Mrs. Qin already knew that the news that Wan Tian was going to announce was not a pregnancy but a farewell, so she looked very sad, and she was depressed, and even the entire old mansion fell into sadness.

But Wan Tian didn't comfort her, she didn't even say the coaxing "I will come back to see you again", and even when Wan Lan comforted Mrs. Qin at the banquet and said, "Ah Tian will come back again", she also said in a gentle but cold tone: "Britain is separated from here by mountains and seas, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to see you again." ”

Wan Lan once again sensed something strange from Wan Tian's demeanor, and was interested in looking for her at night, and politely invited George out, intending to ask what was going on.

Wan Tian was not ready to tell her: "Sister is too worried, I ......"

She didn't say any more, which made Wanlan more suspicious and more sure that she must have something bad to hide from her.

Wanlan cautiously asked, "Is it related to the Japanese consulate?" ”

Wan Tian was silent for a long time, and finally smiled like a deflated person: "I'll tell you when I leave, if you still want to know at that time." ”

Wanlan's face changed, and she had a hunch that her guess might be right, which made her worry about Wantian's eagerness to leave.

Wan Tian laughed softly, as if she could understand her thoughts, and put her hand on Wan Lan's hand, and said with reproach: "What do you think." ”

Wanlan looked at her suspiciously, for a while, and sighed softly: "I'm so scared, after the accident in Yuji, I seem to have become very afraid of death all of a sudden, afraid that something will happen to the people around me." She pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Yuji is also planning to move abroad." ”

Wan Tian was taken aback: "What about the family?" I'm afraid my parents won't agree to leave Zhenjiang. ”

"I think so too, so I plan to discuss with Huai'an first." Wanlan held her hand, "Are you going to settle in the UK?" If you are going to England, I will persuade Yuji to go to England as well, and our sisters will still live in nearby places, so as not to have no relatives in a foreign land. ”

Wan Tian didn't seem to expect her to suddenly ask this, and smiled hastily: "Maybe...... Brother Yuji hasn't figured out where to go yet? ”

"He wants to go to the United States." Wanlan said, "But I want to be close to you, so I can take care of each other." ”

Wan Tian looked at her with a smile: "Sister has changed a lot, and she is even more pyrotechnic, like an ordinary wife." ”

Wanlan was stunned for a long time, and tasted her words again and again, surprised for a while, sad for a while, and finally had a complicated mood, but she seemed to laugh with relief: "When I was young, I always wanted to be different and wanted to do a big career, but as a result, I have seen a lot of people who have done big things, but unfortunately not only have they not been infected, but they seem to have retreated from some difficulties." ”

Wan Tian said: "From ancient times to the present, who wants to have a career, which one has not abandoned his family and children, endured hardships, and then can he leave his name in history?" How much you lose, how much you can gain, Sister Ah is too greedy, wants everything, and is not destined to be a person who can do big things. ”

"Just living in peace and security will already cost all your strength." Wanlan sighed, "I now think about the second uncle when he returned home and said that he would take our family to study abroad, which is just like a matter of the previous life, and in the previous life, I was still a girl who didn't know the height of the sky...... But now the second uncle has passed away. ”

"The young man doesn't know the taste of sorrow, falls in love with the floor, falls in love with the floor, and says sorrow for the new words. Now I know the taste of sorrow, I want to say that I will rest, I want to say that I will rest, but I will say that the weather is cool and autumn. Wan Tian smiled and read this poem, the corners of her lips were still raised, but the tears slowly slid down, and she hurriedly wiped them with a handkerchief, "Sister is so annoying, she deliberately hooked people to tears." ”

"We are all frightened by the world outside, but there is still one in the family who wants to rise to the challenge and is still eager to try." Wanlan said, "Do you know about Ah Xian and Mr. Xu?" ”

"I know," Wan Tian nodded, "I'm afraid that she won't last long alone, and her mother can wait for her to finish her studies, which is already giving her great tolerance...... And she feels better. ”

George knocked on the door outside, laughing and teasing them: "Why, haven't you finished whispering between sisters?" I can go to my room tonight and rest. ”

Wanlan laughed: "Look at me, I forgot the time when I opened the chatterbox." ”

Wan Tian grabbed her, stood up and answered George: "You go to the guest room today, I want to have a night talk with Sister A, please." ”

George was very talkative, and even though he nodded, he leaned over to kiss Wan Tian, but the latter just smiled and looked up, as if in response to him, but in fact he turned his head sideways, and only let his kiss fall on his cheek: "Good night, dear." ”

Wan Tian and Wan Lan talked about the middle of the night, but they still got up very early on the second day, even earlier than usual. She moved gently, without waking up her eldest sister, who was still asleep due to exhaustion, and went to the long room by herself, greeted her parents as if she was not married, and served them with Wu Xinyi for breakfast.

Mrs. Qin endured her grief and smiled at her: "Your sister hasn't gotten up yet, she's getting lazy and lazy." ”

Wan Tian responded: "Sister slept with me last night, I dragged her for a long time, she was very tired." ”

"You really should be more diligent." Mrs. Qin said, "When your sister is still serving, you don't know when you will see you again...... I even want you to go early, lest you stay under my nose for one more day, and I will be miserable for another day. ”

Xie Daozhong coughed: "Okay, people are still in front of you, don't say these words." ”

Mrs. Qin hurriedly responded, but Wan Tian was still smiling, and she couldn't see her grief.

This time not only Wanlan, but even Wu Xinyi began to wonder if something happened to Wantian, she asked Wantian directly, but she didn't get an answer, and went back to talk to Xie Huai'an.

Xie Huai'an looked for Wanlan first as usual, his old habit, if he was used in the affairs of the inner house, he always went to the eldest sister first to discuss and listen to her opinions. But Wanlan sent him away for Wantian this time, because she had more important things to say.

"Expatriate?" Xie Huai'an has really never considered this problem, and has never planned to think about this problem, "Sister is joking, the Xie family's old mansion plus the outer seven mansions, together with the little maids who serve in each house, as well as the farmers on the Zhuangzi outside, the yarn workers in the factory, and the doctors in the pharmacy, there are tens of thousands of people who are counting on the Xie family to live, do you want to take these tens of thousands of people abroad?" ”

Wanlan stammered for a long time, bowed her head and said, "I don't think you may agree." ”

"I expected it, what else are you doing useless," Xie Huaian smiled, but suddenly thought of something, his face changed, "What, do you want to leave too?" ”

"Yuji has this plan, and he is already ready to invest in the industry in the United States to gain a foothold." Wanlan said, "He said that the world is not peaceful, the future of the country is uncertain, and it is not safe to stay in the country." ”

"The future is uncertain, and the country will never be lost." Xie Huai'an didn't care at all, "But Brother Yuji doesn't have such a heavy burden as our family, and it is easy for him to move to the United States, but his parents sent Ah Tian away, and they will send you again every few days, which is really sad for them." ”

Wanlan didn't give up, and wanted to persuade him, so he said: "The property can be sold, and the land on the Zhuangzi will be distributed to the farmers according to the capita, as long as they don't delay their continued livelihood, we don't have to guard them." ”

"What about the people from the Outer Seven Mansions?" Xie Huaian asked rhetorically, "They have not even seen foreigners, and some of them regard their different skin and hair colors as flood beasts, thinking that they feed on the flesh and blood of Chinese. ”

Wanlan was asked again, and after a while, she said stupidly: "It would be nice if we were also a concubine." ”

Xie Huai'an laughed: "I have taken the benefits and glory of the old mansion, but when I do things, I think this identity is a burden - sister, it is not a gentleman to do this." ”

Wanlan said angrily: "I'm just a woman, with long hair and short knowledge, and I just want to see my family safe and healthy." ”

Xie Huai'an was amused by her rare form of daughter, and couldn't stop laughing, and comforted her: "Okay, Brother Hengzhu Yuji has no plans to move immediately, you and I have to wait first, maybe there will be a way later?" The top priority at the moment is to greet Ah Tian first. ”

Xie Wantian and his wife stayed at the old house for only nine days, and the British ambassador to China called from Shanghai to urge them to leave. Before they left, Wan Tian had asked to open an ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, but Xie Daozhong refused.

On the day they left, the wind and sun in Shanghai were beautiful and the sky was clear. For the sake of the British ambassador to China, Sheng Xuanhuai, the general manager of Shanghai Steamship China Merchants Bureau and a famous former Qing businessman, personally saw off at the pier.

Wan Tian beckoned to Wan Lan before boarding the ship, and called her over with a smile, Wan Lan forcibly endured the sour nasal cavity, and was very intimately wrapped her arms around her neck, put her mouth on her earlobe, and whispered: "My last secret." ”

"I witnessed the murder that day on the street, where one man tried to cut off the head of another man with a knife, but the latter took it so quickly that the knife cut through his abdomen, and all his internal organs flowed out, and blood splattered on the ground, and I fainted with fright on the spot," she said. ”

Wanlan was about to gasp just by listening to her description, she wanted to turn her face to talk to Wantian, but Wantian still hugged her neck tightly: "When I wake up, I'll ...... at the Japanese consulate" She paused here, as if swallowing some words, and then continued after a pause, "They invited the police from the various concessions to come - you know, although it is a foreign concession, most of the police are Chinese - those Japanese invited them, gave them benefits, told them to keep their mouths shut. ”

"I told them that I was the wife of the Earl of Spencer, and that the first time I used that name was in such a situation. But instead of believing me, they asked me for something to prove my identity, so I wrote them the phone number of George's office, asked them to call to confirm, and asked my husband to pick me up. ”

"Sister ......" Wan Tian paused, as if swallowing some words, her tone suddenly became secretive, and then said, "The person who died was the real consul general of the Japanese consulate, he didn't go back to China to attend the enthronement ceremony of the Japanese emperor, it was Sukawa Shun who killed him, and the killer disguised himself as a Chinese anti-Japanese person, but I heard them communicate with each other in Japanese, although I couldn't understand what the content was, but it was obvious that Sukawa Shun killed her boss and wanted to blame Chinese." ”

"But I told them that I didn't know anything about the cause of the murder, that I just suddenly saw the killing, and I was so frightened that I fainted, and Sugawa interrogated me personally, and although I was tortured, I didn't get a word out of my mouth. When they found out that I was indeed a countess, they began to panic, threatened your lives, forbade me to tell me about my torture, and afterwards seemed to have sent men to assassinate me. ”

Xie Wantian let go of Wanlan, and immediately held her hand, her eyes were full of tears, like an ordinary pair of sisters saying goodbye to each other before a long trip, but what she said was: "Sister, I don't know if it will implicate you, but ...... Run......"

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