beauty and money

In the town for several days, Benest introduced Mary to almost everyone, causing Mary to be troubled.Fortunately, after cleaning the country houses, they finally set off.The contents of three carriages headed towards the wilderness of Antrim. The bumpy dirt road was very narrow. Mary sat in the car and looked at the scenery outside the window. Sure enough, the road became more and more desolate. The firs and deciduous trees are tall and graceful, and they are colorful in the coolness of early autumn.The rivers and streams are like silver mirrors reflecting beautiful luster. Mr. Benest looked at all this eagerly. His face seemed to be an elf in the world. It would be better if he didn't smirk.

"Ah, it's still the same. I haven't been back for several years, but it hasn't changed a bit here." Mr. Benest sighed, and in view of his offense that night, Mary didn't want to talk to him, lest he think she Forgive him.But Mr. Benest explained to Mary persistently, telling the names of forests and rivers, and telling mysterious past events.Mary basically didn't see anyone on the way, and the area of ​​land belonging to Mr. Benest was quite large, but most of it was rocky beach and worthless.After the carriage had driven for half a day, they finally arrived at Mr. Benest's farm, which was more of a farmhouse than a farm.

The wooden houses are decorated in a simple way. The two-story building seems to have experienced a hundred years of wind and rain. The paint is mostly peeled off. Weeds are overgrown in the courtyard, and the fence is a row of natural low shrubs. The wind can smell very fragrant and belongs to the forest The smell, the desolate wildflowers on the grass beach in the distance, seem so lonely and empty like Nemer.Several men and women in shabby and vulgar clothes stepped forward when they saw the carriage stop.

"Master Benest, we have cleaned all the rooms according to your instructions." One of them replied that he was one of the tenants who leased Benest's land. It is pitifully small, and it is very far away from this house.This house was not used as the main house in the past, but the summer house of the Benest family. It has not been used for many years, but now he has financial difficulties and cannot purchase real estate in the town.

There is a wide courtyard in front of the house, and even the entire rocky beach can be a beautiful garden. The green trees gradually become autumnal, and there is a fresh smell in the air.Benest and Mary, with the help of their tenants, packed their belongings, and they left towards dusk, overjoyed and thankful for a few pennies.

The sunset in the sky is magnificent, as magnificent as colorful oriental silk, and the twilight adds a lot of charm to this country house, a kind of rustic beauty.Mary stood outside the hedge in her shawl, and the air was so sweet and fresh that every breath filled her lungs with a force of life.Only here was the solitude, the solitary silence, and the nearest tenant lived four miles away. "Mary, Mary." Benest called his wife who felt fresh about everything in the house.

"Come right away." A group of birds flew back to their nest slowly in the twilight, and some animals that she didn't know what they were but thought were very pleasant chirping began to sound. Mary was greedy for the beauty of the solitary world, and even the flowers on the wasteland were so beautiful. Fragrant and beautiful.

Seeing that Mary was not coming, Mr. Benest walked out of the house, saw his wife standing there watching the sunset, went up, and hugged her from behind.This startled Mary, but her struggle was rewarded with teasing from Benest. "You don't want me to kiss you, do you?" Faced with such a threat, Mary had no choice but to stay in Benest's arms obediently, and the couple were immersed in the quiet and beautiful sunset.

"It's so beautiful here, I mean it completely matches my feeling of the monastery." After dreaming of becoming a nun, Mary shuttled through the lonely and dark monastery, looking for those mysterious tunnels and secrets.

"A monastery? Dear, why do you think so? You just think it's beautiful. You know my brothers live in the town, and I can't get along with them, so I can only wrong you." Benest said But Mary said: "This place is very good, better than I imagined, you know, I actually hate having unnecessary contacts with people."

Benest closed his eyes slightly and felt the wind and the setting sun on his face. Everything was so beautiful, and there was a bitter smell of ink and paper on Mary's body.He once fantasized about taking his wife to settle here. In the place where he grew up, this seemed to be a kind of fate, a kind of inexplicable tenderness.Then he said: "Tomorrow they will come to help us build sheepfolds, chicken coops, and help us build cellar storage and barns, and by the way, we must build a greenhouse so that we can eat fresh food all year round." Vegetables, this place will slowly feel like home. They will also bring beautiful young ewes, which will be raised in the spring to give birth and milk, then we can make cheese. I will buy some chickens from them , if you don't mind, we can raise a little piglet and take it to the forest to find truffles in the fall. What do you think?" Benest narrated to Mary while rubbing his chin against Mary's hair glorious future.

"I think we can grow pumpkins, and we can also plant all kinds of herbs and flowers in the yard." Mary was moved by Benest's words. Home, gradually add things to make the surrounding environment beautiful and comfortable.For the first time, she felt a sense of solidity, a hope for the future.

Not long after the sun went down, Benest pulled Mary back to the house. He had lit the fireplace. In such a wilderness, the night in early autumn was very cold.There was cold bread and canned chickpeas on the table.There was nothing in the kitchen, and Mr. Benest said with some anxiety: "We have to go to the town again to buy some blankets, cushions, tea cups, um, and some beautiful dining chairs and dining tables, oh, There are too many things to add." Benest turned around and resumed his lavishness.

Mary hurriedly took out the paper, and she said to Benest: "Tomorrow you should stay at home and direct them to work. I can go to the town to buy, the most urgent thing is the daily necessities we need, such as food, spatula, oil, salt and flour, dear Mr. Benest, I don’t think we are short of tea sets for the time being, and we have to solve the problem of eating before enjoying afternoon tea.” As Mary scribbled down the items she needed, she was going to make a list to buy, Banner Although the money left by Mr. Te is richer than that of the sisters, it should not be spent indiscriminately. If they don't buy a house, they can save a lot of money.They are a bit far from the town. If it is always too expensive to hire a carriage, it is better to raise a horse, which can be raised on the wasteland, where there are various plants to feed it.

In this way, Mary was planning everything with great interest, and Mr. Benest was also planning the blueprint for his own construction in his mind. Not enough, instead of collecting the rent and then buying things, it is better to change part of the rent to materials and vegetables, and let the tenants pay the rent by working for him.Benest is very opinionated about farming. After all, he was only six years old when his father passed away, and he started begging for a living at his brother's house. There is almost no farm work he can't do. In the past 20 years, he went to London for a few years except for the family property he got when he was an adult. Outside of the year, he spends most of his time doing various chores at his two older brothers' homes.Some people's natural beauty is indelible in life. He runs and jumps in the fields and gradually grows into a breathtakingly beautiful boy. He not only has the blood of nobles but also has natural affection. He is hard to rival in appearance.

The two chatted for a while about the future, and when it was time to rest after washing, the two had a problem. There were several small bedrooms upstairs, but the problem was that there was only one bed, and only half a candle flickered in the room. . "It seems that we still need a bed." Mr. Benest teased, but his face also began to flush, so he turned his back to Mary and took off his shirt and changed into pajamas.Mary's face was also flushed at the moment, and her eyes couldn't help but stay on Mr. Benest's smooth and healthy back, and she couldn't restrain her eyes from staying on his legs.

The rapid heartbeat and the gradually warming face made her feel unspeakably nervous, she hurried to other rooms, wandering around hesitantly, do you want to sleep together?She wasn't ready yet, but she couldn't help getting excited inside, and her breathing became short of breath.After wandering around for a long time, she didn't respond for a while until Mr. Benest knocked on the door.As if making up her mind, Mary took off her heavy outer skirt and put on a conservative nightdress.

When Mr. Benest, who was waiting at the door, saw Mary coming out, he took her hand and kissed her, saying, "Honey, don't be nervous. You are my master. I won't offend you until you agree." The couple walked side by side on the old wooden floor, creaking and creaking, and Mary suddenly asked: "What if there are mice?" Let the cold air blow in the corridor." Benest smiled helplessly.

Both of them felt their faces were hot and their hearts were beating fast. It was the first time they lay side by side on the same bed. The quilt was the old quilt brought by Mary. It carried the unique fragrance of her body, full of bitter fragrance, which suddenly reassured Mary. The familiar smell in the room was mixed with other things, a deep but slightly musky breath, a breath that did not belong to her was right next to her, she thought she would not be able to sleep.

But maybe it was a busy day, and when Benest held her hand and started talking about the future, with his increasingly slow and deep voice, Mary's eyelids began to become heavy, and her mind was almost blank. Something was quietly changing her and Benest, like a kind of magic.