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Although Lin Ruo said that, Benson and Melissa were polite people, and naturally greeted Medici.
"Hello, Mr. Red, I'm Benson." / "Hello, Mr. Red, I'm Melissa."
The two spoke almost simultaneously, and facing their greetings, Medici lazily glanced at them and, to Lin Ruo's surprise, replied.
"Got it."
Although his attitude was still a bit annoying, it was clearly a friendly attitude for someone like War Angel.
Lin Ruo glanced at Medici with a slight surprise, understanding that this friendliness was merely perfunctory; Medici didn't actually care about Benson and Melissa.
But the fact that Medici would even be perfunctory at such a time was enough to surprise Lin Ruo.
"What kind of look is that?" Facing Lin Ruo's undisguised surprise, Medici looked at him and said impatiently, "Aren't we going to visit that memorial exhibition? Let's go."
Lin Ruo immediately withdrew his gaze. Because he was with Benson and Melissa, they naturally couldn't use travel. So Lin Ruo paid for a trackless carriage.
Although there were five people, the carriage was certainly spacious enough, and they soon arrived at 2 King's Avenue in the West Borough.
The museum hosting the Roselle Memorial Exhibition was located there.
Although Lin Ruo and the others arrived very early, it was clear that in this era of scarce entertainment, people were very interested in visiting memorial exhibitions, especially one for a historical legendary figure like Emperor Roselle. So, when they arrived, a long queue had already formed at the museum entrance.
"Tsk, it feels like a national holiday!" Lin Ruo subconsciously exclaimed, looking at the long queue in front of him. He then glanced at Medici beside him and found that although Medici was a bit impatient, he seemed accustomed to this situation.
It wasn't that he was used to queuing, but more like he was used to something else.
Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow, having a guess, and said, "Did I often drag you out to play before?"
"Nonsense. Every time you snuck out to play, you'd drag me along to take the blame. Did you really think you could get leave every time you went out?" Medici said impatiently.
Lin Ruo: ...
Oh, this!
"This is what you call good brothers, sharing the burden together," Lin Ruo said without changing his expression.
"Heh." Medici sneered, full of sarcasm.
After this tiny interlude, the group continued to queue. Fortunately, although the line was long, the speed of entering the museum was not slow. Soon, everyone entered the museum.
Inside the museum, different guides were waiting. It was clear that Spectator would be divided, led into different formal exhibition halls through different passages and directions, to prevent everyone from crowding together and seeing nothing clearly.
"Let's split up here first. We'll explore separately and then meet up in Emperor Roselle's study exhibition hall, and then go for dinner," Lin Ruo suggested. He himself didn't care, but he could see that Klein was fine, but Benson and Melissa were quite restrained when they were with them. Since that was the case, it would be better to explore separately and just check if the black emperor card disguised as a bookmark was still there at the end.
"Okay." Klein had no objection to this and nodded.
He also noticed Benson and Melissa's restraint.
So the two groups separated. Lin Ruo randomly picked a female guide and, along with Medici, blended in with a dozen other visitors, entering the passage.
Along the way, the guide enthusiastically introduced the general life and deeds of Emperor Roselle. These were naturally things Lin Ruo already knew, so he just listened casually.
Soon they arrived at the first exhibition hall after this passage, and the guide's tone suddenly became excited. It was clear that she was an admirer of Emperor Roselle.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the exhibition hall we have now arrived at is called [Tender Roselle]. Please look, everyone, this is the first love letter Emperor Roselle wrote, and also his first love poem..."
The guide came to a display cabinet and pointed out each item inside, introducing them to everyone. Lin Ruo listened to her introduction with interest. There was no other reason; he mainly thought about how socially embarrassed the Emperor would be after the old residents of Sefirah Castle were released many years later.
Besides that, visiting such a memorial exhibition was also an interesting and meaningful thing for Lin Ruo—having seen these "memorials" and further understanding Roselle, it would be easier for him to bluff the next time he entered a historical illusion!
After introducing a series of the Emperor's love letters, love poems, gifts for lovers, and other items, the guide led everyone to another display cabinet.
If the previous cabinet belonged to Emperor Roselle's lovers, then this display undoubtedly belonged to Emperor Roselle's children. It basically displayed things "invented" by Emperor Roselle for his children, such as chess and building blocks.
This was also where Klein first met Queen Mystic Bernadette Gustav in the original novel, but perhaps the timing was off. At this moment, there was no Huang Beibei in front of this display cabinet, nor in other parts of the exhibition hall.
Honestly, this made Lin Ruo a little disappointed, but he didn't pay too much attention because his attention was quickly drawn to the next display cabinet.
That was a display cabinet full of various letters. Lin Ruo counted them, and there were about thirty-six, a truly considerable number. Next to them were envelopes without stamps, only a hastily written line "For Roselle" on the surface.
Lin Ruo found the handwriting on those letters very familiar, so familiar that his eyebrow twitched. Then he heard the guide introduce:
"These are thirty-six letters exchanged between Emperor Roselle and his friend, Mr. Lin Ruo. We don't know who this Mr. Lin Ruo is, but he was undoubtedly an important friend of Emperor Roselle."
"As you can see, these letters were not actually mailed to Roselle. In fact, if you look here, the upper half of these letters contains content written by the unnamed Mr. Lin Ruo, but the subsequent part is a reply personally written by Emperor Roselle. We even have reason to believe that they communicated in this manner face-to-face."
"Why they did this, we don't know. It might be a unique romance belonging to artistic creators, or perhaps Mr. Lin Ruo had some physical defect," the guide said vividly.
"Through the content of these letters, we know that Mr. Lin Ruo's interactions with Emperor Roselle were mainly focused on literary creation. In fact, Emperor Roselle's ability to create so many excellent literary works is inseparable from Mr. Lin Ruo..."
Yes, of course it's inseparable, after all, they were Letter of Reminder meaning to urge or press, and 'draft' meaning manuscript or draft, so it means a letter urging someone to submit their manuscript or work)!
Lin Ruo looked at his and Roselle's sarcastic exchanges on the letters in the display cabinet, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
This was truly a surprise.
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