"Ding!"

Cartier's steel-plated silver-plated lighter made a crisp sound, and the flames were blown away by the wind. A lady's cigarette was held in Vivien Leigh's mouth, and when she sucked it gently, smoke came out of her lips and nose.

Zhou Hexuan frowned, leaned in front of the window and said, "The lighter is good, where did you buy it?" ”

"Zhongyuan Department Store." Vivien Leigh swallowed the clouds and spat out the mist.

Zhou Hexuan pointed to his sleeping daughter and reminded: "Smoking is not good for health, especially children. ”

Vivien Leigh took another deep breath, extinguished the cigarette butt, and said excitedly, "I know, but I just want to smoke." I'm irritable, inexplicably irritable, I don't belong here, I'm fed up! ”

"I'm sorry." Zhou Hexuan hurriedly apologized, not daring to argue with Vivien Leigh.

Vivien Leigh's mental state is obviously a little abnormal, and I don't know if it is postpartum depression, anyway, she is easily sad and irritable, and sometimes she feels depressed and irritable for some reason.

"It's nothing, it's getting better," Vivien Leigh said, rubbing her forehead, "I shouldn't have quarreled with you yesterday." ”

Zhou Hexuan began to turn the topic to his daughter and asked, "Have you thought of the child's English name?" ”

Speaking of her daughter, Vivien Leigh was really much more energetic: "How is Rebecca?" ”

"It's a beautiful name." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

The two walked to the cradle of the youngest daughter, and Zhou Hexuan said to the nurse, "You go out first." ”

The nurse immediately retreated, and advised: "Sir, madam, if the young lady cries, call me, I have been staying outside." ”

"You're bothered." Zhou Hexuan thanked.

The daughter born to Zhou Hexuan and Vivien Li is called "Zhou Chunxi" in Chinese, which means "bright and beautiful". This is similar to Vivien Leigh's foreign name for her daughter, Rebecca (Rebecca) originally means "charming beauty".

Zhou Chunxi, also known as Rebecca, according to the Roman pinyin method, is written in foreign language as Rebecca· Cho。

The little guy has been born for almost 50 days, his hair color is black and brown, and I don't know whether it is brown or black, after all, purebred Chinese also have yellow hair, and the color of the hair can only be seen when it grows up. However, the color of the eyes is very beautiful, neither Zhou Hexuan's black, nor Vivien Leigh's gray-green, but the pure blue of the sky.

She has obvious mixed-race characteristics, with a straight nose bridge and sunken eye sockets, but her eyebrows are seven points similar to Zhou Hexuan. Especially those two eyebrows, which are far thicker than ordinary babies, you must know that Xiao Lingjun did not gradually darken the color of his eyebrows until he turned one year old.

Xiao Chunxi obviously inherited his father's eyebrow characteristics, just like Su Xuelin wrote an article to describe, Zhou Hexuan's eyebrows are thick and dark, and the standard star-eyed sword eyebrows.

Vivien Leigh sat on the edge of the cradle and looked at her daughter with a loving face. She raised her hand to touch it, but she was afraid of waking her daughter up, so she hesitated for a while and put it down. She turned her head to face Zhou Hexuan, and suddenly said, "You say, can our daughter grow up healthy?" ”

Khan, here it is again!

Zhou Hexuan felt a headache, Vivien Li has always been chattering since she gave birth to her daughter, and often popped out some inexplicable words.

Zhou Hexuan could only squeeze out a smile and comforted: "Of course, when my daughter grows up, she will definitely be a big beauty like you." ”

"No, I'm going to take my daughter back to the UK, China is too dangerous." Vivien Leigh said excitedly.

Zhou Hexuan couldn't keep up with this kind of jumping thinking at all, and hurriedly followed her: "Okay, when my daughter grows up a little, we will take her back to the UK." ”

Vivien Leigh said hurriedly: "I'm going to take her back now." ”

"Not yet, my daughter is too young to withstand the storm of the steamer, and she will get sick." Zhou Hexuan said.

"That's right." Vivien Leigh stood up and walked around anxiously.

Zhou Hexuan was so crazy that he immediately made up his mind that he had to take Vivien Leigh to Freud for psychotherapy. He said, "Vivian, I'm going to the United States in a few days, so why don't you go with me for a break." When we are done with the affairs of the United States, we will go to England to visit your father. ”

"Going to the United States? It's so good that I've always wanted to check it out. Vivien Leigh's mood changed quickly, she was anxious just now, and now she suddenly became happy again.

Zhou Hexuan rubbed his face, thinking of various legends about postpartum depression, such as jumping off a building with a child in his arms to commit suicide, such as stabbing his husband to death in his sleep. My heart suddenly fluffed up......

……

Just as Zhou Hexuan was about to leave for the United States, the silver trend had spread from Shanghai to Tianjin and Beiping.

From May to August this year, due to the soaring international silver price, there was an outflow of more than 100 million yuan worth of silver in Shanghai alone, most of which was carried away by foreign banks.

Tianjin was no better, with an outflow of 60 million yuan in silver in three months, and two successive failures of Chinese banks attached to foreign banks, which then caused a chain reaction. For example, banks and banks have been run, for example, the capital chain of enterprises and factories has been broken, and then the market depression and the bankruptcy of companies will follow, and workers and employees will find it difficult to earn a living due to unemployment, causing more serious economic stagnation and depression in all industries.

Not only did the Yankees kill China, but little Japan also took advantage of the fire to rob and smuggle Chinese silver in various ways, intending to completely destroy China's financial and monetary system and force China to become a vassal of the yen group.

Historically, when China introduced paper money next year, the Japanese government instructed Japanese and Korean ronins and traitors and hooligans to use foreign banknotes to buy goods on a large scale, and if the shops used Chinese banknotes to make up for it, they claimed that the Chinese banknotes could not be cashed and refused to accept them.

This made people panic and almost caused the fiat currency issued by the Republic of China to become waste paper. Thanks to the help of British friends, the Chinese silver dollar was directly linked to the pound sterling in the early days of issuance, and the reserves aided by the United Kingdom were enough to survive the run, so that China's fiat currency was successfully implemented.

In the face of such a serious financial situation, the Nanjing government has been too slow to respond.

At the beginning of May, a massive outflow of silver from China began, and it was not until September 9, the day Xiao Lingjun entered school, that the Nanjing government ordered a ban on foreign exchange speculation, but it did not work at all.

When Zhou Hexuan set foot on American soil by ship, the Nanjing government finally announced an increase in the export tax on silver, and the speed of silver outflow slowed down slightly, but the illegal smuggling of silver became more and more rampant.

In late October, Song Ziwen suddenly revealed to foreign newspapers that China was about to launch a currency reform plan, planning to abandon the silver standard within half a year, issue paper legal tender, and hoped that the United States could provide assistance. If the U.S. doesn't help, China will consider asking Japan for help.

Japan's response was extremely fast, and only two days later, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota made a diplomatic speech in which he trumpeted "Sino-Japanese friendship." Immediately afterwards, the Japanese Minister to China, Ariyoshiaki, went to Nanjing with the plan of "Sino-Japanese cooperation" to discuss specific cooperation measures with the Chinese Government.

For a time, the arguments of Sino-Japanese cooperation and economic cooperation were very loud.

Chang Kaishen and Wang Zhaoming also cooperated extremely much, promulgating the "Order on the Prohibition of Anti-Japanese Activities" three months earlier than in history, and the newspapers of the Kuomintang Party frantically advocated Sino-Japanese friendly remarks.

The common people scolded and described the Nanjing government as a traitorous government.

The Japanese got carried away, thinking that they would soon be able to control China's finances.

US diplomats panicked and quickly called Washington, hoping that Roosevelt would adjust his strategy toward China and actively improve Sino-US diplomatic relations.