[Masterpiece Les Miserables] Paris Sparks

"That was five years ago, we just settled in Paris, because the house here has not been renovated, so Julie and Emmanuel lived in a rented apartment on Babylon Street, and I was in the army at the time "Maximilian said, "That day was March [-]th, and it happened that there was a little dispute among the workers during the renovation here, and it was very late, so Cocles and Pinelon did not go back until late at night."

"As for me, unfortunately, there was another business matter to be settled at the time, and I set off alone a few days ago for Marseilles. God knows, if I could have seen what was going to happen, I would have said anything. Take Julie with you!" Emmanuel said.

"Anyway, it was a coincidence that Yuli stayed in the apartment alone that night. At that time, none of us knew that a few local thieves were targeting our family, and the workers' dispute at the construction site was provoked by their accomplices. They led Cocles and Peronel away, and three of them climbed over the wall and entered the small building that night. At that time, only Julie was sleeping in the room. Thanks to God! When they passed the wall, Miss Evermond and a little friend of hers were turning the corner of Babylon Street, and saw the scene. She immediately told the child to run to the patrolman, and she herself hid in the corner and saw The first thief opened the door for the accomplices, and followed quietly. When she got to the door, she heard Julie screaming in the house. So she rushed into the house, followed the sound upstairs, and saw the three The thieves were standing in my sister's room. My sister was frightened by them and fainted beside the bed.

"When those people heard her rush into the room, they all turned around. Miss Evermond stood at the door of the room, took out a gun, and fired three times without haste, killing three people. They were all down. Two of them died on the spot, and the other one was only hit in the arm and wanted to fight with her. She took the candlestick and hit it on the head, then also passed out on the ground. She then knelt Beside my sister, woke her up, held her hand and comforted her until the police came. To reassure Julie, she even invited Julie to live with her at her house that night. Look, Your Excellency, Aye. Isn’t Miss Fremond the savior of our whole family? If she hadn’t happened to witness it, and hadn’t taken the risk to follow into the house to save people, my sister would have been killed, Emmanuel, I and I Cocles and Penon may never forgive themselves again in this life. All these joys and happiness that you are seeing now will all disappear in smoke!"

The count's face was bloodless, and when he spoke, his voice suppressed so much emotion, as if he was trying to suppress a volcano that was erupting in his heart: "This is really terrible! I have known for a long time that cruel fate will It is unreasonable to destroy the happiness of a family, but I never imagined that such a good and innocent family had almost met the hands of bad luck! As for you, Miss Evermond, thanks to your kindness at that time It is your righteous deeds that enable me to see the joy in front of me, and for this, no matter how much I thank you, I cannot thank you enough."

Corona glanced at Maximilian and Yuli unexpectedly, but judging from the surprise on their faces, they did not expect the Earl to have such a violent reaction. "Maximilian really exaggerated the matter. I'm not as brave and selfless as he said." So she had no choice but to show polite entertainment, "I've said this to him many times, and I'll say it again in front of you today. Again: just passing that road is not my credit; even if I dared to follow it, it was because, under the street lamp, I recognized the face of one of them. That man once planned to rob our house, and almost Let him get away with it. When he gets out of prison and goes back to his old job, who knows if he will seek revenge. You say, if only for myself, how can I watch him commit the same crime again and again from How about escaping from the French Open?"

"But if you hadn't passed by, or if you hadn't entered the house, I'm afraid this happy scene today would no longer exist?" the count asked, he seemed too upset, got up from the sofa, and walked around the room step.

"...You can say that." Corona admitted.

"Then, I think you certainly deserve such a compliment," he said, walking up and down a few steps, then turning sharply. "What happened to the rogue who was alive?"

"After the trial of his remaining associates, he was thrown into prison," replied Maximilian. "At last the three chief criminals were sentenced to death, and the two associates were sentenced to ten years of hard labour."

"So these scoundrels were executed five years ago," said the Count, with a sigh, half a sigh of relief.Only then did he seem to remember the original words, "But what does this have to do with your not being welcomed by M. Danglars?"

Corona was surprised instead: "Don't you think? This is very obvious in Paris. There are not many women with guns, and even fewer noble ladies who dare to follow gangsters alone. I'm afraid Madame de Villefort and Madame Danglars is worried that I will have a... bad influence on their daughter."

"If your nobility and courage can be counted as a bad influence, then I don't know what noble character there is in the world," said the count.

"You are too famous."

At this moment, the chiming clock in the house rang five times.Corona took the opportunity to get up and say goodbye. "Why, don't you stay at our house for dinner?" Julie asked.

"You know I'm always going to school at this hour."

"School?" asked the Count of Monte Cristo.

"It is a small school that I personally funded and opened to provide poor girls with a chance to study."

"It's a very worthy cause. Any idea when I'll be honored to visit?"

"I'm afraid the shabby school building will neglect you."

"Maybe you don't believe it, but I'm also a person who can endure hardships." The count said seriously, as if he really wanted to take a look, which made it hard for Corona to refuse. "Then, whenever you are interested, just let me know."

She took a bouquet of roses cut by You Li and bid farewell to everyone.After getting into the carriage, she put the rose aside and fell into deep thought.Gavroche didn't jump in the car to look for her that day, which meant that there was nothing worth noting at the big market. Corona went home without going to Collins after finishing her school affairs.She entered the studio, closed the door, and then rummaged through the pile of drafts to find it.

Over the past ten years, even when she was lying on the hospital bed, she did not completely let go of painting, and the draft paper was piled up like a mountain.Fortunately, she has formed the habit of self-discipline since she was a child. All items are placed neatly and with rules to follow. She quickly found the draft book from ten years ago according to the year, and rummaged through it.After the scattered sketchbooks were lost all over the place, she finally found the one she was looking for-it was the sketchbook she used when she painted Madame de Morcerf's portrait when she was young.Drawing a person's face when he was young was not as easy as ordinary people imagined. She drew many drafts of the front and side, carefully considering every feature, and the composition had to be given to Madame de Morcerf before she dared to paint.For this painting alone, the draft will take more than a dozen pages.

But only Madame de Morcerf and herself knew that there were actually two portraits that she painted back then.

She turned the draft book backwards.Behind the bright-eyed fisherman girl are dozens of facial features and their combinations.A few pages later, there are countless portraits of people, all of whom are very similar to each other, differing only in the shape of eyebrows or noses, people who are not good at recognizing faces will think that these paintings are all depicting the same person .After several pages, she finally saw the small portrait circled by a paintbrush, indicating the final draft.It was a resolute-looking young man in sailor's clothes.Corona stood up holding the draft, ignoring the dizziness and blackness caused by sitting for a long time, and groped to the desk with her eyes closed.Compared with the finalized portrait, she sketched out the outline of the face, bones and eyebrows on the white paper next to her, and fell into deep thought while looking at the painting.

She didn't know who the person in the painting was, and she never saw it again after she handed over the official painting to Madame de Morcerf.Later Madame de Morcerf apologized solemnly to her for accidentally burning the painting.This matter obviously contained privacy that was difficult for other people to reveal. Corona didn't ask much at the time, but now that she had seen the Count of Monte Cristo, she couldn't help feeling a little bit suspicious.

"The Count of Monte Cristo..." She whispered to herself, thinking for a long time on the white paper in her hand.Then she suddenly blacked out the newly drawn portrait with a charcoal pencil, rolled up the drawing paper, and threw it into the wastebasket next to it.

The author has something to say: Try hard to get Earl's favor x2

And everyone, I'm sorry, I have to ask for leave again (.

About one update in the middle, at most two times, that is to say, I will come back in a week at most...

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Summary of the simple version of The Count of Monte Cristo for readers who have never read the Count of Monte Cristo/forgot the original/forgot the name/translation:

(Contains a lot of spoilers. If you want to read the original work but don’t want to be spoiled, it is recommended to temporarily throw away this article and read the original work. The original work is super cool and beautiful!)

The story begins with a young sailor [Edmond Dantès] from Marseilles who is about to be promoted to the captain. Since then, he has been promoted and raised his salary, married a beautiful wife and reached the pinnacle of life.However, his fiancée's admirer and several people who were jealous of him framed him on the eve of the wedding, and Edmund was arrested on the spot at the wedding.The judge in charge of the case [Villefort] found that the real prisoner was actually his father, so he deliberately destroyed the evidence, knowing that Edmond was unjustly convicted and still put him in prison.

Edmund met an old priest in a cell on an isolated island. The priest taught him various knowledge and told him where a secret treasure was buried.The two love each other like father and son, and plan to escape together, but before the escape, the old priest falls ill and dies.Edmond escapes from prison alone and discovers a hidden treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.

The wealthy Edmund returned to his hometown in a disguised form, only to find that his father had died in poverty. His fiancée [Mercedes] did not understand the truth of the year and thought he died in prison and married one of the murderers who framed him. .And the old boss [Morell and his son] who tried to rescue him back then was on the verge of bankruptcy.

So Edmond spent money to buy a title and became the "Count of Monte Cristo".He helped Morrel and his son pay off the company's debts, and decided to take revenge on several people who framed him: the judge [Villefort], one of the framers [Count Malcerf], and the second framer [Danglars]. .

He entered Paris as the Count of Monte Cristo, rescued a princess Haidee with his well-informed information, and exposed Count Morcerf's past crimes.The Countess of Morcerf learned the inside story of the year, returned to the identity of Mercedes, and left with her son [Albert]. The Countess of Morcerf betrayed all relatives and finally committed suicide.

He investigated the scandal of Judge Villefort's adultery, exposed the inside story that he had secretly buried his illegitimate child, and stirred up the evil thoughts in the second wife's heart, causing the whole family to die at the hands of Mrs. Villefort one by one.Only the eldest daughter [Valentina] left behind by the original wife who died young, because she fell in love with [Maximilian Morel], finally left the family and escaped.

Danglars has little to do with the plot of this article, so I won’t go into details. In short, he loves money like his life, but in the end he ended up bankrupt.His only daughter is an independent and strong person, dissatisfied with her father's attempt to marry her, she had already disguised herself as a man and ran away from home before that.

In short, to summarize the relationship between the characters:

[The Morell family], headed by Maximilian Morell, is the object of gratitude.Because Corona helped them, she was also indirectly included in the repayment target by the earl.Maximilian and Valentine of the Villeforts were lovers.

[Count Malcerf's House], Earl Malcerf was one of the framers back then.The countess Mercedes was once the count's fiancée, and she married the enemy only when she didn't know the truth of the year.After seeing clearly what her husband was like, she resolutely took her son away from the earl and returned to a poor life.His son Albert is an innocent young man who doesn't know anything. He is full of admiration for the earl. After knowing all the truth, his world view is overturned, and he finally leaves his father.Albert and Courfeyrac were friends who somehow came together.

[The Villefort Family] Judge Villefort is the enemy who destroyed the evidence and wronged Edmond.His first wife died young, leaving behind his daughter Valentine. Corona once painted portraits of the little girl and her dying mother, and became famous because of this, and maintained a good relationship with her in the future.The second wife was narrow-minded, sinister and vicious, and was very jealous of Valentine's rich inheritance.

[Danglars House], Baron Danglars is the second framer, the object of revenge.The only daughter, Eugenie, is an independent and bold girl who secretly admires Corona, but has no contact with her due to realistic conditions.

The relationship between other characters is basically negligible...