[Pride and Prejudice] Lady Makes Money

No matter how much Bingley felt sorry for his sister, he knew that it was her fault in the first place.

Not to mention, Gene and Darcy have taken a clear stand on the side of the Bennet sisters.

It is impossible for him to offend those two brothers for an ignorant younger sister.

So, after setting up his sister, he didn't even go upstairs to have a look. He sincerely apologized to Elizabeth again, and begged her not to leave in a fit of anger, even if it was just "have pity on him, give him a correction." Opportunity."

And Gene and Darcy also acted as peacemakers, and said a lot of good things for Bingley.

After this situation, it was impossible for Elizabeth to be unforgiving, so she readily agreed.

After hearing the second sister's explanation, Manli didn't say anything more.She asked Elizabeth to watch Jane in the room, and went downstairs to cook her a medicine.

Thinking about it, Jane probably hadn't eaten all day, so she took out the rice she brought from home and cooked some porridge.

Tell the cook to watch the fire, and she personally brought the medicine upstairs.

"I'll feed Jane the medicine later, so you should go and have a rest. The kitchen should have left you something to eat, so you can take a bite too. I guess you didn't even have lunch?"

Elizabeth took the medicine bowl and said with a distressed expression.

Manli didn't refuse this time, she nodded: "Look at Eldest Sister, I'll take a bath. When the porridge is ready, send someone over."

As he spoke, he rang the bell to call the maid, and took her to the guest room that Bingley's house had arranged for her in advance.

The guest room is next door to Jane, which is convenient.

The room is very large, it is a suite, and there is a special bathroom, which contains the toiletries she brought specially.

The most conspicuous of which is of course the huge bathtub.

"Miss, the hot water is ready, should I have someone bring it up now?" the maid asked respectfully.

"Okay." Manli nodded.

Generally speaking, the servants of Netherfield Gardens are well trained.

It may be because Elizabeth had just washed it before, and they had already seen it once, so there was no need to order it this time. It was brought up with hot water, and there were two burning charcoal basins.

It didn't take long for the room to become warm and cozy.

The moment she sat in the bathtub, Manli realized how tired she was. The slightly scalding water soaked her body, and she couldn't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.

After taking a shower and drying her hair half dry, Manli walked lightly to the kitchen, and she looked much more refreshed personally.

The porridge is ready now.

Although the quality of the current rice is mediocre, the basmati rice from later generations looks glutinous, soft and smooth, but it is still sticky and sticky, and the whole kitchen is filled with the aroma of rice.

The smell whets the appetite.

Without the help of the cook, Manli swiftly cut up a small plate of the pickled cucumbers she brought from home, and seeing that there was ready-made lettuce in the kitchen, she mixed a shredded lettuce with cold salad.

White porridge and side dishes, although simple, are easy to digest and are the most suitable food for fever patients.

Asking the maid to bring the food upstairs, the cook immediately brought Manli the dinner specially reserved for her, but she frowned.

The greasy potato chips, which should have been cold, were re-oiled and looked dry and hard.

The thick lamb chops are covered with white fat, and the beans are cooked black...

Before eating, it feels like swallowing a big piece of fat, very greasy.

However, at this moment, Manli was extremely hungry!

From morning to now, she hasn't eaten a drop of rice, and she has run such a long way, and she has been worried for so long.I didn't feel it because I was thinking about Jane before, but now I'm free, and I just took a bath——

Manli felt her stomach cramp slightly.

"Where is the chicken I brought from home?" She asked, looking at the cook.

"it's here."

The cook hurriedly took out the white striped chicken that Martha had cleaned up at home from the cabinet.

Manli took it, and without the help of others, skillfully sliced ​​a piece of meat from the chicken breast, shredded it, marinated it with onion, ginger, garlic, wine, and white pepper and set it aside for later use.

Then he asked the cook to help her pull out two lettuces.

Lettuce is an essential ingredient for people to make vegetable salads, and almost every small vegetable garden in the manor will grow some.

Sure enough, the cook agreed without hesitation.

Before the cook came back, Manli chopped up the chives she brought, found two eggs from under the table, beat them, added flour, salt, and water and stirred them evenly... She was going to bake an egg pancake for herself .

No matter how busy or tired you are, your stomach cannot be treated badly!

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in the study.

Darcy looked at Gene: "Have you noticed what those two wooden barrels look like before?"

Gene frowned and thought for a long time before saying: "It seems to have a cover."

Darcy recalled vigorously, then nodded thoughtfully: "I seem to have seen the lid too. Because of the lid, the water temperature can be kept. However, such a big bucket, sit in it, and then put the lid on..."

That must be suffocated?

He shook his head vigorously, pushed that nonsensical thought to the back of his mind, and then exclaimed: "They are so courageous. Don't they know that bathing will bring bad luck?"

"Did they suffer?" Genn asked back.

Darcy was startled for a moment, but did not speak.

Elizabeth's appearance like Jasmine after the rain just now appeared before her eyes again...

His eyes became softer than ever before.

After a while, he suddenly realized that he quickly pointed a finger at Gene, and said loudly, "You are not allowed to snatch it from me this time!"

Gene couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I'll give you a chance to get in touch with Miss Elizabeth."

One sentence made Darcy look very embarrassed.

"What nonsense! I just, I just thought Georgiana would like that thing."

"No need to explain, I understand."

Gene waved his hand at him, showing an expression that you and I know well, and joked with a smile: "How about taking a gamble? Let's see if you can persuade Miss Manly to sell you the design of the bathtub first, Or can I get the tofu recipe first."

"but,"

He paused: "I suggest that you should start with Miss Elizabeth. If she is willing to speak for you, the effect may be better."

Darcy hasn't had time to think about how to get the design rights, so he doesn't comment on Gene's suggestion.

But hearing that he didn't mean to compete with himself, he was still slightly relieved.

But then he realized the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"You mean... this tub was designed by Miss Manly herself?"

"if not?"

Gene glanced at him.

"I thought, I thought..."

Daxi repeated the sentence several times, but because he was too surprised, he didn't know what to say.

That's right, it's not Miss Manli, who can think of such a thing?

More importantly, who would think about it?

The more he thought about it, the more Darcy was amazed, and couldn't help being speechless: "What do you think Miss Manli's head looks like? Can those things really be seen from books?"

As the heir of an aristocratic family, Darcy has always claimed to be knowledgeable, and he has read more books than the people around him.

But these things were something he had never heard of or even thought about.

Miss Manly, as a country girl who has never even been to London, how did she think of it?

And what Darcy thought, why didn't Jean think about it?

He has been to Mr. Bennet's study, and has also observed it deliberately.

As a small manor owner, it can be seen that the Ban family is willing to study, but there are only a few books in the family.

At least, he hasn't seen any book that he hasn't seen.

Gene couldn't help but think of the blueprint he bought back from Mr. Bennet.

Although Mr. Bennet has repeatedly hinted that the picture was drawn by himself, the delicate handwriting, no matter how you look at it, is from the hand of a girl.

Before going there, it was just Gene's speculation that Manli might be the designer of the thermos, but he had already confirmed it the moment he saw the blueprint.

Looking at the drawings that are so rigorously designed that even the detailed dimensions and material descriptions are clearly written, Gene couldn't help but admire him from the bottom of his heart.

Because of this, he became more and more curious about Miss Manli herself.

"What's the smell? It smells so good?"

While Gene was still thinking, Darcy next to him suddenly sniffled and asked.

Gene couldn't help but also took a deep breath.

Then, the two people's eyes lit up at the same time, and after looking at each other, they jumped up from the chair almost at the same time, and strode towards the door!

Gene took a quick step, and stopped suddenly when he reached the door, and stretched out his long hand to block the door frame.

Darcy was staggered by him, stopped and looked at him suspiciously.

"Bathtub."

Gene turned around, looked at Darcy squarely, spit out two words slowly, and then showed a slightly shameless smile.

Darcy was stunned for a few seconds before he realized that this guy wanted to go to Miss Manli for a solo meal, so he could make room for him!

After figuring it out, Darcy almost turned his nose angrily, stared at Gene for a long time, and then squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Can you be more shameless?"

"can."

Gene didn't seem to feel the sarcasm from the other party at all, and nodded solemnly.

Said: "Tomorrow I will personally ask Miss Elizabeth, beg her to be kind, and tell me what makes her such a beautiful girl more elegant and charming? I don't know that I have no chance to listen to her sharing so that it can be used to please my mother?"

"You!" Darcy was so angry that he felt that his back molars were about to bite off!

Even if he knew that this guy was "teaching" him how to strike up a conversation with other girls, Daxi felt that he didn't want to accept his favor at all!

He just wants to hit this kid against the wall at the moment——

If he can beat it.

Darcy walked away angrily, and Gene walked towards the kitchen with a smile.

As soon as he entered the door, under the dim candlelight, a graceful young woman was standing in front of the stove, busy with skillful movements.

The whole kitchen was filled with an atmosphere that he had never felt before, warm, fragrant, relaxing and wanting to be close at the same time.

This made him subconsciously stop, and he was stunned.

Is this the feeling of home that he has seen in books?