Wanlan pinched the water bladder and shook it gently, listened to the pleasant sound inside, pursed her lips and smiled, and asked, "When I'm not at home, is it okay in the house?"

"I thought you were having a good time in the capital, and it was really not easy to still worry about things at home," Xie Huaian teased: "It's all good, and there is a new member." ”

"Oh?" Wanlan raised her eyebrows: "Could it be that which aunt is happy?"

"Look at what you're talking about, how old is your father," Xie Huai settled down for a moment, and said mysteriously: "Father installed a telephone." ”

Wanlan was taken aback and said in disbelief: "Father, have you installed a telephone in the house?"

Xie Huaian nodded and said: "Thank you for your telegram, my father originally planned to install a telegraph at home, but unfortunately he couldn't install it privately, so he retreated and installed a telephone." ”

"I see...... It's really good......" Wanlan came to her senses, sat up straight, thought for a while, and leaned forward: "Huai'an, I was about to discuss with you, what do you think of our family's career again, what are the prospects?"

Xie Huai'an didn't answer, but asked, "Why did you suddenly ask this question?"

Wanlan didn't play dumb riddles with him, and said directly: "I think it's hopeless, the situation in the capital is turbulent, and the revolutionary party is getting bigger and bigger, I don't want my family to be tied to the broken ship of the Qing court, and then live a precarious life." ”

Xie Huaichang frowned, and his tone was slow: "This matter ...... Does Uncle know?"

"I know, and I have acquiesced," Wanlan said: "Huaichang's going abroad is actually supported by his uncle's private wealth, and he supports Huaichang to have contact with the revolutionaries. ”

"I also support the government to have contact with the revolutionaries. ”

Xie Huai'an let out a long "oh": "This is ...... Two boats on one foot. ”

Wanlan smiled mysteriously, shook her head and said, "No, it's one foot on three boats." ”

Xie Huai'an raised his eyebrows and said, "What is the third boat?" I'm afraid it's no longer a certain political position. ”

Wanlan looked at him approvingly: "Compared with the second child of the Chen family, you and Huaichang are simply the treasure trees of our Xie family. ”

Xie Huai'an laughed: "When your future father-in-law died, you didn't seem to be so sad. ”

"In the coming day, my father will die, and I guess Yuji will not be so sad. Wanlan rubbed the corners of her forehead: "I haven't received his favor, I haven't had any contact with him, I haven't even heard of his deeds, I haven't accumulated the slightest emotion, what kind of sadness can I have? ”

Xie Huai'an said: "I want to make a show for your husband and mother-in-law, so as to please your mother-in-law." ”

Wanlan snorted: "Yuji doesn't need me to do this play, and Mrs. Chen ...... It's not a person who can fool the past by making a show, besides, she has done enough on the face, what does it matter if she likes me or not. ”

Xie Huaian said: "You don't seem to like her very much." ”

"I have done enough on the face, what does it matter if I like her in my heart or not?" Wanlan said: "Mo is the problem, it is still important to be serious, Huai'an, are you interested in doing business?"

Xie Huai'an was stunned at first, and then thought for a moment: "There is probably some, but because I haven't really done business, it's not easy to say dead, but the current situation is not a good time to do business." ”

"The current situation is a good time to do business," Wanlan said, "I want you to do a new business, and not to grab the scraps made by others to eat." ”

Xie Huai'an was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Industry?"

Wanlan nodded.

Xie Huaichang gasped and subconsciously wanted to stand up, but as soon as he was halfway up, his head collided with the roof of the carriage, and he suddenly exhaled a pain and sat down again.

Wanlan covered her mouth and smiled: "You don't have to react so much, right?"

Xie Huaian waved his hand: "No, I'm thinking about how to convince my father." ”

This time Chang Wanlan was surprised: "You agreed?"

"You have said it, how can I disagree," Xie Huai'an glanced at her with a smile in his eyes: "Even if you don't agree, you will be convinced." ”

Wanlan nodded and said, "Yes, I have made up my mind, even if you don't agree, I will persuade you." ”

Xie Huai'an smiled deeply: "I won't tell you, during the time you left home, I also thought a lot, especially when I installed a telephone at home - this telephone was selected and purchased by me in a foreign company in Shanghai, I went to Shanghai, it felt like a different world, and Zhenjiang is really a world apart, Sister Lan, I may want to scare you when I say it, in Shanghai, there is a man who has cut his braids." ”

Wanlan looked at him with a smile: "In the capital, the police have already blatantly cut their braids. ”

Xie Huaian looked at her in shock: "Police, what is a policeman?"

Wanlan opened her mouth, she didn't know how to explain this term, she was stunned for a while, and sighed: "I really regret why I insisted on going to the capital in the first place, I should have insisted on going my own way and sending you to the capital!"

In the last sentence, her tone was quite heavy, and she suddenly felt a little regretful and thumped her chest, Xie Huai'an understood the changes in the outside world from her tone, and understood that this change must be earth-shattering, extremely grim, Wanlan's language was unable to describe this change, so she had to sigh sadly: "I should have sent you to the capital in the first place!"

"Okay, Sister Lan," Xie Huai'an said calmly: "Don't worry, it's okay for someone in this family to know, not to mention that you and Huaichang both know? ”

Wanlan said: "I know what's the use, you are the future heir of the Xie family." ”

"Then you are the sister of the heir of the Xie family, to make an inappropriate analogy, you are the future eldest princess," Xie Huai'an smiled slightly, his tone was gentle, trying to appease Wanlan's feelings: "Ah Lan, we are siblings, what you see is what I see, that capital, you go to me and I go the same." ”

Wanlan sighed again: "I want to get married, I ...... after I get married."

"Okay, don't put this sentence on your lips often, I'm afraid you don't even believe it, so I take it out from time to time and try to convince myself," Xie Huai'an waved his hand and said: "If every woman is born to be a husband and raise children, then what does Ban Zhao do? What does Wu Zetian do? Li Bai also wrote a poem saying that I am born to be useful." ”

Wanlan sneered: "If there was no cowardice of Gaozong, there would not be a generation of empresses of the Emperor Zetian." ”

"This is called the situation of the times to create heroes," Xie Huai'an said: "Now I am your situation, come eldest sister, allow you to mess up the government in the harem of Ji Sichen, and now it is too late for me to go to the capital - even if I can, I can't go, so you do your best to tell me your plan in as much detail as possible, if you don't come forward, I'll mention it to my father." ”

Wanlan frowned at him and looked him up and down: "What do I think...... Are you eager to try this troubled world, and you can't ask for it?"

Xie Huai'an smiled: "Who has written history for 10,000 years, and wants to be a marquis three thousand miles away." I don't have the opportunity to be a marquis in history, so I can only retreat to the next best thing and be a family patriarch who makes a difference. ”

Wanlan understands his father's stubborn temper, and as time goes by, he will only become more and more stubborn, and it will become more and more difficult to convince, and he wants to implement the Xie family's "new policy" smoothly, either before he becomes more unreasonable, or ...... persuade him to hand over the family authority to Xie Huai'an as soon as possible.

But even if Xie Daozhong handed over the power, those clansmen of the Xie family, can they be willing to listen to the words of a young man? They all said that they were not firm in their mouths, and Xie Daozhong succeeded as the patriarch in the troubled times, and with his own strength, he preserved all the clansmen who were willing to follow him in the troubled times, and his prestige was established by the loss of the lives of others. Although it is also a troubled time now, there is no opportunity like him to let Xie Huaian prove himself.

She was worried about this problem, and suddenly Xie Huai'an shouted in her ears: "Sister!"

Wanlan shook and came back to her senses: "What did you say?"

Xie Huaian said helplessly: "I said, if you do business, which line of work?"

Wanlan pursed her lips and said, "I haven't decided yet." ”

Xie Huai'an raised his eyebrows and said, "In that case, I have an idea, what do you think of our yarn field?"

Wanlan was stunned: "Yarn field?"

Xie Huai'an nodded: "There is a lot of cotton around Zhenjiang, and most of the Zhuangzi in our family are cotton fields, which is simply the right time and place, and the foreign cloth market in the south, relying on imports and Zhang Jizhi's Dasheng Yarn Factory, is a little lonely, so we will go to share his share." ”

Wanlan was a little surprised: "You...... I know a lot. ”

Xie Huaian greeted her with a smile and said, "I've been to Tongzhou." ”

"This is really ......" Wanlan said in surprise: "It seems that these days, you haven't honestly studied the sage books in the house." ”

Xie Huaian said: "Father didn't even let out the door of the house." ”

Wanlan was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "It's me who is suspicious." ”

When their sister and brother arrived in Zhenjiang three days later, Xie Daozhong received a letter from Xie Huai'an in advance, and bought a table of noodles for them to wash the dust, but the entire thirty dishes were all vegetarian dishes.

Xie Huai'an looked left and right with his chopsticks, turned his head and asked Xie Wantian beside him: "Why did you change to a vegetarian diet in the past few days?"

Xie Wantian lowered her voice and replied to him: "Sister Lan is in the filial piety period. ”

Xie Huai'an then remembered that Wanlan was still filial piety for Chen Zhichang, because she hadn't shown any sadness in the past few days, and he had completely forgotten about it.

He glanced at Xie Daozhong's face, and immediately said, "Sister Lan has suffered a lot of mental strain in Yueyang, and her son wanted to make up for her after returning home." ”

And Wanlan also hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'll come over after a few days of rest, I'm in the filial piety period, and I can't get fishy." ”

Xie Daozhong's eyebrows were loosened at this time, and he glanced at Wanlan's thin cheeks: "Let the kitchen stew a cup of mushroom soup." ”

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