Chapter 148 Our family life
After returning home and having supper, Lin Zixuan stood up habitually and walked towards the study.
This is his habit, he has to write two to three hours of manuscript every night, read the book, and then go to bed.
He stopped just after taking two steps, remembering that he was already married and no longer single. He needed to consider his partner's feelings and could not ignore it anymore.
As for how to live after the marriage, he was not sure.
Later generations were a relatively open era. Two people could live a shy and impatient life in their own room without worrying about what others said and be free.
But now living with the entire family, the way of getting along needs to change.
Not to mention the family, even with Feng Chengcheng, he had not thought about how to get along in the future.
In later generations, many men and women lived together before getting married. They knew each other very well and would not have too many conflicts after getting married.
But in this era, especially in large families, it is strictly forbidden to live together before marriage. Once discovered, the reputation will be ruined.
Shanghai Hujiang University is a church school with strict management. Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng can meet each weekend, either having dinner, chatting, or watching a movie.
At most, they hold hands and hug occasionally. He can say that he knows Feng Chengcheng, but not thoroughly.
He knew Feng Chengcheng's personality, but did not understand her living habits more carefully, because the two had no experience of living together and did not know how to cooperate with each other.
He saw the word "respectful like guests" in the book to describe the harmonious life relationship between husband and wife.
However, this is probably because each other is unwilling to understand each other in depth, leaving room for each other, which is hard to say whether it is good or bad.
To put it nicely, this is called mutual respect, to put it bluntly, this is that there is no love, only family affection.
According to the view of later generations, love means that you have me and I have you. If you don’t have a deep understanding of it, how can you be considered to be thorough in love?
Lin Zixuan looked back at Feng Chengcheng. He didn't like the "respectful" model, and felt it was too false. Since he became a family, it would be better to be closer to his heart.
But there is no TV in this era, so they can lie on the sofa and complain about the plot of the TV series.
There is no too much private space for them to chat and laugh loudly and do something they love.
No wonder people in this era like to go to bed early. Those who don’t sleep are having fun in entertainment places outside. Life without TV and computers is really boring.
He thought he was used to this era, but at this moment, he felt that he still had a barrier from this era.
"What's wrong with you?" Feng Chengcheng asked the servant to bring the food down, and looked at Lin Zixuan in a daze, and asked in confusion, "Are you not going to the study?"
Although this was her second day of living in this mansion, I learned from Lin Xiaoling that many of Lin Zixuan’s living habits, such as writing articles in the study at night.
"I'm thinking..." Lin Zixuan hesitated for a moment and continued, "Let's go out to watch a movie. "The Ugly Boy" is being screened in the theater, a very interesting film."
He originally wanted to discuss his future relationship with Feng Chengcheng, but when he spoke, he felt that it was too serious and serious to say it, which might scare Feng Chengcheng and think he had any dissatisfaction.
So the topic changed, and it would be better to slowly get along with each other in the future.
"The Ugly Boy" started to be screened in the theater yesterday, and the box office was pretty good. Although it was not very attractive to young people, it was a family-friendly film suitable for both young and old.
In this era, because "little ghost" means child labor in Shanghai dialect, Lin Zixuan changed the name of the movie.
After New Year's Day, near the end of the lunar calendar, three films will be released in succession.
"The Ugly Boy's Head" is the first film, followed by "Mom Loves Me Again", and finally the finale "Making a Fight in the Heavenly Palace", which is about to sweep the rhythm of the New Year holiday.
"You have watched that movie a long time ago, you'd better go to the study to write the article." Feng Chengcheng declined.
She is not a person who likes to play, and she has just gotten married, so she should be more steady. If she still plays around, she will be gossiped about.
"Then let's chat." Lin Zixuan thought it made sense and suggested.
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?" Feng Chengcheng asked the servants to go down, poured a cup of tea, and sat next to Lin Zixuan.
She thought Lin Zixuan was a little weird. She was fine when she had just eaten, but now she was a little unnatural.
As women of this era, Feng Chengcheng did not think there was something wrong with their relationship, but instead thought that this should be the case. This is the mode of getting along with husband and wife.
They at least have topics to talk about, and there is no gap. Unlike now, many couples have nothing to say and are just dealing with each other.
This is also the reason why men in this era like to go out for fun. They have arranged marriages and have no feelings for each other, so they naturally don’t want to stay at home.
"How is it like we go to Lushan to escape the summer heat this summer?" Lin Zixuan thought of a topic.
This was what he knew when he communicated with Pearl Buck's letters.
Pearl Buck's father was a missionary. He had a summer resort in Guling, Lushan, which can be said to be a summer resort.
In 1886, Li Deli, a British Methodist missionary, went to Mount Lu. He took a fancy to the cool climate here and planned to rent a land and build a villa in Changchong, Guniuling, and attract foreigners to go up the mountain to escape the summer heat.
In 1895, Li Deli obtained a lease from the Chinese government and began to gradually develop this place into a summer resort.
Every summer, more than 2,000 foreigners come to the mountains to escape the summer heat from various provinces in the Yangtze River Basin, including more than 1,000 missionaries from Britain and the United States alone.
Among the major summer resorts in China developed by Western missionaries during the same period, Guling, Jiangxi Province was the largest.
The second is Beidaihe in Hebei, Mogan Mountain in Zhejiang and Jigong Mountain in Henan.
In order to thank Lin Zixuan for the job opportunities provided to her and to recommend her articles in the Atlantic Monthly in the United States, Pearl Buck specially invited Lin Zixuan to go to Lushan to escape the summer heat.
Lin Zixuan felt that this was a good opportunity, even if he had a honeymoon with Feng Chengcheng.
"Just make the decision." Feng Chengcheng had no objection, then thought for a while and asked, "Is the American woman in Nanjing invited us?"
"That's right, it's her." Lin Zixuan said frankly.
At the same time, he was a little surprised. He seemed to have said something casually while chatting with Feng Chengcheng more than two months ago, but he didn't expect Feng Chengcheng to remember it.
Are women so sensitive to other women?
It seems that chatting is full of unpredictable dangers, so it’s better to go back to the study to write a manuscript.
"Then I'm going to the study, you..." Lin Zixuan signaled.
"I'll go back to my room to read the book, don't write too late." Feng Chengcheng said with concern.
Chapter completed!