[Masterpiece Les Miserables] Paris Sparks

Corona has always been the head of the family—she doesn't put on airs of parents, but Fantine, Jean Valjean and Cosette are all willing to obey her decision.Except for the estates and properties transferred to Fantine and Cosette, she should be in charge of the family's finances and communication.

But when she fell, the family wasn't thrown into turmoil.

This part is due to the various arrangements she made in advance-it is a bit ironic to say that Caton arranged her in this way, and now she also arranges the future life of Fantine and Cosette in this way.The irony is that these advance preparations do work.The training in advance ensured her own self-reliance, and now Fantine can smoothly take over the affairs she left behind.

The other part is the talent displayed by Fantine and Cosette.The influence between family members is sometimes subtle and imperceptible, and these cumulative influences are not shown until special moments are encountered.Fantine and Cosette do seem to have some of the same temperament as Coronne: when they face a sudden blow, although they look weak on the outside, they can always stand up strong and even calmly and continue walking.They quickly and tacitly organized the division of labor in the chaos: Fantine and Anne took care of the female workers and various school affairs together, and wrote letters in Coronne's handwriting, and took care of her various communications. Cover up the traces and make it look like Corona is indeed on vacation in England.Cosette was responsible for taking care of the wounded. She went back and forth between the Rue Plumet and the Marsh every day, with one heart tied to Coronne and the other to Marius. Both of them were in critical condition. Among injuries.Standing calmly in such an environment that can break ordinary hearts, she is like a pampered canary who suddenly discovers that she has boundless ability to deal with suffering.

In addition, she has another task: she is responsible for all matters related to the friends of ABC, Mabeuf, and Eponine.

During the revolution, the girls' school did not hesitate to break the rule that boys over ten years old were not allowed to enter the school, and temporarily took in revolutionaries from several nearby barricades.It is impossible for these people to stay in the school all the time, but it is also impossible to open the door and throw them out.For this reason, the school temporarily suspended classes, and it was busy for several days: the revolutionaries who already had families and residences passed through several workers' families in the middle, avoiding the police and sent them home.The injured female worker stayed in the school's infirmary to recuperate.Unmarried bachelors are taken in by co-workers.Fantine, Anne, and the Sister Headmaster did all these things together.But among many people, there are two special cases that cannot be handled according to this: one is Mabeufu's father-in-law, and the other is Eponine.They refused to accept the mercy of others, and they also rejected the help provided by the school.

The best way, of course, is to ignore it.There are many people in the world who cannot and cannot be helped. There is always a limit to human ability, and those who cannot be helped have to give up.I have been doing charity work for a long time, and this is a truth I have to understand.But Mr. Mabeu was a good friend of Marius, and Éponine was a good friend of Cosette. She could not just drive them out of the house like this, so she proposed to Fantine that she would help in this matter.

Only three days had passed since the battle on the barricade, and both Coronne and Marius were still unconscious.Cosette got out of the rush between the two places, rushed to the school, and sneaked into the infirmary lightly.Éponine had woken up the day before, and when Cosette went in, she happened to be looking at the ceiling boredly.She walked over and lay down beside Éponine's bed. "Are you okay?" she asked softly.

Éponine turned her head on the pillow and stared at her sullenly.She was originally skinny and skinny, and now she was injured, her face was bloodless, her eyes were sunken, she looked really scary. "Why did you come to see me?" she asked.

Cosette was taken aback by the question. "You're hurt!" she said. "Of course I'm coming."

"Don't you know that I have not sent your letter to Marius?"

Cosette really didn't know. "Have you not?" she asked in amazement, "but...but then Gavroche sent me a reply from Marius."

"You wrote to me on the night of the Fourth of July. I knew where he was, but I didn't send it to him. I waited until late at night on the Fifth of July, when I had led him to the barricades. Give him the letter. At that time, the police had blocked the intersection behind, and I thought no one could get out."

"You led him to the barricade?!" exclaimed Cosette, "but why, don't you hate Marius?"

Eponine laughed hoarsely, and after a few laughs, she touched the wound on her shoulder, and her face was covered in cold sweat from the pain.Cosette quickly held her down.She took a few breaths, bit the corner of the quilt to endure the pain, and then continued: "So you really don't know anything."

"Then tell me. What don't I know?"

Éponine was silent for a while.She turned her head and put her eyes on the ceiling again, no longer looking at Cosette.

"You don't know, I love him."

In the quiet room, Cosette could clearly hear her gasp. "You love him?" she asked in shock.

Éponine was silent.

"...But," Cosette paused for a moment before continuing, "if you love him, wouldn't it be even more unreasonable to let him die?"

"No! As long as he lives, he must belong to you. I'm just a poor little wretch to him. He's mine only when he dies." She gave a hoarse wry smile, "As a result, I couldn't even realize this wish. !He survived, he is yours after all. So what if I love him? No one will love me!"

"But then why did you block another shot for him?"

"I don't know! I don't know." Eponine said impatiently, already starting to pant a little, her voice getting lower and lower.She never looked at Cosette again, "Okay! I have nothing to say to you. He survived, and there is nothing we can do. That only proves that God is really against me. Now, drive me out." .”

Cosette was silent for a long time without speaking.Eponine waited for a long time, and couldn't help but secretly glanced at her from the corner of her eyes, only to see that she was staring at her with tears in her eyes.

"But I like you," she said, "it's not like no one loves you!"

She sniffed lightly, "I regard you as a friend and always have. Don't you think so?"

"You don't have to be so sentimental." Éponine answered coldly, hard-hearted.

Cosette sniffed again, which sounded like a sob, but when Éponine turned to look at her, her tears did not fall.She clenched her hands tightly together, still barely maintaining a calm and gentle expression on her face. "Marius is still unconscious." She changed the subject without warning, "but I am sure he will live. You will too. When he recovers, I will bring him to see you. Or if you When you get better, I'll take you to see him. He'll be very grateful to you. Don't you want to see him and talk to him again?"

Éponine really wanted to.Yes, Marius would thank her!He would look at her intently, he would smile at her, he would speak to her—not for Cosette, but only for her.He might hold her hand!She longed for all this, was ashamed to admit it to Cosette, and felt a pang of shame and indignation that she should have brought it up.She said nothing, but Cosette seemed to have drawn an answer from her silence, and stood up.

"Then you must stay here and recover from your wounds. When you are well, I will take you to Marius, and let him thank you in person," said Cosette.

She walked out in a hurry, and tears rolled down her eyes as soon as she went out.She covered her mouth with one hand, and clutched the hem of her skirt with the other hand, and ran away. On the way, she ran into a young girl who was helping here. She glanced at Cosette in amazement, but Cosette ignored her. .She walked faster and faster, and then she simply turned into a trot, running all the way to the end of the corridor, knocking open the door of the most remote and quietest room at the end.It was originally a classroom, but it was empty because of the suspension of classes.Cosette rushed into the room, closed the door behind her, leaned against it with her back, covered her face with her handkerchief, and burst into tears.The silk handkerchief was wet in an instant.

She was crying for no reason!She had never cried like this before.When was the last time she cried like this?Three years old, four years old?When he learned that his mother had given up on him?She wasn't even a little impressed.She couldn't tell why she was crying: for Eponine's hopeless love?For this friend she already had a feeling she was doomed to lose?For the unnecessary separation and misunderstanding between her and Marius?For her relatives and lover who are unconscious and struggling on the verge of life and death?Why had Fantine and Jean Valjean not spoken to Marius so far?

Hiding here and crying won't solve any problems, but for some reason, the grievance in my heart surges up and I can't suppress it anymore.Cosette remembered that Éponine came to her that night, she was worried about how to deliver a letter to Marius, and seeing her was as happy as seeing a savior.She didn't even have time to ask why Eponine came to her, and took her hand first: "Great! Fortunately, you are here, please help me, Eponine, help me." Shall I send a letter?"

At that time, she was so happy that she never thought that Éponine would hide her letter and not deliver it.Nor did she know that Éponine knew Marius.Had she already decided at that moment that she would take Marius with her to die?How should she feel when she received Cosette's letter?

Well, there are so many men in the world, why should Éponine love Marius?

She also felt that it was unreasonable to think so, but she didn't know who should be blamed when the matter came to this point.She hid in the house and cried for a while, when suddenly she heard a thin little girl's voice outside, from far to near. "Mademoiselle Cosette!" cried the girl along the corridor, "Mademoiselle Cosette—"

Cosette hastily wiped away her tears and went out to stop her. It turned out that Anne sent her to find Cosette.So she followed the little girl to see Annie, who was startled by her. "What's the matter?" she asked hurriedly, "Is Eponine okay?!"

"What's wrong with Eponine?" Cosette also became nervous.

After walking around for a long time, the two of them realized that it was a false alarm, and each breathed a sigh of relief. Annie didn't ask her why she was crying like this—she had lost her parents and siblings one after another, and she was often more sensitive to other people's feelings.She turned to another matter: "You don't have to worry about Mr. Ma Baifu's side." She said, "It's been settled over there."

"How?" asked Cosette.

"Do you remember that there was a student named Claire in the school? Her father was a bookseller, and she seemed to be acquainted with Father-in-law Mabeuf in the past! Later, Father-in-law Mabeuf was in financial difficulties, and it was her father who bought books from him. I bought a set of copperplates for the printed book. Later, their store moved and we lost contact with each other. She volunteered here a few days ago to help out and told her parents about it when she went back. Her father was also very moved and willing to return the set. Copperplate, she went to Mrs. Ma Bai’s house early this morning, and chatted with him so much that she didn’t want to come back! It seems that because both of them are book lovers, they can talk together.”

"That's great." Cosette breathed a sigh of relief.Seeing that her expression had softened, Annie asked her, "How is Eponine?"

"I think she would like to recover here," said Cosette.

She has always been very friendly when talking about Eponine, but today she only said this one sentence.Annie curled her lips and was about to continue asking, but Cosette asked back first: "Would you like to come to our house to see Corona today?"

Speaking of Corona, Annie immediately forgot about the topic just now. "Who is going to see her!" She was furious, and replied coldly, "She doesn't want to live anymore, she left us, and she wants to die. Then let her die! Anyway, I can't stop her, shut me up What's up!"

After the barricades, she never really set foot inside their house, let alone to see Corona.But in fact, if no one else mentioned it, Annie would ask about Corona's situation three times a day in a roundabout way.Cosette then took the initiative to continue: "She still hasn't woken up today. But the situation doesn't seem to be worse. The doctor was worried about whether she had a fever a few days ago, but from last night to today, there is no fever at all. I think it should be A good sign. Don't you think?"

Annie kept a straight face and didn't answer her directly. "You say, your sister——that's not right. What the hell is your aunt thinking?" She complained, "So many people want to live but can't live. Fortunately, she took the lead to die, and encouraged other girls to go together! Two There was a revolution just a year ago, and you saw the result. What good results can there be?"

As she spoke, her momentum weakened: "...she has obviously done so many things. Why doesn't she know how to be satisfied?"

"I don't know." Cosette said, "I can't understand why she has to fight. It's obviously a matter for men. But... If she is a person who is content with the present, this school will not There is, right?"

Annie gave a wry smile. "Yeah," she whispered, "I should have known . . . that's what she was."

"Did you forgive her then?"

"Absolutely not!"