Pride and Prejudice: The Embarrassing Life of Miss Jane Bennett

When Jian Lan opened her eyes again, the scene before her eyes changed. .

Waltz music was flowing in my ears, and in front of me were beautifully dressed girls and... officers in red uniforms, as well as country gentry who were not so formally dressed.The lights are feasting, and the wine is intertwined. .

Jian Lan thought she had dreamed of Europe in the [-]th century. .

In fact, she returned to the nineteenth century, and it was still the nineteenth century described by Austen.

"Oh, my dear Jane, if you are not the most beautiful girl around, who else is?" a plump woman beside her said to herself lovingly.After finishing speaking, she turned her head and said to a lady beside her, "Isn't it Mrs. Lucas?"

"That's right, Mrs. Bennett," replied the woman, also smiling. .

Jane Bennett.

These words flashed in Jian Lan's mind.Then it went dark, and I couldn't stand still.

"When will Mr. Bingley come?" Mrs. Bennet fanned her fan with undisguised anxiety.

Mr. Bingley and Jane Bennett.

Jian Lan only felt that the words "Pride and Prejudice fan" hit her head heavily, and then Jian Lan was knocked unconscious.

When Jian Lan woke up again, it was already the morning of the next day.During lunch, Jian Lan silently listened to her mother's dissatisfied nagging, and then watched the beautiful girl beside her winking at her, with a lively and lovely expression.This should be Elizabeth? Bennett, my sister, the heroine of the novel.Jian Lan looked at Elizabeth, thinking calmly.

But what she heard next made her uneasy.

"But Eliza is very good, Jane. Mr. Bingley has danced twice with Eliza! Only Eliza has this honor in the whole audience. She is the most outstanding girl at the party!" Mrs. Bennett Ignoring Mr. Bennett's patient expression, he said.

Jian Lan turned her head to look at Elizabeth in surprise, and saw a little bit of shyness in her eyes!

shy.

shy?

Shy!

Jian Lan was confused.Elizabeth, how can you be ashamed of Mr. Bingley?Where do you put Mr. Darcy, who is so cute and aunt to thousands of girls, hello!

At this moment, Mrs. Bennet spoke again: "But that Mr. Darcy is really arrogant and rude. He actually thinks my precious daughter is not beautiful enough. Such an arrogant person is annoying no matter how rich he is!"

"Mr. Darcy?" Jian Lan pretended to be puzzled.

"Mr. Darcy is a friend of Mr. Bingley." Elizabeth said, smiling indifferently: "Mr. Bingley persuaded him to dance, but he refused, saying that there is no one who can pass at this ball, the only one who can be called cute." The lady is also occupied by Mr. Bingley."

Speaking of this, Elizabeth's face was slightly flushed.

"The so-called lovely lady doesn't mean Li Qi, does it?" Jian Lan asked.

"Isn't it!" Mrs. Bennet interjected, "I can't bear that look!"

"Hehe, that's because he has never met Jane. If he had seen Jane, he wouldn't have said that!" Elizabeth said with a smile.

It turned out that while reading the book, Jian Lan thought that the reason why Mr. Darcy praised Jane's appearance was that Mr. Bingley was very enthusiastic about Jane, just like yesterday when he called Elizabeth cute.So Jane thinks that even if Mr. Darcy sees her, if Mr. Bingley doesn't develop love for her, he won't think there is anything special about her, Jian Lan thinks very modestly.

After lunch, Jian Lan told Mr. and Mrs. Bennett that she was not feeling well, and then went back to her room to rest.Lying on the bed, Jian Lan stared at the ceiling with her eyes open, recalling the story of Pride and Prejudice.As soon as she started to reminisce, Jian Lan found sadly that she had ruined the plot when she first came here... Anyway, she is now the second heroine in the whole book, one of the important promoters of the plot.Now, because of her fainting, although Mr. Bingley fell in love at first sight, it became Elizabeth instead of Jane, and apparently Elizabeth also had a good impression of the polite Mr. Bingley.God, will she be struck by lightning... Jian Lan covered her face.

In the original book, "it can still be seen" has now become "it can be called cute". Although it is still arrogant and rude, Elizabeth seems to have less dislike for Mr. Darcy.Don't say that in the original book, Elizabeth didn't care about Mr. Darcy's words and told her friends as a joke. In fact, when she was reading the book, Jian Lan felt that she cared to death, so she left a deep-rooted bad impression in her mind, otherwise With Elizabeth's intelligence, how could she easily believe Wickham's slander against Mr. Darcy.

Damn, Jian Lan, where did your thoughts go?

Jian Lan lay on the bed, the more she thought about it, the more she felt a headache. Ah, the biggest goal now is to get the plot back. Without the separation and reunion of Jane and Mr. Bingley, where can I make Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy meet and get acquainted with each other? opportunity!

But... Jian Lan continued to cover her face, and now Elizabeth and Mr. Bingley clearly developed a little affection for each other. If they want to change the plot back, wouldn't it be to ask Jane to poach my sister's corner?

God, do you want to play me like this...

Just when Jian Lan was holding her head and was about to roll around on the big soft bed, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Jian Lan replied weakly.

"Are you better, Janet?" To Jane's surprise, it was Mary, not Elizabeth, who opened the door.

"Uh...it's much better..." Jian Lan mobilized the original memory stored in her brain, then made a beautiful smile that fit Jane Bennett, and said to Mary.

"That's good." Mary showed a faint smile, then sat at the foot of the bed, conjuring a book out of nowhere, opened it, and read aloud.

"...X﹏X..." Mary...you are so stupid.Jian Lan, who found that she couldn't think about the plot plan at all amidst the sound of Mary's reading, screamed in her heart.

"Tell me, Muse, the history of that wise mortal.

After breaching the sacred castle of Troy, wander the world.

He has seen the city-states of many races, and has tasted their insights.

Xin endured a lot of pain and struggled in Haosen's ocean.

In order to save my own life, it was my comrades who were able to return home..."

"Orz..." The villain in Jian Lan's brain beat the ground frantically.And just when Jian Lan's tangled brain nerves were about to be twisted into a deadlock by what Mary was reading, Jian Lan suddenly realized that what she was reading was really something amazing!

Is it the flashy Odyssey, or the one translated by Alexander Pope.

Jian Lan suddenly thought of Nei Niu with a full face, and was very moved for a while because she had read this "poem of shit".

Now that she knew what it was, Jian Lan gradually recalled the content of this shit poem, so she closed her eyes and listened to Mary's not-so-gentle voice cadenced reading with relish.The furrows formed from the frown gradually widened.

Listening, Jian Lan opened her eyes and found that the tip of Mary's nose was almost stuck to the book.

"Keep your eyes away from the book, Mary, or your eyes will be broken." Jian Lan said softly.

Mary was startled, then turned her head to look at Jian Lan, showing an obvious smile, and there seemed to be a little joy in her eyes, which was too fast for Jian Lan to see clearly.

"Do you like it?" Mary asked.

"I like it." Jian Lan nodded with a smile, and continued, "Probably only Mr. Pope can translate the Odyssey so beautifully." Jian Lan sat up and leaned against the head of the bed, her tone a little lazy Said.

"..." An obvious look of surprise appeared in Mary's eyes.

Only then did Jian Lan realize that Pope's translated version of Odyssey did not exist in the memory of the original version, and even the impression of Homer's epic was vague and indistinct.

Cover your face...Miss Jane? Bennett, it turns out that you are really just a gentle, considerate, pure and kind lady of a small country landowner, but you can't even read such a classic shit poem as the Odyssey, right?

"Would you like to continue listening?" Mary asked.

Jian Lan really wanted to refuse, because she still needed some time to straighten things out, but Mary's light green eyes were so clearly flashing with the words "Listen, listen, I still want to read to you" in the cute eyes, making her I can't say thank you anymore.

"Well, of course I still want to listen." The defeated Jian Lan replied.

So the ups and downs of reading aloud sounded again...

"But even so, he couldn't save those friends,

Although try my best

They died of their folly, their madness,

These fools devour Helios' cattle,

The time to return home was taken away by the sun god..."

The next day, Charlotte, the eldest lady of the Lucas family, Elizabeth's best friend, visited Longbourne, and to put it bluntly, she came to gossip about the dance that day with Elizabeth.

One thing Jian Lan has to admit is that Elizabeth is much more generous than the original Jane.Except for a little shyness at the beginning, then he admitted generously and showed his affection for Mr. Bingley.Jian Lan felt that Elizabeth's performance in this way was much more likable than Jane's performance in the original book.Jian Lan clearly remembers a conversation between Miss Lucas and Elizabeth discussing Jane in the original book. The main content is that Elizabeth said that Jane did not express her love for Mr. Bingley very clearly, and that Jane was very friendly to everyone. You are enthusiastic and agree with Jane, but Miss Lucas thinks that men should be aware of your affection.When Jian Lan read that chapter, she felt that Miss Bennett's love life might be a little bumpy in the future, and sure enough, it was really bad after that.

While Jian Lan casually listened to the gossip of the two chicks, she continued to smooth out the mess in her head.

First of all, not to mention that the plot is now in a cage, even if it develops according to the original track, Jane does not want to marry Mr. Bingley, although Mr. Bingley is more suitable for Miss Bennett who has no property in terms of temperament and wealth.

It's not that they don't know that the ladies of the Bennet family have no inheritance, and it's not that they don't know that decent ladies can't go out to work.Therefore, it is almost impossible to want to be independent without falling to the bottom of society.

Although Zhiluo listed all the above, Jian Lan still didn't want to marry like this.She worked hard in her previous life for so long, finally saved a lot of money and planned to travel around the world, but just as she got on the plane going abroad, there was an air crash, and in a blink of an eye, she came to this world that she didn't know whether it was a fiction or a real world.Thinking of the savings in her passbook, Jian Lan felt that even her appendix and cecum were in pain.

Jian Lan, who was in deep thought, inadvertently continued the habit of her previous life, that is, whenever she was thinking, she would tap the table with her left index finger one after another. Now that there was no table, Jian Lan tapped on the armchair.

She might follow the example of Charlotte Bronte and publish her novel under a male pseudonym.

The current mainstream of literature is sentimental works that are very painful. Jian Lan only needs to randomly pick some bloody plots from her mind, and then write novels in the style of Jane Austen, without worrying about no market.Not to mention Jian Lan's plagiarism, Jane Austen and her works definitely do not exist in the world that Jane Austen wrote, which made Jian Lan extremely painful.

In addition to romance novels, Jian Lan felt that she could also write some detective novels, just like some time-travel heroines have done.But writing a detective novel is not that simple. Jian Lan has written it before. She can create an atmosphere of suspense and horror very well, but after the whole story is finished, there are piles of bugs. When she came out, Jian Lan felt ashamed at the time, wishing she could dig another big hole and bury herself.

If you don’t write detective novels, you can write novels based on western magic. This kind of novels are simple, with piles of templates, and you can find a truckload of pickups by searching the starting point. You can work hard to extend the serialization, and there will be no shortage of readers.

When the time comes for my own writing, a bunch of readers follow it, and then publish it, and then reprint it one edition at a time. The royalties alone are enough for me to be decently independent.After earning enough money, I will take a passenger ship to go to sea by myself, first go to the territories of the empire on which the sun never sets, and then go to the French colonies. If I have spare money, I can buy a manor in Brazil and a mine in Africa, then...

"Janet? Janet?"

Here, Jian Lan is having a pleasant mood, but Elizabeth forcibly pulls her thoughts back to the reality, which is very gray and skinny.

"What's the matter, Li Qi?" Jian Lan quickly put on a gentle and weak smile, looking at Elizabeth and her best friend.

"We're just saying that in two days my father will take us to visit Netherfield Manor. I'd like to show that arrogant Mr. Darcy how dare he say that we have no beauties here!"

Jian Lan, who was imagining the tropical fruits from the Amazon forest and the big diamonds from the African mines, was stunned.

Uh... what beauty are you looking at?What is the situation? !