After riding a carriage with the courier to the downtown area of Eagle Castle, Lawrence immediately returned to the Lime Street Detective Office. When he opened the door and walked into the room, he found Saphire at the reception desk on the first floor.
Reading a novel in boredom.
"Ah, you're back." Hearing the sound of the wind chime on the door and looking up, Saifei stuffed the book in her hand into the table in front of her as quickly as possible, but because her movements were a bit big,
I accidentally dropped the book that I had placed on my lap.
Lawrence clearly saw the cream-yellow cover of the book that read "Rose Manor", which was a love novel that was very popular among women throughout the Federation recently.
"I bought it from the bookstore next to me because the author of this book, Ms. Simon, happened to be signing books in that bookstore the day before yesterday." Saphiel explained as he bent down to pick up the book, then stood up and looked at it.
Lawrence asked, "Have you had breakfast? If not, I'll go to the kitchen and cook some seafood noodles for you."
"Don't bother, I've already had breakfast." Lawrence said as he hung his coat and hat on the coat rack. "By the way, where was Fatina early in the morning? Normally she is not
Do you all stay in the reception room and read?"
"Oh, she received a mission to find a gem necklace in the sewers, so she got up very early in the morning, made some cold bread and aspic leftover from last night for breakfast, and then went out." Saifei explained.
"The recent tasks are really boring. They are either looking for valuables or looking for pets. Of course, I still rejected the task of a certain lady trying to track her husband to collect evidence of cheating."
In this kind of entrustment that only requires individual action, most of everyone's gains can belong to the person who completed the task, and only 1/10 is needed as the collective fund of the firm.
"You're right. We don't need to get involved in other people's family affairs." Lawrence nodded. At this time, he also realized that even a city like Eagle Castle with one of the largest populations in the Federation would not have too many extraordinary people.
Cases happen, and naturally fewer of them can fall on them.
Fortunately, the people who can come to this street to arrange commissions are all of good economic level, and just relying on these scattered small tasks they assign can keep the office of Lawrence and the three of them afloat.
"By the way, why did you suddenly come back today?" Saifei noticed something wrong at this time. "I remember that your letter said you would not be back for two days, so why are you back early now?"
"That's because I will soon become a member of the Federal Science Association." Lawrence puffed up his chest and made a proud expression: "So I need to come back early for some etiquette training."
"You? But I remember you were just 20 years old." Saifei's eyes showed obvious disbelief. "If I remember correctly, the youngest member of the Federal Science Association is now 29 years old. And this category
The youngest member of the top scientific academies in various countries is an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France, but she is also 24 years old."
"So I should be the youngest member of this kind of organization in the past hundred years." Lawrence shrugged, and at the same time took out the letter written by Priest Carter from his body. "You will know after reading this letter."
"Let me see -" Saphire curiously took the letter and read it. "Oh my God! You are actually about to become a member of the Federal Science Association. This is great. Congratulations! I think we
There should be a banquet tonight to celebrate this properly, let me think we might need to invite—"
"It really doesn't have to be so troublesome." Looking at Saifei who looked excited, Lawrence quickly shook his hand and said. "After all, this matter has not been completely determined yet. Wouldn't it seem that we are a little too impatient if we invite guests to hold a banquet in advance?
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"You are right." Saphire nodded, "I was indeed a little too excited just now. By the way, what is the etiquette training you just mentioned?"
"You know, the granting of this kind of membership is often accompanied by some very formal ceremonies. So in order to avoid some disgraceful behavior, I must undergo some simple training in etiquette."
"Etiquette training? Have you found a good place?" Saifei said with concern, "You must know that it is not easy to find teachers for this kind of etiquette training. There are quite a few training classes with such a banner in Eagle Castle, but they are not easy to find."
Part of it is used to deceive the nouveau riche. Learning such rough etiquette is worse than not learning it. Really qualified etiquette teachers are hard to find."
"I don't know who I should go to." Lawrence looked helpless. After all, his previous life had nothing to do with the so-called upper class society, so naturally he didn't know who to go to in this regard. "If that doesn't work, I'll go to St. Gutenberg University."
The church asked Uncle Carter to recommend one to me."
"Well, I think there is no need to trouble others." Saifei said, "If you don't mind, I can teach you. You know that the study in a girls' school is different from that of an ordinary university. It mainly trains women's social etiquette and women's social etiquette.
Skills are the main ones, such as musical instrument playing, painting, sewing and Radnim language. Naturally, in this process, we also learned a lot about male etiquette. So I think I am qualified to teach you etiquette.
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"That would be great." Lawrence subconsciously grabbed Saphire's hand to express his gratitude like he did when he was a child.
Saphire's face blushed slightly after her hand was suddenly grabbed. Then she withdrew her hand shyly and then changed the subject and said to Lawrence: "Then let's start now, starting with the simplest greetings.
start--"
In addition to learning etiquette, Lawrence also needs to prepare some outfits. Fortunately, he is a young man and a commoner, and he is in the White Eagle Federation rather than the old continent where the rules are stricter. So there is no need to wear the same clothes as those gentlemen and nobles.
Wear a tall top hat or a high-end velvet dress.
You must know that those things are very expensive. For example, there is a tailor shop on Lime Street that sells these things. A good top hat there costs 30 yuan, which is equivalent to three months' salary of an ordinary worker.
"Is this enough?" In the high-end tailor shop on the street, Lawrence, wearing a black dress similar to the standard suit before his time travel, and a matching bowler hat on his head, asked the middle-aged female shop owner
He said, "I thought you had to wear a tuxedo in formal occasions. After all, I used to see professors in university wearing that way in formal occasions."
"But the professors in the school are not young people, so the style that suits them may not necessarily suit you." The shop owner said as he used a tape measure and chalk to mark the parts of Lawrence's suit that needed to be modified. "In recent years, young people have attended
This relatively simple outfit is worn on formal occasions because people think the traditional top hat and tailcoat are too old-fashioned.”
After hearing what the shop owner said, Lawrence nodded in agreement. After all, he didn't know much about this, so it was right to listen to the opinions of professionals.
After struggling for more than half an hour, Lawrence finally got the dress. The dress included a jacket, vest, shirt, trousers, leather shoes, tie and a silver-plated tie clip on the tie.
The entire dress cost 42 yuan and 12 cents, which was a lot of money. Lawrence couldn't afford it before he became a transcendent.
Even so, Lawrence could feel some pain when he took out the money. Fortunately, he could use the dress as a kind of investment, a one-time purchase, and the excuse of long-term benefits to make himself feel better.
In the next two days, Lawrence devoted himself to training on his own etiquette under the guidance of Saifei. Finally, when he felt that he was about the same, a special messenger sent him a letter written on sheepskin from the Federal Science Association.