Chapter 31 fourth quarter

There is also a woman who was really reluctant to mention her name, but her words have provided us with a lot of supporting evidence about Zhang Ailing's distinctive character, which can be regarded as forgivable. She wrote two articles about Eileen Chang in the 1940s and 1970s. In the article, she said: "Eileen Chang's self-standard, not to mention flowers, is the breeze and bright moon. She feels that it is not enough to complement her." She It was meant to be sarcastic, but when I looked at it, it was just a compliment, and I remembered the two words used to describe Daiyu in the book: aloof and self-proclaimed, with no scruples.Zhang Ailing is such a noble and proud.

This sour woman is called Pan Liudai, and she is also a woman who writes for a living in old Shanghai, but she always refuses to write honestly, and always wants to cause some accidents to attract people's attention to her, but she can't, so she is jealous of others. There are women who are more attractive than her, such as Eileen Chang. The acquaintance between her and Zhang Ailing was supposed to be introduced by Su Qing, so she later recorded it upside down as "Zhang Ailing was discovered. It was when Su Qing published "Tiandi Monthly" that she submitted a manuscript to Su Qing. Su Qing Seeing that this person's writing skills are good, so I made an appointment to meet with her by letter, and became a friend from then on. I also drew her into the literary world and strongly recommended her as a right-hand man. Sure enough, Zhang Ailing was also grateful for Zhijin, and lived up to expectations. After entering the literary world, she wrote successively A few articles received a surge of favorable comments at one time, and they were well-received, and soon became popular."

However, this woman is used to rambling and talking, whether she is ignorant, did not know Zhang Ailing's works and literary titles before; or deliberately wrote Zhang Ailing's fame as Su Qing's flattery, so as to erase her previous achievements, but she can't do it. And know. But the few little things mentioned in her article are worth pondering—— For example, on a date, if she (Zhang Ailing) made an appointment with you to come to her house at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, unfortunately if you are not sure of the exact time and arrive at 2:35, then even if she comes to answer the door for you, I will still raise my lids and say to you: "Miss Zhang Ailing will not be visiting now." Then I will close the door with a bang, and I invite you to taste the feeling of being closed for a while.In case you are late and don't go until a quarter past three, she will tell you plausibly: "Zhang Ailing's team has gone out." Her concept of time is more accurate than the plane's departure.It can't be earlier or later, and she won't accommodate her sooner or later.So even though she is Chinese, she has developed a standard foreigner temper.

Zhang Ailing likes to dress up in exotic clothes, and a short jacket over the cheongsam is one of the exotic clothes she invented.Once, Su Qing and I made a phone call to make an appointment with her to visit her at her apartment on Hede Road. I saw her wearing a lemon yellow evening dress with bare chest and arms, full of fragrance, bracelets and necklaces, full of fragrance. Emerald jewels on the head make people know at a glance that she is in full makeup. Su Qing and I couldn't help being startled, and asked her if she was going to the street?She said: "I didn't go to the street, but waited for my friends to come to my house for tea." At that time, Su Qing and I were both dressed casually. Compared with them, I felt very embarrassed. I was afraid that she would have some important guests and thought we were there. , maybe it’s inconvenient, so I exchanged glances and said very understandingly: “Since you have a friend who wants to come, we’ll leave, and it’s the same if we come back another day.” Unexpectedly, Zhang Ailing said slowly: “My friend has already come. That's it, it's the two of you!" Only then did we realize that her gorgeous makeup was just for us, which made us feel even more embarrassed, like savages who don't know any manners.

Another time, Zhang Ailing suddenly asked me: "Can you find your grandmother's clothes?" I said: "Why?" She said: "You can wear her clothes!" I said: "I wear her clothes." Aren't her clothes like shrouds?" She said, "What does that matter, it's unique." Zhang Ailing went to Su Qing's house in a strange dress, which caused a sensation in the entire Xieqiao Lane (Su Qing's official style boudoir). She walked in front, followed by children watching the excitement.While chasing and shouting. For publication, she went to the printing office to proofread the manuscript, dressed in strange clothes, and stopped the entire printing office workers.When she wears a suit, she will dress herself up as a young eighteenth-century woman; when she wears a cheongsam, she will dress herself up like our grandmother or great-grandmother, with a young face and an antique dress, that’s it, Integrating Chinese and foreign ancient and modern gimmicks, she first arranged herself as a legend.Someone asked her why?She said: "I'm not a beauty, and I don't have any special features. If I don't use these to show off, how can I attract others' attention?"

——This Pan Liudai, it can be said that she doesn't know what is good or bad. She didn't dare to offend Su Qing, presumably because Su Qing was the editor-in-chief, and she wanted to get some credit for publishing articles, which was also used to maintain her literary name.And although Zhang Ailing is famous, after all, she can't give her any real benefits, so it's better to scold her to elevate herself. Wen is like a person.It is also Pan Liudai's experience that has determined her bearing and character: since she was 19 years old, she eloped with a married man 22 years older than herself for no apparent reason. Later, he married and divorced others, and had sex with many men, but he was not ashamed of it, but proud of it. He even wrote "The Autobiography of a Retired Wife" to show off. body writing".

Although Pan Liudai is hateful, her words let us smell the atmosphere of that era more closely, and see Zhang Ailing more clearly—stubborn, unique, everything has its own set of principles, high-spirited, like a diamond Like the precious light, it is eye-catching. If she hadn't met Hu Lancheng, maybe her light would be even brighter, and she would continue to write her third and fourth incense burners calmly, and maybe she would meet another man who is slightly "normal" and "suitable", With a relationship in troubled times, maybe her life trajectory will be different, the evaluation of her in the current and future generations will change, and even the modern history of Chinese literature will be rewritten because of her...

If it wasn't for meeting Hu Lancheng.