[Count of Monte Cristo] Love and hatred

chapter119

About seven o'clock Haidee returned in the handsome Danglars carriage, holding a handsome picture frame in her hand.She glanced at Mei Tess, then at Baptistine standing beside her, and said hastily, "My lord, please forgive me. You were not at home when Eugenie sent the invitation today, and I really want to go..."

"It's okay, Haidee, you can go wherever you want, just ask Baptistin to leave me a message." Mei Tess said with a smile, "Dinner is almost ready, you go to change it first." clothes."

"Okay," Haidee nodded, and hurried upstairs.After changing into the dress, she and Mei Tess walked into the dining room together. Even if there were no guests, they still strictly followed the etiquette of the British nobles during the meal.

"It seems that you and Mademoiselle Danglars are getting along very well," said Maisy Tess.

"Oh, yes," Haidee nodded, "Miss Danglars is a very nice person."

"What did you guys talk about?" Mei Tess asked curiously.

"Last time I casually mentioned that I like painting art, but I didn't expect Eugenie to write it down." Haide showed a smile, "She introduced me to many works of the Barbizon School that she admired, and even copied her sent me a pair of Rousseau's works."

"I saw it. It was a beautiful landscape painting."

"Yes, that is the forest of Fontainebleau. Looking at it, I seem to hear the whispers from the forest." Haidee blinked, "Eugénie said that the French classicism tradition is strong, and the status of landscape painting has always been low. But in her opinion, the paintings of the Barbizon School reveal the spirituality of nature, as beautiful as poetry, and are not inferior to those paintings of historical themes."

Mei Tess thinks so, not because she has the same advanced vision in art as Eugenie, but because she knows that the epoch-making Impressionism that will be born in France in the next few decades, It is famous for its landscape paintings.She just didn't expect that a vulgar person like Danglars could raise a daughter who loved art.

"By the way, didn't Eugenie ask you about the textile factory?" Mae Tess asked suspiciously.

"Not once," Haidee shook her head. "However, Eugenie told me that it was because her father wanted to know about the textile factory that he acquiesced to her invitation."

"What a special girl," Mei Tess thought to herself.

After supper, Haidee retired to her room.After a while, Mei Tess heard a melodious sound of Yueqin from upstairs. The sound was melodious and melancholy, and one could hear that the person playing the qin was very worried.

She walked into the room decorated in a Middle Eastern style, and Haide was sitting on the sofa where she was sitting in the corner of the room. When she saw her coming, she put the piano aside.

Plum Tess asked with some concern, "Haidee, are you not used to living here?"

"No." Haiide shook her head, "The conditions here are much better than when we were in Rome."

"That's all right," said Plum Tess, and sat down beside Haidee.

Over the years, Haiidee has been by her side. Although they are not related by blood, Haiidee has already become her relatives to her.Although she can't help Haiidee regain her princess status for the time being, but now the conditions are sufficient, she hopes that Haiidee can live a comfortable life.

After a few seconds of silence, Plum Tess asked tentatively, "Haidee, you seem a little unhappy."

"Yes, I'm worried about Eugenie." Haidee's eyes flickered, "She told her that she was going to be engaged, and I should have congratulated her, but I didn't expect her betrothed to be Morcerf's son! "

"Maybe Morcerf's son Albert is not like his father..." Masertes comforted. "By the way, is Eugenie satisfied with this marriage?"

"No... In fact, Eugenie told me a terrible thing. The son of Morcerf killed the Viscount Duvel in a duel, but only she knew the real reason", Hederie After pondering, "At that time, the son of Morcerf offended Eugenie verbally, and Viscount Tuvers happened to be there. In order to protect Eugenie's reputation, he proposed to fight the son of Morcerf, but he was just a weakling. The student is no match for that person at all."

"But I know that such a duel usually ends when one side is injured," Mei Tess said.

"That's right, but the son of Morcerf stabbed the viscount to death with a single sword, without giving him any chance." Haiide grabbed the corner of her skirt, "He is as cruel as his father!"

"What's Eugenie's plan?" Mei Tess asked worriedly.

"Eugénie said she would never marry him," Haidee shook her head, "If there is such a day, she would rather enter a monastery!"

Mei Tess suddenly recalled that when she was in Rome, it was Eugenie's appearance that made her feel a little soft-hearted for a while, so she didn't attack Danglars.And now, what happened to that girl made her sympathize again.

"No, that's not going to happen!" said Mei Tess.

"Are you going to help her?" said Haidee in amazement, "but I know her father is someone you and the count are going to deal with."

"I'm willing to help her." Mei Tess nodded, "Besides, Eugenie has nothing to do with the crimes committed by her father."

"But how can we help Eugenie?" Haidee said worriedly, "It's impossible for us to influence her parents' thoughts."

"That's not necessarily the case." Mei Tess gave a stern smile, "Actually, I sent a letter to Vampa some time ago, because I wanted to find a reliable person to help me manage the property outside Paris. .I expect he will arrive in Paris in a few days, but it seems that he has more important tasks to complete."

"Are you asking him to assassinate the Viscount Malcerf?" Haiide seemed frightened by her conjecture, "No, this is not Rome. He doesn't know the place well, so he will be caught!"

"No, I don't need Vampa to kill anyone." Mei Tess pondered for a while, "Actually, what I'm thinking about is that if there is a suitor who is better than Viscount Malcerf next to Eugenie, things will go wrong." become very different.”

"Oh, you want Wampa to be the prince who saves the princess!"

"Yes." Mei Tess nodded, "However, first we have to forge a new identity for Vampa, which requires the help of the Earl."

......

At this moment, the night fell completely, and the Count of Monte Cristo was driving back from Monteretta on horseback.

And in the direction he came from, there happened to be an emergency station.

In fact, the earl could have given the correspondent a large amount of compensation, as Mei Tess said, and asked him to send the three sets of signals he had prepared. In that case, Lucien, the secretary of the Minister of the Interior, would bring wrong messages To Madame Danglars, and Danglars would have suffered a considerable loss in the public debt.

Yet he didn't do that.Because, after chatting with the correspondent who loves gardening at the emergency station for more than an hour, the count realized that he could use this emergency station to give Danglars a fatal blow, instead of just losing hundreds of thousands of francs. .

Before leaving, he gave the correspondent a large tip to thank him for showing him around the emergency station.But he also made a request that if Baron Danglars had any telegrams to be sent from there, he must be notified as soon as possible.

Realizing that the Earl's request would not bring him any risk, nor would it cause any loss to others, the correspondent immediately agreed. After all, he urgently needed a sum of money to renovate his beloved garden.

When the count returned home, the butler Bertuccio immediately greeted him, "Master Count, have you gone to inspect your property in the suburbs?"

The count looked at the butler, and keenly caught the fear in the other's eyes.He knows what he's afraid of.

"No, it must have occurred to you that I visited an emergency station. I used to see it on the top of the knoll, with its black arms stretching out in all directions, which always reminded one of the claws of a beetle. I used to I am very curious how it conveys its meaning hundreds of miles away by means of those strange signals, but unfortunately that boring correspondent broke my fantasy about insects."

The count smiled sternly, "But Bertuccio, you reminded me. I heard from the notary that the villa in Auteuil is very quiet, with flowing water and trees. I just want to go there and have a look."

"What..." Bertuccio said incoherently, "I mean, when are we going?"

"Just now!"

"Now?" said Bertuccio hastily, "but it is already dark, my lord."

"What does it matter?" The count folded his hands. "My habit is to think of something and immediately go to do it. Besides, there is nothing more interesting than a night tour in a deserted manor."

"But..."

The count looked straight into the butler's eyes, "Are you afraid, Mr. Bertuccio?"

"No, my lord, of course not." The butler replied immediately.But even though he said this, his whole body trembled nervously, and the earl saw this detail keenly.

"My dear steward," said the Count of Monte Cristo in a hoarse and magnetic voice, "I know you are afraid, and I know what you are afraid of."

"You...know?" Bertuccio hardly dared to meet the count's eyes.

"Yes, you are afraid of ghosts."

"Do not..."

"Don't be ashamed to admit, Mr. Bertuccio, there are often rumors of haunted manors in the suburbs that have not been lived in for a long time," the count said with a smile, "but you don't have to be afraid, I have never heard of the dead taking 6000 years can do more evil than any living man can commit in a single day."

"You are right," said Bertuccio, wiping the cold sweat from his brow with his hand.

"Then, Mr. Steward, prepare my horse now!"

The author has something to say: Thank you Mei Zi for the nutrient solution, okay~

1. Barbizon School

Barbizon school barbizonschool, a French school of landscape painting in the 19th century.Barbizon is the entrance to the Fontainebleau Forest in Paris, France, with beautiful scenery. In the 19s and 30s, a group of painters who were dissatisfied with the rule of the July Dynasty and academic painting came to settle here one after another to paint, forming a school of painting.It not only expresses the appearance of nature in a realistic way, but also devotes itself to exploring the inner life of nature, and strives to express the painter's sincere feelings for nature in his works, and denies the false historical landscape painting formula of the academic school with the creation of real natural landscape paintings. It opened the prelude to the huge realist art movement in France in the 40th century.

2. Impressionist painting

Impressionism, also known as Impressionism, is an epoch-making art genre in the history of Western painting. It emerged in France from the 19s to the 60s. At that time, Claude Monet’s oil painting "Sunrise Impression" was ridiculed by a reporter. name.This picture depicts the early morning in the port of Le Havre, just as the sun is rising.Because the painter has to complete the work in a very short moment, before the light changes, the beautiful scenery in the morning, so it is impossible to paint the picture very carefully.When the academic painters saw this work, they thought it was rough and too casual, so they ridiculed the "Barbizon" painters with sarcasm, meaning: those are a group of painters who don't understand painting at all. "Sunrise·Impression" was completely drawn out of random impressions, and other people also echoed that these painters were all "impressionists". Unexpectedly, these sarcasm, on the contrary, helped these painters, and "impressionism" followed. Born, the "Barbizon School" was gradually forgotten.