When Emperor Wu dressed as Darcy's sister

Jane had always had a habit of begging Isabeth to sleep with her at night, when she had something on her mind, and asking Mary, who had been in the same room with them both, to share a room with Lydia and Catherine. .

Often at this time Lydia would take the opportunity to make some requests, perhaps for a hat from Jane, perhaps for a section of newly woven lace, or perhaps for a piece of decoration on a new dress that Elizabeth, the most skilled, gave her. lace.

The sisters asked her for help, so they had no choice but to agree.

So today, when Elizabeth and Lydia proposed to let Mary go to their room to squeeze together tonight, she was prepared that Lydia might open her mouth, after all, there was something between her and Lydia tonight. There was a lot of little friction.

But unexpectedly, Lydia didn't say anything, just complained a few words in a low voice, and after repeatedly asking Elizabeth to promise that it was only tonight, she looked like she couldn't wait to drag Catherine back to her room.

Elizabeth wrapped her coat tightly and said in surprise: "Oh, why didn't Lydia make a request today? I'm ready to bleed!"

"Lydia is also 16 years old this year, and she has grown up." Jane said with a gentle smile, "There are whispers between the sisters, can she sometimes be considerate of the little requests of the sisters?"

Mary rolled her eyes, snorted heavily, deliberately strode past Jane, took out a few thick books in the room, raised her chin and said, "I'm going to talk to Lydia tonight. Go to bed, I hope she is as sensible as you said!"

Jane looked at Mary who suddenly burst out in bewilderment, and after a while she said dully, "What's wrong with Mary?"

Elizabeth looked at her helplessly, and couldn't say anything, so she avoided it and said, "It's nothing, but Lydia is still far from being sensible. You should have seen it tonight."

The more she talked, the more suspicious she became. She wondered, "Why is Lydia so abnormal? She was asking about Georgiana's jewelry at the ball in Netherfield, just now in the carriage!"

Jane is really not good at discovering things in these small things. She always thinks of things on the bright side. At this time, she just guessed optimistically: "Maybe she is tired and can't think of what to ask for——Okay , dear Lizzie, it's so late, let's go back to the bedroom, I still have a lot to say to you!"

Although Elizabeth didn't believe Jane's conjecture, she didn't have any good ideas, so she could only let Jane's arm gently but still forcefully drag her towards the bedroom, and she still worriedly approached Lydia's. The bedroom looked around.

There was nothing to talk about in the evening conversation between Jane and Elizabeth. In fact, they were still talking over and over again in the carriage. Elizabeth had heard what a good young man Mr. Bingley was, and she couldn't open her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Jane gave up disgruntled.

However, these happy little thoughts of Jane will never be shared by others. Early the next morning, Mrs. Bennet was very excited.

Angrily rushed to the bedroom of the two, and couldn't wait for Jane to share what she saw at the dance yesterday.

"Oh, God, please spare me, Mom!" Elizabeth slept until three or four o'clock in the morning yesterday, and heard Mrs. Bennet's bluffing before seven o'clock today.

She barely opened her eyelids, squinted her eyes and looked up. She was startled by the figure lying on the bed, Ji Lingling turned over from the bed and sat up, and saw clearly that it was Mrs. Bennett who came to inquire about the news. He collapsed and lay down on the bed, "It was past one o'clock when I got home yesterday, why don't you let me sleep, Mom! Please, please ask the cook to make breakfast later, so I can eat it in the room? "

After she finished speaking, she immediately pulled up the quilt to cover her head, and fell asleep again.

Mrs. Bennet glared at Elizabeth, who covered her head, angrily, and said angrily, "Lizzie, I don't care if you want breakfast or not!"

She turned her head to look at Jane, with tenderness in her eyes again, and gently asked Jane who was already awake and leaning on the bed in a gentle voice that was about to drip: "Jane, come and tell me, everything went wrong last night." Are you ok?"

Jane was also very sleepy at first, but her mental excitement made her ignore this tiredness. When she heard Mrs. Bennett's question, she couldn't help a big smile on her face, and she lowered her head shyly. He whispered: "Mr. Bingley is very good. We had two dances last night, and he invited me to visit Netherfield tomorrow."

Mrs. Bennet let out a cry of joy, and turned around in the room. After the turn, she took Jane's hand and kept asking, "Really, really? Did Mr. Bingley really invite you to Netherfield?"

Jane nodded shyly, and reaffirmed, "That's what he said."

Mrs. Bennet's eyes were shining brightly, and her seldom-used mind was spinning fast at this moment. She looked Jane up and down with her chin up and down, and suddenly clapped her hands and shouted: "Ah, I still have a pearl Necklace, Jane, you wait, I will take it out, tomorrow you will match that goose yellow skirt just right!"

Elizabeth was so noisy that she couldn't sleep at all. She couldn't help but lifted the quilt and yelled, "Mom, you can't be quiet for a while, let Jane and I have a good sleep in the morning!"

Mrs. Bennet has nothing to fear than a voice!

She immediately put her hands on her hips, pointed at Elizabeth confidently and yelled back, "Sleep, sleep! You know how to sleep! Isn't Jane's lifelong event more important than sleeping? And you, Lizzie, you are already 24 years old, and if you don't get married again, I see some other young man at Longbourn who wants to marry you!"

Elizabeth simply didn't want to talk to her mother who was only thinking about marrying herself out to get a wealthy husband.

However, Mrs. Bennet didn't want to let her go so quickly. After babbling for a while about Elizabeth's disobedience, she suddenly stopped and took two steps back to look at Elizabeth thoughtfully. started to compliment her.

"Look at my Lizzie, she's a pretty girl too! Look at the fair hair, and those eyes, and the pretty red lips—if not as pretty as my Jane, but not as pretty as my Jane!

The other girls from Longbourne would certainly be more than enough. "

Elizabeth looked at her suspiciously, "Mom, what are you trying to say?"

Mrs. Bennet smiled brighter than before. She poked Jane on the shoulder and asked happily, "I heard that Mr. Bingley has a friend who also came to the ball yesterday, that gentleman who looks a little serious, Mr Darcy?"

"Yes." Jane nodded ignorantly, "He is Mr. Bingley's best friend."

"I heard that he can earn [-] pounds a year?" Mrs. Bennet inquired carefully, "There is also a huge manor in Derbyshire, with ancestral land, farms, and pastures?"

Elizabeth had already sensed something was wrong, but she still couldn't stop the silly and sweet Jane from replying innocently and honestly, "Yes, mother, I heard from Mr. Bingley that Mr. Darcy's family has a Pemberley manor in Derbyshire, and there is There are tens of thousands of acres of land and pastures, and he is still doing business in the sea, and there are only two people in the family, he and Miss Darcy."

Mrs. Bennet's eyes brightened when she heard about Darcy's property, and she frowned quietly when she heard about the business, but she finally gritted her teeth and made a determined decision: "Elizabeth, do you think Mr. Darcy How is it? Didn't you get along for a long time last night, did he show any other intentions?"

Elizabeth's eyes widened when she heard it, and she looked at Mrs. Bennet in disbelief, unable to speak for a while, and when she could speak, it was still easy to hear, and her voice trembled in surprise.

"What the hell are you thinking of, mother! I tell you, don't think of such impossibilities! Mr. Darcy doesn't like me in the slightest, and I don't think of it at all--as for the dance tonight, it's only because I hit it off with his sister Georgiana, we're friends!"

Not to be outdone, Mrs. Bennet yelled back, "Why can't I think so! You know, Mr. Darcy didn't invite any girls last night, and you are the one who stayed with him the longest! And, You came back in the Darcy's carriage at night!"

Elizabeth's face turned red, and she wished for a basin of cold water to wake up the daydreaming Mrs. Bennett. She scratched her hair irritably, kicked her cup aside in anger, and continued to explain: " As I said, it was because I was friends with Miss Darcy. The carriage belonged to Miss Darcy too, and had nothing to do with Mr. Darcy—and, mother, you know that Mr. Darcy is a man with an income of ten thousand a year. A gentleman worth more than [-] pounds should not know how many ladies he can meet who are interested in him?"

"Even if not, mother, you shouldn't regard Mr. Darcy as my own, as if he should be grateful to Dade if I look at him. You are wrong about this, it should be the other way around, With our family's situation, my appearance, and our sister's dowry of [-] pounds, Mr. Darcy can see me, and I should be grateful to Dade!"

Mrs. Bennet let her say that tears filled her eyes immediately, she sobbed heavily, and blew her nose with a crying sound, some

Looking at Elizabeth apologetically and bewildered, "I, I just want all of you sisters to marry a good man, Lizzie. You should know that you sisters can't inherit the family property - who knows what it is Regulations——after your father and I get old, will the five of you sisters sleep on the streets?"

There was pleading in her eyes, "Lizzie, wake up. If the family can give you enough dowry or inheritance, you will be an old girl and your mother will not care about it, but, but!"

Mrs. Bennet's voice rose, and she emphasized: "You can't be a poor old girl! Then even if you go to be tutors, no one will want you, and you will become beggars!"

After she said these things that she had never mentioned in front of the children, she seemed to be a little bit broken, sobbing heavily, and without looking at Elizabeth and Jane who were on the spot, she rushed downstairs without looking back.

The door was also closed, and after a while Elizabeth and Jane could hear Mrs. Bennet's shrill voice from downstairs in the kitchen, "Breakfast will be made later, and the children are still up—oh, God, I The daughters were so popular at the ball they had to dance until after the show to get back and couldn't even get out of bed this morning!"

Jane and Elizabeth sat quietly in the bedroom for a long time before Jane said cautiously, "Lizzie, maybe you should apologize to Mom."

"I will," murmured Elizabeth quietly.She couldn't fall asleep either, so she just turned over from the bed and went to the closet to find today's clothes, "I'll go down and help mom right now."

Jane quickly said, "I'll go too!"

Elizabeth felt very guilty, and stayed with Mrs. Bennet all day, and didn't get better until night.

Unexpectedly, in the early morning of the next day, the Bennett family had not received the invitation letter. Instead, they received an apology letter from Mr. Bingley. I have had a fever all day, so I had to cancel the invitation that was originally scheduled for today.

The letter was written by Mr. Bingley's sister Caroline, and the wording was extremely polite. Jane seemed to have no other thoughts except disappointment. Among the other members of the Bennett family, only Mrs. Bennett complained.

Only Elizabeth, after reading the letter repeatedly, had a strange feeling in her heart. She always felt that Mr. Bingley's sisters seemed unfriendly.But obviously Jane didn't think so.

"They are well-bred ladies who went to a girls' school in London. I saw them the night before, and they were very friendly."

Elizabeth could not agree with this, for the Miss Bingleys she saw always had a slight faultfinding about them, and there was nothing to say about their elegant and generous manners, but their friendliness was really debatable.

Jian Man thought that Mr. Bingley would get better soon, and invited herself to be a guest, but she didn't receive any letter until a week later, and she couldn't help feeling depressed.

But she has always been gentle, and this incident did not affect the Bennett family.

In her daily life, only Elizabeth noticed her unhappiness.

Even Lydia and Catherine didn't care because the guests didn't plan to take them two - these two days they have a new favorite, and in February after Christmas, Meryton will come to a group of red uniforms!

Although this sounded quite far away, the two girls were already eagerly planning to go to Meryton's uncle's house to get some inside information.

A very peaceful week passed in the Bennet's house, and gradually even Jane lost hope in Mr. Bingley's invitation, but Elizabeth had an unexpected harvest.

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At this time, the atmosphere in Netherfield Manor was also harmonious.

Wu Zhao was concentrating on reading the small booklet sent by Qingniang, and from time to time pointed to Qingniang next to her and put forward some suggestions.

Mr. Bingley, who was refreshed and recovered from a cold in three or four days, leaned against the fireplace and asked curiously, "Georgiana, what book are you reading? Is it a new novel?"

——For more than half a month, people in Netherfield have gotten to know each other quite a bit. Except for the truly formidable Lord Earl, everyone else has become familiar with calling each other by first name instead of last name.

It was Darcy's black face that kept Caroline and the Hursts from calling him by his nickname.

"No, it's not a novel." Wu Zhao closed the booklet in his hand, and looked at Bingley with a smile, "Yesterday morning, I sent someone to send a letter to Miss Bennett of Longbourne, asking her to come to Netherfield as a guest tomorrow, so Qingniang has prepared some recipes in advance, let me take a look first."

Just as I was talking, Sarah came in with a tray outside the door, "Miss, do you still have breakfast here today?"

Wu Zhao nodded in agreement, then looked at the others, "Have you all had your breakfast? I won't invite you—Sara, what's breakfast today?"

Sara opened the lid in response, and said with a smile: "It's white porridge with fish fillet. The rain that was brought today is so fresh, so Qing Niang made meat porridge and fish fillet porridge. Would you like to try it?"

She added with a smile: "Mr. Darcy's and His Excellency's share has been set aside and sent up."

Wu Zhao glanced at her with a half-smile, but said nothing.

Qing Niang smiled and said: "The people in the kitchen are very clumsy. I am busy packing up the ingredients, and the lady doesn't have much to eat in the early morning. Wait until Miss Bennett comes tomorrow night, and you can enjoy the food again."

Over there, Bentley salivated at the smell of the porridge, and couldn't help moving his eyes up and down following Wu Zhao's movements.

Only Caroline looked ugly, coughed lightly, and asked pretending not to care, "Which Miss Bennett is it?"

On the day after the ball, Caroline and Wu Zhao apologized almost humbly, and cried again in front of Darcy, and said again and again that she did not know what was wrong with her so impolite behavior, and she must ask Darcy to forgive her.

Although Wu Zhao was speechless about Caroline's behavior, and there was nothing to say about forgiveness or not, on the surface they finally reconciled as before. Caroline seemed to think that Wu Zhao really didn't care. She was honest for two or three days, and was attentive discuss

Get better.

It seems that there is no difference between the two of them. Of course, the silly Mr. Bingley has never discovered the embarrassing things between his sister and Wu Zhao and Darcy.

That's why she asked Wu Zhao this morning. She doesn't want to see the eldest and second misses of the Bennett family at all. Bless the lady who is about the same age as Georgiana.

"It's the second lady of the Bennett family, Elizabeth." Darcy came down the stairs calmly and answered the question for Wu Zhao who was having dinner. "Gina and her had a good chat at the dance."

Caroline thumped in her heart, and immediately tried with a smile: "Ah, is Miss Darcy and Miss Elizabeth speculating? I thought I was going to congratulate you two - you two looked very good at the ball that day. !"

That being said, before Caroline could let go of her half-heartedness because she was Elizabeth, she opened the gate of vigilance again—it sounds like Darcy has a good impression of Elizabeth!

Before she could find a few more words to joke around, she heard her brother shout happily, "Ah, this reminds me!"

"I should invite Miss Bennett to come over as a guest. It has been delayed for a week!"

Now, Caroline couldn't laugh at all.

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