[Sense and Sensibility] Fascinated by you

The 3 consecutive days of light rain made everyone who was a guest in Rockfield feel a little depressed. The rain stopped for a while the day before yesterday but the sky was still very cloudy. Olivia wanted to go for a walk despite everyone's dissuasion. I went with her, but before I came back, it started raining again. After returning, Olivia had a fever. Andrew was so startled that he hurried to ask for a doctor, and the fever finally subsided until today.

Hathaway stood by the window after lunch, looking a bit sleepy, and could only stay idly for 3 consecutive days, and she also felt very bored.She moved to the Minaret Cottage when she was 11 years old. She didn’t live in Rockfield much. In addition, there are many guests in the house now, which always makes her feel a little uncomfortable. It's not easy to take it out.

She stretched out her hand to open the window. The rain was not heavy, but it continued continuously. The cold air carried the fragrance of green grass, and a gust of wind brought a trace of cool water vapor to the face, which also blew away some of the dull atmosphere in the room. She stretched out her hand to catch some rainwater and splashed it on her face. The cold rainwater stuck to her warm face which was smoked by the fireplace, which made her shiver, and then she smiled happily like a child.

The butler, Mr. Tony, was standing in a corner of the living room. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but coughed hard behind her. "Miss, if Mrs. Tomina is here, I must say you again."

Hathaway quickly closed the window, "Yes Tony, thanks to Mrs. Tomina not here, you won't tell her, right?" Hathaway said and winked at Mr. Tony.Mrs. Tomina is Hathaway's housekeeper. She was a personal maid brought by Mrs. Butler when she got married. She has been helping her with housekeeping since then. After Mrs. Butler passed away, she became Hathaway's housekeeper.She has never been married, and loves Hathaway as her own daughter. As long as she sees any dishonorable or uncaring behaviors in her, she will give her a love education, and she will not be said to raise her hand to surrender. Don't give up.

"Of course, miss. But you have to promise me that you won't get sick these few days." Mr. Tony thought that if the miss fell ill, Mrs. Tomina would not only educate the miss, but also chase after him and chatter non-stop. Nagging, I couldn't help shivering.

"Of course, I will take care not to get sick." Hathaway secretly added her best in her heart.

The atmosphere in the room was really dull, the gentlemen gathered together to play whist, and the ladies gathered together to chat.Olivia had been lying on the bed for two days and felt pain in all her bones. After coming out to chat with everyone for a while, she felt very bored. "Why don't we play boccia!" Olivia's eyes sparkled at the thought of a good pastime.

"But, your body is just in good condition, what if you have a fever again?" Winnies looked at Olivia with some concern.

"It's okay, I will have a fever again if I stay like this! How about it? Let's play together, we can still compare with those gentlemen."

After the ladies agreed, Olivia went to the side to encourage the gentlemen to play together, except for her brother, Mr. Marshall, who discouraged them with a few words, everyone else happily agreed.

We split into teams while Tony went to prepare the ground ball.Miss Borg sat aside and refused to play together because she didn't like this kind of game. Hathaway hid away because she was in poor health and had never played before. Olivia said something unhappy, and there were still 3 There are 6 ladies and [-] gentlemen. In this way, there will be one more person on one side when the teams are divided. Miss Hoffman suggested that Mr. Hoffman be the referee.

Ms. Hoffman is of course creating an opportunity for Miss Borg. Georgiana can’t say how much she likes Ms. Borg. After all, if this lady is really likable, she won’t be 25 years old and still not married. It’s just that Miss Borg is everywhere these days. Flattery flattered Georgiana, but she had to give her some help, so that even if her brother didn't marry the lady in the end, she didn't owe her the other party.

Finally, Miss Hoffman, Mr. Wallace, and the Marshall brothers and sisters formed a team, and Andrew, Colonel Brandon, Mr. Borg, and Winnes formed a team.

Indoor boccia is actually bowling. It was first called skittles and originated in Germany. Catholics placed wooden pillars in the corridors of churches to symbolize heretics and evil.In the ground ball, each of the two teams has rolled two balls to form a round, and ten rounds constitute a game.Knock down a bottle to score one point.The first ball knocks down 10 bottles and scores [-] points, plus rolls two more balls.If you knock down ten bottles with two rolls, you get ten points, but you need to add one roll.The team with the most points at the end wins.

Olivia was the first to play after the servants were ready. She was in good health and active since she was a child. She was very good at these games, and sometimes even Mr. Marshall was ashamed.As expected of the person who proposed to play the game, she had a one-knock knockdown as soon as she entered the field.Excited, she jumped up and down on the spot, and immediately challenged the other team. Unfortunately, the next two balls were not very good, and she scored a total of 19 points.

Next came Andrew from the other team. There is no reason why people like him who used to go to various dance parties and amusement places are not good at games like this. He took off his coat arrogantly to give Olivia a good look, It's a pity that he didn't play very well. Although he also scored a two-strike strike, it was not as good as Olivia's 17 points in the end.

Then there is Mr. Marshall. It is hard to see that this gentleman who looks very serious on weekdays is also a good player. He scored 17 points after a two-hit strike.

The originally pastime game was heated up by Olivia and Andrew. The two teams were scrambling to score more points than each other. Winnies didn't look shy at all now, and Miss Hoffman also let go of the lady. Reserved.

Even Ms. Borg, who was sitting on the sidelines, had a heated discussion with Mr. Hoffman. If she doesn’t like to play, it doesn’t mean she can’t express her opinion. The two spoke about the performance of the two teams. Negative situations sparked intense and friendly discussions.

Of course, Ms. Borg said that her brother would definitely win if he played boccia well, but God knows that Mr. West has only played bocce a handful of times. He is short and fat and not flexible enough. It can be said to be the weakest one compared to the gentlemen on the top, and maybe it can be said to be a good one compared to Miss Borg.

Even when Mr. Hoffman is arguing with others, he always insists on gentlemanly demeanor, and does not refute Miss Borg's words, but he only analyzes the pros and cons of other people's fights in detail, which is very convincing, and it seems that he often does These sports and entertainment are not as serious as he usually shows.

Hathaway watched with a smile on her own, and did not join the discussion between the two of them. Of course, she would not be a light bulb to cause people to hate for nothing. She watched the game while secretly observing the relationship between the two. It was really pleasant. Very.These days, as a bystander, she expresses a lot of pressure every day.

The following game has entered a fierce stage. Andrew's team is slightly behind Olivia's team, and Colonel Brandon is on the field.It has been raining continuously for the past few days and the weather has turned cold, so a fireplace has been built in the living room, and now it feels stuffy when exercising. The colonel took off his coat casually, and he was wearing a white shirt and a tight-fitting gray-white dark pattern vest. He looks curvy, and his figure is not as burly as Andrew, but he has broad shoulders and narrow hips, and his slender figure looks strong and powerful.He rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the ball with one hand, and with a little force, he saw the graceful and firm muscles on his forearm.

There was a smile on the corner of Hathaway's mouth, and a pair of watery eyes stared at the Colonel for some unknown thought, and a blush was quietly stained on her snow-white face.Colonel Brandon turned his head suddenly, and gave Hathaway a meaningful look. Shocked, Hathaway immediately lowered her head, and her face turned pale again.

The colonel quickly threw the ball and hit it all. Andrew shouted happily from the sidelines. Everyone diverted their attention, and no one noticed the silent interaction between the two.

Hathaway sat on the sofa in embarrassment, feeling as if someone had done something bad and was caught on the spot. She sat there for a while, feeling that the colonel was still staring at her, and in the end she could only use an excuse to watch Watch the afternoon tea and flee.

She went out of the room and touched her cheek, feeling that it was burning badly.She called a maid and went to the kitchen. She originally had a personal maid, Kelly, the maid who married a few years ago. Because of her old love, she was put in the steeple hut as a personal maid, but Mrs. Tomina discovered that her hands and feet were not clean after a while.Mrs. Tomina wanted to drive her away in a rage, and she begged Hathaway hard, saying that her husband owed gambling debts and her poor daughter could only be sold if she couldn't pay the money. In the end, Hathaway relented and put her in the care of Mr. Tony in Rockfield.

She just said that she would go to the kitchen to see the afternoon tea. She was not just talking casually. She owed Colonel Brandon a few days ago and was about to make some delicious snacks to thank the Colonel, but it has been raining these days, so the ingredients It was a bit difficult for her to prepare, and she finally got all the materials she needed today.

In the kitchen, the cook didn't feel surprised to see her, on the contrary, she was very happy.In fact, she has spent quite a lot of time in the kitchen these years. She has a congenital heart disease, and there is no medicine for her in this era. She can only use supplements, but British food can be said to be world-class Admittedly bad.The staple food is usually fried, pork, beef and mutton, fried bread, baked potatoes, Chinese food is mainly cold meat, although dinner is richer, but it cannot escape the fried category.She lived a life like this for a few months, which is really admiration for those time-traveling heroines who can tolerate British food.

Although the aristocratic ladies of this era can make some snacks, they don't know how to cook for themselves, which is unseemly behavior.So she thought a lot of words to convince her father, but she didn't think that the old knight was very open-minded, and he would agree to anything as long as it was for the health of her daughter.

After moving to the Minaret House, she started experimenting. Although she had never cooked before, her mother worked as a housekeeper in someone else's house, and her cooking skills were very good. She knew a lot of recipes, but none. I did it myself.She would cook the dishes she had experimented for the old jazz, and teach the Rockfield cook what he liked, so the cook liked seeing Hathaway come over the most.

In order to maintain the dignity of her noble lady, she planned to only make some afternoon tea snacks. She thought about this recipe carefully. Men usually don't like sweets, so she didn't make cakes and milk cakes.Finally, rice dumplings, meat jelly, egg tarts, and baked apple slices were finalized. In case some people were not used to eating them, she asked the cook to prepare normal afternoon tea meals, including sandwiches, muffins, and apple pie.

The zongzi was the most worrying thing for her. She couldn't find the zongzi leaves or glutinous rice, so she used another similar bamboo leaf instead. For the glutinous rice, she used an Indian sticky rice instead.For the egg tart, she gave all the ingredients to the cook, and she only did the final cooking. Baking apple slices is the easiest way. Soak the sliced ​​apple slices with lemon juice, and then bake them in the oven.The most troublesome thing is when making meat jelly. The British don’t eat animal offal. Even the poor don’t like pig skin. The cook looked disgusted when she was handling pig skin and said she would never eat it. Food made from pigskin.Hathaway said she was very helpless and helpless!

In the end, she also made 3 kinds of sauces to eat with meat jelly, a hot and sour one, a sweet one and a barbecue sauce, which ended the afternoon tea.