Eugenie with money [Grandet]

Everyone in Nucingen's office heard the manager's question and gave the opposite response:

"unnecessary!"

"Go!"

There were two barons in the office, making two different voices.The manager followed the advice of Baron Nucingen, whom he was familiar with, and closed the door for them from the outside, and drove away more bank employees who heard the noise and wanted to court Nucingen.

"Ha, you're guilty, you villain, you don't dare let the police know about this, do you, you goddamn banker. I always thought bankers were just stealing money, I never thought you'd kill someone. You didn't murder a man , My daughter is dead, and my life is gone. Mr. Murderer, you killed two people at once." Grandet wished he could strangle Nucingen to death.

"Three." Nanon stared at Nucingen's neck more ferociously than Grandet, obviously calculating the distance between his hand and Nucingen's neck.As long as Grandet gives a signal, she will implement it.

Nucingen wanted to cry but had no tears: "Mr. Grandet, would you please listen to my explanation?"

Grandet's eyeballs almost popped out: "What do you have to explain, the last person my daughter saw was you, and you must be the one who murdered her!"

Nanon took a step forward, picked up the collar of Nucingen's white shirt with both hands, and scratched the silk shirt with his hands accustomed to rough work, but who cares?

Nucingen stammered: "Let go, you woman, you know who you are after. Monsieur Grandet, let her stop quickly. Mademoiselle Eugenie and Madame Taigou have gone to Madrid, and no one can murder her."

Nanon calmly removed his hand from Nucingen's neckline, and kindly stroked the creases for the man.Grandet's eyes were still wide open: "You're lying, she can't even speak Spanish, how could she go to Madrid."

Nucingen saw that Nanon was about to start again, so he quickly hid in the desk and said to Grandet: "I can understand your feelings, Monsieur Grandet. But I can't forgive you for your behavior. Even if If Mademoiselle Eugenie returns to Paris now, I will not forgive you either." Don't bankers want dignity?

Grandet just stared at Nucingen, and found that when he said that Eugenie was returning to Paris now, his face was only angry, and he was not guilty at all, thinking that Nucingen could temporarily remove the suspicion of murder.

"Then Baron Nucingen," Grandet pulled a chair by himself, and sat down opposite Nucingen: "Can you tell me in detail what Eugenie is doing in Madrid? As a partner , don't you know that Spain is not suitable for young girls to go to now, no, it is not suitable to go at any time. Didn't you persuade her?"

Nanon asked another question: "Did the lady come back with a letter? Is the journey safe? How long are you going to stay there?" Turning his head, he said to Grandet seriously: "Sir, give me a hundred francs, and I will go to find you." Miss."

Nanon dared to ask himself for a hundred francs at once. Grandet felt that he couldn't bear it: "What do you want so much money for? You can live a day with a piece of black bread."

Nanon was still so serious: "But I want to take a carriage. If I rely on walking, I don't know when I will be able to reach Madrid."

What you said is so reasonable that even Grandet has nothing to refute.But when asked to give Nanon a hundred francs, he still had to retort: ​​"There is no post-coach that goes directly to Madrid, and you don't know where Eugenie lives in Madrid."

Seeing the two of them discussing among themselves, Nucingen wanted to take out two hundred francs and ask the two to go to Madrid or wherever they wanted, as long as they didn't appear in front of their eyes.

"How did you communicate with Madrid, Nucingen?" Grandet couldn't explain it to Nanon, who admitted death, and had to deal with people he could deal with.

Hearing him call himself a servant, Nucingen would have thrown the man out if there hadn't been that horrible, burly woman behind him.Now that this burly woman is here, Nucingen can only continue to appease Grandet:

"Mr. Grandet, I usually communicate with the office in Madrid by letter. If there is something urgent, send someone to deliver the letter. Before Miss Eugenie left, she said that she would be back in about half a month." , and now it is delayed for a few days, maybe she saw some beautiful scenery on the road and was fascinated." So you should wait patiently.

"No!" Grandet thought that Nucingen was lying to him: "Don't think that I don't know that there is such a thing as express, why don't you send someone to send express and ask about Eugenie's situation?"

Are you kidding me?Nucingen was heartbroken: "Mr. Grandet, you may not be clear. The express reports are all about major events." For example, which country's king died suddenly, or which country's regime was overthrown and changed.

Eugenie is only a baroness, and your baron Grandet bought it with money.

"However, what if you give the messenger enough money?" Grandet smiled cunningly at Nucingen. This was the first smile he showed after seeing Nucingen. Nucingen felt as if he had been kidnapped by a fox. eyeing.

"It's not about money, M. Grandet." Nucingen struggled.

"I can offer you five thousand francs, just a message, a definite message that Eugenie is safe." Grandet insisted.

"You don't know the complexity of dispatching a dispatch. It is not a problem that a dispatcher can solve. Even if the dispatch is sent to Madrid, Miss Eugenie will not be able to receive it." Nucingen thought that Grandet was more generous than Eugenie. The last time Eugenie wanted to buy Bono, and the initial offer was only five hundred francs.

"Six thousand francs, grandma's hammer, and no more. You know I'm a poor man, and you can't try to squeeze me out of money just because I can't find a dispatch."

"When I think of a way to find someone to send the report, maybe Miss Eugenie has already returned." Nucingen was still a little afraid of Grandet's persistence, although he did not double the price directly like Eugenie.

Grandet became ruthless: "Seven thousand francs, if you still dare to say no, then I will announce that Eugenie is missing, then inherit her shares, and then sell the shares to your opponent, and let him torture you !"

What a cruel man!

The Nucingen Bank is the largest bank in Paris. Is there really no rival?If he had no rival, how could he have been so interested in Eugenie's 600 million francs in the first place? !

"I can only say try to find a way." Nucingen made a promise against his will.

Promises are just a matter of opening your mouth, how can it be so easy to implement?Nuqingen's worried eyebrows were almost white, but he still couldn't find a way out.He didn't dare to stay in his office - every day when the bank arrived at work, Grandet and Nanon would come to report on time to hear the progress of the previous day.

It was not easy for Nucingen to think of a way to buy it—the express is delivered by manpower from station to station. It is still possible to buy an expressman on the border between France and Spain and send the news directly to Madrid.

It is the symbol of the bulletin, not everyone knows it, and Nucingen has to spend money to find someone to translate the content of the bulletin he wants to send first.

Even after spending [-] francs, Grandet was still dissatisfied. He felt that Nucingen should have thought of this a long time ago, instead of asking for an interpreter after he bribed the expressman.

"You have to know, Monsieur Nucingen." Grandet tapped on the armrest of the chair, looking bored, "You have to be decisive, and you must also have the ability to coordinate, and you can't think about it all at once."

Who thought it was one thing?Nucingen could not drive people away, nor could he close his ears. He could only watch Grandet admit his mistake against his will: "I didn't think it through myself."

It's so embarrassing!Nucingen thought that when Eugenie returned to Paris, he must discuss the issue of share distribution with her. With Grandet involved, it would be a disadvantage for him to allocate shares like this!

Nucingen's office was suddenly pushed away from the outside, which finally gave him a place to vent his anger. Do you think everyone is Grandet, and you can enter his office if you want?

"Who let you in, don't you know the basic etiquette?" Looking at the familiar girl in front of her, dressed as a maid, Nuqingen's voice was icy.

Elemi didn't care what Nucingen said, she only knew the news she was about to report, and the husband must want to hear: "Miss and the Marquise de Teygou are back."

Grandet stood up suddenly from the chair, without even saying goodbye, grabbed his priest's cap and walked to the door.Nanon was not much slower than him, and Elemi followed closely behind.Finally, followed by the disgruntled Nucingen.

Three carriages appeared one after another on Illerand-Bertin Street. The porter saw the carriages from a distance, opened the door, and let the maid inform Eugenie.

When Grandet got out of the carriage, Eugenie was already waiting under the carriage: "Father, you really surprised me." She gave the old cooper a hug and received a rude kiss from him: "You Of course you don't want to see me in Paris."

"How could it be?" Eugenie laughed cheerfully. Because Grandet was worried about himself, he even gave up his growing vineyard. Eugenie was very moved.

"Miss, if you don't take me with you when you go out next time, I will ask you to take you back to Saumur." Nanon muttered dissatisfiedly next to the father and daughter.

"Good Nanon, you wouldn't do that, you don't even know what I brought you from Madrid." Eugenie let go of Grandet, and gave Nanon a hug under his dissatisfied gaze.

"What else did you bring her? Last time you made her new clothes and bought new shoes, everyone in Saumur thought I was insane." Grandet felt that Nanon did not deserve such treatment, because Ou Ye Ni didn't even say that she brought a gift for herself.

"Miss Eugenie." Nucingen stepped forward to greet Eugenie, thinking in his heart, you'd better have something to gain in Madrid, otherwise the shares in the bank must be reduced.