Chapter 2463 "Out of the Jungle" (8)

"professor……"

"Not now, Padma."

Georgiana shouted impatiently and returned to her room.

The moment the door closed, she felt relaxed.

Sometimes being alone does not mean loneliness. After waiting for a while, she took out the letter Diloc gave her, but did not rush to open it.

Aachen is not very far from Maastricht, so the information she gave is not completely wrong, but is it possible to travel back and forth between Brussels and Aachen in one day and one night? What's more, the messenger is not a cavalry, but

Is a farmer.

The information transmission in this era is not like the 21st century, with telephones and the Internet, which are restricted by distance. Even if there is a telegraph, it is not laid from Aachen to Brussels. She did not expect that people actually use semaphore on land.

"Miss me?"

She heard Severus' voice behind her, but she didn't look back.

Now she really needs "treatment", but not to cover up the pain with carnival, although it will make her temporarily forget many things and feel relaxed for a moment.

She raised her head and looked at the painting hanging in her bedroom. It was Rubens' golden tulips and Van Gogh's sunflowers. There was not only one painting, but people often remember the most valuable one because that one

Copies of the painting hang on many people's walls, and most of the originals are in museums, except for one in a private collection.

The painting hanging on the wall of her room was an original work by Rubens, not a copy. When she looked at this gorgeous Baroque style oil painting, she thought of two paintings in her mind, one was a full-length portrait of Louis XIV, and the other

One is David's painting of Napoleon riding across the Alps. The Battle of Marengo took place in June, but the snow on the Alps had not melted yet. When it reached a place called Saint-Pierre, the road disappeared, and the rest

The road is a cliff that only shepherds, antelope hunters and smugglers can walk on.

Any wrong step would lead to death, and the snow and glaciers above their heads began to melt after being burned by the summer sun, which could easily cause avalanches. All animals were used to carry cannons and ammunition, and there were no mules or donkeys.

, hundreds of people are required to pull the "sled", and crossing the Alps is certainly not as easy as it appears in the painting.

Bonaparte always rode mules, and most of the time he walked on foot, encouraging the soldiers who were carrying them and preventing confusion in the ranks.

As long as one person stops because he is afraid of the abyss under his feet, then the people behind him will stop. This will not just cause a big jam, so even though he knew that it might cause an avalanche, he still ordered people to charge.

of drum music.

Fortunately, they did not encounter enemy harassment like Hannibal. The last time he went to Lyon, Bonaparte donated money to the monastery on the Pass of Saint Bernard because they had taken him in. The monastery was a Crusader

It was built by the Knights Hospitaller during the Eastern Expedition. They provided bread, cheese and a glass of wine for lunch to every passing soldier.

The people in the mountains are simple and honest, and there was a young man who got along well with Bonaparte. Because of this young farmer's service as a guide, the French army crossed the Alps for the second time.

The young man received a generous reward, but his wise move would have been to leave his hometown like the Mamluks who had helped the French. Anyway, when Bonaparte went to find him again, the young man was no longer there. The original

A group of priests and nuns also changed, and no one knew where they were going.

He basically said nothing about these things, but asked her to guess what force allowed them to cross the Alps.

Georgiana looked at the letter in her hand and hesitated whether to open it, when there was a knock on the door.

"What's the matter?" Georgiana asked.

"Madam, Miss Perti is leaving soon," Margaret said outside the door.

"Let's go? Where is she going?"

"U.K."

Georgiana immediately got up and came downstairs. By this time, Padma had already put on her cloak and was standing by the carriage at the door, about to board the carriage.

"Wait! What's going on?"

"Not now!" Padma said angrily.

"Are you leaving now?" Georgiana asked.

"Mr. William Coke is going back to England. I must go," Padma said.

"Are you ready?" Georgiana asked.

"Is there a difference?"

Georgiana wanted to say yes.

"Who will send you there?" Georgiana asked.

"Didn't you find someone to help me?" Padma said.

Georgiana didn't know what to say for a moment.

"You have done enough for me, not to mention that we can also use owls to communicate." Padma said.

Padma didn't act afraid at all, but it seemed that Georgiana was too worried.

"If there is any danger, remember to come to me." Georgiana said.

Padma smiled, "Don't forget, I am a wizard, what can Muggles do to me?"

"Don't underestimate the enemy so much!"

Padma came over and gave Georgiana a hug.

"I heard that you were in danger today. You are not safe either. You have to be careful."

Georgiana said nothing.

"If you are in danger, remember to go to Hogwarts, it is the safest place in the world." Georgiana said.

"I know." Padma let go of her hand, "You have to remember to go there too."

They didn't say goodbye, and finally Georgiana watched Padma get into the carriage and watch it disappear into the dark forest.

After a while, she returned to the castle. On the way, she met Margaret, who was looking at Georgiana uneasily.

"Thank you." Georgiana smiled and said to her, "Thanks to your reminder, I can say goodbye to her properly."

"This is what I should do, madam." Margaret said softly.

Then Georgiana dragged her heavy steps back to her bedroom and continued to look at the paintings on the wall.

There is also a world-famous painting, which is the crown used by Napoleon to crown Josephine as queen. At that time, he had already put on the laurel crown. Louis XIV also had a crown. In his coronation ceremony, he used the Charlemagne crown, which was the crown of all French kings.

It was used, but was destroyed during the Revolution. Louis XV's crown was remade and decorated with many jewels, including the Prince Regent's diamond on Napoleon's sword. However, in 1729, Louis XV had Saint Denis

The bishop replaced all the jewels in the crown with glass, and the authentic ones were hidden elsewhere. Louis XVI also used that crown when he was coronated, but before the coronation, all the jewels were replaced with real ones, and then they were replaced after the coronation.

Every culture has its symbols. For example, the East will use jade seals as a handover of dominance. New dynasties will inevitably remove the symbols of the previous dynasty. The crown of the Merovingian royal family is their long hair. When it comes to Pepin the Short,

It became a coronation crown.

The coronation ceremony itself cannot create a king. The significance of coronation is that the king's power is given by divine power. In order to reflect this sanctity, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, kings must participate in healing rituals, that is, the king puts his hands on the sick.

He "blessed" his body to recover from diseases including leprosy and tuberculosis. The scene of hundreds of unfortunate patients gathering together to wait for the king was so spectacular that normal people could not imagine that diseases can be so strange in the human body.

function.

Louis XIV would do this on important holidays, but Louis XV refused to touch smallpox patients, and this ancient ritual ended with him.

Sick people touched by the king were not guaranteed to recover, and soldiers who contracted the Black Death in Jaffa were desperate, even though they were not infected with the more deadly pneumonic plague.

At this time Bonaparte touched the exposed swollen lymph nodes of a man, and as a mortal, he too was at risk of infection.

No matter what purpose he was expressing, he did it anyway.

This thing is also called hope, although it is a little different from making a wish on a birthday, "I hope I can have something" as a gift. Patients also know that the chance of recovery is slim, but they are still willing to immerse themselves in this "illusion".

There are many things, and you only know how precious they are when you lose them.

There were no female nurses in the Invalides, although it was generally believed that women were suitable for nursing. Georgiana asked the women from the workhouse to help there. They could hardly help the disabled soldiers and could only do some chores.

Men and women have different physiques and different muscle contents. How much does a person weigh? You will know when you lose the power to walk freely.

Or when you have to stand up to urinate and need help, you will understand that a strong woman is better than a woman who can be knocked down by the wind. Of course, most people will not encounter that situation. She

It cannot be ruled out that there are also beauties who are reliable, and there are also solid women who are abandoned and left.

The husband of the Queen of the Night said: "I believe in Sarastro just like I believe in the sun. Don't covet things that a woman cannot grasp. Your duty is to take care of yourself and your daughter. This is the advice of a wise man."

Ignorance is not necessarily a misfortune. When the test comes, just do things according to your own heart.

Having experience is not necessarily a good thing. Before the emergence of black swans, people judged from experience that swans are all white.

Gryffindor Code 87: Courage is born through training, timidity is formed through hesitation.

It seemed that besides blessing Padma, she had nothing else to do.

She is not a smart person to begin with, so why bother pretending to be Merlin the Wise?

After smiling bitterly, she got up and took a shower. Although she was not injured when she fell from the horse, she was inevitably covered in mud. As for the letter, she'd better read it later.
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