[Pride and Prejudice] Mrs Bennett

Chapter 45

People who are usually healthy and free from all diseases are basically aggressive when they get sick. Grace has suffered a lot this time.In modern times, it was only a matter of going to the hospital to drop the bottle for two or three days, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, she had to lie on the bed for nearly two months.

It wasn't just Grace who suffered in the past two months, but also Mr. Bennett and Dylan. Jane and Bingley, who were not far from Bennett Manor, rushed over with their children every two or three days.After Grace recovered, the whole family lost weight.

Seeing the grandson and granddaughter with small and sharp faces, Grace felt very distressed.Children are still cute if they are a little baby fat, and the visual and tactile effects are good when pinched.

After repeatedly instructing Jane to get some delicious food for the two children when she went back, she asked the housekeeper beside her to send the three of them out.

The defense between men and women in England is not as strict as that in the East, but there are many things that are done by the man and the woman. When the man is still alive, it is the man's job to visit and receive the male guests.Now the master of the Bennet family is transitioning from Mr. Bennet to Dylan. After Georgiana marries in, the master of the Bennet family will be their husband and wife.

The departure of the Bingley family made Grace relax his body. He raised his hand and thumped Mr. Bennett on the shoulder twice, and Dylan walked in. The expressions on the faces of the father and son were simply two extremes, a spring breeze blowing, A face full of frost.

"What's the matter?" Grace looked up at Mr. Bennett.

The smile on the corners of Mr. Bennett's lips deepened. After sitting down beside Grace, he said: "I told Charles just now, what kind of cooperation will I have with the manufacturers or shops under the name of Bennett's family in the future?" If you don’t want to, just go to Dylan directly and don’t have to tell me any more.”

Grace suddenly realized, and turned to look at Dylan, who was still sitting on the sofa not far away with a straight face, and saw that his clear blue eyes were darkened, and he was acting like a baby to her pitifully.

With a secret smile in his heart, Grace said comfortingly: "Dylan, this Bennett's house is yours after all, and now it's just that your father gave these to you in advance. Your father has come here for so many years, you Didn't you tell me and my sisters that you will definitely do better than your father?"

"Mom—" Dylan called softly in a drawn-out tone, in which the sense of grievance was obvious.Even though he was mentally prepared, he didn't expect that there would be so many affairs in the Bennett family. No wonder his father spent so long in the study before!

Thinking that he was not married yet, and that after marriage, he would still be so busy and spend so little time with his wife, Dylan felt even more aggrieved.Forget about Charles, since the elders in the family are not around, it is normal for him to be busy; when Fitzwilliam was newly married, old Mr. Darcy also took over the Darcy family for almost a year...

Dylan wanted to cry more and more, and finally surrendered to Mr. Bennett instead of venting his air-conditioning: "Dad, I know this is what I should do, so I won't refuse, but——wait for me and Georgiana After getting married, you won't be so busy, so you don't know when the grandchildren you and your mother are looking forward to will be born."

It was rare to see their son like this, and the unscrupulous Bennetts secretly looked at each other happily.

Grace clenched his fists and coughed lightly twice before slowly calming his son's heart: "Don't worry, even if your father and I want to travel, we have to wait until the family is safe."

After taking the reassurance, Dylan finally stopped his sour face, and secretly muttered in his heart that his mother loved him more.

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After time and experience, Georgiana, who married into the Bennett family, finally became a qualified Viscountess.When Dylan had twin daughters and a son, Grace finally left Longbourn with Mr. Bennett.

The couple first spent a year traveling all over Great Britain, and then went to France across the sea. After spending three years traveling all over Europe, the couple came to the far east.

After disembarking at the port of Guangzhou, seeing the familiar black-eyed and yellow-skinned Oriental, Grace seemed like a lifetime away.Yes, isn't it just a world away.She can no longer go back to that world. She is Grace Bennett, and she is no longer the girl from Jiangnan who learned embroidery from her grandma.

Grace finally smiled in relief when he set foot on the land of China that he had been thinking about.No matter why she came into this world, she is very happy now.

That's fine.

Mr. Bennett, who had been watching his wife carefully, was relieved.Ever since he got on the ship heading east, Grace has been tight, and it will be more like this when it gets to the end.Even if Mr. Bennett regrets not coming here, it is impossible to ask for a change of ship to return to England in the middle of the sea.

Unexpectedly, after getting off the boat, Grace suddenly figured it out. Although he didn't know what secrets his wife had in her heart, as long as she didn't go into a dead end, it would be fine.They are all elderly people, and it is not a good thing to think too much.

Mr. Bennett, now in his fifties, no longer cared as much about Grace's secrets as he did when he was young.Regardless of whether Grace is willing to tell him or not, she has always been by his side since then. Isn't there something he doesn't want to tell her over the years?

Even if there were secrets, Grace had always been the same to him, to the Bennetts, and hadn't changed.

White lies are not something worth getting into.

The couple stayed in Daqing for three years.Mr. Bennett not only marveled at the beauty and richness of this country, but also laughed at the backwardness of this dynasty. By the way, he opened up new business opportunities for the Bennett family here again.Faced with her husband's evaluation of the dynasty, Grace could only smile wryly in her heart. All she could do was to encourage her husband to sell here steam engines and some firearms that had been eliminated in England.

It's just that Grace's painstaking efforts were in vain after all. The Qing Dynasty can be regarded as the most prosperous, stable and powerful emperors in the three dynasties of Kang, Yong and Qian, but they failed to develop in this direction. Emperor Jiaqing who ransacked Heshen's house and was finally struck to death by lightning.

With regrets in mind, Grace and Mr. Bennett set foot on the ship to America.

At this time, the United States is no longer a colony of Great Britain, but it is not the superpower that Grace remembered in his previous life.Now the United States is an emerging country, which is full of vigor and vitality, attracting all kinds of people.

This was the last place Grace and Mr. Bennett planned to travel, and it was Grace's ideal future residence.

After all, England is just across the sea from Europe. Although there is still a century before the First World War, this matter is still in Grace's memory. She cannot ignore the issue of the descendants of the Bennett family.As a person with a Huaxia core, her emphasis on family inheritance is incomprehensible to others.

If there is no family inheritance, when she first came to this world, she probably couldn't be so calm, and it is even more impossible for her to obtain the happy life she is now.

Mr. Bennett is a typical English gentleman who really can't understand Grace's love for America.Compared with the connotative England, the United States is too noisy in his eyes. He likes a quiet life, especially Langbourne.

In the end, Mr. Bennett was fooled by Grace and bought 8000 hectares of land in the Louisiana area.Two years ago, the U.S. government just bought it from Napoleon for [-] million francs, and the land area expanded a lot.The United States was independent from Great Britain, and it recognized Mr. Bennett's title of Viscount, thus obtaining a lot of benefits.

The Louisiana area at this time is not the Louisiana state of later generations. It stretches from Canada in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, equivalent to thirteen states in the Midwest of the United States in later generations.Mr. Bennett had a wide range of choices, and Grace urged him to take down areas with relatively rich land.

Regardless of whether the Bennett family will eventually go to the United States to develop, with these lands, the Bennett family will have something in the UK in the future, which can be regarded as a backup.As for the difficulties that will be encountered when using this second-hand Bennett family, that is not something that Grace can worry about.There's only so much she can do.

When he returned to England and took over the title deed from Mr. Bennett, the smile on Dylan's face was wonderful.Now it is hard enough for him to deal with the affairs of Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty, and his father bought so much land in America...

Could it be that the wasteland fever of those poor people going to the United States has also spread to my father?

After learning from Mr. Bennett that it was Grace's idea, Dylan frowned: "Dad, you said this was bought by Mom?"

Mr. Bennett nodded, although he looked at Dylan, his eyes were empty: "As for the arrangement of the land, just listen to your mother. You are well aware of your mother's ability. The current properties of the Bennett family, Many of them were arranged by your mother."

"Yeah." Dylan nodded heavily.

He is also very aware of his mother's business talent, and he is very envious of it.If he could be as sharp as Grace, maybe he wouldn't have to work as hard as he is now.wrong!Because of Mr. Bennett, the mother only has to make suggestions, and it is the father who implements and manages.So even if he inherited his mother's business vision, he was the one who was exhausted in the end.

In the end, this piece of land in the United States became a farm, and it also became a place for Grace and Mr. Bennett to retire.Although it is a bit far away from England, every few years in England, no matter Jane, Elizabeth and the twins, they will go to the United States to visit the couple respectively, and Dylan has to come here every few years.

After all, this farm is the property of the Bennett family, and he, the helmsman, must understand what is going on on the farm.

When Mr. Bennett was 75 years old, Willie, the second son of Dylan and Georgiana, left England to settle in the United States.The eldest son of the two inherited all the properties of the Bennett family in England and the East, and the second son got the farm in the United States.

This is because the farm is not very valuable and far away except for the larger land area, or it will not be Willie's turn to inherit it.

Because of Grace's advice, Dylan paid great attention to his son's education. The age gap between the two sons is relatively large, and they have different statuses, but they didn't quarrel because of money and titles.

The leisurely life of the couple in their later years was gone forever because of the arrival of their grandson, but almost 20 years have passed since the two of them lived together, and the appearance of such a young man has filled the loneliness of the two of them.

Ten years later, Mr. Bennett died first, and Grace soon followed.According to the will of the two, Willie did not send the remains of the two back to England, but was buried in a forest on the farm and buried together.

On the epitaphs of the two of them, there are so few words.

They know each other, fall in love, love each other.In this regard, decades passed by in a hurry, and they never let go of each other's hands.Not even death can separate them.

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