[Pride and Prejudice] Mary's Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 1 I am Mary

Ma Li is a Chinese, a small white-collar worker in a third-tier city, and works as an accountant in an ordinary trading company.

Although Ma Li is an orphan, after leaving the orphanage, she can rely on her skills to have a stable life. Ma Li has never been dissatisfied with her life.Years of frugality, I bought a second-hand house of 60 square meters in installments. The original plan was to buy a second-hand car with a small displacement in installments two years ago, but after a company dinner, I woke up and went to the strange UK rural.

We should be glad that Ma Li's company's business is mainly aimed at import and export trade in Europe and the United States. As a technical secondary school student who just applied for the cashier position, Ma Li has been recharging herself since entering the company. Apart from accounting, English is the most important other item. .

The English in this place has some accents, and it is very different from modern English. Ma Li can probably figure out the meaning of the other party with a guess, but it is very difficult to speak.

So when Mary first crossed over, she acted cautiously like Lin Daiyu who had just entered Jia's mansion, making up her mind not to say a word or take a step.Fortunately, Mary Bennett was still a child at the time, barely able to express her feelings with limited words.It also happened that the little sister Lydia who was born at that time fell ill, and the whole family focused on the poor baby. Mary was able to pass the transition smoothly and slowly integrate into the countryside of this strange country. Life.

This family is located in a village called Longborn in Hartfordshire, England. It can be regarded as a famous family here. Including the younger sister Lydia, who is not yet a year old, the family has five daughters in total. The eldest Jane is innocent and docile. , the second sister Elizabeth is lively and lovely, and the third is Mary, who is a child with ordinary qualifications in all aspects. The fourth sister Kitty is still biting her fingers and has a runny nose, and the youngest Lydia can't walk.As his father, Mr. Bennet is an upright gentleman with a wide range of interests, a sense of humour, and a love of sarcasm and sarcasm.And his wife, Mrs. Bennet, except for her extraordinary beauty, really has no outstanding qualities to match her husband. This makes Mr. Bennet always like to stay alone in the study to avoid stupid The embarrassment caused by his wife.

In such an environment, Mary tried her best to adapt to her new identity. However, before she was five years old, Miss Mary had always been a quiet and withdrawn child in the eyes of everyone. She only liked to hide in a corner where no one noticed. Quietly listen to what others say.For this reason, the kind sister Jane always felt that she was very pitiful. Once Mary even overheard Jane and Elizabeth discussing whether Mary was a little inferior because she was not good-looking.This makes Mary Jiong very energetic. A large part of the reason for her reluctance to talk is that she is not used to the surrounding environment. Mary's understanding may not be as much as Mary's own observation, and the two younger sisters are still running nose, Mary is really not in the mood to coax the children to play all day.

It was not until Mary was six years old that she began to read and write that the situation improved. Jane and Elizabeth followed Mr. Bennet to study in a specially opened study room. After Mary was six years old, she felt that she had reached the school age and could go together After school, I happily prepared paper and pen and came to the study room.This was simply the beginning of Mr. Bennet's disaster—although Mary was four years younger than Jane who was the first to learn, she caught up with Jane's learning progress within half a year by virtue of the author's golden finger. Mr. Nat was pleasantly surprised, but Mary, who is eager to learn about the world, is really a curious baby. She always has all kinds of questions and whimsy, and she asks all kinds of questions to Mr. Bennet. , from philosophy to mathematics, from history to literature, from economics to politics, from folklore to law...Mr. Mary was dumbfounded by asking all kinds of strange questions.

In order to save himself from this embarrassing situation, Mr. Bennet had no choice but to hang up his boots and go. He invited several teachers for several sisters to teach various knowledge to several children. If Mary had any doubts, she would like to To pursue any superb academic, as long as Mary proposes, Mr. Bennet will invite someone who specializes in it for her.Then after Mary satisfied all her curiosity, she stopped. She already knew that she traveled to England at the end of the 18th century and would soon enter the 19th century. The system has matured, but the parliament is still dominated by the great nobles. Although capitalism is gradually prospering, people still admire the manor owners and nobles, and the status of merchants and craftsmen is low, but these disturbances from the outside world cannot affect this tranquility. Closed small village.Mary thinks this is fine, and a peaceful and peaceful life is her ultimate dream in her previous life.

She is a happy-go-lucky person, although the closed life without any entertainment is a bit boring, and the lack of modern facilities makes life not so convenient.But as a young lady of a country gentry, she has family members, servants, a house, and a carriage. Although she cannot go to school, there is no better job prospect waiting for her in this era. Family education is enough to meet her needs, so she is excluded. All kinds of unsatisfactory things, the current rice insect life makes Ma Li feel unprecedented comfort and peace of mind, so Ma Li decides to be a British country gentleman with peace of mind from now on.

Being Miss Mary Bennet is really a comforting thing. She can not worry about food and clothing every day. Mr. Bennet has always been generous to his children and responded to his daughter's requests. The children do whatever they are interested in It's all possible.Because Mary knows nothing about the world, she pays attention to acquiring knowledge and common sense from various aspects.Whereas Mrs. Bennet is only interested in gossip, Mr. Bennet has clearly exhausted his fatherly patience with the first two children.So Mary had to turn her attention to the only way to get it at present-books.

Fortunately, there are many books in the Bennet family's study, which is really a good place for Mary to increase her knowledge and spend her time.Mr. Bennet has always encouraged his daughters to read more, and he was very happy to see Mary turning her interest to reading. He made a small corner in the study room for her, with a small desk and a large bookshelf, to facilitate Mary's study.Mary was overjoyed, and became even more eager for knowledge.

So in the eyes of everyone, Mary gradually turned into a weird child who only likes to read books.This made her sister Jane, who always took good care of her, very worried. Jane said to Elizabeth: "I often see Mary's room is still lit at night. She always studies tirelessly like this. This is not good, her eyes Going blind, and if it goes on like this, her mind will become rigid, and she will become a non-common, dogmatic little fool who talks philosophy all day long and has no idea of ​​reality."

Elizabeth was also a little worried about Mary, but she still comforted Jane and said: "Mary has been very smart since she was a child, but people who are too smart often lack friends who are intellectually equivalent, and she has too many questions about reality, so she is very smart. I will look for answers in books."

Elizabeth thought for a while, and then said: "But she really can't go on like this. Knowledge is certainly worth pursuing, but if a person is immersed in books all day and forgets to communicate with the outside world, he will gradually lose interest in communicating with others. That's never a good thing for a bright girl."

Jane and Elizabeth often asked Mary to accompany them for a walk and play, and took her with them when visiting other people's homes and chatting with friends, asking her opinions from time to time and giving her encouragement and support in time, hoping that she would have fun .

Mary quickly discovered the kindness of the two sisters, and felt warm and grateful from the bottom of her heart.In fact, she is not really crazy about books or her thirst for knowledge exceeds the pleasure of interpersonal communication, but she has never been able to find a sense of belonging since she came to this world.There is no doubt that the Bennets love their daughters deeply, but even though Mary, who is actually older than them, has deep feelings for them during the day and night, she still cannot realize the depth and depth between parents and children in them. Love.In the dead of night, Mary often feels lonely and helpless, but books can often give her great comfort. When she is immersed in the world of books, she will always temporarily escape this oppressive feeling.However, the two young girls, Jane and Elizabeth, made Mary's heart gradually loosen. Their concern gave her a little stability and comfort to her wandering heart. These people with different hair colors and different eye colors were indeed her. Blood ties, and Longborn, this was her home.She is Mary Bennet.