36 Pierre (2/2)

“What are you talking about, Pierre?” Elena was confused.

“Just guys’ conversation,” answered Pierre casually.

Shrugging her shoulders, Elena whispered to Lucien, “You see. I told you… And I gotta go now, Lucien. Make good use of the books here, and work hard.”

After Elena left, Pierre started showing Lucien around. While he was walking, he talked to Lucien casually, “Umm… I sometimes talk in a weird way. If you don’t understand, don’t let my words disturb you.”

“So you asking me to ‘refrain myself’ was also a casual talk?” asked Lucien.

“Nope, that was serious. Guys in our age can easily drain ourselves from too much… Umm, you know what I’m talking about.”

Lucien didn’t know what to say. Now in Lucien’s eyes, Pierre looked like a big fan of music, and kind of nasty.

After introducing the basic stuff that Lucien had to do as a librarian here, Pierre stretched himself a bit and said, “Only the members of the association can have access to this library, so it’s never busy here. Just remember to be polite to the musicians. You can spend more time here, and I’m gonna go back and enjoy The Well-Tempered Clavier now.”

His eyes were glowing when he mentioned music.

“Sure.” Lucien was more than willing to be left alone. With his spirit library, Lucien was always trying to store more books in it, like a squirrel collecting its favourite cones.

Lucien quickly leafed through a book, and a copy of the book instantly appeared in his spirit library. Then Lucien directly turned to another one.

“Hey, what are you doing there?” Pierre asked in a confused way. He hadn’t gone far yet.

“I’m doing a random check here to see if there are any damaged ones. Then I can take note of them and report to the association.” Lucien immediately made up an excuse.

“You’re as careful as a woman, Lucien.” Pierre commented.

In the following four hours, only two musicians visited the library. Lucien thus managed to collect more than a hundred of the books there. His arms felt pretty sore from leafing through them.

The books covered many aspects of the world, not just music. Lucien wanted to have a better understanding of the world as soon as possible.

…………

Lucien finished his work at about half past midday. When he was leaving the library, Pierre was still immersed in music, with a bread in his hand.

Later, Lucien went to Mr. Victor’s place and continued his study.

Life was pretty peaceful in the following couple of days.

One evening, John came back. When no one was around, he started telling Lucien what happened on that day.