[Tess of the D'Urbervilles] Concubine Wan Gui counterattacks the doormat

Near the time of lunch, the wedding banquet was also prepared under the arrangement of the butler Demville.

The wedding reception was held in the large gardens of the d'Urberville estate.

The carriages entered the manor one after another. After the owners got off the carriages, the servants immediately stepped forward to guide the drivers to stop the carriages.

Walk in from the round arches of flowers woven with holly branches, roses, geraniums, lilies, etc., step on the long red carpet, and a servant in red uniform stands a few yards away to guide the way. We walked along the red carpet into the maze of bushes, turned a few turns along the road, and finally saw the exit in front of us. A huge fountain with five plaster lions on the tray crashed into our eyes. Not far from the fountain, there are long dining tables on both sides, with ferns, green leaves, large roses, dahlias and other decorative flowers in the center of the dining table. Washing dishes are neatly placed in front of each seat on both sides of the dining table. Finger bowls, plates with neat white napkins, and silverware.Not far from the dining table, an ensemble is taking turns playing the most popular wedding repertoires of famous composers such as Debussy and Bach.

Alec was smoking a cigar, leaning contentedly on the spacious balcony on the second floor, watching the guests entering the arena one after another, gathering in groups of three or four, talking and chatting with glasses of wine.

"Sir." Demville appeared behind him.

"Is there something wrong?" Alec exhaled a puff of smoke without looking back.

Even on such a happy day today, Demville's face was always respectful and serious: "Sir, there is no Claret red wine in the wine cellar."

Only then did Alec turn around in surprise: "Oh? Didn't you just buy a batch from a winery in London a while ago?"

Demville replied blankly: "Mr. Durbeyfield likes this type of red wine very much."

Alec understood immediately.Since his father-in-law came to the manor, he hadn't seen him much, and he probably hid in the wine cellar to drink.

Alec disagreed, "Oh, let's use rum and champagne instead, our guests shouldn't mind."

"Yes, sir."

Demville went down.

Alec finished smoking a cigar upstairs, reached out and patted the dress on his body, felt that most of the smell of the smoke had dissipated, and then went downstairs to find his beautiful bride today, but she must not let her know that he was smoking again Otherwise, he will never be allowed to hold baby Auston again.

He went downstairs and stood at the corner of the stairs, and saw ladies in splendid attire sitting around the bride, and they all spread their fans and half-covered their mouths and talked softly.

Alec saw his little wife sitting among many wealthy or noble-born ladies, swinging her fan back and forth boredly, and occasionally heard something that seemed to be funny. People who are also women stare dumbfounded.

Alec felt himself overwhelmed by a strong sense of vanity.Yes, this beautiful lady is his wife. May I ask which man is as lucky as him to pick a real king of roses?

What Alec didn't know was that his little wife was not very happy at the moment.

Although the soft-spoken women were gossiping about the other family's affairs on the surface, they all flaunted their superiority overtly and secretly. Occasionally, when they talked about other family's scandals, they still did not forget to reflect her This country girl who gave birth out of wedlock.

Those who are familiar with the empress know that the softer she smiles, the greater the anger accumulated in her heart.

Lisa, who was beginning to get a little sense of the empress's expression, secretly sweated. She was really afraid that if the empress's spoiled temper came up, she would embarrass these female guests in public.

"Wow—————" Little Alston's cry came from upstairs.

Lisa could not help but secretly heave a sigh of relief when she heard the crying sound that the little one was used to when she woke up. Thank goodness that the blue-eyed brand fire extinguisher finally appeared!

Sure enough, when the mother who had been smiling all the time heard the cry of her baby son, her face changed slightly, and she immediately stood up and looked up the stairs, just in time to see Alec who had been standing on the stairs watching, and remembered that all the humiliation she suffered today came from For this man, she couldn't help but gouged him out.

Alec, who had never seen such a fierce gaze, shuddered and almost backed away.

He saw her walking straight towards him with the complicated hem of her gown, went straight upstairs, brushed past him neatly, and walked upstairs.

What did I do wrong again... Alec couldn't help but feel a little depressed, puzzled.

The little guy woke up and couldn't see his mother who had been with him all the time. He was crying vigorously and worried about his grandmother Mrs. Durbeyfield who had been hugging him to comfort him.

"Baby, kiss baby, don't cry, don't cry, grandma kisses you, okay?" She moved her mouth and kissed the little guy's soft face, but the little guy didn't like her and cried She was speaking, and her little arm was still stretched out, pushing Mrs. Durbeyfield's mouth away, much to Mrs. Durbeyfield's distress.

Suddenly her eyes lit up, and she resorted to the time-tested trick of the uncles and aunts who coaxed the little ones, "Grandma sings to our little baby, okay? Oh, you sun, you moon... oh, you bright star ..."

The little guy cried even harder, twisting his waist, trying to break free from grandma's shackles.Crying and singing each accounted for half of the country, filling the entire room.

The empress pushed open the door dumbfounded, and came over to hug the little guy. The child's sensitive nose smelled the usual familiar scent, and then slowly stopped crying, and went to her usual granary, but couldn't drink milk anyway. , "humming" again, opened his mouth and was about to cry again.

The empress quickly patted the little guy's back to appease him. Abi, who had been standing in the room at a loss, that is, Abraham, passed over the milk that had been warmed up in the glass bottle. The empress took the bottle and stood beside the bed. Sitting down, she held the little guy with one hand, let him sit in her arms with his back against her, and brought the bottle to him.

The little guy smelled it, opened his small mouth, held the pacifier in his mouth, and sucked it hastily.

Everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and finally quieted the little evil star.

Alec followed the empress up, looked at the door, and saw that she had regained her gentleness when facing the little guy. He couldn't help but feel relieved, and then turned and left. After all, the wedding banquet is about to begin, and the bride and groom are not here It's not polite behavior to speak on the spot.

When Alec asked the maid to come up and call his mother down, the little guy had already fallen asleep after eating and drinking, but his little hand was still holding on to his mother's tightly, as if sleeping restlessly in a dream. Just disappeared like that.

The empress lovingly kissed the baby's tender forehead, slowly let go of his little finger, and slowly got up. Abraham, who volunteered to take care of the child this morning, immediately went to replace the position that his sister had just left, and waited for the The maid immediately stepped forward to arrange the dress for her.

The empress cast a satisfied look at her younger brother Abraham, and nodded silently to Mrs. Durbeyfield. The overjoyed Mrs. Durbeyfield immediately stepped forward, took her daughter's arm, and accompanied her daughter to the banquet.

The guest's meal has reached the last fruit tart dessert.

As soon as Alec saw his beautiful little wife appear, he walked towards her, stretched out his left arm, and waited for her to take it.The empress is good at what she does.

The butler, Demville, walked to the center of the dining table, bent down and whispered a few words respectfully to a thin old man over fifty years old who was sitting on the seat.The old man put down the knife and lightly touched his mouth with the napkin before putting it down. The servant behind him immediately handed him the black top hat and crutches. The old man took them, stood up, put on the hat, and took the crutches. Walk towards the bride and groom.

Two servants slowly pushed the twelve-tiered wedding cake into the middle of the wedding banquet hall.

The old man was Alec's grandfather, the old Duke Maurice.

He stood still in front of the cake and the couple, picked up his crutches, and made a stop gesture with both hands.The dining guests put down the tableware immediately, and the venue was very quiet for a while.

The old man cleared his throat before he started his speech: "Dear guests, Alec and Tess got married today under the witness of the Lord. Now, let us bless this young couple to support each other in the future. Let’s form a new happy family together!”

The crowd applauded.

The servant dining cart pushed a glass of mead as clear as yellow crystal to the bride and groom. Alec picked it up and handed it to the empress. The empress did not understand the meaning, but took a few sips of the wine obediently. Alec took it Goblet, drink up the remaining mead.

The applause rang out again.

The old prince handed the cane to the servant beside him, picked up the knife with the pink bow tie, and cut the cake.The servant took the knife, cut off the top layer of cake and put it into the exquisite paper box that had already been prepared next to it. Another servant stepped forward to pack the paper box and pushed it away before continuing to cut the remaining cakes one by one for the guests. enjoy.

The quiet venue became noisy again.

While everyone was no longer paying attention to the bride and groom, Alec whispered in his mother's ear: "Honey, when will our Auston become a big brother?"

Hearing Alec's malicious teasing, the empress looked forward fixedly, not intending to start a conversation.

Alec was not discouraged, and said in a coquettish tone: "My dear wife...we got married today..." He looked at her expectantly.

After hearing this, the empress seemed to be shaken. She pondered for a while, then raised the corners of her lips slightly, and said softly: "Alec, I promise, you will not be disappointed tonight."

Alec was ecstatic after hearing this, and resisted the urge to hug her and kiss her beautiful little mouth. He was looking forward to tonight's arrival, but what happened to the unease mixed with the expectation? thing?

Alec ignored the flash of bad feeling and looked forward to tonight with all his heart.

Empress is indeed reconsidering her way of getting along with Alec.

Now that they are married, no matter how bad this man is and how much she dislikes him, the skin-to-skin relationship between husband and wife is always unavoidable.That being the case, why didn't she hook this man's body well and make him fascinated by her? She had to, lest she be taken advantage of by other women?

Thinking of this, she turned her head and smiled at the man who had been trying to swallow her with his eyes. Sure enough, the man's eyes became even hotter.

The night finally arrived in Alec's anticipation.

Before it was completely dark, Alec couldn't wait to take a shower, and knocked on his and his new wife's new house in off-white cotton pajamas.In fact, he originally wanted to go in directly, but for some reason, on a whim, he made a gentlemanly move, bent his fingers and knocked on the door.

"May I come in, ma'am?" Alec asked through the door, pretending to be serious.

There was silence for a while, and then his wife's voice came, "Please come in."

Only then did Alec happily push the door open and enter.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the beauty lying on the big bed.She was wearing a nightdress with the same quality as his pajamas at the moment, and when she heard the sound of him coming in, she looked at him quietly with her rainbow eyes, making his heart shake.But... what happened to the little guy in front of her who was sleeping soundly with his arms and legs outstretched?

"Honey, why is our little Alston here?" Alec didn't notice how ridiculous his happy face drooped all of a sudden, and the empress couldn't help laughing out loud when she saw it. .

Seeing his little wife's unusually different smile for the first time, Alec was stunned.

Seeing Alec's stupidity, the empress stopped laughing, and pleaded coquettishly: "Alec, will Auston sleep with us from now on?"

Alec was obviously not dazed by the beauty, he carefully considered his words and refused: "This is our room, my dear... If we get out of control at night... maybe we will wake up little Oston. sleep……"

"However, I am not at ease to put Auston out of my sight... You see, Auston can sleep in his special cot, just promise me, my good sir..."

Alec followed his mother's gaze and saw the cradle beside the bed, still feeling embarrassed, "But..."

"Okay, dear Alec..." Alec met the empress's eyes full of pleading, and it was hard to refuse.

"Okay..." Alec finally surrendered.

Those eyes burst out with beautiful brilliance immediately, "Alec, you are so kind!"

Alec's heart skipped a beat, and in order to hide his gaffe, he quickly put on a mischievous smile, "My honey, you promised me tonight, remember?" he said , one long leg had already straddled the bed, and the other leg suddenly kicked a box.

Alec just looked down and kicked the box under the bed.

The empress has seen it before, it was the first layer of cake cut by the servant at noon today, "This cake..."

Alec is full of eyes on her, and now he has passed the little guy and pressed on the beauty he was thinking of, and kissed her chin and neck with his mouth, "Don't worry about it, dear, remember today we drink mead? It's urging us to have more children."

The empress was tickled by Alec's hot breath, she couldn't help covering his restless mouth with her hand, and reminded in a low voice, "Auston..."

Alec paused, turned over quickly in pain, picked up the little guy and put him in the cradle beside the bed.

Seeing his rude actions, the empress couldn't help frowning, and warned softly: "...be gentle."

Seeing that the beauty was about to be taken down, Alec didn't want to fall short at the last moment, and immediately obeyed her wishes and carefully put the little guy into the cradle slowly, and even touched his little head tenderly, learning to The empress usually pulled up the quilt to cover his belly.

After doing all this, he turned his head, staring at the woman on the bed like a hungry wolf seeing meat.

Now, you can't escape.He thought hard.

Before he could get close enough, the lifeless woman stretched out her arms for his embrace for the first time ever.

The two immediately fell on the bed, kissing and stroking each other.

"Alec..." The woman called him pantingly between kisses.

Never let her open that pretty little mouth!Alec, who had just moved his mouth away, immediately blocked it back, he was already frightened by her capriciousness.

"Hmm!...Ali..." The woman was so passionately kissed by the man that she couldn't speak.

Under the flickering yellow candlelight, the two figures were entangled and reflected on the wall in front of the bed.

Suddenly, the man stood up abruptly, grabbed the woman's hand tightly, stared at her face below, and asked, "Why?" Would she let him try that shameful and indescribable pain again? ?

The empress broke free from him, took her hand back, looked back at him innocently, and explained: "Honey, I just give you what you want."

Alec was driving her crazy!What does he want she doesn't know yet?At this moment, Alec was thinking desperately in his mind whether he made her unhappy again today, which made her want to punish him like this.By the way, she gave him a special look today, was it at that time?However, he really can't remember what he did wrong...

Seeing Alec's ever-changing face, the empress tried her best not to laugh, and said, "Alec, you know, I just gave birth and I can't really give it to you, but I can use my hands to serve you... "

Alec really doesn't have the common sense that you can't do things after giving birth, but now he's all focused on the second half of her sentence, and he hastily refused: "No! I don't need it!" He was really afraid that if she was unhappy, he would It was scrapped.

The empress couldn't help laughing anymore, so she could only turn her back to him, showing a look of disappointment, and said in a muffled voice on purpose: "Oh, that's really a pity."

Seeing her like this, Alec was even more glad that he had rejected her.

She really wanted to find a chance to punish me.he thought.