Chapter 11: The Last Leisure

Any experienced otaku girl always needs a computer with a fast Internet speed, which is a recognized law of the whole network. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Such a housemaid, no matter where she goes, even if she doesn't know her sexuality and preferences at all, the number of collections, but also has a channel for communication and exchange - since such a code has long been ingrained in the vast house world, so the housemaids always take the computer as a matter of course as one of the necessary equipment for the house or cocoon...... As a qualified otaku, Elizabeth. Bennet's biggest dream before crossing over was to buy a high-rise apartment with good natural light in a mid-priced neighborhood in the city center, and then put his beloved computer in it, install the highest-spec hardware, especially high-fidelity speakers, display all kinds of favorite figurines behind the computer desk, pile up biscuits, desserts and drinks at your fingertips on the other side, and an oversized Simmons bed that allows people to roll around anytime, anywhere.

However, there is a famous saying that goes like this: how beautiful your dreams are, then how cruel the reality must be......

Instead of saving enough money to buy a small apartment in the city center, she had a large house in the English countryside at the end of the eighteenth century.

Just from the perspective of living area, it seems to be earned, but from the perspective of various software and hardware, it is really a loss that makes people want to cry.

-- No internet, no computers, no refrigerators, no microwave ovens, no running water, not even electricity, and they can't even eat potato chips......

But what can be done? A miserly fate that allows you to gain something will make you lose something else.

The world doesn't revolve around any one person. No one is the main character, and no one is a supporting character; No one is always lucky, and no one is always unhappy; No one always reaps joy, and no one always greets sorrow......

Well, do you think Elizabeth would really drink this bowl of chicken soup for the soul with the wrong seasoning?

――The plot world of "Pride and Prejudice" that she crossed into is really centered on her own heroine! She and Mr. Darcy, who doesn't know where he is now, are the protagonists of this world, destined for a life full of legends......

In fact, unlike those chicken soup for the soul that is forced into the people, everyone in every world cannot be equal, and there will inevitably be protagonists, supporting roles, and of course, more tricks. Some guys are born with more things than others: for example, their parents are more powerful, their families are wealthier, their bodies are stronger, their minds are smarter, and so on. But on the other hand, these advantages are not predestined, but because their parents paid a corresponding price. Those who have been granted these privileges do not earn for nothing, but they have to bear the higher expectations of their families and shoulder all sorts of heavier responsibilities for this purpose—this is the price.

Everything in the world is based on the theorem of equivalent exchange. Some of the equivalent exchange is obvious, while others are buried deep beneath the material plane; So countless people pay the same price, but get different results - but for the new round of equivalent exchange in their own fate, the time-traveling version of Elizabeth is now quite satisfied. Although the plot of "Pride and Prejudice" has been tossed into a mess, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to have a vigorous love affair with Jane Austen's "dream male god", the situation of the Bennet family has been seriously detached from the plot line, even if it is more detached.

And in return, she was not only able to enjoy a certain degree of modern living conditions in the backward world here, such as replacing the mattress with Simmons, but even being able to surf the Internet here - with the opening of the door of time and space, a network cable was also pulled over by Wang Qiu from the base of the modern world...... After signing a document promising not to divulge secret information on the plane, Elizabeth finally gets the laptop of her dreams.

(After more than a million people traveled through the Great Crossing of the Ming Dynasty, the existence of another world is no longer a matter of high secrecy.) ）

Looking at the netizens in the chat group who showed off their travel photos, she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of superiority in her heart.

-- I was chatting online in the English countryside on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars at the end of the 18th century! Which of you can have such an experience?!

However, Elizabeth only dared to be proud in her heart, and did not dare to really post photos on the Internet to show her superiority, and she estimated that even if she really posted it, most of them would not believe it, but just thought that she had taken a few photos in an old house in modern Europe......

Just as she was getting off the line and was about to watch the entertainment news, a pair of cute twins silver-haired Lori pushed the door and broke in.

“…… Big sister! Can you lend us this computer? For some reason, our computers are always crashing today! ”

“…… Oh, it's Hansel and Gretel! How? Want to play a game? Elizabeth glanced back at the silver-haired twins who seemed to be cute to the bones, and immediately smiled in a good mood - before, when she learned that these two little dolls-like ones were actually Romanian silver-haired twins in "Black Reef", she was shocked, but looking at these two loli, they seemed to be quite well-behaved, and there were no signs of perverted ghost animals. And now she has become the heroine of a novel, as a crow, she is really not qualified to laugh at the wild boar black, so she is used to it.

“…… Not really! People have something to do now! The eldest brother (Wang Qiu) and the old grandfather (Guo Political Commissar) took a lot of photos in London before, let's sort them out. Gretel looked up and raised the memory card in her hand and said with a terrific expression.

So Elizabeth gave up her laptop and stood aside with great interest, watching as the silver-haired twin slipped a memory card into the computer and pulled up a photo and a video—Elizabeth hadn't been on the trip to London the other day, so she was a little curious about it now.

Although she had been to London once before with the "Bennets", she went directly to a relative's house and did not visit many places.

Then, the LCD screen shows the iron-gray foggy sky, the swaggering carriage passing the city, the English gentleman in his cloak and cylinder hat, and the pipe in his mouth, the lady wrapped in layers of folded fabrics and lace ribbons like a gift bag, and the ostrich feather on her head, the old-fashioned shop with dark light and messy decorations, and the drunks who play bowling in the tavern - bowling in this era is called the "Nine Pillars Opera", and the gameplay is not as formal as in later generations, mainly to put nine wine bottles on the table and let people roll the wooden balls over, See how many ...... you can knock over

Next, the camera seems to turn to the slums of London's East End, where many dilapidated shacks, filthy roads, and people in ragged clothes and yellow muscles look dirty and numb, like prisoners in concentration camps, much to Elizabeth's embarrassment.

However, Hansel and Gretel, the two seemingly innocent and innocent twin Lori, disagreed," ...... What is there to sympathize with? If we hadn't met a big brother, our future fate would probably be inferior to these people! ”

Elizabeth, who had also watched "Black Reef", suddenly remembered the tragic ending of the Romanian twins in the original book, "...... Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot what you guys were through...... Indeed, it is really miserable to be sold abroad at such a young age......"

“…… In fact, even if we hadn't been sold abroad at that time, it is estimated that our fate would not have been much better. ”

Gretel shook her head and pulled a picture out of her pocket, "...... Even if he hadn't starved to death at that time, most of them would have been like the orphanage compatriots in this photo, curled up in the dirty and smelly sewers, and turned into cave-dwelling savages......"

-- In the photo, a middle-aged woman covered in dirt and pale complexion is sitting in a garbage cave with a syringe on her lap and a deformed little boy with a bag of poison powder in her mouth, showing a creepy and stupid expression towards the camera...... The middle-aged woman pictured, like the silver-haired twins in "Black Reef," is one of the Romanian orphans who have been left on the streets after the upheavals in Eastern Europe.

Before the upheaval in Eastern Europe, Nikolai. During Ceausescu's reign in Romania, Ceausescu issued many ridiculous decrees that caused an uproar around the world, including the prohibition of divorce, contraception, and free abortion, and the need to have at least four children per couple. The aim of this series of policies is to increase the Romanian labor force and increase the birth rate and fertility rate. But he failed to take into account the fact that the impoverished Romanian people simply could not afford to support them, and that Romania's economy was far from adequate to support such a large population. As a result, these absurd decrees have led directly to the skyrocketing birth rate and mortality rate in Romania, and a large number of poor parents who cannot afford to raise their children have to choose to abandon their babies in tears.

Initially, these abandoned orphans were able to be adopted by the state in welfare institutions. However, after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the fall of the red regime in Romania, the whole country fell into turmoil again, the former welfare institutions were forgotten by the world, and some orphans became the sought-after goods of human traffickers, and were sold to the red light districts and various private clubs of Western European and American countries, and even exported all the way to Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Arabia and India.......

But if they hadn't been taken abroad by human traffickers and had continued to stay on the soil of their homeland, would their fate have been slightly better? I'm afraid not necessarily - in the Eastern European countries of that turbulent era, ordinary families were still without food, and the orphans abandoned by the welfare institutions were even more hungry and cold, and had no way out. In Bucharest, Romania's capital, the city's abandoned sewers have become shelters, and they have survived by begging and stealing for food, using the heat from the steam pipes in the sewers to keep them warm.

By the 21st century, these Romanian orphans who had taken refuge in the capital's sewers had become a special group of "cavemen", many of whom had lived in the sewers for decades and had long since adapted to the filthy stench of the sewers, turning a blind eye to rats, fleas, garbage, and feces. And they continue to have children in this sewer without a trace of light, so that their offspring can grow up in this dark underground world. Some children never leave this underworld from birth until adulthood, and here they give birth to their own children......

Obviously, there can be no healthy life in such an underground world, and almost everyone in Bucharest's sewers suffers from AIDS, and one in four has tuberculosis. When the sun is about to set, the inhabitants of the sewers begin to wake up and climb to the ground like the living dead. Because their eyes have become accustomed to the darkness and become like vampires and no longer adapted to the sun!

- There is no hope, no purpose, even household registration and identity are disappearing in turmoil, leaving only violence, drugs, hunger, disease, discrimination and loneliness. If we say that those "North Drifters" who sleep in basements and sewers in Beijing, China, after experiencing a wall and despair, there is a way to leave Beijing and return to their hometown. Then these Romanian orphans, who were abandoned by everyone, have been trapped in this dark and damp world forever, and can only wait for death in the dark, and finally be completely swallowed by the boundless darkness.

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Hearing such a heavy and tragic story, Elizabeth suddenly felt a little depressed, but she just smiled brightly and turned away, wanting to change her mood. Unexpectedly, after taking a turn in the house, they found that the three Indian guests who had come for treatment had just said goodbye and left, and in order to see off these Indian guests, Wang Qiu and they also returned to the base of the modern world. Among the rest, Jane is lying on the couch making a face mask, while Mary, Kitty, and Lydia, three old Chinese ladies dressed in Western girl's skin, are playing mahjong, and Elizabeth, who does not know mahjong, is seriously lacking interest.

Unable to find any pastime, Elizabeth put a book under her arm and prepared to go out for a walk.

It's the most beautiful summer of the year in England, and it's a quiet afternoon, with the sun shining, the flowers blooming, the scent of flowers and grass wafting through the air, and everything feels comforting.

After a short stroll through the sunny meadows and woods, Elizabeth felt much more relaxed and was looking for a secluded place to take a nap, when she met another "best friend" who also came for a walk, the eldest lady of the Lucas family in the same village, Charlotte. Lucas.

Well, though, in the mouth of the long-tongued woman in Longborne, she is more often referred to as "the old girl of the Lucas family who can't get married"......

Elizabeth and her sisters, each with a dowry of £1,000, and of great beauty, had such a difficult marriage. Charlotte's dowry was only a pitiful one hundred pounds, and her appearance was ordinary, so she naturally became a dead stock in the marriage market of the gentleman class.

Speaking of which, the Lucas family is also a prominent family in Longburn Village, William. Mr. Lucas was the only knight in the village, and had been a businessman and mayor, and had been quite wealthy. But the problem is that at the end of the eighteenth century, when capitalism was just beginning to emerge, people's attitudes had not yet changed all at once, and even in England, the status of merchants was far inferior to that of landlords. On the one hand, many big businessmen will be anxious to buy manors and become squires after making money, so as to improve their social status; On the other hand, many gentlemen would rather go into debt than go into business, and if a knight were to run a business, it would be considered undignified, which is what Mr. Lucas valued most.

As a result, after becoming a knight, Mr. Lucas, in order to maintain his dignity and to be a respectable gentleman, gave up his lucrative business and came to the village of Longborne to buy land and settle down, living entirely on rent. However, land is a very special commodity, and land for sale is not available at all times, and most of the good land in Longborne Village has long been occupied by other families, so Mr. Lucas's real estate at that time was relatively small, and the rent income was not enough to maintain a luxurious life.

And Charlotte. Miss Lucas was also dragged down by the reality of this money-worshipping society to become a twenty-seven-year-old "old girl" due to various reasons such as a meager dowry and her poor appearance. The Lucas family also had a headache for their eldest daughter who couldn't get married, and even once decided to marry Charlotte to a widower with a dead wife and children in Meritun Town. It's just that Sir Lucas, after all, prides himself on being a decent person, and he really can't pull his face to mention it first, and the other party is not very satisfied with Miss Lucas's dispensable dowry and equally dispensable appearance, so in the end the marriage did not come to fruition.

In the original book of "Pride and Prejudice", Charlotte finally grasped the life-saving straw of Mr. Collins in time and successfully married herself. Although this made Elizabeth, a long-time friend. Miss Bennet was angry and puzzled, but the marriage was a very good deal for the Lucas family, who still had a daughter who had not yet been married and whose son was not very good...... But in this world that has been messed up by the traversers, this ordinary-looking Miss Lucas knows what kind of marriage will be.

To get back to the point, in the village of Longborne, Charlotte is Elizabeth. Bennet is one of the few same-sex friends, and after the soul change, the time-traveling version of Elizabeth also cautiously continued to maintain this friendship and friendship with Charlotte out of various considerations......

Therefore, as soon as she recognized Elizabeth's appearance, Charlotte immediately greeted her with a smile and greeted her warmly:

“…… Eliza (Elizabeth's nickname)! Good afternoon! Why haven't I seen you (at home online) for the past few days? That's right, that's right! Do you know? Netherfield Manor is rented out again! Do you want to know who rented it? ”

Hearing the news, Elizabeth's mind suddenly exploded with a "boom" and became blank, leaving only one thought:

――Could it be that after so many changes, the plot of Pride and Prejudice finally unfolds as it is?

Unfortunately, it will turn out that the idea she had in mind at this moment was really naïve...... However, after all, Sir Lucas prides himself on being a decent person, and he really can't pull his face to mention it first, and the other party is not very satisfied with Miss Lucas's dispensable dowry and equally dispensable appearance, so in the end the marriage did not take place.

In the original book of "Pride and Prejudice", Charlotte finally grasped the life-saving straw of Mr. Collins in time and successfully married herself. Although this made Elizabeth, a long-time friend. Miss Bennet was angry and puzzled, but the marriage was a very good deal for the Lucas family, who still had a daughter who had not yet been married and whose son was not very good...... But in this world that has been messed up by the traversers, this ordinary-looking Miss Lucas knows what kind of marriage will be.

To get back to the point, in the village of Longborne, Charlotte is Elizabeth. Bennet is one of the few same-sex friends, and after the soul change, the time-traveling version of Elizabeth also cautiously continued to maintain this friendship and friendship with Charlotte out of various considerations......

Therefore, as soon as she recognized Elizabeth's appearance, Charlotte immediately greeted her with a smile and greeted her warmly:

“…… Eliza (Elizabeth's nickname)! Good afternoon! Why haven't I seen you (at home online) for the past few days? That's right, that's right! Do you know? Netherfield Manor is rented out again! Do you want to know who rented it? ”

Hearing the news, Elizabeth's mind suddenly exploded with a "boom" and became blank, leaving only one thought:

――Could it be that after so many changes, the plot of Pride and Prejudice finally unfolds as it is?

Unfortunately, it will turn out that the idea she had in mind at this moment was really naïve......