Javier's house on Peacock Street is very interesting in that from the window on the second floor of the house, you can clearly see the people knocking on the door below, and the house has a back door that leads to another neighboring block.

At first, Javier chose such a residence, not only because the rent here was not high, but also to make it easier for his family to hide from the rebels who might come to take revenge; Now, Javier still lives here so that he can avoid his creditors. Since losing his job, Javier has not been able to find any other way to make money for a while. He has been a police officer for most of his life, and he doesn't know any other livelihood skills except for those skills of the police. And at his age, it is not easy to change careers and do something else. So during this time, in order to make ends meet, Javier borrowed a lot of debts. In order to pay off old debts, he borrowed a lot of new debts. Today, Javier is already heavily in debt.

In fact, Javier is not really without a way to make money. In the first half of his life, Javier has caught all kinds of criminals and seen all kinds of criminal methods. Therefore, if he wants to, he can completely use this method to get money for himself by sinning. Perhaps it is because of this that the loan sharks are willing to keep lending him money. It's just that Javier can't get past his own level. However, the lender is not in a hurry, because they believe that the pressure of life will naturally make him make a reasonable choice.

When Lucien and the others arrived at Javier's house and began to knock on the door, Javier was worried about whether he would degenerate into a criminal he had hated the most.

Lucien walked up the steps and gently tugged at the doorbell.

As soon as the doorbell rang, Javier jumped up from his chair like a spring, made a quiet gesture to his wife, who was chattering to him, and then walked to the window, lifted the curtain through a gap, and glanced down.

Below are three young men, the one in the middle is pulling the doorbell, looking at the clothes, it should be the son of a rich family who does not worry about food and clothing, and the two people next to him, at this time, their eyes are constantly scanning the surroundings, and they are trained guards. Such a person should not be a debt collector. But why such a person came here is a bit puzzling.

"Not a debt collector." Javier said to his wife.

"Not a debt collector?" When the wife heard that she was not here to collect debts, she brought up the topic again, "I'm really blind, how could I marry you in the first place, this useless thing, so that now, the children will still starve with you, and worry and fear with you!" You're ......."

Although when the wife and Javier got married, they both swore to God that they would love him, comfort him, respect him, and be faithful to him, whether they were poor or rich, sick or healthy. But as the proverb goes, "Oath is like a valley, and life is like a gale." Moreover, in today's France, God has stepped aside, so what is the oath in front of God's altar?

"Don't talk about that yet," Javier said, "open the door and see what they're doing with us." ”

"Do you want to take advantage of the opportunity? You always want to run away from problems! You say, if this family goes on like this, when will it be a head! When his wife heard this, she became even more angry.

"Okay, don't say it. Maybe it's just an opportunity? Javier said.

"Shit! Even if you have the opportunity, you can't catch it, ...... other day, "his wife is still unwilling to let him go."

"Okay, okay, Margaret, as long as people are willing to give me money, I'll do whatever I want!" Javier shouted angrily. At the same time, he strode out of the room, and then there was a clattering of footsteps on the wooden staircase outside.

Lucien waited below for a while, and the door slowly opened in front of him, and the old face of a middle-aged man with a sad face appeared in front of Lucien.

"Who are you looking for, gentleman?" The man asked.

"Is Mr. Javier here? I'm looking for Mr. Javier. Lucien took off his hat and replied very politely.

"I am." The man said, "Sir, I don't know you, you came to me ......"

"I am Lucien Bonaparte, and General Napoleon Bonaparte is my brother." Lucien replied.

"But...... But sir, I don't know General Napoleon Bonaparte either. Javier was a little surprised. The name Napoleon, which he had seen in the press and knew that this was one of the most brilliant young generals in France, was a big man in relation to him. He had no idea that the younger brother of such a big man would suddenly find him.

"I heard from General Kano about you. Why aren't you going to invite me into the house to talk? Lucien said.

If Napoleon's name is to be spoken, Javier has only seen it in the newspapers, and it seems that Javier is still far away; General Nakano is a big man that Javier knows very well. Javier knew that General Cano had been a big man since the constitutional era. Since the beginning of the republican era, he has always been a figure in the core of power. He has served in the "National Salvation Committee" for a long time, and even now, it seems that his status is not as good as before Thermidor, but compared to people like Javier, even compared to Javier when he was still a sheriff, he is a figure above the clouds.

Javier's heart was beating a drum, but he didn't dare to turn away such a nobleman. So he stepped aside, made a gesture of inviting in, and said, "This honorable gentleman, please come in." ”

Lucien followed Javier into the house, and followed him up a dark, steep wooden staircase to the second floor, where he entered a living room of about seventeen or eighteen square meters.

"Mathilde, there's a guest, go pour some water." Javier approached his wife as he spoke, then lowered his voice and said, "This is a big man, a friend of General Kano. ”

Mathilde, who also knew who "General Carno" was, was taken aback when he heard this, and hurried out to pour water.

"Mr. Javier, we came to you because we liked your work experience over the years and wanted to hire you." Lucien carefully observed his surroundings on the way up, and coupled with the impression he had when he first saw Javier, he knew that Javier's current life situation was quite bad.

Lucien knew that people like Javier, known as the crime buster, were very familiar with all kinds of criminal techniques. Such a person, as long as he is willing to abandon his own standards of right and wrong, can become a terrible criminal almost immediately. Such a person will be in trouble in life, and that can only show one thing, that is, he is a person who has principles and can stick to them. So he spoke:

"Mr. Javier, you can rest assured that what we need you to do is legal and ethical. I know how great you used to be as a sheriff. You are a crime buster, and you have protected countless ordinary citizens. You are well aware of the tricks of all kinds of criminals. So, even if you are politically persecuted, if you are really a bad person with no bottom line, you will not be so poor now. Those criminal tricks are enough for you and your family to live without worrying about food and drink.

My elder brother, General Joseph Bonaparte, once told me the famous words of a philosopher named Mencius in China in the East, who said: 'A great man, when he is rich, does not indulge his desires; In times of poverty, he does not violate his morals; In the face of threats of violence, he will not bow his noble head. Now it seems that you have such great qualities. ”

These words made Javier's tears welled up at once. In his heart, thoughts similar to "the parents who gave birth to me, and the Lucien who knows me" suddenly welled up. He quickly wiped it on his face and asked, "Thank you, Monsieur Bonaparte, thank you!" Can you tell me what exactly I need to do? ”

"Ah, that's it......" replied Lucien.

Lucien told Javier that his brother had presided over the Military Research Institute. The institute studied a variety of military techniques that had brought France many glorious victories. However, after Thermidor, just as the police force in Paris was greatly damaged, the army institute was also destroyed, a large amount of sensitive technology was lost, and the technological superiority of the French army over foreign armies disappeared completely.

But General Carnot, as well as his elder brother, General Joseph Bonaparte, did not give up, and with their own money, they rebuilt the institute and continued to begin research in order to allow the French army to regain its technological superiority. And their research institute is coveted by foreign spies and the traitors they have bribed, so they now need special personnel to protect the secrets of the French army.

In addition to this, outside of France, the Polish people were fighting to the death against the invaders who had also invaded France. To support them in their struggle is to support the struggle in France; Their victory is the victory of France. Now their struggle has been temporarily thwarted, and some of them have been hunted down by the police forces of those countries. So France also needed to train them and improve their ability to fight the police in Austria, Prussia, and Tsarist Russia.

After saying this, Lucien concluded: "Now that I have made my purpose clear. Mr. Javier, would you like to join us in the struggle for France? ”

"I do!" Javier immediately stood up and replied.

"Well, from today onwards, you will be our comrade!" Lucien also stood up and shook Javier's hand, "Your salary will be calculated from today, according to the standard you had when you were a sheriff. ”

Speaking of this, Lucien looked around again and said, "Also, Mr. Javier, you can advance a few months' salary......"

After talking about these things, Lucien told Javier that he had to hurry to find Henry Durand in order to find Manielle and the others.

When Javier heard this, he also stood up, picked up his old hat and coat from the hanger behind the door, and said, "Monsieur Bonaparte, please let me go with you, I know where to find them, and I know how to convince them, please let me go with you!" ”

"It would be great to have your help." Lucien also said.

"That's as it should be, isn't it?" Javier said, "After all, I have just accepted your employment and received three months' salary advance from you. In addition, there is some chaos in the place where they are, and it is relatively safer for me to take you there. ”

After saying this, he turned again and said to his wife, who was standing aside, "Mathilde, take care of the children and put the check away. Wait for me to come back. Also, I may come back a little later, so you don't have to wait for me to eat. ”

"Well, okay, be careful yourself." Mathilde replied. The husband's ability to earn money is restored, and the wife's respect and concern for her husband is restored as well.

Javier nodded, turned around, put on his hat and coat, and then picked up a baton in his hand, and then smiled at Lucien: "Monsieur Bonaparte, please let me show you the way." ”

With Javier's help, the efficiency behind is naturally much higher, and in just one day, Javier led them to find more than half of the people on the list. Most of these people are not in a good situation today, and of course, not everyone can do as Mencius said, without violating their morals when they are poor. Some of them have already gone down the path of crime.

But Lucien still let them in. He said to Javier, who was a little puzzled: "Most human beings are very weak, and it is very difficult to keep them from making mistakes. It's not terrible to make mistakes, as long as you can truly repent. In fact, aren't these people all good people? It's only because of the oppression of life that I went the wrong way. If no one comes to pull them along, aren't they going to go further and further down the wrong path? By inviting them now, are we giving them a chance to mend their ways? Is there anyone who refuses to lend a helping hand when they see him sliding down into the abyss? Shouldn't we reach out to them at this time? You see, after receiving our help, which of them did not immediately abandon the wrong path of the past and follow us? Isn't the reason why we need to work hard to get more people on the right path? ”