Lying in bed, Maria was still lamenting the impermanence of the world, and she had talked to her rival all night, but she had left Mr. Darcy aside, and now that she thought about it, she really shouldn't have forgotten her fiancé.

On the other side, Mr. Darcy, who was disturbed by the fiancé dating, was quite angry, originally he couldn't look down on the style of the Bennett family, but now the new hatred and old hatred are becoming more and more annoying: "Christmas is coming soon, I need to go to London for social events, Charles, what do you think?" ”

Mr. Bingley was silent for a long time, and then said, "I will go back with you, but will Miss Maria go with you to London?" He didn't think Darcy would be willing to leave his fiancée.

At the mention of this, Darcy immediately smiled: "Maria will follow me back to London, but she will stay at Antonio's house." Fortunately, Antonio's mansion in London was not far from Darcy's mansion, and they were able to see each other often.

"Mr. Antonio Ferguson?" Bingley nodded and said, "Miss Maria's brother-in-law—"

When Miss Bingley heard this, she also thought of the original deeds of Mr. Ferguson, and said with a little melancholy: "The Lucas sisters are both well married, and they are really good luck and enviable." ”

"No, although Mr. Antonio Ferguson is not the heir of the Ferguson family, but they have a good relationship with the brothers, and he is also quite loved by the old lady, and his fortune is not very expensive, and he was also a famous golden beetle son-in-law in London, no one thought that he would end up with a knight's daughter, and Mrs. Ferguson's dowry is pitiful." She remembered that Mrs. Charlotte Ferguson's dowry seemed to be £500.

Mr. Hirst, who had been quiet, suddenly said: "Mr. Antonio Ferguson's marriage is good!" ”

Miss Bingley's eyes narrowed with laughter when she heard this, and she covered her mouth with a feather fan, and asked, "Where is it?" ”

Mr. Hearst did not care at all about Miss Bingley's attitude: "It seems to you that Mrs. Ferguson's dowry is pitiful, but do not forget the cloak worn by this lady when she got married, and I have heard Earl William mention that it costs £2,000 at least!" ”

Miss Bingley said sourly, "Miss Maria is really willing to be her sister, Mr. Darcy, what do you think of this?" ”

"That's her own money, naturally she can buy whatever she wants, and besides, Mrs. Ferguson is not an outsider, she is Miss Maria's own sister, and it is normal to add makeup to her sister." Darcy really didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and Maria privately said that when Georgiana got married, she would also give her a phoenix crown and xia cape.

Miss Bingley was choked, in fact, she just said it casually, to put it bluntly, she was envious and jealous, and envied Mrs. Ferguson for having a rich and generous sister.

"That being said, but there are still few sisters as generous as Miss Maria." Mrs. Hearst looked at her sister, "It's a pity that Caroline is not as rich as me, so we can only watch." ”

Miss Bingley smiled awkwardly, she was really not rich: "Luisa, no matter how long you stare at me, I won't be able to take out your sister." But what do you say Miss Maria will give when little Lucas gets married? ”

Mr. Bingley said with some uncertainty: "Pocket watch? ”

Mr. Hearst thought it was porcelain: "If you think that Miss Maria was able to give Mrs. Ferguson a phoenix crown, you can see that she has in her possession a lot of good things from the East, which, according to the popularity of the Oriental objects, I guess porcelain." ”

Not to be outdone, Mrs. Hearst said, "I don't think like you guys, I guess it's diamonds!" ”

Miss Bingley saw that Miss Darcy had been silent, and said with some curiosity, "What do you think, Georgiana?" ”

Georgiana smiled embarrassedly, "You guessed wrong, Miss Maria told me she was going to send a screen!" ”

Darcy added: "A very precious screen, on which a master embroiderer from the East spent years embroidering on the double-sided embroidery, on one side is the Four Beauties, and on the other side is the Eight Immortals Across the Sea. ”

"Mr. Darcy, how do you know so well?" Miss Bingley asked, surprised.

Darcy said with a little ostentation, "Miss Maria got several screens and let me choose them. ”

Bingley gasped when he heard this, and secretly smacked his tongue: "A screen like the one you described costs two or three thousand pounds, listen to your tone, Miss Maria still has a lot of survival in her hands, she is really rich, I don't know if Miss Maria is willing to sell me a fan, I will put it in the manor at that time." ”

"I don't have to say this, you need to ask Miss Maria in person, I said in advance, the price of this quality screen is not low." Darcy thought that Maria might be willing to sell to Bentley, after all, he remembered that Maria had said that she still had two screens in her hand and didn't like it very much.

Immediately afterwards, Georgiana was the first to sit still and offered to go to Lucas's cottage to admire the screen, and the rest of the group were curious about the screen that the well-informed Mr. Darcy praised and agreed......

The next morning, Maria's family welcomed Mr. Darcy and his party, but fortunately, because Mr. Darcy was often visiting, there was no shortage of good things in the kitchen, otherwise their family really did not know how to entertain guests.

Mrs. Lucas was also rejoicing, and secretly sighed that Charlotte was prescient, otherwise according to her previous style, this breakfast would probably be rude: "Everyone sit, I'll go to the kitchen and have a look, and I'll eat it in a while." ”

Maria said with a smile: "There are fritters and soy milk for breakfast today, if you have anything else you want to eat, please mention it." ”

Mr. Bingley: "Tofu brain! ”

Miss Bingley: "Eight Treasure Porridge!" ”

Georgiana: "Red date white fungus porridge!" ”

……

Maria wanted to shout "good fellow", and she didn't know how to write the word "polite", but lately they had been coming over a lot to eat, otherwise they wouldn't have known all about the kind of breakfast in the Lucas family.

Charlotte smiled and said, "You like Chinese food so much, why don't you let the cook at home come and learn for two days." "Some simple Chinese food is still very easy to learn, and the chef from Ferguson House came to learn it, and it only took 10 days to make it.

Binli responded first: "Well, I'll let Char come over when I turn around, but I don't know if it's inconvenient?" "This kind of authentic Chinese food is not something that can be learned if you want to, and most people will not spread it, after all, it is not uncommon for the apprentices to starve to death of the master.

"Always welcome." Maria nodded very generously in agreement.