Comprehensive experience of time and space

"Master, are you awake?"

Yun Lan's eyes moved, and a male voice immediately sounded next to him, speaking standard English. His head hurt a little. The original owner seemed to have drank a lot. He said softly "Hmm". Yun Lan sorted out his thoughts. The person who spoke was his butler Leger, and he himself was the one who was taken away from the Titanic. Cuckold Carl Hockley.

Seeing him getting up, Leger quickly went to the table to pour him a glass of water. Karl leaned on the bed, took the glass of water, rubbed his aching temples, and said, "Leger, my head hurts a little, and I want to lie down again." For a moment, please go out and don’t let anyone disturb me for an hour.”

Leger responded in a low voice, looked at him, and said hesitantly: "Master, do you want me to call Miss Ruth over? Maybe she regrets quarreling with you now."

Karl waved his hand and said indifferently: "No, I don't want to see her now. Remember not to let anyone come in and disturb me within an hour."

Leger respectfully withdrew, and Karl got down and locked the bedroom door, then sat on the bed and meditated and performed the exercises. Well, fortunately, the human body veins of foreigners are the same as those of Chinese people. In half an hour, he has been running the exercises for a small week. He opened his eyes and took a sip of spiritual spring water. Some toxins accumulated in his body due to years of smoking and drinking Everything had been cleared away, and the whole person suddenly felt much lighter.

After combing through the memories, I found that I had just boarded the ship now. The quarrel between the original owner and Ruth was not because of anything serious. In fact, the two of them rarely had the same opinions when they got along. Ruth firmly believed that the original owner was a stinker and was unwilling to do so. Accept him and understand him, and the original owner is the heir of the Hockley family. He has his own pride. Even if he likes Ruth's energy and enthusiasm, he will not go out of his way to please her.

Now that he has traveled through time and become Karl, he doesn't want Ruth as his fiancée at all. He is comparable to Wang Zixuan in "Between Water and Clouds". It is not wrong to pursue novelty, but it is not wrong to forget one's own identity and responsibilities. Ruth relied on Karl's money to continue living a noble life and admired Picasso's paintings, but she always dismissed Karl in her heart, thinking that he was a profit-seeking businessman. She was really a self-contradictory woman.

Karl stood up and opened the safe, put the documents, jewelry, cash, and the most precious heart of the ocean into the space, and changed the password of the safe. Carl couldn't complain about Ruth's behavior of randomly taking a poor boy whom she had only known for two days to open the safe and play with the heart of the ocean. If she decided to pursue love with Jack, why would she feel so comfortable opening Carl's safe?

Looking at the time, it was almost an hour later. Karl remembered that there seemed to be a dinner party in the evening. When he opened the door and saw Leger standing not far away, Karl smiled with satisfaction. This butler is very good and can be cultivated as a confidant. As the Romans did, Karl did not do it himself, but let the maids serve him to change clothes and eat meals. When he traveled to Haoxiang in the last time and space, there were also maids and servants to serve him, so he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. He just looked at Yisshi His foreign face is just a little bit unaccustomed to him.

It was almost time for the dinner. Rouf took Ruth's hand and walked slowly to Karl's room. Just as he was about to enter, the smile froze on his face. Rouf raised his chin slightly, narrowed his eyes and asked arrogantly: "What? What? We’re going to the dinner party with Carl.”

The maid lowered her head respectfully and replied: "Hello, madam, please wait a moment, I will go and pass the message first." After saying that, she bowed and entered the door. Rufu frowned and glanced at Ruth. In the past, when they came to Karl's room, where did they need to communicate? It seemed that she was very angry this time, and Ruth was too willful.

Ruth felt her mother holding her hand with a slight force, and she thought she was asking her to behave well in front of Karl. She felt very bored. She and Karl were from two different worlds. She yearned for a free and unrestrained life, and Karl has always adhered to the etiquette of aristocrats. Thinking of living with Karl for a lifetime, she had a premonition that she would go crazy.

Karl was sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper. After spending decades in the Qing Dynasty, it was really a pleasure to drink coffee with such a rich taste. Perhaps it was the boldness of a skilled man who was about to build a foundation when the ship sank. It was not difficult to set up a barrier to trap everyone, so he was not so anxious to find a way to prevent the captain from giving the order to speed up.

He thought that even if he could change everything, after the ship sank, he could save the lives of everyone on board, but the captain and the others would have to pay the price, whether it was ruined reputation or condemnation of conscience. They all deserve it.

Hearing the maid's request, Karl raised an eyebrow, took out the pocket watch in his coat pocket and looked at the time. There were still twenty minutes left, and the dinner was about to begin. This mother and daughter really know how to keep time, I have to say. , Ruf's idea was very good. She knew that Karl was obsessed with Ruth, and she also knew that men don't cherish things that are too easy to get, so Ruth's aloofness towards Karl was just enough to stimulate Karl's desire to conquer.

Karl knew that Ruth would commit suicide without him taking action. At that time, he could just follow the plot and cancel the engagement at the critical moment to get rid of the mother and daughter. There was no need to break up with them now. Asking the maid to invite Rufu and Ruth in, Carl was as gentlemanly and polite as usual.

Seeing Karl's expression, Rouf felt quietly relieved, and returned to her arrogant look, expressing her dissatisfaction with the maid's behavior just now. Karl occasionally responded and walked to the restaurant first when Leger reminded him that it was time to go to the restaurant. Ruth couldn't tell whether she was happy or disappointed. Karl didn't even look at her. Although Karl's attitude didn't seem to have changed, she just felt like she was about to lose something.

There was no time for Ruth to think too much. They went to the restaurant and ate with Titanic's boss Esme, engineer Andrew and lady Molly. In the luxurious first-class dining room, all the most distinguished people often gather together to dine together. Rather than saying this is eating, it is better to say it is a way of communication in the upper class, and often the actual content of this communication is filled with the display of power and wealth.

During the dinner, Esme kept praising every detail of the Titanic, exaggerating about his bold investment and cautious operation. Obviously, the success of the Titanic will allow him to reach the highest level in his life. peak. When Esme mentioned him, Andrew just humbly said that it was all because of Esme's idea that the Titanic was created.

A mixture of off-the-cuff compliments, heartfelt exclamations, and meaningless echoes are common reactions in such situations. Ruth sat next to Karl, but she only felt suffocated. She turned from being indifferent to all of this to being disgusted, but she couldn't leave the meeting without any reason, as that would be a sign of rudeness and lack of education. However, being rebellious by nature, she would never accept it without any expression, so she casually lit one of Karl's cigarettes.

Everyone at the table had mixed reactions, but probably no one except Molly would appreciate Ruth's impolite behavior. After all, a well-educated spinster should not behave like this. Rouf reacted quickly, frowned and approached her and said, "Ruth, you know I don't like this."

Ruth responded by blowing a puff of cigarette into Rouf's face. Regarding her uncultured behavior, Karl did not stub out his cigarette like in the original play, nor did he order food for her. Instead, he frowned slightly, showing his dissatisfaction as her fiancé. Because Carl did not make the decision for Ruth, Molly did not attack him, but changed the subject and asked the name of the ship.

"Oh, yes, I came up with the name Titanic," Esme said. "I wanted to emphasize that the ship is huge. Huge means stability, majesty, luxury, and power..."

"Do you know Dr. Freud?" Ruth suddenly interrupted Esme and asked an irrelevant question. Esme obviously had no idea who Freud was, so the question embarrassed him.

"He believes that men attach great importance to the size of their sexual organs...in order to conquer women," Ruth said with a serious face, "This theory must interest you."

Esme was so shocked that she could neither stand nor sit down, and was in a very embarrassed state. Molly smiled knowingly. She had always hated the hypocrisy of nobles, so she admired Ruth's bold behavior. Everyone at the dinner table was shocked, and Rufu hurriedly stopped her daughter from talking: "What are you doing?"

Ruth stood up, said "Excuse me" and left in a hurry.

"I'm so sorry." Rouf apologized to everyone present with a stiff face.

Karl sat there coldly, expressionless.

"She has a big temper," Molly picked up a cherry on her fork and smiled at Carl, "I hope you can handle it."

Hearing the comfort contained in this sentence, Rouf's face turned even darker. Karl picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Brown is always very enthusiastic. It seems that you like Ruth very much. Maybe you can talk."

Ruth only cares about humiliating her fiancé and does not care about her fiancé or her family's reputation. She is just like a rebellious adolescent girl. I really don’t know what Molly admires about her.

Molly's smile froze. Did Karl mean that she was the same as Ruth? Even though she liked Ruth more than these people in her heart, she knew that Ruth's behavior just now was very rude. She knew that these upper-class nobles looked down upon her and were only superficially polite to her, but she also looked down on these so-called nobles. She felt that people should be happy and wanton in life, and they used various rules and regulations to restrain themselves. People are really tired from living.

The author has something to say: Speaking of which, isn’t Ruth a noble lady? Even if she is dissatisfied with this engagement, she shouldn't behave like this in public? Did she never participate in aristocratic society before her father died? She will only ruin her family's reputation...