Jin Qina remembered that in her previous life, when she was in middle school, she often read Xu Zhimo's poems for a period of time, and only knew that he was a famous romantic saint and a new-school poet during the Republic of China, and had a scandal with Lin Huiyin, Lu Xiaoman and other talented women of the Republic of China, and he was also a rival in love with the famous architect Liang Sicheng. His poems are romantic and beautiful, and he is full of talent, so he is very popular with the "literary girls" who pursued the legend of talented and beautiful women at that time.

However, when she entered the law department of the university, she saw the first Western-style divorce case in Chinese history in the textbook - various behind-the-scenes stories of the divorce of Xu Zhimo and Zhang Youyi - when she first read this history, she only felt that her view of Aiqing had changed drastically, and she was stunned to find that the romantic stories of the so-called talented and beautiful women in the Republic of China era were built on the miserable life of other women.

I have to admit that in the vast majority of cases, especially after monogamy has become popular, the so-called love saints are often equal to scum.

Of course, at that time, Jin Qina, a literary girl in her previous life, only sighed a few times about Xu Zhimo's ruthlessness and ingratitude, and didn't think much about it - there were many tragic things in the world in the Republic of China era, and there was nothing to talk about at all about a little marital entanglement - but now she has traveled to this era, especially when she personally played the role of the jealous abandoned woman in the legend of those talented and beautiful women...... Well, as the so-called butt determines the head, Jin Qina, an abandoned woman of the Republic of China who has now evolved into a young woman in literature and art, is very allergic to the word "true love".

No way, if it's in New China. Especially after the reform and opening up, marriage and divorce have naturally become commonplace. In Europe and the United States in the 21st century, not to mention the level of marital chaos. It is said in some countries. The number of children born out of wedlock and in single-parent families already accounts for nearly half of the total number of minors in the country, which means that about half of the children in these countries do not have normal families......

However, in the era of the Republic of China, when there was no Communist women's liberation movement, social concepts were far less enlightened and progressive. The feudal rites and religions that have been inherited for thousands of years did not die out overnight because of a completely incomplete Xinhai Revolution. The attitude of society towards women's names did not soon become very tolerant. Once the women of the traditional large family are abandoned by their husbands, they really have nowhere to go at all: their mother's family will never allow them to go back. lest the reputation of the other unmarried girls be ruined. Even if they want to be self-reliant, they believe that "women are virtuous if they are not talented", and they have no ability to make a living, nor do they have the capital to do business. As a result, some husbands were able to continue to provide for these abandoned women. Looking at the ex-husband and the new love, love and love. In a way, it should also be regarded as a kind of humanitarianism - although this "humanitarianism" is really sad.

To sum up, one of the prerequisites for the freedom of marriage is to emancipate women and realize feminism -- otherwise, when women do not have basic rights, the men in the traditional feudal family will rashly break away from the shackles of feudal marriage and pursue some true love. It's tantamount to driving the woman to a dead end. Speaking of which, it is not even as good as the polygamy system of feudal times! Even though the wife of that year was not favored by her husband. Even if the house is stuffed with all kinds of fox spirit concubines, at least they will not lack a bite to eat, and their reputation will not be unpleasant. But if she becomes an abandoned woman...... This is completely different from the unfavored Mrs. Mainroom! Even when you go out, you have to be pointed at and gossip, sneering!

--Thinking that most of her dowry was filled into the bottomless pit of the Lu family, which was used to fund her husband's study abroad, but in the end, she got such an abandoned result, and Jin Qina grinded her teeth with hatred...... Due to the shortage of cash on hand, she already has to pawn jewelry in Shanghai to live.

Therefore, Jinchina felt that she should write something so that the world could know the suffering of those abandoned women. She wants to use her pen as a torture instrument to torture these so-called talented and beautiful women who pursue romantic and true love and claim to be anti-feudal fighters, those innocent women who are struggling to support their in-laws in their hometown, pull their children, and wait for their husbands to return, weishenme has to pay the price of her life for a mistake that was not made by herself!

When it came time to write the paper, Jin Qina chose the once popular Qiong Yao novel "Water and Clouds" as the blueprint. However, she did not take the love triangle between the poor painter Mei Ruohong, the arrogant lady Wang Zixuan, and the rich lady Du Qianqian as the main clue like the original work. Instead, he grasped another clue and connected the whole novel through Cuiping, the child daughter-in-law who was forgotten by Mei Ruohong in his hometown in Sichuan, and the only daughter Hua'er.

-- Aiqing, a poor artist and a rich lady, is of course very beautiful, and it is very in line with the general pattern of "talented and beautiful women" in traditional classical texts. But from the perspective of female literary youth, it is naturally those who are unknown and do not ask for anything in return, which is even greater! The female Wenqing Jin Qina just wants the world to take a look, those "merry talents" who do irresponsible things in the name of love are simply tarnishing the word aiqing!

For more than three months, Jinchina spent almost all of her time writing - writing a novel of hundreds of thousands of words with only pen and paper when there was no computer was a huge project! Not to mention the amount of drafts, revisions and drafts written, take a look at the newspapers and books of this era! Even if it's all traditional characters, it's still written vertically from right to left! Can it still read the manuscript paper wiped with the sleeve!

Therefore, even if a time-traveler has an amazing memory, it is not so easy to copy various masterpieces of later generations.

Fortunately, at least there were fountain pens in this era. If you still want to use a brush to write small letters...... Jinjina was really going to cry.

In the new version of "Water and Clouds" written by Jin Qina, the heroine Cuiping is a child daughter-in-law living in a remote mountain village in Sichuan, her in-laws are old and frail, her only daughter is still young, and all the burdens of life in the family are on her. And Mei Ruohong, who is known as the most promising husband in the village, took the family's only little savings and went out for more than ten years without returning. only vaguely learned that he was valued by nobles in Hangzhou. Settled down by the West Lake. But despite this, not only did he never send money to his hometown, but occasionally Cui Ping had to find a way to save money from between his teeth. Send him living expenses.

In fact, only when Mei Ruohong sends living expenses every few months will Cuiping remember that she still has such a husband. As for most of the usual time, he never seemed to exist in the Mei family.

In this way, Cui Ping worked hard for several years to manage the housework, and a plague suddenly broke out, and her in-laws died. The family's land was also sold to treat her in-laws. Following the address left by her husband, Cuiping asked people to send countless letters to Hangzhou, but all of them were lost in the sea. Nowhere to be found.

In the end, the mother and daughter kept filial piety to their in-laws for a year, and they were already so poor that they were surrounded by walls, and Cuiping almost starved to death several times. Looking at the face of yellow muscles thin. A child who is so thin that a gust of wind can blow it down. Cuiping, who has never walked out of that small mountain village in her life, finally made up her mind to go to Hangzhou to find her husband.

Along the way, the penniless mother and daughter held the tablet of the second elder of the Mei family, slept in the open air, begged along the way, and did not know how many hardships they had suffered, how many ups and downs they encountered, and how many dangers they had experienced. Finally, from a remote mountain village in Sichuan Province, I walked all the way to Hangzhou.

I didn't expect it to be in Hangzhou. But they were hit in the face - their husband Mei Ruohong has become a well-known local painter, has a villa called "Shuiyunjian" by the West Lake, and then travels with a group of avant-garde artists from the Drunken Horse Painting Society all day long, living a very happy and leisurely life. As for the parents, wives and daughters of the Sichuan family, they were all left behind by him, and argued that this was something from the "previous life", which had nothing to do with him now, and even the tablets of the Mei family's parents that Cuiping treasured all the way were also thrown into the furnace by him and burned, saying that this was a rotten thing of feudal superstition.

At this time, the only trouble in the heart of Mei Ruohong's painter was to fall in love with two wealthy beauties - one of them was Wang Zixuan, a wealthy lady who had a good eye and talent when he was down, and generously funded him for many years, and the other was Du Qianqian, a rich lady who fell in love with him at first sight and married him at the expense of her father--I don't know how to choose, I think they are both very cute, and neither of them is willing to give up...... But that didn't stop him from sleeping with both women. Especially Wang Zixuan, as an immigrant who has not yet divorced her ex-husband, even became pregnant for Mei Ruohong.

In this way, although Cuiping's mother and daughter found their husbands and fathers in Hangzhou, their lives still did not improve in the slightest - after the irresponsible genius Mei Ruohong earned money from selling paintings, she would rather invite Du Qianqian to watch a Western movie, would rather invite friends from the Drunken Horse Painting Society to go out for a picnic, and would rather drink and buy drunk when she is unhappy, rather than take out a piece of ocean for Cuiping's mother and daughter to have a full meal.

In Mei Ruohong's eyes, this mother and daughter, who are like buns in the countryside, are not his wife and daughter, but the trouble and burden that came to Hangzhou to disturb him. Naturally, the lakeside villa where he lives, "Water and Clouds", does not have a place for Cuiping's mother and daughter, and it is full of his drawings and tools - in the eyes of the "noble" Mei Ruohong, it is simply defiling his art to let Cuiping's mother and daughter, who do not understand art, stay with his sketches!

So, he drove Cuiping's mother and daughter to the cramped and dilapidated attic, lived with rats and cockroaches, and let Cuiping work hard every day as a domestic helper to earn money to make a living, but he was unscrupulous in the bedroom between the clouds and water, talking with Du Qianqian or Wang Zixuan and rolling the sheets.

A few months later, the aiqing entanglement between Mei Ruohong, Du Qianqian and Wang Zixuan, three dog men and women, finally came to an end, and Wang Zixuan was unfortunately out. Next, in order to marry Du Qianqian, Mei Ruohong first did not hesitate to use means to make Wang Zixuan, who had the grace to know him and conceived a child for him, unfortunately miscarried; Then he wrote a letter of resignation, forcing Cui Ping, who was a traditional woman, to death. Zuihou, due to the large expenses in the process of falling in love, the money is a little tight, in order to afford a more decent bride price, Mei Ruohong even did not hesitate to sell the beautiful only daughter painting to the brothel at a high price......

“…… This Mei Ruohong is simply inferior to a pig and a dog! More brutes than brutes! ”

When Jin Qina told the synopsis of this story to the maid Zhang's mother, the middle-aged widowed Zhang Ma immediately jumped up and scolded like this, and even was so angry that she could hardly control her desire to tear up Jin Qina's manuscript.

That's right, in Jin Qina's adaptation of "Water and Clouds", the "new youth" Mei Ruohong is indeed described as a pig and a dog!

When the story was first conceived, Kinkina did her best to discredit it. The various encounters of Cuiping's mother and daughter, especially the fall from longing, hope to despair, are extremely exciting. Especially at the end of the novel. Mei Ruohong first hid Cuiping's corpse, turned around and pretended to be a loving father, and in the name of "going to the restaurant to celebrate Hua'er's birthday", she kindly tricked her nine-year-old only daughter Hua'er into a brothel and sold it...... The kind of scene from heaven to hell, the kind of selfishness to the extreme coldness, as long as there is a conscience, there will be a little sympathy.

Maybe. In the pen of Aunt Qiong Yao, who infinitely praises freedom and true love, and thinks that Aiqing can break all order and shackles, Mei Ruohong is not so shameless and hateful. But at this very moment. Jin Qina only wants to get the public's sympathy and sympathy for traditional women - in the general concept of this era, she may not feel that it is wrong to leave her original partner in her hometown and men go outside to find confidantes: since she is a romantic talent, if there is no romantic deeds. How can you teach people to yearn? Just a few women's things. No one will feel that there is anything wrong with it.

In Shanghai in this era, there are many socialites and rich ladies, who know that Xu Zhimo loves women one by one, sees strange thoughts everywhere, and even abandons his wife and children, and seduces his wife, but he is still proud of reciting the new style poems written by Xu Zhimo. even helped this flowery saint to defend that a stable and warm family life is the best weapon to stifle the poet's affection. So, even if it's just for the sake of creating. Xu Zhimo must also be merciful everywhere and be infatuated with the woman he pursues...... As for his act of seducing other people's wives. It's just an ordinary "can't help it" - when Xu Zhimo was alive, there may be many female fans who can't wait to be seduced by this idol!

Therefore, Jin Qina will try her best to show Mei Ruohong's loss of conscience in her pen, as well as the misery of Cuiping's mother and daughter, only such a contrast and shock, the reader's feelings will all fall to the side of the original wife as a victim, and those fake and high "progressive youth" will gradually begin to reflect on the contradiction between human liberation and marital responsibility, taking into account the hard work and suffering of those abandoned original wives!

Jinjina initially feared that the novel's views were too sharp to be accepted by the publisher—the moral standards of the Chinese were both high and high in those days, and they often made demands that a bunch of saints could not do; To say low and low, I don't know how many people happily appear to be traitors and traitors, and take pride in not being Chinese - but after she submitted this magic revision of "Water and Cloud Room" in many places under the pseudonym "Qiong Yao", she was finally hired by a newspaper and serialized, and then quickly caused a lot of repercussions. Most female readers naturally sympathize with Cuiping's experience, and feel that she marrying a scumbag like Mei Ruohong is simply a mold that has fallen for eight lifetimes! However, some male readers think that Mei Ruohong's practice of forcing Cuiping to death and selling the painting is indeed not the act of a big husband, but his pursuit of aiqing, the pursuit of art, and the act of getting rid of the feudal marriage shackles are not wrong!

Soon after, some well-known local talents in Shanghai began to publish articles in newspapers and periodicals, denouncing the outdated concept of marriage and aiqing in "Shui Yunjian", and rehabilitating some famous negative men who also abandoned their wives and children and were affected by public opinion.

But immediately another female author fought back in the newspaper: Since your aiqing is so beautiful and enjoys it so peacefully, then weishenme also asks another innocent woman in the distance to stay alone and pay a heavy price for your aiqing?

Some trendy men wrote counter-arguments that this was a forced feudal marriage by the family, and it was a shackle that suffocated human nature! We have the right to pursue a beautiful and free aiqing! Then the women will turn against each other, and you are just using the so-called "beautiful and free aiqing" to cover up your amorous nature. The traditional and backward feudal marriage is the order of the parents, not the fault of the original women......

At times, Ms. Kim joined female readers anonymously to counter the comments of male literati who had thought that women in the Republican era, who had received higher education and were exposed to new ideas, might have the naïve idea that aiqing was paramount and that nothing else mattered. But obviously, the truth that the ass determines the head is right wherever it is placed. In addition to the real brain-dead, ordinary people are still able to look at problems from their own interests.

Hey, too, think about it, those educated and cultured "young women of the new era" certainly pursue free aiqing, but it does not mean that they are willing to give up their dignity. In fact, women are naturally more serious and religious in their approach to marriage than men, because that determines their happiness in the second half of their lives to a greater extent. It's a pity that in the Republic of China era, the marriage of most upper-class women was still determined by family interests, thinking about what happened to Cuiping in the novel, they naturally empathized - regardless of the wealth of the family, no one wants to see their husbands abandon or even sacrifice themselves in order to please the confidantes outside; I don't want to see that I tried my best to break through many obstacles to tie the knot with a merry and talented man, but I found out in Zuihou that the merry and talented man's hometown has a wife, and maybe even a few children......

In any case, Jin Qina has initially achieved her goal by writing this novel - through this controversy and hype, her pen name "Qiong Yao" soon gained a lot of popularity, and even became a representative of a new generation of literary and artistic young women, and the manuscript fee naturally rose with the tide...... At this point, she finally has a more decent job in Shanghai, which is enough to support herself and her daughter...... (To be continued......)