Chapter 219

What did the ladies and wives, led by Lady Feng, talk about at the banquet? Of course it was the gossip of each family.

Probably sons and daughters, son-in-laws, husbands, aunts and these gossip things.

The head is Mrs. Feng started.

Mrs. Feng may be the age, like to reminisce about the past, especially like to talk about their own family used to live in Beijing when the past.

That is, Cixi’s birthday banquet has not been organized, the garden has not been built, Princess Zhen has not thrown a well, the mayor of Feng is still relying on Mrs. Feng’s dowry to live.

Mayor Feng had no official luck in the Qing Dynasty, so he had children at home with Mrs. Feng and had two sons and two daughters, one end was a daughter, and the middle two were sons.

At that time, Mrs. Feng should be the happiest time.

Mrs. Feng talked about her eldest daughter, that is even that year’s Dragon Boat Festival, eldest daughter’s head wearing a hairpin with bright red coral beads are clearly remembered, as if yesterday.

The eldest daughter is the first child, beautiful and understanding, but by the old-fashioned education.

At that time, although foreigners have been foreign guns and cannons to Guangzhou, and even fought a few games in Guangzhou, far away from the city of Beijing, or the peace and quiet.

The Feng family, like all old-fashioned families at that time, was impacted by the foreigners, but still had to maintain the tradition. Therefore, only the two sons studied Western learning, and the daughters were raised according to the old rules.

In this way, raised to eleven years old, the eldest daughter was engaged to be married.

No way, when the emperor in the harem has not been born a son to Mrs. Feng is in the flag, Feng mayor, although not, but also afraid of the palace does not talk about chaos, after all, the emperor has commanded the whole of China, in case the palace intends to choose the showgirls in Beijing how to do? The palace girls will be even worse.

Therefore, Mrs. Feng’s eldest daughter, eight years old began to see the in-laws, eleven years old, twelve years old to get married. With the in-laws to make a good deal, fifteen years old and then round room.

The two families are close to each other, Mrs. Feng often call her daughter and son-in-law home for a few days, the two young couples are quite good feelings, she is also very happy.

Mayor Feng then wrote articles every day, in the article discussing national policy, carrying the article around the delivery. One day, he came home and told Mrs. Feng that he was going to Shanxi to become an official!

Mrs. Feng had to take her two sons and youngest daughter to Shanxi with Mayor Feng.

Beijing gradually chaotic, Mrs. Feng day to day worry, write to the eldest daughter, want to let them two young family to Shanxi, or in-laws family moved over can also, Feng mayor although not as a big official, but more rent a yard can also live.

But the in-laws have not made up their minds, back and forth between the Eight-Power Allied Forces began to fight to Beijing, the letter can not be sent over.

Mrs. Feng began to sleepless, can not eat, every moment in suspense, but also let the son with the family underlings every day to the city gates, waiting, looking forward to the in-laws have set off, has come to Shanxi.

Four years later, she got the news of Beijing. The in-laws were broken by the French soldiers, and the whole family died. The men were killed and the women were humiliated.

The eldest daughter hung herself from a beam and died.

Mayor Feng, however, was promoted at this time and transferred from Shanxi to Sichuan.

The two sons signed up for the army together after hearing about their elder sister. At that time, Mayor Feng was still far from the position of the head of a city, the two sons enrolled in the army, and he was not able to get people back. As a result, a year later, two notices of death in action were sent to the Feng family.

Mrs. Feng white head overnight, from then on the youngest daughter more strict control, the door are not allowed to her out.

I don’t know how it happened, but the more Mayor Feng’s children died, the faster he rose through the ranks. From Beijing out, he used thirty years, but from Shanxi to Sichuan, he only used two years.

After another five years, Mayor Feng came to the city.

At that time, the government had just been established, and was negotiating peace with each country separately, and the waiver of war agreement was signed one after another, and every time it was signed, it was written about in the newspapers, and in the streets and alleys, the people cheered and jumped for joy.

No more fighting! No more fighting! Peace has come!

Foreigners set up leases in the city, opened banks, built hotels.

Everyone knows that there will be no war in this city. Foreigners live here, their banks and hotels are here, they have to make money here. If they fight here, they’re not hitting their own pockets.

The whole of China can be fought anywhere, but not here, foreign guns will not bombard this place!

Such statements abound in the newspapers.

The government knows that peace is not easy to come by, and they are carefully maintaining it. Although this peace is somewhat self-deceptive, it is not maintained by its own people, but by the foreigners here.

Mrs. Feng was riding in her car on the street, looking at the buildings built by foreigners on the side of the road and the streets full of foreigners, and finally felt a little bit relieved. She wanted nothing else, just for her family to be well.

Her youngest daughter finally got married in this city, with ten miles of red dress. Mayor Feng’s official is also just one step away from the mayor, the youngest daughter’s wedding was held in an unbelievable splendor.

Mrs. Feng smiled and said, “The hotel where you got engaged, at that time, Zhen Ge’er was also held there, chartered the whole hotel and held a banquet for three days.”

Mrs. Feng’s youngest daughter is called Feng Zhen, Mrs. Feng called it all Zhen Ge’er, like calling a boy.

The banquet was held in a lively manner, champagne from France was opened in cases and cases, the guests were endless, and roses sent from the south of France covered the carpet of the hotel.

–Yang Yuyan realized that the best foreigners in the city at that time were French. Now it was the Japanese, and before Japan it was the English. It seemed that it was really a rotation.

Everyone listened quietly to Mrs. Feng, and when Mrs. Feng spoke, she only spoke of the happy moments of her children, all the pain all disappeared from her memory as if it was gone.

Her daughter’s gorgeous wedding, the cars her sons drove, the cigarettes they smoked, the watches they wore on their wrists, and so on.

If not for the fact that Yang Yuyan had heard Su Chunjun talk about the Feng family’s past, she might have thought that Mrs. Feng was showing off her wealth.

After knowing the inside story, this sounds heartbreaking.

But she didn’t feel bad for long, because Mrs. Feng was “showing off her wealth”, and everyone else followed suit. From the first wife from the left, to the last wife on the right, there wasn’t a single person who didn’t show off.

Mrs. A held up her hand like a chicken’s claw, showing off the big emerald ring hanging on her finger for all to see.

Mrs. B just kept touching her collar button, on which she wore a sapphire brooch.

–Yang Yuyan followed the trend and also began to touch her hairpin, collar, bracelet, and watch!

Mrs. C said, “Our old man just bought a car, I told him not to buy it, the family has seven cars.”

Mrs. D: “Our master just bought a factory, an American factory, it cost 80,000 dollars.”

–Yang Yuyan: “Oh, our family doesn’t need to buy a house, the Zhu family building is enough for us to live in, but Mr. Su insisted that he wanted to buy another one, the public issued him a car, and I heard that someone gave him another one recently.”

Mr. Su took a sip of water and smiled.

Up to here it was all fairly normal, but then it got more and more abnormal.

Mrs. A: “Our lord spent four thousand dollars on an errand last time he had a concubine, but it pissed me off.”

Mrs. B: “In our family, it’s the old master who wants to buy a concubine, he’s over eighty years old, and he has to spend a total of seven thousand dollars to buy a little girl, tell me, even if the family has money, they can’t spend it like this.”

–Yang Yuyan: “Oh, last time there was also a person who gave our teacher Su a concubine, but we are the youth of the new era, we should support the monogamy that the government says, and refuse to take concubines as a feudal tumor.”

Teacher Su: “……”

Teacher Su changed the glass of wine.

All in all, Second Miss Yang’s first time of lady diplomacy has played well in the circle of wives, and has already begun to communicate with the wives on how to clean up their own family’s little wives.

Second Miss Yang: “How should I know? Just saw him once, asked him a question, and the person disappeared.”

Mrs. A: “……”

Mrs. B: “……”

Other wives: “……”

A certain Mrs. boldly spoke, “Could it be kept outside? You have to be careful.”

Yang Yuyan was shocked and turned her head to ask Su Chunjun, “Really?”

Mr. Su turned his gaze to a certain Mrs. who had just spoken, stared at her, smiled down at the acting-addicted Second Miss Yang, and softly said, “How could I possibly lie to you? I had someone send Miss Wang back, I’m also against concubinage, monogamy is the right thing to do.”

Second Miss Yang looked like a virtuous wife, “I believe you.”

Then some good people continued to tease the young Miss Yang: “Then what if Mayor Feng wants to play matchmaker for Mr. Su in the future? It’s always hard to refuse a concubine from a superior official.”

Young Miss Yang Er lived up to her expectations and said seriously, “If that’s the case, then I’ll divorce him and let him pursue his own happiness.”

Su Chunjun: “……”

All the wives laughed. How could a golden son-in-law like Mr. Su have a woman willing to divorce and let him go?

“Young people don’t know any better, I’ll teach you, if he takes a concubine, you take the opportunity to tell him to feel guilty and treat you better.”

“Isn’t divorce cheaper for someone else? You spare such a good Mr. Su?”

One by one, they taught Second Miss Yang to master her husband.

No matter how powerful Su Chunjun was, he couldn’t be serious with this group of mothers-in-law one by one.

He drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, kneeled down on one knee, held Second Miss Yang’s hand to his mouth, kissed it lightly, and swore to Second Miss Yang amidst the shrill laughter of all the wives, “In order to make sure that you don’t want to leave me, I won’t take a concubine for the rest of my life.”

Second Miss Yang becomes a habit of nitpicking, “Then what if I die?”

Su Chunjun: “Then I will guard your grave and never marry again.”

Only then did Second Miss Yang smile like a spring flower, pull him up and say, “If you die, I will not marry again and will live on your grave.”

Mrs. Feng was dazed for a moment when she heard the pair of young people’s vows, then she came back to her senses and laughed with the others at the pair of young people.

“We could all hear it!”

“You can’t repent of this vow!”

So, before midnight, the dancers all heard the gossip that if Su Chunjun took a concubine, his fiancée would divorce him! If he didn’t take a concubine, his fiancée swore not to remarry after his death, and he swore not to marry again if she died before him.

Mrs. Shao in the center of the dance floor was snuggling in Mayor Feng’s arms and laughed when she heard it.

Mayor Feng embraced her and said with a smile, “Little girls don’t take their words seriously.”

Mrs. Shao leaned against Mayor Feng: “Am I that careful? I’m not angry. If I’m not doing well myself, I won’t expect everyone else in the world to do as well as me. If Mr. Su becomes a martyr in the future, it would be good for Miss Yang to be able to keep him, at least she has lived up to her deep love.”

Mayor Feng sighed, “Yes, it’s a good thing to not live up to deep love.” He deliberately said, “I still want to make a match for you, now, what do you say?”

Mrs. Shao had a chill in her heart, knowing that he was trying to push her out. By finding someone for her to marry before she left, he would be able to leave her behind with peace of mind.

She smiled and said, “Mr. Su is a great talent, I’m not worthy of him. Mrs. Sha, the wife of the director of the Bureau of Statistics, introduced me to one, Xu, the director of the Bureau of Transportation, whose wife died of a disease last year and is planning to renew her marriage.”

Mayor Feng remembered the man, and did not mention that Secretary Xu is almost seventy years old, nodded and said: “Good, I will recognize you as a righteous sister, and then prepare a dowry for you, and send you out of the house in style.”

Mrs. Shao smiled and said, “Last time I married my cousin, but this time it’s my righteous brother sending me out. Will you still need my sister to wash your feet tonight?”