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"Miss Gray, what's the matter with you coming to see me so late?"

Hearing Anderson's question, Pei Xiang showed a fearful and anxious expression at the right time. She hesitated for a moment, put the jewel button in her palm on the dirty table in the duty room, and then took out a letter from her arms.

"Mr. Anderson, I would like to ask you to help me send a letter to the mailing point in the town, and it will be expedited overnight."

Anderson didn't immediately agree to Pei Xiang's request. He looked at the tutor disguised as a man with great interest, thinking about what happened tonight.

"Miss Gray, why are you dressed like this? Women should look like women, how can you wear men's clothes, it's too indecent."

Pei Xiang stood awkwardly by the door of the duty room, subconsciously tugging at the skirt of his clothes.

"I, I dressed up like this for the convenience of coming out. It's a bit troublesome to wear a skirt."

Anderson shook his beard, and the suspicion in his heart became stronger.

However, before he could open his mouth, the young girl who had not experienced much in the world explained her plan in one go.

"Mr. Anderson, I have to ask you for help. This letter of mine...is addressed to Mrs. Margaret, that is, er, the principal of the girls' school who recommended me to Grove Manor.

I beg her to come here at once and take me away, I'm at Grove Manor, I'm not safe here, really, God help me, I need to get off Lord Essex's land at once. "

While talking, Pei Xiang stuffed the letter into groom Anderson's hand, and his tone became more and more urgent:

"Good sir, I know you have a good relationship with the guys on the patrol team. I've heard the cook Maggie say that you, uh - have a way, and you can leave the manor on horseback at any time. Please help me, help me I sent this urgent letter overnight."

Asked for help by a crying beauty, Anderson felt a little giddy. He took a deep breath, and his nostrils were filled with the sweet fragrance of Miss Gray. At this moment, Anderson felt that he was taller and stronger than ever before.

"Miss Grey, of course Anderson is willing to help you.

But, you have to tell me, why are you leaving our manor in such a hurry?

Did some bastard bully you?Or did those rude maids say bad things about you?You tell me, and I'll help you settle things so that you don't leave in such a hurry. "

Pei Xiang shook her head without hesitation. She looked up at Anderson trustingly with her plain and charming face:

"Sir, I know that you are a kind-hearted person, and you are the most disdainful of injustice in the world. You are a devout Christian, so when I encounter difficulties, I will risk sneaking out of the room to ask you for help.

Sir, everyone in the manor is very kind and friendly, and they take good care of me. I am in a hurry to leave here, definitely not because I have been bullied. "

"Then why do you have to post the letter overnight? You can't even wait half the night!

Miss Grey, it will be daylight soon, and you can take the letter directly to the butler, and he will surely arrange it for you. "

"No, the housekeeper won't let me send the letter successfully."

Pei Xiang couldn't help raising her voice, she bit her lower lip, with humiliation and determination in her eyes:

"Mr. Anderson, let me tell you the truth, my lord, he, he is not loyal to marriage, he broke the promise he made before God!

Although I am poor and weak, I absolutely do not agree with this kind of thing, so, so, I rejected the Lord Lord's hint.

However, James Burley threatened me that my lord would not give up, and that I would succumb sooner or later, so I had to run out late at night to seek help.

Mr. Anderson, as you know, the lady is away to visit, and there is no one in the Grove Manor who can restrain the Lord's immoral behavior. "

Regarding Pei Xiang's explanation, Anderson showed a distorted smile that was both clear and hateful. His family has been tenants of the Lord Essex family for generations, so he knows the character of the current Lord very well.

Anderson didn't think that Pei Xiang was lying, and even faced with the beautiful girl who tried her best to resist the Lord's temptation, Anderson had complicated emotions in his heart.

There is actually a reason why he can become the groom of the Grove Manor and live comfortably with a good salary.

Anderson's wife was a plump and passionate beauty. Before marrying him, she had already hooked up with Lord Essex. Even after marriage, the relationship between the two people was not broken, and Anderson seemed to be clear in his heart.

However, in order to live a stable and prosperous life, Anderson not only couldn't stop his wife from cheating, but also kept pretending to be ignorant and wearing a cuckold silently.

At this moment, facing Doris Gray who dared to reject Lord Essex, the balance in Anderson's heart quickly tilted.

He even began to imagine how the always pretentious lord would be frustrated and disappointed when the young girl was successfully "rescued".

——Not all women like the old man with thinning hair, at least, the elegant and beautiful Miss Gray has a strong dislike for Lord Essex, huh!

——The so-called aristocratic master is only fit to hang out with the groom's wife!

The expression on Anderson's face kept changing, and Pei Xiang silently lowered his eyes, knowing that the matter was almost done.

Anderson had already agreed to Pei Xiang's request for help in his heart, but on the surface, he did not let go so easily.

"Miss Grey, you know that if I agree to post this letter for you, I will be taking great risks.

In the future, if you pat your skirt and leave, His Excellency will definitely be very angry. If, I mean if, he finds out the fact that I helped you, I may lose my job. "

Pei Xiang is now a pure and kind character. After listening to Anderson's words, she showed a tangled expression on her face. In the end, guilt prevailed, and she stomped her feet very uneasy. Finally, she took out the second A jewel clasp.

"Here, Mr. Anderson, these two gems are my most precious collection. I think their value is enough for you to live in peace in another place."

Anderson's eyes lit up, and he took the second gem neatly, and couldn't help laughing secretly at the other side's deceit.

He often helps the servants in the manor to do private work, and secretly sends and passes some things of unknown origin. He and the patrol team have long had a tacit understanding.

Tonight, even if there is no such thing as Miss Gray sending a letter, he will sneak out of town once in a while to help the cook Maggie secretly transport and consign some valuable ingredients in the kitchen. The two gems that Pei Xiang gave him are a windfall. .

——Even if it is really discovered, the money I have saved over the years is enough, and I can live more happily in another place. At worst, it is better to work in a factory in the north than to have my wife stolen here.

With enough benefits, the groom Anderson no longer took Joe, he agreed to Pei Xiang's request very simply, and was going to leave immediately to help her send the letter.

After the deal was concluded, Pei Xiang left the duty room next to the stable and returned quietly.

Taking another shortcut and passing through the small corner door on the west side of the main house, Pei Xiang turned his head and glanced in the direction of the stables.

The letter she had just sent from Thomas Anderson was indeed addressed to Mrs. Margaret at the boarding school.

However, the content of the letter was not to ask the lady for help, hoping that she could personally or send someone to the Grove Manor to pick her up, but instead denounced the bad intentions of the headmistress of the girls' school.

Over the years, Mrs. Margaret has deceived many young girls like Doris Gray by taking advantage of her status.

She sent her students to be tutors in wealthy families with bad reputations, almost watching helplessly as the inexperienced girl became a mistress step by step, while she snatched a lot of money from it.

After accusing Mrs. Margaret of her misdeeds, Pei Xiang wrote in her letter that when she resisted Lord Essex's brutality, she accidentally killed him. Although she did not regret or regret this, but She knew that, according to the law, she would be punished.

She doesn't want to go to jail for atonement for the scum, or even go to the gallows, and doesn't want to meet the merciful God as a worldly sinner, so she wants to escape from Grove Manor and escape to a strange country where no one knows her. the gospel.

At the end of the letter, Pei Xiang imitated Doris Gray's innocent tone and wrote, if Mrs. Margaret has the slightest remorse, please remember Doris Gray's misfortune and tell her honestly Her older sister, Jennifer Gray, was in London.

Tell her that her sister accidentally killed someone in the process of defending purity and steadfastness, and she was not evil by nature, please Jennifer Gray not to worry too much about her relatives.

Because no matter what the future holds, Doris Gray's soul is pure and her heart is calm. She will dedicate her life to Christ and to all compatriots living in poverty and hardship.

Pei Xiang wrote this letter not really to get involved with Mrs. Margaret, but to set up some cover-ups to confuse her subsequent escape actions, so that the investigators who read the letter mistakenly think that there is more Liz Gray was going to flee abroad.

Coincidentally, Kent, where the Grove Manor is located, is located in the southeast of the island of England, facing France across the Strait of Dover, and it is indeed a good place for smuggling into the European continent.

What's more, with the discovery of Lord Essex's body, Pei Xiang's letter will inevitably be read by more people.

In this way, it is equivalent to exposing the bad deeds of Mrs. Margaret and the reason why Doris Gray killed Lord Essex.

A lord was killed, and the investigators attracted were by no means fans of the lord's family.

Not long after, among the people who came to Grove Manor to investigate, as long as there were one or two upright gentlemen, or members of the hostile forces of the Lord's family, the ins and outs of the murder could no longer be concealed.

At that time, Lord Essex will be notorious, and Mrs. Margaret, who has helped the evil, will not end well. At least, her girls' boarding school should not be able to continue.

Pei Xiang returned to the room the same way, changed the men's clothes on his body, wrapped the whole set of clothes tightly, and began to pack Doris Gray's personal and important items carefully.

Time passed quickly, and when dawn came, Pei Xiang had rearranged the room, hiding many suspicious details.

The male and female servants in the Grove Manor were all up to work at this time, and Pei Xiang looked around the room for the last time.

Then, she changed into a clean light blue skirt, wrapped in a dark brown linen long coat, and walked out of the bedroom door with her packed package in her arms.

Another impromptu performance is about to begin...