King's Landing in France

Chapter 50: The Way Back Home

In order to prevent Christina from offending Napoleon, An Ning forcibly changed the topic: "Speaking of which, haven't all the servants of the manor left? The carriage behind shouldn't be able to fit in?"

Christina replied: "Of course I can't sit down. There are only Fanny and my personal maid in the carriage behind, and the other servants have to stay in 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 her eyebrows and suddenly had an idea, so she turned her head and asked Napoleon, "Where does your sister Paulina live in Brienne? Is it the school dormitory?"

Napoleon nodded: "Yes, where else can I live, and my family has no money."

At this time, Christina followed An Ning's train of thought, and excitedly suggested: "You can live in my manor. Anyway, the servants in the manor will not be dismissed. To maintain the operation of the manor, your sister will not let my family live too much. Spend money. Everything is readily available!"

Napoleon frowned slightly: "Isn't it good to accept such a favor for no reason?"

"It's not a favor, it's just a way. Brienne's dormitory conditions are very poor, and Alexandra often complains that there are lice on the bed, and they have to dry the quilt by themselves."

An Ning: "You don't want Paulina to sleep in a bed with lice either?"

Napoleon curled his lips: "In fact, in Corsica, it is relatively rare to have no lice..."

"But you can get your sister better conditions, why not?" An Ning said, "Polina herself must want to sleep in a bed without lice."

Napoleon was silent for a few seconds, then nodded: "Okay, I'll write to Paulina."

Christina: "Then I'll write to the butler when I arrive in Paris, so that the manor is ready to receive a noble lady from Corsica. She can sleep in my room, and outside my room I can see the garden carefully tended by the gardener. The scenery is very beautiful."

Napoleon just nodded shyly, obviously he was not used to accepting others' kindness.

An Ning reminded: "Is there a more appropriate way to express it at this time?"

Napoleon pursed his lips, and reluctantly said, "Thank you, Miss Tollestern."

Christina smiled brightly and looked very happy.

She asked Napoleon again: "Is this your first time in Paris?"

Napoleon shook his head: "No, when I went to the Civil Service Bureau last time, my father brought me here with my brother Joseph."

"Then what is your impression of Paris?"

Napoleon was silent for a few seconds, and then choked out a sentence: "There is not much excrement on the street, it is very clean."

An Ning and Christina laughed together.

Brienne is a small city without a sewer system like Paris, so the streets often smell of excrement trucks.

Walking a little to the side of where An Ning lives, there is a vast field, and you can smell the "fragrance of the soil".

However, Paris in this time and space repaired the sewers in the era of Louis XIV, so we can no longer see the feces in the streets like before.

Back then, it was because Paris was too dirty that French aristocratic men were forced to wear high heels to avoid the embarrassment of going out and getting JIO shit.

Seeing that An Ning and Christina were smiling, Napoleon blushed and said again: "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, while Paris has millions of people living together. There are so many people that picking up the excrement of these people can become an industry, and excrement workers can even Form a guild."

Napoleon was shocked: "The guild of excavators! There are so many excavators?"

Christina also looked shocked: "Really? There is also the excavator's guild?"

Then she met Napoleon's eyes.

Napoleon: "Don't Miss Tollestern 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. people."

An Ning: "I don't know him either. In fact, I just said it casually."

Napoleon stared at An Ning: "It turns out that 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? Is there any man who doesn't like to brag? Especially when we get together. As long as you don't brag when you report the military situation, seek truth from facts, and don't be so serious at other times."

Napoleon pouted: "Obviously you still taught me to pay attention to seeking truth from facts!"

Christina smiled and said, "It seems that he is not only your little follower, but also your student."

An Ning: "No, I'm in the same grade as him, just a little older than him, so I just imparted some life experience to him."

At this time, the coachman knocked on the front window of the car: "Misters and ladies, we have arrived at the post station. We need to change horses. You can come down and have a rest."

Christina responded loudly, "Understood."

Soon the carriage stopped, An Ning got out of the carriage first, and then turned around to help Christina.

Christina wore a green dress today that was very suitable for outings. Because it was not a dress, there was no low placket, and the chest was tightly covered.

But the girdle at the waist still highlights her wasp waist, and by the way lifts her chest muscles into a very stalwart appearance.

Christina smiled and said, "Don't stare at my breasts, you should go and see Alexandra, she will be delighted."

An Ning: "Did that Alexandra also join the queen's guard?"

"Yes, we will be on duty together at Versailles."

An Ning: "Well, maybe we will have a chance to meet again in the future."

——During the Great Revolution.

In terms of time, this Alexandra should be able to witness the landing of the French crown.

Napoleon also got out of the car, but he deliberately distanced himself from An Ning and Christina, 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?

But the farmer had a belt tied around his shoulders, and An Ning realized that this might be 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 and lords are no longer in charge, the task of collecting taxes has always been borne by the farmers themselves in turn.

That is to say, farmers would take turns serving as bailiffs, collecting taxes from their neighbors.

Because everyone in the village knows the basics, and the taxes in the French countryside have always been 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 yourself, I know it!"

Another farmer yelled: "What about you! You have an old hen! You should pay more tax!"

The bailiff: "I paid it! That's why I came to collect you!"

"I don't believe it! Your old hen is still there!"

An Ning silently watched the peasants making noise.

These peasants knew that they were destitute just by looking at their appearance.

But this will not reduce the king's tax.

Amid the noise, An Ning vaguely felt that something was brewing, and in a few years, it would erupt in an astonishing manner, shocking all the courts in Europe.

(End of this chapter)