Eugenie with money [Grandet]

Grandet's stern question made Mrs. Grandet tremble. The poor woman has been bullied by Grandet all her life. She never thought that she could resist, so she could only look at Eugenie as if asking for help.

"Mama can hide something from you." Eugenie's voice was still so brisk: "It's just that I prepared a surprise for you. Mom thinks it's too precious. I don't want her to tell you in advance. But mom I don't want to keep it from you, I've had a headache trying to persuade her."

"Surprise?" Grandet obviously didn't think that Eugenie could give him any surprises, and continued to look at his wife suspiciously.

"Yes, a surprise, a surprise that can't be said yet." Madame Grandet repeated her daughter's words unconsciously, and looked at Eugenie anxiously again.

Eugenie looked back at her calmly: "Mom, it won't be a surprise if you tell me in advance, you must keep it a secret for me." After speaking, she winked at Madame Grandet.

Grandet had never seen his daughter show such an expression before, and finally turned his gaze to her: "What kind of surprise is it?"

"Father," Eugenie stepped forward to take his arm, "tomorrow, you will know tomorrow." Saying this, she already walked towards the dining table.Grandet had to keep up with her, and his wife followed the father and daughter silently, with heavy steps.

"My dear," after dinner, taking advantage of Grandet's absence, Mrs. Grandet asked anxiously: "Tomorrow is the New Year, your father will definitely look at your gold coins, do you mean that the surprise you said is that all the gold coins are gone?" , he will hit you!" That's scare, okay?She could already imagine how furious Mr. Grandet would be when he knew that all his daughter's gold coins were missing.

Eugenie smiled at her confidently: "Mom, you don't have to worry."

How could the poor woman not worry, the next morning, in order to delay Mr. Grandet's anger, she had to resort to the tricks in the original book, saying that she was frozen and wanted Nanon to light herself.

Even though Grandet repeated the theory that the Labetrière family is as tough as old cement, it still made Nanon angry on the first day of the new year, and then hurried out.

Eugenie knew that he was going to collect the proceeds of the public debt sent by Degrassin, but Madame Grandet felt that she had another respite, and took Eugenie to Mass, delaying as long as possible.

"You have to be nice to your father. It's better to make him forget about the gold coins." Mrs. Grandet was still worried on the way home.

Eugenie already had an idea in her heart, but Madame Grandet had too little mental capacity to bear the miser.In order to prevent her from showing her feet, Eugenie felt that she could not tell her her thoughts in advance, so she could only comfort her over and over again, saying that she had already figured out a way to deal with it.

What did Madame Grandet think Eugenie could do about it?Just thinking about Grandet's anger after knowing the truth can make her uneasy, and by the time of breakfast, the uneasiness is almost written on her face.In order not to let Grandet see it, she dared not even raise her head.

"This foie gras is so delicious." Eugenie sincerely appreciated the wild foie gras sent by Tai Grassan: "I really hope to eat such a delicacy every day."

Grandet laughed: "Eat such a delicacy every day, even His Majesty the Emperor can't do it."

Could Eugenie laugh at his nonsense?I had no choice but to bow my head and try to eat as much as possible to soothe my soul.Madame Grandet quietly looked at this and that, unable to take a bite of food, and had to pretend to be interested, it was too painful.

"Okay." When Nanon accepted the last plate, Grandet put on a smiling face and said, "Good boy, quickly take out your gold coins, and let's see what good things you have received this year." After finishing speaking, she took out a shiny gold coin from her pocket and threw it at Eugenie:

"Have you seen it? Degrassan brought it to you from Paris. Look at its color. It's so pure. It's the most beautiful color in the world. With it, your treasury should be full of [-] francs." .”

Faced with such coaxing words, Eugenie was not surprised at all, but Madame Grandet turned pale: "Oh, Monsieur Grandet, can you help me back to my room, I have a terrible headache." Poor The only thing this woman can think of is to pretend to be sick. She looks really bad, and it's not all fake.

"Girl, do you have to spoil the fun?" Grandet glared at his wife: "You are still not from the Labetrière family, why do you get headaches every time you move? Come on, don't pretend to be delicate, Eugenie Already 24 years old, we have passed the age of attracting attention by being delicate."

Eugenie had already stood up, and stepped forward to hug Madame Grandet: "Mother, wait for me for a while, I will go and bring the surprise I prepared for my father." She exerted a little strength in her arms, hoping to borrow Here is some consolation for the poor woman.

Madame Grandet looked at her pitifully: "Surprise?"

Grandet let out a sigh: "There is really a surprise. Did you accept someone else's gift behind my back? What is it? Who gave it to you? Is it the Crochet or the little guy from the Grassand family?"

Eugenie smiled at him, and went upstairs step by step with brisk steps.After a while, she came down with a small bundle wrapped in cloth. Grandet kept staring at the bundle, wishing to see a hole in the top to see what was inside.

"Is this all your gold left?" Grandet was more familiar with Eugenie's gold coins than she was herself, and felt that the small package couldn't hold all of Eugenie's gold coins, so she couldn't help asking: " Where did you get them?"

Eugenie did not answer Grandet's words. She gently put the package on the table and opened it bit by bit, completely ignoring Grandet's anxiety and uneasiness and Madame Grandet's dumbfounded.

When the pure gold supply box appeared before the eyes of the two of them bit by bit, Eugenie glanced at Grandet and found that his pupils had turned golden. Come forward and grab it.

"This, this, what does this mean? Where did you get it?" Grandet stuttered when he faced his wife and daughter for the first time. Even when he was talking to them, his eyes never left the pure gold object. box.

"That's what you think, Dad." Eugenie said lightly: "This is the surprise I prepared for you. How about it? Isn't it beautiful?"

Grandet's breathing became short, and he took the box into his hand, and weighed it with the old cooper's technique: "Eugenie, is this for me?"

No it's not, it's just to hold you back.Eugenie thought to herself.

"Master," Madame Grandet's face was flushed from the moment the box showed its true face, and she turned pale with fright when Grandet took the box in her hand.Hearing Grandet ask Eugenie if the box was given to him, before Eugenie could speak, she hurriedly said:

"Monsieur, this box does not belong to Eugenie..."

Eugenie remembered that Mrs. Grandet had been oppressed by her husband all the year round, and she had never encountered such a situation. What she was doing now had not greeted her in advance. I was afraid that Grandet would not believe a word she said, so she hurriedly After taking over the words: "Mom is right, Dad, this box is indeed not mine."

"What, it's not yours, why is it in your hands? Eugenie, did I tell you, as long as it is in your hands, it is yours, and no one can take it away?" The old cooper was angry. Humming, she hugged the box so tightly that Eugenie couldn't think of anyone who could take it from him.

Eugenie was also quite frightened by the robber's logic, and explained to him angrily and funnyly: "Don't you want to see my gold coins, and now I'm here to tell you that my gold coins are gone."

"No, are you joking with me? It's worth [-] francs in gold coins. You tell me it's gone?" Grandet was so angry that he even let go of the box, and it fell on the table with a clatter.

Eugenie was distressed and wanted to see if the box was deformed by the drop, but her movements were not as fast as Grandet's. She immediately took the box into her arms, looked at it and touched it carefully. Madame Grandet could Testify, no one has ever been treated with such tenderness by him.

Forget it, as long as the box is still the same box, the gold will be deformed at most, and the weight will still be the same.Eugenie figured it out, so she stopped looking at the box and continued to explain to Grandet:

"My cousin is going to India, and he feels that the money he brings is too little for development, so he exchanged this box for my gold coins."

"Eugenie——" Madame Grandet did not know why her daughter suddenly brought the box to her husband by herself, let alone why she told Grandet that all the gold coins had been given to Charles, and cried out uneasily.

Grandet finally raised his eyes from the box and looked at his daughter carefully. The cold light flickered in his eyes like an eagle staring at its prey. His eyes were full of calculating light, as if he was not looking at his daughter, but at the business field. opponent.

Eugenie still smiled briskly, and didn’t feel any pressure at all—in the original book, when the old cooper saw the gold box for the first time, he thought that the original owner had bought it with gold coins, and thought it was a good deal , now the time is just a little earlier, and it should be similar to the look and feel in the original book.

The silent pointer turned round and round, and Mrs. Grandet couldn't bear the huge pressure any longer. Her body tilted in the chair, and there was no trace of blood on her face. Her sallow face had turned into a Pale and barely able to breathe.

"Mom, what's wrong with you. Daddy, Nanon, come and help me." Eugenie shouted loudly, feeling a little regretful in her heart. She should have made it clear to the poor woman in advance, so that she wouldn't just rely on her own brain Make up, scare yourself like this.

Grandet's hand was still on the supply box, and Nanon and Eugenie, who heard the sound and came running, tried their best to carry Madame Grandet back to the room, but they refused to help.There was a calculating light in his eyes, and he walked between the stairs and the supplies box from time to time, no one knew what he was thinking.