In the 1940s, the legendary "scumbag" Hu Lancheng had just come out of prison and was attracted by a novel called "Blockade".
He quickly inquired about the author of the novel, Zhang Ailing, and learned that Zhang Ailing lived in Shanghai, and Hu Lancheng went straight to Shanghai.
At that time, Zhang Ailing was already a legendary writer who sensationalized the literary world, and there were countless people who wanted to visit, but most of them ate behind closed doors.
On his first visit, Hu Lancheng was no exception.
But Hu Lancheng was after all a veteran of seduction, And when Zhang Ailing didn't see him, he shoved a letter into the crack of the door, and the letter did pry open Zhang Ailing's door.
Zhang Ailing met Hu Lancheng, and the two talked for 5 hours.
A love affair began, when Zhang Ailing was 23 years old, and 38-year-old Hu Lancheng was still married.
Zhang Ailing, who is arrogant by nature, sent her own photo out and wrote on the back:
Seeing him, she became very low, very low into the dust, but her heart was joyful, and flowers blossomed from the dust.
However, this long-lasting love did not get a beautiful ending like the beginning, Hu Lan was difficult to move, even if he fled, he was still ruthless everywhere, and Zhang Ailing, who was disappointed, left Hu Lancheng with regrets.
After that, Zhang Ailing's already cold and desolate tone became even more desolate.
Fortunately, "Allure of Love" was completed before this, so she can still reluctantly give a more dramatic "reunion" ending.
01
The Bai family was originally a large family, but the father loved to gamble, leading the family to decline rapidly, and by the time the white tassel grew up, the family had only an empty shelf left.
After the tassel got married, because he could not stand domestic violence, he filed for divorce and returned to his mother's house to live.
Seven or eight years have passed, the tassel's money has been ruined by several brothers, and the tassel's situation is getting worse and worse.
The family gossiped and sneered at her, and couldn't wait to send her out.
One evening, someone reported that Tassel's ex-husband had died, and the brother came up with the idea to let Tassel go back to her ex-husband Dai Xiaoxiao, and then a nephew came over, and finally even if he guarded the ancestral hall, he would not starve his sister to death.
The tassel says:
"Marriage has been divorced for seven or eight years, and those legal procedures were all fools? We can't play with the law. ”
The third brother of the tassel said:
"Don't be afraid of the law, the law, change it today, change it tomorrow, I am rational about human feelings this day, three principles and five constants, but I can't change it." You were born a man of his family, and you died a ghost of his family. ”
Speaking of which, it's just about sending out the tassels.
Unable to explain the truth with his brothers, the tassel looked for his mother, hoping to get comfort from his mother, but the mother's words dispelled the tassel's thoughts.
The mother said:
"You follow me, it is not always a long-term solution, but it is a serious way to go back, stay up for more than ten years, and there will always be a day when you will emerge."
Tassel thought that this family could not stay any longer.
If a person cannot be his own master and give his life to others, then he must be prepared to be abandoned by others.
02
Just when the white tassel was disheartened, Mrs. Xu came.
Mrs. Xu was entrusted by the Bai family to introduce the object to Baoluo, the sister of the tassel, and this time, there was news.
The man is Fan Liuyuan, who grew up abroad, and has now inherited the family business and has become a large sum, and countless wives want to marry their daughters to him.
But this man, who eats, drinks, gambles, and gambles, comes in every way, and just doesn't want to start a family.
As soon as they heard that the other party had money, the Bai family naturally agreed, and Mrs. Xu agreed on a time, the two sides met, and then introduced Baoluo to Fan Liuyuan, as for whether things could be completed, it depended on providence.
Mrs. Xu also went to see the tassel, the tassel told her situation, but also wanted to find a way out, but when she thought that she had not read for several years, the shoulder could not be picked, the hand could not be lifted, and what way could she live? If she had, she would have left.
Mrs. Xu said:
"Looking for things, it's all fake, or looking for someone is real."
But Tassel felt that he had been divorced and that his life was over.
What's the end? Mrs. Xu added:
"Only those who have money, who do not worry about eating and wearing, are qualified to say that those who have no money will not be finished."
In this way, the tassel also asked Mrs. Xu to meet the right person and build a bridge for herself.
However, Although Mrs. Xu is very powerful, the tassel is not small enough, and she has also been divorced, so it is almost impossible to find a good one.
On the day when the two sides agreed to meet, the Bai family used all the jewelry they could use on Baoluo, dressed the girl up with pearlescent and flowers, but tassels, wore a cheongsam, and was pulled by Baoluo to the banquet.
To say that Fan Liuyuan also has the characteristics of a poet, he does not look up to such a young and noble person as Baoluo, but likes such an authentic and pure Chinese woman as Tassel.
Whether it was premeditated or accidental, the tassel stole the limelight from her sister Baoluo, and when she returned home, everyone began to orchestrate her no, saying that she did not want a face.
But the tassel felt a sigh of relief.
03
Fan Liuyuan really liked himself or not, and the tassel himself had no bottom.
Not long after, Mrs. Xu came to the door to invite the tassel to go to Hong Kong with her, and the tassel knew that Fan Liuyuan was operating behind it, otherwise Mrs. Xu would not be related to herself, and there was no reason to treat herself so much.
When I arrived in Hong Kong, I did meet Fan Liuyuan.
The two of them are next to each other in the room, going in and out of pairs, eating together, chatting together, Fan Liuyuan, although not a poet, has a poet's feelings and hopes to get a spiritual love.
He said something nasty about the tassel:
"I can say things in front of people, I am completely finished, some stupid words, not only to say behind people's backs, but also to carry themselves, let yourself listen to it is also strange and embarrassing, for example, I love you, I love you all my life." 」
The tassel certainly didn't believe it.
Fan Liuyuan then said:
"Ordinary men like to teach women bad, and they like to impress bad women and make her a good woman, I am not so idle to find things." 」
The tassel thought about it:
"You want me to be bad to others, and to be alone is good to you."
In Fan Liuyuan's eyes, the real Chinese woman is the most beautiful in the world and will never go out of date, so although the tassel is 28 years old, it will not become obsolete.
He said that he had become like this because he was accustomed to the bad in the world, and then said to the tassel: If you knew me before, you would forgive me now.
He hoped that the tassel would understand him, but the tassel did not understand, but she pretended to understand him.
The relationship between the two became more and more ambiguous, but Fan Liuyuan had no intention of getting married, and Shan Menghai swore in his eyes, but it was a joke.
One night, Fan Liuyuan dialed the phone in the tasseled room and said to him, "I love you." ”
But he is still unwilling to give the tassel a name, not willing to get married, and the tassel wants marriage, is the destination, is a way to give her a way to live, and becoming Mrs. Fan is such a way.
Fan Liu originally had his reasons:
Holding the hand of the son, and the son with the old, this is the saddest poem, life and death and separation, are all big things, not at our disposal, compared to the external forces, how small we are, how small, but we want to say ' I will always be with you, we will not leave for the rest of our lives', as if we ourselves have done the Lord.
Tassel longs for marriage, but in his eyes, tassel does not love him, but wants to marry him, such a marriage, is a long-term prostitution.
The relationship between the two became more and more ambiguous, and the people around them began to regard the tassel as Mrs. Fan, and the tassel could not get the marriage he wanted, and decided to return to his hometown in Shanghai.
04
Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, tassels and Fan Liuyuan's things have long been transmitted back to Shanghai, and the family feels that the face of the Bai family has been lost by her, because she obviously did not get any benefits and came back.
In the view of the Bai family, a woman who is deceived by a man should be damned; when a woman is given to a man, she is an adulteress.
The white tassel thus became an adulteress.
Life at home was even more difficult, and she wanted to go out and find a small thing to do and mix a bowl of rice to eat, but then the identity of a lady would be completely lost, and it would be even less valuable in the future.
She did not despair of Fan Liuyuan, and she could not take the lead in depreciating her identity.
After staying up for a while, Fan Liu originally telegraphed her to Hong Kong, and the tassel, who was already desperate for home, went to Hong Kong for the second time.
Seeing Fan Liuyuan again, he was still the same as ever, and he said to the tassel, "You are the medicine to heal me." ”
That night, Fan Liuyuan entered the tassel's room.
"I've always wanted to see the moon from your window, and I can see it better in this room than I can see it over there."
Moving love words, moving moods, tassels handed themselves over to Fan Liuyuan.
The next day, Fan Liuyuan said that he would leave in a week, but he would settle the tassel well, and the tassel felt that this would work, and the women of nearly thirty often had abnormal delicacy, and without marriage, she could catch Fan Liuyuan's chips, which was this wonderful stimulation.
Financially, she doesn't have to worry.
However, before Fan Liuyuan left, the war burned to Hong Kong, and Fan Liuyuan found the tassel in the war, but the tassel felt that a person had two bodies and suffered a double layer of danger.
Fan Liuyuan sighed:
"How many stories have been broken by this explosion!"
The tassel says:
Blowing you up, my story is over. up, your story is still long!
At the end of the story, Fan Liuyuan still married tassel, after registering the marriage, tassel returned to the Bai family once, but became a model for the white family women, and the fourth sister-in-law of bai was making a divorce, because she saw that the tassel was divorced and remarried, and there were amazing achievements today.
05
In Zhang Ailing's works, human nature is desolate, reality is cold, and marriage is absurd.
In "The Golden Lock", people imprison themselves in the lock of gold, not only lock themselves, but also lock their children, lure their sons to smoke a big cigarette, and personally bury their daughter's love and happiness, writing cruelly and fiercely.
In "Agarwood Crumbs: The First Incense", people become material slaves, selling their bodies and souls for material life, although there is a taste of love, but in the end, all that remains is cruelty, and the writing is cold and bone-chilling.
"Love in the Fallen City" also has desolation, but it is mixed with a rare warmth, and there is a nearly happy ending, asking for benevolence, and what the tassels ask for, have been obtained, and even surpassed.
But this story is still sad, because the fate of the tassel is still not in his own hands after all.
She is still gambling, gambling with her life and marriage, gambling to win, life without worry, gambling to lose, she still has nothing.
Whether men or women, it is a big gamble to put their lives on others, but most people will lose a mess.
In the beginning, Fan Liuyuan said that marriage is a long-term prostitution, because if there is no emotion, it is like a tassel, asking for marriage, or asking for a guarantee, which is essentially the same as selling oneself.
In the end, Tassel thinks that Fan Liuyuan is cute, but in this game, there is still more material than love.
I used to have a very naïve idea that I felt that in today's free love, any marriage is because of love, but later I learned that it is not.
Later, it was also found that any marriage that was submissive because of the outside would eventually be separated by external forces, and the bitter fruit was only in the person who had experienced it.
Because in this world, everything has to pay a price, either by selling the body, or by paying the price in other aspects, and some people are not willing to pay the price in other aspects, so they sell the body, and they don't even want the soul.
06
A few years ago, there were news reports that some people sold their kidneys for money, and some people sold their eggs for money.
For the sake of free exchange, this is no problem.
These people seem to have chosen an easy way, seem to have chosen a good path, but what about the thorns later?
Later, there was news that the person who once sold his kidney for money was now living a sinful life, but who could blame him? If you are not willing to suffer the pain of struggle, then you will naturally have to suffer other sufferings.
In the novel "Flock of Wives and Concubines" by writer Su Tong, the girl Song Lian's family is backward in the middle of the road, and her stepmother asks her: Do you choose to work or choose to marry?
She replied calmly: Of course, she is married.
The stepmother asked: Do you want to marry an ordinary family or a rich family?
She said: Of course, it is a rich family, this still needs to be asked?
The stepmother said: That's different, go to the rich family's house, you can only be a small (concubine), the name is more wronged.
Song Lian sneered: What is the name? Do people like me think about fame? Anyway, I will give it to you to sell, and if you take care of your father's affection, sell me to a good lord.
Song Lian did marry a rich man and became the fourth aunt of a man who was more than half a hundred years old.
After marrying into the rich, before the good life was over, he suffered all kinds of humiliating treatment, and eventually went crazy and became a madman.
She is unwilling to work, unwilling to suffer hard work, she chooses to marry, exchange her youthful and beautiful body for a good life, and carry out a legal transaction of "long-term prostitution".
In the end, she had to suffer from her own choices, and the seemingly easy path of life was actually hidden behind the boundless darkness.
07
Confucius said, "Seek benevolence and be benevolent."
Then he said, I want to be merciful, and I am the best.
In fact, most things in life are to ask for what to get, planting melons can not get beans, planting beans can not grow melons.
The choice of white tassel has achieved white tassel, and Cao Qiqiao's choice has also achieved Cao Qiqiao, there is no sadness, it is just a different choice of human nature.
In 1944, Fu Lei read Zhang Ailing's works and wrote an article "On Zhang Ailing's Novels":
"Despite all its cleverness, elegance, and humor, it is ultimately the product of a society refined to the point of being almost morbid. Like the body of the Six Dynasties, although it is pearlescent, it is empty inside, and there is neither true joy nor bitter sorrow..."
Fu Lei and Zhang Ailing are different, the life and life they perceive are also different, and he regards Zhang Ailing's novel as "a general sigh and incomplete reflection." ”
And Zhang Ailing? This woman who lives in the ordinary world, not at all high, she likes money, likes to go straight, only said "never suffered from money", she likes to be famous, and said "to be famous early".
In the novels she writes, the characters in them are either from a large family, or have achieved fame, or are famous people in the wind and moon field, and the fate of these characters unfolds one by one in such a context.
These works do not see any metaphysical truth, but they can see a feast of human nature, which is full of desolation.
Although "Love in the Fallen City" has warmth, it still can't hide the coolness of humanity and the sadness of it.
As a result, some people read it as a love story book of affectionate paragraphs, some people read the drama of late twilight beauty selling themselves, and some people read the desolation of human nature.
In short, the story is always the story, and human nature is always such a human nature, and in another hundred years, it will not change.
But sometimes life requires us to read something else from the story in order to give ourselves the nourishment to grow, because life will tell us that if you don't try to change yourself, it will slowly change you.
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