[Pride and Prejudice] Mrs Bennett

The family that Grace belonged to before crossing is not considered a noble family, but the scholarly family can be regarded as anything.When she was a child, her parents were busy with work, and she was brought up by her grandfather and grandmother... no, it should be said that she was raised by her grandmother.

Her grandmother was born in a Suzhou embroidery family, and Grace had to learn from her a lot of skills that modern women don't need to learn from her.Outside of school, she needs to follow her grandmother to learn piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, female celebrity, tea ceremony, manners, and cooking skills.

Grace was afraid of the serious grandfather when she was a child, so she obediently followed her grandmother to learn. It wasn't until junior high school that she realized that what her grandmother asked her to learn was of no use at all!These are obviously what the ladies in ancient times need to learn, why does she, a modern girl, need to learn these?

By the time she realized it, it was already too late, and her grandmother's more than ten years of education as a lady had been completely integrated into her flesh and blood.Even though she left the Jiangnan family's old house in high school and returned to her parents, the unique Chinese classical charm has been engraved on her body.

Fortunately, Grace did not completely incompatible with modern life because of these. On the contrary, what she learned gave her a lot of help.It is also because of my grandfather's suggestion that I take literature and history as electives in college. These two can cultivate her sentiment and increase her knowledge.Her family doesn't need her to worry about money. Even if she is not a top rich man, it is easy to keep her rich and worry-free all her life, so she doesn't need to be so targeted in her studies.

It's just that no one would have imagined that disasters are always so sudden when they strike.

In just that moment, she became an orphan.

Because they wanted to celebrate her 20th birthday, the four elders of the family flew to the city where her university was located, but the plane crashed.

Real life is not a bloody life, so she has no vicious relatives fighting for property, and she is not involved in any lawsuits.She is the only one left in the family, and the inheritance will naturally be inherited by her.The pain of losing a loved one will also be healed by time. At most, she just feels lonely and has no sense of belonging, but she doesn't have any thoughts of committing suicide.

There is no financial pressure, but after graduation, she doesn't want to stay in that big house alone.She randomly found a job and started from the bottom.When she climbed to the top of the company a few years later, she found that she was empty again.

She started to fall in love and wanted a home that belonged to her, but she still couldn't find the right person.

In the end, she turned into an older leftover woman, but after falling asleep, she woke up inexplicably and turned into Grace, an English girl at the end of the [-]th century.

Although he still couldn't let go of the property and the old house left before crossing, Grace finally accepted this reality.There was nothing worthy of her concern in that world, but in this world, there was a father and elder brother who loved her, and a lovely younger sister.

Here, in fact, is more suitable for her than modern times.

Since God let her come here and arranged for her a husband, she will definitely take care of it and live hard and happily.

Roughly finished visiting the farm, it was almost time for lunch.When she saw the two-wheeled carriage with carriages parked in front of the two of them, Grace glanced at Mr. Bennett standing beside her with a half-smile, and sat on it with his support.

The deep meaning in Grace's smiling eyes made Mr. Bennett's ears turn red, and he sat up and said, "When we were going out in the morning, Sir William borrowed the family carriage to pick you up in Meryton. His family, so..."

"I didn't say anything, did I, Cecil." Withholding his gaze from him, Grace turned to look out the car window.Some things, everyone knows it well.Still, Mr. Bennett was lovely in his embarrassment.

The carriage became quiet, and the early summer sun shone through the window to warm the body. The coachman tried his best to drive on a relatively flat road under Mr. Bennett's instructions, but slight bumps and shakes were still unavoidable.

Horse-drawn carriages now use rubber tires. When did pneumatic tires appear? It seems that they only appeared in Scotland in [-]?It has been a while since the industrial revolution started, and the cost of making springs seems to be relatively low now, maybe it can be considered to install them on the bottom of the carriage for shock absorption?

Thinking about these questions, Grace gradually became dazed, and finally closed his eyes.I got up early yesterday to attend the wedding, and then I drove all afternoon. Mr. Bennett almost tossed her on the wedding night for most of the night.Mr. Bennett was very satisfied and looked refreshed, but she got up early and followed him to the farm for a morning stroll after not having a good rest, and she really couldn't hold it anymore.

The sudden weight on his shoulders caused Mr. Bennett to turn his head, and it turned out that his little wife had fallen asleep on his shoulders.The slender fingers gently caressed her light blue eyes, she was really tired these two days.He raised his hand to pull her into his arms, and after adjusting a posture that made her lean more comfortably, he ordered the coachman to drive more slowly.

The housekeeper's wife was in charge of lunch, so they didn't have to hurry back and let his Grace take a rest.Mr. Bennett looked at the girl in his arms with a touch of pity in his eyes. This is his wife, the wife who will spend his life with him.

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When Grace woke up, she was lying on her marriage bed with Mr. Bennett.After sitting up and seeing the nice nightgown she was wearing, she couldn't help but covered her face and let out a low groan.Two days after marrying into Bennett's house, she actually fell asleep in the carriage twice and was carried directly to this bed.

"Are you awake?" Mr. Bennett opened the door and came in and saw the annoyed expression on his wife's face sitting on the bed. The cute look made him unable to help but deepen the smile on his face, "You missed our sumptuous lunch, My dear Grace."

"I'm so sorry, Cecil." Grace really blushed this time.If it was a modern marriage, it would be fine for her to do so, but the problem is now in England at the end of the [-]th century, her behavior is really too rude.

"This is our home, Grace, I think you need to relax and don't think so much." He raised his hand and stroked her head, and he could not put it down because of the smooth touch of the pale golden hair, "Have you rested yet? "

"Yeah." Grace nodded shyly. Sufficient sleep made her feel good, and Mr. Bennett's words made her feel even better.

This is their home, and she has a home again.

"Do you want the maid to bring you dinner, or do you pack up and change your clothes and go downstairs to eat?" Mr. Bennett's words made Grace realize that night had fallen, and the light source in the room came from candlelight.

"It's so late again." Grace lifted the cup and got out of bed, "Go downstairs and eat, wait for me to clean up a little."

"Waiting for a lady is what a gentleman should do." Mr. Bennet bent down and saluted Grace, causing her to squint.

Ten minutes later, Grace took Mr. Bennett's hand and walked down the stairs to the dining room. The dishes for dinner were still the same foods that often appeared on the English table. When he saw the salt and Pepper, she frowned slightly.

"You will be in charge of the menu at home from now on, Grace." Mr. Bennet patted her hand afraid of her, opened the dining chair for her to sit down and spread the napkin for her before sitting down beside her, "Well, I'm not very picky about food." Smiling at her, he clapped his hands and motioned for the maid to come forward to serve them dishes, "Before this part of the house was mainly in charge of by the hostess, part of it was me, and the other part was both. The housekeeper's wife is in charge."

Glancing at the overweight housekeeper's wife standing by the side of the restaurant, Grace nodded.It is not so easy to be a hostess, and to make the subordinates do well what she ordered, it also requires means.As for the housekeeper's wife, although she looks very kind and close, she still can't tell what she is actually like, and everything will be known only after she gets along with her.

After the meal began, neither of them spoke much.The intimacy in the morning can be said to be due to the fact that the two are newly married, so they can't help it. If the dinner continues like that, the servants waiting by the side will be angry and look down on the meaning of the two masters.

Although the Bennett family is just a squire, it is also a well-bred family. The husband and wife have a good relationship, but they can't be too close to the outside world, which is unseemly.

After dinner, the two sat in the living room to chat, and Mr. Bennett asked the maid to bring a pot of black tea.

"Tomorrow's ceremony will be held on the grass outside the mansion. The menu and everything are ready. Would you like to take a look?" Mr. Bennett looked at his wife with admiration and appreciation in his black eyes.Grace leaned lazily on the sofa holding a teacup, not only did not give people a frivolous feeling, but instead had a sense of elegance.

"No need, I just got married, and I don't know much about Lumbornha, so it would be fine if something goes wrong." Grace sipped the black tea with a lot of milk and sugar in his hand.It's not etiquette to drink black tea like this, but Mr. Bennett just doesn't care, she likes the taste quite a bit.

London is not far from Langborn, but after all, one is a city and the other is a country, so there are still quite a few different living habits.Grace has the memory of the owner's previous life, and knows what needs to be paid attention to when hosting a banquet in London, but not in Longborn.

"Alright." The curve of Mr. Bennet's lips was very charming, and he found that one of his wife's was a little bit.She is a lady who knows the general situation, and she will not do anything out of proportion in order to rush to seize the housekeeping power.

"Is there any guest that needs my special attention, Cecil?"

Mr. Bennett turned his head and thought for a while, and finally said: "If there is anything to be said, there is only Sir Lucas's family."

"Sir Lucas?" Grace frowned. She felt that the name was a little familiar, just like the familiarity that Longborn and Bennett had brought to her.

"He was lucky enough to do business and made a small fortune, and then he became the mayor. When he was the mayor, he wrote a letter to His Majesty the King and was appreciated by His Majesty, thus becoming a decent knight. Then he came to Longbourne to buy a piece of land ’” Mr. Bennet raised his eyebrows.

Sir Lucas' experience made him a little more confident in realizing his wish, although his goal was much higher than Sir Lucas'.He wants a decent life and a high status.

This experience also sounded familiar, and Grace's eyes flashed.However, there are not many jazz experienced by Sir Lucas in England, so maybe her predecessor has heard similar jazz at social dances, so she feels familiar.

"Anyone else besides Sir Lucas's?"

"There are also Mr. King and Mr. Forstall." Mr. Bennett continued after ringing carefully, "Mr. King's family owns the largest land in Longbourne, and Mr. Forstall...he is stationed in Meryton. The head of the corps. Mr. Jin is also newly married, and Mr. Forstall has a three-year-old son."

"Okay, I see." Grace was thinking about how to receive these more important guests in Mr. Bennett's mouth.

"Hehe, Grace, you don't need to be so concerned." Mr. Bennet chuckled, "You have to remember, this is the village of Longborn, not London. The people here are much more simple and warm than those in London." Finally he chased her and blinked.

☆、Chapter 8

On the second day, Grace saw the "simplicity" and "enthusiasm" in Mr. Bennett's mouth.

This is obviously gossip and not knowing how to advance or retreat!

"Mrs. Bennet is indeed a lady married from London. Look, she has such an appearance, such a temperament..." What is this sour tone.

"Mrs. Bennett is a lady from a lawyer's family, she is different from us country people." What is this raised ending sound.

"It's no wonder that Mr. Bennett fell in love with Mrs. Bennett at first sight, and he proposed marriage only the third time we met." She thought she couldn't hear the irony.

"Our best bachelor in Lumborn just got married. It's really complicated." The tone of this sentence is relatively peaceful.

"..."

"..."

Mrs. Bennett, who everyone talked about, was wearing a simple and generous white dress, holding a fan in her left hand, and standing with a stiff smile among a group of ladies and ladies dressed in fancy dress.From their countless sentences, she finally knew that Mr. Bennett was so popular in Longbourne!

That's right, although the land of the Bennett family needs limited heir inheritance, it is considered above average among the middle class in England.Mr. Bennett himself is a tall, handsome gentleman with good looks and ability, and he is also very good at dealing with people. There are many ladies who Langborn has a crush on him. As a result, he got married after participating in a social season in London. One can imagine the regret.

But, can you not tell her these things!She would marry Mr. Bennet because of his proposal, and these people were on the verge of saying she seduced him!

Looking sadly at Mr. Bennett, who was smiling and chatting with the gentlemen of Longbourn not far away, Grace thought that she should consider letting him sleep in his own master room for a few nights, anyway, in this age Don't the hostesses and hostesses who are a bit particular about often sleep in separate rooms!

Mr. Bennett, who noticed the dissatisfaction in his wife's eyes, has nothing to do. This is what Grace has to face. At most, their family will hold less banquets and dances in the future.It's just that when he first met her at the ball, she behaved not much different from these ladies... In order to test her future husband, she really went all out and played a character she didn't like.

However difficult it may be, the Longbourne Bennett's wedding feast was at last concluded, and the newlyweds had made the acquaintance of Meryton and Longborn's neighbours.

Grace, who was so exhausted, half-lyed on the bed to rest, thinking that she and her daughter might become those passionate and gossiping women in the future, her face completely darkened.It is not terrible to be an English woman at the end of the eighteenth century, but what is terrible is to be the kind of person who has no connotation and no pursuit!

As Grace, who was educated by her grandmother and the Celestial Dynasty, did not want her future life to become so bleak.So, the first thing to do now is to change the status quo of existence.If you want to have a good life and live a happy life that does not lack spiritual culture, it is necessary to change the economic situation of the Bennett family!

But, how should I talk to Mr. Bennett?

English women in this era were not much better than women in the Qing Dynasty. There were also many things they could not intervene in, such as family property.The awakening of female consciousness was in the middle of the [-]th century, and it was still several decades before Queen Victoria came to the throne.

"Thinking of something, dear." Mr. Bennet came out of the bathroom wrapped in a bathrobe, sat down beside her and toweled his hair.

Grace looked up at his smiling black eyes, frowned slightly and said, "It's nothing, I'm in a daze."

His eyes darkened slightly, and Mr. Bennett smiled and said, "I'm exhausted today. After two days of rest, we will go on a honeymoon trip."

He opened his mouth, and in the end Grace just hooked the corners of his lips: "Okay."

She still doesn't know what kind of person Mr. Bennett is, so let's wait a little longer.Say it directly now, who knows what will happen.If she had an unpleasant quarrel with him, her options would be too small.

The more decent job a woman can find in this day and age is tutoring, but the salary is not much, and it depends on the face of the person.Grace would not consider it unless it was absolutely necessary.Although she majored in the history and literature of the Chinese Empire at university, she has no contact with the West. It is not impossible to make money with some historical knowledge, but she cannot come forward!

It is better to rely on Mr. Bennet than to rely on outsiders, at least he is her husband now.

Mr. Bennett was slightly taken aback by his wife's hesitation, but then he thought about it.Grace is a woman with her own opinions. It will take a lot of time for the two of them to become a real couple, so let's take it slowly.

"Honey, it's time for us to rest." Standing up and blowing out the candles on the candlestick, Mr. Bennett put down the towel and got into the cup, holding Grace in his arms.Feeling her stiffness, he chuckled, "Relax and rest, Grace, your husband is not a gentleman who doesn't know how to be considerate."

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Of course, honeymoon travel in this era is not like the era of airplanes in later generations, where you can go wherever you want. Mr. Bennett just took Grace for a long tour around the Lake District.After seeing the beautiful woods and lakes in Derbyshire near the Lake District, Grace became more determined to persuade Mr. Bennett to make money. This is an era when land can be bought and sold, and those beautiful lands can be privately owned. What a blessing it is to own the manor!

On her return to Longbourn, she took over the books of the Bennets, and soon discovered that Mr. Bennet had given her the books of the land and farm at Longbourne.As a result, she just smiled. The honeymoon trip made her vaguely aware that her husband's property was not limited to the land of Langborn, but she would not ask now when he didn't say it clearly.

After marriage, the married life of the two is quite happy, and their hearts are getting closer and closer as they slowly get along.Mr. Bennett will leave Longbourne for almost half a year every year. It is said that he is going out to visit friends. In fact, Grace knows that he is going to inspect his property.

Both were well aware of some things they were keeping from each other, but there was not a single opportunity for them to break the barrier that separated them until the winter of [-].

On December [-], Langborn, covered with snow, looked exceptionally beautiful. This is a pure white world.Christmas is coming, and every family is preparing for the festival, but only the Bennett family has spent the day in turmoil.

Mr. Bennet paced anxiously in the corridor. The maids coming and going in the corridor, as well as the intermittent groans and cries in the room made his face paler.Although he had arranged for a midwife and invited a doctor to sit by, he still couldn't calm himself down.

His Grace was in the room trying to have their baby, and he couldn't do anything.Thinking of her belly, which was bigger than usual for pregnant women, he was even more worried.Finally, he couldn't help but reach out and grab a maid beside him who hurriedly came out of the room with a basin of bloody water.

"Sill, how's Madam's condition?" Although he remained calm, his trembling voice revealed his true mood.

"Sir, the midwife said that Madam's fetal position is very upright, you don't have to worry, just wait patiently." After speaking, Hill bowed and left in a hurry.The midwife said that a lot of hot water is needed, and the wife even ordered before the delivery that the water must be boiled, and all the utensils that need to be used must be boiled in boiling water. She is very busy now and has no time to deal with it Anxious hostess.

While Mr. Bennet was anxiously confronting the floor with his shoes outside the door, Grace was lying on the bed in pain and almost speechless.Although she knew that giving birth would be painful, and she was mentally prepared, when the moment came, she was still going crazy from the pain.

From the time she knew she was pregnant, she paid great attention to nutrition intake and moderate exercise. Although she has never been pregnant in modern times, she still learned a lot from the overwhelming information.The medical skills of this era are not very dazed, and it is impossible to find bacteria without bacteria in the microscope. Grace can only be as careful as possible.

Fortunately, she has made a lot of changes to the recipes of Bennett's family. Although it cannot be directly transformed into Chinese food, the change in cooking methods has also made the food much more delicious. How many sins.It was finally the day of delivery, but I don't know how long this torture will last.

"Ma'am, this is the honey water you ordered." Hill, who had just left, came in with a glass of water.

Looking at the somewhat viscous water in the cup, everyone felt a little toothache, and what made them admire even more was that Grace actually held up the cup and drank it all in one gulp!This is also an unavoidable choice. She still remembers this folk remedy. It is said that it can make the delivery faster and smoother, and honey can also replenish her physical strength in large quantities.

"Ma'am, I can see the child's head now, use your strength!"

When Grace was drowsy from the pain, she finally heard the words of the midwife, knowing that she had finally waited until the cervix was fully opened, she cheered up, and worked hard with her abdomen and lower body.The amniotic fluid had broken, so she had to speed up the rebirth of the baby in her womb, otherwise it would easily cause the baby to suffocate in the mother's body.

After struggling for half an hour, Grace finally felt a burst of relief in her abdomen, and a warm object slipped from between her legs, and then the baby's cry sounded in the room.

"Congratulations, ma'am, it's a healthy and beautiful little boy." The midwife skillfully cut the umbilical cord, washed the baby with the warm water prepared earlier, dried it, wrapped it up, and carried it out to Bene who was waiting outside. Mr. Te.

Under the guidance of another midwife, Hill helped Grace clean his lower body with hot water, waiting for the discharge of the placenta.At this moment, Grace's body, which had already relaxed, stiffened again and let out a low groan, and her stomach, which had been relaxed and slightly vomited, twitched again.

"Oh my God, there is still one in Madam's belly!" The midwife touched her belly and exclaimed in surprise, "Madam, cheer up, you still have a baby in your belly, we can't delay any longer!"

Perhaps because of the fact that she had already given birth to a child, the second child didn't torment her much, but was born within a few minutes.As soon as she heard the cry of the child, Grace couldn't support herself and fell asleep.No matter how well she was prepared to take care of her body, her body was not good enough, and the birth of two children still had a lot of impact on her.

☆、Chapter 9