In the eyes of the Frenchman Mr. De Qiao, Xu Peipei and the composer named Li Nianpei behind him are the cash cow of EMI Company, which is why he asked Xu Peipei to sign a long-term contract. His judgment was indeed extremely correct, and when preparing for the first three songs, that Li Nianpei sent three more songs from abroad, also one in English and two in Chinese. His instincts told him that the song called Yesterday.Once.More was likely to take the world by storm more easily than the previous song Unchained.Melody. Columbia Records USA is very, very interested in this.

However, the abominable thing is that only Xu Peipei signed with him, not Li Nianpei, and this Chinese named Li Nianpei is said to be in Europe. If that were the case, EMI's parent company, Columbia Records UK, would approach him, and the performance would have belonged to the British company and not to China, and his prestige would have been lost as a director of EMI, not to mention the profits, which would have been his name for himself. The only thing he can comfort is that Mr. Li is deeply in love with Xu Peipei, and the songs he writes seem to be only sung by Xu Peipei alone, and the price is very low, only a few hundred yuan.

Mr. Deqiao looked at Xu Peipei's eyes and smiled, and he asked very gentlemanly, "Pei, do you need me to send you home?" ”

Deqiao had a silver-white Citroen, but Xu Peipei didn't want to trouble him, she smiled reluctantly: "Thank you, Mr. Deqiao, I think it would be better for me to take a few steps." ”

"That's a shame." The Frenchman shrugged and turned to watch Xu Peipei and Jiang Xiuyu leave.

"Then what does the French have to do with Xu Peipei?" In the office of the song department, Wang Renmei, who happened to see this scene, was very surprised, Mr. Deqiao has always been arrogant, but he talked and laughed at Xu Peipei. At this moment, An Hong and Ren Gong also stood up and glanced at it.

"It is said that the French found her while dining in the Red House and signed it. Some people also said that Mr. Li happened to be there at that time, and he also invited Xu Peipei to go to Great China Records, but she did not go to Great China Records in the end, but signed Baidai. An Hong said about Xu Peipei, she had already inquired about this Xu Peipei, and she was even more clear about how she entered the hundred generations.

An Hong is fine, but Wang Renmei is a little discolored. She learned singing and dancing with Li Jinhui ten years ago, and the name Wang Renmei was also taken by Li Jinhui, but she married Jin Yan when she filmed Yuguang Song, because Li Jinhui and her family were completely opposed to marriage, and now she is no longer in contact with them, because of this, she can only come to Xiaohong Mansion to find a job.

"The little girl has just come out of society, and she is still young." Wang Renmei said tastelessly, "If you experience more things and accept some advanced ideas, you will turn around." Well, I said, who wrote her songs? She didn't want to change it, so wouldn't it be nice to just find the person who wrote the lyrics and songs. ”

"I don't know who it is." An Hong just smiled in her heart when she saw Wang Renmei so skillfully inquiring about the composer, but she honestly told the details, "The name is Li Nianpei, I have never heard of this person, I guess whose pseudonym it is." ”

"Li Nianpei, Nianpei......" Wang Renmei smiled, "It won't be her lover." ”

"It's really her lover, why does she still have to marry someone else to be a concubine?" An Hong disagrees with Wang Renmei's inference. Thinking that Xu Peipei actually wanted to marry someone else as a concubine, the heroism in her heart burst out again, she looked at Ren Hong and Wang Renmei and said: "This Xu Peipei's thinking is still very backward, we must unite her, encourage her to resist comprador marriage, and be a new woman who is truly independent and progressive." ”

"Unite her? How to unite? "Wang Renmei doesn't know An Hong's thoughts, but as a husband, of course Ren Gong knows what his wife is thinking." She is a native of Ningbo, graduated from Zhende Girls' School, Ningbo people are famous for holding groups in Shanghai, and generally don't deal with people outside, we have developed so many people, there are few Ningbo people, I think this thing is too difficult to do......"

"How do you know if you don't try?!" An Hong is obviously more courageous than her husband. "Just by virtue of the fact that she wants to marry and be a concubine, we can unite her, and we should unite her and encourage her to break free from the feudal family. Isn't that how Renmei came over? ”

Originally, Xu Peipei didn't want to be involved with Wang Renmei again. Wang Renmei has been married for three years, and she knows that she didn't say anything else, but said: "The little girl is not sensible, it's good to have more contact with some progressive ideas, people will always change." ”

An Hong was still thinking about how to unite Xu Peipei, and when she heard Wang Renmei say this, she immediately said: "Renmei can educate and educate her, so that she knows what progress is and what is backwardness." After speaking, she whispered: "At the end of next week, there will be a song workshop in the old place, and you can bring her to participate." ”

"I see, I'll find a way to take her." Wang Renmei glanced at her and smiled knowingly.

An Hong did not want Xu Peipei to marry as a concubine, and on the other side of the city, in the Shikumen house on Wu Yan Road, there was also a woman who objected to her husband's concubine - Mr. Li, who was in Fuzhou, received a letter from his son from overseas, saying that he had taken a fancy to a woman and asked him to go to the woman's house to propose marriage immediately. The son went abroad for further study, and of course he was happy to be a father, and in order to enhance the enthusiasm of Mr. Li on this matter, Li Kongrong also wrote that this female Wangfu was unexpectedly sent by the Admiralty to the United States within a few days of knowing her, so this woman had to marry home.

What is the situation of the Li family, of course the old man knows that his son wanted to marry a woman from the Zeng family back then, and he was still a distant relative in the picture, and he didn't look good, but he was busy working for more than a year and spent all the money, but it didn't work out. Since this woman is a wangfu, she should marry home earlier. But the wife always has to say something, but after he finished speaking, the daughter-in-law just kept crying, and at the same time whispered that Xu Peipei was a dancer, the kind who danced with a man around her every day, and when such an unclean person entered the house, she didn't want to get along with her in the same room.

"Is that really the case?" The old man began to retreat, he turned his head and asked the person who introduced him to his son: the old driver in the uniform of Johnson & Johnson Taxi Company, who is now half a matchmaker, Li Kongrong privately promised to give him a heavy gift of 1,000 yuan.

Old man Li spoke Hokkien dialect, but fortunately, the old driver pulled a colleague who knew Hokkien dialect, and after the old man asked, he said: "Old man, there is a misunderstanding here." The little girl went to the dance hall to dance, but how many of the little girls in Shanghai have never entered the dance hall? This little girl is from Ningbo, her family is a serious family, she has done business in the early years, and she is studying at Zhende Girls' School. Zhende Girls' School is a well-known school in Shanghai, ask around, who can say that Zhende Girls' School is not good? Mr. Li met her at the Naval Officers' Club, and the two fell in love and fell in love at first sight. The sister-in-law must have misunderstood, the little girl danced, but how could she be a dancer. ”

For taxi drivers, grinding their lips is their job, and under the stimulation of a thousand yuan jackpot, things are really leaky. When the old driver said this, Mrs. Li cried even louder. But it was not her turn to call the shots, and when she heard that the other party was a female student from Zhende Girls' School, Old Man Li finally nodded, and he said, "That's good, that's good." But I'd better meet people. ”

As soon as she heard that her father-in-law actually wanted to see the vixen, Mrs. Li couldn't sit still any longer, and ran back to the room and cried in tears. The old driver was overjoyed, it seemed that the original family had no power, and it was estimated that this thing would be done after a trip to Ningbo.

"Old man, I'll take her to see you tomorrow." The old driver's white teeth were exposed again, but he thought that Mr. Li liked Miss Xu so much, and Miss Xu's face was thin, so she turned her mouth and said, "It's just that the little girl's face is very thin, so let's go to the restaurant outside to see you." ”

"Okay." Old Man Li, who thought about it, nodded, stroked his beard and smiled.

The Li family said so, the old driver went out to the French Concession, and when he saw Xu Peipei, he smiled and said: "The Li family is about to go to your house to propose, but Mr. Li wants to see you first." ”

"Ah, you want to see me?" Xu Peipei was happy and ashamed, she didn't expect the Li family to see herself before proposing.

"Mr. Li is a good person, and Mrs. Li is not happy. Fortunately, the old gentleman who said Allah believed it, so he agreed to the family. The old driver showed his merits, "It's good to see your father-in-law first, and you will be Mrs. Li in the future." Rest assured, it's all on Allah. ”

The sentence 'Mrs. Li' made Xu Peipei's face even redder, she nodded, wrote down the date and address and went upstairs. The next day, as the old driver promised, Mr. Li liked this future daughter-in-law who had studied in a girls' school very much, and gave her a pair of emerald green bracelets as a meeting gift on the spot. Things are going so well in Shanghai, but it's different in Ningbo.

"Get out! Get out! You send Mr. Wang out to ......, cough cough ......, my Xu family is not a concubine! "In the main hall of a small and closed department store in Nantang Old Street, Ningbo, a sick man with a rickety body struggled to get up, and he wanted to return the four-color gifts on the table to the visitor, but he couldn't hold them all and fell to the ground.

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu, if you have something to discuss, you have something to discuss." The old driver was really shocked to see Xu Peipei's father so angry. He thought of everything, but he didn't expect the Xu family to be unwilling to marry his daughter.

"It's not negotiable......" the sick man waved his hand, "I don't agree to this business," he said, and then looked at the rest of the room, "don't even think about agreeing to this business!" ”

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Li is a lieutenant colonel officer in the Navy, and now he has gone abroad to Germany for further study, and he will become a general in a few years, and his future is limitless." The old driver's three-inch tongue began to threaten, "His family lives in the American Concession in Shanghai, and the house he bought himself, the house ......is three or four times bigger than here, and it cost five or six hundred thousand yuan to buy it." There is only one wife in the family, and she is quite good, and she agrees with her husband to remarry, which is a rare good marriage!

The most rare thing is that Mr. Li fell in love with Miss Xu at a glance, and before he went to Germany, he knelt in front of Miss Xu to propose marriage and gave her a diamond ring, which I saw with my own eyes. Of course, Miss Xu is a sensible person, she said that her marriage should be arranged by her parents, and gave Mr. Li the address of his home and asked Mr. Li to come to Ningbo to propose marriage. Mr. Li is now studying in Germany and will return to China next year, and he plans to marry Miss Xu when he returns. With how much he likes Miss Xu, the Xu family's future affairs will definitely help one or two, but it won't help much, and he will also take care of the study of his younger brothers and sisters......"

Mr. Xu disagreed, and the old driver told the Xu family to listen up and down. Xu Peipei is the eldest daughter in the family, with three younger sisters and two younger brothers. used to be still studying, but after my father's illness, the eldest sister and the second sister stopped studying, and only the third sister was still in the gospel church; The younger brother is still young, one is twelve or thirteen years old and is studying in a private school, and the other is only five or six years old. The younger siblings are like this, and the elders have an elderly grandfather, a father and two mothers. That's all there is to the family, and from the outside of the street, the Xu family is obviously ruined, and the not very bright house not only smells musty, but also smells of traditional Chinese medicine.

The old driver's flickering was completely ineffective for Xu's father, but it was very effective for Xu's mother and the Xu family. As soon as Mother Xu wanted to invite him to sit down, Mr. Xu spilled the teacup with a shake of his hand, he pounded the table and coughed while saying, "Please Wang first... Give birth! Get out! ”

"Mr. Wang, please go back, please go back." Xu Xiaoman's eldest sister Xu Xiaoqian, who stood up to speak, looked like she was fifteen or sixteen years old, and she was sensible and sensible. She heard that Mr. Li had knelt in front of Sister A and proposed to her sister, so her heart stood on Sister A's side.

"Then please Mr. Xu think about it, and Allah will come back in a while." The old driver didn't want a gift either, so he stood up and walked out. It is definitely not possible not to take away the gifts, Xu's father coughed a few words, and the gifts he sent were chased out by several daughters.

"Hey, what's the matter?" At the intersection of the old street, when he saw the daughter of the Xu family chasing after him, the old driver smiled bitterly.

"Mr. Wang, I'm sorry for you." Xu Xiaoqian bowed to the old driver. "Come back later, my father will change his mind."

"Of course I'm coming." The old driver thought about the 1,000 yuan reward, licked his tongue very unwillingly, thought of the money and thought of Xu Peipei's entrustment, and immediately reached out and took out a letter from his arms: "This is Miss Xu asked me to hand it over to you, there is some money in the letter, and the family can subsidize the family first." If it's not enough, you can write a letter to the lady, and you can also take a telegram. ”

Carefully taking the letter, Xu Xiaoqian said again: "Mr. Wang, what ...... So does Mr. Li really like my sister? ”

"Of course I do!" The old driver nodded anxiously, "People in Germany also sent a telegram asking me to propose marriage, and his father, Mr. Li, is now waiting for news in Shanghai, so he wants to settle the matter as soon as possible." The old gentleman came from Fuzhou to Shanghai, so he ran around for this family business on such a hot day, would he not like it? Your sister must have been blessed and lived a good life when she got married. ”

"Sir, what is my sister doing in Shanghai?" Xu Xiaoqian's problem is over, and the second sister Xu Xiaoxin's problem is here again.

"Your sister...... the old driver muttered, "she graduated from girls' school and got a good job." She also said that you can all go back to school in the future. ”