Chapter 16 Chapter fifteen

After all, Hu Lancheng couldn't help but wrote an article to defend Zhang Ailing.Su Qing read the article and warned Hu Lancheng bluntly: "Once your article is published, the love lawsuit with Zhang Ailing will be covered! It's not my business at all, I just feel wronged by Zhang Ailing! Everyone knows you There are families on both sides, and Zhang Ailing is so young and inexperienced, you can't get rid of the crime of kidnapping a girl!" Su Qing was half-joking and half-serious, and Hu Lancheng was also serious and playful: "I have been charged with crimes wherever I go over the years, and now I add one more, and I don't feel tired! But the charges of political treachery are not worth as much as this one to me. Abducted Zhang Ailing! How is Zhang Ailing so exquisite? How can I, Hu Lancheng He De, make her submit? This crime really wronged Zhang Ailing!"

Su Qing persuaded her all the way, saying: "Emotions are a matter of pleasing each other! What can others say? I just want to remind you that Zhang Ailing has just started in the literary world, and she is very popular. If you are thinking about her, you must be wary of what you say and do. , otherwise people will use you to attack her in the future, you don’t want to see it!” Su Qing said from the bottom of his heart, and in terms of the situation, Hu Lancheng was indeed hovering at a low altitude, and he understood the meaning of Su Qing’s words. Zhang Ailing was cut in half.It's not that she lacks self-confidence, it's just that she cherishes her feathers and doesn't want to fall into the mire of controversy, preferring to start a new stove.She rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and spread out the novels written during this period of time. There were so many impressive and loud works piled up on a narrow desk. score.She has decided to publish her first collection of novels.

She searched for a publishing house through the streets, and automatically suggested to use the name of her great-grandfather to promote it.She understands that even if a person can wait, time is in a hurry!So she said, to be famous and to make a profit should be done as early as possible.When I asked a photographer to take the "Jade Photos", she was wearing a clear coat. The man was a little surprised. Zhang Ailing explained to him: "I hope the photos can have some aristocratic look! Ordinary clothes are too ordinary to wear. That kind of fun!" The photographer positioned the scene next to a white wall in the stairwell of the apartment.Zhang Ailing's classic photos are frozen in the moment of time, leaving a long-lasting figure for herself.

After changing her clear coat, she put on a satin pajamas, sat on the steps of the stairs, leisurely folded her arms and said, "I like the shine on the satin surface! It's like borrowing some light from it! But you It must be taken so that people can’t see that it’s pajamas!” She said with a faint smile, and the photographer got behind the camera and caught a glimpse of Zhang Ailing’s infinitely clingy smile overlooking the world of mortals, a little silly, yes Zhang Ailing's brilliance made him feel stupid. Being so busy, Hu Lancheng just doesn't bother her.She was arranging her manuscript on the table, and Hu Lancheng was sitting on the sofa reading.She went to the kitchen to get a cup of tea, and when she turned around, she stood at the door of the room and looked at him blankly. He was sitting alone, and there was a tranquility buried deep in gold powder and sand in the room.After a while, she felt that her hand was hot, and quickly put the teacup aside, with her red fingers in her mouth, she turned away from the door, suddenly feeling that the tingling pain was sweet.Hu Lancheng was quiet and focused, and didn't raise her head until she entered the room.It was raining outside the window, and occasionally there was the muffled thunder of midsummer.No one wanted to break into that half-closed door, and they were willing to let them talk alone and quietly.

As the night fell, Zhang Maoyuan turned off the light in the living room.In the room, only the light and shadow exposed under the crack of Zhang Ailing's door remained, and Hu Lancheng was still inside.My aunt had already decided not to interfere with privacy, so she just glanced at the light and shadow, then went into her room and closed the door.But the light under the crack of the door still faintly reveals another world that is isolated. The mosquito coil is red hot, and the smoke spirals upwards. There is only a lamp by the bed in the room, and the moon is round outside the window.Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing chattered endlessly: "I wanted to describe to Ikeda that day how you walked and how you looked! You scratched your head and couldn't speak! Ikeda has never seen me gnash my teeth like that, and I can't sit still!"

Zhang Ailing smiled, turned her head around and said: "I wrote about Meng Yulou, saying that when she walks, the fragrance is soft, and when she sits down, she is full of beauty!" Hu Lancheng's eyes lit up and he exclaimed, "That's great! The word Yanran is very good!" Zhang Ailing said even more proudly: "It's like silk cotton stained with rouge, it's soaked into a mess!" She saw the infinite love in his eyes, as if she was willing to bend down on the ground and become a shallow stream, trickling for her.She reached out and touched Hu Lancheng's cheek, her fingers slid all the way down.For a moment, she felt a great shock in her heart. She could only look at him stupidly, and asked stupidly: "Are you real? Is it real that you are with me like this?"

Hu Lancheng held Zhang Ailing's hand, and said to himself: "You are 'the flowers come in the shirt, the shadow falls in the pool', even if you get close, you will not be contaminated! You come and go!" The most lingering relationship between the two Just looking at each other stupidly.At this moment, Hu Lancheng suddenly felt that even if Zhang Ailing was so close to him, there was still a place out of reach. Quiet and thinking about moving, Ikeda encouraged Hu Lancheng to start a magazine. The two enthusiastically approached Zhang Ailing and Yanying to discuss it. To do it in the most simple way, we can write, Aileen and Yanying can draw, and even art design can be done by ourselves, Ikeda is in charge of finding printing, and I am in charge of editing business, here is a piece of our own voice The garden is here!" The magazine is named "Bitter Bamboo", which is taken from a Japanese haiku translated by Zhou Zuoren: "Summer nights are like bitter bamboo. The details of the bamboo are dense. In an instant, it will be dawn."

The focus of Hu Lancheng's life gradually shifted to Shanghai and around Eileen Chang.His wife Yingdi rushed to Shanghai with a letter from Zhang Ailing to him at this time. She had a very clear attitude and was just waiting for a word from Hu Lancheng.Hu Lancheng was silent all the time, as if she still blamed her for checking Zhang Ailing's letters.It's not that he doesn't know what is more important in his heart, but if the judgment is made by others, he has less responsibility, and he becomes the one who is decided. Yingdi still has the determination to kill the children of the world, so she asks for a divorce.Hu Lancheng went back to Nanjing with her to arrange the rest of the affairs.When he returned to Shanghai, he couldn't help complaining to Eileen Chang: "She's gone! She's alone! There's nowhere to go." When he said this, his eyes turned red. This was the first time Eileen Chang saw Hu Lancheng cry. It was mixed, and the reaction was more cold and normal. She didn't say a word of comfort, as if all of this had nothing to do with her.

Hu Lancheng looked at Zhang Ailing, knowing that she didn't sympathize with him at all, and also knew that her position was awkward, but he didn't feel that his own emotions were offended, and he sat there alone, feeling sad.Zhang Ailing squatted on the ground, looked up at him and asked, "What do you want me to say?" Hu Lancheng was speechless. Until he fell asleep at night, Hu Lancheng was still lying on his back and side, seemingly in a dream.Zhang Ailing was lying beside him, awake. She turned around and put her arms around Hu Lancheng, pressed her cheek against his back, listened to his shallow breathing, and murmured in a low voice: "Summer night, like Bitter bamboo, the bamboo is densely detailed, in an instant, it will be dawn!"

In the dark, Hu Lancheng pressed Zhang Ailing's hand, and after a while, he turned around and hugged Zhang Ailing. In the quiet and dark night, he looked at her, and the two reconciled wordlessly.He's not perfect, and neither is she.They are just a pair of vulgar men and women in the world, stealing a moment of joy.Even a love that is riddled with holes is still love. Even Zhang Ailing needs marriage to guarantee love.She was wearing that pink dress, and she was full of joy.Zhang Ailing dipped the brush full of ink, and wrote a few words on a pink wedding post: "Hu Lancheng Zhang Ailing signed a lifelong contract and became a couple." She handed the brush to Yan Ying, who stood in the middle, with a little smile on her face. The naughty game, give the brush to Hu Lancheng.Hu Lancheng followed Zhang Ailing's words and wrote: "May the years be quiet and the world be stable." Zhang Ailing looked at those words, then looked at Hu Lancheng, she liked those words.When it was Yanying's turn to sign under the witnesses, Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng just looked at each other happily.

Zhang Ailing smiled happily, and her aunt called her into her room and gave her a gold bracelet, but she didn't say it was a congratulatory gift, because all of this seemed too unlikely.Zhang Ailing wanted Hu Lancheng to come to thank her, but her aunt hurriedly stopped her and said, "Don't! I'm still Mr. Hu and Ms. Zhang with him. This is all I can say about this matter! But I'm writing to your mother I mentioned it to her, and I always want to explain to her!" Zhang Maoyuan's estrangement did not destroy Zhang Ailing's good mood. Every time she spent with Hu Lancheng, Zhang Ailing regarded it as gold powder and sand falling from the sky.Happiness is like living in a high-rise building, it rises from the ground, and the world of mortals is nine days and eighteen floors away.Besides, the sales are fantastic.