I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

In the next few days, Pei Xiang was busy digging out his "supernatural power" and memory, while trying to integrate into the daily life and social life of the local people, trying to make himself a popular person.

Both things work together, but with different results.

In terms of recovering memory, to be honest, the progress is not gratifying.

Although Pei Xiang can dream many scattered pictures related to the past every night, if he carefully ponders the details in those pictures, he will gradually realize a shocking fact, that is, those pictures are actually only related to "skills". In addition, it does not include the real people and specific events that Pei Xiang came into contact with when learning and using those knowledge.

——It seems that there is some special power deliberately blurring every fresh and vivid past.

Therefore, Pei Xiang is getting faster and faster at re-mastering various skills, but she is becoming more and more confused about her identity.

Frustration in finding the past doesn't mean life is bad in the present.

Pei Xiang, who lost his memory, not only forged a deep friendship with the March family and the Lawrence family, but also established a good neighborhood relationship with the nearby residents, and became the elegant, beautiful and understanding "Miss Amy" in everyone's mouth.

On this day, Pei Xiang went to March's house with a picture book and a collection of French poems as usual.

After entering the door, she found that the living room was empty, and even Beth, who always liked to practice piano music at this time, was not sitting on the piano bench, so she raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Sister Hannah who opened the door for Pei Xiang smiled and pointed in the direction of the upstairs bedroom, hummed a song and turned back to the kitchen to continue working.She now treats Pei Xiang and Laurie who live next door as her own children, and never treats them with the same polite etiquette as entertaining outsiders.

Pei Xiang did not hesitate, and immediately ran up the stairs following the instructions of Sister Hannah.As soon as she turned the corner, she saw Meg standing in the light in front of the bedroom door, carefully adorning a white Taradan tulle dress.

"What are you busy with? Why did you take out this tulle skirt?"

"Amy, you're here." Meg immediately smiled sweetly when she saw Pei Xiang approaching, "I'm checking this taradine skirt to see if there is any stain or damage on it."

"Are you going to the dance?" Pei Xiang handed the book to Amy who ran out of the house, and then helped Meg to check it together, "Is Joe going to join you too?"

"Oh, no, I'd rather stay in the attic and read," said Jo's lively voice from the room, "and I'm not invited by Anne Moffat. By the way, Amy, you know Anne Mo Fat? She and Sally Gardner are friends of Meg's."

Pei Xiang looked into the house and found that the other three sisters of the March family were busy.Jo was bending over to put folded clothes into a large suitcase, Beth was arranging delicate things like scarves and ribbons, and after Amy had arranged the picture album that Pei Xiang brought her, she then lowered her head and started fiddling with needlework Package comes.

"I know the Moffats."

Pei Xiang raised his voice outside the door to answer Joe's question, and joked with himself in a relaxed tone:

"To be precise, due to my extraordinary experience of falling into the water and amnesia and my identity background that is still a mystery, I have received the care and comfort of all the families around here. I am very glad that everyone did not treat me like a witch or a vampire. , but thought with good intentions that I must be a troubled noble lady from an ancient family."

These words provoked a "haha" smile from Joe, while Amy analyzed with great certainty:

"If you ask me, you must be a troubled noble lady. Laurie said that you are an excellent horseman, and you are also a perfect archer. Anyway, there is no girl I know who has as many talents as you. Woolen cloth."

Inside the house, Joe deliberately teased the prudish little sister, she asked with a smile:

"May I ask you well-informed Miss Amy March, how many girls have you seen so far?"

Amy snorted softly, and articulately retorted:

"It must be more than you know. Joe, you only like boys' games and reading and writing scripts in the attic, how can you meet many elegant girls? I can guarantee that you definitely don't know Helen and Serge from the Ross family. Lina, but I traded pickled limes with the two sisters when I was at school. Even if I don't go to school now, they must remember this friendship."

"The girls of the Rose family..." Jo put Meg's clothes in the suitcase, and at the same time thought about it for a while, and found that she really didn't remember their two little daughters very much, "Well, Amy, You're right, but..."

Jo's words were interrupted. After checking the prom dress, Meg walked into the house and disciplined her naughty sister loudly:

"Oh, Joe, don't shrug your shoulders, it's very rude of you."

Joe then made a "never again" gesture, but this gesture seemed to be more boyish than the previous shrugging of the shoulders.Seeing this, Amy laughed unceremoniously and made a face at Joe.

Meg immediately put on a serious face and looked at the two younger sisters seriously, but her appearance was too delicate and gentle, and she didn't have the majesty of the elder sister at all.

Pei Xiang, who was walking behind Meg, smiled when he received the "help" sight from Joe and Amy.She winked at the quiet and shy Beth, and her smiling eyes fell on the delicate trinkets.

Beth understood it, and hastily sent the ribbons and scarves she had just arranged and picked out to Meg, and asked her which ones she was going to take with her.So Meg was distracted.

Pei Xiang walked to Qiao and sat down, helping her to check the clothes and accessories that Meg would bring when she went out as a guest.

"Gray traveling clothes, new home clothes, silk coats, hats with feathers, oh, and a poplin skirt and a beautiful blue belt..." Pei Xiang asked curiously, "It seems that the time to go out this time is not good. Short, isn't Meg going to teach the children?"

"They've just had measles," explained Jo, "and Meg will be staying at the Moffats for a fortnight this time, and there will be two balls in between. A small one, and she's going to do it in this old poplin dress, and then There will be a more formal ball, and this beautiful white Tara Dan tulle dress will be needed then."

Meg, who was picking out a scarf, looked up at the poplin skirt in the box, and muttered worriedly:

"Fortunately, it's only April, so the poplin dress won't look too stuffy. If it were June, I wouldn't be able to wear it to the ball."

Pei Xiang also felt that this poplin skirt was a bit inappropriate, so he suggested:

"My skirts are all newly made, and there are still a few thin ones that I haven't worn. Why don't I lend them to you."

Meg regarded Pei Xiang as her younger sister in the family, so she didn't feel offended. After thinking about it seriously, she regretfully refused:

"No, Amy, you are taller than me. If I wear your skirt, the neckline, waist and skirt will need to be changed to fit. There is no time."

Jo nodded and agreed: "Actually, there is a violet silk dress from my mother, which is also very suitable for the spring ball, but because it is too late to change the size, Meg has to give it up."

After studying the skirt, Meg began to examine her silk umbrella and gloves again, with satisfaction and regret in her clear and beautiful eyes.

The two little sisters, Beth and Amy, looked enviously at all the beautiful clothes in the suitcase.They felt that the elder sister's salute when she went out as a guest this time was very decent, and it could be regarded as perfect.

Jo didn't care too much about these things, so she thought Meg's preparations were adequate and respectable.

Only Pei Xiang guessed from her unreliable memory and intuition that Meg's things would probably look shabby and pitiful in the eyes of the Moffat sisters and other rich ladies.And this time is Meg's first in-depth contact with social vanity fair. I wonder if she will be wronged by then?

—— Meg will be wronged and deeply touched.

A thought suddenly popped up in Pei Xiang's mind, and it was very clear.

—Those people will speculate on the relationship between Meg and Laurie, and think that Mrs. March is deliberately planning to marry Meg to a rich neighbor.

—— Meg will overhear these gossips that hurt her feelings and self-esteem, she will cry secretly, she will get lost for a while, and she will drink and flirt like other girls at the ball.

—she would quarrel with Laurie, who was at the Thursday Ball, and then they made up.Then, Meg will grow from it...

Having obtained a "prophecy" again, Pei Xiang was able to analyze the accuracy of the prophecy while calmly watching the girls in the March family joking and fighting.

Regarding the "prophecy" he got last time - that Mr. John Brooke would marry Miss Meg March and have twins, Pei Xiang couldn't tell the truth from the fake for a while.But this time, the "Prom Prophecy" will soon have a "correct" answer.

At this time, Mrs. March's voice came from downstairs.It turned out that she had just visited the Hummel family, a poor family in the vicinity, and sent bread, butter and old clothes to the sick mother and seven skinny children.

Beth was the first to go downstairs. She flew to Mrs. March like a bird and kissed her. Then she asked about the situation of the Hummels with great concern.After learning that those children were still healthy, a warm and pure smile bloomed on the little girl's healthy and ruddy face.

When Pei Xiang walked down the stairs, he happened to see such a beautiful scene, but before she could show a brisk smile, a black and cold "prophecy" hit her heart again.

— Beth will die young.

——Beth, who is 14 years old this year, will be infected with scarlet fever because she went to take care of the Hummel family, and was even critically ill.Though the danger was saved at last, Beth's health was utterly ruined by this dreadful illness.

——After that, Beth became pale and weak, and her cheeks no longer had the healthy and rosy luster. She stayed at home quietly, like a flower quietly blooming in the dust, and then withered when she was less than 20 years old withered.

"Amy, why are you standing here?" Joe's energetic voice came from behind.

Pei Xiang took a deep breath and calmly walked down the stairs as if nothing happened.

At this moment, her desire to confirm the accuracy of the "prophecy" is even stronger. If she was somewhat lazy and casual before, then she is now taking the "prophecy" in her mind extremely seriously.

——I have to find a way to attend the Thursday dance at Moffat's house, and then personally observe Meg's performance at the dance, to verify whether the "prophecy" is different from reality?And... can the "prophecy" be changed?

"Mrs. March, how are the seven Hummel children? Is the youngest baby all right?"

Mrs. March hugged Pei Xiang and said gently:

"The children all look a little thin, but when spring comes, they will all thrive like young saplings, and so does the youngest one. He is a strong baby."

Pei Xiang nodded lightly, sat down next to Beth, and asked in a chatty tone: "Do you often visit the Humel family?"

Beth smiled shyly, and replied in a low voice:

"I don't go as often as my mother. Sometimes, I don't want to go out because of piano practice or tired housework. Sometimes Meg and Jo go to visit them, and I'm lazy and don't go with them."

Pei Xiang stroked Beth's soft hair, and said softly:

"I think you've done a good job. Mrs. March will be very sad if you wear yourself out trying to help others."

"I won't wear myself out," said Beth, shaking her head, "but you're right, I'll take care of myself so that my mother won't worry too much, and my father, who's in the field, shouldn't worry too much about me."

Just as he was talking, Laurie strode in briskly.

After greeting Mrs. March sincerely and warmly, he sat down beside Jo and talked of the ball games the boys had been fond of lately.Jo's attention was immediately attracted by the subject, and she devoted herself to inquiring about the details of the game with Laurie.

On the other side of the sofa, Meg is pestering Mrs. March, hoping that she can lend her the treasured set of old-fashioned pearl jewelry, which she wants to wear at the Moffat's ball.

Mrs. March gently but firmly refused the elder daughter's request on the grounds that the set of pearl jewelry was not suitable for a 17-year-old girl.In her opinion, there is nothing better than flowers to adorn the delicate and youthful faces of young girls.

So Laurie on the side promised Meg that he would send people to send all kinds of flowers and green ferns that Meg needed before Meg attended the small ball.

The words of Mrs. March and Laurie made Pei Xiang's eyes a little more cautious. She found that everything was developing according to the plot she "predicted".

Lowering his eyes slightly, Pei Xiang held Beth's hand and asked:

"Beth, can you send me a light and beautiful tune?"

Beth got up happily, went to sit down in front of her beloved piano, and played a moving melody for Pei Xiang, relatives and friends in the house.

Pei Xiang quietly listened to the light and pure sound of the little girl Beth, and all she could see was a comfortable and lively smiling face.She thought, why let such a happy family suffer the ups and downs of life and death, the four Miss March should support each other through a long life.

On the morning of the second day, Meg, full of excitement and anticipation, bid farewell to relatives and friends, and happily went to Moffat's house in a carriage.

In that magnificent building, Meg March, who is new to Vanity Fair, will spend fourteen days of holiday life with her friends, temporarily getting rid of all the troubles and troubles of being a tutor.

The life of the three Miss March and Pei Xiang who were left behind was the same as before.Everyone lived a very fulfilling life every day. Occasionally, they would imagine the scene of Meg being a guest abroad, or imagine what new and interesting things she would tell everyone when she came back.

In a blink of an eye, ten days passed.

On a sunny morning, Pei Xiang made an excuse to go shopping on the street, and sat in the carriage of the Lawrence family in front of a boutique, and "coincidentally ran into" Belle Moffat, a member of the Moffat family. Engaged lady.

After the two parties greeted each other, they walked into the store to pick things together.During the shopping process, Pei Xiang showed good financial resources and high-level taste, and started the conversation with Meg's guest at Moffat's house, and chatted with Belle Moffat a few more times. sentence.

After getting acquainted with each other, she seemingly inadvertently talked about a few words about her travel experience in the European continent in her chaotic memory, and occasionally inserted a few words in French or Latin in a very fashionable way...

Unknowingly, Belle Moffat looked at Pei Xiang more enthusiastically.

When the two said goodbye in front of the store, Belle Moffat looked at Pei Xiang's clothing, jewelry, manner of speaking, and the carriage belonging to the Lawrence family who came to pick her up, and sincerely extended an invitation to Pei Xiang, hoping that she would To the dance at the Moffats on Thursday night.

Pei Xiang pretended to think about it before agreeing to Belle Moffat's invitation with a little restraint.

In the evening, Laurie was a little surprised to hear that Pei Xiang was also going to the dance on Thursday night.

"I thought you were not very interested in those occasions."

Pei Xiang smiled and said: "I not only enjoy the simple and fulfilling life, but also like the flashy time of being flattered by the boys."

Laurie raised his eyebrows and pretended to be dissatisfied and shouted:

"Flattery? Oh, that's not allowed! Amy, I must consciously take on the responsibility of a brother and drive away those idiots who surround you with malicious intentions."

Pei Xiang naturally knew that Laurie would also go to the dance on Thursday night, because he promised Jo that he would go to see if Meg was having a good time for Jo, so he joked:

"Laurie, it's up to you to keep Meg. She's so pretty, like a pink rose that's in full bloom without knowing it, and will keep your brother busy. You won't have time then." Take care of me."

Laurie immediately disapproved.

Pei Xiang smiled and explained half-truthfully:

"Don't stop me, I have to experience the unique lively atmosphere at the dance party. Champagne, music, clothes and temples are toasting...Maybe when I spin on the dance floor, I will recall more of the past."

Laurie nodded thoughtfully, and then asked a particularly critical question:

"For good reason, but Amy...do you remember how to dance?"

Pei Xiang was startled, then shook his head confidently.She certainly hasn't recalled this social skill yet.

Laurie couldn't help pinching the bridge of his nose and sighed, feeling a little helpless for the amnesia girl who couldn't dance and was going to the prom.

Pei Xiang ignored Laurie's delicate expression. After explaining that she would attend the dance at Moffat's house, she went back to her room to rest.

For Pei Xiang today, "dreaming" after falling asleep is a very interesting thing.Every morning she wakes up a little bit stronger.

——As the old saying goes, there is everything in a dream.

--Huh?Where did I hear that "old saying"?Forget it, let's dream first.

——From the sporadic scenes in the dream last night, it can be inferred that Cui Cui was congenitally malnourished and was a poor little child who almost couldn't be born smoothly, which made him too petite after birth...