In the spring of the sixteenth year of the Republic of China, Yangzhou, Jiangsu.

The spring rain is dashing overnight, and the flowers are sparse. At this time, Yangzhou City had not yet woken up, and the table clock had just pointed to five o'clock. A family looking quite magnificent, the corner door on the east side squeaked, leaned out of a thin body, a pair of smart big eyes looked at no one around, the whole person stepped out, the moon white short jacket, black student skirt, holding a big suitcase, the corner door closed lightly. Ran hard towards the east end of the alley.

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in coarse cloth clothes and trousers in the east of the alley was putting on a carriage, watching anxiously, waiting for the thin figure to run to him, took her suitcase, and took the box into the carriage and galloped towards the outside of the city.

The thin figure asked the boy, "Is the ship ready?"

"Miss Du, it's all right. We arrived at the Liuwei ferry, crossed the river, and arrived at Zhenjiang, and then took the express train to Shanghai in a short time. "The young man was a little out of breath because he was nervous, and he said," Brother Ling Quan said that the Shanghai side is ready, just wait for the young lady to go. ”

The girl known as Miss Du shrunk in the carriage, clutching the suitcase in her arms, and she didn't know the consequences. But no matter what, Yangzhou can't stay any longer.

The carriage ran wildly for an hour, and finally arrived at the Liuwei Ferry, Miss Du jumped off the carriage dexterously, and before she had time to take the suitcase, suddenly the troika came from the other side of the road, the speed was very fast, the smoke and dust were everywhere, and Miss Du's face became pale.

The young man shouted loudly to the boatman: "Uncle Wang, hurry." ”

But it was too late, the galloping carriage stopped beside the two, and a young man in a blue brocade robe had already jumped off and pulled Miss Du through with force, his eyes were full of fierceness: "Heng'er." ”

When it was over, Du Heng closed his eyes and was forcefully stuffed into the carriage by the man and brought back. The man turned around, pointed at the young man and said fiercely: "Dare to kidnap the young lady of the Du family and beat her to death." ”

A few well-dressed servants rushed up and punched and kicked the young man, but they didn't dare to fight to death, and one of the leaders watched the carriage go away and drank the others: "This is also a member of the Zhao family, who can afford to pay for the death?" The group followed back to the Du family.

Du Heng had already been carried by the man to the Du family ancestral hall in the backyard: "Kneel!"

Du Heng looked at the tablet in front of him, knelt down, stubbornly looked up at the man, with tears in his eyes: "Second brother, if my father and mother are still alive, they won't let me kneel." ”

Du Zhong looked at his sister, and his heart was pinched, his father and mother went early, and the eldest brother had long been gone, only this one sister, Du Zhong has always been spoiled in the palm of his hand, if usually, looking at his sister like this, his heart would have softened, but this matter is extraordinary, he really has no choice: "Heng'er, you are a dignified young lady, and you went to Shanghai to find that poor boy innocently, do you know what the consequences are?

Du Heng bit his lip and said, "That's better than marrying that prodigal young master." "The son of the Zhao family, Zhao Shinan, is famous in the whole Yangzhou City, since ancient times, Yangzhou has been prosperous, and there are Qinglou Chu Halls everywhere, I am afraid that no one does not know Zhao Shinan.

Du Zhong frowned, when it came to the Zhao family in Yangzhou City, everyone knew about it. The ancestors have a list of eyes, two jinshi, needless to say, the scholarly family. It was at the end of the Qing Dynasty that it fell into power, and it was still under the care of officialdom. Otherwise, there are so many people in the silk business, how can his family be able to do it? It's just that in the previous generations, the silk hoarding became a white tiger, and he trapped himself in it. But even so, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and a Zhao family stomps their feet in Yangzhou City, and everyone has to give a few thin noodles. Du Zhong thinks that he has matched his sister with such a family, which is not a grievance against her: "You just saw him wandering, do you know how many serious things he did in that kind of place?"

Du Heng is angry, what kind of thing can you do in that kind of place. She, Du Heng, is not a woman who has no knowledge at home with her feet wrapped. She raised her eyes and looked at Du Zhong: "Second brother, isn't it against your heart to say this?" lowered her head and said, "Don't you want me to marry Zhao Shinan?"

"You!" Du Zhong was poked in the heart and raised his slap, but looking at his sister's white face like porcelain, he still couldn't get his hands down, and after a while, his raised hand fell down again, and he sighed. Du Heng was right, he was selfish in letting her marry Zhao Shinan.

Although the Du family is not as good as the Zhao family, it is also a big silk family in Yangzhou. In the hands of Eucommia's father, the drunken brocade made is a famous brocade in Yangzhou. But his parents died early, and the drunken flowers were not as good as a year, and they gradually couldn't sell at a good price.

Seeing that he would lose money to continue to make silk, Du Zhong hurriedly transferred several silk estates in the city, leaving only the export business of raw silk, and raised money to open a money village. In five or six years, the raw silk business has been declining more and more, and the business of Qianzhuang has been in full swing. Coincidentally, this year's bad luck was not good, and the official Zuo Zhixiang, who the Du family had been relying on, was transferred, and caught up with the great turmoil in April, when only people entered the police station every day, but no one came out, and everyone was in danger for a while. The Du family's money bank withdrew a lot, but there was no money to save, and it was clumsy in just one month.

At this critical time, the Du family ran all over the wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou City, and only the Zhao family proposed to lend money to the Du family for turnover, but the condition was that the two families would marry. The family is not afraid to talk to each other. Du Zhong also knew that Zhao Shinan liked to sleep in flowers and willows, and because of this problem, a big family who was twenty-two years old and had no right door was willing to marry his daughter. But the old lady of the Zhao family said: "Shi Nan is young, it is inevitable that it will be absurd, and it will be natural to become a family." ”

Du Zhong was entangled in his heart, but now that Qian Zhuang was about to collapse, he couldn't care about it, as for Zhao Shinan's absurdity, they were all men, and he had been absurd before, and he didn't think it was a big deal. Anyway, my sister married a famous wife, and she will be prosperous and rich for a lifetime. He didn't understand how his beloved sister couldn't turn this around, and that he would have done such a shameful thing as eloping with a poor boy? If it weren't for his beloved sister, he would have been beaten to death for doing such an immoral thing.

"If you don't understand, you just keep kneeling. Du Zhong looked at Du Heng and walked away.

Du Heng looked at the tablets in front of him, and tears flowed down. Is my brother my brother, if my father and mother are alive, even if the Zhao family is a nest of gold and silver, who would be willing to marry her to Zhao Shinan's bastard?

If it weren't for her brother's obstruction, she would have arrived in Zhenjiang at this time, and maybe she would have arrived in Shanghai. In Shanghai, Du Heng has never been there, but Ling Quan's brother told her that Shanghai has high-rise buildings, ten-mile foreign fields, and women's universities. Du Heng is not a young lady locked in the boudoir, when he was four or five years old, he followed his brother to study in a private school, and later rose up a girls' school, and Du Heng went to a girls' school. If it weren't for this marriage, Du Heng's goal would be to go to the women's university that Ling Quan said to meet the world.

Thinking of Zhao Lingquan, Du Heng's heart warmed. It was very accidental to meet Zhao Lingquan. Three years ago, when Du Heng was thirteen years old, when he went to the tea house to eat tea with his female companion, a few young people of fifteen or sixteen next to him were talking, and their loud voices attracted the attention of everyone at this table. There was only one thin young man, who had been sipping tea and not saying a word, just listening lightly.

One of them grabbed him with a tiger's brain: "Ling Quan, you say." Du Heng knew that his name was Ling Quan.

"If you have great ambitions, why bother singing?" Zhao Lingquan smiled lightly, but his voice was very firm. Another person said boringly: "Ling Quan is so knowledgeable, don't say anything, let's talk nonsense." Suddenly, the commotion disappeared.

Du Heng looked at the person named Zhao Lingquan curiously, not knowing how he had so much prestige, just as Ling Quan raised his eyes and met a pair of big watery eyes. His heart thumped.

The person on the side asked again: "Ling Quan, I heard that the Zhao family bought a phonograph?" Another person leaned over and asked, "I heard that the phonograph sucks people's souls away, is it true?"

Du Heng had also heard his father say that all the Lafayettes in the palace had heard of the gramophone before, and he immediately became interested, dragged his female companion to Ling Quan's table, stared at him and asked, "Is there really a gramophone?"

Zhao Lingquan didn't like others to ask him about the Zhao family the most. These people respect him only because he is a member of the Zhao family. But he was not happy in the Zhao family.

The Zhao family is a wang family, and several generations have lived in the same house compound. Zhao Shinan's father is the eldest son in charge, and Ling Quan's mother remarried the stepson brought by the second uncle of the Zhao family, Ling Quan has backbone, and he is unwilling to abandon his ancestors and follow the Zhao family's surname Zhao. But how could the Zhao family easily raise a kid with a foreign surname, and forced him to change it.

Ling Quan's stepfather still has no status in the Zhao family, let alone his oil bottle. Although he has studied hard since he was a child and has been steady, he has never been praised, only discriminated against and cold-eyed. On the contrary, it is the swingers of the Zhao family, especially Zhao Shinan, who are in the limelight everywhere. Ling Quan knew that he would never come out in the Zhao family, so he could only go out. And his stepfather, who was quiet and quiet, did not interfere with his future, and allowed him to be admitted to Shanghai, only to come back during the holidays.

He was tired of others asking him about Zhao Shinan's prodigal achievements, the gramophone was Zhao Shinan didn't know where to exchange for fifty oceans, he wanted to refuse coldly, but when he saw those clear eyes, somehow, his heart softened, and he said good-natured for the first time: "The gramophone doesn't suck people's souls, there is a small needle to scratch the record, and the voice comes out." ”

"What is a record?" Du Heng was even more curious.

Zhao Lingquan couldn't explain it clearly, he only glanced at the swinger when he showed off to the whole family, no matter how detailed it was, he smiled at Du Heng: "I have the opportunity to show it to you for yourself." ”

Zhao Lingquan didn't have the opportunity to take out the gramophone, but slowly became familiar with Du Heng, a cardamom year, a young spirit, Ling Quan's erudition and calmness made Du Heng very admired. And again and again, the pulse is opposite, and the words are tempting, although they are not expressed, they are also thoughtful.

The matchmaker of the Du family has never broken the threshold, but Du Zhong is reluctant to give up his sister and wants to stay for two years. Although she still doesn't understand Fengyue, but thinking about her future husband, it would be best if she could be like Brother Ling Quan, who can write chapters and poems and songs. The thought of this blushes with shame.

When she heard the news of the marriage this time, she immediately wrote a letter to Ling Quan, and Ling Quan immediately replied to tell her that she was coming to Shanghai, and that Ling Quan was studying at Aurora College and had arranged to wait for her to come.

This well-planned escape was effortlessly discovered and sabotaged by Du Zhong, and Du Heng was extremely annoyed. Damn broken marriage, damn Zhao Shinan.