As soon as Wen Jianning opened the newspaper, he instantly understood the reason why Mr. Qi refused to let her see the tabloid today.

It turned out that the Wen family still found out that she was Bai Mao, and made a big fuss in the tabloids to arrange her. Mr. Qi was probably afraid that she would be angry and sad when she saw it, so he wanted to cover up this matter.

Before she left the Mid-Levels Villa, although she used ink to smear the key parts of the letters and manuscripts in her private collection, in order to prevent Wen Jingshu and them from grabbing the handle, it was obvious that they finally discovered the fact that she was Bai Mao. It's just that they don't know if they found out that she had correspondence with Feng Yi in the past.

However, the Feng family's power is not trivial, they should not take the initiative to provoke. Having said that, Wen Jianning still planned to read the remaining tabloids first, and then write a letter later to remind Feng Yi to be careful of the Wen family.

This stack of tabloids was intended to be used by the vendor who sold crab shell yellow to wrap the baked cakes, and there was some oil stained on it, but it did not prevent people from understanding the general meaning of the article. The person who wrote the article was undoubtedly an insider, and the other party used a tricky tone to write most of the article secretly, although Wen Jianning's name was not fully revealed, but she said four or five points of her experience over the years, and the remaining five or six points were all made up.

The lead words on the newspaper clearly wrote, what family has a fiancé who has been engaged since childhood, and then the family fell and was disgusted by her, so she ran away from home in a bad mood, what family begged bitterly, but she has not returned, and traveled with strange men in Shanghai, and Wen Jianning laughed angrily.

I have to say that although the Wen family's method of pouring dirty water is not on the table, it is the most effective. A well-known writer happens to be a young girl, and she is also caught in the peachy news, even if you don't know where Bai Mao is sacred, you won't miss the opportunity to watch the excitement. And as soon as this kind of thing comes out, even if she wants to clarify, I'm afraid she won't be able to argue.

She picked up another one and read it with Mr. Qi, this tabloid revealed Wen Jianning's life experience, saying that she was born to a servant girl who was kicked out of the house, and she was exiled in the countryside, because the Wen family was kind enough to find it again, and after being raised by the Wen family, she ran away with the money and property of her aunt's family, and portrayed Wen Jianning as an ungrateful and wolf-hearted person, without mentioning what they sent the Wen sisters to Hong Kong Island for, nor why she escaped from the Mid-Levels villa.

Of course, if there were only these, it would not make Wen Jianning angry.

To her outrage, the Wen family even mentioned her long-deceased mother in the tabloids. Even if there was something wrong with her mother Mingzhen back then, their Wen family was really innocent and couldn't make a mistake.

Putting aside these old things for the time being, as the saying goes, the dead are the greatest, and no matter how insulting they are, they are not as good as the elders, and the Wen family acted this time in order to use public opinion to make Wen Jianning completely infamous.

Mr. Qi was still worried on the side, but Wen Jianning smiled again: "They don't seem to know what is wrong with me, and they want to fight a lawsuit with a small newspaper writer like me." ”

……

In the days that followed, the rumors in the tabloids intensified, rather than stopped.

Wen Jianning's previous article "Continuation of Li Wa's Biography" written to Liao Jingqiu was published in Guangzhou newspapers and periodicals, but somehow it was also turned out. When she arrived in the tabloids, she was analyzed by someone with a heart, and somehow it became ironclad evidence that she was from a bad background. There were a few people who spoke for her, but these voices were quickly drowned out in the spittle of a crowd.

After a certain tabloid suddenly published Wen Jianning's "jade photo," public opinion was pushed to the top. Although the photo is only a black and white image, you can still clearly see that the girl on it is beautiful. If a female writer can already attract half of the flies on the beach, then now, even the flies on the other side of the Huangpu River will fly over.

The Wen family did not have any photos of her in their hands at all, needless to say, only that it might have been given by Hong Kong.

Wen Jianning quickly picked up the pen and wrote a short story called "Mrs. Afternoon Tea".

The protagonist of the story is Mrs. Leung, the widow of a wealthy businessman, who inherited a large inheritance from her deceased husband and moved to Hong Kong, where she bought a mid-level villa and lived a life of luxury. In order to pass the time, she raised a group of young girls in the villa, taught them how to flirt with men, and how to squeeze money out of the hands of old rich gentlemen. Because all the scenes take place in Mrs. Leung's garden full of English roses, and it happens to be at the time of her afternoon tea, hence the name.

Since almost all of what he wrote was what he had seen and heard, Wen Jianning wrote it almost in one go, and it took less than two hours to finish it, put it in an envelope, and when Mr. Qi went out, he voted for a well-known local tabloid in Shanghai.

Bai Mao, a writer on the cusp of the storm, suddenly came to the manuscript, and the editor of that newspaper responded quickly, and it was printed within two days. Anyone who is familiar with the Wen family can see at a glance that the prototype of this story is Wen Jingshu.

Mr. Qi couldn't help but shake his head when he saw it: "Your sarcasm is too harsh, I'm afraid that your aunt will be angry with you when she sees it." ”

But Wen Jianning only felt that it was not enough.

After all, she couldn't go out at will during this time, so she wrote several short stories one after another, planning to form a series with the "Wife's Afternoon Tea", and named it "Wangzu". In this series, she fictionalized a large family in the south of the Yangtze River, the Liang family, and wrote it from the time when their old lady made a fortune. The Liang family was not surnamed Liang, but borrowed the wealth of another large family to make a fortune.

The old lady of the Liang family was originally from a broken household, and in his early years, with a face that was not bad and a three-inch tongue, he entered that big family. After the death of the old lady of that family, the power of the family gradually fell into his hands. His original wife gave birth to four sons for him in a row, and the last one died in childbirth.

As soon as the original partner died, Mrs. Liang was grief-stricken, vomiting blood and fainting, which made the locals all feel his deep affection. But less than a year after closing the door, he changed the surnames of his sons, not only naturally occupied the magpie's nest, but also soon married the third aunt's wife.

Old lady Liang tasted the benefits of dragging a woman's trouser belt up and climbed up, and he was not soft on his daughter, marrying her to a Fujian merchant who was about to enter the earth. Within two or three years, the merchant died, and most of the family property fell into the hands of Mrs. Liang's daughter, who was swept away by her and squandered at will in Hong Kong, which happened to be connected with the previous "Madame's Living Room".

On the other hand, the old lady Liang also tasted the sweetness, he asked his sons to marry the wives of large families, and when the descendants of his sons came out, he asked Hong Kong's daughters to help cultivate the granddaughters of the next generation, and wanted these young girls to continue to dedicate everything to the Liang family to become a famous family through family marriage.

And the prototype of these Zhongliang families is naturally the Wen family who pretends to be extraordinarily decent.

When she first arrived at the Wen family, she was sent away in a hurry before she could find out the details of the family. However, in Hong Kong a few years ago, Mei Shan, who knew these things, whispered in her ear. If it weren't for that, Wen Jianning would only sit here and be angry right now.

After she finished writing the article, she turned around and anonymously submitted articles to several tabloids, pretending to be an unnamed insider, and annotated the situation in the article one by one, shaking off all the pickled things of the Wen family.

Mr. Qi disagreed with this, and reminded her repeatedly: "You are too radical like this, where did you learn this method, and you are so unforgiving." They are wrong, but you also have to learn to be forgiving and forgiving. After all, this matter is a family affair between you and the Wen family, you are a junior, let outsiders see it, even if you are reasonable, it is all your fault. ”

"Sir, you don't have to speak for them. It's not me who won't give up now, it's them. As long as they don't give in, I won't stop easily," Wen Jianning just snorted lightly, "Since they want to talk about me through the mouths of outsiders, they naturally have to taste the same thing." ”

……

Just as Wen Jianning and the Wen family were arguing back and forth in the tabloids, a huge ship departed from the dock in Shanghai, traveled through the storms of the Pacific Ocean for several days, and finally arrived in San Francisco on the other side.

Feng Yi ended months of experimentation, dragging his tired body from school back to his shared apartment. When she walked to the door, she habitually opened the mailbox outside the door, only to find that the newspapers and letters of the past few days were gone.

He frowned slightly, pushed the door in, and saw his sister Feng Ling sitting on the sofa in the small living room.

But I haven't seen her for a few years, Feng Ling, who is already a young woman, is completely different from her when she was a girl, her long black hair is coiled up, and she is all gathered in the soft hat that hangs down the net, and her gestures are a little less casual and free, and more calm and charming: "How many days have you not come back, I asked your landlord for the key, opened it and saw that the house was dusty everywhere, so I asked people to help clean it up." ”

Feng Yi was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses: "Some time ago, my classmates have been busy experimenting in the school, and it is too far away from the school to come back, so I will sleep in the dormitory there when I am tired." ”

The two sisters and brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, so naturally they have to catch up with the past, but they have very different temperaments, one has a lot of words, the other has little words, most of the time Feng Ling is talking, and his younger brother Feng Yi is listening.

After a few brief greetings, Feng Ling cut straight to the point.

"Your professor, Mr. Rosente, wrote a letter to our father saying that you and a few of your classmates were interested in returning to China after graduation, and he kept you several times, but you still refused to listen. When my father heard that I was coming to the United States, he asked me to stop by and see how you were doing here. You've been alone in a foreign land for a long time, and you're homesick. In my opinion, it is better to go back to Shanghai during the Spring Festival this year, and how about a family reunion and a good New Year. ”

Feng Yi saw through her intentions at a glance, and said lightly: "It's okay, I originally planned to go back to China earlier, and this time I packed my luggage and went back, and I don't have to go back here after the year." ”

Feng Ling said angrily: "Okay, tell you seriously, don't play with children's temper." It doesn't matter if you study your books well abroad, and occasionally feel homesick and go back to Shanghai. But you don't discuss it with your family, so you plan to finish your studies and go back, so what's the matter? Now that the country is in chaos, where can it be quieter than here. ”

Feng Yi said calmly: "You and your brother-in-law, as well as your father and uncle, don't they all stay in China. ”

Feng Ling had a headache with his attitude of not advancing with oil and salt.

At the beginning, the family sent him and several other children to study abroad, taking into account that the situation in China was becoming more and more tense day by day, and they wanted the men to stay abroad as much as possible, just in case. But who would have thought that this group of young people would not know who was encouraged by them abroad, and they would want to return to China.

Feng Ling, a person in the other room, couldn't care about it, but he had no temper with this stubborn brother, so he could only persuade again: "Wasn't the family deliberately sending you abroad at the beginning, just so that you can have a good environment to study." You love physics, and there are not only world-class labs, but also top-notch professors. But students in China march in the streets everywhere, busy with speeches and debates all day long, where is the place to study. If you want to go back, you can go home and see it often during the holidays, and there is no need to delay your studies. ”

Feng Yi finally raised his eyes, and his voice was calm and powerful: "Sister, I'm not bargaining with you and my father. I think you also know that since I was a child, none of you can stop me from doing what I have made up my mind to do. Even if you and your family have a way to stop me from returning to China for a while, I will go back sooner or later. ”

Although he can understand the hard work of his father and sister, as he said, he did not let his family stay in the chaotic country, and he lived a stable life abroad alone. What's more, the life of international students here is not so easy.

The United States has always been a country with a strong anti-Chinese sentiment, and discrimination against people of color is almost ubiquitous, even if his mentor Rosent has a friendship with the Feng family and takes good care of him, but in the general environment, it is just an example of Rosente who is willing to be unbiased and treat people fairly, and the vast majority of foreigners are still prejudiced against their countrymen.

Although Feng Yi is taciturn by nature, he is not a dull person. In the past six years, he has seen a lot of Chinese people being bullied in foreign lands, and it is really difficult for him to have any sense of identity with the land under his feet. However, this kind of depression is really not enough to be humane to outsiders, especially Feng Ling, who has received Western-style education abroad since she was a child and cannot fully understand these.

Coincidentally, not long ago, a friend of the world friend wrote to him asking him if he was interested in returning to China after graduation to become a physics assistant at a university in Beiping. Feng Yi was quite moved, and after submitting his graduation thesis next year, he planned to fly back to China to take a look at Beiping.

Feng Ling, who was sitting opposite, couldn't help but change his expression when he saw his tone so firm.

She could naturally see her brother's determination, and knew that this matter would definitely not be so easy to persuade for a while. But now there is more than half a year before his graduation, and there is still room for everything to turn around. And even if he really failed to convince him in the end, when he returned to China, on the territory of Shanghai, as long as his family watched it, he wouldn't make any big trouble.

Feng Ling quickly made a decision in her heart, and immediately smiled: "Okay, okay, what are you talking about." You are my only brother, and you are the only seedling of the long house, what you say is naturally what it is, and I will never stop you. ”

Although she agreed easily, Feng Yi could guess her plan, but she didn't break it.

The two sisters and brothers maintained a harmonious atmosphere on the surface and talked for a while, and Feng Yi asked hesitantly: "By the way, do you know Jianning...... It's the Miss Wen you once taught, what's going on at home lately?"

The last time he received Wen Jianning's reply, he only felt that it was wrong, but because the other party had already said not to write to her for the time being, he couldn't ask any further, so he could only put this matter on hold for the first time.

Now that Feng Ling has come from China, he subconsciously wants to seek answers from her.

As soon as Wen Jianning was mentioned, Feng Ling couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and smiled: "You don't know abroad, her family has been doing her business recently, but it has turned the world upside down, and almost everyone in Shanghai knows about it." ”

She took the oral lawsuit with the Wen family in the newspaper during the period after Wen Jianning ran away from home as a fun story, and told Feng Yi about it. As he spoke, he didn't forget to observe Feng Yi's expression, and sure enough, he frowned.

Feng Yi said: "She is a girl, alone in Shanghai with no relatives and no support, I am afraid that there will be danger." ”

Feng Ling was very unimpressed: "Since she is determined to escape, she must have prepared a way out in advance, and it is estimated that she is currently boarding at a friend's house, otherwise she would not have the spare time to fight a lawsuit with the Wen family in the newspaper." ”

Feng Yi was not as relaxed as her: "She is your student, is there a way to help her temporarily?"

Feng Ling just smiled slightly: "That was how many years ago, and I only taught their sisters for a few months." Besides, this is the Wen family's family matter, and I, an outsider, intervened in it and let others listen to it, but I am afraid that it will be said that our Feng family does not understand the rules outside, and even interferes in the affairs of other people's discipline of children. Ah Yi, I can't control this matter. ”

Although she said it tactfully, the meaning was very clear, she would not interfere in this matter.

Feng Yi pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "What did you promise Miss Wen when you asked Miss Wen to take the initiative to communicate with me?"

Feng Ling was stunned for a moment, and then said with a little surprise: "She even told you this." ”

Feng Yi did not answer.

At first, he guessed this by himself, but when he was dancing with Wen Jianning, she also hinted at it. It's just that they haven't mentioned what Feng Ling said over the years. When I mentioned it to my sister Feng Ling today, I suddenly remembered this incident.

"That's right, I promised her back then, if she is willing to be closer to you, I will consider helping her if she needs help in the future," Feng Ling got up from the sofa and stood in front of Feng Yi and looked at him: "But the problem now is that she hasn't asked me for help until today, so it's not my turn to intervene in this matter." ”

(End of chapter)