Chapter 239

When Cai Wenhua returned home, his wife rushed to welcome him, she was nearly twenty years younger than Cai Wenhua, the same age as Cai Wenhua’s oldest daughter, a very beautiful new age woman. She met Cai Wenhua when he went to give a speech at a school, and soon the two of them became excellent friends. A year later, Cai Wenhua divorced his old wife and married her.

She was Cai Wenhua’s third wife. Cai Wenhua’s original wife has been in his hometown to filial piety parents, can not control him, and do not know the man outside has changed several wives, each one is a fanfare, a more beautiful than one.

Cai Wenhua’s family is a landowner, he has been studying to take the examination, but there is no money for him to study abroad.

When Cai Wenhua came out from his hometown, he still wore a pigtail like a rat’s tail on the back of his head.

However, he was a fast learner, and not only did he quickly learn to cut off his braid and grow his hair short, he also changed his wife and married a woman from a common family. That woman because the Empress Dowager died and the Emperor ran away and other “big events”, especially unfortunate to miss the marriage – the old man said, the state of the big events, not conducive to marriage.

Translation is: the Empress Dowager is dead, the Emperor is not in the Forbidden City, the sky is going to change, but also what marriage? Now the marriage is also to be bad luck life!

Because the old man said so, the family closed the family closed for several years, in addition to relatives and friends still have to deal with, usually not even out of the door, not to mention look at, discussing the marriage, hire, marriage and so many other troubles, all do not do.

This time, the girl in the family from sixteen to twenty-four years old, became a genuine old girl, the same age are beginning to give the child to discuss the age of marriage, she has not been married.

This was picked up by Cai Wenhua.

The girl’s family is not picky at all, see someone willing to take, although it is an older, although there is still a wife at home, but Cai Wenhua promised as long as the marriage negotiation is successful he will be the hometown of the wife Hugh, will not let the girl as a small, and in the future will be with the girl in the city to live, and will not return to their hometown again.

Seeing this, the girl’s family did not make any more demands and married the girl.

Until Cai Wenhua repudiated the girl and took a third wife, this family had been boasting that even if their daughter had stayed longer, hadn’t their son-in-law found a good one?

It was only when their daughter was sent back from the divorce that they stopped saying that.

Cai Wenhua’s third wife was more suitable for him than either the first or second wife, and more suitable to be an official wife, so she had never been replaced.

The third wife had gone to college, had a good knowledge of the world, and spoke good English. Many of Cai Wenhua’s speeches in English at the beginning were drafted by her, and at night when the two couples were shut up in their bedroom, the third wife taught Cai Wenhua to read English word by word, very much like a new-age husband and wife making progress together.

However, this wife is also very smart, she never mentioned teaching Cai Wenhua English, so Cai Wenhua memorized more English articles, after a few days will be forgotten cleanly. Besides, he could only memorize it, but he didn’t understand what the words and phrases in it meant. His third wife taught him to memorize in English and then explained it to him in Chinese, so Mr. Tsai only remembered the Chinese meaning.

He spoke eloquently on the lectern as if he was very talented. But almost everyone in Mayor Feng’s residence knew that Mr. Cai could not read English at all, and they all laughed at him about it.

Cai Wenhua also knew what the young wife was planning to do, but he was so busy with his work that he really didn’t have the time to learn another language – not to mention, he wasn’t much of a smart head, and didn’t think he could learn it easily.

Fear coupled with laziness, Cai Wenhua acquiesced to the third wife’s little scheme, so even if he had more aunts in the house, or often with his wife and the two drill bedroom, the light is lit for several nights, making the younger aunts are gnashing their teeth behind their backs, saying, “Mrs. is a university student, in school to learn foreign tricks, tricks of the old man are unable to sleep”.

After all, after studying hard for several nights, Mr. Cai came out of his wife’s bedroom, he did look a little less energetic, and he was also indifferent to the aunts’ pursuit, and in recent years, his body couldn’t hold out, and he had to drink tonic medicine.

Mrs. Cai attentive to Mr. Cai to the bedroom, wait on him to change clothes, drink soup, but also to continue on the gentle strokes, Mr. Cai said, “I’m going to the study, you first rest.”

Mrs. Cai smiles and follows, “Master wants to write an essay? I’ll lay out the paper and grind the ink for master.”

Mr. Cai is not writing an essay today, nor does he want to memorize one.

He was going to make a phone call.

Cai Wenhua knew exactly why Mayor Feng had handed himself over.

Although Su Chunjun looked hot as charcoal right now, he had been out for too short a time, and many people were unfamiliar with him, unlike Cai Wenhua, who had been by Mayor Feng’s side for over a decade, and whom many people knew, and whose network of connections was far greater than that of a newcomer like Su Chunjun.

Although this invitation from a big class of HSBC seems insignificant, it is simply impossible to get your hands on it without reliable connections.

Because this is not a public auction in the first place. This is clearly a little advantage for “acquaintances”. Even if they are all rich, but not all rich people can participate in this auction, many people may hold the money, people are not willing to let him in.

Cai Wenhua made many phone calls, took a lot of breath, and finally found the temple door.

The message given by Ms. Zhu was so clear that he could not even tell Mayor Feng, “It’s not that I’m incompetent, it’s just that I can’t find anyone”.

Mr. John, the first class of HSBC.

The name was there, and if he didn’t get the invitation, Mayor Feng would probably scold him.

Cai Wenhua drank a cup of coffee, Mrs. Cai stepped forward to rub his shoulders, he felt the delicate hands behind him and sighed, “That fiancée of Su Chunjun’s, she’s a really capable woman. She’s also a college student.”

A woman who had gone to university was really something.

Mrs. Cai had long heard of Second Miss Yang, and read about her name change in the newspaper the other day.

She smiled and said, “I can’t compare with others, their university is much more famous than the one I went to.”

Mrs. Cai went to a Japanese-run women’s university, where she studied piano, ballroom dancing, western food etiquette, and cooking.

Speaking of which, the course that surprised Mrs. Cai the most when she attended the Japanese women’s university wasn’t anything else, but the fact that they actually taught women how to serve men in the bath.

It is said that in Japan, wives are expected to serve their husbands in the bath.

This even includes pre-bathing preparation, bathing service, including the preparation of food and drink, pay attention to whether her husband is in a good mood, to prevent her husband from getting drunk in the bath, before the bath to make the bed, after the bath to dry her husband’s body will be in time to serve her husband to go to sleep.

Mrs. Cai’s family is also considered a thin assets, at home also saw her father’s concubines aunt, but her mother’s education for her since childhood never included how to wait for men to take a bath, this is not the concubines aunt’s homework?

The Japanese were truly astonishing.

Mrs. Cai was amazed and inspired. Before she graduated from the women’s university, she chose a husband for herself without any training and managed to get on top.

Zhu Er Miss went to a university whose name she had also heard of, but had not submitted an application for admission – for a lady from a rich family like Mrs. Cai, as long as she paid a little more sponsorship fee, she could be admitted to the university free of charge Oh. Principal Tang said.

Mrs. Cai’s mother’s family lived not far from the Japanese Concession, and her life was deeply influenced by the Japanese, believing that the Japanese were powerful and that attending a Japanese school was the right decision.

Mrs. Cai: “It is really my loss not to have been in the same school as Miss Zhu Er.”

Cai Wenhua did not expect just a university there are so many preoccupations – he also never cared about Mrs. Cai in the end to go to which university, although he had gone to speak, but he went to speak for a clear price, and long ago forgot to do business in which places.

Cai Wenhua said, “In the future, you and this Miss Zhu are also going to have a lot of interactions, get closer to her.” He held this wife’s hand and seriously confided in him, “When the time comes, don’t care how my friendship with Su Chunjun is, even if I’m at loggerheads with him, you have to maintain friendship with his fiancée.”

Befriending in officialdom is not the same as actually befriending.

That was what the wives’ group was for.

Mrs. Cai understood: “Just don’t worry, Master, I understand everything.”

Mrs. Cai was very smart in a few ways, and Cai Wenhua still trusted her.

After he had warmed up to his wife, he sighed and continued to make phone calls, and this time, the call finally reached the person who could make the call.

Not Mr. John himself, but Mr. John’s secretary.

Mr. Cai first said, I heard that something good has happened recently, how come I haven’t heard about it? It is evident that I am treated as an outsider.

The secretary was a Chinese, and knew well the meaning and accent of the words of these officials. The above words are by no means a complaint, but rather a plea, which means that this Mr. Cai has something to ask him.

The secretary immediately answered, said he and Mr. Cai that is as close as a family brother, he has always regarded Mr. Cai than his own father, will never treat Mr. Cai as an outsider. It is just that recently the work is busy, did not go to Mr. Cai to ask for peace, also for a long time did not play cards with Mr. Cai, which called Mr. Cai complained about him, really he should be damned.

So, the secretary thought about the recent events around him, as well as work, and picked out a few things that Mr. Cai might be interested in listing one by one.

It turned out that Mr. Cai was noncommittal about all of them.

The secretary knew that he had just guessed none of them correctly.

He thought about it again and remembered something that Mr. John was preparing for recently, and his mind wandered.

In fact, the atmosphere in the city was tense and things were getting bad, this was something that everyone knew.

The bank knew it too.

The Japanese had risen in power and were becoming more and more aggressive.

Although HSBC is an American bank, they do not want to take the risk.

So the bank side is ready to slip away.

But the Japanese side is also watching very closely, they do not want to let HSBC run away. HSBC not only represents money, but also represents a power. The Japanese felt it was best to keep HSBC around for a long time to extract benefits.

Americans such as John came to China to open a bank to make money, not to get killed. So the Americans were planning to flee.

But before they left, they had to take the gold in the vault with them.

There was not only gold in the vault, but also many gold and silver jewelry, valuable paintings and antiques. Part of it was collected by the bank itself, and the rest was all deposited in the bank by the rich Chinese.

No matter who deposited it, this thing is now in the bank’s own vault, rounding up to the bank’s own money.

How can you give up your own money?

HSBC then began to make terms with the Japanese, ready to transfer the vault.

In addition to these valuable gold, silver and jewelry in the vault, there are many worthless, or too low in value to be worth the expense of sending on a ship, thousands of miles to transport away.

So the Americans, led by John, began to spread a bill of sale among the various coteries, intending to get a good price for the junk that could not be taken away, and to squeeze some money out of it.

The secretary thought about it and suspected that this auction had attracted Cai Wenhua.

But it didn’t make sense, Mr. John, they wanted to hold an auction, but they didn’t intend to attract the official people. Because if you think about it, you know that the Japanese want to do business without money, and these Chinese officials are not people who are willing to pay money – they simply do not have the money.

The secretary thought about it, but brought it up.

There is one thing, he said, that Mr. John won’t let me know, and I have inquired about it secretly.

He spoke so and so, and so and so.

-John These Americans are gone as soon as they are gone, he still has to live in China.

The secretary didn’t want to offend Cai Wenhua, let alone the government.

Cai Wenhua got the news he wanted, finally the dagger, he said lightly: “Sounds very interesting. You get two posts for me, and I’ll send a little friend to meet some people.”

The secretary asked tentatively, “You’re not coming to have some fun?”

Cai Wenhua smiled and said, “I’m a poor man, what would I do if I went? Not to mention my status, it’s not suitable for me to appear in a place like that. Let them young people go and have some fun.”

The secretary took the “young people” to heart, sent out two invitations, and told Mr. John about it.

When Mr. John heard his explanation, he did not blame him, but only asked, “Are they the children of Chinese officials?”

The secretary said, “It is true that most of the young people refer to the children of officials’ families. I just don’t know which family.”

Mr. John said, “It doesn’t matter, we’ll know when we meet them.”