[Pride and Prejudice] Lady Makes Money

Manli turned her head following the sound, and saw Mrs. Horst staring at her with a look of seeing a ghost.

Miss Bingley next to her pointed at the medicine bowl in her hand and screamed, "What are you going to drink for Jane? Is there crocodile saliva and crocodile tears in it?"

Mary "..."

If you think too much, I can't even do what you said.

Although she felt that the two women in front of her were making a fuss, she was not too disgusted to be honest.

After all, she had experienced the same thing before.

When she gave Kitty the medicine for the first time, her mother didn't make a lot of fuss, but she didn't speak so badly.

"This is a prescription from the East. The ingredients in it all come from the most common ingredients, and there is no harm to the human body. Jane is my sister, and I will not harm her."

She explained calmly.

"Miss Manli, do you really want to give this thing to Jane to drink? No, I don't agree! Who can prove that this thing is not harmful to the human body? After all, we have never even seen it before! You can't take it, don't you know? The prescriptions that I read in some messy books are used indiscriminately on Jane!"

Bingley suddenly took a step forward, stretched out his hand to grab Manli's wrist, and shouted emotionally.

Manli's eyes suddenly turned cold.

She can understand that these people have never seen Chinese herbal medicine, but why do they talk to her like that?

Could she still harm her own sister?

She turned her body to the side, shook off Bingley's hand that was about to grab the medicine bowl, and said in a cold tone: "Of course I can be sure that this medicine is not harmful to the human body, and another sister of mine used it when she had a fever. Jane also knew about it, she asked me to bring the medicine in the letter."

"A letter?" demanded Miss Bingley sharply.

As she spoke, she stretched her head over to look at the medicine bowl again, then took a few steps back exaggeratedly, covered her nose, and shouted, "It's so disgusting, how can people eat this kind of thing?"

After speaking, he slapped his nose vigorously with his hand, with a look of disgust.

Manli was so anxious that she wanted to smash the bowl on the heads of this group of stupid people!

Of course she didn't bring the letter, how could she expect to encounter such a situation? !

She really wants to drop the bowl right now, and then take her sisters to leave this dog place immediately, and never come here for the rest of her life!

But she still had a bit of sanity left, and she knew that Jane couldn't move at all.

Manli took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, fixed her blue eyes on the man standing in front of her, and said in a cold tone: "Jane is my older sister, my worries about her are yours. Above anyone else! I know better than you what to eat for her. If she can’t be cured, I’ll kill her! Now, get out of the way!”

Her words were too harsh, and Bingley was also frightened by her strength, and subconsciously stepped aside.

But immediately he reacted again, stood in front of her again, with a face of disapproval: "Miss Manli, it's not that I don't trust you. But before I can't see the conclusive evidence, I can't let you put this Something for Jane to eat. In case..."

If it's really poisonous, can you really pay for her life? !

"Not in case."

Gene, who had been standing behind and watching all this coldly, suddenly took a step forward, snatched the medicine bowl from Manli's hand, and gulped it down in one gulp.

"Gene!"

"God, Gene, you're crazy!"

"Spit it out!"

Everyone around was stunned by his actions!

The Bingley family panicked even more, and all shouted.

Gene swallowed the last sip of the medicine, and said: "Miss Manli said that if there are no side effects, there will be no side effects. I believe her."

Having said that, he scanned all his cousins ​​with his eyes, and his voice became cold: "Now that I ate it, I didn't die. Is this conclusive evidence? So shut up all of you and don't get in the way." she!"

The faces of the Bingley family suddenly became indescribably embarrassed, and they all turned sideways to make way for a passage.

Only then did Gene smile at Manli, and then smacked his lips: "It's sweet, and the taste is not bad."

Mary "..."

She quickly bowed her knees and saluted Gene to express her gratitude, then rushed into the kitchen without saying a word, took out the spare ingredients, and cooked another one for Jane.

This time, none of the group of people left, they all silently surrounded her and peeped quietly.

There is curiosity in the eyes, but of course more doubts.

When they watched Manli take out perilla, tangerine peel, ginger... and found that it was really the ingredients as she said, and there was no possibility of them being poisonous, they finally felt speechless.

An unnatural look appeared on Bingley's face. He moved closer to Manli and whispered, "I'm sorry, I was too anxious just now."

Manli didn't even give him a look.

Darcy touched Gene with his elbow silently, and silently gave him a thumbs up.

Then he turned his head slightly to his ear, and said a few words with a smile on his face: "It's really hard work, I admire it! How do you feel, right now?"

Gene's face turned dark immediately.

How did he know that there was ginger in that medicine? !

The ingredient he hates the most in his life is ginger!

Looking at Darcy's gloating face, Gene silently moved his gaze aside.

He was afraid that if he took another look, he would kick him. If he did that, he would be too ungentlemanlike.

Especially when there are ladies present.

After taking the medicine and covering it for a while, Jane finally sweated.

Only then did Manli's heart go back into her stomach.

According to the method her mother used in her memory, she held Jane's slightly hot hands and pushed the Tianhe water for her over and over again, even if her fingers became sore from exertion, she didn't stop.

Elizabeth, who was watching, was about to shed tears.

She heard the argument downstairs just now clearly, but because Manli told her to keep an eye on Jane and change the wet towel for her, she didn't dare to leave casually.

My heart was so anxious that there was nothing I could do.

Seeing the sweat soaking the blond hair on the forehead of her younger sister, she just suffered so much grievance without a single complaint, and she was still massaging Jane so hard.

Elizabeth just felt that she couldn't even control her inner emotions.

She walked a few steps quickly, walked behind Manli, hugged her neck, buried her face behind her back, and muttered: "Manli, without you, how would we live?"

Unprepared Manli was startled by Elizabeth.

Hearing what she said again, I didn't feel a little funny.

She stretched one hand behind her back, and patted the second sister's arm comfortingly: "Stop being coquettish, go take a shower while you have nothing to do, the water will be cold in a while."

Elizabeth suddenly felt embarrassed when she said that.

"I'm not being coquettish." She reached out and rubbed Manli's head.

"It's better to wash it first, you see that your head is full of sweat."

"No matter how sweaty you are, you don't sweat as much. You smell your body. Hurry up, hurry up!"

Manli rolled her eyes, her tone full of disgust.

Elizabeth: "..."

What should I do if I suddenly don't like her a little bit?

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In the restaurant downstairs, everyone sat on both sides of the huge dining table, waiting patiently.

The butler went up and asked the two sisters to come down for dinner.

"Jin, it wasn't my cousin who said you, how could you be so reckless? You didn't take your body seriously just to take a gamble?! We don't know what happened to the medicine, how could you Just drink it casually?!"

Mrs. Horst said to Gene in a slightly complaining but deliberately friendly tone.

Gene raised one corner of his lips, as always with a smile that was not a smile, but he didn't respond to a word, as if he didn't hear it at all.

He knows this big cousin very well.

He's just a fool who echoes others' opinions. Apart from being selfish, he is a little narrow-minded. He doesn't bother to talk nonsense with her.

Fortunately, everyone is used to his expression, and no one feels he is slack.

Hearing that the eldest sister was making friends with Gene, Miss Bingley also hurriedly followed.

She looked at Gene with a look of pity and admiration: "Oh, Gene, you are just too kind. I know you don't want to embarrass Miss Manly too much, but even so, you shouldn't make fun of your body. To be honest, we don't know what effect that bowl of stuff has, but the taste is definitely not good. Looking at that dark bowl, I feel disgusting. God, what is going on in that Miss Manli's mind? What are they pretending to be? How did she come up with something that makes people sick when they see it? And let her sister drink it? I really doubt that she will have witchcraft."

"Gossip behind people's backs is disgusting."

At this moment, Elizabeth's crisp voice suddenly came from the direction of the restaurant door.

It's just that he is no longer cheerful and lively on weekdays, and seems to always have a smile.

Instead, it was full of sharp sarcasm.

She walked into the dining room, did not greet the embarrassed people present, but walked up to Miss Bingley and looked at her with sparks about to burst out in her dark brown eyes.

"Manli has never left Hertfordshire since she was a child. This is a well-known fact, and you can investigate as you please. She must have nothing to do with witches. But you..."

She sneered: "Dear Miss Bingley, you seem to have a lot of research on witchcraft. I just heard you spitting a tortoise, crocodile tears, what are those? This kind of chilling You actually know everything? Which witch taught it to you?!"

"...Ah! What nonsense are you talking about? God, how can you slander me like this?! Brother! I can't live anymore, I was insulted by her like this! Please help me...I'm going to die, I really I'm going to die! I'm going to die of being humiliated by this woman!"

Miss Bingley was taken aback by what Elizabeth said.Then she immediately realized how ugly she was in front of so many gentlemen at this moment, she was going crazy all of a sudden!

She stood up suddenly, pushed down the chair, and screamed.

The whole restaurant is in chaos.

"Go to hell if you want to die. What problem can crying solve? If you think the beam is too high to go up, I can ring the bell and call a servant to come and help you carry a chair."

Gene leaned on the back of the chair, his eyes were shining, and he said that he was afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

It seemed that such a good show made him feel better all of a sudden, and his previous lazy state was gone.