Chapter 134, Dating
When Fouche was stunned for a moment when he heard Joseph's request, he laughed: "I understand. But Mr. Bonaparte, you are about to go back to Toulon, it seems that the distance is a little farther."
Joseph also smiled and said, "It's a little far away, but there's nothing we can do."
"Mr. Bonaparte, I met that girl at Armand's funeral. To be honest, she is a good person. In that case, she can still control herself and will definitely be a good family. But why don't Mr. Bonaparte think of a way to bring her back to Toulon?"
"She has her parents in Paris, and she is sick." Joseph shook his head and said, "Let's find a way later."
"Oh, by the way, I need to ask you for something," Fouche said.
"What?"
"I need some 'little melons'." Fouche said, "Don't look at me like this. I don't want to make trouble in Paris. You know, what I do now is often dealing with some gangsters. These people can do things that others can't do, but many times, you have to let them know that you have the ability to do things. Otherwise, they won't work with you seriously. Sometimes they even want to do it as a matter."
"I don't understand," said Joseph. "The morning after tomorrow, come to me and I can give you some. But Mr. Fouche, be careful when dealing with these people."
"I want little melons, but it's more just a deterrent. And the best deterrent is to do nothing." Fuche smiled.
"You are an expert in this regard. Oh, by the way, does Miss Fanny know you?"
"I've seen her at Armand's funeral, but I guess she shouldn't notice me."
"I have some things the day after tomorrow, so I'll ask you to bring them to Miss Fanny. You'll also meet her. I'll ask you to take care of her in many things in the future." Joseph smiled.
After seeing Fouche away, Joseph's affairs in Paris can basically be said to be done, and the rest is a date tomorrow. Dating with girls is not a new thing for Joseph. At least in his previous life, he has dated girls a lot. However, it is the first time to date a girl in the cemetery, whether in his previous life or in this life. Think about it, if he asked a girl out in his previous life, send her a WeChat message: "Are you free? If you are not busy, will we go to Takedao Mountain together?" Then he will definitely be blocked immediately.
The next morning, Joseph brought a bouquet of flowers and drove a carriage to Fanny's door. He tied the carriage there and knocked on Fanny's door.
It was not difficult to bring Fanny out of her home. In fact, Viscount Is very happy that someone would date her daughter. Although Fanny was still very young by the standards of later generations, in this era, Fanny could indeed be considered an old girl.
So when Joseph took Fanny out, I even shouted to them, asking them not to rush back, and to play as long as they like.
Joseph took Fanny's hand and brought her into the carriage. He sat down in the seat next to him, then shook the reins and drove the carriage to the direction of Montmartre Heights. From Fanny's house to Montmartre Heights, even if there was a carriage, it would take about two hours to walk. So they arrived at the cemetery at almost noon.
Due to financial difficulties, many public utilities, including the cemetery, have been cut off, so there are no gravekeepers in the cemetery now. The door is open casually, looking inside from the door, the various trees, flowers and plants in the cemetery grow freely and openly, but because no one prunes and manages it, the original pruned form cannot be seen.
At this time, it was noon and the sun was high, so although it was an unattended cemetery, it did not feel as gloomy as the old corpse in the mountain village. Joseph took Fanny's hand and walked into the cemetery.
"Walk a little further ahead, then turn to the right, and that's it." Under Fanny's leadership, the two soon found Armand's cemetery. The grave still wanted to be new, and a monument was erected in front of the tomb, which read: Playwright, Republican Warrior, author of "Spartacus", Armand Lavoisier.
Joseph took off his hat, placed the bouquet in his hand in front of the tombstone, and then stood next to Fanny who was crying silently.
"Amang, I'm sorry, I've only come to see you until now," said Joseph. "To be honest, the situation in France is not particularly good. Everyone's life is very difficult, but don't worry, I will help you take good care of your family."
Speaking of this, he grabbed Fanny's hand.
Fanny didn't say anything, but just burst into tears silently. Joseph didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only hand her a prepared handkerchief.
Fanny took the handkerchief, but suddenly burst into tears.
Joseph knew that this was because she had been suppressing for too long. Now that she could cry like this and vent her, it was actually a good thing for her. So she reached out to touch her hair like last time. But Fanny suddenly hugged him and buried her head in his chest and cried bitterly.
Joseph was a little embarrassed. He looked at Armang's tombstone, but still reached out and hugged Fanny.
Fanny cried for a while before she gradually stopped crying. She raised her crying face from Joseph's arms, gently broke free from Joseph's arms, lowered her head and said, "Sir, I'm sorry, I..."
"It's nothing, you can just treat me as your family and as your brother." Joseph said sincerely. But generally speaking, when a man tells a woman that I treat you as a sister, he probably has no idea, but if he says he wants you to treat him as his brother, that's another matter. It's very likely that it's the meanness of greed for her body.
As for Joseph, he probably had such a low-key mind, so he stroked her hair and said, "Look at your little face, you've cried like a little cat. After a while, your father thought I was bullying you outside."
While saying that, Joseph also pulled the handkerchief from her hand, wiped her tears by herself, and then hugged her in his arms: "Okay, don't worry, the hard days are over. Now that I have me, you don't have to worry about anything."
Fanny struggled slightly, her movements were not firm, so she didn't change anything, and she was still held in her arms by Joseph. She leaned her head on Joseph's shoulder, which was quite generous, and should be a place to rely on.
After a while, some movement suddenly came from there. It seemed that someone was coming here. Fanny was shocked and broke free from Joseph's arms. Joseph also looked over there, but saw several people heading towards the other side.
"It's probably the one who came to visit the grave like us," said Joseph.
"It's different from us... we've been out for a while." Fanny whispered, "I should go back."
"Okay." Joseph said, and then he turned his head and said to Aman's cemetery, "Aman, we're back. Let's see you later."
Then he held Fanny's hand and turned around and walked out of the cemetery.
Joseph thought: "If Aman, the sister-in-law, could really see someone hugging his sister in front of his grave, I'm afraid I'd be so angry that I would climb out of the grave." So he looked back with a little guilty look, and of course he didn't see anything abnormal. After all, we are writing historical texts, not "A Dawn".
The two left the cemetery and got on the carriage again. The sun was very strong at noon, so Joseph pulled up the tent and drove the carriage back.
Perhaps she was tired of crying, Fanny fell asleep quickly in the shaking carriage. She leaned her head against Joseph's shoulder, and her hands were still holding Joseph's arm tightly.
The carriage walked for a while and arrived near the town hall. Because there were many people here, the speed slowed down. The noisy sounds around also woke Fanny up. She quickly sat upright and sorted out her appearance. It was not far from her house.
At this time, a newspaper-selling child ran past the carriage. He held a stack of newspapers in one hand and a piece in the other. He ran and shouted: "News, news, the Belgian front war, our army won, General Ruber was injured."
Seeing that it was very crowded in front of him, Joseph simply stopped the carriage, called the newspaper boy, and bought a newspaper from him.
"What, is there something wrong on the front line?" Fanny asked.
"Let me see...ah... the news is not clear enough. It seems that our army defeated the Austrians again, but General Ruber was injured in the battle. He didn't say how he was injured or how he was injured. I hope there would be no big problem," said Joseph.
The content on the news is of course true, but the above is not clear about Rubel's injury. In fact, Rubel was injured by a "little melon" of his own.
After the coup in the Remont month, military production was seriously disturbed and damaged. Rubel's army began to lack "little melons". However, the Austrians on the opposite side always threw the little melons over. So Rubel suffered a series of defeats in front.
However, recently, some new arsenals began to operate, and new "little melons" with various trademarks began to enter the army in large quantities. After obtaining sufficient "little melons", the general Ruber launched a counterattack. With a better scattered force, he defeated the Austrians again and forced them to retreat. But in this battle, a French soldier threw "little melons" at the enemy not far from Rubers, who had always liked to command at the front. However, he did not expect that the fuse of "little melons" not named Bonaparte seemed to be wrong. As soon as he pulled it, the "little melons" exploded directly in his hands. This unlucky French soldier naturally died on the spot. Even General Rubers was hit by a shrapnel and was seriously injured.
Of course, Joseph learned these news from Fouchy after this.
Chapter completed!