[Pride and Prejudice] Rich Lady

Elizabeth's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and Darcy could clearly see her struggle.The gentleman held his breath, and suddenly realized that the lady would not escape this time, but was seriously thinking about an answer.

"At least not now." After a long time, Elizabeth's voice sounded softly.

Darcy seemed to hear the sound of fairy tales.

This time she didn't deny her affection, and she didn't resist: "After I accept that Mr. William is Mr. Darcy, I still need some time." Clearly separate the Mr. Darcy who belonged to others in the past and you in front of me , You are you, you should not be split into two parts by my stubbornness, and use my prejudiced heart to completely deny you who came down from the letter paper.

The gentleman has the audacity to seize every opportunity to create a harmonious atmosphere and try his best to integrate into the life of the lady.The companionship and hard work for more than half a year have not been in vain. Elizabeth is finally willing to face up to the fact that her love for Mr. William has never faded away, and it remains the same after the false identity is exposed.

Elizabeth hesitated again and again, trying to push herself to take a step towards the threshold in her heart.

Mr. Darcy said hoarsely: "Good."

"Wow." Georgiana covered her mouth and asked Lydia in a low voice: "Is Lizzie blushing?" My brother seems to be too?

"If you want Mr. Darcy to succeed, it's best not to bother them now," said Lydia, holding back a smile.

No matter where Lydia is, she is particularly attractive to gentlemen. Although she has not been allowed to enter the social world, she already has many suitors. The young ones are just like the senior students who are a few years older than her. Public rest Her love letters can always be found in the drawer in the living room.No matter how hot the confession was, Lydia felt that she would not blush, but she did not expect Lizzie and Mr. Darcy to be so pure and innocent.If she coughed twice now, the man and woman staring at each other over there would definitely jump away in panic like a lamb that has been stabbed in the belly.

Fortunately, the little sister restrained her evil intentions, so that Mr. Darcy could enjoy this sweet time.

Mr. Darcy has been in high spirits recently, and he has begun to learn from his eldest brother-in-law, Mr. George, to care for and love his sisters.But obviously, Mr. Seed Merchant is naturally likable, while Mr. Darcy's care is inexplicably serious and testy.

He is more dignified than Mr. Bennet.

For example, Lydia's Latin and Georgiana's harp. When the sisters talked about homework, Mr. Darcy actively participated.First, I asked Lydia to read a section of "Gil Blass" (Note), pointed out her mistakes and omissions, and sincerely encouraged her to continue to work hard.Then Georgiana played a harp solo. Mr. Darcy said truthfully that compared with last year in Pemberley, he could not hear the progress of his sister, and finally he still encouraged her patiently.

"I just seemed to be facing Mrs. Judith. It should be said, except for the encouragement later, it was almost the same." Lydia whispered to her friend.

Georgiana plucked the strings. "I think Mary is right. My brother tried to be as romantic as he could with Lizzie. He's serious by nature, and hates any kind of pretense—maybe you have to get used to it, he That's how caring was shown at Pemberley."

"At that time Lizzie told him in the letter, teach him to eat in the garden with me, taste delicious food and talk heart-to-heart. He always turns the heart-to-heart conversation into a serious conversation." The younger sister exposed him ruthlessly: "He also knows On this point, I don’t like to talk, and often people say a few words before answering a sentence. People think he is arrogant, but he didn’t mean it. Because the more he talks, the more likely his taste will change, just like education and admonishing others. Obviously he didn't think so."

Georgiana revealed in a low voice: "He is as good as Mr. Bingley because Mr. Bingley won't misunderstand him, and Mr. Bingley often has to ask others to make up his mind for him. It's not awkward to talk to Lizzie for a long time. It's weird. .”

"Mr. Bingley?" Lydia remembered, "His sister seems to be trying to match you up. You received a letter from her asking to visit you before Christmas?"

Georgiana nodded, a little unhappy: "Mr. Bingley fell in love with a lady in Bath, but I don't know what Caroline thinks, and she asked me to write a letter to persuade her brother. A gentleman should not marry an old licentious widow' but what does it matter to me? I am only acquainted with Mr. Bingley because he is a friend of my brother, and I do not know Miss Bingley very well. I showed my letter to my brother, He was also very angry and told me not to pay any more attention to her."

Lydia hurriedly hugged her good friend who was pouting. She kind of understood the idea that her sisters liked to pinch her cheeks in the past.After bearing with it, the youngest girl in the Bennet family also learned to comfort others: "Don't worry, Miss Bingley will never visit Netherfield. We will return to Taurice after the holidays. She has no chance to disturb you."

Lydia dutifully told her that Miss Bingley used to entertain them in this house with arrogance, "She looked down on the country people and thought she was nobler than us. She had hoped that the manor that Mr. Bingley would buy now belonged to a group of country people She can’t get over her face.” And vividly narrated the conflict a long time ago: “… Lizzie and Jane collided when they said bad things, and Lizzie’s tongue was hotter than a poker in the fireplace. , she cried about impertinent Miss Bingley! But Mr. Darcy was walking with them at the time, and he, as you say, paid no attention to what Miss Bingley said. But Lizzie mistook him for letting Miss Bingley indulge her, and at that time I really hate him."

Georgiana didn't expect such a thing to happen before, and couldn't help saying: "Miss Bingley wants to be the mistress of Pemberley, and she always tries her best to maintain a ladylike manner in front of her brother. At that time, my brother liked Lizzie, and Miss Bingley saw it, so..."

The two little girls accidentally turned Mr. Darcy's inside out. Lydia counted the time silently, and then she said to Georgiana seriously: "Mr. Darcy is really admirable. I will cooperate well with Mrs. Tees who judges people like that. It is not easy for him, and he must be very distressed about his character."

Unbeknownst to Mr. Darcy, he acquired a small supporter.

Immediately afterwards, his love solved a problem that had troubled Mary for a long time.

After welcoming back a woman's monthly old friend, Elizabeth is extremely eager to make a "woman's close partner", but obviously she has no knowledge reserves about this kind of knowledge, so she has to make the toilet paper first. Softer and more comfortable, so there was the first small workshop she cooperated with Mary.

Mary is full of confidence in this nascent commodity "toilet paper" workshop, and has great ambitions to expand the workshop into a factory.The workshop conducts secondary processing on the straw paper purchased to make the straw paper whiter, cleaner, absorbent and softer.

"Although it's a bit more expensive, it's easier and more convenient than hiring a maid to crumple and soften the straw paper?" Mary looked through the account books, wondering why the workshop received so few orders.Not even one-tenth of the two shipments of papyrus (Note ②) from Finland and Germany have been sold, which is beyond the expectations of the two ladies.

The Bennet family welcomed this new commodity so well that not only relatives but also servants at Netherfield began to use the goods in the workshop and were willing to use their salary to buy this soft and easy-to-use paper for their family.It can be said that the biggest customers of toilet paper workshops come from themselves.

"Maybe I should try to advertise. Not only to England, but like buying papyrus from other countries, try to advertise to Tsarist Russia?" Mary suggested to herself.

Kitty was puzzled, "Why Tsarist Russia? That's a bit far away."

The well-read, the most knowledgeable among the sisters, Miss Mary shrugged: "To save the geese of Tsarist Russia."

"Mary is talking strange things again." Lydia held Kitty's puppy in her arms, and together with Georgiana smoothed it, the half-grown Scottish Shepherd fell docilely in the arms of the girls, whatever Warm little hands ran through its long hair.

Mary put down the account book, stretched out her hand and picked up a strand of white long hair on the chest of the little shepherd dog, and said with a smile, "Do you know what the Russian nobles liked to use to wipe...?"

There are only a few young ladies in the lounge, and they obviously don't need to avoid this kind of topic.

Kitty looked at the long hair in Mary's hand and had a flash of inspiration: "Use goose feathers?"

"Oh, then they really enjoy it. Goose feathers are at least better than salmon." Lydia said, she happened to see from Tao Lisi's collection that the English nobles used salmon fillets to wipe their asses three centuries ago. Because the salmon thorns were not soft enough, and the nobles at that time actually believed that salmon fillets had the effect of eliminating odor and preventing hemorrhoids (Note ③).

This made Miss Lydia so disgusted that she refused to eat smoked salmon for a whole month.

Mary's hands trembled when her little sister mentioned the salmon. It was obvious that she also knew about this strange history.Lydia successfully provoked her bad memories. Mary endured it and made up her mind to increase the knowledge of her sisters. So she helped Lydia popularize the 'salmon papyrus', and received Kitty and Georgiana pinched her neck and gagged.

"It's nothing, at least compared to the nobles of Tsarist Russia." Mary's voice lowered, and she deliberately attracted the attention of her sisters: "Kitty is not all right, there should be some before and now. People stick to this tradition - they don't use goose feathers, but goose necks to wipe."

Mary's gloomy gesture: "The living goose is strong and good at biting, so whenever the nobles need it, his servants will 'click!' cut off the goose's neck and hand it to him while it is still warm." Master!" (Note ④)

Lydia and Georgiana hugged each other in fright, the well-behaved collie was held in front of the chest by the two little girls, and Mary was not allowed to touch a hair.

Kitty shook her hand, and Mary's ledger spilled on the round table by the armchair.

"What's the matter?" Going out for a walk together, Jane and George, Elizabeth and Darcy, who just came back, happened to step into the large lounge at this time.

Lydia pulled Georgiana, and Kitty picked up the shepherd dog. The three little girls eagerly wanted to stay away from the scary Mary and go outside to bask in the sun to relax, "It's nothing, Mary has too many books, I accidentally knocked them over— —Let's go for a walk in the garden!"

Jane told the little sisters: "Come back soon, the sun will not be so warm soon."

"Got it." The little girls put on thick shawls and quickly disappeared from the lounge.

Mary also wanted to leave, whether it was Jane and Mr. George, or Lizzie and Mr. Darcy, when they were together, it often caused the third person to fall into a lonely situation: the first pair was too sweet to hold others; Discussing countless topics, the two of them connected their minds and jumped up. The person who interjected felt that he had missed a lot of information, but the two of them answered the conversation very naturally, as if some words could be conveyed with eyes without saying anything.But Mary habitually arranged the account books in chronological order, so she was delayed for a while, and Mr. Darcy was concerned about it unexpectedly.

"The workshop business is in trouble?" Mr. Darcy picked up a thin booklet and looked at the income and expenditure records on it. There were very few orders.

This gentleman has always believed that the way of doing business in a hurry is not advisable. Running a property requires both diligence and method: "Maybe I can help."

"Suggestions for products and outlets," he continued. "What products?"

"..." How could Mary tell Mr. Darcy that her workshop produces soft toilet paper specially used to wipe buttocks? The two partners never mentioned this new room in front of the gentlemen. workshop.Although the two gentlemen present had indeed enjoyed the benefits of the new paper, it was not clear that the soft papyrus was a commodity of the new workshop.

Mary looked at Elizabeth for help, expecting her to say something, but even the witty Miss Lizzie was stumped.

"Uh." Miss Mary, who was scaring her sisters just now, felt speechless.

A spark flashed in her mind, and she suddenly thought of the reason for the lack of orders for toilet paper: can you expect the ladies who add supplies for the home to say "paper to wipe your ass" in the store? Shameful words?

Without solving this embarrassing problem, even if the toilet paper produced by the workshop is easy to use, it will be difficult to open a market.

"Thank you, Mr. Darcy, you have been of great help." Mary picked up the stack of account books and hurriedly left the lounge.

"Have I been of any help?" Darcy asked his lady, "but I haven't done anything."

"I guess you really helped." Elizabeth said sincerely, looking at her sister's somewhat panicked back.

The author has something to say: Before eight o'clock, the sunfish at least kept the fg at night.

Note: "Gil Blas" is the representative work of Alan Rene Le Sage (1668-1747), which tells the story of the young Spanish Gil Blas who climbed from a commoner to the position of secretary to the prime minister, reflecting the feudal society The realities of French society during the period of disintegration and growing bourgeoisie describe relationships where money rules everything. ——"European Enlightenment Literature in the 18th Century"

This kind of realistic seriousness is not Lydia's favorite bibliography. Mr. Darcy also commented on the pronunciation...

Note ②: Modern British paper and cardboard are mainly imported from European countries, mainly Finland, Sweden, Germany and France.Yu did not find any data on the British paper industry at that time, so he directly used the current data. Paper production polluted the environment, so it was set to be imported.

Note ③: "In the fifteenth century, Britain at that time focused on innocent salmon when it came to wiping their buttocks, probably because the salmon was soft and smooth, with no thorns in the meat, and the nobles believed that raw fish Tablets have the functions of eliminating peculiar smell and preventing hemorrhoids, just like they believe that God can save mankind, and salmon has since embarked on the fate of intimate contact with chrysanthemums without passing through the stomach." —— "The Difficult Evolution History of Toilet Paper"

Note ④: "During the Enlightenment, a big white goose would die every time the Russian aristocrats shit. According to historical records, the Russian aristocrats firmly believed that their chrysanthemums were very delicate and needed soft things like silk or feathers to clean them. How could geese have imagined that the nobles would stare at them when they were shitting. If the nobles felt like shitting in the toilet, they would order their servants to prepare a gooseneck. Geese are generally more staunch and will show their whole body. The unyielding nature of the goose has caused troubles for the big white goose. It bites people who want to plot against it. When nobles need the goose neck to wipe their butt, they don't rely on the servants to stretch the neck of the goose and rub it on the butt. Cut off the neck of the goose and hand it to the nobles. The pleasure of going to the toilet was endowed with a sad color by the Russian nobles." - "The Difficult Evolution History of Toilet Paper"

This goose refers not to falling off the goose feathers, but to using the goose's neck.During the period of Peter the Great, a goose was slaughtered every day to make his "toilet paper". Of course, this is a high-end sanitary product that only Russian nobles can enjoy. ——"Toilet Paper Evolution History"

When I checked the information, I was stunned by the "wonderful ideas" of people in history: Ancient Rome used a public "a small stick wrapped in a sponge soaked in sea water or salt water" to wipe its butt; Hawaii actually Coconut shells are used; France uses a shared thick hemp rope, which is pulled back and forth along the butt like sawing wood... only we can't think of it, there is nothing we can't do.