At that time, Su Qing was as busy as a bee after her divorce, dragging several children to run a magazine, while Zhang Ailing was making a splash. Su Qing invited Zhang Ailing to contribute to her magazine, hoping that Zhang could contribute to her magazine on the same sex. Seeing that Su Qing was so quick and talkative, Zhang Ailing immediately gave her a novel "Blockade". Unexpectedly, Hu Lancheng was amazed by this novel and came to Su Qing to ask for Zhang Ailing's address. As a result, a love of the whole city caused a sensation on the beach, leaving endless topics for future generations.
Actually, Zhang Ailing and Su Qing are two completely different women. Zhang Ailing has been independent since she became a famous family. Su Qing is from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Although her family is rich, her husband Qin Li is too proud to ask for money. Once the family couldn't open the pot, Su Qing reached out and asked Qin Li for money. Qin Li was very angry after he lost his job at home. When he saw Su Qing begging for money, raising his hand was a slap in the face: "You are also a literate person. Why not earn your own money? " This slap broke the golden couple's marriage and made Su Qing embark on the road of being a professional woman. Her occupation is selling literary works.
Not long after Hu Lancheng and Zhang Ailing were introduced by Su Qing, their love for the whole city was well known in Shanghai, which made Su Qing extremely unhappy. Su Qing knew Hu Lancheng before Zhang Ailing, and they had an affair for a long time.
For Hu Lancheng, Su Qing is a beauty with both talents and looks. He once publicly said that Su Qing's "nose is nose, mouth is mouth, oval face without any criticism, handsome eyes and eyebrows, there is a kind of boy's handsomeness-in the cold light of an uncovered desk lamp, it is half bright and half dark, and her beauty has gained new maturity and perfection".
Su Qing has never written a fictional novel, and most of her words are realistic. In "Ten Years of Continued Marriage" published by 1949 in the autumn, she refers to Hu Lancheng by talking about defending the light and shade. Judging from Su Qing's outspoken character, Ten Years of Marriage and Ten Years of Continued Marriage are all records of her life. This Tan Weiming "worked as a deputy minister and newspaper president". "Although he looks ugly and refuses to decorate, his manners are admirable. He is a good propagandist. At that time, someone told me that I admired him deeply. I said he was a propagandist, and I didn't know until five minutes later. Alas, I threw myself into his arms involuntarily. "
This person is clearly Hu Lancheng.
But Zhang Ailing didn't know the secret love between them. At that time, she was only in her early twenties and didn't understand the world. At that time, Hu Lancheng was imprisoned for literary affairs. Su Qing thought that Zhang Ailing was famous, a popular writer and influential, so he took her to Zhou Fohai's house, the "president of the Executive Yuan" of Wang puppet regime, and tried to persuade Wang Jingwei to release Hu Lancheng through Zhou Fohai.
Su Qing and Zhou Fohai's wife Yang Shuhui are close friends. Zhang Ailing couldn't get a word in, just looking at Zhou's Antiques. Zhou Fohai leaned in and said, "This is Duan inkstone, fish brain jelly and rouge faint. These two are the best, both of which belong to Daxi Cave. Miss Zhang is a great writer and must have studied Four Treasures of the Study. "
Zhang Ailing shook her head and smiled: "Our generation uses Parker pens."
Zhou Fohai nodded and said, "Yes, yes."
Coming out of the inner room with Su Qing, Yang said, "You are a sawdust head. Can you talk to talented women?"
Zhou Fohai said, "I think Miss Zhang is interested in inkstone."
Zhang Ailing, caught in the middle, is a little embarrassed. She quipped, "It's very kind of China. Even the name of inkstone is so good. Fish brain is frozen and rouge is dizzy. The goodness of the ancients will never catch up with today. "
Su Qing said, "So you put on all your old clothes."
Zhou Fohai said, "Ladies wear fresh clothes. If we put them on, it will be a repair. "
Hearing this, Yang Shuhui's face sank: "I want to ask you in three words, what crime did Hu Lancheng commit and why did you lock him up?"? If it's okay, just let people go. You people, tigers can't fight, but flies frequently shoot. "
Zhou Fohai sat down and bowed their heads and drank tea. Finally, he said, "It's no big deal, but Mr. Wang wants to talk to him."
Mrs. Zhou added, "It's impossible to talk for a month at a time, is it?"
In this way, Hu Lancheng was released.
Out of gratitude for Su Qing's "saving his life", Hu Lancheng always left Zhang Ailing to see Su Qing. Later, he wrote in This Life: "One night I went to Su Qing's house, which happened to be Aileen's. She likes to look at me in front of everyone, but she is jealous and feels wronged. " When she met her old lover at her girlfriend's house, Zhang Ailing was jealous at once and could not conceal it for a while. She was seen by Hu Lancheng and Su Qing. I don't know how this will end in the end. Hu Lancheng, like a night owl, always appears in Su Qing's home at dusk. Su Qing wrote in the novel:
"However, before long, I finally met a man who knew me, named Tan Weiming. His face is thin, his head is big, his skin is bronzed, and his hair is unkempt like hay. He is a typical slovenly scholar. But he is surprisingly clever, knowledgeable and omniscient in social, economic, literary and artistic aspects, which makes me impressed by his wisdom and willing to be impressed. He comes to my house every day and talks until midnight. The strong smell of tea leaves and smoke make them excited and tired. "
"Exposing Princess" and "Literary Princess"
Su Qing's sister Su Hong told reporters in her later years: "My sister and Zhang Ailing are both very well. They often go shopping together, watch movies together and change each other's pants together. " Two women are good enough to change clothes, which is not a friendship between women. When people describe two people as good, they say "good enough to wear a pair of pants".
At that time, due to the prosperity of newspapers and magazines, Tan Zhengbi, the author of China Women's Literature History, proposed to hold a gathering of women writers.
At the party, the host asked Su Qing, which female writer has the best work? In front of many female writers, Su Qing publicly said: "I never read the works of female writers, only Zhang Ailing's articles."
The host then asked Zhang Ailing: "Let's listen to Ms. Zhang Ailing's opinion again." Zhang Ailing said: "My favorite ancient female writer is Li Qingzhao. Only Su Qing is my favorite in modern times. Before Su Qing, Bing Xin's simplicity was often just an affectation. Ding Ling's early works were good, but later she was a little at a loss. Su Qing was the first person who grasped the interest of life in a down-to-earth manner, and her characteristic was "simplicity". After her elegant expression, the most common words become the most touching, because she knows the same sex of human beings better than anyone else. "
The two men's explicit mutual appreciation aroused the anger of a large number of female writers present. Everyone ignored them after the meeting, but they were still laughing.
At this time, Su Qing had not established a magazine, and his only source of livelihood was writing. However, her pen is not as diligent as Zhang Ailing's, and the fee for writing is intermittent, which makes her life sometimes embarrassing.
One of her articles, about divorce, praised Chen Gongbo, the pseudo-mayor of Shanghai, thinking that she brought the mentality of divorced men and women to life. Knowing that Su Qing was eager to find a job to support his family, Chen Gongbo took the initiative to write a letter to Su Qing, asking her to be the city commissioner and help organize the documents. Su Qing accepted all this without hesitation.
After a while, she suddenly received a secret letter, and a kind-hearted person reminded Su Qing that such a life was too dangerous for her, so she should be on guard against someone secretly killing her.
Su Qing was scared after reading the letter, and Chen Gongbo saw her distress, so she secretly remitted $6,543,800 to start a magazine.
At that time, the printing press was very nervous, so Chen Gongbo got her two wagons. Su Qing didn't want to wait for a moment, so he acted immediately and registered Tiandi Publishing House and Tiandi Magazine.
On the day of paper delivery, Su Qing got up early and was personally escorted by the truck driver. A truck full of white paper, Su Qing was sitting on a pile of paper. The car was driving very fast, and the wind blew her hair up. The pile of paper was elastic and wobbly. She marched in the city in high spirits.
At this time, there are tabloid stories that Su Qing is Chen Gongbo's "exposed concubine" and Zhang Ailing is Hu Lancheng's "literary concubine".
Su Qing showed the tabloid to Zhang Ailing, who pushed it away and said, "I never read this." Su Qing didn't actually read it, but a friend specially kept it for her. She set fire to a bunch of tabloids, but she couldn't get rid of Chen Gongbo.
One day two years later, a man named Gui Jiang came to see her and brought her a newspaper with a picture of Chen Gongbo's execution. Su Qing turned pale with fear and handed a bankbook to Gui Jiang, saying, "Here you are. Please help me with it. " All the money on it is from Chen Gongbo.
I don't want to talk about my old boudoir.
After the execution of Chen Gongbo, there was a lot of talk in the street, and people were worried everywhere. Su Qing lives in seclusion. She tried to keep a low profile and didn't want any more trouble. But it is impossible to restore the calm before fame. There are always people coming uninvited, and Gui Jiang is one of them.
At that time, when Gui Jiang saw Su Qing's novels, he was fascinated by them. Two people came and went, and then they moved in together. After Chen Gongbo was shot, Gui Jiang lived in Wuxi and never returned to Shanghai for fear of being burned to death. Occasionally, Gui Jiang will catch the evening bus to Shanghai, stay in Su Qing's apartment in Xie Qiao Lane for half a night, and catch the early bus back to Wuxi before dawn. Every time he came, he called Su Qing, and she arranged for the children to sleep on the floor early. In the middle of the night, Gui Jiang came in and all the children slept on the floor. Gui Jiang jumped from side to side on the floor, carefully for fear of stepping on the child. In the dim light, Su Qing sat alone in a cane chair waiting for him.
Later, Gui Jiang and Su Qing drifted apart. Su Qing later wrote all her contacts with Gui Jiang into the novel "Ten Years of Continued Marriage", which is completely a documentary novel, and all people who have had contacts with Su Qing can find their peers from it, except the once close Zhang Ailing. Many years later, Zhang Ailing's documentary novel "little reunion" was published, and she wrote all the people she had made friends with, except Su Qing.
A pair of beautiful women who have gone astray.
Su Qing's last novel is called The Fallen Beauty. In fact, she and Zhang Ailing are the real fallen beauties. For a certain purpose, or because of inexperience, they met unreliable men in the years of war, went far on two wrong roads, and finally achieved the same goal: both were poor and depressed. The difference is that one died at home and the other died abroad.
After 1949, Zhang Ailing calmly observed for a period of time and went to the countryside to participate in land reform. Seeing a lot of slogans and radical behavior at that time, she couldn't stand it anymore and decided that her future in China was not optimistic. People in blue or black uniforms all over the street are so ugly in her eyes. She said to her brother Zhang Zijing, "I can't wear such clothes even if I die." Later, she went to the University of Hong Kong to study, cleared customs from Luohu, Shenzhen to Hong Kong, and finally went to the United States.
Compared with Zhang Ailing, Su Qing's adaptability is much stronger. She put on a set of women's clothes "People's Clothes" that conforms to the trend of the times overnight and wandered among the people. I can't see that she used to be a very popular female writer in old Shanghai. In the end, she chose to stay in the mainland because she believed that she had the ability to survive. She also believes that no matter who is in power, people always have to live a life of daily necessities, which is nothing more than finding a job to earn money to support their families. Su Qing later became a screenwriter and was sentenced to prison for his involvement in the Hu Feng incident during the "anti-rightist" campaign. After he got out of prison, his salary stopped. When Su Qing was ill, he couldn't even pay two yuan for a house call. He died in the winter of 1982.
13 years later,1September 8, 995, Zhang Ailing's body was found. There is a sentence in her will: "Don't look at my body, don't hold any ceremony, and leave my ashes in the desert ..."