[Pride and Prejudice] Red and Black Queen

The heavy snow gradually stopped, and the gloomy sky was split into golden cracks by the sunlight.

The warm sunlight in winter falls on the glass and spills into the room through the thin ice flowers.

The ice flowers cut the sunlight into a cool and furry appearance.

Qiao stood in front of the window with downcast eyes, hugging her shoulders, as if she was bearing something alone.

The sun fell on her pale skin, showing a sickly beauty.

Light footsteps came from behind.

She didn't look back.

The footsteps stopped behind Jojo.

"I'm sorry," Fitzwilliam Darcy bowed his head, "I just heard that."

While he was angry with George's actions, he was also ashamed of his ungentlemanly behavior.

Jojo turned her head, and a beam of furry light grazed her earlobe.

There is a small bright red mole on her earlobe, adorning her skin like a berry in the winter snow.

She smiled gently at Darcy, "It's okay, you didn't mean to."

Darcy lowered his eyelashes, "I shouldn't say this, and I have no position to tell you this, but..."

He finally made up his mind and raised his head, "Joe, he shouldn't have treated you like that."

He clenched his hands by his legs.

"I'll tell my father about it."

"Has he always been like this to you?"

"Has he done anything unreasonable to you?"

"I didn't expect that he would be like this behind others. Everyone was deceived by him."

The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and his pale face was faintly flushed with anger.

While listening to his words, Qiao Qiao looked at his outfit today calmly.

Master Darcy began to grow taller when he was a teenager. He just came back from hunting today, because it was snowing outside. He was wearing a smoke gray coat and a deerstalker hat. Both the coat and the hat were wet. of.

He was wearing a pair of boots wrapped around his legs, and his white trousers were tucked into the boots, making his legs look long and powerful.

The muddy water was splashed on the boots, and it was flowing down the boots at this time.

He noticed Qiao Qiao's gaze and thought she was looking at his tightly clenched hands, so he lifted the coat with clenched hands and stuffed it into his trouser pocket.

"Joe, you don't need to wrong yourself in Pemberley Manor!"

Qiao Qiao's eyes were like water, watching him tenderly.

Under such eyes, his dissatisfaction and irritability melted unconsciously like ice in the sun.

"I'm sorry," she clasped the shawl on her chest with both hands, her eyes were bright and honest, "I made you worry about me."

Darcy was taken aback.

Qiao Qiao smiled, "This is obviously my own business, but it has troubled you so much..."

"No..." He quickly interrupted her, but didn't know what to say.

Darcy opened his mouth and said quickly: "This is not just about you. After all, George is my father's godson, and I have always regarded you as...as..."

For what?According to Joe's age, he should regard her as his younger sister, but he has always been taken care of by Joe. When he is troubled and sad, it is Joe who is with him. Even when he cries, it is Joe who will take care of her. He pulled to that side of the secret world.

Darcy thought to himself: Even though George has a bad attitude, is full of lies, but he is right about one thing, Fitzwilliam Darcy just hides in Joe's arms and weeps, obviously he is As the elder brother, without knowing it, Joe replaced his parents and became his reliance.

Qiao Qiao smelled the violent fluctuations in his emotions, and couldn't help feeling happy, slowly absorbing the energy transmitted from his emotions.

Darcy clenched his fingers, and said with a pale face: "Actually, what George said is not wrong. I have always relied on you. Even though I am older than you, I still regard you as my sister..."

Qiao Qiao said softly, "I'm very happy."

Darcy looked up sharply.

Qiao Qiao: "George is an independent child, and he will not discuss everything with me. Sometimes I even think that my sister is not doing well enough and often ignores him, which makes him what he is today... "

"This is by no means your problem." Darcy replied immediately.

"I often see you teaching him and giving him things, but he doesn't pay attention to you. This is obviously his own personality. Don't take all the responsibility on yourself."

Darcy went on and on about George's unkindness to Joe, to the surprise of himself.

Why did he remember such a small thing so clearly?It's as if... as if...he's been aggrieved by this all along?

Darcy was absent-minded for a moment, and soon came back to his senses.

He said softly: "If possible, I..."

"Shh!" She put her finger on her lips, stopping his next words.

Qiao Qiao stood in the sunlight, even her hair seemed to be glowing.

She looked at him seriously, and said softly: "You are the heir of the Darcy family, you can't say such a thing."

Darcy pursed his lips, and the outline of his jaw became firmer.

That's right, as the heir of the Darcy family, but relying on the housekeeper's daughter, he even wanted to say that he regarded the girl three years younger as his sister... If his father heard it, he would definitely reprimand him mercilessly. Fan.

"But, I'm happy."

Jojo's smile became brighter and brighter, "Thank you."

"Although I shouldn't say this, but... if you need me, I'm always here."

His heart softened instantly, like a Madeleine cake soaked in milk—sweet and soft.

Qiao Qiao covered her mouth, as if she had eaten something delicious, her eyes were shining like fine gems.

"cough!"

Darcy lowered his eyes, avoiding her bright gaze.

"I haven't finished talking about the previous things...I want to expose George's true colors, let him learn a lesson, and make him speak more politely to you in the future."

Qiao Qiao showed a helpless expression, "There is one thing I want to ask you too."

Darcy was taken aback.

Joe hasn't asked him anything yet, and he has always been relying on Joe.

Darcy said seriously: "You say, I will promise you whatever I can do."

Qiao Qiao looked into his eyes, "Can you not tell others what happened just now?"

Darcy looked puzzled, "Joe? You still want to protect George?"

Qiao Qiao smiled wryly, she turned her head and looked out of the window.

"I'm sorry, I know my request is too much, but my father is not in good health recently, I don't want him to worry."

"George is just like this in front of me, probably because I am his relative, so he will wantonly vent his dissatisfaction."

"I will teach him well."

Darcy pursed his lips and frowned.

Jojo: "I'm sorry..."

Darcy: "I don't want to hear that."

Jojo looked at him in surprise.

Darcy said seriously: "Joe, I just don't want to hear you say that to me."

"You never have to apologize to me."

He breathed a sigh of relief, "I know, I will hide it."

He still frowned, "But, I don't think this is the solution."

"Both you and Mr. Wickham doted on George to make him what he is."

Qiao Qiao smiled fragilely, and her slender eyelashes drooped to cover the expression in her eyes.

Darcy felt as if he had been pricked by a needle.

Darcy: "You... If you don't mind, let me tell him, he can't bully you like this anymore."

"Joe, you are just his sister, you don't need to bear so much."

Qiao Qiao raised his eyes and showed a pale smile, "Then I will trouble you."

Darcy took out his hand from his trouser pocket and touched his nose, "Don't say that..."

He has always thought that Joe is like an angel on high, but seeing Joe at this moment, he knows that there are problems in this world that she can't solve, and there are people who don't like her, but this not only does not weaken the light on her body. , On the contrary, it made her more like a real person.

The sense of unreality has finally been reduced a little.

"You can't take care of George for the rest of your life, don't let him bully you."

There were red marks between his brows, "Even I can't stand it anymore."

Qiao Qiao smiled, "Okay, I will correct it."

Darcy couldn't help but bend the corner of his mouth, "Just remember."

Qiao Qiao: "What did you catch when you went hunting today?"

Darcy sighed, "I didn't catch anything, I just picked up a little bird, and my father asked the servant to take it down and send it to the bird house."

He showed a boyish smile, "When father is away, I will secretly take you to see it."

Jojo nodded.

Darcy pursed his lips and smiled, "That's settled."

Qiao Qiao also laughed, "Well, it's settled."

He couldn't hide his smile, and there was an innocent sweetness from the corners of his brows and eyes.

He looked around and said in a low voice, "Then I'll go first."

Qiao Qiao: "Okay, go and change your clothes, this clothes are all wet by the snow."

Darcy: "What's the matter, cough!"

He said he wanted to leave, but he refused to leave anyway.

Jojo looked at him suspiciously.

Daxixu clenched his fist and coughed softly against his mouth.

He tried his best to keep a straight face, pretending to be indifferent, "I have something to give you."

"Huh? What?"

He was protecting his trouser pocket with one hand, and stuffing it into the pocket with the other, carefully taking out something.

The system asked curiously: 【What is he taking out? 】

Qiao Qiao replied in his mind: "A flower found in the ice and snow."

System: [... You know again? 】

Qiao Qiao: "Didn't I say it all, my mental power can cover a long distance, including the manor. When the two of them went hunting, I have been watching."

System: [Madan, doesn't that mean there are no surprises for you? 】

Jojo: "I was pleasantly surprised when he found that flower just now and secretly put it in his pocket behind Mr. Darcy's back."

"What's interesting is that when he was putting it in his pocket, old Mr. Darcy just called him behind his back, and he was going to be stupid on the spot."

system:【……】

How do you think your surprise is not the surprise of ordinary people seeing the gift, but the surprise of "you stupid mortals"!

Darcy had already taken the flower out of his trouser pocket.

The little yellow flower bloomed in the ice and snow, and was held in his pocket for a long time, a little wilted.

"This...how did it become like this? When I saw it, it was still driving well."

Qiao Qiao pursed her lips and smiled, "I know."

Darcy lowered his eyelids, "You don't need to comfort me, I will give you a nice one next time, and I will definitely find a flower in winter."

Qiao Qiao took a step forward and put his hand on his holding the flowers.

"No, this is fine."

Darcy looked up.

Holding the drooping little yellow flower in both hands, Qiao Qiao said softly, "This is the first time you gave me a gift, and I will keep it well."

Darcy: "No, you'd better take it back, the first time... how could I give you such a terrible gift."

Qiao Qiao held the flowers in her hands, and took a step back with a smile on her face.

"Then, I'll leave first."

Her steps were brisk, like a path by a stream, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Darcy looked at the corner where she disappeared, his heart became a wet puppy like the melting ice and snow in his trouser pocket.