Mrs. Darcy's daily life
Chapter 53
Viscount Simon sighed decadently, as if he had aged ten years, looked tiredly at his precious daughter and said, "Mrs. Darcy has the evidence of your murder three years ago, that young man named Baker provided to her."
"what!"
Upon hearing this, Miss Simon's face changed instantly, and she grabbed her father's arm in horror: "Dad, what should I do? Will she send me to prison? I don't want to go to prison, Dad, please think about it." Think of ways to".
Looking at the begging daughter in front of him, Viscount Simon's heart softened instantly, and he softly comforted him: "Don't worry, it's okay, Dad has already taken care of it. As long as we don't anger Mrs. Darcy, she won't tell about it."
"She won't say it?" This sentence broke Miss Simon's fragile nerves at the moment, raised her voice, and asked his father: "That Baker promised us not to say it back then, but now what? , He didn't say it!"
Miss Simon was furious. After this incident happened, she was terrified for a long time. Now that the old incident was brought up again, how could she not be frightened and angry.
"What do you want?"
how about it?
Miss Simon's eyes lit up, and she looked at her father expectantly: "Since Baker told Mrs. Darcy about this, then we will find someone to kill him, so that Mrs. Darcy can't threaten us." .A sternness quickly flashed across Miss Simon's eyes.
Viscount Simon could see his daughter's expression clearly, and naturally he didn't miss the fierceness in her eyes. She was really murderous.
Viscount Simon's expression darkened, and he said coldly, "Mrs. Darcy already has a letter written by Baker himself, so it's useless to kill him."
Miss Simon was completely immersed in the brutality of the murder, and she didn't see his father's cold face. After hearing what he said, she said directly: "Then let's kill Mrs. Darcy or Georgiana, and let them take If you hand over that letter, you can kill them in the end."
As soon as he finished speaking, Viscount Simon couldn't help but slap him.
"Snapped!"
With a loud sound, red marks quickly appeared on Miss Simon's face, her face was tilted to one side, and even her hair was a little disheveled. One can imagine how hard this slap was.
At this moment, Viscount Simon was very angry, and most of all he was disappointed with his daughter.
Viscount Simon's chest was heaving and his face was ugly. He didn't expect that he would give birth to such a fool, and he still wanted to kill someone!She can't use her brain. She can't save a hand of cards. If she insists on playing it messily, it's because she doesn't die fast enough, right?
It was just an ordinary person who died three years ago. He could keep her and even cover her, but if something happened to the mistress and miss of the Darcy family, it was not something he could cover up. Once the matter was revealed, Simon The family will face a devastating blow, and she wants the entire Simon family to be buried with her!
And is it stupid for her to be the Darcy family and the police station? If something happens to Mrs. Darcy and Miss Darcy at this time, they will be the first to be suspected. I don't know who wants to use this threat in exchange for the evidence. Isn't it obvious who did it?At this moment, Viscount Simon really wanted to remake this confused daughter.
Miss Simon was stunned by the slap. She covered her face in a daze for a long time before she opened her eyes. As if frightened, she said in disbelief, "Dad, you actually hit me."
Viscount Simon snorted coldly: "If I can wake you up, I would rather slap you a few more times, and you don't have to use your brain to think about it. Are we able to move the Darcy family? Even the Baker is something we can't do now." Since he told Mrs. Darcy about this, Mrs. Darcy must have given him some protection, if we dare to touch him this time, even I can't save you, wait to be sent to prison," said Here, Viscount Simon smiled bitterly again, with a tired face on his face: "Oh no, it should be that both of us will be sent to prison, no matter what happened back then or what you want to do, my father is an accomplice, shall be punished as well.”
"Then we really have to endure it like this!" Miss Simon was still unwilling.
Now Viscount Simon is very disappointed with his daughter, he has already settled the matter, so can she not cause problems?Judging from his meeting with this Mrs. Darcy this time, all she wants is money, and if the money is gone, she can earn it again. But if she does murder and kidnapping, even if they are not found, their entire backstory I'm afraid I'll have to live tremblingly under the investigation of the Darcy family and the police station for half my life. After all, Caroline and the others are not the penniless young people back then, and no one cares when they die.
Why don't you live a stable life and insist on living like a fugitive? I really don't know what her daughter is pretending to be.
What he wants is to revive the family, not to drag his entire family into the water!
"If you go back today, just stay at home and reflect on yourself. Without my order, you are not allowed to go out for half a step. I will let people watch you. If you dare to run around, I will break your legs!"
Miss Simon bit her lip and remained silent. Even though she was unwilling in every way, she was helpless. All these years, she was able to do whatever she wanted because of her father's pampering and protection. Without his father's protection, she would not be able to do anything. become.
Things were indeed as Viscount Simon thought. For this Baker, after he handed the letter to Caroline, she arranged a safe place for him, and there were special people to serve him, which was equivalent to going to protect him.How could Caroline not think of such a thing that even Viscount Simon could have thought of? Baker came to London alone, and he has the secrets of the Viscount family. If he is not arranged properly, there is no guarantee that he will not be solved by Viscount Simon who became angry from embarrassment. Fuck, although Caroline is black-hearted, she is still very reliable in her work. She can't care about his life or death just after someone helps her.
Ants shaking elephants is purely asking for death. This is also the reason why Baker has not lived well in recent years. He even dared not threaten Viscount Simon with this matter because he was heavily in debt in order to catch up with Viscountess Davis. How dare one person go against a viscount, he dared not stay in a place where there were Simon family members for so many years.If he hadn't accidentally revealed to Caroline when he got too drunk at the Matlock ball last time, if Viscount Simon had supported him with a sum of money to complete his studies three years ago, this secret would have been rotten in his heart for the rest of his life.
Supported by an unaccompanied viscount?Caroline was puzzled, and then asked a question about Beck's topic, and knew that this matter was related to Miss Simon. As soon as Miss Simon was mentioned, Baker realized her slip of the tongue and hurriedly changed the subject, but this was the purpose of changing the subject. It's too obvious, how could Caroline fail to guess that there is a problem here, but it has nothing to do with her, and she doesn't care, she is not a curious person.
Although she didn't pay much attention to these casual chats at the ball, they still left some influence. Later, when she was in the Simon family, this incident naturally surfaced in her mind, and she slowly investigated along this point, After getting a rough idea, Caroline wrote a half-threatening letter asking Baker to tell him what happened three years ago.
Just like Miss Simon, what happened three years ago also left an indelible shadow on Baker's heart. If it wasn't for Baker's intelligence and wit, and Viscount Simon's concern about the whole family not wanting to make things big, I'm afraid Baker would have been in trouble three years ago. will be silenced.
A slip of the tongue in small talk made him caught and threatened. Baker was angry and scared, but that was all. No amount of fear could compare with the temptation of money and the future.
A salary of £1000 plus an agent's job recommendation, and the protection provided by the Darcy family.Baker decided to confess the matter to Caroline without hesitation.This is simply a pie in the sky, any danger, any fear, and the Simon family, go to hell!
After struggling for so many years at the bottom of the society, he finally graduated but faced the cruel reality of society.Without good personal connections and a good letter of recommendation, as one of the tens of thousands of such young people in the UK, it is almost impossible for Baker to have a good future. He is not willing to live in poverty for the rest of his life. Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried his best to hook up with Viscountess Davis, and even owed him a huge sum of £20 that he couldn't repay.
In this day and age, £50 can enable a middle class to live a comfortable life, but a debt of £20 makes a poor and white young man like Baker completely helpless. He is making a big gamble of life, and Viscountess Davis is his chips, now the chance to come back has finally come!
Ambitious and extremely eager to climb up is the label Caroline put on Beck. It is not easy to deal with this kind of person, but one bad thing is that they are too greedy.
The memory went back to what happened at the Wanzi Hotel that day.
The two had just started drinking afternoon tea and chatting about Derbyshire. It was all gossip. Caroline didn't mention the purpose of coming here for a long time, which made Baker anxious, but he had to stay with Carlo on the surface. Lin talked and chatted, and finally couldn't bear it, so she asked about this time carefully.
"Mrs. Darcy, about your letter to me before Christmas..."
Caroline didn't continue to whet his appetite, and said with a faint smile, "What about your attitude, Mr. Baker, I believe I have made it very clear in the letter."
Baker smiled and nodded: "Yes, Mrs. Darcy, you have made it very clear in your letter. I feel very honored to be able to help Mrs. Darcy on this matter, and I am also very happy to explain your doubts. , and tell you everything."
Caroline still looked at Baker with a faint smile, but didn't speak.
Seeing that Caroline didn't respond, Beck felt a little embarrassed, as if all his little thoughts had been seen through by the person opposite, and he was extremely uncomfortable. He simply stopped making rounds.
"But Mrs. Darcy, you also know that this matter is of great importance. If I tell you this matter, it means that I have offended the entire Simon family. This... I am just an ordinary civilian, and I am completely incapable of talking to Simon. The family is fighting, so I took a big risk this time, whether Mrs. Darcy can take this into account and increase the remuneration... by another 1000 pounds."
Caroline lowered her eyes, leisurely stirred the coffee in the cup with a small spoon in her hand, neither angry nor disagreed, her expression was extremely calm.
When Baker was extremely nervous, she smiled coldly: "Mr. Baker, I am very grateful that you are willing to come to London to tell me the matter at such a risk, so I also stated in the letter that I will help you Asylum will be provided until you pass Mr. Krieger's inspection. At that time, the Kriegel family will naturally provide you with asylum, so you can rest assured that your life is safe. Even if you fail the inspection in the end, I can I can write another letter of recommendation for you, or if you want to leave the UK, I will arrange all the ways for you. For this, I think I have done the best conditions I can provide you."After speaking, Caroline gently put the small spoon in her hand aside, took a sip of coffee and continued: "If Mr. Baker is not satisfied with the reward, then let's pretend that this matter does not exist, after all, dealing with a Simon family It's not too difficult, just a little troublesome."
Caroline raised her eyes and looked directly at Baker with an elegant smile: "You said, didn't you.
Baker's pupils shrank suddenly, he didn't expect Caroline to refuse so decisively.
"Mrs. Darcy..." Just as Caroline finished speaking, a voice came from a distance, calling out with some surprise.
Caroline turned her head, and saw a well-mannered middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walking towards this side. This is a gentleman that Caroline met at the ball, and he was quite familiar. Caroline showed a polite Baker, this is a gentleman I know well, when he comes over later, how do you want me to introduce you, a gentleman I met at the Derbyshire ball? Or an agent introduced specifically for Mr. Krieger?"
Seeing the middle-aged gentleman walking in, Baker tightly squeezed the tablecloth in his hand, and sweat gradually appeared on his forehead. Two different voices in his heart were yelling and arguing back and forth, making his flustered heart beating violently. Finally, when the middle-aged gentleman was still three meters away from them, he lowered his voice and said, "I agree to your conditions, Mrs. Darcy."
Caroline was too cunning and didn't give him time to argue at all. If he was given enough time, how could he bargain with Caroline slowly? It is possible to negotiate.
Baker was annoyed for a while, he had lost hundreds of pounds of property in vain, and he felt a pain in his heart when he thought of this.
But on this point, Baker was wrong. No matter how he bargained with Caroline, Caroline would not give him a penny more, because she asked Darcy to take the thousand pounds. No more, no less, just a check for a thousand pounds, and now she has another thousand pounds to give to Baker.But thinking about bargaining with him there would be a hassle and a waste of time, so with the help of this acquaintance who came to say hello, Caroline solved the matter quickly.
She made an appointment with Darcy at the beginning to return the thousand pounds to him. This is not like the various expenses for the mansion before. This time she did not tell Darcy anything about the use of the thousand pounds. So he was afraid that Darcy would not give it to her, so he agreed to return all the money to him, but he didn't care what she did with the thousand pounds, and didn't care whether she wanted to pay it back, so he just wrote a check to her , This made Caroline confused for a long time. Sure enough, being rich is self-willed. If I knew she would not talk about paying back the money.
I successfully learned from Baker what happened three years ago. The incident was much more serious than Caroline expected. I thought it was just some scandalous incident of Miss Simon, but I didn't expect it to be Miss Simon's murder. It was still three years ago. A while ago, Miss Simon was only 15 years old at that time, and she dared to kill someone.
Even Caroline was shocked when she knew about it.But the shock was shocking, what should be done is still to be done, Caroline immediately changed the plan, and changed the original condition to the shipment of the Simon family's ocean-going goods, no matter how reluctant Viscount Simon was, with this evidence in hand Here, he has to give even if he doesn't want to.
As for Miss Simon's murder, it's none of her business. She's not a policeman, and the person who died is considered unlucky for him. If he doesn't have the ability to provoke the bully of Simon's family, what is it?
Baker also told her in detail what happened back then, as to why he was so clear, because the person who died was his neighbor, a young man, this man hooked up with Miss Simon, coaxed a minor, and he was lucky enough to die Immortal was hooking up with other women behind her back, and Miss Simon finally found out about the incident. With her spoiled temperament, how could she bear this anger, and took advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, she killed this man with her own hands in a fit of anger.
Miss Simon could only turn to her father for help when she did such a thing. In the end, the father and daughter disposed of the corpse quietly, and then used the local power of the Simon family to cover up all of this, and the matter was considered to be over.
Baker, who is a neighbor, couldn't hide everything that happened, but he was smart enough not to threaten Viscount Simon or call the police, but acted as if nothing had happened.I thought this matter would just pass, but I didn’t expect Viscount Simon to come to him directly the next day, revealing everything, so that he couldn’t even quibble, and finally under the half threat and half lure of Viscount Simon, Baker was terrified. No end, he took the 50 pounds that Viscount Simon gave him and left the local area directly. At that time, he happened to be admitted to university and was worried about tuition fees. Bar.
This incident that happened three years ago has only been known to three people, and they all hid it well, until it was picked up by Caroline, and they also severely cheated the Simon family.Caroline has never been a kind person, and even her black hands are even darker. She said she would want an compensation of [-] pounds, and she was not afraid of flashing her tongue.However, for these families, although she has a big appetite, she is just right. It will definitely make the other party hurt for a long time, but it will not push them to a desperate situation. Otherwise, each family will spend [-] pounds. They don't have that much money after selling them. Not only may they not get the money, but they will also make these families fight to the death. It's not asking for trouble. She's going to kill people, not desperately.
The carriage carried Georgiana and Caroline all the way back to Darcy's mansion. At this time, the two were still discussing what happened in the restaurant just now.
"Georgianna, what do you think of what Miss Jones said just now?"
"I don't know," Georgiana shook her head, "Caroline, can you give me any advice?"
"Ma'am", the carriage had already stopped at the door. Butler Karen opened the carriage door and said. Finally, he stood sideways, put his left hand behind his back, raised his right hand, and bowed slightly to help Caroline and the others get out of the carriage.
Caroline got out of the carriage with the hand raised by Butler Karen, turned her head and said "thank you", then looked at Georgiana and said, "I think you can accept Miss Jones' invitation, Georgiana, haven't you graduated? Go out to play now, and whoever listened to the story told by Colonel Black some time ago, clamored to go out to play."
Georgiana took a step forward and walked to Caroline's side, holding her arm and saying, "But I can't bear to part with you and brother, if only we could go together."
While talking, when they entered the room, a gust of heating came over the surface, making people sigh comfortably. Caroline and Georgiana took off their hats and shawls and handed them to the maid behind them. The burden on their bodies was immediately lightened. .
"Madam and Miss are you talking about the Jones family in Warwickshire?" Butler Karen asked suddenly.
"Yes, this time they are planning to go on vacation in France in the spring, and Miss Jones invited Georgiana to go with the other two ladies." Caroline looked at Georgiana next to her and smiled: "But Georgiana is still hesitating now, it seems Ready to pass up this opportunity."
Faced with Caroline's teasing, Georgiana pouted and retorted: "I don't want to give up, I just don't want to leave you and my brother. If you and my brother can go with me, I will naturally go." Said At this point, Georgiana had a flash of inspiration, took Caroline's hand and said coquettishly, "Why don't you go together too."
Caroline flicked her fingers directly on Georgiana's head, and said angrily, "You're thinking beautifully. You're invited to play, and you're planning to take your family with you."
Georgiana's radiant face immediately collapsed, and she also knew that this method would not work.
"Karen, what's the matter with you?" Caroline caught a glimpse of Butler Karen whose hands were trembling, turned around and asked worriedly.
"No...it's nothing, ma'am," Butler Karen lowered his head, clenched his hands into fists, restrained his trembling hands, and shook his head.
"Well, if you have anything, you can come to me."
"Got it, ma'am."
Caroline nodded, and dragged Georgiana, who was sluggish like a frost-beaten eggplant, into the living room.
In the tall fireplace in the living room, the flames were blazing. Caroline took Georgiana directly to sit on the adjacent sofa, poured a cup of steaming milk tea, and took a sip.
"Are you really not ready to go?"
Georgiana gave Caroline a listless look and said nothing, she really wanted to go.
Caroline raised her eyebrows: "You have to think about it, this is a rare opportunity. Although we can go by ourselves, we don't know when we will go. Anyway, this year is not possible."
Now that Christmas has passed, it is already January, and the Jones family is expected to go to France in early February, so Georgiana has less than half a month to prepare.
"If you're going, I'll write to Mr. Jones tomorrow and prepare your luggage for you. I can't make people wait for a long time."
"Let me think again, Caroline."
"Whatever you want," said Caroline, shrugging.Seeing Georgiana's frown, Caroline turned to other things.
"How do you feel today? After Miss Simon apologizes to you."
Upon hearing this, Georgiana immediately put aside the matter of going to France, smiled openly and hugged Caroline's arm and couldn't help laughing: "I'm so happy! Caroline, I saw them coming one by one today. Apologize to me, don't talk too much to relieve your anger, let them bully me and look down on our Darcy family, hum!"
Such childishness made Caroline laugh dumbfounded, and squeezed Georgiana's tender face: "Well, I'm afraid they will run away when they see you in the future, but today they even sent you apologize."
"Apology? What apology." Georgiana was aroused by curiosity and asked with staring eyes.
"A lot," Caroline said calmly, "The most important one is the Simon family, with about [-] pounds. How about a dowry for you?"
"What! Twenty thousand pounds?" Georgiana yelled in disbelief, and then shook her head immediately: "Caroline, I don't want these, they should be yours, I didn't do anything, or you helped me to let them I apologize," Georgiana said solemnly and sincerely.
After learning that there was such a large amount of compensation, Georgiana's first reaction was not to be happy, nor to be suspicious of the big money of the Simon family, but to instinctively think that it should belong to Caroline, and Caroline couldn't help being moved by this pure and kind look. .Gently supporting her head, she smiled and said, "I didn't say I'll give you all, I want half, and the remaining half will be kept as a dowry for you." Seeing that Georgiana was about to refute, Caroline continued, "You are here The school has been wronged, half of it is what you deserve, I contributed, and the other half is given to me, so it is fair and just, how good it is, it is decided like this."
Under Caroline's uncompromising eyes, Georgiana finally nodded in compromise: "Well, okay", she put her head on Caroline's shoulder affectionately, rubbed it on Caroline's shoulder and said in a low voice: "Thank you , Caroline." In exchange for Caroline's gentle pat on the head.
"Georgianna".
Georgiana suddenly lifted her head from Caroline's shoulders and turned to her back, exclaiming in surprise, "Brother!"
Caroline turned her head, and sure enough, she saw Darcy standing at the door of the living room against the light, with a gentle smile on his face. He was wearing a long black coat, and his body was tall and straight, looking particularly good-looking.Uh... well, she admits that this man is really handsome.
Georgiana immediately stood up and ran towards Darcy, hugged his waist and shouted happily: "Brother, why are you back now? I miss you, and so does Caroline."
"...", Caroline.
"Really?" Darcy stroked Georgiana tenderly, his eyes became more gentle, and he looked at Caroline who was sitting on the sofa, his dark eyes were as bright as stars.
Forehead?It's too embarrassing, is it true that this person really takes Georgiana's words seriously.
"Of course!" Georgiana immediately raised her head and looked into his brother's eyes and said, not to mention how sincere her expression was, Darcy looked back and looked down at Georgiana in a funny way.
Georgiana was anxious, thinking that he didn't believe it, and immediately said, "If you don't believe me, ask Caroline," she turned to look at Lorraine.It brought Darcy's attention back to Caroline.
Faced with the baptism of these two gazes, Caroline's heart was already full of black lines. Fortunately, she thought Georgiana was a cute girl just now, but she didn't expect to dig a hole for her in the blink of an eye.
No matter how speechless she was, Caroline remained calm on the surface, smiled at the two of them, and said, "Georgiana, well, your brother just came back, let him go back to the room to wash up and rest, we will talk about what we have to say later , come here now, let's go to see Erwin together." At the end, Caroline smiled and watched Georgiana, waiting for her answer.
For some reason, seeing Caroline's smile, Georgiana's heart trembled, and she felt a little danger.
"Oh, yes," Georgiana agreed with a guilty conscience.She originally saw that the relationship between the two had improved significantly last time, so she dared to say that. Now that Caroline and Darcy haven't seen each other for so long, if the relationship becomes estranged again, she really didn't do it on purpose. asserted.
"Go," Darcy said softly, "I'll go back to my room to freshen up first."
"Well," Georgiana nodded, and at this time Caroline had already walked to them, and she took Caroline's hand and walked out of the living room.
Darcy watched the two people's backs disappear into the stairs with a calm expression, and he sighed after a long time.Walk out of the living room to the direction of the room.
"Angel, wait a minute, are you serving these teas to Madam?"
In the kitchen aisle, Angel was holding a plate with a set of red leaf glazed bone china tea set on it. Hearing the sound, she stopped and turned around, bowed her knees and said hello: "Mr. Karen", and then continued after standing up straight : "Yes, Madame asked me to bring her some coffee."
"Where is Madam now?"
"Madame is in the study now. Is Mr. Karen looking for Madam?"
Butler Karen nodded: "Yes, I have some things, why don't you give me the plate and I'll take it to Madam."
"Okay, then please trouble Mr. Karen," Angel said without thinking, carefully handing the plate to the butler Karen.
Butler Karen took the plate and just shook his head silently, then walked towards the stairs.
Preoccupied.
"Karen?" Caroline raised her head and found that it was Karen the butler who came in with the tea set. There was doubt in her tone, but the doubt did not last for two seconds before it became clear: "You come, what's the matter?" Find me."
"Yes, ma'am," the butler Karen said after pouring coffee for Caroline.
Putting the teapot back on the plate and putting it aside, Butler Karen looked at Caroline with a pleading tone: "Madam, if Miss accepts the Jones family's invitation, can you send me to go with Miss?" After finishing speaking, Karen The housekeeper patted the sweat in his palms with his fingers, showing his nervousness at the moment.
"Reason, you need to give me a reason, Karen," Caroline said lightly: "If Georgiana goes to France, I will indeed send some people to follow her, but this does not include you, you are from Darcy's mansion housekeeper".
"I'm sorry, ma'am." For this, the housekeeper Karen expressed his apology: "I hope that I will follow the lady this time because... Ma'am, I still remember that when you were giving me instructions before Christmas, my cousin came to visit me matter?"
Caroline nodded, of course she remembered, because she had given him a week off after Christmas to get back to work.
After Caroline nodded, the housekeeper Caroline continued: "That time my cousin came to tell my daughter news..."
After listening to Karen's butler, Caroline knew that he had a long-lost daughter.
Back then, due to his mistakes, his daughter was lost, and then his wife died of depression due to excessive grief. The family was torn apart, making Karen housekeeper full of remorse. In order to find his daughter and fulfill his wife's wish, he sold the family's land and property. He spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find his daughter's whereabouts, but to no avail. He also changed from a rich little country gentleman to a penniless pauper.In order to maintain his life and find news about his daughter, he started to work as a manservant and gradually became a housekeeper. Now the Darcy family is his third employer.
Years of searching did not yield any news until these two years, and his cousin finally sent him the definite information before Christmas.
"So, you went to see your daughter that week, did you see it?"
"I see." Butler Karen's eyes were red, his lips trembled, and he suppressed the pain in his heart and said: "But I didn't dare to recognize her. After getting her accurate information, I hesitated until Madam you gave me I went to Warwickshire to see her twice on a week's leave, but...but I don't know what to say to her."
"Is she in the Jones family?"
"Yes, ma'am, she is the tutor of the second lady of the Jones family. If Mr. Jones and the others go to France for vacation, I think she will also take care of the second lady of the Jones family, so I think..."
Caroline nodded understandingly, and said without any hesitation: "I agree to this matter. If Georgiana agrees to Miss Jones' invitation, then you can go with her. I hope you can meet your daughter as soon as possible. .”
"Thank you Ma'am" Butler Karen bowed and saluted, and couldn't help but said in a choked voice, even his shoulders were trembling.
Caroline comforted Butler Karen and let him go down. She got up and walked downstairs to the living room. Dinner was about to begin, and everyone was chatting in the living room.
After dinner, Caroline also told Georgiana about Karen's housekeeper in private. As expected, the little girl's kindness made her immediately agree to go to France for vacation, and she even wrote the letter that night in a hurry. Send it to Miss Jones early tomorrow morning.
The fact that Georgiana agreed to go to France pleased Caroline, because she wanted her to go to France.
The next morning, after Caroline sent out the letter written last night, she thought that the meeting with several families the day after tomorrow must be handled by Darcy, so Caroline went directly to his study, This matter needs to be told to him in advance.
Caroline knocked on the door of Darcy's study and sat across from his desk.
At this time, Darcy had just put away the documents, put them aside, and looked at Caroline: "What's the matter, what can I do for you?" Darcy put his hands on the desk, and looked at Caroline with gentle eyes .Now he is not wearing a coat, but he is wearing a white shirt and a gray vest inside, making his figure even more stalwart and straight.The sleeves of the shirt were slightly rolled up to a quarter, revealing the strong and powerful arms inside.
Caroline agreed and moved the chair forward before saying: "I have something to ask you about the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid you will ask Mr. Fred, the agent of the Darcy family, to come. There are some things he needs to deal with, I think he should be in London by now."
"Well, he's in London, but what's your business? Need Mr. Fred to attend to?"
"About Georgiana, those families not only personally apologized to her yesterday, but also sent some compensation, so Mr. Fred needs to deal with it at that time. I have already discussed with Georgiana. I will share the compensation with you. She has half, so—" Caroline stretched her head forward, looked at Darcy seriously and said: "Remember to give me my half, and my agent will come over then, as for Georgiana's share As long as you help her keep it, you have no objection."
"no".
Caroline smiled with satisfaction, this is a huge sum of money, she must make it clear with Darcy first, otherwise she is not at ease, and there is still a clear settlement between her brothers, let alone her and Darcy.
Darcy didn't care about this, and readily agreed to Caroline, but his expression gradually became colder. He naturally knew who those families were. When he thought of Georgiana being bullied at school for so long, he couldn't let her go easily. Those people, he has been investigating these families since the beginning of the morning, but he is not as simple and rude as Caroline, but he is going to start with the properties of these families, which can be regarded as a lesson for them.
"Oh, by the way, there is something I need to ask
"what!"
Upon hearing this, Miss Simon's face changed instantly, and she grabbed her father's arm in horror: "Dad, what should I do? Will she send me to prison? I don't want to go to prison, Dad, please think about it." Think of ways to".
Looking at the begging daughter in front of him, Viscount Simon's heart softened instantly, and he softly comforted him: "Don't worry, it's okay, Dad has already taken care of it. As long as we don't anger Mrs. Darcy, she won't tell about it."
"She won't say it?" This sentence broke Miss Simon's fragile nerves at the moment, raised her voice, and asked his father: "That Baker promised us not to say it back then, but now what? , He didn't say it!"
Miss Simon was furious. After this incident happened, she was terrified for a long time. Now that the old incident was brought up again, how could she not be frightened and angry.
"What do you want?"
how about it?
Miss Simon's eyes lit up, and she looked at her father expectantly: "Since Baker told Mrs. Darcy about this, then we will find someone to kill him, so that Mrs. Darcy can't threaten us." .A sternness quickly flashed across Miss Simon's eyes.
Viscount Simon could see his daughter's expression clearly, and naturally he didn't miss the fierceness in her eyes. She was really murderous.
Viscount Simon's expression darkened, and he said coldly, "Mrs. Darcy already has a letter written by Baker himself, so it's useless to kill him."
Miss Simon was completely immersed in the brutality of the murder, and she didn't see his father's cold face. After hearing what he said, she said directly: "Then let's kill Mrs. Darcy or Georgiana, and let them take If you hand over that letter, you can kill them in the end."
As soon as he finished speaking, Viscount Simon couldn't help but slap him.
"Snapped!"
With a loud sound, red marks quickly appeared on Miss Simon's face, her face was tilted to one side, and even her hair was a little disheveled. One can imagine how hard this slap was.
At this moment, Viscount Simon was very angry, and most of all he was disappointed with his daughter.
Viscount Simon's chest was heaving and his face was ugly. He didn't expect that he would give birth to such a fool, and he still wanted to kill someone!She can't use her brain. She can't save a hand of cards. If she insists on playing it messily, it's because she doesn't die fast enough, right?
It was just an ordinary person who died three years ago. He could keep her and even cover her, but if something happened to the mistress and miss of the Darcy family, it was not something he could cover up. Once the matter was revealed, Simon The family will face a devastating blow, and she wants the entire Simon family to be buried with her!
And is it stupid for her to be the Darcy family and the police station? If something happens to Mrs. Darcy and Miss Darcy at this time, they will be the first to be suspected. I don't know who wants to use this threat in exchange for the evidence. Isn't it obvious who did it?At this moment, Viscount Simon really wanted to remake this confused daughter.
Miss Simon was stunned by the slap. She covered her face in a daze for a long time before she opened her eyes. As if frightened, she said in disbelief, "Dad, you actually hit me."
Viscount Simon snorted coldly: "If I can wake you up, I would rather slap you a few more times, and you don't have to use your brain to think about it. Are we able to move the Darcy family? Even the Baker is something we can't do now." Since he told Mrs. Darcy about this, Mrs. Darcy must have given him some protection, if we dare to touch him this time, even I can't save you, wait to be sent to prison," said Here, Viscount Simon smiled bitterly again, with a tired face on his face: "Oh no, it should be that both of us will be sent to prison, no matter what happened back then or what you want to do, my father is an accomplice, shall be punished as well.”
"Then we really have to endure it like this!" Miss Simon was still unwilling.
Now Viscount Simon is very disappointed with his daughter, he has already settled the matter, so can she not cause problems?Judging from his meeting with this Mrs. Darcy this time, all she wants is money, and if the money is gone, she can earn it again. But if she does murder and kidnapping, even if they are not found, their entire backstory I'm afraid I'll have to live tremblingly under the investigation of the Darcy family and the police station for half my life. After all, Caroline and the others are not the penniless young people back then, and no one cares when they die.
Why don't you live a stable life and insist on living like a fugitive? I really don't know what her daughter is pretending to be.
What he wants is to revive the family, not to drag his entire family into the water!
"If you go back today, just stay at home and reflect on yourself. Without my order, you are not allowed to go out for half a step. I will let people watch you. If you dare to run around, I will break your legs!"
Miss Simon bit her lip and remained silent. Even though she was unwilling in every way, she was helpless. All these years, she was able to do whatever she wanted because of her father's pampering and protection. Without his father's protection, she would not be able to do anything. become.
Things were indeed as Viscount Simon thought. For this Baker, after he handed the letter to Caroline, she arranged a safe place for him, and there were special people to serve him, which was equivalent to going to protect him.How could Caroline not think of such a thing that even Viscount Simon could have thought of? Baker came to London alone, and he has the secrets of the Viscount family. If he is not arranged properly, there is no guarantee that he will not be solved by Viscount Simon who became angry from embarrassment. Fuck, although Caroline is black-hearted, she is still very reliable in her work. She can't care about his life or death just after someone helps her.
Ants shaking elephants is purely asking for death. This is also the reason why Baker has not lived well in recent years. He even dared not threaten Viscount Simon with this matter because he was heavily in debt in order to catch up with Viscountess Davis. How dare one person go against a viscount, he dared not stay in a place where there were Simon family members for so many years.If he hadn't accidentally revealed to Caroline when he got too drunk at the Matlock ball last time, if Viscount Simon had supported him with a sum of money to complete his studies three years ago, this secret would have been rotten in his heart for the rest of his life.
Supported by an unaccompanied viscount?Caroline was puzzled, and then asked a question about Beck's topic, and knew that this matter was related to Miss Simon. As soon as Miss Simon was mentioned, Baker realized her slip of the tongue and hurriedly changed the subject, but this was the purpose of changing the subject. It's too obvious, how could Caroline fail to guess that there is a problem here, but it has nothing to do with her, and she doesn't care, she is not a curious person.
Although she didn't pay much attention to these casual chats at the ball, they still left some influence. Later, when she was in the Simon family, this incident naturally surfaced in her mind, and she slowly investigated along this point, After getting a rough idea, Caroline wrote a half-threatening letter asking Baker to tell him what happened three years ago.
Just like Miss Simon, what happened three years ago also left an indelible shadow on Baker's heart. If it wasn't for Baker's intelligence and wit, and Viscount Simon's concern about the whole family not wanting to make things big, I'm afraid Baker would have been in trouble three years ago. will be silenced.
A slip of the tongue in small talk made him caught and threatened. Baker was angry and scared, but that was all. No amount of fear could compare with the temptation of money and the future.
A salary of £1000 plus an agent's job recommendation, and the protection provided by the Darcy family.Baker decided to confess the matter to Caroline without hesitation.This is simply a pie in the sky, any danger, any fear, and the Simon family, go to hell!
After struggling for so many years at the bottom of the society, he finally graduated but faced the cruel reality of society.Without good personal connections and a good letter of recommendation, as one of the tens of thousands of such young people in the UK, it is almost impossible for Baker to have a good future. He is not willing to live in poverty for the rest of his life. Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried his best to hook up with Viscountess Davis, and even owed him a huge sum of £20 that he couldn't repay.
In this day and age, £50 can enable a middle class to live a comfortable life, but a debt of £20 makes a poor and white young man like Baker completely helpless. He is making a big gamble of life, and Viscountess Davis is his chips, now the chance to come back has finally come!
Ambitious and extremely eager to climb up is the label Caroline put on Beck. It is not easy to deal with this kind of person, but one bad thing is that they are too greedy.
The memory went back to what happened at the Wanzi Hotel that day.
The two had just started drinking afternoon tea and chatting about Derbyshire. It was all gossip. Caroline didn't mention the purpose of coming here for a long time, which made Baker anxious, but he had to stay with Carlo on the surface. Lin talked and chatted, and finally couldn't bear it, so she asked about this time carefully.
"Mrs. Darcy, about your letter to me before Christmas..."
Caroline didn't continue to whet his appetite, and said with a faint smile, "What about your attitude, Mr. Baker, I believe I have made it very clear in the letter."
Baker smiled and nodded: "Yes, Mrs. Darcy, you have made it very clear in your letter. I feel very honored to be able to help Mrs. Darcy on this matter, and I am also very happy to explain your doubts. , and tell you everything."
Caroline still looked at Baker with a faint smile, but didn't speak.
Seeing that Caroline didn't respond, Beck felt a little embarrassed, as if all his little thoughts had been seen through by the person opposite, and he was extremely uncomfortable. He simply stopped making rounds.
"But Mrs. Darcy, you also know that this matter is of great importance. If I tell you this matter, it means that I have offended the entire Simon family. This... I am just an ordinary civilian, and I am completely incapable of talking to Simon. The family is fighting, so I took a big risk this time, whether Mrs. Darcy can take this into account and increase the remuneration... by another 1000 pounds."
Caroline lowered her eyes, leisurely stirred the coffee in the cup with a small spoon in her hand, neither angry nor disagreed, her expression was extremely calm.
When Baker was extremely nervous, she smiled coldly: "Mr. Baker, I am very grateful that you are willing to come to London to tell me the matter at such a risk, so I also stated in the letter that I will help you Asylum will be provided until you pass Mr. Krieger's inspection. At that time, the Kriegel family will naturally provide you with asylum, so you can rest assured that your life is safe. Even if you fail the inspection in the end, I can I can write another letter of recommendation for you, or if you want to leave the UK, I will arrange all the ways for you. For this, I think I have done the best conditions I can provide you."After speaking, Caroline gently put the small spoon in her hand aside, took a sip of coffee and continued: "If Mr. Baker is not satisfied with the reward, then let's pretend that this matter does not exist, after all, dealing with a Simon family It's not too difficult, just a little troublesome."
Caroline raised her eyes and looked directly at Baker with an elegant smile: "You said, didn't you.
Baker's pupils shrank suddenly, he didn't expect Caroline to refuse so decisively.
"Mrs. Darcy..." Just as Caroline finished speaking, a voice came from a distance, calling out with some surprise.
Caroline turned her head, and saw a well-mannered middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes walking towards this side. This is a gentleman that Caroline met at the ball, and he was quite familiar. Caroline showed a polite Baker, this is a gentleman I know well, when he comes over later, how do you want me to introduce you, a gentleman I met at the Derbyshire ball? Or an agent introduced specifically for Mr. Krieger?"
Seeing the middle-aged gentleman walking in, Baker tightly squeezed the tablecloth in his hand, and sweat gradually appeared on his forehead. Two different voices in his heart were yelling and arguing back and forth, making his flustered heart beating violently. Finally, when the middle-aged gentleman was still three meters away from them, he lowered his voice and said, "I agree to your conditions, Mrs. Darcy."
Caroline was too cunning and didn't give him time to argue at all. If he was given enough time, how could he bargain with Caroline slowly? It is possible to negotiate.
Baker was annoyed for a while, he had lost hundreds of pounds of property in vain, and he felt a pain in his heart when he thought of this.
But on this point, Baker was wrong. No matter how he bargained with Caroline, Caroline would not give him a penny more, because she asked Darcy to take the thousand pounds. No more, no less, just a check for a thousand pounds, and now she has another thousand pounds to give to Baker.But thinking about bargaining with him there would be a hassle and a waste of time, so with the help of this acquaintance who came to say hello, Caroline solved the matter quickly.
She made an appointment with Darcy at the beginning to return the thousand pounds to him. This is not like the various expenses for the mansion before. This time she did not tell Darcy anything about the use of the thousand pounds. So he was afraid that Darcy would not give it to her, so he agreed to return all the money to him, but he didn't care what she did with the thousand pounds, and didn't care whether she wanted to pay it back, so he just wrote a check to her , This made Caroline confused for a long time. Sure enough, being rich is self-willed. If I knew she would not talk about paying back the money.
I successfully learned from Baker what happened three years ago. The incident was much more serious than Caroline expected. I thought it was just some scandalous incident of Miss Simon, but I didn't expect it to be Miss Simon's murder. It was still three years ago. A while ago, Miss Simon was only 15 years old at that time, and she dared to kill someone.
Even Caroline was shocked when she knew about it.But the shock was shocking, what should be done is still to be done, Caroline immediately changed the plan, and changed the original condition to the shipment of the Simon family's ocean-going goods, no matter how reluctant Viscount Simon was, with this evidence in hand Here, he has to give even if he doesn't want to.
As for Miss Simon's murder, it's none of her business. She's not a policeman, and the person who died is considered unlucky for him. If he doesn't have the ability to provoke the bully of Simon's family, what is it?
Baker also told her in detail what happened back then, as to why he was so clear, because the person who died was his neighbor, a young man, this man hooked up with Miss Simon, coaxed a minor, and he was lucky enough to die Immortal was hooking up with other women behind her back, and Miss Simon finally found out about the incident. With her spoiled temperament, how could she bear this anger, and took advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, she killed this man with her own hands in a fit of anger.
Miss Simon could only turn to her father for help when she did such a thing. In the end, the father and daughter disposed of the corpse quietly, and then used the local power of the Simon family to cover up all of this, and the matter was considered to be over.
Baker, who is a neighbor, couldn't hide everything that happened, but he was smart enough not to threaten Viscount Simon or call the police, but acted as if nothing had happened.I thought this matter would just pass, but I didn’t expect Viscount Simon to come to him directly the next day, revealing everything, so that he couldn’t even quibble, and finally under the half threat and half lure of Viscount Simon, Baker was terrified. No end, he took the 50 pounds that Viscount Simon gave him and left the local area directly. At that time, he happened to be admitted to university and was worried about tuition fees. Bar.
This incident that happened three years ago has only been known to three people, and they all hid it well, until it was picked up by Caroline, and they also severely cheated the Simon family.Caroline has never been a kind person, and even her black hands are even darker. She said she would want an compensation of [-] pounds, and she was not afraid of flashing her tongue.However, for these families, although she has a big appetite, she is just right. It will definitely make the other party hurt for a long time, but it will not push them to a desperate situation. Otherwise, each family will spend [-] pounds. They don't have that much money after selling them. Not only may they not get the money, but they will also make these families fight to the death. It's not asking for trouble. She's going to kill people, not desperately.
The carriage carried Georgiana and Caroline all the way back to Darcy's mansion. At this time, the two were still discussing what happened in the restaurant just now.
"Georgianna, what do you think of what Miss Jones said just now?"
"I don't know," Georgiana shook her head, "Caroline, can you give me any advice?"
"Ma'am", the carriage had already stopped at the door. Butler Karen opened the carriage door and said. Finally, he stood sideways, put his left hand behind his back, raised his right hand, and bowed slightly to help Caroline and the others get out of the carriage.
Caroline got out of the carriage with the hand raised by Butler Karen, turned her head and said "thank you", then looked at Georgiana and said, "I think you can accept Miss Jones' invitation, Georgiana, haven't you graduated? Go out to play now, and whoever listened to the story told by Colonel Black some time ago, clamored to go out to play."
Georgiana took a step forward and walked to Caroline's side, holding her arm and saying, "But I can't bear to part with you and brother, if only we could go together."
While talking, when they entered the room, a gust of heating came over the surface, making people sigh comfortably. Caroline and Georgiana took off their hats and shawls and handed them to the maid behind them. The burden on their bodies was immediately lightened. .
"Madam and Miss are you talking about the Jones family in Warwickshire?" Butler Karen asked suddenly.
"Yes, this time they are planning to go on vacation in France in the spring, and Miss Jones invited Georgiana to go with the other two ladies." Caroline looked at Georgiana next to her and smiled: "But Georgiana is still hesitating now, it seems Ready to pass up this opportunity."
Faced with Caroline's teasing, Georgiana pouted and retorted: "I don't want to give up, I just don't want to leave you and my brother. If you and my brother can go with me, I will naturally go." Said At this point, Georgiana had a flash of inspiration, took Caroline's hand and said coquettishly, "Why don't you go together too."
Caroline flicked her fingers directly on Georgiana's head, and said angrily, "You're thinking beautifully. You're invited to play, and you're planning to take your family with you."
Georgiana's radiant face immediately collapsed, and she also knew that this method would not work.
"Karen, what's the matter with you?" Caroline caught a glimpse of Butler Karen whose hands were trembling, turned around and asked worriedly.
"No...it's nothing, ma'am," Butler Karen lowered his head, clenched his hands into fists, restrained his trembling hands, and shook his head.
"Well, if you have anything, you can come to me."
"Got it, ma'am."
Caroline nodded, and dragged Georgiana, who was sluggish like a frost-beaten eggplant, into the living room.
In the tall fireplace in the living room, the flames were blazing. Caroline took Georgiana directly to sit on the adjacent sofa, poured a cup of steaming milk tea, and took a sip.
"Are you really not ready to go?"
Georgiana gave Caroline a listless look and said nothing, she really wanted to go.
Caroline raised her eyebrows: "You have to think about it, this is a rare opportunity. Although we can go by ourselves, we don't know when we will go. Anyway, this year is not possible."
Now that Christmas has passed, it is already January, and the Jones family is expected to go to France in early February, so Georgiana has less than half a month to prepare.
"If you're going, I'll write to Mr. Jones tomorrow and prepare your luggage for you. I can't make people wait for a long time."
"Let me think again, Caroline."
"Whatever you want," said Caroline, shrugging.Seeing Georgiana's frown, Caroline turned to other things.
"How do you feel today? After Miss Simon apologizes to you."
Upon hearing this, Georgiana immediately put aside the matter of going to France, smiled openly and hugged Caroline's arm and couldn't help laughing: "I'm so happy! Caroline, I saw them coming one by one today. Apologize to me, don't talk too much to relieve your anger, let them bully me and look down on our Darcy family, hum!"
Such childishness made Caroline laugh dumbfounded, and squeezed Georgiana's tender face: "Well, I'm afraid they will run away when they see you in the future, but today they even sent you apologize."
"Apology? What apology." Georgiana was aroused by curiosity and asked with staring eyes.
"A lot," Caroline said calmly, "The most important one is the Simon family, with about [-] pounds. How about a dowry for you?"
"What! Twenty thousand pounds?" Georgiana yelled in disbelief, and then shook her head immediately: "Caroline, I don't want these, they should be yours, I didn't do anything, or you helped me to let them I apologize," Georgiana said solemnly and sincerely.
After learning that there was such a large amount of compensation, Georgiana's first reaction was not to be happy, nor to be suspicious of the big money of the Simon family, but to instinctively think that it should belong to Caroline, and Caroline couldn't help being moved by this pure and kind look. .Gently supporting her head, she smiled and said, "I didn't say I'll give you all, I want half, and the remaining half will be kept as a dowry for you." Seeing that Georgiana was about to refute, Caroline continued, "You are here The school has been wronged, half of it is what you deserve, I contributed, and the other half is given to me, so it is fair and just, how good it is, it is decided like this."
Under Caroline's uncompromising eyes, Georgiana finally nodded in compromise: "Well, okay", she put her head on Caroline's shoulder affectionately, rubbed it on Caroline's shoulder and said in a low voice: "Thank you , Caroline." In exchange for Caroline's gentle pat on the head.
"Georgianna".
Georgiana suddenly lifted her head from Caroline's shoulders and turned to her back, exclaiming in surprise, "Brother!"
Caroline turned her head, and sure enough, she saw Darcy standing at the door of the living room against the light, with a gentle smile on his face. He was wearing a long black coat, and his body was tall and straight, looking particularly good-looking.Uh... well, she admits that this man is really handsome.
Georgiana immediately stood up and ran towards Darcy, hugged his waist and shouted happily: "Brother, why are you back now? I miss you, and so does Caroline."
"...", Caroline.
"Really?" Darcy stroked Georgiana tenderly, his eyes became more gentle, and he looked at Caroline who was sitting on the sofa, his dark eyes were as bright as stars.
Forehead?It's too embarrassing, is it true that this person really takes Georgiana's words seriously.
"Of course!" Georgiana immediately raised her head and looked into his brother's eyes and said, not to mention how sincere her expression was, Darcy looked back and looked down at Georgiana in a funny way.
Georgiana was anxious, thinking that he didn't believe it, and immediately said, "If you don't believe me, ask Caroline," she turned to look at Lorraine.It brought Darcy's attention back to Caroline.
Faced with the baptism of these two gazes, Caroline's heart was already full of black lines. Fortunately, she thought Georgiana was a cute girl just now, but she didn't expect to dig a hole for her in the blink of an eye.
No matter how speechless she was, Caroline remained calm on the surface, smiled at the two of them, and said, "Georgiana, well, your brother just came back, let him go back to the room to wash up and rest, we will talk about what we have to say later , come here now, let's go to see Erwin together." At the end, Caroline smiled and watched Georgiana, waiting for her answer.
For some reason, seeing Caroline's smile, Georgiana's heart trembled, and she felt a little danger.
"Oh, yes," Georgiana agreed with a guilty conscience.She originally saw that the relationship between the two had improved significantly last time, so she dared to say that. Now that Caroline and Darcy haven't seen each other for so long, if the relationship becomes estranged again, she really didn't do it on purpose. asserted.
"Go," Darcy said softly, "I'll go back to my room to freshen up first."
"Well," Georgiana nodded, and at this time Caroline had already walked to them, and she took Caroline's hand and walked out of the living room.
Darcy watched the two people's backs disappear into the stairs with a calm expression, and he sighed after a long time.Walk out of the living room to the direction of the room.
"Angel, wait a minute, are you serving these teas to Madam?"
In the kitchen aisle, Angel was holding a plate with a set of red leaf glazed bone china tea set on it. Hearing the sound, she stopped and turned around, bowed her knees and said hello: "Mr. Karen", and then continued after standing up straight : "Yes, Madame asked me to bring her some coffee."
"Where is Madam now?"
"Madame is in the study now. Is Mr. Karen looking for Madam?"
Butler Karen nodded: "Yes, I have some things, why don't you give me the plate and I'll take it to Madam."
"Okay, then please trouble Mr. Karen," Angel said without thinking, carefully handing the plate to the butler Karen.
Butler Karen took the plate and just shook his head silently, then walked towards the stairs.
Preoccupied.
"Karen?" Caroline raised her head and found that it was Karen the butler who came in with the tea set. There was doubt in her tone, but the doubt did not last for two seconds before it became clear: "You come, what's the matter?" Find me."
"Yes, ma'am," the butler Karen said after pouring coffee for Caroline.
Putting the teapot back on the plate and putting it aside, Butler Karen looked at Caroline with a pleading tone: "Madam, if Miss accepts the Jones family's invitation, can you send me to go with Miss?" After finishing speaking, Karen The housekeeper patted the sweat in his palms with his fingers, showing his nervousness at the moment.
"Reason, you need to give me a reason, Karen," Caroline said lightly: "If Georgiana goes to France, I will indeed send some people to follow her, but this does not include you, you are from Darcy's mansion housekeeper".
"I'm sorry, ma'am." For this, the housekeeper Karen expressed his apology: "I hope that I will follow the lady this time because... Ma'am, I still remember that when you were giving me instructions before Christmas, my cousin came to visit me matter?"
Caroline nodded, of course she remembered, because she had given him a week off after Christmas to get back to work.
After Caroline nodded, the housekeeper Caroline continued: "That time my cousin came to tell my daughter news..."
After listening to Karen's butler, Caroline knew that he had a long-lost daughter.
Back then, due to his mistakes, his daughter was lost, and then his wife died of depression due to excessive grief. The family was torn apart, making Karen housekeeper full of remorse. In order to find his daughter and fulfill his wife's wish, he sold the family's land and property. He spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find his daughter's whereabouts, but to no avail. He also changed from a rich little country gentleman to a penniless pauper.In order to maintain his life and find news about his daughter, he started to work as a manservant and gradually became a housekeeper. Now the Darcy family is his third employer.
Years of searching did not yield any news until these two years, and his cousin finally sent him the definite information before Christmas.
"So, you went to see your daughter that week, did you see it?"
"I see." Butler Karen's eyes were red, his lips trembled, and he suppressed the pain in his heart and said: "But I didn't dare to recognize her. After getting her accurate information, I hesitated until Madam you gave me I went to Warwickshire to see her twice on a week's leave, but...but I don't know what to say to her."
"Is she in the Jones family?"
"Yes, ma'am, she is the tutor of the second lady of the Jones family. If Mr. Jones and the others go to France for vacation, I think she will also take care of the second lady of the Jones family, so I think..."
Caroline nodded understandingly, and said without any hesitation: "I agree to this matter. If Georgiana agrees to Miss Jones' invitation, then you can go with her. I hope you can meet your daughter as soon as possible. .”
"Thank you Ma'am" Butler Karen bowed and saluted, and couldn't help but said in a choked voice, even his shoulders were trembling.
Caroline comforted Butler Karen and let him go down. She got up and walked downstairs to the living room. Dinner was about to begin, and everyone was chatting in the living room.
After dinner, Caroline also told Georgiana about Karen's housekeeper in private. As expected, the little girl's kindness made her immediately agree to go to France for vacation, and she even wrote the letter that night in a hurry. Send it to Miss Jones early tomorrow morning.
The fact that Georgiana agreed to go to France pleased Caroline, because she wanted her to go to France.
The next morning, after Caroline sent out the letter written last night, she thought that the meeting with several families the day after tomorrow must be handled by Darcy, so Caroline went directly to his study, This matter needs to be told to him in advance.
Caroline knocked on the door of Darcy's study and sat across from his desk.
At this time, Darcy had just put away the documents, put them aside, and looked at Caroline: "What's the matter, what can I do for you?" Darcy put his hands on the desk, and looked at Caroline with gentle eyes .Now he is not wearing a coat, but he is wearing a white shirt and a gray vest inside, making his figure even more stalwart and straight.The sleeves of the shirt were slightly rolled up to a quarter, revealing the strong and powerful arms inside.
Caroline agreed and moved the chair forward before saying: "I have something to ask you about the day after tomorrow. I'm afraid you will ask Mr. Fred, the agent of the Darcy family, to come. There are some things he needs to deal with, I think he should be in London by now."
"Well, he's in London, but what's your business? Need Mr. Fred to attend to?"
"About Georgiana, those families not only personally apologized to her yesterday, but also sent some compensation, so Mr. Fred needs to deal with it at that time. I have already discussed with Georgiana. I will share the compensation with you. She has half, so—" Caroline stretched her head forward, looked at Darcy seriously and said: "Remember to give me my half, and my agent will come over then, as for Georgiana's share As long as you help her keep it, you have no objection."
"no".
Caroline smiled with satisfaction, this is a huge sum of money, she must make it clear with Darcy first, otherwise she is not at ease, and there is still a clear settlement between her brothers, let alone her and Darcy.
Darcy didn't care about this, and readily agreed to Caroline, but his expression gradually became colder. He naturally knew who those families were. When he thought of Georgiana being bullied at school for so long, he couldn't let her go easily. Those people, he has been investigating these families since the beginning of the morning, but he is not as simple and rude as Caroline, but he is going to start with the properties of these families, which can be regarded as a lesson for them.
"Oh, by the way, there is something I need to ask
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