Yang Ximei wanted to forget this matter, but some people remembered it firmly.
Before everyone had dinner, Dong Shuheng took Wei Yuzhen to the front yard.
As a man, Wei Yuxiang was naturally not allowed to enter the Dong family's backyard.
But Wei Yuzhen did have to come out to see her brother. This was a courtesy.
Of course, the relationship between Wei Yuzhen and her second brother is very close.
Yuxiang has a gentler temperament and is not pedantic. He used to teach his sister personally. The brother and sister have a good relationship.
Compared to the somewhat dull eldest brother Yuxiang, Wei Yuzhen still prefers his second brother.
"Hello, second brother!" Wei Yuzhen stepped forward to say hello.
"Yeah." Wei Yuxiang nodded in agreement.
He originally wanted to teach his younger sister a few words, but Dong Shuheng was here at the moment and he couldn't say anything, so he had to agree.
"Yuzhen, go back and spend time with daddy when you have free time. My eldest brother and I are both running outside and don't have time." After thinking about it, Wei Yuxiang still warned.
"Well, yes, brother!"
"Yuzhen, let's take the train back to Yangzhou to see the teacher tomorrow." Dong Shuheng interjected, which was equivalent to helping Yuzhen smooth things over. He hadn't seen Wei Yuan for a long time.
Yuzhen is naturally very happy, and she also likes these new things.
"Shu Heng, how are you going to handle your marriage with Miss Yang?" Wei Yuzhen suddenly asked on the way back.
She only asked this question after a fierce inner struggle. When she came out, she hesitated and missed the opportunity. Now that she was about to go back, she mustered up the courage to ask.
"Well... Yang Xiuqing originally raised this condition for political reasons. Now that he is gone, why should he raise this matter?" Dong Shuheng said.
He didn't know why Wei Yuzhen asked this question. He said it out of his own intention, not to make Wei Yuzhen happy.
But he thought wrong. Wei Yuzhen asked him this question not out of jealousy, but after careful consideration.
Born in this era, Wei Yuzhen had no intention of dominating Dong Shuheng. Although she was a very independent and independent woman, she did not have the concept of monogamy in her mind.
She just cares about Dong Shuheng's feelings for her.
"Shu Heng, I think you should marry Miss Yang. She has lost her most reliable relative now. If you don't fulfill the engagement, I will look down on you."
"Yuzhen, we have to ask Miss Yang for her opinion. We can't force her." Dong Shuheng said helplessly.
"I can see that Miss Yang likes you. Although as a woman, I cannot be happy about this, but as a woman, I sympathize with Miss Yang."
"Given the relationship between Miss Yang and you, who else dares to marry her?"
Now, if anyone wants to marry Yang Ximei, he will have to paint Dong Shuheng's head, because he thinks his life will be too long. This master will be destroyed even if the princes in the capital say that his family will be destroyed.
After hearing this, Dong Shuheng felt a little embarrassed. He used the heart of a villain to judge the heart of a gentleman, and wrongly blamed Wei Yuzhen.
"Then this will have to wait until we get married."
"This is not good. It is impossible for Miss Yang to become a concubine!" Wei Yuzhen said.
"Then what should we do? Why don't we marry her as an equal wife?" Dong Shuheng seemed hypocritical if he tried to shirk it.
It's a bit funny to say that his unmarried wife is helping him find an equal wife.
He really wanted to ask if Wei Yuzhen would help him take concubines in the future. Although this was normal in ancient society.
It is common for the head wife to help her husband take concubines, and even give her husband maids as concubines.
But it was a bit awkward for this to happen to him. Dong Shuheng made such a decision knowing that Wei Yuzhen really sympathized with Yang Ximei.
In fact, Dong Shuheng did not reject this. From a political point of view, marrying Yang Ximei would be of great help to him in winning over the people of the original Dongwang clan.
From the bottom of his heart, Dong Shuheng did have a crush on Yang Ximei, whether it was her slender figure, heroic face, or frank and straightforward personality.
"Then it's settled, let Miss Yang come in with me!" Wei Yuzhen said the final decision, as if she breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, the two of them were chatting and walked to a corner of the garden, but Dong Shuheng suddenly stopped.
Wei Yuzhen looked at him and wondered what he was going to do.
Two big hands suddenly and gently grasped her pair of catkins. With a gentle pull, they took her into his arms.
This time Wei Yuzhen did not struggle and let Dong Shuheng hold her...
After a few minutes, Wei Yuzhen reminded in a low voice: "Shu Heng, they are all waiting for us to eat!"
At this time, Dong Shuheng gently let go of his arm and led Wei Yuzhen towards the flower hall.
At this time, Dong Shuheng had already opened up his mind and decided to settle down as he came. Of course, when he came to this era, he had to abide by the rules of this era.
At least he will not give up all the time, or do things that favor the new and dislike the old. He will care for the women around him as if they are his own relatives. In his eyes, these women are his family.
This is enough for them. Women in this era really do not have high requirements for men.
What Dong Shuheng likes most is Wei Yuzhen's kindness. She has the same great love for the country and the nation as Dong Shuheng, and she also has the unique sympathy of a woman for the people around her.
She sympathizes with the weak, is compassionate, and can even share her man's love with other women.
Dong Shuheng also recalled the scene when the two met for the first time. She was dressed in men's clothing and could talk to him about the past and the present.
Now she is also a good helper in Dong Shuheng's career, running newspapers, opening bookstores, and promoting the women's liberation movement...
Wei Yuzhen gave him great support both in career and life.
I really owe this woman a lot.
A larger dining table has been installed in the flower hall, and the maids placed various exquisite dishes on the table.
In the middle is a plump Yangzhou salted goose, which makes people appetite just looking at it. The little maid is cutting the goose meat next to it.
On the side of a wide-rimmed porcelain plate is large boiled dried shreds, with celery, bacon and river shrimp added to it.
The crab meat lion's head is soft, fat but not greasy, the orange-red crab roe is dotted on the boiled lion's head, and a few green vegetables are floating in the clear soup.
There are also Wensi Tofu, Braised Silver Carp Head, Three Sets of Duck, General Crossing the Bridge, Grilled Fang, Barbeque Pork Salmon...
Today's dishes are extremely rich, even richer than when Dong Shuheng came to eat in the past.
"Auntie, I'm very thoughtful today. The dishes are so rich. I can't help but use my chopsticks!" Dong Shuheng said.
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's start eating. I'll tell the kitchen to make some for the attendants outside."
Bai knew that every time Dong Shuheng came out, he would be followed by a large group of followers.
These people can be considered officials, so every time the Bai family would set up several tables for these people in the outer courtyard, including the internal guards.
"Everyone, let's start eating. This is an authentic Yangzhou dish, and it's all famous Yangzhou dishes." Mr. Bai left, and Dong Shuheng came as the guest host and greeted everyone.
Shumei was the first to use her chopsticks and picked up a lion's head, carefully for fear of shaking off the crab roe on it.
Although they are not short of money, they cannot always have such sumptuous meals at home.
Dong Shuheng helped Wei Yuzhen pick up a lion head with crab roe. This kind of boiled lion head is not very greasy, so girls like to eat it.
Wei Yuzhen thanked her, but her eyes were still fixed on Dong Shuheng, and she glanced at Yang Ximei to her left.
Dong Shuheng immediately understood and gave Yang Ximei a lion head.
"Miss Yang, try this lion head. The taste may be a bit bland, which is not very suitable for the taste of you Guangxi people."
"Thank you, President, for my eating habits."
Yang Ximei was born into a poor family. In the past, it was good to have enough to eat. How could she be picky about the taste of food?
Although she has lived a well-fed life in the past few years, she has yet to put her mouth in her mouth.
After clamping one for Yang Ximei, Dong Shuheng was about to start it himself.
He is a person who cares very much about his appetites and wants to eat the most unique local food wherever he goes.
Last time I went to Japan, I even asked the shogunate to send all the emperor’s chefs over.
At this time, Wei Yuzhen's big eyes looked at her again, and the meaning in her eyes was directed at Duji who didn't dare to move her chopsticks.
Atsuki is obviously a little restrained, and her Chinese is a bit shaky, so she plays a supporting role when the girls are chatting.
After arriving in China, she clearly felt that the status of Chinese women was much higher than that of Japanese women.
Especially when she was attending classes in the academy and heard Wei Yuzhen's class, she never thought that a woman could still teach.
This is hard to imagine in Japan, even if this woman has a high status.
Of course, she didn’t know that this was because of the special existence of the academy. The school motto Wei Yuan set for the academy was “openness, tolerance, innovation, and sincerity.”
This is a place of exploration and experimentation, and it cannot represent the whole of China.
Naturally, Du Ji became Wei Yuzhen's friend.
Wei Yuzhen did not expect that a Japanese girl would come to the academy. At the beginning, Wei Yuzhen contacted Atsushi because she was curious about Japanese women.
Later, Wei Yuzhen discovered that this woman was very unusual. She was also proficient in Western learning and even knew a lot of Confucian knowledge.
The two of them discussed knowledge together from the very beginning and gradually became friends who talked about everything.
When Duji learned that Wei Yuzhen was Dong Shuheng's fiancée, she was very surprised.
She was surprised that Dong Shuheng could allow his fiancée to go out to do things and even teach. You must know that most of the people in this academy are men.
Atsuki has been trained since she was a child how to become a woman in the great arcana, so she naturally understands the great arcana very well.
There is actually a cage where women are imprisoned. All the rules in the Great Austria are designed to control these women. Their biggest role is to reproduce offspring for the general.
Therefore, in Atsushi's understanding, those in power should control their women in this way.
So she was surprised that Dong Shuheng could let his woman do things.
This time when she and Wei Yuzhen came out as guests, she didn't expect to meet Dong Shuheng again.
After Dong Shuheng brought them to China, he put them in the academy. It had been a long time and he seemed to have forgotten them.
Father Qi Bin reads in the library every day, and occasionally does some cleaning work. He looks like a sweeping monk.
The King of Ryukyu often changed his major and made a lot of friends.
Du Ji thought that after being brought to the Qing Dynasty by Dong Shuheng, she would become Dong Shuheng's maid or something. Based on her understanding of men, this was a normal routine.
But along the way, she and Dong Shuheng had many moments of being alone together, but this man always adhered to the way between men and women.