The secret police came for her—Carlota couldn't understand better, because if Holmes thought that the Madeleine next door had been exposed, it was impossible for the secret police to go to the theater to follow her.

Then there was only one possibility, a remarkable person had appeared beside her.

Carlotta is too conservative socially, or she will hardly appear in any lively place unless it is necessary.If you exclude theater colleagues, next-door neighbors, and lovers...

There are only a few people that she has contact with on a daily basis, and there is one of them that she chats with every day, and she feels that she can be a friend.

"What should I call you?"

"Just call me John, I like that name."

John showed a slightly bitter smile, and at the same time glanced to the side with a little vigilance: "Miss Lester, I still want to confess to you."

Holmes stood aside and raised his eyebrows, and said in a very subtle tone: "Obviously I exposed his identity, why did he want to talk to you?"

"Don't pay attention to these details." Carlota patted Holmes' hand, she was very tolerant in this regard: "I was under surveillance by you, right? But you can actually let those monitors Go away for a while, I also underestimated you, Mr. John."

"You don't have to..."

"No, that's what I want to do."

Carlotta interrupted John's words without hesitation, showing no politeness at all: "You should be the one who knows my living habits best, and you should also understand that I have no ideals."

"My first teacher died because of you, and I hate you."

She still remembers Vitellis being pulled from the stage, humiliated and forced to leave her home.All because he expressed his sympathy for a young man who was about to be executed: "I hate you, you have ideals, but you never think about the price ordinary people will pay if you want to realize your ideals. I am not willing to pay this price , almost everyone is unwilling to pay the price.”

Those who have attained the Dao will help more than those who have lost the Dao, so what if their ideas have never been understood by ordinary people?

What they want to live is an ordinary life, but cholera brings sickness and death, contradictory ideology brings terror of surveillance, and when they start to resist, they are labeled as "Republicans" and sentenced to death .Everyone just wants to live an ordinary life, and no one wants to participate in it.

Because of cholera, this group of students thought the government was ineffective, so they started to take up arms, decided to resist, and then——

"40 years ago, the uprising before I was born, do you know what else was done besides overthrowing Louis XVI and storming the Bastille?"

"My family's small village was plundered and swept under the name of 'purge', and my family went crazy, thinking that only becoming a master can get rid of this powerless situation. The Orleans Dynasty was established three years ago, you know me What is the theater facing?"

Being persecuted in the name of "revolution", her former soprano was shot and killed for being a "republican", and everyone was in panic all day long, not knowing what Paris was going to do.

"Please come back."

Carlota raised his hand and pointed to John in a direction: "I don't want to participate in what you are going to do, I don't want to know, I will never open the door to you here."

"You really don't understand..."

"I don't want to understand."

Carlota had a cold face. She understood these things, but she always had a different view when it was about herself.If she supported the Republican Party, what about Raoul and Christine?Raoul has the title of viscount, and is a natural candidate for the royalist party.And then when the Republicans come to power, who knows what they'll do to a poor viscount who only knows a little about architecture.

She didn't dare to bet, what she wanted before was to live with Christine, now that Christine has Raoul, then she just wants to live by herself, that's all.

After chasing Mr. Coachman away, Carlotta locked the door of his apartment, leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes very tiredly: "Sherlock, even so, I still don't want to go to England with you, you will think I It's so unreasonable, would you think I'm indestructible, would you think I'm stupid?"

"will not."

"why?"

"Because you are sensible, if you go to England with me at this time, you will be considered a dangerous person."

Standing in front of the soprano, Holmes gently took her hand: "You don't need to blame yourself, and you don't need to think that my judgment is correct. Or on the contrary, only the decision you insist on is the right one. is correct."

"why?"

"Because I believe you are always right."

"It's an absolute honor to have that sentence come out of the detective's mouth."

Carlotta opened his eyes and smiled slightly at Mr. Detective's gray eyes, and reached out to hold his hand: "When Nana and Raoul's wedding is over, I will return to England with you."

"You used the word 'back', can I understand it as..."

Holmes lowered his voice slightly, and slowly put his forehead on Carlotta's.Her forehead was slightly warmer than her own, and it felt very soft when touched.

"You are too near, Mr. Holmes."

"You should not call me Mr. Holmes at this time, Miss Lester."

Carlotta laughed directly when he heard the last title, and felt a sense of peace of mind when he felt the breath that didn't belong to him: "If I say it's good to have you by my side, do you believe what I say?"

"I believe."

"I said you changed me, do you believe me?"

"I believe."

Trust is always mutual, and mutual unreserved trust makes Carlota relax a lot.When "The Harlequin" premiered the next day, Carlotta stood on the stage, glanced briefly and saw Mr. Detective sitting in the auditorium, and the smile on his face became more "tender and sweet".

Raoul, who was sitting in the No. 5 box, saw the expression on his face, and thought of her role as a cheating wife. He couldn't help but shiver, and at the same time, he admired the British gentleman who surrendered to the big demon king even more.

"The Harlequin" is presented in a play-within-a-play mode. The protagonist Canio discovers that his wife has cheated on the young villager Silvio, and the clown Pariacho he needs to play in subsequent performances has almost the same encounters, but still want to tease the audience to make them laugh.Pirgi sang this Canio libretto during the rehearsal and looked at Carlotta's calm expression. He always felt that as long as he stepped on multiple boats now, he would definitely be green in the future.

"Ly, Miss Lester?"

"what's up?"

Carlota adjusted the dress for the last time before the performance, looked at Pirgi's expression and raised his eyebrows: "What are you worried about? Can't play Canio well?"

"Not really."

Pirgi immediately denied that he was just feeling a little stuffed as an Italian.But that's good too, it's better to give yourself a little warning than something like this will actually happen in the future.

When opera actors walk on the stage, they no longer belong to themselves, but belong to one character after another in the play.So if the actors in the play are also acting, are they acting?Or are you showing your own truth?

In "The Harlequin", Neda thought that Canio hadn't noticed what he was doing, but everything was already in Canio's eyes.After all, Canio still couldn't tell whether he was Canio or Paliagio who had suffered the same situation, and while Neda screamed, he raised a knife and stabbed her in the chest.

It is not Nedda who plays the leading role in "The Harlequin", but Nedda's pretending not to know and her emotional turning point are the turning points of the whole opera.Carlotta looked at the sharp knife that was about to be stabbed into his chest, suddenly felt blessed, and turned his body slightly to show a gesture of escape. Borrowing completed the murder in this opera.

"Miss Lester?"

"That knife is real."

When Carlotta fell to the ground, she quickly blocked the sharp knife with her body, and the tomato sauce blood bag prepared in advance was also broken by her. She fell directly to the ground without hesitation and showed a kind of "spraying blood" The state of "falling to the ground" caused an uproar in the entire theater.Pilgi stood aside in a daze, turned around and spoke the last line in "The Harlequin" to all the audience.

"Today's play ends here."

This knife is a real knife, so who wants to die?

Carlotta fell to the ground and closed his eyes. Anyway, it couldn't be a phantom, so who else hoped that he would die?

Sure enough, I shouldn't be soft-hearted and talk about some things with Mr. Coachman. Look, I have messed with people who shouldn't be provoked.

As the curtain closed, Carlotta immediately picked up the real knife, and handed it to Mrs. Gilly who hurried over when she realized something was wrong: "It's okay, I'm going to call the curtain next, lest the audience think I'm really dead."

The theater was almost boiling. When everyone thought that a murder had really happened, and even Leon Cavallo was worried and regretful, Carlotta opened the curtain and bowed to everyone.

Nedda is dead, Carlotta is not.This play is just a simple play.

After standing upright, Carlotta blinked slightly in the direction of Mr. Detective, and at the same time stretched out his hand to hold Leon Cavallo's hand and gave a deep salute.

"The Harlequin" was a success, and she had more guarantees than before.

Now, no one would bother an artist anymore, would they?

The author has something to say: Lotta can become a soprano at the age of 16, I thought you would ask me why [.In fact, Lota was also rushing to the shelves at that time. How can she be the chief soprano at the age of 16? She is not such a genius ORZ

The first uprising refers to the French Revolution. I remember that the capture of the Bastille was written in textbooks. After that, the July Revolution occurred in 1830, which is the historical background of this article almost four years ago. The Orleans Dynasty = History July Dynasty.This long period of French history is very... ups and downs, I recommend everyone to learn about it

John the coachman is neither a big E nor a big R. I originally changed it to make John an original one, but if you have to say it, you can think that he is Combeferre =. =

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