[Pride and Prejudice] Rich Lady

The black vomit of many yellow fever patients was found in the corner of the courtyard of Taurice College, either thrown or carried in.

Mrs. Pullan and the faculty quickly found the bribed person. He was the newly hired servant of the college to transport dirt and garbage. This identity was simply an excellent cover.Generally speaking, a few stains missed are not noticeable, but Doris is a girls' school, and Mrs. Judith has turned her students into serious clean people like her. When she appeared, she was discovered by the lady.When the maids went to clean according to the ladies' instructions, they found that Tao Lisi was surrounded by pollutants, even the outer walls of the manor.

"Fortunately, the servant did not have the right to enter the main building and the auxiliary building. Our accommodation and food are fine." Elizabeth said.

Her father, sisters, and Mr. George were all relieved.

"I have been to Kensington, and the doctor at Mingzhentang told me that yellow fever mainly occurs in hot places, such as India and Africa. England does not have natural conditions." Elizabeth then told everyone the symptoms of this disease: "Fever, body aches, very weak; if the condition continues to worsen, then it will vomit black water and the whole body is cold; all symptoms will subside in the next few days, and some lucky people will gradually get better from this point, while More people relapsed, and teeth and noses began to ooze blood... These serious patients will struggle violently, looking like they are suffering from madness - most of them will fall into a coma afterward, until the convulsions and death end the pain , take them away."

"At least 100 people have died from it in the East End of London." And I suspect that it was intentional spread of the disease.Elizabeth completed the second half of the sentence in her heart.

"God!" The ladies covered their mouths, and the gentlemen looked heavy.

"Madness?" The word touched Jian Min's sensitive nerves, and she hesitated: "Will someone send the kind of yellow fever patients who look like madness to the madhouse? The madman exhibition in Bethlehem is booming again." , and if that’s the case, who’s in the exhibition?”

The madman exhibition in Bethlehem is charged, and the invitation letters distributed by the church are mostly sent to influential gentlemen in the parish. The madman exhibition has a long history, and not all gentlemen's families are as sober as the Bennet family, you know A few years ago, some aristocrats went to visit. The previous king, His Majesty George II, was invited to visit the Madman Exhibition when he was the Prince of Wales.If there were really yellow fever patients in Bethlehem, the disease would soon spread from the East End of London to the West End, or even wider, where most of the celebrities and nobles lived. (Note)

Both Mr. Bennet and Mr. George couldn't sit still. They realized the seriousness of this matter and they had to stop it immediately—the visit to Bethlehem had already started for a week.

Compared with the relatives present here, and the doctor of the Ming Dynasty in Kensington, Elizabeth is actually the one who really understands yellow fever.This contagious disease, also known as the "black vomit," is at the root of the age-old proverb in Britain and France that "Africa is the grave of the white man."According to the knowledge Elizabeth had learned, yellow fever is mainly transmitted through the bite of blood-sucking Aedes mosquitoes. In the whole of Europe, only Spain, which is located at the border of Europe and Africa, has natural conditions.The temperature in England is not high, and there are no Aedes mosquitoes in the native species. Even if people with yellow fever come to the UK, it will not cause an epidemic at all-if they are not bitten by mosquitoes carrying yellow fever virus, they will be exposed to yellow fever patients, will not be infected with the disease. (Note ②)

So Elizabeth wasn't too nervous if someone spilled dirt on Doris.However, according to the transmission situation in the East End of London, the lady suspects that some mosquitoes of the genus Haemophilus are quietly spreading the disease in the local area, rather than being caused by close contact as the main messenger thought.

Since April in London, there have been more mosquitoes. Elizabeth had to warn her family in the name of a Ming doctor: "It is said that mosquitoes are the killer of yellow fever. Just don't get bitten."

The Bennets are extremely convinced of Doctor Ming, but Mr. George is a little doubtful.

Elizabeth had no choice but to explain: "Some mosquitoes suck the blood of yellow fever patients, and then bite other people, maybe they infect normal people with the blood of yellow fever patients?" She couldn't explain that blood-sucking mosquitoes can also be infected. Mosquitoes carry viruses all their lives, and when they bite people, they will inject virus-laden saliva into human capillaries, and then be infected with yellow fever virus. In this era, who would believe that mosquitoes have saliva?

At noon the next day, Mr. Bennet returned home, very tired. He said to his daughters: "The exhibition in Bethlehem cannot be cancelled. After being publicized by the church, its daily ticket income can reach more than [-] pounds. Whether it is a madhouse Neither itself, the state church, nor the members of the House of Lords will allow the exhibition to be interrupted."

"There is very little we can do except to remind people that mad people may be infected with yellow fever-but this does not have much effect, most people don't believe it." In fact, Mr. Bennet also provoked quite a few Reverend Marvin, the new priest of Meryton, was very dissatisfied with this, and many believers of the state church who trusted him also had doubts about Mr. Bennet.

Mr. Bennet's plan to warn Bethlehem through the church was aborted, and even the proposal to post a notice in Meryton was not approved by the vigilante.

Mr. George's situation is better. His Excellency the Earl has always trusted him, and East Anglia is quite far from London. Under the Earl's rule, it should not be difficult to solve the invitation to visit Bethlehem from the local church.Mr. Seed Merchant also ordered the nursery workers to start killing mosquitoes.

The whole Netherfield has started the anti-mosquito repellent activities, everyone's unconditional trust in Elizabeth, which moved the lady very much.In fact, she was not too worried about the spread of yellow fever in her heart, because England itself did not have the conditions. Although there were many local mosquitoes and they were big in size, they rarely bit people, and most of them were buzzing around. To compare nasty.Elizabeth would even think that in order to infect so many people, the person who planned this conspiracy must have spent a lot of effort.

"I wrote an advertisement, and I plan to spend money to publish it in the newspaper." The lady took out the results of her night.

"Advertising?" Everyone was puzzled.

"Yeah, ad." Elizabeth wanted to write an article on yellow fever, but found she couldn't get people to believe what she was writing about as a way to prevent the disease.If you write a plague story, you can't achieve the effect, and even these two methods probably won't be published in the newspaper.

Advertising should be the most direct and convenient way to get on the newspaper.Elizabeth wrote a particularly long one, almost like a story about a maid's master who got yellow fever, and everyone was terrified, and only the faithful maid stayed to serve him-the maid's master didn't get better, In the end, he fled to the arms of God.The maid was fine, she drank boiled water, killed all the mosquitoes that dared to approach his master, kept clean and so on, and finally this clean maid who was not bitten by mosquitoes took care of the master for a whole month and was not infected with yellow fever.After the owner's death, she had to advertise for a new job.

This is indeed a good idea, whether it is a high-class person with a housekeeper pressing a newspaper or a low-level person in Dongcheng District who needs to find a job, everyone will see this news.Elizabeth left the address of a post office in London and wrote a reply letter. If someone sends a letter to the 'maid', just pay someone at the post office to copy a copy and send it back.

Even Mr. George applauded his witty wife and sister. Georgiana looked at her with adoring eyes like a deer in the forest. The Bennet sisters never hesitated to praise her with the most enthusiastic and straightforward words. Elizabeth's heavy heart could not help but clear up. Some.The cuter the family is, the more she has to protect them.

In fact, no one knows the heavy shackles in Elizabeth's heart. After deeply hiding the memory of the lady, last night she carefully read the memory of the lady's girlhood for the first time.As far as the lady could remember, Longbourne and Meryton had always been peaceful and beautiful, with the most peaceful life in the English countryside, and no such incidents had ever happened-Elizabeth could not help suspecting that all the changes that happened to Meryton were caused by brought by her.

The once vicious Atwood family, the misfortune of Maria Lucas, and the turmoil in Meryton this time... Now Elizabeth Bennet is guilty.

If she hadn't opened a dress shop in Meryton, Uncle Gardner would never have established a tailor shop, and would not have become such a famous tailor factory as it is now.The success of the store and factory has attracted customers and orders, which has also made Meryton no longer peaceful, especially after the repair of the new road invested by Mr. Darcy, Meryton has become a bustling town like Hatfield.

With the wealth of job opportunities and the surge in population, the tithes collected by the church have doubled, making the Church of the State pay attention to this small town. It is said that the new priests are very popular with the elders of the Anglican Church and have the opportunity to be promoted to bishops. people.Meryton became very religious after the arrival of the Reverend Marvin and his assistants, who brought into here the strife between the state church and other sects in London.There can no longer be a calm and relaxed atmosphere in Meryton...

Elizabeth felt a little out of breath just thinking about it. No matter how capable she was, she was just an ordinary girl in the Meryton countryside, and she couldn't bear such a heavy responsibility at all.

Georgiana sent a letter to her brother today, which not only stated the way Elizabeth told them to prevent yellow fever, but also wrote at the end: "I saw her crying quietly on the terrace, but this morning, Lizzie still acted like nothing happened, and she even thought up a good way to let people know how to prevent it. She is stronger than other ladies, but that is no reason for her to carry the burden alone. If you can, Dear brother, can you help her, can you help us? I also like Taurus College very much and hope to enroll this year..."

"This is what I saw, how many times did Lizzie cry when I didn't see it? Did she cry because of me and your deception?" Georgiana wrote: "I can't help it Thinking, the more I get along, the more I can feel how soft Lizzie's heart is. I feel deeply guilty and ashamed for this..."

When Mr. Darcy received his sister's letter, his heart suddenly shrank and he was in great pain.He deceived a young lady who dared to express her affection warmly and frankly, when she was expecting love to come.As long as Darcy regards himself as his beloved lady and puts himself in the situation, he feels that this kind of foolishness, ridiculousness, and sadness are enough to destroy all affection in a person—but his beloved lady still accepts Georgiana, and in the small Bring the girl back to Netherfield when she is at her worst.The good family atmosphere of the Bennet family, the new friends, did quickly get Georgiana out of the influence of that incident.

As for Miss Lizzie's hurt, she bears it alone, so that no one can see her weak and painful side.

Georgiana's letter added to her dear brother's distress, and Mr. Darcy affirmed that no serious apology, silent care for the lady, flattery of her family, and resolution of her troubles would be enough to atone for the injury.

He loves her more than all rules and regulations.

'I should have known how Miss Lizzie wished to be treated, hadn't I? 'Mr. Darcy thought, 'I respect her as I respect myself; I protect her as I protect my parents and children; I love her, true and pure, equal and compatible, shared experience, and will never leave. '

Mr. Darcy finally stepped into Netherfield. After exchanging pleasantries, everyone left some space for him in a very witty way: in the spacious lounge, except for Lakasha like a pillar, only Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth,

Elizabeth had just temporarily escaped the distress caused by "Mr. William" because of Tao Lisi's affairs, so she had to face the culprit who had the cheek to visit.

The lady didn't want to hide her indifference at all: "I thought Mr. Darcy had expressed my meaning clearly enough when he apologized?"

"I don't accept your apology, and please don't appear in front of me again."

Her cold words brought pain to both of them.But whenever Elizabeth thought of Mr. William, she felt terribly sad—it was the first time in her two lives that she gave love without reservation, but she became the villain who stole other people's cheese.

During the first period of time, Elizabeth always thought, how could Mr. William be Darcy?The two of them have completely different personalities. Mr. William is shy, humorous, sincere and equal to her. How could he be the proud Mr. Darcy?But the fact always fools mortals, and Elizabeth can only force herself to face it squarely.

Mr. Darcy's handsome face was obviously very lonely, he said in a low voice: "I am not here to force your forgiveness."

"Miss Lizzie, what happened to Tauris is just a part of a huge conspiracy - I only hoped that you would stay out of danger, but now..." Mr. Darcy paused, knowing that his beloved lady would never abandon her Friends escape alone.

"I respect your decision, but I ask you to allow me to protect and help you. You have to promise that I will not take risks alone, okay?" Mr. Darcy looked at her almost beggingly.

Elizabeth felt great uneasiness, and she quickly asked, "What news did you get? About whom?" It must be her closest person.

Mr. Darcy said gravely: "It's Miss Laura. Her family is going to send her to Bethlehem."

"Impossible!" Elizabeth said decisively, "Lola left the academy before Taoris closed, and she is about to marry her fiancé. What reason did they use to frame her as insane?"

"Could it be that Laura is infected with yellow fever!" Elizabeth trembled her lips and stood up abruptly.

Mr. Darcy quickly put his hands on her shoulders to help her calm down: "Don't worry, Miss Laura is not infected with yellow fever. But this is a fact, not only her fiancé, but also her father, and Participation of the church.” Britain has been a country of theocracy since Henry VIII, and the king is not only the supreme leader of the secular world, but also the supreme leader of the church. The local church forces started, and gradually extended their tentacles to the Anglican Church in London and the government council.The matter about Miss Laura was revealed by a pastor supported by the Darcy family.

"When and why?" Elizabeth couldn't believe it, and she said sharply: "Baron Cliff is mercenary, so what about the sick fiancé who has to see God at any time and has to be raised by Laura? He is a Viscount, and he His body and title, protecting Laura is his best choice!"

Mr. Darcy shook his head: "What if someone tells the viscount that Miss Laura can exchange for his health? The source of Miss Laura's troubles is the property she owns. This matter also has something to do with Taoris College and Anne The Countess has little religious beliefs, and so does the whole of Tauris, including the families behind the students—but you have to know, what a huge force this is, the Earls, wealthy businessmen, gentlemen, and future generations Families and children. If these people are absorbed into believers, no matter what sect, it will rise quickly."

"But sectarian disputes are only on the surface. Some people use the current disputes to strengthen themselves. And these people, or organizations, are short of pounds. Miss Laura is a chosen victim. After she officially gets married, she will Sent to Bethlehem, her wealth and property will be legally appropriated."

"Many of Taurice's students have been targeted. The yellow fever incident this time is just the beginning. They also seem to know that the patient's vomit is unlikely to spread the disease. The purpose of doing so is to force the closure of Taurice College."

Once the academy is closed, the ladies are scattered and more easily plotted.

"Those who have tried their best to spread yellow fever will of course know that contact with sick people or vomit cannot spread the disease quickly." Elizabeth said, "otherwise yellow fever would have spread as quickly as it did in the French expeditionary army. gone."

"—But how do you know about Tao Lisi's accident so well? Mrs. Poulang caught that servant so quickly, is there a reason for you?" The lady changed the subject and asked suddenly.Lizzie was suspicious at first, but the time from the maid's report to Mrs. Pullan to the arrest of the bribed servant was too short.

Mr. Darcy smiled wryly. His old hunter, Fitch, was exposed. When Fitch was protecting Elizabeth from a distance, he discovered the sneaky movements of the servant.If it wasn't for Miss Tao Lisi's prompting of the maid to find those dirty things, Mrs. Pulan, who had been informed by Fitch, would immediately arrange for someone to clean them up.But the gentleman is not only not ashamed, but proud of the sensitivity of his beloved lady.

"Not only mosquitoes, but also leeches (Note ③). I got news that someone sucked the blood of patients with leeches and used them to spread yellow fever." The gentleman shifted the subject cunningly,

Elizabeth shuddered. In her previous life, no one would study how to spread the plague, and she was not sure whether the leeches would carry the virus and cause infection.But this kind of behavior is really too terrible.

"Why? You mean that some people are involved in the state church, but the Anglican church has always been more relaxed than the Catholic Church, which is caused by the teachings of Protestantism. As far as I know, the evangelicals who are also Protestantism have always been committed to improving society, but the Anglican Church wants the whole London in panic, costing the lives of believers?"

The gentleman gently patted her on the back, and after a moment of silence, he said, "The more chaos and panic there are, the more faith and God are needed. Some people in the Anglican Church believe that God is far away from the hearts of the people, and money and science have corrupted faith. They need A catastrophe has brought the Anglican Church back into the hearts of the people - you know, apart from His Majesty the King who is loyal to the Anglican Church, even the Prince of Wales is noncommittal to the "Catholic Emancipation Act". Catholicism returned to England, and a small number of radicals were bewitched by it."

"So the people or organizations behind it, what do they want?"

This time, Mr. Darcy was more silent, saying: "Have you ever heard of a theory? 'Education is omnipotent.'"

"A Mr. Kant in Prussia believed that 'the reason why a person becomes a person is entirely the result of education' (Note ④); the French sage Helvetius said in his writings that 'people's talents are equal, and there is no difference in genetic quality. , people are the product of environment and education, and their character, temperament and spirit are the result of education' (Note [-]).

"They are practicing 'Educational Omnipotence'. I have heard some sayings circulating in it: God shapes the body, and I control the mind; through education, the inferior can master the superior; everyone is in my hands puppet……"

"There are some who want to be 'gods,' gods among men," said Mr. Darcy at last.

Elizabeth was stunned. She remembered the words of Watson, an American psychologist who was widely circulated in her previous life: "Give me a dozen healthy babies, and I can guarantee that I will choose one at random, and the training will become the one I choose. A man of any type he may choose—doctor, lawyer, artist, great merchant, or beggar or thief, regardless of his talents, inclinations, abilities, ancestral occupations, and races.” (Note [-])

The author has something to say: what Lizzie needs is someone who understands her and is willing to accept the real Elizabeth who is out of step with the rules of this era.

Mr. Darcy gradually got to the essence.

One day, Lizzie will realize that Mr. Darcy is just her Mr. Darcy.They changed each other, very different from that lifetime.

Next chapter, first date: Bethlehem Lunatic Asylum.

The fish is even later, and I still have to strictly demand myself: update at 12 o'clock tomorrow, and update at 7:[-] pm, if it can't be done, [-] words plus [-] small red envelopes will be compensated!

This chapter gives two hundred small red envelopes~

Note: In the 18s, the richest nobles in England were also among the visitors. In 30, the Prince of Wales visited the Bethlehem Asylum. ——"The Scapegoat of History: The Beginning and End of the Madman Exhibition in 1735th-Century London"

Note ②: Yellow fever: Yellow fever is caused by yellow fever virus and is an acute infectious disease mainly transmitted through the bite of Aedes mosquitoes.The main clinical manifestations are high fever, headache, jaundice, proteinuria, relative bradycardia and hemorrhage.The disease is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and South America. ——Encyclopedia·Yellow fever.

Transmission medium The main transmission medium of urban yellow fever is Aedes aegypti, and the main transmission medium of jungle type yellow fever is Haemotropus and Hemotropis. After mosquitoes suck blood and infect, they can spread within 37 days at 4°C.Infected mosquitoes carry the virus for life and can transmit it via eggs. ——Encyclopedia·Yellow fever virus

Note: Yellow fever cannot be transmitted from person to person, it can only be transmitted from person to mosquito to person. The UK naturally does not have the conditions for epidemics! !Don't believe the fish's fabricated nonsense!

Note ③: There is no scientific basis for leeches to infect yellow fever!There is no basis!Fish made it up!Lizzie is also not sure in this article.

Note ④: This sentence is quoted from Encyclopedia · "Education is omnipotent".Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), a famous German philosopher, was one of the believers of the omnipotence of education.

The omnipotence theory of education refers to the rationalists in the 17th and 18th centuries who exaggerated the role of education to determine society and denied the educational viewpoint that differences in genetic quality have an impact on human development. - Encyclopedia.

Note ⑤: This sentence is quoted from Encyclopedia · "Education is omnipotent".Helvetia (1715-1771): French thinker, philosopher, and representative of the omnipotence of education.

In "On Human Intellectual Ability and Education", Helvetia believed that human talents are equal, and there is no difference in hereditary quality. People are the product of environment and education, and their character, temperament and spirit are the result of education.The development of human rationality through education can form a sound morality, thereby changing the social status quo and establishing a rational social system. —— Encyclopedia

Note ⑥: This sentence is quoted from Watson's famous saying "a dozen babies".John Watson (1878-1958), American psychologist, founder of behaviorist psychology.