Chapter6

Mr. Bennet muttered to himself that the good looks of the tutor candidate were a little inappropriate, but he still politely welcomed Julien Sorel through the door.

This time, I changed my attitude of not caring about things in the past, and dispelled the idea of going for a walk on the beach. Taking advantage of the opportunity to send someone to Hume's house nearby to ask Brando to come back, he chatted with Yu Lian first.

Mr. Bennet: "Please have a cup of coffee and wait a moment." It's my son Brando who meets you for an interview, so I'm telling him to come back quickly. Sorry for the delay, but hopefully it won't affect your future trip. ”

Yu Lian: "You're welcome, I have no other arrangements for coming to the UK. Previously, the letter only mentioned the meeting this week, and did not plan a specific interview time, so I took the liberty to go directly to the door. ”

Julien had been prepared for the need to wait for a while, and his answer seemed to be very blunt. It directly indicates that there is no other job option, only for the tutoring position of the Bennet family.

This is likely to put you on the underdog side, letting employers know they have no other choice, and they will be picked on or underpaid.

Knowing the pros and cons, I don't care much about it.

In the original life plan, there was no such step as leaving France to become a tutor in England.

Tutoring, he did it two years ago.

He was born into a family of carpenters who felt like a prison.

Since he was a child, his brother was jealous of his appearance and intelligence, and found excuses to beat him from time to time. The mother died early, and the father only had money in his eyes, and he would not blink if he sold his son for money.

The person he admired the most was Napoleon, and he longed for the First French Empire under Napoleon.

What a great era, even ordinary people from poor backgrounds could join the army and enter the upper class society with their true skills in battlefield combat.

However, fourteen years have passed since the Battle of Waterloo, and Napoleon has died eight years earlier. The restoration of the decaying Bourbon dynasty will no longer allow ordinary people to be promoted by military merit.

The only way for ordinary people to enter French high society is to study theology.

At the age of eighteen, Yu Lian could no longer endure the oppression of his father and brother, and was recommended by a befriended priest to take the first step. Go to the mayor's house in his hometown and teach the children of Mayor de Renard Latin.

Unexpectedly, for the first time, he faced the bad face of the upper class.

De Renard was talking about inviting teachers, but in fact he treated tutors as lowly servants who were insulted at will.

There is no love of knowledge, much less dignity. His wife also always has a cold face and does not look at people with a straight eye.

Even if Julien was affirmed to have learned people, even if he could use the Latin required by high society with ease, he did not feel the respect of the mayor and his wife.

De Renard has nothing but his background, so why should he steal the position of mayor. With ordinary looks, rude manners, mediocre knowledge, and no feelings and responsibilities for the family!

Julien was indignant, and when his pride was seriously insulted, he came up with the despicable idea that he wanted to conquer Madame de Renard.

This can carry out covert revenge on those who look down on him, and it is also an excuse for his own tutoring experience.

In this era, governess is no longer a glamorous and noble position.

In the future, after he gets ahead, he will be dug up to do this business, and he can be inferred that he will serve in the mayor's house for love.

Nowadays, it is common for French upper-class couples to have lovers.

The seduction succeeded as he wished.

Yu Lian began to fall into uneasiness.

Contrary to what he had thought, de Renard was only interested in profit, but Madame de Renard and her children gave him the first sincere affection in his life.

He understood that Madame Reynal's initial indifference was just a pretense.

Madame has no affection for her husband, and she doesn't know how to deal with a gentle man who is completely different from her husband. When she has a crush on the man, her first reaction is to use a cold protective color.

Truth is precious and happy.

I never understood what true feelings were, and at first I was just doing a show, but gradually I fell into it and moved my heart.

It's just that the time, place, and people are all wrong, and it is impossible for him to have this warmth for a long time in this life.

The difference in status is an insurmountable barrier, not to mention that Madame de Raynal is married, which cuts off the possibility of the two starting a family from the beginning.

In 1792, divorce was legalized for the first time during the French Revolution, and the relevant laws were retained to a limited extent in the Napoleonic Code.

In 1815, after the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, the divorce law was abolished. A wife cannot come out of a marriage unless she loses her husband. ①

Even so, Yu Lian longs for the warmth and true feelings of one more day, and even puts aside the ambition of getting ahead.

The paper couldn't hold the fire, and someone anonymously revealed this affair to the mayor of Reynal.

Although it was common for upper-class couples to have lovers outside the home, Monsieur Raynal could not accept that his wife's lover was a poor boy.

Even if there is no conclusive evidence, it is an insult to him. It is impossible to separate from his wife, it has nothing to do with feelings, it will divide a lot of his money, absolutely not.

Madame Raynal managed to mediate and did not get her husband to take the private affair mentioned in the anonymous letter seriously, but instead pushed it on the false accusations of a competitor in the industry.

These rumors strengthened her mind, and asked Julien not to stay in the small town of Villiers. She is sad that her lover is leaving, but it is better to separate so that the two do not fall deeper and deeper and suffer more in the future.

Yu Lian had to leave. Before leaving, the mayor of Renard wanted to give him six hundred francs, as if to send him a stain on his departure.

He flatly refused. At first, he seduced his wife with a revenge scheming, but after falling in love sincerely, he never thought of using money to buy out and insult this relationship.

An even more ironic thing has emerged.

Mr. Mayor, who loves money as much as his life, thanked him even more because he didn't have to pay the money, and gave him a recommendation with a certificate of good conduct.

Home, it is impossible to go back, there is a cage.

Walking, is the only option.

On the recommendation of the priest, he left his hometown for the first time and went to the seminary in Besançon, the provincial capital.

He applied for a scholarship and thought that he would come to an academic institution to study the merciful God, but the reality was very different from what he imagined.

Obviously in a seminary, devotion to religion and studious study have become the greatest original sin.

It's full of disgusting intrigues of all kinds. The French Church seems to understand that books are the worst enemy, puppets from above who will obey. ②

Yu Lian was incompatible with his classmates because of his excellent knowledge.

was deliberately suppressed due to factional struggle, and instinctively won the first result, and was reduced to the 198th place.

After nearly two years in this rotten place, the more quiet he was on the surface, the more he didn't want to stay for a day in his heart.

It was at this time that I read a job posting in the newspaper "French Culture".

In a rather sincere tone, the newspaper asked someone to go to England as a tutor, teaching Latin, theology, French or German, and local customs.

Yu Lian believes that he is qualified for this job, and it can be said that he can apply what he has learned and be professional.

Although he was reluctant to work as a tutor again, the job posting came at the right time, and he urgently needed to get out of his current mired life.

It's not an impulsive choice, but with an untraceable expectation.

Since I was a child, I was not lucky enough to experience beautiful family affection, and later experienced a vain love.

In France, he did not see any hope of a normal upward movement. If he stays on, will he become the person he hates the most?

He hadn't paid attention to the situation in the UK before, but because of this job posting, he went out of his way to inquire about the current situation in London.

The British Parliament was reformed, and the right to vote was no longer in the hands of the old aristocracy, but extended to wealthy merchants engaged in industry and commerce.

Perhaps, England under George IV would be better off than erosive France under the Bourbons?

Taking a step back, I have to admit that a high salary of 300 pounds a year is a price that cannot but be tempted.

Julien discovers that maybe Britain will allow him to live a normal life.

A life that does not have to go against one's heart, does not have to separate one's heart from one's actions.

I took a step that I never thought of and carefully wrote a cover letter to send out. After receiving the interview notice, he immediately asked for leave to go abroad and came to Scarborough Town.

However, he didn't have to think about it. If you can't choose, you will retreat to the seminary and continue to hibernate.

At the moment, behave calmly.

I was very surprised, but I didn't expect that the interview decision was not in Mr. Bennet's hands. The father does not call the shots, and the child decides for himself a three-hundred-pound business?

Julien and Mr. Bennet talked.

Then, the accidents got worse.

Only then did I know that the job posting in the newspaper was actually published by Mr. Bennet Jr. himself.

In this regard, Mr. Bennet, as a father, is not angry, and is proud of the independence of his children.

This is a very foreign family perception.

Yu Lian is accustomed to seeing dictatorial/dictatorial fathers, and those men, whether they have the ability or not, make their own decisions about their wives and children, and completely ignore the feelings of the other party. Mr. Bennet, by contrast, is quite open-minded, so open-minded that he only appears in his dreams.

Envy arises spontaneously.

If only his biological father had one-tenth of Mr. Bennet's character, he would have had a warm family life that he did not dare to ask for.

One thing is certain: being a tutor at the Bennet house is far more comfortable than at the Reynal Mayor's house.

Even if the latter has a higher position of power, he is very different from Mr. Bennet in character. What would have happened if he had met Mr. Bennet when he first became a tutor?

It should be wonderful.

He could be a respectable teacher, not a lowly servant. After that, will he be able to earn a respectable social status through real talent and real learning?

Julien suppressed meaningless assumptions, which had already happened in the past, but could not restrain his appreciation for Mr. Bennet.

Mr. Bennet praised sincerely: "Mr. Sorel, you have really succumbed to my house as a teacher with your theological attainments. You deserve a place in the Holy See. ”

During the conversation, Mr. Bennet mainly asked about Yu Lian's academic problems.

I learned that Yu Lian studied at a French seminary and had experience as a tutor in the past, and then listened to him easily study religion-related studies, and he knew the doctrines of various denominations well.

Mr. Bennet's hesitation about his appearance dissipated.

He sincerely praised and thought that Yu Lianlai was overkill as a tutor.

Just as he was about to ask what Brando's annual salary was in the newspapers, he saw a man appear at the door of the reception room.

Brando saw that the atmosphere in the room was harmonious, and it seemed that the two of them had a good conversation in just forty minutes.

"Good afternoon, Father. I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the interview in advance. Mr. Sorel, thank you for your long wait, and welcome to the UK. ”

"Little Mr. Bennet, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Yu Lian got up to say hello, and once again had an unexpected mood.

Neither the job posting nor the old Bennet's words revealed how old the "student" was. Only then did he realize that he had a preconceived notion that he was not going to teach children who were about ten years old.

Even more surprisingly, compared to the old Bennet, who was just like his squire, the real employer, Brando, has more of an aura of nobility that cannot be ignored.

Unlike those whom he loathed, Mr. Bennet Jr. did not have the arrogance of the superior, but had a calmness that seemed to be able to perceive people's hearts.

Bennet and his son can find some similarities in appearance, but they are only very different in temperament.

Yu Lian secretly pondered that there were too many accidents today, and he should get used to accidents.

Mr. Bennet did not leave, but introduced Brando to Len.

The central idea is just one sentence, he supports the employment of Yu Lian. This candidate is very good at Latin and religious studies, and is looking for a professional counterpart.

At the end of the day, the final decision is in Brando's hands.

Mr. Bennet did not think that it was wrong for Brando to find another tutor without telling him in advance, that it was Brando's right to hire someone at her own expense.

Moreover, as early as when he ceded Brando's education to Hume, he acquiesced and did not ask about the matter.

There is one more small doubt.

Although both Anglican and French Catholicism believe in God, they are distinctly different in doctrine.

If Brando asks a French person to tutor him in order to enter Cambridge, will he be off-topic?

Mr. Bennet did not express his doubts in front of Lien. Since Brando agreed to Yu Lian's interview, he must have planned for a long time.

Brando smiled and listened patiently to Mr. Bennet's complimentary introduction.

Before today, she had never heard of anyone other than reading Dorian Sorel's cover letter.

She doesn't want to wonder if this person is a character from a book in her previous life.

Anyway, I haven't heard of it, either I don't have this book, or it's a work of art that she doesn't interest in.

If you ask about the Western masterpieces she liked in her last life, it would be "The Great Detective Conan Doyle" co-written by the Smiths and his wife in the 19th century, but she never thought that she would meet the characters in this book in this life.

Maybe in a parallel time and space, Conan Doyle became a writer and wrote "Detective S". And in another time and space, Detective S is a real person.

The rules of time and space are unpredictable.

Maybe in α plane, there are books like ABC, but in β plane, there are books like AHX. And when it comes to γ time and space, the characters of "A" and "H" become real characters.

As a result, when Brando learns of the Bennets' connection to Pride and Prejudice, he never thinks that the world has been reduced to dimensionality.

The story can only be used as a very light reference, don't judge a person's good and evil deeds with the original book, because people will continue to change when they live in this world.

"I think that with Mr. Sorel's knowledge, he will be able to become a bishop of a certain diocese in the future."

Mr. Bennet concluded his introduction to Lien's compliments.

Brando kept smiling.

Regardless of Yu Lian's academic level, he can at least be sure of one thing, as long as he wants to, he can get along with the Bennet family.

Is this a disadvantage?

No, it can turn into something advantageous.

Especially Yu Lian has a handsome appearance, and using him properly is a good textbook.

The Bennet sisters were able to gain some immunity to pretty men.

Especially the younger Catherine and Lydia, I hope they will have a long time to see and will not be easily deceived by men again.

Brando's offer of a high salary three times higher than the market price for a tutor was not just about finding a good sparring partner for himself from the beginning.

She's looking for people who can be multi-purpose, or have the potential to be her assistant/partner, or educate the rest of the Bennet family.

The so-called education is not just to inculcate book knowledge, let alone to show the friendly and harmonious side, but to face the multifaceted nature of the real world.

Looking for employees is not to make friends, not to ask for the candidate's integrity and flawlessness, as long as the mistakes can be corrected, in the controllable area.

The most important necessary condition is that people who come have the ability but are not pedantic and conservative, and dare to challenge and resist stereotypes ideologically.

This is rare in this day and age.

The previous 12 interviewees were either screened out due to lack of professional ability or because they could not get rid of the old stigma in their thinking.

At the moment, Brando directly agreed with Mr. Bennet's praise of Lien, and did not reveal a trace of doubt.

"Mr. Sorel, from reading your CV to hearing your father's affirmation of you, I think there is no doubt about your knowledge of language and theology."

Dare to say this, because Mr. Bennet is not an unlearned, he knows Latin as well as theology.

Judging the knowledge of tutors by their standards may not be able to select amazing talents, but it is enough to select qualified teachers who meet the current standards.

Mr. Bennet immediately smiled, and it felt good that Brando had affirmed his judgmental vision!

He didn't get dizzy, and he thought about the possible reaction to recruiting Yu Lian. It is mainly the influence on Catherine and Lydia, who look at people superficially.

Who is to blame?

Mr. Bennet did not put the blame on his wife, believing that the two daughters were following the faults of his youth. I married this wife because she was very beautiful when she was young.

It wasn't until a few years after marriage that he regretted that he was too impulsive to get married and was not satisfied with his wife's temperament. It's useless to regret it, you can only live a peaceful life one day at a time.

He paid the price for his unhappy married life, and his daughters should have had time to correct it. This matter needs to be treated with the right medicine, and Yu Lian may be an opportunity?

As for the other three older daughters, will they have a good impression of the handsome tutor?

After fourteen years of dementia in his four daughters, Mr. Bennet thought about many things.

Who didn't have some hazy feelings when he was young.

On the premise of protecting yourself, don't make scandals that affect the rest of the family such as elopement, and if you don't get along, you will come together, and if you don't get along, you will break up, and then start a new one.

Yu Lian nervously tensed, not thinking that he could pass the interview so easily.

With an annual salary of three hundred pounds, or about seven or eight thousand francs, such a high-paying job could not be easily obtained.

Brando, however, really lightly skipped the part of the professional competence test.

"Now that my father has recognized your professional knowledge, I will not dwell on this subject, and we will talk about something else."

To pass the professional skills, you only need to ask about the ideological tendencies.

The latter will be deliberately hidden, who makes this a chaotic and turbulent time.

Brando was not serious at all, but seemed to be gossiping, and said in a relaxed tone:

"I hope to have a tutor with a similar hobby to make the learning atmosphere more relaxed. Mr. Sorel, can you tell us what is your favorite book? Maybe we can have similar reading preferences. ”

Julien was about to give the standard answer to the Bible, and he was able to memorize it backwards.

Combined with the content of the job posting and your seminary background, this would be a perfect answer.

Brando added unhurriedly: "God forbid, you will not answer the Bible." The merciful Lord must have understood that I was not questioning the scriptures, and who doesn't love the Bible? I asked what books do you like other than that? ”

Yu Lian's prepared answer was choked in his throat.

He was uncomfortable because he was choked, and because he was prejudged to answer, he felt like he had been unmasked.

What kind of answer should be given now?

Say a book as you like?

Or put yourself in the questioner's shoes and wonder what books are most in line with Brando's heart to get him through the interview?

Yu Lian originally had no inevitable desire for this job, but now he was aroused to win and want to be recognized and hired.

The first time they met, it was difficult for him to judge Brando's preferences from his speech and demeanor.

Unlike those whom he had seen before, Brando did not have the pride of superiority, nor did he see the easy-going nature of the light, nor was he a pretentious gentleman.

Julien had never been to London, but there were many rumors of fog by hearsay. Brando is like the fog of London, making it impossible to get a glimpse of what it really is.

If you can't guess the other party's preferences, you can only gamble. This makes for an answer that is not sure whether it is suitable or not. "My favorite book is ......"