The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Salesman Jerry is a handsome boy with brown-red hair. He carries a load of goods all day long and walks from one town to another, exchanging goods and stories with people.The maids of Ston Heights liked to pick out the cheap and novelty jewelry from his goods, and they also liked to hear the outrageous anecdotes from him.

But that had to wait until he met Grace.Everyone knows that Jerry likes Grace, only Grace doesn't know it.

All men look at Grace in the same way, but some are friendly and some are cruel.Jerry is friendly, so Grace likes to play with him.

Grace ran to the yard with a large piece of cheese in her arms, and saw that Jerry was not happy today.He lifted a corner of the cheese handkerchief, held it up to Jerry's nose and said flatteringly, "Smell it."

Jerry took the cheese, first put the handkerchief into his inner shirt pocket, then put the cheese into his basket, and picked up the burden.After doing this, the gloom in his eyes disappeared, and he smiled as usual: "Grace, let's go to the maple forest in the back mountain."

"it is good."

Today the masters are out hunting, so he can be lazy.

From the mountain villa to Fenglin, they will pass through a cemetery, where several gorgeous marble tombstones stand in the green grass, one of which belongs to Grace's father.

Grace has neither nostalgia nor resentment for her biological father.

He knew that the man had partly contributed to his birth, but he had neither met Mr. Ston himself nor was he entitled to it.Rather than thinking of himself as an illegitimate child, it would make him feel safer to simply be a maid, so when Grace talked to herself in her heart, she would not refer to Mr. Ston as "father", but as "that man".

But at the same time, he didn't resent that man either.It wasn't entirely because his mother, Mary, had said all the good things about "Mr." He knew very early on that he was born an "illegitimate child", and it wasn't the man's fault.

His mother slept with that man voluntarily, on the premise that she knew that "Sir" could not marry her.

"What are you thinking, Grace?"

"I was thinking Mr. Stone must have been a handsome man in his lifetime."

"Why do you think so?"

"Because my mother loved him to the end." Grace answered in her heart, but he didn't say it.

Jerry wondered jealously, "Because both of his sons are handsome?"

Grace turned her head to look at him in surprise, but said nothing.

"Maybe Master William and Master Allen's looks come from their mothers, both of whom have blond hair..."

Grace covered her belly and laughed loudly: "You mean that dry sausage?!"

Jerry looked at him and couldn't help but also smiled: "Maybe Mrs. Stone 20 years ago hasn't been air-dried yet."

Perhaps it is true that Mrs. Stone 20 years ago was not so dry, which can make people slightly appetizing.

But everyone knew that Mr. Stone would marry her because of the estate left by the lady's father.What a rich lady!His father just passed away, and he has a huge inheritance that cannot be spent in his name - it is said that even young talents from the capital rushed to this remote place first, trying to win the lady's heart with his own charm, and by the way, put his name signed under that property.

In the end it was the handsome Mr. Ston who transformed the wealthy Miss Alice into Mrs. Ston, using her newfound fortune to start overseas trade, from Europe to China, from China to the New World, and back again.Riches piled up like chestnuts in autumn, until Mr. Ston was buried at sea.

Jerry takes Grace to the depths of Maple Forest, where they often come.

"Look around, what do you want this time?" Jerry put down the load and opened one of the baskets.This basket was full of valuables and everything, and he asked Grace to choose from it, while the other maids could only pick fake flowers and low-quality brooches from another basket.

Grace pulled out a dagger. The scabbard and handle seemed to be gold-plated, with beautiful patterns engraved on it. When the scabbard was pulled out, the shiny blade was revealed. Grace saw her own face on it.

"I want this!" He gestured with the dagger in his hand, "Is this expensive? How much?"

"The cheese just now is almost the same. It's second-hand and worthless."

Grace exclaimed in surprise: "That's great! I've wanted a knife of this size for a long time. It's very convenient to carry around and can be used to peel chestnuts. The shells of chestnuts are too difficult to handle. I will give them to me every time. There's a bunch of bloody spots on my fingers..." He knelt down and plucked a "green thorn ball" out of the yellow chestnut leaves and red maple leaves, concentrating on testing his new tool.

"Grace!" Jerry suddenly hugged him from behind, knocking Grace to his knees.

Grace looked back at him in surprise and pushed him hard: "Jerry! What are you doing!"

Jerry kissed his ears and the side of his neck eagerly, but his lips only touched the thick hair.

"Grace, come with me!"

Grace was so shocked that she almost forgot to struggle: "Where are you going?"

Jerry misunderstood, and was overjoyed immediately, and gently put him on a pile of colorful fallen leaves, "I've heard it all, they asked you to serve that Earl of Arodel—"

"The Earl of Arundel." Grace lay on the soft leaves and corrected his pronunciation.

Jerry's eyes showed deep sadness: "Forget those earls and barons! Grace, come with me to the New World, to the United States! My savings are enough to buy two tickets! People like us are welcome there! They There are countless lands, and we can give us a piece of land for free when we go. Why should hardworking and capable people like us do the most tiring work and earn the least money? Let’s go to that young country and plant our own on our own land crops, raise your own cattle, you don't have to be a maid anymore, you don't have to serve other men, just stay with me, just the two of us, and have three children, two boys and one girl..."

Grace finally understood what went wrong, and was very surprised: "Jerry, when did I say I would marry you?"

Jerry's face suddenly changed, and he held his face in both hands, with tears in his eyes: "Grace, don't you like me? Then why do you always date me? How can you say you don't want to marry me?"

Grace was more puzzled than him: "Dating? I just buy things from you, the same as Orisa and Ella..."

"Just like them..." Jerry's eyes became ferocious because of the pain, and his hands holding Grace's cheeks became tighter and tighter, "I finally saved enough money, so I mustered up the courage to tell you this... They are considered What? What can they get from me for a piece of cheese?"

Grace blinked her eyes in fear, "It's you who said... I like the cheese made by Aunt Sophie, it's worth more than anything else... If you want money, I can go back and get it."

He also has savings. If Jerry wants money, he can tell him. He has told him a long time ago. There is no need to be so angry now.

Jerry couldn't hear him anymore, his eyes were red, and the hands tightened on Grace's cheeks gradually moved down to his neck.

Grace began to have difficulty breathing.

Staring hard at his legs, he raised his leg and kicked Jerry's back with the hardest heel of his shoe.

Jerry is almost a head taller than him, and he walks around the streets with loads of tens of kilograms every day. His body is almost twice his size, and he weighs on him like a mountain.

But his flailing feet still annoyed Jerry.

Jerry let go of his neck, clamped his legs under his skirt instead, and pushed the hem of his skirt away with his knees.

Grace could finally breathe, coughing violently dizzily, and vaguely heard Jerry ask, "Grace, what is this?"

So Jerry became the third person to discover his secret.

Jerry climbed back onto him excitedly, held his face again, and said softly, "Grace, is this why you don't want to go with me? Are you afraid that I will dislike you? No! I won't! I love You! Grace, I love you for everything!"

A gleam of light flashed in Grace's bloodshot and red eyes from being pinched just now, "Really?"

"Really! Come with me to the New World and marry me, okay? It doesn't matter if you don't have children, the New World is full of orphans, we can adopt, it doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl! Two or three, It doesn't matter!"

Grace's heart has been beating violently since the struggle just now. He thought of his small bedroom in the basement, thought of Sophie the cook, thought of his mother's small tombstone, thought of Mrs. Stone, and thought of the sticky smell every morning. I think of the plump and smiling Orisa, and the blond-haired Master William and Master Allen...

The two spoke at the same time:

"I know a doctor who can operate—"

"Can we move near the villa—"

Jerry heard Grace's words clearly and was ecstatic: "Do you agree, Grace? Do you want to marry me here?" He smiled happily, bowed his head and kissed Grace's face, where there was still Keeping his handprint, "Silly girl, are you reluctant to come here? Or are you afraid of taking a boat? But here we can only be poor..."

"——What did you want to say just now?"

"I said that I know a doctor who can perform surgery and cut off superfluous things on people, such as tumors, frozen fingers, and..."

Grace shrugged her body up, then shook her head, "No, Jerry, I will not marry you, and I will not leave Stone Mountain."

Jerry's face changed again, even more angry than when he was the most angry just now. This kind of anger is not so much the damage to his dignity because he feels being teased, but the out-of-control sadness after two consecutive hopes were dashed.He lifted Grace's legs and pressed them down hard. Grace's knees were almost touching his chest, and he pushed them apart to the sides, smashing them against the thick fallen leaves beside him, and the dry fallen leaves were pushed out. "Crackling" crackling sound.

"Ah!——" Grace's inner thigh was almost torn, and she let out a scream in pain. Her upper body bounced up and was pushed back to the ground by Jerry.Immediately, he felt Jerry's hand stretched down, but it didn't touch his extra organs, but the more posterior parts.

"Bitch! You deceitful bitch, more evil than a siren! Bitch!" Jerry cursed viciously, forcing a finger into it.

Grace's teeth chattered in pain, and she waved her hands convulsively by her side, grabbing fallen leaves.

He caught something cold, it was the knife.Grace's fingers found the handle of the knife under the cover of fallen leaves, and stabbed hard into Jerry's back.

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Note: The inheritance (property) law here refers to the United Kingdom but has the author's free play (because of the reasons of the times, mainly talking about real estate)-1. Both men and women born in marriage have the right to inherit, and men born out of wedlock also have the right to inherit.Although legitimate daughters have the right to inherit property, if they are single (including unmarried and widowed), they have no right to use the estate (including the father's estate or husband's estate) (the income generated by the real estate is handed over to the state and the church).Daughters born out of wedlock have no inheritance rights.