he knew. He didn't even know if it was because of the books in her hands that he couldn't understand that influenced her. Tuttle felt that she was what a noble should look like.
"Raman yelled and quarreled every day, pestering the servants at home to compete. He would beat the other party when he won and cry when he lost. Until his mother came out to punish him, the servants were beaten in the end. He was so vulgar, why was he a nobleman?"
Tuttle thought of a boy of the same age he had met before and turned to ask his parents.
"Because his last name is Eddie, and the researcher who just walked past is named Gary." The mother answered ambiguously, "You are not born into a noble family like Raman, but you are not a commoner either. You should not worry about either of them."
One will live well no matter how outrageous he is, while the other can never break free from his shackles. Only Tuttle is in between the two and needs to rely on his own efforts to climb up.
"...What a pity. I don't know what would happen to the association now if Ms. Gary were still alive." He came back to his senses and sighed slightly.
In fact, she is really alive, but her last name is not Gary anymore... Edith lowered her head and took a sip of tea, then changed the subject as usual: "By the way, I went to Dean Keith's laboratory at noon."
She briefly recounted the story of Duke Eddie coming to look for something, and this was the first time she formally brought up this name in the conversation.
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