The legend of Zhang Ailing's life began with a novel.
She has written many novels, writing in the subtleties of human nature, writing stories, so that people can see reality.
For example, in "Love in the Fallen City", family affection becomes fragile in the face of life, and is broken as the money of the white tassel is spent;
For example, Wu Cuiyuan in "Blockade", who has read books for several years, is an honest and ordinary woman, and on the issue of marriage, the conditions are good and she can't look at her, and the conditions are almost unsightly;
For example, Wang Jiazhi in "Color Ring", originally sacrificed the woman's honor for the sake of hoeing rape, but in the end he fell in love with each other again and again, so that he fell short.
But the most terrible story Zhang Ailing has ever told should be "The Book of golden locks", in a golden shackle, the mother becomes the executioner who kills her children, becomes the devil who deprives her children of happiness, and becomes a demon locked in money.
01
Thirty years ago, the moon was round, large, and white, and Cao Qiqiao thirty years ago was still an unmarried girl.
Cao Qiqiao was born a humble child and was the daughter of the owner of a sesame oil shop.
She is lively by nature, and when she goes out to buy vegetables, she will flirt with the owner of the butcher shop.
Later, the rich Jiang family looked for a family affair for the second young master who was bedridden for many years, and looked at the qiqiao, the reason why it was qiqiao, because the second young master of the Jiang family was born with hypochondriasis, born with a disability, and the woman who was the right door was not willing to marry him and abuse himself badly.
The Cao family coveted the Jiang family's money, so Qiqiao became the second wife of the Jiang family.
But after all, she was only the daughter of the City Well family, from a humble origin, ignorant and rude, full of foul language, in the Jiang family, no one looked up to her.
Although Cao Qiqiao was rude, he was also young and vigorous, longing for true love, became the second wife, had children, but had to guard her husband who was sick in bed every day, depressed and painful can be imagined.
She even took her healthy and energetic uncle as the object of her admiration and tried to tease him.
She said:
"A person, the body is the first thing. Do you see your second brother like that, is he still a person? Can you still look at him as a person? ”
"Have you touched his flesh?" It's soft and heavy, like a person's feet sometimes tingling, and it feels like that touch..."
Although she longs for love and a healthy body, she has to stay for the sake of the Jiang family's money.
But her body was locked by a lock made of gold, and the identity of the second wife was able to inherit the Property of the Jiang family, so she could not move in this golden lock, cautiously.
She stayed in the Jiang family for money, but she could only watch, but she couldn't get it, she still had to stay up, survive until her husband died, survive until the old lady died, and survive until the Jiang family was separated.
Without money, she can stay up, and the Jiang family can't starve her.
However, without love, and living in the contempt of the Jiang family, her soul has been distorted unconsciously.
02
After the death of her husband, Cao Qiqiao was left with his underage son Changbai and daughter Chang'an.
Without love, money became Cao Qiqiao's only attachment, and she became selfish and indifferent.
When the family was separated, for money, she was not close to people.
Before she wore the golden shackles, but she could only watch, not even the edge of the gold, and now that the family was separated, she wanted to firmly grasp the life-saving straw of money.
On the day of the separation, the old man with the highest grade of the Jiang family was invited to preside over the family separation, and the third master only got a garden house due to the excessive spending of money in normal times.
The rest is the jewelry that the old lady of the Jiang family married over that year, planning to divide it equally among several people as a souvenir, but Qiqiao refused, she cried out:
"Then we're too much of a loser."
At this time, Cao Qiqiao was no longer humane, and even the souvenirs left by the mother to her son were not willing to let go of one.
There was a stalemate for several days.
In the end, she still couldn't win over those few pieces of jewelry, but now Cao Qiqiao was finally able to nibble on this gold.
She got rich and rented a house of her own with her children.
Think about the time when she was with the Jiang family, she was cold-eyed, and now, no one can give her a cold eye anymore, because she already holds the money tightly in her hand.
Jiang Jize, the little uncle who had once been in love, came to Cao Qiqiao and begged for a good deal in front of her, but when it came to the silver money transaction, she always felt dangerous, suspecting that the other party was seeking her money, even if she had been touched by the man.
Life is so complicated and unreasonable. Why did she marry into the Jiang family in the first place? For the money? No, in order to meet Ji Ze, in order to be destined to fall in love with Ji Ze.
For more than ten years, she had a hard time dying her heart, but now Jiang Jize came to seduce her, and Cao Qiqiao's heart was excited again, but as soon as Jiang Jize mentioned money, Cao Qiqiao ruthlessly smashed at him with the golden chain.
She understood that he was not a good man, and if she wanted him, she had to pretend to be confused, and she had to tolerate his badness.
But when it came to money, she couldn't tolerate anything.
Isn't that what life is all about? At the end of the day, what is true and what is false?
For Cao Qiqiao, except for money, everything is fake, love is illusory, and family affection is unreliable.
She has money, but she is living less and less human.
03
Spring to autumn, daughter Chang'an is already thirteen years old.
Cao Qiqiao's nephew came to the city to find something to do, and lived in Cao Qiqiao's house, this child was honest and dutiful, and played well with his cousin and cousin.
Once when the three of them got into a fight, Chang'an and his cousin behaved intimately, and cao Qiqiao saw it, and she scolded her nephew with her face covered:
"I'll take your wolf heart and dog lungs stuff!"
Don't think that you have taught my daughter badly, I can't help but pinch my nose and promise her to you, you are good to occupy our family property!
I see you bastard, I can't think of such an idea, dare to feel that your father and mother taught it! ”
The child wanted to explain, but Cao Qiqiao did not even give him the opportunity to explain.
She also taught Chang'an:
The men under the sky are all the same, all trying to get your money.
"Man, can't touch it, who doesn't want your money?" Your mother's money is not easy to get, nor is it easy to keep."
Chang An nodded in agreement, but Cao Qiqiao said:
"You are also so old, and you are a pair of big feet, where can you go?"
In order to control Chang'an, Cao Qiqiao had a sudden idea to wrap his daughter's small foot.
At that time, Chang'an was already thirteen years old, and he had long passed the age of foot binding, and small feet were no longer popular, and no matter how conservative people were, they all abandoned the bad habit of foot binding.
The servants of the family advised her that if she wrapped her little feet, she was afraid that she would not be able to marry in the future.
Cao Qiqiao still wrapped her daughter's little feet.
"I don't worry about my daughter no one wants, really no one wants, just raise her for a lifetime"
On the day of the foot binding, Chang'an cried to death, but Cao Qiqiao was not soft-hearted.
Cao Qiqiao's stubbornness made her a joke outside the neighborhood.
04
A year after Chang'an wrapped his feet, his mother Cao Qiqiao was very interested and only loosened his feet for Chang'an.
But Chang'an's feet were already deformed.
Chang'an went to school, accidentally lost the handkerchief, Cao Qiqiao jumped like a thunderbolt, and also ran to the school to make trouble, so that Chang'an did not even dare to go to school, and could only drop out of school at home.
At home, Chang'an gradually gave up all self-motivated thoughts, learned to pick right from wrong, and also learned to make small bad, living more and more like his mother Cao Qiqiao.
As she grew older, Chang'an's marriage was still unattainable, her family lineage was not worthy of her, her family was general, and Cao Qiqiao was suspicious of others seeking her money.
Chang'an's marriage can only be postponed again and again.
The son Changbai is a prodigal son who does not learn any skills, usually visits brothels, gambles money, and later marries and has a wife.
As a mother-in-law, Cao Qiqiao, does not know the inspection point, does not pay attention to his speech, and jokes with his daughter-in-law.
In order to control her son and prevent Changbai from going out for a stroll, she instructed Changbai to smoke opium.
Eventually, Changbai became addicted.
While smoking opium, Cao Qiqiao discussed the privacy of her daughter-in-law with her son, and the conversation was an all-nighter, and the next day when she was on the mahjong table, she made her daughter-in-law's private affairs public.
Indirectly led to the death of the daughter-in-law.
Living in a cage made of money, Cao Qiqiao lived more and more terrible.
There is a saying that the lack of love is more terrible than the lack of money.
Lack of money, the pain is only one person, but a lack of love in the heart, but will harm many people.
05
When Chang'an was twenty-four years old, he suffered from an illness, and Cao Qiqiao did not look for a doctor, but instead let Chang'an smoke opium, and when he was well, Chang'an could not do without opium.
Originally, someone would come to say goodbye to Chang'an, but Cao Qiqiao was either afraid of people seeking money, or felt that he was not worthy of Chang'an, and Chang'an was still an old girl until he was more than thirty years old.
Cao Qiqiao saw that chang'an's marriage was difficult to achieve, and changed his tone:
"I don't look good, I can't marry, and I complain about my delay in being a mother!" I left her at home to eat a bowl of tea and rice, but I didn't plan to leave her at home to give me anger! ”
Chang'an, who is in his thirties, meets a man, and the two are in love with concubines, but Cao Qiqiao obstructs it and destroys his daughter's hope of marriage.
Be mean to your daughter.
Vicious to his son.
In this regard, Fu Lei commented: "Love cannot be satisfied in one person, and it needs the happiness and life of three or four people to pay off the debt." Terrible revenge! ”
For thirty years, she carried the shackles of gold, she was not happy herself, and she did not want others to be better, she used the sharp horns of the shackles to kill the people around her, and the piece of armor was not left.
She knew that her son and daughter hated her, that her in-laws hated her, that her mother-in-law hated her.
Cao Qiqiao also thought that if he did not marry into the Jiang family at that time, but chose an ordinary man who liked her to marry, whether it was a pork seller or other men, after a long time and having children, there would always be some sincerity.
And now, she has nothing but some money.
06
When "The Golden Lock" was adapted into a drama and put on the stage, a famous actor who performed many classic mother images on the stage was found, hoping that she could interpret the role of Cao Qiqiao on the stage.
But after reading the script, she refused.
Afterwards, her friend Chen Sihe asked her why she refused? She said she couldn't find the inner "seed" of the character's personality, and couldn't understand how she, a mother, could have such a twisted malice toward her children.
Cao Qiqiao's life is tragic, and there are several reasons for her tragedy:
The first is because of money.
She chose to marry into the Jiang family because of the money, she was a lively and healthy big girl, married to a stranger who had never met and had been bedridden for a long time, and then in order to share the Property of the Jiang family, she carefully maintained the identity of the second wife, like a nail nail there.
This was the main cause of her tragedy.
The second is because of love.
There are two kinds of love, one is that you can give love to others, and the other is to be loved, and if the two are less, they will lead to tragedy, one is the tragedy that will only give, and the other is the tragedy that will only take.
Cao Qiqiao needs love, longs for love, and longs for a healthy body, but her husband can't give him, and the people of the Jiang family look down on her, she has no love, and she doesn't have the ability to accept this loneliness and doesn't have the ability to take the initiative to love.
As a result, her heart was twisted a little, so that later she had money, but she no longer had the ability to love, including her sons and daughters.
The third is because of ignorance.
The more ignorant a person is, the more barren he is inside, the more he needs something external to fill himself, and once something external is not satisfied, and there is no corresponding wisdom within him, he will either destroy or go crazy.
The so-called external things, including material things, also include the love of others.
Cao Qiqiao was stubborn, went his own way, and even did something inhumane, all because of ignorance.
Because the more ignorant people are, the more they feel that they have knowledge, the more they feel that what they are doing is right, and the more they feel that they are masters.
In fact, in this world, the vast majority of tragedies, the vast majority of malice, are because of these.
07
Of course, of money, love, and ignorance, money is the most prevalent.
It is a common tragedy for some people to be separated by their wives and children and their families to be destroyed due to lack of money; it is still a tragedy that some people have money but begin to be swallowed up by greater desires, want to make more money, fall into the abyss of desire, and cannot extricate themselves.
Living in this world, money is an indispensable thing in life, and it is impossible to do without money, so we try to make money.
But what is the purpose of making money? It's for a better life.
However, in real life, most people try to make money, just to make more money, they forget the purpose of making money, forget the real needs of life, forget how to live.
I know that many people, in order to work, do not even have time to cook a meal for themselves, just want to make more money, life is messy, in this case, what is the point of making money?
If you forget why you set out, you will be lost, and if you are lost in money, you will be dominated by money and become a slave to money.
It is precisely because of this that money is the cause of most tragedies.
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