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Chapter 22 rubbing shoulders

It was from you that I learned, how, love, seriously... Love is good after all, even though it has been hard, I will still love in the future...
Everyone's life is associated with one or several unforgettable relationships, and one or several people who are hand in hand through wind and rain.One day, fleeting years may dilute all of this, and all we have is ourselves.Back in the mountains and rivers of the years that belonged to us, we continued to hike the world alone, but we are not alone. When the world starts to make noise, all you can do is keep silent.Zhang Ailing finally bid farewell to the betrayal Hu Lancheng. Although the alluring love turned into dust, Zhang Ailing's injury took a long time to repair, and it could not even be completely repaired in a lifetime.She doesn't care about these, she just regards it as a necessity in life.

Zhang Ailing once said: "An ordinary person's life, no matter how good it is, is a peach blossom fan. If you break your head, the blood splashes on the fan, and just a little bit of it is dyed into a peach blossom." And Hu Lancheng is the blood splashed on that fan It has stained her world. Hu Lancheng has fled for the past few years, and he has always been accompanied by his beautiful family, but Zhang Ailing has endured unparalleled pressure because of him.After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the anger of the people, which had been suppressed for a long time, erupted like a burst of water in an instant.They wanted to severely condemn the traitorous traitors. At that time, newspapers were flying like snowflakes, and the newspapers named the traitors who slipped through the net, demanding that the government severely punish them.As the concubine of the shameless traitor Hu Lancheng, Zhang Ailing was abused by countless voices.

When the time comes for politics to blame her, no one believes she is innocent.Zhang Ailing's achievements in Shanghai in the past have now become an indelible stain.This talented woman did no harm, her only fault was that she loved the wrong person.The people's emotions needed to be vented, and Hu Lancheng fled, leaving Eileen Chang on the cusp of the storm, bearing Wanmin's rumors alone. The peerless Zhang Ailing suddenly lost her reputation.Faced with this sudden change, Eileen Chang could only put down her pen and remain silent.Many people say that the era belonging to Eileen Chang has completely passed.Indeed, no matter how good an actor is, if she changes to a scene that doesn't suit her, she is destined not to be the leading role.

Zhang Zijing said: "During the year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, my sister disappeared from the Shanghai literary world. Some of the publications that I used to ask her to write for were closed, and some were afraid of being accused of being a cultural traitor, so they dared not reappear. Ask her to write a manuscript. She doesn’t talk much, and being locked up at home and submerging herself is not unbearable for her. However, the uncertainty of her marriage with Hu Lancheng may be the deepest torment during her period.” Zhang Ailing did not betray her country, she is now only bearing all the faults for that untimely love.The waves of history will annihilate everything, luck and misfortune, happiness and unhappiness, will come to an abrupt end one day.Times have changed, and Zhang Ailing later took the opportunity of publishing the updated edition, and in the preface, for the first time refuted the bad public opinion caused by Hu Lancheng.

"It never occurred to me that I needed to defend myself. But I have been talked about for a year, and I seem to be listed as one of the cultural traitors, and I am also confused. The articles I have written have never involved politics, nor have I received any subsidies... As for the many nonsensical abuses that even involve my private life, there are many points to refute. And even if there are such facts, it still does not involve the question of whether I am suspected of being a traitor; let alone private matters. The public confessed..." Hu Lancheng caused Zhang Ailing to suffer too much. Before, she might feel sad and unwilling, but later, she didn't even feel sad and unwilling.This man completely disdains her.

Fate gave Zhang Ailing another explanation. After the performance, she met an important person in her life-director Sang Hu.The appearance of the sang arc made Zhang Ailing see a warm and bright light in the dark night.At first Zhang Ailing felt a little embarrassed about Sang Hu's invitation.Although her previous novels were bestsellers, she had never written a screenplay.But Zhang Ailing also wanted to get out of the mud and find her own one meter of sunshine again.Furthermore, she was always in short supply, and later she gave Hu Lancheng the remuneration for the two films she co-operated with Sang Hu.

The first movie that Eileen Chang and Sang Hu collaborated was "No Love". The male lead Liu Qiong and the female lead Chen Yanyan were both popular stars, and the strong lineup caused a sensation.Zhang Ailing, who had been silent for a long time, had a weather-beaten smile on her face.With such a harvest, Sang Hu's confidence doubled, and he asked Zhang Ailing to write "Long Live My Wife".The film was screened simultaneously in Shanghai's four major theaters, including Empress, Jincheng, Jindu, and International, for two consecutive weeks, and the venues were sold out.

Zhang Ailing, who had been silent for a while, seemed to have found a dojo suitable for her practice.It's just that she, who has lived through many vicissitudes, no longer shows her sharpness as before.Sometimes the lonely literary world cannot bear too much applause and noise.So when Zhang Ailing's two films received applause and flowers, they also attracted criticism and ridicule. For thousands of years, the way of the world has been like this, success and failure, joy and sorrow are only separated by a distance of time.Zhang Ailing seems to be much quieter. She knows that those readers like her intensity, her brightness and publicity, but her tired heart needs rest and peace.

Because of several films, Zhang Ailing had some contacts with friends in the film industry.During the filming process, director Sang Hu inevitably had to go to Eileen Chang's residence to communicate with her about the film.In this way, the communication between the two people is much closer.Sang Hu is honest and reserved. He is talented, but he doesn't speak sweet words to women.His character and kindness are far better than Hu Lancheng, but he is not romantic enough. At that time, everyone thought that Sang Hu and Zhang Ailing were a pair of lovers, one was unmarried and the other was dead.Sang Hu is a great director and Eileen Chang is a great writer. Wouldn't it be a match made in heaven if the two were together.Enthusiastic friends approached Zhang Ailing and wanted to introduce Sang Hu to her.After hearing this, Zhang Ailing didn't speak, but kept shaking her head.She rejected this relationship in a silent way, and many people could not understand why she was so stubborn.But Eileen Chang missed out on Sang Hu just like that. She chose to leave rationally because she knew that they would not be happy together.

Many people want to know whether Sang Hu ever loved Zhang Ailing, and whether Zhang Ailing ever loved Sang Hu.This enigmatic topic seems to have been certified after Eileen Chang published it.In the novel, Jiuli said to Yanshan: "No one will like you like me." Zhang Ailing wrote at the end of the novel: "But she has never regretted about Yanshan, because it was lucky to have him at that time." Zhang Ailing loves Sang Hu, and Sang Hu also loves Zhang Ailing.It's just that the timing of their acquaintance was wrong, so their love was doomed to be fruitless.Zhang Ailing was originally a person who did not say love easily, and Hu Lancheng's harm to her was vivid.Before Hu Lancheng was completely forgotten, Eileen Chang did not dare to start over.She just said to Hu Lancheng that I can no longer love others, if I will just wither, how can I bloom lightly for Sang Hu in such a short time.Emotionally, although Zhang Ailing dares to love and hate, she also has her reserve and her standards.

Sang Hu is not a brave person, compared to Hu Lancheng, he is much weaker.He kept his admiration for Zhang Ailing deep in his heart, and when they were together, he only talked about the topic of the film, and he was cautious and subtle about private matters related to love.The friend's marriage proposal was rejected, and Sang Hu dared not touch it easily.He knew in his heart that Zhang Ailing was hurt, and she hadn't completely walked out of that relationship.His appearance can only relieve her pain, but it can't do the good medicine to heal her. "The sound of the rain is murmuring, like living by the stream. I would rather it rains every day, thinking that you don't come because of the rain." Here, Jiuli is the incarnation of Eileen Chang, and you here are Yanshan. "On the day of my 30th birthday, I saw the moonlight on the balcony at night on the bed. The concrete railing lay there like a collapsed stone tablet, bathed in the blue moonlight of the late Tang Dynasty. The moonlight more than a thousand years ago, but in the Thirty years is too much for her, and it weighs heavily on her heart like a tombstone." The relationship between Zhang Ailing and Sang Hu ended without a problem.It didn't seem to start at all, just passed by, passed by.But this episode has truly left a mark in Zhang Ailing's life book.What Sang Hu gave Zhang Ailing should be a lifetime of warm memories.He didn't hurt her, he only came and left lightly when she was most lonely. Later, Sang Hu married a woman from outside the circle, and treated each other as guests.Maybe this kind of life is more suitable for Sang Hu, because with his personality, he can't stand the waves of emotion.And Zhang Ailing is destined not to be an ordinary woman, she can't afford Sang Hu's ordinary fireworks and happiness.The rebellion and loneliness in her heart are not something Sang Hu can bear.This flower that blooms in the dust is only suitable for silent appreciation in the distance.He doesn't have the courage to give up, nor does he have the qualifications to give up. The following year, Zhang Ailing went to Hong Kong from Shanghai.After that, she and Sang Hu never saw each other again.Until 1995, when Zhang Ailing passed away, many people wrote articles to remember Zhang Ailing, but Sang Hu remained silent.Perhaps from the beginning to the end, his love for Zhang Ailing was always silent. Because I understand, I am silent.Sang Hu is like a wave of Zhang Ailing on the sea, coming and going like the wind, and it becomes a fleeting cloud in an instant.In the fleeting years of Jinse, two pairs forget each other.
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