Chapter 212 Elf Dwarf
Because of the conversation between Gervis and the young man, the young men and women who had not noticed it before also looked over and looked at Gervis and Pat, including Alice. Alice was about to say something, but Gervis shook his head to stop her.
Gervis was not used to being watched by these people. These people looked arrogant at first glance. If Alice pointed out their identities, they would definitely look at him with the eyes of a pretty boy, so Gervis was too lazy to deal with them.
"Humph, bumpkin!"
One of the young men saw the looks of Gervis and Pat and thought that they had never seen a unicorn, so they stepped forward to watch, snorting with disdain.
"you……"
"Go, Pat!"
Pat couldn't stand it. These people were obviously fake unicorns, but they were still arrogant. He was about to curse at them, but was stopped by Gervis and walked directly into the inner castle.
"Grevith, why are you pulling me? These people have nothing to be proud of. Just pull out your unicorn and I guarantee they will be ashamed!"
Pat was somewhat indignant. After all, he was also a lord, and there were very few people who could call him a bumpkin like that, especially since he was a small local tyrant in Jones's territory.
"Forget it Pat, I think those people should be Alice's classmates. If they quarrel, it will be difficult for Alice!"
Alice had a harmonious conversation with those people, and it was obvious that these people had just traveled a long distance. They were probably Alice's friends or classmates. So Gervis didn't want to make things difficult for Alice, and didn't care about the ridicule of these people. After all, it wouldn't hurt him.
After finally persuading Pat to stay, the two returned to their guest rooms. There was nothing for either of them to do in Winterfell, and the weather was hot in the afternoon, so they could only hide in the guest room to take a nap and go out in the evening.
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Boom! Boom! Boom!
After Gervis fell into a drowsy sleep, he didn't know how much time had passed, but suddenly he heard a knock on the door.
Gervis scratched his hair helplessly, realizing that it was really inconvenient to do everything by himself without Anna, the little maid. He had agreed to have his secretary do it when there was something to do, but now his secretary had been borrowed by Alice, and he couldn't even take a nap in peace.
"Sir! A lady named Caroline asked me to give you this invitation!"
When Gervis arrived at the door of the guest room and opened it, a butler held an invitation in his hand and respectfully handed it to Gervis.
"Oh, thank you!"
After taking the invitation handed over by the servant, Gervis closed the door and returned to the room.
"Caroline? Invitations? What's this woman up to?"
Arriving at the living room, Gervis sat on the sofa, frowned, and opened the invitation in his hand.
"Mr. Gervis, I am hosting a banquet at Snowy Manor this evening. Please be sure to come! Caroline!"
This invitation looks like a greeting card. It is not made of silver foil like Alice's birthday invitation. It is just an ordinary piece of hard paper. Of course, this is not the point.
The point is that Gervis is very confused as to why Caroline invited him. After all, he has already made enemies with them anyway, so inviting him to the banquet will definitely not be a good thing.
Unable to figure it out, Gervis simply gave up thinking about it, threw Caroline's invitation on the table, and walked into the bathroom.
After washing up, Gervis ran directly to the third floor. It was still early and Gervis had nowhere else to go, so he prepared to read a book. After all, Alice's study was the best way for Gervis to understand the world.
Standing outside the study, Gervis was not sure whether Alice was inside at the moment, so Gervis knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
To Gervis's surprise, Alice was actually in the study. Gervis opened the door and walked in.
"I'm going to read a book for a while!"
When he arrived at the study, Gervis saw Alice still sitting at the desk processing letters, so he greeted her directly.
"Oh! OK!"
Alice didn't say much. She looked up at Gervis, nodded at him, and continued to deal with her own affairs.
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"My Lord Earl looks very majestic, but it is tiring to sit here and deal with various matters every day!"
Seeing that his cheap wife basically handled affairs in this study, Gervis sighed for no reason in his heart and felt a little pity for Alice.
However, Gervis also knew that he was not qualified to worry about these things now. After all, he was only Alice's husband in name only and it was impossible for him to interfere in the affairs of the earldom. Moreover, his strength was too weak, so he was powerless to help.
Suddenly Gervis remembered what happened in the store this afternoon, so he stopped and continued to say to Alice: "Thank you for what happened in the store today!"
"No need to thank me. Your golden wine will be of great benefit to Jones County once it is promoted."
Alice didn't look up, but the pleasant words reached Gervis' ears.
Seeing Alice like this, Gervis didn't say anything more, as it would seem he was being pretentious.
Walking to the rows of bookshelves, Gervis continued to select books. He had finished reading "Orc Race Categories" at noon, so he wanted to find some other books to read this time.
"Hey, what book is this?"
Suddenly, Gervis found a strange book on a bookshelf. The book was very thick and a little worn, but Gervis did not recognize the font on the book, which surprised Gervis.
You should know that although this world is divided into three principalities, it was split from one principality in the past, so the written languages of the three principalities are exactly the same, and the surprise also lies in the accents.
After all, the original owner had received several years of education and had never heard of other types of writing.
Gervis opened the book and flipped through it, only to find that the font inside was exactly the same as on the cover, which Gervis did not recognize at all.
However, what surprised Gervis was that there was an illustration every few pages of the book.
Gervis didn't care whether he recognized the words in the book or not. He just carried the book to the sofa and started reading.
The first page of this book is an illustration of a human knight. The human in the illustration is fully armed, wearing armor and holding a sword, sitting on a mighty monster. He looks majestic and domineering, and with the exquisite painting skills, he looks like the characters in online games in previous lives.
Then Gervis flipped the page again and saw an illustration of an orc. The orc was holding a worn-out axe and had ferocious fangs in his mouth, but his body was extremely large. Although his equipment was simple, it could not conceal his ferocity.
What interested Gervis the most was the third illustration on the following pages. There was actually an elf drawn on the illustration. Of course, the character in the illustration was named an elf because it looked quite similar to the elves that Gervis had seen in movies or pictures in his previous life.
This elf has pointed ears and wears tight leather armor, which perfectly sets off the elf's beautiful figure. Although it is just a simple illustration, the elf's face is very impressive. The elf is carrying a longbow and standing on a cliff with her hair loose, overlooking the vast forest in front.
After looking at the illustrations of the elves, Gervis continued to flip through the pages and saw illustrations of dwarves, dragons, etc. This made Gervis wonder if this book also came from Earth. After all, aren’t these the races described in the novels and movies of his previous life?
But Gervis was certain that he had never seen the words in this book in his previous life. After all, the mainstream languages in his previous life, apart from Chinese characters, were mostly Arabic and English. Even other languages were similar in shape to these three.
With curiosity, Gervis couldn't help but look up at Alice. Alice still had her head lowered, her pretty fair face fixed on the letters on the desk, her eyes extremely focused.
"Alice, what is the text on this book?"
After thinking about it, driven by curiosity, Gervis came to the desk and asked Alice in a low voice.
"Um?"
When Alice heard Gervis' question, she looked up at the book in Gervis' hand. After seeing the words on it, she became quite curious.
"Did you find it on the bookshelf? I've never seen this kind of writing before! My father must have collected it from somewhere. Any questions?"
After taking a closer look, Alice shook her head, indicating that she didn't know him.
"Oh, no problem, it's just that I've never seen this kind of writing before, so I'm a little curious! You go ahead and do your work, I'll go take a look!"
Gervis shook his head. After all, Alice was so busy and he was disturbing her. Since she didn't know him, Gervis could only put the book back and see if there would be a chance to solve the problem later.
(End of this chapter)
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