Chapter 148: Our Family Life
Back at home, after dinner, Lin Zixuan habitually stood up and walked towards the study.
It's his habit to write for two to three hours every night, read a book, and go to bed.
As soon as he took two steps, he stopped, remembering that he was married, no longer single, and needed to consider the feelings of his other half, and he couldn't ignore it anymore.
As for how to live after marriage, he still has no bottom in his heart.
The later life was a more open era, and two people could live a life without shame and irritability in their own rooms, without worrying about what others said, and they were free.
But now that I am living with the whole family, the way I get along with each other has to change.
Not to mention the family, even with Feng Chengcheng, he didn't think about how to get along in the future.
In later generations, many men and women lived together without getting married, and they knew each other's living habits very well, and there would not be much contradiction after marriage.
But in this era, especially in large families, it is strictly forbidden to live together before marriage, and once discovered, the reputation will be ruined.
Shanghai Hujiang University is a church school with strict management, and Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng can meet once a weekend, either to eat and chat, or to watch a movie.
At most, they held hands and hugged occasionally, and he could say that he knew Feng Chengcheng, but he didn't understand it thoroughly.
He understands Feng Chengcheng's character, but he doesn't have a more detailed understanding of her living habits, because the two have no experience of living together and don't know how to cooperate with each other.
He saw the phrase "respectful as a guest" in the book to describe the harmonious living relationship between husband and wife.
However, this is probably due to the mutual reluctance to get to know each other better, leaving room for each other, which is difficult to say whether it is good or bad.
To put it nicely, this is called mutual respect, and to put it mildly, this is that there is no love, only family affection.
According to the point of view of later generations, love is that you have me, I have you, and if you don't have a deep understanding, how can love be thorough.
Lin Zixuan glanced back at Feng Chengcheng, he didn't like the model of "respecting each other like guests" very much, it felt too fake, since he had become a family, it was better to be closer in spirit.
It's just that there is no TV in this era, so they can lie on the sofa and complain about the plot of the TV series.
There's also no private space for them to talk and laugh loudly and do things they love.
It's no wonder that people in this era like to go to bed early, those who don't sleep are looking for fun in the entertainment venues outside, and the days without TV and computers are really too boring.
He thought he was used to this era, but at this moment, he felt that there was still a gap between him and this era.
"What's wrong with you?" Feng Chengcheng beckoned the maid to bring the food down, looked at Lin Zixuan in a daze, and asked puzzledly, "Aren't you going to the study?" ”
Although this was her second day of living in this mansion, she learned many of Lin Zixuan's living habits from Lin Xiaoling, such as writing manuscripts in the study at night.
"I'm thinking about ......" Lin Zixuan hesitated for a moment and continued, "Let's go out to watch a movie, "Home Alone" is being screened in theaters, a very interesting film. ”
He originally wanted to discuss with Feng Chengcheng about the way he would get along in the future, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that it was too serious and serious to say it like this, which might scare Feng Chengcheng and think that he was dissatisfied.
So I changed the topic, and it would be better to get along slowly in the future.
"Home Alone" began to be screened in theaters yesterday, and the box office is not bad, although it is not very attractive to young people, but it is a family film, suitable for all ages.
In this era, because "little ghost" in Shanghainese means child labor, Lin Zixuan changed the name of the movie.
After New Year's Day, almost the end of the lunar calendar, there will be three films released by Star Film Company one after another.
"Naughty Boy's Home" is the first part, followed by "Mom Loves Me Again", and finally the finale "Havoc in Heaven", which is the rhythm of sweeping the Chinese New Year stalls.
"You've already seen that film, so you better go to the study and write a manuscript." Feng Chengcheng declined.
She is not a person who likes to play around, and she has just gotten married, so she should be steady, and if she still plays around, she will be gossiped.
"Let's talk, then." Lin Zixuan felt that it made sense and proposed.
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?" Feng Chengcheng asked the servants to go down, poured a cup of tea, and sat next to Lin Zixuan.
She felt that Lin Zixuan was a little weird, she was fine when she had just eaten, but now it was a little unnatural.
As a woman in this era, Feng Chengcheng doesn't think that there is a problem with their relationship, but feels that it should be like this, this is the mode of getting along with husband and wife.
They at least have something to talk about, and there is no estrangement, unlike many couples nowadays who have nothing to talk about and are just coping with each other.
This is also the reason why men in this era like to go out and have fun, arranged marriages, have no feelings for each other, and naturally do not want to stay at home.
"How about we go to Lushan this summer to escape the heat?" Lin Zixuan thought of a topic.
This is what he knew when he exchanged letters with Pearl Race.
Pearl Sai's father was a missionary, and there was a summer courtyard in Guling, Lushan, which can be said to be a summer resort.
In 1886, Li Deli, a British Methodist missionary, went to Lushan Mountain, took a fancy to the cool climate here, and planned to rent land in Changchong, Guniuling, to build a villa to attract foreigners to go up the mountain to escape the summer.
In 1895, Li Deli obtained a lease from the Chinese government and began to gradually develop the area into a summer resort.
Every summer, more than 2,000 foreigners from the provinces of the Yangtze River basin come to the mountains to escape the summer, including more than 1,000 missionaries from Britain and the United States alone.
Among the major summer resorts in China, which were all developed by Western missionaries during the same period, Guling in Jiangxi Province was the largest.
It is followed by Beidaihe in Hebei, Moganshan in Zhejiang and Jigong Mountain in Henan.
In order to thank Lin Zixuan for providing her with job opportunities and recommending her articles in the American "Atlantic Monthly", Pearl Race specially invited Lin Zixuan to Lushan in the summer.
Lin Zixuan felt that this was a good opportunity, even if it was a honeymoon with Feng Chengcheng.
"It's up to you." Feng Chengcheng had no opinion, then thought about it and asked, "It was the American woman in Nanjing who invited us?" ”
"That's right, it's her." Lin Zixuan said frankly.
At the same time, he was a little surprised, he seemed to have casually mentioned such a sentence when chatting with Feng Chengcheng more than two months ago, but he didn't expect Feng Chengcheng to remember.
Are women so sensitive to other women!
It seems that chatting is full of unpredictable dangers, so let's go back to the study and write a manuscript.
"Then I'll go to the study, you ......," Lin Zixuan signaled.
"I'll go back to my room and read, don't write too late." Feng Chengcheng said with concern.
In this way, the first family run-in after their marriage came to an end, and their lives had not yet been successful, and Zixuan still needed to work hard.