[Comprehensive classics] Darcy or Brandon

Women in this era in Britain were very unlucky in terms of dressing. They wore thin skirts all year round. No matter how cold the skirt was, they could only wear a petticoat at most.In the winter, there is no big sweater or thick padded jacket to wear at all. At home, I can only wear a big shawl. When I go out, I always wear a skirt with a hemp fabric or kangci made of open soil rice, and then wear a thick coat, and a A cape, these don't offer much warmth.

Annie is a person who is very afraid of the cold. In order to keep warm, she has thought of many ways. She wears tight cashmere leggings knitted by herself in the skirt, a cashmere bottoming shirt in the clothes, and a layer stuffed with cotton and feathers in the coat. , but no matter what, these clothes can't withstand the wet and cold climate in Britain.

Now Annie was shivering from the cold. She felt that if the snow had lasted longer, even if she wouldn't have frozen to death, she might have suffered a serious illness.

Another gust of cold wind blew in with rain and snow, and a few snowflakes blew on Annie's cheeks that were exposed outside the scarf, before they could be wiped off, they turned into ice water and slid along Annie's cheeks into her neck.Annie shook violently again, thinking that she must not freeze to death here, she began to stamp her feet and rub her hands to search in the cave.Annie remembered that the children of the village sometimes brought dry grass and twigs here when they played around, and that was what she was looking for now.

This cave is about as spacious as a basketball court, but the top of most of the place is very low. Adults have to play medicine to [-] degrees to go in, and the further you go in, the more large and small gravel on the ground .In this case, it is impossible for adults to go into the cave, but children especially like to go in and play, using it as their playground or treasure.

God has given some bad luck, and he will always make up for you in some places. Anne walked until the bottom of the cave and finally found a large handful of dry grass and branches behind a large rock. For sleeping on the ground.Annie immediately squatted down and stretched her arms, hugged half of the dry grass and branches on the ground into her arms, and then walked out and shouted to Darcy: "Sir, please borrow your shotgun and bullets."

At this time, Anne could no longer care about being cautious. She believed that Darcy was as cold as she was now, and had no strength to think or do some messy things.The only thing Anne can think about now is to keep warm, and this requires the cooperation of two people.Anne didn't have any ignition device, even if she had these firewood, it was useless, but Darcy's big white horse had a shotgun hanging on it, with only bullets, so it was not difficult to ignite it.

"Miss, what did you say?" Darcy was still in a daze, and suddenly heard Anne's words and thought he had heard wrongly. What kind of shotgun and bullets does a lady want?

Annie came out of the cave, threw the dry grass and branches in her hand to the ground, took a few breaths and said, "I mean, I want to ask you to borrow a shotgun and bullets, I want to ignite them, otherwise the two of us won't be able to wait for the snow." You should freeze to death if you stop."

The wet cloak on Darcy's body has long been covered with a thin layer of ice by the cold wind. Before he was in a daze, he didn't feel that cold. Now that Anne reminded him, Darcy immediately felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. It was icy cold.

He hurriedly took off the shotgun hanging from the horse's back, ran to Anne's side and helped her make a small triangular bonfire with branches, then took out a bullet in the gun, and sprinkled the gunpowder inside on the hay inside the bonfire, Then he fired a shot precisely at the place where the gunpowder was sprinkled.

"boom".

The huge wall echoed in the cave, and then slowly disappeared into a snow-white field, while the small bonfire on the ground ignited a warm flame along with the wall.

Annie breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the ground. She eagerly stretched her hands over the flames. After her hands were no longer stiff from the cold, she took off her shoes regardless of her appearance, and pointed her cold and painful feet to the campfire. .

Seeing Anne's series of actions, Darcy's expression twitched and his eyes widened. These days, gentlemen and ladies have etiquette rules in every move. He has never seen any lady behave like this, no, even men He had never seen anyone do such a rude thing.

There was no expression on Darcy's brilliant face, but his eyes said it all.After Annie noticed it, she didn't restrain herself. Now she was about to freeze to death, and it was impossible for a stranger to judge her as a lady without setting a fire on the fire.On the contrary, it was Darcy who stood there motionless. Out of gratitude to Darcy for borrowing the gun to light the fire, Anne said: "Sir, please sit down quickly, this is not the time to be a gentleman."

Now is indeed not the time to pay attention to these things, but Darcy has never let go of these things since he started learning etiquette, and he was a little at a loss for a while.But Darcy quickly mocked himself ironically in his heart. Just a few hours ago, he had a fierce fight with Wickham before he proposed a duel, and now he will never meet again in front of him. A possible country lady with her shoes off to warm herself by the fire is probably nothing.Thinking of this, Darcy stopped being pretentious, sat down on the leeward place, and also took off his boots and started to warm up.

The firewood left by the children was not a lot, so the bonfire the two of them lit was small, but the heat emitted by this little flame was enough for the two of them to recover their body temperature.After roasting for more than ten minutes, Annie finally regained her vitality, and started to watch the heavy snowflakes flying all over the sky outside the cave.

At this time, the snow at the entrance of the cave was already four or five inches high, and Annie suddenly felt itchy and wanted to build a little snowman. Yes, how could Christmas not be a snowman?Annie always did what she thought, so she immediately put on her shoes and went to the hole to grab a big handful of snow from the ground.

"Miss, what are you doing? Your hands will be frostbitten." Darcy reminded Anne with a frown when she saw Anne playing in the snow without gloves.

"It'll be fine." Annie grabbed the snow and ran back to the fire to sit down, put the snow on a rock far away from the campfire, then went back to the hole to grab a big handful, and then sat down and said: " This snow may still fall for several hours, we can't just sit here and wait."

Darcy still disapproved of Anne's behavior, but because they were strangers who didn't even know each other's names, Darcy didn't say anything to remind Anne not to wear gloves to play with snow. Pushing the little snowman for entertainment.

Annie lived in the south in her previous life, and she hadn’t seen a single snowfall for a few years. After coming here, she and Lucy spent the winter at relatives’ houses to dress up. A lady would never play in the snow, so her skill at making snowmen is really poor. The little snowman and the ugly Darcy couldn't bear to comment.But Annie thought it was very good, she even made a small straw hat for the snowman out of hay, and made a cape out of her own handkerchief, and finally she put a twig in the snowman's hand and dressed it like a snowman. caught a fisherman.

"It seems that you have to stay here with me for a while, I hope the snow will stop soon." Annie nodded the little snowman's head and said.

Darcy felt that it was impolite for him to sit and watch Annie so bored that he could only talk to the snowman, so he said, "Miss, how come you come out in such weather?"

"I went to a nearby farm to buy milk and I thought I'd be able to get home before the snow fell and I ended up being stuck here."

"So will your family come to you?"

"I don't want my sister to come out to look for me in this weather. I hope she can cook a pot of hot soup at home, and I can drink it when I go back, but she doesn't know how to cook at all." Annie said with a sigh .

"You have a younger sister too? What about your father and elder brother? Aren't they coming to look for you?"

"My sister and I are the only ones in my family. She is too young and has very simple ideas about the world, but she is also ambitious. I have spent almost all my energy to help her live a better life in the future." Anne Poke the little straw hat on the snowman's head and let it wear on the snowman's head. "So, sir, do you have a sister too?"

There were only the two of them in this cave, they were so close but unfamiliar that they didn't even know their respective surnames.They are in the same situation at the moment, they both have a younger sister, and they both worry about them, and they don't even have parents. In this situation, Darcy can't help but feel that he and Anne are in the same sympathy, and he can't help but feel that he wants to talk a little bit about himself Emotions, "Yes, she is only 15 years old this year, she is very introverted and innocent, I thought I could take good care of her, obviously I am not good enough."

"You are already in your 20s. There are so many years of difference between you and your sister. If you are an adult gentleman and her personality is very introverted, it is normal for you to not be able to fully communicate." Annie comforted, three years Generation gap, she felt that there was definitely more than one generation gap between Darcy and his sister.

"Then you, as a lady, and you have a sister, can you give me some advice? I think I did something to hurt her, but I definitely did it to protect her," said Darcy, Darcy can't tell anyone about Georgiana and Wickham's elopement, but he really needs some advice. He doesn't know how to take care of Georgiana now. It's time to find her a new girl. Butler, she should be kept at home and not allow her to meet any strangers.

"You don't need to worry too much about this. She is just too young and doesn't understand many things. She doesn't know that you are doing it for her good. She thinks you are hurting her. When she grows up, she will understand what's going on. Of course, the premise of all this must be that what you do is correct." Annie said, she believed that Lucy was still angry at her ruthless separation of her and Edward, but when she matured, she would know How important was the stick that Annie gave her.