The entrance examination for Peking University began in early June, and Wanxian's reference became the top priority of the Xie Mansion in the capital, and Mrs. Feng served her like a boy attending the New Year's Examination, not allowing her to leave the mansion, only telling her to be good at home.

Wanxian also wanted to see Wei Yunru, so she coquettishly behaved to Xie Daoyong: "It's good in Yanyuan Library, why do you have to learn at home?" ”

"Because my uncle and aunt are not at ease with your self-control," Xie Daoyong said with a smile, "If you want to go to Yanyuan, there will be opportunities in the future, and you will not give up the next few years for the sake of these few trips." ”

Wanxian sighed and said: "I met a senior sister in Yanyuan, who is a very good person, and I specially found a senior brother from the Department of Chemistry to teach me homework. ”

"If you feel the need, invite that senior brother to your home and ask Lao Pan to pick him up," Xie Daoyong proposed, "When your eldest sister and second brother were studying here, they invited a tutor. ”

Wanxian felt that this was inappropriate, as if she was showing off her financial resources to others, and besides, she didn't really need others to help her with her homework, so she borrowed this excuse just because she loved Yanyuan's library.

Xie Daoyong seemed to be able to see through her thoughts: "There is only one month before the exam, and this month can determine whether you can go to Yanyuan every day in the next few years, your uncle asked you to apply for more other schools, but you refused, not even Tsinghua Garden, non-Yanyuan did not read, since you have made this plan to break the cauldron and sink the boat, it is even more powerful to follow, lest you really break the cauldron and sink the boat, but you still fail." ”

Wanxian understood what Xie Daoyong meant, and she was really afraid that she would fail the exam and come back for another year. Xu Shinian was transferred to Beijing, different from when he was in Shanghai, as long as Wanxian was willing, he could take a car or boat to see him at any time, now the capital and Zhenjiang are thousands of miles apart, if she can't take the test, Aunt Tao may not allow her to take the test again, so I'm afraid that the two places will be separated forever.

When she thought of Xu Shinian, her heart was suddenly full of melancholy, and she regretted that she was young and vigorous, and when she faced him to show her intentions, she could still stay by his side as a student, ask him for advice, or have a meal together, and listen to a play together.

After Wanxian finished her lunch, she usually had to sleep for half an hour, and only when she got up in the afternoon did she have the energy to do questions and read books. Mrs. Feng had never allowed anyone to disturb her while she was reading, so when the girl in the front hall came to invite her, Wanxian was startled.

"Madame said that Miss Xian has a guest," said the girl with a grin, "it is a gentleman, who has come to find Miss Xian." ”

came to her husband specially to find her, and Wanxian's first thought was that Xu Shilai was coming. Because the brothers and sisters in Yan Yuan didn't know where she lived, but it stands to reason that Xu Shinian shouldn't know either.

She went out suspiciously, but saw that it was Xu Shinian sitting in the hall, who was talking with Mrs. Feng with a smile.

Wanxian hurriedly retreated to the corner, straightened her hair and clothes, and asked the girl to help her with the details, and whispered to her: "It was my foreign teacher when I was in Zhenjiang, and she was very strict." ”

She stopped outside for a while, adjusted her breath and heartbeat before entering, and said to Xu Shinian: "Mr. is here." ”

Xu Shinian's gaze at her was still a little evasive, but it was much more calm than when she was at the train station. He placed a rectangular blue cloth bag on the desk in his hand, and after greeting each other, he opened the cloth bag, which turned out to be a few books.

"What I asked my colleagues at Peking University to come here is a reference textbook for their chemistry teachers." Xu Shinian said, "You take a look more, maybe you will get it when you take the exam." ”

Wanxian reached out to pick it up, and the fingertips of the two touched together under the page, Xu Shinian's body shook, and he seemed to be electrocuted back.

Wanxian stood in front of him empty-handed, looking at him in surprise: "Sir? ”

Xu Shinian felt embarrassed, smiled disguisedly, and handed him the book again.

He only pinched one side this time, and carefully, Wanxian was amused in his heart, he took it with both hands, deliberately stretched forward towards the hand at the door, and quickly swiped the back of his fingers pinching the book, and before Xu Shinian could react, he took the book away.

Mrs. Feng said: "It's really annoying Mr. Xu, he has already been promoted to the Ministry of Education, and he is still worried about Ah Xian's entrance exam." ”

Wanxian flipped through the book, heard this, bent her eyes and smiled, and glanced at Xu Shinian from the page: "Yes, I should have thanked Mr. Xu, but now is the critical period for preparing for the exam, I dare not Meng Lang, but it will be about this month, and I will be on the list in the coming day, and I will have time to thank you." ”

What she said was meaningful, and she deliberately misled him to think elsewhere, which made Xu Shinian immediately cramped again, and it was difficult to sit still.

Wanxian still flipped through the pile of pages in his hand, saying that it was a book, and there were a lot of volumes in between, and they were all copied down with a brush, sorting out all the chemical formulas to be used in middle school, and the handwriting was quite familiar, like Xu Shinian's handwriting.

"Is this something that the gentleman did himself?" She unfolded a piece of paper full of formulas to show him, but before he could answer, she laughed to herself, "I remember that my husband studied journalism, but he even knew these chemical formulas so clearly, he was really a master of literature and science." ”

Xu Shinian sat upright in the chair, his back straight, his knees clamped, and his hands on his thighs, like a child who had just entered the school, every time he was nervous, he couldn't help but sit upright like this: "No, no, it was the teacher of the chemistry department who gave me his lesson plan, and I copied it." ”

Wanxian made a look of sudden realization, and folded the page again: "I want to thank Mr. for his hard work for me, and in the future, I will hold a banquet to thank Mr., and please Mr. Be sure to appreciate my face, see my master-apprentice relationship in the past few years." ”

Mrs. Feng could see that Xu Shinian was uncomfortable in front of Xie Wanxian, but she didn't know why this unease arose, but it was the old friction in Zhenjiang, so she helped Wanxian: "Yes, Mr. Xu, our Ah Xian can get Mr. Xu so much trouble, it is her creation, this thank-you banquet can not be invited, and Mr. can not not come." ”

Xu Shinian smiled reluctantly and said, "It's better to wait for Miss Ah and the third lady to be in high school." ”

"Uncle, forget it, Mr. is now an extraordinary person, and he can be regarded as an adult who eats imperial food, if he doesn't want to come, we can't force it." Wanxian smiled and said, "Back then, he still called me Ah Xian, but now he only wants to be called an alienated and polite third lady, hey, things are people, this is an official and not an official, there is really a big difference." ”

"No, it doesn't mean that!" Xu Shinian eagerly explained, "I just want Miss San to get older now, and I'm a foreign man, if I get along with her like when I was a child, I'm afraid that Miss San's reputation will be hindered." ”

"Mr. is his own person, what kind of foreign man is he called?" Mrs. Feng said, "It is said that one day is a teacher and a father is a life, how can this character who is like a father and a brother be so polite?" ”

"Forget it, you can call it whatever you like," Wanxian relieved him again, "Between you and me, it's not a title that can draw a clear line." ”

Even Mrs. Feng was taken aback when she heard this, and couldn't help but secretly speculate about what happened between the master and apprentice, and subconsciously wanted to ask a few more questions. But Wanxian didn't give her this opportunity, so she got up and saluted Xu Shinian: "I'm afraid that Mr. has other official business, so I won't delay you." ”

Xu Shinian hurriedly got up as if he had been amnestied, and left as if he had been politely spoken.

Mrs. Feng asked Wanxian: "This Mr. Xu took the initiative to come to you, why did he see you like a ghost when he saw you?" ”

"He owes me," Wanxian said with a grin, "When the son of Uncle Fu, the housekeeper of the old mansion, followed him to make a revolution, and deceived the upper and lower places to steal money from the house to supplement the revolutionary party, he didn't know it at first, so he used it all, and later he was a foreign language teacher for me in the old mansion, and he went to participate in the uprising of the revolutionary party without us and was injured, it was I who tried to persuade the eldest sister to arrange him to be raised in another garden, and now he is an official, if you want to write off these old grievances, I can't spare him first, so I am a little unkind to him." ”

She explained half-truthfully, and Mrs. Feng could only accept it all, and said thoughtfully: "I don't think he is an ungrateful person. ”

"That's right." Wanxian said, raising the page in her hand to Mrs. Feng, "Uncle, I'm going to read the book." ”

She was in a posture of only reading the books of sages and sages, and Madame Feng watched her closely, and she did not have the opportunity to listen to the affairs outside the window, so she did not know about the formal signing of the treaty between China and Japan at the end of May, which was a major event that shook the whole country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been busy for five months, but in the end it has not been able to drag this bad fortune to death. When Lu Zhengxiang went to sign the agreement, Beijing's academic, business, and industrial circles were gathering at the entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shouting slogans and demonstrating in demonstrations.

Today's letter of agreement is very different from the letter of agreement provided directly to Yuan Shikai by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the earliest time, so that the entire State Council is stuck in the throat, and the fifth clause, which is the most unfavorable to the Republic of China, has been removed through painstaking negotiations, which is called the Sino-Japanese Treaty of the People's Republic of China.

At the beginning, it was fought on the basis of reason, and in the end, it was lost and humiliated. Lu Zhengxiang once compared himself to Li Hongzhang, and he finally did the same thing as Li Hongzhang, and the literati all wanted to leave their own mark in the history books, but Lu Zhengxiang would never have thought that the one he left behind was his own name signed on the traitorous treaty.

With the end of the negotiations, Xie Huaichang's errand in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was completely over, and he had two choices, one was to continue to stay in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an idle errand, and the other was to go back to the Army Officer Academy as an instructor director. Lu Zhengxiang fell seriously ill after the signing ceremony, and immediately submitted his resignation to Yuan Shikai, and the president thanked him for his painstaking efforts in this diplomatic struggle, and approved his resignation with a stroke of the pen, and chose Cao Rulin to take over as foreign minister. () "Jiangnan Family" only represents the author's views on Lian Pian, if it is found that its content violates the laws of the country, please delete it.

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