[Zhongying] Rebirth meets a wizard

On that bright spring day, Lydia's "return" changes had not yet appeared, and the Bennet house was as usual.

"Mary! Mary..."

Katie had always been the first girl to arrive, and of course Lydia turned out to be even more so.

Mary, who was disturbed, put down her book as usual, looked in the direction of the small study door helplessly, and waited for Katie to appear.

Katie rushed in in a hurry, but what Mary didn't expect was that there was a leisurely Lydia behind her. You must know that the original Lydia would never let Katie steal her "limelight".

"Mary, you are indeed here, fortunately you listened to Lydia."

Katie sat beside Mary, cuddling close to her.

"We're here to tell you a very good news, do you want to guess?"

"Katie, you know I've never been able to guess your good news..."

Mary replied helplessly that she was often bombarded with gossip by her two younger sisters, and she didn't mind listening to the news about Longbourn, although she wasn't keen.

"Oh! Mary! You're always like this, it's so boring, guess what..."

Katie didn't want to tell Mary directly. She thought it was too boring. The fun is to laugh together, isn't it?

"Lydia, do you want me to guess? You don't want to tell me directly."

Mary smiled helplessly, and turned to ask Lydia who hadn't made a sound after she came in. She sat quietly on the side, listening to the conversation of the two sisters quietly, and didn't help anyone.

"Mary, you are really not a good person. If I tell you, Katie will definitely be anxious with me. You should guess for yourself."

Lydia's words carried her usual arrogance, but she seemed to be the same Lydia who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.

"You have told me about the engagement of the most handsome Mr. Carter in the neighborhood. Is this the time for him to get married?"

Mary also stopped struggling, recalling the last time the two sisters rushed into the small study to share the news.

"So Mary also wanted to know when Mr. Carter got married?"

Katie joked next to Mary.

"Why not, I was looking forward to it too, so I guessed right?"

Mary's mood is generally calm and cold, completely different from the usual high spirits of the two sisters.

"Oh no..."

Katie shook her head triumphantly.

"Then I can't guess."

Mary smiled helplessly and dotingly.

"Mom said to invite painting teachers to teach us how to paint, Mary, did you know that Jane and Liz also had piano and dance teachers..."

Katie said everything she knew before.

"That's really good news."

Mary's reaction was flat.

"Mary, aren't you surprised that our family used to have a teacher?"

Katie was dissatisfied with Mary's performance of not being surprised at all, so she swayed around Mary's arm.

"Katie, Mary is older than us and must know."

Lydia laughed and helped Mary, who was fainted by Katie, to rescue her.

"That's right, Mary, that teacher must have taught you too, no wonder you're not excited..."

Katie let Mary fall apart.

"No."

Mary answered.

"Nothing?"

Katie didn't react for a moment.

"Why not?"

Lydia realized that Mary was saying that she had not been taught by the teacher.

"I was too young at the time, and..."

Mary remained calm, but lowered her eyes slightly.

"But……"

Mary is only one year younger than Liz!

Katie had meant to say so.

Lydia interrupted the second half of the sentence.

"Then you can learn to draw with us now, without Jane and Liz."

"Thank you, Lydia, but I still prefer reading."

Mary didn't know what Katie was going to say, but she was surprised by Lydia's difference.

"That's why you didn't see how beautiful our Longbourne, and our sisters, should be painted."

And our mom... she's so nice...

Lydia didn't finish her sentence.

"When the teacher really comes, how about we discuss it?"

Mary replied somewhat perfunctorily. She looked at Lydia who was always different after being ill.

"Mary, what kind of eyes are you looking at?"

Lydia didn't say anything, but Katie was blunt.

"Katie, Lydia's grown up, but you're still the same."

Mary felt a little discouraged when she thought of her parents who were indifferent to her and indulged her two younger sisters.

"Mary..."

Katie was a little upset that Mary praised Lydia but not herself.

..............................

After dinner, and before going to bed, Mrs. Bennet came to Lydia's room to talk to her.

"My Lydia, mother has bad news and good news for you."

Mrs. Bennet stroked the hair of her dearest little girl.

"It seems that my father is unwilling to hire a teacher for us."

Lydia smiled wryly, she really told Mary, everything will have to wait until there is a real teacher.

"Oh! My little baby, your father is not unwilling, but he is just afraid that you will stop learning after two days, and it will not look good at that time, but he promised to buy painting tools for you. You can try to learn by yourself."

Mrs. Bennet has clearly been persuaded by Mr. Bennet.

In fact, with Lydia and Katie's original personalities, Mr. Bennet's idea is entirely possible. It's no wonder Mrs. Bennet was persuaded to come back.

It's just that the frustration is still there, Lydia pulled the corners of her mouth and gave Mrs. Bennet a smile.

"Mom, I get it, but Katie might be disappointed."

Lydia regretted convincing Katie, how will it end now, no teacher will come at all, her excitement today will be sad tomorrow.

"Katie? Why? Doesn't she want to learn?"

Mrs. Bennet was puzzled.

"Forget it, it's my father's decision anyway, isn't it?"

Lydia did not elaborate on the conversation of the three sisters today.

"Don't be disappointed, baby, can't you buy painting supplies? Where do you want to buy, this mother can still decide, and then you can go shopping and buy something you like."

Mrs. Bennet really loved Lydia.

"Mother decides..."

Lydia lost interest.

Mrs. Bennet chatted with her little daughter for a while, and then left.

Lydia sat by herself for a while, then went to Katie's door and knocked.

"Katie, are you asleep?"

"No! I'm so excited, I can't sleep."

Katie quickly opened the door for Lydia.

Seeing Katie who had been happy for so long, Lydia hesitated to speak.

"Katie..."

"what's wrong?"

Katie asked with a lovely wink.

"Maybe... there won't be a painting teacher coming."

Lydia finally told the truth.

"Why? Why... Father doesn't agree? He doesn't want to find us a painting teacher!"

Katie wasn't stupid after all, she guessed it right away, and her tone became low.

"Katie, we will have painting tools, and we can learn by ourselves..."

Lydia couldn't convince herself, so her tone hesitated.

"But why doesn't father want to?"

Katie's tone was already a little choked up.

"Katie..."

Lydia didn't know what to say, how to tell Katie if the parents felt that their daughter was unstable and would give up halfway.

"I know, I know my father looks down on us the most, but...but how happy we are. We look forward to having a teacher so much, even if he knows, he won't care..."

Katie sniffed, her eyes starting to turn red.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, Katie."

Lydia did not expect that her unintentional words would develop to this point.

"Well... Lydia... I'm a little sad... Mary used to be sad too..."

Tears welled up in Katie's eyes.

"Katie... I should probably give you the bad news tomorrow."

Lydia hugged Katie, and she also wanted to cry, because of Katie, because of her grievance, and also because of her loss.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Lydia, but you must be more upset than I am. Now I need you to comfort me."

Katie felt Lydia's sobs and immediately apologized and patted Lydia on the back.

"I'm not sad, I'm just disappointed. The good news is, Mom said we can pick out our own painting supplies and shop around."

Blinking, suppressing the urge to shed tears, he let go of his hand only after he stabilized his emotions.

"That's good news..."

Katie wiped her tears, but she cried quickly and quickly.

"Let's talk to Mary tomorrow. I think she has already guessed."

Lydia was relieved to see Katie's emotions come and go quickly.

"Really? Why don't I know?"

Katie was puzzled.

"You don't need to know."

Lydia gathered the clothes she had put on hastily, and felt that it was good that Katie had always had this personality.

"As far as you know..."

Katie nodded Lydia's head in dissatisfaction, and then started thinking about where to go shopping as soon as she changed her mind.

"Let's go to a more lively place. I'll discuss it with my mother tomorrow. I want to see how much pocket money I have left."

"Then you count, I'll go back first."

Lydia was relieved to see that Katie was in a good mood.

"Go back and have a look, we can buy something we like together..."

Katie walks Lydia to the door.

"You'd better go to bed early, good night..."

Lydia doesn't like those children's things now, so she has no interest.

"Good night... Lydia."

Katie smiled softly, watching Lydia leave before closing the door.

The next day, Katie took Lydia to find Mary and told them the good and bad news she heard last night. Sure enough, Mary was not surprised, obviously she had expected it.

..............................

As the distance from home gets closer and closer, memories of the past flash in Lydia's memory, mother, Katie, Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, father.

So clear, it seems like yesterday.

In addition to the family, it is inevitable to think of Mrs. Smith, the opportunities Lydia seized for herself and the people she wanted to repay.

Mrs. Smith was right in front of Lydia, so Lydia looked at her and smiled, they are not family better than family.