aristocratic engagement

"Mrs. Reynolds, please order someone to fetch Mr. Wickham's luggage." Anne held Georgiana's cold hand and ordered in a cold voice without looking back.

Without waiting for orders, Du Li took out the suitcase from behind.

It turned out that after she heard Mrs. Reynolds tell Annie about this in front of the door, she ran to the door cleverly, picked up the suitcase, and came quietly behind Anne.

The box was placed at Annie's feet.

Wickham's eyes widened, bloodshot from the whites of his eyes.His eyes were fixed on Du Li, and the hatred almost flowed out materialized.

There was a trace of fear on Du Li's round face, but she soon came back to her senses and stared back viciously.

Seeing this, Annie narrowed her eyes.

For ordinary servants, stealing things from the master's house is enough to make the master chop off his hands as punishment.However, Wickham is not an ordinary servant. Although his father is only a priest, he is indeed the most powerful person around old Darcy.

His favor passed down to George Wickham, who grew up like a young master at Pemberley Park.

I'm afraid there are not only those valuable things in the box, but also some more terrible things.Otherwise, why did Wickham insist that his crime was nothing more than stealing?

Annie worried that there were some things in the box that underage girls like Georgiana could not see.He turned his head to look at her, wanting to let her avoid it for the time being.

Unexpectedly, Georgiana wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye, staring at the box with her lips trembling slightly.

Although she looked a little scared, she was also determined.

'Maybe I should try not to treat her as untouchable as a china doll. ' Annie said to herself in the bottom of her heart.

She used to be like Lady Catherine, trying to keep the darkest things behind her, otherwise Georgiana would see it-precisely because she was Darcy's sister, not Anne's real sister.

Anne was worried that the darkness would make Georgiana's eyes dirty, so how could she explain to Darcy?

But since the Wickham incident happened, Anne regretted it countless times in the middle of the night. If Georgiana had been exposed to the dark side of this world, realized some people's oral candied fruit, and realized that not everyone in this world All are safe and harmless.Georgiana might not be hurt like this now.

Just like her, her eyes are used to seeing the darkness, and she is no stranger to it.

Fortunately, they discovered it and stopped it before it broke out.

"Georgianna." Annie called her name softly, "Can you still bear it? Are you willing to continue watching?"

Although Georgiana is simple, she is also a transparent child.

She was only slightly surprised, but soon understood what Anne meant, and nodded firmly.

"Open it." Annie ordered coldly.

With a "bang", the servant split the delicately carved metal lock with an axe.

Wickham struggled to break free from the strong man who restrained him, but was stuck firmly in place.Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Black saw that he was about to go crazy, so they stepped forward quickly, stood in front of Anne and Georgiana, and opened their arms.

Wickham roared, and the shrill and terrifying sound made Georgiana take a step back in fright.

Annie ignored his impotent rage, and stretched out her foot, kicking the box open.

——In the suitcase, a lot of pounds trembled and fell to the ground, jingled and rolled on the ground, flashing in the pale moonlight.On a pile of personal clothes lay a simple and exquisite pocket watch.

"That's my father's pocket watch!" Georgiana screamed. She squatted down, picked up the pocket watch from the box, and looked at it carefully. I left it to my brother, and you see, the family crest of the Darcy family is engraved on the back."

Georgiana held up the pocket watch, and Anne took it from her.

The cold pocket watch was not well protected. Annie touched the surface with her fingertips and found that the surface had been impacted in the box and had fine marks.

Georgiana was furious, and her parents' clothes were more important to the siblings than anything else.In the brother's pocket watch is a picture of the late Mrs. Anne, and in her dressing box, there is also the jewelry that the mother once loved.

Because his elder brother already has a pocket watch, this one has been kept by Darcy in Pemberley Manor.

Georgiana quickly reminded Anne that maybe he had stolen something else.

After speaking, he glared at Wickham viciously.

There was unprecedented disappointment, disgust and hatred in her eyes.Georgiana even hated herself, the self who was easily deceived by rhetoric.

Annie squatted down, making a gesture to turn over the box, and Du Li quickly handed over the gloves.

Anne put on her gloves and rummaged through the box.

She uncovered Wickham's packed personal clothes and threw them on the ground.Layers upon layers were scattered all over the floor, and there seemed to be nothing in the box.

Wickham's hoarse shouts in his ears became smaller and smaller, and the panic inside gradually dissipated.

Annie sneered. She guessed that there was some secret mechanism in the box that had not been discovered, and that the secret he was most afraid of being discovered was hidden there.

Annie lifted the box, grabbed its handle, and turned it upside down.

Pounds splashed all over the floor.

Apart from that, it seems that there is really nothing else?

Annie didn't believe it.She bent her fingers slightly and tapped lightly on the surface of the box.Her fingers tapped carefully from one end to the other.

Annie looked at Wickham's expression from the corner of her eye - in fact, unlike the empty walls, the luggage space is small, and it is difficult to hear the sound even if there is a mezzanine.However, Wickham's expression gave away his emotions.

When Wickham's pupils shrank suddenly, Anne's fingers also stopped.

"Here, break it open for me."

With an order, the ax fell from there.

Wickham closed his eyes.

The faces of Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Reynolds turned red for a moment, and then turned white, with anger burning in their eyes.

Anne was silent for a moment, and looked at Georgiana from the corner of her eye, only to see her mouth deflated, and then ran out involuntarily.

The sound of retching came from outside the door.

——In the interlayer, there are a dozen of the most intimate underwear for women.Pink, white, goose yellow...they are all the softest and precious silk texture, with lace curling, various sizes, and some have traces of use.

The white spots have long since dried up.

In an "open" Western society, it's not surprising that Annie knew what happened to those couples who were deeply in love.However, treating those things as a collection—more than one person, like "stamp collection", neatly stored, no matter what era or society it is, it is an extremely disgusting behavior.

"It seems that Mr. Wickham is not only a thief, but also a most disgusting and vile rascal."

Annie had goose bumps all over her body.

Mrs. Blake helped Anne up immediately, and Mrs. Reynolds picked up a white shirt from the floor and wrapped all the unsightly things in it.

"Ha! Those female cousins ​​are voluntary! I didn't force them!" Wickham showed a smile, "Especially that old girl, after climbing into my bed, she couldn't help but marry me, haha ! Just her? Showing off her head, her glistening flesh is simply disgusting!"

Anne gritted her teeth tightly, and the sincere words in Miss Clark's "Letter of Protest" to Georgiana flashed before her eyes one by one.

Even though she mistakenly chose to write a letter to provoke Georgiana, which almost humiliated Georgiana's reputation, she treated Wickham with sincerity.

She must never have imagined that the handsome man with whom she had been in love once hated and belittled her so behind his back.

Anne was never willing to belittle Miss Clark—she was not a bad family member, but she was approaching 30 years old, and became what others called an "old girl", and she did not marry hastily.

This is a silly girl who is loyal to love.

It's just that she picked the wrong person.

"If you ask me, what's the taste of that mature flesh/body, but it's a cardamom girl..." Wickham's wretched eyes swept Annie's body from top to bottom, inch by inch, "Tsk, De. Miss Bauer, you are no match for Georgiana in that—ah!!!"

"Oh!"

Wickham's cry of pain and gunshots sounded simultaneously.

The smell of gunpowder/smoke came from behind Annie and got into her nose.

Annie turned around and looked, only to see a gun pointing in her direction—no, it was the direction behind her.

Darcy stood within five paces of her, gun raised.

He was wearing a black overcoat with a huge hood.He was holding a gun, and only his eyes were exposed.In the moonlight, the black figure seemed indistinguishable.

But just relying on those eyes under the moonlight, Annie immediately confirmed his identity.

In the distance, Fenrir seemed to be awakened by the gunfire, and the roar pierced the sky.

A strong smell of blood came from the firewood room.Annie didn't want to pay any attention to the person who was hit. Her eyes were full of this person.

Everyone at the estate was looking forward to his return these days—including Anne herself.

Before he returned to England, it seemed that everyone related to him had forgotten about him and lived his life step by step.But when he came back, he was startled by a turbulent wave.

Everything has been changed by him, even though he has done almost nothing.

"You are finally back?

Annie's throat was a little dry.

Before the words were spoken, Georgiana threw herself into Darcy's arms, and yelled at him for coming home.

He put the gun down, patted Georgiana's back reassuringly with one arm, and took the hood off his head with the other.

Darcy's face appeared clearly in front of his eyes.

"Sorry, I went to London for a trip. The matter is urgent and I didn't have time to write to you."

His voice was always gentle and steady, and at this moment he was deeply apologetic.

"I shouldn't have exposed you to something so dirty, I'm sorry I'm late."

Annie's heart suddenly loosened, and she felt empty.

She opened her eyes immediately, the deafening heartbeat echoing in her ears.

Painful groans broke everyone's surprise, Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Black looked at each other and moved away.Under the dim candlelight, dark red and black blood was gurgling from Wickham's chest.

"To hell, Wickham."

Darcy's harsh voice sounded, and Wickham shuddered.

The author has something to say: In the original book, Wickham attacked the "brainless" Lydia + the young Georgiana, which made me think that this person is not just a greedy person, which cannot be mentioned in JJ On the other hand, it is also extremely low.

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