[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

Mr. Bennet came back to his senses first. He coughed to recover his restless mood.Then he said... In fact, he should have done this a long time ago, but... But Jane's momentum was too strong, and he looked stupid, so he missed the opportunity..._(:з)∠)_

"Okay, since we know we're wrong, let's forget about it today." As soon as Mr. Bennet said it, he couldn't help feeling jealous.

I feel... I feel like I lost my momentum... 〒▽〒

Catherine and Lydia were still silent, and Jane said to Mr. Bennet, "Daddy, give me the card."

"Oh, okay, here you are." Mr. Bennet found that he seemed to have followed Jane's words.

Jane finished reading the instructions carefully by candlelight, raised her head and changed back to the gentle Jane.

"It's very useful, thank you Daddy." Jane said, "There are so many cards in this set, we can read them together later. We will use this set of cards in class in the future." Before Jane finished speaking, all the children Already looked over with sparkling eyes.

Jane: "I will keep this set of cards for now, Elizabeth, what do you think?"

Elizabeth: "...well, I agree, but you can't play alone."

Jane: "Of course, you can come to me anytime you want. Mary?"

Mary: "I have no problem."

Jane: "Catherine? Lydia?"

Catherine: "...Okay."

Lydia: "I want to play too."

Jane: "Of course."

Lydia: "Okay, then I agree."

Everyone agreed, and Jane was satisfied, but she had a new idea, "Here are a hundred cards, which means a hundred words, and I... none of us have learned all one hundred words yet. I I have an idea." She said, "If someone has learned ten words, she can choose a card she likes in it, and this card belongs to her, and she can put it in her own box. Of course, if If necessary, she has to donate the cards for class use."

Jane's words made the other four girls feel very novel and excited.

"Because everyone's learning progress is different, Catherine and Lydia, you two have just started learning, so your words will only be nouns within four letters for the time being, but you must dictate ten words completely and without mistakes. Calculate."

Jane looked at Mary, "Mary can already read easily, so your words are not limited to nouns, but also include all other parts of speech, and you must be able to give explanations and usages of words." Mary thought for a while and nodded Take it for granted.

Jane said to Elizabeth: "We both learn the same thing, so not only do we have to know how to write and use words, but we have to make two sentences. Do you agree, Liz?"

Elizabeth raised her chin and looked at Jane unconvinced, "If you can, of course I can."

Jane nodded and said, "Since everyone has no objections, we can go to the fireplace to have a look after washing our hands."

Catherine and Lydia waited for this sentence, and they jumped off their chairs with cheers, and trotted to wash their hands.

When the children were gone, Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet were still sitting in the dining room.

"Oh, my God." Mrs. Bennet covered her face with her hands, very excited, "My God, my God, Mr. Bennet, did you just see? Our Jane, she is, she is a ...She was too powerful just now."

"It's a genius." Mr. Bennet said, he was both proud of Jane...and a little embarrassed.

"Yes, genius. Oh, damn, why isn't she a boy?" Mrs. Bennet wailed in a blink of an eye. "If so we have nothing to worry about."

"It doesn't matter if it's not a boy, Jane is my child." Mr. Bennet only felt proud when he thought of this.

Jane has always been so good, hasn't she?

"Our child." Mrs. Bennet corrected, "I never thought that Jane would do this, she has never shown it before, oh, I was shocked just now, she slapped the table so hard ... It's not good to get used to it, it's not ladylike at all to slap the table!" Mrs. Bennet's thinking went somewhere else.The familiar feeling of speechlessness dispelled Mr. Bennet's strange mood at once. He shook his head, stood up, and said, "But I can rest assured that Jane is here to teach you how to read. By the way, let's go to the living room too. "

"Oh, yes." Mrs. Bennet stood up quickly, and followed her to the fireplace in the living room.

The five sisters were all lying on the carpet, the noun cards were neatly laid out, and they were all turned over to the side with pictures. The other four girls were carefully touching the cards with their fingers and whispering to each other What are you talking about, and occasionally fight, but after a while, they reconcile as before.

The girls went back and forth over the fire about which one to get first, and which one to get next... as if they could get it right away.

Jane herself prefers something special, um, prepositions or conjunctions or something, while the other girls obviously prefer patterned ones.

Elizabeth likes the ones with big color blocks, such as "garden", "meadow", "forest"... Mary likes various musical instruments, "violin", "cello", "flute", "harp"...Catherine Similar to Lydia's hobbies, they both fell in love with "dresses", "parasols", "boots", and "gloves"... So they started to fight again, but Elizabeth stopped them with a word.

"The one who learns first can be picked first, which is fair."

Catherine and Lydia hummed to each other and turned away.

competitor!

O(one︿one+)o

Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet sat next to each other, one smoking a pipe and the other knitting gloves. They looked at the five children kindly, and thought they were all cute.

Mr. Bennet/Mrs. Bennet: As expected of my child!

In this era, Mr. Bennet is already considered a very hardworking person. As a squire who owns a large piece of land, he can exchange the land to an agent to manage it like many people do. He only needs four dollars a year. Make settlement before the checkout date, and eat, drink and have fun at other times.

But Mr. Bennet is not like this. He is very concerned about his property, which probably has something to do with his father, the old Mr. Bennet.

The Bennet family did not always exist as an ordinary squire. Back then, the old Mr. Bennet was also born in a very powerful and wealthy family, but later his family fell into ruin... Mr. Bennet did not It is clear why, old Mr. Bennet was only a suckling child then.

In short, the decline of the family is not the decline of the family, and the old Mr. Bennet is also a very smart and capable person. When Mr. Bennet was born, the family situation was much better than it is now, so in Bennet When Mr. was young, he could receive a very good gentleman education.

It's just that when Mr. Bennet was seventeen or eighteen years old, the old Mr. Bennet made a wrong choice in a very important investment, and this time his family was really in decline.The only thing that is fortunate is that the ancestral land of the Bennet family in Longbourn has not been affected, and these lands are now the most important property of the Bennet family.

The "little" land that was not valued before became a family-supporting industry. The old Mr. Bennet simply moved his family to Longbourn, and later took root here.Mr. Bennet also delayed his marriage because he wanted to revitalize his family business, and the marriage was finalized before the old Mr. Bennet passed away.

It's just that these lands are bound by limited inheritance rights and can only be inherited by men, but Mr. Bennet happens to have no sons. After his death, it is not known who will own these lands. This is why Mrs. Bennet has never The fact that she couldn't accept it was a thorn in her heart.

So why did Mr. Bennet raise Jane and Elizabeth, two children who are completely different from the next three daughters?That's because he has seen different scenery.

Now Mr. Bennet thinks of the scenery he has seen before... also to compensate/reward his two beloved daughters. He thought that the textbooks he used when he was young were still kept in the attic, so he found time I moved the old books out of the box together.

"Since you want to study, it would be more convenient to have textbooks." Mr. Bennet called Jane and Elizabeth into the study secretly, and showed them his old textbooks, which were still in good condition. It's just too gray, and it took Jane a long time to pick up a copy.

"French?" Jane's eyes widened, "Daddy, I didn't even know you could speak French?" She turned to the back of the book, and there was the name of the school written on it, "Portman Boarding School for Boys", it was a school she A school name I've never heard of.

"Cough." Mr. Bennet coughed embarrassingly, "It's been so long, I've forgotten all about it, and I only remember a few words."

She should have remembered more than a few sentences, Jane flipped through the first two pages, this textbook is the most basic kind of textbook, it should be very easy for Mr. Bennet.Anyone who has gone to school knows that you may have forgotten the mathematical formulas that make you die, but if you are shopping in the supermarket, the cashier says, "It's 14.6 yuan in total, and I charge you 15." Look for a dime and pass it over (Chinese only).

"Wow." Elizabeth fumbled through these books and found that they were all very interesting. She picked up one and opened it, and there were various triangles, circles and quadrilaterals inside.

"What, geometry." Elizabeth turned to the cover and read, "What is geometry?"

"Geometry is a category of mathematics." Mr. Bennet replied, "It's still a bit difficult for you now, my dear. If you are interested, you can learn from the previous ones."

This pile of books is not only basic courses, but also some middle school courses, which are very messy.Mr. Bennet sorted it out a little, and sorted out a few textbooks that should be from when he was still in the first and second grades.

"I think we'd better each take one, and we can switch between them," said Jane. "I want this Latin, Part 1. How about you, Elizabeth?"

"I want this one." Elizabeth hesitated for a long time before picking up a "History of Art".

"Latin? It's hard to learn, are you sure you don't want to change it, Jane?" Mr. Bennet asked with a frown.

"It doesn't matter, Mr. Pastor can also speak Latin. I heard from him that if I don't understand, I can ask him for help." Jane had already thought about it.

"Actually, you can come and ask me... I hope I haven't forgotten everything." Mr. Bennet muttered.

"Liz, you don't know many words in this book." Jane stretched her head to look at the book Elizabeth was holding. Of course, it wasn't that she didn't know it, it should be said that Elizabeth didn't know it.

"Ah, I have another copy of this here." Mr. Bennet took out a small dictionary, which he had used before. "Do you know how to use a dictionary?"

"I will," said Jane.

Elizabeth immediately took the small dictionary.

In addition to "Latin" and "History of Art", Jane and Elizabeth finally took "English (1)" and "Basic Mathematics" according to Mr. Bennet's suggestion, and Jane is still under Mr. Bennet's bookshelf Find a book that Mr. Bennet bought to teach Elizabeth and her how to read when they were young.

"So it's here." Mr. Bennet was also quite pleasantly surprised.

After studying the textbook in her hand carefully, Elizabeth felt that she had learned a lot.

It turns out that this is the systematic learning that Jane mentioned~

With textbooks and cards as rewards, everyone's enthusiasm for learning has improved a lot.Not only Catherine and Lydia, but Jane, Elizabeth and Mary all have new learning goals.

The author has something to say: At that time, it was really unfriendly to women. The most common way for an ordinary squire like Miss Bennet to enter the aristocratic upper class was actually to be a mistress or a courtesan.Even aristocratic ladies are up for grabs. Before marriage, it is the property of the father, the property of the brother, and the property of the husband after marriage, and the right to control the dowry after a woman gets married is completely owned by her husband. That's why there were so many poor people at that time The man wants to find a rich woman to marry.