A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

After dinner, Sha Yanxiao asked Dali to take Guier home, and he accompanied Miss Ji shopping and watching a movie.

Gui'er was confused. Didn't these two just meet? Why did they look like a couple in love?

As a result, when she returned to the General's Mansion, she found the two sisters Tong Yujun and Tong Yulan. Gui'er thought Tong Yujun came to play with her and said happily, "Why didn't you tell me you were coming? If I had known, I would have come back sooner."

Tong Yujun smiled awkwardly and said, "My sister said that the New Year is coming soon, so she came to see my aunt."

Gui'er smiled and nodded to Tong Yulan. Tong Yulan looked around mysteriously and walked over to Gui'er and asked softly, "Why don't you see the young marshal?"

Gui'er said, "My second brother is out there doing something and hasn't come back yet."

Tong Yujun asked, "When will he come back?"

"I don't know. Do you have something to ask him?"

Tong Yulan said with a hint of embarrassment: "No, I just want him to take care of my aunt."

Tong's aunt is the Marshal's eighth concubine, and Sha Yanxiao is nominally her stepson. It sounds strange that Tong Yulan actually asked Sha Yanxiao to care for the eighth concubine.

Gui'er frowned and looked at Tong Yujun in confusion. Tong Yujun smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

The eighth concubine came down from upstairs and said to Tong Yulan, "Xiaolan, if you haven't gone home yet, come with me to the garden for a walk."

Tong Yulan readily agreed.

After they left, Gui'er looked around and saw that there was no one around and asked Tong Yujun, "What's going on?"

Tong Yujun smiled awkwardly and said, "Young Marshal is now a popular husband candidate among the city's celebrities."

"Ah? What's going on?"

Tong Yujun smiled and said, "Alas, you are still young, you can't think of this aspect, right? Look, the young marshal is tall and handsome, rich and powerful, and his conditions are already good. Now everyone hears that he is so young, but he actually seized the power of Marshal Zhang and took over Fengcheng, making it his own territory. He is really young and promising, with a bright future. What's more, he is only in his early 20s and has not yet married a principal wife. Generally, men with similar conditions as him are at least or years old, right? Some even have or wives and concubines and children. If anyone can marry the young marshal, they will definitely be the marshal's young lady or the principal wife. Who wouldn't be tempted?"

Gui'er thought about it and realized that it was true. But didn't Tong Yulan have a boyfriend? She asked Tong Yujun doubtfully, "Did your sister's boyfriend break up?"

Tong Yujun said, "My family definitely didn't agree, but that guy kept pestering me and even spread rumors about my sister and him. That's why my sister thought that if she could get together with Shaoshuai, she could successfully get rid of him."

Gui'er was also impressed by Tong Yulan, but her courage to love and hate and her courage to pursue her own happiness were no less than those of modern women.

Unfortunately, Sha Yanxiao had not returned until after dinner, so Tong Yulan had to say goodbye under Tong Yujun's repeated urging.

After Sha Yanxiao came back, Gui'er wanted to gossip about how his conversation with Miss Ji went, but she was too embarrassed to ask.

Fortunately, Sha Yanxiao always poured her a glass of milk before going to bed, so Guier took the opportunity to ask him, "Brother Yanxiao, how many movies did you watch?"

Sha Yanxiao frowned, smiled, and said, "Why do you ask like that?"

"You came back so late, so the movie must have been very long, right?"

"What do you want to say, little one?"

"Do you want to date Miss Ji?"

"Well, I don't know yet."

"Huh? You're not dating her? Then why are you having dinner and watching movies with her? What's going on?"

"How could I be looking for her? It's clearly her looking for me, okay? If it weren't for the fact that her uncle Ji Zhongqing is one of the biggest gang leaders in Shanghai, I wouldn't bother to talk to her. But after we watched the movie, we played in the dance hall for a while and ran into Miss Rong."

"Which Miss Rong?"

"She came to our house at the last banquet. Her father is Rong Bingren, the Shanghai textile tycoon."

"Second brother, I've noticed that you seem to be very popular recently. The eldest daughter of the Tong family also came over to play for a long time today. It is said that she wanted to see you."

Sha Yanxiaoqing smiled and said, "The Tong family? They're not even that good."

Well, Guier knew that there was no hope for Tong Yulan.

The next day, Guier brought the finished leather shoes to Miss Zhang Er and Miss Zhang San. While trying on the shoes, Miss Zhang Er asked casually, "Sister Guier, Master Sha Er, you seem to be very busy these days."

Gui'er didn't take it too seriously and said with a smile, "Well, he's become a popular husband candidate among the city's socialites lately. He's being chased by those rich ladies all day long."

When Miss Zhang Er heard this, her face suddenly turned pale.

Gui'er was startled and said, "Second Miss, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Miss Zhang Er finally came to her senses and said with a forced smile, "No, these shoes seem to be a little small."

Gui Er quickly said, "Is that so? Then don't wear it. Does the Third Miss's dress fit?"

Miss Zhang San smiled and said, "I can do anything."

Gui'er laughed dumbly and said, "If it fits, it fits. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. If you wear it on your feet, if it doesn't fit, your feet will hurt. How about this? I'll take you to their store tomorrow to measure your feet and have it custom-made."

Miss Zhang Er and Miss Zhang San quickly said, "We women shouldn't go out in public. Actually, the shoes aren't that bad, so we can just wear them."

Gui'er thought that since they were unwilling to go out, they could only ask someone from the shoe store to come and measure their feet. And judging from their ideas, they would probably need a female clerk, but that would be expensive, and Gui'er was unwilling to have either herself or Sha Yanxiao pay for it.

So they went to tell the Marshal. Gui'er thought that since they were his women, of course he had to pay. Unexpectedly, the Marshal was very happy to hear that they were unwilling to go out and show their faces. He smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Old Zhang raised his daughter well. This is what it means to be virtuous. Girls nowadays run away at every turn and say they have freedom of love. It's simply a decline in morals. Gui'er, you can ask the shoe store to come and measure them. Let Butler Liu pay the fee."

Gui'er was speechless after hearing this, but thinking that she and Sha Lili were the only ones in the Marshal's mansion who had the opportunity to go to school outside, she guessed that the Marshal really thought so, so she didn't dare to say anything else and said with a smile, "Okay, Father."

The Chinese New Year was getting closer, and the Marshal's Mansion held several more banquets. Guier found that there were unusually many girls attending the banquets this time, and they were all brought by their mothers. In other words, the bosses or officials who came alone to the banquet last time, this time all brought their wives and daughters.

Gui'er thought: They don't all want to introduce their daughters to Sha Yanxiao, right?

As it turned out, throughout the entire dance party, people kept pulling their wives and daughters forward to introduce them to Sha Yanxiao. Of course, Sha Yanxiao handled them with ease.

Guier saw that some young ladies who seemed reluctant at first had stars in their eyes after seeing Sha Yanxiao himself, which shows that his handsome appearance is indeed a plus.

Gui'er sat not far away, holding a bowl of delicious food and watching the show quietly, just like watching a movie. But generally speaking, the ones with the best conditions were still Miss Ji and Miss Rong. Although Miss Ji's family was a gangster, they had many industries and very close relations with government officials. There were many things that the police could not solve, but their family could often solve them.

But Guier prefers Miss Rong, because she looks no less than a movie star, with a tall figure, an oval face, big eyes with double eyelids, a small upturned nose, and a cherry mouth. She has the same type of pretty appearance as Miss Lulu, who was friends with Sha Yanxiao before. It seems that Sha Yanxiao likes this type of girl.