Chapter 30 Southern Tang and Northern Continent

The two beauties heard the foreman say that Wen Hao is Zhao Jingxiang's younger brother, and this time they came to Zhao Jingxiang with ten strong interests, one of her of cooking smoke is also a song they like very much, and I heard that this song is not only the first one she sings, but also she wrote the lyrics and composed the music, which makes the two strange women greatly appreciated. I heard that she composed another tune. Today is the first time to sing, so they are very interested, and they specially came to listen to Zhao Jingxiang's new work.

It's just that I came a little late, and there is no seat in the ballroom, but fortunately I met the boss. I just said that there was a seat for a person. Ask them if they intended to sit with others. The two of them thought about it, after all, they didn't say hello before withdrawing money, so it was good to come suddenly and have a seat, so they agreed. And I didn't expect it to be Zhao Jingxiang's younger brother. He looks like he's only seventeen or eighteen years old, and he's still a student. I guess I also came to cheer for his sister.

Wen Hao looked at the temperament of these two women, and knew that these two women were not ordinary people.

"Are you Zhao Jingxiang's younger brother? I didn't expect Miss Zhao Jingxiang's younger brother to be so handsome, just look at you and know that your sister is a big beauty. Little brother, what is your name? "One of the older ones chatted with Wen Hao first.

Wen Hao thought to himself that he wouldn't be regarded as a hairy guy who didn't understand the world, right? But now devoting yourself to this body is young and can't do it. I can only let others see it as a little brother.

"My name is Wen Hao, and I am Zhao Jingxiang's younger brother." Wen Hao can only pretend to be tender now, and he can't show the appearance of entering the entertainment occasion before, maybe he will frighten the two beauties, in case Zhao Jingxiang sees it, he will definitely not let him come to this kind of place next time.

"Your surname is Wen, your sister's surname is Zhao, why isn't your sister and brother the same surname? The younger woman asked Wen Hao curiously.

"I am a relative of Zhao Jingxiang, and my parents are gone, so I live with her, and I have always been a brother and sister." Wen Hao explained.

"Oh, I'm sorry to mention that I'm sad for a while," said the young woman apologetically.

"May I ask the surnames of the two beauties," Wen Hao asked them curiously.

"Ha, you kid is so funny, just call us beautiful, others call us Miss, my name is Tang Ying, her name is Lu Xiaoman. Others call us Miss Tang, Miss Lu, do you call us Tang Beauty, Lu Beauty." The two beauties couldn't help laughing when they heard Hao call them like this.Although many people have praised their beauty, there are not many people who directly call them beauties, this is the first time.

Wen Hao reacted to this, it is the old era of Shanghai is not a modern society, and their miss was a common name for young women at that time. It's not the aftermath of the ladies, it's also the name of those who specialize in special services. Beauty also replaces the title of Miss.

Wen Hao was taken aback when he heard their self-introduction, Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman were the two most famous ladies in Shanghai during the Republic of China. At that time, it was known as the "Southern Tang Dynasty and Northern Continent". It means Tang Ying in Shanghai in the south, and Lu Xiaoman in Beijing in the north.

Most people know Lu Xiaoman because of her love story with Xu Zhimo, Hu Shi once said that Lu Xiaoman is an indispensable landscape.

Tang Ying is not known to many people in later generations, but there has always been a saying of "Southern Tang and Northern Continent" on the social stage of old Shanghai at that time, of course, Lu Xiaoman is known to the world because of his love affair with Xu Zhimo, Tang Ying's name is a little unfamiliar, in fact, Tang Ying's limelight at that time was not inferior to Lu Xiaoman. The two of them were the most famous socialites of the time.

As soon as the name "courtesan" is mentioned, people think of dusty women like Chen Bailu, who often worked as dancers, mixed with the rich, and supported by men. In fact, it is film and television works and romance novels that mislead us, in the Republic of China, the courtesans who were like fish in water in high society are not ordinary fireworks women, they are first of all celebrities with a considerable background in the family, and then they are well-educated, combining beauty and wisdom, so that the innate advantage can interact with the nobles of the lawsuit.

Lu Xiaoman, her father Lu Zifu later changed his name to Lu Ding, a member of the Qing Dynasty, graduated from Waseda University in Japan, and was a proud disciple of the Japanese Prime Minister Itten Hirobumi, who participated in Sun Yat-sen's alliance in Japan. During the Republic of China, Ren Du Branch, which was later the Ministry of Finance, served as the director, counselor, and later the founder of the China Savings Bank.

Tang Ying's father was the first Western doctor in China to stay in the United States, first as a doctor in the Beiyang Fleet, and then as a private practitioner. Dedicated to the famous family to see a doctor. There are four cooks in the Tang family, a Yangzhou couple makes Chinese, one makes Western-style pastries, and the other makes big dishes.

Tang Ying graduated from Chinese and Western women's acquaintances, and is an alumnus of Zhang Ailing. It is the predecessor of the Santa Maria school that Zhang Ailing studied, proficient in English, and has a more foreign style than Lu Xiaoman.

Although Tang Ying received a Western-style education, she was obsessed with Chinese dramas, and she appeared on stage with Lu Xiaoman .

One year, the British royal family visited Shanghai, and Tang Ying took the stage to perform piano and Peking Opera. All the newspapers published her jade photo, and the limelight overshadowed the British royal family.

He also sang Peking Opera which was also the first English version of Peking Opera in China.

It's really necessary to be talented, to be good-looking. It's still famous. There are not many prominent men who bow down under Tang Ying's pomegranate skirt, and Sun Yat-sen's secretary Yang Xingfo is one of them, but Tang Ying refused. At that time, there were two famous love triangles in Shanghai, Lu Xiaoman, Wang Geng, and Xu Zhimo. There are also Tang Ying, Li Fazu, and Yang Xingfo. These were Shanghai's eight favorite news messages at that time.

Tang Ying and Song Ziwen also have a relationship, but her father disagrees, her father doesn't like political and metallurgical figures and opposes associating with him, plus Tang Ying's brother is Song Ziwen's friend and also became Song Ziwen's secretary. In an assassination of Song Ziwen, Tang Ying's brother became Song Ziwen's substitute ghost, which made Tang Ying's father hate Song Ziwen even more, and Song Ziwen's guilt, he could only give up his relationship with Tang Ying. The love affair ended without a hitch. It is said that Song Ziwen gave Tang Ying a drawer, which Tang Ying kept all the time, and only she could open it.

Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman opened a "Yunshang Clothing Company". It was the first clothing company to start exclusively for women.

The two of them personally served as the company's image representatives, and since then, in Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi and other places, wherever there are fashionable women, there will be cloud clothing.

It was in the 20s and 30s that Tang Ying and Lu Xiaoman not only had beautiful appearances, but also outstanding talent and extraordinary wisdom, and Night Shanghai became the permanent agarwood of Zhang Ailing's pen.