The heroine of the healing department is very rigid [Pride and Prejudice]

In the carriage—it’s hard to call it a carriage, because it’s just a flatbed covered with a black tarpaulin, and it’s only half a meter high in total.After all the vegetables were unloaded, Mary curled up and lay down in it, which was damp and wet and full of the smell of salty earth.

Although Mary has no cleanliness, she is a very clean girl, so it is really uncomfortable to curl up here.The wet and cold floor of the car soon dampened her clothes.

About seven or eight minutes later, the woman who delivered the food came out of the back kitchen cursing. Obviously, she didn't ask for this week's food money.She spat on the ground to make sure Mary was lying down, and then drove the carriage to the school gate.

According to the agreement, the woman would send Mary to a posting station six miles from Lowood.There was only one way to go from Lowood to the coaching station, passing the Church of the Holy Communion.In order to avoid meeting White and Gray who came back from the church, Mary still stayed in the carriage and was going to wait until it was completely safe before coming out.

The carriage wobbled on the uneven ground, and because there was a large living person in the carriage, the woman did not dare to drive the carriage too fast and let the horse drive slowly.

There would not have been any accidents, but because the carriage was driving too slowly, when it reached the door of the church, it happened to meet White and Gray coming out of it.

"Stop, stop." Mrs. White stood on the side of the road, reaching out to stop the woman's carriage, and Mary's heart rose to her throat.

The woman who delivered the food was also a little nervous. She stopped the carriage, looked at Mrs. White impatiently, and said, "What's the matter, Mrs. Principal?"

"Our carriage broke down, please send Mr. Gray and me back to Lowood."

After White finished speaking, he was about to sit in the carriage.

"Wait a minute!" The woman who delivered the food immediately reacted and stopped Mrs. White, "I'm in a hurry today and I have to sell vegetables elsewhere."

"It's not far from Lowood, you can just lift your hands." Seeing the woman rejecting her, White immediately felt that his authority was challenged, and he couldn't help but sit in the carriage.

"I said I won't see you off today!" The woman immediately drove the car forward a few steps, and Mrs. White accidentally sat empty and fell to the ground.The wet soil not only stained her skirt, but two patches of mud with sticky leaves got in her hair.

Seeing this, the woman immediately waved her horsewhip again, and drove the car quickly away from this place of right and wrong.Only White and Gray were left standing at the church door and yelling.

The woman who delivered the food was probably very nervous. Since meeting Mrs. White and the others, the speed of the carriage has obviously increased.Mary was thrown to the ground in the carriage, and she got motion sickness.

In the morning, in order to save time, Mary didn't eat breakfast, so now she is not only dizzy, but also has a stomachache from hunger, and she is also nauseated because of motion sickness.It is simply a feeling that life is worse than death.

After finally getting to the post station, when Mary got off the car, she couldn't even stand still, her face was pale, and there was no blood on her lips.

The woman who delivered the food couldn't see it, so she helped her, and handed her a bottle of water and half a piece of bread.Mary thanked her for her kindness, but she really had no appetite. She just moistened her throat and couldn't eat anything.She nestled in the station chair and rested for a while

Son, at last reluctantly stood up, ready to hire a carriage to London.

God, she felt dizzy and nauseous just thinking of the word "carriage" now.

Seeing that she was a young girl and coming from the direction of the boarding school, the postmaster assumed that she was ignorant of the world, and planned to blackmail her severely.But she was stopped by the stationmaster's wife, a shrewd woman, with her hands on her hips, and gave the postmaster a severe scolding, accusing him of being a complete blackmailer for defrauding a young girl, who, besides, looked so weak.The postmaster blushed from being scolded, wanted to refute but didn't dare to refute, so he could only stand there rubbing his hands.

After the scolding was over, a comfortable carriage had to be found, at the usual fare.Mary didn't want to take advantage of this, anyway, she still had 100 pounds with her, and she was not short of money.As for Heathcliff's money... Well, anyway, he already owed him so much money and favors, so he can only pay it back slowly.

But the station master's wife insisted on not taking so much money, and for the first time Mary found that it was more difficult to give more than less.The station master's wife enthusiastically sent her to the carriage and gave her a bottle of lemonade and an apple.

The sweet and sour lemonade is perfect for coping with motion sickness. Coupled with the comfortable and warm carriage, Mary feels that most of her life has come back.

Lowood was located in a remote place, a long distance from London, so even though Mary kept begging the coachman to drive the carriage faster, and faster, it was almost dusk when she reached her destination.

Greek Street, 34.

Mary took the address and looked up at the majestic building in front of her, before knocking on the gate of the manor without thinking too much.

A gray-haired old butler came out, and immediately led her into the manor after learning of Mary's purpose.Heathcliff went to the factory, but the old steward promised to send for him now, for which Mary was very grateful.The maid also brought black tea and tree trunk cake, and invited Mary to take a bath in the bathroom and change into clean clothes.Then drink tea on the sofa while waiting for Heathcliff to come back.

At first Mary thought it was strange to take a bath in a strange man's house, but then she realized that her clothes and hair were covered with the smell of mud because of staying in the food cart for too long.The school uniform skirt that was originally clean and tidy has also become stained with mud, and the braids tied behind the head have also fallen apart, making it a mess and looking very inappropriate.

"Thank you so much." Mary stood up and followed the maid to the bathroom.After all, she still needs others for a while, and she'd better make herself look decent. Should Heathcliff be expected to feel sorry for her and sympathize with her?No, the name Heathcliff has nothing to do with sympathy.

The bathroom is a typical new-style bathroom. There is a floor-to-ceiling window with warm yellow curtains next to the large porcelain white bathtub. The sunlight shines on the bathtub through the curtains, making it warm.The maid had already put in the water, and thoughtfully brought rose essential oil and petals, and even a glass of eggnog for warming up.After so many days from home to study in Lowood, Mary finally took a comfortable bath. 1 The room was filled with steam and the aroma of roses. It was hard for Mary to imagine that she was huddled in a damp and cold carriage a few hours ago, but now she could take a bath in a spacious room.

Although she was obsessed with the comfort of the bath, Mary didn't waste too much time in the water. With the help of the maid, she got out of the bathtub immediately after washing her hair. She came here to do business.

Mary thought it would take an hour for Heathcliff to come back, because I heard that his factory was far away from the Greek Street.But unexpectedly, not long after she took a shower and her hair was still dry, Heathcliff came back.Mary suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Her long black hair hadn't had time to comb it, and it was all scattered on her shoulders, wet.Still smells like rose petals.

Heathcliff handed the whip and gloves to the housekeeper, strode up to Mary, lowered his head, and looked at her condescendingly, "I heard you have something to ask me?" His eyes were very dark, and Mary had seen all kinds of Black eyes, but never seen Heathcliff like them.There are countless secrets in those eyes.

She suddenly felt short of breath and her heart beat faster.Heathcliff smelled of a mixture of tobacco and leather, very faint, so faint that it could hardly be smelled, unless they were very close as they were now.The smell is not bad, much better than men's perfume.

"Can you help me save a friend? She has been locked in a small dark room by the headmaster of Lowood for several days." Mary quietly took half a step back. For some reason, those deep black eyes made her feel nervous .

"You came here to let me save your friend?" Heathcliff sat back on the sofa, lit a cigarette, and raised his eyes to look at Mary who was still standing, somewhat embarrassed.

"She is my classmate in Lowood, and the teachers there are terrible. They never have a bottom line in corporal punishment. I am very worried about her." Mary explained hastily.

"I remember you went to school at the end of January, and now it's almost April. You" Heathcliff suddenly stopped talking.

"That's right, that's right. What's the matter?" Mary was a little surprised, she didn't expect Heathcliff to remember when she went to school.

"I know Lowood. It's the property of John Howard—that is, Duke John." Heathcliff didn't answer Mary's question, but started talking about Lowood. "He originally founded this school to help the Royalists win votes, but it didn't achieve his goal. In essence, Lowood is a charity school, which doesn't bring him much benefit, but Howard The sponsorship of the school has not been stopped. It is very strange."

"Then, can you help me rescue Scareva?" Mary asked tentatively, she was not very sure, after all, Duke John was not an easy person to deal with.

"Since I left you that note, I will definitely help you." Heathcliff put out the cigarette in his hand, "But, you have to tell me, why did you save that Scareva?"

"Because she's my friend," answered Mary, who found the question utterly incomprehensible.

"Friend? Because of this?"

"Scarva is my friend, and she has helped me a lot. Now that she is in trouble, I will naturally find a way to help her." Mary explained, and then she summoned up the courage to ask a question that she had always wanted to ask, " why do you always help me"