As the days passed at the Military Academy at Brienne, Napoleon began to grow taller.
But what is more regrettable is that other people are either older than him, or they are not well-nourished and grew up early. In short, they all start growing earlier.
Not to mention An Ning, an adult who is already eighteen years old.
So as a result, Napoleon is still the shortest person in the class or even the grade.
As long as An Ning's "backer" was not with Napoleon, he would be ridiculed by his classmates as a "Corsican potato".
One day after summer, An Ning's military uniform had a big tear, which was beyond Fanny's needlework skills, so she went to a tailor shop in the city to mend the clothes.
When he came out of the tailor shop after patching up his military uniform, he saw a group of cadets from Brienne Military Academy running past happily.
The leading guy said loudly: "Hurry up, you won't be able to see it if you go slowly. The Corsican potatoes are dueling with others!"
An Ning was shocked.
Napoleon was indeed sensitive and irritable, but because he always had An Ning as his "ally" by his side, his mood swings were within acceptable limits.
And Napoleon should have been used to being laughed at by his classmates.
He often received praise from the monks who taught cultural courses in the school, and relied on this appreciation to maintain his self-esteem.
Theoretically, there shouldn't be such a violent outbreak.
An Ning hurriedly caught up with the cadets and asked loudly: "What's going on? Who challenged Napoleon to a duel?"
At this time, An Ning still felt that Napoleon was too harsh and harsh, and made some nobleman angry, and then his gloves were thrown off.
But the leading cadet replied: "No! He threw his glove and hit someone else! Now he is being pushed to the ground for repairs!"
An Ning raised his eyebrows, turned back to Fanny, who was mending clothes with him, and said, "Go back by yourself, I'll go take a look."
Then he ran with the cadets who were much younger than him.
Fanny hugged the mended clothes, sighed, and started walking home.
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When An Ning followed a group of cadets to the scene, the cadets had already surrounded the two fighting men on three levels outside.
The onlookers unanimously cheered for Napoleon's opponent: "Kill the Corsican dwarf!"
"Hit him to death!"
An Ning was blocked outside and couldn't get in, so he could only yell to clear the way: "Stop! The school rules stipulate that those who fight in school will be put in solitary confinement!"
As soon as the people on the periphery turned around and saw An Ning, they stepped back and shouted: "The servants of Corsican Potato are here!"
An Ning said angrily: "I am not anyone's servant! When will you learn to respect the personality of civilians?"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone said angrily: "Where does this rude civilian get his personality?"
Tranquility is directly derived from Latin. At this time, other countries in Europe regarded speaking French as a symbol of culture, but France was the most distinguished person who could speak Latin.
An Ning angrily yelled in Latin: "A person's knowledge depends on his upbringing. You unlearned guys know nothing!"
Then he switched back to French, because most of these aristocratic young men were not very good at learning, and their Latin scores were very low.
An Ning: "Look! You don't even know what I'm scolding you for. How can you, an ignorant pig, have the right to pretend to be elegant in front of me? It's better to say that you bunch of losers have embarrassed your own family's title!"
The suppressive effect brought by Latin, coupled with An Ning's personal force, immediately became outstanding.
All the cadets were withered.
"Get out of the way! Let me in!" An Ning shouted.
The crowd parted in front of him like Moses parting the sea, and he finally saw clearly Napoleon in the innermost part of the crowd.
The short Napoleon was pinned down by a cadet who was many years older than him, but he did not give in. He still tried to dig at the face of the person who suppressed him with his hands, and two bloody marks were dug out.
An Ning shouted: "Okay! Let go!"
However, his voice was ignored by Napoleon's opponent, so An Ning went up and punched his opponent in the face.
He has never had any concerns about this group of nobles.
Anyway, his backer is the Duke, the top nobleman in France, who even has the right to inherit the throne.
The guy riding Napoleon was punched by An Ning and climbed to the side. He spat on the ground with broken teeth and bloody foam.
Napoleon was finally liberated. He stood up and immediately ran to the flower bed next to him. He picked up the hoe beside the flower bed and waved it to settle accounts with the fallen enemy.
An Ning grabbed Napoleon and said, "That's enough! If you go up and beat him now, you will get into trouble! You don't want to be a murder case, right? What's going on?"
Napoleon angrily pointed at the man lying on the ground and shouted: "He said my father was a traitor to Corsica! He betrayed Pauli! He said I was the son of a traitor!"
The man on the ground stood up and sneered: "Aren't you? You are now a French noble, registered with the Quanxu Bureau, and an officially certified noble! This is the reward for betraying Corsica!"
Napoleon said angrily: "No!"
"No? Then where did the money for your studies come from? I've heard that His Majesty the King rewarded your father like a dog for serving France for ten years! Your father, that sergeant, betrayed
It’s been ten years since Corsica!”
The furious Napoleon wanted to rush forward again brandishing his hoe, but An Ning held him back.
"Don't let anger replace your reason!" An Ning said loudly, "Think about what you told me before!"
Napoleon told An Ning more than once that he disdained being on the same level as "these idiots" and that he would use the knowledge he learned from France to liberate Corsica in the future.
He said that these domineering classmates were his future defeaters and were not worthy of his anger now.
But it was obvious that these words had been thrown away by Napoleon in a rage.
After being reminded by An Ning, Napoleon seemed to finally recall those words, and his anger gradually subsided.
He shook off An Ning's hand holding his shoulder and glared fiercely at the enemy who had just gotten up: "Huh, congratulations, Andy is here today and you saved a life!"
The big boy who was several heads taller than Napoleon spat on the ground and said angrily: "That's wrong, if he doesn't come, you will be naked and bruised this time! You will be so embarrassed that you will never dare to do so for the rest of your life.
Come into the classroom!"
An Ning: "That's enough! Get out of here!"
His roar was quite intimidating.
The guy who bullied Napoleon cursed and walked away, not caring that An Ning had just punched his teeth out.
He probably didn't dare to care about it because he was afraid that An Ning would actually fight him.
Seeing this scene, the onlookers dispersed in twos and threes, leaving only An Ning and Napoleon in the whole garden.
While wiping his face, Napoleon cursed and said: "I've had enough of the ridicule of these foreign boys. They are just richer than me and far less spiritually noble than me! I want to write a letter to my father and I want to go back to Corsica."
Go and join the Corsican struggle!"
An Ning remembered that Napoleon's biography did record that he wrote a similar letter to his father, wanting to return to Corsica.
An Ning still remembers that Napoleon's father's response was simple: "We have no money, so you have to stay there."
An Ning: "You know, Napoleon, there is a fable in the ancient Eastern countries."
Napoleon asked doubtfully: "An ancient country in the East? Is it India?"
"No, no, it's a country even more oriental than India, the land of gold described by Marco Polo. That fable says that if God wants to entrust a person with an important task, he must first strain his mind and body - that is
Let him go through hardships. Napoleon, all the hardships you go through today are for your smooth success in the future."
Napoleon pursed his lips, obviously waiting for An Ning to continue speaking.
An Ning: "You should learn knowledge in France and wait for the opportunity. When the opportunity comes, you will not only be able to liberate Corsica."
Napoleon frowned: "But I don't care about any place except Corsica, except my hometown."
——That is now, it will change in the future.
An Ning: "If you want to write a letter to your father, just write it, but before writing, think about your family's situation and your family conditions, and then calmly speculate whether he will agree."
Napoleon was silent for a few seconds and shook his head: "No, my father would not agree."
An Ning: "Right, you only need to think about this kind of thing for a moment. Napoleon, use your brain and don't act based on emotion."
Napoleon held it in for a while, then sighed: "You are right, I was too impulsive. I'm sorry."