Life is precious, love is more expensive, if it is free, both can be thrown away. But how many people have lost their freedom in order to live, and how many people have been imprisoned for love? If there is no capacity and capital, you cannot say no to anything, you can only accept it, otherwise you will be punished.
There is such a young girl who lost her freedom and even almost lost her life for love. In the end, only his own mutilated body remained. What is even more heart-wrenching is that this inhuman torture and suffering comes from the people closest to him. Since the ancient house, there are many troubles, and the foreign giants are no exception, her youth began at the age of 25 and ended at the age of 25.
First, the rich and noble women
France in 1949 was harmonious and beautiful, and everything was revived. In the city of Poitiers, the Monnier family ushered in a small life. A little girl was born, and her father named her Blanche, which means a beautiful future, and hopes that her life will be complete and beautiful.
Born of a rich family, naturally get more than the children of ordinary people. A good family, a good education, a rich life, and happiness that ordinary people can't imagine. But the pay is also much more than the children of ordinary people, solemn tutoring rules, strict etiquette rules, all aspects of cultural education and art education, after all, the children of large families must be outstanding from ordinary families.
His father was the head of a well-known academy, his mother was the daughter of a local nobleman, and he had an older brother who was born in Rome, and this kind of life is indeed the envy of many people.
Second, gorgeous gold wire cage
A good family, a magnificent life, but Blanche is not happy. Her mother, Madame Monnier, was a very face-loving and strict person, very strict with Blanche, and made many rules for her. You can't fall in love early, you can't sleep late, you have to study regularly.
Because the tutoring is too strict, Blanche often feels panicked and anxious, weak and cautious, and her mother's loud voice can make her frightened. She also complained to her father, who was a busy man who paid little attention to the family's affairs and dismissed Blanche with a sentence of "abide by the family rules". At that time, little Blanche must have been very aggrieved and desperate.
As Blanche grew older, her mother's control intensified, restricting her from making friends and giving her more rules, and Blanche was even forced out of anxiety. Blanche also protested with hunger strikes, even if she had anorexia, her mother did not relax a little about her "education", in her eyes, Blanche was just a tool at her mercy.
Third, the beginning of the nightmare
Bad news ensued, and Blanche's father had died. There is a father, and the mother is still a little restrained. When his father left, the depth of Blanche's life was added to the heat. Her mother inherited the family property, and in order to maintain the prestige of her family, she began to ask Blanche not to have a boyfriend casually, but only to associate with the nobility, hoping to consolidate her position through Blanche's marriage.
Her mother often brought her to social gatherings, attending high-society gatherings, and looking for her sons of various famous nobles. Blanche was very disgusted by Madame Monnier's practice, and even had the idea of taking his own life at one point. Blanche, on the other hand, grew up to be in his 20s and never went out on his own.
Fourth, the youth of 25 years old begins and ends
At the age of 25, Blanche met the light of her life, Benjamin, a nearly 40-year-old lawyer on the verge of bankruptcy.
One day, she finally caught the opportunity to sneak out quietly, she was like a bird flying out of the cage, happily shuttling through the streets. Suddenly, she slipped and almost fell, but fortunately a pair of hands supported her in time, and the owner of these hands was Benjamin. Look up, look at each other, probably a glance of ten thousand years is this feeling. Benjamin is mature, handsome, and gentle, and Blanche is deeply attracted to Benjamin, but Benjamin also fell in love with Blanche at first sight.
Since then, Blanche has often sneaked out to date Benjamin, and even though the status and age of the two are very different, the two are still desperate to fall in love. Blanche's petty act of love is soon discovered by Madame Monnier, and under her strict questioning, Blanche has to admit her relationship with Benjamin. Unsurprisingly, Madame Monnier was opposed, she had already planned to send Blanche to an aristocratic marriage, and how could she agree to be with an old man who had no money, no power and was about to go bankrupt.
This time, Blanche did not compromise and genuinely rebelled against Madame Monnier for the first time.
At the age of 25, Blanche was the happiest time of her life, and Benjamin shone into her life like a beam of light. Her youth seemed to have become active all these years, but unfortunately it was only a flash in the pan, and soon, her youth was over, and her life fell into a darker abyss.
Fifth, life in the attic
Because Blanche did not listen to Madame Monnier's advice and did not want to be separated from Benjamin, she was imprisoned in the attic. Blanche thought that as long as she insisted on her mother, she would be soft-hearted, so she resisted death and disobeyed. Only for so many years, she still overestimated her position in her mother's heart, and also underestimated her mother's fierceness. Mrs. Monnier also thought that Blanche would give up resistance as long as she was locked up for a while, and agreed to be separated from Benjamin, apparently Mrs. Monnier also underestimated Blanche's determination.
A month later, Blanche still did not let go, and Madame Monnier made a cruel move, ordering the servants to cover the attic with a black cloth, and blanche's world was completely plunged into darkness. Gradually, whimpering and shouting were often heard in the attic, and no matter how much she roared and slammed the door, Madame Monnier never opened the door, in order to block the mouth of the neighbors, and even claimed that Blanche was insane. Later, he directly announced that his daughter was missing, and finally he was mad to do a funeral for his daughter. Her daughter was locked up in the attic by herself without seeing the light of day, and she actually handled her funeral downstairs, which was simply deafening and creepy.
This level is 25 years, and Blanche's life is inseparable from the number of 25.
One day in 1901, the office of the Attorney General of Paris received an anonymous whistleblower letter saying that Madame Monnier had imprisoned a woman in her home who had lived for the past 25 years in the litter of rotting garbage and her own excrement, hoping to save her.
The people who saw the letter were shocked, because Madame Monnier was a well-known local nobleman, a philanthropist who was passionate about philanthropy, and had been praised by the government. It's hard to believe, but since you've received the complaint, you still have to go and see it.
It was an unusual day, the sirens sounded to wake up the sleeping morning, and the police car stopped in front of Monière's villa. Finally, they discovered the secret of the attic. Even with warnings in mind, the moment the room was opened, the crowd was shocked. A room full of garbage, food that beggars don't eat, excrement that can't get off their feet, a disgusting stench, a skinny, bony woman who couldn't tell whether it was a human or a skeleton, lying naked on a broken blanket, looking at them in horror.
After a long period of solitude and depression, Blanche has lost his language ability and his IQ has dropped to the same level as that of a child. Seeing the sun for the first time in 25 years, I was so frightened that I shrank into a tattered blanket and hid. Eventually Blanche was taken to the hospital, and slowly Blanche regained his language skills and intellect. But even though she was delirious, she remembered the morning of that encounter 25 years ago. Her Benjamin, on the other hand, had been looking for her and died of depression ten years later.
Blanche thus spent his last twelve years in a nursing home. When the matter was exposed, the whole town was stunned, and the well-known philanthropist of the rich and noble was actually an old woman with a snake and scorpion heart. Madame Monnier was also arrested, but in just 15 days she died of a heart attack, is this retribution, but she did not receive the punishment she deserved. And her accomplice, Blanche's brother, was not punished for lack of evidence. At this point, Blanche's suffering ended in this way.
6. Summary
Li Shi said in the strange story that as long as we live selfishly and do not hurt others, the world can function normally, but many people do not understand and cannot do it. The most painful wounds do not come from the outside world, but from the people closest to us, and I hope that we can all be gentle with those around us.