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

"Oh, you also participated?" Although questioned, the tone of disbelief.

The empress lay on the bed, rang the bell, the little guy's head turned around immediately, stretched out her hand to pull and pull, but still couldn't reach the bell, shrugged her mouth, opened her mouth and cried loudly, the empress put the bell on the little guy's head In his hand, he still sobbed for a while, and then slowly stopped, his small fat hand was not as big as a bell, so he had to hold it with both hands to play.

Alec moved his eyes away from his son, embraced his mother, and said with a playful smile: "Honey, you really know me, of course, you know, my goal is only little Howard."

The empress didn't speak, she stretched out her hand to take her son who was enjoying himself into her arms, and bowed her head to kiss her.

Alec was also moved when he saw this, and he lowered his head and whispered in his wife's ear, "Honey, we will...huh?" .

The empress gave him a sideways look, which was clearly a seductive gesture, but she said mercilessly, "No."

"No, you can't treat me like this~" Alec said coquettishly.

"No." The empress is very firm, she has not recovered from the scene this afternoon, and she has made up her mind not to spoil him anymore.

"Honey……"

"Honey, I'm very tired today, really." The empress turned around, crossed her arms on the back of his neck and hugged him, looking at him sincerely with a very pitiful look.

It was rare for Alec to see her showing weakness, and his heart softened early, he just hugged her, buried his face on her shoulder, sniffed her faint fragrance, and said aggrievedly: "Okay then, but next time you want to make it up to me..."

The empress patted her head speechlessly, suddenly felt that this posture was very familiar, thought for a while, and asked: "Alec, did you come back after going out this afternoon?"

Alec continued to rub his chin against her, intending to make her angry, "No."

The empress was silent, she had some doubts in her heart, she clearly felt it... She couldn't be dissatisfied with Yuqiu, she was dreaming, right?Thinking of this, she suddenly reached out and patted the back of Alec's head, it was all the fault of this man who was always begging for sex!

Alec was suddenly slapped by the beauty, "Ouch", "Honey..." He stretched out his hand to touch the place where he was photographed, feeling wronged.

The empress was not guilty, and ordered, "You go take a bath!"

Alec reluctantly kissed the back of his wife's ear, and after a long time, he got up and walked out the door.

After Alec went out, the empress stretched out her index finger and rubbed her lips, but she couldn't think about it, so she lowered her head and continued to tease her son.

*****

Claire couldn't sleep tonight, his hands and feet were bound by himself, so he couldn't turn over and over again, but as soon as he closed his eyes, he could recall the scene this afternoon, with a complex emotion of rapid heartbeat and endless fear.

Finally, he gave up on falling asleep, untied himself, sat down at the table, poured himself a glass of water, and took a sip.

"Am I obsessed with something? Could it be that the goddess of revenge, Megla, came to the world and deliberately stimulated me, driving me into a madness?" Claire muttered to himself, and the more he thought about it, the more annoying he was, so he had to open the door and go outside. walk around.

It was already late at night, and Claire slowly went downstairs in the flickering candlelight, and walked outside the building. Only the two gas lamps at the door of the whole building were brighter, attracting some mosquitoes to fly.

The crickets in the grass chirped "chirp chirp" one after another. Claire walked through the dense grass and came to the wooden bench where Tess and Alston were walking. He put his hands on the back of the chair and paused. just sat down.

At his feet, clumps of sorrel had already bloomed. Small yellow, red, and purple flowers were densely dotted in the grass, swaying gently in the night wind.

Of course, Claire recognized that these sorrels were specially transplanted by Alec from Ireland, in order to show Tess his determination.But it's a pity that after he secretly observed Tess's demeanor when she was walking every day, he found that every time she walked by without squinting, she didn't even look at the humble but profound plants under her feet.

But at this time, Alec's deliberate move did not make the people he cared about understand the meaning, but gave him a heavy slap on the bewildered face of an outsider who watched silently!

Oxalis, the guardian of Ireland, the guardian of the country, and the family!

He originally only wanted to be a guardian of happiness, when did he have the idea of ​​invading? !He was in great pain for his despicableness. He had already committed a crime in his previous life, but he made up his mind to come here to repent, why did it lead to another crime?He covered his face with his hands in shame and curled up on the bench.

He is not a devout Catholic, but when he encounters confusion and pain, he can only use Catholic doctrine to guide himself and find spiritual comfort. However, when his strong expectations conflict with the doctrine , Deep down in his heart, he is no longer willing to abide by the clear rules, and he just wants to break the rules and act according to his own will.Then, at this time, he consciously began to deviate from religion, and deliberately forgot the discipline education he had received since he was a child. However, he could no longer use religion to escape the self-blame and guilt that had been repeatedly engraved in his heart in his previous life, so he couldn't suppress it. The pain began again long.Every day, he struggles with such repeated conflicting consciousness.He can't be a completely bad person, and he can't resist the temptation to be a good person. He is such a contradictory and painful person.

Claire was confessing in pain, when suddenly a soft voice interrupted his efforts, "Mr. Crick?"

Claire looked up and saw the little girl Lisa standing not far away and looking at him curiously.

He put down his hands, trying to restore his expression to be as respectful but distant as in the daytime.

"Good evening, Miss Lisa." He stood up and said hello, hoping that the other party would return to her comfortable little bed after this greeting, and not discover the secret of his drooping eyes.

"Good evening." Apparently, Lisa didn't know what Claire was thinking. She was already carefully holding the hem of her skirt to prevent the night mist that fell on the grass from getting wet on her white nightdress, and walked over in small steps. up.

"Miss Lisa, let me remind you, it's very late now, and it seems that a lady shouldn't appear in this place." Claire tried to keep her tone as cold as possible to drive away the little girl who was getting closer.

Lisa wouldn't be intimidated by this tone, and besides, she was very cute like Professor Snape. The more rigid the handsome butler in front of her, the more interested she was in teasing her, especially on this sleepless and boring night.

"It's okay, if you don't tell me, no one will know. I have insomnia tonight, so you can chat with me." As he spoke, Lisa had already come to him.

Claire turned around and turned her back, "I'm really sorry, Miss Lisa, I'm going back to my room to enjoy a comfortable sleep now, please excuse me."

"Hey! Hey!" Lisa didn't want him to leave, so she reached out to pull his arm. Claire didn't seem to expect Lisa to be so bold, and looked at her in shock, even forgetting to hide the strangeness on her face.

Lisa was scared back a few steps by his eyes, but when she saw the tears under his eyes, she immediately became overwhelmed. She didn't know how to deal with it, so she pointed to his face and asked stupidly: " You, are you crying?"

Claire immediately turned her face away, lowered her eyes, and was about to walk back.

Lisa didn't stop him this time, but just comforted him in a low voice behind him: "Mr. Crick, actually, if there is something unhappy, maybe it will make you feel better if you say it?"

Claire ignored her and continued to walk back, but the rhythm of his steps was obviously slow. When he reached the door, he stood quietly for a while before turning around and looking back at Lisa who was still standing there. .

Claire felt that he was about to be driven crazy by himself and went to the doctor in a hurry. Maybe there were some psychological factors that Lisa, who used to know everything about him and Tess, was still a little girl who was ignorant. Anyway, he should die now Sitting on a bench, he told the secret of his heart to an ignorant child, and now he feels extremely comfortable!

"...I fell in love with a girl, but hurt her badly. Later, she forgot that I married another man. I wanted to bless her, but I couldn't let it go..."

Lisa suddenly realized that this is another bloody theater where I only regret when you love me and I don't cherish you when you don't love me!Although she has never been in a relationship, she is watching a lot of love TV dramas, besides, a handsome guy like Butler Crick, who is cold on the outside and fragile on the inside, is the most suitable to be the affectionate male number two!So she tried her best to recall which stories she had read could enlighten him according to the script, but at the same time, she couldn't make the other party feel that she was a veteran of feelings.Just kidding, a 12-year-old girl just pretends to be someone who has come here to tell the lovelorn man that it's the scariest, okay, she doesn't want to be caught and burned as a different kind.

In fact, after Claire confided, the pain in her heart eased a little. Seeing Lisa wrinkling her small face and trying to comfort herself, she couldn't help but feel a little funny. Just as she was about to reach out to touch her head, she was immediately stopped by her own thoughts. .

The current Lisa...is no longer the Lisa who knew him and married him.

Lisa didn't know that the other party had fallen into a new entanglement. She lowered her head and thought hard, and suddenly her eyes lit up.She raised her head and said in deliberation:

"Housekeeper Crick, I heard this little story when I was very young. I really heard it... Once upon a time, on a planet, there lived only a prince. One day, there was a rose I took root on this planet..." Later, Lisa said the story became more and more slippery, "...the prince is in pain, because he loves this rose, so he takes the rose's words too seriously , so that he tossed himself to exhaustion... He thought that because his planet had only one flower to accompany him, he would make himself miserable, but what if he saw other things? So, the prince thought Traveling to other planets... Later, although the prince still couldn't forget the rose that stayed on his own planet, he made many friends, and there was no more than one rose in his life .”

The story was finally finished, and Lisa looked at Claire with burning eyes: "Have you heard the truth?"

Claire understood what Lisa was trying to persuade him, and he felt that she was so smart and kind at such a young age, and finally reached out and touched her head, "I understand." But he is not a prince, and Tess is not a rose. , his feelings for her cannot be as pure as the prince's for Rose, he... cannot leave her.

Lisa thought that the other party had received the information she wanted to comfort, and felt that she had saved a poor male number two, so she said happily: "It's great that you can figure it out, Mr. Crick, I believe you can find it." A more beautiful rose!"

Claire smiled, "Let me remind you again, Miss Lisa, a lady really shouldn't talk to a man alone in such a late night, oh, not even during the day."

Lisa knew that he was reminding herself to go back to sleep, "Okay, I'm going back, good night, Mr. Crick."

"Good night, Miss Lisa."

Lisa went back happily, thinking that since tonight, she should have established a revolutionary friendship with the handsome housekeeper.The more she thought about it, the more beautiful she became, her steps were so brisk, she almost jumped up and down, and she didn't even pay attention to it.

Looking at Lisa's back, Claire's raised mouth slowly pursed.

Tess, what else can I do without hurting you?Maybe, I can only try to pretend nothing happened...

The author has something to say: I heard that there will be a typhoon tomorrow, avoid power outages, and update a chapter tonight. . .