At the beginning of the story, Ge Weilong, a very ordinary Shanghai girl, stands in the corridor of a large mansion in the middle of the mountain, looking into the garden.
The white house on the mountainside is streamlined, geometrically patterned, resembling a modern cinema.
This is the scene that Ge Weilong, a shanghai female college student studying in Hong Kong, saw when she visited her aunt Mrs. Liang's house for the first time.
Halfway up the mountain, it is a streamlined garden-like house, and the current market value is less than hundreds of millions.
This is the property earned by Ge Weilong's aunt Mrs. Liang by working as a fourth aunt for the rich when she was young. After the death of the rich man, she lived a high-society life in this middle of the mountain.
If you rely on inheritance alone, of course, you can't continue to splurge, so Mrs. Liang wanders around all kinds of rich men every day, letting them take care of their "business".
Before you are old, you must find a "successor" and get someone for yourself.
At this moment, Ge Weilong came to visit. It can be said that the sheep into the tiger's mouth.
But if you blame your aunt for Ge Weilong's depravity, I am afraid it is unfair.
Author Zhang Ailing gave Ge Weilong at least four chances to choose and repent. But Ge Weilong refused one by one.
Zhang Ailing uses this kind of writing to tell us that Ge Weilong's encounter is not so much seduced as defeated by his own greed.
From staying in order to study, to falling into the materialistic and drunken high society after that, Ge Weilong no longer had the strength to break free.
The four choices made Ge Weilong completely degenerate; the four choices also explained the greed of human nature, which could not be easily challenged.
When Ge Weilong first arrived at Mrs. Liang's house, it was no different from eating closed door soup.
First of all, he was snubbed by the little girl's words. The clogs hit Ge Weilong, and the servant not only did not apologize, but did not even look at Ge Weilong in the right eye, took the clogs and left.
Later, when he saw Mrs. Liang, he was greatly humiliated by Mrs. Liang.
When Mrs. Liang heard her say that she was Ge Yukun's daughter, she asked, "Is Ge Yukun dead?" ”
When she heard that he was still alive, her aunt immediately wanted to draw a line with her, and said that Ge Yukun was not dead, and she would not lend her a penny.
Before Ge Weilong could talk about money, he was rejected by his aunt. Such a way of meeting is a great shame for a female student who is still in school.
Not only that, while waiting for Mrs. Liang, Ge Weilong already knew from the mouths of the servants what kind of person her aunt was.
She could clearly hear the complaints that Mrs. Liang and Qiao Qiao had made when they came back.
In addition, this Ge Weilong had never seen his aunt before, and it was not good to hear her aunt's reputation from an adult. So now what I have seen with my own eyes coincides with the legend, and my aunt is indeed a less "clean" person.
There is a sentence in the original book that shows that Ge Weilong knows the choice he is facing:
"I came to stir in the mixed water, the girl's family, even jumping into the Yellow River can't wash it!"
But in the end, Ge Weilong still could not resist the temptation and chose to jump in.
The second time was on the day that Ge Weilong officially moved in, in the face of the various clothes in the cabinet, Ge Weilong carefully tried one piece after another, and found that these clothes fit well.
She suddenly realized that this was specially prepared for her by her aunt.
Home-made brocade robes, yarn silk, short coats, long coats, beach capes, pajamas, bathrobes, night dresses, afternoon dresses for cocktails, semi-formal dinner clothes worn by guests at home.
Ge Weilong thought, "Where does a female student use so much, and what is the difference between this and buying a person in the Changsan Hall?" ”
Changsantangzi is one of the more famous brothels in Shanghai.
Ge Weilong could think like this, which showed that she was very clear about her aunt's intentions. It is to cultivate her as a woman who has grown up three times.
Ge Weilong originally stayed for the purpose of studying, but at this moment, in the depths of her heart, she was still mixed into high society without distraction, and the two ends of the scale had begun to tilt.
Ge Weilong chose to stay, which was equivalent to silently accepting the work of "Chang San Tangzi" arranged by his aunt.
Ge Weilong was in the closet for three months. During these three months, she followed her aunt to various banquets, tea parties, concerts, card games, etc.
Despite this, at this time, she has not yet officially been given the opportunity to take up her post, but is familiar with the venue, personnel, etc.
But the "internship period" will always end, and Ge Weilong knows this very well. But she was still intoxicated by this sense of superiority in high society.
At the end of a dinner party, Ge Weilong and his aunt sat together in the car of their aunt's old lover Situ Xie on the way back, and Situ Xie gave his aunt a diamond bracelet.
When Ge Weilong still held her aunt's hand to appreciate, she didn't want to make a sound, and Situ Xie also put the same diamond bracelet on her.
The process was as swift as the detective's unexpected handcuffing of the prisoner.
After arriving home, Ge Weilong looked at the clothes in the cupboard and remembered the day he had just arrived at his aunt's house three months ago, and secretly tried on clothes.
She thought that all this was carefully arranged by her aunt, and there was no such good thing in the world. Now it's time to do things for others.
Situ Xie sent such a valuable gift to himself, obviously in consultation with his aunt.
Ge Weilong knew very well that the only way to stop all this was to leave.
But she still did not leave, but chose a ridiculous path to go to Georgie Joe.
The man who didn't even look at his head.
In order to compete with her aunt, Ge Weilong chose playboy Georgie Joe as her patron.
The result can be imagined, within a few days, this patron fell.
Georgie Joe told her that it was impossible to marry her.
A man who said that he could not marry her and coveted her body, and on the same night after getting her body, he hugged other women, Ge Weilong was actually seduced by Mrs. Liang and chose to marry Qiao Qiqiao.
During this period, Ge Weilong fell ill.
She thought in her heart, maybe half of this disease was voluntary; maybe she subconsciously didn't want to go back, and she had the heart to continue. It was easy to say, and she wanted to start everything over again, but now she was not as simple as she used to think.
She also deluded herself into thinking that Georgie Joe would change in the future and would need her one day.
In fact, it is not that Georgie Joe needs her, but that she needs Georgie Joe, because it is Georgie Joe who gives her a reason, a reason for her to continue to stay here and live a life of drunkenness.
At the end of the story, In order to have a continuous amount of money to spend, Qiao Qiqiao listened to Mrs. Liang's advice, married Ge Weilong, and planned to find a proof of her chu gui when she was old and fading;
In order to stay, Ge Weilong married Ge Qiqiqiao. After the aunt recruited Georgie Joe to join the money, she was completely reduced to a tool to get people for her aunt and get money for Georgie Joe.
But every step that drove this outcome was chosen by Ge Weilong himself.
It's also because she despises the greed of human nature. Under the attack of her aunt's little sugar-coated shells, it fell completely.
I remember a famous person who said: Don't test human nature easily, it can't stand the test the most.