Dear Mr. Darcy [Pride and Prejudice]

Perhaps because of the motivation in her heart, Georgiana soon recovered, but what she regretted was that the Smith family did not visit again for several days.Georgiana came up with a good idea and invited the Smith family to a picnic a few days later.

This morning, Emma was reading a book in her room.George walked in excitedly and pulled her into his bedroom, and took out a letter: "Emma, ​​I have two good news for you! First, the experiment of inoculation with vaccinia was successful. They have all done experiments and found that they were not infected with smallpox after being inoculated with vaccinia, and they would not be infected with smallpox after injecting smallpox serum. Compared with the current prevention of smallpox vaccination, the risk of infection during vaccination is greatly reduced.”

Emma's eyes lit up: "Great!" Emma didn't study medicine and chemical engineering at the beginning, and lacked professional knowledge, but she still had a general understanding of things like cowpox.

George took Emma's hand. "Thanks to your fondness for reading Emma, ​​my father didn't even know that there were such valuable manuscript fragments in the library."

Emma smiled slightly. "The volumes in the library are so vast that it would be impossible to read them all in a lifetime. I just happened to read them. Maybe someone has seen them before, but I didn't pay for someone to experiment." Emma can use the father's death The stimulus to explain why my personality changed drastically, but I couldn't explain why I suddenly gained a lot of knowledge.She had no choice but to forge a miscellaneous volume that covered everything she knew about vaccinia, penicillin, and steam engines.

George paced back and forth excitedly. "I didn't expect it to be successful when you first showed it to me, but anyway, it doesn't cost much, and if it succeeds, it will make a lot of money. Once we have mastered cowpox, we have enough capital no matter where we want to go."

Emma disagreed. "First, the experiment time is so short, it may still need to be improved to reduce the harm to the human body. Second, brother, do you know how many people die of smallpox every year? If we hold this achievement and wait until it is needed Take it out as capital in exchange, how many people would have gotten smallpox and died during that time? They could have survived vaccinia. And last time there was no reason for the military to have a monopoly on reducing post-traumatic fever, but vaccinia was different. If the person who gets this method uses it for profit in the future, how many civilians will go bankrupt?" She tends to use things like steam engines, disinfection methods, and oil extraction as political capital.Whether it is vaccinia or penicillin, the inventors in history have unconditionally announced it, because these things are related to the lives of countless people.

George was just excited for a while and didn't consider this aspect, and his feverish mind gradually calmed down after Emma said so. "Then what do you think we should do?" In fact, George was still very pleased.Emma's personality changed drastically after her father's death, sometimes making him feel a little strange, but now it seems that Emma is still his kind and soft-hearted sister.

Emma shook her head: "I didn't think it through. I'm inclined to publish this result as soon as possible, and promote vaccinia vaccination for free in the name of my brother. But there are certain risks in doing so. After all, we just exchanged with the military, and the Taking out such a valuable thing is likely to attract covetousness."

George frowned and thought for a moment. "Actually, the risk of doing this is not as great as you think. I have never taken out the fragments. In the countryside, there has long been a saying that milking girls will not get smallpox. We can say that we got inspiration from this. Isn't the way to reduce inflammation at the beginning? That's it. What we say to the military is that the witch doctor who helped Clark mastered an effective native method. In order to pray for our forgiveness, I will take it to the doctor for research. However, the specific things need to be carefully planned. one time."

Emma was very glad that George didn't refuse because it might cause trouble, so she hugged George with a smile. "Brother, you are the best."

It's been a long time since my sister acted like a baby to him. George blushed a little and gave him a vague grace.

Emma was happy for a while, remembering that George said there were two good news. "Brother, what's the second piece of good news?"

George didn't answer directly. "I can't say the second good news. You will know it in two or three days at the latest." Afraid of Emma's questioning, he mentioned another thing: "Last month, Fitzwilliam invested [-] pounds in the laboratory. I also specially thanked those doctors."

Emma had little reaction to this, having known Mr. Darcy would. "Mr. Darcy knows how to repay his kindness."

"That's it?" George didn't expect Emma's attitude to be so flat. "Emma, ​​why did you tell Fitzwilliam that way? Afraid that the news would leak out? Then why didn't you tell the military the same way?"

Emma chuckled lightly: "I don't believe anyone will disbelieve Mr. Darcy. The reason why I didn't say it is that I don't want him to have too much pressure. The payment of money is the cheapest, if you just take some money to support Doctor, Mr. Darcy may accept it; if it is the result of our contribution, this kind of favor is too heavy, and Mr. Darcy will not accept it."

George was a little puzzled. In fact, he had had this question for a long time. He felt that his sister was too kind to Mr. Darcy.George pretended to be casual and said in a joking tone: "I remember you said that if you are not stupid, you must let that person know when you help someone."

Emma did not remember saying such things, but she was willing to explain them to George. "That's because I hope to get the same return, so I want to let the other party know. If you only think about the other party and hope that the other party can be relaxed and happy, naturally you don't want him to know."

George was silent. He thought that if his sister really had other feelings for Mr. Darcy, wouldn't she say it so plainly in front of him?He desperately hoped that the second surprise he gave Emma would come soon.

Neither brother nor sister knew that the short conversation just now was heard by the third person.

Mr. Darcy wanted to change clothes, but he didn't call the servant. When he took the clothes, he didn't know where he bumped into. There was a crack in the closet. Mr. Darcy took out the clothes and found that there was a secret door in the closet. After opening, the next door The voice came in immediately, and it seemed that the door could lead to the bedroom next door after it was opened.

Mr. Darcy frowned, and decided to change rooms.Just as he was about to close the door, he heard Emma's voice: "Mr. Darcy is kind enough to reciprocate." Mr. Darcy paused slightly with his hand closing the door.

After listening to the conversation between Emma and George, Mr. Darcy suddenly felt an urgent desire to see Emma, ​​say a few words to her, or see her.But Emma stayed in the house and did not come out.

At lunchtime Mr. Darcy waited at the table with an early newspaper.Emma and Georgiana walked towards the table arm in arm, chatting and laughing.Just when Mr. Darcy was thinking about what to say, a servant outside came in to announce: "Mr. Cruise is visiting."

The table was silent for a moment.

Emma finally knew what surprise George was talking about.She completely ignored the look in George's hand, thought about it in her heart, and showed a smile mixed with shyness and indistinct joy to Alvin who walked in. "Ervin, when did you come back?"

He didn't receive Emma's letter to Alvin until a month later, and he hurried back only in time to attend Mr. Kentra's funeral.The suspicion of George in Derbyshire has not been cleared. Emma has been fighting hard. When she returned to Yorkshire and found that there was no major change, she fell ill after a sigh of relief.Emma still remembers that when she was lying on the bed, a young man with dusty uniform and bloodshot eyes came in because of the long journey. He bent down and said seriously, "I'm sorry. I will take good care of you in the future."

Because the first meeting had a very good impression, Emma originally thought about when to find a suitable reason to break off the engagement, and planned to try to get along with each other after that day.It's a pity that Erwin didn't stay for long, and she was ill again. The two returned to the army without seeing Erwin a few times.

Alvin's cheeks were thinner than Emma remembered, and his tight but not exaggerated muscles could be seen in the close-fitting clothes.The gray-blue eyes are extremely sharp when looking directly at people, and the whole person looks a little melancholy when the eyes are slightly lowered and silent.He had never been treated so tenderly by Emma, ​​and pinched his hat a little awkwardly. "When I returned to China the day before yesterday, George wrote to ask me to come to Cotswolds as soon as possible, and I rushed over directly."

Emma pursed her lips and smiled.This fiancé is too honest.After coming to the Cotswolds for three days, Emma could imagine how he set off on horseback before dawn, and stayed in a random place at night. "George was joking with you, we're just here to play in the Cotswolds, you don't have to hurry."

Emma's words were somewhat intimate, and Irwin didn't know how to answer them, so he thought for a while and replied, "Anyway, I have nothing else to do." Initially, Irwin and Miss Kentra hadn't met a few times, but one day The old Earl of Kentra invited him to his house, and said worriedly about his introverted daughter.The old Earl of Kentra supported their mother and son when he was kicked out of the house, bought him an army post, and helped him with the funeral when his mother died, even though the old Earl of Kentra asked him to spend his life He would also agree to repay, so he swore without hesitation that he would take good care of Miss Kentra in the future. Although he had no special feelings for Miss Kentra at the time, he would be loyal to her for the rest of his life and work hard to earn wealth and status for her. , try to agree to her request to make her live comfortably.Of course, Alvin hopes that they can fall in love with each other, but unfortunately Miss Kentra is always very cold to him, and he will not sweet talk to make her happy.Alvin thought it was an unbreakable deadlock, but since the meeting at the funeral, things seemed to turn around.

George looked at it for a while, feeling both happy and a little uncomfortable. The younger sister, who has perfect looks, personality and abilities, will be snatched away by the brat.He turned his head and saw Mr. Darcy staring at Alvin as if in a daze, and quickly pulled Alvin over. "Fitzwilliam, let me introduce you. This is Emma's fiancé, Alvin Cruise. He came back late for his father's funeral, and you just didn't meet him. Fitzwilliam?" George didn't see him after the introduction Mr. Darcy responded, patted him on the shoulder, and was surprised to find that the muscles on Mr. Darcy's shoulders were as tense as a stone. "What's the matter with you, Fitzwilliam?"

Hearing George's inquiry, Mr. Darcy relaxed, and stretched out his hand to Alvin: "Fitzwilliam Darcy, from Derbyshire."

Alvin heard about Mr. Darcy from George and knew that he was the benefactor of Emma and George.He took Mr. Darcy's hand. "Alvin Crews, Colonel, thank you."

Mr. Darcy looked very cold. "No, every gentleman does not stand by."

Georgiana has been secretly looking at Emma's fiancé, and Alvin feels her gaze and looks back.Georgiana was taken aback by his cold eyes when he turned his head, and immediately lowered her head. "Georgianna Darcy, hello Mr. Cruise."

Erwin tried to raise the corners of his mouth to make his expression softer, but failed. "Hello, Miss Darcy." After thinking for a while, he added: "Thank you for taking care of Emma."

Georgiana didn't like what he said. Although she was a little afraid of him, she retorted a little: "You don't need to thank me, Emma and I are good friends."

After lunch, Mr. Darcy expressed that he wanted to go back to his room to rest. After struggling for a moment, George decided to give Emma and Alvin some time to spend alone.Georgiana was not at ease, and was coaxed and taken away by George.

The author has something to say: Please don’t complain about the secret door, I also worked really hard to let the noble Mr. Darcy know the painstaking efforts of the heroine