[Comprehensive Classics] Traveled all over Europe to demolish CP

Chapter38 starts today, become a local tyrant!

When Katyusha woke up, she found herself sleeping in a room in the big manor of the hostesses Maria and Sophia Ivanovna. If Jie Cao still maintains a little faith, she will almost think that she has traveled through time again.

Looking out of the window, the faint morning light was replaced by a thick, translucent azure, and the wool-like clouds were changing strangely, and the edges were stained with the color of pearl oyster.

There is no doubt that such a beautiful sunny day should not be wasted - although the experience last night and this morning can only be described as "sad", "tragic" and "nonsensical".

She changed quickly and briskly—the white dress that Nekhludoff was so fond of, and which Karenin's carriage had knocked over, was gone, and in its place was a more luxurious, shining white silk dress, There are no exaggerated whalebone skirts, no puffed leg of lamb sleeves, and the cuffs are no longer tightened but let go and stretched like petunias. The waist is lined with huge bow knots, and the long skirt is like billowing waves. It drags for a long time... It is really a good partner for home cleaning, Ma Ma no longer has to worry about the floor getting dirty!

From the style of this skirt, it can be preliminarily judged that the current time setting is the 70s.

Thirty years have passed in a blink of an eye, poor little Eric!I will definitely find a way to go back to Paris to see you.

Margaret looked around and preliminarily judged her own destiny: Right now, she probably needs to be her half-adopted daughter and half-maid step by step.Thank goodness she did a similar job for almost three years in the world of Pride and Prejudice, doing needlework, cleaning rooms, roasting meat, grinding coffee beans, making coffee, washing odds and ends, and reading books. So proficient.

While Katyusha was silently making plans for her future, Maria Ivanovna's old maid, Matrona Pavlovna, wrapped in a white turban, walked with heavy steps—if the ground was not hard If the floor was made of wood instead of marble, she would have creaked under the pressure—she said with great surprise: "You are awake, Katyusha! Go to the drawing room, dear, Maria Ivano Ivna and Sophia Ivanovna are waiting for you there." She blinked her eyes with four or five eyelids, and said in a mysterious and obvious way.

Katyusha nodded pitifully——God of time travel, she was almost confused by the long and segmented Russian name——I won’t be afraid if I wear a primitive tribe next time TAT

With her heavy and limp legs, which seemed to be filled with lead and stepped on cotton, she groped her way to the reception room. After curtseying to the hostesses, she almost squatted down on the thick bedding. On the carpet floor—don’t think I don’t know you when you take off your hat, Karenin, your ears are still so protruding, and your ears are still fluttering in the wind!

It is not surprising that Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin was an old acquaintance of Maria Ivanovna and Sofia Ivanovna, considering that noblemen of their stature , in Moscow and Petersburg, half the upper-class circles were either relatives or friends, and the rest were gossip and nodding acquaintances.

Katyusha sensitively discovered that Karenin and the couple did not get along well.Whether it is the stern Sophia or the poetic Maria, they don't like this important person in Petersburg-Karenin thinks about politics, theology and philosophy, reads related books and often discusses and explores, but he is not interested in France. He didn't know anything about light comedy and various art genres, and they thought it was inappropriate or even ridiculous; I think it's eccentric and unconventional; he refuses to play with women and has always maintained his virginity, and people talk about it in private, and even suspect that he has health problems-of course, as a religious and self-disciplined man Politicians, Karenin would not have cared about gossip that did not threaten his official career.

Based on the above reasons, the hostesses and this visitor formed a kind of misty social relationship: that is, they maintain a friendly relationship on the surface, but in fact they look down on each other at all, so they don’t get along seriously, even if there is an occasional relationship. A faux pas doesn't matter who hurts whom.

"Dear Alexey Alexandrovitch! Why have you left your work at the ministry and come to our remote country, far from the city?" Maria said sarcastically, "you have grown lazy, Or has the attractiveness of the country grown?" She added, and looking around with the triumph of mocking others, she spotted Katyusha, who curtseyed more gracefully than usual, and greeted with a smile: "Come on. , Katyusha, this is a Petersburg dignitary, the youngest governor ever, Alexey Alexandrovich Karenin."

Katyusha stepped forward and curtseyed. When she lowered her head, she curled her lips. When she raised her head again, her smiling, sparkling, dark and moist eyes, like black currants, were thick, heavy, and moist. Looking at her face under the slender eyelashes, the whole person is full of vitality and optimism and kindness from the inside out.She looked at him frankly, neither humble nor overbearing, no different from the way she looked at little Eric.

"Pour tea, Katyusha," ordered Sophia Ivanovna sternly.

She walked around the table briskly - lightly stepping on the carpet, as flexible and silent as a cat - her slender hands complemented the white porcelain, and her delicate and round wrists were bent into a beautiful arc...

Karenin's tired eyes finally opened completely, but he still did not change his slow tone, and said arrogantly: "There is no doubt about the reason for the unexpected visitor's visit, Maria Ivanovna." He lazily Pointing to Katyusha who quietly retreated to one side after pouring tea, she said in a deliberately joking manner: "I hope to marry your shepherdess back home."

"What!" the two sisters exclaimed at the same time, the older sister held up her hands like a puppet hanging by a thread;

"I completely understand your surprise. I also know that marriage is not a child's play. Public opinion and fame and religion have meaning...In view of a small accident this morning, in order to prevent damage to the young girl's reputation, I decided to ask Ye Mademoiselle Katerina Maslova Ivanovna proposes."

Maria Ivanovna, Sofia Ivanovna, and Katyusha opened their mouths wide at the same time, and it took a long time before they realized, "Miss Ekaterina Maslova Ivanovna" , is Katyusha standing quietly aside.

"So the secret is here: Katyusha!" Tears welled up in Maria's eyes, "I grew up watching Katyusha, and I know her charm clearly. It's not surprising, but I never Thinking of it, His Excellency the governor who came from afar was also attracted by you!"

"I must remind you that Katyusha is the daughter of a serf, and such a combination is degrading!" Sophia Ivanovna said worriedly.

"As long as she is married in the name of your two adopted daughters, it will do no harm to the reputation of the two families." Karenin said in a sonorous voice and a mocking smile. A well-bred lady, I trust that she will bring me peace and happiness in my family life."

"Now that you have made up your mind, Alexey Alexandrovitch, when do you intend to marry?" said Maria Ivanovna, taking off her handkerchief.

"Tomorrow, if possible." Karenin gently cracked his fingers and joked casually.

"My God! It is impossible for us to prepare dear Katyusha's dowry in one day!" Maria Ivanovna protested vigorously.

"You only need to prepare a small part, and the rest of the dowry can be shipped to Petersburg later. Am I very considerate, Maria Ivanovna?"

...Have you asked the parties for their opinions?

——Ekaterina Maslova Ivanovna (nicknamed Katyusha), the subject of BY, who is huddled in a corner and has no sense of existence.

In the afternoon, the unmarried couple who met for less than 10 minutes and spoke no more than five sentences ran into each other on the porch. Karenin stopped his steady steps, took his fiancée's slender and warm hands and kissed them in a nonchalant, joking tone. Say: "As a token of respect for your future wife, please choose a location for your honeymoon, Katyusha. Or would you like me to call you Kajinka?"

"It's an honor to be given the right to choose where to spend your honeymoon, Alexey Alexandrovich, please keep this title." Katyusha felt embarrassed-you know, talking to strangers in Paris is very difficult. Much more casual than schmoozing with this soon-to-be husband! "If you... no, if you don't mind, how about we go to Paris for a while?"

She couldn't just leave poor little Eric alone - ghosts would blacken newspapers!

"Although I believe that the Parisians are a model of immorality and evil Babylon, but I absolutely respect your choice, Katyusha. You see, how much your future husband loves you." He said in a leisurely way Idle attitude, speak slowly.

Come on Karenin, I knew from reading "Anna Karenina" that you are rigid and old-fashioned but you like to joke... But I beg you don't make jokes TAT... I beg you Don't play with the two brushes of the British QAQ...Russia is cold enough Q^Q

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With embarrassment and embarrassment, Katyusha married this inexplicable marriage?

The author has something to say: A cute little theater:

Baozi: Love to take off the mask, little Eric~

Eric: Unless you kiss me (turns away)

steamed stuffed bun:……