[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

Jane packed a few snacks for Dwyer and asked Dwyer to carry them. The two of them quietly walked to the entrance of the alley, stretched out their heads to see if there was anyone around, and then walked out generously, as if they were just passing by... a bit Sneakily, the two looked at each other for a moment, both feeling a little funny.

Jane called a small carriage, and she planned to go to the largest market in Cambridge with Dwyer, where there were goods that were not inferior to those in London.There are rare spices and porcelains from India and the Far East, as well as silverware and vegetables from other parts of Europe, as well as various meats, fruits, flowers, animals... and exotic things you can't imagine.

More things means more people, and when there are more people, there are all kinds of things, so Jane and Dwyer will come here when they are free in the morning, because the area in the afternoon will not be safe.

Dwyer sat on the carriage and watched the people coming and going on the street. She had followed Mrs. Wood for many years, and it had been a long time since she went shopping with young people like today.

"Oh, there are more and more ladies walking alone on the street now." Dwyer said suddenly.

Jane stretched out her head and looked over. It turned out to be a lady wearing a woolen coat and a woolen hat. She was wearing gloves and carrying a handbag. She was walking with a puppy.Jane thought of going to her uncle's house in London a few years ago. At that time, the ladies in London had to be accompanied when they went out, but it is only a few years now, and people in Cambridge are used to seeing the ladies going out for a walk alone.

"That puppy is so cute," said Jane.

"Hey, it's still wearing a bow." Dwyer's attention was suddenly distracted.

The coachman put Jane and Dwyer at the east gate of the market, it would be cleaner to enter from this side.

Jane came here once before, and she came with Mrs. Wood. She walked through the stalls familiarly and bought a lot of spices that Dwyer had never seen before. She was also skilled in bargaining with the vendors. Will's eyes widened.

Jane brought enough money, and it was rare to come here once, so she decided to buy enough.

At this time, there were some early-ripening cherries on the market. Jane checked and found that the quality was not bad. She bought a basket and made an appointment to deliver it to her door.The seller is very happy, he has to sell this basket for a whole day.

"Why buy so many, the cherries are still a bit sour now." Dwyer felt that he had bought too much.

"We can make confectionery, and we can also make, um, cherry drinks." Jane said implicitly.

"Oh, then we have to hurry up, the cherries won't be here soon." Dwyer immediately changed his tone.

The two women went on shopping happily, and they even hired a boy to help carry things, including the cheese that Mrs. Wood had asked Dwyer to buy.

Unexpectedly, Jane also saw a fellow from the previous life. He was wearing a cap with melon skin and a short braid drooping on his shoulders.

Jane stood in front of the fellow, and Dwyer hurriedly grabbed her, "Miss Jane, this is a Chinese, you can't get too close to him."

"It's all right, Dwyer, I'm just curious what he's trying to sell," Jane replied.

The squatting man raised his head and stared blankly at the two strange women in front of him. It took him a long time to react, and then he stood up slowly.This Chinese man who came from afar is very young, he is short, and in Jane's eyes, he is not very good-looking, but he has the characteristics of the southern coastal people.

"What are you selling?" Jane asked the Chinese man.

The Chinese man can't understand English, but he also understands what Jane is asking. He slowly stretched out his hand, and suddenly his stomach screamed very loudly, "Gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr however..." the man seemed unable to hear the sound from his own stomach. , He stretched out his hand slightly from his cuff, revealing what was in his hand... a silver bracelet and a somewhat blackened silver ring.

"What is this? It's so dirty." Dwyer exclaimed.

"I think they are silver bracelets and rings. They are a bit dirty, but the style is very oriental." Jane bent slightly, and the Chinese man raised his hands tactfully.

Both the bracelet and the ring are exquisitely made. The bracelet is twisted with silver wire, with tiny gemstones faintly in the middle. The ring is inlaid with a ruby, and there is a pattern of lotus and lotus leaves beside it.

"How much?" Jane asked. She liked it quite a bit. Although it was silver, there were gems on it.

The man froze for a moment. He didn't understand what Jane was talking about, but he understood Jane's eyes. He quickly raised three fingers, then hesitated, and put down another one.

"Miss Jane, do you really want to buy it?" Dwyer looked around, and she always felt that people around her were looking at them, "Such a small thing is worthless, look at this man, he can't even speak ’” She tried to dissuade Jane.

"Hey, Miss, don't buy from him, he's a thief." A man next to him yelled at Jane.

"Thank you for your reminder, sir." Jane said disapprovingly, she looked at the Chinese man for a while, and then hooked her fingers to him, "You, come with me."

Jane and Dwyer walked ahead, and Dwyer glanced back from time to time.

"The man is following us," Dwyer said to Jane.

"Well, that's good, at least he understands what I mean. By the way, Dwyer, I remember when I came here just now, there was a bakery over there, right?"

"You want to buy bread...you want to buy bread for that man?"

"If you can, it's actually a good deal, isn't it? And he compared two fingers, and I don't know if it's two pence, two crowns, or two pounds."

"Two quid for those two things? Just give me two loaves."

The Chinese man followed Jane and the others from a distance until they reached a bakery.He didn't know what the two foreign women wanted, but the smell of the bakery filled the air, and his stomach hadn't stopped growling since just now.

If she gave me a piece of bread, I would change it too. The Chinese man pressed his stomach hard.

After a while, the Chinese man saw the two women and a little boy carrying things come out of the bakery. The woman in the lead was holding a black bread wrapped in paper, and the two people behind were still with big and small bags.

Jane walked over alone and handed the black bread to the Chinese man. Although the man's stomach was screaming loudly, he didn't take it right away. Instead, he hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth, reached out and wiped his clothes vigorously, and took it. Past the bread.He bit the bread fiercely. This kind of bread was very firm, as heavy as a brick, and it filled his stomach very much. It took a lot of effort to eat, and sand and the like would often be eaten out of it.

It took the man a long time to take a bite, and he chewed hard. The taste of this thing is obviously not what he is used to, but it is what he needs.After the bread in his mouth softened a lot, he stretched his neck and swallowed it anxiously.

"Here, this is yours." The first time the man spoke, it was not a language Jane was familiar with. Fortunately, she could barely understand it.He stretched out his hand and put the bracelet and ring in front of Jane.

Jane didn't take it right away, but took two steps back, and walked back with a big paper bag under Dwyer's disapproving gaze.She took out a handkerchief, grabbed the bracelet and ring in the man's hand, wrapped them in her pocket, and then handed the paper bag to the man.

The weight of the paper bag caught the man off guard. There was not only bread in it, but also a small bottle of jam, which cost Jane one shilling.

Jane took out a shilling coin and showed it to the man, indicating that this pocket cost so much money.

The man looked at the coin with bread in his mouth, and then at Jane.

Jane showed the man another pound coin, which she turned four times with her left hand to show that twenty shillings were a pound.

The man still didn't say anything.

Jane took out a second pound coin and slipped the two pounds together into the man.

"Is this, this, this all for me?" The man finally had a response, he said vaguely with the bread in his mouth, his face was full of surprise.He quickly calculated in his mind, one coin just now can be exchanged for one bag of bread, and one of these coins can be exchanged for twenty bags of bread, the ghost woman gave herself two, that is forty...

What he got was much higher than expected, which made the man dizzy for a while, and of course he might be hungry.

Jane gave the money and turned around and left. The money and the goods were cleared. She didn't intend to reveal her past. She was Jane Bennet, and she couldn't understand or speak Chinese.What's more, sometimes good intentions don't necessarily bring good results. She noticed the expression on the Chinese man's face. She thought that she hadn't thought about how much money she could exchange before coming to him. She gave too much. Maybe the other party would think I am at a disadvantage.

"Did you really give him two pounds?" Dwyer felt that Jane was wasting money, and that was more than that, not counting the shilling of bread.

"We'll talk later," Jane whispered to Dwyer.

The two of them didn't bother to go shopping anymore. They took the bag boy out of the market, called a four-wheeled carriage, piled all their things in, and prepared to go home.

"Go to the post office first." Jane told the coachman before getting into the car.

"Listen to you, miss."

After getting into the carriage, Jane showed Dwyer the oriental jewelry that she had just spent a full two pounds for a closer look.

"You're crazy."

Following Jane's cues, Dwyer picked up the bracelet and tried it out. "It's heavy," she said.

"It's almost two hundred grams." Jane said proudly, "There are still gems in it, and I just saw that the workmanship is very good, and the style is also very oriental. It's just a little dirty and polished, I guess at least Worth fifty pounds."

"Fifty!" Dwyer exclaimed, and hurriedly lowered the volume. She looked carefully at the bracelet, and she couldn't see that this dirty bracelet was worth so much. "That alone is worth fifty pounds?"

"I think it's similar, but the premise is to find someone to make it shine again." Jane actually said less.

This ring is not worth anything, but this bracelet is made of thin silver thread into a very fine multi-layered hollow bracelet. At the interface is a dragon head biting the dragon tail, and a silver bead in the middle.You can vaguely see that the gemstones inside are fixed in a certain section, and you can make a small jingle sound when you shake it. European craftsmen may not have this kind of craftsmanship. Even in later generations, no one can make such fine handmade bracelets. Made it.

The author has something to say: Jane: Sorry, can't help.