[Pride and Prejudice] Red and Black Queen

In a few days the news that Mrs. Darcy intended to leave her dowry money to Jo Wickham spread throughout the Pemberley estate.

When Jojo passed the place where the servants gathered, they would whisper in voices that she couldn't hear and with expressions that were obviously talking about her.

When she got closer, they would act nonchalantly again.

The attitude of the people in the whole manor towards her has changed.

Some people said something strange to her, some people looked at her enviously, and some even showed their gallantry.

No matter what attitude they treat her, Qiao Qiao's attitude has never changed, she is still kind, gentle and holy.

Sometimes, the maid beside her couldn't see her, but she still didn't care, just like the saint mentioned in the book.

"Joe, your temper is so good that I can't stand it!"

Qiao Qiao smiled, "I can actually understand why they treated me like this."

The little maid on the side widened her eyes in surprise, "Can you understand? What are you talking about!"

Qiao Qiao said softly: "Because there is nothing, you will be jealous, and because of jealousy, you will speak evil words and do evil deeds."

"In the final analysis, they are all poor people with nothing. The poor life and busy work force them to do so."

The system couldn't help but said: [Good guy, is your next step going to say that this is all society's fault?Ready to whip up a red storm here? 】

Qiao Qiao coughed lightly, "Okay, I don't care about this, it's fine to let them get angry at me, anyway, they can't actually do any harmful behavior to me."

Maid: "Joe, I really don't understand you, I feel that you are so far away from us."

Qiao Qiao said helplessly: "Isn't I just in front of you?"

The maid shook her head, "No, no, that's a feeling, just you... Oh, I can't say it."

Jojo didn't know, so he smiled.

"Joe, Ma'am is looking for you." A voice came from upstairs.

Qiao Qiao responded and walked up the stairs.

An older maid downstairs deliberately said: "Some people are just different from us, they don't need to do anything, as long as they make Madam happy, they will have everything."

"It's more than just coaxing Madam to be happy. I think she can coax master and young master into obedience. It's incomparable, incomparable."

Qiao Qiao lowered her eyes and walked upstairs, halfway there, but there was no sound from below.

She raised her head and looked at the person standing above the stairs in surprise.

Old Mr. Darcy stood grimly in the shadow above the stairs, stick in hand.

"Boom!"

The cane hit the floor, like a sound hitting everyone's hearts.

Old Mr. Darcy turned his head and looked at Butler Wickham behind him.

Butler Wickham said nothing, bowed slightly, and passed Lord Darcy down the stairs.

Butler Wickham said: "Joe, the master kindly left you and George to live in the manor. You should be grateful. From today on, you will work with the maid."

Qiaoqiao lowered his eyelashes, and responded gently and obediently: "Okay, father."

Butler Wickham went on down.

Qiao Qiao said softly: "This is the first time for them, not because they want to offend the master and the young master, but because they are too tired to complain."

The following maids who had been taunting Qiao Qiao could not help but look at her in surprise.

They didn't expect that the only person speaking for them at this time was the object they had been jealous and excluded.

Butler Wickham ignored Jojo's words and went straight down the stairs.

"Come with me, don't be rude in front of the master."

Several maids looked pale, but they had to leave quietly with Butler Wickham.

Qiao Qiao watched them leave.

Qiao Qiao calmly said to the system: "They are just tools to be used, and there are other people who really have trouble with me."

System: [Master, you are not in danger, are you? 】

Qiao Qiao chuckled in his head, showing pity and disdain.

"Here? Dangerous?"

"System, have I not used you for too long, causing you to have problems?"

The system silently closed its mouth.

That's fine, don't worry about the master at all, all the people in this country can't beat its master together.

"Joe," Master Darcy called to Jo.

Joe turned and gazed at him respectfully.

Master Darcy: "Come with me to the study."

He turned and left, and walked for a while, only to find that Joe hadn't followed.

Master Darcy looked surprised and turned around again. He saw that Joe was still looking at the direction in which the maids left.

"Joe!" he said emphatically.

Qiao Qiao turned around and bowed to Master Darcy, "Sorry, Master, can I go to the study later? I have something to do now."

Master Darcy showed disappointment, "It's up to you."

Qiao Qiao bowed again, lifted the hem of her skirt, and ran downstairs quickly.

The off-white skirt brushed against the dark brown stair railings, like a thick fog passing through the deep mountains and woods.

In the blink of an eye, Qiao Qiao disappeared without a trace.

Master Darcy had a straight face at first, but seeing Qiao Qiao running so fast, he couldn't help but smile.

"Hmph, no matter how prudent and intelligent you are, you're still just a child."

It shouldn't be a deliberate attempt to plot something.

Master Darcy stood on the stairs thinking for a while, and before Joe came back, he saw his eldest son, Fitzwilliam Darcy, running up panting, as if lest he should run a step too slowly, so that his father would be able to take the little boy away. The girl swallowed it alive.

Master Darcy regained his composure.

Nor did it occur to Fitzwilliam Darcy that his father was still here.

He stopped abruptly, his chest heaving slightly.

He lowered his head, "Father, father."

Master Darcy held his cane and said in an aristocratic tone: "What are you doing? You look like an inferior person in a hurry."

Darcy: "Father, I heard..."

He looked left and right, but he didn't see Joe's figure.

"...I heard that how many servants have you punished?"

Master Darcy narrowed his eyes, "Are you concerned about those servants, or the people they slander?"

Darcy was silent.

"I see that what you care about is the little girl Joe!"

Darcy hurriedly argued: "No, father..."

"What are you still looking at?"

Master Darcy glanced at the remaining servants, and slammed his cane on the banister of the stairs, "What are you still doing here?"

The servants were startled and hurriedly pushed and shoved away.

There was still sweat on Darcy's forehead, seeing his father furious, he kept quiet.

Master Darcy: "Why don't you talk? Didn't you just fear that I would punish Joe together?"

Darcy raised his head, and stared at him without blinking the same smoky gray eyes as Master Darcy, "Father, did you do it on purpose just now?"

"Originally, Joe was already envied by them in the manor. You just said that, and they probably resented and envied her even more in private."

Master Darcy: "This is what she should bear. After all, she is just an inferior person. I take her in for the sake of housekeeper Wickham, but she shouldn't dream about what she doesn't deserve."

"Father, she rejected my mother's proposal."

Master Darcy said coldly: "That's because she is smart, maybe she has more plots."

"Joe's not like that."

Darcy's hasty explanation had the opposite effect.

Mr. Darcy stood at the top of the stairs, looking still more gloomy.

"Maybe that's what she wants."

"Fitzwilliam, you are the heir of the Darcy family. You shouldn't be so naive. There are many beautiful young ladies with meager dowries in this world who want to live a life of upper class by virtue of their beauty. You are one of them." Very good goals, you should be wary of these ladies with such goals since childhood."

Darcy: "Father, Joe is different. She has decided to go to the church since she was a child, and she doesn't care about it."

Master Darcy sneered, "She thinks this way now, it's because she is still young, and when she gets older, she may regret it."

"Fitzwilliam, she's not even as good as those ladies who cling to superior people, she just sees you as a candidate."

"You'd better take care of yourself and set an example for your brother."

"The Darcy family will be inherited by you. Your brother has no other choice but to marry a lady with a rich dowry. Marriage is very important for a family like us."

"There are always young and pretty ladies, Darcy, but people of our family are rare."

As Master Darcy was talking, he saw Darcy's face was distracted.

"Fitzwilliam!" said Master Darcy angrily.

Darcy came back to his senses and murmured: "Marriage, marriage... I never thought about this! Father!"

He was angry, anxious and ashamed, his pale face seemed to be covered with sunset glow.

Master Darcy examined him impassively.

After a while, Master Darcy seemed to understand something.

"Cough, you...so you haven't enlightened..."

Master Darcy: "Okay, I didn't do anything to Joe. Besides, with those servants as examples, others would not dare to say anything."

Darcy breathed a sigh of relief.

Master Darcy "hated that iron cannot be made into steel" and said, "Now, don't you feel relieved?"

Darcy tried to hold his breath, pretending to be nonchalant.

Master Darcy chuckled, "Still pretending?"

Darcy coughed, stretched out his hand, and rubbed his cheek with his fingertips.

Master Darcy shook his head, "You are really being led by the nose by Joe, you are also the heir of the Darcy family after all, can you stop being so worthless?"

Mr. Darcy: "Although I didn't intend to blame Jo, she was reprimanded by Wickham officials."

Darcy was taken aback, "Why did you train her?"

Lord Darcy: "Butler Wickham has always acted from the perspective of the Darcy family. I trust him because of this. He may be sorry that Joe is like an idler in the Darcy family, so he will let Joe be a maid in the future. work."

Darcy frowned.

Master Darcy: "I think this proposal is good. Joe is familiar with the affairs of the manor. If I can take over his father's job in the future, it will be a waste of my heart. She will also have a place to live in the future."

Darcy couldn't help but said: "Mr. Wickham couldn't see it, why didn't he let George be a servant? I think Joe is much smarter and safer than George."

Lord Darcy: "George is the heir, and he is not like Joe."

Darcy looked distressed.

Lord Darcy: "If she can be a maid and housekeeper in the manor, wouldn't it be a good thing for you?"

"Aristocratic marriages are based on interests, even His Majesty the King. If you really like it, you can put her in front of you as a lover, and you can also give her the power to manage the manor and let her do things for you."

Master Darcy's statement is a common behavior of all nobles in this society, but it makes Darcy feel as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly.

Lord Darcy: "Fitzwilliam, do what you have to do"