Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

At the end of last year, Marshal Zhang announced the change of flag in the Northeast, and declared victory after a year and a half of the Northern Expedition.This is also the first time in China's 5000-year history that a war was waged from south to north and eventually won.The national division-split and warlord scuffle that began in the late Qing Dynasty, at least on the surface, ended.After years of ups and downs, the country was finally unified.

The whole country is immersed in this hard-won joy. Compared with ordinary people, people in business circles are more excited about it.Finally, the era of the north-south thoroughfare came. After the reunification of the country, the restoration of railways, highways, and shipping gave them the hope of further expansion of trade.

Rorschach is no exception.

Since the end of last year, he has visited Tianjin several times in person to discuss with Fan Dongli the selection of a location in the south and the establishment of a branch of Neptune Chemical Factory.They agreed to set up a chemical plant in each of the north and the south to meet the huge demand for chemical raw materials and fertilizer products across the country.

He is currently vacillating between Nanjing and Hangzhou, and he is waiting for the Chinese New Year to go to the selected site for further investigation, and strive to complete the foundation stone laying ceremony before May.

Because Liang Shaolong provided military uniforms, belts, and even military shoes and other military necessities for the troops on both sides of the north and south at the same time, he made a lot of "war fortune".His rain shoe factory has also been further upgraded and has become a rubber shoe factory. The various labor rubber shoes and sports shoes produced are sold all over the country, and now he has become a veritable "rubber shoe king".

Gu Hanlin was also proud of his spring breeze, and was conscripted into the Nanjing government to work in the newly merged National Education Bureau.However, he is mainly responsible for Shanghai education and international education exchanges, so he is still based in Shanghai, which saves him the trouble of traveling between the two places.

All in all, this year, whether for the country or for individuals, is brand new and worth looking forward to.

"What's the matter with Tsubaki Sakura? How long has it been since you returned to Japan for the New Year, and you still haven't returned to Shanghai?"

On a winter day that was still chilly but not too cold under the sun, Luo Xiazhi and others strolled in the "Plum Garden".

"Why, Young Master Liang, do you still miss her?"

With a branch of red plum in his hand, Luo Xiazhi asked amusedly.

Today, he was wearing a gray Russian woolen coat and a white fox fur scarf. With the blood-like red plum, he looked particularly eye-catching.

Gu Hanlin stood next to him and flattered wildly, talking about the color matching of the scene. Only in "A Dream of Red Mansions", Xue Baoqin was standing on the snowy hillside wearing a big red fur coat, and the girl behind her was holding a bottle of red plums was worthy of the scene.

Hearing that Liang Shaolong felt that his teeth were going to be acidified in the winter, his cousin was the scariest when he shook his head, but Xiao Xia still liked it very much.Two people are really willing to fight and suffer.

"What do I miss her for? I'm just curious. I heard that after the 'Meiji Restoration', this Japanese will not be celebrating the Lunar New Year. Isn't it strange that she hasn't come back after staying in Tokyo for so long? The key is that Nogi Hiroshi didn't come either." Shanghai, don’t you think it’s interesting?”

"Indeed."

Li Ye listened and said in agreement, "Sakura Department Store just opened a branch on Xiafei Road last year. The year-end sales promotion battle should be the most important time of the year. She actually dropped everything... Could it be What happened to Japan?"

"Well... a few of my classmates in Japan have recently returned to China to visit their relatives. I really don't know what's going on there."

Gu Hanlin reached out and patted the red plum petals that fell on Luo Xiazhi's white scarf, and shook his head hesitantly.

"Hey, we came to the 'Plum Garden' to enjoy the scenery. Why do we think so much? I hope that the two 'Plague Gods' will not return to Shanghai from now on, so I can do business more comfortably."

Rorschach said matter-of-factly.

This year will definitely be a very busy year. Not only will he travel around, but his elder brother is also preparing to set sail for a survey in Europe.

Hearing that there has been a slump there recently, and production is unsustainable, Luo Yunze is considering expanding exports to the European market, allowing cheap and high-quality Chinese products to land in Europe.

"Yeah, let's enjoy the scenery."

Gu Hanlin is as good as others, "Don't tell me, this garden has been renovated for half a year, and now it is even more charming."

Since Liang Shaolong's father passed away and Liang Shaolong moved in, he has made many changes to the scenery of the plum garden.

Last year, he listened to Gu Hanlin's opinion, introduced the lake water of Dianshan Lake to the north of the back garden, and spent a lot of money to transport Taihu Lake stones, and built a rockery on the north.Another "Lengxiang Pavilion" was built on the rockery.

Sitting on the Lengxiang Pavilion, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of the whole plum garden.

The four people boarded the "Lengxiang Pavilion" to enjoy the scenery. Knowing that they were coming, the servants had already surrounded the pavilion with bamboo screens on three sides, leaving only the south-facing side.And under the table, a charcoal stove was burning. Sitting here, even if it is snowing outside, you don't have to worry about being frozen.

"Hey, what's over there? Isn't it a plum tree?"

Luo Xiazhi held the hand stove and asked, pointing to a forest to the west of the garden.

This plum garden was built for Mr. Liang to commemorate his deceased wife, and the plum blossoms are naturally planted in it.In addition to the earliest wintersweet and red plums, Liang Shaolong also bought black plums, green plums and other rare plum varieties from famous private gardens in Suzhou and Nanjing in the past two years to commemorate his loving parents.

But looking from the "Lengxiang Pavilion", he could only see the bare branches of the forest in the west, and it didn't look like wintersweet had lost its flowers and leaves, so he asked curiously.

"That's a maple and maple grove newly planted last year."

Before Liang Shaolong could answer, Li Ye responded first.

But after he finished speaking, his cheeks were flushed, and he turned his head away.

"Maple leaf, maple tree...haha, so it is."

Rorschach nodded.

He just said that the plum blossoms bloom every year, and it is not the first time that the plum garden has been renovated, and Liang Shaolong has never invited them to visit so enthusiastically before.

Li Ye was born in autumn, which is the season when the maple leaves turn red, so his parents named him the word "leaf".

Liang Shaolong is imitating his father!

By the way, give myself and Gu Hanlin another bite of dog food.

"These maple trees haven't grown yet, and they will grow taller in a few years. When the temperature drops, they will be as red as fire, more beautiful than plum blossoms."

Liang Shaolong raised his eyebrows proudly, "You must come and see it then."

Luo Xiazhi can assure you that if this guy had a tail growing on his ass, he would be in a propeller state by now.

"Ah, come to think of it, Xiao Xia, you are born on the day of the summer solstice, right?"

"what?"

Luo Xiazhi had an intuition that this guy was about to "can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth".

"Call me cousin. In the small garden of his villa, I will plant a piece of watermelon for you, and make it a 'birthday present' for you on the day of the 'summer solstice'!"

After finishing speaking, he laughed out loud to himself, not caring what expressions the three people next to him looked at him.

Shanghai people have a custom to eat watermelon on the summer solstice in order to spend the summer safely.But who would use a watermelon as a birthday present?

"Third Master, ignore him, he's just like this..."

Li Ye was so embarrassed that he was dying, he kicked Liang Shaolong hard, which stopped his arrogant and mentally retarded laughter.

After staying in the "Lengxiang Pavilion" for a while, everyone continued to visit the garden.

The original house built by Mr. Liang is on the east side, besides a plum grove, there is also a "Plum Wife's Villa" with four entrances.

When winter comes, he lives in this villa.On the one hand, this villa takes the word "Mei" from his wife's name, and on the other hand, it takes the allusion of "Plum Wife and Crane Son" by Lin Bu, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty.In terms of Master Liang's cultural level, he should have referred to the opinion of a certain scholar.

After Liang Shaolong made money, he expanded the garden to the west by [-] mu of land. In addition to opening up the maple forest, he also built a small villa with three entrances - one less entry was to show respect for his parents.

"Fontaine Village... well, why not call it 'Fontainbleau Palace', wouldn't that be more grand?"

Looking at the plaque at the entrance of the villa, Luo Xiazhi yelled "Good guy!"

Today he came to "eat dog food"!

This has only happened twice in a short period of time. It is estimated that if he is not forced to eat "dog food" today, he will not be able to leave the gate of this plum garden.

"This word looks familiar...Director Gu, can you appreciate the handwriting of an 'expert'?"

Luo Xiazhi stopped in his tracks, and asked while pointing to the elegant yet powerful font on the plaque.

In fact, he was asking the question knowingly. The name of Gu Hanlin was directly written on the inscription, and his stamp was also printed on it, so there is nothing unclear about it.

"Go, go inside, go inside."

Gu Hanlin chuckled, put his hands on his shoulders, and pushed him all the way inside.

"This……"

Walking into the manor, Luo Xiazhi couldn't help being taken aback.

In this brand-new garden, as far as the eye can see, it is all red.

This is not the red of plum blossoms, nor the red of maple leaves, but the red of colored silk.All the door rails, window frames, plaques, and even well fences were all tied with bright red silk, with big red flowers and concentric knots tied on the silk and satin, which looked like a wedding event.

"Xiaoye, what's going on?"

Rorschach reflexively turned to ask his secretary.

"I...I don't know either."

Li Ye shook his head blankly, "It wasn't like this when I came back."

"Go! Go to the main hall!"

Without waiting for these two people to figure it out, Gu Hanlin and Liang Shaolong each grabbed their lover's hand and walked towards the main hall where they entered first.

Walking into the main hall, it is even more decorated with red and green, gold and silver.Especially in the main hall hangs a large pair of red background sprinkled with gold, with a person-high "囍" character written in gold mud, and the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang Double Happiness candles burned high next to it, which are as thick as the wrist. It entered the eye sockets of Luo and Li.

Under the word "囍", there is a tablet for "heaven, earth, monarch, relative and teacher".Below the memorial tablet are four tall bean dishes, each containing four kinds of red dates, peanuts, longan, and lotus seeds, which symbolize the "early birth of a precious child" and are must-have dried fruits for Shanghainese people when they get married.

"What are you doing?"

Li Ye pushed Liang Shaolong's hand away, and took half a step back in disbelief.

Unexpectedly, instead of being pushed away by him, Liang Shaolong fell to his knees on the ground with a "plop".

The voice was so crisp that Luo Xiazhi couldn't help worrying about his knees.

"Li Ye, marry me!"

As Liang Shaolong said, he took out a red velvet box from his jacket pocket.

"you you……"

Li Ye's eyes widened in disbelief.

Good guy, good guy!Lianggou, you can do it!

What about admiring plum blossoms and visiting gardens, it turned out that they were all foreshadowing the proposal!Today is indeed a day when you can eat dog food!

Luo Xiazhi pulled Gu Hanlin and stood beside a table, staring intently, wanting to play "Wedding March" for them from the bottom of his heart.

"Li Ye. My parents are dead, this is the home they left for me. It is the most important place in my life."

While talking, Liang Shaolong opened the box, revealing a simple gold ring inside.

"I am the one who has nothing to worry about. The only person I can worry about in this life is my cousin..."

"Ok?"

Gu Hanlin turned his head and scolded this idiot for not even being able to propose marriage, and he had to bring himself!

"Hey, I mean, the only person I care about in this world is you."

Liang Shaolong coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment.

"My cousin and Xiao Xia have each passed the 'bright road' in front of their parents, so they are considered to have 'names'."

Liang Shaolong raised his eyes, he was no longer young, and there were fine wrinkles around the corners of his eyes, but it was also because of this, compared to the unrestrained Young Master Liang in his early years, now he is more mature because of his maturity. taste".

"You and I...Although we can't be like my cousin and Xiaoxia, I also hope to give you a 'title'."

"Shaolong..."

Li Ye lowered his eyelids, making it difficult for people to see his emotions clearly.

"I know it's not me you started to like, it's..."

Seeing that he didn't answer, Liang Shaolong became anxious all of a sudden, and almost said something he shouldn't have said in front of Luo Xiazhi.But finally, amidst his cousin's almost "shaking and earth shaking" cough, he took back the taboo words.

Luo Xiazhi looked suspiciously at Gu Hanlin who was coughing and almost entered the 'vibration mode'.

"In short, I, Liang Shaolong, swear here. No matter how bastard I, Liang Shaolong, was before, I was a 'devil king of the world', but since I recognized you, Li Ye, for so many years, I only have you. From now on, I will only have you! "

Li Ye raised his head, his eyes sparkled, it seemed that he was also moved by his words.In fact, they have known each other for many years. Although he is more than ten years younger than Liang Shaolong, he has already known Liang Shaolong's character through the ups and downs.

Li Ye stretched out his hand, took the brocade box from Liang Shaolong, and nodded shyly.

Even Luo Xiazhi, who wanted to kill someone when he first heard that Liang Shaolong and Li Ye were dating, couldn't help but be moved by the scene in front of him.

"Hahaha! You promised! You can't go back on your word!"

Seeing this, Liang Shaolong jumped up from the ground, grabbed Li Ye's left hand, and put the gold ring on his left ring finger without saying a word.

Then he took out a gold ring from his butt pocket, put it on himself, let alone said, "That's it, you can't go back on your word. We're 'determined' now, we can't be born in the same year, the same month, the same day, You must die on the same day, same month, same year!"

After finishing speaking, he even patted the back of Li Ye's left hand twice, laughing like a fool.

Not only Li Ye, but also Luo Xiazhi were stunned by this sudden turn of events - there are people who propose marriage like this! ! !

"You can't be born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but you can die in the same year, the same month, and the same day..."

Gu Hanlin smiled and bumped Luo Xiazhi's left arm with his right elbow, "Do you still remember that we 'worship' on Chongming Island? At that time, Xiaoxiao was still witnessing by the side! Actually, at that time, I had already decided in my heart that You are gone, and you are the only one in this life."

Luo Xiazhi turned his head slowly, almost gritted his teeth and looked at the pair of "idiot" cousins—the ability to propose marriage as if they were "worshiping"—it turned out that this is a family tradition!

Although the two idiot brothers messed up their proposal, the wedding was still very orderly.

Luo Xiazhi originally thought that he was only here to watch the ceremony, but he didn't expect that he would also be a part of the wedding.

When Gu Hanlin led him to the back room and took out a pure white men's suit, he suddenly realized.

This turned out to be a wedding of four people!

"You...I...really..."

He pointed to the calm Gu Hanlin who was smiling, and then pointed to himself, but he was so excited that he couldn't say a word.

As early as eight years ago, when he made up his mind to be with Gu Hanlin, he had long since abandoned the illusion that he would have a wedding.Anyway, he is a big man, not a little girl, and he doesn't think there is any regret about it.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he entered his thirties as "Rorxia Zhi", he would actually have a wedding of his own!

Two pairs of Bi people held hands and looked at each other, standing in a resplendent wedding hall.

Both Gu Hanlin and Luo Xiazhi were wearing Western-style wedding dresses. They were both dressed in pure white, except that they had two red plums picked from outside on their chests. They were both chic and handsome.

As for Liang Shaolong and Li Ye, they were wearing traditional scarlet wedding dresses, both dressed as grooms, with scarlet flowers made of silk and satin tied on their chests, and golden paper-cut flowers on their hair.

There were no more guests, no suona or church organ music, not even congratulatory servants.

The four grooms hummed the "Wedding March" together, "Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang~", bowed together to the tablet of "Heaven, Earth, Monarch, Parent and Teacher", and bowed to each other.

In this way, the ceremony of "worshiping heaven and earth" was completed simply and grandly.

"The wedding candles! The wedding candles are gone!"

Just finished worshiping heaven and earth, Liang Shaolong's face was full of joy, and he hugged his peach-faced little groom horizontally, and rushed to the back of the new house that had been arranged a long time ago.

"Cousin! You can take care of yourself! There is no such thing as 'making a new house', bye bye!"

With that said, he disappeared into the main hall.

"Then... shall we go back?"

Holding Luo Xiazhi's hand, Gu Hanlin asked with a smile in his eyes.

Rarely nodded shyly, Luo Xiazhi didn't change the pure white wedding dress, but put on a coat and a fox scarf and walked out.

Gu Hanlin drove the car, and the two of them headed towards the small villa in the city in silence.It's just that when encountering a red light, or occasionally needing to stop the car, they will look at each other affectionately.

The car drove back to the road of Petain, and when it was about to reach the finish line, Luo Xiazhi suddenly realized: No!What about the ring!

It doesn't make sense for Xiaoye to have a ring when he was proposed. He hasn't even had a "thimble hoop" for so many years.

If Gu Hanlin can't afford it, it doesn't matter, he has money!It is no problem to buy two pigeon eggs!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Gu Hanlin faintly, making the latter's heart beat faster, thinking that Luo Xiazhi was also looking forward to the "bridal chamber wedding"!

Excited, Gu Hanlin slammed on the accelerator, and the car almost "floated" all the way into the small villa on Petain Road.

Luo Xiazhi was about to get off the car when he was pulled back.

What came rushing towards his face with the scorching breath was the powerful arms around his waist.

"Well……"

Why didn't Luo Xiazhi expect to be so exciting today!

"Xia Zhi, reach out..."

When we returned to the urban area, it was almost time to turn on the lights. After a lot of tossing, the garage was so dark that we couldn't see anything.

The air temperature inside the car was in stark contrast to the ice and snow outside, and a layer of mist rose from the hot window glass.

Luo Xiazhi, who was secretly scolding the middle-aged uncle for his good physical strength, was lying limp on the back seat with his eyes closed, when he heard Gu Hanlin whispering in his ear.

He raised his limp hand, only to feel a burst of cold temperature.

Borrowing the barely visible light from the garage outside the car window, Luo Xiazhi looked in surprise at the silvery-white ring inlaid with small diamonds on the ring finger of his left hand.

"I'm just a poor teacher and can't afford 'pigeon eggs'."

Gu Hanlin put his arms around his shoulders, kissed his disheveled, sweat-beaded hair, "Just feel wronged."

Luo Xiazhi shook his head, then reached out his hand to fumble through the pile of clothes, and found a velvet box.

He opened the box, took out another ring inside, put it on Gu Hanlin's finger, put it on his lips, and kissed it lightly.

Neither of them spoke, they just leaned against each other like this, their fingers clasped together for a long, long time.

The situation in this country is changing, the wind and clouds in Shanghai are turbulent, what about the drastic changes in this era?At this moment, sitting here are just two people who love each other.

It wasn't until Luo Xiazhi couldn't help but sneezed that the two of them got dressed and trotted all the way upstairs.

"Bridal Anniversary" Well, the night is still very long!

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"Tsubaki Sakura is married!"

The next day, as soon as Luo Xiazhi walked into the office rubbing his sore waist, he saw his Shu Dami running towards him with a newspaper in his hand, with an excited expression on his face.

"Third Master, absolutely! Tsubaki Yingzi is actually married!"

She raised the Japanese newspaper in her hand. This is the internal journal of the Shanghai Japanese Chamber of Commerce, but it can be bought for money.

"Are you so happy that my second sister-in-law remarried? Then it seems that my second sister-in-law cannot be buried in my Luo family's ancestral grave in Shaoxing..."

Luo Xiazhi had calculated everything, but she never thought that the reason why Tsubaki Yingko stayed in Tokyo for so long and did not return to Shanghai was because she was preparing for her wedding in Japan.

Hey, it has been a long time since the second brother died. This Japanese woman has only remarried now, so she is already very worthy of this "dead ghost" Luo Muze.

"Who did she marry? Could it be Hiroshi Nogi?"

After finishing speaking, Luo Xiazhi was also stunned by his own imagination.

"Third Master, what are you talking about? The Nogi family is a Japanese 'Chinese'. By our Chinese standards, they are 'relatives of the emperor'. At least...he is also a descendant of a prince's family. How could he marry the daughter of a commoner family? , and she’s a woman from a businessman’s background.”

Shu Wenfei shook his head, and then said gossipingly, "I asked my Japanese-speaking friend to read this report. This time, Tsubaki Yingko is married to the British ambassador to Japan, Earl Lawrence!"

Clam?Tsubaki Yingko actually married an Englishman.

"The first husband was Chinese and the second husband was British."

Luo Xiazhi sat down and gave Shu Wenfei a thumbs-up, "Toon Yingzi is awesome!"

作者有话要说：算起来，这一章有六个人结婚呐！！感谢在2020-11-2823:34:14~2020-11-2923:27:10期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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