Emma decided to change her name to "Wozhendeshgjing" in the future. She looked out the window at the yellow and green leaves, and smiled. The past is like smoke and the wind, she has forgotten it, who is right and who is wrong, what does it matter, and when I see Mr. Daxi in the future, I will retreat for thirty miles_(:3ゝ∠)_

George looked at Emma's smile and didn't know why he felt a chill run down his back. "Ahem, Emma?"

Emma turned her head and put away the smile on her face, anger burning in her eyes. Brother Xiong is you! How can you know if you don't say Mr. Darcy! Twenty years of professional selling of my sister!

George suddenly felt bad, Emma was going to settle accounts with him. "Emma, that rumor"

Emma really wanted to say that there was no innocence anyway, so be it, but reason made her hold back, and took the rest of the information and flipped through the pages. "Rumors are not a problem, there are detectives to testify about Clark's matter, and the other one is not substantiated, at most it adds to people's blockage. Finding out what's behind it is the point. ”

George sighed softly, his brows filled with sorrow. "Emma, it's me who has caused you. If it weren't for me, Clarke's story wouldn't have come out. ”

One yard to one yard, Emma never blamed George for this. "What do you think would have happened if I hadn't said it, but Clarke had said it? At least now there are plenty of people who can testify that I got engaged first, and that Clark is shamelessly trying to let me elope with him, and I have no responsibility at all. Clark must have eloped with him when he said it, and he got engaged in a hurry to cover up the scandal. ”

George was still very remorseful. "There was no reason for Clark to say it"

Emma gently took George's hand. "I originally thought that that incident might have something to do with my father's political choice, and that someone did it in order to control the Kentras family in order to get guò clark to control the Kentra family, but now it seems that it may be a personal vendetta. Otherwise, I don't have the right to inherit, what's the good of ruining me? If it's a personal vendetta, the people behind the scenes won't let me go, whether I try to wash away your grievances or not. Unfortunately, the person Clark said about who introduced him to the witch doctor used a fake identity and couldn't find it, and the witch doctor was not convicted and his whereabouts were soon unknown. Just take this opportunity to investigate. ”

George shook it hard, if he had discovered his father's dangerous situation earlier, and learned how to be a qualified Earl of Kentra earlier, even if he couldn't prevent the tragedy, at least he wouldn't need his sister to sacrifice like this to protect him, at least he could find the mastermind sooner and not let today's incident happen.

A dark cloud was about to form above George's head. Emma had no choice but to coax him: "You are the best brother you can be." I've never regretted it. In fact, Emma thought that when she told Clark about abducting her to elope, it might be exposed in the future. But she didn't have a better choice. The document that paid George's debt was not evidence at all, and it was difficult to get Mr. Darcy and them to intervene without bringing it out. Although most of the evidence later pointed to George, Mr. Darcy and Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam persisted in the investigation, and in the end, Mr. Darcy even went so far as to give George a bailout from the police officer for him to put on a risky role, largely because they determined that Clark was of bad character. Overall, it's still very cost-effective to talk about elopement.

George quickly perked up. "Thanks to Lisa, one person was detained. Fitzwilliam told me that Lisa couldn't be trusted. Last time she begged me to let her be a housekeeper at Sworth Manor, and she felt very ambitious. I didn't expect it to be a loyal servant. Someone came to her when she came home to buy news about you, and she secretly sought out the villagers and caught the man. ”

Emma smiled. "Because Mr. Darcy had told me that she was not to be trusted, I warned her when I left. "Loyal servant, she didn't trust Lisa at all, so she didn't tell her anything more. However, she did not break her promise to send Lisa's brother to school for an education.

George was a little curious. "What did you say, and the evidence of her theft is still in your hands?"

Emma smiled silently. In fact, Lisa begged her to give her the evidence before leaving, and her exact words were: "If I now say that my former loyal servant was greedy enough to force me to give her jewelry, and I was injured if I didn't give it to her, what do you think the police officer will say? Stay at Kentra and do your part, and if you're faithful, I'll give you what you want, or you won't be able to run away if something happens to us. ”

George just asked casually, and seeing that Emma didn't want to say anything, he didn't dig deeper. "The rumor is from a neighboring county, and I'll rush over it now. You don't have to go out until the matter is settled, just stay at home and practice the piano and read a book. ”

"Wait. "Emma just felt that something was wrong, but her mind was a little messy and she couldn't grasp it. As soon as George said that he wanted to investigate it himself, she thought of it. "Since the people behind it also know that this matter does not pose any threat to me, why do you want to release this rumor? I'm afraid that after they have calculated it, you will definitely investigate it yourself. I don't know if it's going to turn the tiger away from the mountain or to attack you. ”

George's eyebrows were about to twist together. "What threat can't be posed? they're ruining your reputation. ”

Emma was completely different from the girls of her time, although she wanted to have a good reputation as much as possible, so that it would be easy to win the trust of others and get things done. For this reason, she tried to find someone to cover up her night visit to Bloomberg, and tried not to reveal her familiarity with business politics in front of everyone, and quickly became a necessary skill for a lady. But she doesn't feel so much pain when her reputation is damaged. "It's just two days of endurance, and I'll definitely be able to clarify it in the end anyway. Besides, I have a fiancé. "Wait, if it was obvious to her that she was crazy about Mr. Darcy, Alvin wouldn't have noticed something in the Cozwolds, right?

George looked as excited as if he had been rumored to be in an illicit relationship with Clark and Mr. Darcy. "It's because of Alvin that you have to be cautious! Do you want to break off your engagement with Alwin?" he actually felt sorry for Elwin. When Emma was young and ignorant, she was coaxed into eloping by Clarke's sweet words, and he stopped Emma, and soon the old Mr. Kentras set her up for marriage, and Alvin didn't know about it, which was not fair to Alwin. Later, Emma was also considerate of Mr. Darcy, he couldn't figure out Emma's thoughts, if Emma really showed empathy, he would definitely sue Sù Alwyn to break the marriage, but Emma didn't seem to have either, so he didn't tell Sù Alwyn about this either.

Emma lowered her eyes. "No, of course I don't want that. I changed the date of that letter. After Clark put the blame for the poisoning on Lena, I approached Lena once and sent her a letter in exchange for giving her family money every month to prove that she was engaged first. Clark didn't admit it at first, and finally in retaliation for me, he said that I had eloped with him before I got engaged. Now that Lena and Clark are dead, and the police testimony is two-to-one, whoever investigates will think that Clark is more likely to be framed. I'm sorry for Alwin, but I want my brother to keep it a secret. If she had done this, she would have chosen to confess to Alwin, but she didn't want to carry the original owner's pot.

George sighed. "Of course I'm on your side. Although his conscience was condemned, he still hoped that Emma would have a good husband.

Even though it was embarrassing, the question was important, and Emma decided to ask it anyway. "I really don't have any other thoughts about Mr. Darcy, do you think Alvin could be misunderstood?"

George struggled to think about it. "Probably not, you haven't done anything since Alvin came, he doesn't look like he misunderstands what you have. In fact, George felt that this kind of thing was unacceptable to men, and Alvin would definitely say it if he found something wrong.

Emma breathed a sigh of relief.

George sternly emphasized, "You should be kind to Alwyn as well." ”

Emma nodded vigorously. "I swear. Never make stupid mistakes again. ”

In the end, George was persuaded by Emma not to go out in person, but to send a few people to track it down. Emma also asked him to tell these people to check slowly and lamely, if the action is not in the other party's plan, they may temporarily adjust the plan to reveal flaws.

A week later, the news came that the people who had been sent had carried out George's instructions and had not gone to the people who had been detained and had confessed, but last night a gunshot rang out in the village, and they rushed over to find that it was the house where the man was staying, and that there was some blood but the house was empty, and that all the outsiders had disappeared overnight, leaving only some people who had been bribed to spread rumors.

"That's it, gone?" Emma often felt that her identity was too restrictive, and at this time she could only wait for the results of the investigation at home, and the information analyzed in this second-hand news was often distorted, not to mention that sometimes the people who sent it out simply did not get the results she wanted, like this time. Just give one word: Since the shooting was fired, it must have been taken away by other forces, and if they can disappear silently and overnight, at least about the same number of people must do it? When did these people come and live? It is impossible for there to be horses and guns without traces of entry and exit, right? Did you say hello to the locals? Let them pretend to be lame, not really lame! She decided to find a way to solve this problem from today onwards.

George also felt a little embarrassed. And completely ensure that there are really not many loyal and capable people under him, this time he felt that he had to pretend that he couldn't do things, so he simply sent a few more people who really had little experience, and he thought that he would find a few more reliable people in the past two days, anyway, the people behind the scenes always had to achieve their goal before stopping, but he didn't expect someone to suddenly intervene. "This, that's it"

Emma sighed softly. "Forget it, there is nothing to lose this time anyway. Since it can't be found out, let's start clarifying. But who would suddenly intervene?"

The siblings were puzzled by the question, and while they were sending someone to clarify and think about how to find out how to find the person who had meddled, Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam came to the door.

Emma hadn't seen Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam for a long time, and although she secretly wondered if Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam had mistaken her for her nymphomaniac Mr. Darcy, she tried to stay calm on the surface. "Hello Lieutenant Colonel. ”

George was more familiar with the rank than Emma, and at a glance he noticed that Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam's epaulettes had changed. "It's time to call the colonel. ”

Emma was surprised, did she get to colonel now?" "Congratulations, you must have made great achievements in India." ”

Colonel Fitzwilliam accepted Emma's congratulations with a smile. "I don't dare to talk about meritorious service, and in war I always get promoted faster. What surprised me even more was my dividends. ”

Emma couldn't help but smile when she saw the Colonel's happy and relaxed look. At the beginning, she asked George to invite Colonel Fitzwilliam to join the shares, and the business made a lot of money this year, and the dividends were naturally very rich. Colonel Fitzwilliam, as the youngest son, could not inherit much property, and in the original book he had to find a lady with a good dowry for the sake of quality of life, and now he had another way to choose, if he could share a thousand pounds a year, Lieutenant Colonel Fitzwilliam could marry a lady he liked as he wished. "That's what you deserve, invest in your brother when no one else is optimistic about it. ”

Colonel Fitzwilliam was well aware that he had not invested much money, and George was not short of start-up capital, and had pulled him into the stake solely to repay him. But there is no need to tell Emma about these gentlemen.

It was tea time, and the three of them sat down at the table.

George and Colonel Fitzwilliam met several times because of their shareholding, and kept in touch with the colonel after his return to India last year. It's also familiar, and it's more casual to speak. "I just received a letter from you half a month ago saying that I came back from India, why didn't I rest at home for a few more days?"

"I wanted to rest for a few more days. The colonel took a sip of his tea and narrowed his eyes in enjoyment. "Your tea is really good. Fitzwilliam is injured and I'm going to see him. Just passing by you. ”

Emma's hand shook, and the tea was half spilled. "Mr. Darcy?" she wasn't shaking because of Mr. Darcy's injury, and the Colonel still had time to stop by Manfil was certainly not seriously injured. Her hands trembled a little now at the sight of Mr. Darcy's name.

The colonel nodded. "Yes. Fitzwilliam didn't tell me about it. I found out that his most recent reply was ghostwritten, and he said he had sprained his right hand. Fitzwilliam always liked to hide these things so as not to worry others. It just so happened that his family doctor and my family were classmates, so I asked him to write to ask about it. Fitzwilliam suffered a gunshot wound to his right hand three days ago, but it was only a bruise, so the injury was not serious. It's not hunting season, and the letter Fitzwilliam gave me ten days ago was still from Bloomberg, and I haven't traveled far away, so how could I get a gunshot wound?"

Three days ago, gunshot wounds. Emma's hand shook, and the cup fell to the ground. She looked up at George, and saw the same suspicion in his eyes. It can't be such a coincidence, right?

George smiled at the Colonel, who was full of doubts, and said, "Since Fitzwilliam is injured, I don't know about it, and as a friend, I should visit him." It just so happens that there is nothing to do for the past two days, so I'll go to Bloomberg with you. ”

Colonel Fitzwilliam felt that the request was reasonable and readily agreed.

George returned three days later. Sure enough, Mr. Darcy did it. He didn't want to intervene, although Alvin was not in the country, Emma was still protected by George, and besides, he had planned to stay away from Emma. But seeing that the men sent by George were incapable of doing anything, and that for five days they had not been able to find the people who spread the rumors, and that the rumors had only intensified, Mr. Darcy could not stand idly by. He first sent someone to find out the situation, and found that someone was manipulating behind him, and it seemed that he was also carrying a gun. Many people on horseback and carrying guns had to greet the locals in advance, and Mr. Darcy went there himself in order to do his best, and he wanted to only show up when he greeted the locals, and then wait for news. Unexpectedly, he was mistaken for George and was led to the room and shot, but Mr. Darcy reacted quickly and only scratched his right hand. The other party had already revealed his purpose, and although he failed to kill the target, he withdrew. Mr. Darcy did not return to Bloombury in order to avoid the matter being known to Emma, but found another place to stay in Derbyshire, so as not to be discovered by Georgiana and inadvertently revealed to Emma. I never expected to be ruined by the family doctor and Colonel Fitzwilliam. George came to the door, and Mr. Darcy had no choice but to admit it.

George concluded: "I thought you were the only one who would do good deeds, and Fitzwilliam was the same. ”

Emma let out a long sigh. She felt that she understood what Mr. Darcy meant, and that Mr. Darcy didn't want her to misunderstand, but out of friendship with George and in return for the help they had, he wouldn't stand idly by, so he chose to help secretly. It's a shame, if only those hateful misunderstandings had been greater. But thinking of Mr. Darcy's cold face, Emma still felt that she couldn't explain it with his strange gaze.