I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

While Pei Xiang was recalling her original sister, in a luxury residence in London, Jennifer Gray was also talking about her sister Doris Gray with two visitors.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Morris, Investigator Cook, I haven't been in touch with Doris Gray for a long time, so I don't know her current whereabouts."

This answer made Magistrate Morris from Kent frown:

"Miss Gray, you should know that if you hide your whereabouts for Doris Gray, you will be charged if you are discovered."

Jennifer Gray slowly shook the sandalwood satin folding fan, slightly parted her red lips, and moved her eyes:

"How can I hide it? There are people coming and going here, and small gatherings are held almost every day. Besides, the respected MP Marlborough will come to visit me every few days. Mr. Morris, tell me, I don't have the energy and What about the conditions for harboring a murderer?

Wise and outstanding magistrate, you couldn't catch anyone in Kent, and you were under too much pressure, so you went to London to slander others, right? "

When asked mockingly by Jennifer Gray, Morris immediately blushed.

Investigator Cook on the side snatched Morris' anger and choked, and said with a smile:

"Miss Gray, you are naturally not the kind of stupid and ignorant woman who covers up a prisoner, we all believe in your innocence and respect for English law.

Morris was too anxious and wanted to avenge Lord Essex too much, so his tone became a little blunt. "

Someone passed the steps to smooth things over, and Jennifer Gray, who has always been slick on all sides, naturally stopped being aggressive. She glanced at Investigator Cook with a coquettish smile, and then said softly:

"I am very sorry about Lord Essex's matter, but unfortunately, I can't help much.

The two gentlemen must also know the origins of our sisters, so it should be clear that we have not lived together since we were young, and the relationship is actually quite distant. To be honest, I have more frequent contact with that Mrs. Margaret Some. "

Morris kept his temper in check when Cook spoke out to smooth things over.

He suddenly realized that the glamorous young woman in front of him was not an ordinary woman who allowed him to play tricks, but the favorite mistress of Councilor Marlborough and a very famous courtesan in the London social circle.

Jennifer Gray is well-informed and well-connected. Before she has grown old and completely lost power, he is a little sheriff in a local area. It is really inappropriate to offend her completely, otherwise he will be in trouble when the wind blows beside his pillow .

"Miss Gray, sorry for my bad tone just now.

However, the arrest of Doris Gray is imminent. If you have any clues, or if she comes to you for help, please do contact us. I believe that Miss Gray is a wise person who can distinguish right from wrong. "

"Naturally, I will never cover up that daring girl." Jennifer Gray smiled and nodded, looking very understanding.

Seeing that there was nothing useful to ask during today's visit, Morris and Cook sat for a while, then got up and said goodbye.

After sending the two guests away, Jennifer Gray sat alone for a while, and there was no outsider in the gorgeously decorated living room, which seemed a bit of a different kind of deserted and dull.

The blond woman sighed helplessly, a bit of fatigue appeared between her charming and delicate brows, and she gently rubbed her forehead.

The snacks on the table exuded a sweet aroma, which was her favorite in the past, but at this time, she didn't have any appetite to taste it.

At this time, the servant on duty at the porter came in and announced: "Miss Gray, Mr. George Dover is visiting."

Hearing this familiar name, Jennifer Gray was pleasantly surprised, and a sweet smile instantly climbed onto her cheeks.

"Mr. Dover, please come in."

As soon as the words fell, an extremely handsome young man strode in.

"Jennifer, see what gift I brought you?"

Jennifer Gray forcibly resisted the movement of rushing to the side of her beloved. She barely maintained a reserved sitting posture, squinted at the handsome young man, and complained with a smile:

"Am I a silly girl who can be dismissed with one or two small gifts? You count the days, how long has it been since you came to my place?"

The delicate and beautiful woman turned her face away, her pink face was full of anger, but her eyes stuck to the visitor's body like honey, sticking to the heart of the young man who was full of vigor.

"Jennifer, my dear, how long have you not seen me, how many days and nights I can't sleep because of thinking about you, you see, separation makes us both miserable, I wish I could be with you every day. "

While talking, George Dover stuffed the gift in Jennifer Gray's hand:

"Open it and have a look, Jennifer, my living expenses for this month have been exchanged for this beautiful little thing, I hope it can match your smile and bright eyes."

Jennifer Gray couldn't hold back her face when her beloved spoke sweet words, and she didn't want to take the trick of teaching men seriously on George Dover.

Her affection for him was absolutely from the heart, completely different from the hypocrisy she had treated Mr. Marlborough.

"You spend money recklessly again, and your family members know about it, so it's time to say that I lied to you."

George Dover smiled and did not speak, but looked at Jennifer with gentle eyes, motioning her to open the gift box and see if the jewelry inside could please her.

Jennifer opened the exquisite package, and at a glance, she was attracted by the coral necklace inside.

"How did you know I've always wanted this? Oh, George, you're so sweet."

"Naturally, I will try to find out about you. Jennifer, I feel guilty and uneasy that I can't be with you openly. If I still ignore your preferences, I won't dare to appear in front of you again."

Jennifer blinked, trying not to make the eye sockets so wet. She looked at George Dover's doting and gentle smile with fascination, and those blue eyes as deep and charming as the ocean, and her heart throbbed.

George Dover put the necklace on Jennifer's beautiful fair neck, and gently stroked her long golden hair.

"Jennifer, don't worry, and don't feel at a loss for our future. I didn't come to see you these days because I was working hard for our future.

Listen to me, I found a relationship with my former classmates. After much hard work and several rounds of introductions, I finally won the favor of Earl Isaac.

He is willing to reuse and promote me, invest in my political future, and find me an important position in the government.

After this matter is done, I will be able to provide you with good living conditions, and I will be able to snatch you away from Councilor Marlborough with confidence. "

This good news made Jennifer Gray happy, and then worried.

"George, don't be too impulsive. Your career has just started. If you publicly offend Mr. Marlborough at this time, will it have a bad impact on your future?"

Georges Dover's gaze on his lover softened even more.

"Don't worry, dear, I know where the weakness of that old man in Marlborough is. Once I get his handle on him, he won't dare to make trouble in London. I'll let him pack up and go back to his country cottage in disgrace." go."

Hearing George Dover's confident words, Jennifer Gray became very curious, and she began to pester him, asking him to tell her what the weakness of a shrewd man like Councilor Marlborough was.

In order to get more obsessions and kisses from his lover, the handsome man has been lazily putting on airs and insisting on not letting go. Jennifer Gray especially enjoys this feeling of being pampered and valued, and the love in her heart is even stronger... …

On one side, there is a strong love for spring, and on the other side, Pei Xiang is still struggling to lie and survive.

On the second day after talking with Fitzwilliam Darcy, Pei Xiang went out as planned.

This time, she went to an old-fashioned jewelry store with a good reputation, and was going to sell a few pieces of jewelry and exchange them for pounds for urgent needs.

The original Doris Gray was reluctant to sell her jewelry to improve her life, but she was actually planning for her own future.

Like most girls in this era, she longed to enter the upper class, longed to be able to participate in the prom, to meet the handsome and handsome son-in-law, and then, by virtue of her beauty, temperament and talent, to marry a noble son-in-law, and never had enough food and clothing. Worry, wealth and safety.

Doris Gray regards these shining objects as an important help to achieve a happy destination, and every piece of beautiful jewelry carries the hope of changing her dishonorable birth.

But now, the trajectory of fate has undergone an unexpected change...

Pei Xiang, who came across time, became Doris Gray, and put on the hat of a murderer and a fugitive.

Naturally, Pei Xiang would not expect these jewels to enhance her brilliance and confuse a noble and upright gentleman to marry her, so she decided to sell these inedible and unusable jewels and replace them with ones that could help her survive the difficulties currency.

At the same time, Pei Xiang still had some things that belonged to Lord Essex. When she was dealing with the corpse, she collected all the precious ornaments on the other party's body that had no imprint. A small fortune.

An hour later, Pei Xiang walked out of the jewelry store calmly, looking the same as when he entered.But only she knew in her heart that her temporary financial difficulties were solved.

——Fortunately, Doris Gray's jewelry is all ordinary styles, and there is no special origin. They are not the kind of treasures that will attract everyone's attention as soon as they are sold. Otherwise, I really dare not make this deal.

However, this time it was a one-shot deal, and if she spent the money she had just exchanged for, then she would really be penniless.

——So, I have to find a job, I can't just leave but not enter...

After eating something in the carriage, Pei Xiang asked the driver to take her to Grace Church.

The place Pei Xiang lives in is a famous residential area in London, close to Hyde Park, where most of the residents are celebrities of a certain social status.Buying a property on Grosvenor Street is not possible without a respectable family background.

The neighborhood that Pei Xiang was going to at this time was also one of the residential areas in London, but most of the residents' social status was not too high, most of them were ordinary businessmen, lawyers or government employees in London.

"Jim, I'll be on Grace Church Street in a while, please help me find out which house needs to be rented out in the near future, and what is the character of the landlord."

"Okay, ma'am."

The carriage gradually went away, and calm was restored in front of the gate of the jewelry store.

After a while, a two-wheeled carriage with the family crest of the Darcy family came over, the car stopped, the doorman came and opened the door politely, and Fitzwilliam Darcy got out of the car.

"Is Mr. O'Hare there?"

"Mr. Darcy, Mr. O'Hare has been waiting for a long time, please come in."

Darcy nodded, and stepped into the door of the jewelry store.

Mr. O'Hare, who was checking the luster of the gemstone, saw Darcy's figure and hurriedly got up to meet him.

"Mr. O'Hare, have you finished the pearl jewelry I asked you to make for a little girl?"

"Of course, Mr. Darcy, your order must be the first to be fulfilled."

Mr. O'Hare asked Darcy to sit down opposite him, and asked the apprentices in the shop to put down their tidying up work and go to the warehouse behind to pick up his latest work.

After Darcy sat down, his gaze swept away. Suddenly, he was attracted by some old jewelry on O'Hare's workbench.

"This is..." Darcy took a glove and picked up a Butterfly Fritillaria hairpin from the old jewelry, and put it in his palm for a few careful glances.

His memory is very good. On the morning when he met Pei Xiang in the Grove Manor, this hairpin was pinned to the side of his blond hair.

When Pei Xiang wore it at the beginning, he wanted to use this well-made old jewelry to convince Darcy that she came from a family with a certain background, and that person, Wickham, always liked to focus on the rich and beautiful. On someone else's young lady.

But I didn't expect that there is no coincidence without a book, and this specially arranged detail has now gone wrong.

O'Hare glanced at it, and explained in a casual tone:

"Oh, it was left in the store by a lady customer, who said she didn't like the old jewelry, and she came to exchange it for some pounds.

Why, Mr. Darcy is interested in such ornaments?Leave it to old O'Hare, and I'll make you an even finer one out of the latest and brightest gemstones. "

Darcy shook his head lightly, he put the mother-of-pearl hairpin back to its original position, and glanced at several other old jewelry:

"These jewelry are all left by that lady?"

O'Hare nodded, pointed to a few small gemstones on another piece of flannelette, some thin gold chains and ring holders, and added indifferently:

"No, including these bits and pieces of jewelry, they were all brought by that lady.

I guess, it’s another aristocratic female family member who has fallen into poverty. In order to maintain her dignity, she began to sell her old jewelry quietly. Hehe, she even lied to old O’Hare that these jewelry took up too much space. Tsk tsk, who would dislike gold and silver jewelry too much?These things, I have seen a lot. "

Darcy pursed his lips and said after a long while: "You are right, old O'Hare, indeed a lady from a poor family and a lady with strong self-esteem. Maybe she is a friend I know."

O'Hare also noticed Darcy's unhappy expression at this time, and quickly shut up and said nothing more.

After the apprentice got back the whole set of pearl ornaments customized by Mr. Darcy, Darcy carefully inspected the shape and quality of the jewelry on O'Hare's workbench.

It's his start-of-school gift for his sister Georgiana Darcy, and it's best left unblemished.

After checking and confirming that each pearl is very round and flawless, Darcy pointed to the jewelry that Pei Xiang had just sold and said:

"Put all of these together for me and put them on the account."