After the Republic of China

Chapter 32
Mr. Shao's son, master and grandson both felt a little regretful about being a woman and not a man.

Shao Lanxiang said happily: "Now that the Republic of China is in place, the restrictions on boys and girls are not so strict. Outside, men and women have been in the same school and class. Dad, you are an enlightened person, and you must not lag behind in this regard."

The old man didn't like to hear these words, so he hummed to his daughter, and then got up.

When the old man started divination, he didn't like people talking too much, so Shao Lanxiang didn't dare to say any more, and stared at the money line.

It was probably because of counting life and death for his son-in-law, but the old man was not as relaxed as he appeared.

Along with the rising sandalwood, the atmosphere in the room froze for a moment.

After about a stick of incense, Shao Yunshi breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing her relaxed expression, Shao Lanxiang asked urgently in a low voice, "Gugu, how is it?"

Seeing her aunt's nervous expression, Shao Yunshi shook her head, hissed, and signaled to her that the old man is getting better soon, so don't interrupt her.

Sure enough, after waiting for a while, the old man withdrew his hand.

He ignored his daughter's eagerness, only raised his eyes to look at his granddaughter, and asked quizzically, "What do you think?"

Shao Yunshi handed the old man a cup of hot tea, looked at the hexagrams on the desk, and pointed at the hexagrams unhurriedly, "Li hexagrams, auspicious."

Mr. Shao nodded in satisfaction, and explained to his daughter who was covered in circles: "Judging from the hexagram, Zhe Kai should be fine, as long as he..."

Before the old man finished talking, Shao Lanxiang followed up and asked, "Do you need Zhe Kai to do anything?"

Seeing that his daughter was still impatient, the old man couldn't help laughing, instead he stopped talking, pointed at his granddaughter and said, "Ask her what you want to know."

Shao Lanxiang saw that her father was still smiling. Knowing that the result must be good, she breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily, "I'm asking a serious matter, Dad, don't tease me."

"I'm really not teasing you. I'm more patient than me to tell my Gu Gu Jie Gu. It's right for you to find her." The old man wanted to see if his granddaughter would benefit.

Shao Lanxiang naturally believed her father's words and looked at her eldest niece suspiciously.

Knowing what grandpa meant, Shao Yunshi didn't refuse, pulled her aunt, and explained: "This hexagram, considering the current environment, is really good."

Shao Lanxiang was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Could it be bad if the general environment changes?"

Mr. Shao glared at his daughter, "Listen to Gu Gu first."

Shao Yunshi was not angry, and continued: "Don't worry, aunt, no matter how the general environment changes, this hexagram is not bad."

Shao Lanxiang let out a breath.

Shao Yunshi thoughtfully waited for her aunt to slow down, and then said again: "At the moment, uncle only needs to establish a good relationship with his subordinates, and..."

Shao Lanxiang didn't expect her niece to explain clearly. After listening carefully, every sentence made sense, and her mind was settled.

Mr. Shao also stroked his beard in satisfaction.

The grandparents and grandchildren analyzed the current situation and hexagrams one by one.

This delay made it late for Shao Yunshi to return to Huaiyuan.

Seeing that it was getting late, Shao Yunshi took the first step to leave after explaining the hexagrams and gossiping.

Mr. Shao looked at his slim granddaughter, and said, "We'll have lunch in a while, what are you going to do when you go back?"

Shao Yunshi said with a smile: "My aunt is going to play in Huaiyuan in a while, I'll go back and clean up first."

After hearing this, Mr. Shao let him go.

Shao Lanxiang still had something to say to her father, but she didn't keep her.

Mr. Shao glanced at his daughter and said nothing.

Shao Yunshi bowed politely and left.

Ximei had been waiting outside, and when she saw the young lady coming out, she stamped her frozen feet and greeted her.

"Why didn't you leave?" Shao Yunshi took Ximei's cold hand and asked.

Xi Mei let out a sigh of relief, "I've been back, and seeing that it's getting late, I came to pick it up."

Shao Yunshi sighed, "It's broad daylight, and it's not that I don't know the way myself, why bother to make another trip."

Ximei laughed and laughed, "I'm really not cold."

Still in grandfather's yard, Shao Yunshi didn't want to say more, so she led the people away.

In the room, Shao Lanxiang looked at the back of her niece leaving through the window, her eyes filled with distress.

Seeing her staring outside, Mr. Shao smiled, "Gu Gu is getting better and better."

"Yeah, this kid is so good at metaphysics." Shao Lanxiang looked away, looked at his father, and asked, "Big brother, why did you delay coming back?"

"Who knows." Speaking of his son, Mr. Shao immediately darkened his face. "I have already sent a telegram to tell him not to come back. The current situation is turbulent, and the road is afraid of danger."

Seeing that her father was still unwilling to talk about it, Shao Lanxiang sighed helplessly, "It's fine if you don't come back."

Mr. Shao glared at his daughter, "You are in the mood to miss your elder brother, so you might as well care about Aunt Meng."

The old-fashioned wall clock in the study swings back and forth, accompanied by the sound of ticking, making people feel inexplicably quiet.

Shao Lanxiang listened to her father's lesson and didn't dare to reply, but she wasn't irritable.

She thought about her eldest niece who was just astonishingly talented, and changed the topic, "What is father's plan to hide from my aunt?"

"What plan?" The old man looked at his daughter in surprise.

Shao Lanxiang looked at her father helplessly, and said angrily, "Father, my aunt is already sixteen. A girl who doesn't go to school at this age should have some plans at home. I'm afraid that my mother will..."

Shao Lanxiang knew that her mother valued face the most, and she didn't like hiding it from her aunt.

Now that Mangu has reached the age where she can be married, Muma must be thinking of marrying Mangu early.

She couldn't say this deeply to her father, so she could only vaguely say a few words.

It's not that the old man is ignorant of his family affairs, he was relieved when he heard that it was for this.

Knowing the character of his old wife, he understands his daughter's worries, and he also appreciates her daughter's care for her eldest granddaughter, but he doesn't know how to respond to her daughter's words.

Feeling lost for a moment, the old man turned his head and looked at the pretty red plums standing outside the window. The scene was still the same, but more than ten years had passed.

At that time, the daughter-in-law had just married in, and she was as beautiful as a aunt. I thought that I was finally worthy of my benefactor and old friend.

Unexpectedly, the life of the daughter-in-law was not easy, and the son actually left his newly married wife and went to Peiping.

Not only that, but within a year, the son hooked up with the Bai family again and wanted to divorce his wife.

Without his permission, the always timid son boldly stopped his wife and remarried, openly fighting his old father.

In order to be worthy of his old friend's life-saving grace and his daughter-in-law, he endured the pressure and asked his son and his wife to reconcile, which made everyone lose face, but it was a pity that he suffered for his granddaughter, alas...

Seeing her father's gloomy and bitter face, Shao Lanxiang couldn't help but regret mentioning this, and hurriedly said: "Father, I want to ask Menggu to go to Nanjing with me."

Mr. Shao looked at his daughter strangely, and asked, "You can't go to Nanjing now, why do you still want to ask Menggu to go together?"

"Not now." Shao Lanxiang hurriedly said, "I just thought, my aunt is only sixteen, although there are people who marry at this age,..."

This made the old man dislike it.

Shao Lanxiang glanced at her father, and continued: "But isn't it the Republic of China now? People's children are all studying in school and learning, so our family can't bury my aunt."

(End of this chapter)