[Comprehensive wear] You will get used to it

A month passed quickly, and it was the twelfth lunar month in the blink of an eye. The old house in Grandet Mansion was as cold as an ice cave, even though Nanon told Yang Yi that this year was already the year they burned the most Years later, Yang Yi still felt shivering from the cold every day.A healthy person like him can't stand the cold, and Madame Grandet, a weak patient, can't bear it even more. The fire in the fireplace in her room has never been broken, and Nanon will bring a big brazier to her bed every day. , put two Tang Pozi under her quilt, but her life is still visible to the naked eye because the cold is disappearing little by little.

It snowed suddenly outside this morning, but Mr. Grandet went to the vineyard early in the morning regardless of the weather. He is not willing to stay at home for a long time except for going back to sleep at night. It would remind him of Eugenie's betrayal and elopement.

Yang Yi was sitting alone in the empty and dark main room eating breakfast, when Nanon suddenly ran down the stairs crying, she said to Yang Yi: "Young master, Madam has a high fever, but she is in good spirits now. I said I wanted beef pie and mushroom soup and some of the best wine my lord kept and she told me it was her favorite thing to eat in her life and she wanted some before she died, lord , I think Madam is going to die. Her spirit is much better than when she is in good health. This is only the case of dying people. I think she is going to die. What should we do? Woolen cloth?"

In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, Mrs. Grandet was able to persist for more than two months. Yang Yi already thought she was amazing. It is estimated that this lady wanted to take a look at her daughter before she died. Wake up and can't wait to go to Elysium.

"Nanon, go and make her some beef pies and mushroom soup, and bring out my father's best wine. I'll go and find my father and the doctor, and I'll call Mrs. Phillips when I pass next door to help take care of Mrs. , and then ask Mrs. Philip's maid, Anna, to call the pastor over. That's it, don't be too nervous, we have already prepared for it, haven't we?" Yang Yi put down the knife and immediately arranged.

"Yes, we knew she was going to die a long time ago, but she kept thinking about waiting for the lady to come back. My cruel lady, why can she abandon her family and ruin her whole life for a playboy!" Take Lennon wiped her tears with an apron and went to the kitchen crying.

For the convenience of traveling, Yang Yi bought a horse not long ago and came back. Now he put on a thick coat and rode the horse out through the back door. When he passed Philip's house, he called the maid Anna and told her that he needed her and her family. After getting their enthusiastic consent for his wife's help, he hurried to the vineyard outside the city.

Usually, it only took more than half an hour to go back and forth on horseback. It took Yang Yi more than an hour to notify Mr. Grandet and Dr. Carter. Crying in grief, Mrs. Grandet had closed her eyes forever the moment before.

The funeral didn't take much effort. Mr. Grandet buried Mrs. Grandet with the simplest ceremony. He didn't look sad during the whole funeral, but kept his face down and his head down.

Yang Yi thinks that Mr. Grandet probably transferred all the anger towards Eugenie's mistakes to Mrs. Grandet. For those wrong things, even though Madame Grandet had died, he did not forgive her.

The irony is that one week after Madame Grandet's burial, Yang Yi received the news that Charles and Eugenie had been arrested. It turned out that Charles didn't know what it means to live frugally even when he was fleeing. Eugenie couldn't control him, so they quickly spent more than 1000 gold coins from Mr. Grandet. Charles, who had no money and could not make money, had to go to the casino to try his luck, and finally he lost all They wanted to renege on the money and were sent to the police station by the people from the casino, and then they were found by the people sent by Duke Louis to find them.

Charles was finally sentenced to death for poisoning the Duke and killing another person, while Eugenie was captured by Duke Louis's men and brought back to Saumur. When Yang Yi was taken by the butler Charlie to see her, she looked like a dementia The patient was curled up in the stool wrapped in dirty cloth, and his body kept rocking back and forth.

"Is she crazy?" Yang Yi pointed to Eugenie and asked.

"No, it was probably just a stimulus. They said that she saw the scene where Charles Grandet's head was beheaded with her own eyes," said Butler Charlie who was standing aside.

"I thought she would grow better because of this experience, obviously my thinking was too naive." Yang Yi looked at Eugenie's face and said, the experience of these two months left a heavy mark on her life, In a short period of time, she looked as if she had aged more than ten years. Her face and eyes no longer had the brilliance of a young girl like before, but she was full of stubbornness.

"Little Monsieur Grandet, are you going to take her home now?"

"Yes, I think father must really want to know that she is safe and well. But I think I need you to lend me two maids, I can't take her away by myself." Yang Yi said.

Butler Charlie quickly called two big maids, wanting them to resist Eugenie and leave, but just as the hands of the two maids touched Eugenie, Eugenie jumped up excitedly , and rushed towards Yang Yi, wanting to grab him, shouting: "It's all your fault, nothing would have happened without you."

Yang Yi hurriedly took a step back, avoiding Eugenie's black claw-like hands, looked at Eugenie who had been caught by two maids with an indifferent expression, and said, "Your mother is dead, I'm mad at you." Yes, we buried her a week ago."

Eugenie obviously didn't expect to hear such news, her eyes widened in horror, then she grabbed her hair and burst into tears, like a real crazy woman.

"I think she needs to calm down," said Butler Charlie.

"Yes, we'll go back when she's quieter. I'll go see Louis now. Is he feeling better?" Yang Yi asked as he walked out of the room where Eugenie was locked.

"It's still just as bad, but His Royal Highness the Duke will be happy to see you." Butler Charlie said, while taking Yang Yi to the living room to find Duke Louis.

The Countess of Marion hoped that Duke Louis would get better, but in fact Duke Louis did not get better as soon as she hoped. On the third day, he was poisoned again.

This time it was Countess Marion's personal maid who poisoned her. The other party poured some poison into the teapot when Duke Louis and Yang Yi were having afternoon tea together. It was colorless and tasteless, so Yang Yi discovered it again.

Countess Marion was extremely ashamed by this, she packed her luggage and left Saumer City that day, but Yang Yi felt that the reason she left in such a hurry was because she thought Saumer City was boring and could make people moldy.

Duke Louis sat lazily on a large sofa facing the window by the window, covered with a blanket, squinting his eyes peacefully, as if he was about to fall asleep, but he heard the footsteps of Yang Yi and Butler Charlie Immediately after the sound, he opened his eyes and smiled at Yang Yi, "Sidney, I'm so glad you came to see me again."

"Why do you still pretend to be sick?" Yang Yi asked.

"It's probably very comfortable like this." Duke Louis curled his lips, apparently not wanting to reveal his true intentions.

Yang Yi didn't ask, but moved a stool and sat beside him, admiring the snow scene outside the house.

"Thank you for helping to find Eugenie."

"For the sake of saving my life twice." Duke Louis took the teacup handed over by the servant, took a sip of hot tea and said, "Seriously, Sidney, what do you want? ?

"I don't want anything, I just want to be an ordinary businessman." Yang Yi said.

"I can't promise you this, I've fallen in love with you deeply, you can't be an ordinary businessman anymore!" Duke Louis said proudly, as if what he said was an imperial decree.

Yang Yi smiled and said, "I've always said that it's your business and has nothing to do with me."

"Don't you like me a little after we've gone through so many things?" Duke Louis said with a sad look. In order to pretend that his body is very weak, he has been doing his duty to himself these days. With pale makeup, and now coupled with his heartbroken appearance, he looks really pitiful.

But Yang Yi didn't have extra sympathy, he couldn't see through this man, he didn't know what he was thinking, what he was going to do, so he didn't answer his question, but said: "You keep saying that you need to find evidence Then you can deal with those who want to kill you, but you can do it directly, so why don't you do it?"

"Do you want to know the answer? Because I'm tired, do you know how many times I've been assassinated in my life, how many times I've faced near-death situations? I can't even count myself, so the last time I was poisoned Suddenly I don't want to play these games any more, I want to rest." Duke Louis said, his arms hanging down, looking really tired.

"so what?"

"So I sent people to search for many evidences of those enemies doing bad things behind the scenes. I will give these things to His Majesty the Emperor in exchange for the safety of my sister's future life and the title of duke for my sister's future child. She I want this title wholeheartedly to glorify the ancestors of the family." Duke Louis said, he always frowned when talking about his older sister, Countess Marion, obviously this older sister brought him a lot of trouble.

Duke Louis's words sounded a little strange, but Yang Yi didn't think too much about it. After all, with the character of Duke Louis, he would never wrong himself to marry a woman he didn't like just to leave a child, so for the title of the family Always in his generation, it is understandable to ask the king to give the title to his future nephew or niece.

After chatting for a while, someone came to report that Eugenie wanted to go home, so Yang Yi said goodbye and left.Duke Louis looked at the leaving carriage outside the window, suddenly pressed his handkerchief to his mouth, and coughed loudly no longer could bear it anymore.

Butler Charlie hurried up to pat Duke Louis on the back. It took a while for Duke Louis to calm down. He held his handkerchief and asked, "Charlie, have my sister's men cleaned up yet?"

"It's been cleaned up and quiet. I sent Mark and Mary over there. The two of them will be trained as the future housekeepers of Earl Marion's house." Charlie replied respectfully. He tried his best to look calm, but his eyes But no matter what, he couldn't hide the worry inside.

"At that time, I will ask my sister to take you to Marion's house. If Marion doesn't hold his handle tightly, he will hurt my sister sooner or later." Duke Louis said, he looked down at the handkerchief in his hand, The snow-white silk handkerchief was now stained red by the blood he coughed up, "I'm afraid that time is running out, so I must do everything well before then."

"Your Highness, why don't you let those doctors show you, so that at least it can relieve your pain?" Butler Charlie couldn't help asking after all.

"Charlie, you know it's useless. After staying in a cold prison for a long time when I was young, my lungs have long been damaged and confused. I managed to restrain myself with drugs before, but after this poisoning, my body has been so bad. It will never be possible to recover." Duke Louis said, he figured it out a long time ago, if he can live, he can live happily every day, and it is a gift from God that he can live until now, even if he dies now, there is no loss up.

"But at least that will give you a few more days to live!"

"Live like a cripple, fighting high fever and coughing all day? This kind of life is not what I want, Charlie, I don't want to be a cripple alive. Besides, how long can I live, a month, a year, it doesn't matter. It will be too long. Charlie, if I want to die, I will die as fast as I want, and if I want to live, I will live happily." Duke Louis said with a smile, without the slightest fear of death in his words.

Charlie was silent for a long time before he said, "Your Highness, let me wash your face. Those powders left on your face will make you uncomfortable."

"Wash it, I really don't want Sidney to see me the way I am now."

"Your Highness, you will always be the most handsome." Charlie said, then took a towel and gently wiped the snow-white lead powder on Duke Louis's face, and soon he wiped off some harmful powder, revealing Louis The Duke's abnormally flushed face, and dark and heavy dark circles under his eyes.

Yang Yi took Eugenie back to Grandet's house. Eugenie didn't believe in the death of Mrs. Grandet. As soon as she got home, she called her mother and rushed to Mrs. Grandet's bedroom. I found that the inside had been tidied up, except for a few pieces of old furniture, some small things that Mrs. Grandet loved were gone.

"Nanon, Nanon, where is my mother, where is my mother!" cried Eugenie, grabbing the door frame.

Nanon didn't give her a good face when she saw Eugenie came back. She used to like this lady very much, but now she hated Eugenie even more. She replied: "Miss, your mother has I'm so mad at you, you didn't have a good reputation when you killed her, and you asked me what to do! I thought you would never come back because you eloped without caring about your family, but I didn't expect you to still Come back, now our family will be laughed at even more!"

"Nanon, what nonsense are you talking about? I'm just pursuing my happiness. My mother has always supported me before. How could she be angry with me?" Eugenie said stubbornly. She still felt that she was not wrong at all, even if Suffered the pain of these two months of ups and downs.

"She is not only angry with you, she also resents you. Originally, she always said that she would pass on to you the gold ring left by her grandma, but now the ring has been turned into gold coins by the master." Nanon said, and then Returning to the kitchen, she resolved not to pay any attention to Eugenie, for there were not only one or two in the family who hated Eugenie.

Although Eugenie didn't want to believe it, she knew that Nanon would never lie, so she couldn't bear such a cruel truth for a while, and she felt a throbbing pain in her abdomen, as if something was about to come out of her body It's the same as losing.

"Eugenie!" Yang Yi came out of the room, and saw a puddle of blood flowing from the place where Eugenie was standing, and she herself seemed to know nothing, "Eugenie, where did the blood come from? "

Eugenie looked at her feet following Yang Yi's gaze, only to find that there was a lot of blood around her feet. She grabbed the skirt in a daze, and saw that her pants were also covered with blood. She suddenly realized what happened. What, and then she yelled in horror.

"Nanon, come up and take a look!" Yang Yi shouted immediately, which really caught people off guard.

"What's the matter?" cried Nanon, running up the stairs. When she saw Eugenie's situation, she froze for a few seconds. Then she jumped up and helped Eugenie to go into the room. Directed Yang Yi and said: "Master, hurry up and call the doctor, hurry up, oh, why did this kind of thing happen, Miss, why did you leave with Master Shire, why!"