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date="2021-11-06"

title="Chapter 16: Rumors"

weight="142745"

series = ["Rejected the Demon’s Marriage Proposal Thousands of Times"]

mode = "manual"

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Hearing the devil's refusal, Anna had been mentally prepared, but she was still disappointed.

She just doesn't want to be illiterate, why is it so difficult!

Anna wanted to say a few more pleadings, but seeing the devil's expression, she quickly lowered her eyes and dared not say any more.

She endured disappointment and bowed her head in salute: "I understand what you mean. I'm sorry to take up your precious time."

When she turned and left, her back was quite bleak.

Rothgar watched Anna leave, until her back disappeared, and the gloomy mood in the past days has improved a lot.

She refused his marriage proposal so many times, but this time it was his turn to say "no" to her.

She should have a good aftertaste of this taste.

Anna's loss did not last long, and it was not a big deal to be rejected, she could think of other ways if she couldn't get the devil's wool.

Isn't there a Master Parrish?

I just don’t know that he is literate and illiterate...

During the break, Anna's plastic friends came to chat with her again.

Anna thought that everyone was a commoner, and she didn't think about asking them for help, but when she saw them, she had some thoughts. She didn't mean anything. She first talked about her family's situation, and then directly asked about their family situation. .

The three of them did not shy away from their family situation, but talked a lot, and they were very proud of their work in Earls Court to support the whole family.

Abigail, Kelly, and Fiona, the family situation of the three is not much worse than that of Anna. There are many children in the family, but many of them died. Parents worked hard and did not earn too much money. The life of their family only gradually improved after they entered the earl's mansion.

Talking about the brothers and sisters who died in their family, the four of them were a little depressed. Fiona clapped her hands and said, "Okay, don't think too much. They have returned to the embrace of the goddess of light and eat white bread every day in the kingdom of God. With grilled meat and drinking the sweetest milk, we should be happy for them."

The other two nodded in agreement. Although Anna didn't believe this argument, she wouldn't be disappointed.

The four of them talked as usual and then broke up. Anna swallowed her thoughts after learning about their family situation.

Everyone's family background is similar, and they can't help, so there is no need to say it in vain.

After being able to get out of bed and walk around, Parish prefers to have lunch and dinner with his father, so Anna is quite empty.

She didn't go out of the kitchen, and the demon didn't take the initiative to look for her, so she was relieved a lot for the rest of the day.

When she returned home from get off work, Anna still remembered the agreement with Mark that she bought white bread and other food that was rarely bought by the low-level civilians on the way, and gave it to Mark to express her gratitude.

The next day, when Parrish was delivering the meal, the devil was still there. Anna hesitated for a moment, or after Parrish finished her meal, she made her request.

"Master Parrish, can you teach me to read?"

Anna didn't want to worry about what the devil thought at this time. She just wanted to find a "backer" for herself. Whether it was Ulysses or Paris who possessed the devil to teach her to read, they were all nobles. Bobby will be scrupulous.

Since the devil refused to teach her to give up this opportunity to get closer to her so as to deceive her trust, then she immediately switched to the arms of another man, isn't it too much?

Parrish was taken aback. He didn't expect Anna to make such a request. He coughed lightly and asked with a smile: "Dear Anna, why do you suddenly want to be literate?"

Anna replied respectfully: "Because I don't want to be just a maid forever."

Parrish raised an eyebrow and smiled: "My dear, I appreciate your ambition. It's just that I don't have the ability to teach others. I'm sorry, I can't help you with this."

Anna hurriedly said: "Master Parrish, I learn things very fast, you only need to give me a little bit of advice, or even tell me the correspondence between language and text, it is enough for me."

Excluding kindergarten, Anna had been in school for sixteen years anyway, she still had this confidence.

Parrish smiled, shook his head slightly, and refused: "No, my dear, I can't be a teacher."

He paused and suggested: "You can ask Ulysses."

Rothgarh looked out the window as if he hadn't heard him.

Anna thought, if the demon hadn't refused, how could she come to Parish?

Speaking of which, one or two of them refused to teach her, could it be because they were actually illiterate?

Although Parrish is a nobleman, not every nobleman is literate, and words and knowledge carried by words are scarce resources in this world. The nobility mainly continues by blood. There is no hard requirement for knowledge, and it does not matter if you are ignorant.

And the devil... isn't even human anymore, isn't it normal to be illiterate?

Of course, the Ulysses mage possessed by the devil must be literate himself, and the mage group is the group with the highest level of knowledge in the world.

This demon is really violent! A good mage, after being possessed by him, he became an illiterate!

Anna lowered her head and said, "Thank you Master Parrish, I'm sorry to take up your time."

As she said, she packed everything up, and did not listen to Parrish's advice before asking the devil.

If you don't teach her, don't they think she can't spread the rumors if you don't teach her?

Anna began to "spread rumors" during the chat with the three Abigail in the afternoon.

Turning to the topic of literacy, Anna said: "I really want to be literate. I made this request to Master Parrish today."

Abigail covered her mouth and was a little surprised. She remembered that Anna had told Master Parrish that she already had a lover. Master Parrish should have given up Anna? Will he still promise to teach Anna to read?

Fiona asked more directly: "Master Parrish doesn't care about your lover?"

Kelly echoed: "Master Parrish is not going to give up?"

Anna smiled and made a very green tea remark: "I think Master Parrish should give up, but I am not sure. Although I don't want to be Master Parrish's lover, if he is willing to teach me literacy, why should I? Do you want to refuse?"

Fiona and others looked at her as if they had seen Anna for the first time, with a rather complicated expression, but soon they were relieved.

Wouldn't it be possible for them to do this? Anna did nothing wrong!

Several people then began to discuss the various benefits of literacy, but the three Abigail did not realize that Anna never said it from the beginning to the end, Parish agreed to teach her literacy.

You have to be careful about spreading rumors, anyway, she didn’t lie, she couldn’t control how they spread, didn’t she?

After Anna watched the three people leave, she finally felt better.

She wants to be literate very much, they refuse to teach, and she will find other ways.

But for now, let the rumors fly for a while and see if she is learning about it from Parrish, can she create some deterrent to Bobby.

After Rothgar left the small building where Parrish lived, he gave the servant of Russell's house a task.

Although Ulysses is only the second son of the Russell family, it is after all the duke’s house. Ulysses will bring a servant when he goes out to practice, but Ulysses was originally a arrogant and indifferent character, and he didn’t like it. Everywhere I go, I take a domestic servant, and the domestic servant has a very low sense of existence. Therefore, after Rothgar was attached, he hadn't taken care of the domestic servants much and did not arouse any suspicion.

Now Rothgar gave the servant a task, and the servant did not ask more, but completed it neatly.

What Rothgar wanted to know was Anna's family situation at the moment.

After he refused to teach her to read, she asked Parrish again. He first proposed to Anna when he was in possession of Parrish. If she had a need for literacy, she could definitely raise it at that time. Why wait until now?

After feeling something unusual, Rothgar planned to figure it out.

Domestic servants are very efficient and will return soon.

It turned out that Anna was forced to marry. The other party was a widower. His wife was just beaten to death by him a few days ago.

Hearing the news, Rotgar couldn't help laughing.

It turns out that this human woman has encountered such a thing, it is no wonder that she suddenly took the initiative to ask for literacy, trying to scare away the widower by relying on the status of teacher and student?

Then of course he will not be as she wishes.

He knew that she must not want to disrupt her own plan, so she temporarily decided to use this method to scare away the forced marriage. Originally, as long as she agreed to his marriage proposal, wouldn't she be able to escape from this predicament? After all, she didn't know what she would face when she agreed.

Rothgar raised his hand and waved back the servant, in a happy mood.

Now that he and Parish have rejected her, what else can she do?

He waited for her to come to him and beg for mercy.

The person who threatened her to agree to his proposal was the widower, not him, and of course he did not violate the bet agreement with Balan.

When she thought she would escape the predicament by agreeing to his marriage proposal, the next moment she realized that she would be in a nightmare that she could not escape for the rest of her life, the expression on her face must be very funny.

In the next two days, neither Anna nor Rothgar did anything extra.

Anna is waiting for the rumors to ferment, while Rotgar is waiting for Bobby's persecution to take effect.

Slowly, Anna began to hear people whispering about her learning to read with Parrish.

Because Anna knew that the news from her was false, she called it a rumor, and when it came to others, they didn't know the truth and became a rumor. Rumors are always distorted in the process of spreading. The version that Anna overheard in the mouth of the kitchen maid is that Master Parrish is teaching her to read in order to make Anna a worthy person, waiting for her to learn. They will get married.

Anna is very satisfied with this version of the rumors, so Bobby absolutely dare not think about her anymore, he wants to grab a woman from the nobleman because he is desperate.

After another two days, the rumors spread to Anna's own home. When Anna came home that night, Guy asked Ann about the rumors suspiciously.

In order to maintain the image of a pure and lively girl in Gay’s eyes, Anna pretended that this rumor was not made by herself, and said blankly: "There is no such thing, Master Parrish did not teach me to read."

Guy was puzzled: "What about..."

Anna comforted her: "It's okay mom, this rumor is not bad for us, but good. In this way, Bobby will not dare to persecute us again."

Guy thought for a while, nodded suddenly, and said with joy: "You are right, Anna!"

"Then Mom, if anyone asks in the future, you can say you don't know if it is true or not." Anna exhorted.

Guy nodded again and again, this rumor is simply a joy for their family now.

There was also a girl working as a maid in the earl’s mansion in an alley next to Pomegranate Alley. Anna guessed that she might have spread the rumors. It didn't take long for the rumors to spread in Lime Lane. Many people came to see Guy. Guy did what Anna taught her, saying that he didn't know anything.

And Anna went out early and returned late every day, avoiding all contact with strangers.

Last time Lily and her mother Renee came to Anna's house to have a fight. Anna refuted the rumors in front of everyone, saying that she did not seduce Master Parrish.

But after the new rumors came out, everyone had forgotten the last thing. It's not that there are no civilians who are admired by the nobles, so why can't it be Anna? Moreover, the content of this rumor is very legendary. It is said that Master Parrish taught her to read in order to make Anna a wife worthy of him. This kind of love story of "Prince and Cinderella" has always existed in any age. Let people talk about it.

In this world where class consolidation is extremely serious, such rumors seem to be the light of hope for the low-level civilians, and grasping this beam of light, they seem to have the possibility of rising.

So, does it matter whether the rumors are true or false? It's not important at all.

After a few days, Evan said that Bobby was not visible in the tavern for the time being, and Anna was no longer blocked.

Anna was in a good mood for this, and as long as she maintained her current situation, Bobby wouldn't dare to act rashly.

That evening, Anna returned to Pomegranate Lane before dark as usual, but she was blocked by Bobby who hadn't appeared for a long time.

Realizing that things might have changed, Anna deliberately kept a distance from Bobby and looked at him coldly.

The butcher Bobby wanted to approach Anna. Seeing him approaching, Anna immediately backed away. He had to stop, staring at her and said, "What is your relationship with Master Parrish?"

"It's up to you." Anna replied coldly, she didn't bother to give a good face to this kind of scum.

Bobby hesitated for a moment, as if thinking of something, and then put on a fierce expression and said, "Bitch, do you think the noble master will look at you? Dream less! I know what happened to you and Master Parrish They are all fake, don't try to fool me!"

Anna looked at him coldly: "What do you want to think about, it doesn't matter to me, anyway, it's not me who will suffer by that time. Get out of the way, I'm going home!"

Bobby flinched, then said triumphantly: "Do you think you can scare me by saying this? I can tell you, I know all about your Lord Lord's place!"

Anna frowned slightly and asked nonchalantly: "Lily and Renee told you?"

Bobby was stunned. Obviously he didn't expect Anna to guess, but he didn't think it was a big deal. He simply admitted: "Yes! Lily's aunt is very talkative in front of the lord, the man in the house I can't hide things from her! Master Parrish can look down on civilians like you, maybe he doesn't even know your name!"

How did Lily Renee and Bobby hook up?

Anna didn't even listen to Bobby's words, she just didn't expect that Lily could still trouble her with this matter.

I'm afraid that after Bobby's wife died, it was Lily and her mother, Renee, who forced Bobby to marry, right? After seeing the spread of rumors, Bobby flinched, and Lily and the others took out the "Aunt Anna" card.

Obviously, either Lily's Aunt Anna was too poor at spying on news, or what they told Bobby was they made up in the name of "Aunt Anna."

Otherwise, how could Bobby not know that she is still bringing breakfast to Parish every day? The fact of delivering breakfast to Paris does not explain much, but when she has contact with Parish, it is possible for Parish to "fancy" her. Not knowing her name is even more nonsense.

"Didn't Lily's aunt tell you that I am delivering meals to Master Parrish every day?" Anna asked back.

After the demon left Parrish's body, he didn't remember her anymore. But the kitchen side didn’t know, so he asked Anna to continue the delivery. On Parish’s side, he didn’t know what happened during his possession by the devil. He didn’t care who the kitchen sent to deliver the food, so Anna was so stubborn. Down.

Otherwise, if Parrish named her by name and said she didn't want to give it away, maybe she would have been fired from the kitchen by Parrish's words and left her to make way for the people in line behind.

Bobby panicked when he heard Anna's words, his triangular eyes rolled, and he smiled grimly: "Ha, who would believe your nonsense! Wait for me, you can't escape!"

Bobby left the harsh words and left, and Anna went home immediately after he left.

Originally, the rumors she controlled with one hand were working, but she didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to kill halfway through!

Anna had left Lily and Renee behind long ago, but she didn't expect them to be still making waves.

Now she can't go to the mother and daughter confrontation, they are splashing, much more powerful than her. Moreover, the most important thing about rumors is to cover up. It is not suitable to be mentioned in the public, and it is easy to be exposed. She can only put their names on the revenge list first, and then revenge back in the future.

Anna silently thought about how to get back with revenge, because she didn't have much experience before, and it was a bit painful to think about it. But who knows that that night, her father Evan dragged his injured body home early.

When asked, Bobby was drinking and making trouble in the tavern where Evan worked. When Evan stopped them to destroy the tavern tables and chairs, he was injured. After the chaos, someone lay on the ground with their arms and groaned. It was Evan who injured him and asked Evan to lose money. The lion's big mouth was a gold coin.