Chapter 53 third quarter

In February 1947, "No Love" officially started filming as the first work of Wenhua Company. The male lead Liu Qiong and the female lead Chen Yanyan were both chosen at the moment.It is worth mentioning that the now well-known director Huang Shuqin (who once directed the TV series) also played a little girl in the film with only a few shots—Xia Tingting, the daughter of the hero. The staff of the film crew at that time recalled that Zhang Ailing did not go to the set at that time, but only occasionally went to Wenhua Company for a walk, and never paid attention to anyone.They just sat on the sidelines and watched eagerly, and they didn't dare to show their air. ——However, I think it's not that Eileen Chang ignores people, it's just that she is not good at socializing and doesn't know how to socialize.Didn't she know that she was also embarrassed by the eagerness of others.

"Unrequited Love" is the first collaboration between Sang Hu and Eileen Chang, and it was an instant hit and sold very well.The opening scene of the film is the movie theater Eileen Chang is most familiar with and loves, the cheap royal palace composed of stained glass, thick velvet, and imitation marble buildings, such a kind of sparkling magic cleanliness, where the male and female protagonists meet at the ticket window... … This movie is not easy to see now, and I have only seen a few clips in the expansion pack. Liu Qiong is okay, but Chen Yanyan is really fat and strong, and she is a married woman at a glance.

When Eileen Chang watched the movie at first, she just felt dissatisfied in one way or another—usually when writers see the stories adapted from their own novels, they always feel "wrong"; or she is used to watching Hollywood movies, and there is another standard. Sang Hu asked her how she felt, and she only said vaguely, "Let's talk about it later." She walked out.Sang Hu stopped in a hurry and said, "I didn't waste your things that much!"She couldn't help being shocked again. He is actually a few years older than her, but perhaps because of his enthusiasm, he appears innocent and younger than her.And when she saw him, she also felt like a childhood sweetheart, as if she was a boy she missed in her childhood, and now she has found it again.

In the past, when she was about to move onto the stage, watching the drama performance, she often thought: In fact, it can be better, here you can change it again like this, like that. Now that I've watched "No Love", I feel this way again.So I decided to rewrite it into a novel and named it "How Much Hate"-fortunately, this novel prevented me from watching the movie, and I finally understood the plot: Yu Jiayin, a governess, fell in love with Xia Zongyu, a married man. Leaving quietly without wanting to destroy the other party's family is the most common third-party story.

"If you say there is no romance, you will meet him again in this life; if you say there is a romance, how will your heart end with nothing?" Zhang Ailing wrote every word and tears. There is love but no fate, there is fate but no separation, the fate is shallow and the love is deep, and the fate is endless. This is probably the greatest tragedy in a love story. "How Much Hate" was first published in the May and June 1947 issues of the monthly "Everybody" published by Shanhe Book Company founded by Gong Zhifang and Tang Dalang.Thirty years later, it was included in "Wang Ran Ji", and a preface was specially added, which shows Zhang Ailing's love for it:

"In 1947, I wrote the screenplay for the first time. The title of the film was "No Love", starring Liu Qiong, the most popular actor at that time, and the comeback Chen Yanyan. Chen Yanyan has retired for many years, and her appearance is still beautiful and young. She is ignorant, but she is fat, so she has to wear a wide black coat as often as possible in the film. Many scenes are in her shabby room. It is cold and there is no stove, so she also wears a coat at home, and there is a good reason for it. In addition, there is also a well-known Podan Lushan on the stage of the drama as Yao's mother, and there is also an old-fashioned villain who plays the father-in-law who carries a birdcage and plays with snuff bottles—seems to be a typical bannerman—all hard-faced.However, the heroine's inability to take off her coat is fatal. ——Maybe because of the hard work of filming, she will already be slim in her next film, so maddening! "

It is worth pondering that the name of the movie is "No Love", and it has been a great success; it stands to reason that Eileen Chang, who is good at gimmicks, should not change the name when adapting it into a novel, but she found another way and changed the title very unscrupulously "How much hate" - from "no love" to "how much hate", is it also a psychological journey of twists and turns? It is written in the novel: "Could it be that their affairs can only go around in this room forever, like in a dim dream. The time in the dream always feels long, but in fact it is only a moment, but they think it will last forever. How many years have we known each other. It didn’t count.”

Is this Eileen Chang's true voice?Is the old-time beauty going round and round in Eddington's apartment just a dim dream? Everything doesn't count.Just like Baoyu's gatha written when he first realized Taoism: "What was the cause of mediocrity in the past? Now, it's really boring to look back and think about it." She finally decided to leave—leave, so she wouldn't have to wait—wait for him to come to her. She wants him to give up, and even more so to herself.She and him broke up like this. Qingyun later recalled: "Yi (Zhang Ailing) has been to Wenzhou, and there is news, but it doesn't work. It's better not to come back. Later, Zhang Ailing moved away, ran away, and went to Hong Kong."

In one sentence, half-life love is covered, as if there is only one day in the sky, and ten years in the world.In fact, there are many things that happened between "don't do it anymore", "don't come here anymore", "moved out", "run away", and "went to Hong Kong". First, Hu Lancheng returned to Shanghai again, around November 1947, and stayed at Zhang Ailing's house for one night, but the two lived in separate rooms.Hu Lancheng said in the movie that it was because of Xiao Zhou's incident, but I would rather believe that it was because of Ailing's innocence.She was unwilling to abandon him in his troubles, but she also refused to wrong her own heart, so she lived in another room, sleeping alone, and refused the intimacy of "a little farewell is better than a newlywed"...

That was the last time they saw each other. Hu Lancheng left the next morning, and when he returned to Shanghai, Eddington was already empty. During this period, Fan Xiumei also came to Shanghai once, and brought Hu Lancheng's note to Qingyun, which simply said: "Mr. Fan came to see a doctor, and Nong took Yi to see a doctor." There was no other words. Qingyun asked: "What's wrong with you?" Fan Xiumei's eyes were red, and she said coyly, "I have it on my body." Tears flowed down. Qingyun froze for a moment, she couldn't say anything, so she had to settle her down in the hotel first—the Si family was living in Meiliyuan, so they couldn't let them know that Sixth Uncle had hooked up with their widow and aunt again.

Finding a doctor is another hassle.At that time abortion was illegal and private doctors performed it secretly.There is a gynecology hospital on Chengdu Road, which is a large hospital.The man who performed the operation was a male doctor, and he wanted 100 yuan for the operation. Fan Xiumei was in a hurry: "I don't have any money." After a pause, she took out another note, which was written by Hu Lancheng to Zhang Ailing. Qingyun brought Fan Xiumei to Eddington again. Ailing was shocked when she saw Xiumei, but she didn't ask anything; she read the note, turned around and went into the room, and then took out a gold bracelet, handed it to Qingyun, and said, "Pawn it off." , exchanged money for Mr. Fan’s surgery.” There was no more words. At this point, Zhang Ailing was completely cold-hearted, so she gave Hu Lancheng a farewell letter, which was exactly the month when the novel "How Much Hate" was completed. In the past, there was always "no love", but since then there is only "how much hate". Now that she had decided to break up, she would not leave him or herself the slightest possibility of reunion—she and her aunt moved out of the Eddington apartment, and successively lived in the North Building of Jinjiang Hotel (formerly known as Huamao Apartment) and West Nanjing Road. He lived in Chonghua New Village for a while, and later moved to Carlton Apartment on Huanghe Road, which is now Changjiang Apartment, until he left the country in 1952. After arriving in Hong Kong, Hu Lancheng was never mentioned. Her friend Song Qi also said that Hu Lancheng was a forbidden area for them to talk. However, Hu Lancheng has always talked about Zhang Ailing, and it is because of this that we can understand the content of the unfeeling letter: "I don't like you anymore. You don't like me long ago. I made this decision after a year and a half of long-term consideration. At that time, I didn't want to add to your difficulties because of 'Xiaoji'. Don't come looking for me, even if you write a letter, I won't read it." The "Xiaoji" in the letter refers to the turmoil in the current situation, Hu Lancheng was displaced and escaped from death, which is a "small robbery".At that time, Zhang Ailing went to Wenzhou thousands of miles alone to find a husband, but what she found was disappointment and betrayal. She had already decided to break up, but she still wholeheartedly wanted to plan for him, take risks, give her everything, and even Willing to help her rival in love - Fan Xiumei's coming to Shanghai really stimulated her.Since she was a child, the men in her family always raised more than one concubine. She was used to the love of men, but she couldn't forgive him for his incompetence.Her mother once said to her father: I don't care how many women you have outside, but you are not allowed to bring them home. And Hu Lancheng, he laid out his infidelity in front of her so nakedly, first exaggerated the "Wuhan Ji" in which he had an adultery with Xiao Zhou, and now sent Fan Xiumei who came to the door with a big belly to ask for help, although she Knowing that he really had no choice but to beg her, but again and again, he blatantly showed his passion and challenged her limit—she finally broke down. If she had been weaving reasons to excuse Hu Lancheng in the past, then this time, it was Hu Lancheng who used Fan Xiumei's hands to forcefully tear up the myths for her to see, and finally made her no longer have any fantasies. Even so, she was still unwilling to break up ruthlessly when he was in danger, so she repeatedly delayed Russia, preferring to be misunderstood by others, and waited until Hu Lancheng was safe before writing a formal divorce letter; attached to the letter were her two lovers. The screenwriters of the movies "No Love" and "Long Live My Wife" paid 300,000 yuan, and she gave him all of her income in the past two years. 300,000 yuan in gold circle coupons.Someone with good deeds has verified that it is equivalent to the income of a middle school teacher in that era who worked hard all his life. She once said: "Every man's money is always spent on a certain woman." However, all her money was spent on one man, and an unfaithful man.