Chapter 159: Pride and Prejudice Part I
Pride and Prejudice!
Okay! Another movie adaptation that Manjoo loves!
This is a rural love story about a small English squire family with 5 flowery daughters looking for happiness! It mainly describes the emotional entanglement between the arrogant and wealthy single young man Darcy and the prejudiced second lady Elizabeth, the wealthy single aristocrat Bingley and the virtuous and beautiful eldest lady Ji Ying. It is a story of a reunion of lovers who eventually become married!
The mission is to change the fate of Lydia Bennett!
It seems that this iron house upgrade mission is to deal with these big villains, naïve, stupid, and problematic tragic supporting characters!
Lydia Bennett, the youngest sister of Elizabeth, the heroine of Pride and Prejudice! She is frivolous, vain, naïve and reckless, and likes to pursue young and handsome officers, and eventually elopes with the movie's villain Wakeham!
Manjoo recalled the behavior of the frivolous underage girl in the movie, and couldn't help but think worriedly: It shouldn't be difficult to change the fate of such an ignorant girl, right?
Let's take a look at her identity in this world first!
Manzhu took out the prepared small flashlight from the space and turned it on!
Soft bed, quilt, lace nightdress, curly hair, dresser, bedside table......
Then, Manjoo saw the letter on the bedside table!
Manjoo picked up the letter and opened it......
Oh, my God!
Manjoo couldn't believe it!
I don't know if it's luck or the care of the system god, she actually ......
Manjoo's identity in the plot world turned out to be Lydia Bennett!
Manjoo's original body turned out to be the goal of the mission?
In this case, this task should be easy to accomplish, right? Find a way to move, or find an officer to marry as soon as possible? It should be able to change the fate of the future, right?
But no, this Lydia Bennet is only 14 years old now!
I'm 14 years old! I'm just a junior high school student!
But the Lydia in the movie married herself at the age of 15! That's too precocious, isn't she? Isn't she supposed to go to school at this age?
Or......
After only a few moments, Manzhu thought of no less than ten ways to avoid the plot! It wasn't until she had a splitting headache that she remembered that her body was sick!
Manzhu hurriedly took out the antipyretic medicine from the space and took it, and drank a large glass of water in one go, only to feel better, and then lay down sickly!
It's still a year before the plot happens, right? That means she still has a year to figure out how to change her fate!
Now Manjoo is Lydia Bennett! She is going to stay in this world for more than three years, and everything she does during this time is the same as what Lydia herself does, so if she goes to boarding school, it is Lydia who goes to boarding school!
Manjoo thinks that if Lydia can go to school and get professional training, she should be able to change a lot of her problems! Her personality is mainly influenced by the environment! Isn't it that she is most like Mrs. Bennet?
Growing up in a small village with less than 30 households, every day was concerned with either a ball or drinking tea and cards, and the topic of a woman always revolved around a young and beautiful girl who wanted to find a rich bachelor!
One of the most memorable passages when Manjoo read the original Pride and Prejudice was when Mrs. Bennet said: "Personally, I don't think there's anything superior to London over the country, except that there are a little more shops and events." The country is more comfortable and pleasant than the city, isn't it?, Mr. Bingley?" and the words: "Of course, my dear, no one has said that, but to say that we do not meet many people in our neighborhood, I believe it is difficult to find anyone larger than ours." As far as I know, there are twenty-four families with whom we have eaten. ”
Hehe......
Mrs. Bennet's level of ignorance is simply disgusting! It is the sorrow of the Bennett family to have such a mother and wife! It is no wonder that the little daughter of such a mother is so frivolous, naïve, reckless, and bold that she is better than the blue!
Actually, Mrs. Bennet can't really be blamed for this, it's just a typical performance of a frog at the bottom of a well, because she has seen too little! As long as they are allowed to walk outside more, know that the outside world is big, and have more contact with people! Really!
But there were no secondary schools in those days, or could you hire a tutor, and there seemed to be a boarding school for girls, or a convent school?
But how could they get Mr. and Mrs. Bennet to agree to the tutor or let her go to school? As far as Manjoo knew, the Bennets were not very wealthy, they were just a small village squire family! Mr. Bennet's entire fortune was in one estate, and he received two thousand pounds a year from it. And since there is no male heir in the family, the estate, and the house in which they now live, will be inherited by a distant relative! If Mr. Bennet dies, the five of them will be swept away! As for their mother's fortune, the total is only four thousand pounds, which is only enough for her own life!
Alas, I have no money! If I can't get married in the future, I may be homeless!
So the most important thing at the moment is two things! One is to have an heir, and the other is to make money!
If the Bennett family had an heir, then everything would change! First of all, Mr. Bennett would regain his strength for the sake of the heir, instead of hiding in the study every day to escape everything; second, Mrs. Bennett would not urge her daughters to find a rich man to marry every day; and third, the daughters of the Bennett family would not have to worry about being swept away!
If the Bennett family had money, then they wouldn't have to worry about the dowry of their five daughters, and the girls would have the best education and wouldn't have to worry about not being able to get married!
Although Mrs. Bennet is in her forties, it is not uncommon to have children at this age!
So the next thing is to make money, how to increase the wealth of the Bennet family? Actually, this is not difficult! As far as Manjoo knows, Mr. Bennet is actually a very capable person, and now it has become like this, because there is no heir, Mr. Bennet has lost the motivation to struggle! Anyway, no matter how much he has property, he will eventually be cheaper than outsiders, so why should he work so hard?
So, in any case, let Mrs. Bennet have a son first!
After Manjoo made up her mind, she let go of her heart and slowly fell into a deep sleep!
The next morning, Manjoo was woken up by the sound of chattering! She opened her eyes and looked, wow!
"Lydia, are you feeling better?"
"Lydia, are you okay?" this is the fourth sister who has the best relationship with Lydia, Katie!
"Lydia, how do you feel?"
"Lydia, would you like some water?" this is the clever and assertive second sister Elizabeth!
The four sisters greeted her warmly!
"It's okay......" Manzhu, who had just woken up and was still dizzy, said a little dazedly, surrounded by so many girls.
"Lydia, my poor darling, you have suffered...... "A loud crying voice rushed in! a plump middle-aged woman with a beautiful countenance! That stupid and snobbish, vulgar Mrs. Bennet, who was bent on marrying her daughter!
Oh!
Manjoo's life in the Pride & Prejudice mission world has begun!
In the following days, Manju recovered her health as quickly as possible, and then carefully integrated into this lively family!
As a result, the Bennett family, except for Mr. Bennet and the second sister Elizabeth, who were the most sober-minded, did not find out that the little daughter who had been seriously ill had changed!
But for Lydia, who has changed her personality and has become no longer babbling and mentioning soldiers in red jackets at every turn, Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth think it is a good thing, and they are quite optimistic!
Jane, the eldest sister who is gentle and considerate to her younger sisters, began to sigh that the younger sister has grown up, no longer robbed her sisters' things, and has become sensible!
And Mary's impression of the little sister who began to respectfully consult her about what books are better is getting better and better!
Katie, the fourth sister, who has always had the best relationship with Lydia and is always together like a conjoined baby, said that the most favored little sister is getting smarter and smarter! In the past, only her mother doted on her the most, but now even her father and second sister are more and more fond of her, and the whole family likes her so much, she deserves to be her best sister! It's good to follow her!
As for the hopeless mother who doted on Lydia the most, Mrs. Bennet felt that her favorite little daughter was really getting more and more intimate! Her Lydia was indeed the most like her among all the daughters, she was so good, no matter what she did, she was right!
So, the days passed slowly in the rhythm of Manjoo coaxing Bennet's family to love her more and more!
At this time, a big joy happened to Bennet's family! Mrs. Bennet was pregnant!
In fact, as early as Manjoo's physical recovery, when she had dinner with the whole family on the first day, she gave Mrs. Bennet a birth potion!
This was really good news for Bennett's family! Everyone wanted Mrs. Bennet's baby to be a boy!
Even Mary, the nerd, knows what it means to have a child! If it's a boy, she doesn't have to worry about being homeless one day because she can't get married!
Mrs. Bennet had never been so sensible, and since she knew that she was pregnant again, she seemed to have changed all at once! quiet, sensible, gentle! She was so sure that this time it must be a boy!
Mr. Bennett did not know how to express his expectation, but he very much hoped that his hopeless wife would have his wish fulfilled and that he would have a boy in one fell swoop! so that he would not have to run away from the guilt that he could not leave his daughters!
And Elizabeth had never liked her mother so much as she did at the moment, and she thought that her mother who always disgraced her was wonderful!
Manjoo acts like a good sister who has grown up and is sensible! always reminding the whole family to make changes in order to welcome this new life that is about to be born!
A boy! Bennet's family was looking forward to it!