After the meal, Xie Daozhong asked someone to remove the dishes and serve black tea in the second hall, intending to listen to Wanlan's experience in the capital, Xie Huai'an took the opportunity to drink tea to give her a look, Wanlan was relieved, and talked about Xie Daoyong's house, and praised it as rare in the sky and underground.

"There was an electric light in the study, which was as bright as day, and it was constant all night, and there was a bell that rang itself, and stood opposite the desk, more than one person tall, and sang foreign music when it told the time. ”

Xie Daozhong said "oh": "When Huai'an went to Shanghai to buy a telephone, he also brought me a self-striking clock, but it was not as high as you said, in my bedroom, the self-striking clock has been in China for many years, and it is not a new thing." ”

"What you said is," Wanlan smiled, "It's just that my daughter has never seen it before, so she thinks it's new." ”

Xie Daozhong nodded, and asked again, "What else?"

He seemed to be quite interested in the foreign things in Xie Daoyong's house.

Wanlan felt that this was a good sign, glanced at Xie Huai'an, and said unhurriedly: "The garden is equipped with a pipe that can automatically sprinkle water, and it is buried in the soil, it is iron, and it will spray water by itself when the time comes. ”

Xie Daozhong said thoughtfully: "You can put it in the ground, it can save people from carrying water back and forth to water the ground, is this thing troublesome, is it expensive?"

Wanlan shook her head regretfully: "I already installed it when I went, and I only thought it was fun at the time, but I didn't care about it." ”

Mrs. Qin complained to her with a smile: "After all, she is still a child, and she only goes for novelty and fun." ”

And Xie Daozhong actually refuted Mrs. Qin with a pleasant face: "You know Ah Lan's temperament best, what kind of thing has she not been for novelty and fun since she was a child? ”

Wanlan lowered her head slightly, and said shyly: "I'm afraid that Ah Lan will not be able to learn the demeanor of his mother in this life." ”

"Maybe it's good to be a mother," Xie Daozhong took a sip of tea and glanced at Mrs. Qin again: "Your mother was not born like this."

Okay, don't talk about these gossip, and then talk about it, what else is new in the second house?"

"And the sewing machine," Wanlan said, "It's amazing, the sewing machine makes clothes, but it is more than three or four times faster than human hands, embroidery is faster, and my uncle and aunt also taught me to show off a few handkerchiefs and give them to my mother and aunts." As she spoke, she told the maid to fetch the veil from her salute, "But I am not very skilled in it, and the stitches are a little clumsy, and my aunt embroidered it much better than mine, and she also embroidered a veil for my mother and two sisters." ”

Mrs. Qin immediately looked solemn, waited for Lixia to take the handkerchief, and solemnly got up to take it from Wanlan's hand, the Xie family was the most thoughtful, and everyone was not bad.

She carefully looked at the patterns on the handkerchief, and compared the two handkerchiefs: "Sure enough, the second wife is more skilled, this peony flower is no different from the hand-embroidered one, if she embroiders it by hand, she may be more beautiful than this." ”

"It's no different, mother," Wanlan said, "The things embroidered by this sewing machine are almost the same as human hands, but they can save half the time." ”

Xie Huai'an continued: "Since it's so good, why don't we buy one and learn it from Ah Tian and Ah Xian." ”

Xie Daozhong nodded: "Well, I want to buy one." He paused for a moment, and even made a joke humorously: "It's okay to buy two, and give one to Ah Tian and Ah Xian, maybe in the future, we won't have to find a tailor to make clothes in the house?"

Wanlan was a little surprised, but immediately covered the corners of her mouth and smiled softly, and did not forget to call herself aggrieved: "Father is really eccentric, he obviously has three daughters, but he only buys two." ”

Xie Daozhong said: "I'm not partial, I'm just looking for something else for my father to do, I'm afraid I won't have time for you to learn sewing machines again." ”

Wanlan was curious: "What's the matter?"

Xie Daozhong smiled: "I know that when you go to the capital like this, your heart must be alive, your second uncle's mansion has it, and you also want to buy a set in our mansion as it is, both horizontal and vertical are good things, you like it, I don't limit you, go and do this with Huai'an." ”

Wanlan was almost surprised, she always thought that her father was pedantic and stubborn, but she didn't expect that in this matter, he would give in so quickly.

"It's just one thing, don't forget that you are still in the filial piety period," he said again: "Although you don't need to keep Mai for three years, after all, you are a world friend and your future father-in-law, and good or bad is a heart." ”

Wanlan bowed her head and said yes, and offered a cigarette purse: "Although my father doesn't smoke cigarette pouches, this is also my daughter's heart." ”

Xie Daozhong smiled slightly, took the purse, looked at it carefully, and praised it again, and then asked as if unintentionally, "Have you seen your uncle?"

Wanlan nodded: "I've seen it, my uncle is from a famous family, and she is very affectionate with her uncle, which is enviable." ”

Xie Daozhong asked: "Your uncle only has a daughter under Ah Xin's knees?"

Wanlan said: "Yes, my uncle has no intention of taking concubines and having children. ”

Xie Daozhong was silent, and said in a muffled voice: "How is Ah Xin?"

Wanlan paused and replied, "Ah Xin is cute and very lively. ”

Xie Daozhong seemed to understand this sentence, and was a little stunned: "Let him go, both horizontal and vertical are from the Xie family." ”

Wanlan smiled: "Uncle just plans to marry Ah Xin to a good family." ”

Xie Daozhong glanced at her: "I just plan to marry all your sisters into good families." ”

Wanlan was stunned for a moment, and immediately bowed her head: "Thank you, father." ”

Xie Daozhong sighed slowly and waved at her: "Okay, that's all for today, let's all disperse, Ah Lan rest early." ”

He stood up as he spoke, and the rest of the people immediately got up, thanked Daozhong and walked to the door, turning sideways slightly: "Huai'an, you come with me to the inner study." ”

Xie Huai'an complied, glanced at Wanlan, and left.

On the second day, Wanlan got up early, cleaned up and went to the long room to ask for peace, Xie Huaian was waiting for her in front of her door, and when Wanlan went out, he was doing a few Tai Chi movements.

Wan Lan was stunned: "What are you doing here?"

Xie Huai'an ignored her, took care of himself, let out a long breath, and then smiled at her: "Strengthen your body and prolong your life." ”

Wanlan chirped: "When you are not very old, you want to prolong your life, why don't you go to open the furnace for alchemy?"

Xie Huai'an smiled and said, "Qin Shi Huang has already proved that alchemy is useless, and besides, I don't want to live forever." Sister, are you going to invite Ann?"

Wanlan nodded: "What, you're not going?"

Xie Huai'an said: "I'll go with you, just say a word and leave, I have already bought a ticket to Shanghai, and I told my father yesterday that we will go to Shanghai early this morning." ”

Wanlan was a little eager to try, but she was a little uneasy: "I still have filial piety." ”

Xie Huai'an took a step back and looked at the filial piety clothes on her body: "Go and change into plain clothes, and then a hairpin of white flowers will become, I don't think Chen Ji has to find fault with whether you wear filial piety or not." ”

Wanlan hesitated again, was ruthless, turned back to the room to change clothes, and asked Xie Huaian worriedly: "If my father sees it, I'm afraid that he will reprimand me." ”

Xie Huaian thought for a while: "Then you go and take out the filial piety coat and cover it outside, and then take it off when you go out of the house." ”

Wanlan immediately complied, put the filial piety robe on the outside of the cotton robe, went to the long room with him to ask for peace, thanked them a few more words, and let them out of the house.

There are many foreign companies in Shanghai's concession, some are opened by foreigners, and some are even opened by Chinese, Xie Huai'an familiarly found a foreign company named Taichang, reported his name, and the waiter in a suit and leather shoes hurriedly walked away, and after a while, he actually said that he was going to invite Yang Baiye, the manager of Taichang Foreign Company, to come over.

Wanlan was a little surprised, lowered her voice and asked Xie Huai'an, "Do you know him?"

"I met when I bought a telephone last time," Xie Huaian replied quietly: "I gave him all the foreign items in the house, and only then did I get the treatment of a VIP." ”

Wanlan said: "You are really good at empty words, even if the house is full of foreign things, what can you do, Taichang Foreign Bank will look at such a small transaction?"

"But the Emperor of Zhenjiang is different," Yang Baiye had already come over while speaking, Xie Huai'an raised a smile, walked up a few steps, and shook hands with him: "Manager Yang, long time no see." ”

"Xie Shao still remembers me, I am really flattered. "This Yang Baiye's appearance is very different from that of Chinese, with a high nose, deep eye sockets, and not black eyes, but a bit like the foreigners Wan Lan has seen in Beijing.

However, his hair color was black.

Xie Huai'an and Yang Baiye pretended to be polite, and introduced Wanlan and Yang Baiye to each other: "This is my eldest sister." ”

Yang Baiye smiled deeply, and wanted to shake hands with Wanlan again: "Miss, look up for a long time." ”

Wanlan had heard of this Western handshake ceremony, but she had never done it, but at this moment in the face of a strange man, she was a little hesitant in her heart, Yang Baiye saw her embarrassment, and immediately stepped forward and turned sideways, put one hand behind her, raised the other hand, and made a "please" gesture: "Miss, please, no matter what you like today, it will be counted in my account as a meeting gift to the eldest lady." ”

Wanlan saluted him, and was led to the VIP room with Xie Huai'an, Xie Huai'an was wearing a long shirt, lifted his hem and sat on the European-style sofa, leaned on the armrest of the sofa, and cocked Erlang's legs, and said with a smile: "How is Boss Yang's business lately?

"Where do you dare to boast about making a fortune in front of Xie Shao," Yang Baiye sat down opposite him and instructed the servants to serve coffee to the distinguished guests: "Xie Shao and the eldest lady must live in Shanghai for a few days this time, and let me do my best to be a landlord." ”

"I won't delay Boss Yang to make a fortune, and I won't be verbose," Xie Huai'an said: "This time, I mainly want to make a set of power generation equipment in the house, no way, the old man at home likes this, all that may need Boss Yang to send an expert to Zhenjiang for a trip, load things, and live for a few more days, and teach the people in the mansion how to use it." ”

Wanlan has never seen her brother like this, his movements, demeanor and tone of speech are simply the broad young people who are used to mixing in this ten-mile foreign field, she has seen some rich and noble people who are used to being a child of the Eight Banners in the capital, Xie Huai'an's demeanor is not far from them.

Yang Baiye responded happily and quoted a price, I don't know if it was high or low, but Xie Huaian didn't care at all, and nodded lightly in agreement, Wanlan couldn't sit still, but she also knew that it was not good to refute Xie Huai'an's face at this time, so she endured it.

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