In order to stop Christina from offending Napoleon, An Ning forcibly changed the topic: "Speaking of which, haven't all the servants in the manor left? I can't believe that the carriage at the back can't fit in, right?"
Christina replied: "Of course we can't sit down. There are only Fanny and my personal maid in the carriage behind. The other servants have to stay at the manor. My father seems to have forgotten that he bought a manor, so the servants have to stay here."
To maintain the manor."
An Ning raised his eyebrows and suddenly had an idea, so he turned to ask Napoleon: "Where does your sister Paulina live in Briena? The school dormitory?"
Napoleon nodded: "Yes, where else can we live? My family has no money."
At this time, Christina followed An Ning's thoughts and suggested excitedly: "You can live in my manor. Anyway, the servants in the manor will not be fired. To maintain the operation of the manor, your sister's move in will not cause too much trouble for my family."
Spend money. Everything is ready-made!”
Napoleon frowned slightly: "Isn't it bad to accept such a favor for no reason?"
"This is not a favor, it's just a convenience. The conditions of Briena's dormitory are very poor. Alessandra often complains that there are lice in the bed, and they have to dry the quilt themselves."
An Ning: "You don't want Polina to sleep in a bed with lice, right?"
Napoleon curled his lips: "In fact, in Corsica, it is relatively rare not to have lice..."
"But you can give your sister better conditions, why not?" An Ning said, "Pollina herself must prefer to sleep in a bed without lice."
Napoleon was silent for a few seconds and nodded: "Okay, I'll write a letter to Paulina."
Christina: "Then I will write to the housekeeper when I get to Paris and prepare the manor to receive a noble lady from Corsica. She can sleep in my room, and outside my room I can see the flower beds carefully tended by the gardener.
The scenery is very beautiful.”
Napoleon just nodded shyly, obviously he was not used to accepting kindness from others.
An Ning reminded: "Is there a more appropriate way of expression at this time?"
Napoleon pursed his lips and said reluctantly: "Thank you, Miss Tollestaire."
Christina had a bright smile and looked very happy.
She asked Napoleon again: "Is this your first time in Paris?"
Napoleon shook his head: "No, the last time I went to the Quanxu Bureau for business, my father brought me here, together with my brother Joseph."
"What's your impression of Paris?"
Napoleon was silent for a few seconds and then said something: "You can't see much excrement on the street, it's very clean."
An Ning and Christina laughed out loud together.
Brienne is a small city and does not have a sewer system like Paris, so the smell left by excrement trucks can often be smelled on the streets.
A little further to where An Ning lives, you'll find vast fields, and you can even smell the "fragrance of earth."
But in this time and space, Paris had its sewers repaired during the era of Louis XIV, so the streets were no longer filled with feces as before.
Back then, it was because Paris was so dirty that French aristocratic men started wearing high heels to avoid the embarrassment of getting shit when they went out.
When Napoleon saw An Ning and Christina were laughing, he blushed and said, "Also, there are a lot of people, the streets are full of people."
An Ning: "Indeed, there are only tens of thousands of people in the city of Brienne, but there are millions of people living together in Paris. There are so many people that collecting their excrement has become an industry, and excrement workers can even become
Form a guild."
Napoleon was shocked: "The dung-diggers' guild! Are there so many dung-diggers?"
Christina also looked shocked: "Really? There is also a guild of manure diggers?"
Then she looked at Napoleon.
Napoleon: "Don't Miss Tollestaire know?"
"I don't know." Christina shrugged, "The scope of my activities in Paris is mainly my home and various social venues, such as salons and dances. I don't know the excrement workers, nor do I know the people who manage them.
people."
An Ning: "I don't know him either. In fact, I just said it casually."
Napoleon stared at An Ning: "So you are bragging casually. I have discovered it a long time ago. Sometimes you will say some bragging words when you are happy."
An Ning: "Isn't this normal? Isn't there any man who doesn't like to brag? Especially when we are together. As long as you don't brag and be truthful when reporting military information, don't be so serious at other times."
Napoleon curled his lips: "Obviously you taught me to be practical and realistic!"
Christina smiled and said: "It seems that he is not only your little follower, but also your student."
An Ning: "No, he and I are in the same grade, but I'm just a little older than him, so I just teach him some life experiences."
At this time, the coachman knocked on the window in front of the car: "Gentlemen and ladies, we are at the inn ahead. We have to change horses. You can come down and have a rest."
Christina responded loudly: "I know."
Soon the carriage stopped and An Ning got out of the car first, then turned around and helped Christina.
Christina wore a long green dress today that was very suitable for an outing. Because it was not a formal dress, it did not have a low placket and her chest was covered tightly.
But the corset at the waist still highlights her waist, and at the same time lifts her chest muscles into a very majestic look.
Christina smiled and said: "Don't stare at my breasts. You should go and see Alexandra's. She will definitely be delighted."
An Ning: "Did that Alexandra also join the Queen's guard regiment?"
"Yes, we will be on duty together in Versailles."
An Ning: "That's it. Then maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future."
——During the Great Revolution.
In terms of time, this Alessandra should be able to witness the landing of the French crown.
Napoleon also got out of the car, but he deliberately distanced himself from Christina Anning and stood alone in the distance to stretch his muscles.
At this moment, there was a commotion nearby.
A group of farmers angrily surrounded a farmer standing on a box -?
However, this farmer had a belt tied around his shoulders, and An Ning realized that this was probably the legendary bailiff.
The French tax bailiff is not a fixed official position. In fact, in the French countryside at this time, because the aristocrats were no longer in charge, the task of collecting taxes had always been shouldered by the farmers themselves.
In other words, farmers would take turns serving as bailiffs to collect taxes from their neighbors.
Because everyone in the village knows everything about it, and the taxes in rural France have always been very heavy, so everyone is impoverished.
The bailiff was shouting at the top of his lungs: "I don't want to collect the tax! Don't say you can't pay it, I know it very well!"
Another farmer shouted: "What about you? You still have an old hen at home! You should pay more taxes!"
Bailiff: "I paid! That's why I came to collect you!"
"I don't believe it! Your old hen is still there!"
An Ning silently watched the farmers making noisy noises.
Just by looking at their appearance, these farmers can tell that they are impoverished.
But this does not reduce the king's taxes.
In the midst of the noise, I could vaguely feel that something was brewing. In a few years, it would erupt in an astonishing way, shaking all the courts in Europe.