A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Soon the date of Yulan's wedding arrived. The wedding was also held in the main house. Instead of going to a hotel, a small banquet was held in the courtyard of the main house.

All the invited guests were the leading figures in Jiangcheng, and a few of Director Wang’s close friends also came from Nanjing to attend, but none of his elders, relatives and daughters came, as if they deliberately did not want too many people in Nanjing to know.

In order to please Director Wang, the lady decorated the courtyard of the main house beautifully, with flowers and fluttering ribbons, and also invited a Western band to perform.

Logically, this should have been a Western-style wedding, but Director Wang was wearing a Zhongshan suit and Yulan was wearing a red Xiaofengxian cheongsam dress, which was said to have been made at the last minute. Guier didn't quite believe it because the dragon and phoenix patterns embroidered with gold and silver threads on the cheongsam could not have been made in such a short time.

Taohua quietly told Guier that the cheongsam must have been altered from an old one. The original size was at least two sizes larger than the current one. "Look at the side seam. Where's the dragon head connected to the tail? Where's the body in the middle? And the phoenix, it doesn't even have a head. It couldn't be made to measure like that. They must have taken someone else's dress and altered it to be too small for her."

Guier took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. However, Yulan's wedding dress was prepared for her by the Madam, which was indeed the Madam's style.

Yulan seemed to have noticed it as well, and she put on the mink coat that Sha Yanxiao had given her over her wedding dress. However, there were many noble ladies wearing fur coats at the banquet. If it weren't for the red veil on Yulan's head, no one would have been able to tell who the bride was.

Generally speaking, this was a wedding without much sense of ceremony. There were not even best man or witnesses. It seemed more like everyone just gathered here to have a meal. However, Yulan did not seem to care too much about these things. She still happily called Gui'er and Song Tingting over to take pictures together.

Director Wang also invited Sha Yanxiao, Sha Yanyao, and the Marshal's wife to take a photo, which eventually became a family photo of the Marshal's Mansion, except that sitting in the middle were Director Wang and Yulan, who had no blood relationship with the Marshal's Mansion.

Tang Yaozu also came. Guier found that Sha Lili no longer had the same enthusiasm for him as before, and even seemed to be avoiding him.

But Tang Yaozu was like a sticky candy, and he kept following Sha Lili. Sha Yanxiao glanced at him, thinking about something.

After the wedding, they prepared to return to Nanjing. Gui'er had already packed her things. Miss Shen also greeted her and told her the start date of school. Gui'er knew that the eldest wife would not care about her start date and would only leave at a time that was convenient for her. She was afraid of missing it, so she asked Miss Shen to help her register first.

Before she received the notice to leave for Nanjing, she still went to Zhenxiufang every day. Now, all the regular customers of Manager Liu's pharmacy knew that Manager Liu had accepted a female apprentice who could take the pulse of female customers and perform massage, acupuncture, and cupping. Moreover, when they were seeing patients, Manager Liu would be right next to them, so they avoided contact with male doctors. So, unknowingly, some young girls and young wives liked to come to Manager Liu's pharmacy for treatment.

Shopkeeper Zhang smiled and said, "The world is not doing well right now, and we were worried. We didn't expect that business would actually pick up. But what will you do when you return to Nanjing?"

Gui Er said, "Then let Shopkeeper Zhang do it. After all, you've been with Shopkeeper Liu for so long, you should be able to do it."

Shopkeeper Zhang smiled wryly and said, "I'm the only one handling things over there, and I'm very busy."

Seeing that they all looked to be in their 30s, Guier asked curiously, "You guys must have a child back home, right? Why don't you take him in? He could help out then, and when he's old enough to go to school, if it's a girl, Director Song could arrange for her to attend St. Mary's Primary School."

Shopkeepers Zhang and Liu were both stunned for a moment. Shopkeeper Zhang smiled and said, "It's a boy, only a year younger than you. We were afraid of danger, so we left him in our hometown with grandma. Wasn't he detained here for a while? We went back to our hometown to be with him, thinking that since he hadn't been with us since he was a child, we should teach him to read a few words. But when we got back, we found that he had died of illness. Grandma knew who we were and was afraid that if she came to find us, she would expose our hometown and implicate our relatives, so she buried him without notifying us."

Gui'er was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know, but you two are still young and will have more children."

Shopkeeper Zhang shook his head, patted Gui'er's head, and said, "Right now, things are very tense in other areas. We're a little relieved here because the Sha family isn't interested in suppressing the Communists, but we can't let our guard down. We won't consider other things for the time being."

Gui'er felt very guilty. Thinking back on how the couple had taken care of her, she realized that they might have reflected their love for their son on her, which was why they took such good care of her. Moreover, when they met during that period, both the couple looked very haggard, but they still forced themselves to smile. Thinking of this, Gui'er really hoped that his wife and Sha Yanyao could leave two days later so that she could spend more time with this poor couple.

When they came out of Zhenxiufang that day, the moon had already risen. Ah Cheng called a rickshaw and took Guier to the Marshal's Mansion.

There were more female patients seeing the doctor today, and Guier was feeling a little tired. She was sitting in the rickshaw with her eyes closed to rest when suddenly a man bumped into her and grabbed her with one hand.

Gui'er was so frightened that she thought it was a robber and almost screamed. Ah Cheng also came over and tried to drive him away. The man raised his head and Gui'er saw clearly that it was Sha Lili.

But her hair was messy, and the collar buttons of her cheongsam were all open. She looked up at Gui'er, walked up without saying a word, sat next to her, and said to the driver, "Hurry up."

The driver looked at Gui'er and Acheng in confusion. Only after Gui'er nodded did he continue to pull forward.

Gui'er turned her head and looked back, but didn't see anyone. Living on the street, in front of the coachman and Ah Cheng, she naturally didn't want to ask anything, so she went back to the Marshal's Mansion.

After entering the Marshal's mansion, Gui'er wanted to ask what was going on, but Sha Lili ran away as soon as she got out of the car.

Gui'er was left standing there confused.

Ah Cheng said to Gui Er, "Miss, let's go back too."

Gui'er finally woke up from her dream and returned to Sha Yanxiao's yard.

She was a little hesitant about whether to tell Sha Yanxiao about this matter, but as soon as Sha Yanxiao came back, Acheng went to the study to find him alone, probably to tell him about Sha Lili.

After Sha Yanxiao learned about this, he immediately went to Gui'er's room and asked her, "Was there anyone you knew next to Lily at that time?"