"The Principality of Tuscany?" Queen Augusta pondered for a moment, then nodded and replied to Jerome Bonaparte: "Being the minister of this country is indeed consistent with the status of my cousin!"
"That's right! As the second largest state in Central Italy after the Papal States, the Principality of Tuscany doesn't insult his status as a prince by letting him serve as minister!" Jerome Bonaparte told Augusta
The Queen replied, "And it will get him out of Paris!"
Speaking of this, Jerome Bonaparte paused and said to Augusta with a hint of apology: "It's just that you, the queen, need to convey this appointment for me! It's really troublesome for you!"
Augusta shook his head and replied to Jerome Bonaparte: "Nothing! What else do we have to say to each other?
By the way, father (referring to old Prince Montfort), what are you going to do?"
"This is simple!" Old God Jerome Bonaparte said to Queen Augusta on the ground: "Evil people will be punished by their own evil! I only need to tell my sister about this, and she will naturally help us to find out what happened to my father.
Get rid of that female spy!"
After hearing this, Augusta gave Jerome Bonaparte a blank look and said angrily: "You can't respect Sister Mathilde a little bit!"
"Impossible!" Jerome Bonaparte shook his head and flatly refused, "There is absolutely no room for change between my sister and me!"
After hearing Jerome Bonaparte's reply, Augusta showed a helpless expression.
"Okay! It's time to go to bed!" Jerome Bonaparte took off his clothes and extinguished the gas lamp beside the bed.
After a while, there were gasps in the room.
…
At noon the next day, Jérôme Bonaparte closed the document in his hand, stood up and walked to the window to look at the cloudless sky. Then he turned around and walked out of the study to the first floor hall of the Palace of Tuilleries.
Seeing this, Basilio in the hall hurriedly came to Jérôme Bonaparte and asked: "Your Majesty, where are you going?"
"Prepare a carriage, I want to go to Princess Mathilde's mansion!" Jerome Bonaparte gave an order to Basilio.
"As you command, Your Majesty!" Basilio hurriedly took action.
About 10 minutes later, Basilio appeared in front of Jerome Bonaparte again and reported: "Your Majesty, the carriage is ready!"
"Yes!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded, then took a carriage, escorted by dragoons, and drove towards Princess Mathilde's mansion.
The carriage sped along and drove for nearly 15 minutes before arriving near Princess Mathilde's mansion.
The carriage and dragoons stopped at the gate of the mansion, Jérôme Bonaparte opened the door and walked slowly towards Princess Mathilde's mansion.
When Jerome Bonaparte knocked on the door of Mathilde's mansion, a maid opened the door of the mansion and said, "Your Majesty!"
"My sister, Princess Mathilde, is she at the mansion now?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked the maid.
"Your Majesty, the princess is not at the mansion now!" the maid reported truthfully to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Then where is she now?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked curiously.
"Her Royal Highness should be at the opera house now!" the maid responded to Jerome Bonaparte in an uncertain tone.
"Opera? Who did you go with?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked again.
"Monsieur Gustave Flaubert!" the maid replied to Jerome Bonaparte.
"It's him!" Jerome Bonaparte muttered in a low voice, and then gave an order to the maid: "Can you go to the opera house and bring a word to my sister Mathilde, saying that I have something important to do?
It’s up to her!”
"Of course, Your Majesty!" The maid nodded and responded to Jérôme Bonaparte, and then added a question: "But where should I find you?"
"Right here!" Jérôme Bonaparte chopped off the ground at his feet and replied to the maid, "Tell Mathilde that I am in her mansion!"
If she dares to break the appointment, I will definitely demolish her mansion!"
After listening to Jérôme Bonaparte's words, the maid showed a look of fear on her face.
"Go quickly!" Jerome Bonaparte urged the maid to act quickly, and he swaggered into Mathilde's mansion and sat on the sofa in the living room.
Seeing this, the head maid hurriedly came to Jerome Bonaparte and asked Jerome Bonaparte what he needed.
"Bring me all the valuable food you have here!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded arrogantly to the head maid, "I must kill a bunch of landlords today!"
"Yes!" The head maid obeyed Jérôme Bonaparte's order and prepared a fruit plate and coffee.
On the other hand, the maid who left the mansion quickly arrived at the door of the opera house in a carriage.
At this time, the opera house was crowded with people. Many gentlemen in bright coats and ladies in gorgeous dresses left the opera house hand in hand.
The maid who got off the carriage looked at the crowd anxiously, hoping to find Princess Mathilde's whereabouts.
After a while, the maid found Princess Mathilde, who was holding Gustave Flaubert's hand as she walked out of the opera house.
Upon seeing this, the maid hurriedly ran to Princess Mathilde and said to Princess Mathilde: "Your Excellency, Princess!"
Princess Mathilde looked at the maid, and then said to the maid: "What happened?"
The maid glanced at Gustave Flaubert but said nothing.
Seeing this, Gustave Flaubert had no choice but to let go of Princess Mathilde's hand and wisely stay away from Mathilde.
The maid then approached Princess Mathilde and said to her: "Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty Jérôme Bonaparte is waiting for your return at the mansion!"
"Go back and tell him! I don't have time!" Princess Mathilde ordered the maid.
"His Majesty said that if you don't come back, he will demolish your mansion!" the maid responded to Princess Mathilde again.
"He dares!" Princess Mathilde shouted to the maid like a hairy hedgehog.
When the surrounding gentlemen saw this, they all looked at Princess Mathilde with doubts and curiosity. Princess Mathilde immediately lowered her voice and asked the maid: "Apart from what he said, he said he didn't have anything to do with me!"
"
The maid shook her head and replied to Princess Mathilde: "Your Majesty didn't say that! He just asked me to call you back!"
"Jerome!" Mathilde Bonaparte muttered in a low voice, then raised her head again and looked at Gustave Flaubert in the distance, "Wait for me!"
Princess Mathilde came to Gustave Flaubert and bid him farewell.
Gustave Flaubert showed an understanding expression on his face, "Your Highness, you don't have to worry about me! I can go back by myself!"
"I'm so sorry!" Princess Mathilde apologized to Gustave Flaubert again.
In the end, Gustave Flaubert and Princess Mathilde left each other reluctantly.
When Princess Mathilde returned to the mansion from the opera house and saw Jérôme Bonaparte leisurely eating a fruit plate and reading a newspaper on the sofa, she immediately became furious.
She quickly came to Jerome Bonaparte, gritted her teeth and "threatened" Jerome Bonaparte: "Why did you call me here for something important? If not, you are dead.
!”
Come on, Princess Mathilde waved her fist in a pretentious manner.
"That's right!" Jérôme Bonaparte told Mathilde the news that his father's mistress was a British spy. After hearing this, Mathilde also had a shocked expression on her face.
"Sister, the task of breaking up my father is left to you!" Jérôme Bonaparte patted Princess Mathilde on the shoulder and responded to Princess Mathilde.
"Why me!" Princess Mathilde said to Jérôme Bonaparte with a face of resistance: "You should be able to do it too!"
"Because you have experience in this field!" Jérôme Bonaparte confidently said to Princess Mathilde: "If it were me, others would be surprised! I am a dignified emperor who can't tolerate a mistress.
Very bad for my reputation!
But you are different. You have helped your father get rid of many sexy things!
There’s nothing wrong with expelling another one!”
"You..." Princess Mathilde pointed at Jérôme Bonaparte and was speechless for a long time, and then she defended herself: "I was thinking about our family at the beginning!"
"Now please think about me! Expel that British spy!" Jérôme Bonaparte clasped his hands and begged Princess Mathilde: "Please!"
Princess Mathilde hesitated for a moment, and then replied to Jérôme Bonaparte: "Yes, yes, but I need you to agree to a condition!"
"I have a friend Gustave Flaubert...can you..." Princess Mathilde hinted to Jerome Bonaparte.
Jérôme Bonaparte nodded quickly and said to Princess Mathilde: "Don't worry! The imperial review will not go to Mr. Flaubert!
If his reputation can be improved on the existing basis, then he will be invited to the French Academy of Letters!
That’s okay!”
"Okay!" Princess Mathilde nodded and responded to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Father, I'll leave it to you!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to Mathilde, then stuffed the last orange segment into his mouth and walked away.
Princess Mathilde looked at the mess on the table and couldn't help but shook her head and said to herself: "It's true!"
…
Jerome Bonaparte returned to the Tuileries Palace and met Augusta. Augusta told Jerome Bonaparte that Pierre Bonaparte's wife had persuaded her husband to serve as the ambassador to Florence.
