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In some urban areas of other provinces, there are always some houses that make people feel bleak at first glance, just like seeing the most gloomy monastery, the most depressed wilderness or the most dilapidated ruins. Maybe the silence of the monastery, the desert of the wilderness, the decline of the ruins, those houses have both. The residents inside live quietly, making outsiders think it is an empty house that is uninhabited; However, whenever a stranger walks in the street, someone will suddenly lean out of the window and look at it coldly like a monk. There is a house in Sommer, which has the above bleak ingredients. It is located at the end of a rugged street; It is a street leading directly to the uptown castle, and now there are few people coming and going; Although it is hot in Leng Xia in winter here, some places are still gloomy, but it has its own attractions: the gravel road is always clean and the echo is crisp; The streets are narrow and the lines are tortuous. The houses on both sides belong to the old city, crouching quietly at the foot of the city wall. Although this 300-year-old house is made of wood, it is still strong. Houses of various formats add a unique atmosphere to this part of Somme Old Town, which is enough for enthusiastic tourists and artists to stop and linger. Who can pass by here without admiring the plank across the roof? Both ends of them are engraved with strange patterns, forming a black relief that runs through the bottom of most houses. The crossbars of this family are all paved with bluestone, and the thin outer walls are painted with blue lines. The wooden roof was bent by the years, and the corroded roof cover was distorted by the sun and rain of the years. The blackened windowsill of that house is very eye-catching, and the original carving on it is now blurred and looks fragile. It is reluctant to part with the brown-red clay flowerpot put on it by the poor female worker, and only barely supports the slender carnation and rose in the pot. Further on, there are several gates with thick nails and hieroglyphics handed down from the family. These hieroglyphs were originally sketched by our ancestors at will, and their meanings are certainly not easy to be verified today. Some may be signs that Protestants show their faith; Some may be spells used by members of the anti-Protestant Coalition to curse Henry IV. There are several families of the citizen class whose doors are engraved with the squire's family emblem, indicating that their ancestors once enjoyed the honor of presiding over the municipal administration, so as not to be forgotten by future generations. In a word, the door here records the whole history of France. One house was worn out and shaken three times, but the plaster on the outer wall left behind the superb craftsmanship of the craftsmen; Next door is a noble mansion. On the stone arched lintel, the ancestral emblem is still faintly discernible, but after all, it was beaten out of the water by the revolutionary wave that swept the country again and again since 1789, and now only the remnants of the rest of my life are left. The pavement on the side street is neither like a small shop nor a warehouse. People who are keen on searching for medieval cultural relics will find that everything here is as simple and simple as the previous generation of women's workshops. Low-rise shops have no stalls, no shelves and no glass windows. It's deep and dark here, and there is no decoration inside or outside. The gate was split in two, and the hoop and shovel were accidentally nailed to the door; The upper part of the door opens inward, and the lower part is equipped with a spring doorbell, which is constantly pushed out. Air and sunlight are poured into the store from the upper part of the door, or enter the store through the gap between the transom, ceiling and low wall. There is a chute on the low wall half a person's height, which is convenient for loading and unloading window guards. The solid window protection device was removed in the morning and then installed at night and bolted with iron. This low wall is used to display goods, but it has never been carefully arranged to attract customers. The goods on display are nothing more than three or two barrels of salt and cod, or bundles of cables and canvas, depending on the business objects; Several shiny brass wires are hung on the beam of the floor, a metal bucket hoop is placed against the wall, or some cloth is placed on several shelves. Go in and have a look? A young girl in white, wrapped in a white scarf and showing red arms, left her knitting work and hurried back to call her parents; At this time, the shopkeeper will come out to listen to your orders, and his attitude will be cold or attentive, or he will answer irrelevant questions or ignore them, depending on his different temperament. Maybe it's just a small deal of two copper coins, maybe it's a big deal of 20 thousand or 30 thousand francs. You can also see the boss who specializes in oak board business sitting at the door of the store, twirling his thumb and chatting with his neighbors; On the surface, he just has some inferior slats for making wine bottle racks, but in the wooden workshop on the other side of the dock, his supply is enough to supply all the materials for all the hoop workshops in Anjou. In a good year, he can calculate how many plates the cooperator always needs, and the calculation is very accurate, with an error of no more than one or two plates. One day sunshine can teach him to make a fortune, and a bad rain can make him lose money. Within half a day, the market price of plates can jump to eleven francs or fall to six francs. In this area, as in Dulan area, the rise and fall of the market is determined by the weather. Grape growers, landowners, timber merchants, collaborators, innkeepers and boatmen are eagerly looking forward to sunny days; I heard that sleeping at night is afraid of dawn, and it is frozen at night. They are afraid of both wind and rain, and even more of drought. They only hope that the warm climate of rain, clouds and sunshine will be as expected. Barometer makes people happy and sad, sometimes makes people frown, sometimes makes people smile. This street is the main road of Somme. "What fine weather!" This sentence urges every household in the whole street to settle accounts with their fingers; Everyone will say to their neighbors, "It's raining!" They know exactly how much benefit a sunshine and a rain will bring. In a sunny season, I can't buy anything every weekend, even though it's not noon yet Trusted businessmen here also have their own vineyards and fields, and they need to live in the country for a few days when the weather is good. Therefore, buying and selling things, making ends meet, they have already settled; On weekdays, businessmen can spend ten hours out of twelve hours talking and laughing, endlessly expressing their opinions, gossiping and prying into privacy. Whose housewife bought a bamboo chicken, someone must have asked her husband: Is the stew cooked just right? A girl who sticks her head into the window will never escape the eyes of a bunch of idle people. In a word, almost everyone's heart is exposed in broad daylight, and even the dark, quiet and impenetrable deep house compound can't hide any secrets. Almost everyone lives outdoors. Every household has lunch, dinner and quarrels outside the door.

Foreigners passing by here are judged and analyzed by them one by one. Once upon a time, people who came to the mainland could not help being teased from door to door, resulting in a series of stories; Anjuke, who is good at making up market jokes, has also won the reputation of "Cowhide King". The decent old houses in the old city are all located at the height of the street. At first, these were the residences of some local dignitaries. The story we are going to tell takes place in such a desolate old house. These houses are just the vestiges of the old times when the simple folk customs of France are declining. Walking on this quaint and winding street, even the most inconspicuous things can evoke your nostalgia, and the whole atmosphere makes you have to extrapolate. You will find a rather dark corner, and the door of Mr. Grandet's mansion is curled up in the middle of this recess. If I don't tell you Mr. Grandet's life experience, you won't understand how important it is to call someone else's home a mansion on the mainland.

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① Henry IV (1553- 16 10): King Nabal, Protestant; 1589 succeeded to the French throne, 1594 converted to the old religion (Catholicism), which was the way to govern the country and advocated tolerance.

Mr. Grandet is very famous in Somme, and it is difficult for anyone who has only lived in the mainland for a few days or never lived at all to understand the ins and outs of this reputation. Some local people call him Grandet, but most of them are old and the number is decreasing. In 1789, he was a very powerful Cooper. He could read and write and was good at accounting. * * * In the year when the government auctioned the church industry in Somme, Cooper was only in his forties, and the daughter of a rich board merchant got married soon. Grant Taiwan put the cash in hand and his wife's dowry together into a capital of two thousand gold Louis, and went straight to the county government with the money; He used his father-in-law to give him two hundred pieces of gold Louis with double face value to buy the best vineyards, a monastery and several pieces of land rented according to the transaction from the fierce and government officials who supervised the sale of state-owned real estate. This bargain is legal, though unfair. The residents of Suomiaocheng have no revolutionary ideas. They regard Grandet as an aggressive party and a patriot who is keen on the new trend. In fact, Cooper only looks at vineyards. He was appointed as a member of the Somme regional administration. His low-key attitude has had a great influence on local politics and business. Politically, he sheltered the nobles and tried every means to prevent the authorities from auctioning the industries of exiled nobles; In business, he contracted to supply one or two thousand barrels of liquor to * * * and the army, and * * * and the government allocated several fertile grasslands belonging to a convent to his name as drinks. When Napoleon's administration came to power, Mr. Goodman Grandet was appointed mayor; He manages well and the vineyard has a better harvest. After Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor, Grandet became Mr. Ding Bai who had neither position nor power. The emperor didn't like * * * and the party, and Grandet suspected of "Red Hat" was replaced by a big landlord with a noble title; This man was later promoted to baron during the Second Reich. Mr. Grandet does not regret losing his official position. When he was in power, he benefited the people and built several high-quality highways from the city to his industry in the countryside. His property has a great advantage in measurement and registration, and he only needs to pay a meager tax. Since his manor was officially registered, his persistent and meticulous farming methods have become the "top" in the world. This term refers to a vineyard that can produce the best wine. To this end, he is fully qualified to apply for the Legion of Honor. The dismissal took place in 1806, when Mr. Grandet was 57 years old and his wife was 36 years old. Their only precious daughter, the fruit of their legal love, was only a teenager. Maybe God pitied him for losing his official position and wanted to give him some comfort. That year, he got three legacies in succession: first, his mother-in-law Mrs. Gudini, then his wife's grandfather Mr. Labtrier, and finally Grandet's own grandmother Mrs. Jean-Pierre. How big are the three legacies? Nobody knows. Three old people love money like life. For a long time, they have accumulated gold and silver and privately played with them as a pastime. Rabtrier called money lending profligacy, and always felt that keeping money was more affordable than usury. Therefore, the residents of Sommer can only estimate how much savings they have based on their apparent income. So Mr. Grandet got the title of upstart, which we can't erase even if we try our best to talk about equality. He became the most important local taxpayer. The vineyard he runs has a total of 70 hectares. In a good year, he can produce seven or eight hundred barrels of good wine. He also has 13 plot of land and an old monastery rented annually. In order to save money, he built all the doors and windows of the monastery with bricks, and added large stained glass windows, which were tax-free and easy to preserve. He still has 80 or 90 hectares of grassland. 1793, where he planted 3,000 poplars. The house he lives in now is also the property he bought; These are all superficial properties. As for how much money he has, only two people know the approximate amount: Mr. Lu Xu, a notary who lent money to Grandet, and Mr. Grazan, the richest banker in Somme. Grant Taiwan Province only makes some profitable deals with Glen Hill in private when he thinks fit. In the mainland, if you want to win people's trust or get rich, you have to keep your mouth shut like Mr. Krusch and Mr. Grazan. Although they never reveal a word, their openness and respect for Grandet are enough for onlookers to speculate on the financial strength of the former mayor. Everyone in Somme believes that Grandet's family has a secret vault full of money. It is said that he goes to see piles of gold and silver every night and gets indescribable pleasure from it. People who love money like life see Grant's eyes like Huang Chengcheng's eyes dyed golden, and they believe it is by no means a myth. Generally, people who are used to making a lot of money by rolling interest will inevitably have some undefined habits in their eyes, such as evasive, insatiable and mysterious expressions, which, like a goat, gambler or flatterer, can be recognized at a glance by people with common interests. This secret code is like the common jargon among people who are addicted to wine, sex and wealth. Mr. Grandet never owes anyone a favor; In order to harvest, whether to make 1000 barrels or 500 barrels, old Cooper and experienced grape growers can calculate as accurately as astronomers; He never miscalculated. Whenever the market price of a barrel is higher than the price of wine, he always sells the barrel and tries to hide his wine in the cellar. Then when the price of wine rises to 200 francs a barrel, he throws it out. Generally speaking, small landlords sold out their wine as early as five Louis a barrel.

So Mr. Grandet won everyone's respect. 18 1 1 year's harvest is notorious. That year, he wisely tightened the harvest, released it slowly, sold the goods bit by bit, and earned 240 thousand francs in one harvest. When it comes to financial management skills, Mr. Grandet is like a tiger and a python. He knows how to lie down, squat down, sit patiently and watch his prey, then pounce on it, open his wallet with his big mouth, pour piles of gold coins into it, and then lie down quietly, like a snake with a full stomach, quietly, calmly and step by step digest the swallowed food. Who did he walk past and who didn't feel sincere admiration? I have a little respect for him and a little fear. Who hasn't tasted somme's claws? Catch it, it will hurt your bones. In order to buy land, someone asked Lu Xu for a loan at the interest rate of 1 1%. When someone discounts Glen Hill with a promissory note, an amazing amount of interest must be deducted first. Few people in the market mentioned Mr. Grant's name; Even the small talk in the street at night is indispensable to talk about him. Some people even think that the rich family property of this veteran grape grower is a treasure that the local area is proud of. Therefore, more than one Saumur who runs a business or inn proudly boasts in front of foreign tourists: "Sir, there are two or three million families in our area, but Mr. Grandet doesn't even know how big his family is!" 18 16, the most calculating person in saumur estimated that the old gentleman's property was worth about four million francs. However, if the average annual income from 1793 to 18 17 years is100000 francs, his accumulated cash on hand should be equivalent to the value of his real estate. Therefore, when people finish playing a game of cards, or talk about the harvest of grapes for a while, and finally mention Grandet, smart people will say, "Grandet's father?" ..... there must be five or six million. "If you catch up with Mr. Crusoe or Mr. Grassan, when you hear this, you will definitely answer:" You are better than me, but I have never been able to know the total. "If a guest from Paris mentions a banking giant like Rochelle or lafitte, the residents of Saumur will soon ask if they are as rich as Mr. Grandet. If Parisians answer "yes" with a smile and disdain, Saumur will look at each other and shake his head in disbelief. Such great wealth clothed the rich man with a golden woven coat. Even if his life was a little special at the beginning and used to be a joke, then this joke has long been out of date and no one will mention it again. Mr. Grandet's words and deeds have now become the criterion for people to judge right and wrong. What he says, what clothes he wears, his every move, even blinking his eyes, have become the golden rule of the local area; Everyone studies Grandet as a naturalist studies the role of animal instinct, and can find profound and silent wisdom from his most trivial actions. People say, "It must be very cold this winter. Grandet is wearing leather gloves: pick the grapes quickly. " "Grandet bought a large number of plates, and the output of wine this year must be considerable. "Mr Grant never buys meat and bread. His tenants bring him enough food every week. Capons, hens, eggs, butter and wheat are all used to pay the rent. He has a mill. In addition to paying the rent, the person who rented the mill personally came to get the wheat flour and sent it back to him with bran and flour. Their family only hired an old girl named Nanong, who made bread for the whole family every weekend in spite of her advanced age. Mr. Grandet reached an agreement with the vegetable farmers who rented his garden and asked them to supply vegetables. As for fruit, his orchard has a lot of harvest, and most of it has to be sold in the market. The wood used for heating is sawn from the bushes around the garden and used as a fence or a semi-rotting old tree; The tenant cut the branch into sections, transported it to the city by car, and piled it in the woodshed to thank him. His well-known expenses are nothing more than the cost of communion, the cost of clothes for his wife and daughter, and the rent of church seats; There are also big and high wages for farmers in the south, expenses for buying lamps and candles, expenses for tin pots, expenses for paying taxes, expenses for repairing houses and planting crops. He recently purchased another 360 hectares of forest and entrusted it to a neighboring resident, who promised to pay the trusteeship fee. He hasn't eaten game since he bought this forest. The old gentleman doesn't pay attention to life and doesn't talk much. He usually just whispers his thoughts in short ready-made sentences. Since he appeared in the Great Revolution, whenever he had to make a long speech or discuss something, he would stutter and be vague immediately, making it difficult for the audience to grasp the main points. This kind of inarticulate, incoherent and messy nonsense lacks basic logic. People think this is due to his lack of education, but in fact he is pretending to be ill. In The Story Below Our Door, some plots are enough to illustrate this point. In addition, whenever he is asked to deal with life and business problems and solve them, he is used to taking out four formulas as accurate as algebraic formulas and saying, "I don't know, I can't, I don't want to, just wait and see. "He never said' yes' or' no' and never wrote it down in black and white. When others talk to him, he just listens coldly, holding his chin in his right hand and bending his elbow on the back of his left hand; And in any case, once he has made up his mind, he will never go back on his word. Even a trivial business, he has to plan for half a day. When his opponent thought that he didn't reveal anything after some intrigue negotiations, but actually found out the details for him, he replied, "I have to discuss this with my wife, and I can't make a decision now." "His wife has long been oppressed by him into a submissive slave, but she is the most suitable shield for his business. He never goes to other people's homes, and he never refuses to be invited to dinner or invited to dinner. He never speaks loudly, as if he is frugal in everything, and even tries to save energy in action. Because he always respects ownership and never touches other people's things. However, despite his quiet speech and steady manner, Cooper's speech and habits are inevitably revealed, especially at home, unlike in other places, where he is bound by scruples. Physically, he is five feet tall, fat and strong, with a calf circumference of one foot, a big pimple on his kneecap and broad shoulders. Round face, dark skin, covered with small pits, straight chin, curveless lips, white teeth, cold eyes, like eating people, people call it snake eyes; His forehead was wrinkled and a series of mysterious juryman accumulated. Young people of unknown depth made fun of Mr. Grandet, saying that his yellow-gray hair was hiding gold in the snow.

He has a big nose and a bloodshot sarcoma. Some people say that there is a sly idea hidden in the bread here. This way shows insidious subtlety, unfaithful feelings and his selfishness; His feelings only focus on stingy fun and love for his daughter Ou, who is his only heir and the true love of his heart. His manners, even the gait of walking, in short, everything about him shows a habit of self-confidence formed by the smooth career. Therefore, although Mr. Grandet is approachable on the surface, he is as hard-tempered as a stone in his bones. His clothes are always the same, 179 1 year and today. Strong shoes with leather laces; All the year round, he always wears a pair of wool socks, a pair of chestnut shell tweed shorts, a silver hoop under his knee, a striped vest with yellow and brown buttons all the way to his chin, a chestnut shell coat with a wide skirt, a black tie around his neck and a wide-brimmed priest hat on his head. His gloves are as strong as those of the police, and it takes a year and eight months to change them. In order to keep clean, he always puts them in the same place on the brim regularly. That's all Saumur's people know about this character.

Only six residents in this city have access to his mansion. The most striking figure in the top three is Mr. Crusoe's nephew. Since the young man became the president of Somme Primary Court, he added the name Peng Feng to Lu Xu's name, and made every effort to make Peng Feng's worth surpass Lu Xu's. His signature has been changed to Deco Peng Feng. Once the defense lawyer rashly calls him Mr. Crusoe, he will regret his confusion as soon as he appears in court. Anyone who calls him Mr. President can get his protection, and he gives a satisfied smile to those who call him Mr. Debon. Mr. President is thirty-two years old. He owns a property called Peng Feng with an annual income of 7,000 francs. He is still waiting to inherit the inheritance of two uncles, one is a notary, and the other is a priest, a clergyman in St. Martin's Cathedral in Tours. It is said that they are both rich. With the support of many brothers and 20 families in the same city, the three Lv Xu, like medici family in Florence, formed a private party. Besides, like medici family's old enemy, the Pazzi family, Uncle Lv Xu has his own enemies. Mrs. De Gra? an has a 23-year-old son, so she often enthusiastically comes to play cards with Mrs. Grandet and walks around very frequently, hoping that her beloved son Dolf can marry Miss Ou Ye Ni. Mr. De Grassan, a banker, tried his best to publicize his wife's foresight and secretly gave some benefits to the old rich, so that he could always get to the front in time before the decisive battle. These three gladys also have their own associates, brothers and loyal allies. On Lv Xu's side, the priest is a think tank. With the full support of his brother as a notary, he fought fiercely with the banker's wife for territory and tried to leave Grandet's large legacy to his nephew and president. The goal of Lu Xu and gladys families is Miss Eugénie Grandet's marriage; This matter has long been a hot topic in every household in Somme. Will Miss Grandet marry Mr. President or Dolf de Gracin? Each has its own version. Some people's answers are: Mr. Grandet will not marry his daughter to the President, but also to Master De Granshan. They said that old Cooper was ambitious and wanted to find a member of a noble family to be a son-in-law and marry him with an annual income of 300,000 francs. Who cares about the past, present and future barrel business of the Grandet family? Others retorted that De Gra? an was a noble family, rich and powerful, and Dolf was handsome. Unless Grandet is surrounded by relatives and friends of the Pope's nephew, can he still be dissatisfied with such a family? After all, he is a white man. Who hasn't seen him make barrels with wooden knives in Somiu? Besides, he wears a red hat. More calculating people reminded that Mr. Clü xu de Ponfeng could go in and out of Grandet's house at any time, while his opponent could only come to his house on Sundays. Some people think that Madame de Gracin is more closely related to Grandet's harem than Uncle Lv Xu's nephew. Over time, she will persuade Grandet and her daughter to achieve their goals. The other school replied that Father Lu Xu is the best talker in the world, and women and monks are evenly matched. In the words of a witty man in Somme, "They are evenly matched." According to the more knowledgeable local elders, a smart man like Grandet would never let his property fall into the hands of outsiders. Miss Eugenie Grandet of Saumur can only marry the son of Mr Grandet, who is successful in wine wholesale business in Paris. For this view, the Krusch school and the Grazan school are unanimously opposed: "First of all, the Grandet brothers have not met twice in the past 30 years. Secondly, Mr. Grandet in Paris has high expectations for his son. He himself is the head of a district in Paris, a member of parliament, a colonel of the National Guard and a judge of the commercial court. He didn't admit that Somme's Grandet was his family, but only wanted to marry Napoleon's favorite maharaja family. "Seven or eight miles in Fiona Fang, even in the mail car from Anjou to Blay, people are talking about the marriage of this rich only daughter, but there is nothing to say. At the beginning of 18 18, the Klush faction once obviously gained the upper hand of the Grazan faction. The real estate in Flovafong, famous for its gardens, mansions, farms, rivers, ponds and forests, is worth 3 million francs. The young Marquis de Flovafon had to plan to sell because he was in urgent need of cash. With the help of the henchmen, the notary public, the president and Crux's father managed to give up the idea of selling the marquis in sections. Notary advised Marquez: to sell by stages, it is necessary to fight countless lawsuits with bidders in order to collect all the money they should pay; It's better to sell it to Mr. Grandet, who can afford it and pay cash. Finally, the notary and the marquis made this pleasant transaction. So a beautiful marquis fief was swallowed into Mr. Grandet's stomach. The residents of Somerville were surprised to see that Mr. Grandet had completed the formalities and paid off the discounted land price in one lump sum. The news spread as far as Nantes and Orleans. Mr. Grandet hitchhiked home from his hometown and went to Flovafong to inspect the newly-built industry. After seeing it as a host, he returned to Sommer City, thinking that the investment was equivalent to a loan with an interest rate of 5%, and immediately had a grand idea to merge all his possessions into this property and expand the Marquis territory.