The Feng family had already received the news that she was coming, and sent a car to meet her on the dock, but Zhong Hui was afraid that she would be wronged, so he also put down all the affairs at hand and rushed to the dock in person. Two groups of people got together, and the scene was ridiculous for a while.

Wen Jianning naturally couldn't give the Feng family a shame on the first day of returning to Hong Kong, but this didn't prevent her from talking to Zhong Hui first.

I haven't seen him for more than half a year, and Zhong Hui still hasn't changed much.

She still has the short black and beautiful hair she had when she was a student, her face is plump, and her complexion is even better than when she was in Kunming.

The two faced the sea breeze on the pier, regardless of the pedestrians coming and going around them, and chatted for a long time.

Soon after Zhong Hui returned to Hong Kong, he became a teacher at the middle school where Jiang Xuwen worked, and the two commuted to and from work together every day, getting along day and night, which can be regarded as making up for the difference between the two places over the years. Jiang Xuwen's mother has been in much better health recently, but they still plan to get married in the spring next year, so Wen Jianning and Feng Yi must be present when they arrive.

Although she had already learned about this from Zhong Hui's letter, seeing with her own eyes that her friend's eyebrows and eyes were full of happiness, Wen Jianning was really relieved.

Not long after, Zhong Hui went back first, she got into the Feng family's car alone, and when she arrived at the gate, she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. The last time she came to Feng's house, she had Feng Yi by her side, but this time she was alone.

Father Feng happened to visit abroad recently, and only the group of aunts in the Feng Mansion greeted her.

The leader is still the Aunt Zhou I saw last time, after all, the Feng family does not have a serious hostess, and the eldest daughter Feng Ling is married to a wife after all, but it is always bad to leave it to her to deal with, so all the housework is left to her to take care of.

Wen Jianning came mainly for the second uncle this time, and only chatted with them for a while, and then asked about the second uncle's current situation.

The second uncle is now living in a German hospital, and his condition has improved due to the timely delivery to the hospital. The Feng family invited a special nurse to help take care of the old man's food, drink and Lazar, and several aunts took turns to take care of them every day, and Feng Ling occasionally went to visit.

After she listened, she straightened up: "I'll go see the second uncle first." ”

Aunt Zhou obviously didn't expect her to go as soon as she came back, and hurriedly persuaded her to take a break and it was not too late to visit the patient.

Wen Jianning just smiled: "No need, please send me some food later." ”

Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Aunt Zhou had no choice but to let people hurry up and prepare a car to send her to the hospital where her second uncle was.

By the time she came to the ward, the second uncle was already asleep.

Wen Jianning closed the door and relaxed his steps, walked to the side of the hospital bed and sat down, looking at the old man's thin face.

She had heard Feng Yi talk about many things about her second uncle when he was young, the second uncle was a famous scholar in China, and when he was young, he also supported the reform of the law, argued with people in the newspaper for several years, and was also a figure who stirred up the current situation. After the fall of the late Qing Dynasty, his old man deeply felt the drastic changes of the times, coupled with some blows, and finally chose to live in seclusion.

But in the face of the merciless years and pains, such a legendary figure is just a wrinkled ordinary little old man, whose cheeks, which were not very plump, have sunken due to illness, and his thinning hair is almost completely white.

Wen Jianning saw that his heart was a little sour, and he reached out to tuck the quilt for the second uncle.

Now it seems that she and Feng Yi's decision to stay in Kunming that day was a little ill-considered. They are still young, and there are still many good days to spend in the future, but the people around them can't wait.

The second uncle is old, and she doesn't want Feng Yi to have a son who wants filial piety and doesn't want to wait for him.

The next morning, when the old man woke up and saw that she had returned, he was very happy and opened his mouth to say something.

He had undergone surgery on his throat before, and this time the old disease recurred, although the condition was controlled in time, he couldn't even speak for a short time, and he gestured with his hands for everything.

Wen Jianning stayed with him for two or three days, and he could quickly understand what he meant.

When several aunts of the Feng family occasionally came to replace her, they could always see the old and young people talking and laughing in the ward, just dancing with their hands, and they couldn't understand one of them somehow, laughing back and forth.

Later, Wen Jianning heard Aunt Zhou, who came to deliver the soup, say that once Feng Ling also came.

It's just that when Feng Ling came, Wen Jianning was sitting on the edge of the hospital bed reading poems to his second uncle, reading Shaoling Yelao. Feng Ling only stood outside the door and listened for a while, and left without coming in to say hello.

Perhaps because of the company of the younger generations around them, within half a month, the hospital allowed them to take their second uncle home to recuperate, and Wen Jianning was finally able to get out of the hospital. When she helped her second uncle back to the Feng Mansion, she found Feng Ling sitting on the velvet sofa in the living room, and a gilded invitation was placed on the magenta lacquer table in front of her.

Wen Jianning motioned to the maid to help the second uncle upstairs first, and then sat down opposite Feng Ling, waiting for her to speak first.

Feng Ling raised her hand and pushed the post to her and said, "You have been staying in the hospital with your second uncle these days, and you haven't come back until today, so you probably haven't seen this invitation yet." ”

Wen Jianning glanced at it, and it was actually Wen Jingshu who invited her, the former niece, to the banquet.

She didn't want to deal with this person, so she casually put the invitation on the coffee table.

Feng Ling raised her eyebrows slightly: "What, you don't want to go?"

Wen Jianning's expression was very calm: "I don't want to, and it's not necessary." Although the second uncle's condition has stabilized temporarily, his health has not yet improved, and he can't leave anyone around him. Not to mention that I have other things to do and have no time to go to such a banquet. ”

Feng Ling chuckled, her chin raised slightly, and she said with a proud expression: "The second uncle has a servant to take care of at home, you can go, and I will accompany you." No matter what tricks your aunt wants to use, you are a member of our Feng family after all, and naturally you have to be able to support the scene of our Feng family. ”

In her opinion, Wen Jianning wanted to integrate into the Feng family, and now she gave a step, willing to save face for her in front of outsiders, and the other party should accept it with sincerity.

"Sister Feng Ling," Wen Jianning's tone was very tactful, but the words he said were unceremoniously, "I know that you are probably entrusted by Feng Yi, or for the sake of him and the second uncle, so you are willing to sit down and talk to me." even thought about the Feng family and wanted to stand up for me. But there are only two people here, you and me, and we don't have to be so wronged. ”

Feng Ling's smile gradually narrowed, and she stared at her: "It sounds like you're very straightforward." ”

Wen Jianning seemed to anticipate what she wanted to say next, and said lightly: "But please don't get me wrong, I'm a very thoughtful person, especially if I know how to work Feng Yi." I can't do what a person is stubborn on the surface, and I can't do what I say to me, and I will tell Feng Yi everything later, and please think twice before you speak. ”

Where is this, don't compromise on both sides, it is clear that she should be compromised alone.

Feng Ling was so angry that she couldn't speak, she got up and left on the spot, and Wen Jianning behind her didn't stay. She may want to live in peace with Feng Yi's family, but she will never count on the other party's condescending handouts. Rather than both parties being disgruntled and hypocritically going to outsiders to make an affectionate appearance, it is better to be like this, at least everyone is happy.

There is no big problem on the second uncle's side for the time being, and Wen Jianning finally has time to busy his personal affairs.

A few days later, she went to visit Liao Jingqiu.

At this time, Liao Jingqiu was more than four months pregnant, and her figure was still quite slender, only slightly pregnant.

The two tacitly did not mention the unpleasantness a long time ago, gossiping like ordinary aunts.

Wen Baiqing has often been busy in the army these years, and rarely goes home a few times a year. The relationship between the two has never been very warm, and she has long wanted to have a child by her side, and now she finally got her wish. Wen Jianning listened to her lightly recount this, recalling the twists and turns of the marriage between the two back then, and I don't know if Liao Jingqiu has regretted it in recent years.

To her surprise, Meng Li, who was originally far away in Shanghai, was actually in Liao's house.

Although Meng Li didn't say it explicitly, she could also guess that she came here specifically for the child in Liao Jingqiu's belly.

Only then did she understand that Wen Baiqing personally sent a message to ask her to come over and talk more with Liao Jingqiu, perhaps because she was worried that the two would not get along, so she asked her to mediate in it. However, she saw that the relationship between the two people was too polite, but it didn't look like they would argue.

Due to Liao Jingqiu's physical inconvenience, she did not go out to see off the guests in person, so Meng Li sent Wen Jianning out of the gate on her behalf.

After going out the door, the two were able to let go of their talk.

Meng Li knew that her marriage had been decided, and she was very happy about it, but she regretted that Feng Yi was not on Hong Kong Island and couldn't look at Wen Jianning, and told her not to feel pressure in the Feng family, and if she was not comfortable, she could come to her Yunyun.

Wen Jianning thanked her for her kindness, and asked Mr. Qi about his current situation.

Before leaving Kunming, she had not received a letter from Mr. Qi for a long time.

Meng Li didn't know about these things, but said that Mr. Qi was always like this, and once the Japanese army searched strictly, he would disappear for ten days and half a month every three or five days. When the limelight has passed, she will ask someone to send the letter to her.

Although she said this, Wen Jianning was still inevitably worried, but it was not easy to show it on her face.

After leaving the Liao family, Wen Jianning had nothing else to do for the time being, although she had some relatives and friends on Hong Kong Island, it was inconvenient to deal with her, except for writing behind closed doors, she only had daily contacts with the Zhong family.

Under the introduction of Father Zhong, she also began to participate in several semi-salon parties.

Most of these gatherings are held in tea rooms, and the participants are mostly friends brought by acquaintances, most of them are celebrities in the cultural circles, almost all of them are knowledgeable and well-educated, and no matter what the participants want to talk about literature, history, philosophy, current affairs, etc., there are always people who can express insightful opinions. For example, the most frequently discussed topic recently is the upcoming war between Japan and the United States, and whether the war will affect Hong Kong Island.

Wen Jianning participated as the niece of Zhong's father, and rarely took the initiative to speak, but he just listened to the other people's talk on the side, and felt that their discussion did have a lot of eye-opening points.

As a matter of fact, since I heard in July this year that the Japanese had taken the land of the Indian colony from the French, there has been no subside of the discussion about whether or not the Japanese army will attack them. Over the years, the Japanese army has occupied Guangzhou and Southeast Asia one after another, gradually encroaching on the sea and land areas around Hong Kong Island, forming a trend of encirclement. Although Hong Kong Island was nominally a colony of the British, the British mainland was now completely discouraged, and they were afraid that they would not be able to take care of the bases in the Far East.

When Feng Yi had not yet left Kunming, Wen Jianning had also discussed this matter with him, and the two of them had the same opinion, both of them believed that it was a matter of time before the Japanese army attacked Hong Kong Island, but when it was exact, but it was not something they could easily speculate.

However, he listened to these discussions, as well as some international relations commentaries in the newspapers, and concluded that there would be no large-scale war in the Pacific until the negotiations between Japan and the United States reached a formal conclusion. Even if the negotiations break down, the Japanese army has been trapped in the Chinese battlefield for a long time, and the national strength is not enough to open a second large-scale battlefield, so it is a little premature to worry about whether Hong Kong Island will be affected.

Among these people who analyze the situation, there are both commentators on international issues and current commentators who are good at analyzing the international situation, and almost all of them agree that Japan and the United States will not be able to fight for a while.

Wen Jianning listened a lot, and inevitably brought a few words when writing to Feng Yi.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, her correspondence with Feng Yi was not as timely as before, although the two of them continued to write to each other every day, but they often received letters from ten days and a half months ago. Feng Yi suggested in the letter that it would be better for her to stay in Hong Kong and Island for the New Year this year, so that she could accompany her second uncle, and if she could ask for family leave, maybe he could go back to reunite with them. At the latest, at the turn of spring and summer next year, he should be able to finish his translation work and return to Hong Kong and the island as soon as possible.

When the time comes, they can also get married with the blessings of their relatives and friends.

There was no problem on Wen Jianning's side, so the two of them decided on this matter for the time being.

One afternoon a few days later, when Wen Jianning was writing an article in his study, the maid suddenly came to report that two young ladies surnamed Wen had come to visit. She stopped writing, and immediately thought that they might have come to see Xiuxiu, and hurriedly got up and went downstairs to greet her.

But when I arrived in the living room, I found that in addition to Wen Jianwan, the other person who came was not Jianxiu, but my cousin Jianyu.

Since she left the villa in the middle of the mountain, she has met with Jianwan and them, only Jianyu has never seen them once.

More than five years have passed, and Jianyu has grown from the delicate and beautiful villain in her impression to a budding girl. She meekly followed Jianwan's side, looking quiet and well-behaved.

Wen Jianning looked at her carefully a few times, and then withdrew his gaze.

As soon as she opened her mouth, she habitually choked people: "I heard that you are engaged to someone from the Feng family, and you really deserve it." ”

(End of chapter)