Time Travel: Female Cannon Fodder of the Republic of China

She looked up at Father Xia, "Dad, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Where's my mother?"

Father Xia pressed his stomach a few times and said, "Your mother went to work as a helper for Li Tai's family."

Xia Yu jumped up and yelled, "What?"

Father Xia quickly waved his hands, "Keep your voice down, don't get caught!"

Xia Yu lowered his head and asked, "Are you kidding? Our two families have such a big grudge, and my mother is going to work as a helper in his family?"

Father Xia said dejectedly: "Li Tai is no longer ordinary. He is the captain of the military police. Not only did he marry the daughter of a good family, he also forced Bai Guo to be his concubine."

Xia Yu: "Bai Guo? Is she the maidservant who served the young lady before?"

Father Xia said helplessly: "There is only one person named Baiguo in the Jin Mansion. If it's not her, who else could it be?"

Xia Yu: "What does this have to do with my mother working as a helper?"

Father Xia looked at his impatient daughter and said, "Don't interrupt me. Let me finish first."

Xia Yu nodded hurriedly, "Oh! Go ahead."

Father Xia: "Li Tai's family has moved out of the back street and bought a mansion in Mianhua Hutong, not far from here."

"Your mother and I thought we were getting rid of him and his wife. Not only did we feel better, we even found work outside."

"But one day Bai Guo came to your house and asked your mother to save her. It turned out that Li Tai had taken her body and she was already pregnant."

"When Bai Guo's mother was alive, she was the housekeeper of the mansion. She had some extra money and helped our family."

"We can't be ungrateful and ungrateful, so we secretly hid the ginkgo nuts in our house."

As he said this, he sneered at the family to the east, "The Yu family next door are really bad people. It's also your mother and I's fault for not being careful enough. They discovered Bai Guo's whereabouts."

"When Bai Guo was four months pregnant, Li Tai and his men broke in. They not only broke my legs, but also caused Bai Guo to have a miscarriage."

"At that time, I really cried out to the heavens and the earth for help but no one responded!"

"In order to survive, Bai Guo had no choice but to agree to be his concubine."

"In order to stop him from beating her, your mother had no choice but to agree to work for him. Although she was called a helper, she was only paid two dollars a month."

"I'm like this again. I can't go out to work, and my family has no food to eat."

"If you can survive outside, don't come back. If you come back, you will die."

Xia Yu had already burst into tears after hearing this. While she was having a high bed, soft pillows, and good food and warm clothes outside, she didn't expect that her parents were starving at home. She was so unfilial.

At this moment, she made up her mind to take her parents away from here.

After many years, Ai Shutong stood outside the Li Mansion in Santa Lane again.

Two majestic stone lions are still standing inside the gate, and the vermilion gate is very bright, as if it had just been painted.

The door was open, and two young servants stood straight, looking much more energetic than the previous two.

After going through so many things, Ai Shutong has made some progress in dealing with human relationships.

She was holding a snack box in her right hand and a fruit basket in her left hand. She walked forward and said in a gentle voice, "I'm Li Qiuying. I've come to see you, uncle."

Li Qiuying was the pseudonym she used after arriving in Shanghai, and her identity was Li Maili's niece.

The two servants looked at each other when they heard this, and then the tall servant said, "It's Miss. I'll go and tell her right away. Please sit down and wait for a moment."

The short servant hurried back to the gatehouse, brought back a stool and asked her to sit down.

Ai Shutong was afraid of wrinkling her silk skirt, so she just smiled and put the fruit basket and snack box on the bench to rest.

After a while, the energetic steward Li ran towards the door.

He often communicated with his son Li Zhong, so of course he knew who Li Qiuying was.

Liu Qiuying was the illegitimate daughter who was shouting the names of her master and ancestors outside the Li Mansion three or four years ago.

But I heard from my son that the master recognized her as his niece.

Since the master said so, she is a niece.

Then Li Fan would have to listen to the master, and the girl in front of him would be the master's niece from now on.

But this lady's appearance seems a little off...

"It's the young lady who's here. Please come in!"

He had no right to question the young lady's appearance, so he had to follow the old rules, thinking that no one would be stupid enough to pretend to be Miss Li.

Li Fan clasped his hands together in front of his chest and bowed.

Ai Shutong also returned the greeting, "Please lead the way, Manager Li."

Just as she was about to pick up the fruit basket and snack box on the bench, Li Fan got there first. He picked up the two things and turned to hand them to the waiter behind her. "You are so tactless. How can you let a young lady carry things?"

Turning to Ai Shutong, he said, "Young lady, why didn't you bring a maid? Be careful not to hurt your hands when carrying such heavy things."

Ai Shutong smiled and followed him diagonally, saying, "I'm used to it. It's okay."

Li Fan said kindly: "The young ladies in the mansion are all surrounded by two senior maids, four second-class maids, two old maids and two third-class maids."

"You are too simple. Do you want me to give you two maids to serve you?"

"The maidservant trainer in our house, Jixiang, is an old man who came from the palace. He is very good at training people. I guarantee that the maidservants sent to you will be the best."

Ai Shutong politely declined, "Thank you for your kindness, Manager Li. I have already hired someone in Shanghai, so I am not short of manpower."

Li Fan thought about it and thought that maybe this lady was afraid that others would plant spies in her, so she only liked to use people she found herself.

After figuring it out, I stopped talking.

Li Fan led Ai Shutong, followed by two servants, across the corridor and through the hanging flower gate, where they saw a fat, big-eared middle-aged man scolding a little girl.

"How did you become an official? That white glaze orchid vase is the eldest young master's favorite. You broke it the first time you wiped it. What else can you do?"

"That bottle is worth hundreds of taels of silver. Let alone selling you, even if I sold my father, I still can't afford it! What do you think we should do?!"

Li Fan glanced at Ai Shutong and immediately cleared his throat loudly.

The middle-aged man turned around and called out "Dad" with a twitching mouth.

Li Fan glared at him unhappily, then turned around and said to Ai Shutong with a smile on his face: "Miss, this is my unfilial son. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

Li Cheng immediately smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed. "So it's the young lady who has arrived. I am Li Cheng. I have something for you to do."

Li Fan looked down upon his fawning look and waved his hand, "Go away. I want to take the young lady to see the master."

Li Cheng nodded with a smile and backed away to make way, "Miss, take care."

Ai Shutong just nodded and said nothing.

Li Fan, on the other hand, took the initiative to talk about Li Cheng after walking a few steps. "He was spoiled by his mother since he was a child. He has a slippery and rogue personality. I dare not let him go out. He only follows me to do some chores in the mansion."

Ai Shutong had a good impression of Li Cheng. "Has he married and had children?"

Li Fan: "That's all he can do. He gave me four grandchildren."