My years as a menswear boss

The Conch first stopped in Venice. Jiqiu stared at the city on the water, and her brain was instantly filled with inspiration. She stood on the shore of the pier, put the drawing board on her right arm, and drew in her left hand with a pointed charcoal pencil for the chef to burn. Smear on paper.

"Master." Jacob just wanted to remind her to leave, but Dantès blocked it with his hand.

"Don't disturb him." Dantès said, he waved his hand to let the idlers go to buy daily necessities for this week, and clean the manor he bought before.

Realistic landscape painting is what Jiqiu is best at. She quickly typed out the sketch, put away the drawing board and noticed Dantès who was quietly waiting beside him, "Dad, I'm done drawing."

"En." Dantès naturally took the heavy drawing board from Jiqiu's hand, and summoned the carriage that had been waiting for a long time not far away, "Let's go to the manor to rest for one night, and tomorrow I will take you to the opera."

At night, Jiqiu was lying on the soft big bed, she didn't fall asleep first, and when the clock in the room pointed to twelve, she tiptoed out of the bedroom.

She walked towards Dantès' room, gently turned the doorknob, and poked her little head in.

Dantès woke up when he heard the movement. When he saw someone coming, he rubbed his brows helplessly, "Simon, did you have a nightmare?"

"No." Jiqiu shook his head, looking at Dantès lying on the cold floor with a comfortable big bed beside him, "I can't sleep in the new place, can you sleep with me?"

After Dantès stayed at Chateau d'If for 14 years, time and money have nourished his body.

But the psychological wounds cannot be healed. Every time he went to a new place, he always lay down on the cold floor and fell asleep.

This incident was discovered a few years ago when Jiqiu went to the bathroom in the middle of the night. She was startled by the man sleeping on the living room floor.

Later, she began to raid Dantès' room every night to check whether he had slept in bed, and then she corrected the guardian's bad habit.It's just that when you go to a new place, you will go back to your old ways.

Dantès had no choice but to change into a clean nightgown, sat on the bed, and called Jiqiu over.

Jiqiu climbed onto the bed on both hands and feet, got into the bed like a wriggling earthworm, and soon poked his little head out again, "Tell me a story."

"Well, if this is what you wish." Dantès reached out and pulled out a book from the bedside. He would not read the content dryly like before. After a long time of training, how did he know how to speak? A story that satisfies his son.

"A long time ago, there was a princess in Babylonia, who was very beautiful and cared for the people of her country.

Her father defeated the invaders, captured the enemy prince, locked him in an iron cage, and let his servants watch the prisoner.The princess also went to visit this man out of curiosity. "

Dantès looked at the content of a lot of stuffed sauces that began to appear below, and easily turned it into a sentence, "They are in love."

"Huh?" Jiqiu blinked, listening to such an old-fashioned plot, she began to feel sleepy.

Tang Tai paused and continued, "Unfortunately, the wolf ambition of the enemy prince did not disappear because of being captured. His love affair with the princess spread to the king's ears, which aroused the king's opposition. The prince tricked the princess with sweet words. Let him go, the princess softened her heart for a moment and let him go."

Dantès wrinkled his face when he watched the next plot. In the novel, the princess was tricked by the prince with a lot of national information. In the end, the enemy prince used the confidential information to lead troops to capture the princess's country in one fell swoop, and the king was also captured by the enemy country. The prince was killed, and the two had a sadistic relationship for a while, and then they were together sweetly.

Dantès himself took the king's point of view. He felt a headache from the princess's idiotic operation. He looked down at the little boy's curious eyes.

'Why don't you talk?keep going! Jiqiu urged with her eyes, she was very curious about the ending, and she couldn't fall asleep until she heard the ending.

"All this is under the control of the king. He sent someone to monitor the escape route of the prince. Just when the prince was about to leave the city gate, he was taken down. In the end, the prisoner was pushed down to the guillotine and his head was cut off. .

The princess was depressed, and the king's paternal love was gradually worn away by the princess's long-term accusations. One day, in a fit of anger, he promised the princess to a bakery owner in the city. "After Dantès output for a while, the depression in his heart dissipated a lot.

"This is really a happy ending." Jiqiu smiled with satisfaction and fell asleep peacefully.

Dantès decided to let Jacob buy the publishing house tomorrow, and let the author of the book change to the ending he said.

After a good night's sleep, Dantès brought Jiqiu to Phoenix Theater, also known as La Fenice Opera House in Venice.

In the East, the phoenix is ​​the king of all birds. Everyone knows that the phoenix is ​​reborn from the ashes of fire.

Ancient Rome regarded the phoenix as a god of resurrection from the dead. The Italians, as descendants of the Romans, also believed in this statement. In addition, when the theater was being built, there was a fire. Superstitious people even believed that the theater Connect with Phoenix.Since the theater was built, it has been full of seats and the income has been very good.

Jiqiu raised his head and looked at the interior of the theater, perfectly showing the local customs and customs of Venice.

This opera is the most popular at the moment, "Semiramide", and the actress who plays the Queen of Babylon is Christina, a famous French female opera singer.

Along the way, Jiqiu listened to gossip about actors, just like people in later generations discussing a certain star.

Everyone told things vividly.Even though she was not interested in the truth of the matter, she still listened with great interest.These tidbits fill in the blank time she waits for the opening.

"She is simply a miracle. It is the first time I have seen someone rise from an extra to a leading role so quickly."

"You mean Christina? Well, I suspect she's been having an affair with the manager of the theatre. Somebody said they've seen her flirt with the manager."

"I don't think so. Her singing voice and vocals are the most beautiful I have ever seen. Compared with her predecessors, what Christina lacks is the precipitation of time."

"The person who can enter the phoenix, who is not talented, why is she the only one who gets the opportunity?"

Apparently, the young diva was also quite a controversial figure.

Jiqiu picked up the dry towel at hand, wiped his hands, and walked out of the bathroom, lamenting that the bathroom is really not soundproof at all, and there are still people doing that kind of thing here.

She returned to the VIP box, sat next to Dantès, picked up the washed grapes on the table and ate them.

The thick velvet curtains of the theater were pulled open, and the priest Oro prayed to God devoutly. After the prayer, he asked the servants to invite the believers into the temple, and a group of people sang praises to the omnipotent god.

The Indian prince Idanus held a sacrificial offering and prayed for God to fulfill his love.Then another man appeared, singing in a haughty tone about his soon-to-be successor king.

The Phoenix Theater really deserves its reputation. Jiqiu propped her chin and watched every move of the actors intently. In her previous life, she liked to listen to symphony to relax and occasionally listen to opera. The styles of performances in opera houses in each country are different. It also brought her a different feeling at the Royal Opera House in London.

She saw Semiramide dressed up in costume, and the audience in the theater applauded without hesitation, blending with the voices of the extras in the opera.

Semiramide sang the happy song "Lovely and Beautiful Light" to the man she had a crush on, looking forward to meeting him in her tone.

The audience in the theater were intoxicated by Christina's singing voice, and everyone had silly smiles on their faces.

Jiqiu frowned, she felt that something was a little strange, and she admitted that the actress's voice was really moving.

But it was far from the level of fascination, at least not compared to those top opera singers she had seen before.

"Father?" Jiqiu turned her head and saw Dantès's fallen look. She began to panic and couldn't help but stretched out her hand to push him, but the man didn't respond, "Danttès! Hello!"

She had to open her mouth to bite Dantès' hand hard, and after a while her mouth was filled with a bloody smell.

"Oh!" Dantès recovered from the pain, seeing the bloodshot teeth marks on the tiger's mouth, even with the best temper, he was angry, "Simon?!"

"What happened to you just now?" Jiqiu looked at the man worriedly, a few crocodile tears came out of her eyes, "I called you for a long time and you didn't respond, as if your soul had been hooked away!"

It was only then that Dantès felt a stabbing pain in his brain. He beat his head hard, and his confused eyes finally came back to clarity. He saw the demented look of the audience, and he frowned, "There's something wrong here."

He quickly grabbed Jiqiu's hand, "We have to get out of here immediately."

"Wait a minute." Jiqiu held down Dantès with her backhand. She looked indifferently at Semiramide on the stage, waiting for her to finish singing. She looked at the audience again and found that everyone had returned to normal.

There were also frequent noises from the box next to her. If she remembered correctly, there was a family of three next to her, with a four-year-old child, who had been jumping up and down since the beginning of the opera, but it was too quiet just now. It was silent.

"That female opera singer has a problem." Jiqiu said affirmatively, she realized that this was something that could not be explained by science.

'An Italian version of The Phantom of the Opera? '

She calmly guessed that the opera would be over soon, and all the actors would come out and bow to the audience together.

Jiqiu felt the adrenaline in her body soar, and she became very interested in the so-called opera ghost.

"Simon." Dantès cruelly smashed Jiqiu's thoughts, he said with firm eyes, "throw out the damn thoughts in your brain, I will never bring you to this theater again."

"But I found inspiration." Jiqiu tried to rub his head against him, hoping that Dantès would change his mind.

"There is also a Bennett theater in Venice, and there are operas for you to watch, and there are eunuchs, which are much better than this weird opera."

Dantès coaxed him patiently. He was relieved to see the interest in the boy's eyes.

Jiqiu is indeed interested in eunuchs who disappeared after the late nineteenth century, but she is also interested in phantoms.Only grown-ups make choices, and children want them all!