[Infrastructure] Rose kissed Barcelona

The Butterfly Effect.

The development of history is inevitable, but in many cases, it is often a small event that triggers a huge change that no one expected.

In the summer of 1874, people in Barcelona saw the feminist movement on an unprecedented scale.

For the first time, they discovered that women can be angry too.

"Sisters, it is better to be a noble woman than to be a noble man's wife or mother." The famous words of the "Rose" were passed among the figures of the demonstrations, and soon spread all over the streets and alleys.

However, the people who took to the streets lost their former leaders and felt a little overwhelmed.

In the past, Olanpu's bookstore was the core location of the feminist movement.

Ms. Batllo would give speeches in public places and lead demonstrations, but now she was injured in the hospital, and the young Ms. Fernandez did not seem to have the ability and willingness to organize large-scale demonstrations like the experienced Ms. Batllo.

"Where are we going to gather tomorrow? Where are we going to demonstrate?" Many people are asking.

"Another person has been arrested. How are we going to proceed?"

Amid everyone's doubts, the "Rose" quickly interviewed Miss Fernandez herself.

"Everyone's enthusiasm is very touching," said the lady in the interview, "but the parliamentary debate has not yet started, please recharge your batteries, protect yourself, and don't take drastic actions yet."

"Give me a little time and trust - see you later when we debate in Parliament."

Everyone who paid attention to this matter read her words from the newspapers.

Take it easy?

... Well, if you think about it calmly, it does make sense.

The Demer couple's case is a fuse that detonates the anger of all those who are in the midst of injustice and those who are injustice for her.They want the parliament to give an explanation—this explanation will start from this case, in the form of legislation, and become the rules to be followed in the future.

Before this result comes out, the radical demonstrations may lead to more people being arrested, and the society will become more dissatisfied with the feminist movement, and those congressmen and politicians with traditional thinking will have more reasons to reject them. requirements.

Then, just wait.

But at the same time, the voices of support should not be small.

"To let Parliament know that we are watching this debate. We call for - another token of our solidarity."

"Rose."

Shortly after St. George's Day, roses are at their cheapest.

So, this summer, countless women replaced burning torches and hammers with roses, and launched a demonstration that was later called the "Rose Movement".

When we can still achieve justice within the framework of the mechanism, we protest with roses.

This is our sincerity.

But if justice cannot come, then our roses will be replaced with more deterrent weapons.

This is our determination.

one.

two.

a bunch.

Countless flowers.

Every morning Laura stood by the window and saw new roses growing in the street outside the window.

Deep red, rose red, orange red, like the sun falling into the world.

Those are unfamiliar but hot hearts.

Seeing those roses, she couldn't help but think of the manor full of roses where she lived in her childhood.

She followed her mother, learning fashion trends, tasting perfume, arranging flowers and tasting wine, playing the piano and painting.

You have to learn a little of each, but you should not be proficient in each of them-for an elegant noble woman, these elegant tastes should be extensively studied, but if you study in depth to become an expert, you will lose the mysterious sense of nobility , does nothing to add to her femininity.

That's right.All of this is just icing on the cake, and the most important thing is to learn how to pick a man, how to grab a man, and how to rely on a man.

She studies very hard.

And learn better than anyone else.

In the past 30 years of her life, she has been relying on men to let herself live the most comfortable life.

rely on father.

Later, rely on her husband.

To all, she was a model of the happy noblewoman.

And that's what she told herself.

When he pulled her hair and pushed her to the ground, she felt that he loved herself so much that she couldn't control herself - after all, he had always been very gentle to herself in front of outsiders.

And after he calmed down, he told her bitterly that she was still the most beautiful girl in his heart, and she was even more soft-hearted - he was the father of her child.

It was he who fed her and her children.What could she do without him?

"Then..." Joey thought about it, "Imagine, it's not you who are treated like this, but your child—"

"He dares!" Laura stood up abruptly, with uncontrollable anger gushing out from the bottom of her heart, "I'll kill him!"

All illusions collapsed.

"Laura, you deserve a better life." Joy looked into her eyes.

She turned around and pointed to the roses that could be seen outside the window: "Look, everyone gave you these."

"We all stand with you."

Laura thought of her daughter who still secretly brought the book into the room to read after being scolded by herself.

Wipe away her tears with soft little hands, and say to her son, "Mom, I will protect you".

So many roses, so many strangers.

They stood up for her.

It's time for her to stand up for herself.

If she wins the case this time, the fate of girls in Catalonia may be rewritten.

It was her battle alone, and it was all of them's battle.

"Don't worry." She smiled, "I will never give him any chance to put me in a mental hospital as a lunatic."

Seeing the shadow in the girl's eyes, she was a little worried: "However, are you okay? You haven't slept too little these days."

Joey waved his hand: "It's okay. I'm just counting chips. After all, we are going to the negotiating table."

Laura thought for a while, "Miss Fernandez, do you think we have a good chance of winning?"

Just as Joy was about to answer, she suddenly looked into her eyes: "Please don't hide it from me. After all, I am the mother of two children, not a little girl."

Joey sighed softly, and smiled reassuringly: "I dare not say that the possibility is very high, but we do have hope."

When a new group wants to join an existing interest group, the support of the existing group is particularly important.

At present, she has received the explicit support of the Guell and Moreno families - Guell was obviously fooled by Antonio - and the number of supporters, especially men, is still increasing.

Whether they listened to the persuasion of their bedside person or chose the voice of justice themselves, it was a good sign.

"Miss, there is a telegram from Paris, from Monsieur Sarasate." Pascal knocked on the door.

The violinist's European tour has now come to the French capital.

Paris?Joey turned his head suspiciously.

What important business could Mr. Sarasate have to send her a special telegram from Paris?

After taking the thin piece of paper, she quickly glanced at it.

My heart skipped a beat.

Then jump faster and faster.

"What's wrong?" Laura asked cautiously.

"Laura!" Joey couldn't restrain his excitement, he jumped up and hugged her.

"I'm sure!"

On the day of the parliamentary debate, the Plaza de Santo Jome was packed.The whole square has almost become a sea of ​​roses.

The guards took great pains to maintain order inside and outside the city hall. The people in the square were so excited that they almost broke the glass on the windows on the outer wall.

In view of the previous violent actions, the parliament has adopted strict control measures.The meeting hall raised the highest level of security on this day. Except for the registered attendees, a few qualified reporters, and other prominent figures in the city hall, everyone else will be blocked from the door and not allowed to enter.

Time is coming.

Joey looked at the wall clock in the lounge and muttered, "Tsk, he's really late."

She had originally brought Antonio to the scene to cheer her up, but unexpectedly, early this morning, Mr. Architect was notified that the World Expo Construction Committee was going to hold an emergency meeting half an hour before the debate.

Oh no.

She smiled secretly.

She knew why they suddenly had such an urgent meeting, so urgent that it even dragged on.

It doesn't matter, anyway, Antonio's current identity is there, and when the committee meeting is over, no one will stop him when he enters again.

And by then, her weight will be there.

She took a few deep breaths and walked towards the meeting room.

Still a little nervous, after all Weishe fears that patients need to speak in public... She was thinking wildly when suddenly a man blocked her way.

"Miss Fernandez, you actually support that disloyal vicious woman. Aren't you afraid of going to hell?" The man had a threatening face.

Some unfamiliar faces, I don't know where they came from.

Joey couldn't help sneering.

Sorry, she is really not afraid.

"Sir, you are so powerful, what do you say to me?" She chuckled and pointed to the crowd outside the big glass, "Go and tell them."

There was a man with a stick and a hammer, watching the building intently, as if ready to smash the glass and jump in to set the building on fire if things went wrong.

The man was speechless for a moment: "..."

"Why, don't you dare?" Joey shook his head and sneered: "Don't worry, I won't laugh at you for not being a man because you are not brave enough. You have the right to be timid."

"—that's exactly the equality we want."

Before he could react, Joey had already bypassed him and walked straight into the meeting room.

With such an interruption, she found that she was not nervous anymore.

"Wait!" A young man rushed over from a distance, but lowered his voice as if worried about something: "Miss Fernandez! Please wait a moment!"

He did not catch up after all.

Joey didn't hear his voice, but he just watched the door close in front of him, and the guard stopped in front of him: "Sir, the debate in the chamber has begun, and you need to register with a special identity to enter—are you? "

"Boaba Abbas—son of Jose Abbas."

He pleaded anxiously, "I have something very important to tell Miss Fernandez," he lowered his voice carefully, and glanced at the door of the conference room in the distance that might open at any time, "Can I go in?"

"Excuse me, sir. The debate has already begun, and you do not belong to the category of people allowed to enter." The guard went through the list carefully.

Boaba sighed in disappointment.What can I do then?

All the courage in my heart almost disappeared at this moment.

He shouldn't be meddling in the first place.

What's more, that person is his father.

What would happen to him if he found out what he was going to do?

An indescribable feeling surged in his heart, and he dragged his heavy steps towards the depths of the corridor.

"Boaba?" A familiar voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"Uh...Antonio?" Boaba turned his head in surprise, "Aren't you supposed to have a meeting in that conference room?"

Antonio spread his hands: "Now it's the nonsense stage, I'm really not interested. I just need to wait another 10 minutes and go over and vote."

Boaba hesitated again and again, and finally opened his mouth: "...Antonio, there is something very important, I think maybe I should tell you."

"About the identity of your customer lady."

"Verify identity." Since it replaced the intelligence of the court, this parliamentary debate also needs to complete a process as rigorous as a trial.

"The prosecution, Laura Demer."

"Plaintiff, Matteo Demo."

"Defenders for the prosecution..."

Finally it was my turn.

Joy was so nervous that her mind went blank, she would be the first to speak.

"Counsel for the prosecution and witness, Joey Fernandez."

"You swear to God that your testimony is to the best of your knowledge, without concealment, and the complete truth."

"I swear."

"Did you know that if you perjure your statement, all your testimony will be invalidated."

"I know."

"Very good." The MP suddenly smiled strangely.That contented appearance made Joey inexplicably think of a hunter who was about to close his net.

The most secret string in her heart suddenly moved.

Something seems to be wrong.

"So—Joy Fernandez, daughter of Duke Fernandez of Valencia, have you confirmed your identity?"

This question is the most routine procedure before speaking, and it can be answered without thinking at all.

Joey narrowed his eyes slightly.

No, there must be a problem.

Some kind of unreasonable intuition suddenly came to my heart.

Could it be that they know something?

"Miss Fernandez?" The congressman reminded her that there had been an unnatural silence at the scene.

He exchanged glances with several congressmen sitting at the head.

Almost instantly, Joey verified his conjecture.

She has thought about the moment when her identity might be exposed many times, and has made some filings, but there has never been one as extreme as the current scene——

She has no foreign aid and is not at home.

In full view, there is no buffer and no time to prepare.

She didn't even know how much they knew—and that determined the consequences of what she said next.

But for a moment, Joey's palm was moist, but also cold.

They probably don't know her actual identity yet, Joey thought quickly.

Otherwise, it shouldn't be such a calm attitude—either flattering or killing them all.

But they may have other considerations as well.There is no silver bullet.

"Miss Fernandez? Please confirm your identity. Otherwise, we will treat it as obstructing the order of the debate—"

There is no way out.

She has to gamble.

Joey took a deep breath and paused every word: "No, I'm not Joey Fernandez."

"What?!" There was an uproar on the field.

Laura, who was sitting in the first row, suddenly covered her mouth and almost screamed.Her heart was beating violently.

"What's going on here?" Many people were whispering, and the journalists in the back row had professionally started to come up with the most catchy headline in their heads: "Shock!The daughter of a nobleman is really a liar of the century! "

The chairperson seemed to have expected it.His voice sank in an instant, as if he was a little disappointed: "If you confirm that this is the case, Miss, then you are not qualified to enter here——if you don't provide more information, we may have to ask you out now."

Get out, you liar!

"boom"!

The door opened with a bang, causing everyone to look over there in shock.

The guard looked awkwardly at the young man whose chest was heaving violently, slowly retracted the hand that stopped him, and swallowed the last half of the sentence: "...you can go in, sir."

This person broke in suddenly, his first reaction was of course to stop him.Who knew that he was clearly qualified to enter, but he had to open the door forcibly in such a few seconds?

Antonio didn't look at him at all, but looked directly at the central podium where the atmosphere was frozen at this moment: "I have something to say about this issue."

Joey was blessed in an instant.

She let out a long breath and smiled, "I'm sorry, everyone."

The people who were completely stunned turned their heads and looked at the girl on the stage who blinked narrowly: "The atmosphere is too heavy recently, so I will adjust it for everyone."

"Yes, please call me Joey Gordy."

what? !

That means……

The reporters present were almost too shaken to write.

I thought I was very lucky to get the interview opportunity for this debate, but now it seems that I am the chosen one!

At the other end where everyone's eyes quickly focused, Antonio, standing at the gate, nodded reservedly with a calm face.

No one can see any difference.

Only the guard standing beside him heard a "pop" and suspected who broke a pen.

Antonio held the broken pencil tightly in his hand, and it took all his strength not to show surprise.

... He actually made an agreement with Count Guell at the first time, and asked Joey to be Count Guell's distant cousin.

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen," Joey clapped his hands, "it doesn't matter. Let's get back to business."

what is she doing

Oh yes debate.

Unfortunately, she is a social terror who is not good at debating, so she intends to choose a more constructive way of discussion.

Joey lightly dusted the documents in front of him, and said with a smile: "What did Mr. Congressman mean just now..."

"Oh right, let me go?"

"can."

"But in that case, I will also withdraw all my investments, remove all trams and power supply systems in the city, and revoke the authorization to use lights, reinforced concrete, etc. in Barcelona..."

"Oh, Montjuic has been given away."

"But guess, if I go to London or Paris and tell people that the mountain was forcibly expropriated by the city government, will the World Expo choose this city?"

What a hooligan act.Joey thought.

However, there is nothing more effective than being a rogue when it comes to fighting against the established rules of a rogue.

The faces of those congressmen became more and more ugly. When they heard "World Expo", they seemed to be poked into something suddenly: "Miss Fernandez, are you blackmailing us?"

"What?" Joey shook his head and smiled, "Of course not."

"Look, I'm here for a parliamentary debate - which means, I have a wish to achieve."

"In exchange, Mr. Congressmen, I think I can also fulfill your wishes."

She cast a teasing glance at Speaker Manolo, who was always looking at the materials in front of her with a disturbed mind: "Mr. Speaker, you have been looking at the materials you just sent for a long time, and your expression is really bad."

"Why don't you tell me and listen?"

"Maybe I have a solution to Barcelona's troubles - before I came in, I heard a MP say that no man can do it, 'Noman can solve it.'"

"Who knew?" She shrugged with a smile.

"After all, I'm a woman."

The author has something to say: Antonio: Everything is good when you are in love, but it is a bit, um, expensive.

Huuuuuuuuuuuu this week, I got to the list with 21000 update requirements. However, the author is a translator. Today, I received five activities from the weekend starting next week. All of them are outside working hours at night. QAQ wants to kill me!

By the way, everyone says that the hourly salary of simultaneous interpreting is high, high is high, but it is impossible for an interpreter to go directly to it without preparing anything!A few days before the event and a few weeks before the event, I spent the whole night watching the materials and memorizing proper nouns without salary orz

...Okay, the rant is over.I can't enter the small black room, I have to finish the climb and update QAQ thanks to Strawberry Jam and Yaoyao's landmines! !