[Masterpiece Les Miserables] Paris Sparks

Although the literacy classes were initially set up for female workers, there were no restrictions on the number of students enrolled. There were even several cases where mothers and young daughters attended elementary classes together.There is only one thing: you need to register your name and address when you enroll.

Of course, no one was found at the address registered by the Thenardier sisters.

Out of caution, Corona disguised herself as a man before going to that address to inquire.She pretended to be running errands and yelled at the two girls to get back the things they had stolen.The aunt who lived there stood outside the door with her hips akimbo, yelling curses.

"Whoever stole your things, go to them, don't rely on me!... If you lose something, even the thief can't find the right person, you deserve to steal it!... What did those two little girls with sharp mouths and monkey cheeks do outside? I have nothing to do with it!... I haven't heard that the landlord still cares about these crap things, and it's not like I don't have parents or mothers, so ask them to discipline me!"

Corona and her pretended to have a quarrel, but they couldn't quarrel with each other, so they ran away.But she learned a lot from this quarrel: there were indeed two little girls named Eponine and Azma living here, also of the same age, but their parents were not named Thenardier. , but called Jondrette.According to the landlord, the family was so poor that they didn't seem to be earning a living.Just last week, she kicked the family out when they couldn't pay the rent.As for where they went after that?Then she would know nothing.

Corona pretended to be depressed, and walked on the street, slowly considering these things.

It is not easy to find someone in Paris with this little information.If she really wanted to make up her mind to spend a lot of energy, she might be able to find someone like Carton did when she was looking for her mother and Fantine, but she couldn't help but think carefully: Is this really necessary?Knowing that Dana's first family is not doing well, she is relieved.Of course, it would be better if they could be sent to prison, but rather than punishing them, she was more concerned about: would they want revenge?

She has more contact with the poor at the bottom, and she also knows a little bit about those dark deeds hidden in the shadows of Paris.Her knowledge was very limited, but enough for her to understand that some dangerous outlaws would and would do anything.She had no doubts about the character of the Thenardiers: they obviously had no morals or conscience.Nor did she doubt that they could make friends with criminals and thugs faster and deeper than she could.Moreover, the Thenardiers also had sufficient motives for revenge.If she goes looking for people with great fanfare, will they get the news first, or will they ask them to find out about her instead?

The key to this lies in one point: whether the Thenardier family already knew about them and had the idea of ​​revenge.If the family is already in danger, it is of course better to fight back first.But if they didn't know that she and Cosette were a family, and they just wanted to cheat some literacy class subsidies and slipped away, then for the safety of Fantine and Cosette, she would rather choose to let things go.

Besides... if she can really successfully send the Thenardiers to prison.What will be the fate of those two girls?

Corona didn't like them, after all, they were also accomplices in bullying Cosette.But at that time, after all, they were still young, and they did some wrong things, and they didn't need to pay such a big price to repay them.She knows how miserable the fate of women can be, and she doesn't want to create two tragic lives by herself.

With these things in mind, she walked two streets, suddenly turned a corner, and entered a nearby tavern, and soon came out through the back door, quietly hiding by the door.After a while, the crack of the back door was quietly opened, and a small head was exposed. As soon as I looked around, someone picked it up by the back collar.

"What are you following me for?" Corona asked him in a low voice.

When she picked it up, she realized that the child was lighter and smaller than she expected, and looked no more than five years old.He uttered a yelp and writhed in her hands like a wild dog. "Who is following you!" he yelled, "The road is so wide and there are so many people walking, why do you say I am following you!"

"If you didn't follow me, it means that we happened to walk this far on the same road, and every turn is exactly the same? What a coincidence, I don't know where you are going?"

The little boy rolled his eyes and really answered: "I'm going to the big market!"

You can really go this way to go to the big market.Corona asked: "What are you going to do in the big market?"

"I'm going to Sweet Bee Bakery to buy bread!"

Sweet Bee Bakery is a well-known bakery near the big market. It is very close to here, half a road at most.But judging by the tattered clothes on the boy's body, he didn't look like he could afford bread.It's a little probing.Corona pretended not to notice, and nodded calmly: "That's really a coincidence, I'm going to buy bread there too."

The little boy froze.

"Are you going together?" Corona asked, and let go of her hand, but the child ran away as soon as it touched the ground.Seeing that she was not chasing, he turned around and made a face at her. "I've changed my mind! Go yourself!" he shouted, and ran away.

But he didn't run far.He hid at the intersection and peeped quietly, and saw that the thin young man he was following really went to the Sweet Bee Bakery, took out a few coins from his pocket, talked to the boss for a while, and then walked from the other end of the market with a bag of bread left.

Now that he had been discovered, Gavroche did not dare to continue to follow.He hid for a while, convinced that the young man had completely left, he couldn't help but ran to the front of the bakery and looked at the bread inside through the window.The sweet smell of freshly baked bread has a fatal attraction for hungry children. Knowing that he can't afford it, Gavroche can't help but walk around here several times a day until he is driven away by the boss.

"Hey, that kid." The bakery owner called him as usual.But this time instead of scolding him to leave, the boss took out a paper bag from under the counter and threw it to him, Gavroche quickly caught it. "A customer bought it for you just now."

Gavroche stared at him suspiciously.How can anyone do such a stupid thing?But the bag in his hand was warm and smelled of bread, and he glanced down quickly to see a large loaf of white bread lying in it, big enough to last him a day.

"Who is it?" he asked.

"Just now a young man in a long brown coat and a wide-brimmed hat, with blue eyes," said the boss, describing the man he had just followed. "He said, offer you bread."

Gavroche stared at him, and then at the loaf of bread.He suddenly held the paper bag tightly in his arms, turned his head and ran away like flying.He ran to a deserted place before he opened the bag, grabbed the bread with his dark hands, and eagerly took a big bite.

The bread had been sitting for a while, and it wasn't as hot as it was when it came out of the oven, but it was still so hot that Gavroche took a deep breath with his mouthful of bread.The butter sandwiched inside has melted and permeated between the lips and tongue. It is a delicacy he has never tasted before, and it is unimaginably delicious.While hissing and inhaling, he wolfed down most of the loaf of bread, licking off the crumbs that stuck to his hands, and then wrapped the rest carefully and hid it in the coat that dragged down to his knees.

A fool, he thought, but a good man.

The world view of five or six-year-old children is very simple, especially for children who lack education.Gavroche thought about it, and decided not to tell the two sisters that they were being investigated.

They never cared about my life.He thought, why should I bother with them?

The author has something to say: Gavroche is actually six years old now (the second version of the fan), but because he is wandering on the street and malnourished, he looks younger, so Corona thinks he is under five years old.