A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

Chapter 497 The Marshal Disapproves of Taohua's Marriage

Another person immediately retorted, "No, that young marshal's wife looked like a female Zhang Fei, not like this Miss Tian. She's so gentle and charming, with that face and that figure. Even if she wasn't a rich lady, I'd still be willing to marry her."

"Go to hell, you want to, but others don't want to?"

"So I'm not talking about Boss Jin?"

Gui'er sighed and decided never to come to watch opera with Miss Tian again.

After coming out of the theater, the group of ladies made plans to go to the Wing On Hotel for dinner. Guier saw that there were not only women, but also several men. In addition to Boss Jin, there were Lu Zhenhua, Liang Guowei, and a few other men she didn't know. They were all well-mannered, with clean-cut faces.

Gui'er felt uncomfortable all over and didn't want to stay any longer, so she said to Miss Tian, "Sister Xiuwen, it's getting late. My brother won't let me stay out too late. I must go home for dinner, so I'll be leaving first."

Miss Tian said: "Okay, I'll ask the driver to take you back."

Liang Guowei immediately stepped forward and said, "Miss Guier, it's unsafe to go back alone. Let me go back with you."

Gui'er said coldly, "Thank you, but no thanks. I'm safe with a driver. Our driver is a soldier who has fought in wars and has a gun on him. If things go wrong, he can just shoot."

Liang Guowei was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then smiled and said, "As expected of the Marshal's Mansion, the security is very thorough. I feel like Gui'er and I really hit it off right away. Can I invite you out to see the exhibition later?"

Gui Er smiled and said, "Mr. Liang, I'm still young, so I have to report to my family before I come out. If you want to make an appointment with me, you can call my brother at the Marshal's Mansion. If he agrees, I will naturally come out."

Then he ignored him and got into the car and left.

When I returned to the Marshal's Mansion, it was just time for dinner. I saw Dingxiang standing at the gate of Sha Yanxiao's courtyard, looking around nervously from a distance.

Guier was taken directly to the gate of the hospital by Miss Tian's driver before getting off the car.

As soon as she got out of the car, Ding Xiang hurried forward and said, "Miss, why did you go out for so long without saying a word today? I think the young marshal doesn't look well. You'd better be careful."

Gui'er had never played outside so late before, and she walked into the hall a little nervously.

Sha Yanxiao was reading a newspaper in the hall. When he saw her come in, he put down the newspaper and said, "I heard that Miss Tian took you out to play again?"

Guier nodded and said, "Yes, she said she was going to see an opera. She is very familiar with Boss Jin now. In fact, they were planning to have dinner after the opera. I didn't go with them and came back."

Sha Yanxiao's expression was uncertain. He looked at her for a few seconds before saying, "Let's eat first."

At this time, the maids and old women came in with delicious meals. Gui'er saw that they were all her favorite dishes. It should be Sha Yanxiao who asked the kitchen to make them. She was very happy and glad that she did not go to eat with Miss Tian.

So while eating, he told Sha Yanxiao what happened when he went to the theater.

Sha Yanxiao listened with a smile at first, but when he heard about Lu Zhenhua and Liang Guowei's actions, he said, "I've heard of both of them. They're both famous young men in the city. The one called Lu Zhenhua is the one your sister-in-law had a lover with. The daughter of the Song family has become a laughing stock in Jiangcheng now."

"And there's this guy called Liang Guowei. He's the youngest son of Mr. Liang, the owner of the pawn shop in the city. You should know his eldest son because it's said that he was almost engaged to the daughter of the Song family. Stay away from people like him."

Gui'er said, "I don't know them at all." But she still remembered that when she was a maid in the Song Mansion, Song Tingting almost seemed to be engaged to a son of the Liang family, but later it was discovered that the son seemed to have a hidden illness, and it was Gui'er who discovered it. As a result, this incident became the reason for Mrs. Song to hold a grudge against Gui'er. She didn't expect that Liang Guowei today was actually that man's younger brother.

Gui'er couldn't help but ask, "Don't the Liang family from the pawnshop have an older son?"

Sha Yanxiao nodded and said, "Dead."

"What?" Gui'er didn't react for a moment.

"The eldest son of the Liang family died. They publicly announced that he had tuberculosis, but others said it was some shameful disease."

Gui'er was not surprised. In that era, medical science was not well developed, and if one did not treat the disease, it was indeed easy to die.

She recalled the way Liang Guowei had tried to fawn over her today, and said, "If that's the case, then this Liang family young master is now the heir, right? Why is he still hanging around with women?"

Sha Yanxiao put down his chopsticks, took a sip of the tea the maid brought him, and said, "The Liang family has more than one son. Master Liang was very fertile. All his wives and concubines had sons. I wonder which wife the young master Liang you mentioned was born to. It is said that even a prostitute he took back later had a son and a daughter."

Gui'er was suddenly struck by this. A prostitute? Wasn't that Qiuju? When she first crossed over, she had been on the same rowboat as the top prostitute. When she was still working as a maid at the Song family, she seemed to have heard that Qiuju was with the shopkeeper Liang. However, the shopkeeper Liang was nearly 60 at the time, and Qiuju was only or .

But Gui'er is not too surprised by such things now, because there are so many of them in this era.

At this time, Gui'er had finished eating. After the maid cleared away the dishes and leftovers, she brought fruit and tea. Sha Yanxiao peeled an orange for her. Gui'er took it and tore it apart one slice at a time and put it into her mouth.

Sha Yanxiao looked at it with a smile for a while, then frowned and said, "I told my father about the peach blossom thing you told me before."

Gui'er looked at Sha Yanxiao nervously. She felt that it would not be easy to pass the Marshal's level, even if Sha Yanxiao took action.

Sure enough, Sha Yanxiao looked away and said in embarrassment, "Father disagrees. He said that the Shuai Mansion can compensate Taohua for the money she received from the man, but it's only a few silver dollars. Taohua is now a daughter of the Shuai Mansion, and we are no longer a good match. Even if we agree, the man's family can't afford a few dollars for the wedding. If Taohua marries, the Shuai Mansion will be ridiculed."

Gui'er actually understood that it was a bit naive of her to match Wu Dafu and Taohua. Even if the Marshal had no bad intentions towards Taohua, it was impossible for a wealthy family to raise their adopted daughter without asking for a penny, and instead pay money to marry her to the poor boy's former fiancé.

But the reality is that Taohua has no status in the mansion at all, and she won't have much dowry when she gets married in the future. Even if the Marshal finds a rich family for the purpose of marriage alliance, she will have a hard time because no one will support her. On the contrary, Wu Dafu has a skill, and Taohua can embroider and sew. In troubled times, they will live a little tight, but they should still be able to survive, which is better than finding Taohua a husband in a wealthy family and letting her be tortured there for the rest of her life.