A Girl Traveling Through Troubled Times

After that, the printing point fell silent and no printing tasks were received. Xu Wenjie, Miss Shen and Guier were all busy with their own things. Days passed as if what had happened before had never happened.

That day, Gui'er had just finished school and returned to the Sha Mansion. She heard the servants whispering among themselves. She felt that something must have happened, so she went upstairs.

After a while, Dingxiang knocked on the door and came in with tea and snacks. Guier asked, "I saw them whispering to each other. Did something happen?"

Ding Xiang gossiped, "The Marshal's Mansion called today to say Miss Lily is getting married, and that the Third Young Mistress is pregnant. These are all good news. They want us to go back and attend the wedding."

"Oh, that's a happy occasion indeed. What do mother and elder brother say?"

"Oh, don't mention it. Everyone is talking about this because they originally thought they could take this opportunity to go back to Jiangcheng, but the Madam said it was just a concubine's daughter getting married, so what's the point of going back? Everyone says the Madam is jealous because the Fourth Concubine's two children are getting married well."

"Then why don't we go back to the mansion? What would father say?"

"Miss, this wasn't the Marshal calling at all. It was just the housekeeper and the Fourth Concubine calling to inform us. The Fourth Concubine certainly wants us to go back. This is a chance to give them face, but Madam will definitely not be happy about it."

In fact, Gui'er really wants to go back to Jiangcheng. Such a big thing has happened here, and she wants to hear Song Xichen's opinion.

Until dinner time, neither the lady nor Sha Yanyao and his wife mentioned Sally's marriage. It seemed that they had no intention of letting Gui'er know about this at all.

Fortunately, after the Marshal fell ill, his wife was not in Jiangcheng, and Sha Yanxiao took charge of the Marshal's Mansion. He would call Gui'er from time to time, so his wife and Sha Yanyao couldn't say anything.

Gui'er made a phone call back to Jiangcheng in front of them. At first, she pretended to chat about family matters. Sha Yanxiao really told her that Sha Lili was going to get married.

But then he went on to say, "Mother said that my eldest brother is busy with work and your studies are more important, so he doesn't plan to come back, and Father agreed."

Seeing this, Guier knew it was already decided, so she said, "I see. Then congratulate Lily and her boyfriend for finally getting married after such a long time."

Sha Yanxiao smiled and said, "You wanted to take this opportunity to come back and play, but you found out you couldn't, so you must be a little disappointed. Don't worry, you can come back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which isn't far away. As for the gift, I've prepared one for you and will send it to you. It's worth it that you've been good sisters for several years."

Gui'er couldn't help but feel moved after hearing this. Although she and Sha Lili were not the same kind of people, they were indeed the few sisters who had a say in the Marshal's Mansion. Taohua was married, and now Sha Lili was also getting married. It would probably be even more boring to go back to the Marshal's Mansion in the future.

After hanging up the phone, the wife said, "That little devil, the fourth son, is full of schemes. She made such a big fuss about marrying off a concubine's daughter. She just wanted everyone to know that she's in high esteem and favored in the Marshal's mansion. Luckily, the Marshal never paid much attention to his daughters. Her scheme has finally failed."

Sha Yanyao glanced at Gui'er and said with a smile, "Of course. If I have time, I wouldn't mind going back, but I really can't leave. Last time I busted a Communist organization, I only arrested a few unknown people and didn't dig out other strongholds. Now I have people watching everywhere to see if there are any suspicious people. I can dig deeper. If something unexpected happens while I'm away, it will be more trouble than it's worth."

Gui'er was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Oh, so that's how it is. But why are there so many Communist Party organizations? When the pictures of those people being shot appeared in the newspapers, many of our classmates liked to buy snacks at Daxinglong. When they recognized them, we were all really scared."

She actually wanted to test whether Sha Yanyao could reveal any useful clues. Since the last incident, there had been no movement for so long, and she thought she could rest assured.

Sha Yanyao shook his head and said, "Young people nowadays are easily misled by so-called progressive ideas. Being anti-government is extremely dangerous. If you find someone like that, be sure not to get too close to them, lest they get investigated and implicate you."

"Brother, don't worry. I'm just close to Zhou Huifang and the others. Her father and her partner are both members of the Military Commission, so there's absolutely no problem."

Sha Yanyao nodded. "Speaking of Gao Zinong, he's quite good at reading people's expressions. Director Tian really likes him now. He's considering transferring him from me to be his secretary."

Miss Tian said, "That's normal. You've gone from being my uncle's secretary to his assistant. He definitely still needs a secretary. It's so hard to find someone capable. Don't be reluctant to let him go."

Sha Yanyao quickly said with a smile: "How could that be? If our uncle can use any of my men, it will be no problem."

Miss Tian then smiled with satisfaction, but Gui'er could see that Sha Yanyao was not very satisfied with Gao Zinong and was even on guard against him, because he had originally started as Director Tian's secretary, and now Gao Zinong was climbing up along the path he had taken before, and the more outstanding Gao Zinong was, the greater his sense of crisis became.

Gui'er felt that this might be useful in the future, so she couldn't help but pay attention to it secretly.

When he returned to school the next day, Xu Wenjie announced that the printing point would be restarted.

Gui Er was startled and said quickly, "No way. Yesterday I heard Sha Yanyao say that he wanted to further track down the revolutionary party's stronghold. He said that he only arrested a few unknown people last time, so this time he had to dig deeper."

Miss Shen asked worriedly, "Did Sha Yanyao say that?"

Guier nodded and said, "Yes, he also told me not to get too close to students with progressive ideas, so as not to get implicated."

Xu Wenjie sighed and frowned as he said, "Although the situation is difficult, our superiors have an important task for us, which is to print some pamphlets promoting anti-Japanese and communist ideas. The reason why our country is so backward and has been bullied by foreign powers is because of disunity and lack of unity of thought. Moreover, more people are just muddling along, deeply influenced by the idea of ​​appeasement. We can hold off on starting the printing point for our own safety, but our country can't wait any longer, and the powers won't give us time."

What he said made a lot of sense. Miss Shen looked at him appreciatively and said, "It's okay. We support you, right, Gui'er?"