I traveled through time without patched pants, I was the richest man in the Republic of China

Wei Miao stood outside a familiar coffee shop, looked up at the sign with a new name on it, and lamented the impermanence of life.

"Brother, look."

Wei Ling pulled Wei Miao's sleeve and let her look at the scene inside through the glass window. It was not yet afternoon and there were very few customers in the coffee shop.

At the place where the piano used to be placed, a straight and slim girl was concentrating on playing the piano.

Wei Miao didn't know much about music and didn't know what was being played, but he could feel that Sister Lan was probably a beginner.

"It sounds really nice." Wei Ling praised without any limit.

Ali looked at Sister Lan's profile with sparkling eyes. The girl had long hair draped over her shoulders and a slender neck as elegant as a swan.

"Sister Lan is so pretty."

Wei Miao looked at him again and again. Perhaps because he was a familiar person, she couldn't tell whether he was beautiful or ugly, but she nodded in agreement with her two sisters who had stars in their eyes.

The waiter at the door saw the three of them standing still and asked with a smile, "Would you three like to come in and have a piece of cake? There's a 50% discount for those under 12 years old."

Wei Ling asked happily: "Is it chestnut cake?"

The waiter was very friendly. “We have chestnut cakes, cheese sandwiches newly developed by our boss, and cherry-flavored cookies…”

There is no girl who doesn’t like delicious and soft cakes and biscuits. Even Ali had longing in her eyes.

Hearing the noise at the door, Sister Xu Lan stopped, turned around to look at the three people standing at the door, and stood up with a smile on her face.

"Ah Miao, how come you guys have time to come over?"

Now that she lives closer, she should visit her aunt more often, but she is really busy.

I have to be busy with the new store I took over, and I cannot slack off on the study plan I made in the past. I get up at five o'clock every day and go to bed at midnight.

Although she looked tired, her brows were relaxed and she was smiling.

"Sister Lan, you are amazing!"

Wei Ling and Ali held her arms on both sides, admiring her very much. Their school also had piano classes, but only a few students could play fluently. Most of them had to learn the musical notation and find the feel again. Every time the Western teacher looked at them, he would shake his head and sigh for a long time.

Sister Lan's cheeks turned pink. "I've only been learning for a few months. I only practiced here after the New Year. I only dared to practice when there were no customers."

Ali really thinks Sister Lan is amazing. When she first came to their house, she was dark, thin and taciturn.

But she was the one who learned the foreign languages ​​taught by her elder brother the fastest.

At first she thought Sister Lan was smart and talented, but later she realized that in addition to being smart, she was also very hardworking.

He kept repeating himself while doing housework, and his sleep talk in the middle of the night was all in foreign languages.

Later, she went to work in a cafe. After only a few months, every time she brought home cakes and biscuits, they were all made by herself.

Last time, her aunt asked her to send something to Sister Lan. She also saw a foreigner giving flowers to Sister Lan. Sister Lan refused to accept them, and the foreigner didn't get angry. Instead, he talked to her for a long time with a gentle expression.

"What are you thinking about?" Sister Lan saw Ali in a daze and poked her fair cheek.

Ali came back to her senses, "Nothing, Ah Miao got rich today, so I want to host a dinner."

Sister Lan is no longer the fisherman's daughter she used to be. Whether from Bai Meigui's words or from reading in the newspaper or listening to the guests' gossip, she already knows what kind of person Lu Xian is.

And A Miao, who has to be taken seriously by a great man like Mr. Lu, is definitely not as simple as he seems.

"What a coincidence! If you guys had come ten minutes earlier, you would have been able to see Deputy Chief Inspector Wu." Sister Xu Lan arranged seats for them by the window.

"Little Wu, what are you doing here so early in the morning?" Wei Ling looked at the police station across the street and asked curiously.

Sister Xu Lan smiled and said, "Today is Miss Li's birthday, and he came to pick up the cake he ordered yesterday."

When Li Xiaoya lived in the Wei family, Wei Ling liked the gentle and beautiful teacher Li the most.

After moving here, Little Wu often came to visit, but Miss Li had never seen him before. She asked her grandma, and her grandma told her to mind her own business. She did listen and forgot about it the moment she turned around.

"A Miao, is Mr. Lu okay?" Sister Xu Lan can now remain calm when she mentions Lu Pingsheng.

“Not very good…”

As soon as Wei Miao finished speaking, he heard slogans outside. He turned around and saw that it was students marching.

"This is?"

In the more than a month after the New Year, the only time Wei Miao had free time was these few days. Xu Ayu watched him eat and sleep, sleep and eat.

I read all kinds of things in the newspaper.

Sister Xu Lan sighed, "There has been no explanation for the female student tram case after the Lantern Festival. As time went by, it was almost forgotten. As a result, the night before yesterday, foreign soldiers dragged the girl into the woods at the gate of the girls' school. When she was found, she was only breathing her last breath..."

As the team approached, slogans were clearly heard, "Give us back our homeland! Give us back our peace! Invaders, get out!"

The energetic face was full of anger and resistance.

After the parade went away, the entire cafe became unusually quiet. The waiter at the door waved his fists and shouted slogans silently.

"The demonstrations have been going on for several days and are getting more and more intense. I'm afraid it will be difficult to end them." Sister Lan sighed.

Before they could say a few words, guests came in one after another, and Sister Lan got up and got busy.

In less than half an hour, the cafe was full of people. Wei Miao and the other two devoured the sweet cakes and watched Sister Lan entertain customers with ease.

Sometimes she spoke her local dialect, sometimes French, and occasionally switched to English. Wei Miao listened carefully. She also spoke fluent Russian.

Xu Ayu said that during the Chinese New Year, Sister Lan came home with some things and talked about the coffee shop.

After hearing this, Xu Ayu was happy but also worried. He was happy that his brother's family was getting better and better and his children were also promising. But he was worried that Sister Lan would only be 20 after the Chinese New Year. Could she support such a big business alone?

Because of the beating of Uncle Wu, she also knew a little about the conflicts in Hu Na's coffee shop, and was afraid that she, as a girl, would not be able to handle these.

Now seeing that the house was full of guests and she was able to handle it with ease, Wei Miao knew that Xu Ayu's worries were unnecessary.

Human beings are strange. They seem ordinary, but once they have faith and belief, they become invincible.

After eating dessert, Wei Miao looked at his watch and found that there was still plenty of time to attend the celebration party that Bai Meigui had mentioned.

So he agreed to Wei Ling and Ali's request to stay and help.

It's okay for her to use her brain, but using her hands would basically be a hindrance, so she just sat quietly and read the newspaper.

Her eyes fell on a line of text in the newspaper reporting the incident at the school gate: "In our land, women's safety cannot be guaranteed. Only those with cold blood will not be angry, and only those with servile minds will not resist! The colonizers must get out!"

She thought to herself that it was a good thing that Brother Lu had been researching the underground affairs these days under the pretext of taking care of her. If he saw these reports, he would probably be furious again.

"Now that students are demonstrating, the checkpoints in the French Concession have been set up again, and the inspections are strict, so it's difficult to bring things in."

In a room filled with the soft Wu dialect and the chirping of birds, Wei Miao heard the Japanese language. Although the sound was very soft, it still stimulated her sensitive nerves.

Wei Miao complained that "birds of a feather flock together," and after spending so much time with Brother Lu, she also became famous and dedicated.

Especially after Yuanxiao sent the telegram back, the red and thick energy in her body almost made her embarrassed to ask Brother Lu for compensation.

Fortunately, she stuck to the bottom line of a money-eating beast.