Grasp the farming script in the famous book

"Joe, I thought you would object violently..."

Meg was sitting in the attic of her own house, facing Roland who had no image and was lazily lying on the old sofa, holding a book and reading.

The marriage between the eldest lady of the March family and Mr. John Brooke has been basically finalized.Because Meg was still young, the two decided to get engaged first and hold the wedding a year later.

Hearing what Meg said, Roland put away the book and looked up at the eldest sister, and suddenly asked with a smile, "Why do you think so?"

Meg blushed and began to examine herself silently.

Meg originally thought that her younger sister was childish, and marrying Mr. Brook meant leaving home, her parents and her sisters.Jo and Meg had always been close, so Meg felt as though Brooke had snatched her from her sister.

Leaving relatives who have been with her for many years and starting another family - this prospect made Meg look forward to it, but at the same time it was inexplicably burdened with a layer of guilt.

She felt as if she was abandoning her family and sisters for a man who was not related by blood.

As soon as Roland turned over, he sat up and looked at Meg with wide eyes: "Mr. Brooke is the man you choose with your eyes open. He is much more reliable than your foolish suitors before. Why should I object?"

Roland is very experienced in dealing with this kind of situation. She married two older sisters in the arrogant plane—especially the second sister Elizabeth.Since the sisters are marrying someone worthy of entrustment, what is there to worry about?

Speaking of Meg’s promise to John’s marriage proposal, there is another interesting fact: Aunt March originally wanted to beat the mandarin ducks, but unexpectedly gave her an assist—she threatened Meg that if Meg agreed to marry Brooke, her inheritance would be destroyed. Nor would a penny be left to Meg.

The stubborn old aunt made Meg realize that her love for John far exceeded her yearning for the so-called upper class life in her heart.

Meg even would rather lose the inheritance that Aunt March promised to leave her, but also to be with John.

Aunt March backfired. She wanted to break up a couple who had just tasted love, but it turned out that they recognized each other's sincerity.

"Of course, Mr. Brooke is poorer. If you marry him, you will be rich

Ma'am, this path is completely insulated.In the future, you may not be able to hire maids in a few years, and you can only come and call us when you need help. "

"You can't wear satin finery any more, nor have you got a chance to dance with ribbons on your stockings;"

"During the first two years of your marriage with Mr. Brooke, when you invited friends to your home, you could only use ordinary tableware. Silver tableware is unnecessary. Even if you have high-quality porcelain, you have to wait two years before you have spare money to buy it; "

"You may live a particularly happy two-person world for two years, but as long as you have children, you will find that you have no time for yourself..."

Roland gradually painted a terrifying scene for Meg.

Meg opened her mouth in astonishment, and it was hard to believe that the words came from her sister's mouth.

In her opinion, this younger sister has the talent to become a writer, so Joe should have a poetic temperament that does not eat fireworks. Unexpectedly, what Joe told her now is so... grounded?

"This is the price you need to pay for marrying Mr. Brook."

After Roland finished speaking in one breath, she found that she seemed to have frightened Meg into a fool.

"Of course, Meg, you still have time. You're not married yet, and you still have a chance to get out."

"If you give up Mr. Brooke and follow Aunt March's suggestion to catch a rich man..."

Meg listened so intently that she said nothing.

"...then you will have beautiful satin clothes, ribbons for stockings; beautiful tableware, fine dining rooms, servants who come and go in the dining rooms, your own valet..."

"However, you also need to pay a certain price. For example, you have to wear a mask called 'dignity' every day. Even if you are the best friend, you may not be able to confide your own thoughts to her;"

"You have to endure people's judgments on you, they will pay attention to you, they will stare at your words and deeds, every move, because you do not belong to their class. And their attention to you may not be out of good intentions... ..."

Meg gasped, for she found her sister's words so offensive that she did not want to believe them; but the point was, everything my sister said was true.

"The most important thing is that you married into a rich family, your husband

, it's hard to treat you as his whole world and his only one like 'your John'. "

"It's possible for you to be rich and ... lonely at the same time."

Roland spread his hands and looked at Meg.

"So, the choice is yours."

Meg originally frowned, but at the end, her brows gradually relaxed.

"Yes, the choice is mine."

She looked up at her sister: "Joe, we are still lucky."

Roland nodded: "Yes, we still have the right to choose. We can choose the life we ​​want."

Meg sat next to Roland and hesitated for a while, and finally asked hesitantly: "But, Jo, is it true that our family has fallen into another class, as Aunt March said, and we can never go back?" ?”

Her eyes were full of naive longing, thinking that after 20 years of hard work with John, she might also become... the respected Mr. and Mrs. Brooke.

"Of course not," Roland explained calmly, "As long as we work hard, we can certainly earn wealth, status, and respect."

"But at that time, we will find that what we are pursuing seems to be different from what we originally thought."

When Roland said this, he raised his face slightly, and the light from the attic came in from the window, which happened to reflect on her face, reflected the look in her eyes, and made her handsome face shine brightly .

"What we pursue is no longer just wealth and status, but the enrichment of thought and life."

It seems that a picture scroll is slowly unfolding in front of Roland, and the person in the picture keeps climbing along the originally chosen path——

When they constantly improve themselves to the point where they can step into a new class, their ideology has far exceeded their original goal.

They will no longer improve themselves just for the goal of "class leaping". When they climb new mountains, what they see is already a different scenery.

Meg was instantly overwhelmed by her sister's vision. She lay down slowly on her sister's sofa and lamented: "Jo, it would be great if we could never get married!"

Unexpectedly, Roland laughed and said, "Hee hee, Meg, from this point of view, what you hope for is not never to get married, but never to grow up."

if not

When you grow up, you don't have to face the choice of getting married or not.

Meg thought: That's right! ——Joe has really become sharper recently.

People always have to grow up, so we must face the choice bravely no matter what.

She fell in love with John and was willing to be with John, so she was willing to make the decision to get married—no matter what hardships or difficulties she would encounter in the future, as long as she thought that she made the decision at the beginning, she had no reason to regret it , but muster up the courage to carry on with this life...

But Roland was thinking: In this plane, there is a high probability that she will not get married.

Laurie was a good playmate, but she wouldn't love him—won't the real "Jo" in the books be like her.

The people she loves, who can support her and give her courage, are not in this plane.

So she is doomed to work alone.

But she's not afraid—farmers are not afraid of anything.

For more than a year after the engagement of Meg and Mr. Brooke, Roland had indeed made a fruitful effort.

After taking over Aunt March's orchard, in the first spring, Roland made an astonishing move: she grafted some of the apple trees, and grafted better apple tree species.

She didn't say hello to Aunt March before she got married.

Aunt March was angry at first: she thought Roland was trying to mess up her orchard on purpose.

Unexpectedly, after grafting, the diseased branches on those fruit trees were replaced with new branches with excellent growth, and the fruit trees in the orchard grew more vigorously. The first real bumper harvest.

These grafted fruit trees are sweeter than the original fruits, and people in the town say they are delicious.

But Roland didn't give all these fruits to relatives and friends. Although she distributed a lot, she also left enough fresh fruit, cider and apple jam for Aunt March.

The remaining fruits, together with other products in the orchard, are the raw materials of "March's Snack Shop".

Now the products of the snack shop have been explored and basically fixed as the most popular ones.Along with the cakes, these treats are on consignment at the bakery.

These are all small businesses, and Roland does it in a discreet manner

However, after one year, when the orchard revived in the second spring, Roland had already accumulated nearly 70 dollars.

This is a lot of pocket money for a girl who is about to grow up.

But Roland kept them all, and she called it in her mind the Beth Recovery Fund.She wants to use the money to take Beth to the seaside for recuperation, and then use the "universal card" to cure Beth.

Just then, at last, Meg's wedding day drew near.

Roland saw Meg sitting quietly by the window, using the light from the window to sew the wedding dress by herself.

Roland was moved by this beautiful picture, and generously sponsored Meg 20 dollars, so that the bride could sew a circle of lace on the collar and cuffs of the gown, and wear a beautiful veil.

Meg took the 20 dollars, but she refused to take it no matter what. In the end, Beth and Roland persuaded Meg to accept it.

Meg looked at Beth, hesitating whether to accept it or not—only Meg in the family probably guessed that Roland worked hard from morning to night to take care of the orchard at Aunt March's house, and carefully made all kinds of snacks. Think and save money.

But in the end, with Roland's words, Meg dispelled her worries and accepted the gift money.

"Don't worry, I will earn this money back soon." Roland said so.

And Meg, for some reason, had become accustomed to believe everything Roland said.Therefore, this bride with an extremely sweet heart accepted the support from her younger sisters and also accepted their blessings.

Meg and Mr Brooke's wedding took place at the end of June.

Fortunately, the weather on the day of the wedding was perfect.Therefore, the March family moved all the dining tables and chairs to their own small yard, and used it as the venue for the wedding banquet.

The wedding did not invite many guests, only the close relatives of the two families, as well as Mr. Brooke's owner, the grandparents of the Lawrence family, were present.

Aunt March, as the elder of the March family, was also invited to the wedding.After all, it was she who made the pair of lovers to discern each other's hearts by mistake.

Although it was quite unpleasant at the time, Aunt March made a lot of harsh words.But this one is the well-known "Knife Mouth Bean Curd Heart". Although she still has an old face and seems extremely reluctant, she still gave Meg a beautiful necklace—this is her early years. At once

I promised to give it to the first married girl of the March family.

For this wedding, Roland specially baked a three-layer cake, and for the first time used fondant technique to decorate the wedding cake.

She also specially made two small dolls out of fondant materials.One figure is wearing a white wedding dress, and the other is wearing a black wedding dress.

When she was done she showed it to the whole family, and they all said that the little pair were like Meg and John.But she didn't let Meg know about it, after all, it was a "surprise" for Meg.

Therefore, on the day of the wedding, when Roland was busy decorating the cake, he was in no hurry to put the pair of dolls on the top layer of the cake.She plans to wait until the final rolling out of the cake to adorn the "sweet surprise" couple.

While Roland was busy in the yard, Aunt March came to Roland.

"Josephine, it's your turn next."

The aunt hinted reservedly.

Roland raised his eyebrows: This is... urging marriage?

"You really don't have to worry about it. I don't have a partner or plan to get married recently."

Aunt March seemed to have expected that Roland would reply her like this, she immediately rolled her eyes, looked up at the sky and said, "The prerequisite for not getting married is that you must be rich yourself."

Then the aunt turned around, twisted her waist, and walked away with a wag.

Roland almost laughed on the spot: "Okay, aunt, I remember your words."

These words hit her heart.

Aunt March has never been married all her life, but the only girl she looks up to and wants to adopt is actually Joe.At this time, Aunt March taught her "life experience", and Roland also honestly accepted it, regardless of whether it was the aunt's original intention or not.

Just at this moment, Roland suddenly heard some movement in the kitchen, and then Hannah screamed "Oops".

Immediately someone asked, "Did Joe ruin the cake?"

Roland stuck out his tongue: It seems that the second Miss March's reputation as a "wild horse" is well known to everyone.

She turned and hurried to the kitchen, and heard Laurie comforting Hannah, and Hannah said very dejectedly: "Master Laurie, it's all the fault of the cat that beat the doll."

Roland suddenly raised his heart, where did the cat come from, and even hit the "surprise" she prepared for Meg?

Unexpectedly, Laurie told Hannah gently: "It wasn't the pair prepared by Jo. I saw that the dolls made by Jo were very beautiful, so I ordered a pair on my own. I wanted to show Jo...those, It doesn't matter if you fall."

Laurie even ordered a pair?

Roland looked at the puppet broken into several pieces on the ground in surprise.Seeing her coming, Laurie quickly collected the "wreckage".Roland only had a glimpse, and the pair of dolls were about the same height as the ones she made, a boy and a girl.

Roland turned his head, just in time to see a cat, with its tail raised high, walking away from the kitchen of March's house.

The kitten has a white body, black limbs, and a pair of small black ears. It is very cute.

Roland: Hey, isn't this her agent cat?

The author has something to say: 1 is from the lines of the 2019 movie version.