Started with a green hat for Verlaine

After their vacation in Switzerland, the two spent Epiphany on January [-] in France.

Passers-by look at the Notre Dame de Paris on the banks of the Seine, imagining the day hundreds of years ago when Quasimodo in the book saw the dancing girl Esmeralda.

The number of tourists to Notre Dame de Paris has skyrocketed today, and countless people want to climb the bell tower.

Oscar Wilde lamented: "The influence of this book is too great."

Aso Qiu also smiled inexplicably.

He said: "Perhaps in some world, there are real Quasimodo and Esmeralda."

Oscar Wilde also read "Notre Dame de Paris": "I really want to witness the grace of a gypsy dancer once. There are too few people who are as beautiful in appearance as in heart." ...you are like that too."

Ma Shengqiu also walked against the trend of the crowd, and said freely, "You don't need to praise me indiscriminately."

He has never been an Esmeralda, and the opera performance is only the love in people's hearts. If he is really detached enough, how can he refuse Quasimodo.

"I know who I am."

An ordinary human being.

After the festivals at the beginning of the year, England, Scotland, and Drumland Ligault Castle were relatively deserted, and the lawns covering a large area were neatly trimmed. In winter, the grass was yellow, lacking in vitality, and slightly frosty. The trampling of all those of lesser status.

This is the territory of the Douglas family that has been passed down for more than [-] years.

In every generation of the Douglas family, it seems that there will always be someone who encounters something unknown, or dies of murder or suicide, and the shadow of the family hangs over the castle like a curse.

British upper class called this phenomenon the "Queensberry Curse".

Passed down to this generation, the Douglas family has experienced countless changes, and black history can pile up into mountains, because one of the generations of Douglas was a murderer, lost the title of duke, and reduced his title to Marquess of Queensbury.The ninth Marquess of Queensbury is a complete atheist, so he treats this as bullshit, and is tired of the boring speculation from the outside world.

Which aristocrat's family has nothing wrong with it?

Isn't it just that the Douglas family has a little more mess?

The ninth Marquess of Queensbury, whose full name is John Sholto Douglas, had a great shadow in his early life. At the age of 14, he stepped over his father and directly inherited the title of Marquis from his grandfather.His grandfather died in an "accidental shooting", his father and uncle died in the same incident, and his mother, Caroline, fled to Paris with all her children.

His childhood life led to his excellent relationship with his siblings, without the struggle of noble families, and the best relationship with him was his younger brother Francis Douglas, who was three years younger.In order to commemorate his younger brother who died in the crash, he let his five-year-old eldest son inherit his uncle's name.

【Francis...】

The Marquis of Queensberry took a deep breath and looked at the badge in his hand that proved his courage with his life. It seemed that the coldness of the Matterhorn remained on it.

For six years, members of the Douglas family died in Switzerland and were not buried for a long time.

One is that the body cannot be found, and the other is that it is difficult to take it down the mountain if it is found!

"If you dare to lie to me, I will peel off your skin and throw you into the Matterhorn." The Marquis of Queensberry sat in the living room of luxury, with violent eyes, and looked down on this dark-haired man who covered his face. "Tell me, what reward do you want? How many people do you need to support him? I want you to take him down the mountain intact! No bumps are allowed!"

"You are joking, only God can make a dead person who fell off a cliff unscarred." Opposite him, the black-haired man who came to the Marquis's house was not affected by class suppression, and said slowly, "I can only guarantee that I can."

The Marquess of Queensberry said bluntly, "A thousand pounds."

Ma Shengqiu also said, "I don't need money."

The Marquess of Queensberry didn't seem to hear it, and raised the price on his own: "Five thousand pounds."

Ma Shengqiu was also speechless, could the Marquis not understand human speech?

The Marquess of Queensberry sat on the chair, flicked his whip as if there was nothing, and said arrogantly: "This money is enough to buy the lives of ten civilians, and a hundred slaves are not a problem! Don't be greedy, the Douglas family will give you money!" The price is high enough.”

really.Ma Shengqiu also thought: If I am in a hurry to ask for money, this money can solve many things.

However, he really didn't come to ask for money today, that would be a waste.

Ma Shengqiu also said: "What I want is a favor."

The Marquess of Queensberry looked sarcastic, and said bluntly: "Exchange favor with a nobleman for five thousand pounds? Young man, do you watch too many operas?"

Ma Shengqiu also nodded: "I have watched a lot of operas, and I know that the nobles are good at reneging on their promises, and the favors that cannot be honored on the spot are all imaginary things."

The Marquis of Queensberry, who just wanted to agree and then regretted it: "..."

Ma Shengqiu also said: "But what I want, only the Marquis can give me. For your promise, I will go through fire and water like a warrior." His skin was wrapped in bandages, and his pupils were as black as black pearls. People's great affection - except for a very small number of adults in this world, only babies have such clean eyes.

Innocence and brightness are always two factors that can make people relax their guard.

The Marquess of Queensberry couldn't help thinking of his four sons, the oldest was five and the youngest was born last year, making a lot of noise in the cradle.

The 28-year-old Marquess of Queensberry curled his lips, younger than Akiya Aso's actual age.

"Oh, how do you want to go through hoops?"

"The ancestors of the Douglas family are famous for their bravery (there are many rebels), and the spirit of the Norman warriors flows in the blood of the Marquis (the sons will inherit the father's business and continue to rebel after death), I believe you have asked others, How much effort it takes to bring a dead body down on a glacier is a life-for-life gamble."

The topic that Ma Shengqiu brought up also attracted the other party. The Marquess of Queensberry is keen on sports and has also participated in mountain climbing and obstacle races, etc., so he would accurately quote [-] pounds before.

"Marquis, how about we make a bet?"

"If I can take him down the mountain alone, let your brother rest in peace." Ma Shengqiu also looked at the Marquis of Queensbury in disbelief, and said calmly, "Please protect me from sexual harassment by all dignitaries and dignitaries." .”

The Marquis of Queensberry was instantly disgusted, bless the man?Prevent sexual harassment?

Without waiting for the Marquis to refute, Ma Shengqiu continued, as if he didn't take his own life seriously: "I want to use the favor of sending the badge on this, not for money, not to please a nobleman, but I beg you to take a gamble with me."

"If you lose, I will die and I will be buried with your brother. If you win, you will protect me."

"Is this gamble fun?"

Ma Shengqiu also smiled at the Marquis of Queensberry, even though it was covered by the bandage, but from the slight movement of the facial muscles and the expression of the eyes, the Marquis of Queensberry could tell.

— This is a madman!

One person has to carry the corpse and climb down the mountain!

The blood of the Marquess of Queensberry has been aroused. What do nobles love most?sports?Whoring?No no no, it's gambling!Who doesn't like gambling in this day and age?

"I'm asking someone to supervise!"

"no problem."

Aso Shengqiu and the Marquess of Queensberry settled the matter in this way.

The Marquess of Queensberry laughed suddenly, and with a crack of the whip, he drew air casually, "You managed to make me laugh. It's the first time I've encountered such a thing as betting your life on it. Tell me directly, you Someone's watching."

Ma Shengqiu hadn't offended nobles for the time being, so he deliberately asked, "If it's the royal family?"

The Marquess of Queensberry was extremely disgusted with homosexuality, and said with disgust: "So what about the royal family! The law stipulates that men who dare to commit indecent acts between men will be sentenced to two years in prison. If the death penalty hadn't been abolished in the UK ten years ago, these Anal sex deserves hell!"

In this era, the conviction of sodomy can ruin the future of a lifetime. Paul Verlaine and Oscar Wilde in history are typical negative examples.

Ma Shengqiu also felt relieved: "It's really great for the Marquis to think so."

"I admire the marquis's uncompromising style the most, including what the marquis said. I can't wait to record them and use them as life quotations." Ma Shengqiu was not stingy in flattering him. It's different from those nobles who play with men.

Ma Shengqiu also started to remove the bandage, his face relaxed for a while, and the servant of the Douglas family gasped. Then, he walked up to the Marquis of Queensberry and bowed gracefully.

An elegant man from the east, with black hair and eyes, like a beauty carved from ivory, was left in the world by the god of death, and his youth was preserved by the frozen time.

He should be admired on the eastern screen, not a living person.

Beauty knows no borders, no gender.

"Marquis of Queensberry, please wait a few more days, and I will take your brother home."

"..."

Ma Shengqiu also took away the documents of the bet.

His sudden appearance became the biggest topic among the servants in the castle.

The Marquis of Queensberry sat in the living room frowning, and sent someone to follow Qiuya Aso. At the same time, he thought hard about whether he had been tricked. face, do I really want to protect the other party?

In the evening, the Marquess of Queensberry had dinner with his wife and children. He was indifferent to his wife of few words, but he saw the four sons, especially the good appearance of the four sons...

The eldest son has regular and exquisite facial features, the second son is thick and round, the third son is two years old, hugged and doted on by his mother, with blond hair and blue eyes, he looks like an indistinguishable noble lady.As for the youngest son, who is being taken care of by the maid, it is temporarily impossible to see what his future looks like.

The corners of Lord Queensberry's eyes twitched.

Recently, men's styles are popular, and there are many romantic places in London and Winchester.

The more attractive a man is, the more trouble he has, he thought gloomily: It's time for others to understand that we, the Douglas family, hate homosexuality!

In Switzerland, Ma Shengqiu also arrived at the Matterhorn with the entourage of the Marquess of Queensberry.

He dons custom-made climbing gear.

I went up the mountain alone.

All the routes are memorized in his mind, no need for a guide, no need to worry about lack of oxygen or slippery feet, this is his confidence to climb the Matterhorn alone.

The Marquess of Queensberry's squire was waiting for him at the foot of the hill.

It took Ma Shengqiu two hours to arrive at the original location, where a person buried in ice and snow lay on the dangerous glacier.He pushed the snow away with his hands, revealing the face that seemed to have just died. The Douglas family produced beauties from generation to generation. The deceased Francis Douglas may not be as beautiful as the two extremely beautiful nephews, but he is definitely above average.

"I'm sorry, I made a deal with you, but whoever made me a dead man."

Ma Shengqiu also carefully sorted out the remains of the young man, just like seeing his family grooming himself. Every relative should hope that the deceased will be buried in a decent manner.

"This is not my insult to the dead."

Ma Shengqiu also tied the boy behind his back with a special rope to prevent it from falling off. His own cold body touched another cold corpse, which was as cold to the bone as a glacier.

He felt that what he was carrying on his back was not a person, but a hard rock. The total weight should not have reached three hundred catties. This had something to do with the other person's physique and the lack of clothing. Francis Douglas went climbing in summer.

In the previous life, the weight of the world's weightlifters seemed to be about [-] catties?

Wenye's... well... fortunately, there is no Olympic Games in Wenye's world, otherwise the ghosts and ghosts will appear suddenly.

"All right."

"I'm going to finish climbing the cliff with you on my back—"

Ma Shengqiu also turned his head, as if talking to a dead boy, gently comforting someone he didn't know: "I have never taken anyone down the mountain, and my climbing skills are not good. I may ask you to be more considerate. When I fall, I will protect you."

Ma Shengqiu also used the apology for making a deal with the other party to protect the corpse.

After that, began a journey ten times more difficult than going up the mountain.

Ma Shengqiu also stumbled, crawled up and down the glacier, and brought the corpse down the mountain in the coldest and most dangerous winter. He carried a weight that could crush a grown man.

A few times, he stepped on empty ground and fell down a steep slope with a height difference of tens of meters. During the whole process, he used his own body to protect the corpse that broke his spine.

Exchange the integrity of the corpse with a body that is not afraid of death.

It took two hours to go up the mountain, and it took six times as long to go down the mountain, a full twelve hours.

Ma Shengqiu also gritted his teeth in order to complete the bet and to be able to walk into the sun, using ancient martial arts skills to force himself to move forward.

On the snow-capped glacier, he not only saw the fairytale-like beauty of Switzerland, but also saw the road ahead in his life.Every step he takes is not a fluke. If he steps on the air, he will break a bone, and if his foot slips, he will fall. What supports him is faith.

In the past, Lan Tang supported each other in his life, saving a lot of loneliness and tears.

After being shot, he doesn't have to worry that no one will avenge him.

Injured, he doesn't have to worry about becoming a useless person, because Lan Tang is still there.

He didn't want Lan Tang to leave him. In the past eight years, Lan Tang had integrated into his life and became the source of his courage to face the world.

For the other side, he can face Paul Verlaine without fear.

"If you're..."

"You will use a tool man to help me carry things..."

"Or, directly read the corpse and make Francis Douglas' corpse 'live'? Be the first tool man to carry his own corpse into the grave?"

When Ma Shengqiu couldn’t crawl, he endured the exhaustion of his soul, gasped for a moment, and thought about the endless content, which made him understand that his body was not a perfect immortal body, he would be tired and painful, and he wanted to rely on A lazy idea of ​​superpowers.

Ma Shengqiu also found a rock and went to the back to avoid the wind and snow. He reluctantly took out "The Temptation of St. Anton" from his inner pocket, wanting to take a look at Wenye World.

It was also the beginning of the year over there, and there was no snow in France in [-].

Gustave Flaubert at work, scribbling on and off, as if contemplating the French military parade in July, with drawings of French soldiers on horseback and fresh Feces, proof of embarrassing things that happened before.

Ma Shengqiu also watched and laughed.

"A transcendent can't stop a horse from urinating."

Snowflakes choked in his throat, and Ma Shengqiu lifted his spirits, put Francis Douglas on his back again, and said to himself: "I am also in this world, so I can be a 'transcendent' once."

What is a transcendent?

Nature is the one who goes beyond the impossible!

The north side of the Matterhorn is steeper than the south side. When Ma Shengqiu climbed down the mountain with the corpse on his back, the little black spot representing him was particularly obvious on the snow-white mountain.

Little by little.

It seems that tenacious human beings are resisting nature.

The attendants of the Marquess of Queensberry couldn't see very clearly, so they simply took out their binoculars.

Afterwards, three generations of servants loyal to the Douglas family strictly followed the Marquis' instructions, and asked the locals in surprise, "Is there no one else going up the mountain today?"

The local shook his head: "It's winter, even climbers will choose the south side of the Matterhorn. Now it's desperate to go to the north to climb the mountain."

More and more people are finding people descending from the Matterhorn.

They gathered at the foot of the mountain one by one, and heard that someone was carrying the corpse.

"Is that impossible?"

"Can one person drag a corpse that weighs hundreds of catties?"

"I tried, and my father and I couldn't go far when we carried it together."

"Nonsense! It usually takes six strong people to move it together! Didn't you notice that the places where he descends are mostly cliffs? He must use tools to stabilize his body, otherwise he will fall down and be another corpse!"

"This—how did this get done?!"

People are talking more.

An old man trembled when he heard it. He was the survivor of the mountaineering accident and Peter Taugwald, who never went to be a guide again.

"Someone came down from the back, carrying the corpse?" Peter Taugwald ran to ask the people in the town, with tears streaming down his face. He had been under tremendous pressure from public opinion over the years, "Could the corpse be that Mr. Douglas?" ?”

When Ma Shengqiu also went through untold hardships and went down the mountain after completing a task that could only be completed by six people working together, he was greeted with salutes.

"Boom—boom boom!!"

The town of Chamonix has a custom: to pay tribute to the bravest climbers.

Ma Shengqiu also untied his coat, covering Francis Douglas behind him, so as to prevent him from being watched by people, then shook his body, and stood up straight. Numbness, slightly trembling insteps.

What kind of perseverance and strength can allow a person who is not burly to complete such a feat, which is more difficult than climbing to the top of the Matterhorn!

Ma Shengqiu also put his arms around Francis Douglas with one arm, as if he was holding a hostage, and also seemed to be protecting a noble boy covered by a coat.

"Tell the Marquis that I took your brother down the Matterhorn."

"It's time to pay the 'ransom'."

……

The Douglas family, the Marquis was so shocked that he dropped his favorite teacup.

He repeatedly asked his most trusted servant: "You didn't lie?!"

The attendant desperately explained: "No! That's it! He did it, that gentleman is a warrior among the climbers! The town of Chamonix lit a salute after he rescued Lord Douglas. This is the first time!"

The Marquis of Queensberry sat back in his seat and said in a daze, "The physical strength of the Eastern people is so strong?"

After reacting, he immediately shouted: "Send me someone to pick up Francis - no, I will go there myself!!!"

The family mausoleum of the Douglas family is located in the parish of Cametris. Lord Douglas, the Marquess of Queensberry, who "returned home" to be buried, finally met his younger brother after six years.

When the Marquess of Queensberry saw his younger brother's lifelike face, tears flowed from the noble's proud eyes.

"This is, this is your uncle..."

He introduced his deceased brother to the younger children.

"Francis, your name is inherited from him, and his soul will live in our family forever." The Marquess of Queensberry ignored the fear of several children, pulled his eldest son, and was encouraged by Douglas Jr., who was named Viscount at birth. Gathered up the courage to see my uncle, and said something that made my father happy, "I will be as brave as my uncle!"

After the Marquis of Queensberry was happy, he slapped his eldest son on the head and said furiously, "Who told you to learn from him to climb mountains!!!"

aside.

After changing his clothes, Ma Shengqiu also attracted the attention of several other radish dices. He has an outstanding appearance and elegant demeanor, but he will not stand out in the Douglas family. No one dares to gossip in front of the Marquis, unless that person wants to be whipped.

He watched the appearance of father and son getting along, and found that the other children were shrinking their heads.

This is really a stick education.

Ma Shengqiu also identified a few children, the eldest must be the one who was being scolded, the second child was the timid one, and the third child was hiding by the side——

He waved to the blond two-year-old.

The young Posy knew how to open his eyes wide, looking left and right, wishing to stay away from his father, the maids dared not speak out, and the blond child took advantage of the opportunity and threw himself into Aso Qiuya's arms.

The breath of ice and snow is fresh and bitter.

This taste... was subconsciously remembered by Posy, and drilled into his head.

"It smells good."

……

On this day, Ma Shengqiu also successfully mixed into the Douglas family.

Corresponding rumors spread from the Douglas family that the younger brother of the Marquis was rescued. In order to repay his kindness, the Marquis took in a man from the East.

This man, said to be beautiful, stunned everyone when he came to the Douglas family.

The Marquis who hates the same sex is no exception, giving each other a personal cane.

……

Lord Queensberry: "???"

……

"Posey's Little Tips": "In Winchester, at least nine out of ten of my peers had sex with other boys. At that time, the masculinity was so prevalent, and only those who looked wretched never had sex. .”

—Alfred Douglas.