C3223 capriciousness of the human heart (1/2)

Whether Audrey would be happy or not later on was still uncertain, but in the one month after Xiang Ying left, Audrey's fate became exceptionally tragic.

Since ancient times money has always been attractive, not to mention a total of 80,000 francs!

What could eighty thousand francs do in this day and age? It is clear from the calculation of the gold standard that, in 1803, France introduced a gold and silver reinstated standard in which a single franc could be equivalent to 0.2903225 grams of gold.

Ten thousand francs would amount to twenty-nine hundred ducks of gold, and the purchasing power would be impressive.

In Paris at the time, a single franc was enough for an adult man to eat and sleep for a day and eat well.

Ten thousand francs would be enough to buy an apartment in Paris, and fifty thousand francs would be enough if you had to buy a villa in a patrician neighborhood.

This was Paris, where the real estate prices had inflated after the great reform of the French Emperor. Elsewhere in France, the provincial capital had also been bought with thousands of francs.

In Audrey's shitty village, eighty thousand francs was enough to buy all the land in the village, along with all the cheese workshops and olive oil workshops.

There was still a lot to be done, and there was no problem in buying three more wineries in the next village. From this, it could be seen how much the eighty thousand francs had been to Audrey's family.

Mother and father had long forgotten about their daughter's humiliation. They were obsessed with gold and spent all their time thinking about how to buy a business. They didn't even know where they would sneak to every night to bury the gold.

The complexion of the people in the village also gradually changed. People no longer loved each other like they usually did, and they were no longer simple and honest. The way they looked at Audrey's home was not right.

People kept whispering in the streets. Whenever they saw Audrey come out to play, they would shut their mouths like lightning and just look at her without saying a word.

Audrey didn't know why, but her grandmother Martha, who used to like to joke with him, would always stuff the sweetest cheese into her mouth when she saw her. But why did she stop talking today?

Grandpa Yue Sefu, who was raising horses, would pull out an apple for Audrey every time he moved, just like magic. However, when he saw her, he shook his head and walked away with a sigh.

Of course, there were also those who had grown up playing with her, and the boys who had chased after her dress. Each and every one of them looked at her with incomparable hatred.

The girls who were jealous of her, on the other hand, were watching her from afar, smiling mischievously as she chewed on her ear!

Everything was different now. Audrey's life had completely changed. Although there were many delicacies on her dining table that she had never seen before, they were tasteless and tasteless.

His father had brought him pearls from the bazaar, but they had lost their splendor.

It was not until one night, when Audrey woke up from her sleep, that he heard the argument between the village chief's grandfather and her father, who had agreed to pay ten thousand francs to build a road to the outside world, and to rebuild the mill and well in the village.

10,000 francs! What a large sum of money this was! Of course, his parents would not agree to this. There was a serious dispute between the two sides, and his father and the village chief were always bargaining.

It seemed that his father would only give him six thousand francs in the end, but the village chief's limit was eight thousand francs. In the end, he ended up breaking up, and his mother continued to cry on the ground.

Why was it like this? Audrey had never seen her kind and beautiful mother act so shrewd before. Why did she have to bite the Village Head's arm so hard in the end?

The world had changed. Audrey didn't understand it, and what made her even more confused was that the glass in her house had been shattered that night. Audrey saw with her own eyes that it was the Village Head's grandson, her playmate, Joey.

The legs are long and fast, the dream is to be a postman, Joey... The Joey who had courted her!

Audrey was curled up inside her blanket, sleepless the whole night. In his hand were two sapphire cuffs. At this moment, only these two gems gave her a sense of security.