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Anwen didn't know that Miss Bingley, who passed by him, had such complicated inner activities.He quickly put the episode behind him.

After entering Darcy's house, the warmth inside was in stark contrast to the cold outside.

Anwen shook the melted snow on his body, and looked at the furnishings of Darcy's house with a delicate expression. ——When the coachman sent him to this street before, Anwen had doubts about Darcy's residence.With great restraint in his arms, he prevented himself from imagining that Darcy had the bad luck to buy this villa.

Of course, he also knew the rumors about Mrs. Rose, and even because he had an adoptive father who was over fifty years old, Anwen knew more than ordinary people.

"Anwen? What a coincidence that you came here!" Everyone had already taken their seats, and when they were about to eat, Anwen arrived.

Skye looked at his tired-looking brother, secretly still feeling that what he was doing was useless.

"I looked for it, and luckily I caught up with you for dinner." Anwen looked around, and he was a little disappointed that Georgiana was not there, but it also allowed him to maintain enough sanity to make up a reasonable excuse on the spot.

"It really worries you." Skye said helplessly.She was very depressed and became an excuse for Anwen to visit the door.This is also true. It can be said that Anwen came to accompany his sister. He dislikes Mr. Darcy, which Mr. Darcy himself knows.

"As a brother who cares about his sister, I think this is the most normal thing. Skye, you will get used to it in the future." Anwen sat shamelessly beside Skye, and his presence made Mr. Darcy A hoped-for dinner for two has come to naught.

"It's such an honor." Skye was disgusted by Anwen.She answered dryly, and automatically translated another meaning of Anwen's words in her mind: "I can't have dinner with Georgiana, and you don't want Mr. Darcy to have dinner alone either!" '

The siblings looked at each other tacitly.Mr. Darcy remained silent, expressing his resistance to Anwen through silence.

"Why didn't you see Miss Georgiana? Is she okay?" Just after the appetizer was finished, Anwen brought up the main point of the trip.His tone was a little too excited, and it sounded like if Darcy invited him for Christmas, he would be willing.

"She's not feeling well. The servant will prepare dinner for her alone." Darcy explained briefly.

"Then I must visit her. It is always easy to get sick when the weather is suddenly cold. I really hope nothing happened to her." Anwen immediately connected.The speed with which he answered the words made Mr. Darcy frowned severely.

"I don't think so. The doctor told Georgiana to rest more."

"Then I can visit another day." Like after Christmas.

"We're going back to Bloomberg after Christmas. Since Mr. Anwen is busy with work, he doesn't need to find time to follow him." Darcy knew what Anwen wanted to say.The decision to return to Bloomberg was made temporarily. Darcy believes that under the current circumstances, it is not a good idea to let Georgiana stay in London.

No one knew what Anwen would do.

"Oh! That's really bad news." Anwen sighed, and said helplessly, "I'm going to introduce Skye to London's social circle after Christmas, and I think she might be busy too."

Skye, who was taking food from the servant's tray, paused when he heard what Anwen said.

She glanced at Anwen, trying to get more information from Anwen. "I haven't heard this news before... I'm a little surprised."

"Dear Skye, you have to believe that everything is foreshadowed a long time ago. If you need me to remind you, we bought a lot of dresses the other day, and I think you must have It will be very beautiful."

"What social activities are there after Christmas? I remember..." Skye wanted to expose Anwen's high-sounding excuse. After all, on the surface, Anwen decided to improvise because Darcy refused to let him see Georgiana. .

"It's just some palace activities. I want you to meet my adoptive father...he also wants to see you very much." Anwen gave Skye a look that you understand.He looked at the wall clock in the living room, and said happily to Mr. Darcy, "Given that we may be busy in the future, then I wish you a Merry Christmas in advance!"

The snow outside the window was still falling one after another, and the sky was as dark as a black cloth. Skye thought that Mr. Darcy would be irritated by Anwen's attitude.But Mr. Darcy calmly raised his glass, "Merry Christmas."

"Sky?" The two men didn't put down their wine glasses. Anwen called Skye's name and reminded her, "Aren't you going to clink glasses with us?"

"Okay. I just feel that Santa Claus is giving me gifts in advance." Skye raised his glass: "I hope you will be so peaceful in the next year. Merry Christmas!"

Glasses clash, leaving behind a seemingly happy scene.

When Christmas Eve actually came, Skye was sure that Santa Claus hadn't handed out any presents for her.

Even though Anwen just stayed at home, people he didn't know would come to visit every day.Expensive gifts were presented one after another, and many officials whom Skye couldn't even pronounce their names came to the door, greeted, drank tea, and left.

Anwen's presence made the whole Christmas Eve very lively.

During the rare interval, Skye sat on the sofa and told the housekeeper not to let guests in again.

"Let's just say that Mr. Anwen's stomach is spoiled by eating."

"But this may allow more people to visit the sick." The housekeeper reminded Skye friendly.

"...Then Anwen went out to visit friends. Anyway, I don't want to see anyone disturbing my Christmas!" Skye said really angrily.

The Christmas tree in the living room was decorated so top-heavy that it fell down, and the gifts under the Christmas tree could almost be piled up like a hill.These were brought by Anwen's guests.From the clothes of those people, one can guess that the gifts they gave must not be very cheap.

Some of them brought not only Christmas presents, but also souvenirs with them.More than a dozen expensive red wines have been added to the wine cellar of the Holt family, among which there are many precious wines comparable to gold.

"If you say that, those people should be nervous. I'm going to visit some friends! They're full of conspiracy theories. You should just say that I don't see any guests." Anwen didn't admit that he was also a little bit burnt out.At first, he wanted to keep Skye busy, so he let out the news of his home address.

But he didn't expect that the frequent visitors made him a little exhausted.You'll never be able to deal with those unprofessional morons who have been unleashed at the wrong time during the Christmas season to be busy with a lot of destructive activities.What's even more frightening is that these people call their actions social when they are essentially disasters!

"I can't believe people who come to my door ask you to help their factories get tax-free." There are only two things that Skye really can't stand.One is that these people make wishes on Anwen like Santa Claus, and they are talking about impossible things.The other thing is that they are all thinking about whether they can become relatives with Anwen, that is, recommend some crooked melons and dates from their own family, hoping to be with Skye.

"Christmas! It's always something special." When Anwen saw Skye go crazy, his depressed mood of not being able to see Joanna finally improved.

"Should I ask you what happened to Meryton at this time." Skye didn't want Anwen to be complacent.

"Are you curious about this Wickham man?"

"I just don't like this guy very much. He... is a bit too much."

"I hope you didn't blame Mr. Darcy because he loved you so much and was discredited by him since he was a child." Anwen teased Skye.

"That's it. First of all, I don't want others to regard me as a fool who listened to slander. Secondly, his behavior of smearing Darcy really makes me uncomfortable." Skye admitted this with a unchanged expression.

Anwen was taken aback by Skye's words.He was very surprised and asked: "When did the relationship between you get to this point?"

"Probably since you were going to sell me to London's high society. I have decided to accept Mr. Darcy's pursuit. I will align this progress with Fitzwilliam later, if we meet recently."

Skye's words made Anwen a little dumbfounded.He shook his head, and told Skye about what happened to him in Meryton without hesitation.

Frankly speaking, the open atmosphere of Meryton made Anwen a little bit tongue-tied.He never thought that the girl from the Bennet family would suddenly appear on the road, bouncing around picking flowers, and talking about it without restraint.They spoke loudly, and what they were talking about was Anwen himself who came out occasionally. Anwen had no choice but to listen to their comments.

Even more frightening is the delusion of these girls.They guessed what he was doing—from poet to lawyer, and then firmly believed that he was also a garrison.

"Even a drunk man in a tavern would not talk about others so recklessly."

"That's hard to say. You remember that it's about Wickham you're talking about!"

That Mr. Wickham and Lydia were not living a perfect life together.Lydia attached great importance to him, and he would treat it as a very serious matter if he casually chatted with any lady.

In this way, Wickham has no more opportunities for outward development.

The relationship between Lydia and Wickham was not affirmed by Mr. Bennet, and they planned to elope after they had been together for a long time.

Anwen has always drawn people's attention to Wickham's situation, and even the elopement direction he decided on the spur of the moment did not escape Anwen's detection.He did not immediately stop Wickham and Lydia from elopement, but waited for Mr. Bennet to find out about the matter, and then expressed his willingness to help.

Wickham became a lot more cautious because of successive setbacks.On the issue of choosing the means of elopement, he chose the ship.Arrive by land to the nearest pier and depart by boat.

The boats and people coming and going on the pier were chaotic, and it was not easy to inquire about all kinds of news.If the person following him was not Anwen, he would have boarded the boat and escaped.

But Wickham chose the docks.This is the talent of the Holt family.Anwen has been working with ships since he was ten years old.Although the family business is gone, there are still some old people who are willing to provide some convenience for Holt's name to be reported.

Never underestimate the information network on the pier, and don't underestimate the old guys drying dried fish by the pier.

Mr. Bennet now regards Anwen as a benefactor, and he even plans to marry one of his daughters to this gentleman from London.

Lydia locked herself in her room and got angry every day. Until Anwen left, she didn't realize what she had done wrong.

"Wickham Wickham Wickham! Anwen, you must have done it on purpose, because you haven't told me what happened to Wickham until now!"

"He was caught in prison for theft. If the story starts with this, there will be no suspense." Anwen looked at Skye with a look of 'you are so boring'.But in fact, this was to cover up his uneasiness, and Anwen was not sure if Skye could accept his approach.

"Oh." Skye nodded.

Anwen waited for a while.He thought Skye always needed a little time to digest this cruel fact.

But until the tea was cold, Anwen didn't hear Skye's continuation.

It just felt awful.It's like someone upstairs dropped a leather shoe. In the middle of the night, you are always waiting for the sound of another leather shoe landing, but there is never any.

"...Don't you have anything to say to me?" Anything is fine.

Anwen waited anxiously for Skye's answer.

Skye looked up in confusion.She fell asleep in the warm and quiet environment, "What...?"

Unwin was sure he saw Skye's sly smile flashing past.

Skye didn't say anything, she yawned, stood up from the sofa, and said with some boredom: "I know how you dealt with it. Who cares whether Wickham stole the dried fish or something else? That's all Let's go." As he got to know more people, Skye gradually stopped believing in the sayings about "just" judges and "princes on white horses".

People play their roles, yet live by not following the definition of the role.All of Wickham's actions would be a disservice to those young ladies if they were published. They had already tried their best to forget the pain caused by Wickham and live on in a whitewashed manner.Why debunk it?

But if no one debunks, Wickham will not get the sanctions he deserves.That's not what Skye wants to see, either.

Anwen did this to save everyone. As for that unlucky Wickham, he said it as if there were still people who cared about his life and death.

When Skye walked to the door, she heard Anwen say to her: "I have to do something for my adoptive father on Christmas day. I can only come back at night, and you can spend your time as you like."

"Your adoptive father never let you off at Christmas? This is really..." Skye turned her head, and she looked at Anwen sitting on the sofa. It was not surprising that this man would become a celebrity in the London social circle, nor was it surprising that he It will be the dream lover in the hearts of countless ladies.But behind the vanity, Skye worries about the dangers of his brother's job.

There are many moments when Skye thinks that the person talking to him is not a gentleman, but a cog in the industrial revolution, or an honorary personification in the palace.Skye sincerely hoped that Anwen would not become a victim of the struggle.

"Take care of yourself. Don't make me let me dress you in black one day. . . . Merry Christmas." Skye left a word of advice, turned and went upstairs.

Skye probably knew that Anwen's job was dangerous.I hope her concern has been conveyed to Anwen.

Waited a long time for Skye to go.An Wencai covered his face with his hand, he was sure his eyes were wet.How much Skye cared touched him a lot.

——Compared with those gifts measured by money, this concern is much more intimate.

"Merry Christmas."