100 The History (1/2)

Chapter 100: The History

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

In the following morning, on his way to the musicians’ association in the administrative district, Lucien was very surprised to find that the bagatelle he played at the party last night was being played everywhere in Aalto.

Just like Victor said, it was way easier for a piece of serenade to become popular than for a symphony.

As soon as Elena saw Lucien coming into the lobby, she waved to him with a big smile on her face.

”Morning, Elena!” greeted Lucien, ”Why are you so happy today?”

”I’m happy for you!” Covering her mouth, Elena giggled in a low voice, ”Before you arrived, a few noble ladies came to the association to look for you. They were hoping that they could become your piano students. Miss Felicia’s friend, Yvette, was here as well.”

Then, she handed a pile of letters to Lucien, ”These are all feedbacks from musicians who live nearby.”

Lucien took the letters and was about to walk upstairs, but paused a bit and turned to Elena instead, ”Can you tell the ladies that this year I won’t accept any students? Apart from being the princess’ music consultant, I still have to work on producing more music.”

”Mr. Lucien, how come you’re always that inspired?” Cathy’s eyes were wide open and she asked with great curiosity, ”I heard that, aside from the serenade, you also finished recomposing Mr. Hersey’s Canon in D.”

Lucien nodded, ”I’m just hoping that I can hold my own concert as soon as possible.”

”Wow…” exclaimed Elena and Cathy at the same time.

Then, Elena asked Lucien with expectancy, ”I understand that you don’t want to have any student right now… but can I ask you some questions related to music once in a while?”

”Of course, we can exchange our ideas,” said Lucien. The true reason that Lucien refused to have any student was that, as a sorcerer, he might be found out by the church someday and his students would be in great trouble.

After giving Joseph the music sheet of his serenade for registration, from the window Lucien saw that a purple coach was arriving, which was sent by Natasha.

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In the study of War Gallery.

Natasha, wearing a long black dress, was introducing the books to Lucien, ”Some of them are written in common tongue. I take it that you want to start to read them as soon as possible.”

That was Natasha, passionate, decisive and motivated. As soon as she decided to do something, she wanted to get it done as fast as she could.

From her introduction, Lucien had a rough idea about the different book sections in the princess’ study. At that moment, a middle-aged man came in and bowed to Natasha, ”Your Grace.”

Turning around, Natasha nodded to the man and then said to Lucien, ”Mr. Bake, from House Hill, is a very reputable scholar and linguist. He is your designated consultant and translator for these books.”

Bake was already bald in his forties. A thick pair of glasses was sitting on his round face.

”Thank you, Mr. Bake,” said Lucien.

”It’s my great pleasure to serve the princess and to be your consultant, Mr. Evans,” Bake bowed slightly to Lucien.

”You’re working on translating the books already, Mr. Bake?” Lucien noticed that there was a thick book under Bake’s arm with many small colorful tags among the pages.

”Yes… as you may see, Mr. Evans, translating these books takes time, and the princess told me about your hunger for knowledge. I’m hoping that I can cover as many books as possible in this study for you, Mr. Evans,” answered Bake slowly.