[Comprehensive film and television] The formula of perfume

【Adele】

There was still mist in Paris in the early morning. A thin young man was standing under the street lamp. He was dressed in shabby but clean clothes, with his hands in his trouser pockets, kicking a small stone boredly.It is noteworthy that his feet are very flexible, and even small stones are kicked out of tricks by him.

If I hadn't seen this performance of his when I was young, and I was very familiar with it, I almost wouldn't have recognized him.

"Cory?" I tentatively called out his name.

The boy looked up, his eyes lit up when he saw me, he seemed to be taken aback for a moment, and then a big smile appeared on his face with puberty freckles: "Adele, long time no see!"

"Long time no see, how are you?" I happily hugged him, happy to find that Corey was already a head taller than me.When I left Paris, Cory's puberty had just begun, and over three years later, he had grown from a boy to a boy.

However, like Grenouille, he is also very thin, but compared to waifs of the same age, Cory has developed very well.After I came to Paris, I went alone to the gathering place where the waifs often go to inquire about Corey, and I learned that he is now an apprentice with a theater artist, and he will soon be a teacher.

"This is it?" Corey picked up the conical glass perfume bottle I gave him, and shook the liquid inside curiously: "That guy made it? Are you sure you only sell this one a day?"

"Yes," I nodded, "If you can't sell it today, you'll sell another one tomorrow, and this one won't be sold again." I came to Corey not just to catch up, but to ask him to help.

Although Corey has become an artist's apprentice, he still has a good appeal among street children. I asked him to find a smarter child for me to be a temporary buddy and sing a little nursery rhyme.The lyrics of the nursery rhyme I have been brainstorming for a long time, in order to promote our fragrance in a non-obtrusive way.

"Cory, this is going to trouble you. It may not work in the short term, but we will make a lot of money. At that time, I will build big houses for all the street children in Paris!"

Corey shrugged his shoulders, seeming to be indifferent to my lofty ideals: "Okay, I will help, don't worry."

"Okay," I nodded with a smile. There are more and more people on the street, and it's not convenient to talk like this. "We'll meet at this time tomorrow, and you can send a smart kid."

"Wait a minute, Adele," Cory called to me, opening and closing his mouth, hesitating to speak, "Are you... are you living with that guy Grenouille now?"

living together?This is a bit ambiguous.I shook my head again and again: "No, we just live in the same apartment."

"But you want to do something big for him, don't you?" Corey shook the perfume bottle: "Adele, from the standpoint of a friend, I frankly, Grenouille is a weirdo. If you like him , I don’t think there will be a good result.”

"Like him? Oh, no, no, of course not," I thought it was a little funny, the age of this body is only a little over 13 years old, although European children generally develop early, and many girls in this era are indeed fifteen or sixteen years old There was a marriage contract, but I felt that it was too early for me, so I had to explain with a smile, "Grenouille is my good friend, that's it."

"That's right," Corey's expression suddenly became relaxed and lively. "Tonight, our opera house has a Hannibal play, which is a new adaptation. I happen to have a ticket. Do you want to go with me?"

"Why, why did she go with you?"

A very blunt rhetorical question came from behind me, with a blunt tone, and it didn't sound happy at all.

Corey looked past me and raised his eyebrows: "Oh, Grenouille, long time no see, you haven't changed at all." I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that Corey's words seem unfriendly.

Grenouille ignored him completely. He came over and stared at me. I was surprised for the first time that he also had an angry expression: "Adele, why did you give him the perfume I made?"

"I need Corey's help. I'll tell you the details later, okay?" Grenouille's eyes were straightened and his lips were slightly raised, indicating that he might want to do something unfriendly. I felt that I should take him back to the apartment quickly, so I dragged him by the hand, and said goodbye to Corey in a hurry: "Goodbye Corey, you know, I'm...uh..."

Corey twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, then smiled: "Okay, see you tomorrow."

Grenouille's chin clenched tightly, and the bones protruded.

Why does he have so much animosity towards Corey?It wasn't like this before!And when Grenouille faced unfamiliar people, where did his habitually timid little eyes and harmless little expressions go!

"I don't like you staying with him." I kept asking him what was going on all the way, but he kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything until he returned to the apartment, he suddenly broke the silence and dropped this sentence forcefully .

He lowered his head and didn't look at me, arched his back, like a child who made a mistake, but his tone was so hard, as if he was angry.

I had no choice but to tell the reason why I went to Corey.I thought Grenouille didn't care about business, so I didn't tell him about my plan, but it turned out that he didn't care about it either. I tried to explain my intentions for a long time, and he just said: "You can't leave I."

"what?"

"Every time I see Corey, I want to be with you." Grenouille tilted his head slightly, but still looked down at me.

The tone is wayward but a little cute.

At least I think so.

"Okay, let's go together." I replied briskly, it was rare for him to make a request on his own initiative, and of course I had to satisfy it.

But he still seemed dissatisfied: "Then...that opera, you don't want to be with him..."

"Opera?! Where is there an opera? I want to watch an opera!!!" Suddenly there was a bang, bang, bang, bang bang, and the door to the opposite door suddenly opened, and that fellow Leicester jumped out of the coffin, wearing a nightgown and singing an aria: "Opera, Ah! the soul of music, the subversion of performance, the crystallization of human art, ah! opera!"

I exposed him expressionlessly: "You want to take the opportunity to suck human blood again, Lester?"

He urged us to go to a masquerade together the day before yesterday, but I declined, does this lonely old vampire suffer from a night without hunting?

It's a bad habit.

【Jean Grenouille】

"Miss Adele, do you know that I've been bored in this ghost apartment for a few days?" I was in a bad mood at first, but Lester's eccentric voice made me even more unhappy. This place is rented by Adele. How dare he dislike him?

"Stay in this crappy place every day, how do you want me to find Louis and Claudia, I'm here for revenge, not to play house with you!"

"Oh...revenge, that's a good excuse. In fact, I never stopped you from going out. I was just worried that you would find prey as soon as you went out." Adele nodded, actually approving, "It's not even going out. With my permission, you are a good vampire who keeps your promise, Lester, and I must give you an award."

"Oh! Shut up! I'm not keeping some ghost agreement, I never did, you know! Nasty little girl!" Lester ran to the second-hand piano like a wind and pressed the keys frantically. I don't understand music, but I know he plays the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight, and every time he plays this when he is irritable, his ears feel cocooned.

But Adele was still laughing: "Okay, okay, I surrender, don't play, let's watch "Hannibal" together tonight, but there are conditions, no hunting, no trouble, okay, Lai Mister Sturt?"

A cold snort came from the other end: "It's ridiculous, why should I listen to you?"

Aren't you waiting for Adele to nod now?If I didn't feel that what he said last night gave me a little inspiration, I really don't want to talk to this hypocritical, bad-smelling, aristocratic bad-tempered guy anymore.

But right now he's second to Corey in obnoxiousness.

I decided that until I figured out how I felt about Adele, Cory would be enemy number one.

"But to watch the opera, you need to dress up well, right? I have been busy for several days after coming to Paris, and I haven't had time to buy a good outfit for Jean." Adele suddenly turned her gaze to me, looking up and down, I felt a little creepy , "Lester, those antique tuxedos you keep in Paris, are there any more that you can wear?"

Lester glanced at me and let out a soft snort: "He is too thin, he can't even wear my clothes, so buy another one. I remember these old shops provide ready-made dresses, men's and women's Yes, and the rent is cheap.”

"Oh! Don't look down on people, Lester! We have money to buy dresses! It's just that we are in a hurry and there is no time to order them!"

"Heh...don't forget, except for the pitiful ten or so yuan, all the gold coins in your purse are mine."

"Isn't this your investment in us, Mr. Lester? Isn't Jean's talent so impressive that you decided to donate money to us for free?"

"...Adele, talking nonsense with your eyes open is not a good habit for a little girl."

They chattered back and forth, full of gunpowder, and they always talked like this recently, and Adele seemed to like to provoke Lester.I won't participate, but I will keep an eye on Lester's movements to prevent him from hurting Adele.

But this time the flames of war spread to me.

*Originally after they finished talking, Lester would go back to the coffin, and I could go to make perfume with peace of mind, but I couldn't go into the studio today, damn Lester found a hairdresser, two dressers, a A make-up artist and a shoemaker come.I was forced to soak for hours in lukewarm water, and ended up with a head-to-toe scrub with walnut oil soap from the Andean city of Potosí.I was forced to cut my fingernails and toenails clean. The make-up artist cleaned my teeth with very fine dolomite lime. The barber cut his hair short, combed it, ironed it, and powdered it.

A silk shirt with a white radish on the chest and white handles on the cuffs, and a black tuxedo with shiny golden cufflinks. The same shiny black leather shoes with buckles were given by the shoemaker. The glue was very delicate and fit my slightly misshapen foot.

"Stand up straight, keep your back straight, let Grenouille!" Adele yelled at me, moving the big mirror over.

I stared at the guy in the mirror in a daze.

this is me?

My appearance can be so... normal?It's just...unbelievable.I certainly don't look very handsome, but I'm not ugly either, well, I'm a little thinner and shorter than Lester, and I'm not as expressive.Other than that, it's really no different from the others.Throw me on the street casually, probably no one will care, it looks very, very ordinary - except that the clothes are really more expensive.

"Oh! Jean, you're so handsome! You should have dressed like this!" Adele jumped up to compliment me so excitedly that I now sometimes blush when I smell her scent, like now.

I hugged her and couldn't bear to let go, so I murmured reluctantly: "You...you are too exaggerated, okay..."

"No, no, it's great! You're the most handsome, Jean!" I thought it was very ordinary, but she grinned and kissed me hard on the cheek, making me a little dizzy.She seems to really appreciate my outfit?

"Hey," Lester sneered inappropriately, "this is called handsome? Heh, with his small body and appearance, I can help him dress up like this. In the end, he didn't wear perfume. , you can solve this yourself, Grenouille?"

"Of course..." I replied casually, Adele's smell seemed to be a little better, I sneaked closer to sniff her hair, not forgetting to ask her opinion, "What kind of perfume do you like for me to use?" , Adele?"

Unexpectedly, she reacted suddenly, she raised her head and stared at me fiercely, which startled me: "Anything is fine, but the one prepared by Glass is absolutely not allowed, that one is absolutely not allowed!"

I nodded quickly, in fact, I didn't think of such a thing at all: "Of course not, uh... What kind of perfume do you like, I will make another..."

"Others...whatever, I can't smell it anyway."

"Adele, you have a bad nose? No wonder you are so annoying at such a young age," Lester suddenly floated over, nodded in a serious manner, and then asked me curiously, "What did you build in Grasse?" The strange perfume made the little girl react so strongly?"