Reborn with you

August 8th—French warships shelled Keelung, Taiwan.Taiwan's Military Affairs Supervisor Liu Mingchuan led his army to fight, and the fort was destroyed. Later, Liu Mingchuan led his army to start a land battle with the French army, and the French army was defeated and fled back to the ship.

August 8 - The French fleet attacked the Fujian Navy, and the Battle of Mawei broke out.

The Chinese fleet rushed to the battle, and the flagship "Yangwu" was damaged by enemy mines, but hit the French flagship with its tail gun, killing and injuring many French sailors.In this battle, the Fujian Navy lost 7 ships, more than 700 officers and soldiers were killed or injured, and the Mawei shipyard was also destroyed.

August 8th——The Qing government issued an edict to declare war on France, ordering the troops from Yunnan and Guangxi to advance quickly on land, and strictly guard against the invasion of French ships along the coast.

October 10 - Hong Kong workers held a demonstration to protest against the British and French suppression of the Chinese patriotic movement.

Shan Qiang flipped through the picture album in her hand. The large number of colors in the picture album were different from the bright colors of traditional Chinese paintings. He will appear in Ye Zhai, and he will also talk about what happened after returning from the Western Painting Exhibition last year, which made Ye Zhai very lively.

That night after An An was scolded by Ye Shilan, she was unusually quiet for two days. Shan Qiang thought that An An was upset by Ye Shilan's scolding, but An An later told Ye Shilan firmly that she wanted to learn Western painting.

Ye Shilan's shocked objection was inevitable. In his eyes, Western paintings were not much better than erotic pictures. How could a girl learn such things? An An's father was kind to him. When he entrusted An An to him, He decided to raise An An as his own daughter, and he must not let An An learn badly!

Ye Shilan was determined, and An An was more determined than him. Although she would not cry and go on a hunger strike, she had no energy all day long, and she looked depressed in everything she did.

In Shan Qiang's view, learning western painting is not a big deal, why make it like this, and occasionally said a few words casually while Ye Shilan was around, Ye Shilan has always loved this child An An, look at An An He himself was not in a good mood like this, and after going back and forth like this for more than 20 days, Ye Shilan finally let go, and hired a teacher of western painting for An An, this teacher was young, about 20 years old, Shan Qiang and Chen Yiping would listen to An An when he was free.

After a long time, Shan Qiang could see that An An's teacher was half-toned. Thinking about it, it was true that those who really learned well were usually rich children who were able to study abroad. How could such a person condescend to the Be a teacher in someone else's home.Shan Qiang knew that going on like this would be detrimental to An An's development, but he himself was not proficient in this aspect, so he had no choice but to correct An An's paintings when he saw something wrong.

Shan Qiang closed the album in her hand, looked at the girl in the middle of the room, the girl was holding a palette in her left hand, the palette showed an unclean gray-brown color due to excessive use, and a paintbrush in her right hand, With the movement of the paintbrush, corresponding lines appeared on the white paper, and after a while a rosy apple took shape under the girl's hand.

Walking over softly, Shan Qiang stopped behind the girl, he was much taller than the girl, he could clearly see every movement of the girl.Shan Qiang didn't make any noise to disturb the painter, Shan Qiang just stood quietly, watching the girl draw carefully.Occasionally, when she saw something bad, Shan Qiang frowned slightly and didn't make a sound.The girl has just learned to paint for a year, and the content of the painting is relatively simple. After about half an hour, the girl completed her painting.

An An has long known that the second senior brother is standing behind her, and she is used to the second senior brother standing behind her and watching her paint.As soon as the brush stopped, An An turned around and looked at Shan Qiang, with anticipation in her big eyes, "Second Senior Brother, how is An An's painting?"

The three years of getting along has made Shan Qiang love this lovely girl as much as his own sister.Shan Qiang rubbed An An's little head, and said with a smile: "It has improved compared to the previous period, but there are still some bad things, come on, look here..."

When Chen Yishui came in, he saw Shan Qiang's long and slender fingers pointing at the drawing on the drawing board. The white fingers looked very beautiful against the bright colors; Shan Qiang lowered his head and spoke to An An. The expression on the man's face was very familiar to Chen Yishui. With a gentle smile, Chen Yishui knew that Shan Qiang would only have such a smile in front of very familiar people. Although she usually smiles, she is always a little alienated; and An An is leaning against Shan Qiang at this time, looking at Shan Qiang's big face. His eyes are full of admiration for Shan Qiang.

Chen Yishui's mood became very upset when he saw this scene. I don't know if it was because An An was too close to Shan Qiang, or because An An's eyes on Shan Qiang challenged his status as a senior brother.

"Junior brother, An An, it's time to eat." There was nothing to be angry about when he said something naturally when he was in a bad mood, until Shan Qiang and the two looked over in surprise, Chen Yishui felt that his anger was a little inexplicable.

An An asked suspiciously, "What's wrong, big brother?"

Shan Qiang looked at Chen Yishui's disappearing figure, shook his head, and said that he didn't know what kind of anger Chen Yishui was angry with, "I don't know, maybe it was told by the master."

An An nodded, "It should be."

After dinner, Shan Qiang planned to take a bath.It was late autumn at this time, and the temperature was still quite low after the sun went down. If you just rinsed with the well water in the yard, you might catch a cold the next day. Although Shan Qiang was in good health, she didn't dare to take such a risk, so she had to take a bath And get washed in hot water in the bathroom.

Shan Qiang said hello to Uncle Li who was boiling the water, and went back to prepare for a change of clothes, when she heard a girl's voice outside the door, "Second Young Master, the hot water you want is here!"

Shan Qiang paused for a moment, opened the door and walked out, and saw that it was a girl from the house, who seemed to be called Zijuan.Shan Qiang frowned, "Uncle Li is really serious, why did he ask a girl to bring such heavy water over?"

Zijuan stood in the night, still blushing for her audacity, but fortunately the dim light made it impossible to see the transparent blush on her face.Just now when Uncle Li couldn't find someone to deliver water, she didn't know what was going on, and she rushed to respond knowing it was inappropriate, just to get another look at this person, Zijuan recalled the way Uncle Li looked at her at that time, could it be Uncle Li knew what she was thinking.

Just when Zijuan lowered her head and was flustered by her guess, the voice that often made her heart beat like a deer rang out beside her. When did he come here?

Shan Qiang looked at the taciturn girl suspiciously, thinking that she hadn't heard what she said just now, so she had to repeat it again, "Thank you, I'll do it myself."

Zijuan's face was so red that it couldn't be any redder, and she peeked at that person, tightly holding the handle of the wooden bucket in her hand, and said, "No, it's not hard, Second Young Master, or, let me do it."

Although Shan Qiang is gay, but because of his mother's relationship, he has always loved and respected women. How can he let a girl who is not as old as him do such a thing, so he stretched out his hand to carry it by himself.Shan Qiang's approach made Zijuan's head suddenly confused, and she let Shan Qiang carry the bucket away blankly, looking at Shan Qiang with undisguised admiration in her eyes.It's just that Shan Qiang was busy carrying water to the bathroom, with his back to Zijuan, and didn't notice the girl's thoughts at all.

Shan Qiang didn't see it, but the other person did.The anger in the afternoon came and went quickly, thinking that before he had a good talk with Shan Qiang today, Chen Yishui came to play with Shan Qiang. Who would have thought that as soon as he came here, he would see a girl standing in front of Shan Qiang. Looking at Shan Qiang with his back turned to him with a look that made Chen Yishui feel very uncomfortable.Chen Yishui suddenly felt an unknown anger in his heart, An An didn't say anything, why did this girl named Zijuan look at her junior like this?

Chen Yishui walked over, looked at Zijuan coolly, but said to Shan Qiang, "Junior brother, what are you doing? What is Zijuan here for?"

Chen Yishui's questioning tone made the girl who was already easily startled think that her thoughts had been discovered, and her mind became even more confused, so she could only say "I, I'm here..." He hesitated and couldn't say anything else up.

Shan Qiang turned her head and found that Zijuan hadn't left yet. She felt a little strange but didn't think too much about it, so she explained to Chen Yishui: "Oh, I want to take a bath, and Zijuan brought me water here."

Zijuan nodded hastily, and said, "If there is nothing wrong with the eldest and second young masters, I will go back." After finishing speaking, she was about to leave, but Chen Yishui stopped Zijuan at this moment, "Wait." Chen Yishui stopped Zijuan Empress Juan didn't know what she was going to do, and when she saw the steaming bucket in a blink of an eye, a thought came to her, and she said to Zijuan, "Bring some more water, I want to wash too."

Shan Qiang felt that Chen Yishui was very strange: "You want to wash it too? How do you wash it?" No wonder he asked, there were only two wooden barrels in the yard, because An An was a girl, one of the wooden barrels was for her special use, and the other Shan Qiang and Chen Yishui are used together in the wooden barrel. Normally, Shan Qiang and Chen Yishui take a bath in a staggered manner. Shan Qiang knows that Chen Yishui has only washed it yesterday, so Shan Qiang plans to take a bath today.

Chen Yishui pretended to be indifferent and said: "Well, I just want to take a bath suddenly. Anyway, the barrel is quite big, so we can wash it together." The idea that popped up just now was to take a bath with Shan Qiang. I feel happy when I take a bath.

Shan Qiang was in a bit of a dilemma, the wooden bucket was quite big, but it was still a bit cramped to accommodate two people. "Why don't you wash it first, and I'll wash it later?"

Chen Yishui waved his hand impatiently, "It doesn't need to be so troublesome, anyway, we are both men, so it will save some trouble." Shan Qiang thought so, although two men were the problem for him, but Chen Yishui In his eyes, he was just a child, and he still had thoughts about a child. Shan Qiang felt uncomfortable after not taking a shower for two days, so he stopped insisting.

The two of them waited for Zijuan to bring water, so they could close the door and take a shower.