"Really." Jiang Qi nodded.
"You've gone too far!" Bai Qianyu suddenly accused in an emotional tone.
"What did I do?" Jiang Qi looked at him in confusion.
"It's only been a short time? You've already found the next employer. Can't you wait for me to think it through?"
Jiang Qi hurriedly pulled him back, turned around and said in a low voice: "It wasn't me who found it, it was my grandma who found it. I just found out about it too."
"Really?" Bai Qianyu was skeptical.
"Of course it's true. Hurry up and say hello to him. I can't afford to offend this person." As he said this, he pinched the man's waist.
Bai Qianyu took a breath of pain, but immediately turned around and greeted the person with a smile: "Hello, my name is Bai Qianyu."
"Ming Luochun." Ming Luochun replied with his own name indifferently, which didn't sound too friendly, but the two of them had completed their first formal meeting.
Jiang Qi felt that the atmosphere was a little bit subtle, so she immediately smiled and said, "Okay, come on, come on, sit down and eat."
So everyone started to take their seats at Jiang Qi's invitation, but just as they sat down, a servant came to report that Gu Jingcheng had come and wanted to see Jiang Qi.
Shi Jinhua asked doubtfully: "Then why don't you just let him come in directly?"
"But Master Gu told the young lady to go out and meet him first." The servant who came to report looked at Jiang Qi and said carefully.
Shi Jinhua frowned as he listened and asked Jiang Qi, "What's going on with you two?"
Jiang Qi sighed that she couldn't have the meal, and asked the servant, "Where is he?"
"The front yard." the servant replied.
"Why don't you go to the main hall?" Shi Jinhua asked.
"Master Gu said he was waiting for the young lady there."
"This kid." Shi Jinhua cursed softly, and then asked Jiang Qi: "What are you two doing? Are you quarreling again?"
Jiang Qi held his forehead helplessly and comforted Shi Jinhua, "No, Mom. We are fine. I'll go see how he is. You guys eat first." Then he got up and walked out.
After Jiang Qi left, Shi Jinhua asked Bai Qianyu, "Qianyu, do you know what happened between the two of them?"
"Hey, you know them. They can quarrel over trivial matters. It's nothing. Don't worry." Bai Qianyu comforted Shi Jinhua.
"These two kids, they're so old yet they still make me worry." Shi Jinhua frowned even more tightly.
While Bai Qianyu was thinking about what to say, Jiang Zhuo spoke up: "It's okay, they are all grown up and know how to do things in moderation. Come and eat." He picked up the food with chopsticks and put it in her bowl. Shi Jinhua took a breath and didn't say anything else, and started eating directly.
Shi Jinhua started eating, and Jiang Zhuo, Bai Qianyu, and Lin Yue followed suit. Only Ming Luochun didn't move. Shi Jinhua saw him sitting there quietly, thinking that he might be embarrassed because he just arrived at a new place, so he said, "Little Luochun, just act like you're at home, don't be too restrained, be casual."
"Yes, I understand, mother-in-law." Ming Luochun replied respectfully, but he still sat there without moving.
Shi Jinhua had no choice but to say directly: "Then let's eat."
"You and my father-in-law can use it first. I will use it when my sister comes."
"You eat first, don't worry about her."
Ming Luochun shook his head lightly and said calmly: "Rules and etiquette cannot be abolished. My wife hasn't eaten yet, so how can I eat first?"
After he finished speaking, the whole dining room fell silent. Shi Jinhua, Bai Qianyu, and Lin Yue were all shocked and just stared at him blankly. Only Jiang Zhuo had no reaction and continued to eat calmly.
The Ming family of Y country has a long history and profound heritage. It is a large family with many rules and regulations. The elders are in order and women are superior to men. He had experienced this twenty years ago. So he was not surprised at all that Ming Luochun would say such a thing.
As for the other three, they were shocked in different ways.
Lin Yue was thinking, she was more certain that this world was really formed according to her own world consciousness, because she had heard this sentence, the Jiang family has a rule that the head of the family is respected, as long as the head of the family who still lives in the main house has not eaten, only water can be taken in and no food can be eaten. This is the rule set by Jiang Huai when he was still in the Jiang family, and those who do not comply will move out of the main house immediately.
She had seen hundreds of people begging Jiang Qi for food before. Jiang Qi had always had anorexia, and she didn't know what happened that time. No matter what she ate, she would vomit before it even reached her stomach. She had changed more than a dozen cooks in six days and had nothing to eat. She just relied on various nutrient solutions to stay alive.
She suspected that Jiang Qi wanted to starve those people to death. She saw the children of the Jiang family crying from hunger. When they came to Jiang Qi for help, they were already exhausted. The elderly people almost died. When they came to Jiang Qi, they were basically carried.
It's just that this consciousness seems to be a little off. In her previous understanding of the world, Jiang Qi told her that it was a patriarchal society. Although they always shouted about gender equality, it was impossible for men and women to be born unequal in the most basic things such as physical strength, let alone other things.
But Jiang Qi was the one standing at the top of the pyramid, the absolute superior. Even though she was a woman, she was in charge of the entire family and everyone respected her. So she felt that there must be people like Jiang Qi in the world. But she didn't expect that here she would become a family with the tradition of women being superior to men.
Bai Qianyu was sighing, this person came from that oppressed feudal society. The Qing Dynasty has been gone for 100 years, right? What era is it now? How can there still be people enslaved by feudal social ideas? He seemed to see the women in the deep courtyards depicted in the movies of the Republic of China.
Shi Jinhua's thoughts were similar to Bai Qianyu's. She felt a little distressed when she saw Ming Luochun. She was born in the new society and grew up under the red flag. She had never seen the oppression of the feudal society, but her parents often mentioned that their ancestors had shed blood and sacrificed so much to fight against this oppression in exchange for this new country. Although she had always raised Jiang Qi according to the old rules, she only taught her the rules of speech, behavior and interpersonal relationships. As for other things, she didn't even talk about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.
So how could she bear to see people being oppressed in this land, especially in her own home.
So Shi Jinhua smiled amiably and said to Ming Luochun softly, "Little Luochun, this is it. This is not the old society anymore, and our family is not bourgeois anymore. In this new era, those bad habits of the new society cannot be kept and must be discarded."
Ming Luochun looked at Shi Jinhua and blinked without saying anything, obviously not knowing what she meant.
Seeing this, Jiang Zhuo sighed and said to Shi Jinhua who was about to speak again, "Alright, my dear, he is of Chinese descent from Y nationality, and a foreigner born and raised here can't understand what you are saying."
"But this won't work!" Shi Jinhua frowned again as he looked at Jiang Zhuo.
"This kind of thing can't be rushed. Anyway, he is in our house now and we can teach him slowly in the future. He can be taught. Don't worry."
After listening to Jiang Zhuo's words, Jinhua let out some relief and nodded to show that she agreed with him.
After pacifying his wife, Jiang Zhuo said to Ming Luochun, "We have our own rules in our family. Just listen to your mother-in-law. Let's eat quickly. You don't have to wait for Jiang Qi."
Ming Luochun was a little confused, not knowing what he had done wrong to make Shi Jinhua angry. But he still obediently agreed to Jiang Zhuo's words. He picked up the chopsticks and picked up the rice in the bowl. His eating manner was elegant and pleasing to the eye.
The Jiang family's rule of not talking while eating or sleeping at the table did not exist originally, but it was introduced because of Jiang Qi. As time went by, everyone would subconsciously follow this rule when Jiang Qi was around. So for a while, the only sound in the dining room was the sound of dishes and chopsticks hitting each other.
But the quiet atmosphere did not last long before it was destroyed by a burst of noise. The three children present stopped eating and looked at each other, wondering what was going on.
Shi Jinhua glanced outside the door, slammed his chopsticks on the table, and cursed, "These two bastards are fighting again." Then he stood up and walked out. The others immediately stood up and followed him.
When Jiang Qi came out and saw Gu Jingcheng, he was looking down at a flower, as if thinking about something. The person in front of him was dressed casually, with his hair hanging down softly. It was obvious that he had already washed and combed his hair.
"Why are you looking for me?" Jiang Qi called him directly.
Gu Jingcheng heard the voice and came back to look at Jiang Qi. She had changed into loose clothes. He glanced at her right hand which was almost covered by the wide sleeves. He handed her the dark green handbag and said, "Your bag."
Jiang Qi reached out to take it and said lightly, "Oh, thank you." Then he said nothing more.
"Mom and Dad are back?"
"Ah."
Then silence fell again, and no one spoke and just stood there quietly.
After standing for a while, Gu Jingcheng couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "How's your hand?"
"I'll break it back."
"Are you hurt anywhere else?"
"No."
Just one question and one answer, no other unnecessary words. Gu Jingcheng gradually began to get annoyed, he was already holding back his anger and immediately lost his patience.
"What are you going to do?" Gu Jingcheng's tone immediately became irritable, and the look in his eyes and expression when he looked at Jiang Qi was not very pleasant.
Jiang Qi just looked at him quietly without saying anything and waited for his next words.
"Using self-harm to frame others, is it fun?!"
Jiang Qi looked at him and suddenly laughed: "So you are here to speak up for your wife?" Her tone was sarcastic.
"Aren't you hurt?" She said these caring words, but the tone of her voice didn't show any concern at all. Gu Jingcheng was very angry that she could hurt him in this way.
Jiang Qi's heart suddenly paused. He did not deny it. So he replied angrily and provocatively: "It hurts, it hurts a lot."
"Then why do you still do this?"
"I'm happy."
"You don't have to treat her like this, there's no need!"
Jiang Qi knew who this "she" was.
"Why not?"
"She hasn't done anything and she doesn't pose any threat to you."
"There's no need. Then why are you here to blame me for her?!" Jiang Qi also became angry.
Gu Jingcheng was so confused that he wondered when he had blamed her. So he softened his tone a little: "I'm not blaming you, I'm just concerned about you. What good will it do you if you do this today?"
"Care? Master Gu, your way of caring is to yell at me and argue with me here?!"
"You are a lady from a wealthy family, you know the stakes involved in this matter. You treat her like this, you..."
Gu Jingcheng's words were interrupted by Jiang Qi.
"Enough! Gu Jingcheng, I don't need you to reason with me. Teach me how to do things." What Jiang Qi hated most was that someone took the dominant position in front of her and lectured her, saying that she could be the leader.
"So what do you want?!" Gu Jingcheng lost his patience. He and Jiang Qi had the same education. His thoughts were the same as Jiang Qi's. Neither of them had a gentle temper or a kind personality.
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