Miss Shanghai who is always mistakenly chosen - Wang Qiyao

Wang Anyi's "Long Hate Song", a woman's forty years of love and love, is written with a delicate and brilliant pen, which is intertwined with the changes of the metropolis of Shanghai from the 1940s to the 1990s. The women living in the alleys of Shanghai have sunk countless ideals, disillusionment, restlessness and resentment, and their pursuit of love and love, their successes and failures, unfold in turn before our eyes.

Wang Anyi's seemingly bland but humorous and cold tone, in the small and trivial details of life, shows the people and cities in the changing times, and is known as the "epic of modern Shanghai".

Wang Qiyao, the heroine of Wang Anyi's "Long Hate Song", is calm and wise in daily life, but she has been perfectly wrong three times in her life's marriage events.

Wang Qiyao, a lane girl born in the early 1930s. At the age of 16, he was born in a flowery appearance and studied at a girls' middle school.

Wang Qiyao, an inseparable classmate and friend, in the contrast of Wang Qiyao's beautiful light, her posture is flat, even a little ugly. This friend felt that Wang Qiyao was with him like pity for her, and in order to repay Wang Qiyao, she always stood in Wang Qiyao's position to consider problems and things. By chance, she could take people to the film shooting site to visit, and she immediately thought of taking Wang Qiyao to open her eyes. It was here that Wang Qiyao was electrocuted for the first time, because her beauty was just in a good state, like a girl next door, without aggressive beauty, who was selected by a director to try the shot. Although the audition effect was not good, the director recommended her to a photographer, Mr. Cheng, who later became Wang Qiyao's lifelong suitor.

Mr. Cheng was an atypical intellectual, he graduated from the Railway Academy, worked in a foreign firm, had an objective income and an interesting hobby of photography, and he was the marriage object in the eyes of many marriageable young women at that time. Mr. Cheng can always grasp the characteristics of Wang Qiyao's beauty, and the photos he took were published on the cover of Shanghai Life Magazine, and Wang Qiyao became synonymous with "Shanghai Shuyuan". At this time, she became good friends with another female classmate, Jiang Lili, and gradually became estranged from Wu Peizhen. Jiang Lili's family conditions are superior, and she can take Wang Qiyao to many parties, and Wang Qiyao has also seen the upper class. Wang Qiyao became the person everyone rushed to know at the party, but Wang Qiyao always behaved very modestly and was not proud of being on the cover of the magazine.

In that year, in order to raise donations for the flooding of Henan, a newspaper in Shanghai decided to organize a Miss Shanghai contest, and all the funds raised would be used for disaster relief. Jiang Lili made her a wayward girl due to family reasons, and she took it upon herself and even a bit overbearing to let Wang Qiyao participate in this Miss Shanghai beauty contest. And together with the photographer to advise, customize the beauty pageant appearance clothes, jewelry. In the preparation of the beauty contest, Mr. Cheng's pursuit of Wang Qiyao was very clear, and he always went to Jiang Lili's home to discuss countermeasures with them, or brought some news of the beauty pageant. Wang Qiyao does not know the pursuit of photographers, while Jiang Lili is bent on pursuing photographers, and even pours out her heart to Wang Qiyao, how he likes photographers. Under the photographer's ingenious costume design, Wang Qiyao was just right in beauty, and finally won the third place of the first "Miss Shanghai", the first two were the thousand gold and mistress of military and political dignitaries, only this third place was worthy of the name, she was 18 years old.

Wang Qiyao's title of "Miss Shanghai" is spreading throughout Shanghai, and Wang Qiyao himself is not impressed. After the pageant, she moved out of Jiang Lili's house and cut off contact with Jiang Lili. During this period, she privately dated the photographer Mr. Cheng, who was a good marriage partner in the absence of a better suitor, but she was only Wang Qiyao's spare tire because she was "Miss Shanghai".

At this time, she received an invitation to be a ribbon-cutting guest for the opening of a department store. The ribbon cutting process is also simple, and after the ribbon cutting is over, she is invited to dinner. It was at the banquet that Wang Qiyao met the first man in her changed life, Director Li, a man in his forties.

At first, she mistakenly thought that Director Li was the manager of the department store, so she asked some cosmetics brand questions, and later learned that she was mistaken, it turned out that this Director Li was a military and political official in the Kuomintang, he was the majority shareholder of the department store, no wonder everyone around him was respectful to him.

Director Li knows women. He had a wife whose parents had ordered him to be in his hometown, and two concubines, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai, and countless women who had mixed with him were countless. Therefore, Director Li knows about women, and even the older he is, the more critical he is.

In fact, on the day of the beauty contest, he was cheering for the "Second Miss", but after he saw Wang Qiyao, his heart was inexplicably soft and devoted, so he threw the flowers to the "Third Miss" Wang Qiyao. He was not at all annoyed by Wang Qiyao's abrupt questions, thinking that her questions were naïve and a little girl who did not understand current affairs.

After the ribbon-cutting incident, Director Li asked Wang Qiyao to eat twice on the second and third days, and each time It was Director Li and the driver's car that picked up and delivered the car, because Director Li's license plate number was famous in Shanghai, and the lanes all cast envious glances at her family. After the third meal, Director Li bought Wang Qiyao a huge ring, this time for a month.

In Wang Qiyao's anxious waiting, Director Li asked Wang Qiyao again.

When Wang Qiyao saw Director Li, she cried a lot, and Director Li was very distressed. Director Li also pointed out the topic, made his outer room, rented her an apartment, and she could also choose to continue her studies at the same time. Wang Qiyao was very crisp, just thought for a while and said, she does not want to be a female doctor, a female pedant, so she chooses not to continue to study, only to be Director Li's gentle township.

Wang Qiyao was 19 years old.

As Jiang Lili's mother said: A girl from a family like Wang Qiyao, once she has seen the world, can only take that road.

Director Li settled Wang Qiyao in Alice's apartment, which is near the bustling Paramount, in a secluded alley, this Alice apartment looks very unremarkable on the outside, but the apartment is decorated like a dream, and there are many "Wang Qiyao" living inside.

In the apartment rented by Wang Qiyao, Director Li bought a complete set of rosewood furniture, bedspreads and curtains on the floor, and arranged them warmly and romantically, especially several large wardrobes, deliberately allowing Wang Qiyao to slowly fill them later to pass the time. When she just moved into Alice's apartment, Director Li accompanied Wang Qiyao every day, which made Wang Qiyao feel very satisfied, she was very well-behaved, never asked Director Li about her family and work, nor did she mention any requirements, so that Director Li cherished her more and more and loved her.

But the romantic and comfortable days were very short, half a month later, Director Li left in a hurry, did not say where to go, did not know when he would return, his status and the nature of the work determined that he had to do so.

Wang Qiyao waited, sometimes three or five days, sometimes a week, sometimes even two weeks, a month. In the days to come, the most Wang Qiyao did was to wait. Wang Qiyao watched the light and shadow of the trees move from west to east every day, passing the time, she even thought that the day should be, she even thought that the day should be light and shadow rather than time, and the days were fading away day by day in this waiting.

Even after waiting, she did not see Director Li for the last time.

Because she couldn't wait at home, she went out shopping and waited, but Director Li returned when she was out. He knew that he had reached the most important juncture in his life and wanted to meet Wang Qiyao for the last time. Director Li waited for Wang Qiyao to return, just got into the car to leave, and saw Wang Qiyao sitting on a tricycle from the rear window of the car, and the two cars even paralleled for a distance, and finally pulled away.

This was the last time the two met, Director Li saw Wang Qiyao, but Wang Qiyao did not see Director Li. A month later, a plane from Beijing to Shanghai was blown up in the newspaper, and one of the male dead men named Zhang Bingliang was Director Li, who was under a pseudonym. The year was 1948.

During this period, the infatuated Mr. Cheng went to Wang Qiyao's house many times to find her, but her family only said that she went to her grandmother's house, and the rest refused to disclose. The photographer even ran to Wang Qiyao's grandmother's house in Suzhou to find her, and naturally found nothing.

After hiding in her grandmother's mother's house for a year, Wang Qiyao returned to Shanghai and moved into a lane in Ping'an. She attended a two-month medical training course to give injections to patients in order to make ends meet.

Wang Qiyao wears a modest trouser top and rarely wears a cheongsam, but her beauty still can't be hidden.

Everyone knows that she is a widow, although she does not know her specific details, but introduced her to the object, is a teacher, thirty years old, but has been xie, Wang Qiyao disliked, naturally did not succeed.

According to someone else, she thought that she could not escape the situation of the teacher last time, so she refused one by one.

Over time, Wang Qiyao became good friends with a noble lady at the bottom of the road, Mrs. Yan, whose husband was the owner of a business before liberation, and after liberation, he was handed over to the state company for a joint venture, and his husband served as the manager.

Through Mrs. Yan, she also met her distant cousin, Komson, a young master of a typical old-fashioned extended family. Cumminson's father has two wives, but Cummingson is the only boy, but it is the second room, he was raised in the big room since he was a child, she has to observe the color since elementary school, and even please the sisters of the big room and the big room, in exchange for the big mother's liking for him, he calls the big room the mother, and can only call the birth mother of the second room the second wife.

Through Cumminson, he met Cumminson's friend Sasha, a mixed-race descendant of an early Communist Party leader. The four people often secretly play mahjong together, drink tea and chat, it is during this period that Cummingson recognized the identity of Wang Qiyao's "three misses", but he did not show his face, took care of Wang Qiyao everywhere, the two people tacitly, admired each other, and finally the two people began to steal love.

The old-style big family of Cummingson naturally would not look for a person with such a background as Wang Qiyao; Wang Qiyao had a starting point too high and was unwilling to be an ordinary person's wife. Wang Qiyao's grandmother was right: this child was not rooted at the beginning, and it would be difficult to pull it back.

Sure enough, Wang Qiyao was pregnant. Cummingson was frightened, did not dare to take any responsibility, did not dare to admit that Wang Qiyao was pregnant with his child.

Wang Qiyao had no choice but to design a design to seduce and marry Sasha. Sasha was naturally suspicious, but still responsible, accompanying Wang Qiyao to the hospital for examination and making an appointment for the miscarriage. But at this time, Sasha's aunt visited China from the Soviet Union, sasha went to Beijing to see her aunt, and was brought back to the Soviet Union by her aunt, unable to accompany Wang Qiyao to the hospital for surgery.

In the end, Wang Qiyao did not choose to make a child, but insisted on giving birth to the child.

After Wang Qiyao decided to give birth to a child, because it was a three-year natural disaster and the food supply was not available, she met Mr. Cheng, whom she had not met for a long time, when buying grain at a grain store. Mr. Cheng saw Wang Qiyao shopping alone with a big belly, so he helped her send her home.

Later, because both of them were single, they combined their meals in the era of food poverty. Mr. Cheng purchased and cooked, and was busy taking care of Wang Qiyao.

Mr. Cheng is a real gentleman, every night after the busy, in Wang Qiyao's home to keep accounts, no matter how late, he will go home.

Wang Qiyao gave birth to a girl, and Mr. Cheng settled Wang Qiyao and left.

Wang Qiyao said that she was embarrassed to rely on Mr. Cheng at her most difficult time, in fact, she had never fallen in love with Mr. Cheng, because once when Mr. Cheng put his hand on Wang Qiyao's shoulder, she instinctively acted frightened. Therefore, Mr. Cheng knew that he would never get Wang Qiyao's heart, so he rationally chose to leave. This is Wang Qiyao's second wrong process Mr. Wang.

Wang Qiyao grew up alone with her daughter Weiwei, who was not as beautiful as her, not as shrewd as she was, but Weiwei was luckier than her. Wang Qiyao helped Wei Wei choose a boyfriend. Vivi's boyfriend was admitted to a university after resuming the college entrance examination, got married after graduation and went to study in the United States, and then ran Vivi out. Wang Qiyao was worried that Wei Wei was stupid, had no heart and eyes, and was thinking of helping her husband to go abroad procedures and make preparations for the country, not knowing whether she would be dumped for herself. But Wang Qiyao was more worried, Wei Wei was more blessed than herself, and a year later, she successfully went to the United States to reunite with her husband.

Now only Wang Qiyao is left, because the social atmosphere is open, young people are keen to hold various dances, but do not know the essence of dance, so they invite Wang Qiyao, who is familiar with the old Shanghai high society, as a guide, Wang Qiyao trance back to the old Shanghai 40 years ago, dances, Western food, that far away era is back.

Wang Qiyao played, chatted, and ate with a group of young boys and girls all day long, and became a spiritual mentor for young people. During this period, Wang Qiyao cohabited with a boy who could be his son at an age, this boy was called "Old Kela", because he advocated all old objects, the style of old Shanghai, naturally including the old Miss Shanghai Wang Qiyao, so that Wang Qiyao's vanity was satisfied, and he was still as attractive as when he was young.

But the result came too quickly, after the two lived together, the old Kera finally realized that the so-called "Miss Shanghai" who still looked young and charming was not a person of the same generation, the dirt of the black hair dye left on the pillow, the face that did not wear makeup when he woke up in the morning, and the old Kera left Wang Qiyao without greeting.

At this time, Wang Qiyao's other "long foot" who forgot to make friends for many years, claiming to be the grandson of Indonesia's "rubber king", was actually a small slum in the Shanghai slums, and every morning in the early morning, he went to sell fish to make money and asked his friends to spend the day and drink, and when he had no money, he disappeared and said that he was on vacation in Hong Kong. "Longfoot" sold foreign exchange because of his knowledge, and sometimes made some money, but soon he squandered it with his friends, and he liked the feeling of spending thousands of dollars, and others adore him.

"Longfoot" saw that the peach wood cabinet in Wang Qiyao's home was an old object, and also speculated that Wang Qiyao had gold in it, and he was in urgent need of money at this time, so he thought of stealing Wang Qiyao's gold bars in the middle of the night. This box of gold was left to her by Director Li, so for decades, although there were Mr. Kommingson, Mr. Cheng, and "Old Kela", Wang Qiyao finally thought in her heart that she and Director Li were husband and wife, Director Li was affectionate and righteous to her, and the gold left to her by Director Li was a spiritual sustenance.

Wang Qiyao has not slept, he found "long feet", "long feet" are afraid, begged her to spare him, Wang Qiyao was going to let him go, but a sentence of long feet took away Wang Qiyao's life, long feet said "Auntie, you let me go", Wang Qiyao thought that he was young and emotional, there was no difference with these young people, he did not expect to call himself aunt, Wang Qiyao pulled down his face, did not allow long feet to leave, and said that he wanted to send him to the police station, the long-legged dog jumped the wall and strangled Wang Qiyao, a generation of famous women and a whimper.

She died because her cognition was unclear, always wise in small things, and always unclear in big things. Wang Qiyao is not an individual, representing a girl from the same family as her, with the same outstanding appearance, who does not want to be herself, and always wants to jump into a class that does not belong to herself by her own beauty.