In the 1950s, when Lin Huiyin moved into Tsinghua Garden to recuperate, he and Qian Zhongshu were neighbors for a while. Lin Hui, because of the "focus of love" of his white cat, often fights with Qian Zhongshu's cat "Hua Hua".
Qian Zhongshu was afraid that his cat would suffer losses, so he did
I brought my own bamboo pole and was on standby 24 hours. As soon as he heard "Hua Hua" calling for help, he immediately stretched out his pole to help.
Who knows that the "focus of love" is not afraid of "power", and still risks his life to harass "flowers". And Qian Zhongshu unremittingly hit the "focus of love" of Lin Huiyin's family, and the result backfired.
Because the problem is not only not solved, but also let yourself fall behind a "mean" excuse. In the end, it was Qian's wife Yang Dai who understood the great righteousness and took the initiative to go to the door to apologize to Lin Huiyin, and the two families turned into jade.
It was once said that Qian Zhongshu wrote a novella called "Cat" because the cat of Lin Huiyin's family was eaten. It was revealed that Lin Hui had black skin and single eyelids, and also went to Japan for plastic surgery
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However, it was later confirmed that the creation time of "Cat" was actually relatively early, so from the perspective of time, it may not be an allusion to Lin Huiyin.
However, leaving aside Qian Zhongshu's "Cats", there are actually some interesting topics behind this matter. Like what
Why can't Qian Zhongshu beat the Lin family's cat? Obviously, Lin Huiyin started to beat the cat first, why did Yang Dai apologize first in the end?
I. Qian Zhongshu and his cat "kneel three times in a row"
There have never been any small animals, especially domestic animals, that have been able to play tricks in front of people. Even the legendary "rural hegemony" - the big white goose in the countryside who bully the soft and fear the hard.
As long as you grab its slender white neck while it is playing horizontally, and "snap" it to the ground, it immediately figures out who it can't afford, so it doesn't dare to make another attempt.
Cats may be a little more powerful than large white geese, but they can also scratch with their paws in addition to biting in their mouths. If you want to deal with cats, it is not absolutely impossible.
As the saying goes, "one inch long, one inch strong." The cat wants to scratch you, and it has to have paws to reach.
Therefore, Qian Zhongshu thought of using a long bamboo pole to deal with it.
What a clever little animal the cat is, not as "dead-headed" as the great white goose. As long as you hurt it with your hand, the next time it sees you, it will hide far away.
However, Lin Hui was "beaten" so many times by Qian Zhongshu because of the "focus of love" of his family, why did he still come to attack repeatedly? The reason is simple, that is
It fully explains that Qian Zhongshu did not lay down a cruel hand at all.
At best, he just poked the window frame with a bamboo pole, and probably didn't even touch the ass of the "focus of love", so he couldn't scare the other party at all. From that perspective, those
Accusing Qian Zhongshu of "bullying" Lin Huiyin's cat is incorrect.
Qian Zhongshu was on standby for 24 hours, braving the severe cold, getting up in the middle of the night to "fight" with Lin Huiyin's cat, and the result was that he fell behind.
This is clearly that he was bullied by the Lin family's cat.
In fact, in serious calculation, Qian Zhongshu and his "huahua" were all bullied by Lin Huiyin and her family's "focus of love" in this matter. The cause of this incident was that once "Hua Hua" jumped on the windowsill of Lin Huiyin's house, and as a result, she ran away with a broom.
Therefore, the first person to start a fight with the cat was actually Lin Huiyin
。 This round, "HuaHua" suffered a loss. Subsequently, the "focus of love" cat battled the human position, and beat the "flower" fat several times. This is the second round, and it is still a "flower" loss.
After that, it was Qian Zhongshu who struck,
Although he was "in the hands of a long wisp", he failed to drive the "invaders" out of the territory.
Therefore, in the third round, qian Zhongshu and "Hua Hua" suffered losses together.
Because the owner was too "weak and deceitful" and could not protect the "flowers", Yang Dai later submitted soft to the "Lin Baohu" family (she and her big wild cat).
According to Yang Chen, later they moved again and put the "flowers" into a dark cloth bag and took them away. As a result, "Hua hua" was insecure and completely lost trust in her master.
Finally, when moving to a new home, "Hua Hua" "escaped" alone. I guess the cat must have been thinking when he fled:
Ahhh! He also said that he loved me and wanted to help me get out of it, it was really "show talent rebellion, three years can't be done"!
Second, Qian Zhongshu probably did not like Lin Huiyin
Qian Zhongshu said at the beginning of "Cats": To beat a dog, you must look at the owner's face, and hitting a cat must look at the face of the master's mother. Although he understood the reason, when their pets had a conflict, why didn't he go directly to Lin Huiyin to communicate?
It's a very strange thing, rather
This incident also shows from the side that there is something wrong between Qian Zhongshu and his wife and Lin Huiyin.
Theoretically, either Qian Zhongshu and his wife looked down on Lin Huiyin, or Lin Huiyin did not put Qian Zhongshu and his wife in the eyes at all. Otherwise, who would offend their neighbors for the sake of their pets?
Therefore, some people think that Qian Zhongshu's "Cat" must be an allusion to Lin Huiyin.
In his novel, there is a Mrs. Li, also a socialite, who likes to run salons at home, and the exchanges are some famous writers, poets and politicians.
An author named Wu Taichang said in "Qian Zhongshu I Know" that Qian Zhongshu wrote "Cat" after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1945, and Qian Zhongshu moved to TsinghuaYuan in August 1949.
That is to say, when Qian Zhongshu wrote the novella "Cat", there was no contradiction with Lin Huiyin because of "Flowers" and Lin Huiyin's "focus of love".
However, this does not mean that Qian Zhongshu has no ill feelings towards Lin Huiyin.
Because after the "cat fight" incident, he did not take the initiative to communicate with Lin Huiyin, which already shows that he had an opinion on Lin Huiyin early on.
As early as 1935, Bing Xin published "Our Wife's Living Room", which was similar to Qian Zhongshu's "Cat". It is also about a high-society wife, who often runs salons at home, and the exchanges are all male writers, male poets and professors.
Although Qian Zhongshu's "Cat" was published in 1945, it is clear that he, like Bingxin, has long been unaccustomed to the "wife" who loves to run a salon.
However, some people say that Lin Huiyin did not have such a so-called "living room" in his home at that time. But the "living room" in the novel is not the real reference.
Obviously, Bing Xin and Qian Zhongshu are not accustomed to the "salon" form of friendship among people in the book.
They are not accustomed to people like the protagonist in the book, and naturally they cannot be accustomed to Lin Huiyin, who has the same behavior as the people in the book.
For Qian Zhongshu's arrogance, Lin Huiyin can obviously feel it. Therefore, none of them want to put down their identities to communicate with each other, only to let each other's cats fight.
Helplessly, Qian Zhongshu's cat was probably not foreign enough, and his body was not strong enough, and after several battles, he was actually not the opponent of Lin Huiyin's white cat, and the result was a "tragedy". At the same time, Qian Zhongshu went to help "fight", and in the end he did not win.
epilogue
It can be seen from the cat beating incident that Qian Zhongshu is actually a "mouth cannon king". In his heart, he did not like Lin Huiyin, and naturally did not like his cat being bullied by Lin Huiyin's cat.
But he was kind after all, and it was impossible to really poison a cat.
Lin Huiyin is an unexpected one, don't look at her beautiful and quiet appearance, in fact, her personality is very strong. It is said that when she socializes in the salon, she is often the "dominant" of opinions.
Therefore, Lin Huiyin's personality makes her never spoil her pet, and if the cat has the courage to do evil outside, she must have the courage to bear the consequences of being beaten to the brain.
let alone
Lin Huiyin has long seen through Qian Zhongshu as "strong in the outside world",
Know that nothing will happen to your cat. As a result, her judgment was indeed correct. Because she calmed down, she finally forced Yang Dai to take the initiative to come to the door to say peace.
In this way, Qian Zhongshu and his cat not only did not win a round, but also lost badly, no wonder the cat finally ran away from home.