Chapter 109 Forty-two Landlord's Discovery

Jean Valjean was so cautious that he never went out during the day.Every afternoon, at dusk, he went out for a stroll for an hour or two, sometimes alone or often with Cosette, always looking for the most secluded alleys beside the main road, or when it was getting dark. Step into the chapel.He often went to St. Mita Church, which was the nearest house of worship.When he went out without Cosette, Cosette stayed with the grandmother, but the boy liked to go out with the old man best.She felt that even the company of Catherine would be more interesting than spending an hour with him.He held her hand and talked with her about some happy things as he walked.

Cosette sometimes played happily. Granny does housework, cooks, and does shopping. They lived frugally, and there was always a little fire in the stove, but they always lived like poor people.The furniture of the first day had never been changed by Jean Valjean, but the glass door of Cosette's room had been replaced by a wooden one. He was always dressed in the yellow coat, black shorts and old hat.The neighbors also regard him as a poor man.Sometimes he would meet soft-hearted women who would turn to him and give him a sou.Jean Valjean accepted the sou with a deep bow.Sometimes, he would meet some beggars begging for money. At this time, he would look back to see if anyone was looking at him, then sneak up to the poor man, put some money in his hand, and it was usually a silver coin, and then hurried away open.There is something wrong with this move.People in the surrounding area began to call him "the money-giver".

The old "second landlord" was a narrow-minded person who wanted to take advantage of everyone he met. He paid great attention to Jean Valjean, but Jean Valjean was not on his guard.She is a little deaf, so she talks a lot.She has only two teeth left in her life, one is on the top and the other is on the bottom. She always likes to let these two teeth catch each other.She asked Cosette too many good things, but Cosette knew nothing and could answer nothing, except that she came from Montfermeil.One morning, the prying old woman saw Jean Valjean go into an unoccupied room of the ruined house, and it seemed to her that there was something peculiar about him.Like an old cat, she followed up on tiptoe, peering through the open door, she could see him but not be seen by him.Jean Valjean, who must have taken notice, turned his back to the door.The old woman saw him take out a small needle box, a pair of scissors, and a strand of cotton thread from his pocket. Then he opened a small opening in the corner of the coat he was wearing, took out a yellowed banknote, and opened it. come and see.The grandmother was astonished. It was a thousand-franc note.It was the second or third she had seen in her life.She was dumbfounded with fright and ran away.

A little later, Jean Valjean came to her and asked her to change the thousand-franc note for him, saying that it was the quarterly interest he had taken yesterday. "Where did you get it from?" the old woman thought to herself. "He went out at six o'clock in the afternoon, and the National Bank was not necessarily open at that time."After the exaggeration of this thousand-franc note, it caused a lot of horrible rumors among the three aunts and six women in the Rue Saint-Marcel Vineyard. A few days later, Jean Valjean happened to be sawing wood in the passage in his jacket.The old granny is cleaning his house.She was alone in it, and Cosette was fascinated by the sawing of the wood, when the old grandmother saw the coat hanging on the nails, and went to peek, the coat had been re-sewn inside.The old woman pinched it carefully for a while, and felt that there were layers of paper on the corners and underarms of the coat.They must all be thousand-franc notes!

In addition, she noticed that there were all kinds of things in her pockets, not only needles, thread, and scissors, all of which she had seen before, but also a large wallet, a very long knife, There was also something suspicious: several wigs of different colors.Each pocket of the coat contains a set of items for different contingencies. The residents living in this dilapidated house have reached the end of winter in this way.