Chapter 12 Promise to Marriage
But since I got here, the circle has become smaller, and there is nothing else except an old-fashioned telephone in the house. I don't know who to call, a few times curious, I picked up the phone and dialed mine, okay, speechless didn't have any reaction, and thought there would be a sentence inside that the phone you dialed was not in the service area!
"Xiao Man, come here, we have something to discuss for you!"
On this day, I just came back from school, Lu Ding stopped me who was about to go upstairs, there was Wu Manhua sitting downstairs, and Liu's mother was also busy on the side.
I'm curious, this is the first time Lu Ding has asked me to chat in this period of time, and Wu Manhua hasn't talked to me, as if I'm not her daughter. Could it be that there is something different from Lu Xiaoman that arouses the suspicion of their family?
"Mom and Dad, what are you doing here? Why are you looking at me like that? ”
I sat down with a little weakness, this is still one of the few times I have called my parents since I came to the Republic of China.
"We set a family affair for you, I thought you were still young, so I didn't explain this matter to you, but now you are not small, as the saying goes, a man stands at eighteen, you are a girl, look at how many girls from other families are nineteen years old and are still beautiful and unmarried?"
Lu Ding had a commanding tone and a helpless expression when he spoke, and he didn't know if he was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get married, or if there was something else entangled with him.
Wu Manhua sat aside and did not speak, his eyes were rosy. She didn't want me to get married, but she had to do it, she knew the identity of a woman very well, like when she was my age, she had already married Lu Ding.
"Are you trying to marry me? Have I seen him? How can you do that? ”
When I said this, I suddenly realized that I am in the Republic of China, not in the 21st century, although I have been exposed to the advanced ideas of the West at this time, but it is still in the old social period.
"We know you're still studying, but is it important to get married? Besides, if you get married, you can continue to study. ”
Lu Ding seemed to expect me to have such a reaction, and did not look at me with a helpless look like before, but patiently explained, this is the first time I have seen him.
"Who is he?"
I don't know how I asked this sentence, and I immediately regretted it the moment the words came out, but this is no longer a simple question of whether I can swallow it back, because the eyes of Lu Ding and Wu Manhua told me that they were very happy.
"The name is Wang Geng, a soldier, and it is a big family. According to the current era, you were born in 1903, he was born in 1895, and you are only eight or nine years old, twenty-seven or eight. ”
Lu Ding looked very excited when he spoke, the more he talked, the more energetic he became, I didn't understand why he reacted like this, is it so important to have a capable son-in-law, he doesn't need his daughter's consent, and he doesn't need to solicit my opinion? What is the question of lifelong happiness that doesn't need to be thought about?
Wang Geng graduated from Tsinghua University, he studied at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Princeton University, and he was a remarkable person, and he received a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1915. Later, he transferred to the West Point Military Academy for further study, not to mention his excellent grades, but also his enthusiasm to help others, which won praise from his classmates and the literary community. He returned to China a few years ago, and after returning to China, he was reused by the state, and once worked in the War Department; He also became a colonel and military attache of the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference, and a foreign language translator for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1. He also served as a member of the Aviation Administration; Now that I'm a colonel, it's a blessing to be able to look at our family! ”
Lu Ding introduced this man named Wang Geng as if he was telling me an encyclopedia, and his face lit up when he spoke, and Wu Manhua was the same.
But I also think it's very powerful, a twenty-seven-year-old person has already gone abroad to study in major famous universities, and also went to military schools, and has done a lot of important things since he returned.
Although I don't know this Wang Geng's person, I haven't seen his name in history books, and I haven't searched for him on Baidu, but after Lu Ding said this, I think this Wang Geng is very powerful. Still a military man, colonel.
But my own life can't be decided like this, let alone my own life's event. I'm struggling with whether I should agree to come down, this is the Republic of China, not the current society, whether I should go my own way.
"Promise them, I promise!"
Just when I was very entangled, a voice suddenly came into my ears, and following the sound, it turned out to be Lu Xiaoman, Lu Xiaoman's soul.
I suddenly realized that I was not Lu Xiaoman, I just borrowed her body, the body was hers, I couldn't decide whether to marry Wang Geng, as long as I found Ba Qing, I would return my body to Lu Xiaoman, all this. This marriage event should be decided by Lu Xiaoman.
I looked at Lu Xiaoman, Lu Xiaoman still looked at me like that, very silent, but she was not as ruthless and vicious as before, her hatred for me seemed to be much less, it should be that she acquiesced to the previous agreement with Fusu.
I didn't rush to agree to Lu Ding and Wu Manhua, I just said that you shouldn't make a decision on this matter, I need to think about it again and then stepped into the room, not even giving Lu Ding a chance to refute.
"What's going on, this is really not a place where people should stay, and they can't even make decisions about marriage?"
Back in the room, I scolded unhappily, this Republic of China is not at all like what the history class said, it is not so emancipated at all, and it is really unfair that the parents are in charge of the marriage event, whether it is a man or a woman.
"If you want to make your own decisions, unless your position is strong enough, you will always be just an ant in the hands of others, am I just a pawn in the hands of my parents, I am just a person who is used in exchange for their interests."
As soon as I was in front of the vanity mirror, two of me appeared in front of the mirror. It shouldn't be two Lu Xiaoman, looking at this scene, I was startled, of course, one of them is Lu Xiaoman's soul, and the other is her body. And the one who controls her soul is me.
Thinking about this scene and looking at the two Lu Xiaomen in the mirror, I couldn't help but feel a little funny. I didn't expect that this society could have such a scene in front of my eyes without special effects, of course, this scene can only be seen by me here, limited to people.
"I thought that the customs of the Republic of China in your era were also very good, and your later achievements were not small, but you are indeed a poor person in marriage!"
Lu Xiaoman, there are not many people who don't know about her personal deeds for us girls, I thought she was a romantic in the Republic of China, and she did not hesitate to divorce her ex-husband for the love of Xu Zhimo, and was hindered and hit by feudal society.
Wait, what? What did I just think of? Married to Xu Zhimo and divorced from her ex-husband? Oh, that's right, that's right, if you divorce your ex-husband, then your ex-husband is this army colonel named Wang Geng, and marrying Xu Zhimo is a later thing.
Was all this predestined? I fell into reincarnation to live Lu Xiaoman's life all over again?
Do I have to divorce Wang Geng after I get married, get to know Xu Zhimo, marry Xu Zhimo again, and witness Xu Zhimo's death?
It's all incredible, it's unbelievable.
"What are you thinking?"
Lu Xiaoman's soul question pulled me back to reality, she looked at me suspiciously, trying to see what I was thinking from my eyes, but unfortunately she only saw her eyes, and did not see the real me.
"Okay, since you have decided to marry Wang Geng, then I promise you."
Maybe I can go further after marrying this Wang Geng, maybe I can find Ba Qing's life through this Wang Geng.
I agreed, and when I came back to my senses, Lu Xiaoman had disappeared. She has always come and gone without a trace, she hasn't been with me for so many months, and this time she suddenly appeared again, and I don't know why.
Maybe she's been following me all the time, but she hasn't shown up, after all, I've taken over her body, and she's always thinking about going back.
"Oh, I don't want to, anyway, it's Lu Xiaoman who is married to Wang Geng, and her body is also hers, what do I have to worry about?"
Lying in bed at night, Lu Ding's words always linger today, although the body is Lu Xiaoman's, but the soul is mine, I am only eighteen years old, and I am about to get married, I really dare not imagine. tossing and turning in bed, always thinking about the customs of marriage in the Republic of China.
"Mom! Are you a human or a ghost? ”
Turning around suddenly, I felt that I wasn't alone in bed. There was another person next to me.
I slowly opened my eyes, and it was a man, lying with his back to me, his back was familiar.
"Do you think I'm a human or a ghost?"
The man still had his back to me, making a cold voice, which made people uncomfortable listening to it, and the cold breath instantly pierced into the back of the backbone.
"Fusu?"
"You're recognized? It's boring! ”
Shrugged his shoulders, Fusu turned to look at me with a helpless expression, and then grinned again, a few white teeth were exposed, looking at the infinite temptation, and the inexplicable impulse instantly rushed to my brain.
"You think it's worth your life to be scared to death, right? Really! ”
I gave him a blank look, I turned my back to him, and now I have a lot of things in my head that have not been resolved, and he is fine, he has not come to see me for a few months, as if he has evaporated in an instant.