readx; Although it is now the largest city in China and the largest financial and commercial city in the Far East, Shanghai at this time is not the so-called Oriental Paris after the 20s. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the era when electric lighting was not yet commonplace, Shanghai, like all other cities, was shrouded in dim lights at night, and even the concession on Christmas Eve could not get rid of this dim hue, and this dim hue constituted the specific hue of the big cities of the old century, whether it was Paris, London or New York.

Looking out of the glass window on the second floor, beneath a gray night sky is the dim Yanjiang Avenue, and the gas lamps on the side of the road emit a fragile and hazy light.

"It's a lot like London!" Lina stood in front of the glass window with her hands crossed, looking at the night reflected by the dim lights in the distance, and there were still many boats on the Huangpu River not far away.

Chen Jingyun was standing beside her, she was looking at the night and the river scenery in the distance, and he was looking at her.

She was dressed very beautifully tonight, a lilac silk dress with a pair of long white gloves on the jade hand made her slender figure show off perfectly, and she was not draped with a shawl like those noble ladies on her shoulders, but she was naked, and the soft hat on her head had also been taken off, revealing long wavy blonde hair, this dress was almost no different from the evening dresses worn by modern people in later generations, and the Western women's clothing before World War I had changed a lot, Although the older generation of women still wore traditional clothing, young women, especially the upper-class women in Paris and London, who led the fashion, wore more and more varied clothing, and after the First World War, the dress of modern women almost set the tone.

A blonde hair is slightly curled into a wavy shape, but it is not exaggerated, and her face under the light is more feminine, Western women's perm Chen Jingyun has seen a lot at tonight's dinner, but most of them look too contrived, looking from a distance like a girl, there is no so-called beauty, but in Linna's body, it seems that she has a naughty sense of surname in her youth. He didn't know that perms were also particular about these days, although there were people who tried perms in various ways since then, but more of them were primitive methods, until 1906, when Karl ? Nesler invented the electric perm machine to make perm a popular fashion, and it quickly swept Paris and European high society, and many celebrities and ladies flocked to it. Nesler burned it with his own hands, and the effect was naturally very good. Although Shanghai is also a city that keeps up with the world trend, it is still temporarily backward in all aspects, although many women know that perms have become popular, but they also choose to use primitive manual perms, which is naturally not very good.

This is actually just an objective condition, and more importantly, whether it is beautiful or not is a subjective concept, Chen Jingyun has no interest in those ladies with heavy makeup, this view is naturally not good, but for Miss Linna, a noble lady who is full of youth and at the same time does not lose her sense of reserve, she has a very good impression, with this preconceived concept, Chen Jingyun looks at Linna's various clothes and even the ordinary silver chain ruby necklace she wears around her neck, and feels that it is very compatible with her.

The so-called beautiful, he thinks that beautiful is beautiful.

The same hairstyle and clothes on other women failed to make Chen Jingyun pay attention for a second, but this woman made everyone look at it again and again, as if she could never get enough of it.

Miss Lina continued to look at the scenery outside the window, Chen Jingyun looked at her scenery, the night view on the Huangpu River evoked her memories, and Chen Jingyun, who was looking at her, also slowly fell into memories.

The scene of this day seems to be very familiar, and then the memories that have been sealed for many years slowly open, there are only two young men and women left in the classroom after class, the late autumn breeze through the window raised her three thousand green silks, she stared at the sycamore outside the window in a daze, and he also looked at her in a daze, the memory seems to have set the tone, and then the face that has been blurred slowly approached, approached his table, leaned down and stretched out a jade finger in front of his eyes and dangled: "What do you think?" ”

"Ahh Chen Jingyun tried his best to open his eyes and take a closer look, the blurred face slowly became clear, and then Miss Linna's face appeared, and then she saw Miss Linna looking at Chen Jingyun with a curious expression: "What do you think?" So into the gods? ”

"Ah, it's nothing, I'm sorry for being distracted!" Chen Jingyun tilted his head slightly, avoiding Miss Linna's gaze, and then picked up a glass of wine from the waiter who walked by: "What did you say just now?" ”

Miss Lina didn't notice Chen Jingyun's strange appearance, turned her head and looked at the night scene outside the window: "I said that Shanghai is very similar to London?" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded: "Yes!" "As a city where East meets West, Shanghai has many similarities with Western cities, especially the concession area, if you don't know if you come to the concession area, if you don't see a lot of Chinese on the street, I'm afraid people will think that they have arrived in a Western city."

"What's London like?" Chen Jingyun has never been to London, neither in later life nor now, and his understanding of London is generally limited to the understanding of words and films. And for a place if you haven't really been there, it's not accurate to say that you know about it.

"London?" This question seemed to turn Linna down, and she thought for a long time before she said, "London, I don't like it, it's too dull, the whole city is dead, and it's all gray as far as the eye can see." As Corinthine said: it's a lifeless city! ”

Chen Jingyun was a little surprised to hear Linna comment on London like this, but it was not surprising to think that London in this era was called the fog capital.

Although the overall evaluation of London is not good, but since Chen Jingyun asked, Linna was also interested, and then talked about some of the styles of London, such as some famous buildings and places, and of course her friends in London, such as her rebellious cousin who published articles in the newspaper every week advocating the right to vote with female surnames, such as the third lady of the Anderton family who had just met for a short time, and seemed to have forgotten the time when it came to the rise, Chen Jingyun listened, interjecting a few words from time to time, He didn't know most of what Linna said, and occasionally he had heard some of them, but they were all impressions from later generations, which were naturally different from what Linna said now.

The girl seemed to lose track of time and kept talking, and although her words showed that she didn't like the city of London, Chen Jingyun still felt that she missed that city, where there were places she knew, her best friends, everything she was familiar with, and the Far East and the United States were so strange to her, so strange that she could hardly adapt to it.

This beautiful blonde teenage girl is homesick.

Maybe she realized that she was talking too much, and Linna, who suddenly woke up, was also a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, didn't I say too much!" ”

Chen Jingyun shook his head and smiled: "How can it be too much, listening to you talk about London, it makes me want to go!" ”

Lina also chuckled: "Then when are you going, I will invite you to my house as a guest then!" Speaking of this, he may have said something wrong, and immediately hurriedly said, "I heard that you are very busy?" ”

Chen Jingyun didn't answer directly, just smiled, and went to London just casually, whether it is now or in the future, it is a trouble for Chen Jingyun to go abroad. As the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, he doesn't have much time to go out easily, not to mention that his current identity is too sensitive, and he is already one of several important political figures in China, so it is impossible to go abroad casually. In the future, if you are really so lucky to unify China, it will be even more impossible to go abroad and leave the country for a long time.

Lina is not an ignorant woman who doesn't know anything, although she is young, she knows a lot of things, and knows that the young yellow man in front of her is not an ordinary man, but a person with a huge influence in China, well, a man who is already married.

After having these thoughts in her heart, she stopped talking and turned her eyes to the night outside the window, and Chen Jingyun did not speak, so the two of them continued to stand.

At this time, one of the guests shouted, "The fireworks show is about to begin!" ”

Chen Jingyun only spoke again at this time: "Let's go, let's go and see it too!" ”

Lina nodded, although the two walked to the balcony, the moment they pushed open the balcony glass door, the cold wind outside the door immediately slipped in, and Linna, who was dressed in coolness, was naturally nothing in the warm spring-like house, but at this moment, after the cold wind hit, the whole person was frozen and shrunk, even though the winter in London was much colder than Shanghai, but Lina obviously couldn't stand the cold wind at this moment, when she was about to turn around and go back to get a coat, she found that Chen Jingyun was already holding his officer's coat and facing her: "Put it on, it's cold outside!" ”

Linna was a little surprised, she hadn't seen Chen Jingyun wearing a coat before, so naturally it was impossible to take it off from him, where did this coat come from?

When Linna was surprised, Yu Shifeng behind Chen Jingyun smiled secretly, Yu Shifeng has been with Chen Jingyun for a long time, as the director of the secretariat, he is Chen Jingyun's personal butler, in terms of personal trust with Chen Jingyun, except for Chen Cai, there is no one in the national army system who can compare with him, and after following Chen Jingyun for a long time, he also knows some about Chen Jingyun. As a standard accompanying secretary, all kinds of trivial things naturally have to be prepared, and they have to consider the premise of Chen Jingyun's action, no, as soon as he saw that Chen Jingyun was going to go to see the fireworks, he immediately gave Chen Jingyun his coat.

Although Chen Jingyun himself doesn't have a military coat, he still wears a lot of it, so he naturally can't use it, but the Miss Linna next to the commander can use it. With Yu Shifeng's dog leg to help, a not-so-standard joke of helping to put on a coat was staged.

Miss Lina did not postpone it, let Chen Jingyun put on her coat, and then the two of them walked out, there were a few other people on the balcony besides the two of them, and the rest of the many guests were either in front of the window or went to other balconies, and a few of them went to the roof with wine glasses.

Soon, as everyone said that the time was up, dazzling fireworks rose one after another on the surface of the Huangpu River, and the fireworks slowly rose into the air with dazzling light, and then burst in mid-air to exude a dazzling brilliance, burning a brilliant and dazzling brilliance with a short life, and the gorgeous brilliance also made everyone intoxicated, Lin Na beside Chen Jingyun looked up at the fireworks in the night sky, with an amazement and smile on her face, the real smile is not the kind of standard smile issued under strict etiquette training.

For a while, Chen Jingyun was stupid and drunk.