[Comprehensive film and television] The formula of perfume

【Jean Grenouille】

One early morning in May, I finally got my master's certificate from Baldini. He gave me a travel backpack. I didn't see what was in it, and now I couldn't wait to get out of here.

"Hi, Monsieur Grenouille," when I walked out of Paris and the crowds became less and less crowded, I saw Adele standing under a tree. She lifted up her worn skirt and gave me a little lady's salute. He smiled at me and said, "Sir, would you like to take a companion on a trip?"

"Of course... very welcome." I replied a little nervously.To be honest, I really didn't expect her to be here waiting for me, I thought she wouldn't come.That night a month ago, Adele said she wanted to walk with me, but since then, Adele has never been seen again, and I met that Corey again, and he told me that Adele has been very sad lately. busy.

What are you busy with?

I have no idea.In fact, Baldini had already signed me a full teacher certificate the day before yesterday, but I wanted to wait for Adele.

Until today, I have to leave, of course no one will see me off, but Adele...

"What's in your backpack?" When I was distracted, Adele came over to ask and showed me what she had brought.Her luggage was simpler than mine, only a small cloth satchel, which contained an old Bible, a comb, a map, a knife, and three pieces of black bread.

"Come, let me see... a shirt, two pairs of socks, a big sausage, an old woolen blanket, oh! That miser Baldini gave you twenty-five francs back! I was surprised, But trying to get rid of your value for 25 francs is too shrewd."

Then Adele opened the map in her satchel and began to think to herself: "Well, it's only 25 francs, I have to find out how to go the fastest and cheapest... Oh! Grenouille, where are you going?"

I looked back at her: "Let's go."

After leaving Paris, the further you go, the clearer, fresher and cleaner the air around you becomes.I like this pure scent composition, which is so liberating that I don't have to prepare to smell a new, unexpected, hostile smell every time I breathe.

The more I get away from people, the more free I feel.

"Grenouille, I suddenly thought of something."

"What?" I answered briefly. When I was immersed in the comfortable atmosphere where my nose was completely liberated, there would always be someone who interrupted my sensual enjoyment inappropriately, talking to me about unimportant topics .

"It suddenly occurred to me that there is a crack in Baldini's trading bridge, and it will break sooner or later, right? But now that we're gone, who else will notice?"

"Ah."

"Grenouille, you left according to your own will. We just missed the opportunity to go to Orleans to replenish food! I finally found this old map from the waste paper pile, but it didn't come in handy once. I Very disappointed!"

"Oh fine."

"Grenouille, I understand. You always look for places that are inaccessible. You don't like to meet people? Well...well...it doesn't matter, but...it's very difficult to travel at night."

"Follow me." I don't need Adele's map, I can walk by the judgment of my nose, and the daylight is harsh, I prefer moonlight.The moonlight does not distinguish between colors, nor is it dazzling, and it is faint. It will not dazzle me or disturb me visually.

"Grenouille, I'm hungry, let's rest for a while. Smell it, where is the nearest animal, I'll catch it, and you can find the right spice, okay?"

I took out the leftover hare meat from yesterday's backpack: "I'm not hungry."

"But you haven't eaten anything today. You are too thin. If you don't go on like this, you will faint from exhaustion!"

I am silent.Adele always has all kinds of reasons, and I seem to have to do what she says, and today is no exception.Traveling in the wild, without food supplies, 25 francs are completely useless. I think the wild fruits on the tree are enough to fill my stomach, but Adele must eat barbecued meat, saying that wild fruits are not nutritious.

So complicated.

I began to regret agreeing to Adele's request. I shouldn't have let her go with me, she was troublesome.

I found Adele to ask for some weeds for flavoring, and found that the place we chose to sleep had already set up a fire, but the fire hadn't been lit yet. Adele didn't wait for me where I knew she had gone Over there in the stream, today's food will be grilled fish.

In the grass, there were three fish jumping in vain, trying to get back into the water. The fish smelled of blood, and they were the spoils that Adele took with a harpoon.But where is Adele now?

"Grenouille, no peeking!"

The sun has not yet risen, and dawn is approaching. The light is not too strong, but it is clear enough. Adele is bathing in the river naked, with her wet clothes thrown on the big rocks by the stream.Her back was facing me, her back was smooth, but her bones were protruding, and she was too thin to store any fat.

I just glanced away and looked away. She didn't smell good on her body, she didn't smell at all, and I wasn't interested at all.

"If anyone comes nearby, be sure to remind me, remember!" When I turned around and walked back with the fish in hand, she was still telling me in a hurry.

"Yes." I replied. Adele actually loves to be clean. If there is running water, she must take a shower. This has happened many times on the road. She completely regards my nose as her bodyguard.

Cleaning fish is not my thing, but after Adele told me which parts to remove, I could do it with my eyes closed.So when Adele came out of the stream with wet hair, the fish was already on the fire.

"Grenouille, you are really getting more and more capable!" Adele was actively flipping the fish while she was not stingy with compliments, but I was not happy at all. Such things are superfluous to me. I would rather fall asleep after eating a few wild fruits, and then go on my way after waking up at night.

Although the grilled fish is indeed very fragrant and tastes good.

"Grenouille..." After finishing the journey the next night, it was almost dawn again. This was our rest period. Usually, Adele would look for easy prey at this time, but today she did not move for the first time. .

"There are blisters on my feet, three of them, it hurts so much." She looked at me in pain.

So there is no grilled meat or fish to eat today. I went around and found a bunch of wild berries that tasted okay, but what made me feel strange was that I actually started to miss those grilled foods, the berries in my mouth Instead, it was bland and tasteless.

The blisters did not go away after a day, so I drove on the third day with Adele on my back.

"Grenouille, did I cause you trouble?" She hugged my neck, was silent for a moment, and said cautiously: "You are several years older than me and so much taller. It is very difficult for me to travel, and it is normal to have blisters." of."

"So I think we need a carriage," Adele added.

"No need." I replied decisively, the carriage is easy to attract people's attention, I don't like it.

"But I need it."

"No money." She was indeed troublesome.

"There is no money, we can find a way to earn some, use your talent, and my smart brain," she nodded my nose, then poked her own head, "25 francs is our principal, the next The city is Mulan, let's not take a detour this time, just go in and have a look, shall we?"

I am silent.

"Grenouille?"

Continue to be silent.

"Let……"

Then silence.

"Jean Grenouille!"

Well, let's go in and see if we can just leave her in Mulan, I thought so, and then nodded to her.

【Adele】

Moulins is a city in central France. It is not as big as Orleans, but it is famous for leather processing and agricultural products. Looking at the farmland and villages in the suburbs, as well as the carriages going back and forth, you can tell that Moulins is still very good.

Grenouille’s performance after leaving Paris surprised me. He stayed away from the crowd completely, didn’t want to have contact with anyone at all, and rarely answered my words. Throw it in the wilderness, or directly into the mouth of the beast.

At this time, I thought that I had overestimated my position in Grenouille's mind and the degree to which he had no concept of morality.

So every night before I go to bed, I take my own headband and tie me and his hands together. Although I may not notice it in my deep sleep, my point is not here, but to warn Grenouille not to let him leave me alone. Leave!

The farther away from the crowd, the happier Grenouille was. He walked faster and faster, his waist became straighter and straighter, and he looked refreshed. He was not at all like the hunchbacked old man in Paris, but only if he Can't meet people.As long as someone passed by, he would immediately curl up and return to that timid look.

I have a kind of indignation that hates iron and steel. Why is he so vigilant and afraid of people?

After seeing his transformation, I was even more worried about leaving him, but I was still too young, he walked very fast, and would always leave me behind unconsciously.At this time, I have to speak to him loudly, and take his attention away from his scent kingdom, so that he will subconsciously stop and wait for me.

Even so, he didn't say more than twenty sentences a day to me, and the echoes of "um" and "ah" can't be counted.

But I still have blisters on my feet. There were already signs the day before yesterday, but I didn’t tell Grenouille, and I kept on going, hoping that it would go away by itself, but it didn’t cooperate at all, and turned into three shiny big ones. The blisters made it impossible for me to walk.

But this is also a good opportunity, just in case I can ask Grenouille to take me into the city.We can't avoid crowds like this forever, and we're really too poor.

"The Eye of Perspective" - ​​I set up a street stall in the busiest square in Mullins, and wrote these four words in Latin and French in a pretentious manner.I don't know much about these two languages, and they basically come from the preaching in the church in Paris and the Bible.

I bought two cloaks and a glass ball with the only 25 francs left in Grenouille's backpack, put them on the floor, and used the cloak to cover our tattered clothes. The two sat side by side, I took the glass ball, and Ge Together, Renoir did the gypsy trick.

First pot of gold

【Jean Grenouille】

We squatted on the side of the street for a while, but no one was interested in our stall. There are many street performers here. Compared with the one Adele messed with, it was really inconspicuous.

I started to wander, Moulins smells a little different from Paris, it is a small city after all, but there are also some new smells that I have never smelled, such as...

"Jean, tell me what's in this guy's box?" While I was sniffing the city, Adele suddenly leaned over quickly and pointed me in a direction.

I glanced at it casually, and there was a guy with a round belly and a cane coming from the corner of the street. He had a strong smell of lard that lingered on his body, and behind him were two guys carrying boxes. Get out of a winery or something because I smell...

"Grenouille!" Adele urged me in a low voice.

The guy and the guy behind him turned the corner and were coming our way.

"Sweet wine," I said.

"Oh!" Adele suddenly yelled while holding the glass ball: "A big box full of sweet wine, this is really..."

Before Adele finished speaking, I corrected: "There is a sycamore box under the wine."

Adele quickly changed her words: "Huh? There is a box made of sycamore wood under the fragrant wine, which is rare. It is too light and not suitable..."

"It's gold coins inside," I said, just as the guy who smelled of lard walked up to our booth.

"Hahaha!" Adele suddenly raised the glass ball and laughed loudly: "I understand, since there is such precious money in it, the sycamore box can be thrown away when it is used up, it is just an unimportant container! This old man really is..."

I lowered my voice and corrected: "Twenty of them are brass."

"It really is... very unlucky, alas..." Adele changed the words before she finished speaking.

"You say I'm unlucky?" The lard-smelling guy said coldly. I didn't need to look up to know that he was very angry. The stench in his mouth was intertwined with the phlegm coming up. I hate this smell.

Adele was still stroking her glass ball at the side, murmuring: "Who is so bold to deceive the wise eyes of the master with brass?"

"Yellow, brass? Nonsense!" He spat the phlegm on the ground, and the smell of phlegm was less than three steps away from me, and I almost vomited.

Adele, who was leaning against me, gently took my hand from under the cloak.

Well, bear with it for a while, I hope Adele will quickly send this disgusting guy away.

"Ah, the see-through eye, let me see..." Adele began to play tricks on the glass ball again, "How many is it, one? No, no, that's too little... ten? Hey , it’s getting close! Yes, it’s twenty, a full twenty, sir!”

"Hmph, another group of gypsy liars." Before the lard-smelling guy could speak, someone behind him muttered.

"Two buddies, twenty gold coins, secretly exchanged." I was very close to Adele, with my head buried, and my voice was so soft that she could hear her.

I spoke briefly, but Adele quickly understood what I meant, and her voice suddenly became sharp and angry: "What? How dare the boy steal the master's money? And cheat the master with brass? The police should take them away." Catch them all!"

"You're spitting blood!" The guy put down the box heavily, and the loud "bang" made me shrink my head involuntarily. I was a little anxious, are they going to come up and beat us?

"Stop! Come back!" Unexpectedly, it was the lard-smelling guy who rescued us. He asked Adele, "What evidence do you have that they stole my money?"

"Me? I don't have any evidence. Everything is told by my clairvoyant eye," Adele stroked the glass ball, her voice became calm, "If the master wants to know where they hide the gold coins, I can Ask the see-through eye for you."

Then she called me in a low voice, "Jean?"

"The one that smells like wine lees, five yuan for the soles, five yuan for the vest."

"The smell of wine lees?" Adele was puzzled.

"The one in front."

"Ah!" Adele yelled, suddenly pointed to the guy standing in front of the box, and started to act: "Vest, soles, a whole ten yuan!"

"In the back, three yuan in the socks, two yuan in the shirt pocket, four directly in the purse, and one hidden in the pocket watch." I said

"This nasty guy in the back, three dollars in the socks, two dollars in the shirt pocket, four dollars directly thrown into the purse, and one hidden in the pocket watch." Adele copied it almost exactly.

A moment of silence.

All of a sudden, the two men who carried the boxes ran away quickly.

"Catch 'em! Patrolman, grab 'em! My gold, gold!" yelled the lard-smelling fellow, who I doubted would choke to death on the fresh gush of phlegm.

At last the farce ended with the two fellows being caught, and we got three gold pieces.

"Jean, this is our first pot of gold!" Adele carefully hid the gold coins, looking very happy. Three gold coins are worth more than 25 francs - of course, I have already confirmed in advance whether they are gold coins or not brass.

The lard-smelling guy was dubious from the beginning, and almost bought our glass balls without taking the box of gold coins. During this process, I witnessed Adele's "good acting skills" for the first time. vision.

"Why don't you just sell it to him?" A box of gold coins, I know Adele has long been tempted.

"This person must have some status and wealth. If we don't want to become a notorious guy like a wanted criminal, we'd better be honest and do business obediently," Adele smiled at me, "but it's all thanks to you Why, Jean, we wouldn't have earned three ducats without your fine nose!"

My nose is actually useful for this?I am a little dazed, my sense of smell has always been able to see through almost everything, this is extremely resentful and hostile, I know it very well, so I try to keep a low profile and keep silent, so as not to let other people pay too much attention to my ability.

But it turns out... Can this ability still catch thieves?

【Adele】

The first guy whose money was stolen rewarded us with three gold coins. I was super happy. In fact, I just pointed at a guy who didn't look good at random, and I didn't expect to make a small fortune.This is thanks to Grenouille's super sensitive nose, which is invincible in the universe, but he always doesn't finish speaking at once, and he feels a little out of breath, which makes my heart skip a beat when I perform.

However, this first bucket of gold was purely luck, and there was no such good opportunity later.But the first guy made us famous. Although many people just gave some money to watch the fun and see if this glass ball that can catch thieves is really so magical, but it is still a lot of money income.

There is the genius Grenouille who stores millions of smells in his brain. As long as the smell is not a meteorite from outer space, Grenouille can easily identify it. When those people are still on the street, Grenouille You can tell that they have put something all over their bodies.

After the three ducats, minus the cloak and the glass ball, we made a net profit of fifty francs from day to dusk.However, it seems that it is still very reluctant to buy a carriage, but it must be enough to buy a pony for transportation, and some clothes and food.

"Let, let's close the stall!" This day, I had enough limelight in the square, and I thought I should leave, but after a while, before I understood what happened, there was already a group of gypsies surrounding me. up.

"The eye of clairvoyance? Who are you? I've never seen it before. Is Ye Luzi planning to steal business from me?" The leader is a gypsy woman. What she holds in her hand is not a glass bead like ours, but a genuine crystal ball. Of course, I can't recognize the texture of the crystal. It was Grenouille who muttered "the smell of crystal is indeed cooler and smells better", and I knew that what she was holding in her hand was not a fake like ours.

"The so-called see-through eye, of course, is to be able to see clearly everything inside through the cover, such as what is on your body, what is the decoration in the house behind you, or..."

"Nonsense, that's a glass bead!" The woman laughed unceremoniously at the counterfeit in my hand.

"Hehe, glass beads? The value of a treasure never lies in its texture, but in how powerful its mana is. My mother exhausted her energy before she died and added a last spell to it, so that it has a better perspective." Ability, don’t you believe it? If you don’t believe it, let’s try it.”

I handed the glass ball to Grenouille, and said lightly: "Its power does not change because of the change of its master. If you don't believe me, you can point to a box or a bag, or a room, and let my follower Use the perspective ability of this ball to see everything clearly."

God knows I'm all bullshit.There are so many of them, Grenouille might be able to run away, but I have short legs, if I am caught, maybe all the money I earned today will be lost.

Could it be that God, displeased with the despicable way I used Grenouille to make money, sent these gypsies to punish me?Why is God so idle...

The moment I handed the glass ball to Grenouille, I was very nervous. If Grenouille didn't cooperate with me, everything would be ruined. Will be discovered, so Grenouille can only go into battle in person.

Grenouille's cloak hat covered most of his face. After taking the glass ball, he looked down at me.I immediately looked back with my eyes wide open, hoping that he could understand the hint in my eyes.