[Sense and Sensibility] Fascinated by you

After Colonel Brandon woke up in the afternoon, Hathaway asked Gavin to help him to solve a personal need. Although it was a bit embarrassing, it was better than Hathaway helping him.

After experiencing the choice between life and death, the relationship between the two has become deeper. At least they have left the shyness at the beginning of their relationship. Now Hathaway can calmly face some things, such as kisses, and... biological needs.

Colonel Brandon feels better today. Although his limbs are still weak and his chest still hurts when he is panting, he is much better than when he just woke up yesterday.Hathaway had just sent Kate over to check on Colonel Brandon's wounds. Fortunately, the colonel was in good health, so the wounds were recovering well and had begun to close up. Other small wounds were also getting better.

Hathaway sat by the bed and read A Midsummer Night's Dream to Colonel Brandon. Her voice was beautiful and her tone was unhurried, like a quiet and flowing river. People could easily indulge in it and forget the sorrows of reality. , but Colonel Brandon could clearly sense the sadness between her brows.

The colonel pressed one hand on the page, preventing Hathaway from continuing to read, "Tell me about the situation outside."

Hathaway thought about it, but decided to tell the truth, the colonel must have more experience in this area than she and Philip, and maybe he could come up with some good ideas.

Colonel Brandon closed his eyes and listened quietly to her explaining their current situation and the environment around the village. After being injured, he always felt a little lack of energy and easily felt tired. He knew it was caused by excessive blood loss.After listening, he asked about Philip's leg injury and the height of the fence, and then he didn't speak for a long time.

"Before Andrew left, I asked him to bring a letter to Bolton to find Colonel Morrison. Eric and I are old comrades in arms. I think he will be willing to lend me money, so if the situation is good, maybe now Andrew has already returned to Manchester, and if the situation is not good enough, he is most likely in the Bolton militia." Colonel Brandon tapped the hard cover in his hand with his fingers.

Hathaway let out a cry of surprise, her eyes sparkling, waiting for him to continue.

"You made a mistake. We really have to find a way to leave here as soon as possible, but we don't have to go back to the city. That's too demanding. We can ride a horse to the city to deliver the letter, and the other two Find a place to hide, as long as they don't find them. It would be best if Andrew was in the city, but if he wasn't, he would have enough manpower left in the city to deal with these workers, and you could go to the sheriff or The sheriff will help, and I think he will be very willing to come and arrest these fugitives."

Hathaway opened her mouth cutely, and looked at Colonel Brandon in admiration. Why didn't she expect it? Indeed, it would not be easy for them to get rid of the hunt completely, but it would be much easier if they just hid for a while. "Yes! But who will report back? Can you move now?"

Colonel Brandon took a deep look at her, "Of course you are going back. Both Philip and I have difficulty moving now. You can leave when I feel better in two days." They were not familiar with the terrain, so they hid The danger is great, and the one that goes back first is of course the safest.

"Okay, I'll discuss it with Philip in the evening, and I'll try to go around as much as possible to familiarize myself with the terrain in the past few days." Hathaway smiled, but didn't answer him directly, and had her own plan in mind.

In the evening, Kate came to Hathaway to prepare dinner again. Today she planned to use sweet potatoes and flour to make sweet potato pancakes. The sore arms caused by taking turns to press the sweet potatoes were all pressed well. As a result, there was too much flour, so the fried sweet potato cakes were a bit hard.

Fortunately, the workers are not picky about what they eat, as long as they can still eat it, they will happily eat up the food.

While the workers were looking for the scent, Hathaway came out first carrying Philip's dinner.

Now Philip is quite used to this kind of dinner. He ate the somewhat unpalatable sweet potato pancake without changing his expression, and he could still enjoy himself thinking that this thing is at least much better than black bread. He took a sip of vegetable soup , indicating that Hathaway can speak.

Hathaway gave him a blank look, peeled a potato for him, and then shared Colonel Brandon's idea, but she changed the person who left first to Philip.

Philip thought about it, "No, you should go back, neither of us is flexible enough now."

Hathaway knew that he would object, "You know, I would fall off when I was riding a horse on flat ground, let alone in the woods."

"Then let him go, this matter has nothing to do with him." Philip said with a straight face, he was always annoyed that Hathaway wanted to marry someone his own age.

Hathaway couldn't stand it and said: "Brother, Colonel Brandon is my fiancé. We are already engaged. Of course, this matter has something to do with him. And he is so seriously injured that he needs someone to help him when he walks. The wound will burst open when you get on the horse.”

Philip's face was even uglier. He pushed away the half-drinked soup and wiped his mouth. "Okay, tomorrow I will ask Kate to take me out and walk around to see where you can hide."

Only then was Hathaway satisfied and went out with the finished dishes.

The city of Manchester welcomes a group of special gentlemen today. They are special not only because they are all riding horses and are well-dressed, but because they are all wearing bright red uniforms except for the first one, and any one of them has eyes. Everyone can easily identify their identities. It is obvious that they are from the militia, and now the civilians in Manchester City are most afraid of the soldiers.

Andrew took a line of red uniforms and headed straight for the hotel. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly. He took Brandon's letter to the militia stationed in Bolton. Colonel Morrison received him very sincerely. It only took a while to read the letter, and then immediately asked him to stay and wait for a few days.

He was extremely surprised, knowing that his time is very tight now, he has to travel day and night between London and Manchester within more than a week, he purposely made a detour just to deliver a letter to Brandon, he immediately Colonel Morrison's invitation was declined.

Colonel Morrison smiled and showed him Colonel Brandon's letter, and he realized that Brandon had given him the letter to borrow money from Colonel Morrison.Fortunately, Colonel Morrison was also an old bachelor, so he was able to come up with [-] pounds. He only had to wait four days for Colonel Morrison to prepare the money and bring twenty good hands with him Hit the road, and he'd be happy to help his old comrade in the matter.

When Colonel Morrison was arranging the room downstairs, Andrew had already knocked on Colonel Brandon's door, but he was obviously going to be disappointed. Colonel Brandon hadn't come back for several days, and no one opened the door for him. He didn't care too much, thinking that Brandon had taken Hathaway out, and then turned his head to knock on the sailors' doors, but there was still no one, and he began to feel that something was wrong.

Finally, he found Abby, the maid, when he knocked on the door of Hathaway's room. As soon as she opened the door and saw Andrew standing at the door, she burst into tears. Andrew took a step back. He hadn't seen a woman in at least 20 years. It's so shameless to cry in front of him.

Abby's crying snot and tears flowed down together. While holding a handkerchief to wake up her nose, she said vaguely: "Sir, hurry up and find Miss, she and Colonel Brandon haven't come back for three days. .”

Andrew immediately turned pale with fright, grabbed Abby's shoulders with both hands and shouted: "What! The two of them haven't come back for three days?! Tell me what happened, where are the others?"

Abby said sobbingly: "The second night after you left, Colonel Brandon took the lady out for a walk around four o'clock in the evening, but he didn't come back until after ten o'clock. Eddie and Roy discussed One person went to notify the others, while the other stayed here and waited. But neither of them came back until the next morning, and then Eddie came back with someone to discuss with Roy, and Roy set off to London to chase you Now, the others continue to look for Miss and Colonel Brandon in the city."

Andrew walked back and forth in the room irritably, pulling his already disheveled hair with his hands, what the hell!It's fine if Philip is lost, but now even the two people looking for him are gone, and he thought of something again, "Have you notified Mr. Joseph? He is more familiar with this place, so it will be easier to find someone. Sheriff where?"

"Eh? Uh... It seems that I heard Eddie say to notify Mr. Joseph, the sheriff..." Aixi forgot to cry for a while, holding a handkerchief and thinking hard about what the knights had said.

Andrew sighed and waved his hand to Abby, "Forget it, I'll go out and find a way, you just stay here." He didn't expect Abby's mind at all, the damn thing is that those guys didn't leave a single one behind. Waiting for news in the hotel, now let him find them.

He turned and went downstairs to find Colonel Morrison, only to meet him at the foot of the stairs.

Colonel Eric Morrison is about 30 years old, with dark skin and deep contours, dark brown eyes that are calm and sharp, thin lips tightly pressed, blond hair cut very short, close to the scalp It's only 2 inches long and sticks upright. It looks very tough and energetic, but such a hairstyle is not popular in London.He was wearing a straight red uniform, and there was not a single wrinkle in his clothes after driving for so long. His broad shoulders, strong waist, and tight thighs, even Andrew had to admit that Colonel Morrison really fit in this uniform Extremely.

Time was running out, so he had to tell Colonel Morrison what had happened in the corridor. Colonel Morrison frowned, and his two bushy eyebrows were like arrows, "Then you are going to find that Joseph first. Sir?" He paused, saw Andrew nodding before continuing: "I'll go with you. But there is one thing I want to tell you, in fact, I came mainly to remind Brandon of this matter, don't believe it too much This Mr. Joseph, after Brandon wrote to me, I investigated the suspicious people in Manchester. Of course, that Daniel Brook is a key person. Some people say that he was a pirate in Marseilles and was finally wanted, but I found out that this Monsieur Joseph also spent a long time in Marseilles, so it is probable that the two of them had known each other for a long time."

Andrew hesitated. He remembered that Hathaway also felt that there was something wrong with Mr. Joseph, but after they arrived in Manchester, they had no clues, so they had to rely on Mr. Joseph everywhere, including the letter of kidnapping that was sent to Mr. Joseph's house. something suspicious.

Is there really something wrong with Mr. Joseph?