Comprehensive Victoria's Secret

After getting off the car, Elizabeth looked around and saw a lot of scenery.

"Is this Shropshire?"

"Yes." Antonio obviously made sufficient preparations for their elopement: "This is Shrewsbury, the largest town in Shropshire. It is also the birthplace of Charles Darwin."

"What are we doing here?" Elizabeth said, "Didn't you bring me here to farm?"

"Yes, but we're going to get the carriage here."

Antonio seemed to have made a lot of preparations in advance. He took Elizabeth directly to a manor and knocked on the door.

"Excuse me, what are you going to do?" The man who came to open the door was probably the owner of the house, and he was very unhappy about the two people's uninvited visit.

In fact, Elizabeth is not quite used to such an approach. The owners of country houses generally live a life that hardly leaves home, and only maintain necessary exchanges with a few friends and relatives.

But Elizabeth had to adapt.

Antonio also said, "Sir, we are here to discuss business."

"What business are you talking about?" Fortunately, Elizabeth and Antonio were wearing standard high-society attire, so this gentleman didn't drive them out.

"About the farm in your estate."

It was obvious that the gentleman was troubled by something, and he quickly agreed to Elizabeth and Antonio's request: "Come on, let's come in and talk."

Elizabeth and Antonio were brought into the reception room of the manor, and Antonio sat on a soft chair: "Actually, I want to buy a farm under your manor's name."

"I don't think it's good for us."

Elizabeth also knew that Antonio's proposal was beyond the times. This gentleman was obviously a squire, and the influence of landed squires in the Victorian era should not be underestimated. In the English countryside, it was these squires who had the main influence on the local area. .Their estate generally consisted of an estate, a farmstead with a steward, several lands cultivated by lessees, and a village or two where the farm laborers lived.

The sale of his farm was evidently intolerable to the country gentleman.

"Sir, listen to me. I know that a farm under your name has gone bankrupt due to bad weather and land problems. We are willing to buy that farm." Antonio held out his hand: "We will pay."

"You don't seem to be short of money, why do you have to buy a farm?" It was obvious that the squire could not understand their thoughts at all.

"In fact." Elizabeth raised a hand to stop Antonio from speaking: "I am a writer, my pseudonym is Isabella Namo, and I came here because I wanted to write a book about farm life. Go to Shropshire for an experience, because my husband and I habitually live on our own land, so we need to buy it." Elizabeth stretched out her hand: "I am willing to pay enough price."

Finally, the squire agreed to their request under the condition that there was no profit but no delay.

"You are not tenant farmers in the manor, so if you need the machinery in the manor, I will not provide it to you for free."

"I think we could buy a whole set." Antonio smiled.

Elizabeth tapped Antonio's arm with her arm.

When the owner of the manor handed them the keys, they opened the house and found out-oh, this house is really bloody dirty!

It is now June, the harvest season has just ended, and the whole house is full of dust.

The farmhouse is a two-story cottage with bedrooms upstairs, kitchen and dining room downstairs, and a fireplace upstairs leading to a chimney with a stove downstairs.

Elizabeth took a few steps cautiously, touched the stove carefully, and found that the stove was covered with ashes.

"Obviously this house needs a thorough cleaning." Elizabeth clapped her hands and looked at the roof: "Oh, spider."

Antonio took a look at the bad indoor environment: "I will help you."

"No, no, it's the housewife's job to clean the room." Elizabeth glanced at him, "You still need a lot of work."

She wrenched her fingers: "First of all, we need coal for cooking and heating in winter, and we need..." Elizabeth has no idea about farm life: "Okay, let's go around the farm first. .”

Although the sparrow is small and complete, the farm is not big, but at least it has quite complete functions, such as a place for raising cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and a pigsty.

So Elizabeth gave Antonio a shopping list.

When the previous family went bankrupt, they sold almost everything they could sell, so there was nothing in the house except the stove, so Elizabeth had to make a list, especially since this list had to match the area of ​​the house. Not contradictory.

"You mean you need cows, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks, and pigs..."

"Yes." Elizabeth Blackline, this is almost similar to the zodiac: "We need to raise cows to drink milk to make cheese... raise chickens to eat eggs...be careful to have turkey or Thanksgiving and Christmas It's troublesome..."

"I don't think we're too busy."

"I don't think so either. Just do it. There will be children in the future. We always need to consider the needs of children." Elizabeth smiled.

Antonio swept her abdomen meaningfully: "Yes, there will be children in the future."

"Go aside."

In the next few days, Elizabeth was cleaning the house, and Antonio was responsible for preparing various things according to her requirements.

Elizabeth began to deal with the straw. She originally wanted to throw it away or keep it for the cows, but then found that the cows in this era have to eat pastures. In the end, she used some of them as fire materials for lighting the stove, and then she planned to learn how to give them to the family. Straw shutters.

As for the child she and Antonio talked about...

Elizabeth really didn't expect that after the two of them finished working all day, they just wanted to sleep in bed.

Although they hugged each other on the bed and fell asleep together, Elizabeth didn't have any thoughts at all, and she approached him just to fall asleep warmer.

Antonio's embrace was warm and reliable. The muscles trained by the Assassin Organization all the year round were very solid. Sometimes Elizabeth felt very reliable and warm just by holding him like this.

"Wait a minute, baby, I'm really tired today...it's not suitable for that kind of debilitating exercise." Antonio closed his eyes and hugged Elizabeth tightly.

Antonio put his arm on her pillow at first, but after a night of sleep, he found that his arm was completely numb.

Then Antonio put his right hand around her waist, so that he could be a little freer.

Elizabeth liked Antonio very much. When she leaned into his arms, she felt warm. When the two slept together, they had each other's body temperature.

Elizabeth hugged him, her hair intertwined, and Antonio rubbed her hair: "Go to sleep. I'm really tired."

The young couple originally thought that they would be more relaxed after being tired, but they didn't expect that troubles would follow.

I could only inquire, then bought two horses for farming, and finally bought cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Antonio found a copy of "Thebookoffarm" by Henry Stephen from the bookstore (I don't know how to translate this book, the more localized translation is the Complete Book of Agriculture, but there is another one for this one, I decided to leave it alone in the future It is called the Farm Book) which has everything in it, and states the top guide to agricultural technology in the Victorian era.

With the help of talking on paper, the young couple finally settled the cow into the cowshed without any difficulty. When the cow gave birth to a calf, Elizabeth could prepare to milk it.

It took a lot of effort when the pigs moved into the farm, but fortunately, Elizabeth had at least some vague experience in raising pigs in her mind... In the end, the couple successfully lured the pigs in with food.

Because they eloped, both Elizabeth and Antonio kept a low profile, and almost never went out except for necessary purchases.

The previous millet has also been laid.Elisabeth, who had inspected the warehouse, told Antonio: "The truth is, we were not self-sufficient for a while, despite living on the farm."

"what?"

"Actually," Elizabeth spread her hands: "I checked the warehouse, and there is no flour, meat or vegetables in it. It's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice. You can't make me conjure food like a witch."

Antonio thought carefully: "Okay, I will go to the street to buy some food in a few days."

"Well, I'm going to pick some wild berries." Even though she is the daughter of a noble family, Elizabeth knows wild berries—at least the way they are served on the table during the hunting season.

"And I think I need a cookbook." Most of what Elizabeth learned from Estelle and her tutors were gorgeous French meals, or some sweets for her husband and future children. Making a pudding and baking a pound cake was the limit of roughness, but Elizabeth couldn't do it like that anymore, so she had to learn to cook all over again.

"Okay." Antonio would bring a shopping list with him every time he went out, and he would call back a lot of things.

"And! We need sheep!"

Although the summer worms are indescribable, Elizabeth, who was frozen at King's Cross Station and caught a cold for a long time, has the right to keep warm.

She needs woolen sweaters woolen blankets woolen trousers... what to do when winter comes?New clothes for Christmas... oh... oh my.

No wonder Estelle looks like she's having early menopause every day, Elizabeth really understands, housework...it's really annoying...

"Okay, trust me~ I'll bring back the best sheep."

The author has something to say: The embarrassing farm life has begun!I would say that I wrote about their elopement just to write the next few pictures!