[Pride and Prejudice] Rich Lady

The flintlock gun in Jane's hand fell with a "clang" and hit the stone in the grass.

Seeing the distressed appearance of the two girls, Elizabeth had a guess in her heart: "You didn't get hit, what did you use to hit them? Where did you hit them?"

"Stone, it's a stone! I grabbed a stone and smashed it on his head, and blood, blood spurted out..." Lydia cried and coughed, and she hugged her second sister desperately, "And then died! He was killed by me. killed!"

"...I pulled Maria up and ran as fast as I could, and when I heard the sound of horseshoes, she grabbed me and hid..."

Elizabeth listened, glanced at Maria Lucas who was curled up crying on the ground, and picked up the flintlock as calmly as possible: "Jane and I will send you back to Longbourne immediately, and then Lydia, you have to take Dad and Our people found the man." I had to make sure he was dead or not.

She put her arms around her sister and quickly checked Lydia's body with her hands and eyes. Elizabeth's heart was pounding, and she was despicably grateful in her heart that her little sister had not been violated.Then the vile and filthy determination was made to bring Maria Lucas back to Longbourn, and Maria, the only witness, could not be let go while the villain was still alive and dead.

Elizabeth suppressed guilt.If the villain is dead, the relationship between Lydia and Maria Lucas will immediately change from dependence to confrontation. The Lucas family will only try their best to cover up what happened to Maria, and they will never lose their reputation and allow Maria to testify for Lydia.

Elizabeth is despicable enough, and now she has doubts about Maria Lucas, the poorest girl. Perhaps Maria's behavior of pulling Lydia to hide is just embarrassing, but Elizabeth still has doubts and guards against her cruelly, The girl was much calmer than Lydia.

"No! I'm not going! Lizzie, he's dead, no one saw us when he ran away! We..." Lydia shook her head desperately: "Just pretend it never happened, okay? Lizzie, please!"

Maria also stopped sobbing, and looked at Elizabeth beggingly.

"What if it's not dead?

"Lydia, listen to me! You're not strong enough. I don't think you could have killed him. Think of the farm worker who fell to his head once, and didn't lose his life. It was very fast." That's it!" Elizabeth grabbed her by the shoulder and said very fast: "We have to hurry! He woke up and ran away, talking nonsense - it's too late! We can only catch people and money Intimidation is fine, anyway, this is a good way to smooth things over."

"Besides, has anyone seen you? Jane and I met people when we came here, and we saw farm workers nearby." Elizabeth quickly said: "Take a step back, you may hit him hard and let him bleed to death That's it—the sheriff will definitely investigate such a big case in Meryton, and none of you will be able to escape by then."

"Now, hurry up! Please, Lydia!" said Jane.

Elizabeth and Jane worked together to lift Maria onto Jane's shorter white horse, and Jane blocked the colorful bag in front of Maria.Elizabeth also pulled Lydia onto her black Sharma, and stuffed the flintlock into Lydia's handbag, half of the gun barrel was crookedly exposed - the handbag was still hanging on the owner's hand after all the troubles. Not lost on the arm.

She and Jane put on Garzon shorts so they could ride without having to sit sideways, and the two horses trotted back to Longbourne in a few minutes for a mile.

The yard workers went back to the farm house to rest when the sun was at its strongest, except for the Bennets' own servants.Mrs. Hill put a hand over Sarah's mouth, which was about to scream.Mary, looking down from the lounge window, covered her mouth, and Kitty hadn't understood what was going on.

"Sarah, hurry up and get Dad! Mrs. Hill, please find a change of my clothes for Miss Lucas, don't disturb Mom." Elizabeth looked up and saw Mary standing on the stairs, and the girl who was blocked by her Kitty behind: "Mary, take Kitty back to the living room! If Mom wakes up, you have to calm her down and don't let her know."

"Dear Jane, please stay with Maria in the living room on the first floor." Elizabeth then approached her sister's ear and whispered quickly, "Please don't tell her to run home before we come back."

Mr. Bennet quickly came out of the study, seeing the situation with a gloomy expression on his face.He took a quick look, and immediately looked away, looking at the second daughter who seemed the calmest among the people standing. Elizabeth shook her head slightly, and Mr. Bennet let out a breath, and his tense back trembled slightly.

Maria couldn't bear so many people, and had already started to tremble slightly. Jane immediately helped her into the small living room on the first floor. She nodded slightly to the second sister, and whispered: "Be careful!"

Mrs. Hill took a new dress of Elizabeth from upstairs, and when she passed by Elizabeth, she whispered without waiting for the lady to speak: "I know, Miss Elizabeth, I have seen such a thing, I... will take Miss Maria's dress Hide for now."

Elizabeth put her arms around Lydia, leaned close to her father's ear, and said a few words quickly.

Mr. Bennet immediately walked quickly back to the study—then he put on his hat and came out, followed by the valet Baker with a gun on his back.

"go!"

This time the horse ran much faster. Although the three horses and four of the Bennet family did not speak, a heavy atmosphere weighed on everyone's heart.

The road Lydia pointed to was actually not far from where Elizabeth found them, and the two girls only ran half a mile.This is a messy hedge at the bottom of the hill, and Netherfield is far above the hill. Although the road beside the hedge is not remote, it only leads to Netherfield Manor on the hillside.

For a moment, both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth's hearts sank. I'm afraid that the villain's original target was Lydia!

The weeds were overgrown behind the hedge, and Mr. Bennet guarded his daughters behind him. Lydia trembled more and more as she got closer. She was only a head shorter than Elizabeth, and her sister almost dragged her away.

"You stay here." Mr. Bennet whispered, he had seen the man's clothes in the grass, frowning and refused to let his daughter go forward.

Before the two girls could speak, they both heard the voice of cursing: "That stinky bitch! Oh, goddamn God! It hurts me!"

"I must deal with her severely!"

There was a noise behind the grass, and a man staggered out with his hands on his forehead, and picked up the jacket that Mr. Bennet saw.

Lydia covered her mouth and screamed, and fell to her knees in fright.

"Ben, Master Bennet!" Claude was even more frightened than Lydia, and he yelled louder with a hoarse voice.

Mr. Bennet stared at him intently, and the strong butler, Baker, was also staring at him while holding a gun.

Elizabeth saw a broken necklace in Claude's right hand with sharp eyes, and she quickly glanced at the little sister's neck to confirm that it belonged to Maria.

Claude is worthy of being a rascal. After sweeping around, he barely calmed down, pointed at Lydia and said, "Master Bennet, how much are you going to pay for your daughter hurting me?"

"For the sake of your family's reputation and that of Miss Lydia, I suggest you be more generous, or I will sue the magistrate!"

As Claude spoke, he prepared to escape, but this place he had carefully selected was surrounded by tall and dense bushes, and the only exit was where the Bennet family was.

Lydia was startled by his sexual words and screamed: "It's him, it's him who treated Maria...he beat her!"

"I, I want to go to Netherfield. I heard Maria crying for help, so I smashed him!" The more she talked, the more excited the little girl became, and the excitement gave her courage. Lydia cursed viciously while crying: "Rogue, bastard. Rogue, scoundrel! It should be smashed and kill you!"

Claude covered his forehead with a fierce look in his eyes.He was full of remorse, since he had been eyeing the Longbourne family, he had only noticed once that the youngest one ran out. The other women, even Mrs. Bennet, the old woman, must be accompanied. Or take a carriage, which made Claude unable to start, and he was even more jealous of the wealth of the Bennet family.

He set his target on Lydia, thinking that girls of this age are very stupid, especially since she likes Netherfield so much, she went there four times in half a month!When Claude found out that Lydia ran out of Longbourne alone, he knew that this idiot would have a second time, but unfortunately he was going to do it that time, and the two older members of the Bennet family came to find her. come over.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Claude has been planning for so long, but he can't keep track of Bennet every day. When he is most irritable, he finds another woman.

Maria Lucas was several years older than Lydia, she was at the age to enter the social world earlier, and she was much more beautiful than her sister, but because Charlotte hadn't been married yet, she could only shrink back in aggrieved home.Compared to Lydia, Lucas's second daughter, who has already bloomed, is more attractive to men.Claude recognized this Miss Maria, who had been to the manor with the daughters of the Bennet family before.

After that, Claude saw her sneaking into Netherfield Manor several times, wandering in the garden, she often picked the best roses in the garden and put them on her head, pretending to be the owner of the manor, and even sitting on the lawn Do a few flirty dance steps.Claude didn't plan to pay attention to her, but this woman always appeared frequently. The villain believed that she was not a decent person, and often cursed to himself that the daughters born to these dignified gentlemen were also extremely low.

This time Maria appeared again, and Claude was so angry after waiting for a long time that he couldn't help dragging Maria Lucas into the hedge.He was sure that the delicate Lydia would never come out in such hot weather, and Claude thought he had to find other fun-such as defile a jazz's daughter.Oh, it's no big deal, she just bumped in with her own indiscretions!

Claude likes to drink in the low pubs in the East End of London, where he has heard a lot of dirty jokes and big words, such as 'there are as many unclean wives and daughters in the upper class as there are prostitutes in London', 'Their fathers and husbands sleep with other people's wives and daughters, and their own wives also want to find lovers, and the daughters are so stupid that they can be easily seduced... The rich man who wants to save face has to spend a lot of money to stop people's mouths, and then If you marry your daughter to a fool in a hurry, the fool will become a master like his father-in-law', 'country women are better off, they don't dare to shout out, otherwise she must be the one who is miserable! '

Claude used these words to convince his guilty conscience, and then dealt with Maria even more viciously.But he never imagined that Lydia would come running just at this time.

In fact, even Maria didn't expect that Maria would always choose to sneak into Netherfield when it was raining lightly or the sun was very strong, and the ladies usually would not want to go out, so as not to embarrass their master.But as far as Lydia was concerned, it was the weather that kept her sisters from staring at her so she could come out.

Who knew that such an unfortunate thing would happen.

Mr. Bennet took a step forward, stood in front of the stern Claude, and said solemnly, "Let's fight."

"Daddy!" Lydia exclaimed.She was terrified, Claude was as strong as a bull compared to Papa.

Elizabeth grimaced and said nothing.

Claude believes that Mr. Bennet is going to take the opportunity to kill him.

He looked around, and was forced back by Mr. Bennet's momentum.

The wretched coward suddenly plopped down on his knees and begged for mercy: "Master Bennet! Maria Lucas and I have been on good terms for a long time, and she teased me! She, she is going to elope with me. We are often here , It was Miss Lydia who misunderstood... Well, how about it, I won’t pursue Miss Lydia, let’s pretend it never happened!" Claude pushed everything on Maria, and quickly backed up with his knees.

Mr. Bennet breathed a sigh of relief.

He was about to say something when he heard a gunshot "bang".

Everyone was taken aback. Claude stared at the blades of grass and bullet holes less than a meter in front of his knees, and bit his tongue out in a hurry.

"Dad, didn't we come to bury Lydia's body and wipe away the traces?" Elizabeth put down the smoking flintlock, and said with a relaxed and indifferent face, her hands in lace gloves were naturally behind her back.

The servant Baker couldn't help but took half a step back and swallowed. Is this Miss Elizabeth who has been in a private girls' school in the city so scary?

"Li, Qi!" Lydia looked up at the second sister blankly, too scared to cry.

Elizabeth hid her trembling hands behind her back, looked at her younger sister with a little smile on her face: "Dear Lydia, it's no big deal. It's always bad for you to spread the word about the scandals you run into. Affect Bennet's reputation. I don't believe in verbal oaths, and we all can rest assured that there will be no future troubles."

As she spoke, she raised her head and looked straight into Claude's eyes. Those dark brown beautiful eyes are now more terrifying than the devil in Claude's heart.

The devil slightly bent his lips: "It just so happens that the place Mr. Claude chose is secluded and safe."

"Dad, don't worry. This is really a good place for a duel, but it's great!" The devil still had the mood to pat his sister's head with his left hand, "Although British law prohibits duels, in fact, as long as the duel is won, the winner No responsibility at all. It's so fitting for the situation."

"Come to think of it, Mr. Bennet won the duel! It will make you famous and even a candidate for mayor. You know, Uncle Phillips is a good lawyer, he has a lot of experience in such matters, and he must not There's going to be a little error!"

Claude shook his head desperately, and tremblingly said with his injured tongue: "No, no, no! Master Bennet, you must not listen to her! I, I will not duel with you! I am not worthy of a duel with you!"

Mr. Bennet took a deep look at his daughter and seemed to be a little moved. He said: "Such a scandal should not be touched by Bennet at all! I like Sir William, and Lydia saved Maria again. From this point of view, Miss, we should fight."

Then he glanced at Claude with disgust, and said with disgust: "But this lowly person is indeed not worthy of a duel!"

Claude collapsed in the mud, crying, and the disgusting stench from him pushed Mr. Bennet a little further away.Elizabeth covered her nose and shouted impatiently: "Then Dad, let's let him go like this! He scared poor Lydia, and besides, wouldn't such a scandal implicate us?"

Claude hurriedly yelled, begged, and swore that he had nothing to do with Maria Lucas, and promised never to tell it.

Elizabeth complained: "I have a headache from the smoke! Forget it, Dad, let's leave!"

"However," Elizabeth suddenly turned her head and squinted at Claude, who thought she had escaped, and said coquettishly to her father: "I haven't seen a duel yet, and my noble friends always brag to me that they have seen it." The Duke of York, the Duke of Richmond, the Prime Minister of Pitt. I have never seen such a duel in the country!"

Mr. Bennet patted his daughter's hand, and pulled Lydia who stood up to his side: "You are too timid, you should learn from Lizzie, smash the next former servant, and scare you You are in such a mess. In autumn, I will take you to hunt foxes and watch the hounds tear up and share their prey a few times, so you will not be afraid!"

He looked at his favorite daughter again: "Daddy's little Lizzie, this is nothing. This Mr. Claude, I can invite him to the town to perform in front of the gentlemen... But, Lizzie, your gun isn't very accurate, it's very off, I've been in the city for so long that I forgot the skills my father gave you..."

While walking back with his two daughters in his arms, he winked at the valet.

Baker endured his nausea and walked towards Claude, knocked him down with a gun, and took away all the valuable things from him, while hitting him with the butt of his gun, he cursed in a low voice: "Poor man!" ! That's all!"

Claude watched him put the coins and silver flagon into his pockets, and only held the necklace and an earring in his hands, and he knew that this was also a slippery and vicious manservant.At this time, Claude didn't even dare to have a little luck. He was afraid that Baker would take the opportunity to kill himself to claim credit for that devil lady, and he curled up to protect his head and didn't even dare to beg for mercy.

When Elizabeth got on the horse, Mr. Bennet whispered meaningfully: "Lizzie, it seems that you have a lot to tell Dad." For example, the father's marksmanship is poor, where did his clever and lovely daughter learn it?

Lydia got on the horse in a daze, and waited for the second sister in awe, obedient like a little quail, her round Doudou eyes were blank.It seemed to be frightened and excited, neither relaxed nor calm - she couldn't even care about the terrible thing before, she just kept looking at Elizabeth secretly, as if she was looking at some important person.

Before Elizabeth rode away, she glanced at the bushes lightly. This Claude should get the punishment he deserved.

The author has something to say: Happy to mention a new title!Elizabeth Devil Bennet.

Elizabeth: Very well, even Baker's acting is good!

Elizabeth: Hold on to you for now, the good fruit will arrive later!

Comments in this chapter give [-] small red envelopes, little angels, don’t you collect them for such a hard-working fish who likes to give red envelopes~~

Note: Dueling: Since the 17th century, dueling has been popular in Britain to resolve matters involving reputation disputes.For example, in the original book, the daughters were worried about Mr. Bennet and Wickham being killed in a duel (in the original book, Mrs. Bennet hoped that Mr. Bennet would use a duel to force Wickham to marry Lydia).Some of the duelists in George III's time were intimidatingly high-ranking.Nearly 20 top aristocrats and political leaders including the Duke of York, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham, the Duke of Bedford, and Prime Minister Pitt participated in the duel.But not many people died, and none of the bosses died because of it.

According to historical anecdotes written by writer Li Congjia: During the Napoleonic Wars, the French killed more than 8000 people due to duels; George III was in power for 60 years, and the British had a total of 172 duels, involving more than 300 people, but only died. 69 people.Most of the dueling British bigwigs are not very good marksman, and then they usually settle after one round.