Chapter 378.

The maids led Zhu Yuyan out of that side courtyard, but instead of heading to the main gate, they made a detour to the main courtyard.

The Yamamoto family’s mansion was also stolen from the Chinese, built in a Chinese style instead of Japanese, Zhu Yuyan was halfway there when she realized that her destination had changed, and she slowly raised her heart.

Sure enough, it wasn’t Ms. Kim who invited her, she didn’t have that much power.

It was Yamamoto.

There were many Japanese and Chinese standing outside in the main courtyard, all of them bodyguards. She saw Japanese soldiers and fighters obviously dressed as Chinese,she didn’t pay much attention to them and swept past them.

Anyone that Yamamoto could put at the door of his room as a bodyguard had to be very reliable, and it was probably impossible to turn them back on the basis of national pride or money alone. She didn’t want to point any fingers either, people die for money, birds die for food. You can’t expect everyone to see the aggressor as an enemy, there are all kinds of complicated connections with thoughts, realms and life circumstances.

She only needs to think about one thing: why, Yamamoto will need Chinese bodyguards.

Were there not enough Japanese bodyguards?

But she hadn’t heard anything about Yamamoto’s assassination from Su Chunjun.

She walked into the room, and Yamamoto was sitting behind the coffee table.

He had lost a lot of weight, and the skin on his face was hitching up.

Yamamoto surprisingly greeted her in Chinese, “Please sit down, Ms. Zhu.”

Zhu Yuyan obediently sat down and smiled, “Your Chinese is very good. It’s better to address me as Mrs. Su. I’ll be embarrassed to be called Miss Zhu after I’ve married.”

Yamamoto: “I don’t think it’s a good idea to address a respectable woman like you by her husband’s surname. You don’t need a husband to add luster.”

Ah, a familiar argument. She had only recently read it in the newspaper.

It was one of the more famous things in American newspapers these days.

That said, reading things in American newspapers nowadays gave her a sense of disorientation. They were still in a time of war here, but it was like a new era in America.

The advertisements in the American newspapers were for new milk bottles, because the American government was vigorously promoting the idea that family happiness meant having more children, that three was not enough, that five was not too much, that ten or eight was too much, and that, by golly, that must be a very happy couple!

This is what Zhu Yuyan found the most confusing. Surprisingly, now she reads about birth promotion in the American newspaper.

Time and space were out of whack.

But the baby boom did come in both America and Britain, probably because too many soldiers died in the war. And with it came a wave of divorces. The wave of divorces wasn’t so much that couples in the U.S. and Britain loved to get divorced lately, but because more and more men were enlisting in the U.S. and Britain, and more and more were being killed in action, and more and more were going missing and not knowing if they were dead or not, so many of the women in the U.S. and Britain were becoming freshly minted war widows.

War widows meant the loss of a large number of male laborers in society, and as we all know, the war also made a lot of money for cotton factories, factories of all kinds in Britain and the U.S. The factories were short of a large number of laborers, so women had to get out of the house and earn money on their own to support themselves and their children.

The American newspaper with the photo, the factory can be reached without a man, all women working at the machine. The only man who appears is the boss standing behind them in a suit.

As a result, some women woke up and began to demand more power. One of them was: they were no longer going to take their husband’s name after marriage.

Women in the US and UK have to take their husband’s name after marriage, it’s written in their laws. Now these foreign women are the ones who intend to fight to keep their last name.

It just so happens that when their husbands are gone and they change back to their old last name and make money to support their children, why can’t they just keep using their last name? Since I don’t need a man to support me now, and I can make my own money, why can’t I use my own last name?

This kind of thinking quickly became a trend, and it doesn’t seem out of place in a world that is changing so fast these days.

Yamamoto’s argument is what some American newspapers are saying in favor of women keeping their last names.

Zhu Yuyan: “I like to be called Mrs. Su because I love my husband.”

Chinese women are allowed to use their own surnames in the future anyway, no need for her to argue this in front of Yamamoto now. Seeing Ms. Kim made her more alert. She knew the Japanese had been trying to rope her in, and the Intelligence Ministry had explained to her that female spies were very scarce right now, as if they hoped she’d be willing to give a little to the party-state – dream on.

Being young, pretty, possessing knowledge, and having a strong mind, it’s amazing that all of these virtues have gotten her noticed by both the Ministry of Intelligence and Yamamoto, and both think she’s perfect for being a spy.

Oh.

Thank you. She really wasn’t going to change her profession. Mrs. So was just fine.

If she looked at Mrs. Su as a profession, she was still willing to work under Su Chunjun.

After all, the boss was so beautiful and obedient.

Yamamoto did not continue to talk on this topic as he turned to talk about Guizi.

He said, “Guizi is very lonely, she is a tender woman, unlike Mrs. Su, her mind is very fragile and she needs a lot of support. Although I was entrusted to take care of her after her parents left, I still want her to make more friends. Mrs. Su, if you are willing, I would like to ask you to socialize more with your son so that she can learn the good things about you.”

It turned out that …… Miss Gold was the bait used to catch her.

Zhu Yuyan became more alert. When she was in school, the Japanese had repeatedly solicited her, but it hadn’t been this blatant. Now it was so direct.

She wasn’t so bad that she couldn’t see what Miss Jin’s status was now.

Yamamoto’s invitation for her to have more contact with Miss Kim was almost explicit.

–Please come over to our side.

Indeed, she had always acted very pro-Japanese, and although she had made a lot of over-the-top remarks when she was at school, her interactions with the Japanese didn’t end after she left school; the Suzuki family, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, she was quite close to the Japanese.

Although this kind of interaction was with an exchange of benefits, Su Chunjun then said that in the entire city, she was the part of the population that was the friendliest to the Japanese, and this part of the population accounted for roughly one-third of the wealthy people in the entire city.

That’s why Yamamoto dared to make the request to her face, I guess.

Combined with the fact that he had just addressed her as Ms. Zhu, Yamamoto, or the Japanese side, expected to separate her from Su Chunjun.

Su Chunjun didn’t look as pro-Japanese as she did, and since he was now at the forefront of resistance against the Japanese, the Japanese would be foolish to see him as a friendly side.

Then turn her, the wife, so that she can go and attack Su Chunjun in turn.

This is indeed the idea that the Japanese would hit.

Then her writing letters to Japanese newspapers and sending readers’ letters to Miss Jin must have been seen by the Japanese as well. That’s why they used Miss Jin to fish for her.

What about the reverse.

What would Yamamoto, the Japanese, think she was trying to do with Miss Kim?

Would they think she was trying to help Ms. Kim?

Or will they think she’s trying to use Miss Kim?

Zhu Yuyan bites the hook with alacrity, “I’m very happy to make friends with Mrs. Guizi, and I think we’ll definitely become very good friends.”