little miss austin

Henry asked Alice if she wanted to eat anything. Alice thought the Sanwu products outside were unhygienic, so she didn't want anything.

She prepared snacks yesterday, and there must be no puffed food, just biscuits made by cousin Mary, and dark chocolate sent by Wesley; There are no lightweight aluminum products, and even the technology to efficiently purify aluminum has not yet appeared, so the water bottle is either a leather water bag, or an alloy containing silver, or a copper-tin alloy.The small flagon is a silver flagon with a relatively high silver content.

The three men did not buy snacks, Henry and Tom bought a bottle of wine together, and Wesley bought two bottles of water.Alice curiously asked what the peddlers were selling, and why they didn't buy tobacco.

"The tobacco sold here is not very good." Henry replied.

"Isn't good tobacco expensive?"

"It's just... okay." Henry was a little embarrassed: he spent a lot of his lieutenant's allowance on tobacco, plus eating, drinking and having fun. It can be said that he is a paycheck to paycheck with serious financial problems.

Alice had already guessed that the last time he and Edward sneaked around in the study, they were probably asking Edward to borrow money.Edward, if you borrow money, you probably don't expect him to pay it back.

Bachelors are seldom economically minded, especially those with little money.If, like Wesley, he had an annuity of 2000 pounds a year, he would not have to think about money at all.

Ordinarily, Wesley should have had an annuity since he became an adult at the age of 16, and his expenses were very small, and there was almost nothing to spend on his own. Therefore, his current net worth is probably tens of thousands of pounds, and he is definitely a small rich man.

As soon as she thought about money, Alice thought of her plan to make money: How can I earn 1000 pounds?Her small deposit reached 10 pounds, which can be considered a considerable amount of "property" in Steventon, but it is still far away from 1000 pounds.

This is a big worry!

For 4 seats, Alice sits in the middle, Henry sits on one side, Wesley sits on the other, and Tom sits next to Henry.

The theater is a large stage in front, and between the auditorium and the stage is a horse race venue, not too big, not the usual tent dome venue in later generations.

As the audience grew, the clown came out to warm up the scene, wearing a round fake nose, drawing ridiculous and exaggerated facial makeup on his face, telling jokes, and juggling with small balls.

Wesley looked at the clown with great interest.

"Have you never seen a clown?" Alice asked.

"I've seen it, but I was very young at that time, so I don't really remember it."

"By the way, what's your full name? I forgot."

"—Charles, you can call me Charlie." Wesley blushed again.

"Charlie Weasley, that's a nice name." She smiled.

The two talked for a while, and most of the time it was Alice who asked him, such as where he lived, what interesting places were there around, whether there were any relatives in London, and so on, Wesley would answer honestly.The big and the small can always chat.

Alice didn't care about Wesley until the animals started to appear.

First, more than a dozen small dogs of various breeds came on stage, followed the instructions to stand, fold their hands, sit down, roll around and act cute. Children and female audiences liked it very much; then jugglers wearing Indian Baotou came on stage. The show started with 3 apples, then changed to 3 porcelain bowls, 3 porcelain plates, and 3 glass bowls, with apples in the glass bowls, and finally performed with 3 sharp knives. An apple, two bites.

Animal performances are interspersed with live performances, and half an hour later is blindfolded knife throwing, using this provocative performance as a pre-intermission program.

Circus performances also have a host, who is articulate, connects performances one by one, and is good at gagging.It's like a stand-up comedy. Alice thinks that this may be the primary form of a one-man talk show in the future. The content is good, not very vulgar and pornographic, probably because it is a weekend and there are many children in the audience.During the intermission, the host is a one-man talk show, telling jokes, and then two clowns come out to chase and fight each other.

The opening show of the second half was an elephant show. Although there was only one elephant, the show was an elephant dance, but most people who came to see the circus can only see this tropical animal in the circus, which is very rare.

When it comes to the trapeze, one of the highlights of the circus performance, it will be very beautiful.

Flying trapeze has always been a high-risk program in circus performances. Generally speaking, actors are required to wear seat belts—that is, a strong leather rope in this era—but some actors are bold, or want to If you are looking for a more exciting performance, you can operate it with bare hands without wearing a seat belt.The trick also depends on the quality of the actors themselves. They all pursue more difficult movements, with larger swings and longer distances to catch their partners in the air.

There were constant screams and applause from the audience.Male viewers love the adrenaline rush just by watching it.

Even the "veteran audience" like Alice, who had watched many trapeze shows on TV in her previous life, couldn't help but cover her mouth to avoid screaming.

When the performance was over, several actors got off the ground safely, bowed and took their bows, and countless coins were thrown from the auditorium onto the stage and the racetrack in front of the stage. The rewards from the audience were practical and real.

Alice didn't bring any money, so she shook Henry's arm, "Henry! Throw a few shillings on stage for me!" She was too weak to throw it up.

Henry smiled and said "OK", and both stood up with Tom to see who could throw the coin onto the stage.They were not too far away from the stage, and their arm strength and aim were pretty good. They tossed about 5 or 6 coins and all of them landed on the stage.

Wesley also stood up, following Henry's example, and threw two coins onto the stage vigorously.One was thrown onto the stage, and the other was dropped on the race track.

He was a little embarrassed.

Henry looked at him, "Your arm is weak, you need to exercise more."

The host has appeared, and the audience is invited to sit down. There will be more exciting programs to come.

Alice waited until Henry and the others sat down, and said to Henry: "Wesley is going to university." Then she turned her head to look at Wesley, "I think Oxford University is very good, and it's not far from home." Hampshire is in London In the southwest, Oxfordshire is in the northwest of London, above Hampshire. In fact, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, and London just form a triangle, and it is a little closer from Steventon to Oxford.

"When Wesley goes to Oxford University, he can play with Henry."

Henry just laughed, "He doesn't need to come to play with me, Oxford University has a very good cricket team."

Wesley seemed a little embarrassed, "I...I don't know how to play cricket very much."

"You can learn it, right? Do you want to practice running first?"

"Yes, practice running first, and then I will tell you where to practice running." Henry said relaxedly, "It's not too difficult. You can exercise your physical strength. You know the rules of cricket, but you don't play too much. , Mrs. Gresham seems to be worried that you will be hit by someone. Let me tell you, it's nothing for a man to get hurt!"

He raised his eyebrows evilly, "When you get hurt, you will know which lady loves you. That is the best chance."

Wesley was taken aback for a moment, then understood what he meant, and blushed all of a sudden.

Seeing that his face was flushed with embarrassment, Henry wanted to continue teasing him, but thinking that his sister was still there, he couldn't let her hear any nonsense, so he coughed and let it go.

The following lion taming performance and equestrian performance were also very exciting. Henry and Tom both threw coins.Wesley was embarrassed and didn't dare to throw any more coins, but Alice said that there were a lot of coins dropped on the race track anyway, who knew you threw them.He stood up and threw a few more.

After all, he is only 20 years old, and he grew up in a closed village. His mental age is probably only 17 or 8 years old. He is very happy when the coin is thrown on the stage, and a little depressed when it falls on the race track, but in general Most of the time I say I am happy.

For the first time, I felt that I spent the money really and interestingly.

Alice couldn't play the game of tossing coins, so she had to clap so hard that her hands hurt and her little face was flushed. She looked very cute.

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*Wesley can be a surname or a first name. There is no full name in "Becoming Jane", so let Wesley be the surname.