78. Departure for London
"Hey! Miss Maria, Mr. Bennett and Miss Elizabeth will be following us in our carriage to London, do you know what is going on? Although Miss Jane Bennet did not come, Miss Bingley was still worried that the Bennett family was eyeing her brother.
Maria naturally knew what was going on, but when it came to Lydia's reputation, she couldn't talk about it casually.
So, Maria shook her head at Miss Bingley and smiled, "Why don't you want to go back to London?" β
Miss Bingley was stunned: "To be honest, this time at Netherfield Manor is really nostalgic, and the air in Hertfordshire is really fresh, unlike London, which has been smog for many years, and I can't get used to the smell even if I smell it for a hundred years." β
Maria didn't expect that Miss Bingley, who had always been hard-mouthed, would overturn what she had said, and she was suddenly a little relieved in her heart: "Since you like it so much, do you want Mr. Bingley to consider buying Netherfield Manor?" Actually, she also wanted to buy a farm, especially a farm estate like Longborn, but unfortunately she didn't have a way.
Miss Bingley was a little undecided for a while, and finally shook her head: "I would prefer Charles to go to Derbyshire to buy real estate, but unfortunately most of Derbyshire is occupied by the Darcy family, and the rest of the land is owned by the owner, and it is not big enough." β
In the eyes of many people, land is a very important property, and most people are not willing to sell it, and the Bentley family is not a very powerful family, since the generation of the old Mr. Bingley, their family has been thinking about buying a large piece of land, but unfortunately has not been able to do so.
Maria felt more and more that the Darcy family was a bit remarkable, and that buying land was not just about having money, but also about having "rights". She remembered that the Darcy family was very powerful in the church, and Darcy's own uncle was also a government official, and perhaps after they got married, she could use the power of the Darcy family to build a rose garden of her own.
"Maria in this carriage." Georgiana waved at her friend.
Maria was not polite, and went straight into the carriage: "It's too inconvenient to rely on the carriage to travel now, the carriage of the Lucas family is simply not for people to sit in, or your carriage is comfortable to sit in." As far as she knew, the Darcy family's carriages were made at great expense by craftsmen, and at least the road was not so bumpy.
Georgiana pursed her lips and smiled, "Knowing that you are not used to riding in a carriage, my brother specially asked the craftsmen in the family to do it again, and now it will not be very bumpy on the road." β
"Okay, you Georgiana dare to tease me, I don't believe you won't find a partner in the future, you wait for me."
Georgiana thought of her future sister-in-law's narrow temperament, and suddenly regretted it, knowing that she wouldn't be cheap.
Seeing this, Maria laughed more and more wantonly: The little one can't cure you!
Georgiana hurriedly folded her hands and begged for mercy: "Okay, Maria, let me goβ"
The two laughed and laughed for a while, and Mr. Darcy came up: "Two ladies, please sit down, we should leave." β
Maria blushed a little, "Ahem, Mr. Darcy, do you have any news of Lydia?" β
Darcy's face was not very good at mentioning this: "Someone saw George Wycombe walking on the streets of London with a young and beautiful girl, I guess that person is Miss Lydia, and the specific address of the two of them now needs to be further explored." Otherwise, he wouldn't have left for London in a hurry.
Maria frowned when she heard this, she must have spent a lot of money and connections during this period, otherwise how could there be news so quickly. Mr. Darcy is not with Elizabeth, but he is still wronged, which is really ...... However, Maria thought badly about this.
Darcy knew all about these things, don't look at Mr. Bennett who doesn't care much about his daughters, the other party can mix well in Hertfordshire, in addition to his background, it also has something to do with his emotional intelligence. After learning about this matter, Mr. Bennet will definitely come to visit, and he will naturally bring a thank you gift when the time comes.
When Georgiana thought of what had happened recently, she was grateful to Maria, and thought that if it wasn't for her friend's advice, she might have followed Lydia's old path. Thinking of Maria's new book, Georgiana's mind moved: "Maria, do you need my help writing some poetry or something for your new book this time?" β
Maria raised her eyebrows: "Why are you so positive this time?" I remember you seemed to be busy sorting out the manuscript. β
"Hey!" Georgiana sighed when she thought of what happened to Lydia, if Lydia saw this book, she wouldn't have embarked on this path, "I hope this book can help those girls who are not deeply involved in the world to stay away from scumbags as much as possible." β
Maria also thought the same thing when she first wrote this book, but now unlike the information explosion of the later generations, everyone can learn anti-scam knowledge from the Internet, so she plans to use her popularity to promote this new book in the guise of romance novels.
"Then I'll trouble you, let's see what poems are more appropriate to fill in those places." Maria was not polite to Georgia, and the poems in her novels were either written by Georgiana or with the help of Mr. Darcy, and she had never written them herself. After a few times, those book lovers got used to it, and there were even book lovers who wrote to her to provide her with poems.
The two little sisters discussed the poems for a long time, but poor Mr. Darcy was directly ignored by his fiancΓ©e and sister, but fortunately it was not the first time such a thing had happened, he had long been used to it, so he simply closed his eyes and began to think about the next move.
Seeing this, Maria's voice gradually became quieter, Georgiana covered her mouth and smiled, sometimes seeing her friend and brother so affectionate, she also wanted to find someone to settle down, but unfortunately, those gentlemen always gave her the feeling that something was missing, maybe her fate had not yet arrived.
Although Mr. Darcy had tried his best to make the carriage comfortable, Maria also found it difficult to endure it, and pretended to sleep in the system space halfway through the road to improve her knowledge.
"Maria, wake up, we're here." Georgiana gently pushed her friend who had slept most of the way, and her heart was full of helplessness, and it seemed that her friend's problem of sleeping in the carriage could not be changed.
Maria heard Georgiana's call from the system space, hurriedly left the system, and opened her eyes: "We're hereβ"
When she got out of the carriage, Maria found herself standing in the Darcy family's manor in London, blinking: "What about the Charlottes?" β
"Mrs. Ferguson is naturally going back to her house, and she asks her brother to take care of you for a while."
Maria: "......" Forget it, she'll soon be a member of the Darcy family anyway.