Fox of France

Hearing Joseph's request, Fouche was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed: "I understand. But Mr. Bonaparte, you are going back to Toulon soon, the distance seems to be a little farther."

Joseph also smiled and said, "It's a bit far away, but there's nothing we can do about it."

"Mr. Bonaparte, I saw that girl at Amon's funeral. To be honest, she is a nice person. In that situation, she can still control herself, and she will definitely be a good family. But Mr. Bonaparte, why don't you want to How can we get her back to Toulon?"

"She still has her parents in Paris, and she's sick." Joseph shook his head and said, "Let's figure it out later."

"Oh, by the way, I need to ask you something more," said Fouché.

"what?"

"I need some 'little melons,'" said Fouché. "Don't look at me like that, I don't want to do things in Paris. You know, what I do now, I often deal with some gangsters, these people can do some things." Things that people can't do, but many times, you have to let them know that you have the ability to do things. Otherwise, they won't seriously cooperate with you. Sometimes they even want to treat you as something It's done."

"I don't understand." Joseph said, "Come to me early in the morning of the day after tomorrow, and I can give you some. But Mr. Foucher, you should be more careful when dealing with these people."

"I want a little melon. It's more of a deterrent. And the best deterrent is to do nothing." Fouché laughed.

"You are an expert in this matter. Oh, by the way, does Miss Fanny know you?"

"I saw her at Amon's funeral, but I guess she wouldn't notice me."

"I still have some things the day after tomorrow, and I will trouble you to bring them to Miss Fanny. You also happened to meet her, and I will ask you to take care of her for many things in the future." Joseph laughed.

After sending off Fouché, Joseph's work in Paris can basically be said to be done, and the rest is tomorrow's date. Dating girls was nothing new to Joseph, at least in his previous life, he had dated a lot of girls. But dating a girl in the cemetery, no matter in the previous life or in this life, is really the first time. Think about it in your previous life, if you asked a girl out and sent her a WeChat message: "Are you free? If you're not busy, let's go to Biandan Mountain together, okay?" Then you would be blocked immediately.

In the early morning of the next day, Joseph brought a bouquet of flowers and drove a buggy to Fanny's house. There he bolted the carriage, and knocked at Fanny's door.

It wasn't difficult to get Fanny out of her house, in fact the old Viscount was glad to have someone to date his daughter. Although according to the standards of later generations, Fanny is still very young, but in this era, Fanny can indeed be regarded as an old girl.

So when Joseph took Fanny out, the old Viscount yelled at them, telling them not to rush back and play as long as they like.

Joseph took Fanny by the hand and sent her to the carriage, sat down on the seat next to him, shook the reins, and drove the light carriage to the direction of Montmartre. From Fanny's house to Montmartre, even if there is a carriage, it takes about two hours to walk. So they didn't come to the cemetery until almost noon.

Due to financial difficulties, many public utilities, including the cemetery, have been cut off, so the cemetery no longer has a cemetery. The door was opened casually, and looking inside from the door, all kinds of trees, flowers and plants in the cemetery grew freely and openly, but because no one pruned and managed them, the original pruned forms could not be seen.

At this time, it was noon and the sun was high, so although it was an unattended cemetery, it didn't have the eerie feeling of an old corpse in a mountain village. Joseph took Fanny's hand and walked into the cemetery.

"Go forward for a while, then turn to the right, that's it." Under the guidance of Fanny, the two quickly found Amon's cemetery. The tomb still wants to be new, and a monument is erected in front of the tomb, which reads: Playwright, soldier of the Republic, author of "Spartacus", Armand Lavoisier.

Joseph took off his hat, put the bouquet in front of the tombstone, and stood beside Fanny who was crying silently.

"Amon, I'm sorry I didn't come to see you until now." Joseph said, "To be honest, the situation in France is not very good. Everyone's life is very difficult, but don't worry, I will help you take care of you family."

Speaking of this, he took Fanny's hand smoothly.

Fanny did not say anything, but shed 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 it was because she had suppressed it for too long, and it was actually a good thing for her to be able to cry like this and vent. So he reached out and stroked her hair like last time. Unexpectedly, Fanny hugged him suddenly, buried her head in his chest and cried bitterly.

Joseph was a little embarrassed. He looked at Amon's tombstone, but still stretched out his hand and hugged Fanny.

Fanny cried for a long time 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 treat me as a family member and a brother." Joseph said sincerely. But generally speaking, when a man says to a woman that I think of you as my sister, he probably really has no idea, but if he says he wants you to treat him as a brother, that's another matter. It is very likely that it is the meanness of greedy for her body.

Joseph, probably also had such mean thoughts, so he stroked her hair again and said: "Look at your little face, you are crying like a cat. I will go back soon, and your father thought I was outside Bullied you."

While talking, Joseph also took the handkerchief from her hand, wiped her tears with his own hands, and then hugged her in his arms: "Okay, don't worry, the hard days are over. Now With me, you don't have to worry about anything."

Fanny struggled slightly, but her movements were not firm, so nothing changed, and she was still held in Joseph's arms. She rested her head on Joseph's shoulder, which was rather broad, so it should be a place to lean on.

After a while like this, there was some movement over there. It seems that someone is coming here. Fanny was taken aback, and broke free from Joseph's arms all at once. Joseph also looked over there, but saw several people heading towards the other side.

"Probably someone who came to sweep the grave like us." Joseph said.

"Unlike us... we have been out for some time," whispered Fanny, "should go back."

"Okay." Joseph said, then he turned his head and said to Amon's cemetery, "Amon, we're going back. I'll see you later."

Then he took Fanny's hand, turned around and walked towards the outside of the cemetery.

Joseph thought: "If Amon, the sister-in-law, can really see someone hugging his sister in front of his grave, I'm afraid he will crawl out of the grave in anger." So he looked back with a guilty conscience. A glance, this look...Of course I didn't see anything unusual. After all, we are writing historical texts, not "Darkness Beyond Dawn".

The two left the cemetery and got into the carriage again. The noon sun was very strong, so Joseph pulled up the hood and drove the carriage back.

Perhaps because she was tired from crying, Fanny fell asleep very quickly in the rickety carriage. She rested her head on Joseph's shoulder, still holding Joseph's arm tightly.

The carriage walked for a while and arrived near the city hall. Because there were so many people here, the speed slowed down. Fanny was also awakened by the noise around her. She hurriedly sat up straight and arranged her appearance - this place is not far from her home.

At this time, a kid selling newspapers ran past the carriage, holding a stack of newspapers in one hand and a sheet in the other, shouting as he ran: "News, news, the Belgian front war, we The army won, General Joubert was wounded."

Seeing that the front was very crowded, Joseph simply stopped the carriage, called to stop the newsboy, and bought a newspaper from him.

"Why, has something happened at the front?" asked Fanny.

"Let me see... ah... the news is not clear enough. It seems that our army defeated the Austrians again, but General Joubert was injured in the battle. How he was injured and how the injury was. I hope not. Is there a big problem," Joseph said.

The content in the news is of course true, but it really didn't explain clearly about Joubert's injury. In fact, Joubert was injured by one of his own "little melons".

After the Thermidor coup, military production was severely disturbed and destroyed. Joubert's army began to lack "little melons" more and more. On the contrary, the Austrians on the opposite side always throw small melons over. So Joubert suffered a series of defeats in front of him.

However, recently, some new arsenals have started to operate, and new "little melons" with various trademarks have begun to enter the army in large numbers. After getting enough "little melons", Joubert's handsome army launched a counterattack. Relying on the superior skirmisher force, he defeated the Austrians again and forced them to retreat. But also in this battle. A French soldier threw a "little melon" at the enemy not far from Joubert, who always liked to command at the front, but he didn't expect that the fuze of this "little melon", which was not surnamed Bonaparte, seemed to be not right. As soon as he pulled it, the "little melon" exploded directly in his hands. This unlucky French soldier died on the spot, and even General Joubert was hit by a shrapnel and was seriously injured.

Of course, Joseph learned of these news from Fouche after that.