Mr. Fuwa's body recovered quickly, which is normal, just seasickness. This kind of problem is not good after not getting a good night's sleep. So the next morning they continued on their way, and after a long day of jolting in a horse-drawn carriage, the group finally reached Marseille, an important town in the south of France.

The Joseph brothers were placed in an aristocratic secondary school in Marseille, the Lycée d'Orton, to learn French. This is an aristocratic school, and the students in the school are naturally nobles, although they are nothing more than "nobles from other provinces". But even the "nobility of the provinces" is far more "aristocratic" than the "nobility of Corsica". Not to mention anything else, just living as a pie is almost crushing these two poor boys from Corsica.

At first, when they knew that there were going to be two poor Corsican students in their school, they were generally very interested and welcoming.

This is not because they are hospitable, but because there are two earthen buns in the school, which are also a very interesting thing in the eyes of the aristocratic students. It's like the ladies in the Grand View Garden, although no one can afford to look down on the poor Grandma Liu, everyone will look forward to Grandma Liu's visit. The children of these "provincial nobles" in the school also need some "Grandma Liu" for them to make fun of to enrich their empty and boring extracurricular life. Although if they themselves were among the great nobles of Paris, they would also be regarded as "country buns".

The image of the two of them when they first arrived at Orton Middle School was indeed very much in line with the expectations of the aristocratic students in the school. Both of them had grown up by the sea, and both were wild and thick, so their faces were black and red, and their skin was far less delicate than those of his classmates, and they were full of inferior characteristics at first glance. In addition, there is a significant difference in the height of the two people, Joseph is tall and thin, while Napoleon is short and short, if it is placed in China, the height difference between the two brothers may be reminiscent of Wu Da and Wu Er in "Water Margin", and here, the students immediately gave them a nickname: one is called Don Quixote, and the other is called Sancho.

Many years later, when Joseph wrote letters to Napoleon, he would sometimes jokingly refer to Napoleon as "my dear Sancho" and write "Don Quixote de La Mancha" in the place where he signed his letter. Napoleon, on the other hand, would have reversed the letter by calling himself "Don Quixote" and Joseph "Sancho". For he felt that, in terms of character, he was closer to the knight who fought the windmills, and to the sane Joseph than to Sancho.

The two of them do have a lot of things that can bring happiness to the students of this school. The first is the accent when speaking. The aristocratic students in the school, although they were all from other provinces, could speak French with a bit of Parisian flavor, and the Joseph brothers, the elder brother Joseph, was slightly better, and although his French also had serious accent problems, at least, it was still French. But his younger brother Napoleon is different, his French, not only with a serious Corsican accent, but even mixed with a lot of Corsican words, almost not very French. So one of the favorite things that the bored students did in the class was to imitate the accents of the two brothers, and some of their actions that seemed earthy to the children of the aristocracy.

Generally speaking, the more shallow and incompetent a person is, the more he likes to laugh at some of the flaws of others and take pleasure in them, especially when the person is significantly superior to himself in terms of ability.

Although Napoleon did not speak French very well, he and Joseph were both quite outstanding in learning, and Joseph naturally needless to say, a time-traveler from the twenty-first century, who possessed knowledge far beyond this era, it was not difficult to pretend to be a scholar in an aristocratic school. Even, for him, how to hide his knowledge that is too much ahead of the times is what makes him even more troublesome. Basically, apart from subjects like art, he can easily crush everyone in school when it comes to academic performance.

As for Napoleon, although he did not have the cheating things in Joseph's head, he was naturally intelligent, and since he learned from Joseph the importance of knowledge, especially mathematics, geography, history, and physics, to the war, he was very serious about learning, especially the study of these subjects closely related to war. The intelligence of his talents, coupled with his serious attitude towards learning, made Napoleon quite outstanding in these subjects, and those "provincial aristocratic" students were far from Napoleon in these subjects; In almost all subjects except spoken language, he is far inferior to Joseph.

After being suppressed by the brothers in terms of IQ, these aristocratic classmates became more and more fond of maliciously imitating the brothers' spoken language. In the beginning, they targeted Joseph. It's natural, Joseph is very tall, although he has lost some weight at the moment, and it looks a bit like a bamboo pole, but this is just a by-product of the rapid growth of the teenager's height, and who doesn't want to grow taller and taller? And Joseph's appearance is also good, although his face is slightly darker. Coupled with the fact that all of his homework is almost top-notch, you say, why don't such a guy hurry up and die!

However, the aristocratic classmates soon gave up on Joseph's goal, because whenever they deliberately provoked Joseph in front of him, imitated his accent or something, they always did not get the feedback they hoped for. They wanted to see Joseph panic or anger in the face of these actions, and whatever kind of feedback they gave would give them a chance to appreciate and bring them endless joy.

Joseph's reaction, however, was entirely unexpected. When they played their game in front of Joseph, Joseph did not show alarm or anger, but admired their performance with a smile on his face, and he looked at them like monkeys in a circus.

Such a reaction was unlikely to bring them joy, so they turned more to Napoleon. Compared to Joseph, Napoleon clearly had more weaknesses. Napoleon was shorter, with a heavier accent and more black spots. What's more, Napoleon's reaction was a little more playful. Because whenever they provoked Napoleon in this way, they could easily appreciate his anger.

But they soon discovered that it was no fun to provoke Napoleon. Unlike stimulating Joseph, stimulating Joseph, although it is not happy, at least there is no danger. But once Napoleon felt offended, he did not hesitate to strike back, and in the most inferior way, that is, by violence, punches, kicks, and even teeth.

Although the young masters in the school were taller than Napoleon, they lacked the training to perform this type of fighting. Fighting skills were also compulsory for the nobility, but that meant fighting with a sword. (At that time, it was still very popular to use duels to solve problems, and the fighting technique of the swift sword became a required skill for nobles.) Of course, at the age of the middle school students at Orton Middle School, they were not strong enough to control a weapon like the Swift Sword, so they usually learned more about the small sword technique. As for the way the barbarians who fought with their bare hands, with their fists, nails and teeth, they knew nothing.

So once the fight starts, it is always them who suffer. Moreover, Napoleon's hand is very yin, and it hurts to beat people, but it does not leave any too obvious traces. And once the teacher came, Napoleon could always behave worse and more aggrieved than the one who was beaten.

As a result, everyone found that the Joseph brothers were not so fun, and even not only not fun, but also made them uncomfortable. So there were fewer people who took the initiative to provoke their brothers, but on the other hand, the two brothers were also isolated by his classmates. But neither Joseph nor Napoleon shrugged off this isolation.

"This is a bunch of guys who are destined to be abandoned by history. It's not worth investing even a little bit of energy in them. Thinking that such a guy would become the upper class of France in the future, I was visiting Toulon. The anxiety of seeing the warships melted away. What's more, you know, I don't stay in this school for too long.

Mr. Lufrey, who teaches mathematics, told me that the school could recommend a student this year to the Brienne Military Academy, a publicly-funded military academy where I was able to learn all kinds of military techniques. If Joseph doesn't compete with me, (Joseph, a high-minded fellow, yearns for the schools and universities of Paris, and he doesn't want to think about how old he is.) Moreover, how can our family afford a school like the University of Paris) I think I'm sure I'll get this place, because the other delicate, feminine children of the aristocracy don't even plan to study there. But I think that's the best school for me. This is what Napoleon said about his classmates at the Olecée Oton in a letter to his father published many years later.

As the letter says, Napoleon would not have been in school for too long at the Lycée Orton. Perhaps at the end of the spring, he will be transferred to the Brienne Military Academy. As for his brother Joseph, he was at this time, as Napoleon had said, thinking of the school of Louis the Great in Paris.

This school is the best secondary school in the whole of France, and more importantly, it has the highest scholarship in the whole of France for students who excel in their studies. These scholarships are fully sufficient to support all the normal study and living expenses of a student in Paris. For example, Robespierre, who would be a leader in the future, received a scholarship of 600 francs when he graduated from Louis the Great's school.