[Chapter 41]: If you want to hear the story, change the key! (fourth more)
"Joanna, keep up with it, it's dawdling every time."
Elizabeth rolled up her skirt with her slender arms and rushed into the hall on the first floor of the library with joy. She turned her head and muttered to the count's maid in dissatisfaction.
Joanna sighed: "I'm old, more than a thousand years old, how can you be so energetic as a twenty-year-old princess?"
After all, she still appeared next to Elizabeth in a flash.
"Where do we start? There are so many books here."
"Let the librarian here help you find it. He knows where each book is located."
Joanna said.
"If it doesn't matter, it's daytime, the administrator is probably resting, let's find it ourselves." Elizabeth hesitated for a while, then said.
Joanna pouted and said disdainfully, "The servants are used to make orders. Are you stupid for reading? You are Her Royal Highness, Elizabeth! Wait here, I'll call him."
Just then, footsteps came from the stairs.
A slender figure walked down from the second floor, followed by a polite voice—
"Your Highness, are you looking for books? What kind of romance novels do you want to read?"
A very familiar voice came to his ears.
Elizabeth's body froze, and then a look of surprise appeared on her beautiful face: "It's you!"
Even if she could forget her identity as a princess, she would never forget the voice that told Romeo and Juliet.
Elizabeth looked abruptly, and sure enough, a handsome and handsome face came into view.
Even Joanna was surprised to see Fang Qingyan here.
The last time she came to pick up the book, she just waited outside the door and ordered the servants to come in… So he was the new administrator that old butler Bud said before?
Fang Qingyan had an infectious smile on his face, looked at Elizabeth calmly, and politely said, "Long time no see, Your Highness, you are as beautiful as ever."
While speaking, he had already swept Elizabeth's body with his mental power.
Sure enough, she carried the key with her. It was a very ordinary, rusted bronze key, very ugly. It is impossible for any noble lady to use it as an ornament, but Elizabeth used it as a necklace, wearing it on her slender and white neck like a gooseneck, and kept it close to her body.
It can be seen that she is a very emotional person.
Fang Qingyan's eyes flickered slightly, but his smile remained the same.
I was actually thinking about it in my mind.
Now that Elizabeth is very close to him, he can grab the key at any time, or use the superpower of "mind manipulation" to make her hand over the key like a puppet.
But Fang Qingyan didn't plan to do that, because Elizabeth was Carstein's daughter.
"Why are you here?"
Elizabeth's face was filled with unprecedented happiness, and she quickly walked up to Fang Qingyan and asked.
Fang Qingyan took out what he said to the old housekeeper Bud, and said it again.
"Ah? Has that old grandfather died?"
There was a hint of sadness in Elizabeth's eyes. The last time she saw Carstein, she felt that the old earl was in very bad health and did not expect to actually die.
Fang Qingyan blinked, what grandpa? That's your dad… my dad!
But he didn't plan to talk more about Carstein's affairs. The past is gone, the dead are gone, and the living are stronger.
"Cough cough, Her Royal Highness should be looking for books, right?"
Fang Qingyan said, reached out and picked up the wooden ladder for climbing the bookshelf, and asked with a smile, "What book do you want to read?"
"I want to read a book that is as moving as Romeo and Juliet!"
Elizabeth's eyes shone with dazzling light, and she couldn't help clenching her pink fists, "Is there any in the library?"
Romeo and Juliet...
Fang Qingyan paused, gently lowered the wooden ladder, and returned it to its original position.
Then he shook his head: "Then I really don't have it here!"
Elizabeth's small face suddenly disappeared, and her excitement was swept away.
Joanna on the side snorted smugly, saying yes or no, you still don't believe it, you have to come in person, now you give up?
Suddenly, Elizabeth remembered something, refreshed again, and raised her head.
Her blue eyes looked at Fang Qingyan expectantly: "You don't have it here, then… do you have it?"
She put all her hopes on Fang Qingyan.
If you can't find a good book, it doesn't mean you can't hear a good story!
Facing her beautiful and nervous gaze, Fang Qingyan showed a contagious smile: "Yes!"
"Really?"
Elizabeth was so excited that she could not wait to jump three meters high, and rushed to Fang Qingyan, "You didn't lie to me?"
"Really." Fang Qingyan nodded firmly and asked her, "Does the princess want to hear it?"
"think!"
Elizabeth nodded without hesitation.
Even the maid Joanna showed expectant eyes.
However, Fang Qingyan shook his head: "I can tell you a story, but there are two small requests."
How dare a small servant dare to make a request to Her Royal Highness?
If it was someone else, they would have ordered someone to drag Fang Qingyan out to feed the dog.
But Elizabeth did not hesitate at all, the chicken nodded again and again as if pecking at the rice: "Of course, I owe you a dance last time, and I haven't paid you back yet. If you have any requirements, just tell me, a wonderful story is priceless. Yes, you can get whatever you want in return."
Fang Qingyan turned his head and glanced at Joanna next to him, and said with a smile, "The first condition is that the story can only be told to one person."
Elizabeth was taken aback.
Immediately, she turned her head sharply and abandoned Joanna ruthlessly: "cough, what… go out and wait."
Joanna's eyes widened and she looked frustrated. She wanted to hear it too.
But there is a difference between master and servant, and she can only let Elizabeth.
Joanna still had to keep the princess safe, she didn't go far, she just stood by the door.
"Come on, come on, what about the second condition!"
Elizabeth asked eagerly.
Fang Qingyan narrowed her eyes, her eyes slowly moved down from her face, and stopped on her sizable chest.
"The second condition is, I want you, Your Highness Princess…"
Elizabeth was so frightened that she hugged herself, shrank back, and shook her head like a rattle: "This… this can't be done."
"Cough, I haven't finished speaking yet, don't be nervous."
Fang Qingyan knew there was a misunderstanding, so he could only blurt out: "I want an item on your body to commemorate the encounter with Her Royal Highness!"
call–
Elizabeth breathed a sigh of relief.
Just want a personal item, that's not a problem.
She nodded, her clear eyes met Fang Qingyan: "What do you want?"
"Um~ let me think about it…what do I want…"
Fang Qingyan's slender fingers rubbed his chin, pretending to think, looked Elizabeth up and down, then smiled, "The necklace around Her Royal Highness's neck is very beautiful, I want this. If you are willing to take it off and give it to me, I will give it to you. You tell ten stories, and you're guaranteed to like each one!"
Although with some coaxing ingredients.
But it's actually a fair deal.
To get the key in this way, Fang Qingyan is worthy of his conscience, and also worthy of the old Earl of Kastein.
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