Despite her advanced age, Cm Lili still speaks clearly, which is really gratifying to me as an interviewer.

Cen Lili and Zhou Gongzi were engaged to an arranged marriage by their parents, and I asked her: "You didn't meet him at that time, why do you think you can fall in love with him?" ”

She spoke with a soft southern accent: "I've seen pictures of him, he was very famous at that time." ”

Yes, how did I forget, in addition to the son of the king of the ship, Zhou Gongzi also has a poet's name, he wrote new poems, which was very famous at that time, Cen Lili should have read his poems, and fell in love with his poems by his poems.

"Then why do you think he's going to fall in love with you?"

Marriage is a big gamble, especially arranged marriages, and there are countless examples of tragedies caused by disagreements after marriage, and they will accept it, mostly because of cowardice.

She looked at me with wide eyes: "Why doesn't he love me?" ”

She has a pair of baby-like eyes, clear, without a trace of cobwebs, and from this eye I see her in the last century, in the 30s of the last century, she was the most confident socialite in high society.

Cen Lili's father, is the rubber king in the 30s, he did rubber business in Nanyang, soon became famous in China, Cen Lili was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1920, when she returned to China in 1936, her father was already well-known in China rubber king.

She returned to China to study, read her father's investment in the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Normal Girls' School, born rich, beautiful, but also with a little long-soaked Nanyang style, 16-year-old rubber princess Cen Lili soon became a celebrity, at that time women study, mostly for their own spiritual dowry, many of them are from upper-middle class families, there are suitors and even fiancés, the girls' school is a hunting resort for the sons of gentlemen, at that time the slogan of women's liberation was also shouted, normal exchanges between men and women, Among young people they are regarded as civilized and civilized.

Cen Lili soon became a guest of honor at various parties, she was beautiful and young, she could be used as a vase without being threatening, everyone was happy to invite her, and she almost never refused invitations.

Until one day, Shum Lili suddenly began to decline the invitation to the ball, and since then, she has not attended any balls.

She is engaged to the son of the ship king.

It was the beginning of 1938, after getting engaged, Cen Lili adhered to women's morals and no longer interacted with the opposite sex.

"None of them noticed that I almost never pushed the ball, but only twice, and both times the proprietors were poets."

Her sweetheart is a poet, because of him, she is mean to all the poets in the world, she thinks that there is only one poet in the world, and that is his future husband.

I was interested in the person she rejected: "Do you remember the person you rejected? ”

She shook her head: "Too much, I don't remember." ”

Hey, what a tragedy, I sigh for that man, he is not remembered by her name, he is only remembered that he read a poem downstairs under her—this is still the blessing that Zhou Gongzi is a poet!

"The first time we met, I told him that I liked his poetry."

Cen Lili and Zhou Gongzi first met in the fourth month after their engagement.

It was a ball, not the kind of dance organized by classmates, but by the mutual friend of the Cen family and the Zhou family, an elder, there were many people at the ball, Cen Lili remembered that she wore a cheongsam that day, with a beige Kemis shawl and satin high heels, and she hesitated when she learned that Zhou Gongzi was also going before leaving.

Do you want to avoid suspicion? Is what you are wearing today not beautiful enough and not dignified enough? She spun and around in front of the mirror, like a trapped beast, distressed to death, and her father's third aunt teased her too much: "Are you afraid? ”

Who would be afraid! Cen Lili still went to the ball in the end, didn't dare to dance with other men, stood on the second floor and chatted with the proprietor's daughter, but her eyes looked around like a thief.

Zhou Gongzi is here.

There was a commotion in the crowd, this new poet was famous, he was wearing a woolen suit, heroic and beautiful, Cen Lili looked at him, her head rumbled, and by the time she reacted, she had already walked in front of him, she had the courage to look at him stupidly, and asked him: "Can I ask you to dance?" ”

Zhou Gongzi recognized her, and he had seen her photo.

He took one of her hands and wrapped his arms around her waist, and the music started, and they were like two butterflies fluttering on the dance floor. ”

Zhou Gongzi sighed, the end of the note went up, as if he didn't understand, Cen Lili simply began to recite her favorite work, the poem was very long, and she didn't finish it until the end of a dance music.

Dancing and reciting poems, Cen Lili was panting when she stopped, she looked at him with a pair of dark and moist eyes, as if looking at the stars, Zhou Gongzi stared at his beautiful and brave fiancée for a few seconds, took out the triangular scarf from his pocket and wiped her forehead, and said with a smile: "Look at you, sweat on your face." ”

He smiled lightly, Cen Lili knew that she was hopeless in this life.