[Comprehensive Classics] Different Jane

Afterwards, things went so smoothly that Jane couldn't believe it. Mr. Bennet handed over all the affairs in Cambridge to Mrs. Wood. Jane also drew a picture to show the layout of the store, and left the rest to God's will (Wang Tian) .

Of course, Jane can't open the shop by herself, so she needs people.Mr. Bennet originally wanted Jane to take Al, but Jane refused.Al is a man who does farm work, and being a shop assistant is not the same thing as being a farmer.

Jane is interested in another couple.

Ben Harbison's parents were consanguineous, and he was born crippled, old Harbison was a pauper, and so was his son.Ben Harbison can't do heavy work, and can only rely on odd jobs to make ends meet. Occasionally, he needs to go to the mountains to find something to eat.

But even such a pauper who doesn't even have a complete set of clothes has a wife.Ben Harbison's wife was a mute, and the lame and the mute would make a good match for the couple.No one knows where the mute came from. Some people say that the mute is a beggar who was kept by Ben Harbison. Some people say that her parents are dead and she asked old Harbison to take care of her. As a result, Ben Harbison Think of her as a wife, anyway, Ben Harbison seems to have a wife suddenly, and that was a few years ago.But such a pauper himself has nothing to gossip about, everyone just wondered for a few days and no one cared anymore.

Jane didn't know about Ben Harbison for no reason. She had heard from Mr. Pastor that Jane had been insisting on learning Latin from the pastor in recent years, and her relationship with the pastor's family had gradually become closer.So when I heard that Jane wanted to recommend a loyal, reliable and intelligent person as an apprentice, Old Tom recommended Ben Harbison.

"Although Harbison has a bad leg, he is not bad at work." Old Tom often asks Harbison to help in church, so he still knows a little about his work. "He's actually very smart, but it's a pity that he came from such a background." Mr. Pastor said regretfully, "It's too old to be an apprentice in his 20s, otherwise I would recommend him to try."

Being an apprentice in her 20s is of course old, but Jane is not really looking for an apprentice. She took a chance to meet Ben Harbison quietly once, and felt that this man had a beard and a face that could not be seen, but he was quite sturdy and had a loud voice. It's big enough, and the world knows that a little thing is a big deal. Jane doesn't like this person very much.

But then Jane accidentally saw Ben Harbison again, which made her change her mind.

At that time, Jane had been riding a horse very well. At that time, she was walking slowly along the river alone. In fact, she was walking the horse. From a distance, she saw Ben Harbison and his wife by the river.

They probably just came down from the mountain, and they were cleaning their muddy bodies by the river.Jane hadn't seen Ben Harbison's wife before, and just guessed that was it.Her clothes were ragged, her face was unkempt, her hair was tied with a cane, she washed her hands and face in the river water, and then dipped her feet into the river water to wash.

While the woman was cleaning, Harbison limped and found some flowers and rattan beside him, weaved a garland, and threw it on his wife's head.

The mute woman was not afraid of Harbison, she touched the wreath on her head in surprise, and gestured to indicate that she liked it very much.Harbison was bearded and couldn't see any expression. A passing farmer on the other side of the river said something, but Jane couldn't hear it from a distance. It was probably some dirty words for ridicule. Harbison immediately raised his stick as a walking stick. Intimidate each other.The farmer didn't want to fight with him. He spat, cursed and walked away. Harbison even picked up a stone and threw it over.

The dumb woman stood by the side all the time, she didn't look too scared, she still thought about picking up the dead rabbit that Harbison had thrown aside, patted it, and held it in her hand.

After scaring the other party away, Harbison turned around and patted the mute woman's head as if nothing had happened, then took the rabbit and carried it by himself.

Jane looked at it from a distance, feeling a little interesting, she drove the horse and walked over slowly.

"Harbison? Are you Mr. Ben Harbison?" Jane asked while sitting tall on the horse.

"I'm not a gentleman." Harbison looked warily at Jane on the other side of the river.

"I'm Jane Bennet." Jane didn't get off the horse, but just pulled the horse and talked to Harbison across the river.

Looking closely, Harbison looks really rough, with thick hair on his face, eyebrows and beard scratched, and his face can hardly be seen clearly.He frowned with two caterpillar-like eyebrows, and let go in a blink of an eye.

"Miss Bennet, I know you, Mr. Pastor said, you want to find someone to be an apprentice in London?" Harbison looked at Jane, very suspicious of the reliability of the news.

"Yes, the pastor recommended you." Jane was led around by the horse, then turned back again, "Are you interested?"

"No." Harbison replied quickly.

Jane was not surprised by such an answer, she looked at Harbison, and simply glanced through.

Poor, no concept of hygiene, although lame, but strong, it is impossible to catch rabbits with bare hands, so it must be a trap, good brains, and good to his wife.

Is a useful person.

"I want to make it clear that it's actually not about apprentices." Jane said to Harbison, "A lady entrusted me to help her find a coffee shop assistant, so it shouldn't be considered an apprentice."

coffee?This was something Harbison had never seen nor drank.

"I do not……"

"When she entrusted me, she didn't require the clerk to have working experience, otherwise I wouldn't need to choose among the farmers in a village." Jane stopped and said, "What she needs is an honest and loyal person with some brains, Most importantly, keep your mouth shut. I think you understand what that means, and Mr. Pastor recommended you to me, and I think you two can go together."

Seeing Harbison start to think, Jane said, "I know what you're worried about. You think I'm young and unreliable." She looked into Harbison's eyes, as if she could see through him, "But if you want to be completely safe and reliable , I will not find you, what do you think? Ben Harbison, is there anything else I can lie to you? And I don't see any situation that could be worse than you, you are now. Change to a place where no one knows you, maybe there will be a new life."

"If you think about it, I'll come here again at this time tomorrow." After Jane finished speaking, she nodded to Harbison, turned around and went home the way she came. She could see that Harbison was tempted , she believed he would agree.

The next day, Jane also rode to the river, and sure enough, Harbison was already waiting there.

"I agree." Seeing Jane, Harbison immediately said to her.She was hesitant before, but now she is afraid that Jane will change her mind.

Jane was not surprised. She took a large package from the saddle and threw it to Harbison, saying: "To be a clerk in a coffee shop, the most important thing is to be clean. Here are two sets of old clothes. You must wear these when you go There is also a piece of soap for you, wash yourself clean, no nails on your fingers, no dirt between your fingers, especially on your face, your hair should not go over your ears, and it is best to shave off your beard. What is your wife's name?"

"She doesn't have a name." Harbison said stupidly.

"...What, she doesn't have a name?" Jane was taken aback for a moment, "Then what do you usually call her?"

"Mute lady."

Jane rolled her eyes, "Anna, let me call her Anna, Anna Harbison."

Anna Harbison, Anna Harbison, Harbison muttered a few times, and thought the name sounded really nice, Anna Harbison.

"Anna can work in the kitchen in the future, and she has to wash until she turns white. The most important point." Jane emphasized, "There must be no lice, understand? Absolutely no. Being a shop assistant in London is also decent If you want others to think you are decent, you have to be decent first, so don’t disappoint my recommendation.”

Harbison agrees with this point. When he goes to the fair in Meryton to sell the prey, he prepares the prey to look better, and people are willing to come to him to buy them.And the young men who looked after the shops in Meryton were respectable, too.

With the hope of serious work, Harbison didn't feel that Jane was too young and unreliable. He carefully wrote down every word Jane said, and he was dumb when he planned to go back. No, it was Anna who took care of himself. Leave in an orderly, clean, and dignified way.

"I will let Mr. Pastor inform you on the day of departure. I think you will need to take the train. I can help you pay for the train ticket. When you get there, you will be arranged by the other party... I think you can find the place by yourself, right? "Jane suspects that Harbison has no experience of going out at all, let alone taking a train or something.

"Okay, don't worry." Harbison said angrily, "I will pay you back in the future."

To be able to say this, at least there is still a sense of shame and self-motivation.

"Then I'll wait."

Jane tells Mr. Bennet that she intends to send the Ben Harbisons together, to Mr. Bennet's surprise.

"Ben Harbison? The cripple? I remember his wife seemed to be mute?" Mr. Bennet never imagined that Jane would choose such two people.

"It was recommended by the pastor. I think it's good. Dumb people don't talk too much, and I can hire two people at a cheaper price. Harbison entertains guests outside, without too much effort, and he can sit when he has nothing to do. His wife is in the kitchen. You don't need to talk to others when you do things. Harbison's legs are bad, and he can't find a better place to work except me." Jane had already made up her mind.

Mr. Bennet thought about it, and it was really the case.From the words he heard from the farmer, Harbison is usually not very gregarious, but he is not afraid of trouble, so even if he is limped, he is definitely not the kind of marginalized person who is bullied.Moreover, Harbison was recommended by the pastor. Hearing this, Mr. Bennet already gained a lot of points in his heart. Old Tom's reputation in the village is still very good.

"Daddy, help me write to Mrs. Wood~~" Jane pampered Mr. Bennet's back.

Mr. Bennet was very helpful in his heart, and he still said in his mouth: "It's such a small matter, why write a letter."

"Oh, of course I have to tell you about the situation. If it's convenient, I want Harbison and the others to go to Cambridge to get used to it first, to help out, and to trouble Mrs. Wood to make arrangements for the family's accommodation. What, by the way, what kind of salary is suitable?" Of course, Jane can't write a letter to ask these things by herself.

"Oh, you are so troublesome." Mr. Bennet is not the kind of troublesome person, but he still wrote the letter as Jane said.

Soon Mrs. Wood wrote back, and she told Jane that there was nothing to worry about. There were also three apprentices in the previous bakery, and there was a small room for them to live in, which happened to be for the Harbison couple at the moment.Mrs. Wood also told Jane that in London, apprentices don’t get paid, and masters (bosses) are provided with food and lodging, while waiters in restaurants may only earn a few shillings a month, but their main income is tips .

Etc., etc.

Jane was very grateful for Mrs. Wood's explanation, which made her even more curious. What would the "unconstrained" Mrs. Wood look like in Daddy's mouth?

Soon it was time for the Harbisons to leave, and Jane saw them one last time.

The author has something to say: Jane: Ah, I really want to go to Cambridge soon~(～￣▽￣)～

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