At the beginning of 1938, Jiang Gubei and Jing Mingchen met at a ball, he was twenty-two years old, the eldest son of a wealthy family, she was seventeen years old, and she was a young lady from a scholarly family.

At that time, the dance party was also a blind date, and the wives led their daughters, staring at the young talents in the audience, and the abacus beads in their hearts rang out, calculating the matching degree of each other's worth and future with their daughters...... The Jing family has three daughters, the eldest and the second are already married, and Mrs. Jing pulls Jing Mingchen around the scene, full of desire to find a fast son-in-law for the youngest daughter.

Jing Mingchen was unhappy, she was forcibly pulled by her mother from the Red Cross, she volunteered in the Red Cross in her spare time, and today a group of wounded soldiers from the front line to be recuperated, everyone was very busy, but she was pulled to participate in some upper-class Lao Shizi's ball!

She still smells of Su water!

The mother finally found her goal, pulled Jing Mingchen over, and greeted each other affectionately: "Mrs. Jiang, you are also bringing your son." ”

Mrs. Jiang's son-in-law is, of course, Jiang Gubei is very tall, wearing a suit with broad shoulders, Jing Mingchen is twenty centimeters shorter than him, and the whole person falls in his shadow, looking up at him, he can't see his face clearly, he only feels very oppressive.

At first glance, Jing Mingchen didn't like Jiang Gubei very much, Jing Mingchen loved to read poetry and new novels when she was a girl, she loved music, her ideal man was slender and elegant, Jiang Gubei did not meet her aesthetics.

However, the two mothers had already looked at each other and pushed the two of them together: "Let's chat, Gubei, you take Mingchen to dance." ”

The two young people were pinched together stiffly, like two puppets when dancing, Jing Mingchen was originally very good at dancing, but because of the sense of distance from his dance partner, he was cramped, what about Jiang Gubei? Jing Mingchen could see at a glance that he couldn't dance at all!

It's really strange, in the years of prom communication, how can there be a boy who can't dance.

The two of them danced in silence and stiffness, Jing Mingchen looked down and cautiously at her feet, for fear of being stepped on by Jiang Gubei, and at the end of the song, she finally fled as if relieved.

After the dance, Jing Mingchen quickly forgot about this person, but he didn't expect that one night two months later, when he came back from the Red Cross, his mother called him into the room, with a smile in her eyes, and asked: "Nannan, do you remember the Jiang Gongzi at the last dance, do you think it's okay to marry into the Jiang family to be a daughter-in-law?" ”

Jing Mingchen was startled, she and Jiang Gubei had only met once, and she didn't even remember his face, how to be a husband and wife?

The mother lost her smile and said sternly: "It's useless to object, your father has already agreed with Mr. Jiang that he will be engaged in two months." ”

Jing Mingchen was a little desperate, this was 1938, shouting Westernization for many years, but the marriage still had to be arranged, although she had already prepared for this - the Jing family is a famous family, and the marriage naturally has many considerations, and it is impossible to rely only on her personal preferences, but this day is too fast.

She was silent and thought about her thoughts, her mother thought she had figured it out, and babbled to her about the Jiang family's family history, the Jiang family is good, and it can be regarded as an imperial businessman, although it is not a scholarly family, but Jiang Gubei is the only son of the Jiang family, and he is very capable, he is only twenty-two years old, but he is already in charge of his father's company, and his future is limitless......

Oh, it turned out to be a businessman, Jing Mingchen thought blankly.

With something on her mind, she was also absent-minded when she was doing things, and when she was changing the dressing for a wounded soldier, Jing Mingchen couldn't help but get distracted, and she sent a flute for a long time, until the other party called her: "Miss Jing." ”

She came back to her senses and smiled apologetically at the other party, whose surname was Liang, and he was a young officer, and his injuries were almost healed, and he would return to the battlefield after he was completely clear.

"I don't know if I'll have such good luck when I return to the battlefield this time." He lamented, "The whole company is left with me." ”

Jing Mingchen comforted him: "Don't think nonsense. ”

Officer Xiao Liang shook his head: "The life and death of the country is profitable, how can it be avoided because of misfortune and fortune, there is no regret for the soldiers dying on the battlefield, but I have one thing I can't let go, I have a son and his mother in Henan's hometown, I haven't been back for a few years after coming out to fight, my wife has a bad relationship with me, and she refuses to write to me, I don't know what my son looks like now." ”

Jing Mingchen was curious: "You don't have a good relationship with your wife?" ”

How could it be, Officer Xiaoliang has handsome eyebrows and a little bit of civility, like a Confucian general, how can anyone not like him? Officer Xiaoliang smiled bitterly: "It was arranged by my parents at the beginning, I didn't meet before marriage, and after getting married, both of them were awkward, I knew that I shouldn't marry her, and marriage is such a thing, and it is better for both to be happy." ”

Jing Mingchen's heart was shocked.

is as good as Officer Xiaoliang, but he still suffers from an arranged marriage, let alone himself? There is a fire pit in front of you, do you really want to jump into it obediently?