[Comprehensive wear] You will get used to it

Both Eugenie and Mrs. Grandet were frightened by Mr. Grandet's attitude, and they ran upstairs tremblingly, leaving Mr. Grandet panting heavily in the hall.

At this time, Nanon came in from outside with a cloth bag on his back. Mr. Grandet glanced at her and asked, "Nanon, where did you go just now?"

"I'm going to the mill to grind flour," said Nanon, putting down the big bag.

"Why grind flour?"

"Miss saw it today when I was planning to bake bread. She said that the flour sent by the tenant farmer was too coarsely ground, and the bread made by Master Shire didn't like it, so I must grind the flour finer." said Lennon, opening the bag to show Monsieur Grandet.

"The young master is also from Paris, and he didn't think it was rude! By the way, where did he go?" Mr. Grandet asked.

"Young Master is going to visit the Duke. Didn't you agree with the housekeeper yesterday that you are going to visit the Duke this afternoon?" Nanon waited for Mr. Grandet to check the flour and tied a knot in the bag, then she said: " Master, can I have more meat for dinner?"

"Aren't I giving too little now? It's just one more person in the family, not a group of people."

"But young master, he only ate a little bread at noon. I think he will be very hungry at night." Nanon insisted, "I didn't even spread a bit of butter. He might be hungry now."

"Nanon, what do you mean?" Monsieur Grandet felt something was wrong in his words.

Nanon hesitated for a moment, then she grabbed her apron and said, "I know I shouldn't say that about Miss, but at noon she gave Master Charles all the lunch left for him, except for a little bread. For the young master, the rest didn't even leave a spoonful of butter for the young master."

Mr. Grandet's nostrils contracted rapidly, and he asked, "Has he finished eating?"

"No, of course not. He just spoiled the food. He cut up every piece of meat and broke it into bits and pieces. The bread only eats the core and peels off all the outer skins, but he took half a jar of meat. I ate the butter and a small jar of jam. I can’t give him the leftovers when the young master comes back, and I can’t open the ingredient cabinet, and I can’t even make a cookie for the young master.”

"Then he just ate some bread and went out. What about the fruit at home, didn't he eat some fruit?"

"Where is there any fruit? The lady ransacked the whole kitchen and brought it to Master Charles. If the master wants to eat, he has to go to the main room to get it. But he can't do such a thing, so he has to drink it." I took a few sips of cold water and ate some bread before going out." Nanon said sympathetically, she was a big woman, she ate a lot at every meal, and she was always hungry before coming to the Grandet's house, and she had let her down all her life. She felt that the most painful thing was hunger, and she felt that Yang Yi must be very hungry today.

"Eugenie, Eugenie, come down for me, mother, mother, come out!" Mr. Grandet completely exploded, people always say that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, Mr. Grandet For the past 23 years, he has always loved his daughter as much as he loves his gold coins. This kind of love does not lose a point even if he has an extra son as an heir, but what Eugenie has done recently has been contrary to his Xinyi, the last time he intentionally let his younger brother get hurt on the stairs, this time he intentionally let his younger brother starve, although these are just tricks, but this really hurt Mr. Grandet's heart, he wholeheartedly His daughter intended, and his daughter completely ignored his intentions.

After an afternoon of fun, everyone's mood was a little high during dinner. The table was already delicious, but it tasted delicious.The little unhappiness that happened between Yang Yi and Duke Louis during that walk has completely disappeared. After drinking a few glasses of wine, the two of them were talking and laughing.

When the dinner was over, Duke Louis sincerely asked Yang Yi to spend the night in the castle. His attitude was so sincere that one could feel that he was sincerely inviting a friend to stay overnight, if his eyes were not so aggressive.Of course Yang Yi rejected his kindness, otherwise it would definitely be a "sheep" going to the tiger's mouth.

It was past nine o'clock in the evening when Yang Yi returned to Grandet's mansion, and there was still light in the living room, it seemed that everyone was not asleep.Yang Yi sighed when he saw this gloomy house hidden at the end of the alley and deep in the door opening, then walked over and took the hammer hanging by the door and knocked on the old nail on the door.

The door opened quickly, and Nanon said nervously, "Oh, you are finally back, master. The master lost his temper. It's really terrible."

"Why is Dad losing his temper?"

This topic obviously startled Nanon, she trembled all over, then looked into the room furtively, and then whispered: "I don't know, I went to work at the mill, when I came back The master kept a straight face, and he asked my young master where you had been, so I told him that you went to see the Duke, and asked him to bring out more ingredients at night, because you only had a few bites of bread at noon. Then the master said Suddenly he got angry, he smashed the vases and candlesticks on the table, and yelled, he pulled the young lady and the madam out of the room, and severely reprimanded them."

"I see, is he still angry now?" Yang Yi asked.

"Yes, yes, he looks really scary, and the young lady and madam are crying like tearful people."

"And what about Charles, where did he go?"

"I don't know, he hid in his room to sleep all day, and he didn't come down for dinner. I've never seen someone like this coming to someone else's house." Nanon muttered.

At this time, Mr. Grandet's heavy cough suddenly came from the room. Even if he didn't say a word, Yang Yi could hear the suppressed anger from this cough.Then there was another sob, probably from Madame Grandet and Eugenie weeping.

Nanon was so frightened that she almost jumped up, she patted her chest and said to Yang Yi: "Oh, young master, you go in quickly, don't let the master get angry again, I have been at Grandet's house for more than 30 years, and I saw the master get angry I can count them on one hand, it's really scary, it's scary."

"Although I don't want to go in and get angry, it seems that I have to go in." Yang Yi said, and then walked into the main room with a sigh.

There was only one fireplace and two candles lit in the room today, and it looked very dim. Mr. Grandet was sitting on a stool by the fireplace, with his head lowered, so that no one could see his expression at all.Madame Grandet and Eugenie were huddled on the sofa beside them, weeping softly together, and seemed to be still trembling.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Yang Yi sat down at the dining table, and asked calmly as if nothing had happened.

Mr. Grandet raised his head, his expression was very gloomy, the red fire light shone on his face, which made his ugly face look a little scary, he looked at Yang Yi and asked: "Sidney, Tell me, what did you have for lunch today?"

"Father, why did you ask this? Of course it was lunch." Yang Yi said.

It seemed that Yang Yi was helping Eugenie to cover up the truth, but in fact he was just adding tar to the fire.Mr. Grandet has always been very kind to him these days. In fact, Yang Yi is very clear that the other party does not have much affection for him. After all, they have only known each other for a few days. Mr. Grandet's fatherly attitude is entirely out of The consideration of interests is also out of love for his daughter.

In this era of women's low status, Eugenie is not a smart girl. After she gets married and M. Grandet dies, it is foreseeable that her life will not be so easy, unless God bless her to find a Love her husband deeply.Otherwise, too much property will even bring her death. If the only heir of her inheritance will be her husband, and her husband loves her inheritance more than her, then want a woman to die quietly There are simply too many ways.But if Eugenie had a brother, then things would be very different, her brother is like her protector and the key to the treasury, ensuring that she can live a safe life.Because as long as she writes her brother's name on the inheritance agreement and makes sure that that name will be changed to her husband or her children before she dies, then they will love her for the rest of their lives.

"I had a little bread, papa."

"Eugenie, apologize to your brother, immediately, immediately!" Monsieur Grandet yelled at Eugenie. He used to speak in a soft voice, and it sounded like he was yelling like today. Kind of scary.

Eugenie trembled violently, she lowered her head and clasped Madame Grandet's hand tightly with both hands, crying and said to Yang Yi: "I'm sorry, brother, I just want to entertain guests well, cousin Charles His father passed away, we should all treat him well."

Yang Yi rolled his eyes in secret, and was about to say some words of forgiveness when someone knocked on the door of Grandet's mansion, and a worker at a post station shouted loudly: "Mr. Grandet, there is a A letter to Monsieur Charles Grandet!"

"Nanon, go get the letter." Monsieur Grandet temporarily suppressed his anger and ordered Nanon to get the letter, saying to himself, "No one should know about Charles's letter except my dead brother and our family. Here it is!"

Nanon quickly brought over a letter. It was an ordinary envelope, without any pattern on it, nor any beautiful cursive characters, not even any decoration on the wax paint, and it only wrote The name of the recipient but not the name of the writer, this is really strange, someone like Charles who knows someone would send him a letter like this, and send someone to deliver the letter at night .

Charles was feeling sad, lamenting his poor fate, and worrying about his future at the same time. He heard the noise downstairs, but he didn't want to pay attention to it at all. He was fed up with this damp and cold place. The dilapidated house, fed up with the vulgar uncle, fed up with the stupid cousin, he wants to get out of here quickly, but now he has no money.

"Master Charles, here is a letter from you." Nanon knocked on the door and said standing outside.

Charles wiped his tears and crawled out of the bed. He opened the door and took the letter in Nanon's hand. The appearance of the envelope made him frown, but he opened it anyway.Inside the envelope was a piece of snow-white letter paper with a beautiful badge printed on it, and on a full piece of letter paper was written beautiful italics: "Dear Charles:

I've heard what happened to you and I'm terribly sorry.I heard you came to Saumer, I think you must come to your uncle for help, but I have to tell you that it is basically hopeless, your uncle is a miser, he will not pay you a cent For money, you have to figure it out yourself.

I know your father wants you to join the army in India, and that doesn't suit your dear Charles at all.You must be confused about your future now. You have always been an ambitious guy, but you just lack a way to seek a future.And I have such a way now, I don't know if you are willing to seize the opportunity.If you want, then go to the only hotel in Saumur and find a man named Bahile Bey, and he will tell you how to do it.

Adrian de Bourbon"