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

Deep in the dark, steep hills of Egdon Moor, there is a medieval Charles-era manor house.Once, this was a noble mansion dedicated to enjoyment and summer vacation. It and the whole valley, no, even the whole land of Eldon Moor and the surrounding land belonged to a nobleman in ancient Normandy.However, in today's Victorian era, no matter what kind of prominent history this family once had, or how fierce and domineering it was to exert influence on its own land, today, only This ruined manor was once named the D'Urberville Manor.

In particular, the owner who currently occupies the noble surname d'Urberville, it is said that in order to please his beautiful wife, who really has the noble blood of the d'Urberville family flowing in her body, she did not know how to successfully transfer this The ownerless mansion is legally in possession.The nearby countrymen who knew the matter couldn't help sighing that the pride and glory of the d'Urberville family survived under the shelter of a thief, which is also considered its good fortune compared to other nobles who have long been buried.

One morning not long after everyone felt the heat, the bright sun had spread the heat unsparingly on this green wasteland. Finally, the farmers in the valley couldn’t bear the strong heat, and sat under the trees together, wiping Sweat, drink water and chat.At this moment, a bright and spacious two-horse carriage "treaded" passed by people's eyes, and quickly disappeared at the end of the tree-lined path.

Someone asked curiously: "Which wealthy family came to this remote village in a beautiful carriage with two horses?"

Someone immediately poked his head and said to him in a low voice: "It must be the family who bought the Shengu Manor."

"Guess how beautiful Mrs. d'Urberville is, so that the master of this family is so fascinated that he buys whatever he wants?" The people nearby discussed mysteriously.

This sentence obviously aroused the great interest of the friends who were resting nearby, and they gathered around one by one, all with tacit smiles, talking about the romantic secrets of the lords, ladies and wives who they thought were unattainable.

Occasionally a gust of cool wind blew by, but it couldn't blow away the enthusiasm of these country folks to exchange what they knew about the gentlemen.

At this time, the two righteous masters they were talking about were indeed in the carriage.

The empress actually didn't want to come and see the mansion that was said to be Tess's ancestor, but Alec, who had always wanted to take credit for it, insisted, so she could only entrust poor Auston to Lisa and Abraham to take care of, and followed Alec is here.Due to Alec's madness last night, the empress felt extremely tired at this time, so she had to use Alec's thigh as a pillow, and was lying on the cushion of the carriage, squinting and dozing lazily, while poor Alec had been squeezed. It's at the wall.

But Alec seemed happy with their intimacy and didn't feel aggrieved at all.At this moment, his hand was ambiguously rubbing back and forth on his little wife's slender waist, and suddenly he was slapped hard by a white hand.

Alec looked down and saw his wife's eyes were still closed, but her brows were raised.

"If I'm moving, I'll sit on the opposite side." The woman parted her lips slightly and said softly.

Alec immediately behaved and obediently moved his hand away.

The empress was satisfied with this, she felt drowsy again in the rhythmic "stepping" of the carriage, and her consciousness gradually became confused...

Suddenly, John who was driving outside heard a loud "snap!", and then his wife shouted angrily: "Alec!" He held on to the horsewhip, whipped the two horses each, and silently nodded for his husband. root wax. ...Don't think about it, the husband must have done something absurd to make the lady angry again, after all, the lady is always such a calm and calm lady.

In the carriage, Alec was grievously stroking the place on his thigh where the beauty had slapped him cruelly, while sneaking a few glances at her.

The empress stared blankly at Alec's raised spot, and reached out to touch her right cheek which had been bumped twice. Except for the call of his name just now, she was very calm.Alec, who was stared at a certain part, finally turned sideways uncomfortably, hiding the cool place to avoid disaster.

The other party still did not speak.

Alec finally couldn't bear the dormant silence of this crisis, so he had to take the initiative to explain: "Believe me, I didn't mean it, my dear..."

The empress didn't speak, but she was actually reflecting on whether she was too used to Alec recently.Ever since the apartment in London was given to Alec that night, she has been tossed to death by Alec almost every night, and even during the day she always finds opportunities to pretend to be stupid and take advantage of it.If she had ever thought of playing with Alec in order to seduce him, now she has put this idea of ​​death behind her, because he is simply a beast of desire-gulp-difficult-satisfaction!

She thought this way, looked up at the other party, Alec was alert, immediately put on an aggrieved look, pouted and shook his mother coquettishly: "Honey, it's your breath that keeps hitting me that makes me I can't help it... don't be angry, okay?"

He finally figured it out, as long as he puts on a stupid look in front of his wife, she will calm down most of the time, and the remaining small part depends on his man's primitive crushing of women, although he still has to bow his head and admit his mistake afterwards , but at that moment she had no strength to be angry.

Lisa would always look him up and down with contemptuous eyes at this time, don't think he didn't know that she was teasing her sister behind his back for pretending to be cute, but so what, her sister would just do it!

Sure enough, when she saw Alec's blue eyes full of grievances and innocence, she couldn't help but think of her son Auston's blue eyes exactly like his father's, and she couldn't express her anger.

It turns out that the truth is here, Alec is purely in favor of his son!

The empress closed her eyes silently, and after a moment of silence, she pointed to the seat opposite and said, "Sit over there with your back facing me."

"I don't want it, honey," he continued to shake and act coquettishly, "I promise to control myself, no matter how hard it is." When he said this, the tone seemed to be that he had made a lot of sacrifices and concessions.

The empress was really defeated by Alec's shamelessness, and she sat silently in the carriage.

"Aren't you going to sleep, honey?" Alec asked.

He was answered with a light glance from his wife.

"Okay." There was a trace of regret in Alec's tone.

The luxurious two-horse carriage followed the avenue of the valley to Jinqiao Village, turned left and drove straight through the Elizabeth Bridge. Gradually, you can see the ruins of the manor, and the only strong one next to it that has been rebuilt by someone. into a farmhouse house.

Alec got out of the car and bent his arms so that his wife could help him down. "Welcome to your ancestor's house."

The empress didn't seem to hear the pride in Alec's tone. After getting out of the car, John the coachman stood guard at the door and did not come in, waiting for the hosts to finish their visit.

Although the sun is shining outside, the house is dark inside and smells damp and musty as soon as you enter the house.Alec took the initiative to light the nearly burnt candles embedded on the wall, and for a while, he could barely see the environment inside the house.

This house is not big, it may be the side building of the collapsed house next door.There was almost nothing in the house, so the empress could see the paintings hanging on the wall at the stairs at the end of the house at a glance.Seeing his wife glance at the two paintings, Alec immediately became interested in introducing them.

"Honey, it is said that the owners of this painting were the two wives of the d'Urberville family 200 years ago. Because the portrait is embedded in the wall, it cannot be removed." He walked over and lit the candle near the stairs .

Under the flickering light, the empress could see clearly the faces of the two Mrs. d'Urbervilles.

The two paintings are the same size, one of them has a long and pointed face, the eyes are squinted, thin and long, and there is no smile; the other has a hooked nose and wide-eyed eyes , with a pair of buck teeth, looks fierce.

Although she has lived with these foreigners for some time, the empress still cannot clearly recognize the faces of other people except for the few faces she sees every day.But these two women in front of them will never be forgotten as long as they take a look at them.

She has always been very tolerant of beautiful people and things, and ugly ones are out of her tolerance.At this moment, she sincerely expressed her disgust, "It's so ugly." After she finished speaking, she turned her head and didn't want to see these two portraits again.

Alec was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "My little Tess, this is your ancestor! It seems that your beauty has nothing to do with the d'Urbervilles. You should thank your mother, the d'Urbevilles, when you go back." Madame!"

The empress covered her nose with a handkerchief, and did not comment on Alec's teasing.

At this moment, the sound of the carriage stopping was heard outside the house again.Both Alec and the empress cast their eyes on the door.

Sure enough, two men in suits and tall hats came in very quickly.

When they saw Alec and Mistress, they took off their hats and put them on their chests.

The older man apologized politely: "I'm sorry, Mr. d'Urberville, madam, we are late."

When facing the other party as a gentleman, Alec will usually show tolerance at this time, in order to highlight that his morality is enough to be considered a gentleman, "Oh, sir, it's okay, please don't take this trivial matter to heart. "

As he spoke, he introduced to his wife, "These two are architects from Montebella Architects in London..." He didn't know each other's names, so he glanced at them.

The older man immediately responded, "Oh, sir, madam, my name is Jude Evans, this is my assistant, Stephen Wilson, we are entrusted by you to design the house."

The young man named Stephen nodded slightly.

Alec turned his head and asked his wife: "Honey, what kind of manor do you want?"

It's useless to ask the empress, how does she know anything about architecture?So she raised her eyebrows, threw the question back to them, and said, "Let the two experienced architects decide."

Alec felt that the way the lady raised her eyebrows was also very attractive, so regardless of the presence of outsiders, he slapped the lady's face loudly, embraced her and said, "My baby, this is your manor! It's good for you , don’t care about anything else, just let me worry about you!” After he finished speaking, he nodded to Jude Evans: “Mr. Evans must design this place beautifully, money is not a problem .”

The two gentlemen had just been taken aback by Alec's sudden movement.But Jude Evans is a person with rich experience after all, he froze for a moment, then smiled again, "Okay, sir."

As for Stephen Johnson, he was dazed for a while looking at the pretty side face of his mother who was kissed by Alec. He didn't wake up until Alec stared at him displeasedly, and the boss beside him cleared his throat in embarrassment. She blushed and looked away, lowered her head, and the empress couldn't help but look at it curiously with a shy look.

Alec's face darkened even more now.

On the way back, unlike the intimacy when he came, Alec kept silent to show that he was very angry now.But his little wife, who was trying to attract attention, was leisurely fanning the fan in her hand, as if she didn't notice his emotions, and stayed on her own.

Alec endured and endured, but before he could attract his wife's attention, he finally couldn't hold back anymore, and asked, "Tess d'Urberville! Why did you go to see that poor boy just now? He is more handsome than me." ?"

The empress fanned her fan, ignoring her jealous husband.

"Are you guilty? Did I hit the mark?" Someone played persistently.

The empress sighed secretly, feeling a little bit worried about Auston who was still in his infancy, if he was like his father... Thinking of this, she sighed helplessly again, pulling herself together to coax the truth I am the husband of children playing tricks.

She opened her mouth and was about to speak when the carriage suddenly bumped and stopped abruptly.

Alec stuck his head out violently, and saw his servant riding a horse to stop the carriage.

Before Alec could curse, the servant rushed to report:

"Sir, something has happened to your father-in-law, Mr Durbeyfield!"

Alec froze for a moment, then reflexively turned back to look at his wife in the car, and looked at her in twos who raised her eyes.