Chapter 1881: Pride You Prejudice (24)
"Mrs. Wickham?!"
The man exhaled softly, with inexplicable excitement in his tone.
He looked up at his companions, and sure enough, there was the same light in their eyes.
Sure enough, it's Mrs. Wickham!
They had just come from London, so they knew very well that there was a woman in London who was in the limelight, young, beautiful, and energetic, and had been married early.
Of course, these external conditions are not the reason why Mrs. Wickham has become a celebrity, what really made her famous is that she successfully cured a countess's pneumonia with the medicine she developed.
God, it's pneumonia, it's almost incurable.
Many people can only wait to die once they are infected.
And Mrs. Wickham, a young little woman, can be easily healed.
As soon as the Countess had recovered from her illness, the Queen summoned Lady Wickham and inquired about the cure.
It is said that Mrs. Wickham was not a doctor or a chemist, but when she went to sea with her husband, he unfortunately contracted pneumonia, and after exhausting all methods, Mr. Wickham was still dying.
In desperation, Mrs. Wickham had the idea of "giving it a try" and used a medicine she had developed to save her husband's life.
During the voyage, Mrs. Wickham continued to research and improve, and after repeated experiments, she finally came up with a relatively safe and perfect prescription.
When the Wickhams arrived in London, Mrs. Wickham sold the goods while setting up a laboratory to continue purifying.
The medicine used by the Countess is already a modified version of Mrs. Wickham, with special effects and few side effects.
In fact, with the current medical conditions, it is okay to be able to live, and everyone doesn't care much about the side effects.
However, everyone is still happier to have better medicines.
"What? Sir, what did you—what did you just say?"
Mrs. Bennet's eyes were a little straight, and her voice unconsciously raised several degrees.
However, at this time, no one disliked her faux pas.
Because everyone is also a little dreamy—
Unreal, so unreal!
Many of the people present were long-time residents of Longborn.
For example, the Lucas family, who are neighbors of the Bennett family, and the Lucas almost grew up watching Lydia.
They had the impression that Lydia was a pretty, lively, silly girl.
said that she was obsessed with prom parties and liked to flirt with handsome young men...... Everybody believes in that.
However, it can be said that she suddenly became a powerful pharmacist, an inventor, and a research and development of special drugs, and was summoned by the queen, which sounds like a myth.
Sir Lucas, in particular, has always boasted of being an aristocrat.
But in fact, even when he bought the knighthood and swore to the queen according to the custom, he was not qualified to meet the queen alone.
He just walked through the process with his head down, and he didn't even know what the queen looked like.
"Lydia, she—did she really meet Her Majesty?"
Sir Lucas looked a little stunned and said in a daze. There was obvious envy and jealousy in his tone.
Mrs. Lucas was also a little stunned, followed by pantothenic acid in her heart: Mrs. Bennet is so lucky, how can she always meet good things?
They are all married to daughters, and her Charlotte can only rob Mr. Collins, whom the Bennett family dislikes.
And Mr. Collins, alas, is so strange that one is speechless. Even so, he was the best person Charlotte could meet!
Jane and Elizabeth, on the other hand, can easily marry the golden bachelor who is the envy of everyone.
Now, even Lydia, the youngest and most uncompetitive, has successfully married, made a lot of money, and has become a celebrity in London!
The Lucas family has a Sir Lucas, which is enough to prove their passion for fame, fortune and power.
Not to mention meeting the queen, it is to be able to make friends with real nobles, they are all very active.
Unfortunately, Sir Lucas never made any acquaintance with a nobleman, except by visiting Madame de Baul by Mr. Collins.
The thought of Lydia, an ignorant and frivolous girl, being summoned by the Queen, made Lady Lucas's heart really complicated.
"Yes, if Lydia is really Mrs. Wickham, then I would say that she was summoned by the Queen. ”
The gentleman said with some envy, "In addition, if the pharmaceutical factory is successfully completed and the anti-inflammatory drug can be mass-produced, Mrs. Wickham may still receive the queen's reward!"
And this reward is most likely a knighthood and land!
Although with the advancement of the industrial revolution, the status of merchants gradually improved, the new aristocracy rose rapidly, and the old aristocracy slowly declined.
But being able to have a noble title is still the dream of countless people.
If Mrs. Wickham were to be knighted, her title would be different from that of a money-paid one.
Her knighthood is a real honor and will have certain rights.
Of course, these are also what Mrs. Wickham deserves.
Flu, fever, pneumonia...... What a terrible disease, if not treated in time, it can kill people.
Moreover, if the prevention and control is not done properly, it may also cause plague.
For hundreds of years, millions of people have died in every outbreak across Europe.
It was a black horror, as if hell had descended.
However, the special medicine developed by Mrs. Wickham can eliminate inflammation and cure those terminal diseases!
Some people optimistically speculate that with this medicine, even if there is a flu rampant in the future, so many people will not die!
It can be said that Mrs. Wickham's contribution is definitely tantamount to winning a major battle.
In addition, once a large number of specific drugs are put into production, the benefits won are also very huge.
In today's England, capital has more and more power, and people's pursuit of money is becoming more and more intense.
It's the nobles, hehe, if it's not greedy for money, how can there be such a thing as selling the title?!
As the largest shareholder of the pharmaceutical company, Mrs. Wickham may make a staggering amount of money in the future.
With these profits alone, Mrs. Wickham can also have a place in London.
Although the pharmaceutical factory is still under construction, countless people see its potential and try to get a piece of the pie.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Wickham was cunning and tied the queen directly to her chariot.
The first shareholder of the pharmaceutical company is Mrs. Wickham, and the second shareholder is Her Dear Majesty the Queen.
With the participation of the queen, many nobles who hold their own identities do not dare to interfere easily.
And these gentlemen in front of them, they may be nobles in Longborn, and they are highly valued by Mr. Bingley and others.
But in London, they are all small people.
At most, they know a lot of details that ordinary people don't know, but they can't get involved in such a lucrative business.
They never expected that a simple trip to the countryside would give them an unexpected joy -
The first and second shareholders of the pharmaceutical company are not easy to mess with, but they have encountered those small shareholders.