little miss austin

She understands the truth, but it is difficult to write.

Writing is not about what material I have, I can write whatever I have, and it’s not about being able to hold back a story while sitting in front of a desk or a typewriter. You must first have the desire to talk, and “writing to convey the truth” does not necessarily convey the “road”. , It can also be just your understanding of the world.

Writers write about love that is not accepted by society, about desperate lovelornness, about cruel life that turns lovers into ugly guys, about everything that life does to you, a cutie, that makes you miserable and hopeless, heaven and man The tragedy of eternal separation or far apart is always more resonant and memorable than the comedy of happy reunion.

Tragedy is the destruction of good things.

So someone once said that only pain can make people have the desire to talk. If you are too happy and only care about enjoying life, you have nothing to say.

"Where do you want to go?" Ivo folded the letter, put it aside, and put another piece of letter paper on the roller.

"Peloponnese."

"George said he wanted to go to Troy."

"Where do you want to go?"

"Crete."

"Then we'll go to the Peloponnese, and Crete."

Ivo hesitated: "Aren't you with George?"

Alice felt amused, "Why should I be with him?"

"I thought--"

"What for? Me and George—" She gave a mischievous smile. "It doesn't look like he's after me, does he?"

"It's really not like, first Andre, and now Teresa."

"To discuss this issue, you must first understand George's thinking. Tell me first, what kind of people are Andre and Teresa?"

"—foreigner?"

"Yes. Still very young foreigners. George has no 'responsibility' to them, in England, first of all he can't hang out with Andre as much as he likes, although their manners aren't exactly intimate. And there's Trae Sarah, in England, if he is not Teresa's cousin, it is almost impossible to hang out with her, although Teresa can already marry George if Mrs. Macri allows it."

"I don't think George would want to marry Teresa."

"That's right. George doesn't want to marry, at least not now, and he won't make a promise to anyone, or act close to a promise, or hint."

"Then he treats you the same way?"

"No." Alice laughed again, "On the one hand, he doesn't know how to deal with me, and on the other hand, he wants to test me, that's why he always stays with Sister Teresa."

Ivo was confused, "What do you mean? I can't understand."

She thought for a while, "It's not easy to explain to you, let's use George as an example. George is actually very simple in some respects. He just wants to be happy. He actually doesn't care about the consequences of indulging in pleasure. He only cares about the happiness he can get now, whether it is appetite or carnal desire, he is the kind of person who wants to, so you understand why he can spend nearly 4 pounds in four years of university, right?"

Ivo's eyes widened in surprise, "He spent so much money!"

"He thinks I'm a kind of happiness that has to be delayed to 'get', so he won't be in a hurry to 'get' me. No, this statement is actually not very accurate, how should I put it? He thinks that my relationship is a A kind of game, and in the middle, I will not prevent him from looking for other happiness."

"I really don't understand. You...have you become someone like George?" Ivo frowned in distress.

"I'm not, I'm very picky, I haven't met a better man than you guys." She poured some light golden wine from the wine bottle on the table, took a sip, "You know men and women What is the best encounter between you?"

"What is it?"

"It's not at a prom, or playing cricket together since childhood, but in a more intense and passionate way. I can't say, it's a hormonal pheromone released in the air, you As soon as you see that person, you know you have to have a vigorous love with him, and he feels the same way about you, that's called true love."

Ivo immediately objected, "That's not the case! You are too narrow!" He was angrily, "Where did you throw our friendship over the past few years?!"

"You also said that it's 'friendship', not 'love'."

"I thought that if two people fall in love, they must at least have a certain understanding of what the other person is like and whether they are kind. Without this foundation, there is no way to talk about love."

"No need, I don't care if he is a pirate or some strange person, as long as he looks in line with my aesthetics, everything else is irrelevant."

"You have changed!" He was heartbroken, "George must have spoiled you!"

A few days later, Alice, Ivo, and Grant went to the Peloponnese.

The first stop went straight to the Olympia ruins.

Since the British archaeologist Richard Chandler rediscovered the exact location of the Olympia site in 1766, some archaeologists have been visiting the Peloponnese Peninsula, but the Greek government has no time to start a formal archaeological excavation. However, the Ottomans had no intention of doing so, and the ruins of Olympia remain underground, with only minor informal excavations on the surface.

After Alice and the others arrived at the Olympia site, they found that a French archaeological team was digging in a small area.

They almost missed this archaeological team because it is still a large floodplain, except for trees, there are neither people nor ancient architectural remains.

Grant was disappointed. "I thought there should be some ruins of temples here, like the ones we saw in Athens."

"It is said that this is because the Greek government has not approved the large-scale excavation of the expedition. I heard that the Germans and the French have applied, and it seems that the British have also applied. But you know what virtue the Ottoman Empire is, they will definitely not Hope you unearth some ancient religious buildings in Greece."

"I thought art should know no borders," Grant said.

"You should learn a little about the political situation." Ivo shook his head.

"Besides, excavating a site with great historical significance will require a lot of money. You have to work hard to find the money, and you may not be able to find a suitable sponsor for many years." Alice said: "For example, you, you want to go back to the United States. Where did you go?"

"Amazon Rainforest."

"Then you should know that it's going to be hard, very hard."

"I know."

They came on horseback, and without a guide, they just wandered around, asking a few servants to look around.One of the footmen brought back the leader of the French archaeological team.

Archaeologists in this era must be men. The team leader is a tall man with sword eyebrows, star eyes, high nose and thin lips, and clear and bright gray-blue eyes. He is thin but not weak, and he is not handsome like an archaeologist.

He also rode a horse, wearing a wide-brimmed fedora, and approached at a leisurely pace, "I am Gabriel Bernisson, a Frenchman, and we have an archaeological team working ahead." English Pronunciation is very standard, almost no French accent.

The three Alice also notified their names.

Gabriel said, "Miss Austin, are you interested in visiting our excavation site?"

"Have you received approval from the Greek government?"

"If you're talking about a formal large-scale excavation project, there isn't one yet." Gabriel smiled, "But they allowed us to do some small excavations, mainly to determine the size of the site."

"Have you figured out how big this site is?"

"Not yet. I think this is a long-term exploration project. I want to find out as much as possible where the boundaries of the site are, so that I can know the minimum amount of funds needed."

Suddenly, Alice nodded: "Indeed, nothing can be separated from money."

Excavation activities of historical sites are as inseparable from exploration activities as expedition activities. There are not too many people who rely on their own money to do things, such as Heinrich Schliemann who wanted to excavate and reproduce Troy a few years later.Most archaeologists still rely on outside funding, sometimes museum-specific and sometimes private.

Because of the imperfection of the current archaeological laws, explorers and archaeologists in many European countries have taken advantage of legal loopholes to search for historically significant antiques in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Full of antiques and history from various countries, this is naked robbery.

Alice is only interested in the archaeological activities, but not very interested in what happens after the excavation.

After riding a horse, we arrived at the excavation site of the archaeological team.It’s really not a big place, it’s the middle of a forest. The archaeological team cleared a piece of ground, removed the weeds on the surface, and dug a pit on the ground about 20 square meters in size, about 3 to 4 meters deep. rice.

Gabriel Bernison introduced them to the other members of the archaeological team. There were only 5 members, and there were 10 local farmers hired to do rough work.

Fortunately, March is neither hot nor cold, and there is no winter in Greece, which is very suitable for archaeological excavation work.

They set up 5 small tents and 1 large tent next to the excavation site, and Gabriel, the leader of the team, lived in the large tent.He invited the three of Alice into the big tent.

There is a simple camp bed in the big tent, a map is placed on a large table, and some building fragments and pieces of utensils that they excavated from the ground are placed on another large table.

Gabriel explained to Alice what the fragments were on: pottery, mosaic floors and windows, carved temple columns, and fragments of jewelry.

He pointed to a handful of dull metal pieces in a wooden tray, "This should be a kind of gold alloy jewelry, but we haven't been able to put it together into a complete jewelry, maybe some parts are missing."

Pointing to a small dagger again, "Its outer sheath is rusted, but the blade is not rusted yet. It is the most valuable thing we have unearthed so far."

Next to the camp bed was a wooden chair, a desk, a typewriter on the desk, and a large notebook next to the typewriter.

"Is that your notebook?" Alice asked.

"Yes."

"May I take a look at it?"

Gabriel smiled and stretched out his hand in a "please" gesture.

Alice walked over and glanced at the trademark on the typewriter: it was not an Austin typewriter.Pooh!Shameless French!Can we still pay more attention to intellectual property rights and patent rights? !

Only then did she start flipping through Gabriel's notebook: it was too big to hold with one hand, it lay flat on the table.Turning forward casually, there are some maps, basically the maps of various regions of the Peloponnese Peninsula; then some copied maps of ancient Olympia; and the notes of Richard Chandler pasted on the attached paper, in English ; some notes of his own, in French.

Gabriel stood behind her, "Can you read French?"

"I can understand it."

His soft snort brushed against her ear, and then she realized that he bent down in order to speak next to her ear——

Ivo and Grant also noticed his movements at the same time and glanced at each other. The two immediately understood, this Frenchman!

Ivo immediately said: "Alice, go outside and take a look. Didn't you just say you wanted to go down and take a look? You should do it yourself."

Alice nodded and asked, "Mr. Bernisson, can I go down and have a look?"

He smiled: "I'll take you down. Oh, and besides, you can call me Gabriel."