Time Travel: Female Cannon Fodder of the Republic of China

His face looks so grim, something bad must have happened!

Shen Jiaxing turned around, opened the back door, and helped a thin little girl out.

Ai Shutong took the initiative to greet her: "Hello! I am your brother's friend, my name is Ai Shutong."

Shen Jialing was wearing a loose-fitting flying saucer-patterned gown with a pattern of beautiful flowers. The embroidery was very beautiful, but the dress did not suit her.

Shen Jialing was thin, with a face only the size of a palm. Such baggy clothes were like a bag that simply trapped her inside. No matter how good the fabric was or how exquisite the embroidery was, her beauty could not be revealed.

Instead, she became the foil of the clothes!

Perhaps feeling Ai Shutong's gaze, the timid Shen Jialing hid behind Shen Jiaxing.

Shen Jiaxing touched her head and coaxed, "Lingling, sister greets you, what should you do?"

Shen Jialing pursed her lips nervously, "Hello, my name is Shen Jialing."

Shen Jiaxing's complexion looked better.

After finding the key from the black box and opening the big copper lock on the gate, Shen Jiaxing and everyone else walked into the yard.

The yard was overgrown with weeds, obviously it hadn't been taken care of for a long time.

Shen Jiaxing said embarrassedly, "I rented them out in the past few years. This year I thought I could sell them as an investment, so I took them back. I'm usually too busy to take care of them."

"I have five houses on Xiafei Road and I'm going to sell three of them. If you don't like this one, you can go and take a look at the other two."

Ai Shutong looked around the house. It had three floors in total, with only two rooms on the top floor. The roof was round, in a typical European style.

"Teacher Shen, you didn't build this yourself, did you?"

Shen Jiaxing nodded. "Before I went abroad, our country was at war with France. The French people living here were afraid of being cleared out, so many of them sold their houses at a low price and returned home."

"I had some money at the time, and I borrowed some from friends to buy five houses here."

Ai Shutong looked at Shen Jiaxing enviously: "It should have been very cheap back then!"

Shen Jiaxing looked at her with amusement, "No matter how cheap it is, people without money can't afford it!"

Ai Shutong quickly started talking about business: "This house is very good, not too big and not too small. Even if we hire a few people, it is enough for us to live in."

"Let's take this one! Teacher Shen has to give me a cheaper price."

Shen Jiaxing nodded. "It's not much. Ten thousand dollars. We can transfer the ownership today. How about that?"

Ai Shutong wailed in her heart, ten thousand dollars!

But she also knew that this price was already very cheap to buy a villa with a garden in the center of the French Concession.

So she gritted her teeth and nodded, "Deal!"

The two seemed to be talking in a hurry, but by the time things were settled, it was already past noon.

Everyone's stomachs began to protest. Ai Shutong felt that she had taken advantage of Teacher Shen today and could not let him treat everyone to a meal again, so she took the initiative to treat everyone to a meal.

"Teacher Shen, do you want Western or Chinese food?"

Shen Jiaxing thought that his sister had never eaten Western food and might not know how to use a knife and fork.

He didn't want the tragedy of Huang Lanying's first Western meal to happen again, so he quickly said, "Chinese food, Chinese food is cheap and delicious."

Seeing his expression, Ai Shutong guessed that his sister, like Huang Lanying, could not use a knife and fork, so she smiled and agreed.

“When we came, we didn’t find any Chinese restaurants nearby. We probably had to walk a long way.”

Shen Jiaxing: "Don't be afraid, let's drive there."

After driving for more than twenty minutes, they arrived at Hongbo Building at No. 15 Zijin Road.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a guy wearing a mandarin jacket and a white towel.

Ai Shutong smiled comfortably, "Is there a private room?"

The waiter smiled and said, "Yes, ladies and gentlemen, please go upstairs."

After entering the box, Ai Shutong saw a sea of ​​tiger-yellow wooden tables and chairs, and her mood improved a bit.

After Shen Jiaxing found out, he teased, "Since you like traditional Chinese food and furniture so much, you shouldn't live in a Western-style building. You should buy an old house instead!"

Ai Shutong waved her hands and yelled, "I can't get used to living in an old house. It's inconvenient to go to the toilet and take a shower! A western-style house is better because it has a washroom."

At this point, Shen Jialing actually nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Shen Jiaxing deliberately led her to talk, "Lingling, why did you nod? Do you like living in a foreign-style house like your sister?"

Seeing everyone looking at her, Shen Jialing rubbed the handkerchief in her hand nervously and said in a low voice: "I like both the old house and the Western-style building, but I'm used to the washroom in the Western-style building, and it doesn't feel good to go back to the old house."

Shen Jiaxing continued to ask, "What's wrong?"

Shen Jialing looked at him awkwardly, her face flushed as she said, "It's just not good anyway."

Seeing that she was uncomfortable, Ai Shutong quickly changed the subject and said, "Let's start ordering!"

"Lingling, take a look, what do you want to eat?"

Shen Jialing waved her hands quickly, "No, no, you guys order, I can eat anything."

Ai Shutong didn't force her and asked the waiter directly, "What are our signature dishes?"

The waiter began to introduce the dish with great enthusiasm: "Our Eight Treasure Duck is the most famous here. It was originally a Shanghainese dish, and later it was introduced to the palace, and it is also considered a famous palace dish."

"The ducks are over two years old, their stomachs are hollowed out, and stuffed with chestnuts, bamboo shoots, shrimp, green beans, ham, mushrooms and other ingredients, and then steamed in a steamer. The duck meat is tender, delicious and fragrant."

Ai Shutong's mouth was full of saliva when she heard this. "Let's have a duck with eight treasures. Do you have any other recommendations?"

The waiter took off the white towel from his neck and wiped the table quickly as usual. "We have so many delicious dishes here, such as shredded chicken with bird's nest, fried shrimp, baked stuffed bird, stewed pigeon with mushrooms, stewed herring, roasted suckling pig, beef stew, winter melon, Maofeng tofu, stewed crab meat and pork belly, fried pig's trotters, glutinous rice spareribs..."

Shen Jiaxing raised his hand to stop the waiter from continuing to announce the dishes, "Okay, we can't eat that much."

Ai Shutong made the decision immediately, "We want the first eight dishes you mentioned."

Waiter: "Okay! Miss and Master, please wait a moment! I'll go to the kitchen and order the dishes right away."

At this time, Ai Shutong called him again, "Give us a pot of good tea first!"

Guy: "Okay! Coming right up!"

The first dishes served were fried shrimp and eight-treasure duck. Ai Shutong offered tea instead of wine to everyone, "Don't be polite, eat as much as you can. If it's not enough, we can add more dishes."

Except for Shen Jialing and her servant who had never seen such a scene and were a little reserved, everyone else was laughing and giggling, and the scene was extremely harmonious.

Shen Jiaxing picked up a piece of duck meat for Shen Jialing with a serving chopstick, "Lingling, try it and see if it tastes good. If you like it, I'll bring you here to eat again in a couple of days."

Ai Shutong joked on the side, "Teacher Shen is treating us, don't forget to call me!"

Shen Jiaxing glanced at her with a half-smile, "You're indispensable everywhere!"

Ai Shutong shook her head and began to show off her knowledge, "I was born to make a living, and I laugh at myself for being busy with making a living."