It was the best time of her life. (EGGER short story)

Original Shen Yuzao Egger

Photography / Hakutsuru Twins Model / Meowth_

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In 1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Boss Mei re-appeared on stage and staged "Thorny Tiger", "Si Fan" and "Broken Bridge" at the Shanghai Majestic Theater.

Scarlett Fu also went.

Not just as a general viewer, of course.

As the daughter of fu lao, a celebrity of the Republic of China, and a director of the Xinmin Morning Post and the "Far East First Hall" of Shanghai's first dance hall, and the manager of the Majestic Grand Theatre is also her friend, Fu Sijia was invited to attend Boss Mei's reception banquet before the official opening of the play.

During the feast, the guests were full of drama and discussed the improvement of Peking Opera, except for Fu Sijia.

She sat there quietly, holding her hand on her cheek and smiling, watching others stagger and listening to others noisily.

Instead, the person who called Boss Mei noticed this silent Miss Fu Liu. Boss Mei asked warmly, "Miss Six doesn't like to listen to drama?" ”

"It's not that I don't like it, I can't put my mouth shut." I listened to the drama very little, and I only heard a folding play. ”

"Which one?"

"Kunqu Opera, The Book of Evil Seas, SiFan."

Boss Mei's eyes lit up: "Coincidentally, I also like this fold of "Si Fan". In the early years of learning Kunqu opera, Kunqu Daya, is a literati drama, I can't even understand the lyrics, only this fold "Si Fan" is written in a simple way, no one to explain, I can also hear clearly. From that time on, I thought that in the future, when I make plays, I must be grounded and let ordinary people understand it. ”

Listening to his words, Scarlett Fu had a momentary trance.

Halfway through, she smiled softly: "You said this, more than ten years ago, someone told me about the same meaning." ”

"Who?"

"The boss of the Lianmao film, in the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, caused an explosion in his own home and died with the Japanese and the traitors--Yun Guanlan."

One

Listening to "Si Fan" with Yun Guanlan was Fu Sijia's first time listening to Chinese drama.

Born in England, she traveled to Europe with her father as a child and was a completely Westernized person. Shakespeare in England and Dumas in France have seen a lot, but she knows nothing about Chinese culture.

Go to see "Si Fan" because Yun Guanlan's Lianmao Film plans to make an opera movie "Si Fan", as the second largest shareholder of Lianmao, Fu Sijia was forcibly pulled by him to the Big Stage of Heavenly Toad to listen to this song "Si Fan".

"Si Fan" is from the Kunqu opera "The Record of the Evil Sea", which is a folding play, telling the story of the little nun Zhao Se who moved his heart and wanted to go down the mountain to return to the vulgarity -

Little Nun Year Fang 28,

He was young and had his hair cut off by his master.

Every day, burn incense and change water in the temple,

See a few children playing under the mountain gate.

Nu Ben is a female petite, not a man.

Why is the waist plate yellow and wearing a straight sleeve?

Before going, Fu Sijiayuan was worried that Chinese had always refused to speak bluntly, afraid that the joke would take care of him and make him unable to understand the joke. I didn't expect that this play was written so bluntly, and she was a layman who had no obstacles in listening to it, and even laughed out loud because of the humor of the joke.

Yun Guanlan bit the cigarette and squinted at her: "What, it's not wrong, right?" ”

He spoke to Fu Sijia with great interest: "There is a saying in the pear garden line that men are afraid of night running and women are afraid of Sifan, saying that Shengjiao'er is afraid of singing Lin Chong night running, and Danjiao'er is afraid of singing Sifan, because these two folds of the play have particularly high requirements for singing voices, and it is difficult to survive if the foundation is not deep..."

Fu Sijia could not understand it halfway, and her index knuckles supported her chin, smiling and squinting as she listened to him.

Yun Guanlan suddenly "fluttered" a smile.

Scarlett Fu asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yun Guanlan said, "Nothing, suddenly remembering her." Like you, she doesn't know how to play. Girls in this era seem to be bent on running forward, full of heart and mind to cut off ancient China. ”

she? Who is she?

Who else could it be, it was none other than Meng Lingsheng. Meng Lingsheng, a young lawyer who left home to go to China to study law in the United States, Yun Guanlan was waiting for her dream lover to return.

Fu Sijia's heart was suddenly a little sour.

But she acted indifferent, only retorting in her mouth: "You men have taken advantage of ancient China, of course, nostalgic for that good time for you." And we women have suffered five thousand years of losses, of course, we have to run forward desperately. ”

Yun Guanlan raised his hands in surrender: "I was wrong, Miss Six has a large number, please forgive me." ”

Fu Sijia also "fluttered" and laughed.

She reached out and took down the cigarette that Yun Guanlan was biting at the corner of her mouth. He had recently quit smoking, and had only been addicted to it, not on fire.

"Seriously, you're not worried about Lawyer Meng staying in the United States and not coming back?"

Yun Guanlan looked at her in surprise: "Why didn't she come back?" She'll be back for sure. ”

"Why?"

"She went to the United States to study, because she lost Lin Aman's lawsuit, in order to improve her ability and make a contribution to the reform of China's judiciary."

"So confident? Did she tell you? ”

She didn't say it, but I knew she had it in mind. She has her ambitions, so I don't stop her. I knew she would be back, so I waited. ”

Fu Sijia's heart fell heavily.

Two

The first time Fu Sijia met Yun Guanlan was in the "First Hall of the Far East".

It was the summer of the twentieth year of the Republic of China, Fu Sijia and her brothers competed for the inheritance left by their father, and found a fledgling female lawyer Meng Lingsheng as a defense lawyer, and the two became friends.

Later, Meng Lingsheng represented a criminal case of murdering her husband, but the newspapers suddenly flocked to countless negative reports about her client Lin Aman.sufficiency.

At that time, Fu Sijia was still the owner of the Xinmin Morning Post, a well-known figure in the Poster industry, and Meng Lingsheng asked her to help investigate the mystery and met at the "First Hall of the Far East".

Along with it, there is Yun Guanlan, the boss of Lianmao Movie.

At the first sight of Yun Guanlan, Fu Sijia was very interested in this man.

He was young, handsome, generous, well-spoken, and as a movie tycoon, he had no merchant squire.

However, she came from a famous family, and she was accustomed to young talents since she was a child, and her impression of Yun Guanlan stopped there.

If not later.

After the "First Hall of the Far East", for a whole year, Fu Sijia did not see Yun Guanlan again.

When she was about to forget that there was still such a person, Yun Guanlan walked in front of her again.

In this year, the Murder of Lin Aman's husband was a sensation on the beach, and the matter was adapted into two movies and released in the ring. One of them was filmed by Yun Guanlan's Lianmao film, which screamed for Lin Aman, sensationalized the whole city, and won countless support points for Lin Aman. But Meng Lingsheng eventually lost the case, and Lin Aman committed suicide in prison, leaving a letter that cried blood and tears. After Lin Aman's death, Meng Lingsheng also left China and left for the United States.

Goodbye Yun Guanlan, as if in another world.

Yun Guanlan came to ask for help.

In recent times, the films filmed by Lianmao have always been suppressed by the censorship department for no reason, resulting in the film not being released in time.

He felt that something was wrong and wanted to find out the inside information. But he was an overseas Chinese and lacked connections, so he thought of Fu Sijia.

Fu Sijia's father was a famous industrialist, educator and social activist, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present, nearly half a century he ran industry, education, and charity, everyone in the world knows, protégés are all over the world.

It also happened that during that time, Fu Sijia happened to have a father's old friend, she called her uncle from childhood, transferred to the Propaganda Department, and could speak well of film censorship.

Fu Sijia thought that he was the son and daughter of the jianghu and was the most righteous, so he did not shirk it and agreed to Yun Guanlan's request.

Found out, sure enough, the review of the joint was stuck in the neck, and it was the competitors who obstructed it.

Sending the Buddha to the west, Fu Sijia asked her uncle for help to help Yun Guanlan get through this pass.

The uncle smiled and groaned, "It's not impossible, but you always have to be famous." You are my little niece, and it is reasonable for me to help you. But what does he have to do with me, and why should I help him? ”

Fu Sijia blurted out: "Then can you help your niece and son-in-law?" ”

At that time, she really just had a mouth and a mind, making a stopgap measure.

Three

In the end, her uncle still helped her.

Fu Sijia, a girl who grew up in Europe, was completely Westernized. She was an unmarried person who had been scorning love and marriage since she was a teenager, and her relatives and elders had to worry about her to death.

Now that I heard that she actually had a boyfriend, my uncle was simply happy and broken, so why not help?

However, in the face of Yun Guanlan, Fu Sijia is another statement.

"My uncle said that he wanted to be famous for helping people, so I said to him, I want to take a stake in Lianmao Movie, and if Lianmao is stuck in the neck, I will be cut off from my financial road."

Yun Guanlan was also very happy: "Since you have already told this lie, I don't know if Miss Six has any plans to fake it into reality?" In the coming year, I plan to expand the business of Lianmao and establish a film kingdom that integrates production, actor training, distribution, and publicity, and I just need funds. If Miss Six is not disgusted, welcome to join the shares. ”

On the day of the signing, Yun Guanlan invited Fu Sijia to watch a movie in his own Four Seas Grand Theatre.

is a Hollywood romance film called "Soul Break Blue Bridge", starring Betty Davis.

The story is about the love of an officer and a ballet dancer, two people who fell in love at first sight. However, the officers went to the front, and during the war, the officers were rumored to have been killed, and the ballet dancers were forced to make a living. After many years of war, when they were reunited, the ballet dancers felt shameless in the face of the officers and committed suicide on the Blue Bridge at the first sight.

The male protagonist is handsome and the female protagonist is beautiful, the storyline has ups and downs, and the ending is lingering and mournful.

The whole cinema was filled with the sobbing of the audience.

However, in the midst of this sobbing, Fu Sijia let out a sneer.

After watching the movie come out, in the café, Yun Guanlan asked Fu Sijia: "What, you don't like the movie just now?" ”

Fu Sijia used a spoon to knock the wall of the cup to the jingle: "Movies are good movies, but I didn't expect that in Hollywood movies, this Chinese view of festivals and martyrdom will be promoted." ”

"The heroines are forced to fall into the dust, and it is the men who should be ashamed of the men who start wars and make women powerless to survive and have to sell themselves." What is she ashamed of? What is she sorry for the male protagonist? So much so that you want to commit suicide to keep the relationship pure? ”

The faster she spoke, the more angry she became.

Finally, she said to Yun Guanlan: "We are not going to make this kind of film that promotes the feudal festival and the fierce view. ”

Yun Guanlan looked at her with a smile and groaned, "Well, we don't want to make this kind of movie." ”

Fu Sijia felt that she had just been too excited, felt ashamed for the first time, touched the tip of her nose, and asked, "Did I scare you just now?" I know, you men don't like women like this very much. ”

Yun Guanlan shook his head: "No, I think you are very good like this." As a woman, you should try your best to fight for your own rights and for other women, and if you have a light, you will be hot. Lawyer Meng, she is also like this. ”

He always mentioned Meng Lingsheng.

Later, looking back, Fu Sijia found that his conversation with her always seemed to end up being turned over to Meng Lingsheng.

This made her even a little jealous--jealous of Meng Lingsheng, a person like Yun Guanlan who loved her deeply and thought of her all the time; also jealous of Yun Guanlan, jealous that he could love someone like this without reservation.

Four

Yun Guanlan is not a person who can only talk empty words.

In just two years, his Lianmao film kingdom has begun to take shape, with its own studio, cinema, actor training school, and also borrowed Fu Sijia's contacts in the press to make a film magazine, covering most of the film promotion in Shanghai.

Fu Sijia and Yun Guanlan met more and more frequently.

Because they are business partners, most of the business they talk about when they meet is the film business.

Fu Sijia likes to listen to Yun Guanlan talk about movies, he talks about today's film market, comments on the merits of the films that are being released, and says that Hollywood's film factories...

On the opening night of the fourth first round of theaters in Lianmao, at the celebration banquet, Yun Guanlan drank too much wine, and in order to sober up, Fu Sijia accompanied him from the theater all the way back to the Yun Mansion.

Late at night on Nanjing Road, there are scattered figures, but they are still flashing neon lights. Yun Guanlan excitedly talked about his years when he first dabbled in movies in Nanyang: "At that time, Lianmao brought me, the boss, and the employees could count on two hands, and the boss also had to work together. I have a bicycle, ridden every day, with a projector and a copy of the movie, from village to village, touring..."

Once a blue wisp of the road, to this day, he is the brightest star in the Shanghai film industry.

Fu Sijia felt moved: "You are a person who deserves the pride of all your friends. ”

Yun Guanlan smiled, "Why?" Because I own four of the most luxurious first-round cinemas in Shanghai? Miss Six, in fact, what makes me proud is not the four first-round theaters, but the other six three-round theaters. ”

"No matter how luxurious the first round of theaters is, only the rich people can sit in it, and the rich people have enough happiness." What I hope is that all the poor people under the heavens can enjoy the joy of the movie at a small price. ”

At that moment, Fu Sijia suddenly remembered Meng Lingsheng.

Once, she asked Meng Lingsheng why she should represent legal aid cases that many lawyers did not want to take, and most of the parties in those cases were poor women, who had no oil and water to fish for, nor could they make a name for themselves.

Meng Lingsheng replied to her: "To put it bluntly, Miss Six, a girl from a rich family like you, although you will also encounter injustice, you still have enough money to hire any lawyer to fight for your rights." But all the girls in poor families can rely on is the lawyer's sense of social responsibility. And I think that the criterion for my qualifications as a lawyer is not to win property rights for many rich women, but to win the right to life for many poor women. ”

Fu Sijia looked at Yun Guanlan and felt that her nose was sour and she could not speak.

She seemed to understand why Yun Guanlan had never forgotten his Meng lawyers, Yun Guanlan and Meng Lingsheng, who were originally the same kind of people.

But she still couldn't help but run to Yun Guanlan's side.

Yun Guanlan is a movie fanatic, usually staying in the Zhabei filming set of Lianmao. As soon as Fu Sijia was idle, she ran to the Zhabei set.

The crew is a lot of things, sometimes rushing to the scene, and the equipment and props are piled up on the ground. Once, the heel of Fu Sijia's high heels was tripped by something, and the ankle bone "clicked", and the whole person sat on the ground.

It hurts.

Yun Guanlan squatted down without thinking, his arm went through her armpits, he supported her up, and turned his head as he walked to the lounge and ordered the field: "Go and find it, see if there are any ice cubes." ”

The two of them had just arrived at the lounge, and the field manager had brought ice cubes and wrapped them in towels. Yun Guanlan took the towel, said "offense", and then squatted down, took off Fu Sijia's high heels, and gently attached the ice cube to her ankle.

Fu Sijia felt her ankles being frozen, and she felt her heart burn a little.

Yun Guanlan had no distractions, but just thought of cold compresses for her.

For a moment there was silence in the lounge.

After half a day, Yun Guanlan suddenly "fluttered" and smiled.

Scarlett Fu was a little puzzled: "What's wrong?" ”

Yun Guanlan raised his head, with a smile in his eyes: "Nothing, suddenly remembered a funny past - I remember that lawyer Meng took me to the 'first hall' to find you help, before going I thought that the famous miss six would have short hair and wear suits and pants, I didn't expect ..."

Unexpectedly, it was a woman with fiery red lips, sideburns like clouds, and bright to the point of almost arrogance.

At this moment, she was leaning on the sofa with a red velvet sleeve, with a royal blue velvet skirt, low neckline, one-line shoulders, no sleeves, a string of pearl necklaces hanging from her neck, a ring of gold and ruby-encrusted Egyptian-style armbands on her right arm, a royal blue satin high heel of the same color as the long skirt on her left foot, and her right foot was taken off on the foot, like a bright red Codan, more and more lined with skin and red lips.

Listening to Yun Guanlan's words, she "fluttered" and smiled: "You think I'm an unmarried person, and I will dress myself like a man?" ”

Yun Guanlan admitted frankly: "Yes, I am superficial. ”

Fu Sijia stretched out a lazy waist: "I, I don't want to be a man." What I want is the freedom of a woman to choose whether to wear trousers or skirts, to choose freely whether to be a lawyer or an actor. ”

Just as he was talking about the rise, he suddenly smelled a burning smell.

Yun Guanlan stood up, turned and walked out.

When he came back, he had a dignified face: "There is a fire, it is dangerous here, we have to leave." ”

Without thinking, he walked over to Scarlett Fu, one hand through her knees, the other through her armpits, picking her up and striding out.

Out of the lounge, Fu Sijia found that the outside was already thick with smoke, and the fire was very fierce.

She was busy covering her mouth and nose, and Yun Guanlan bowed her head, holding her breath, holding her without a word, running through the thick smoke and running outside the studio building.

His left hand rested on her back, his palm burning like fire.

Five

Fortunately, the fire on the Zhabei set was discovered early and did not cause a catastrophe in the end.

But afterwards, the patrol found the ignition point on the set, confirming that it was artificial arson. However, there are many people on the Zhabei set, and it is difficult to find out who is the arsonist, and this matter is ultimately not resolved.

Instead, Fu Sijia, Toray Yun Guanlan, she escaped from the fire and went to the hospital to see her ankle, but she was told by the doctor that she had appendicitis and needed surgery.

The day after the operation, Yun Guanlan came to see her.

He brought gifts for the sick—a bouquet of flowers, a fruit basket, and a bucket of delicious bone broth.

The bone soup was as clear as water and delicious, And Fu Sijia drank it to the sky, and after drinking it, she reluctantly asked Yun Guanlan: "Where did you buy the soup?" Tell me the address, and I'll be a regular visitor to his house. ”

Yun Guanlan bit his cigarette and smiled: "Why does it have to be sold outside?" Can't it be done by myself? ”

Scarlett Fu was surprised: "You can still cook?" ”

Yun Guanlan asked, "What, you won't?" ”

Fu Scarlett spoke in a half-voiced tone before he said, "I won't." When I was a child, I was about ten years old, and my second sister was eighteen years old, and I was engaged to learn to cook with my mother, and I watched the hilarity on the side. My mother laughed at me and said that when Miss Six learned to cook, she couldn't cook, and she couldn't please her husband in the future. ”

"I was disgusted and wondered, why do I have to cook for my husband, instead of my husband cooking for me?" So from then on, I secretly swore in my heart that I wouldn't learn to cook. ”

Listening to her past, Yun Guanlan smiled, took off the cigarette he was holding and played between his fingers: "In fact, the key is not whether women cook for men or men cook for women." If you like a person, you have a fire in your heart, you have to do something for her, cooking is only the most minor one. ”

Listening to his words, looking at the empty bowl in his hand, Fu Sijia's heart suddenly gave birth to a cluster of flames, stirring and burning... But then I heard Yun Guanlan lower her voice and say, "Lawyer Meng, she... Also doesn't cook. ”

The fire in Fu Sijia's heart was extinguished.

She put down the empty bowl, barely piled up a smiling face, and said in a strange tone: "Well, it turns out that this bowl of soup is taking me to train lawyer Meng... You, wait until Lawyer Meng comes back! ”

Yun Guanlan did not speak.

Four words suddenly popped up in Fu Sijia's heart—something was wrong.

Only to see Yun Guanlan raise his head, the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were smiling.

He whispered, "She's back." ”

She's back.

After a month in the hospital, Scarlett Fu was discharged.

After being discharged from the hospital, just in time for the Qingming Festival, Fu Sijia went to visit her father's grave.

Sitting in front of her father's grave, she stared at the yellowed photograph on the tombstone and remembered the conversation she had had with herself before her death.

"Hey, do you really plan to live alone for the rest of your life?"

"Yeah, is there anything bad about a man?" Besides, what man in the world deserves your precious daughter me? ”

"You're too crazy, too arrogant and naïve. The love of men and women in the world, where is it worthy or not, the word 'gratuitous' is the real secret of love. You always feel that you are picking people, but you don't know that people are also picking you. Maybe one day you meet a person, you are willing to wash your hands and make soup for him, but people will not look at you. ”

"Oh, old man, aren't you my father, how can you curse me with such words?"

Fu Sijia knelt down, bent over, pressed his forehead to the cold tombstone, and murmured, "Daddy, your crow's mouth is really what you said... Can you show me the way and tell me what I should do? ”

Six

Meng Lisheng opened a law firm after returning to China. A month after the opening of the firm, Fu Sijia came to her door to congratulate her and issued an invitation: "I plan to run a new newspaper with women as the main readership, aiming to provide women with guidance on work, life, law and other aspects." In this part of the law, after thinking about it, I think it is still the most suitable for you, so I want to hire you as the main writer of the legal version. ”

Hearing that it was aimed at assisting women, Meng Lingsheng agreed without hesitation.

Before saying goodbye, Fu Sijia asked Meng Lingsheng again and again: "Lawyer Meng, I want to ask you a question, you and him..."

Meng Lisheng gave the answer she wanted: "We are friends. ”

Scarlett turned and left with satisfaction.

She already knew that Meng Lingsheng would answer like this, but she wanted a clear answer. In this way, she will not feel guilty.

A month ago, when she knelt in front of her father's tombstone and begged him to show him a way, his father actually "appeared".

After paying homage to her father and leaving the cemetery, she saw Yun Guanlan and Meng Lingsheng.

She hid and overheard the conversation between the two people, only to learn that the two people had come to worship Lin Ah Man today.

She heard Meng Lingsheng tell Yun Guanlan that she had a fiancé, and although her fiancé was dead, she regarded herself as an undead person and would not spend time with others in this life and this life. As for Yun Guanlan - she is grateful for her deep affection and wrong love, and she is not blessed in this life and this life.

Hiding behind the trunk, standing in the shade, Fu Sijia couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth.

Fu Sijia invited Yun Guanlan to dinner: "Not long ago, my grandmother passed away, my mother is going to come to Shanghai to live with me, when I give her the wind, I want to ask you to be a guest, I don't know if you want to?" ”

Yun Guanlan has always been a person who loves his elders, and of course he is duty-bound.

On the night of the reception banquet, Yun Guanlan and Fu Sijia met at jinling restaurant. As soon as they met and saw Fu Sijia, Yun Guanlan smiled: "You can dress up..."

But it's not Miss Fu Liu.

Dressed in a white dress, a dark cloud hair was also obediently tied behind the head with a headband, unlike Miss Fu Liu, who was famous in Shanghai, but like a gentle and well-behaved schoolgirl.

Fu Sijia turned around mischievously: "Well-behaved, huh?" Wear it for my mom. ”

Yun Guanlan laughed at her: "I thought you were sticking to your true colors in front of everyone, but I didn't expect that there were two faces." ”

Fu Sijia reached out and took his arm: "Smart people have several masks, and only fools reason with their mothers." ”

Entering the gate of Jinling Restaurant, she suddenly stopped and said to Yun Guanlan with a shy face: "Actually, I lied to you, when I examined that matter, my uncle refused to help." The argument I lied to him was that you were my boyfriend. Unexpectedly, my uncle had a big mouth and told my mother about it. Today my mother asked me to call you, the old lady actually wants to see her son-in-law, can you ..."

Can you accompany me in this play?

It is best to be able to fake the real thing in the end.

Yun Guanlan was surprised for a moment, but he still agreed.

Yun Guanlan is young and handsome, and is the most ideal son-in-law in the minds of the old ladies. During the banquet, Mrs. Fu opened her eyes and smiled the whole time, and only sent a red envelope to Yun Guanlan, so that he changed his mouth to call his mother on the spot.

I just didn't expect to come back from going to the bathroom and actually met Meng Lingsheng in the corridor.

Meng Lingsheng and Yun Guanlan faced each other awkwardly in the corridor, Fu Sijia was stunned for a moment, and he walked forward with a smile like a flower, and lovingly took Meng Lingsheng's arm: "It's a coincidence, I am eating here with Guanlan and the old lady, do you want to be together?" ”

Meng Lingsheng hurriedly resigned, saying that she was also hosting a banquet at jinling restaurant tonight to invite Professor Jing, a law professor at her university, and a group of shanghai legal figures.

Fu Sijiayue expressed joy: "Professor Jing and my father are friends, and I still want to call him uncle." What is your private room? Guanlan and I went to say hello to Professor Jing. ”

Entering Meng Lingsheng's private room, several legal people present were either Fu Sijia's uncle or her uncle. One by one, she sweetly called over and introduced them to Yun Guanlan: "This is my partner in the business." ”

Someone quipped to her: "A partner of a businessman?" That's it? Eating with a partner to bring your mother? I think it's more like a son-in-law seeing a mother-in-law. ”

This made the audience laugh, and Fu Sijia also smiled, and she did not deny it.

Yu Guang caught Meng Lingsheng's low-hanging eyes, and Fu Sijia spit on herself in her heart: I am really despicable.

But what is despicable to use a little caution in love?

Seven

My mother was not accustomed to Shanghainese food and cooked soup in the kitchen by herself.

The pot is chicken soup, Anhui old hen soup, delicious taste, the best in China.

Fu Sijia salivated and went to the kitchen to talk to her mother: "Mom, can you teach me to cook chicken soup?" ”

The mother squinted at her and laughed at her: "Yo, our sixth lady finally wants to learn to cook?" When I was a child, who told me that I would never learn to cook in my life?"

Use a freshly slaughtered old hen, add goji berries, Huaishan, tangerine peel, stew in a casserole dish for an afternoon, during which time to stay in the kitchen, from time to time with a spoon to skim off the foam, with bread to suck off excess grease, so that the stewed chicken soup will be clear as water and full of aroma.

Fu Sijia spent a month in the kitchen, killing dozens of old hens, and finally stewed a bowl of qualified chicken soup.

She carefully poured out the chicken soup, poured it into the thermos cup, and rehearsed in her mind what she was going to say when she called Yun Guanlan for a while——

"Hey, Guanlan?" My old lady wants to invite you to dinner..."

Just thinking about it, the phone suddenly rang.

He is the editor-in-chief of Xinmin Morning Post.

"Hey, Miss Six, just now Boss Yun came to our newspaper office and said he was going to publish a notice... Well, the engagement notice, and The Lawyer Meng Lingsheng, I read it to you.

"Yun Guanlan and Meng Lingsheng engagement notice: The two of us now use the film as the medium, the "Six Laws" as the concubine, the mountains and rivers as evidence, the heavens as a judge, and the three lives in accordance with yan ci's orders. The engagement ceremony is scheduled to be held on August 8, 2016 at the Lianmao Film Zhabei Film Factory, and I hereby extend my congratulations to my relatives and friends. ”

Word by word, the engagement notice reached her ears, and Fu Sijia's heart grew cold little by little.

She didn't know what had happened between Meng Lingsheng and Yun Guanlan, causing Meng Lingsheng to suddenly change her mind.

But she knew that her story with Yun Guanlan would end here.

She walked back into the kitchen to look at the pot of chicken soup and at the chopping boards and trash that hadn't yet had time to clean up.

Then she picked up the thermos bucket, walked over to the sink, unscrewed the lid, and poured the chicken soup into the sink.

Turn on the tap and the chicken broth is quickly washed clean by the water. She washed her hands, touched the cigarette box that had been placed aside, pulled out a cigarette and lit it in her mouth, looked out the window at a heavy and falling sunset, and smiled wistfully.

What wash your hands to make soup, I am really fascinated by ghosts.

She Fu Sijia, should have raised a glass to invite Mingyue, grabbed a pen to write a text, and spent her life alone with red wine and green clothes.

These days, it's like a dream... Although in this dream, she was so moved.

Eight

On August 8, 26 of the Republic of China, Yun Guanlan and Meng Lingsheng got engaged on the Zhabei set. As a friend, Scarlett Fu was invited to attend.

During the banquet, The director of Lianmao, Lao Sun, sighed: "I really didn't expect it to be Lawyer Meng, I always thought it would be Miss Fu Liu." ”

Yeah, she used to think it would be herself.

After explaining her relationship with Yun Guanlan with a smile on her face, Fu Sijia announced: "I am going abroad, going to England, and the ferry ticket has been bought, just tomorrow." At the end of last month, Pingjin had fallen, and my friends who worked in the government told me that the next battlefield might be Shanghai. ”

She said goodbye in advance.

Yun Guanlan sent her out.

Zhabei set, out of the building door, down, there are forty-six steps.

Step by step, leave Lianmao, leave China, leave him.

At the thirty-sixth level, he asked, "Did you go so suddenly, did everything get things done?" ”

At the twenty-fifth level, he said, "You are abroad, be careful yourself." ”

Walking to the penultimate level, she said: "I have a friend in the French Concession Public Council, this letter to you, if there is something wrong, you can ask him for help." ”

At the penultimate level, she said, "Just go here, you don't have to send it again." ”

At the last level, she turned back to him and asked him, "Does Lawyer Meng cook chicken soup?" ”

Yun Guanlan was stunned.

Without waiting for him to answer, she smiled: "Nothing, I'm gone." ”

She got into the car, slammed the door, and disappeared into the night.

At the end of August of the 26th year of the Republic of China, Scarlett Fu came to London.

She grew up in London until she was fifteen years old, and London was her childhood, her old dream. In London, she had many more old friends than in Shanghai, and she was a fish in the water.

But she still thinks of Shanghai.

Some nights, when she returns from a dance party and sits alone in front of the window smoking a cigarette, she will think of her days on the Zhabei set.

In Shanghai, she is surrounded by a group of filmmakers, Yun Guanlan, Yu Rose, Lao Sun... It was a group of people in the city, not like the friends in the London social scene, all of whom were from famous backgrounds, but they were alive and beautiful, and they did not leave it at the time of the peril of their motherland, and they were safe and happy alone.

Scarlett Fu spit on herself.

She asked herself, "Fu Sijia, why do you make Yun Guanlan like it?" You don't deserve it. ”

Yun Guanlan died on March 28, 2007.

In the Songhu War, the North Set of Lianmao Zhabei was bombed, and dozens of Lianmao people died in the bombing. Later, after the fall of Shanghai, director Lao Sun was captured and killed by the Japanese, and Yun Guanlan was forced to make a film to beautify the invaders. In order to avenge his colleagues, to maintain the integrity of Chinese filmmakers, and to save his fiancée, Yun Guanlan set up a banquet at home to entertain traitors and invaders, created an explosion, and died with him.

After twenty-seven years of sacrifice in the Republic of China, Fu Sijia did not hear about it until the twenty-ninth year of the Republic of China.

That day, she was watching a movie in the cinema, watching a new version of "Soul Break Blue Bridge", starring Fei Wenli.

Sitting in the movie theater, when the music at the end of the film "Friendship Lasts a Long Time" sounded, Fu Sijia cried.

Her friends laughed at her: "Scarlett, isn't it, this kind of thing that promotes the Chinese concept of festivals and martyrdom, others will cry, you still cry?" ”

Scarlett Fu did not refute it.

Where is she crying for the people in the movie?

She was crying at the man who had long since turned into powder. Many years ago, he sat in a movie with her and watched an old version of "Soul Break Blue Bridge".

It was the best time of her life.

Nine

Later, Scarlett Fu lived for a long time.

She lived until the twenty-first century, and the last movie she saw before her death was called Avatar, a new technology, a magnificent imagination. She sat in the movie theater and remembered the time when she watched "Midnight Song" with Yun Guanlan many years ago, as if she were in a different world.

On the day of your 100th birthday, a reporter came to interview and finally asked a question: "Elder Fu, have you been a staunch unmarried person all your life?" Really haven't touched the heart? ”

Oh my heart... Yes.

That year, someone invited her to listen to the play, listening to "Si Fan", and the little nun Zhao Se was empty of Fan's heart and wanted to go down the mountain. Next to her sat a handsome young man, with light and fire in his eyes, which also tugged at her heartstrings——

Buddha headlights, do not make cave house flower candles.

Xiang Ji kitchen, can not do tortoiseshell feast East Pavilion.

Bell and drum towers, do not look forward to the platform.

Grass futon, do not hibiscus, hibiscus soft mattress.

The slave tore the robe, buried the Tibetan scripture, discarded the wooden fish, and lost the cymbal.

Learn not to cast demons,

You can't learn the South China Sea Water Moon Guanyin Seat.

From now on, keep the Bell and Drum Tower Buddhist Hall away,

Go down the hill and look for a young brother,

By him hitting me, scolding me, talking about me, laughing at me.

| The original article was published in the March 2021 issue of EGGER Youth Edition