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It seems that in this Paris—no, at this ball, there is more than one woman who can refuse the charm of Saint-Just.
Chapter 292 The Hunter and the Prey
During the whole ball afterwards, Josephine waited for the opportunity to be close to Napoleon.
Of course, you still have to dance, because you keep turning around while dancing, it's not good to keep staring at Napoleon.But as soon as she emerged from the dance floor, Josephine immediately confirmed Napoleon's position.
Josephine discovered that the Corsican didn't seem to like dancing too much. He had been sitting on the sidelines, drinking champagne, chatting with Chief of Staff Berthier who also didn't like dancing.
Thanks to this blessing, staring at Napoleon is not too difficult.
Finally, Josephine got the opportunity she had been waiting for.
Napoleon got up suddenly and walked towards the terrace.
The main terrace of the Royal Palace, like the terraces of other palaces, can enjoy the night view of the garden, so everyone can go to the garden to breathe in the garden if they feel bored at the ball.
Houses in this era do not have ventilators, so many people are having fun in the hall, and every individual feels stuffy at times.
Napoleon was no exception.
Seeing Napoleon go to the terrace, Josephine immediately stood up and followed.
When we arrived at the terrace, several people were already ventilating outside. When they saw Napoleon coming out, they all came up to say hello.
Then a clever ghost saw Josephine following him, and immediately coughed, interrupting everyone.
Now everyone saw Josephine, and they logically understood that the two saw each other and came to the terrace to chat.
So everyone took their leave politely, leaving Napoleon alone.
Napoleon also saw Josephine, leaning against the balcony railing, waiting for Josephine to come.
"What do you want from me?" Before Josephine could speak, Napoleon spoke first.
Josephine: "Tomorrow I have a tea party at the Château Malmaison, so I wonder if M. Bonaparte can be invited?"
Napoleon looked Josephine up and down: "It's because I couldn't invite Andy, so I decided to invite me instead?"
Josephine: "You misunderstood, I was also very interested in Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous city defender who captured Emperor Shinra's younger brother."
An Ning did not hear this at the scene, otherwise she would definitely have laughed out loud.
Napoleon became a famous defender of the city. It's funny to mess up history.
Napoleon was very appreciative of Josephine's flattery, but he still humbled himself and said, "I just opened the city gate and charged at the right time, and I didn't actually do anything serious."
Napoleon in another time and space is very good at bragging - good at self-packaging, he will always exaggerate the merits of one point into ten points.
For example, in Austerlitz, according to Napoleon, a large number of enemies were bombarded by the heavy artillery of the French army when they escaped through the icy lake, and the ice surface collapsed, and countless people drowned directly.
However, according to the records and memories of other contemporaries, there were indeed people who ran onto the frozen lake and the ice broke, but the number was much smaller than what Napoleon said.
In short, Napoleon was very good at self-packaging, that's for sure.
But Napoleon in this time and space, not only did not self-package, but also humbled himself.
The flapping wings of An Ning, a butterfly, had already caused changes visible to the naked eye.
Josephine is very good at grasping other people's pain points to start a conversation. Now he always feels that this seems to be Napoleon's pain point, so he said: "You can tell us all about the battle in Sedan at the tea party. I want to participate in the tea party Ladies and gentlemen will love it very much.”
Napoleon curled his lips: "Well, that sounds good. So you invited Andy just to let him tell stories about the war?"
As soon as Josephine heard Napoleon's answer, she immediately realized that this was not Napoleon's pain point.
"We want to see the most powerful general of the Republic on the battlefield." Josephine slightly corrected Napoleon's statement.
Napoleon: "Okay, Yingzi. Why not, I can go and tell you the story, and have some tea and a snack along the way.
"However, I made it clear beforehand."
Napoleon suddenly put on a straight face and stared at Josephine: "Don't do anything that harms Andy's interests, if you do, I will blow you to pieces with grape bullets!"
Josephine smiled and said, "Then you can rest assured, I don't have any bad thoughts."
Napoleon: "Huh, you are like a spider, hiding in the web of human relationships, waiting for the prey to take the bait."
Josephine: "Spiders eat their prey and I get eaten. That's the difference."
In another time and space, when Napoleon first met Josephine, he was still a young man, and his heart was immediately captured by the big sister.
But this time and space is different. Napoleon in this time and space is familiar with La Salle, and La Salle took him to see the vastness of the world.
So he did not!none!sense!Sleep!
In fact, although Josephine's appearance is not bad, in the eyes of Napoleon, who has seen Italian beauties, "it's just that".
So Napoleon responded unceremoniously to Josephine's hint at this time: "Don't treat yourself as a delicacy, even if you are really a delicacy, I still have the right to choose not to eat it."
Josephine felt a little discouraged for a moment, and she couldn't help wondering whether the Royal Palace was a place that was against her, and why nothing went well after arriving at the Royal Palace.
She quickly adjusted her mentality, stepped forward and leaned on the railing next to Napoleon, looked at the garden under the night, and continued the topic by pretending to ask a casual question: "Your sister is wearing a military uniform. Did you send her to the military academy?"
Napoleon: "Isn't that nonsense? I sent her to the Brienne Military Academy."
"So you don't plan to let her marry in the future?"
Napoleon touched his nose in embarrassment: "No, it's actually an economic issue. In 1790, the Great Revolution had just happened. I was just a small second lieutenant, but I had to support my whole family with a meager salary. At that time, I thought I was sure I couldn't afford my sister's dowry, so I agreed to her request to enter the military academy.
"I'm not Andy, how could I have predicted the current situation, how could I have predicted that I would become the confidant of the commander-in-chief of the entire French army."
Josephine raised her eyebrows and asked casually, "Frost actually predicted the current situation?"
As soon as Napoleon said this, he became energetic, and all the previous precautions were left behind: "Of course, you don't know how amazing he is. In 1781, in Brienne, he predicted to me the occurrence of the Great Revolution! "
Josephine noticed with great joy that this was Napoleon's pain point!
So she put on a mixed expression of shock and curiosity: "What? Really?"
Napoleon was still ignorant, and was dragged away by the nose: "Of course! Let me tell you, he also predicted..."
Napoleon spoke happily, and Josephine listened with an expression full of curiosity.
Like a hunter quietly approaching his prey.
Chapter 293 Paulina's scheme succeeded...?
The main thing An Ning does at the ball is to chat, after all, dancing is not good, and Jio who always steps on other girls is not very good.
There was no way for the first dance, as the host had to lead the dance, but after the first dance, An Ning stopped eating completely, sat by the side, ate and drank, and communicated with the gentlemen and ladies who kept coming up.
Paulina also ran to An Ning, constantly looking for opportunities to ask about An Ning and Napoleon.
An Ning was very happy to tell Napoleon's sister a lot about Napoleon's previous deeds, why he chased the noble dude who bullied him with a shovel in order to protect the saplings he planted in the nursery, why he was obsessed with Rome, so he insisted on calling An Ning Caesar, himself To be Octavian, and so on.
Paulina may think that these things are not important for her to say, so once other gentlemen speak, she will shut up and give up the opportunity to talk.
Then, once no one spoke to An Ning, Paulina would start asking questions.
An Ning always felt that this scene was somewhat strange.
However, in the eyes of the gentlemen and ladies who came over, this probably has a different meaning.More than one person politely asked An Ning to introduce Paulina.
After An Ning's introduction, they all showed expressions of "Oh, I got it".
An Ning probably guessed what they understood, and didn't bother to correct it.This is just right, these days when An Ning was in Paris, the ladies lined up to send letters to invite him to various tea parties, because in this era, it is defaulted that a successful man has a lover, so everyone wants to occupy this position.
Now Paulina has taken this position, and An Ning is happy to be at leisure.
While the ladies were expressing their dissatisfaction with Paulina's existence, the men came to dance with Polina one after another, presumably because they wanted to establish a good relationship with someone who was likely to be able to influence General Frost in the future.
But Paulina always declared that she was tired and did not want to go to the dance floor for the time being.
An Ning joked, "You can be tired even without dancing. It seems that the Brienne Military Academy didn't give your body enough exercise!"
Paulina: "Aren't you the same? Except for the first song that you have to dance to, don't you sit on the sidelines all the time? Do you know how many ladies in Paris look eagerly at the end of each song? Is it on your side?"
"How many? Tell me!"
"Eh? Uh, about five... No, ten! There must be ten!" After Paulina finished speaking, as if convincing herself, she whispered "Yes, there must be ten".
An Ning: "It turns out that there are ten girls eagerly counting on me to invite her to dance, so who are you talking about? I will invite them as you said, stepping on their JIOs one by one!"
"Um, well..." Polina didn't expect that someone really wanted her to point out those young ladies, she was caught off guard, and was stammering, only to notice the problem in An Ning's words belatedly, " Wait a minute, what happened to stepping on your feet?"
An Ning pointed to Christina who was chatting with some ladies: "Didn't you notice that Christina's walking was a little unsteady? It was because I stepped on her foot in the first song, and now she hurts when she walks. I Didn't mean to, but... I'm not good at dancing."
Paulina: "It turns out that you also have things you are not good at."
"Of course I have things I'm not good at, and I'm not a god."
Paulina looked at An Ning suspiciously: "But my brother said that you are omnipotent, and he also said that you can compose music, and the Roman Psalm is your composition. How can a musician not dance?"
Do musicians have to dance?Some musicians... An Ning suddenly hesitated, because he really couldn't think of any musician who couldn't dance.
Come to think of it, musicians are very sensitive to melody, and it should be quite simple for them to dance their bodies to the rhythm of dance music.
Paulina: "I don't believe you're a bad dancer, and I don't see Miss Christina staggering."
An Ning: "You intend to be stepped on yourself, right? Well, I'll satisfy you. Wait a minute, did you take the initiative to invite men to dance just now? Miss, you are breaking the rules!"
Paulina: "I thought the Republic would have its own new traditions. Didn't you say that women can hold up half the sky? Why isn't Half the Sky even allowed to invite men to dance?"
An Ning looked at Paulina with her mouth half open, and now he was absolutely sure that this was Napoleon's sister. She looked very much like Napoleon when she was arguing with him just now.
"Okay, you're right," An Ning said with a smile, "then you should go to the end and invite me to dance!"
"Huh?" Paulina was stunned, "What do you mean by asking me to invite...?"
"Just let you come to me like a man, bend over to me, and then stretch out your hand: Dear Mr. Frost, may I have the honor to ask you to dance?"
Paulina blushed with a swipe: "What? This... so many people are watching!"
"It is because so many people are watching that it is just right to announce the birth of the new tradition of the Republic to everyone."
Paulina blushed, but suddenly showed an expression of reluctance: "Do you think I will be afraid, just invite!"
After finishing speaking, she walked to the front of An Ning and coughed.
As a result, the cough made everyone around him focus their attention.
Polina was even more embarrassed, and blushed even more, but she still said in a polite and gentlemanly tone: "Dear Mr. Frost, may I have the honor of asking you to dance?"
As she spoke, she held out her hand.
An Ning put her hand on Paulina's palm with a smile: "Of course, I am very happy, Miss Paulina Bonaparte."
Just like that, An Ning held Paulina's hand and stood up.
Beethoven in the orchestra pit noticed that An Ning had stood up, and gestured to the orchestra to get ready.
In general dances, the interval between two dance songs is theoretically the time for a personal show. Men and women who have the right eyes will ask the band, and then they will complete a pas de deux with the dance music ordered separately.
Such scenes have appeared in many movies, such as the new version of "Zuo Luo", and the famous literary film "Scent of a Woman".
An Ning was triggered to remember the scene, like imitating the classic dance in "Scent of a Woman", but unfortunately he was not sure if Beethoven knew that dance song.
It is said that the dance music was originally a folk song that has been passed down for a long time.
With the idea of trying it out, he shouted to Beethoven: "Por Una Cabeza!"
Beethoven nodded directly.
He nodded!
Really.
Then the music that touched the DNA of An Ning sounded.
Hearing this music, Paulina was shocked: "What, isn't this tango? Is it so intense?"
An Ning recalled Al Pacino's dance steps in "Scent of a Woman", and began to imitate them.
Paulina wailed "I can't dance" and followed An Ning's dance steps.
Because of the poor coordination, An Ning stepped on her feet continuously and precisely.
Chapter 294 Veteran Frost's real battle is about to begin
Napoleon was enthusiastically preaching to Josephine about the vision of General Frost, when suddenly La Salle ran to the terrace and shouted to him: "Hey, come and see, your sister and Andy are dancing solo, or tango!"
Napoleon's attention was immediately drawn away by this matter: "What? My sister is not very good at dancing!"