For the past few days, the city of Ajaccio has been raining and raining, and finally even the sea seems to be wet. The rain was incessant, thick and sticky, and it fell down from the heights of the sky that seemed to never dry up, towards the bay. The sea is like a gray, soft sponge, rising in a confused bay.

However, in the constant rain, the water surface does not seem to move; But in the distance there was an imperceptible, wide drum, which set off a hazy cloud of water vapor on the sea, and flooded towards the harbor surrounded by a wet forest. The city itself was also flooded with vapour, skimming over the water-drenched walls to meet the vapour of the sea. No matter which direction a person is heading, it seems that all he breathes is water, and the air can finally be drunk.

In the midst of the water, Joseph Bonaparte, the eldest of the Bonaparte family, was walking along the sandy beach of the coast towards the cliff jutting into the sea, holding an umbrella. The cliff was now dyed as blue and gray as the sea by the endless rain, and it jutted out like an arm into the bay. During the dry summer months in the Mediterranean, Joseph and his younger siblings often come here to fish from the rocks below the cliffs or to look for a variety of shell oysters. At this time, the second dwarf of their family would take a book alone and run to a small natural cave in the middle of the cliff to read it.

"But now, what about the rain? Did this unreassuring guy run into that cave again? Joseph muttered to himself as he walked toward the cliff.

The guy who doesn't make people feel at ease is his second brother, Napoleon Bonaparte, who is destined to leave a strong mark on history. However, at this time, His Majesty the Emperor, who will shock Europe in the future, is still just a headache at this time.

Of Joseph's seven younger siblings, Napoleon was the one that gave him the most headache. This guy may be ridiculed because he is always tall, so his personality is very eccentric. Even among his siblings, there are not many people who can get along well with him. And Napoleon, who was small, turned out to be a violent maniac. When he is ridiculed or has a conflict with someone for some other reason, he always prefers to resolve the dispute directly by violent means.

To be honest, Napoleon's body type is actually very unsuitable for such a way. Because theoretically speaking, fighting depends on strength, and strength is inseparable from body size. Otherwise, why should boxing matches be divided into heavyweight classes? Since size and strength alone were not enough, and Napoleon was keen to use violence to solve problems. As a result, the dwarf developed two sets of means to compensate for his lack of strength.

The first trick is to use unconventional means to attack weaknesses. For example, taking advantage of people's defense, biting with teeth, or attacking someone's vital point with their knees.

The second trick is "the wicked sue first". This trick is generally used against one's own brothers. Anyone who has a lot of brothers did not fight with his brothers when he was a child. Every time there was a fight, when Letizia, who was a mother, ran to stop it in a panic, she was the first to jump out and complain, and the one who would make a look of "I have been wronged so much" was Napoleon. And because Napoleon had already rehearsed how to pretend to be pitiful and how to deceive his mother many times before he did it, so every time he hit other brothers first, but in the end, other brothers were scolded by their mothers.

As a result, the brothers did not like Napoleon very much, but everyone was somewhat afraid of him and did not want to go against his will. There is only one exception, who is not only not afraid of Napoleon's set, but can often even dominate Napoleon. This man was Napoleon's eldest brother, Joseph. This is because on one occasion, Napoleon and Joseph had a conflict, and according to the previous practice, Napoleon made the first move, taking advantage of Joseph's defenselessness, and kicked Joseph in the stomach fiercely. Joseph, who was defenseless at the time, was kicked backwards and fell to the ground, the back of his head hit a sharp stone, and he immediately bled to the ground and fell unconscious. Little Napoleon was also completely frightened and panicked. I quickly called my mother......

Joseph fainted for two days before he woke up. When I woke up, not only did I not recognize my family, but I couldn't even speak. No, to be precise, he suddenly didn't speak the Corsican dialect (a kind of Italian), and when he opened his mouth it was a strange language that people couldn't understand, sounding a bit like English, but with a lot of differences. The family thought that he had fallen into an evil spirit, and that the devil had come up on him. (According to the relevant documents of Catholicism, suddenly speaking a language that no one can understand, which is a typical manifestation of the ghost body) If it weren't for Joseph's father Carlo being a nobleman, (although only a declining little nobleman), I am afraid that Joseph's end would be very tragic. Carlo invited Bishop Minière to perform an exorcism for Joseph.

The effect of the ritual was obvious, and after the ritual was completed, Joseph had not fully recovered - he still did not speak the Corsican dialect, and his memory had not recovered - but at least, he no longer spoke the strange, frightening, probably hellish language.

"The devil was cast out of him." "But just as a house is set on fire, although we have extinguished the fire, it is likely that all that remains is a ruin. When the devil takes possession of a person's body, it can cause the same or even more serious damage than a fire. Although the devil has been cast out now, it is very difficult to rebuild the house, and even whether the damage can be restored in the end depends on God's will. ”

"Amen!" Carlo, as well as Letizia and Joseph's younger siblings, said the same.

Carlo then donated thirty francs to the diocese (which was not a small amount of money in those days) and asked Bishop Minière to bring Joseph to the church for some restoration. After all, in a holy church, the damage caused by the devil should recover more quickly.

Obviously, Carlo's decision was quite wise. Joseph recovered fairly quickly in the church, and in less than three months he had regained how to speak and write Italian and even to use Latin, under the bishop's tutelage.

Bishop Minière was always fond of taking Joseph with him and telling everyone about him: "How wonderful is the will of God, you see, the devil has taken possession of this man's body. When I cast the devil out of his body in God's name, I saw nothing but a wilderness that had been burned by fire. But the light of God shone on him, and the sapling grew again in the wilderness, and the sapling grew rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, it was about to grow from a small sapling into a real tree. Praise the Almighty and All-Good God. In his view, Joseph's restoration was not only a manifestation of divine grace, but also, in a sense, an expression of his piety.

"Amen." The one who heard the same said, and at the same time stretched out his hand and drew a cross on his chest.

Convinced that Joseph had fully recovered, Bishop Minière asked Charles to take Joseph home. Everyone found that the kind Joseph they knew was back. It's just that he's much quieter than before, and he's obsessed with reading. I even started to teach myself French.

Letizia, a mother, was happy with this change in her son. She decided that it was God's grace that her son could be okay and that he could be so good. She offered a mass to show her gratitude to God. Because of this, if anyone came to her to tell her that Joseph was bad, she would not listen to her at all. Because this son of hers has already received the grace of God, how can he do evil?

Therefore, Napoleon's method of suing the wicked first was no longer useful in Joseph. If Napoleon tried to throw something bad on Joseph, Letizia would have reached out and twisted his ears and told him to go to the icon of the Virgin Mary and confess his mistake in slandering her brother.

The clever little Napoleon quickly discovered this, so he had to compromise and show respect to his eldest brother Joseph.

Of course, the change in Napoleon's attitude towards his eldest brother Joseph was not only due to the fact that the eldest brother now enjoys the unconditional trust of his mother. Also because the big brother is very different now and before. In the past, although the eldest brother had a generous personality, he was very stupid. Yes, it's stupid. Stupid as a goose.

But now, the eldest brother has completely changed, and his little caution has often just come out, and the eldest brother can see through it at a glance. It's just that although he saw through it, he didn't expose it, but he never stepped on the trap dug by Napoleon the Younger. In addition, the eldest brother became erudite, he read a lot of books and understood a lot of things. Napoleon had a lot of things he didn't understand, and he could ask his brother questions, and his brother could probably give convincing answers to his quirky questions.

Of course, there are many disliked changes in my brother, and one of the most disliked is that Joseph always likes to reach out and rub Napoleon's hair when answering Napoleon's questions, and he will come up with the phrase: "My stupid brother, this is the question, is it so......"

Today Napoleon is in trouble again, and he beats up the neighbor's child, Paul. The attack was too heavy, and he actually knocked people unconscious. (One of Napoleon's own lessons in fighting is that as long as you do it, don't hold back, you must dare to do it.) ）

Paul's father, Mr. Giovanni, was a friend of Carlo's, and he had only one such son. So as soon as he saw Paul faint, Napoleon immediately realized that his father might beat him up for this, so he ran away before everyone could react.