[Comprehensive wear] You will get used to it

Yang Yi really did not expect that Duke Louis would come to this move, he sent something over, according to etiquette Yang Yi should pay a visit and give a gift in return.But it's not a big deal if Yang Yi doesn't return the gift in this situation. At most, others will say something impolite or stingy behind his back. Anyway, the Grandet family is famous for being stingy, so it's not important.But the other party's housekeeper made it clear here that he wanted Yang Yi to go there. If he didn't go, he would offend others. He absolutely didn't want to offend a duke.

"Okay, I'll be there tomorrow afternoon." Yang Yi said.

"Then please accept the gift." The butler lifted the red flannel on the tray and handed Yang Yi a painting slightly larger than the palm of his hand, "His Royal Highness said that since Mr. Grandet wants to explore If you have a beautiful scenery, then you will definitely like this painting, which was drawn by His Royal Highness when he visited the Alps the year before last, and His Royal Highness said that he hoped you would like it."

Yang Yi reached out to take the painting and looked down. The frame of this painting was made of silver, with lily-of-the-valley patterns carved around it, and a blue flower was inlaid with sapphires in the upper left corner and lower right corner. The blue lily-of-the-valley flowers come to reflect the beautiful snow-capped mountains reflecting blue light under the blue sky and white clouds in the painting.

"This painting is very beautiful, please take me to thank His Highness the Duke for the gift."

"Of course." The butler nodded, and took a small jewelry box from the tray and handed it to Eugenie, "His Royal Highness heard from Mr. Grandet that today is your birthday, Miss, so I specially present this birthday to you." A gift, I hope Miss will like it."

Eugenie's face was flushed with nervousness at this moment, and her excited body began to tremble. She took the jewelry box, swallowed and opened it, and then she couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise, because the box It turned out to be a thumb-length gold brooch inlaid with emeralds and three pearls.

"This is so precious." Mrs. de Grassan, who stood by and saw the brooch, cried while holding her chest.

The perfectly cut large emerald shone with charming and mysterious brilliance under the candlelight, and all of these brilliance shot into Eugenie's eyes, and they were bewitching Eugenie, who was holding it with both hands, as if calling Take it, take it.Although Eugenie knew in her heart that this gift was too precious and she should not accept it without a reason, she still begged and looked at Mr. Grandet, hoping that her father would nod and allow her to accept it.

Mr. Grandet had a lot of emotions in his heart at the moment. According to his nature, he would never let go of such a fortune that was sent to him. But at this moment, he felt that the Duke was plotting something wrong. The Duke had just robbed a forest that he was about to acquire, and they were supposed to be in a state of hostility, but now he sent two gifts like this.If he just gave it to Yang Yi, it would make sense. After all, according to the housekeeper's words, they have met twice. It is not surprising that young people who share the same interests and become good friends at first sight, but why did he give it to Eugenie? What about the gift, he has never even seen her, just because he heard Yang Yi say that today is Eugenie's birthday?

"Sidney, why did you tell the duke that today is your sister's birthday?" asked Monsieur Grandet.

"I just casually said today is my sister's birthday when I was saying goodbye, and I want to come back early." Yang Yi said, but he felt a little disgusted in his heart. The more expensive the gift from Duke Louis, the more he would be restrained. After all, everyone adheres to the saying that as much as you send out, you get back as much as you want, and smart people follow the saying that you take back several times more than you send out.A man like the Duke Louis, whose worth in his eyes was a gold picture frame and a jeweled brooch, would want a chest of treasures when he got them back.

Although Mr. Grandet was still a little bit puzzled, he still said: "Then daughter, you can accept this brooch." He felt that Yang Yi had already explained the matter clearly. It's so polite, you don't need to worry about this kind of thing, it's an idiot not to take advantage of it.

The butler of Duke Louis came and went quickly, he waved his tray without taking anything away, but left a big trouble for Yang Yi.

A lot of things happened that night, Mr. Grandet was no longer in the mood to accompany the guests, so he asked Nanon and Madame Grandet to prepare the guest room for Charles.The guests knew that it was time to leave when they saw them, and they all bowed and said goodbye. After closing the door, Mr. Grandet took out the letter in his arms, sat down on the sofa and read it again.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do with him, Yang Yi casually put the painting in his pocket, said goodnight to the others, and went to the stairs.

Charles felt that he was out of place with this old house with a history of hundreds of years. The only thing that comforted him was that his cousin was also a Parisian, so he planned to communicate with Yang Yi.At this time, he saw Yang Yi going upstairs, so he said to Eugenie: "Cousin, I'm a little tired, I want to go back to my room and have a rest."

Mrs. Grandet had already gone upstairs to tidy up the room with Nanon, Mr. Grandet ignored the affairs here, and just gave Eugenie a chance to get close to Charles, so she took the initiative to say: "Cousin, let I'll take you to your room!" After less than an hour of contact, she is now full of Shire, and she wants to spend more time with him.

Charles nodded indifferently, he didn't like this cousin, she was neither beautiful nor smart, and even she couldn't understand the meaning of his words decorated with gorgeous rhetoric.Charles didn't want to deal with her, so he quickened his pace to catch up with Yang Yi, walked side by side with him, and said, "Dear cousin, did you buy your clothes in Paris? This kind of fabric is the most fashionable fabric in Paris now." new."

Seeing that Charles was walking in a hurry, Eugenie grabbed her skirt and ran up.The stairs in Grandet's house were very narrow, barely enough for three people to walk side by side. Eugenie squeezed between Yang Yi and Charles, and Yang Yi was pushed to the innermost part of the stairs by her.

"What are you doing?" Yang Yi asked, this girl was almost in a daze, but she was fascinated by the little boy who met her for the first time, and she lost all etiquette and rules.

"I'm going to take my cousin to rest in his room." Eugenie said with her chin raised, she tried her best to look like those arrogant noble ladies, because she felt that such ladies were worthy of Charles.

Yang Yi was too lazy to argue with her, so he stood there and wanted to wait for the cousins ​​to go upstairs before leaving, but as soon as Eugenie and Charles left, one end of the board under Yang Yi's feet sank.This sudden accident caused Yang Yi to fall backwards violently. Fortunately, he quickly reacted and grabbed the railing of the stairs, thus avoiding the fate of falling.

The staircase in Grandet’s house has been broken for a while. Before, the family asked Mr. Grandet to hire a carpenter to repair it, but Mr. Grandet was always reluctant to pay the extra wages. The family knew his virtue , I will not talk about this matter anymore.Therefore, Yang Yi didn't know that when walking up the stairs, he must not walk inside, but Eugenie knew it, but she didn't remind Yang Yi.

"Cousin, how are you?" Charles asked with concern as he quickly pulled Yang Yi up a step.

"It's okay, I was just shocked." Yang Yi said.

Mr. Grandet heard the noise in the stairwell, and hurried over with a candle: "Sidney, what's the matter with you?"

Yang Yi held on to the railing of the stairs, bent down and pressed the painful left ankle, and told what happened just now, "I think Nanon should call a carpenter to repair it tomorrow."

"Oh, yes, please, tomorrow morning!" Mr. Grandet said, and then he looked at Eugenie, "Eugenie, why don't you remind your brother."

"I didn't know he would stand there and not leave." Eugenie did not remind Yang Yi on purpose, because she was jealous of Yang Yi. Yang Yi only came to Saumur City for a few days, and he threatened her property, and even met him. A duke, now her cousin seems to be more willing to talk to Yang Yi, which makes Eugenie very unwilling.

"Then why do you insist on huddling with your two brothers, can't you go behind, or go ahead?" said M. Grandet.

"I just want to lead the way for my cousin."

"Eugenie, do you think our house is a castle? There are only a few rooms upstairs. I just told Charles that his room is at the end of the corridor. He is not a child who doesn't know the way. He wants you to take him with him. he?"

Mr. Grandet is very dissatisfied with Eugenie's attitude these days. He knows that she is worried about her future inheritance. Although he has decided to give his own part of the inheritance to his son, he will not treat her badly. He has doted on his daughter for more than twenty years, and he intends to leave all his wife's inheritance to his daughter. Under his careful management over the years, this inheritance has become a considerable sum, enough for Eugenie to marry Good husband.But now it seems that his daughter doesn't understand his thoughts at all. These days, Yang Yi is crowded out everywhere, which really makes him a little disappointed. Could it be that he, a father, doesn't think about her? Doesn't he know Would having a younger brother to back her up after her parents died would benefit her life much.

No matter how angry Mr. Grandet was, Eugenie didn't care about it. Yang Yi, the younger brother, had no place in his heart at all, not even a ten-millionth of Charles's. "Cousin, let me take you back to your room. You must be exhausted after coming all the way here. You must take a good rest."

Charles had no choice but to follow Eugenie to his room, Yang Yi was still clutching his ankle, Mr. Grandet asked worriedly: "Sidney, do you want me to ask the doctor to show you?"

"No, I just bumped into the steps just now. I'll be fine after a night of rest. But Dad, this is not a trivial matter. You are not young. It would be bad if you accidentally fell down. Please hurry up Let a carpenter come and fix it!" Yang Yi frowned and said, he was really depressed, could love really bring courage to people, a few days ago Eugenie didn't want to see him, and she just talked about it, but now She had the courage to let him get hurt.

"Okay, okay, I'll have the carpenter repair the stairs tomorrow morning. I'll have a good talk with Eugenie about what she did just now," said Mr. Grandet.

"Dad, my sister seems to care too much about that cousin. Dad, you must take good care of her and don't let her be deceived." This is an era when cousins ​​and cousins ​​can marry each other. In the future there will be a nephew or niece who is not quite normal.

After lunch the next day, Yang Yi took a decent gift and set off to visit Duke Louis. Of course, this gift could not be from Mr. Grandet, but Yang Yi took it in his bracelet .

He walked slowly all the way to the Marquis of Froyfon's mansion. This old castle should have been renamed Anjou mansion now, because there are more than a dozen gardeners busy in the garden at the moment, and a large number of lush flowers and plants Pulled down, and the statuettes and birdbaths that were erected here and there were gone, Duke Louis probably wanted to throw out everything in the garden that he didn't like.

There was a busy scene in the garden, and the house was not peaceful. The servants of the Marquis of Froyfon were running all over the house to pack their luggage. All valuable things that could be taken away were packed up and packed.Another group of servants, dressed in different clothes from the original servants here, kept moving all kinds of luxurious furniture from the dozen or so large carriages in the backyard. Those who did not need to think about it must belong to Duke Louis.

"Mr. Grandet, please go this way. His Royal Highness is having afternoon tea with the Marquis of Froyfon by the lake." The butler who led Yang Yi was the butler who went to Grandet's house yesterday. His name was Charlie. He is a gentleman with a gentle face and shrewd eyes.

"Okay, but I want to ask, does His Highness the Duke plan to live here often?" Yang Yi followed Butler Charlie through the backyard, asking as he walked.

"Yes, I plan to spend this winter here."

Yang Yi looked at the forest not far away, it seems that he can only sneak here at night in the future, if he comes here during the day and is captured by Duke Louis, he will definitely be in trouble.