My years as a menswear boss

The dance was held as scheduled, and Jiqiu invited nearly half of the ladies present to dance a dance. She felt her feet were sore, so she excused herself to go out to get some fresh air.

The king granted her permission to borrow the militia to be responsible for the security of the ball at Hyde Manor. Along the way, Jiqiu met many red uniforms who took off their hats to her.

Suddenly a "maid" in front of him blocked Jiqiu's way, "Mr. Hyde, do you remember me?"

Jiqiu frowned and looked at the girl's pretty little face, she quickly recognized it, "Miss Lydia?"

Lydia nodded desperately, "Yes, I didn't expect Mr. Hyde to remember me."

"Are you looking for your sister?" Jiqiu frowned and put on a polite smile, ignoring Lydia's ill-fitting clothes, "Need I show you the way?"

"No, I'm here to see you." Lydia thought about the business, and tried to keep her eyes from sticking to Mr. Hyde. "I'm here for Katie's affairs."

"Huh?" Jiqiu looked at the patrolling soldiers around, and she made a gentlemanly invitation gesture, "Let's go to a quiet place and talk."

Lydia happily took Jiqiu's arm, her eyes were shining, and she glanced at the young man from time to time.

Jiqiu couldn't help but frowned, this girl has too much heart, if she is a bad person...

'Forget it, let Miss Elizabeth discipline it. Ji Qiu decided to leave this matter to Elizabeth herself.

Jiqiu took Lydia to the pavilion in the flower garden, "Miss Lydia, now you can tell what you need to say."

Lydia organized her words, "Do you remember Mr. Wickham?"

"I remember, this matter has something to do with him?" Jiqiu pursed her lips, she felt that Wickham was haunted.

"Yes, Katie and I went to the officers' ball at Barryton. Katie had been trying to see Mr. Wickham, but he was nowhere to be found, and George said Colonel Wales had driven him out of the regiment."

Lydia observed the young man's face and saw that he didn't have any expression, so she continued, "We stayed at the captain's wife's house and waited for the red uniforms to leave. One day, we went to the hat shop to buy hats as usual. Met Mr Wickham at the door of the shop."

"He took the initiative to say hello to us. Mr. Wickham told Katie that he now meets a kind lady to support him, and his life is temporarily worry-free. However...he said that the reason why he was kicked out of the regiment was because of Mr. Hyde operate."

Jiqiu raised the corners of his mouth sarcastically when he heard this, "Interesting, what else did he say?"

"He said Mr. Hyde and Mr. Darcy worked together to kill him," said Lydia.

"If he used this talent on the right way, he wouldn't be able to make a living by defrauding women of money like he is now." Jiqiu said coldly.

Lydia stared at the young man's handsome side face without blinking her eyes, "But Katie believed in his words. She told me that Mr. Wickham was only with that woman because of her ten thousand pounds of property. , after he has cheated the old woman clean, he will leave England with Katie by boat."

"Wait, does anyone else know about this?"

Jiqiu quickly interrupted Lydia, she immediately realized the seriousness of the matter, and Wickham used the method against Georgiana again.

"Katie only told me." Lydia replied honestly.

"Did Miss Catherine say when they will leave?" Jiqiu asked quickly.

Lydia looked at the serious expression of the young man, with a flustered expression, "It seems... just the night before yesterday."

"They've already left?!" Jiqiu looked shocked. She didn't expect that the elopement happened despite all her efforts to obstruct her. She ignored Catherine, who had always been a foil to Lydia Adam.

"Is this matter serious?" The little girl finally realized that she originally only wanted to complain to her sweetheart, but never thought about how much this matter would affect her family.

Jiqiu supported her forehead with a headache, and she summoned Barton, "You go and invite Miss Bennet, Miss Elizabeth and Miss Mary, and the gentlemen don't need to."

"Okay, sir." Barton replied calmly.

Lydia opened her eyes wide, "Why are they all here?!"

"Your sister's dance partner is a guest I invited." Jiqiu comforted Lydia, and she asked Lydia to describe the details of the matter again.

Barton acted quickly, and the Bennet sisters were all invited to the small drawing room.

"Lydia?" Elizabeth looked at her little sister's outfit in disbelief, "Why are you dressed like this?!"

"I just wanted to see Mr. Hyde." Lydia pouted dissatisfiedly.

Jane is very grateful at this moment that Mr. Hyde has left space for their sisters, and he is not here.

Elizabeth blushed at Lydia's shameless words, Mary quickly pressed her on the sofa, "Mr. Hyde called us over in such a hurry, Lydia must have something important to tell us .”

Lydia still didn't take her nerdy sister seriously, and she ignored Mary's question.

In the end, Jane came forward to coax Lydia to tell the story, but Lydia's first sentence shocked her badly.

"Katie ran away with Mr. Wickham."

"What?!" Elizabeth stood up excitedly, feeling her blood surge, "Aren't you joking?"

"Oh, my God!" Jane covered her head and fell on the sofa, "What happened?"

Lydia thought of Mr. Hyde's persuasion before leaving, and told her the context of things that the young man had organized for her.

"This... is simply ridiculous." Mary, who had grown up patiently in the poorhouse, could not accept this fact.

"You haven't told me how this incident will affect our family?" Lydia looked dissatisfiedly at the three sisters who looked like the sky had fallen.

"Katie's actions will make the Bennet family unable to raise their heads in Longbourn, and may even implicate our lifelong affairs. Every sister will pay the price for her actions!"

Elizabeth shouted uncontrollably, she finally experienced the feeling of falling from heaven to hell. The day before, she was still happy that Jane and Mary had found a perfect marriage, and today she was going to accept the bad news.

"Then...then what should we do!"

Lydia panicked. She anxiously shook Jane, who was about to faint, and Mary, who was silent.

"Hyde, what happened?" Darcy stopped Jiqiu in the garden and asked.

Jiqiu raised her head and glanced at her worried friend, she stretched out her hand and patted his shoulder lightly, "It's better for Miss Elizabeth to tell you about it herself."

Darcy looked suspicious, and he didn't continue to question Jiqiu, because he knew that except for his friends who were willing to say, others could not force anything out of the young man's mouth.

He bid farewell to Jiqiu, walked along the rose garden in the garden to the living room, and happened to bump into Elizabeth who was leaning against the door and wiping tears.

"Miss Bennet?!" Darcy looked at her so fragile for the first time in surprise, her body reacted faster than her brain, and took out a handkerchief from her pocket, "Please use this."

Elizabeth hesitated for a moment, but accepted Darcy's kindness, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "Thank you, Mr. Darcy."

"Can you tell me what's making you so sad?"

Darcy asked softly. Seeing Elizabeth's expression of hesitating to speak, he quickly changed his words, "If you don't want to tell me, don't force me to tell you."

Elizabeth thought of Darcy who had been honest with her, and finally said slowly, "This is a scandal in our family. It's okay to tell you, but please keep it a secret."

After receiving Darcy's assurance, she recounted what Lydia had just said. At the end, Elizabeth's tears rolled down her cheeks again, "My sister's life may have been ruined by Wickham, I'm sure, He won't marry Katie. Because papa won't give her a penny more, he played with Katie in a mean way, and I can't imagine her being abandoned by Wickham... and our four girls Later in life."

Darcy was silent for a long time. He looked at Elizabeth who was trembling all over, and gently held her cold hands. "They left just the day before yesterday. They shouldn't be far away now. We can send someone to bring your sister back."

Elizabeth wiped away the tears from her face, "Colonel Wales said that they had no news outside of the Barryton. Jane has made up her mind with Mr. Bingley, and Mary and Mr. Winston are in love. I really don't know what to do. " She couldn't bear it anymore and covered her face, as if someone had punched her hard in her heart.

"Miss Bennet, you can trust me, and I will do my best to help you."

Darcy thought of the method Jiqiu taught him. If he followed his previous practice, he would quietly help Elizabeth solve this matter.

Elizabeth looked at the resolute Darcy, and she felt her mood turned sour, "I'm sorry, I was full of prejudice against you before, but you helped me regardless of the past, really... I don't know who to turn to. "

"It is my greatest honor to be able to help you." Darcy said softly.

Darcy has always done what he said. He used all his contacts and found that their last trace was in downtown London.He eventually found Wickham at a casino.

He spent a lot of money to bring back Catherine from Wickham. This poor girl has been frightened by Wickham's true face. If Darcy came later, she would be sold by Wickham. Pay the debt to the casino.

Darcy not only settled Wickham's debts in the casino, but also gave him an extra sum of money as a hush money, enough for him to live comfortably for ten years.The premise is that Wickham no longer touches gambling.

Elizabeth finally saw Catherine again, and a bunch of blame words stuck in her throat. She hugged Catherine vigorously, "There will be no next time, Katie."

When Catherine saw her relatives, she was full of grievances and couldn't bear it any longer. Soybean-sized tears fell into the clothes on Elizabeth's chest.

"Darcy is really rich." Jiqiu looked at the pile of money bags on the table in front of her, she turned her head and asked Barton who was standing aside, "Is this all the money?"

"Yes, sir. I have already had the people from the casino break his legs, and threw him into an alley, leaving him to fend for himself." Barton said these words as if reporting today's itinerary.

"Well, that's what I do." If she'd been a decent person, she'd have appeared before Wickham, thrown the glove in his face, and the two had a duel.

It's a pity that I am a big villain, and it would be the most stupid thing to do without a ready-made thug.

"What are you going to do with the money?" Barton asked.

Jiqiu recruited two other men to put these money bags into a box, "change them all into checks, and send them to Mr. Darcy, he will understand."