gentleman's servant

Annie is pregnant.

The maid brought her fresh broth and bread, then pulled her long red hair into a beautiful bun.

Anne used to do this kind of work too. She was a servant in a beautiful manor and served the master there, but now she has become the mistress herself.She has her own house, her own maid, and soon she will have her own children.

Anne never thought that she would become a wife one day. She was just a farmer's daughter with five brothers and sisters.Both father and mother are kind and hardworking, so although their family barely has food and clothing, they still stubbornly wait on the land, and all the children have grown up healthily.

When Annie was seven years old, her elder sister Ellie married a farmer in the same village, and she became pregnant within a year. After that, she gave birth to children one after another. In just a few years, the beautiful young girl in my memory was as old as them. mother the same.

My sister's husband is a timid and cowardly man, he has no ability, and it is very difficult to support several children, and their life is getting more and more difficult.

A poor life will bring depression, that is, from then on, Anne saw scars on her sister's face, and useless men would only beat their wives to vent their anger.

But what can be done?

God created women, but only defined women as men's vassals.

Later, my sister's family couldn't survive anymore, and the children died, and they were given away, and they didn't know how many years they would live.Her husband was addicted to alcohol, and her sister was often bruised and bruised.The father couldn't stand it anymore, and asked the man to let his sister go. He refused at first, but his father asked someone to beat him up. Then he nodded, but he wanted money.

Annie always remembers what happened that day.

In the market, the sister had a rope tied around her neck, and one end of the rope was grabbed by the brother-in-law, who then gave the rope to another man.

This man is the new husband my father found for my sister. He is a blacksmith, he is a little old, and he has two children.

After the man took the rope, the sister became his wife.

There was no church, no priest, just a rope in the market, and the sister was trafficked by her husband like a cow.

This is the only way the poor get divorced.

Because after a man and a woman get married, according to the will of God, only death can separate them, and divorce is a rare event even among nobles. Every time it happens, it will even make the headlines of the newspaper.

Anne thought at that time, what kind of man would she marry in the future?

Soon the answer to this question was found. At the age of 14, she fell in love with the son of the cowherd with the most land in the village.

His name is Andre, he is a handsome young man, very silent, and he likes to draw.

He said to her: "You are so beautiful, just like the Goddess of Beauty in mythology, you all have beautiful red hair."

When he said this, he stroked her red hair obsessively, and then gently leaned forward, and they had their first kiss.

He drew pictures of her, and in all his pictures she was the only one.

He was so obsessed with her.

Annie knows that this is love, this kind of feeling is very wonderful, after a hard day, as long as she thinks of him, her fatigue will disappear, and infinite courage seems to be born in her heart, no matter how hard or tired it is, it doesn't matter, as long as there is With him, everything is beautiful.

And when he proposed to marry her, his family objected.

His parents spent a lot of money to send him to art school so that he could get ahead, not marry a poor farmer's daughter.

Annie's parents also objected. Her father said to her: "Don't be like your sister, you have to find a down-to-earth man who can fill you and your future children."

So Anne eloped with him.

He was a silent man, and he said to her: "I don't want anything, I just want you."

Because of this sentence, Annie felt that everything was worth it, and no matter what happened in the future, she would always follow him.

Even later, Andre buried himself in the wine bottle, and Anne didn't regret it when he was drunk all day long.

She can support him as a maid and support him to continue painting.

But during those days, she recalled countless times the scene she saw when she was a child. Her sister turned into her, a rope was tied around her neck, and Andre handed one end of the rope to a man with a blurred face.

In Mormont Manor, Anne's life is very peaceful.

She is a low-level maid, and maids are not allowed to go out. She doesn't see Andre for a long time, and she just sends him money on a fixed day every month.

Here, she met a young man named Owen.

He was handsome, the handsomest man she had ever seen, and the maids liked to talk about him in private.I heard that he is very diligent and motivated, and his monthly salary is never spent indiscriminately, and he is always given to his mother and younger siblings...

What a good man, just like what my father said, he must be the kind of down-to-earth man who can fill his future wife and children.

The owner of the manor went bankrupt, the servants were dismissed, and Anne lost her job.

After returning home, Anne found another woman appeared in Andre's painting, that woman had the same beautiful red hair as her.

At that moment, I couldn't add more heartbreak.

But she didn't say anything, as if she didn't find anything at all, but suggested to him: "Let's get married."

She thought he would refuse, but he nodded after being dazed for a while.

They were married in the chapel, without guests, flowers, or even food, and she became his wife...

She didn't know why she proposed to get married, maybe it was a habit, maybe it was because she had paid too much, and if she gave up, she would have nothing.

After that, Annie went to the textile factory.

She worked more than ten hours a day, earning money to buy paint for Andre, but he was more and more spoiled, he couldn't leave his drink, went to that dirty alley every day, and didn't go home all night.

There is no longer a picture of her in the house, all of them are that woman.

Since he didn't love her anymore, why did he marry her?Annie didn't understand, was it for money?Then why didn't he go home?When he returned home and left her behind, his parents would not leave him alone, but he still married her, and tied her to this pillar that could never be separated.

The work in the textile factory was very tiring, and Annie felt that the sunshine of her life was gradually fading, until one day, she saw a familiar face.

"Annie..." Owen walked towards her with a smile: "Is that you?"

She hugged him warmly, they chatted and laughed, like the days in the manor, Anne was very happy, she hadn't been this happy for a long time.

She took the initiative to help him arrange a place to live and taught him things in the factory. She felt that she was laughing too much, but she couldn't control it.

But that night Andre was at home, and he stood at the door and called her gloomyly.

"Still fooling around outside after work, do you fucking know how to go home?"

After returning home, he slapped her. This was the first time he slapped her. For some reason, Annie thought of her sister.

She was desperate and felt that she was going to be like her sister.

Andre didn't go home anymore, and they owed money to the bank because Andre bought expensive drawing paper and paints.They came to ask for money, and Anne really didn't know what to do.

She had to find Andre, but she couldn't go to that alley late at night, so she had to go to Owen, who had become Mr. Gabriel's housekeeper, and he helped her without saying a word.

But he couldn't find Andre, and Andre was with that prostitute, leaving her to face all this alone...

To her surprise, Owen did not abandon her. Owen figured out a way. They dressed up as clerks in a clothing store and went to rich households to sell lace.

They made three shillings a day, which was nearly her monthly wages.

Annie wanted to cry because the young man's shoulders looked so strong she could lean on them if she wanted to.

But no, she was married.

She will not allow Andre to sell her to another man like a cow, she will not allow anyone to humiliate herself like this, and she will not allow the man with a blurred face in the dream to lead the other end to become Owen.

She is not a cow, no one can hold her like this, even if she is stubborn, although she is poor, she also has her own dignity...

"I am Andre's wife, I have been in this life, I love him, so I will never fall in love with other men..." she said to him.

"No, you misunderstood, I have someone I like." The man in front of me said shyly, "I... fell in love with a very noble person."

Annie held the gold brooch Owen had shown him, feeling a little lost.

"Does she love you?"

"Yes, she loves me...It's a pity that we will never meet again, I have done a lot of things wrong, maybe she doesn't love me anymore..." He seemed to be lost in memory, with a sad look on his face.

Whoever the woman who gave him the gold brooch, Anne thought, she shouldn't make him feel so bad, because he's a good man.

"Don't feel bad for Owen, love is the most inexplicable thing, we are all the same..."