Chapter 9 The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem

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After lunch, Sun Wei came to the lawn downstairs of the hospital with the help of the doctor to bask in the sun, in addition to Wang Qian, the real wife, there was also his daughter Lingling, who had just gotten along with him, and Lingling was lying in Wang Qian's arms at this time listening to Sun Wei's fairy tales.

"Misterson, I didn't expect you to be here!" Just when Sun Wei just talked about "Snow White" and accidentally ate a poisoned apple, a surprised and strange voice suddenly came from behind him.

Sun Wei turned his head to look at the intruder, who turned out to be a sixteen or seventeen-year-old white white girl, the girl was wearing a light blue dress, a tight waist, and a pure white women's hat in her golden curly hair of a shawl, and at this time the little face that resembled Nicole Kidman was showing a look of surprise.

"You are?" Sun Wei glanced at Wang Qian's slightly cold smile, and couldn't help but secretly scold his predecessor's beast for harming such a pure European and American girl.

"I'm Mary Wilson, don't you remember me?" The surprise on the girl's face faded instantly, and she was replaced by an aggrieved expression, with those big watery eyes, which really made me feel pity.

"I'm very sorry, I really ......" Sun Wei suddenly stopped before he finished speaking, he thought of the girl's surname, so he asked a little uncertainly: "Are you Sir Wilson's daughter?" ”

"I'll just say, why don't you remember me!" The girl changed her expression again, pounced in surprise and kissed Sun Wei's face, and then said shyly: "Misterson, thank you very much last time, if you hadn't rescued me, I'm afraid I would have been arrested by the bad guys." ”

Wang Qian, who was next to "cough cough ......", could no longer bear the insult of being ignored, and used coughing to remind her of her existence.

"Miss Wilson is serious, it is my duty as a detective to protect the safety of every citizen in the concession." Sun Wei was a little hairy by Wang Qian's almost murderous eyes, and hurriedly introduced her existence to Mary Wilson: "Let me introduce you, this is my wife Wang Qian, and the beautiful little princess in her arms is my daughter Lingling." ”

"Hello, Miss Wilson." Wang Qian barely squeezed out a smile when Mary Wilson looked over and said.

"Hello Mrs. Sun, congratulations on having such a husband as Misterson, he is a hero." Mary Wilson's expression was slightly disappointed, and there was no excitement in her tone.

"Thank you for the compliment, that's what he should do." Wang Qian's tone was as calm as before.

"Daddy, the story you just told Lingling is not finished, did Snow White eat that poisonous apple?" When the atmosphere became more and more awkward, a crisp children's voice broke the deadlock, it turned out that Lingling was dissatisfied with the adults' speeches and interrupted her to listen to the story, and began to urge Sun Wei to continue to speak.

"So you're telling the story of Snow White, can you let my sister tell it to you?" Mary Wilson's first sentence was addressed to Sun Wei, and the second sentence was addressed to Lingling, who looked dissatisfied.

"It's not good, I'm going to listen to Daddy tell me." Lingling didn't know if she was aware of her mother's unfriendliness towards this woman, and bluntly rejected Mary Wilson's suggestion.

"Lingling, how to talk to my sister, children have to be polite, you know?" Sun Wei educated Lingling with words, and then apologized to Mary Wilson: "Miss Wilson, children are not sensible, don't take it to heart. ”

"It's okay, I like kids the most." Mary Wilson smiled awkwardly, and then continued, "Don't call me Miss Wilson anymore, it's too raw, you can call me Mary." ”

"Daddy, Lingling wants to listen to the story!" Seeing that the adults were still ignoring her, Lingling ran to Sun Wei's side aggrievedly and shook his legs and said.

"Okay, it's Daddy's fault, Daddy will continue to tell you." Sun Wei pinched Lingling's pursed mouth, and then said to Mary, "Miss Mary can sit down and listen together if she is not busy." ”

"I'm not busy at all," Mary Wilson sat directly on the bench next to Wang Qian.

After Mary Wilson joined the audience, Sun Wei no longer talked about the famous "Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Grimm's Fairy Tales", but replaced them with new fairy tales that appeared after the Republic of China and even the founding of New China.

The little girl's energy was always limited, and she was tired from listening to a few stories, and fell asleep in her mother's arms.

"Fairy tales are too naΓ―ve, why don't I tell you the story between the concubines of the Qing court?" Sun Wei saw that Wang Qian and Mary didn't listen very attentively after Lingling fell asleep, so he changed the topic and asked.

"Is it the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi?" The only thing Mary knew about the Manchu royal family was the old woman who had ruled China for nearly fifty years.

"No, it's the past of Emperor Yongzheng's harem, it's been one hundred and sixty or seventy years ago." Sun Wei said.

"Ah Wei, talking about the secrets of the palace is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, don't mess around!" Unlike Mary, who did not understand China's national conditions, although Wang Qian was born in the concession, she also knew that she was convicted of words.

"It's different now, as early as nine years ago, the Americans joked about the Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Hongzhang, saying that they had secretly married and were going to Port Arthur for their honeymoon, and Emperor Guangxu was furious about this, and besides, these stories of mine are only passed between the three of us, where can they be passed on to the Forbidden City." Sun Wei said indifferently.

"Misterson, may I know the name of your story?" Mary asked, a little excitedly.

"This story is called "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", and it is the tone of the harem show girl Zhen Huan who describes how she jumped from an ordinary show girl to the queen mother who is powerful in the world." Sun Wei explained.

Sun Wei's "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" is naturally not the novel that was really written by the author, but the TV version of the story background in the Yongzheng period, although the novel with a virtual historical background is wonderful, but in Sun Wei's opinion, it is the real level to be able to fit the novel to the existing history.

Sun Wei, who was born in science, actually does not have too high literary skills, and his level is at most equivalent to that of later generations of Xiaobaiwen authors, but the victory is that the story is wonderful, with ups and downs, which makes Wang Qian and Mary fascinated by it, so that the sun is setting in the west and they don't know it.

Since Sun Wei told this TV version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", Mary has become a frequent visitor in his ward, and she has to come to the hospital regularly every day to listen to Sun Wei's story, but she did not follow Sun Wei's confidential instructions while listening to the story, but relied on her memory and her own text processing to write the story in English and pass it on to her classmates in the girls' school, so the English version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", which is similar to a manuscript, has quietly become popular in the concession.

The girls' school that Mary attended was a school specially set up by the church for European and American women living in the Far East, this kind of school used English as the language of instruction in the public concession and French as the language of instruction in the French concession, but such a school still enrolled some Chinese girls, so "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" also passed through their hands in the transmission.

With the intervention of these Chinese students, the English version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" was translated into Chinese, and then spread to a broader circle through relatives, friends and classmates.

Although the Qing government has lost its due administrative power in the concession, it does not mean that there are no yamen spies in the concession, these spies are usually only used to investigate the revolutionary party hidden in the concession, but with the hype of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", it finally attracted their attention, and put the Chinese version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" on the desk of Shanghai Daodaotai.

Seeing this novel full of the secrets of the harem during the Qianlong period, Shanghai Daodaotai's first reaction was to be shocked, this kind of novel equivalent to rebellion was naturally not something that he could handle as a small Shanghai Daodaotai, so he immediately reported the matter to the Governor of Liangjiang and the Governor of Jiangsu.

Whether it was Duanfang, the governor of Liangjiang, or Chen Qitai, the governor of Jiangsu, the two of them did not care about this extremely slanderous book, and hurriedly sent the matter to the Empress Dowager Cixi by telegram, and ordered someone to use a fast horse to transport the manuscript of the inspection to Jingshi in an expedited way of 800 miles, and at the same time sent a letter in official writing to the public concession, urging the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession to ban this kind of book that slandered the Manchu royal family.

People always have a common disease, the more forbidden things will arouse people's curiosity, the Manchu Qing authorities' explicit ban not only did not stop the spread of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" in the concession, but let more people know that there is a book describing the secrets of the harem in the Yongzheng period, and for a time this novel aimed at earning the tears of young boys and girls suddenly became a kind of popular reading.

Because this matter involves foreigners, the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Forbidden City really didn't make too many decisions before she saw the physical books, so she could only strictly order the Governor of Liangjiang to negotiate with the concession authorities to prohibit the circulation of books, but the Forbidden City, a seemingly tight but leaky place, naturally couldn't hold the news, but in one day, the book "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem", which described the secrets of Qianlong's harem, spread throughout the Forbidden City, and it also made the book a big hit before they met.

The complete version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" was sent to Beijing four days after the telegram arrived, and then the book was sent directly to the Empress Dowager Cixi by bypassing all government offices, eliminating the thoughts of all those who wanted to read it.

The day after the book was sent to the Forbidden City, "The Legend of Zhen Huan in the Harem" began to be sold on the market, and although the price of the book was high, the buyers were like clouds.