Great time travel

Chapter 611, The Last Leisure Time

Chapter 11. The Last Leisure Time

Any experienced home girl always needs a computer with a fast network speed. This is a rule recognized by the entire network.

No matter where such a house girl goes, even if Ji friends don’t know her sexual orientation and preferences at all, and the number of collections, at least there is a channel for communication and exchange—since such a code is in the vast house It has long been ingrained in the world, so housewives always take it for granted that the computer is one of the necessary equipment for a house or cocoon... As a qualified housewife, Elizabeth.Bennet’s biggest dream before crossing is to buy a small high-rise apartment with good lighting in a mid-priced neighborhood in the city center, and then put his beloved computer in it, install the highest configuration hardware, especially High-fidelity speakers, all kinds of favorite figures are displayed behind the computer desk, and there are piles of biscuits, desserts and drinks that are within reach on the other side. In addition, there is an oversized Simmons bed that allows people to roll around anytime, anywhere.

However, there is a famous saying that goes like this: How beautiful your dreams are, how cruel the reality must be...

Instead of saving enough money to buy a small high-rise apartment in the city center, she had a big house in the English countryside at the end of the eighteenth century.

Judging from the living area alone, it seems to have made a profit, but judging from various software and hardware, it is really a loss that makes people want to cry without tears.

——No Internet, no computer, no refrigerator, no microwave oven, no running water, no electricity, not even potato chips...

But what can I do?Miserly fate makes you gain some things and loses others.

The world does not revolve around any one person.No one is the protagonist, and no one is the supporting role; no one is always lucky, and no one is always unhappy; no one always reaps joy, and no one always welcomes sadness...

Well, do you think Elizabeth will really drink this bowl of chicken soup for the soul with the wrong seasoning?

——The plot world of "Pride and Prejudice" she traveled to really revolved around herself, the heroine!She and Mr. Darcy, who doesn't know where they are right now, are the protagonists of this world, and they are destined to have a life full of legends...

In fact, unlike the chicken soup for the soul that is force-fed to the masses, it is impossible for everyone to be equal in every world. There must be protagonists, supporting roles, and of course more extras.Some guys are born with more than others: more powerful parents, wealthier families, stronger bodies, smarter minds, etc.But on the other hand, these advantages are not predestined, but because their parents paid the corresponding price.People who have obtained these favorable conditions do not get it for nothing, but have to bear the higher expectations of their families and shoulder various heavier responsibilities for this—this is the price.

Everything in the world follows this theorem, that is, equivalent exchange.Some equivalent exchanges are obvious, while others are buried under the deep material level; so countless people pay the same price, but get different results—however, for the new one in their own destiny, After rounds of equivalent exchange, the time-travel version of Elizabeth is quite satisfied.Although the plot of "Pride and Prejudice" has been tossed into a mess, I guess it will be difficult to talk about a vigorous love affair with the "dream boy god" described by Jane Austen, but the situation of the Bennet family has already changed. It's seriously out of the plot line, even if it's more out of line, it's not bad.

In return, not only can she enjoy a certain degree of modern living conditions in this backward world, such as replacing the mattress with Simmons, she can even surf the Internet here. The root network cable was also pulled over by Wang Qiu from the base in the modern world... After signing a document to promise not to leak the secret information of this time and space, Elizabeth finally got a laptop of her dreams.

(After more than a million people traveled through the late Ming Dynasty, the existence of another world is no longer a matter of high secrecy.)

Looking at the netizens in the chat group showing off their travel photos, she couldn't help feeling a strong sense of superiority.

—I am chatting online in the English countryside on the eve of the Napoleonic Wars at the end of the eighteenth century!Who among you can have such an experience? !

However, Elizabeth only dared to be complacent in her heart, and did not dare to really post photos online to show her sense of superiority, and she estimated that even if she really posted photos, most people would not believe her, but just thought she was in an old house in modern Europe Took a few pictures...

Just as she was sleepily off the line and was about to watch the entertainment news, a pair of very cute twins with silver hair loli pushed the door and barged in.

"...Big sister! Can you borrow this computer for us? For some reason, our computer keeps crashing today!"

"...Oh, it's Hansel and Gretel! What? Want to play a game?" Elizabeth looked back at the pair of silver-haired twins who seemed to be cute to the bone, and suddenly smiled in a good mood——Before, When she learned that these two doll-like little guys were actually the Romanian silver-haired twins in "Black Lagoon", she was taken aback, but looking at these two lolis, they seem to be pretty well-behaved, not abnormal Signs of ghosts.And now I have become the heroine in a novel, as a crow, I really don't have the right to laugh at the wild boar black, so I just got used to it.

"...That's not it! I have business to do now! Big Brother (Wang Qiu) and Grandpa (Political Commissar Guo) took a lot of photos in London before, let's sort them out." Grete raised her head and raised the memory card in her hand Ka, said with a great expression on his face.

So, Elizabeth gave up her laptop and stood aside with great interest, watching the silver-haired twins insert a memory card into the computer and call up photos and videos—Elizabeth did not participate in the previous few days. London trip, so I'm a little curious about that now.

Although she had been to London with the "Bennet couple" before, she went directly to a relative's house and didn't go to many places.

Then, the LCD screen displayed the iron-gray foggy sky, a carriage swaggering through the city, an English gentleman wearing a cloak and a cylinder hat, with a pipe in his mouth, wrapped in layers of pleated fabrics and lace ribbons like a giant Gift bags, ladies with ostrich feathers on their heads, dark and cluttered old-fashioned shops, and drunks bowling in taverns-the bowling of this era is called "skittles", and the game is not as good as later generations. Formally, the main thing is to put nine wine bottles, let people roll the wooden balls, and see how many can be knocked over...

Next, the camera lens seems to turn to the slums in the East End of London, where there are many dilapidated shacks, dirty roads, and ragged, sallow and emaciated people, looking dirty and numb, like prisoners in a concentration camp. It made Elizabeth very sad.

However, Hansel and Gretel, the two seemingly innocent twin lolis, didn't take it seriously. Fate may not be as good as these people!"

Elizabeth, who also watched "Black Lagoon", suddenly remembered the tragic ending of the Romanian twins in the original book, "...Ah, sorry, I forgot your previous experience... Indeed, you were sold abroad at such a young age , is really too miserable..."

"...Actually, even if we hadn't been sold abroad at that time, we probably wouldn't have had a better fate."

Gretel shook her head, and took out a photo from her pocket, "...Even if she didn't starve to death and freeze to death at that time, she would probably have to curl up in a dirty and smelly room like the compatriots in the orphanage in this photo. In the sewers of the world, become cave-dwelling savages..."

——In the photo, a middle-aged woman covered in dirt and pale complexion is sitting in a cave full of rubbish, with a syringe still on her leg, next to a deformed little boy with a bag of poisonous powder in her mouth, Showing a creepy and silly expression towards the camera... This middle-aged woman in the photo, like the silver-haired twins in "Black Lagoon", is one of the Romanian orphans living on the streets after the upheaval in Eastern Europe.

Before the upheaval in Eastern Europe, Nikolai.When Ceausescu ruled Romania, Ceausescu, who was so successful, issued many absurd decrees that shocked the world, including the prohibition of divorce, the prohibition of contraceptive measures and the prohibition of free abortion. Each couple had at least four children. Contrary to these few articles, violators will be regarded as traitors who destroy the country's construction, and the punishment is extremely cruel.The purpose of this series of policies is to increase Romania's labor force and increase birth and fertility rates.But he did not take into account that the impoverished Romanian people simply cannot afford to support them, and Romania's economic level is far from being able to afford such a large population.As a result, these absurd laws directly led to the skyrocketing birth rate and death rate in Romania, and a large number of poor parents who were unable to raise their children had to choose to abandon their babies with tears in their eyes.

Initially, these abandoned orphans could still be adopted by the state in welfare institutions.However, after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the fall of the red regime in Romania, the whole country fell into turmoil again. The former welfare institutions were forgotten by the world, and some orphans became popular commodities for human traffickers, and were sold to the red light districts of Western European countries and various private organizations. Clubs, and even sold all the way to Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Arabia and India... Hansel and Gretel in "Black Lagoon" are such a pair of unlucky Romanian twin orphans.

But if they had not been taken abroad by human traffickers, but had stayed on the soil of their motherland, would their fate have been slightly better in the future?Perhaps not necessarily—in the Eastern European countries in that turbulent era, ordinary people could not eat three meals a day and were precarious, and the orphans abandoned by the orphanage were even more hungry and cold, and had nowhere to go.In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, the abandoned sewers in the city became their shelter. They kept warm by the heat emitted by the steam pipes in the sewers, and they barely survived by begging and stealing for food.

In the 21st century, these Romanian orphans who hid in the sewers of the capital have become a special group that can be called "cavemen". Many people have lived in the sewers for decades and have already adapted to the dirty and stench of the sewers. The mice, fleas, garbage, and feces here are also turned a blind eye.And they continued to have children in this sewer without a ray of light, and let their offspring grow up in this dark underground world.Some children never left this underground world from birth to adulthood, and gave birth to their own children here...

Obviously, there can be no healthy life in such an underground world. Among the sewer residents of Bucharest, almost everyone has AIDS, and a quarter of them suffer from tuberculosis.Every time the sun is about to set, the residents of the sewers start to wake up and climb up to the ground like the living dead.Because their eyes are used to the dark, and they no longer adapt to the sun like vampires!

——No hope, no purpose, even household registration and identity disappeared in the turmoil, leaving only violence, drugs, hunger, disease, discrimination and loneliness.If we say that those "northern drifters" who sleep in the basement and sewers in Beijing, China, after experiencing obstacles and despair, there is still a way to leave Beijing and return to their hometown.So these Romanian orphans abandoned by everyone have been trapped in this dark and humid world forever, they can only wait for death in the dark, and finally they are completely swallowed by the boundless darkness.

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After hearing such a heavy and tragic story, Elizabeth suddenly felt a little depressed. She just smiled brightly, then turned and left, wanting to change her mood.Unexpectedly, after walking around the house, they found that the three Indian guests who had come for treatment had just left. In order to send these Indian guests off, Wang Qiu and the others also went back to the base in the modern world.Among the rest of the people, Jane was lying on the sofa making a facial mask, and Mary, Kitty and Lydia, three old Chinese ladies dressed in Western girl skins, were playing mahjong. Elizabeth, who didn't know mahjong, was very serious about this. lack of interest.

Seeing the sunny weather outside, Elizabeth tucked a book under her arm, ready to go for a walk.

—It is the most beautiful summer of the year in England, and it is a quiet and beautiful afternoon, full of sunshine, flowers, and the smell of flowers and grass in the air, and everything feels comfortable.

After walking on the sunny meadow and woods for a while, Elizabeth felt a lot more relaxed, and was about to find a secluded place to take a nap, but she met another "best friend" who also came for a walk—a woman from the same village. Miss Lucas, Charlotte.Lucas.

Well, though, in the tongues of the Longbourn village she was more often called "the old unmarried Lucas girl" . . .

——Elizabeth and her sisters, with a dowry of a thousand pounds each, and outstanding beauty, have such a difficult marriage.And Charlotte's dowry is only a pitiful one hundred pounds, and her appearance is ordinary, so she is naturally reduced to a slow seller in the marriage market of the gentleman class.

Speaking of which, the Lucas family is also a prominent family in Longbourn Village, William.Mr. Lucas is the only lord in the village. He used to do business and was the mayor. He was once quite wealthy.But the problem is that at the end of the eighteenth century, when capitalism was just emerging, people's ideas hadn't changed all at once. Even in Britain, the status of businessmen was far inferior to that of landlords.On the one hand, after earning money, many big businessmen are eager to buy manors and become squires in order to improve their social status; on the other hand, many gentlemen would rather borrow money than do business. It would be considered disrespectful for a gentleman to run a business, and respectability is precisely what Mr. Lucas values ​​most.

As a result, after becoming a knight, in order to maintain his dignity and become a respectable gentleman, Mr. Lucas gave up his lucrative business and came to Longbourne Village to buy land and settle down, relying entirely on land rent for a living.However, land is a very special commodity. Land for sale is not available all the time. Most of the good land in Longbourne Village has already been occupied by other families. Therefore, the real estate purchased by Mr. Lucas at that time was relatively small, and the land rent was relatively small. His income is not enough to maintain a luxurious life, but he is a good-looking person who likes to hold dance parties and talk about ostentation, so he has been unable to make ends meet for decades, and he has been sitting and eating, and there is not much money left in his early business. the poor.

And Charlotte.Miss Lucas was also dragged down by the reality of this money-worshiping society for various reasons such as her meager dowry and poor appearance, and became a 27-year-old "old girl".The Lucas family also had a lot of headaches for their eldest daughter who could not be married, and even once thought of marrying Charlotte to a widower with a dead wife and children in Meryton Town.It's just that Sir Lucas prides himself on being a respectable family, so he couldn't bear to mention it first, and the other party was not very satisfied with Miss Lucas' dispensable dowry and equally dispensable appearance, so the marriage failed in the end. .

In the original work of "Pride and Prejudice", Charlotte finally caught the life-saving straw of Mr. Collins in time and successfully married herself.Although it makes Elizabeth, a good friend all the time.Miss Bennet felt angry and puzzled, but this marriage can be regarded as a very good bargain for the Lucas family, who still has an unmarried daughter and a not-so-good son... But in this In the messy world disturbed by the traversers, God knows what kind of marriage this ordinary-looking Miss Lucas will have.

Closer to home, in Longbourne, Charlotte is Elizabeth.One of Bennet's few same-sex friends, and after changing her soul, the time-travel version of Elizabeth cautiously continued to maintain this friendship and friendship with Charlotte out of various considerations...

Therefore, as soon as she recognized Elizabeth's appearance, Charlotte immediately greeted her with a smile, and warmly greeted her:

"...Eliza (Elizabeth's nickname)! Good afternoon! Why haven't I seen you these days (staying at home and surfing the Internet)? That's right! Did you know? Netherfield Manor is rented out again! Do you want to know who rented it?"

Hearing this news, Elizabeth's mind suddenly exploded with a "boom" and became blank, leaving only one thought:

——Could it be that after experiencing so many changes, the plot of "Pride and Prejudice" will finally unfold as it was?

It's a pity that the facts will prove that the idea she thought of at this moment is really too naive...