The world is bustling, all for profit: the world is bustling, all are profitable.
Some people will fight for their own ambitions, spend most of their lives, but at the time of power, when the money is entangled, they turn around and live in seclusion. A person who tries everything to climb up, but can jump down without hesitation, do you believe it?
How hard it is to say it, how unwilling it is to give up. Moreover, it is still the largest force in Shanghai Beach and the wealth of the Wanguan family that has been abandoned.
But there is a woman who can. She is the well-known "white sister-in-law" on the beach - Lin Guisheng.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Shanghai was a mixture of fish and dragons, and the paper was drunk and gold fans. Countless people fought for their heads and blood in this bright and green world, and then disappeared after being swallowed up by the ruthless rivers and lakes. And Lin Guisheng, this woman who is weak on the surface, will stir up the bloody rain on the beach.
But in the old days, the historical record was more of a description of men. Even such a strange woman's history records her poorly, and the word that mentions her the most is the name of the man - "The wife of Jin Rong".
And Jin Jinrong's historical record is full of: the leader of the old Shanghai Youth Gang, one of the "Three Tycoons of Shanghai", once accepted Chiang Kai-shek as an apprentice... In the Shanghai Beach where the forces of all sides are wrongly indulging, for the black boss of the first gang of green gangs, history is naturally very interesting.
But this man who called the wind and rain was still just a small patrol who was reluctant to pay money to enter the Qinglou when he was in his thirties.
On this day, Jin Jinrong, who had just completed the case, was pulled into the famous brothel "fireworks room" in Shanghai by his companions, and how Could JinRong not have expected that he would encounter a major opportunity in life here, to be precise, a woman who could help him reach the peak of his life - the "old bustard" of this brothel.
This "old bustard" is not an ordinary character, let alone an old and yellow person. This gentle and weak woman is Lin Guisheng, who is only 22 years old, which is the age of prosperity and ambition.
Lin Guisheng, who has been in the fireworks willow lane for a long time, has long been accustomed to seeing all kinds of men, and he is even more scornful of the so-called love. As she said when she persuaded her father: "Love, the daughter is not counted on, as long as she can find a man to fight with herself, the daughter will be satisfied." 」
At that time, Lin Guisheng's heart, more important than the love of her children, is to fill her long-irrepressible ambition, and marriage is undoubtedly a good means to find a long-term partner.
At this time, Jin Rong is undoubtedly a good collaborator. Jin Rong himself is shrewd and capable, courageous, and has the identity of the inspector of the French Concession patrol house, and he can also contact various forces with the support of foreigners, which can be described as black and white.
When two ambitious people bump into each other. The scents of the same kind will quickly attract each other to gather.
But at this time, the powerless and powerless Golden Rong, marrying Such a "rich woman" as Lin Guisheng, is still Gao Pan. When two people of unequal position are combined, the naturally weaker party has to pay a corresponding "price".
When Jin Rong asked to marry Lin Guisheng, he promised: he would only marry Lin Guisheng once in his life, and would never take a concubine. Of course, this initial family status was also doomed to obey Lin Guisheng's words after Jin Rong.
In this way, Jin Rong, a nameless pawn who had nothing, married Lin Guisheng, a famous and rich "big sister" in Shanghai Beach. And this marriage also opened another new stage in Jin Rong's life. Not only are their positions on the white road rising higher and higher, but their power on the black road is also getting bigger and bigger.
Bai Daoshang was first awarded a silver treasure star from the French Concession Patrol House, and then was appointed as the Colonel Inspector of the Songhu Protector Yamen, and finally became the Chinese Inspector of the Patrol House.
On the underworld, with the support of Lin Guisheng, they moved to the sixteen shops of the concession "Three Disregard Zones" in the Huayang Miscellaneous Area. And based on the sixteen shops, it openly recruited disciples to the whole of Shanghai.
Lin Guisheng relied on the three religions and nine streams he had met in the fireworks before, plus the shrewdness and strongness of the two people, and dared to act boldly, and soon, the disciples reached thousands, becoming the largest underworld gang in Shanghai Beach at that time. This gang was the green gang that everyone on the beach later heard of.
The "world" that Lin Guisheng wanted had begun to take shape.
Shanghai Beach was in a state of flux, and soon Jin Rongyi became the head of the Shanghai tycoon, and Lin Guisheng became the famous "white sister-in-law" of Shanghai Beach.
But the higher the person stands, the more the heart expands.
For a man like Jin Jinrong, the most important thing is nothing more than two: career and woman. The Green Gang has fallen into power in Shanghai, and Jin Rong's career is like a day in the sky. At this time, his other hobby began to become more and more wanton - women.
Among the two most important women, the first is Lin Guisheng's daughter-in-law, Li Zhiqing, who was raised by himself.
Li Zhiqing was originally a young maid brought out of the brothel by Lin Guisheng, and because of her quick wit and cleverness, she promised her adopted son. Unfortunately, the adopted son died tragically, and the little daughter-in-law was widowed at a young age.
A woman who has grown up in the wind and dust since she was a child has always seen clearly with her eyes and played accurately in her heart. The great Huang family, a widow of her own, wants a way out in the future, only to find a strong man.
Women are good at seduction, men love sex, and the golden glory of the rogue will not care about any human morality. Therefore, in the palatial Huang Mansion, one day the story of "climbing ashes" between the father-in-law and the daughter-in-law was staged.
This unrequited love that happened under the eyes of the eyes, of course, did not hide from Lin Guisheng, who was mixed up in various fields. Noisy? No. In this marriage, where love accounted for a small proportion at the beginning, Lin Guisheng's rationality always triumphed over sensibility.
Lin Guisheng is still confident in the face of Jin Rong's derailment.
One is that at the beginning, Jin Rong only promised to marry one wife, although Jin Rong did not have many flowers and weeds, but even in the case of Lin Guisheng's childlessness, there was always only one room in the family. In the past two decades, Jin Rong has not broken this promise.
The second is Lin Guisheng's position in the Huang family. Jin Rong had always been obedient to his wife who was Gao Pan at that time, and handed over the Huang family's property to Lin Guisheng to manage. In the Qinggang gang, Lin Guisheng can be said to be half the founder, and his status is unshakable.
Coupled with the relationship between Jin Jinrong and Li Zhiqing, it is not on the table at all. Therefore, Lin Guisheng should manage the management books of the books, and the inspection gangs should inspect the gangs. Just as this is not the case.
But who would want to get Jin Rong, an old man who is more than half a hundred years old, one day he will really ignore a woman and fall out with Lin Guisheng.
The second woman, Lu Lanchun, appeared.
Lu Lanchun is the daughter of Jin Rong's apprentice, and she is quite talented in singing, but it is impossible to be famous without a strong backstage. So I fell on the big man of Jin Rong. With Golden Rong as a patron, Lu Lanchun instantly became popular.
As the saying goes, people are not many, and Jin Jinrong also offended Lu Xiaojia, the son of the Zhejiang overseer at that time, because of Lu Lanchun, although Jin Jinrong was a hegemon in Shanghai, but the power of the warlord big man could not be underestimated.
Sure enough, not long after, the first-class big man Jin Rong was kidnapped. Offending people is not easy to mess with, and it is so easy to solve it. Lin Guisheng took a lot of effort to fish out the golden Rong.
However, Jin Rong, who escaped from danger, did not thank Lin Guisheng for his inseparability and life-saving grace, but instead "became more and more courageous" and made up his mind to marry Lu Lanchun as a concubine.
In the face of Jin Rong's marriage proposal, Lu Lanchun did not know whether it was extremely ambitious or deliberately difficult, and put forward two requirements: the first was to marry with the specifications of the main house, and the second was to take charge of the Huang family property.
Where is this demanding? The greeting door of the eight-wheeled palanquin was a ceremony that Lin Guisheng did not have. Not to mention the specifications of this concubine. Financial power has always been in the hands of Lin Guisheng. This marriage and friendship is undoubtedly to let Lin Guisheng give up the position of the main house.
But Jin Rong, who had always been obedient to Lin Guisheng's words, actually gritted his teeth and agreed.
It is rumored that on the day of the showdown between Jin Rong and Lin Guisheng, the two moved their hands. But there are also rumors that Lin Guisheng did not say a word after listening to it. But no matter what the real situation was at that time, in the end, Lin Guisheng only said, "Marry her and enter the door, and I will divorce you."
This was Lin Guisheng's last bet, and she was betting on who Jin Rong would choose between her and Lu Lanchun. If he heard such a decision, He would still marry Jin Rong. For an arrogant woman like Lin Guisheng, there was no need for this marriage to continue.
In most cases, men are looking for "sex" outside of marriage, not "love". Especially for a man like Jin Rong, who is mixed with black and white, it is even more so. Reason will always restrain sensibility. But it turns out that Jin Rong was really moved this time, even to the point of "ignoring it".
Jin Rong chose to divorce.
The divorce is extremely crisp, although it is a country that the two have built together. But Lin Guisheng didn't want a single son. She only took 50,000 yuan, that is, the 50,000 yuan that Jin Rong borrowed to make a fortune.
Lin Guisheng, who once married in order to fight Jiangshan, also abandoned Jiangshan after the marriage ended.
How many feelings Lin Guisheng had in this marriage, no one knows. After all, who can speculate about such a strange woman? After the divorce, Lin Guisheng lived alone in a small bungalow on Seymour Road in Shanghai, and also lived in a peaceful life for the second half of his life.
After that, the rare visitor was Du Yuesheng, who she had pulled at the beginning. And this man gradually came to a position equal to the power of Jin Rong, becoming one of the three tycoons in Shanghai.
There are rumors that Lin Guisheng is Du Yuesheng's back pusher, but she has already given up her power at the beginning, and she will not interfere in these things again. In Lin Guisheng's eyes, the style and glory of the first half of her life were already like clouds and clouds, and it had nothing to do with her.
And a few years later, who would have thought that the newly married wife of Jin Rong would go out of the wall with red apricots and take away most of the Huang family's property.
Lu Lanchun's move of "black eating black" directly made Jin Rong turn upside down, because Lu Lanchun also took away the details of his black transactions over the years. Reluctantly, Jin Rong, who was "eaten", had to sign an agreement with Lu Lanchun to divorce and watch them "have lovers and eventually become dependents".
Many people wake up after being hit by fate. The same is true of Golden Rong.
At this time, Jin Rong, who had lost both money and wealth, woke up, remembered the ex-wife who fought together in the country, remembered the 20 years of ups and downs that had gone through together, and remembered the meaning behind the fifty thousand yuan.
But not all the prodigal sons who turn back can be exchanged for a broken mirror.
In the face of several "harassments" by Jin Rong, this former "big sister" on the beach actually chose the brightest means and sued Jin Rong in court with a paper complaint. The irony and determination are self-evident.
The meaning is obvious: don't bother.
The regretful Jin Rong had no choice but to plant 600 osmanthus trees in the garden of the lonely Huang family compound to remember Lin Guisheng, the "wife of the chaff".
In the golden autumn of August, the rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers envelops the entire Huang family mansion. But everything here has nothing to do with the person who was missed.
Lin Guisheng never walked out of the small bungalow until she died at the age of 104.
Or heaven or hell, Lin Guisheng and Jin Rong should not meet.
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