"Young Jenkins, so what's bothering you?"
The conversation in the antique shop was still going on, and the old man kept ironing his clothes. Seeing that Jenkins was silent, the old man asked again:
"Even ordinary people and nobles have lovers, and the romances of modern courts are even more exciting than those novels. What are you worrying about? You are not breaking precedents, nor are you challenging secular ethics, although I do not encourage doing so, But it's all pretty normal, at least for our time."
Even though Jenkins never took the initiative to mention the matter of Hathaway and Britney, but the old man knew the things around Jenkins. His statement was very similar to Alexia's, and both of them thought it was common for nobles to have lovers.
In fact, this is also the view of most ordinary people.
"To be honest, Jenkins, rather than worrying about those things, you should think about which girl you like the most. After all, there is only one who can be your wife. Some words are not suitable for me to tell you, but you There is indeed a lack of friends around me who can talk about these topics... "
The old man paused for a moment, and opened the back cover of the metal iron. The gear driven by the steam was rotating rapidly, driving the fan behind the iron to cool down the hot cuffs.
"Go for what you want, be bold. You look young, but you live like one of those queer old gentlemen. Young people have to be young, go to those balls, salons, and girls It’s great to go out for a walk.”
Dad nodded, very satisfied with what he said. He looked at Jenkins and found that Jenkins seemed to understand something.
"So, it's...not immoral."
"As long as you like each other, it's not immoral... Sage, I really didn't expect that such a day would come out of my mouth."
The old man shook his head, quickly drew a holy emblem on his chest, and at the same time ordered:
"Don't tell anyone that I said that."
"I see Dad."
Jenkins nodded, determined to accept it all. This is no longer the era of Jenkin. Even if you always recognize your identity as a visitor from a foreign land, you must be prepared to accept the customs of this world.
If he wanted to integrate into this world, he had to understand what the world could accept. Since Dad doesn't think it's immoral, and the girls are happy with it, then he...
Chocolate fell into a deeper level of anxiety.
The guests who agreed with Dad to pick up the goods will arrive around eleven o'clock. When Dad left the store at six-thirty in the evening, he told Jenkins that if the customers hadn't arrived by eleven o'clock, then he could just leave.
"I hate this unpunctual guy."
After saying this, the old man gave a few more words of caution, and then he left with a black suitcase.
The departure of the old man means that the shop now only belongs to the apprentice and his cat, and everyone and the cat are looking forward to tonight.
"This is the first time I have visited the store so late, it must be very interesting!"
When Jenkins said this, the cat nodded quickly, wondering if Jenkins would prepare supper.
In this era, there are no legal working hours, and there will be no companies or factories that leave work on time. However, most of the "decent people" get off work from six o'clock to seven o'clock, which is the evening in the traditional sense. The off-duty time of the workers is completely in accordance with the requirements of the factory owner. There are countless people waiting to compete for labor positions without knowledge and cultural requirements. Now no one wants to lose their jobs.
After his father left, Jenkins began to watch the flow of people leaving get off work outside the window in boredom. He waited patiently for the first customer to come to the door, and then gave up this boring behavior after ten minutes, intending to have some fun for himself.
Dad estimated that Jenkins would get bored and bored quickly, so he prepared two thick books for him in the store. But Jenkins has no desire to study now, he wants to read some other books.
Dad's study is on the second floor, and Jenkins can borrow all the books there, because the books that cannot be shown to him are in the secret room under the store.
In addition to historical and religious books, there are some biographical novels in the traditional sense on the bookshelves on the second floor. According to Jenkins' understanding, Dad doesn't like this kind of books, at least not at this age.
"Maybe it's a book that Dad bought when he was young."
His fingers ran along the spines of the books, and the cat crouched at Jenkins' feet, looking up at the books with wide-eyed eyes.
Dad's study room is decorated more luxuriously than the bedroom, which is also a common behavior of sage believers. The bookshelves almost occupied the entire wall, and before that, Jenkins really didn't have the opportunity to stand here and observe every book.
"The Legend of the Detective Knight? I didn't expect my father to have this book."
Thinking in my heart, I took out the first volume and looked at the edition number, and found that this was the edition five years ago, not the first edition I was thinking of.
Then I thought that I heard that the next volume of this book will be published two days ago, so I looked forward to seeing new stories.
"The Legend of the Detective Knight" is the most famous novel of this era, and it is a book that everyone from princes and nobles to middle-class businessmen likes to read. Although there are occasional descriptions that make people blush, this is also a common problem of knight novels in this era. The open social atmosphere makes all aspects of society open.
The original owner's novels were all taken to St. George's Street when Jenkins moved away from Privet Drive. When he opened the novel in his hand, the original owner's memories of these books also flooded up, which made Jenkins interested in the follow-up of the book.
Putting back the first volume of "The Legend of the Detective Knight", Jenkins continued to look at the bookshelf, looking for a good book to kill time.
He is more inclined to find a detective novel, because his new book is still in planning. He himself doesn't really mind copying the content of those famous works in the past, but after all, he still needs to have some stories of his own, so it is very necessary to learn how others write.
"Valley of Blood? Sounds a bit scary, don't read this kind of stuff at night... "The Empty Hills"? I've heard it, it's a courtly love story disguised as a detective novel... "Colorful Stars"? Crazy mystery The conjecture of a scientist is worthless... "Over the Mountain"? The autobiography of a mental patient... "