[Comprehensive wear] You will get used to it

Although Miss Catherine is sometimes a bit annoying, her piano skills are really good. She is very happy to show herself in front of Duke Louis, so she is playing with all her strength.Yang Yi admired her strength, because sitting in front of the piano and maintaining a graceful posture for more than three hours while playing non-stop is actually not an easy task.

The afternoon sun shines on the floor of the music room through the window, Yang Yi's stool is in that halo, his whole body is surrounded by the sun, as long as he squints his eyes slightly, he can see the dust particles floating in the air , There is only the sound of the piano and the breathing of three people in the whole room.Everything looks so serene and quiet, time seems to stop slowly, and it seems to be slowly regressing, which makes people feel nostalgic.

Yang Yi really hasn't enjoyed such a quiet moment for a long, long time, and it's been a long, long time since he listened to music for such a long time. It seems that since leaving the Phantom, he has never had such a leisurely time. This is about to make him forget Music is so beautiful and so comforting to the soul.

Most people are reluctant to break this kind of atmosphere, but Duke Louis can't bear it. This kind of environment where he can hear his breathing and heartbeat reminds him of the painful period when he was locked in the dark and cold dungeon. memory.So after another piece of music was over, he closed the book in his hand with a "snap", then stood up and walked quickly to the edge of the bookshelf. There were bursts of eager footsteps on the floor. After he stood still, he stuffed the book in a little rudely, and said, "I think we can play billiards and move our hands and feet."

"Good idea, the billiards room is next door." Miss Catherine immediately closed the piano cover and walked to Duke Louis and said.

"Sidney, what do you think?" Duke Louis asked Yang Yi.

This sudden action pulled Yang Yi out of his memory. He was a little shocked, and he didn't hear Duke Louis' question clearly, but he didn't care much about what the other party asked, he just nodded and said :"……Can."

Afterwards, they stayed in the billiard room. During the period, the Marquis of Froyfond and the Marquise also joined in. Everyone also gambled some prizes. Yang Yi was lucky and won a few francs. Of course, the biggest winner was the Duke of Louis. , everyone intends to let him get No.1.

The newly renamed Duke of Anjou's house was full of joy, but the house of Grandet was not so cheerful. In the afternoon, M. Grandet met M. Crochet in the street, and the other party gave him a newspaper, which published News of his brother Guillaume Grandet's suicide.

Mr. Grandet had expected that his younger brother would do something stupid, but he was shocked for a while when he saw it.Even though his younger brother abandoned his elder brother in order to cling to his noble in-laws and had no contact for more than 30 years, he still felt unavoidably sad.Of course, it was more anger, because his younger brother ended his life with a single bullet, patted his ass and went to the underworld, but left him a huge mess, and he owed a huge debt of 400 million It seemed that he had to repay it, and he seemed to be the only one responsible for his son, a playboy who was as elegant as a noble lady, which made Mr. Grandet so angry that he wanted to pull his brother out of the underworld.

But no matter how angry things have already happened, the only thing Mr. Grandet can do is to reduce his property losses, and then send his son to India according to the content of the letter his brother wrote to him. He seeks his own future.

Then Mr. Grandet went home. His wife and daughter were talking and laughing happily with Charles. Charles told them some happy things that happened when he participated in the ball in Paris, which made Grande, who had never experienced a ball. Mrs. Tai and Eugenie listened with great interest.

"I heard Mrs. de Grassan say that the skin of ladies in Paris is as delicate as a newborn baby. She said that they all use milk to bathe and maintain their skin. Is this true?" Ou Ye Ni asked.

"Of course milk baths are essential, but what they use are more skin care products, and there are special ointments for making the skin delicate." Charles said, and he stretched out his hand to Mrs. Grandet and Mrs. Grandet. In front of Eugenie, "I often put a kind of hand cream on my hands. It smells like roses, and the skin on my hands will become better after applying it. Don't you think my hands are very beautiful?" .”

Shire's hands are slender and white, they don't look like what a man should have at all, they are more like growing on a little girl.But as a girl, Eugenie's hands are actually very rough, and there are many scars on them, because she always has to do some rough work, so some calluses will inevitably grow on her hands, and the winter is too harsh. When it was cold, she would get chilblains on her hands, which left scars when the cold passed.

Eugenie shrank her hands into her sleeves with a little inferiority. When she got up this morning and saw herself in the mirror, she felt that she was not worthy of Charles at all, because she was not beautiful enough.Now she had found another reason why she was not worthy of Charles, and it made her very sad.

Mrs. Grandet was keenly aware of her daughter's emotional changes, and she quickly figured out why her daughter was behaving like this, so she quickly changed the subject and said to Charles: "Charles, have another drink." Coffee, I think today's coffee tastes very good."

"Okay, dear aunt." Charles said, and then he picked up the coffee cup and asked Mrs. Grandet to pour him another cup, but Charles soon regretted it because he saw the coffee in Mrs. Grandet's hand. The big clay pot, the khaki pot looks dirty, and if you look closely, you can see that there is a layer of dark dirt on the inside of the pot, which should have been stained by years of brewing coffee.

Charles felt a little disgusted, he didn't want to take a sip of the coffee in the cup anymore, but Madame Grandet looked at him so attentively, he had to raise the cup and pretend to take a sip, and then said: "Dear aunt, now Parisians Everyone has made coffee with Sharpa coffee pots, no one uses clay pots anymore, let me teach you how to use Sharpa coffee pots to make coffee!"

"I think you'd better keep it and teach them later. I have something to tell you. Come here." Mr. Grandet stood in the hall and said to Charles.

"Uncle, you are back, do you have anything to tell me, please tell me." Charles was a little disgusted with Mr. Grandet, as soon as he saw the old and out-of-shape clothes Mr. Grandet was wearing He felt angry with the shoes, he couldn't connect his handsome and graceful father even though he was old, with this ugly short old man in front of him, God, how could they be brothers.Charles felt that he finally understood why his father never mentioned this brother to him before, because it was too unbearable.

"I think you'd better come out." Mr. Grandet said with a straight face. For this nephew who seemed to be trying to seduce his daughter, Mr. Grandet did not have a good face.

Eugenie was frightened by Mr. Grandet's black face. She could see that her father did not welcome her cousin at all. She was very worried that her father would say something that would hurt Charles, so her attitude He said forcefully to Mr. Grandet: "Father, we are all a family. Is there anything we can't say in person?"

Mrs. Grandet has always known that her husband has a younger brother who is a wine merchant in Paris. It is said that he also married a noble lady of noble status. He has been living a luxurious life in Paris these years. Now Mrs. Grandet saw Charles' demeanor affirmed this even more.Yesterday she found out that Eugenie fell in love with Charles. Although she didn't support it, she didn't seem to have any reason to oppose it. In her heart, she was also happy for her daughter to marry to Paris. She didn't want Eugenie's future life to be different from hers. Same, suffering time in an old house.So she said: "Yes, sir, why don't you say it here, what is there to hide from the family!"

"Do you really want to know?" Mr. Grandet didn't want to talk nonsense at all, he handed the newspaper in his pocket to Charles, and said, "Look, your father wrote in the letter you gave me yesterday. The letter has made things very clear, and I will send you to India to seek a future in accordance with his last words."

Not knowing why, Charles took the newspaper and looked at it, then immediately looked at Mr. Grandet in horror. He stared in disbelief and said, "...Uncle, how is this possible...how is it possible!"

"He sent you here to prevent you from being involved in debt disputes, and he doesn't want you to lose face. You'd better follow his advice and go to India in a few days." Mr. Grandet said .

"No, no..." This sudden news caught Charles by surprise. He didn't know how to accept this fact. He looked up at M. Grandet, but only saw a patch of Indifferent, he felt a pain in his heart, and ran upstairs stumbling.

The last words in Mr. Grandet's words shocked Mrs. Grandet and Eugenie. They immediately guessed what Mr. Grandet was going to say. When they saw Charles' grief After the appearance, they all cried sadly.Eugenie bent down to pick up the newspaper that Charles had thrown on the ground, read the obituary and asked, "Dad, uncle, why did he commit suicide?"

"Because he lost money in his business, he owed a whole lot of debts." Mr. Grandet said.

"Papa, how much does uncle owe him?" asked Eugenie.

"I think it's more than 400 million francs. Such a large deficit can't be cleared. Even if he sells all his movable and real estate in Paris, it won't be one-twentieth at all." Mr. Grandet said.

"But he is your younger brother, isn't he? Why doesn't he come to seek our help? Father, you can definitely help him. But why does he have to end his own life to solve this matter? Why doesn't he come Seeking help!" Eugenie said, covering her face, she felt that her uncle was so stupid, he simply left her poor cousin here helplessly, Charles should How sad, he obviously couldn't stand the blow just now.

"What are you talking about Eugenie, do you know how much 400 million francs are? Even if our family goes bankrupt, we will still pay back the money." Mr. Grandet patted the table and said, he really didn't think of him My daughter would say such naive words, that is 400 million francs, not [-] francs, even if it is [-] francs, M. Grandet will never give it to creditors who have nothing to do with him.

"How much, but didn't you spend 300 million francs to buy the land of the Marquis of Froyfont? It's just 100 million francs more!" Eugenie said, the money she had the most contact with was her small treasury. She doesn't know if it's too much, but every time her father does a business, the francs are used in tens of thousands, so she always feels that this is not too much money.

"Don't be stupid, one million francs is one million twenty coppers, five twenty coppers can make up five francs, four million francs is four million twenty coppers, you have to count How much is that?" said M. Grandet, looking sideways at Eugenie.

"Oh, God, so much money, how could uncle owe so much money?" Eugenie couldn't figure out how much this amount was, but she knew it must be a lot.

"God knows, so we have to send Charles away far away according to his wishes, because I don't think he will be able to pay back the money in his life, and those creditors will swallow him alive." Grandet The gentleman said that he had already started to think about how to reduce his losses. Every time he said a debt of 400 million francs, he felt his heart shrinking suddenly. He couldn't believe that his stupid brother would owe Betting so much money, and then shot himself irresponsibly.

Although there is a lot of money, Eugenie still feels that Mr. Grandet is fully capable of repaying the money, so when she heard that Mr. Grandet seemed determined to send Charles to India, she said: "But India , that's too far away, separated by a vast sea, what danger will my cousin encounter there? Father, can't we not send him there? It's good for him to stay in Saumer City. Father, you must Can you find a way to help your cousin pay off the debt?"

"I said we have no ability, and I will send him to India to tide over the difficulties, Eugenie, did I just say what I just said to this table?" Mr. Grandet stared Said.

"But, but I heard that you sold 150 to 21 francs a barrel of wine this year, and you sold a total of 160 barrels of wine, so you have 160 francs. And you were not going to buy Frou The forest behind the manor of the Marquis of Vafon? You said he asked for [-] million francs, so you must have a deposit of [-] million francs..."

"Shut up!" Mr. Grandet stood up abruptly, slapped the table and said, "It's not your turn to intervene in family matters, you want all the money in our family to come out and let us all Are you starving to death? Go upstairs for me, immediately, I won’t let you out unless I let you out!”

"My lord, Eugenie is also kind..." Mrs. Grandet wanted to persuade her, but Mr. Grandet gave her a hard look.

"Madame, you go up too. Since Charles came, are you two going to be turned upside down? You watch Eugenie for me. If she sees a step in the room, then never think about it."