012 As a decent person in Paris, naturally there should be a maid
The housekeeper led An Ning to the empty building on the side of the Royal Palace.
"This was originally the servants' residence of the Royal Palace. Recently, the Duke has reduced the number of servants, so it has been idle." The housekeeper introduced to An Ning, "The bedding is all new, and there is a bathtub in the room, but I need you.
You have to fetch water from the first floor to take a shower."
An Ning nodded: "I know, I can take care of myself."
"There are also clothes. We have provided a change of clothes on your bed. You can just change into them after washing. But you still have to think of your own clothes in the future. After all, the clothes in the Duke's Palace may not be suitable for you.
size."
An Ning: "Okay, I will go to the street to buy myself some suitable clothes."
The housekeeper bowed slightly: "Then I'll take my leave first. A maid will come to clean your room every day. If you have any needs, please tell the maid."
An Ning suddenly became excited: A real maid!
But then I thought about it, this kind of maid is usually an aunt, and it is unlikely that there will be a young and beautiful blue-haired maid like in anime.
The housekeeper left quickly after saying goodbye, leaving An Ning alone in the room.
He came to the window and opened it with all his strength.
Outside the window are the streets surrounding the Palais Royal. The streets are busy with traffic and everyone is in a hurry.
Children carrying satchels shouted loudly on the street: "Come and see! Her Royal Highness the Queen's Love Affair Collection! The latest volume! You can take it home with just three sous!"
An Ning was shocked. He didn't expect that someone would sell the Queen's little yellow book on the street. Has the imperial power in this era been so majestic?
He leaned out of the window and looked towards the children selling goods, and saw many similarly dressed children carrying large backpacks emerging from the building next door.
He took a closer look at the sign of the building next door: Green Jade Printing Office.
Okay, so it turns out that this is the Empress' Romantic Affair printed here! So the spread of this stuff was pushed behind the scenes by the Duke of Orleans?
While An Ning was observing, several people had already bought pamphlets from the children selling them, and the children happily put the yellow coins into their pockets.
At this time, the child saw An Ning with his head on the second floor, and shouted to him: "Sir! Are you interested in the queen's love affair?"
An Ning touched his pocket, took out three copper coins and threw them down.
"Thank you for your patronage!" The child jumped lightly and threw the rolled-up pamphlet up to the second floor.
An Ning picked up the brochure, flipped it through and browsed it quickly, and found that compared with the pornographic novels of later generations, this book was too light and watery.
——If you need money, you can write a pamphlet to His Excellency the Duke to discredit the royal family!
But An Ning doesn't have much need for money right now, and he still has the mission reward of 550 crowns waiting to be collected.
An Ning threw away the queen's little yellow book and turned around to get water for herself on the first floor.
Ten minutes later, An Ning filled the bathtub with warm water, then happily took off her clothes and lay down in it.
The fatigue of this journey was suddenly aroused. He leaned on the edge of the bathtub and almost closed his eyes and fell asleep.
An hour later, An Ning finally got out of the bathtub after feeling refreshed. After drying herself a little, she started to get dressed.
At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the road outside, and people screamed.
An Ning ignored her clothes and hurried to the window to look outside.
It turned out that some goods fell off a wine carriage.
There was a smashed wine barrel on the ground, and the wine in the barrel was scattered all over the floor.
Pedestrians who smelled the smell of alcohol swarmed up and drank from the ground.
The driver driving the carriage roared: "Stop! This is Lord Viscount's wine! Get out of here!"
The coachman shouted while raising his whip and beating the people who were trying to steal the wine. As a result, more violent resistance was aroused. People rushed onto the carriage and pushed more wine barrels off the carriage.
Groom: "Stop! The Viscount will hang you bastards!"
As a result, a strong man grabbed the whip from the groom's hand, grabbed the groom's collar with his thick arms and lifted him up: "This is Paris! It's not the turn of a viscount to dominate!"
An Ning looked at the strong man carefully. He was not wearing the noble trousers, but a pair of patched black trousers, and a dirty linen shirt on his upper body.
An Ning estimated that he was a worker in a nearby manual factory and an ordinary free citizen of Paris.
Later generations will call them "sans-culottes".
The sans-culottes threw the coachman out of the car, and the citizens swarmed up and snatched all the Viscount's wine. The barrel was pushed off the carriage and smashed to pieces, and then they drank the wine inside.
An Ning was on the second floor, watching all this happen.
The Palais Royal should be considered the core area of Paris, but something like this actually happened.
At this time, the Paris police appeared blowing whistles.
The sans-culottes who snatched the wine and wine suddenly dispersed, leaving only a mess of carriages and smashed wine barrels on the ground.
The police just blew whistles to disperse the crowd and did not spend time arresting people.
The groom had already had most of his clothes stripped off. He stood up and yelled at the police: "I demand their arrest! This is the Viscount's wine!"
The leading policeman patted the groom on the shoulder: "Tell your master, welcome to Paris."
An Ning curled her lips and muttered: "Welcome to Paris..."
It seems that the public security in Paris is not very good in this era.
With this thought in mind, An Ning put on the change of clothes provided by the Duke.
There was a bronze mirror in his room. An Ning went to the bronze mirror and looked carefully at himself in the mirror.
——Also missing a white wig.
The Duke did not provide a wig, probably because the Duke's servants felt that a cobbler's son had no need for such an aristocratic thing as a wig.
An Ning could only simply comb her hair and tie it into a small braid.
In this era, Europeans all wore braids, just like the Qing Dynasty.
After getting dressed, An Ning decided to go out and collect her mission reward - a total of 550 kronor in banknotes!
As he opened the door to go downstairs, he almost bumped into a maid.
The moment she saw the maid, An Ning was stunned for a moment.
He always thought that the maid who came to take care of him must be that kind of aunt, but he didn't expect that the Duke actually sent a girl who looked like a teenager!
This girl has brown to golden hair, most of which is covered by a French maid's bubble hat.
The girl's rosy face has a few freckles, but this does not prevent her from being a beauty.
When the maid saw An Ning, she bowed respectfully and said, "Mr. Frost, the housekeeper has arranged for me to take care of your daily life. If you need anything in the future, please tell me directly."
An Ning: "Uh... they actually sent such a young maid here..."
The girl frowned: "What, you think I'm young and you're afraid I won't be able to serve you well?"
——No, no, no, I’m afraid you’re serving me too well, okay?
An Ning: "No, no, I definitely don't mean that. Being young is good, being young is good."
The girl asked with a straight face: "Are you going out?"
An Ning nodded: "Yes, I'm ready to go out."
"Come back tonight?"
"Of course I'll be back!"
"Then I will make your bed and leave the door open for you to come back. If there is nothing else, I will leave first."
An Ning: "Wait a minute! What should I call you?"
"Usually you can just call me maid or 'hello'."
-Is this some kind of humor?
An Ning: "Isn't this good? My name is Andy Frost. Please tell me your name, Miss, so that I can address you more easily."
"Fanny, Fanny Grey."
An Ning: "Annie? Your name is quite popular..."
"Fanny! Don't you know how to pronounce VA?"
"Of course, of course I will. Fanny, I remember." An Ning paused, and in order to quickly get over the embarrassment, he continued to ask, "Fanny, I have a question, is there a bank nearby?"
"A bank? Do you want to exchange coins or deposit or withdraw money? If you just want to exchange the krona silver coins you have with you into sous, just go directly to the Jewish merchant on the bridge."
An Ning thought for a while and replied: "I want to go to the bank where I deposit and withdraw money first, and then go to the Jewish businessman to exchange coins."
Fanny: "Then... maybe it's not clear to you as a new comer to Paris. I'll go and inform the head maid, and then I'll show you the way."
An Ning frowned slightly - why did he feel that he, a country boy, had just been despised by Parisians?
After the maid pulled up her skirt and bowed, she turned around and went to ask the head maid for instructions. An Ning was just left there.
Also, their master is the Duke, and I am just a guest living in the Duke's house. There is no need for them to be too polite to me.
An Ning curled her lips and suddenly thought to herself, when the Revolution breaks out and she becomes famous, she wonders whether the maid's attitude will change.
——Just wait and see, wait until I show off a wave of future people’s wall-riding skills and become a great nobleman of the revolution.
While An Ning was thinking wildly, Fanny came back: "Let's go, Mr. Frost. The head maid asked me not only to take you to the bank, but also to take you to buy some suitable clothes. Are you... rich?"
"
An Ning wanted to find a time to answer that she had no money and see how the maid behaved.
But before he could speak, the maid continued: "Forget it, the head maid will send someone to notify the tailor shop that serves the Duke's family. After all, you are the lady's benefactor."
It seems that the clothes issue has also been resolved.
"Are you going to walk or take a taxi?" Fanny asked again.
An Ning: "Is it very far?"
"Kind of."
"Then take the public carriage."
"Then you wait here for a moment, I'll rent a carriage." After saying this, Fanny curtsied and turned around to leave.