man, he looks ugly

The nobles in Paris often buy country villas in the countryside with cheap land as the venue for large-scale balls, parties, engagements or weddings. The Nemours family to which Viscount Andre belongs is also considered a prominent family in history. After several dynasties have changed, it is not as good as before.

As a "traitor" in the upper class, Earl Shany told me all the news about the Viscount without reservation: In this generation, Duke Margot is the only one in the Nemours family who has enough money and power, and Margot The duke is Andre's uncle, and also the sponsor of the dissolute dandy viscount. In order for Mr. Viscount to settle down, the duke asked him to accept a political marriage and marry the eldest daughter of a high-ranking government official, otherwise he would be cut off. economic support.

The ivy-covered country house ushered in a splendid engagement ceremony, the carriage stopped at the door of the villa in turn, and the guests filed in.

"I have no intention of commenting on the character of the Nemours family, but little Meg, you will like this garden, and the camellias and roses in the greenhouse will also make you happy." Philip straightened his dark green bow tie with With black spots, it looks like a moldy cheese.

"Is it really okay to rashly break into other people's greenhouses?"

"Honey, Catherine and I have a very close relationship, and I will ask her to take care of you." There was an ambiguous smile on his face, and the curved dimples on his lips made this emotion more subtle.

"Catherine, do you mean the bride-to-be? Or is there another girl named Catherine at the banquet?" I suddenly felt incredible and ignored the bride-to-be to take care of me.

"Believe me, she is definitely more careless than the groom for this wedding banquet." Philip finally made up his mind to take off that ugly bow tie.

At this time, it happened that our carriage stopped at the main entrance of the villa, and Julian seemed to be waiting for someone at the gate.

As for me, as soon as I walked into the hall of the villa with Philip's arm, at least three famous ladies gave him glances, which made me feel uncomfortable all over.

A young lady urges her husband to come towards us.

"Oh, Earl Shani, the lady next to you is really cute, but her face is a little strange, she is..." The lady hid her face behind a folding fan, and while her husband wasn't paying attention, she slowly flapped her eyelashes at Philip, He cast a wink in the past.

"She is the daughter of a dancer whom I respect a lot, Meg Giri. Meg, this is the Earl and Lady of Sauron." Philip opened his eyes and spoke nonsense, which was simply unbearable to look at, given his intentions In my defense, I have absolutely no complaints about it.

"Oh, Miss Geary, hello."

"Hi, ma'am." I quickly returned the salute.

Just as Philip was flirting with Mrs. Sauron in a way that was too clever to arouse Earl Sauron's vigilance, Viscount Andre, the protagonist of the engagement banquet, came to us.

"Oh my God, Philip, my dearest friend, you're here at last!" I couldn't help grinding my back teeth with the wide smile on the bum's face.

I could barely contain my loathing for him, but in order to find his fatal 'Achilles heel', I had to brace myself.

"Oh, Meg..." When Andre saw me, his face turned pale, but he quickly covered it up with a smile. "Philip, you know I'm going to perform an unprecedented act today, and look, my fingers are shaking."

It was really infuriating that he ignored Christine like this, as if he had never hurt her, and ostentatiously talked about his marriage.

"What's there to be nervous about? Dear Andre, you only need to show half of the way you usually deal with women, and Catherine will be fascinated by you." It's really clever, this man can always turn mean words into compliments His tone is admirable.

"No, not only that, because my uncle Margo values ​​this marriage, he sent someone to send a very precious and amazing engagement ring, which is said to be my mother's relic."

"Oh, believe me, no matter how expensive this jewel is, even if it's worth 20 francs, Miss Catherine is enough." Philip scanned the audience casually, as if looking for today's heroine.

Earl Sauron and his wife quickly agreed.

"When I think of taking it out in front of everyone and proposing to Catherine, my heart beats wildly. Philip, Earl and Lady of Sauron, can I beg you to come with me to appreciate this wedding ring first? Take a look. In what way should I dedicate the most unique way to Miss Catherine?" Andre asked pleadingly, if he hadn't already known about this person's character, he would really be impressed by his pair of brown eyes full of affection as if he had fallen into first love It can be seen from Madam Sauron's envious expression.

"Then, I'll go for a walk in the garden." Realizing that the person didn't mention my name just now, I took the initiative to speak.

"Oh, no, no, wait, Ms. Geary can come too, it would be nice to have one more unmarried female staff officer." Andre seemed to hesitate for a moment, but still firmly let me follow.

A feeling of being calculated enveloped me, but in view of my purpose, I could only follow his chess path step by step, hoping not to catch the wolf but to be caught by the wolf instead.

Led by Andre, we came to the room at the corner of the corridor on the second floor of the villa, which was filled with all kinds of gifts needed for engagement, including what Andre said was an engagement ring sponsored by Duke Margot .

The outer packaging box of this ring is quite exquisite. The fine black velvet shines with fine pearls under the sunlight. A pink ribbon is tied outside the box to form an exquisite bowknot. The golden lock, as Andre said, the ring in this box must be worth a lot.

"This is a very rare pink diamond ring. In order to show the seriousness of this marriage, my uncle changed the gold ring setting into platinum, and inlaid a ring of broken diamonds, which made it look twice as big more than!"

Andre carefully untied the bow, undid the lock, and showed us the engagement ring.

God knows, when I saw the ring in the box clearly, my whole head was rumbling like a thunderbolt from the blue sky.

God!God!Does such a coincidence really happen in this world? !

I still remember when Eric and I were having a temper tantrum, we smashed a candy box and a pink gemstone ring fell out of it. Although I realized it was of great value at the time, I didn’t intend to keep it, so I didn’t dare to overdo it Loved it, and then gave it back to Eric.

But there is no girl who doesn't like jewelry. This pink ring did make me sigh a little in my heart.

And it is exactly the same as the diamond ring in front of me at this moment!Whether it's that huge pink diamond on the crown!It is still the arrangement shape of the surrounding broken diamonds!Or a platinum ring setting!I almost suspect that my name is still engraved on the ring setting!

Just when everyone was expressing emotion, and I could hardly help but open my mouth for a closer inspection, there was an astonishingly loud noise outside the window, which sounded like an explosion.

"What's going on?" Andre snapped the box shut and held it in his arms, and ran to the window to look.

A gardener ran to the window panting to report that an automatic irrigation pipe in the garden had exploded!

There was an accident, and it was not good for outsiders to stay here, so they said goodbye and left the room.

Maybe it was because I accidentally showed a preoccupied look, which attracted Philip's attention. He walked down the stairs without looking aside, and whispered to me, "Little Meg, have you been sucked out of your soul by that ring just now?" ?”

"Uh... maybe, kind of, I've never seen such, such a beautiful ring, is it really a diamond? Such a big one?"

"Do you think Duke Margot will give his nephew a fake diamond ring, and then make the whole family the laughing stock of Paris and even the whole of France? My dear, believe me, one day you will get your own ring, which will be more beautiful and peaceful." Precious ring." Philip's words were still both sarcastic and flattering, but my mind was already occupied by the pink diamond ring, and its brilliance split my brain to pieces.

This ring made me so confused that I couldn't figure it out at all. I accompanied Philip to deal with those hypocritical and hypocritical guests, and I walked into the garden he had admired before I knew it.

As Philip said, this garden is among the best in the whole of Paris. The garden uses a large number of roses and camellias. The dark green leaves are dotted with delicate pink roses, which turn into yellow roses at the end of the red stone road. And Baishancha, there is a small stream flowing at the end of the cross corridor, it flows towards the direction of the villa, in the right position, even from a window of the villa, you can see the sparkling clear spring flowing slowly.

After walking the path of boxwood trees, in front of you is a glass-covered greenhouse, which seems to have more exotic flowers and plants.

I subconsciously walked into the greenhouse.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the greenhouse, he saw a girl sitting carelessly on the wooden ladder with her skirt on, with countless freshly picked flowers beside her.They were roughly broken off and thrown on the ground at will, being picked and picked like cheap wenches.

The young girl seems to be weaving a garland in her hands.

"You... don't you think it's a bit wasteful?" I know it's a bit reckless to say this to a completely unfamiliar girl with no background, but I really can't stand it anymore, those flowers are clearly crying!

"Do you know who I am?" The girl looked at me with a pair of blue eyes and a smile.

"Look at what you said, if you don't introduce yourself, how will I know?"

"This will be my greenhouse in no time. I can play however I like." She didn't answer my question directly, and speeded up the wreath weaving.

This is not very obvious, but I still understand it. This country house belongs to the Nemours family, and the person who is about to become its owner is naturally the protagonist of today's engagement banquet, Catherine Duran!

What a coincidence, at this engagement banquet, I offended both the bride-to-be and the groom-to-be without saying more than ten words!

While I was staring blankly at Catherine, thinking about how to beg Philip to say something nice to this lady for me, Catherine had already finished her work. She had made a beautiful and delicate wreath and put it on On my head, Yan Xiaoyan walked towards me.

"Come back with me."

She took my arm familiarly and dragged me out of the greenhouse.

When Catherine and I returned to the gate of the villa, a servant in a red uniform came running out of breath, rolled his eyes and said to Catherine.

"Oh my God, Miss Duran, one... one terrible news, there was a robbery at the banquet!"

"What's missing?"

"Yes... yes... the ring sent by the Duke..."

This news sent me into another breakdown.

hell!lost!It was lost!What the hell is going on? !

The author has something to say: _(:3J∠)_I’m really not dragging the show, really not dragging the show, really not dragging the show...

[Holding head, crying bitterly] Ask for help, God E will really come out in the next chapter!Really really come out!If I don't come out, I will eat the keyboard live!

Waving a small handkerchief, why don't the author give it a shot, boys...

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