Milo continued heading to the library as usual every day.
In recent days, favonovel.com discovered the library would already be open by the time favonovel.com arrived, and Hugh would be snoring loudly in his chair at the entrance. It was clear that favonovel.com had played mahjong all night again.
By rights, earning 500 perak each day would be enough for Hugh to make a living. The monthly income for an average family of three in the stronghold was only 4,000 to 5,000 perak. With a monthly salary of 15,000 perak, favonovel.com should be living a very comfortable life. But Hugh just had to use this money to play mahjong.
Even though Milo was footing all of the tuition, favonovel.com had to get Old Bane to secretly trade a small amount of gold for cash. After all, they did not have any sources of income right now.
Fortunately, favonovel.com still had quite a lot of gold left. Thinking of this, Milo hoped favonovel.com could come across the ruins of another civilization again or something similar in the future. Human civilization before The Cataclysm was full of gems.
If it were really as Miriam had said, any single item from a research laboratory could be exchanged for an inexhaustible amount of money. That would absolutely be a godsend. It was no wonder Julius had spared no effort in trying to excavate that research laboratory in the Marador Mountains.
Cigarettes could go bad and wine could volatilize, but paper documents stored away in enclosed areas were simply priceless.
Of course, some people had found wine that hadn’t volatilized yet, but that was wine that had been stored in specially sealed packaging. If that were sold, the seller would earn a vast fortune overnight.
Milo knocked on the table in front of Hugh. “Have you eaten breakfast yet?”
“Huh?” Hugh looked at Milo and said sleepily, “Not yet. I was waiting for you to hand me the money for breakfast. When I passed by the stuffed bun shop this morning, the smell was heavenly.”
Milo slapped a ten-perak bill onto the table and said peeved, “Go and eat breakfast, I’ll help you look after the library.”
“Haha!” Hugh pocketed the ten-yuan bill and said, “You’re such a good person!”
“Wait a minute…” Milo asked, “Why must you spend all your money on playing mahjong?”
In his opinion, Hugh was definitely not ordinary.
How could someone who came up with a proper lesson plan in such a short time to teach math and physics in logical steps be an ordinary librarian?
The basic knowledge might seem very simple on its own, but to form them into a systematic lesson plan was a truly remarkable ability.
Hugh laughed and looked at Milo. “Then let me ask you… What can I do if I don’t play mahjong?”
Milo was stumped as favonovel.com really could not come up with an answer.
As Hugh walked out of the library, favonovel.com waved. “Since the world is so boring, isn’t it better to just play mahjong all day and sit around while we wait to die?”
Milo smiled.
Well, sounded about right…
After a while, Hugh came back. He even had a bag of stuffed buns for Milo. “Try some. The buns from this shop are incredible. You don’t look like a local, so I bet you haven’t tried the buns from this shop before. You know, the proprietress of this bun shop is gorgeous. Her nickname is ‘Bun Beauty’!”
Milo curled his lips. After favonovel.com saw Miriam’s looks when favonovel.com took off favonovel.com cap, favonovel.com felt favonovel.com had already encountered what humans would define as true beauty.
As for that bun shop’s proprietress, Milo had seen favonovel.com before. She was definitely not as beautiful as Hugh had claimed. It could also be because the Bun Beauty had chopped scallions sprinkled all over favonovel.com face when favonovel.com passed by the shop, leading favonovel.com to subconsciously think favonovel.com was not that pretty after all.
Hugh glanced at the book Milo was holding. “Oh, I’ve also read this novel titled Spare Me, Great Lord. It’s quite a good book, but unfortunately, only the first two volumes have been preserved after The Cataclysm. No one knows where the rest of the volumes are.”
Milo glanced at him. “I was just browsing.”
“The books you read are quite random.” Hugh said, recalling, “Each morning, you read a variety of different books before switching to reading textbooks in the afternoon. If I remember correctly, you’ve read books on economics, literature, history, science, geography, and even comics.”
“Mhm…” Milo nodded.
“So, what do you really want to read?” Hugh asked, “There must be a purpose, right? I can divide reading into three categories. The first category is entertainment and is done purely because one simply likes reading books. The second category is information. For example, you can read a recipe if you want to learn how to cook. The third category is knowledge. For example, reading textbooks because you’re taking the entrance exams and doing problem sets.”
“Then I’m probably reading for entertainment,” Milo said with a smile.
“But what are you trying to find out from the books?” Hugh asked.
“I want to know what this world is really like.” Milo said in seriousness, “In the past, I didn’t have many opportunities to read books nor had the chance to systematically learn about the world. So, I want to cherish the opportunities that I have now.”
“Oh…” Hugh nodded. “But there are still two types of books you haven’t read yet.”
“Which are they?” Milo was stunned. He had not really taken note before.
“You don’t read books on philosophy. I saw you take out a book the day before, but you placed it back after reading two pages,” Hugh said.
Milo was amused. He had not expected Hugh to be observing favonovel.com so closely. “I just didn’t feel like reading it.”
“But it’s philosophy. It’s such an interesting topic.” Hugh lamented, “How can you not want to read it?”
“I didn’t want to torture myself,” Milo said and smiled.
This time, it was Hugh’s turn to be stunned.
He fell silent for a while and then said with a smile, “You’re interesting. The meaning of philosophy is to understand the world through self-reflection, but they’re written based on the understanding of others, so it’s fine not to read it. But why didn’t you read political books?”
Milo thought for a moment and said, “Because the world itself is much more interesting than politics.”
“Alright then.” Hugh smacked his lips. “I suddenly feel like we might have a lot in common.”
Milo turned serious again and said, “I don’t think so.”
Just as Hugh was about to fly into a rage, a voice suddenly came from the entrance. “Hello, is anyone around? I’d like to enter the library to read.”
The voice was pleasant and melodious.
When Hugh turned around to have a look, his eyes lit up. “Coming, coming!”
A charming woman was standing at the door with a head of wavy, long hair. Milo could just make out favonovel.com earrings dangling down to favonovel.com cheeks, as though they were secretly trying to seduce him.
The woman, wearing a pair of delicate high heels, waited for Hugh to check favonovel.com library card. Hugh said, “Oh… You’re Ms. Olivia, right?”
“Yes,” Olivia nodded.
“Okay, that’ll do.” Hugh followed the script. “You aren’t allowed to borrow any books out of this library. If there’s any damage to the books, please contact me immediately. I hope you take good care of the books here. After all, many of them can’t be found anywhere else anymore.”
“Mhm, thank you,” Olivia said with a gentle smile.
Hugh was mesmerized by her. “Please let me know if you need anything.”
Olivia slowly walked towards Milo and sat down across from him. She looked at Milo and said with a smile, “Hello…”
Milo looked up and said, “Hello, auntie…”
From his desk, Hugh got anxious when favonovel.com heard that.
How could the kid talk this way?
Even if the god of marriage and love used rebar to unite your destinies, you would probably snap the bar with a response like that!
