Chapter 1640 Frogampfog (Twenty-Eight)

No. 1g&fog (twenty-eight)

I want to rush into the melee at all costs and be hacked to death, but I want to see if you will shed tears because of my bloodshed and sacrifice.

Don't you want red roses? Find one. I want it to be as white as the snow on the top of the mountain. You have someone take it and smear it with my blood, so that it will be scarlet enough.

The war is over, but I can't be happy anymore. Do you know why? We have never been in the same world. I brought you into my destiny, but you did not bring me into yours. Our destinies were not truly intertwined. You love plants more than I do, and in your eyes my freedom is worse than a potted plant.

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There is a water pump in Broad Street, London, sitting on a pedestal with an inscription. This is to commemorate Dr. Snow's discovery in 1856 that the culprit of the cholera epidemic in south London was the water source, rather than the miasma theory popular in the medical community. monument.

At that time, Dr. Snow entered the core area of ​​the cholera outbreak, looking for evidence that cholera was spread by water sources, rather than just analyzing the data in the table.

This water pump is far less tall than the July Pillar, just like a street lamp, but it is a very important water source on Broad Street.

Dr. Snow is an anesthesiologist. He knocks on the doors of houses filled with corpses one by one, and carefully inquires about the condition and daily activities of the deceased to investigate and collect evidence. In that slum area, which is full of poor people, has no infrastructure, and the sanitation facilities are not up to standard, he always has a brush with death every time he opens the door. After extensive visits and map work, he discovered that cholera deaths were more concentrated near the water pump on Broad Street.

With further investigation, when he checked the death information provided by the government, he discovered a special subject, which was a five-month-old baby girl. Snow had missed this patient, and the government's death information also included, The baby girl also died of diarrhea. Her mother washed her diapers and poured the water into a cesspool on Broad Street. The cesspool was only 3 feet away from the Broad Street pump. When people dug it up, it was found that the walls of the cesspool had been damaged. In other words, the sewage used to wash the sick baby's diapers contaminated the well. It was this baby girl who played a crucial role in the outbreak of the cholera plague in London.

When Severus returned to the main house, a strange man appeared in the living room.

He was a Muggle, there was no doubt about it, and he was related to Jan Felix, that was obvious.

"This is my father." Felix happily introduced to Severus, "He's here to help."

Severus's gaze shifted to Fiona.

"His name is Haji, and I told Felix it was a bad idea," Fiona said to Severus.

"Why?" Felix asked confused.

"Don't worry, I'm leaving now." Felix's father Haji said, and then said to Felix, "Take out your key."

"What's wrong?" Felix looked at the adults.

Fiona looked out the window and said nothing, and Haji didn't answer either.

"Please take a seat," Severus said to Hadji, and he sat down on the sofa.

Haji looked embarrassed. Severus was silent for a while and then asked, "I hired your wife to take care of my wife, and your son also works for me. Do you know this?"

"Yes," Haji said.

"Tell me what you think," Severus said.

"You seem to be dealing with a very dangerous person."

"Aren't you worried?"

"What are you worried about?"

"I got your family into trouble."

Haji smiled, "I left them to prevent them from getting involved in my troubles. You look much better than those people."

Severus sneered and continued, "You can't go up to the second floor. Only women and children can go up."

"Are you and my son the same person?"

"Not exactly the same."

"Can you help him?"

Severus didn't answer immediately.

"My wife can." Severus said. "When she comes back we can solve the problem of your son going to school."

Haji nodded cautiously, "I understand, sir."

"I don't want to go to school!" Felix shouted.

Haji immediately glared at him "What do you want to do if you don't go to school!"

"Warlock." Felix said confidently.

"I heard that school is better than Eton." Fiona said, "Anyone who doesn't go to Eton will go to Hogwarts."

"Your son is special," Severus said. "My wife and I both taught at Hogwarts."

"They can be my private tutors!" Felix said. "I don't have to go to school!"

Haji was silent for a while and then said, "If I hadn't come to France from London all at once, I wouldn't believe a word of what you just said."

"What special skills do you have?" Severus asked.

"I was a soldier in the Caucasus."

"Can you shoot?"

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"Go and get one. Your skills are of no use in London, but they will be of use to you here."

Haji stared at Severus, and after a moment Haji said, "Thank you, sir."

"Don't thank me. If you mess up, your wife will suffer too."

"Are you scared? Fiona?" Haji looked at Fiona.

She still looked a little scared, but shook her head.

"Your reaction is the same as when I asked you to leave that cesspit with me." Haji said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid that I will fail again?"

"I'm going upstairs to see Madam." Fiona said evasively, and then left the living room.

"Who did you offend?" Haji asked after Fiona's footsteps disappeared.

"Napoleon, he became an undead," said Felix.

Haji stared at his son for a moment and then looked at Severus.

"He's right." Severus said, "But he is different from ordinary ghosts. We can see a lot of things that you can't see, but I didn't see him when we were playing chess that day."

"Playing chess?" Haji asked.

"Senite, a chess game played between the dead and the living, was very popular in ancient Egypt." Severus said, "You also have a colleague who is an expert in ancient Egyptology."

"It sounds like we're on an archaeological expedition," Haji said.

"You have experience in mountain warfare. Prepare whatever you want." Severus said as he took out a check with an astonishing number written on it and handed it to Haji. "Just buy it." Come meet here.”

Haji stretched out his hand to take it.

"You can also choose not to come back." Severus said to Haji, "You have enough money to start over."

"I understand." Haji nodded.

"No, you don't understand." Severus took out his wand and pointed it at a vase. It turned into powder. "If you don't follow the rules, that vase will be your fate. I don't like Muggles very much. You You are about to come into contact with a world that is completely unfamiliar to you, and I don’t have time to explain it to you one by one. Maybe you will think that the patients in the mental hospital are more normal than us, but my enemy is a man who has been dead for two hundred years, and I have reason to believe that someone is trying to resurrect him. You can choose to take this money and start over, and you can Don’t worry about your past troubles sticking to them, you understand what I’m saying?”

"Yes, I understand." Haji said, taking the check away, then taking a military dagger and placing it on the table. "It serves you now, sir."

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There was a band dressed as Egyptians on the ship, and they were playing exotic songs using ancient Egyptian instruments.

If it weren't for the sea outside the ship's side and the biting sea breeze blowing in her face, Georgiana would have almost thought she was rafting on the Nile.

Since the death of Queen Anne, the British royal family from Hanover no longer uses the red and white rose as the official emblem of the royal family, but the white rose has been retained. In informal occasions, the rose is still a symbol of identifying British identity.

The blood-red roses that would become common on Valentine's Day were brought back to England from China by Bud Slater through the East India Company. Before that, there were no such red roses in Europe. At that time, Bud Slater showed off the roses he had bred. The Rose Queen caused a great sensation, and then Queen Josephine issued a passport for him, allowing the ship carrying the rose to pass even during the naval battle between the two armies.

Georgiana looked at the "Egyptians". If Pauline was a tool used by Napoleon to take revenge on Josephine, a Cleopatra who was joking, then now it was a bit serious.

Legend has it that the path Antony met Cleopatra was paved with knee-high rose petals, but Georgiana neither wanted him to be Antony nor Caesar.

Napoleoni's nature is actually very good. He just, like most self-made successful people, did not see the traps covered with flowers.

He needed help, and Georgiana wanted to be his friend if she could, instead of being in such a bad position.

She really just wanted to invite him for a picnic that day at the Canal Saint-Martin, which had not yet started construction. She did not expect what would happen next, not to mention that she was still wearing a nun's clothes that day.

This lion of the wilderness really should have a little more fear of God.

Georgiana slowly shook her fan, and this flashy lace fan still blew the scent of roses over. The perfume Dulchamp prepared for her did not add musk, a commonly used spice, but instead added ambergris, an energy-rich ingredient. A spice that evokes love.

She recalled the few encounters with Josephine and tried to identify from the many perfume smells whether Josephine's perfume contained musk.

According to the information provided to her by fellow British people, Josephine and Napoleon still shared the same bed in Malmaison, which shocked many people.

Josephine originally didn't care about the child born to Hortense. There was a lot of gossip in the palace as to whether the child was Louis's. After Hortense became pregnant, she also begged Napoleon to transfer Louis, so even if her daughter had the first child, She even ran out to soak in a hot spring during such a tense moment of delivery, and Louis didn't really want to admit that the child was his own.

There are no priests in Malmaison, but there are in the Tuileries Palace. Napoleon not only wanted to copy a chapel in the Vatican, but also seemed to have completely copied part of the Tuileries Palace from the layout of the Papal Palace, and then replaced Pius VII with it. The plan to "invite" France to "live temporarily".

If the Pope and his envoys continue to force the constitutionalist priests to apologize, these Catholic priests who swore allegiance to the French Constitution will be separated from Rome. Who knows if they will develop into a Protestant-like sect.

Baptizing this child will be a very formal ceremony. Josephine is the grandmother of the baby boy, and theoretically Georgiana also has a chance. With her "threat", Josephine paid attention to the birth of her grandson.

If Georgiana had the same opportunity as Josephine, she would never take advantage of the truce between the British and French navies to bring back only a few pots of roses.

She would write to the exiled French nobles who fled to Britain, and as long as they accomplished something, she would apply for special passports for them as botanists, so that they could return to their homeland in France and try to preserve the strength of the French navy, so that the French navy would not be unable to recover after the Battle of Trafalgar and lose its sea control, and Britain would not lose Nelson.

Josephine should have thought of this. There are so many friends around her who can give her advice. Georgiana is just a civilian female teacher. There are many secrets of the royal family that she doesn't know. She won't go to places like the Royal Secret Archives. It's enough for her to take care of those energetic little wizards. How can she have the energy and time to explore these things?

She pretended to appreciate Egyptian music for a while and then continued to walk on the deck with Henry Petty, but he soon suggested that Georgiana go to the cabin for tea.

She smiled and agreed. Before leaving, she asked Matilda to call Mr. Martin. After all, what should come still has to come.