My years as a menswear boss

Albert invited Count Chateau Lenoir to be the witness of the duel, and he handed over the duel procedures to Jiqiu for signature.

"Mr. Luo Xi, you are too impulsive." Le Nuo looked at the young man's frail body, and he was not optimistic about the result of the duel.

"Count, I have made up my mind to go." Jiqiu signed her name with a quill, and she put away her commitment letter, "We are all fighting for our father, and Earl Morcerf has a good son , even if he is so unbearable."

"Sorry, I want to ask, is the incident with Governor Yanina true?"

"Of course, it can't be more true." Jiqiu replied calmly. She poured herself a glass of whiskey and drank it. "It's time for you to talk about the rules of dueling."

"Both sides use swords, at ten o'clock, on the outskirts of a small forest eleven kilometers east of Paris." Lenoir said.

On the appointed day, Jiqiu got up early in the morning. She took a shower, got dressed in the bathroom, checked that the buttons on her clothes would not be undone, and then came to the living room.

"Master, it has been checked." Forrester knelt on one knee, holding a simple rapier sword in both hands. He has been checking whether the sword is tough since last night.

"Not bad." Jiqiu tried it out. The German rapier is the most frequently used rapier in European duels.

Although the attack range is reduced, the strength and defense ability are strengthened, and it can pierce the opponent's heart at once.

She turned on the tame English gray zebra and rode towards the small forest.

When she arrived, Albert was already waiting there, and Count Renault and Debray also came at the same time.

Jiqiu dismounted, nodded respectfully at them, and then looked at Albert, "We can start, Mr. Morcerf."

The two stood facing each other, staring at each other without blinking.

Albert raised his rapier and attacked, his eyes were bloodshot with great force.

'A German-made small sword with a rhombus-shaped blade, about three inches longer than the German small swords on the market. '

Jiqiu's brain analyzed quickly, and at the same time, the movements of his hands were not at all blunt, perfectly resolving the opponent's attack.

They attacked a few times back and forth, and then each took three steps back, staring at each other expressionlessly.

"I really don't understand that Earl Morcerf has done such a dirty and indecent thing, yet you are still defending him as a loyal dog." Jiqiu said with a cold face.

"You don't know anything! You've got so much! You're still jealous of my father!" Albert said through gritted teeth.

Jiqiu put the weight of her body on her feet, her arms were half-bent, and her attention reached the highest level ever, "Jealous? You are such a poor thing."

"You will just blindly enjoy the benefits your father brought you, but you don't want to think about how a small French officer suddenly has a lot of money to buy a knighthood and a seat in the House of Representatives."

She raised the corners of her mouth, her smile was full of sarcasm, "Of course it was your traitor father who stood on the bones of countless people in exchange for it! Every franc you spend is stained with the blood of Yanina soldiers !"

"The most important thing is that your father ruined my father's supposedly splendid life."

Jiqiu leaned over and rushed over, keeping the tip of the sword at the level of her eyes, straightened her arms, and slashed towards Albert.

Albert quickly blocked it with his sword. He felt the shock of the tiger's mouth through the glove, and retreated a few steps inertially.

Soon the two men were fighting again, and Forrester was watching from a short distance with the other two, holding a wooden barn under his wide sleeve.

'Although I know it's unfair, I swore to the Earl that I would protect his son with my life. '

'If the young master loses, I will use this wooden warehouse to kill the three of them, and finally destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces. '

The British man has a serious face, and anyone who looks at him thinks he is a man full of justice.

Jiqiu moved her ears, and every time the two swords overlapped, there would be a 'buzz—'. The veins on her forehead were tense, and after several attacks, she caught that distinctive sound in her ears. buzzing.

'found it. '

Albert watched the pair of beast-like eyes in front of him slowly become almond-shaped. When he resisted again, the sword in his hand made a cracking sound.

Jiqiu cut off Albert's rapier without hesitation, turning his long sword into the length of a dagger, and the long-suppressed bloodthirsty in her heart was completely stimulated.

Forrester watched this scene, and the corners of his drooping mouth turned up a little, forming a straight line.

"How could the sword break?!" Debray exclaimed in a low voice in disbelief. He looked at Count Lenoir uneasily, "I have checked it several times, and the sword is fine!"

"Calm down, Mr. Debray." Earl Lenoir was surprised by the current situation. As one of the twelve French nobles, he still kept his dignity. option, let’s continue.”

Albert felt his heart being poured down by a basin of ice water. He became flustered and hurriedly resisted the attacking rapier. Several cuts had been cut on his arm, bleeding out.

Just when Jiqiu was about to chop off at Albert's neck, a woman rushed out from nowhere and opened her arms to block Albert's face.

She had to reverse the direction of her attack, and the rapier stuck hard into the nearby tree stump.

Jiqiu looked at the person coming, and she immediately recognized the woman in front of her, "Are you interfering with this duel, Countess Morcerf?"

Mercedes was trembling all over, but she still didn't take a step away, "Mr. Rosie, please, let my son go."

"You told me to let your son go, it's better to persuade him not to throw the glove at my face at first." Jiqiu pulled his rapier from the tree expressionlessly.

"Albert just didn't think clearly at first, he was just angry at the treatment his father had suffered."

Mercedes' hair was disheveled, and she couldn't see the appearance of your lady when they met for the first time.

"What right does he have to be angry?!" Jiqiu felt her heart was occupied by anger, and her handsome face twisted uncontrollably, "The one who should be angry is Governor Tie Beilin who was betrayed by his cronies! The one who should be angry is Miss Haidee, bereaved!

Those who should be angry are the Yanina civilians who were tortured and killed by the Turkish army!What should be angry is my father who was wronged in the prison of the Chateau d'If! "

"And all these crimes originated from Fernand. Montague, a despicable and shameless villain!"

"Just today, your son will fight for his father! Then I will fulfill him, let him go to hell with his father, and hand it over to God for judgment!"

Mercedes was paled by the young man's repeated reprimands. Her figure was shaky, and tears fell from her fair cheeks to the grass below her. She couldn't speak a word at this moment.

"Have you never suspected it? Why was your fiancé taken away from the engagement banquet? Who framed it?" Jiqiu looked at the fragile woman in front of her, her mind gradually calmed down.

"He stayed in the Chateau d'If for 14 years. Every day he was fed rotten food, and the drinking water was rainwater. He was imprisoned there like an animal!

Because Fernand Montague wanted to get you and desperately wanted to destroy your fiancé, he conspired with others to fabricate false charges.Let a man who should have a bright future be thrown in prison. "

Jiqiu took out a letter from his pocket and threw it on Mercedes, "Here is the proof that Fernand Montague framed Edmond Dantès back then. You might as well take a good look."

"That old man couldn't accept that his son was accused of treason. In desperation, he went on a hunger strike and committed suicide. He treated you as his own daughter."

Mercedes felt her teeth shaking, she opened the letter with trembling fingers, and read it line by line, "Oh! No!"

Jiqiu picked up the sword again, and she looked at Albert, "So, you should step aside and watch this duel end."

"The hatred between Yanina and Dantès will end with me."

"No!! All these are the mistakes made by Albert's father, please don't repay my son."

Mercedes bent her knees, and she knelt in front of Jiqiu. The woman looked very desperate, and she was on the verge of collapse. "I am willing to exchange my life for my son's life."

A sense of sadness welled up in Albert's heart. It was the first time he saw his mother make such a humble plea, "Mom...you don't have to do this."

He threw away the broken sword in his hand, his lips trembling, "Is what he said true? My father, whom I have always respected, is he really such an unbearable villain?"

Tears filled Mercedes' eyes, she nodded her head heavily, and finally looked at the indifferent young man in front of her with a pleading expression.

"Mr. Rosie, I am willing to give my life to pay for the crimes committed by my father."

The last breath of energy from Albert's body was taken away, and he sat on the grass, exposing all his weaknesses to Jiqiu's sword.

"I lost," he said.

Jiqiu held the rapier and looked at the mother and son who were about to face death together.If it was another person, he would have softened his heart and turned away. Unfortunately, this is a demon.

'In that case, kill them all. ' she said to herself.

At this moment, a big warm hand pressed on Jiqiu's shoulder, "Simon, enough is enough."

Jiqiu turned her head to look at Dantès who arrived at some unknown time, she smiled casually, "Are you going to stop me, Dantès? For your old lover, and the son she gave birth to with your enemy? "

Dantès looked gently at the boy with fried hair in front of him, and he hugged the young man into his arms, "You have done enough for me. If you want to kill them, I will not stop them, but I will I don't want you to get blood on your hands because of me."

"I am willing to give everything I have, just to enter heaven after you die."

Jiqiu's throat was dry. At this moment, she thought of the picture of her and Dantès getting along with each other in daily life. The hand holding the sword was slowly released, and the rapier fell to the ground.

'But I have long been unable to reincarnate in hell. ' she said silently, resting her head on Dantès' shoulders.

In the end, Jiqiu was obediently carried back by Dantès Kang on his shoulders. She lay on the guardian's shoulders, and seeing Mercedes' heartbroken and happy emotions intertwined, she couldn't help sighing, "No A man can love his child more than a mother. '

Albert was held in Mercedes's arms with a blank expression, Count Lenoir and Debray walked over from the place where they were watching the battle, and sent the mother and child to the carriage.