The next day, Wang Defu began to create the short story "Necklace", and he even agreed to a small request from Ling Jingsu, that is, to give her a role in Xinli.

Originally, Wang Defu's article also needed a rich female character like Ling Jingsu, who was the hostess who lent out the diamond necklace.

"Jingsu, when you were a student, did you have the kind of beautiful female classmate who had a good relationship with you, but had an average family background?" While thinking about the hostess of this article, he opened his mouth and asked Ling Jingsu.

Ling Jingsu thought seriously for a while, couldn't help but shake her head, and said, "The female classmates who have a good time with me are basically the eldest daughters, and the girls also have their own circles. How? Do you want to write a woman from an ordinary family as the main character? ”

"Yes, such a heroine can make this dramatic, a woman like you, who is so outstanding in all aspects, can't be the heroine at all, she can only be the villain who is slapped in the face by the heroine." Wang Defu said bluntly.

Ling Jingsu couldn't help but laugh when she heard Wang Defu say this, she thought that this was a compliment to her, because among the female orientation, there are indeed more heroines from ordinary backgrounds, but ordinary heroines often succeed in snatching the true love of the perfect male protagonist from those villains rich daughters, and staged a good show between Cinderella and the prince.

"Then after you left school and stepped into society, you always met some women from ordinary families, right?" Wang Defu continued to ask.

"This is natural, you want to get material about them from me?" Ling Jingsu responded.

"Yes, you can tell me more about the people and things that impress you, preferably those that reflect the vanity of women."

"Hmm...... Let me think. ”

Next, Ling Jingsu told Wang Defu about the deeds of a vain woman from an ordinary background that she had come into contact with, which made Wang Defu gain a lot.

And in this process, the character of the heroine in Wang Defu's mind is becoming clearer and clearer, but when naming the heroine, he couldn't think of a good name for a while, fortunately, Ling Jingsu seemed to be very enthusiastic about participating in this short story, she said: "Since I can play tricks in your article, it is better to call the heroine 'Liu Xianran', in my impression, this woman is the most vain." ”

Wang Defu couldn't help but be a little speechless, if he remembered correctly, Liu Xianran in reality seemed to be one of the four talented women in the literary world of the magic capital, and she was also Ling Jingsu's opponent, and after Ling Jingsu speculated that his short story was very ironic, she started.

"It's better not to involve the names of people in reality, it will make the reader play, I decided, the heroine's name is 'Liu Zhiyun', give me three hours, and I can write this article."

"Okay...... Then I'll look forward to it. ”

……

Wang Defu finally began to put pen to paper, and it was simply a spring of inspiration and a rush of writing.

"The beautiful and moving women in the world are always born in an ordinary family with a small clerk as if due to a mistake of fate.

Her name is Liu Zhiyun, she has no assets to marry, no hope, and no way to make a person who has both money and status know her, understand her, love her, and marry her; At the end, she was introduced and married to an ordinary small clerk Sun Lianliang.

She is not able to pay attention to ornamentation, she is simple, but unfortunately she is like a woman who has been lowered; Because women have no class, no hierarchy, their beauty, their richness and their allure are for them to make their lives and family backgrounds. Their natural alertness, superior instincts, and docile hearts constituted their only rank, and they could elevate the women of the people to the same level as the highest noblewomen.

She felt that she had been born for all that was beautiful and all that was luxurious, and she was in pain for a moment. She was very sad because of the coldness of her house, the roughness of the walls, the obsolescence of the furniture, and the vulgarity of the clothing. ……”

In Wang Defu's pen, Liu Zhiyun is a very beautiful woman from an ordinary family, and her husband Sun Lianliang is an ordinary clerk.

Despite her low status, she was fascinated by the luxurious life of the rich, and in order to attend a grand gala, she ordered a gorgeous gown with 200 silver dollars that her husband had saved, and borrowed a beautiful diamond necklace from her friend Mrs. Ling.

At the grand party, Liu Zhiyun took the limelight with her outstanding demeanor, and her vanity was fully satisfied, but she lost the borrowed necklace and could not find it again.

In this case, she had to hide from her friends, but she was lucky enough to find a diamond necklace with a similar shape in a high-end jewelry store, and she and her husband spent all their savings, scraped together and even borrowed money from a loan shark to buy the 9,000 silver dollar diamond necklace.

Since then, the couple has spent 10 years of frugal life. In this difficult accumulation process, Liu Zhiyun's hands became rough and his face aged. The reason, of course, is -

"She began to do all the hard work of the house, the nasty daily tasks of the kitchen. She washed cups, plates, and dishes, grinding those rosy fingers on the grease of the jars and pans. The underwear and rags were washed with soap and dried on the rope by herself; Every morning, she would carry the garbage downstairs and bring water upstairs, and after walking one floor, she would have to sit on the stairs to catch her breath. And dressed like a commoner's woman, she went out with her basket to the vegetable store, the grocery store, and the butcher's shop to negotiate the price, to be scolded, and to protect her pitiful change one copper at a time. Every month, you have to collect a number of IOUs, and set up a few new dates for deferrals. Her husband was transcribing the accounts for a merchant in the evening, and often late at night, he had to transcribe the kind of books of fifty in the same language. ……”

In fact, when I wrote here, it was all relatively flat and straightforward, and it was probably about a woman who loved vanity, because she had a good limelight at a banquet, but she suffered by herself, which led to such earth-shaking changes in her later life.

This may be a satire that it is definitely not a good thing for women to love vanity and die to save face, but if this is all there is to it, this article called "The Necklace" is definitely just a mediocre work.

What really sublimates this article into a classic and perfectly reflects the ingenuity of the creator is its ending.