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Zhang Leyi came to the living room with red eyes, Zhou Hexuan looked a little distressed, and asked with concern, "Are you okay?" ”

Zhang Leyi was silent, and only after a moment did she say in an urn: "Why are you telling me the truth?" I've come all the way to Tianjin, you should at least coax and deceive me! ”

Zhou Hexuan shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said all the words in his heart: "I write novels to expose the darkness of society, I improve underwear to call for women's emancipation, I think I am a saint, but in the end there is no difference." Like most men, I longed for three wives and four concubines, and I didn't have enough self-control to restrain my desires. I wanted to lie to you yesterday and explain the truth later, but in the end I couldn't hold back. I think the only thing I can do is confess, you have the right to know the truth, and I don't want to continue to lie to you. ”

"You bastard!" Zhang Leyi finally couldn't help but scold.

"I'm really a bastard, it's very unfair to you," Zhou Hexuan sighed, "It's really not good, I'll send you back, you can be ordinary friends." ”

Zhang Leyi said bitterly: "How can I go back?" I ran away from home without telling my parents, and now I'm going home in disgrace and telling them, "Did I like a bad guy?" How do you make me a person! ”

"Uh," Zhou Hexuan said, "It's because I didn't think it through, or you should stay in Tianjin first and wait for a while." ”

Zhang Leyi lowered her head and stopped talking, which was a tacit acquiescence to Zhou Hexuan's arrangement. She really didn't know how to go back to face her parents, and at the same time she was still a little reluctant in her heart, she didn't want to end up with Zhou Hexuan like this.

During the Republic of China, the new style of women grew up in a complex environment, accepting both advanced Western ideas and traditional culture. Christians say that marriage should be monogamous, but in society, there are three wives and four concubines.

Even Zhang Leyi's father doesn't go home every once in a while, not only raising a woman in Jiujiang, but even Nanjing is an outer room. Some time ago, when she stayed in Nanjing, Zhang Leyi lived in her "aunt's" house, and everyone did not shy away from anything.

Affected by the social environment, women in the Republic of China did not have too many demands, and regarded it as normal for a man to marry his aunt's wife.

Like the female writer Lu Yin we mentioned earlier, while writing novels calling for equality between men and women, she is willing to marry a powerless and powerful married man. Even after her husband's death, she took her daughter back to her husband's house to take care of her mother-in-law, and the original partner was also very good to Lu Yin, and the "sisters" got along well. Only her mother-in-law thought that she had killed her husband and couldn't give birth to a son, so she drove Lu Yin out of the house.

Zhang Leyi can understand a man's heart, and what makes her most unacceptable is that Zhou Hexuan actually didn't lie to her and coaxed her, but had to tell the truth. Everyone knows this kind of thing, so why put it on the table and embarrass each other.

And thinking about it carefully, Zhang Leyi felt that Zhou Hexuan was very reliable, at least he would not deceive her, let alone occupy her body.

This has to be said to be a kind of sadness, the boyfriend cheated on his legs, and he is definitely a scumbag in modern society. And a daughter of the Republic of China like Zhang Leyi accepted it easily, but hoped that a man would hide it from her. When her boyfriend took the initiative to expose the facts, she felt that the other party could be entrusted with honesty.

This kind of strange thinking is incomprehensible to modern people.

Historically, Mr. Mei Lanfang married three wives in succession to continue the incense when he had a wife. No one said that he had a bad character, but instead cited his combination with Meng Xiaodong as a beautiful conversation, which was a good story in the pear orchard.

Wanrong's arrival broke the embarrassment in the house, and she smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, Miss Zhang, aren't you ready yet?" ”

"Wait a minute, we'll leave right away." Zhou Hexuan responded.

Zhang Leyi put away her emotions and pretended to smile casually: "I'll go back to the room and put on makeup first." ”

The trio took a rickshaw to the southern suburbs, where the water had receded, but many people were still dredging and cleaning.

When I came to the Foreigners' Friendship Club, I found that it was not only not affected by floods, but was much more lively. Some foreign merchants were trapped in the port and stayed in Tianjin temporarily, and all came here to have fun.

"Hey, Mister Zhou, long time no see!" A foreigner greeted him from afar.

"Hello, Mike." Zhou Hexuan waved his hand and smiled.

On the bar, another foreigner fat man shouted to the bartender: "Give Zhou a glass of whiskey, I'll treat you!" ”

Zhou Hexuan walked over and hugged the fat foreigner, and said with a smile: "Haha, Jimmy, you have gained weight again." ”

The fat foreigner turned back to the bartender and said, "I have changed my mind, and he will pay for this glass of wine." ”

The whiskey had been poured, Zhou Hexuan walked over and drank it all, rushing to make his throat uncomfortable, put down the wine glass and said, "Write it on the fat man's account, I'm going to play." ”

"Hey, you bastard!" The fat man laughed and cursed loudly.

Zhang Leyi looked strange, and Zhou Hexuan's relationship with foreigners made her a little puzzled. Her father was a comprador and had been dealing with foreigners for a long time. In her impression since she was a child, foreigners are superior, and his father is careful and polite even in the face of powerless foreigners.

And Zhou Hexuan is much more free and easy, it seems that he is an equal friend with foreigners, and he can joke casually.

"Who's that fat man?" Zhang Leyi asked in a low voice.

Zhou Hexuan said: "A major of the British Tianjin garrison, I heard that he is still a small nobleman. This guy often sneaks out of the barracks and runs to clubs to drink and have fun. ”

"Are you familiar with the foreigners here?" Zhang Leyi asked again.

Zhou Hexuan said: "Some have drunk together, and some have played together. I come to the club for a few days a month, and I get to know them as soon as I come and go. ”

Zhang Leyi said: "Those foreigners seem to have a good impression of you, and they can even afford to joke. ”

"Haha, foreigners are also people, why can't you joke?" Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

"But my father is always cautious when dealing with foreigners." Zhang Leyi said.

Zhou Hexuan said: "That's because your father has a request for others and needs to rely on foreigners to do business." The so-called desirelessness is rigid, and I don't ask foreigners to do things, so why bother looking at their faces? And the more casual I am with them, the more these foreigners like to communicate with me and treat me as an equal friend. In fact, they are also very curious about Chinese and willing to deal with normal Chinese. ”

Zhang Leyi said, "You mean that other Chinese are not normal?" ”

"Do you think it's normal? When we Chinese see foreigners, we either promise or refuse to stay away. Zhou Hexuan said.

"That's right." Zhang Leyi nodded thoughtfully.

Wanrong has a deep understanding of this, and after Pu Yi came to Tianjin, he often dealt with foreigners. Pu Yi put on the emperor's shelf on the surface, and even rewarded foreigners at business banquets, treating foreigners as foreign servants. But the actual situation is that Pu Yi has always been cautious in the face of foreigners, for fear of offending the other party, just like a eunuch in the palace meeting a master.

The three of them went to the bowling room together, and as soon as they entered, they saw the British and French consul generals and their wives. The two ladies were playing happily, while the two consuls stood by, whispering something about something.

"In a Chinese saying, Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived," Herway beckoned to Zhou Hexuan, "Hey, Zhou, just said you, you came." ”

Zhou Hexuan walked over and saluted: "Hello two consuls." ”

British Consul General Roger Powell looked at Wanrong, then at Zhang Leyi, and said with a smile: "Mister Zhou, introduce the beautiful young lady next to you." ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "This is my secret ......"

"I'm his fiancée." Zhang Leyi suddenly held Zhou Hexuan's hand and said.

Zhou Hexuan was surprised when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Zhang Leyi in surprise.