When Emperor Wu dressed as Darcy's sister
Chapter 44 Netherfield
"Brother, why did you get up so early?"
"And Eliza," Wu Zhao noticed the plates on the dining table, and asked in surprise, "Have you already had breakfast? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I wanted Qing Niang to make a richer breakfast for you."
Wu Zhao got up early today too, yesterday's dinner aroused her interest, and this morning she suggested to the young girl Sara that she go to the kitchen to make some fresh food for herself—"I'll take a look at your work, too. It's boring to be alone without sleep."
So Wu Zhao arrived downstairs at six o'clock in the morning. Originally, she came earlier than Darcy, but unfortunately a postman came outside the door and delivered two letters from Longborn. As soon as he heard it, he knew it was a letter from the Bennett family, so he asked Qing Niang to bring it in person, and waited in the hall by himself, and happened to miss Darcy who came down from the stairs.
"Oh, Mr. Darcy is probably going out for breakfast. I came down early and just happened to meet him." Elizabeth quickly slipped past Darcy, stood still in front of Wu Zhao, then turned around and glared at Darcy as if in protest. glance.
What Darcy said just now almost made her laugh!
She was still surprised after hearing the first sentence, how did Darcy know that she had heard Darcy's evaluation at the ball?Obviously, Elizabeth only told her close friends, Miss Charlotte Lucas and Mrs. Bennett!
"It must be mother, and she told others everywhere." Elizabeth couldn't help but blushed, and wanted to apologize, but Darcy followed, "I don't agree with your mother and sister's behavior and behavior"!
"I take back my apology just now, Mr. Darcy is still so arrogant and rude!" Elizabeth groaned angrily.
Just at this time Wu Zhao came in, Elizabeth hurried to Wu Zhao's side, and gave Darcy a hard look as if she had found a backer, but she couldn't refute, after all, she didn't agree with Mrs. Bennet very much in private attitude towards life.
"But he can't say it so bluntly!" Elizabeth blushed and complained to Wu Zhao, "Why can't he be more tactful and take care of my self-esteem as an unmarried lady!"
The two of them had already come out of the kitchen. Wu Zhao was very concerned when he heard about Jane's illness, and even proposed to visit her. Elizabeth couldn't wait to escape from Darcy's sight, so she quickly agreed to Wu Zhao's request. Proposed, hurriedly dragged her to the guest room on the second floor.
"He's always like this." Wu Zhao smiled and defended Darcy, "Sometimes he is so arrogant that people can't help but want to slap him—but he always surprises people when he doesn't expect it, and he can't bear it. "
Elizabeth thought for a while, and agreed with Wu Zhao's words, "That's not the case! Just now he took the initiative to apologize to me, which is really surprising."
"Besides," Elizabeth murmured softly, "it doesn't look like such an annoying character, probably because he has the capital to be arrogant."
Wu Zhao didn't pay attention to the second half of the sentence she was talking to herself, but only heard an apology, and couldn't help laughing: "Why did my brother offend you?
Let me guess, at the most, he refuses to ask you to dance at the ball, let alone talk about it, I'm afraid he will comment on it. "
"Then he apologized fast enough!" Wu Zhao counted the time and laughed loudly, "This is the second time you two met, right? This time he thinks he has slapped himself in the face!"
"You don't know, Eliza." Wu Zhao enthusiastically gestured to Elizabeth to describe Darcy's character, "He is a bit too conceited. He always draws conclusions on others based on his intelligence— —God bless, let him have a clever mind, and often these conclusions are more than bad."
Elizabeth was particularly focused, and couldn't help but nodded in agreement when she heard this, and echoed: "Indeed, his views can be said to hit the nail on the head."
"But this also makes him unable to correct this problem. People who hate it itch." Wu Zhao concluded helplessly, and laughed again as he spoke, "This time you made him stumble—I haven't done it yet. I've seen him admit he was wrong so quickly!"
Elizabeth couldn't help but blushed when she heard this, and quickly tried to hide it, and said with a little pride: "It must have made him fall halfway."
"Half?"
"Yeah," Elizabeth shrugged freely, and said the words she was usually ashamed to speak in front of outsiders to Wu Zhao easily, "Although I don't want to admit it, but he is very serious about my mother and my mother. The sister's opinion—well, at least roughly right."
Wu Zhao appreciates Elizabeth's freedom and ease, she dares to face the flaws and inadequacies of her family, but she doesn't complain blindly, or even get rid of them whenever she has a chance, but accepts her family's character optimistically—even though Mrs. Bennet is not What an educated lady, but at least she is a qualified mother in Elizabeth, and she is trying to find a way for her children.
The guest room where the Miss Bennetts live is on the side of the stairs on the second floor, and you don't even have to go through the corridor to get there from the downstairs.Wu Zhao and Elizabeth soon arrived at the door of the guest room.
Unlike Wu Zhao's suite where another small cubicle was set up closest to the outer door for the maids brought by Pemberley, the guest room where Jane and Elizabeth lived was just a large bedroom, and there was only a single room in it. The bed, Elizabeth was originally invited to live in the guest room in Wu Zhao's suite on the third floor last night, but she was worried about Jane and insisted on squeezing the two of them on the bed.
"Please come in." Elizabeth opened the door with her hands, and smiled softly, "Jane is already much better, I just tried it, and the temperature is much lower than last night."
Wu Zhao responded and walked into the guest room. This was the first time she entered Netherfield's guest room. She looked around and had a clear view of the decoration pattern in the room.
Therefore, in addition to a large bed in the middle, there is only a sofa and a desk in this room, which are the original furniture in Netherfield. Even though the style is out of fashion, it still looks new.
Jane heard the sound of the door, and quickly sat up from the bed, and asked through the bed curtain: "Eliza, are you here?
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Elizabeth smiled and replied: "It's me, and Miss Darcy. She heard that you were sick and was very worried. She came to see you."
Wu Zhao took the opportunity to walk towards the bed, raised the bed curtain and asked Jane's body, "Are you all right, Miss Bennett?"
Jane struggled to get up from the bed and was about to get out of bed, but Wu Zhao quickly held her down.
"I'm fine." Jane leaned on the head of the bed and responded gently, "I'm sorry to make you worry. But I think I'm much better now, and I shouldn't have a fever."
Wu Zhao said a few words of concern.
Elizabeth moved a chair from the desk to the bed and asked Wu Zhao to sit down, then hung the bed curtain around the bed, busy back and forth, "Please sit down, Miss Darcy."
Wu Zhao didn't intend to stay here any longer, and quickly refused, "No, I think Miss Bennett needs to rest more. I'm here to write to you."
"What letter?" asked Elizabeth.
"It's from Longbourne, and I think Mrs Bennet was worried about you and sent someone to bring it."
Mentioning Mrs. Bennett, Elizabeth couldn't help thinking of her mother's expression when she came here yesterday, looking forward to the rain. Her face immediately had a fever, and she quickly took the letter in Wu Zhao's hand, as if she was afraid that Wu Zhao would be able to read through the envelope. Mom can imagine the elation.
"Thank you, Georgiana." Elizabeth put the letter on the bedside table, thanking Wu Zhao for personally delivering the letter.
"No need." Wu Zhao said with a smile, "I'll go out and ask someone to prepare some light breakfast for your sisters, and then call the doctor for Jane—the local servants should know where the doctor lives?"
Jane quickly declined, "You don't need to ask Mr. Jones to come over, that would be too much trouble for you——I'm already well, as long as I sleep again, I'll be fully recovered."
Wu Zhao refused. "It's safer to ask a doctor to take a look. Getting caught in the rain in winter is no small matter."
Jane declined two or three times, but Wu Zhao insisted on not answering, so she just said, "Thank you, Miss Darcy."
"That's what you should do, don't be too polite." Wu Zhao said with a smile, "Take a good rest, maybe your temperature has completely subsided before the doctor comes."
She said and told Jane to take a good rest, then turned to leave the guest room.
Elizabeth hurriedly sent her off, and Wu Zhao smiled and asked her to go back to take care of Jane, but Elizabeth refused. She must have watched Wu Zhao go up the stairs to the third floor, and then she would not go back until her figure disappeared in the corridor.
She had just sent Wu Zhao away and closed the door of the guest room. Before she could leave the doorknob, there was a knock on the door outside. It was the maid's voice, "Miss Bennett, are you there?"
Elizabeth looked at Jane in surprise, and whispered, "Why do I sound like the voice of the maid in the kitchen just now?"
"I don't know either." Jane didn't know much about these maids, and she couldn't guess who was who just by the voice, "Maybe it's delivering breakfast."
Jane looked at the door enviously, "It really is a full-time maid, and the speed of doing things is fast enough."
Elizabeth nodded and said loudly, "Please come in."
The door of the guest room opened in response, and it was indeed Peng Qi, the maid Elizabeth met in the kitchen, who came in. She was carrying a large tray, quite
With some difficulty, he opened the door.
Seeing Elizabeth rushing over to help, Peng Qi quickly shook her head and refused.
She blushed and panted, but she definitely refused to ask Elizabeth to come and help, "You don't need to come - what do you mean if I want a lady like you to help with housework!"
Although she said so, Elizabeth still raised her hand to support the tray, "It's too heavy, be careful not to fall."
Peng Qi glanced at her gratefully, and quickly thanked, "Thank you, this is really heavy."
This heavy oak tray is placed on the tea table in the room, on which two cups of steaming milk are neatly arranged, and there are slices of toast stacked diagonally, with bacon, lettuce and fried eggs, and a small Two bowls of creamy mashed potatoes are served in spirals in white porcelain bowls, garnished with basil leaves on the side.The most common ones are seasoning dishes. There are five small dishes in two rows in a row, each containing sugar, butter, peanut butter, jam and salt grains.
"It's so exquisite!" Elizabeth couldn't help but marvel, the Bennett family would not have placed so many exquisite small dishes, nor would they care so much about the arrangement.
She turned around and admired for a while, only to remember that she hadn't thanked Wu Zhao yet—this must have been specially ordered by Georgiana, Elizabeth thought with certainty.
"Please thank Miss Darcy for me, thank you for her painstaking efforts to bring so many breakfasts here." Elizabeth earnestly begged Peng Qi, "I'm sorry to bother you for asking for breakfast in such a hurry."
Unexpectedly, Peng Qi touched the hem of the clothes strangely, wondering: "Did you make a slip of the tongue—this is what Mr. Darcy ordered, not Miss Darcy."
"You must want me to thank Mr. Darcy." Peng Qi said firmly, and then smiled again, "Mr. Darcy said, you don't have to thank him, it's his apology to you."
"Oh, and Mr. Darcy also said that he has sent for Mr. Jones to show Miss Bennett a look, but it only rained yesterday and the road is muddy and difficult to walk. Please wait a few more hours." .”
Elizabeth's face was full of shock—Mr. Darcy?She thought it was Miss Darcy!How is it possible, Mr. Darcy was so arrogant just now, even though he apologized but he still didn't forget to slander his mother and sisters, how can he have such delicate thoughts!
Elizabeth's expression was in a daze, and she was so dazed that she didn't even hear Peng Qi's tentative reply that she was going back.Jane, who was still on the bed, leaned out to respond, thanked her repeatedly, and invited Peng Qi to go back.
"Lizzie! Lizzie!"
Jane called Elizabeth two or three times before recovering from the shock, but she still seemed out of her mind, and kept muttering to herself, "It's not like, it's not like..."
Jane couldn't help being amused, and called Elizabeth a few words loudly, teasing deliberately: "Mr. Darcy is very interested in you, Lizzie—speaking of it, why should he apologize to you?"
The image of Darcy bowing and apologizing immediately flashed in Elizabeth's mind, and she couldn't help shivering, she quickly picked up the tray and put it on the bedside table, and lowered her head to cover it up: "It's nothing, it's probably about the ball."
Jane was by Bingley's side almost all the time at the ball,
But Darcy went to the rest area when she satirized Elizabeth, so she didn't know the episode at the ball, and she couldn't understand it after hearing it, but she was not an inquisitive person, and she didn't care about these details at all, but her sense of smell in love Extra sensitive.
"He's in love with you, isn't he, dear little Lizzie~" Jane dragged her tone and winked at Elizabeth ambiguously, "Otherwise, how could she be so considerate!"
"What do you think of Mr. Darcy?" Jane gestured excitedly, "Tall and handsome, people can't help but trust at first sight... I have to say, he looks even better than Mr. Bingley!"
Elizabeth made her speak in a daze, and couldn't help echoing in a low voice: "It's true, and although she is a bit arrogant, she is upright..."
"There is still an annual income of [-] pounds!" Jane was even more excited, with longing and longing in her eyes, "How much is that...you will definitely live like a countess!"
Elizabeth didn't want to mention this. In her opinion, Darcy didn't mean anything to her in this regard. But when Jane mentioned the countess, she couldn't help but think of Earl Stuart who lived in Netherfield.
"Count? There is also a count here, isn't there?" Thinking of the handsome count, Elizabeth's voice became ethereal, "Oh my god, I can't even look at him directly."
"He is really, really..." Elizabeth thought for a long time, and honestly admitted, "I can't find anyone who can compare with him, probably only the characters in myths and legends."
Which woman does not love such a face?
Thinking of Stuart, Jane's eyes became a little straight, and it took a long time before she said with some regret and some fear: "Your Excellency the Earl really doesn't look like anything in the world, and..."
"Besides, he is so indifferent that I dare not look into his eyes." Jane shrank her neck and said truthfully, "It seems that what I see in those eyes is not me, but a lump of lifeless things, probably It's no different than furniture."
Elizabeth was thoughtful, "But I think he is very good to Georgiana, and he seems to care."
"That's right." Elizabeth smiled with a sigh, "Miss Darcy is good at talking, has an interesting personality, is beautiful and generous, and has a rich family. Who would not be attracted to her!"
"Probably if I were a man, I would definitely be attracted to her."
Jane has a different opinion, "I don't really think so. In terms of being easy to get along with, Sister Bingley is better. Although they are equally well-educated and well-mannered, Sister Bingley is better in terms of affinity— —When Miss Darcy looks at me, I always have a condescending sense of oppression, as if there is nowhere to hide, and she sees everything clearly."
"This scares me a little." Jane concluded, "I think Sister Bingley is more friendly."
Elizabeth can't agree with her at all, she is not as submissive as Jane, she has her own opinions in everything, and will not change just because she treats her well on the surface (1), in her opinion, Miss Darcy just brings her own A haughty temperament, as if feeling uncomfortable after being in a high position for a long time
He doesn't feel contaminated, but he is decent and never looks down on others.
But Sister Bingley is just the opposite. She doesn't have a high status herself, but she is arrogant and arrogant, and her friendliness towards others is always superficial, as if she is pretending.
She couldn't help shaking her head again and again.
Fortunately, Jane is not a character who likes to argue with others, and she does not require the two to have the same views. She just shrugs her shoulders and accepts Elizabeth's point of view, but she will never change her mind just because of this—she also A stubborn personality who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside.
Jane thoughtfully turned the topic back to Darcy, "Did Mr. Darcy really not fall in love with you, Lizzie? I think my sister is very good, and she is completely worthy of Mr. Darcy in terms of her personality and handling of things."
Elizabeth's face turned red, she hurriedly shook her head in denial, "Where did you go! He's just, just..."
Elizabeth searched her stomach for a long time, paused suspiciously for a long time, and then replied firmly: "Mr. Darcy is a real gentleman, he just did it out of respect for ladies, and it has nothing to do with love—Jane you are I am trapped in Mr. Bingley's tenderness and can't get out, that's why I feel this meaning everywhere!"
When Jane saw that she was in a hurry, she quickly raised her hand to beg for mercy. She didn't dare to offend her clever and stubborn sister who was in a hurry!
"Come and read to me the letter from my mother—is it from my mother?" Jane tried to change the subject. "But I think there are two letters. Did Dad also write you a letter?"
Elizabeth quickly got out of her embarrassment and reached for the envelope on the tea table, "Maybe—"
She took it over and quickly glanced at it, a little disappointed and with the feeling of "it is true": "It was written by the sisters. I knew that it was impossible for Dad to write to us. I must have let him down. "
Jane gave her a strange look, not understanding why Elizabeth thought so, "Why would Dad be disappointed in you, and you didn't do anything!"
Elizabeth knew that Jane was so focused on Mr. Bingley that she didn't realize how rude her behavior was yesterday. At this time, she told her that the two of them could not understand each other.
"Let me take a look—" Elizabeth quickly changed the subject. She reached out and handed Mrs. Bennet's letter to Jane, and took a letter opener to open the letters written by the girls of the Bennet family. It's my first letter, and I'd love to see what she writes. And Mary, God bless her, if she doesn't write some awkward and profound philosophical principles!"
As expected, Jane's attention was diverted, and when Elizabeth opened the letter, she quickly opened Mrs. Bennet's letter to have a look.
Mrs. Bennet's letter was short, and began with a rapturous congratulations on their stay at Netherfield yesterday.
"I hope last night can make your relationship go further. Mr. Bingley must be a considerate and good man."
The rest of the paper, which is nearly an entire page, complained loudly that Mr. Bennett's nephew was coming, "God knows why my property cannot be inherited by my daughters, but it has to be spent by an outsider who has never met ( 2), why those aristocratic gentlemen
How cruel it is that I can pass my land and property to their daughter but I cannot! "
Although the two eldest ladies of the Bennet family explained to Mrs. Bennet more than once what limited inheritance rights are, she still couldn't understand this "stupid rule", so Jane and Elizabeth had to give up-anyway, this law is not legal. It will not change because of Mrs. Bennett's attitude.
But this did not prevent Jane from being surprised when she saw this place. A stranger, a cousin who had never met before, was coming to visit!
She quickly folded the letter and called Elizabeth eagerly, "Lizzie, you will never guess what Mom said!"
Elizabeth was having a headache and read Mary's long philosophical terminology first, and couldn't help but look back at Lydia's letters to see if there were any interesting things-most of Lydia's letters were like this.
Hearing Jane calling her, she replied casually: "What else can it be? It's probably to celebrate your stay in Netherfield. I can guess what my mother wrote——Dear Jane..."
"No, no, not this!" Jane interrupted Elizabeth eagerly again, with some anxiety and anxiety in her voice, "Papa's cousin is coming to Longbourne!"
"Cousin?" Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, then remembered immediately, and couldn't help shouting, "Ah! I remember him, the heir to my father's land!"
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"And Eliza," Wu Zhao noticed the plates on the dining table, and asked in surprise, "Have you already had breakfast? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I wanted Qing Niang to make a richer breakfast for you."
Wu Zhao got up early today too, yesterday's dinner aroused her interest, and this morning she suggested to the young girl Sara that she go to the kitchen to make some fresh food for herself—"I'll take a look at your work, too. It's boring to be alone without sleep."
So Wu Zhao arrived downstairs at six o'clock in the morning. Originally, she came earlier than Darcy, but unfortunately a postman came outside the door and delivered two letters from Longborn. As soon as he heard it, he knew it was a letter from the Bennett family, so he asked Qing Niang to bring it in person, and waited in the hall by himself, and happened to miss Darcy who came down from the stairs.
"Oh, Mr. Darcy is probably going out for breakfast. I came down early and just happened to meet him." Elizabeth quickly slipped past Darcy, stood still in front of Wu Zhao, then turned around and glared at Darcy as if in protest. glance.
What Darcy said just now almost made her laugh!
She was still surprised after hearing the first sentence, how did Darcy know that she had heard Darcy's evaluation at the ball?Obviously, Elizabeth only told her close friends, Miss Charlotte Lucas and Mrs. Bennett!
"It must be mother, and she told others everywhere." Elizabeth couldn't help but blushed, and wanted to apologize, but Darcy followed, "I don't agree with your mother and sister's behavior and behavior"!
"I take back my apology just now, Mr. Darcy is still so arrogant and rude!" Elizabeth groaned angrily.
Just at this time Wu Zhao came in, Elizabeth hurried to Wu Zhao's side, and gave Darcy a hard look as if she had found a backer, but she couldn't refute, after all, she didn't agree with Mrs. Bennet very much in private attitude towards life.
"But he can't say it so bluntly!" Elizabeth blushed and complained to Wu Zhao, "Why can't he be more tactful and take care of my self-esteem as an unmarried lady!"
The two of them had already come out of the kitchen. Wu Zhao was very concerned when he heard about Jane's illness, and even proposed to visit her. Elizabeth couldn't wait to escape from Darcy's sight, so she quickly agreed to Wu Zhao's request. Proposed, hurriedly dragged her to the guest room on the second floor.
"He's always like this." Wu Zhao smiled and defended Darcy, "Sometimes he is so arrogant that people can't help but want to slap him—but he always surprises people when he doesn't expect it, and he can't bear it. "
Elizabeth thought for a while, and agreed with Wu Zhao's words, "That's not the case! Just now he took the initiative to apologize to me, which is really surprising."
"Besides," Elizabeth murmured softly, "it doesn't look like such an annoying character, probably because he has the capital to be arrogant."
Wu Zhao didn't pay attention to the second half of the sentence she was talking to herself, but only heard an apology, and couldn't help laughing: "Why did my brother offend you?
Let me guess, at the most, he refuses to ask you to dance at the ball, let alone talk about it, I'm afraid he will comment on it. "
"Then he apologized fast enough!" Wu Zhao counted the time and laughed loudly, "This is the second time you two met, right? This time he thinks he has slapped himself in the face!"
"You don't know, Eliza." Wu Zhao enthusiastically gestured to Elizabeth to describe Darcy's character, "He is a bit too conceited. He always draws conclusions on others based on his intelligence— —God bless, let him have a clever mind, and often these conclusions are more than bad."
Elizabeth was particularly focused, and couldn't help but nodded in agreement when she heard this, and echoed: "Indeed, his views can be said to hit the nail on the head."
"But this also makes him unable to correct this problem. People who hate it itch." Wu Zhao concluded helplessly, and laughed again as he spoke, "This time you made him stumble—I haven't done it yet. I've seen him admit he was wrong so quickly!"
Elizabeth couldn't help but blushed when she heard this, and quickly tried to hide it, and said with a little pride: "It must have made him fall halfway."
"Half?"
"Yeah," Elizabeth shrugged freely, and said the words she was usually ashamed to speak in front of outsiders to Wu Zhao easily, "Although I don't want to admit it, but he is very serious about my mother and my mother. The sister's opinion—well, at least roughly right."
Wu Zhao appreciates Elizabeth's freedom and ease, she dares to face the flaws and inadequacies of her family, but she doesn't complain blindly, or even get rid of them whenever she has a chance, but accepts her family's character optimistically—even though Mrs. Bennet is not What an educated lady, but at least she is a qualified mother in Elizabeth, and she is trying to find a way for her children.
The guest room where the Miss Bennetts live is on the side of the stairs on the second floor, and you don't even have to go through the corridor to get there from the downstairs.Wu Zhao and Elizabeth soon arrived at the door of the guest room.
Unlike Wu Zhao's suite where another small cubicle was set up closest to the outer door for the maids brought by Pemberley, the guest room where Jane and Elizabeth lived was just a large bedroom, and there was only a single room in it. The bed, Elizabeth was originally invited to live in the guest room in Wu Zhao's suite on the third floor last night, but she was worried about Jane and insisted on squeezing the two of them on the bed.
"Please come in." Elizabeth opened the door with her hands, and smiled softly, "Jane is already much better, I just tried it, and the temperature is much lower than last night."
Wu Zhao responded and walked into the guest room. This was the first time she entered Netherfield's guest room. She looked around and had a clear view of the decoration pattern in the room.
Therefore, in addition to a large bed in the middle, there is only a sofa and a desk in this room, which are the original furniture in Netherfield. Even though the style is out of fashion, it still looks new.
Jane heard the sound of the door, and quickly sat up from the bed, and asked through the bed curtain: "Eliza, are you here?
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Elizabeth smiled and replied: "It's me, and Miss Darcy. She heard that you were sick and was very worried. She came to see you."
Wu Zhao took the opportunity to walk towards the bed, raised the bed curtain and asked Jane's body, "Are you all right, Miss Bennett?"
Jane struggled to get up from the bed and was about to get out of bed, but Wu Zhao quickly held her down.
"I'm fine." Jane leaned on the head of the bed and responded gently, "I'm sorry to make you worry. But I think I'm much better now, and I shouldn't have a fever."
Wu Zhao said a few words of concern.
Elizabeth moved a chair from the desk to the bed and asked Wu Zhao to sit down, then hung the bed curtain around the bed, busy back and forth, "Please sit down, Miss Darcy."
Wu Zhao didn't intend to stay here any longer, and quickly refused, "No, I think Miss Bennett needs to rest more. I'm here to write to you."
"What letter?" asked Elizabeth.
"It's from Longbourne, and I think Mrs Bennet was worried about you and sent someone to bring it."
Mentioning Mrs. Bennett, Elizabeth couldn't help thinking of her mother's expression when she came here yesterday, looking forward to the rain. Her face immediately had a fever, and she quickly took the letter in Wu Zhao's hand, as if she was afraid that Wu Zhao would be able to read through the envelope. Mom can imagine the elation.
"Thank you, Georgiana." Elizabeth put the letter on the bedside table, thanking Wu Zhao for personally delivering the letter.
"No need." Wu Zhao said with a smile, "I'll go out and ask someone to prepare some light breakfast for your sisters, and then call the doctor for Jane—the local servants should know where the doctor lives?"
Jane quickly declined, "You don't need to ask Mr. Jones to come over, that would be too much trouble for you——I'm already well, as long as I sleep again, I'll be fully recovered."
Wu Zhao refused. "It's safer to ask a doctor to take a look. Getting caught in the rain in winter is no small matter."
Jane declined two or three times, but Wu Zhao insisted on not answering, so she just said, "Thank you, Miss Darcy."
"That's what you should do, don't be too polite." Wu Zhao said with a smile, "Take a good rest, maybe your temperature has completely subsided before the doctor comes."
She said and told Jane to take a good rest, then turned to leave the guest room.
Elizabeth hurriedly sent her off, and Wu Zhao smiled and asked her to go back to take care of Jane, but Elizabeth refused. She must have watched Wu Zhao go up the stairs to the third floor, and then she would not go back until her figure disappeared in the corridor.
She had just sent Wu Zhao away and closed the door of the guest room. Before she could leave the doorknob, there was a knock on the door outside. It was the maid's voice, "Miss Bennett, are you there?"
Elizabeth looked at Jane in surprise, and whispered, "Why do I sound like the voice of the maid in the kitchen just now?"
"I don't know either." Jane didn't know much about these maids, and she couldn't guess who was who just by the voice, "Maybe it's delivering breakfast."
Jane looked at the door enviously, "It really is a full-time maid, and the speed of doing things is fast enough."
Elizabeth nodded and said loudly, "Please come in."
The door of the guest room opened in response, and it was indeed Peng Qi, the maid Elizabeth met in the kitchen, who came in. She was carrying a large tray, quite
With some difficulty, he opened the door.
Seeing Elizabeth rushing over to help, Peng Qi quickly shook her head and refused.
She blushed and panted, but she definitely refused to ask Elizabeth to come and help, "You don't need to come - what do you mean if I want a lady like you to help with housework!"
Although she said so, Elizabeth still raised her hand to support the tray, "It's too heavy, be careful not to fall."
Peng Qi glanced at her gratefully, and quickly thanked, "Thank you, this is really heavy."
This heavy oak tray is placed on the tea table in the room, on which two cups of steaming milk are neatly arranged, and there are slices of toast stacked diagonally, with bacon, lettuce and fried eggs, and a small Two bowls of creamy mashed potatoes are served in spirals in white porcelain bowls, garnished with basil leaves on the side.The most common ones are seasoning dishes. There are five small dishes in two rows in a row, each containing sugar, butter, peanut butter, jam and salt grains.
"It's so exquisite!" Elizabeth couldn't help but marvel, the Bennett family would not have placed so many exquisite small dishes, nor would they care so much about the arrangement.
She turned around and admired for a while, only to remember that she hadn't thanked Wu Zhao yet—this must have been specially ordered by Georgiana, Elizabeth thought with certainty.
"Please thank Miss Darcy for me, thank you for her painstaking efforts to bring so many breakfasts here." Elizabeth earnestly begged Peng Qi, "I'm sorry to bother you for asking for breakfast in such a hurry."
Unexpectedly, Peng Qi touched the hem of the clothes strangely, wondering: "Did you make a slip of the tongue—this is what Mr. Darcy ordered, not Miss Darcy."
"You must want me to thank Mr. Darcy." Peng Qi said firmly, and then smiled again, "Mr. Darcy said, you don't have to thank him, it's his apology to you."
"Oh, and Mr. Darcy also said that he has sent for Mr. Jones to show Miss Bennett a look, but it only rained yesterday and the road is muddy and difficult to walk. Please wait a few more hours." .”
Elizabeth's face was full of shock—Mr. Darcy?She thought it was Miss Darcy!How is it possible, Mr. Darcy was so arrogant just now, even though he apologized but he still didn't forget to slander his mother and sisters, how can he have such delicate thoughts!
Elizabeth's expression was in a daze, and she was so dazed that she didn't even hear Peng Qi's tentative reply that she was going back.Jane, who was still on the bed, leaned out to respond, thanked her repeatedly, and invited Peng Qi to go back.
"Lizzie! Lizzie!"
Jane called Elizabeth two or three times before recovering from the shock, but she still seemed out of her mind, and kept muttering to herself, "It's not like, it's not like..."
Jane couldn't help being amused, and called Elizabeth a few words loudly, teasing deliberately: "Mr. Darcy is very interested in you, Lizzie—speaking of it, why should he apologize to you?"
The image of Darcy bowing and apologizing immediately flashed in Elizabeth's mind, and she couldn't help shivering, she quickly picked up the tray and put it on the bedside table, and lowered her head to cover it up: "It's nothing, it's probably about the ball."
Jane was by Bingley's side almost all the time at the ball,
But Darcy went to the rest area when she satirized Elizabeth, so she didn't know the episode at the ball, and she couldn't understand it after hearing it, but she was not an inquisitive person, and she didn't care about these details at all, but her sense of smell in love Extra sensitive.
"He's in love with you, isn't he, dear little Lizzie~" Jane dragged her tone and winked at Elizabeth ambiguously, "Otherwise, how could she be so considerate!"
"What do you think of Mr. Darcy?" Jane gestured excitedly, "Tall and handsome, people can't help but trust at first sight... I have to say, he looks even better than Mr. Bingley!"
Elizabeth made her speak in a daze, and couldn't help echoing in a low voice: "It's true, and although she is a bit arrogant, she is upright..."
"There is still an annual income of [-] pounds!" Jane was even more excited, with longing and longing in her eyes, "How much is that...you will definitely live like a countess!"
Elizabeth didn't want to mention this. In her opinion, Darcy didn't mean anything to her in this regard. But when Jane mentioned the countess, she couldn't help but think of Earl Stuart who lived in Netherfield.
"Count? There is also a count here, isn't there?" Thinking of the handsome count, Elizabeth's voice became ethereal, "Oh my god, I can't even look at him directly."
"He is really, really..." Elizabeth thought for a long time, and honestly admitted, "I can't find anyone who can compare with him, probably only the characters in myths and legends."
Which woman does not love such a face?
Thinking of Stuart, Jane's eyes became a little straight, and it took a long time before she said with some regret and some fear: "Your Excellency the Earl really doesn't look like anything in the world, and..."
"Besides, he is so indifferent that I dare not look into his eyes." Jane shrank her neck and said truthfully, "It seems that what I see in those eyes is not me, but a lump of lifeless things, probably It's no different than furniture."
Elizabeth was thoughtful, "But I think he is very good to Georgiana, and he seems to care."
"That's right." Elizabeth smiled with a sigh, "Miss Darcy is good at talking, has an interesting personality, is beautiful and generous, and has a rich family. Who would not be attracted to her!"
"Probably if I were a man, I would definitely be attracted to her."
Jane has a different opinion, "I don't really think so. In terms of being easy to get along with, Sister Bingley is better. Although they are equally well-educated and well-mannered, Sister Bingley is better in terms of affinity— —When Miss Darcy looks at me, I always have a condescending sense of oppression, as if there is nowhere to hide, and she sees everything clearly."
"This scares me a little." Jane concluded, "I think Sister Bingley is more friendly."
Elizabeth can't agree with her at all, she is not as submissive as Jane, she has her own opinions in everything, and will not change just because she treats her well on the surface (1), in her opinion, Miss Darcy just brings her own A haughty temperament, as if feeling uncomfortable after being in a high position for a long time
He doesn't feel contaminated, but he is decent and never looks down on others.
But Sister Bingley is just the opposite. She doesn't have a high status herself, but she is arrogant and arrogant, and her friendliness towards others is always superficial, as if she is pretending.
She couldn't help shaking her head again and again.
Fortunately, Jane is not a character who likes to argue with others, and she does not require the two to have the same views. She just shrugs her shoulders and accepts Elizabeth's point of view, but she will never change her mind just because of this—she also A stubborn personality who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside.
Jane thoughtfully turned the topic back to Darcy, "Did Mr. Darcy really not fall in love with you, Lizzie? I think my sister is very good, and she is completely worthy of Mr. Darcy in terms of her personality and handling of things."
Elizabeth's face turned red, she hurriedly shook her head in denial, "Where did you go! He's just, just..."
Elizabeth searched her stomach for a long time, paused suspiciously for a long time, and then replied firmly: "Mr. Darcy is a real gentleman, he just did it out of respect for ladies, and it has nothing to do with love—Jane you are I am trapped in Mr. Bingley's tenderness and can't get out, that's why I feel this meaning everywhere!"
When Jane saw that she was in a hurry, she quickly raised her hand to beg for mercy. She didn't dare to offend her clever and stubborn sister who was in a hurry!
"Come and read to me the letter from my mother—is it from my mother?" Jane tried to change the subject. "But I think there are two letters. Did Dad also write you a letter?"
Elizabeth quickly got out of her embarrassment and reached for the envelope on the tea table, "Maybe—"
She took it over and quickly glanced at it, a little disappointed and with the feeling of "it is true": "It was written by the sisters. I knew that it was impossible for Dad to write to us. I must have let him down. "
Jane gave her a strange look, not understanding why Elizabeth thought so, "Why would Dad be disappointed in you, and you didn't do anything!"
Elizabeth knew that Jane was so focused on Mr. Bingley that she didn't realize how rude her behavior was yesterday. At this time, she told her that the two of them could not understand each other.
"Let me take a look—" Elizabeth quickly changed the subject. She reached out and handed Mrs. Bennet's letter to Jane, and took a letter opener to open the letters written by the girls of the Bennet family. It's my first letter, and I'd love to see what she writes. And Mary, God bless her, if she doesn't write some awkward and profound philosophical principles!"
As expected, Jane's attention was diverted, and when Elizabeth opened the letter, she quickly opened Mrs. Bennet's letter to have a look.
Mrs. Bennet's letter was short, and began with a rapturous congratulations on their stay at Netherfield yesterday.
"I hope last night can make your relationship go further. Mr. Bingley must be a considerate and good man."
The rest of the paper, which is nearly an entire page, complained loudly that Mr. Bennett's nephew was coming, "God knows why my property cannot be inherited by my daughters, but it has to be spent by an outsider who has never met ( 2), why those aristocratic gentlemen
How cruel it is that I can pass my land and property to their daughter but I cannot! "
Although the two eldest ladies of the Bennet family explained to Mrs. Bennet more than once what limited inheritance rights are, she still couldn't understand this "stupid rule", so Jane and Elizabeth had to give up-anyway, this law is not legal. It will not change because of Mrs. Bennett's attitude.
But this did not prevent Jane from being surprised when she saw this place. A stranger, a cousin who had never met before, was coming to visit!
She quickly folded the letter and called Elizabeth eagerly, "Lizzie, you will never guess what Mom said!"
Elizabeth was having a headache and read Mary's long philosophical terminology first, and couldn't help but look back at Lydia's letters to see if there were any interesting things-most of Lydia's letters were like this.
Hearing Jane calling her, she replied casually: "What else can it be? It's probably to celebrate your stay in Netherfield. I can guess what my mother wrote——Dear Jane..."
"No, no, not this!" Jane interrupted Elizabeth eagerly again, with some anxiety and anxiety in her voice, "Papa's cousin is coming to Longbourne!"
"Cousin?" Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, then remembered immediately, and couldn't help shouting, "Ah! I remember him, the heir to my father's land!"
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