Chapter 42 wardrobe

This is a common wardrobe used by farmhouses in the Louis XV period. I bought it from an antique dealer in the sixth arrondissement. pen royalties.This wardrobe had been in my house for almost ten years, when--one night--I, like many women, sorted out my clothes and that sort of thing--I can't remember why now, I put the wardrobe away. Pull out a drawer and put it on the floor.A piece of clothing fell out of the shadows. It turned out that the clothing was caught between the wardrobe drawer and the wardrobe wall and fell out from here.The white of the clothes has turned yellow and is still shiny. There are patches of light red spots on it, which are as crumpled as a piece of crumpled paper.It was a peasant woman's caraco, a woman's underwear, with ruffles around the neck and a little lace trim.It is made of the finest fine cloth.This dress has been left in that place by the previous owners of the wardrobe and has not been found.It has been moved and changed owners many times, and the drawers have not been pulled out to take a look.Let me say it aloud: it was 1720.Those red and light spots are blood from the last few days of your period.This caraco was presumably washed and put in a closet drawer, where it was carefully laundered and came out clean, but the stains were still there, unless it was rinsed with heavy alkali in the past.Where there is a stain, it is the same color as the blood stain left after washing.The caraco smelled of waxed wood.That drawer must have been filled too full, and Caraco was put on the floating surface again, slid out and got stuck on the edge of the drawer, and then it was screwed into the gap and clamped on the dead corner of the cabinet wall.It stayed there for two hundred years.On this surface, year after month, time goes back and forth, as if the embroidery has been carved so gracefully and beautifully by the years.For such an object, to understand it, the first thing that people think of is "what is she pursuing with all her heart".Time passed day after day, and it disappeared without a trace. It is impossible...

①The Latin Quarter of Paris. ②The first sentence of this article says that the wardrobe belongs to the period of Louis XV, and the king reigned from 1715 to 1774.