Time Travel: Female Cannon Fodder of the Republic of China

Li Cheng: "Okay, let's do as the lady says."

"I'm familiar with the Beijing Hotel. Can I drive you back?"

Ai Shutong's eyes lit up, "Does the Li family have extra cars?"

Li Cheng: "Yes, we have four cars in the Li Mansion."

Ai Shutong: "I can drive, can you lend me one?"

Li Cheng hesitated and said, "This... I have to ask the master."

A car is a precious item. Who knows if this little ancestor will crash it? If something happens, he can't afford the consequences.

Ai Shutong hesitated for a while, then continued: "I'll go with you to find the master! And say goodbye to him by the way."

At this time, Li Maili was drinking tea with his wife Jiang in the backyard. Jiang came from an aristocratic family in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and her father was a first-rank official in the Qing Dynasty.

The messenger reported that Miss Qiu Ying came to say goodbye. Li Maili didn't think much and just raised his hand to let her go.

After Ai Shutong came in, she saluted the two of them first, and then said after Li Maili called her, "Master, I would like to borrow your car for a few days. I wonder if it is convenient."

Li Maili: "Okay, let Li Fan arrange a driver for you."

Ai Shutong: "I am used to driving in Shanghai, I don't need a driver."

At this time, Jiang, who was drinking tea, looked her adopted niece up and down. Seeing that she looked worldly, she was displeased.

"It's better for a girl to marry into a family. If she stays out in public all day, how can she find a husband in the future?"

Ai Shutong looked at Jiang in surprise, as if she saw the shadow of Li Ma in her.

But for Li Maili's sake, she said nothing and endured it.

Li Maili patted his wife's hand soothingly, "I know you can't stand the way young people act nowadays."

"If we don't like it, we won't watch it."

Then he stood up and said, "Come on, let's go to the study and talk."

After everyone left, Jiang was so angry that she threw the peony gold-rimmed tea bowl beside her and said, "What the hell! We don't even know whose seed it is!"

Her old servant who came with her hurried forward to calm her down, "Madam, please calm down. It's just a little girl who is not worthy of your attention. It's not worth getting sick because of her."

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have let her in just now."

Jiang said angrily, "Did I let her in? I didn't even say anything, but the master let her in."

"Look at her face, she looks like a foxy person. She doesn't look like a member of the Li family. She must look like her foxy mother."

When Ai Shutong drove the Li family's car back to the Beijing Hotel, it was almost six o'clock. It gets dark early in winter.

By the time she entered the hotel lobby, the sky had already turned dark.

She walked straight to the counter and showed the private room key that Li Fan gave her.

When the guy at the counter saw the room number on the key, he immediately said respectfully, "This is the best room in our hotel. I'll ask someone to take you there."

After a while, a white waiter carrying a bag of things took Ai Shutong to Room 308.

After opening the door, the service staff introduced: "There is 24-hour hot water, a telephone, and a refrigerator."

The young man came to the refrigerator in the living room and put the pastries in the bag. "These pastries are provided free of charge. If you have finished eating, you can call us to replenish them."

Ai Shutong looked around the house. There was a large bedroom with a balcony, a small bedroom, a living room, a dining room, and a bathroom. It would be very large for one person to live there.

"Can I order food over the phone and have it delivered to my room?"

The young man had a white towel hanging on his arm, and he looked like an elite butler. "Of course, we have free meals and afternoon tea. As long as you call, we will deliver them to you on time."

Ai Shutong was quite satisfied. The service was really good.

After eating and drinking, Ai Shutong came to the original room 407 and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one came to open it.

She looked at her watch. It was almost eight o'clock. How come there was no one there?

She returned to 308, got the key, and went back to 407. She opened the door and it was pitch black inside.

"Why haven't you come back yet so late? Is it not going well?"

Ai Shutong muttered to herself.

Afraid that they would come back and not see her and get anxious, Ai Shutong found a chair and sat down, reading a book while waiting for someone.

At around nine o'clock, Shen Jiaxing came back with Shen Jialing and Xiao Cui.

Seeing that Ai Shutong was the only one in the room, Shen Jiaxing asked curiously, "Why are you alone? Where is Xia Yu?"

Ai Shutong: "We weren't together during the day, why did you come back so late?"

This time Shen Jiaxing didn't need to say anything, Shen Jialing beside him said excitedly: "We first went to see where the emperor lived, and then went to Dongdan Market. There are all kinds of things there, there are magicians, acrobats, and many people selling things."

"Look! I bought gifts for each of you!"

Ai Shutong looked down into her open cloth bag and saw a small ceramic bottle, silk flowers, a wooden cup, a round fan, a rattle...

Did this young lady lack a childhood? Why are all the items that children like?

"Is my gift in it too?" Ai Shutong asked, staring at the bag.

Shen Jialing nodded, reached into her bag, and soon took out a beauty fan. "I'll give it to you, Sister Ai."

Ai Shutong took it hesitantly, glanced at the bag again, OK! This is acceptable.

At around ten o'clock, Shen Jialing and Xiao Cui went to bed.

Ai Shutong was still waiting for Xia Yu. She thought it was so late, could it be that they were discovered by the people from the Jin Mansion?

Should I go to the Public Security Bureau with Li Maili’s business card?

Before he could make a decision, Xia Yu came back, followed by a middle-aged couple, the man on crutches.

Ai Shutong raised her eyebrows and looked at Xia Yu.

Xia Yu looked guilty, and spoke about his father and mother bit by bit, like jumping beans.

"Miss, it was wrong of me to bring my parents here without your consent. You can beat me or scold me, but please don't kick them out."

Ai Shutong looked at her watch and said, "You and your parents go to my room and sleep first. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

At seven o'clock the next morning, a group of five people, plus Xia's father and mother, gathered in the living room of 308.

Ai Shutong didn't care much about the problem of Xia's father and mother. She was rich now and had bought a big house. As long as Xia's father and mother were not people with bad intentions, she would not object to taking them away.

When she heard Xia Yu say last night that Jin Minfan was dead, she felt terrible.

She was sure and absolutely did not regret running away, otherwise she would be the one to die.

But a feeling of regret and anger still rose in my heart.

The regret is for that beautiful woman like a flower, and the anger is directed at Jin Hengsu, Li Yanran and Meng Bailu.

Only these three people can make the decision to send Jin Minfan away from the Jin family.

Ai Shutong asked the Xia family couple, "Who is the housekeeper of the Jin Mansion now?"

Xia Zhou said, "Now the master goes to the Eight Great Hutongs all day to have fun with prostitutes. The Second Madam has the final say in the mansion."