The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 293 June (Part 4)
This chapter's subtitle: A Midsummer Night in the Great British Country
The rain has stopped.
At this time, there is a crescent moon in the sky, and the ground is covered with fog..
The air is always fresher after the rain. At least the air in this garden smells much better than the dance hall filled with the smell of alcohol, smoke, fragrance and crowds.
Lin Huiyin stood in the corridor and greedily breathed in a few mouthfuls of fresh air, but her heart could not be cheered up at all. Instead, she felt inexplicably sad.
As the saying goes, every family has its own problems.
To outsiders, this beautiful girl in her twenties was favored by her father, who brought her to Europe to broaden her horizons. This made her better than 99.99...99% of the women in the Republic of China.
However, her childhood family life was not very happy.
Her mother, He Xueyuan, was indeed Lin Changmin's principal wife, but she was his second wife, and a less favored one at that.
He Xueyuan gave birth to one son and two daughters, but only Lin Huiyin survived.
As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial behavior: having no descendants is the worst. With He Xueyuan's hope of inheriting a legitimate heir, it was only natural that Lin Changmin would remarry. Ten years into their marriage, He Xueyuan welcomed a "sister"—Shanghai woman Cheng Guilin—and was forced to give her husband to her.
It’s a pity that Cheng Guilin almost snatched He Xueyuan’s husband away whole.
Cheng Guilin was not well educated, but after being influenced by the customs of Shanghai, the four words "well-behaved and smart" really fit her. In addition, she was young and fertile, so she gave birth to several sons in succession, bringing joy to the whole family.
Lin Changmin, however, was a man who could not conceal his joy. He had a nickname, "Master of the Guilin Yizhi Room," a name clearly derived from the three characters "Cheng Guilin." Lin Changmin lived in "Guilin Yizhi Room" and was very happy.
Lin Huiyin and He Xueyuan were banished to the backyard, where they lived in a small house. From then on, the front yard was a haven of happiness, while the backyard was desolate. Lin Huiyin was left with an indelible impression of her mother's gloomy image.
On one side is her father, and on the other side is her mother. Lin Huiyin is caught in the middle, and her emotional entanglement can be imagined.
When Liang Congjie recalled his mother Lin Huiyin, he said: She loved her father, but hated his ruthlessness to her mother; she loved her mother, but hated her for not living up to her expectations; she loved her half-siblings with the sincere feelings of an eldest sister, however, the distorted interpersonal relationships in that semi-feudal family deeply hurt her spiritually.
Of course, she is currently being pursued by a talented man.
No matter what, Xu Zhimo meets the definition of "tall, rich and handsome", and he is also a very talented tall, rich and handsome man.
Love is naturally sweet, but it also has bitterness. This tall, rich and handsome man is a married woman.
Even if a hundred years from now, in a materialistic age where poverty is more common than prostitution, being a mistress would still be something that is easy to talk about and difficult to accept. Moreover, it is 1921.
Her father, Lin Changmin, was very open-minded about this matter. Instead of stopping them, he calmly ran to the European continent alone and left his seventeen-year-old daughter in England.
Of course, our Master Yuan didn’t know how to comment on the fact that Lin Changmin and Xu Zhimo pretended to be lovers and wrote love letters to each other.
However, it is obvious that Lin Huiyin must have been under pressure from external public opinion and her own inner feelings.
Just as she was leaning against the pillar and thinking about her girlish thoughts, another girl appeared beside her.
This brown-haired little foreign woman was about the same age as her and was quite cute. She had delicate features and lively eyes, and she exuded a spirit and vitality that made people like her.
However, she now had a fierce look on her face, looking extremely angry, and she was muttering, "Bad boss! Big pervert! Stinky man! Bad drunk! Old smoker!..."
"Oh!" She finally noticed Lin Huiyin, whose half body was hidden by the pillar. She was not only shocked but also a little embarrassed.
Lin Huiyin, who also felt embarrassed, had no choice but to nod to the newcomer, said "GOOD EVENING", and turned around to go back to the dance hall.
"I say..." Master Yuan's female secretary suddenly said, "You'd better not go in. That Chinese guy is in Zhuangbility again..."
"Oh, sorry." Miss Moman, aware of the other person's race, stuck out her tongue and apologized, "I was talking about that Chinese person."
After traveling around Europe, Lin Huiyin was somewhat accustomed to it, and as smart as she was, she guessed that the "Chinaman" was the Chinese who treated her like nothing.
"It's okay. But..." The girl couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is Zhuangbility?"
"Zhuangbility is...Zhuangbility."
The female secretary said unhappily, "Anyway, he just bewitched everyone, especially the women!"
She kicked the pillar hard, muttering, "Really? The girl who promised to dance with me hooked up with an old woman again!"
Hearing this, Lin Huiyin actually felt a little sympathetic.
Really, that Chinese man didn't even look at a beautiful girl like her, but instead chatted and laughed with an old woman in her thirties.
This attentive young lady noticed a small flaw in the other person's words and couldn't help asking again, "What do you mean by... again?"
"Again means again and again. You don't know, that Chinaman... well, Chinese people just like to seduce older women. When they were in America..."
The female secretary suddenly took out two cigars and asked, "Want to smoke? These are top-quality Cuban cigars. I stole them from that Chinese guy... well, I brought them here."
Lin Huiyin took one as if possessed by a ghost, and then started smoking with the match lit by Miss Moman.
“Cough cough cough…”
Master Yuan's female secretary smoked his cigar in a serious manner, coughing and gossiping excitedly, "He slept with a movie star first. It is said that they met at a Halloween party, and then they had sex. But I didn't see it with my own eyes..."
"I saw him hook up with a divorced slut at an Easter party. They both ended up in the stables..."
"You ask me why they went to the stables? Don't ask, they didn't go to see the horses anyway..."
Finally, Miss Moman asked, "Tell me, is this Chinese man very promiscuous?"
"Yeah." Lin Huiyin nodded, and couldn't help asking: "Then why are you still staying with him and coming to England with him? Aren't you afraid..."
"What am I afraid of? I'm still looking forward to him..." The female secretary blushed and stopped talking after accidentally speaking the truth.
But at this moment, a man's voice sounded behind them, and he seemed to be holding back a laugh and asked, "What are you looking forward to him doing?"
"What do you care?!"
The two girls were startled by the sound. The hot-tempered female secretary was embarrassed and angry, and immediately scolded them.
But when they turned around, they saw an incredibly handsome face with a naughty smile on his face.
"You, you, you... I, I, I..."
Miss Moman, whose face was flushed red, threw down the cigar in her hand, covered her face and ran away.
"Hahaha..." Master Yuan laughed like a child who had succeeded in a prank, "Hmm..."
He suddenly frowned, squatted down to pick up the half-smoked cigar, stood up and blew the dust off it.
Then Yuan Yan took a deep breath as if no one was around...
The reason why our Master Yuan did not continue Zhuangbility in the ballroom was because he suddenly realized that he had forgotten something very important.
The thing is that he is now in a big - corrupt - country!
The corrupt country has its own national conditions.
In 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry was born in England and Wales, England, to his son Alfred Douglas.Her relationship with the great writer Oscar Wilde led to a rift between father and son, and she openly denounced Wilde as a homosexual.
In response, Alfred was furious and told Wilde to appeal immediately, suing the Marquis for defaming him. As a result, Wilde failed in his appeal and was counter-sued for "having engaged in indecent behavior with other men."Wilde was convicted under Section 11 of the 1855 Criminal Law Amendment Act and sentenced to two years of hard labour in Reading and Pentonville Prison.
It seems that this incident proves that the corrupt country has been insisting on "anti-corruption".
In fact, this just shows that the British Empire was in decline during the Victorian era...
Okay, okay, the atmosphere in Niu Niu has never been very good.
Later historians generally agreed that in the city of London during the reign of King George III in the 18th century, one in five women had sold their bodies, and these women were not ashamed of it but proud of it.
At that time, a poor man named John Cleland (1709-1789) was imprisoned in London Prison due to debt problems.
Europeans seemed to like to create while in prison. The most famous one was "My Lord Temperance"'s "My Struggle", and Marco Polo's "The Travels of Marco Polo" dictated in prison.
This man wrote a book called Fanny Hill, which is considered the originator of the British "green" novel.
The novel tells the story of a prostitute's growth in the form of letters. The heroine, Fanny Hill, is an orphan from the countryside. She is deceived by her fellow villagers and sent to the prosperous city of London to work, but what awaits her is a brothel.
Yet, she thoroughly enjoyed the sex education she received and the unspeakable life she led in the brothel. She has many refreshing theories: "God created the human body for pleasure." "If someone is unhappy, it's simply because they don't accept their current state of life."
Actually, the "decline" in sexual morality is a by-product of capitalism and industrialization.
The Industrial Revolution and urbanization reduced job opportunities in rural areas, and rural female workers flocked to cities.
Of course, they could become nannies or factory workers, but these jobs required long hours of hard work for meager wages that didn't match the workload. For some lower-class women, moral degradation wasn't a big deal compared to easy work and fine clothes and plenty of food.
So there is the vibrant East...that London. This can only be said that there is nothing new under the sun.
If sexual relations between men and women in a society are open, then sexual relations between men and women will definitely be open as well.
So the British Empire became a big corrupt country.
This "corruption" manifests itself in two aspects: First, the specialty of the British Empire - the old maid.
The First World War, in particular, resulted in an additional two million single women in Britain, which naturally led to an "unhealthy female friendship" among these women.
At that time, British moralists were heartbroken to see this situation, and a common view was that they should be sent to the colonies. Others said that Canada had a large number of male hunters and loggers, and Australia also had many opportunities to "seek pleasure."
However, this was already the 1920s, not the mid-19th century when "Orphans of Famine" took place, so these straight male chauvinists couldn't do this even if they wanted to.
Secondly, gay love has become a "custom" in the upper class.
For example, when Keynes was a student, the handsome young men from upper-class families at Eton College were almost all gay. Later, King's College, Cambridge, where Keynes and Xu Zhimo studied, also had the same problem.
This aftertaste has been passed down for a hundred years...
The logic of these gays is this: You have been admitted to Eton College and King's College, how can you still date a silly girl?
Of course, a smart, sensitive, and daffodil-like boy can only be with the same boy!
The "founder of macroeconomics" was, of course, a bright, sensitive, and beautiful boy. He graduated from Eton College with firsts in mathematics, history, and English, and received a full scholarship to King's College.
So he naturally became a gay. His lover, Duncan Grant, was the cousin of his college classmate and later became a modernist painter.
After the two met in 1906, they lived together on and off for six years, and became lifelong friends after their relationship ended.
In reality, this Duncan is a male version of a green tea bitch. As an artist, infidelity is as common to him as eating. Two-timing is the least of his worries; three or four is a common occurrence.
In order to express his opposition to the war, Duncan refused to serve in the military and was brought to court. He was almost thrown into prison for his angry denunciation of the war in court. Keynes rushed from the Treasury to act as his defense lawyer in the second trial, which saved him from imprisonment.
Duncan and his mistress were traveling abroad for an art exhibition when they were detained at the border and verbally abused by a border officer. Keynes rushed to rescue his lover and his rival, only to be scolded by Duncan as nothing more than a government lackey.
On the other hand, Keynes was also very fickle and even paid for male prostitutes.
But in the end, this gay man was straightened by a magical lady.
This "magic lady" is named Lydia Lopokova. She was born into a poor family in Russia. She started learning ballet at a young age and received rigorous training at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg.
She was an independent and "restless" girl. When she grew up, she left her homeland alone and became a bohemian artist wandering around Europe.
Lydia Levgova is truly amazing.
The great painter Picasso painted a portrait of her, the Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie, the author of "Peter Pan", wrote a script for her, and the famous Russian composer and important figure of Western modernism, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, lived with her and composed music for her.
She was also an outstanding dancer, and she performed on the same stage with Ukrainian ballet genius Vaslav Nijinsky, known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" and the "God of Dance." Nijinsky suffered from schizophrenia in 1919, and even Freud personally treated him.
This "perfect combination of wisdom and beauty" did not meet until the second half of this year, fell in love at first sight, and started living together within two weeks of knowing each other.
To be honest, if Yuan Yanshu was still in the UK, I would really like to meet this "magical lady".
In short, our Master Yuan found that Master Keynes looked at him more and more strangely, which finally made him remember this matter.
Don’t forget, his charm value of 17 points is suitable for all ages, both men and women.
This incident naturally made him break out in a cold sweat, so he quickly found an excuse to run away to avoid the strange enthusiasm shown by the "pioneer of macroeconomics".
Lin Huiyin, at a loss, stammered, "Mr. Hong, Mr. Hongjian, I, I, I will go in first."
As she said this, she lowered her head and was about to leave.
"Ms. Lin, wait a minute."
Yuan Yan suddenly grabbed her wrist and lifted it up. He pointed at the half-smoked cigar between her hands and said with a smile, "This is a top-quality Cuban cigar. Miss Lin, aren't you going to finish it?"
"I……"
Lin Huiyin raised her head, and her bright eyes met his dark and bottomless "eyes of nothingness". The girl couldn't help but get lost in them.
"Host, very good! Now let her become the Saint of my Benshaba..."
