Chapter 1 Jade Rabbit Becomes Alice Bennett Strips Off England Shu...
From the time she was born at Longbourn until she was eighteen, Alice Bennett had never seen such activity around her.
First, Netherfield Manor was rented to Mr. Bingley and his family from the city, then the militia was stationed in the nearby town of Meryton, and even Mr. Collins, a cousin who had not been in contact for a long time, came to visit recently. Unfortunately, this person was extremely annoying.
Alice curled her lips and gently parted the bushes in front of her. Her dark eyes, usually full of smiles, now had a gloomy look. Through the gaps between the branches, she stared straight at the proposal scene not far away. The small red mole at the corner of her eye, along with her furrowed brow, showed a hint of impatience.
Where on earth did this fellow named Collins get the nerve to dare to covet her lovely sister Elizabeth? Her mother insisted that Elizabeth accompany this annoying guy for a walk alone.
The same goes for the beautiful and gentle eldest sister Jane. He tries every means to create opportunities for her to get along with the Bingley family. Mr. Bingley's sister, Miss Bingley, is not much cuter than Collins.
Seeing that Elizabeth rejected this ridiculous proposal, the fool actually thought that this was a common way for young ladies to increase their status.
Damn God's means!
Alice clenched the twig tightly in her hand and accidentally broke it with a crisp sound.
She simply threw it to the ground, and the originally black-haired and black-eyed British girl suddenly turned into a snow-white rabbit. She nimbly jumped out from behind the bushes, like a gust of swift wind, and ran between the two of them in a blink of an eye. She scratched Collins, who came over after hearing the sound, with her claws to make him shut up.
Hearing the man behind him scream like a pig being slaughtered, Rabbit moved his three-petaled lips, raised his nose and snorted, and quickly ran away from the crime scene. He carefully avoided the neighbors who came to the woods to hunt and the busy tenants along the way, and fled to his bedroom on the second floor, and then transformed back into his human form.
At this moment, Alice heard Mrs. Bennet in the living room downstairs singing in her best high-pitched voice: "Oh, look! Look! Isn't that Elizabeth and Mr. Collins in the distance? They are back! I think we are about to see a pair of engaged couple." Her joyful tone seemed as if she had tasted the happiness of the newlyweds.
A moment later, she suddenly shouted again: "Out the door! Lydia, Catherine, go and call your father to prepare for a conversation with a good gentleman. Jane, call Eliza, Elizabeth will definitely want the whole family to be there to bless her."
"Mother, I heard you. I'll be right there." Alice answered, opening the bedroom door and jokingly saying as she went downstairs, "Who in this house can fail to hear you?" Besides, her ears were much more sensitive than those of ordinary people.
As he said this, he smiled at Jane who was standing at the stairs.
Halfway up the stairs, Mrs. Bennett's cry came from downstairs again: "Mr. Collins, what's wrong with your face? Are you covering your face? Ah! Blood, bleeding, Hill, quickly bring some medicine!"
Alice's smile deepened again.
"No need to trouble you, Mrs. Bennet. I am going to take my leave of you and Mr. Bennet now," said Mr. Collins, with a hint of suppressed anger in his voice. "I trust your family has received the kind offer which the patron has sent me. As for our in-laws... let us remain relatives."
After he said that, he walked up angrily and bumped into Alice.
"Cousin Collins." She was sure that she had a proper smile on her face, the standard of an English lady, and nodded in greeting.
Mr. Collins had to suppress his anger again: "Cousin Alice." He stepped aside and asked her to go first.
Alice ran down the stairs in two or three steps and found a comfortable place to sit on the sofa with Jane.
In the living room, Mrs. Bennet seized Elizabeth's arms and shook them, demanding, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"
Elizabeth briefly explained how she rejected Mr. Collins. Especially since he kept talking after being scratched by a rabbit, she had to be more explicit and firm in her words, which might have completely offended him.
Hearing this, Mrs. Bennet uttered a scream even louder than before: "Ah! Elizabeth Bennet!"
Both Jane and herself had expected this, after all, Mr. Collins would not be favored by Elizabeth.
Mary, Catherine and Lydia, who were closer to the "battlefield" in the living room, were quite experienced. They all covered their ears, and the two younger ones even winked and laughed at each other.
"I want Mr. Bennet to have a good talk with you!" Before Mrs. Bennet could go and call for help, Mr. Collins came downstairs carrying his suitcase, still dressed the same way as when he came.
She immediately stopped scolding her daughter and shouted into the study: "Mr. Bennet, Mr. Bennet, come quickly and persuade Mr. Collins, he is leaving!" She winked at Elizabeth and said, "Say something too."
Mr. Collins, his face in one hand and his suitcase in the other, waited for a moment, but received neither Elizabeth's soft words nor Mr. Bennet's entreaties to stay. All he received was a polite farewell: "Mr. Collins, I beg your pardon for the poor hospitality I have shown you these past few days."
"Rail, go and harness the carriage and give Mr. Collins a ride. Make sure he gets him safely to the Meryton Mail Coach Station. Hill, give the medicine in your hand to Mr. Collins." Mr. Bennett gave instructions to the male and female servants in the house.
"Goodbye, Mr. Bennett, Mrs. Bennett, Miss Bennett, Miss Elizabeth, Miss Alice, Miss Mary, Miss Catherine, Miss Lydia." Having said this, Mr. Collins put down his hands that were covering his face and said goodbye to them one by one according to their seniority.
"Good-bye, Mr. Collins," said Mr. Bennett, nodding in return.
"Oh, Mr. Collins, goodbye, please come again when you have the chance," Mrs. Bennet added, hoping that he would change his mind next time he came and marry one of her daughters so that her family property would not be lost.
"Goodbye, Cousin Collins." The other family members also said goodbye in unison. Alice's lazy voice blended in well, and no one noticed except Elizabeth winking at her.
As everyone watched the carriage drive away, Mrs. Bennett immediately opened fire: "Mr. Bennett, why didn't you keep him!"
Mr. Bennett "persuaded" with his usual humor: "If it's your son-in-law, you don't have to keep him. If it's not your son-in-law, you can't keep him, just like our property in Longbourn." He shrugged as if trying to ease the slightly tense atmosphere.
"Mr. Bennet! You are still making sarcastic remarks!" Mrs. Bennet roared, "I still can't understand why our family property has to be inherited by an outsider! My daughters don't get a penny. Otherwise, why should I treat him so nicely and expect him to take a fancy to one of you?" Then she turned her fire to the five daughters except Jane.
"Oh my God, all of this will belong to Mr. Collins from now on, the house I have worked hard to build, and our land. This is not fair! When Mr. Bennet dies, my daughters and I will be kicked out by him immediately!" Mrs. Bennet exclaimed with her head raised, then lowered her head and sobbed.
"Mother," Jane said softly, putting her arm around Mrs. Bennet's shoulders. "It's not that bad yet."
"Mr. Lyttelton's book, 'The Law of the Land,' mentions that estates with restricted inheritance carry with them the obligation of a male to serve the king. If a family has no sons, the closest male relative must inherit. Longbourn is one such estate," Mary suddenly began to explain. Adjusting her glasses, she added, "Even if no one has served in the estate for a long time, the inheritance law still records this obligation, so it must be complied with."
"Mary, I know, of course I know. Stop reading it! Are you trying to break my nerves?" Mrs. Bennet complained, covering her head.
Mr. Bennett consoled her, "My dear lady, think about it, even the rabbits on this land do not welcome the next generation of Longbourn heirs, and they send us a special gift on our behalf. It can be regarded as a vent for their anger."
When Alice heard this, a strange look appeared on her face: ...
"Oh, everyone has to abide by the laws of the empire. Who will pity my fragile nerves!" Mrs. Bennet cried out with a headache and dizziness, and fell back.
The house was in turmoil again. Mr. Bennet helped the man to the sofa, and the three children gathered around him, calling for their mother. Elizabeth couldn't find the smelling salt bottle in the usual place. When she asked, she found out that it was broken last night. Jane immediately prepared to change her clothes and rode to Meryton to buy some.
Alice quickly grabbed Jane and said, "Don't worry, I have a way to relieve Mom's discomfort. It's faster than riding to town to buy it."
Although Jane had doubts in her heart, she always thought the best of people, not to mention that the person in front of her was her trusted sister, so she asked: “Alyssa, do you have a solution?”
"Jane, you know, I've been inexplicably interested in the mysterious East since I was a child. I've learned a lot about the East in bookstores around town and even in London. I recently learned how to make a refreshing ointment similar to smelling salts using Eastern herbs," Alice said. "You stay with Mom for now. You'll be fine soon."
“Okay, go ahead, Alyssa.” Jane looked at her encouragingly.
Alice rejected the maid who wanted to come and help and closed the kitchen door to block out the outside world.
He raised his hand to his face, his fingertips brushing against the small mole at the corner of his eye. His dark pupil instantly transformed into a ruby-red. The red gradually spread outward, until it dyed his entire eye a deep, dark crimson, like a vibrant flower blooming against the night sky, further accentuating the vibrant red of the mole at the corner of his eye.
This face of an English lady, which can be described as serene and elegant even when not smiling, takes off the shell of Western civilization of this land, and suddenly reveals the mysterious and unrestrained spirit that is imbued with the culture of another land.
With a slight curl of her lips, a jade pestle with a lustrous luster appeared out of thin air in her hand as she stroked her fingers and turned her wrist.
The jade pestle is made of the finest mutton-fat jade. It has no impurities and no carvings on it. It looks like it was born and raised by nature.
Holding this familiar companion artifact, she felt the long-lost warm and auspicious aura nourishing her body and soul, and her heart was filled with joy.
Thanks to it, he was able to recover a little bit of his magic power, regain his memory this morning, and barely summon the jade pestle in his body and return to his original form.
She was originally the Jade Rabbit of the Moon Palace in the Eastern Heaven. She had intended to use the Golden Cicada, a servant of the Western Buddha, to reincarnate as the Tang Monk's Yuan Yang, becoming her own Taiyi Supreme Immortal. However, Bi Ma Wen's meddling ruined her plans. Furthermore, Taibai Jinxing, the Jade Emperor's trusted advisor, accused her of taking a shortcut to immortality, sealed her magical memories, and banished her to the lower realms to be reborn as a mortal.
The euphemism is: "Exchange experience in the Western world."
Well, I came to this place that is even more west than the Western Paradise, but I really can't get any help from the heavens or the earth. I can't even see the local god. No wonder all the gods in the heaven say that old man Taibai Jinxing is evil and wicked.
When I get back to heaven, I'll definitely pull out all the white hair on his body, leaving him completely bald! What a disgrace!
Alice Yutuer cursed in her heart.
As for now, let Alice Bennett enjoy this special "life" to the fullest.
The author has something to say:
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In order to avoid having too many nicknames and making reading inconvenient, only the female protagonist Yutu and the male protagonist have nicknames in the entire text.
The eldest, Jane Bennett, as the oldest unmarried woman in the family, can also be directly called Miss Bennett. When she gets married, the second oldest unmarried woman can take over the title, and so on.
The second child is Elizabeth Bennett, whose nickname in the original novel is Lizzie. In this article, she is referred to as Elizabeth.
The third child is Alice Bennett, nicknamed Alyssa, and the heroine of this article is Yutu.
Mary Bennett, the fourth child
The fifth child, Catherine Bennett, was nicknamed Kitty in the original novel to distinguish her from Darcy's aunt, Lady Catherine, who also had the same name. Catherine Bennett will not get married in this novel, so the single name Catherine refers to the fifth child in the family, and Lady Catherine refers to Darcy's aunt.
Lydia Bennett
Other names that may not be clear if you haven't read the original work:
Mr. Bentley, full name Charles Bentley
Miss Bingley, full name Caroline Bingley
Mr. Bingley's sister, Mrs. Hurst, whose full name is Louisa Hurst
Mr. Bentley's brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst
Mr. Darcy, full name Fitzwilliam Darcy
A cousin of Mr. Darcy, known as Colonel Fitzwilliam, where Fitzwilliam is the surname
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