Time Travel: Female Cannon Fodder of the Republic of China

"These pieces of jewelry are for you. If you are short of money, you can sell them to make some money."

Mother Lin was still the same mother Lin who couldn't bear to see her young lady suffer. "This one hundred taels of silver is worth more than one hundred and twenty dollars, at least one hundred and thirty dollars!"

As he said this, he was about to pick out a small piece of silver.

Ai Shutong grabbed her hand and said, "Mother Lin, I always trouble Teacher Shen. It's better to give more than less!"

Mother Lin thought about it and it made sense. Teacher Shen was a learned man, and the young lady might need him in the future.

Her young lady is not the kind of person who "uses people first and stands behind them when not using them"!

"You have to take this jewelry back. I don't have big expenses, so I'm not short of money. But you have to take care of everything in the mansion, and there are many places where you need money!"

Ai Shutong touched Lin Ma's rough hands and said, "Look, your hands are so rough now, how can you embroider flowers?"

"Keep it! If you don't need it, just keep it as a thought!"

Just as she was about to give her a few more instructions, Li Guang came in trotting, "Miss, Aunt Lin, the official is here, saying that a girl from the Jin family's girls' school is missing, and he has reported it to the official."

"Uncle Li said that he didn't see any young lady, but the officials insisted that the Jin family wanted them to search the train station, the former residence and the hospital!"

"What should we do now? Uncle Li can't take it anymore!"

Ai Shutong was full of surprise. Beiman Girls' High School had not yet finished school at this time. How did Jin Fu know that she was away?

She spoke at the fastest speed: "I'll leave from the east gate. After I leave, don't confront them head-on. Take them in for a walk. If they go too far, use your master's name to suppress them!"

"Mother Lin, I'm leaving now. See you later!"

After saying that, without waiting for Lin Ma and Li Guang to react, he ran out and disappeared in the yard in the blink of an eye.

Ai Shutong went out and put the cloth bag in her hand into the space.

He ran to the entrance of the alley and looked outside carefully, but did not see the patrolman.

Seeing a rickshaw coming, he jumped out to stop it, "Quick! Dongtangzi Hutong!"

He raised his hands and pulled down the shed above his head, then shrank his whole body inward, making sure that no one passing by outside could see his face.

When they arrived at Dongtangzi Hutong, Ai Shutong threw out a dollar and ran to Mary's house without hesitation.

Zheng Ruyue and Zheng Qiuying both attended a girls' school, so going to the Zheng residence would be of no help.

Mary had just finished her piano lesson and was about to enjoy afternoon tea when she saw Ai Shutong coming in followed by the Filipino maid. She was very happy.

"Dear Ai, how come you have time to come and see me today?"

Ai Shutong felt relieved when she got here, and she was in the mood to joke with her, "I knew you were having afternoon tea, so I came here specially."

Mary smiled and asked her to sit down. She also poured her a cup of English black tea. "Try our English black tea. It tastes better with milk."

At this moment, Ai Shutong forgot about the bloody storm outside and started chatting with Mary about tea culture.

"By the way, the white jade milk tea I drank last time was so delicious that I’ve been thinking about it for a long time!" Mary picked up a cookie and took a small bite.

She loves sweets very much and pays great attention to her body management, so every afternoon tea she will never have more than two pieces of dessert.

Ai Shutong put down the cup and said, "If the kitchen has red beans, glutinous rice flour, milk, black tea, brown sugar or white sugar, I can make it for you right now!"

Mary clapped her hands happily, "Okay, okay! I'll go with you."

The two of them happily worked in the kitchen.

"Mary, actually I came to play with you this time because I skipped school."

Ai Shutong said with a nervous look on her face.

Mary patted the glutinous rice flour on her hands and said, "I knew it. Today is Wednesday and Beiman Girls' High School can't have a holiday. You must have sneaked out."

Before Ai Shutong could confess, Mary said excitedly: "It's so exciting. I want to skip school too."

"I hate my Chinese teacher the most. He always makes me recite long passages. I decided to sneak out through the back door next Monday before he comes!"

Mary's father, Sir John, hired several tutors for her, so she didn't have much time to go out and have fun.

Ai Shutong confessed for a few seconds that she had led other people's children astray. After a few seconds, she said to Mary, "Can you help me deceive Mr. Jin?"

Mary expressed great enthusiasm for being able to appear on the stage.

The two discussed this and that for a while, then drank White Jade Milk Tea and waited for the audience to arrive.

Unfortunately, Mr. Jin was not very helpful. Ai Shutong had already finished dinner at Mary's house, but no one came yet.

What she didn't know was that the police from Dongcheng District and Xicheng District were all dispatched, and everything from hospitals to the home of a doctor selling quack medicine was searched.

Li Yanran also asked Li Tai to give money to the captain of the gendarmerie. One-third of the soldiers in the city were wandering around the train station and the streets, catching a few scalpers and robbing a few drivers.

It's as scary as a swarm of locusts.

The small vendors closed their stalls early and the rickshaw drivers dared not take on any more customers.

The streets of Beijing fell silent earlier than usual because of Ai Shutong's disappearance.

Around ten o'clock in the evening, housekeeper Ross received a call from the Jin family, and the two had a conversation over the phone.

Then the zombies that were wandering around the train station and the streets returned to their nests with their bellies bulging.

Early the next morning, Ai Shutong went to Beiman Girls' School in a car with the British flag.

The driver was a dark-skinned Indian man. He drove recklessly, honked his horn wildly, and was very arrogant and domineering.

Ai Shutong really wanted to ask him, as a colonial slave, what right do you have to commit crimes on this land?

Then I thought that the people who gave birth to this land are harming it with cannons and smoking guns, and will experience endless infighting in the future.

A true warrior has not yet found the right path, so what qualifications does she have to attack others now?

Although she didn't have the guts to ask him, Ai Shutong still stubbornly asked in English: "Are your mother and sisters doing well in India?"

It was a question he didn't need to answer.

Li Yanran, who had been waiting at the gate of Beman Middle School, saw a car with a British flag approaching and immediately went to greet it.

As soon as Ai Shutong got off the car, she was pulled into the carriage.

"The master called the school. You don't have to go to school today."

Ai Shutong drooped her eyelids and closed her eyes to rest under Li Yanran's scrutiny.

Li Yanran couldn't help but sneer.

"Don't think no one knows your little thoughts."

"If you don't want to go to school, I'll find you a husband right away!"

Ai Shutong raised her head and gave her a cold look, "What? Selling a concubine's daughter is not enough? Do you want to sell your own daughter?"

"Have you forgotten that there is another person named Kim Min-jeong who is two years older than me?"

"Snapped--"

Li Yanran slapped her in anger.

"I haven't settled the score with you for cheating me out of my dowry last time!"

"You dare to exclude your elder sister this time. Do you really think I'm a good person?"