[Pride and Prejudice] Red and Black Queen

Here Jojo accidentally mentioned Fitzwilliam Darcy, but Darcy was tossing and turning thinking about her.

When he closes his eyes, he will see Joe in a black robe with a crow on his shoulder and a rose.

So weird and mysterious, and so beautiful.

He thought of George telling him about their mother's dowry and Joe's vows.

He felt sorry for Joe and wanted to do something to make it up, but before he could meet Joe, he was sent by his father to study at the Duke's Mansion.

Darcy did not expect that this parting lasted for many years, and when he saw Joe again, it was still at a funeral.

……

A few years later.

A black horse galloped down the road and broke into Pemberley Manor.

The manservant in the manor originally wanted to go forward to inquire about the situation, but when he saw the handsome appearance of the man on the horseback, the manservant was stunned.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then shouted in surprise: "Master Darcy is back! Master Darcy is back!"

The adult man on the horse's back tightened his grip on the reins, unable to restrain the spinning steed.

His facial contours are resolute, and his smoky gray eyes have a kind of reservedness that belongs only to nobles.

He turned over and jumped off the horse, threw the whip to the servant beside him, took off his gloves, and walked into the house.

His voice was deep and magnetic, "How is my father?"

The male servant showed a sad expression, "Master, he has been half asleep and half awake. For most of the day, there are more days in coma than awake."

Darcy could not help quickening his pace.

"Mr. Will has tried his best. He said that the rest can only be relied on by the master himself. If he can make it through, he can make it through. If he can't make it through..."

The manservant caught Darcy's eyes and shook suddenly, not daring to speak any more.

The two hurried through the corridor, and Darcy asked some questions in a low voice, and the manservant answered respectfully.

Darcy asked, and suddenly stopped his voice.

The manservant waited for a while without waiting for Darcy's next question, and raised his head boldly, only to see that Master Darcy's gloves were half off, revealing his pale wrist, and he was staring indifferently in one direction.

The valet looked in the direction in which Master Darcy was looking, and saw George Wickham in a lace shirt and jeweled bow tie, leaning lazily on the corridor wall.

Not seen for many years, George Wickham is still the same as always.

His slightly long light brown curly hair was tied low into a short ponytail by a hair band. Because it was fully grown, his face became more handsome, and he was dressed exquisitely and richly, just like a nobleman from some family.

However, Darcy still felt a rush of prostitution.

Darcy is not the Darcy who was provoked by his words in a few words back then.

He stared at George without speaking, and there was an invisible coercion spreading.

The footman looked from Darcy to George with perplexity.

In the end, the male servant still bite the bullet and said, "Master Wickham will take care of the master during these days."

George Wickham would be so kind?What does he want to do?

Darcy withdrew his gaze and continued walking.

Just when the two were about to pass each other, George suddenly let out a low laugh.

Darcy was slightly dissatisfied, but it didn't show on his face.

He moved on.

"It's so pitiful..."

George's faint voice came.

He stood up straight, walked to Darcy's side, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "My sister is so pitiful."

Darcy turned his head abruptly, staring at him with deep and cold eyes.

George showed a smiling face, "Now that Mr. Darcy has really become Mr. Darcy, you should have forgotten about Joe, right?"

Darcy turned his head and said calmly: "Mr. Wickham, please don't say anything unclear here."

As he spoke, he walked forward, as if he didn't pay attention to George's words and provocations.

George stopped in his tracks, looked at Darcy's resolute back, and gave a low laugh.

No matter how calm he pretended to be, George, who was familiar with his emotional energy, knew that his heart was no longer calm.

In other words, since he knew that Joe was forced to swear by his father and entered the church, his heart has not calmed down for a moment.

George complained to the system in his mind: "It feels like a loss. I have let this mobile gold mine run for so many years. I should keep him under my nose and tap a little energy every day."

System: [Master, you are not qualified to say this. Although neither of your two vests were with Mr. Darcy during this period, this did not stop you from tapping energy from him. 】

【You use your mental power to influence the people in the Earl's Mansion, let them trip up Darcy from time to time, and get his emotional energy, have you forgotten? 】

[I think Mr. Darcy can still be so calm in the face of George's provocation now, because you have trained him for so many years. 】

George smiled and stroked his chin.

"His emotional energy is stronger now, probably because it's approaching the time when the plot happens? Tsk, it's really mouth-watering."

System: [Master, what should you do next]

"Naturally, it is to maximize the benefits. Let me think about it. I haven't seen him for so many years. How can Joe appear to make Mr. Darcy's mood swings more violent."

The system became excited, [Are you finally getting Joe back? 】

In the past few years, the upper echelons of the church have been suppressing Mr. Zachary and Joe Wickham. Joe visited every remote village in the diocese, and later gradually visited the surrounding parishes. Joe Wickham's reputation is getting better and better. Big, the entire Derbyshire and several surrounding counties have developed many followers of Joe.

Mr. Zachary has been unable to get promoted, he is depressed, and his health is gradually getting worse. Now the affairs in the church are presided over by Joe and Brian.

Speaking of Brian, Jojo has to thank him well.

Although Brian had always shown that he hated Joe, he did not do anything obscene. Even when some people wanted to be rude to Joe, it was Brian who stood up and kicked them all out of the church.

But in front of Joe, he still looked like he couldn't understand her.

It was not his arrangement that Joe went to the countryside to spread the gospel, but Joe took the initiative to do it.

Brian even asked her impatiently once why she was going to those country places.

Joe answered him gently: "Someone has to do these things, why not me? I am very happy doing these things."

Brian's expression at the time was indescribably complicated.

Brian is the son of the duke, and the duke's mansion where Fitzwilliam Darcy went is their home.

The moment the system heard the news, it felt that all of this was done on purpose by Qiao Qiao, and that this was her trap.

Qiao Qiao said helplessly: "This is really a coincidence. If I had known that the mobile gold mine would go there, wouldn't I have arranged for people to mine it?"

When the servant of Brian's family brought the letter from the Duke's mansion, Jojo secretly influenced the servant with spiritual power, and even allowed the servant to collect some emotional energy from Darcy, and bring it directly to her when she came next time .

System: [What a fully automatic emotional energy mining device, so that you don't need to do it yourself. 】

Qiao Qiao: "People affected by mental power can't do too fine operations, and they don't store much emotional energy. It's really not as easy as my avatar vest."

In this way, although Darcy hasn't seen Joe in the past few years, Joe can often get his emotional energy, and he knows his every move in the Duke's mansion.

George was thinking about Joe's return. Suddenly, he seemed to have discovered something, turned around, and looked towards the stairs.

After a while, a small head poked out from the stairs.

A handsome young man is looking around shyly.

George smiled slightly and waved to the boy.

The young man's eyes lit up, and he immediately ran up with a "click".

He is the young master of Pemberley Manor——George Darcy.

George Wickham touched Little George's head, and asked him with a smile, "Why are you here?"

Little George blinked, blushed, and whispered, "I heard that my brother is back, but I haven't seen him yet."

George: "He's gone to see Mr. Darcy, and I'm afraid he won't be free for a while."

Little George hung his head in disappointment.

George stared at him for a while, then suddenly asked: "Do you still want to listen to the story today?"

Little George nodded, his eyes sparkling.

George deliberately smirked and said, "Then tell the story of the rabbit?"

Little George looked disappointed.

George: "Oh, don't like it, the story of the big bad wolf?"

Little George shook his head,

George: "You must love to hear stories about knight heroes, don't you?"

Little George lowered his head, played with his fingers, and muttered in a low voice, "That...can you tell me..."

"What? I didn't catch it."

Little George closed his eyes, blushed, and raised his voice a little: "Tell the story of Joe...Miss Wickham!"

George drew his voice, "Oh, she, what has she got to say?"

Little George: "I want to know the story after that. Last time you said that Joe...Miss Wickham encountered bandits and robbers when she went to the countryside to spread the gospel. What happened? Did she run away?"

George smiled, "That's a long story..."

System: [For the elopement plot of George Darcy and Joe Wickham after leaving, you really bothered. 】

Because Joe seldom appears in church and will not return to Pemberley Manor, George had to tell him Joe's story first to pave the way for future plots.

Unexpectedly, the response was very good.

In Little George's mind, Joe is simply a respectable and lovely hero, and the stories he likes to hear most are also about Joe.

George could see through the young man's thoughts at a glance.

George felt that if he went on so hard, he was afraid that George Darcy could not help but sneak away to see the real Jo, and maybe he would confess to her with the enthusiasm of a young man.

The system warned: [Master, you are not afraid that the image of Joe that you carefully crafted will collapse. 】

Qiao Qiao had been prepared for a long time, and said with a smile: "What happened after that is all his fault, George, so what does it have to do with Joe?"

system:【……】

Therefore, George's vest is the backer, and everything depends on George.

……

It was already dark when Darcy came out of his father's room, and candles were lit in the castle.

In the afternoon, my father was awake for a short time, but he seized the time to tell him everything about Darcy's family.

"Darcy, you are already a qualified heir."

Father looked at Darcy with reassuring eyes.

"Just, can't you forget Joe now?"

Recalling his father's expression at that time, Darcy couldn't help lowering his head and took out a pocket watch from his pocket.

He lifted the cover of the pocket watch engraved with rose flowers, and opened the hidden space inside the cover of the pocket watch. Inside was a dried purple rose petal.

It's easy to pretend nothing happened, but it's hard to really forget everything.

Because Joe has been mixed with the memories of his childhood, unless he loses his memory, unless he does not recall the past, every memory of him has traces of Joe.

He can't remember many things that year clearly, but the things about Joe are still vivid as if they just happened yesterday.

He remembered that behind the curtains, the starlight fell on Joe's fair face. He counted her eyelashes, and when he counted No. 20 to three, she opened her eyes and smiled at him.

He remembered that under the rose trellis, the two of them panicked to avoid the rain. Although the rain was so cold, their shivering bodies were extremely hot when they were pressed together.

He remembered the taste of the madeleine cake melting on the tip of his tongue, the last scent of purple roses, and the touch of her hair sliding across the back of his hand as she turned her head under the quilt.

So, what happened to Joe?

What is George going to say?

Darcy goes back the same way, hoping to find George and ask him for clarification.

However, when he passed by a waiting room, he suddenly heard an exclamation.

"Jo...Miss Wickham did it?"

Darcy turned immediately.

The door happened to be unlocked, and a gap was opened.

He stood at the door, looked through the gap, and saw George leaning over little George's ear, whispering something.

George raised his head and met his gaze through the crack of the door.

He flashed a malicious smile.

What are they going to do to Joe?

Darcy flung the door open.

"Oh!"

The door hit the wall with a loud sound.

Little George was taken aback and turned his head immediately.

He saw a slightly strange and serious man walking in.

Little George hid behind George in fright.

George patted Little George's hand that was pinching his sleeve, and looked at Darcy with a smile: "Oh, Mr. Darcy, where did you get so angry? Look, little George was frightened."

"Huh?" Little George poked his head out and looked at Darcy timidly.

"Brother, brother?"

Darcy looked at this shy and quiet young man like a lamb, and nodded slowly.

Darcy endured his anxiety and uneasiness, and said slowly: "What are you talking about here?"