After living a new life for my neighbor's grandmother, I traveled through the book again

Diao Yongting and Rong Xinzi waited on the boat until evening, when the crowd at the dock gradually dispersed, and then they got off the boat and went home.

When I got home, it was completely dark.

Rong Xinzhi, who was brought to Shanghai early to develop a relationship with the person designated by Diao Yongting, had been standing at the door waiting for the couple for a long time.

Seeing that only the two of them had returned, Rong Xinzhi swallowed the words she had been about to ask and simply said, "Second sister, brother-in-law, the food is ready, and we're just waiting for you to come back and eat. Mr. Qiao also called and said he'd be here around 8:30."

Mr. Qiao’s full name is Qiao Hua, and he is the future husband chosen by Diao Yongting for Rong Xinzhi.

He did not hold any key position in the Shanghai municipal government, but he was familiar with the intricacies of all classes and was actually an intelligence dealer.

As long as the money is available, he will make money in any way.

It was Qiao Hua who acted as the connection between Diao Yongting and the Kingdom of Fuso.

If this trip to Jiangcheng goes smoothly, Qiao Hua can also get a share of the pie.

But unfortunately, the trip to Jiangcheng failed and Diao Yongting lost power, which still had a certain impact on Qiao Hua.

In order to find out what happened to Diao Yongting in Jiangcheng, Qiao Hua would come over no matter how late it was.

In fact, if Qiao Hua didn't want to get close to Yang Jixia as soon as possible, he might have rushed to the boat to ask Diao Yonghua.

Knowing Qiao Hua's intentions, Diao Yongting was not particularly happy to hear that Qiao Hua was coming over as usual. Instead, he sneered and said, "Humph! They are all sycophants. Go back to the house!"

The two sisters of the Rong family didn't understand the trick, but they knew that Diao Yongting was angry, and they also understood that his relationship with Qiao Hua had changed.

Rong Xinzhi was worried that this change would affect her marriage, while Rong Xinzi began to worry whether she could maintain her luxurious life after Diao Yongting lost power.

All of a sudden, the sisters began to plan for their future.

After seeing how warmly Tong Jia and the others were welcomed, Rong Xinzi quickly thought of his own way out, which was to cling tightly to Tong Jia (Rong Xintong).

As long as the eldest sister can control her brother-in-law, her future life will not be too bad. For the sake of her sister and brother-in-law, Diao Yongting dare not do anything to her.

Rong Xinzhi, who didn't know that Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) had also come to Shanghai, had already started planning to leave the Diao family.

Although her experience since childhood was limited, she knew clearly that people go to high places and water flows to low places.

Although returning to her hometown is the safest way, after seeing the extravagant life of the rich ladies and officials in Shanghai, how could she be willing to go back to her hometown to live an ordinary life with her long-ill bedridden mother?

Therefore, she decided to grab Qiao Hua as a life-saving straw tonight and strive to stay in the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

After learning about the sisterly relationship between Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) and Yang Jixia and Rong Xinzi and Rong Xinzhi at the welcome party, he, who had originally wanted to give up Rong Xinzhi, also decided to continue maintaining his relationship with Rong Xinzhi in order to get closer to Yang Jixia.

Just like that, two people with ulterior motives, after Diao Yongting rejected Qiao Hua's door that night, actually progressed much faster than before and rolled directly into the same bed.

The next morning, he was discovered by the servants of Diao Yongting's family.

Diao Yongting, who had long anticipated Qiao Hua's intention to curry favor with Yang Jixia, was not surprised by Qiao Hua's behavior. What surprised him was that the sister-in-law he thought was conservative and feudal actually had her own plans.

Turning around to look at Rong Xinzi who was getting angry and helpless beside him, and recalling the bold and daring Tong Jia (Rong Xintong), Diao Yongting felt that among the three sisters, the one he married was the worst.

Not wanting to meddle in other people's affairs, he used the excuse that his wound hurt and he needed to rest, and handed the matter over to Rong Xinzi to handle. He also said: "If you can't handle it, send your sister-in-law back to her hometown and let your brother or your mother take care of her. If that doesn't work, send her to your eldest sister. She lives close to your brother-in-law and should be able to give you some advice and make the decision for your sister-in-law.

Don't count on me, an injured one."

It is impossible to go back to their hometown, so going to Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) is exactly what Qiao Hua and Rong Xinzhi want.

But Rong Xinzi was unwilling to let Rong Xinzhi leave his home.

She was unwilling to be sent back to her hometown or to Tong Jia (Rong Xintong).

The incident happened in her sister's own home, and it was such an embarrassing thing. She would feel embarrassed to tell others about it.

So, she wanted to make a big deal out of a small matter.

The two of them had already been developing feelings for each other and had originally planned to get married. Now they were just taking the wrong steps. As long as things didn't get out of hand and they got married as soon as possible, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

So, after Diao Yongting returned to her room, she took Rong Xinzhi's hand and said, "Little sister, in my opinion, it's not appropriate for you two to make this matter known to everyone.

Why not have Mr. Qiao go back and ask his elders to pick a good day, and then come to our house to propose marriage, so we can get your marriage done as soon as possible."

As long as she could get close to Qiao Hua, Rong Xinzhi didn't mind who made the decision for her, but Qiao Hua was different.

He immediately asked, "Marriages are all decided by the parents and the matchmaker. Mrs. Diao is only Xinzhi's sister, not the eldest brother or sister. Isn't it inappropriate for her to make such a decision on behalf of the elders in the family?"

It's impossible for my parents and elders to discuss the specific details of the marriage with Mrs. Diao when they propose marriage, right? "

Rong Xinzi angrily questioned, "I'm not the eldest brother, nor the eldest sister, and certainly not my younger sister's parent. But you two know exactly what you did last night.

If I wasn't afraid that you would get pregnant and waste time going back and forth to your hometown, do you think I would really want to put myself in this trouble?

If you don't want to come and talk to me, then let your elders go to my hometown to talk to my brother and mother.

It took more than a month to go back and forth to finalize the marriage, and then I came back to prepare for it.

With luck, everything goes smoothly.

This is bad luck, haha, my belly won’t look good when the time comes!"

After saying this, Rong Xinzi was about to go upstairs, but was stopped by Rong Xinzhi, who was worried about being embarrassed.

She softly said, "Second sister, Mr. Qiao didn't mean that. He just wanted to be more polite. Mr. Qiao, don't you agree?"

We couldn't help ourselves last night and were at fault. Why don't we just follow Second Sister's wishes?"

Qiao Hua hesitated for a moment and said, "If the eldest sister of the Rong family is not in Shanghai, I have no objection to handling this matter according to Mrs. Diao's wishes.

But yesterday, several government officials held a welcome ceremony together, and the protagonists of the welcome reception were Mr. and Mrs. Yang.

As far as I know, this Mrs. Yang should be the elder sister of you, Xinzhi, and Mrs. Diao.

With the eldest sister here, you let the second sister make the decision. Isn't that a bit arrogant?"

"Sister is in Shanghai?" Rong Xinzhi asked excitedly.

Although she didn't spend much time with Rong Xintong, because she was the youngest in the family, Rong Xintong would usually satisfy her with whatever she wanted. This was different from Rong Xinzi, who grew up with her and always snatched her things.

Especially when she learned that her eldest brother-in-law was now more valued by the Shanghai Municipal Government than her second brother-in-law, she felt that her future had become bright again.

At the same time, a slight feeling of regret came over me.

If she had known this news last night, she would never have handed herself over so rashly. She would have definitely waited until she met her elder sister and brother-in-law and assessed their current identities before making this decision.

Now that the matter has been settled, we can only choose Qiao Hua first.

If it turns out that Qiao Hua is not a good person in the future, I can just rely on the relationship between my eldest sister and brother-in-law to find a better backer.

Now she can't wait to meet her elder sister and ask her to fight for greater rights and interests for her.

So, under Qiao Hua's deliberate guidance, Rong Xinzhi urged Rong Xinzi to take her to see Tong Jia (Rong Xintong).

Rong Xinzi was so angry that her teeth were about to break, but she couldn't say anything to refuse.

He had to suppress the humiliation in his heart and took Rong Xinzhi and Qiao Hua to Yang Jixia's temporary residence in Shanghai.

But unfortunately, when they got there, they found that someone else had already moved there.

It turned out that Yang Jixia's temporary place only had two rooms, which was not enough for Tao Junle and Tian Ma. So, while he called the others to pick them up, he asked those who stayed to find another place to rent.

As soon as they came back yesterday and attended the welcome banquet, they moved to their new residence.

This time, they directly rented a three-story villa.

The first floor is the living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and Tian Ma's and Guo Xin's rooms.

Guo Xin's identity here is Yang Jixia's bodyguard. There are three rooms on the second floor, a master bedroom with a bathroom and dressing room, which is naturally Tong Jia and Yang Jixia's room.

Tong Jia sleeps on the big bed in the master bedroom, and Yang Jixia sleeps on the small bed in the cloakroom. Except for Tian's mother who comes in to clean the room, no outsiders can notice that they sleep in separate beds.

Next to the master bedroom is a second bedroom with a bathroom, which is Tao Junle's room.

In addition, there is a room without a bathroom, which is Yang Jixia’s study.

The third floor is simple, with only a bathroom, a large activity room with a small kitchen, and an outdoor terrace.

The previous owner held dances in the activity hall on the third floor. Now that they don’t plan to hold any dances, this place has become the bedroom for the brothers brought by Yang Jixia and Guo Xin.

Spread a mat on the ground and sleep on it as a dormitory bed.

There is also a small kitchen inside, so you can be completely self-sufficient.

Since Tong Jia (Rong Xintong) and her family had moved, Rong Xinzi, unable to find them, had to return home disappointed with Rong Xinzhi and Qiao Hua.

Diao Yongting smiled when he learned about the situation. He said, "It's a housewarming celebration. If you want to meet them, just wait at home. They have prepared everything and will naturally come to invite us.

They moved, but we didn’t. Even if my eldest sister doesn’t know the address, my brother-in-law knows it.”

When he said the word "brother-in-law", he pronounced it with extra emphasis, which made Qiao Hua realize that he had some opinions about Yang Jixia. At the same time, he also realized that as long as he handled the relationship between the two brothers-in-law well, profitable days were still to come, and he was even happier.

Qiao Hua felt that what Diao Yongting said made sense, and was worried about missing Yang Jixia's visit, so he stayed overnight at Diao's house.

He stayed at Diao's house for a week, and during this week, Tong Jia and Yang Jixia had no time to care about them at all.

The day after Yang Jixia returned, he was entrusted with an important task and took his men to the suburban county to carry out the mission.

Tong Jia was not idle either. She was invited by different wives of officials to play cards and go shopping every day.

July in Shanghai is hot and restless. If Tong Jia had a choice, she would not want to go out at all.

But that wasn't possible. One of her missions in coming to Shanghai this time was to get acquainted with those wives of officials so that she could get information from them in the future.

No matter how reluctant she was, she still accepted the invitation from those wives of officials, holding an umbrella, a fan and a handkerchief.

As soon as she stepped outside, she was enveloped by an invisible heat wave. The sun scorched the earth like a blazing fire, and the streets and alleys were filled with a sultry atmosphere.

In order to resist the scorching hot weather, every time she came back from outside, she would take Tao Junle into the RV, enjoy the air conditioning and eat popsicles.

But this momentary coolness could not offset the heat she had endured throughout the day.

Unable to refuse the invitations from the wives of officials, Tong Jia had no choice but to use an awl to poke a small air conditioner the size of a handbag and put it on the outside of her handbag.

Although you will still get exposed to the sun, as long as you keep it close to your handbag, you will be much cooler.

With this hand-wrapped air conditioner, she became a hot commodity in the circle of wives of officials.

In fact, they were also hot, but they all received instructions from their husbands to get close to Tong Jia, so they had to go out no matter how hot it was.

They were a little reluctant at first, but later they found that Tong Jia had her own unique ideas about dressing, and they felt particularly cool when they were close to her. So everyone changed their previous reluctance and was very willing to interact more with Tong Jia.

In fact, there is really only so much that these wives of officials can do. They just indulge in luxury, eating, drinking and having fun.

Except for the first week, I went out every day, either to make a cheongsam, or to buy fashionable items in stores, or to coffee shops to experience different styles, or to jewelry stores to look for jewelry that interested me.

After a week, everyone had gotten to know Tong Jia's preferences and background pretty well, so they rarely went out anymore.

In the following days, we will play cards at Mrs. Zhao's house today, play mahjong at Mrs. Liu's house tomorrow, and dance at Mrs. Wang's house the day after tomorrow.

In short, a new lady will take charge every day.

Finally, when it was Tong Jia's turn to be the banker, Tong Jia asked Tian Ma to go to Diao Yongting's house to send an invitation to Rong Xinzi.

He also asked Tian's mother to tell Rong Xinzi about her helplessness during this period, so that she could help share the burden when the time comes.

Rong Xinzi sneered when she received the invitation to the dance. She felt that her elder sister was showing off to her, but she had to accept it.

Looking at Rong Xinzhi who was so excited about finally meeting her elder sister, she felt that her younger sister was also an ungrateful person.

As night falls and the lights come on, Shanghai's nightlife begins.