[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

This dim sum made the three of them busy for a long time. Fortunately, the first two dim sum dishes did not take long, and today they did not delay the opening of the shop.

After opening the store, Jane took Anna to make a few more batches of snacks, and disposed of today's apples at once.

"If the dim sum sells well today, I will make a few more pounds of bean paste." While arranging Anna's work, Jane neatly arranged the sesame bean paste cakes with residual temperature on paper and wrapped them up, "I won't come this afternoon if I have something to do. , I don’t think I need to explain the extra things. See you tomorrow.”

ah?Are you not there again?Anna thought.Although she was a little afraid of Jane, Jane was the backbone of the store. Today, when Jane left so early, Anna always felt uneasy.

Jane is not in the mood to think about what Anna is thinking. She and Mycroft have a special appointment today. In order to have more time, she specially chose two snacks with a short production time... Unexpectedly, she was dragged down by a few rotten apples pace.

Jane first came to a small square in a carriage, where she and Mycroft made an appointment to meet.Mycroft stood in a very conspicuous position, and Jane saw him at a glance.

"Sorry, have you been waiting long?" Jane asked.

"My pleasure." Mycroft did not say that he had been waiting for 27 minutes.However, this "Sherlock Holmes" answer let Jane know that he had been waiting for at least a while. Jane apologized and handed the paper package to Mycroft, "a gift."

Mycroft understood, and he happily took the paper bag.

"Be careful." Jane reminded, "It's very brittle."

Mycroft didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he could already hear the crackling of the pastry!Ah, probably accompanied by a small piece of his heart...〒▽〒

Carefully putting the snacks into the coat pocket, Mycroft walked Jane slowly into Cambridge as if walking.

The University of Cambridge is an open school with many colleges, which are distributed in various places throughout the town of Cambridge, especially on both sides of the Cambridge River. The large ancient buildings in the town, except for the family's ancestral private house, basically belong to the University of Cambridge.

Mycroft and Jane walked along the stone road by the river, and met many young people playing along the way, as well as a group of young men and women riding horses.Without attracting anyone's attention, the two walked slowly towards the library that they had agreed upon earlier.

Along the way, Mycroft introduced the Cambridge Library to Jane. The Cambridge Library is one of the most famous and largest libraries in the world even in later generations. There are some histories that are unknown to outsiders. Only alumni like Mycroft will pay attention.

The library of Cambridge University was founded in 1424. In the early days, it relied almost entirely on donations or bequests. It was not until 1617 that it began to purchase books from outside. At the beginning of the 18th century, with the efforts of Cambridge alumni, Britain stipulated that all books in the country should be given here for free in the name of rights and laws.

The king of England at that time was a German... um... This is very common in the royal families of European countries. When there is no legal heir in the country, they have to import it from foreign countries. In short, it is probably for the sake of fame and popularity. The king donated it all at once. More than 3 volumes of books.

In addition, famous British scholars such as Erasmus and Newton and poets such as Byron and Wordsworth have left treatises, manuscripts and volumes of poems for the library.

In addition to being used by the professors and students of the school, the Cambridge Library actually functions as a national document storage.

Listening to Mycroft's introduction, Jane felt that she had learned a lot. She never knew there were such interesting things before.

The buildings in Cambridge University were built longer than Cambridge University. In the Middle Ages, Cambridge was very rich because of trade. Although there were no stones nearby, many buildings in Cambridge were still made of stones brought from other places. This also led to the different colors of the buildings in Cambridge due to different stone materials.

Mycroft pointed out to Jane as he walked. The two-storey flat-roofed khaki house squatted honestly by the Cambridge River; The church has huge stained glass floor-to-ceiling windows...

The colleges of Cambridge University are scattered in various places in Cambridge Town, but most of them are built along the Cambridge River. There are many stone bridges, wooden bridges and iron bridges on the river. Mycroft pointed to a wooden bridge not far away and told Jane, that The bridge was once designed by Newton based on the principles of mechanics, and the entire bridge did not use a single nail.Decades ago, some curious students dismantled it to see what happened, but no matter what method they used, they couldn’t restore it to its original state, even the school could do nothing, so they had to use nails to fix it, and then the wooden bridge was rebuilt. up.Jane was amazed again and again, but she didn't think so in her heart. She felt that if the Cambridge school went to Huaguo to invite some good carpenters to come back, it would not be a big deal not to use nails. It will take hundreds of years to be truly world-famous (*￣ω￣)

There are many colleges in Cambridge, and of course there is more than one library. I also know that there are so many books that a house cannot fit.In the end, Mycroft led Jane to a three-story flat-roofed building with Gothic features.Instead of entering through the main entrance, they went around to the side of the house, where an iron staircase led directly to the second floor.

Jane lifted her skirt and walked up the stairs gently, and opened the door. This is a corner on the second floor, and it suddenly opened up in front of her eyes. Both sides are neat and mighty, full of books!

Complete!Yes!Book!

The floor of the deep hall below is paved with gray-white slate, on which there are rows of long tables and benches, and on all four sides are huge multi-layered bookshelves, one row after another, filled with books of various colors. books.

There are two semi-circular tables below Jane and at the door. Behind each table sits a semi-bald old man. Jane can see the shiny head of the old man below when she looks down (really a British feature==), this is the administrator up.

Today is not a weekend, and the long tables are almost full of people, and many people are wandering among the bookshelves.

The house is very tall, with triple-glazed windows from the outside, but actually there are only two floors inside. When you look up, you can see a tall dark golden dome on it, majestic and majestic.

There are also multi-layered bookshelves on the four walls of the second floor. Jane changed hands and took out a book from the bookshelf. Hmm... I don’t understand it, so I put it back (~￣▽￣～)

Not far away, a man who was reading a book heard the movement and looked over. Jane's heart skipped a beat. Unexpectedly, the man immediately lowered his head and continued to read, as if he was used to it.

The whole building is in the shape of an "F". There is a small side hall next to the hall. The stairway where Jane is on the second floor is a hidden door, and a few steps forward is the turning corridor.

Mycroft led Jane into the corridor. There were still huge bookshelves downstairs, but there were several small rooms upstairs.

Mycroft pushed open a door, and Jane walked in. Inside was a very comfortably furnished small study.

The study room is not big, but very bright. There is no fireplace in the room. There are light-colored patterned wallpapers on the walls and carpets on the floor. A curtain occupies most of the wall. The brown and white double curtains ensure light transmission and concealment.

Two armchairs and a coffee table are placed under the window, saving a lot of effort for lighting candles.A standing cabinet is against the wall, with several bottles of wine and glasses on it, and a spare chair against the wall next to it.

On the opposite side of the cabinet, a huge bookshelf occupies the entire wall, with a total of four floors, filled with books of different thicknesses, and a whole set of "Encyclopedia Britannica" that Jane has always been fascinated by...but she can't afford it.

Jane cheered and rushed to the bookshelf, her fingers slid across the spine of the books one by one, and her eyes greedily looked at the titles of each book.Soon, after calming down, Jane discovered that although there were many books on this shelf, there were also many languages. In addition to English books, such as "Encyclopedia Britannica", there were also French books, Italian books, and Latin books... Jane also These are the only ones she knows, and she doesn’t know the other languages ​​at all. She guesses Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch based on her feelings. Not to mention there are even weirder ones, which don’t look like Latin at first glance. Language family text┑(￣Д￣)┍

Jane even saw a thread-bound book on the very top, and she reached out enough...out of reach ╭(╯^╰)╮.

"Which one do you want?" asked Mycroft, walking up behind Jane, as he went out and in again.

"That one." Jane said, pointing to the thread-bound book.

Mycroft reached out and took it out, "Ha", he laughed and handed the book to Jane.

It was only when Jane picked up the book that she realized that Mycroft was standing so close to her that she could see the stubble on his chin, and smell the shaving lotion and the faint scent of pastries on his body.

Jane felt that her face was very hot. She blamed her body for blushing so easily, but she couldn't help thinking, why is this guy so tall!

"Thank you." Jane lowered her head and said softly.

…Mycroft forgot what he was going to say for a moment, "cough", he coughed, "this is a book brought back from the far east, their characters are very different from ours, and their way of reading is also very different. Very different."

"Yes, is it?"

"Do you...do you want to see anything else?"

"The Encyclopaedia Britannica."

"..."

Jane stared in a daze to recover, and found that she had already sat down in the armchair, and Mycroft was sitting in another armchair, reading a book.On the small coffee table between them was a set of tea sets, still steaming, and the snacks she had wrapped for Mycroft before, were also opened and placed on the coffee table.

Jane lowered her head and saw that the thread-bound book was still in her hand and had already been opened, but she didn't pay attention to what was written inside.And beside her, the original spare chair was dragged over, and there was a whole set of "Encyclopedia Britannica" piled on it.

What was I doing just now!Jane wailed secretly, could it be more embarrassing than this!She felt like her face could be fried.

Jane quickly turned her attention to the thread-bound book in her hand, ah, good book, good book~

It is indeed a good book. Jane took a closer look and found that this book turned out to be a "Three Character Classic".The cover is very simple, with only three words written on it, probably because it is written for children, the words inside are also well written, but it is quite large, and there are not many words on a page.

Jane flipped through it casually, put the book aside pretending not to understand and was not interested, and then picked up the top one from a large stack of "Encyclopedia Britannica" and put it on her lap.

This set of books has already been published in the eighth edition, but this set in Jian’s hands is the ultimate version of the sixth edition—two supplementary volumes have been added after the sixth edition—which systematically introduces the current knowledge of various disciplines, including Influential people, history, geography in each discipline.

Mycroft put the books in order, and Jane took the first volume from the top, and she opened it to the word beginning with "A". The "Encyclopedia Britannica" is looked up in a similar way to a dictionary. Jane read it from the beginning, but found that there were too many knowledge points that she was not interested in, so she picked out what she liked to read.

History...is too complicated.

Geography... I don't understand.

Character... who is this?

The author has something to say: Mycroft: The cake, the biscuit is broken... 〒▽〒

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Shuang is to tell everyone an unfortunate news. The author accidentally got a one-month study opportunity, no computer, no code words, only interrupted updates, classes, and a one-month leave... Well, let’s test whether everyone is true love The time has come!