Chapter 7: A Short Childhood ()

On April 2, 1796, Napoleon led an elite unit of 37,000 from Nice to advance to the Piedmont Plain. Xiao Jie's father Joseph also set out with the troops as the general quarantine of the army. However, before leaving, he rented an apartment for Xiao Jie and Julie in Paris and asked them to move to Paris.

Tomorrow is the day to leave Marseille. After living in this city for six years, Xiao Jie still developed a certain relationship with this city. After all, it is the place where he was born, and it can be regarded as his new hometown in this world.

He was leaving tomorrow. What Xiao Jie was most reluctant to leave was the two friends he met here, the nine-year-old Diorca, the son of a blacksmith. The eight-year-old Roddy was very fat because his father was the owner of the most famous hotel in Marseille. From a distance, he looked like a ball. So Xiao Jie always liked to call him a ball. Roddy was very dissatisfied with this, but under Xiao Jie's oppression, he had no choice but to give up in the end. Although both of them were older than Xiao Jie, Xiao Jie had knowledge that was nearly two hundred years ahead of them, and his actual psychological age was much older than Deoka and Roddy. So Xiao Jie used a little trick and the two were completely fooled by him and became his loyal little brother.

"Boss, I'm going to Paris tomorrow. I don't know when I will meet you. I will miss you." Xiao Jie said a little lonely.

"Boss, I miss you too. When I grow up, I will definitely go to Paris to find you." Dioca said with red eyes. His two little fists were pinching tightly, trying hard to prevent himself from crying. Because he remembered that the boss once said, "Men don't cry easily." He always thought that what the boss said must be correct, but he didn't know that there was another sentence "It's not the fate that has not reached the sad place." This shows how deep the friendship between them is.

But Roddy didn't seem so sad. Maybe he had no worries about food and clothing since he was a child. He just said something like saying something like that, and then turned to other aspects. "Boss, did I hear my dad say that Paris is very big, right?" Roddy asked naively.

"No, Paris is the capital of France, of course it is very big, much bigger than Marseille."

"Oh, then I must ask my father to take me there. I think Paris's food must be much more delicious than Marseille, and it's much better." After saying that, he looked like he had a longing for food, and a drop of saliva slid down unknowingly.

Alas, he was completely defeated by him. "Why do you think of eating all day long? Can you think of something else besides eating? If you eat greedy, you will really grow into a ball." Xiao Jie said angrily.

"But I don't know. My father said that it's time to grow up. He should eat more to look as strong as him." Roddy replied with an innocent look on his face.

Xiao Jie and Dioca had a sweat after falling out. Is his father called it strong? The whole super roller. If Roddy was a small ball, then his father was undoubtedly a big ball. But it was also the reason why their restaurant business was so good. The father and son were just live advertisements. When others saw them, they knew that the dishes cooked in their restaurant must be very delicious and nutritious. Otherwise, in this chaotic era, how could anyone still be so fat?

"Okay, I won't talk about this anymore. I'm leaving tomorrow. I don't know when I will come back. I will miss you. No matter what happens in the future, I will always treat you as my best brother." Xiao Jie said with a sincere face.

"So too, you will always be my good brother and the boss." Dioca said to Xiao Jie.

"But, by the standards you have said before, we can't be considered the best brothers?" Roddy asked foolishly.

"What standard? Why don't I know?" Xiao Jie looked at him inexplicably and asked.

"Boss, have you forgotten? You said you should go through the window together, carry guns together, engage in prostitution together, and share the stolen goods together to be considered the best brother."

"Yes, boss. I remember you said this once." Dioca also said affirmatively.

After hearing their words, Xiao Jie almost fell down. He wondered: These two fools can't remember the serious matters of their daily lives, but they remember these messy things clearly. I didn't expect that I just mentioned this before, and these two kids still remembered it. Alas, my life's wisdom was ruined like this. In order to restore my glorious image, Xiao Jie said: "How could I forget it? It's my reason for me to say this. Think about it, we have already done the first and fourth of the four standards together, and the second and the third ones are left."

"Hey, when did that happen? Why didn't I know?" Dioca asked in confusion.

"Idiot, why are you so benign? Don't be my brother in the future. I can't afford to lose that person." Roddy said contemptuously, but after seeing Dioca raise his fist, he still tactfully closed his mouth immediately.

"Dioca, think about it, we all have to go to church to pray together for a week, and then listen to the pastor's lecture. This is just classmates. As for the sharing of spoils, I remember that last fall we went to Grandpa Pier's orchard to steal apples together. It seemed that you climbed onto a tree to pick it, I picked it down, and Roddy was outside to wind, and finally we divided all the stolen apples. Do you think this is considered sharing of spoils?" After saying that, Xiao Jie looked at him with a smile.

Dioca thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, it seems like this."

"Fight with me, you are too young." Xiao Jie thought proudly.

"Are there two standards? How do we achieve it?" Roddy continued.

"Well, as for carrying a gun, I think so. In two years, I will go to Briena Military Academy to study. I am your boss, so you can go wherever I go. Isn't this just carrying a gun together?"

Dioca agreed with this, while Roddy said with a bitter face: "Boss, can you not go? Look at my figure, is it a soldier?"

"Why not go? Who told you that you are so greedy?" Dioca said sarcastically.

"You..." Roddy had no choice but to look at Xiao Jie with a begging look, meaning: Boss, I beg you, you can do whatever you want me to do, just don't let me join the army. My father said that being a soldier would kill people, and our family was born in the ninth generation. If I had something, our family would be the last one.
Chapter completed!