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To be honest, Andre has never been to the Moulin Rouge, although he has long admired the name of this place. But the heavy academic pressure made him breathless. Although the teacher didn't assign them homework this Sunday, Andre still didn't dare to relax, because the midterm exam would soon be held.

The examination of electrical engineering subjects is not the same as that of art. It is said that in the last class before the art exams, some teachers will say to the students: "Ah, gentlemen, we have to take a damn exam according to the school's requirements. Damn... ah, the school requires the whole Each test paper adopts a hundred-point system, and there must be no less than two questions. Well, tell me, which two questions shall we test?"

So the students yelled about the content of the exam, and the teacher smiled and invited a certain classmate to the blackboard and asked him to record the questions everyone mentioned. Then naturally, the whole class voted democratically. After the voting results came out, the teacher began to talk about the two selected questions, and then everyone prepared for a few days before the exam.

After the exam, the test papers were put away, and the teacher rolled all the test papers into a paper tube, and put a piece of white paper on the outside, wrote "all 100" on the white paper, and threw it to the Academic Affairs Office, and then the exam was over. it's over.

But this is not the case for "electrical engineering". A few days before the exam, the teacher has already told everyone: "We have two big questions in this exam, and each question is worth 50 points. If you miss one, you will fail. Then you can consider switching to other majors, we don’t need idiots here!”

As for talking about democratic voting and so on, it is even more unnecessary to think about it. Compared with the teachers of art majors, the teachers of engineering majors are all killers. Some guys can make one-half or more people make up the exam or even retake it every year. Electrical engineering is a newly opened subject, and it is unclear what will happen, but it is said that some of the previously popular majors will be kicked out every year. Andre feels that no matter what, electrical engineering is certainly no exception. If you don’t pay attention during the exam and get a zero score (two big questions, if the result is wrong, no process points will be given; if the result is right, process points will be deducted-it’s really easy to get zero points), that’s terrible. It's really dangerous...

"Anatole, we will have exams soon... You know, our subjects are different from yours..." Andrey said.

"Come on, let the exam go to hell! Andre, tell me, which one of you was the first to walk into the classroom last time?"

I don’t know when, some science and engineering departments of the University of Paris have become popular. Two bad habits, one is to give students a fixed number, but you have to sit in the seat with your own number in whichever classroom you are in. It is said that this is to be able to clearly monitor who is absent from class, so as not to be deceived by those who answer for them.

As for another bad habit, every time a test is taken, the seat number of the student is changed. The rule is this, everyone is waiting outside the classroom door, waiting for the teaching assistant to roll their names in order of test scores from high to low. The students who get the first place in the test can enter the classroom first, and choose a position that makes them feel comfortable, and then the assistant teacher registers a new number. Then came the second place... and for the students who ranked lower, this was almost a public execution, and at this time, if they chose to skip classes, they would definitely be expelled and their tuition fees would not be refunded!

"Fifth." Andre replied.

"Look, you are still far away from danger!" Anatole said indifferently, "Just go and take a look, it won't take much time. You can't bury yourself in the library, classrooms and In the laboratory. It’s good to have a look once in a while. Otherwise, one day when you go back to Petersburg, your sister asks you: ‘Brother, what is Paris like?’ Did you tell her ‘Paris’? Ah, a library with lots of classrooms, lots of books, too few seats, and various laboratories'?"

"No matter how I introduce Paris to my sister, I will never introduce places like the Moulin Rouge to her." Andre replied.

But having said that, in fact, Andre was really curious about "Moulin Rouge". In fact, as a young man, if he's not interested in "Moulin Rouge" at all, there must be something very seriously wrong with him.

So Andre decided to go to the "Moulin Rouge" with Anatole to see it, of course, just to see it, anyway, he will come back the next afternoon, and then go to the library to read.

Of course, "Moulin Rouge is the most fun place at night. So, now that we have decided to see it, Andre and Anatole immediately acted and boarded a car together to go to Horse-drawn carriages in Montmartre.

Nowadays, the business in the Montmartre area is very good, which can be seen from the large number of carriages going to Montmartre. In fact, this time is the busiest time for the Moulin Rouge, but it is also the busiest time for the road leading to the Moulin Rouge, because there are too many vehicles and there are often traffic jams, so that everyone said that the road is too narrow It's not enough.

After conducting many investigations in person, Minister Lucien discovered a very obvious feature of the road traffic leading to the Montmartre Heights-every afternoon, there will be a large number of vehicles going to Montmartre from all directions. And there are very few vehicles traveling from Montmartre to other areas. Instead, in the morning and mid-morning, most of the time, there are only vehicles returning from Montmartre to other areas.

So Minister Lucien creatively proposed the measure of time-limited one-way traffic. Most of the roads leading to Montmartre are now so-called "one-way lanes". That is to say, in the afternoon until evening, vehicles on these roads are only allowed to travel in the direction of Montmartre, while in the morning and morning, vehicles are only allowed to travel in other directions from the direction of Montmartre.

Even so, André and Anatole did not reach Montmartre until it was almost dark.

The two got off at the Montmartre station, from which the iconic red windmill of the Moulin Rouge could already be seen from a distance. The sunset is putting her last rosy glow on the red windmill of the Moulin Rouge.

It was quite dark on the road, and the city staff were lighting the gas lamps on the side of the road one by one. Although it was already night, the streets became more and more lively. All kinds of lights are hung at the door of every shop, which makes people dazzled.

Anatole smiled all over his face. He pulled Andrei and said to him: "Our friends, have you never seen such a night? You will never see such a scene in Petersburg."

"Yes, Petersburg is not so prosperous, and at this time, people can freeze to death on the streets of Petersburg." Andre also laughed.

"There are quite a few friends today, and they all made an appointment to gather here." Anatole said again.

The two passed through the bustling crowd and walked towards the red windmill. Along the way, Andre noticed that there were almost everywhere policemen patrolling on horseback.

"Why are there so many policemen here?" Andre asked, frowning.

"Of course, what kind of people come here to play every night? Of course they are all rich people! And when is it the most lively place? It is the most lively at night. If there are not enough police here, then the streets will be full of pickpockets ?” Anatole asked.

The two of them were talking, and they gradually walked to the door of the Moulin Rouge. A luxurious carriage passed them from behind and drove directly into the parking lot of the Moulin Rouge.

In order to ensure traffic, ordinary public carriages can only stop at the station. Only some wealthy people who are willing to pay a special fee can drive directly to the entrance of the Moulin Rouge. There is a dedicated car park for private carriages. This parking lot charges a lot, and you have to make an appointment in advance. Most people can’t get a parking space at all, so that, in Paris, being able to get a parking space in the Moulin Rouge parking lot has become a symbol of status. And there is also a legend that the No. 1 parking space at the Moulin Rouge is exclusively for a certain big man.

However, none of this has much to do with Andre and the others. After all, most of the Russian students studying abroad will eventually go back to China, because they are all nobles.

Anatole is a frequent visitor to the Moulin Rouge, and he took Andre into the Moulin Rouge skillfully. The show hasn't started yet, but the hall of the Moulin Rouge is already full of people.

Anatole led Andre into a box, where several young men and women were already sitting on the big sofa.

Before the performance started, Anatole took advantage of this opportunity to introduce Andre to these young people, and introduced these friends to Andre.

As Andrei imagined, Anatole's friends are basically art students, and most of them are very talkative. Everyone is more outgoing than Andre. Several people are young people, and there is good wine here, and there are beauties who accompany to adjust the atmosphere, so everyone quickly became friends.

After a few sips of wine, everyone talked a lot, and soon the topic changed from how good Paris is to complaining about Russia's backwardness and dullness, and then how to change Russia so that Russia can become a country like France. same great country.

"It's hard." Andre shook his head. "What you see is only the prosperity on the surface, but underneath it is another amazing power—the power of industry. All French policies are working hard to promote industry. So they cleaned out everything that hindered industry, and in Russia there is a lot of that."

"Andrei, you are right! Well, we are all children of Russia, and we have the responsibility to change everything. We have a group called 'Salvation Council', would you like to join?" asked the big husband.