In the train box, Shen Mengxi had a calm face and didn't say a word.

Wang Shouqing was a little embarrassed, his best friend's words were actually heard by his wife, in fact, they were talking about this topic in a half-joking tone, of course, if he took the opportunity to answer, Ziwen would definitely pull the strings for him.

"Jiayu, I am angry and hurtful, I have no intention of taking a concubine, do you really have this intention and bother with Ziwen? Besides, my waist bag has been squeezed dry by you, what kind of concubine to take! After Wang Shouqing finished speaking, he patted his lower back, and Shen Mengxi almost laughed.

Zhang Xinhuai and his wife knocked on the door and came in, Han Xiangmei pulled Shen Mengxi out to eat in the dining car, and pulled the fourth sister-in-law along the way, "Jiayu, don't mind Song Ziwen's words, there is always no love between men, but in fact, they have no malicious intent." ”

Shen Mengxi glanced at her and didn't speak.

"Yes, yes, if it were me, I would lose my temper too." Han Xiangmei stalked for a moment and admitted. "Alas, once a woman reaches our age, it is inevitable that she will be embarrassed. You look at the old man Qi Huang, marrying a wife and marrying a young person, at least people can give birth when they are pregnant, at our age, that ghost gate is ten times unpassable. Look at your second sister-in-law, how mysterious, without you it must be"

"Don't look at me, I'm sixty years old, and I don't have a chance to pass that hurdle." The fourth sister-in-law waved her hand and said to Han Xiangmei.

Han Xiangmei smiled lowly, still full of charm.

"I'm not angry, men all over the world are like this, the farmer has overcharged three or five buckets, and he is still thinking about that little concubine." Shen Mengxi looked at the field in the distance.

"Yes, what big man is not a group of wives and concubines, that is a sign of a man's success. In fact, men are not confident, and they will only have a sense of accomplishment if they are sure that they have conquered enough women. Han Xiangmei said with a clear face.

The fourth sister-in-law said, "I heard that in ancient times, women controlled everything, and women could communicate with heaven and earth and control everything." At that time, it was women who pressed men, and later, they turned against the sky, thinking about oppressing us women everywhere, binding their feet and not giving them private property, rules and regulations, and rules and regulations, that is afraid of us women! Look at Wu Zetian, when he became the emperor, those men still had to be obedient. It's a pity that there is only this one female emperor. ”

"It's much better now, women don't have to wrap their feet, at least we still have the family's money in our hands."

"That's what he asked you to do, and if you don't let you know, you can't help it!" The fourth sister-in-law said angrily.

"Impossible!" Han Xiangmei immediately denied.

Shen Mengxi smiled, men like to conquer women, and women like to control men.

"You see that the rooster has a flock of hens, and the man is the same, which dynasty and which generation you have seen a man die of his wife, and he will not marry for life, and he will have a concubine if he does not marry, and then look at the woman, as soon as the archway of chastity is established, he will be alone and suffer." The fourth sister-in-law said.

"Yes, Taoism emphasizes the nature of Taoism, in which men and women are together, it is said that men cannot be without women, women cannot be without men, and if there is no woman, they will move, and if they move, they will work hard, and if they work hard, they will lose their life. That thing should be very important for men. Indulgence is not allowed, and abstinence is also unacceptable. ”

"Where's my cousin?"

Han Xiangmei understood the meaning of her sister-in-law's question, and said generously, "He is a weak scholar, and at this age, it should be the time for the flag to die down, and he only looks at Qi Huang's paintings every day and sighs." ”

Shen Mengxi laughed when he heard this.

"The one in your family is a military general, and he should be unabated, or even Mr. Song will be upset for him."

Shen Mengxi smiled when he heard this, "The landlord also has a time when the surplus grain is insufficient. ”

Han Xiangmei looked at Shen Mengxi with her mouth wide open, nodded frequently, and said to the fourth sister-in-law, "I heard that she is in good health and can especially run, it seems to be true, they are on equal footing, and they are opponents!" ”

The fourth sister-in-law took a sip of coffee and covered her mouth and smiled.

"Alas, it's going to be menopause." Shen Mengxi sighed.

"What is menopause? It's the menopause of our women, right? ”

"yes."

"Me too. Like a wolf and a tiger, it's just the end of a strong crossbow. Alas. I don't know what I remembered, Han Xiangmei's face suddenly turned gloomy.

Shen Mengxi looked at Han Xiangmei and couldn't help laughing.

Back in the box, Zhang Xinhuai had already left, Shen Mengxi found the hidden voice recorder, put on headphones and sounded.

"Jiayu, what do you have in your hand?" Wang Shouqing always felt a sense of guilt for his wife, and couldn't help but come over and take the initiative to talk.

Shen Mengxi rolled his eyes, turned his head to ignore Wang Shouqing, and continued to listen to the recording.

The whispered chatter of the three men, chattering, giggling.

They expressed deep regret that the Nanjing Nationalist Government abolished the concubinage system in 1931, Zhang Jiaxuan said, "Fortunately, Hong Kong and Macao still follow the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and Chinese men are not all stuck to death by their wives, my money is all in the hands of my ladies, what to take as concubines?" What about you, Shouqing. ”

"Fourth brother, you don't know me yet, after getting married, my salary was paid, even in the years of the Anti-Japanese War, it was the same."

"Oh, it's like you don't have any extra money. I really look down on you, and I don't have my wife by my side, why bother to be so hypocritical, I'm the worst, I'm the one who is stuck in my throat by my wife in addition to my salary! Zhang Xinhuai vomited bitterness.

The other two laughed unscrupulously.

"Shouqing, the fourth brother has watched you and Jiayu come over all these years, and I know that it is not easy for you to be difficult, if it is not for the War of Resistance, you can have a child."

"Don't talk about the two brothers, although I have some regrets, but after all, I am in my fifties, Jiayu's age is not suitable for childbirth, and I haven't thought about finding my aunt's wife. I have long since broken off the idea of having a child, Ah Huan has a child, and I enjoy the joy of family life as well. Life is not only about passing on the family lineage and getting promoted to make a fortune, there are many things to do with Jiayu, which are all very interesting. ”

The two eldest brothers glanced at each other, and Zhang Xinhuai said, "The two of us are not here to test the tone, don't be afraid." ”

Wang Shouqing smiled, "How can you two know what Jiayu and I have gone through, without her, I would have been abolished and died a long time ago, so wouldn't there be no descendants." What's more, the grandson of the elder brother in the family is not small.

Shen Mengxi turned off the recorder, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Regardless of whether it's true or not, knowing Wang Shouqing's thoughts, let's continue to live in peace.

Back in San Francisco, they continued to live a farmstead life.

Autumn has arrived, and the three families are busy with the autumn harvest, hard and joyful.

Wang Shouqing said that this kind of harvest of experiencing all the processes with his own hands is the most rewarding. He drove the harvester to gallop in the field, as if he was driving a tank to charge, passionate and devoted, Shen Mengxi looked stunned on the ground.

On October 1, the People's Republic of China was founded.

The three families gathered at Shen Mengxi's house, and the three men looked at the newspaper spread out on the table, and no one spoke for a long time.

Shen Mengxi hummed softly in the kitchen, "My motherland and I cannot be separated for a moment, no matter where I go"

She made a pot of beef brisket with tomatoes, steamed fish, braised pork ribs, called chicken, two cold and two hot four vegetarian dishes, and woke up a bottle of red wine.

The six of them had a good meal, and they didn't finish a bottle of wine.

At the end of the year, when he heard that Acting President Li had also come to the United States, Wang Shouqing smiled, took a sip of water, and continued to go out to see wood.

Soon after, I heard that Song Ziwen and Wang Shouqing were on the list of war criminals in New China, and Song Ziwen was even ranked second behind Chairman Jiang.

Wang Shouqing slept unsteadily that night, Shen Mengxi gently patted his back, Wang Shouqing turned around and hugged his wife's waist and buried his head in her arms, "Let you go into exile with me." ”

"It doesn't matter. I've been able to get by with any kind of life, and I'm doing well now. This is Shen Mengxi's true words.

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