The meeting gift was given, and the tea was drunk.

Professor Peng yawned, Shen Mengxi smiled and said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang, who politely sent them out.

When he went out, Shen Mengxi looked at the Marshal's Mansion, it won't be long before this official residence will be looted by the Japanese, Shen Mengxi sighed, a sense of frustration came to her heart, history always has its own footsteps, as a small speck of dust, she can't do anything in the end.

The building will collapse, the flood will pour, even if she changes for a while, it can't change the trajectory of history, it is full of holes, a hundred years of trouble, and it is bound to fall to the bottom in order to be reborn.

She closed her lips tightly and walked out of the marshal's mansion with heavy steps, Professor Peng shouted that she was hungry, Shen Mengxi smiled bitterly, and took out a piece of chocolate pie wrapped in cellophane from her leather bag.

Professor Peng was satisfied, "Jiayu, I know your troubles, you are braver than some men, they dare not tell the truth, they don't even dare to speak. The old man took a bite of the chocolate pie, "It's so delicious, but fortunately the old woman is not there." ”

"In life, there is more bitterness and less happiness, so you should eat more sweets." Shen Mengxi sighed.

"Young people don't worry, they have boils, they have to get better, and if they have a fever, they can't drink medicine to cool down immediately." Professor Peng said something unclear.

"How important it is to boost immunity."

The guards at the door watched the two of them talk like fools. The two slowly walked a long way before they found the rickshaw, "I finally realized why some people died in ancient times, alas." What if China doesn't have a place for us? ”

"I'm old, I've lived enough, and I'm going to die in China." Professor Peng said nonchalantly.

"'I've lived to be 79 years old, I've lived enough'! I'm not leaving China either. Shen Mengxi smiled.

"Yes, one generation is not as good as the next!" Professor Peng also laughed.

Whether tomorrow is sunny or rainy, the sun will still rise. "It's a holiday, I'm going back to Shanghai."

"Let's go back, I'll go back to Beijing."

Where is the real security, the long-lost sense of security of the Chinese will have to wait a long time.

How difficult is it to prosper the country? Shen Mengxi sat on the rickshaw in a trance.

******

received a letter from Zhang Jiaxuan, saying that Zhang Jiasen was released.

In the end, the key person was relieved, the Zhang family scraped together another sum of money, and finally took out Zhang Jiasen from the Shanghai Garrison, and Huang Shiying's mother and son also moved out of Shen Mengxi's house. Subsequently, Zhang Jiasen took his wife and children to Germany.

Shen Mengxi later received a letter from Huang Shiying, expressing her gratitude for her contribution to the rescue and letting the mother and son live in the French Concession, explaining that they went to Europe, one is to take refuge, the other is to investigate, and the return date is undecided, so there is no need to worry.

At the end of the letter, Zhang Jiasen also thanked her. Shen Mengxi smiled, not believing it.

- Zhang Jiasen is still holding grudges. Otherwise, he would have written the letter himself, or wrote a few sentences in his own hand at the end of the letter.

Shen Mengxi smiled and went with him, and he also fulfilled his responsibility.

Ah Huan also sent a letter, and the letter described in detail how he managed his finances this month, and said that his uncle had a girlfriend, who was very beautiful and foreign, and had taken him to the villa for dinner a few times. He also said that Uncle Wang Shouqing had also come a few times, and once he helped solve the water pipe problem at home, and took him and Hongzhi to play badminton and tennis. At the end of the letter, he said that he missed his mother very much, and asked her to go home early, and to pay attention to her health and cause less trouble when she was alone......

To be honest, she doesn't care about Ah Huan very much, and often forgets the existence of this child. Counting, she only had a heart-scratching concern for her first child, Xiaohu, that child went to kindergarten, she almost had the pain of life and death, and when it came to the second son, she was not so concerned, this Ah Huan, she did not really accept that he was her own son. It's just a responsibility that can't be shirked, and it's cruel to say, but it's also true.

mentioned Ah Huan, she suddenly remembered Xu Shizhe, the sensational poet who seemed to have crashed this year. Shen Mengxi hurriedly went to the Wuling space to rummage through the books to find the exact time of the wreck.

******

On Sunday, Lin Huiya brought Nian Bing as a guest, and Shen Mengxi saw that she looked good, and it was estimated that she came to thank her. Smiled and let them into the living room, Lin Huiya looked at the simple layout in the living room, smelled the aroma of food coming from the kitchen, and said with a smile, "Miss Zhang is a person who knows how to enjoy." ”

Shen Mengxi thought that she would say that she lived in a snow cave like Xue Baochai, but she didn't agree with it.

"The house is simple, easy to take care of, no need to hire a maid, the school is safe, living alone, clean and comfortable. The kitchen cooks delicate food and refuses to treat itself badly. Isn't it going to be enjoyable, what's it? Ms. Lin said she didn't seem to be very good at socializing with female friends,—— a skill that beautiful women often lacked, one is that they are used to driving the men they follow, and the other is that other women are reluctant to be foils.

"I put all the excess items in the basement so it's easy to clean. Everything needs to be done by yourself, and it is better to be concise. Then he said to Nian Bing: "You can eat cake in three minutes!" ”

Nian Bing's child twitched his nose, "It's so fragrant!" ”

Lin Huiya was a little embarrassed, and smiled to resolve the embarrassment, "This child has not eaten less of your family's food, and if this continues, my nanny can hire one less." ”

"Who made me like her!" When the time came, Shen Mengxi took Nian Bing to the kitchen, asked her to stand at the door, turned on the oven, and a burst of sweet fragrance came to her nose. Even Lin Huiya involuntarily walked to the door of the kitchen, "What did you do, such a sweetness!" ”

Shen Mengxi took out a piece of cake, cut out a corner and put it on the plate, put a plastic fork, and handed it to Nian Bing, who carefully blew and ate it, squinting her eyes and waving her little hands beautifully.

"I came today to thank Miss Zhang, I went to the hospital to have an X-ray, and the doctor said that I have recovered, I am really happy. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't want to take the medicine you gave me at the beginning, but then I took it when I got angry. Lin Huiya stood outside the kitchen door, only half of her body exposed, and said softly.

"Don't thank me, it's your own luck. In the future, we should pay attention to balanced nutrition, meat and vegetable matching, and eat some fruits. You wouldn't be meatless, would you? ”

Lin Huiya was a little surprised, in order to maintain her figure, she has been a vegetarian.

"Personally, I think that health comes first, and only when you are healthy can you do whatever you want."

Lin Huiya nodded to accept this point of view, and there was some expectation, "Actually...... In those years, Shizhe didn't love me, but a perfect woman he imagined in his heart, you, understand? If she doesn't say this, she will probably have trouble sleeping all the time.

Shen Mengxi looked at her, "I probably understand." ”

Lin Huiya seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

The cake cooled down, Shen Mengxi squeezed the cream on top of the cake, scraped it flat with a knife, sprinkled a little chocolate powder on it, cut the diced strawberries and put them on, made two cups of coffee and a milk, and the three of them sat quietly in the afternoon sun, eating the cake and drinking drinks.

Lin Huiya sat in the light and shadow, the sun shone on her cheongsam, and also on her face, faintly visible fine fluff, Shen Mengxi admired her beauty, once she recovered her health, her beauty added points. God is really eccentric.

"Why do you always look at me, laughing like a disciple!"

"I'm scolding God for being too partial to you."

"Women are just a few years of good times, what if they are eccentric or not."

"No, you're going to be beautiful until you're old."

Lin Huiya probably rarely heard a woman's praise, her face gradually turned red, and Shen Mengxi laughed. "Nian Bing, your mother is shy."

"If a woman wants to live well, she doesn't rely on beauty, since ancient times, her husband and wife have been honored, and her mother has been valued by her son, and a woman's world has always been between the square inches of the courtyard."

"So you're going to make your home bigger when you study architecture?" Shen Mengxi smiled.

"Well, you can't have a good conversation today."

"It is said that women have been oppressed for thousands of years, in fact, every family has Lafayette, but women have to stay up until they are old to have status, and men have to stay up to a beard in order to have a status in society. China is a country that respects the elderly, and in any case, there are still a few people who have ascended to high positions, and both men and women live hard. Ling Zun took you around Europe and sent you to the United States, must have wanted you to have a different life from other women, times have indeed changed, more and more young people are emerging, women can also show their talents, we don't have to wait for our sons to earn their lives. Shen Mengxi covered the sleepy Nian Bing with a towel quilt.

"Women are born with some advantages, they are good at surviving in the cracks, even if they are not allowed to go out, they can control the fate of the family to the greatest extent in the backyard, and control the fate of everyone in the family. It's just that the fate of the concubine is even worse, and she will never be able to turn over. Lin Huiya said gloomily.

"Yes, women are actually more possessive and manipulative." Shen Mengxi groaned. She avoided the topic of concubines, Lin Huiya's mother was Lin Changkong's concubine, which was probably her biggest pain.

"Wu Zetian is not inferior to men in governing the world, or even better."

"So the later dynasties were scared to death and desperately suppressed women. Did you know that the more a person shows off, the more he lacks it; The more suppressed, the more fearful. ”

"Some people say that women survive by pleasing men, you see women binding their feet, weak willows supporting the wind, three from the four virtues, all around the male to regulate themselves, just to get favor from men. I didn't think so before, but now I gradually agree, including myself, that I once worked very hard to be my father's best child, so that he would cherish me, give me the best conditions, and treat my mother well......"

"So the economic base determines the superstructure, and now you are financially free and have a high salary as a professor, and the only thing you need to please is yourself."

"You haven't remarried because of economic freedom, right? Yes, my grandmother said that the reason for her longevity was because of her husband's early death. ”

The two looked at each other for three seconds and laughed.

Shen Mengxi looked at Lin Huiya with a smile, who would have thought that the goddess of the Republic of China, who was known for her elegant and intellectual nature, would laugh loudly one afternoon.

"Don't laugh at me, when you come back to people, you still have to be reserved. It's not more comfortable than you! ”

"You have idol baggage, no better than me, you've fought a few times, you're not dragged down by your reputation, and you're very chic and comfortable!"

……

The two chatted very speculatively, and Lin Huiya is a person who is good at grasping the topic, provided that she is willing to talk to you. Therefore, it is understandable that her living room will be famous for its liveliness in the future.