Miss Eugenie Grandet

"I gave you all the gold, father, and I have none left."

"So where does the money you spend on eating, drinking and having fun come from?"

"Father, since you are asking, I will tell you one thing. I hope you will not be too emotional after hearing this."

Eugenie took out the document of the estate of Floavon that she had brought back, and handed it to her father. "This is yours, and I will give it back to you now."

When Grandet saw what his daughter handed him, he stared at it with wide eyes, and the sarcoid on the tip of his nose trembled violently.Suddenly, the whole person suddenly jumped off the bed.

"Ah-"

He let out a howl like a wounded animal caught in a trap.

"What is this! What is this! How did this come to you?"

After howling this sentence, he subconsciously touched the key hidden in his waistcoat, snatched the door, rushed straight to the door of the secret room, opened the door and went in, quickly took out the box hidden in the wall, after searching for a while, when he was sure After the document in his hand was indeed taken out of this box, he trembled all over, turned his head sharply, and stared at his daughter standing at the door of the secret room.

"Eugenie!" The roar almost knocked the old house down, "What's going on? You have to explain it to me!"

"Let me tell you the truth. Before the end of the year, without telling you, I took this real estate document and went to the bank to buy French bonds with a loan. It was when I went to Paris."

"It's reversed! It's reversed! You actually did such a rebellious thing!"

The old man was so angry that he ran away all over the room, "Damn! Damn! You must be beaten up! You did such a thing!"

"A total of 1000 million has been earned. After deducting the principal and interest returned to the bank, there are 700 million left."

When her father raised his hand and was about to rush to her, Eugenie said calmly.

The hand that was raised in the air stopped as if it had been immobilized.

After a while, Grandet finally uttered a questioning voice with a trembling ending: "Where's the money?"

Eugenie glanced at his hand.

Grandet put down his hand immediately.

"Son! You didn't lie to Dad, did you? Tell Dad quickly, where did you put all the money?"

The shock and anger just now were gone.Now, the old man was controlled by excitement and tension. He rubbed his hands that seemed to be covered with tanned Russian leather, and stared at Eugenie without blinking.

"The money is not in my hands now. It was reinvested with a trading house in Paris," said Eugenie.

Grandet was stunned for a moment, and the breath was blocked in his throat again, his expression became very nervous.

"What? A trading house in Paris? You really have a big heart! The brokers in the trading house are eating people without spitting out their bones! What if they are tricked! Damn it! 700 million!"

"Don't worry. The trading house I entrusted will definitely not be half a cent worse than yours."

Silenced by his daughter's words that seemed to have something else to say, Grandet began to walk around the room restlessly.After walking around for a few laps, his brain, which was ignited by 700 million yuan, finally gradually came back to his senses.

He stopped and looked up at his daughter with suspicion.

"Eugenie, come on, tell Dad clearly what's going on!"

Eugenie shrugged her shoulders, and told her story of taking out a mortgage on the estate of Floavon and then buying low and selling high.

The old man finally believed his daughter's words completely.

"My dear! You've made a lot of money!" he cried, looking into his daughter's eyes full of excitement and pride, "Eugenie! You can think of such a good way to make money! Father used to despise you. !"

"So you've decided to forgive me for taking your estate papers without telling you?"

The old man was reminded by his daughter's words.Thinking about it carefully, there is still a layer of cold sweat on the back.

In his eyes, that secret room was more important than his own life, and it was sacred and inviolable.The daughter was so bold that she did such a thing behind her back.It is completely a challenge to the status of the head of the family.If when she stole the key and sneaked into the secret room, she didn't want to take the real estate document to mortgage the loan, but ran away with all her property...

Grandet shuddered, and his face suddenly became gloomy.

He felt that he should teach this daughter who had never touched a finger since she was a child, so that she would know the serious consequences of doing so.But thinking of the 700 million that can be piled up into a small pointed gold mountain, the anger in my heart is like a furnace fire covered with a thick layer of ash, which is churning vigorously underneath, but the fire just can't come out.

Finally, he made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said, "Eugenie, father swears to the sky above his head, if you dare to do such a bold thing again next time, father will definitely throw you into Lou." The Wa River feeds the fish! Absolutely!"

"Yes, father!" Eugenie smiled and stepped forward to take Grandet's arm affectionately. "I heard from Nanon when I first came here that you haven't eaten for a day. If you are hungry, my daughter." I will be sorry. I have brought you a piece of meat from Floisfonds, and Nanon will make you a patty, so go and eat."

The daughter's thoughtfulness reminds Grandet once again how she is disobeying herself now.Then he got angry again, pushed his daughter's hand away, and said coldly: "Take it back! Now that your wings are hardened, and you feel that you have made some money, you can make up your own mind and show it to the old farmer at home, right? Go back! You will never come back in the future. Even if I die in this house, I wouldn't mind you coming back to see me!"

Eugenie sighed helplessly.

"Father, what do you need to forgive me?"

"I can't afford to be like that!" the old man yelled pretendingly, "If you really want to be my good daughter back, then bring your mother back with you, and we will live in the future as we have done in the past. Also, Take the money you entrusted to me immediately, and let my father keep it for you, and it will be your dowry in the future!"

"Money is not a problem. It's not a big problem to hand it over to you when you see the benefits. But if my mother and I come back, don't limit the daily expenses at home. I still say the same thing, you don't need to pay, I will bear all the extra expenditure."

"Okay! Eugenie, after all, you still have to fight against me!" The old man began to gnash his teeth again, "Even if you are lucky and make more money, don't forget that I paid for it. Yes! I want me to watch your mother and daughter goofing off to learn the tricks of Paris, and there is no door!"

"Then let's go on with our own lives. Since I can't convince you, you can't force me to change my decision."

Eugenie still had a smile on her face, but she took a step back, "I heard that you were ill, so I came back with the priest to visit you this time. Since you are all well, I am relieved. Then I will go."

After Eugenie finished speaking, she turned around and left.

After she finished speaking with Nanon, she went out, boarded the carriage parked at the door, and left without looking back. Grandet stared blankly at the back of the carriage that carried his daughter away.

"Master! Why are you so stubborn! Miss, she is really angry!"

Nanon murmured discontentedly behind him.

"Your master is really angry—"

Grandet let out a roar, and slumped on the chair as if he had lost all energy, holding his head weakly.

"Grandet is more important than I am! This is my daughter! What's the use of having children! You don't care about your father's life and death with a cold heart, but the two mothers just care about going out and having fun..."

Nanon rolled her eyes, and turned to collect the food Eugenie had brought.

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January passed quickly, and with the arrival of February, the land that had been frozen for a winter began to thaw and soften.Taking advantage of the time of spring sowing, Grandet also came to Floafont. He wanted to supervise the spring development of the vineyards and also asked about the situation of the newly opened sugar beet fields.When he stayed here, he also lived in the same house with the Grandet mother and daughter.After walking around the house a few times, seeing the windows with new glass, the flowerbeds with seedlings, the food left in the kitchen basket, and the hired little maid, Louise, his expression became even brighter. gloomy.Next, no matter how Mrs. Grandet apologized to him on behalf of her daughter, he insisted not to say a word to her daughter, and refused to touch the food that his wife brought him, and still let the cook cook according to his previous standard of food.

Although Mrs. Grandet personally felt that she preferred the current life in which her daughter was in charge of the house, the cowardice formed by her husband's despotic power over the years was still there.Seeing the old man's stubbornness now, she was very terrified. Several times, she secretly persuaded Eugenie to reconcile with her father, "Go back! Even if I eat chaff, I don't want to see you and your father get into this kind of trouble." !"

"Mom, even if you would like to go back to the old days, I wouldn't. As for Dad, let him do what he likes. The more you humble yourself in front of him, the more he will sneer at you. His Temper, don't you know?"

The swinging Mrs. Grandet was persuaded by her daughter again.So when the spring planting was over, Father Grandet could only go back by himself resentfully as he did when he came here.

In March Eugenie had planted roses in the gardens which had been opened around the house, and sown daisies and ivy.During this time Madame de Grassin became a frequent visitor to Floifon.

Unlike Crochet's main approach to attacking Grandet, Mrs. Grassin paid more attention to attacking the heiress.After noticing the change in Eugenie, she felt that her Paris style could come in handy.So I worked tirelessly and came here almost every week.This time I will send an outdated printed parasol, and next time I will bring a shower cap that can wrap my hair from getting wet when I take a bath. Of course, she did not forget to please Mrs. Grandet and give her a Mrs. Grandet couldn't be moved by the warmer handbags discounted in the past season.

Mrs. Grassin was so enthusiastic, it was natural for the host to refuse guests.For each gift she brought, Eugenie also returned something in return—although she always felt a little troubled about what to give when she returned the gift, but if it wasn’t for the next few times, Mrs. Grassin began to bring If her son came to visit and sat there for most of the day, Eugenie might still be thinking about whether she should tell her the following passage.After all, that is a family affair.