When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 596 Leonardo Lipo
"I originally wanted to keep this painting for myself." Leonardo Lipo touched the white oak frame with copper wire and said with gritted teeth, "12 gold pounds, you can take this "Resurrection of the Lord"."

The nobleman opposite him put his head close to the painting and observed it carefully. After a long while, he said, "Of course I believe in Master Leonardo's painting, but I just escaped from Dawn Island and don't have that many gold pounds. I'm afraid I can only take out 10 gold pounds."

"Holy Father, 10 gold pounds? Are you kidding? I didn't even sell it to Lady Yashar for 24 gold pounds. The price I'm giving you is already % off." Leonardo's hand holding the photo frame clenched suddenly.

"But I can only squeeze out 10 pounds at most. This is the highest price I can offer."

The two students beside him tried to persuade him: "Sir Leonardo, there is chaos around Dawn Island, and we still need to save money for the trip. How much is too much?"

"Then I won't sell it." An exasperated Leonardo picked up the exquisite painting and began to rewrap it with paper. "I'd rather borrow money from a loan shark. Anyway, if I take this painting to the Kingdom of France, 20 gold pounds won't be too much."

Seeing that Leonardo really intended to repack and take away, the nobleman who escaped from the war zone of Dawn Island hurriedly stopped him: "Okay, okay, how much do you say?"

"Twelve gold pounds, not a penny less." Leonardo turned his head stubbornly.

A quarter of an hour later, Leonardo walked out of the country house with several fellow students. He weighed the purse in his hand and couldn't help but sigh.

"I know you think it's too cheap and we won't have money to enjoy it later." The curly-haired junior Rooney advised, "But today is different from the past. Let's fill our stomachs first."

Leonardo shook his head: "I don't think the painting was sold at a low price, it's just that the painting was sold by a vulgar nobleman who didn't understand art. He was just pretending to be cultured, just like those kings and dukes who wantonly spread plague, death and suffering."

"Nobles are always vulgar, but we can't do without them. Otherwise, who will sponsor our art and academics?" Rooney picked up his robe and jumped over the mud on the ground.

"It would be great if there was a place where I could do research freely without being interfered with by the nobles, or by the church." Leonardo felt a pang of heartache when he mentioned this. "My perpetual motion machine, my perpetual motion machine."

You know, he lived frugally, sold paintings like crazy, and spent a huge amount of money to build the prototype of the spiral flushing perpetual motion machine.

This time is different from the last ball bearing perpetual motion machine. He has a vague feeling that this perpetual motion machine that uses the principle of water and falling objects may have touched the threshold of a true perpetual motion machine.

If this perpetual motion machine could be realized, farmers would no longer need the lord's mill, and merchants would no longer need horse-drawn carriages. Even if this perpetual motion machine was shrunk and equipped with dragonfly-like wings, it would be able to fly!

Leonardo has finished drawing the design and is just waiting for the perpetual motion machine to be completed so that he can publish a paper on it. Then he can finally graduate.

However, when the final construction was just around the corner, war broke out.

From February to May, a terrible tug-of-war broke out between "King Gigi" Jinigis and his two uncles at the border between Dawn Island and Heshang Island.

Leonardo thought that the two dukes were about to advance to Changge City and the war should be over soon.

But surprisingly, not only did the movement not end, but it became more intense and quickly spread to most groups in society, including scholars.

First, craftsmen were captured to build siege engines, then soldiers broke into the university to extort property and loot warehouses, then cholera swept through, and then medical students were forced into the army.

If Leonardo hadn't been able to run fast, he would have become a military engineer and followed His Majesty the King into battle.

But the price is that after delaying his graduation for fifteen years, he has to delay his graduation again this year.

The great dream was about to come true, but it was shattered because of the selfish desires of these inferior nobles. How could Leonardo not be resentful?
Together with his junior Looney, Leonardo led three servants, and the five of them walked along the fence and country road for more than ten minutes and arrived at a farm outside the town.

The farm is located near the main road, and farmers can be seen working in the fields or grazing in the surrounding area. Occasionally, the howling of wolves can be heard from the nearby woods. Those are the witchers hired by the town hunting wolves.

Unlike the previous few days when the entire avenue was full of people fleeing to the countryside, Vincentland Port was located on the edge of Dawn Island, far away from the center of the battlefield, and was relatively peaceful. "Old Sunny, why are your eyes red?" Holding a purse, Looney greeted the gatekeeper outside the farm.

The old gatekeeper rubbed his eye mucus and said, "I'm old and can't sleep well."

Leonardo was in no mood to chat with the old gatekeeper. He greeted him and opened the door before entering King's University on River Island.

This farm is now the King's University on River Island, or a branch of the King's University on River Island.

There is a huge difference between an imperial university and a modern university. A modern university is a university when there is a school, funding and teachers, while an imperial university is a university when there are masters.

They didn't even have the concept of a university in the early days, but rather a guild of scholars similar to the Dragon Language Scholars Guild, which was not only an academic and educational institution, but also a commercial institution with its own craftsmen and shops.

For the Scholars' Guild, education was incidental, not the primary purpose.

When the Salin Scholars Society in the Golden Horn moved south in 1268, more than a dozen famous masters and scholars in the empire came together to share resources to educate students, and this was the prototype of a university.

In 1357, with the recognition of the then Emperor and King of France, the Imperial University of Hanayama was officially established.

After that, they split and reorganized several times, and finally formed eleven universities within the empire.

Among them, there are seven in Faran, three in Leia, and only one in the Kingdom of Norn, which is often removed by the Pope.

The university where Leonardo, as an illegitimate son of a noble family, studied was the King's University of River Island in Changge City.

After the war broke out, except for those groups that had close ties with the king, most teachers and students temporarily fled the war zone, either hiding out or simply going to other universities.

Currently, Leonardo's group is hesitant about whether to stay out of the spotlight or go to other universities.

There were more than a dozen carriages parked in the farm, loaded with all kinds of manuscripts and tools. Scholars in bachelor's robes came and went, while craftsmen and servants moved rations onto the carriages.

Seeing Leonardo coming back, the craftsmen took off their hats to greet him, while the college students and scholars nodded and greeted him.

In the largest knight hall on the farm, Leonardo knocked on the door and then pushed it open.

Several scholars who were having lunch in the hall looked up and saw that it was Leonardo who came back. They wiped their mouths and stood up to greet him.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Libo."

"Good afternoon, Dean Senius."

"Good afternoon, Mr. Libo."

"good afternoon……"

After greeting the four teachers one by one, Leonardo walked straight to the soup bucket.

"I sold two paintings today for a total of 22 gold pounds. This money can last me for about two weeks." Leonardo made a bowl of pea soup and sat down with hummus and bread. "We must decide how to travel in the next few days. We can't delay any longer."

(End of this chapter)