Beiyang 1917

"Brother Wang, it's agreed. Next Saturday, I will go shopping with Sister Ping again!" Lu Mei shook Wang Geng's arm and said expectantly.

"Ha, that's hard to say, but as long as I'm free that day, I'll be fine!" Wang Geng smiled and patted the little girl's hand, while looking at Duan Hongbing who was obviously looking forward to in the back seat of the car. Getting along in the afternoon made the relationship between the three of them take a step forward unconsciously.

"Mei'er, Brother Wang is busy with business, how can he spend so much time shopping with you little girl!" Duan Hongbing saw Lu Mei hugging Wang Geng's arm, and he couldn't help but say with mixed feelings. .

"I don't! I'm still waiting for him to teach me how to wear that... cheongsam! The tailor said that it can be done in four or five days and send it home. If it doesn't look good, I have to ask him to pay for the material!" Lu Mei Yelled, grabbing Wang Geng's arm even tighter.

"Your elder brother Wang paid the deposit, and you still said, let go quickly, your family is coming out!" Duan Hongbing quickly lowered his voice when he saw the door of the Lu family's house opened behind him.

"Hey!" Lu Mei hurriedly let go of her hand in fright, and turned around. Sure enough, the old housekeeper just poked his head out of the mansion door. When he saw his young lady came back, he turned around and shouted at the mansion, "Hurry up and tell Mrs. came back!"

"Okay, I won't tell you guys, see you next Saturday!" Lu Mei leaned forward and shook Duan Hongbing's hand in the car, then made a demonstrative gesture to Wang Geng, bouncing towards her home Run to the gate.

Seeing that it was getting late and it was almost time to light the lanterns, Wang Geng was afraid that the Duan family would also be worried, so he got into the car and sent Duan Hongbing home.

"Miss Duan, do you really want to study abroad? Europe is still in full swing right now. If you want to go, you can only go to the United States." Wang Geng asked while driving through the street with ease. Second Miss Duanfu in the back seat.

"Brother Wang, you still call me Hong Fing. There are no young ladies in the old Duan Mansion. Although Daddy is the Prime Minister, our family is no different from ordinary people. If you hadn't paid the deposit for the two clothes just now, I have to go back and ask the housekeeper to deliver it." Duan Hongbing's voice was a little distant.

"Okay, I'll call you Hong Fing, don't just call me Brother Wang and Supervisor Wang, just call me by my name, just call me Wang Geng, Brother Wang makes me feel old all day long!" Wang Geng said with a smile.

"Well, I want to study in the United States, but I'm afraid my mother won't. Sacred Heart Academy is just a church girls' high school. I should graduate in summer. I want to go to college, but in Beijing, only women's normal colleges can go. I'm afraid I won't!"

Although Duan Hongbing only spent one afternoon with the young man in front of him, he unknowingly regarded him as someone he could tell his thoughts to. Wang Geng's talent, insight and grandeur made the girl's heart flutter. pleasing to the eye.

"Well, although co-education is commonplace in Europe and the United States, we may still have to work hard for a few years in this area. Besides, although China's education is changing with each passing day, there is still a lot of gap with Europe and the United States. If you are not in a hurry to get married or something, Studying abroad is a good way to broaden your horizons and increase your knowledge!" Wang Geng nodded.

Duan Hongbing's heart skipped a beat when he heard the word "married". He was 16 years old. In the past two years, people who came to the old Duan's mansion to propose marriage to the Prime Minister almost broke the threshold. If it wasn't for his father who always loved him , Mother kept stopping her and was reluctant, maybe she was already engaged to someone.

For the ladies who spent their adolescence in missionary schools like the Sacred Heart Academy in France, the modern education they receive, which is like a blend of Chinese and Western cultures, is still the mainstream in this society, but it is becoming more and more popular. Outstanding women who have received Western cultural education and enlightenment are unwilling.

Although Sacred Heart Academy is a legal church school, Duan Hongbing's favorite is the works of the British female writer Jane Austen. She can't put it down, "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice". Of course, the British female writer Charlotte The same is true of Bronte's masterpiece "Jane Eyre". Encountering a free and independent romantic love is the deepest desire and expectation in the hearts of young girls.

Seeing Duan Hongbing bit his lip and said nothing, Wang Geng smiled and comforted,

"Girl Hongpin, don't worry if I look at you. An outstanding woman like you will meet someone she likes sooner or later. Prime Minister Duan will not force others. Besides, children in Western society can independently choose themselves when they are 18 years old. In the United States, there are more women working and raising families, and at worst, you can go to the United States to study and live a free life.”

Duan Hongbing took a look at Wang Geng who was driving in the front seat, and said in his heart, what you think is simple, where does the cost of studying in the United States come from?Not to mention whether my mother is willing or not, I am afraid that my father will not agree first. Could it be that I eloped with you?

While driving the car, Wang Geng said without turning his head, "If you really meet the person you like, so what if you elope to study abroad, but having said that, you have to keep your eyes open and choose the right person. Yes, if not, don't say that your father won't forgive him, I, Wang Geng, will be the first one not to forgive him!"

Duan Hongbing blushed suddenly in the back seat, intending to reprimand Wang Geng for talking nonsense, but somehow his heart softened again, thinking that this fellow came back from the United States, maybe it was just such a straightforward and frank temper, and he himself He cannot be underestimated.

"Why won't you spare him? Who are you to me?" Duan Hongbing bit his lips and said such a sentence in a mysterious way. He covered his face as soon as the words came out. It was too embarrassing. With the taste of flirting between men and women, it is impossible to talk about it with others except with Lu Mei, a hard-core best friend, let alone such an outstanding young man of the opposite sex.

"I have a responsibility to you. I, Wang Geng, came back from the United States alone to join Prime Minister Duan. Before that, I was a retainer of your old Duan family. It is not my responsibility to share the worries of the master. Of course, I will look after your father. Yours, there won't be any dandy and slutty guys who will have the opportunity to abduct you, Lu Mei said earlier that you have learned kung fu? Can you shoot a gun?" Wang Geng took out the flower mouth pistol from his pocket Handed over.

Duan Hongbing was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself, where is this going? Why are you responsible for me? We are just a pair of young men and women who are seven years younger than each other when we meet for the first time, but Duan Tiezhu taught me kung fu and marksmanship Yes, this uncle seems to have really gone to work as a housekeeper in Wang Geng's mansion right now?

"Can't play with guns?" Wang Geng was a little disappointed and wanted to take the gun back. Here, Duan Hongbing gritted his teeth and took the small and exquisite pistol from Wang Geng's hand. There was a clatter of bullets in the chamber, and he made a gesture to gnaw at Wang Geng's head.

"Hey, grandma, be careful! My head is precious, and I, Wang Geng, is the only one under your father's command. This head can't make people meow. No matter how beautiful or good-looking a woman is, she can't look at me like that! "Wang Geng made an exaggerated sideways gesture to avoid the gun in Duan Hongbing's hand.

At this moment, Duan Hongbing's mood obviously improved a lot. While withdrawing the gun, ejecting the bullet and pressing it back into the magazine, he said with a hint of complacency, "I didn't expect that Tangtang, the supervisor of the battle and the commander of the 16th mixed brigade, would actually have When you're timid! Hmph, aren't you afraid that I'll tell Lu Mei that it will be a hindrance to your glorious image as Big Brother Wang!"

Wang Geng thought to himself, am I afraid that you will go off fire? If you pull the trigger indiscriminately in such a small corner of the car, it will not be easy for the big Luo Jinxian to hide. Do you really think that I am an immortal diamond gourd baby with three heads and six arms?

At this moment, Duan Hongbing was pondering over the words Wang Geng said "no matter how good-looking and beautiful". This afternoon, when the crazy girl Lu Mei met Wang Geng, a guy she knew well, the relationship between the two The degree of intimacy and acquaintance is obviously much better than her slightly reserved performance, and Miss Duan can't tell what kind of mood she is in. Could it be that she is jealous that Lu Mei has been talking and laughing with Wang Geng's arm?

Wang Geng seemed to know what the girl was thinking, he held the steering wheel with one hand, and stretched back the other hand to take back the pistol. Duan Hongbing's gesture of retracting the bullet just now was neat and tidy, and now he is not afraid of her going off. The bullet was never loaded.

Unexpectedly, Wang Geng's car happened to pass by an alley at this moment, and a rickshaw suddenly sprang out of the alley. After stopping, although the speed of the car was not fast at first, Wang Geng was going to the back seat with his right hand to get back the gun, and Duan Hongbing was a little distracted, wondering if he was jealous of Lu Mei and Wang Geng?

With such a brake, the second lady of the Duan Mansion rushed forward and hit Wang Geng's protruding hand. In fact, Wang Geng had already reacted when he braked. The hand that was about to be retracted suddenly opened I opened my fingers to cushion Duan Hongbing's first block, so that the girl wouldn't hurt herself from bumping against the back of the front seat...

As a result, Wang Geng opened his big hand, and as the car slammed on the brakes, it blocked Duan Hongbing's plump chest. The softness of the hand and the firmness of the palm made the body in the 1915 Dodge car The two young men and women suddenly petrified.