Flowers, Swords and France

After hearing what Fran said, the doctor and his wife looked at each other again.

"Madam, we are very grateful that you can do such a generous act without considering the grudges," after a moment, the lady hesitantly asked the other party to reconsider his decision. "But I ask you to think carefully again. You must have some difficulties in your current situation. If the price of our favor is to harm you, then we must not accept such a favor."

"Don't worry about this issue. I have already said that continuing to give you gifts as my husband did during his lifetime will not cause much difficulty in my income and expenditure. Although... well, although the doctor sneers at inheritance, it does give me personal financial freedom and the freedom to help anyone..." Fran smiled slightly, "Maybe I will encounter many difficulties in my future life, but the problem will never be here. Just think of it as a little commemoration of my... my late husband, sir."

"I admire your sincere love very much." After the couple looked at each other again, the doctor nodded slightly to Fran, "And I will respect and appreciate you as much as I do to your husband, ma'am."

Since it has come to this, there is no need for the couple to object.

Anyway, I have already taken it once before, so I won't care about taking it again.

"You don't have to be grateful. I don't think my husband is sponsoring you just to get your gratitude. If you really want to repay him, just continue to pursue your academic interests." Fran's smile remained unchanged, but there was a little more irony in it. "You may not believe it, but my husband likes to collect domestic and foreign newspapers and commentary articles. Many of them are written by you."

"Oh?! I didn't know that." The doctor opened his eyes wide in surprise. "So... did he leave any comments?"

"Well... as far as I know, no. But I think he should be very happy." Fran replied in a low voice. "That's why. In order to inherit his will, I sincerely hope that your academic research can continue to deepen. If you need to publish some monographs in the future, you can tell us... Of course, before that, I hope you can provide us with some manuscripts for us to collect - you may not know that I plan to seal up all the books he collected during his lifetime and preserve them as a family library..."

Listening to Fran's narration. Mary's face became even more strange, with a look of surprise and helplessness, wanting to laugh but not daring to.

She really couldn't imagine that Fran's lies were so smooth, as if she didn't need to draft them, and blurted out such a long string of lies.

"Of course there is no problem with this." The doctor quickly agreed without any discount, "In fact, I am planning to write a monograph on the current situation of wealth accumulation and distribution in the contemporary world. When the book is completed, I will give you a copy of the manuscript."

"Thank you, sir." Fran thanked him and stood up gently, "Thank you for everything you have done for my husband. Well, it's getting late now, I won't bother you here, I hope we will have a chance to meet again in the future..."

"Won't you stay a little longer?" As soon as she saw that she wanted to leave. Mrs. Marx quickly tried to persuade them to stay, "I'm sorry. Our hospitality may not be good enough..."

"No, don't say that. I am very satisfied with your hospitality, but... I have other things to do now." Fran bowed to the two again, "I hope I didn't disturb your lives. Goodbye."

Seeing that they could not be persuaded to stay, the doctor and his wife had no choice but to say goodbye to her again.

"Goodbye..."

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Until the two walked out of the doctor's house, Mary's wooden expression finally relaxed again, and then she glanced at the person next to her with a little dissatisfaction.

"You gave me another big surprise! What husband and what last wish... You thought of it, you said it!"

To be honest, those words were embarrassing even for me, but the other party said them all without hesitation, as if he was enjoying it very much...

Alas, there is no hope.

"What does it matter? Can we tell them everything?" Unlike her friends who were full of worries, Fran's face was full of ease. "If that's the case, then it's really bad..."

"Okay, you always have so many excuses. But what's the use of you fooling me? The gentleman will always know what happened today. I don't know how you will end it then..." Mary sighed helplessly, obviously she had no way to deal with Fran's willful behavior. "You are cursing him so clearly, and you still call yourself... what lady, and you have told so many endless lies. Maybe you have disrupted everything that the gentleman had conceived before. If he knows, he will be furious again!"

"No, no, don't worry." Fran answered very confidently, "As long as we keep the secret, he won't be angry about such a small matter. As for whether the gift is given in the name of my brother or in my name, it is a matter of no importance to him... Mary, you don't understand, the essence of the problem is not here."

"If the substance is not just another act of your own arbitrariness, then where is the substance?" Mary asked.

"The essence is that we have figured out what Mr. Treville is thinking." Fran replied firmly, "He has never announced these things to his mouth, but through those clues, I...and only me, Got it! Isn’t that great?”

I don't see what's so good about this, and besides, do you really think you've figured it out? I think you came to a conclusion based entirely on blind worship... Mary replied in her heart.

"You understand everything all at once!" Mary glanced at Fran again dissatisfied. "If things in the world are really as good as you think, how could it... and how could it cause so many troubles?!"

However, even though she said so, she also knew in her heart that after Mr. Treville learned what happened today, he might not punish his friend again.

After the brother and sister had a quarrel that day, the younger sister jumped off a building and was seriously injured. It seemed that the husband had been really frightened. Now he just begged that that kind of thing should not happen again, so how could he continue to fight with his younger sister? As long as Fran doesn't cause any more terrible troubles, she will probably pretend to be invisible and brush it off.

In this world, people have different fates, and some people can have everything anyway. Finally, Mary thought with a hint of jealousy.

Fran, however, had no time to pay attention to the thoughts that were running through her mind. She just slowly opened the umbrella in her hand again. "Okay, forget it, I won't argue with you anymore. Do you have any news about my brother's schedule now?"

Mary hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to tell the truth.

"According to the news we got last night, Mr. has been staying in the palace recently and has been in close contact with some British dignitaries. He probably has many important things to discuss. Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid he will have to wait until the opening ceremony of the World Expo. Then you can have some time to relax..."

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"Really..." Fran pondered for a moment, "In other words, I have to wait until a few days before I can see him? I am still looking forward to his reaction after I tell him everything today. What an expression!”

As if she could feel the disappointment in Fran's tone, Mary continued speaking expressionlessly.

"As for Madam... Madam must have been very busy recently. I heard that she seems to have to go to the outskirts of the city with Her Majesty the Queen to attend an event and will not be able to come back until after the opening ceremony, so she has not been able to stay with Sir."

In other words, when I meet my brother, there is finally no Charlotte standing next to me?

"Great! Finally the Queen has done something great!" Fran finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, she regained her composure and looked back to her previous leisurely look, "Okay, let's go back first, don't keep them waiting... Anyway, there are still several days, Next, let’s have some fun here and visit all the great places we’ve never been to!”

"I've said this a long time ago, but you had to come here first. And... if it weren't for that person being an eyesore, we would have been much happier!" After hearing Fran mention Kong Ze, Mary He frowned slightly, "We've had to endure his arrogant attitude all the way. We've had enough!"

Because she was very dissatisfied with Kong Ze's attitude, Mary seized the opportunity to complain secretly.

"My friend, I know you are very dissatisfied with him. In fact, I think the same thing as you." Fran replied with a smile, and then walked forward slowly, "But now we need him after all, right? ”

"Humph..." Mary was still a little angry.

For the sake of her own status, she could be humble to the Treville brothers and sisters, but she would never allow herself to be disrespected by those who were also under Ciel.

"Okay, don't worry... I will find a way to make him suffer a little bit." The smile on Fran's face did not change at all, "At least for now, let's not worry about him and enjoy our journey, okay? "

"Really? That's great." After receiving Fran's promise, Mary couldn't help but smile. "As long as he knocks down his arrogance, we will be much better!" (To be continued...)