A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Gui'er was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect Sha Yanyao to ask such a question, so she said, "I haven't thought about it yet. I don't want to get married."

Sha Yanyao smiled and said, "Why wouldn't you want to get married?"

Gui Er said seriously, "Because in this era, men with slightly better conditions have three wives and four concubines. I can't stand it when I have only one man and he can have several women. This is unfair."

Sha Yanyao was stunned for a moment. He probably didn't expect Gui'er to say such a thing.

After a long while, Sha Yanyao said vaguely, "In a few years, China will change. Maybe it won't be like this anymore."

Gui'er shook her head and said, "It's still a long way off. As long as someone like Director Wang is in power, China won't change."

Sha Yanyao was stunned again. This time, he was speechless and just smiled and touched Guier's head.

After eating outside, the two returned to the Marshal's Mansion.

As soon as the car entered the yard, the Marshal was seen coming out of Yulan's room. Sha Yanyao's face changed instantly. Gui'er felt a little strange at first, but when she saw Sha Yanyao's face, she suddenly realized that the Marshal might be having an affair with Yulan just like Director Wang. Her pupils exploded for a moment and she stood there in a daze.

The Marshal came down from upstairs, straightened his clothes awkwardly, cleared his throat, and said to the two of them, "You guys went out to play? You didn't even bring your sister Yulan with you. She just arrived in Jiangcheng and isn't used to it, so she needs more care."

Sha Yanyao said nothing, and Gui'er didn't know what to say. The Marshal walked away with a swagger.

Sha Yanyao sat in the hall with a gloomy face for a while and then left. Gui'er felt a little confused and helpless. She always felt that something big was going to happen.

Back in the room, Dingxiang approached her and said, "Miss, the Marshal stayed in Miss Yulan's room for a long time today. People downstairs are talking about the Marshal having adopted Miss Yulan as his daughter. Although she's not his biological daughter, she's his adopted daughter in name. If this gets out, it'll be really embarrassing. Why don't you find someplace to hide?"

Gui'er sighed and said, "Where can I hide? The courtyard is still occupied by the fifth and sixth concubines. My eldest brother just came in and saw father, but he didn't say a word. What else can I do?"

Ding Xiang also sighed and said, "I'm just worried that people will talk about you then."

Gui'er thought for a moment, then said to Dingxiang, "Go find Ah Cheng and ask him to go to the military camp and ask when Second Brother will be back."

As she said this, she went to another courtyard to avoid staying in the main courtyard. If she stayed there for a long time, people would suspect that she was also having an affair with the Marshal.

She arrived at the fourth courtyard, and the fourth concubine greeted her warmly as soon as she saw her: "Hey, Gui'er is back! I heard that the mistress found a beautiful girl for the Marshal to adopt as her daughter. Is she really that beautiful?"

Gui'er was very embarrassed and didn't know what to say for a moment. She just smiled.

Sha Lili said from the side, "Madam, you're the same. You don't want a daughter-in-law from a well-educated and well-mannered family, but go to a brothel to find a prostitute and treat her as your treasure. You've burned incense and worshipped Buddha, haven't you lost your mind?"

Gui'er sighed. She didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. She had originally wanted to move to the Fourth Concubine's place and hide for a while before the news got out. Although their family was smart, Sha Yanxiao had given them many gifts in the past, so they shouldn't be so harsh on Gui'er.

But now that they all knew, Guier was embarrassed to speak up.

After returning to the main courtyard in embarrassment, Guier stayed indoors and did homework, read books and newspapers in her room.

When it was almost time for dinner in the evening, I suddenly heard a commotion outside, followed by a woman's scream.

Gui'er was startled and listened carefully. It was Yulan's voice and the lady's.

The lady kept scolding Yulan, and Guier guessed that the affair between the Marshal and Yulan must have been exposed.

She cautiously opened the door and peeked out, only to see the lady hitting Yulan without thinking, cursing as she did so: "You slut, bitch! I took you in out of good intentions, and you actually dared to seduce my man."

Yulan used her hands to block and cried while dodging. There were many servants standing nearby, but no one dared to stand up to stop her or say anything.

The two of them fought in the corridor upstairs. Yulan reached the stairs and ran down to the first floor, falling and running. The lady also stumbled and followed her down to the first floor, cursing and fighting.

Only then did Guier see clearly that the thing the lady was using to hit Yulan was actually a pearl handbag. She had seen it once before and she had always handled it with great care. But now she was using it as a brick to hit people. It was obvious that she was really angry.

In the lobby on the first floor, the two of them chased each other for another round. The lady was too tired to run anymore and fell on the sofa, gasping for breath. Magnolia's hair was disheveled and her eyes were filled with tears. She also fell to the ground, gasping for breath.

"What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you making such a fuss in broad daylight? The whole mansion can hear it."

The Marshal actually came at this time. Guier knew that the Marshal lived so far away from the main house, but he could still know what was going on. Someone must have tipped him off.

Seeing that the situation was not good, some servants slipped away secretly. Guier also quietly retracted her head, but she still left a crack in the door because she wanted to listen to the gossip.

"What are you doing standing here? Go back and do your own thing," the Marshal shouted.

The servants went back one after another, and Guier saw through the crack in the door that the Marshal had sat down on the sofa.

After a while, the Marshal said to his wife, "What are you doing? Is this how a wife of a Marshal's family would behave?"

The lady's hair was a little messy. She lowered her head and said, feeling a little guilty, "This girl is ungrateful. I was just teaching her a lesson."

The Marshal slammed the table and said, "I'm over 50 years old. I've been in the army for decades and have to live a life of hardship. Can't I enjoy myself? This girl is pretty and smart. I like her. So what if I take her in?"

Guier really didn't expect that the general, who looked like an ordinary man and had the demeanor of a patriarch, could say such words. It was really a bit subversive to her world view.

The lady was also very shocked when she heard this. Her eyes widened and she said to the Marshal, "No, it's fine if you say it to someone else, but I've already adopted this girl as my daughter and announced it to everyone. If you adopt her and spread the news, aren't you afraid of being ridiculed?"

The Marshal patted his belly and said, "Am I the kind of person who's afraid of gossip? You've been married to me your whole life, and you still don't understand me. I do whatever I want, and I have the final say on this earth."

The lady seemed a little distraught. She was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly came to her senses and said to the Marshal, "That still won't work. She and Director Wang have already done that. If you take her in, how are you going to explain it to Director Wang?"