Ten pounds, even in London, used to be a high price for horses and carriages.But, even in London, no one would use a purebred Dutch warmblood to pull a cart.

So, when Mr. Bennet was driving this grumpy black horse around town looking for a doctor, everyone thought he was out of his mind.

Heathcliff doesn't like women.

But that's not to say he likes the same sex.In fact, he doesn't like anyone.In his eyes, money and interests are the only link to maintain the connection between people.Family, friendship, and love are all fantasies in the minds of the family, and only land and property are real.

He is a typical "exploiter" who treats employees as hard as he can, and none of the workers in the factory has not cursed and cursed him.He is also a typical "dictator". He hardly listens to any suggestions and does not allow anyone to express opinions against him.

But after the first few years of hard work, he never made any wrong decisions.In his London factory, an American who had studied for several years once organized a general strike in order to threaten to increase the wages of the workers. Of course, the result ended in failure, and the American was also driven out of the factory.

People approached him because they coveted his amazing wealth, wanting a piece of those lands and factories, but secretly laughed at his unknown origin.

Heathcliff has long been accustomed to this, and even proud of it.

He made friends with Mr. Bingley, went to the ball at Netherfield, and went riding with Mr. Bennet, all because of their business dealings.Once the business is over, their relationship ceases with it.

Heathcliff collected money in a completely cold-blooded manner, but he never touched the bottom line of the law, so even if his enemies were everywhere, the judge had nothing to do with him.

With the accumulation of money and enemies, there are more and more women around Heathcliff, including Caucasian and mixed race.They have different identities, and some are not particularly beautiful, but they are coquettish enough.

But Heathcliff turned a deaf ear to it, and even felt disgusted in his heart. He hated women, and women only had money in their eyes.

Mary is also a woman—perhaps it is too early to say, she is not yet 16, so she can only be regarded as a girl, but she will become a woman sooner or later.

So Mary only has money in her eyes. She is the same as other women. If there is any difference, it is that although she is young, she has deep thoughts and can disguise her greedy heart.

Mary didn't know at the moment that Heathcliff had put such a big hat on her, and she was busy going door-to-door to raise donations to help people who lost their houses in the fire.Jane followed her, holding paper and pen.Every time Mary received a donation, Jane wrote a few words in her notebook.

In good conscience Mary was not a very agreeable girl in Hertford, for she behaved and behaved unladylike.

But the villagers still generously took out donations of various amounts and put them in her apron, not because she was articulate and could describe the scene after the fire horribly.

It's because, although these villagers usually like to talk about some shadowless gossip, they are actually kind-hearted.The moment they learned that the neighboring village was on fire, they were ready to donate.

Mary took the sixty pounds from Mrs. Long, bowed slightly to her, and hurried on to the next house.

She was a little disturbed, because in her previous life, after raising donations, an accident happened.

All those donations have disappeared.

A whole £3000 was gone.

They searched the whole estate, but could not find the money.In the end, Mr. Bennet had to withdraw £3000 from the family savings to make up the slack.It is hoped that this matter will not be known to anyone outside of Bennet Manor.Because Mr. Bingley had just become engaged to Jane at that time, the reputation of the bride was very important.

But this incident was still known to the people in the village.

They were angry at first, thinking that the Bennets had embezzled the money.

Later, when they learned that Mr. Bennet had made up the money, their anger gradually subsided, but there were still people who argued that Jane and Mary were not good candidates to be wives.

And these discussions are mainly aimed at Jane, because her fiancé is the jealous Mr. Bingley.Fortunately, Bingley didn't care about these, and even persuaded his family to insist on his marriage contract with Jane.

However, the good times didn't last long, and there was another saying in the village.

The Bennets had indeed embezzled the donation. They had tried to keep it secret, but they had been discovered, so they had to pay it back.Some people even said that the money they returned was fake banknotes.

This rumor completely put the Bennet family in a dilemma. No matter what they explained, the villagers just didn't listen.Because they cannot bear the deception and desecration of their kindness.Mr. Bingley finally failed to withstand the pressure of his family and canceled his engagement with Jane.

Before leaving, he left a large sum of money to express his love and guilt, but was rejected.

After this incident, the Bennet family seemed to have opened Pandora's box, and bad luck came one after another.The five daughters in the family, who were originally beautiful and beautiful, were charged with theft, elopement, and serious illness.

In the end, except for Mary who died prematurely due to the Black Death, all the remaining female members of the family were sent to the monastery.Mr. Bennet owed huge debts because of the failure of his business investment and was sent to prison.

Mary would never allow this to happen again.

In her previous life, she was dazzled by successive disasters, so she didn't notice the weirdness.Looking at it now, Mary felt more and more that someone deliberately tampered with her family, or someone in their family.

After all, in this era, as long as there is a girl with bad character in a family, her sisters will also be criticized.As for who did the tampering, Mary still has no idea, but one thing is certain, the man who did the tampering is most likely the "intruder" that Lucifer said.

Mary had doubted Emily, in fact she had doubted Emily in her previous life.Because Emily lived in Bennet Manor at that time, and she was the only person with a foreign surname.

But she has no evidence, because they have always lived in the same bedroom, but Mary has never found out that Emily has any suspicious behavior.

What's more, when Ai Mier was away, she secretly looked through Ai Mier's luggage at the risk of being condemned by God, and found no "stolen money".

3000 pounds was a lot of money, and Emily couldn't hide it on her body, so Mary dispelled this doubt.What's more, the reputation of the girls in the Bennet family will be damaged, and Emily, as a relative, will also be affected.

Mary also briefly suspected Bingley and Darcy, but judging from their actions, it was unlikely.And they have no choice, and there is no need to steal this "little money".

Who is the intruder, Mary is at a loss.

"Including the 300 pounds donated by our family, we have now raised 3000 pounds." Jian Yu happily wrote down the last donation in the notebook, with a very serious tone.

£3000, another £3000.

Mary's body froze, and a numbness ran down her spine.They raised the same amount of donations as they did in their previous life. Does this mean that tragedy will happen again?

Absolutely not.

Mary put the money carefully into her pocket, and decided to send the money to the next village with her father tomorrow morning.

For this kind of hot potato, the sooner it is dealt with, the better.

She had planned to send it today, but it was too late now.

"We've decided to raise some donations tomorrow and send them to the next village together." Mary announced at the dinner table that no one but Jane and Mr. Bennet knew she was lying.Mary is still suspicious of Emily, after all, there is no one else to doubt besides her.

In the cold spring, Mary was wrapped in the quilt, holding the box containing 3000 pounds in her arms like a miser, and stayed up all night.

Early the next morning, she hid the box under the quilt and followed Jane out of the house.But after a while, she came back through the back door again.

Mary clambered up a ladder and poked her head out of her bedroom window like a thief.The quilt on the bed was as tidy as when she left, without any trace of being turned over, even the position of a hair rope she deliberately left on the pillow remained unchanged.

It appears the box is still there.

There was only £5 in the box, Mary's pocket money for the week. The £3000 had already been sent to the next village by Mr. Bennet, and the money was not with Mary even last night, but in Mr. Bennet's study.

Mary stood on the ladder and continued to look into the bedroom. She wanted to see if Emily would come to turn her quilt.

Time passed by, and there was no one in the bedroom. Standing on the bed, Mary only felt back pain.Fortunately, the Bennet Manor is large enough, and there is a small back garden, not next to the neighbors' houses.

Otherwise, she will definitely be arrested as a pervert.How can there be a pervert poking around outside his room?Mary rubbed her shoulders and pushed the odd thought out of her mind.

Another half hour passed, and Mary felt her limbs were completely frozen.She twisted her waist with difficulty, moved her neck a few more times, and was about to wait another 10 minutes before she got off the ladder.

Still nothing happened.

Could it be that I was thinking wrong?Emily didn't take the money, so she wasn't an "intruder" at all?Or, because the fire happened three years earlier, coupled with the butterfly effect, no one would steal the money at all?Mary thought quickly, but she couldn't think for a long time, because if she didn't take the initiative to climb down the ladder, she would probably roll down from it due to the numbness of her limbs.

Just then, the door opened.

Emily walked in carelessly. With her back to Mary, she stood beside a small tea table and began to take out money.

Mary:? ? ?

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