Chapter 411 'Money and Love'
Wu Di, who was in school, once again attracted admiration because of "The Official History of the Three Kingdoms". Her maverick style, which had been criticized, was actually considered to be a model of "personality writer", as if she was a talented person.
If you don't have some personality, you don't have real talent.
At this time, Wu Di also met an acquaintance. This girl was once Wu Di's junior high school alumnus, but now she has become the president of the student union of Foreign Languages High School. Her name is Xie Fangfang.
Listening to the various gratitude expressed by the girl in front of her, Wu Di was quite pleased, because according to Xie Fangfang, without Wu Di's encouragement, she would not have been admitted to the Foreign Languages High School, let alone like her.
It still maintains excellent results.
I don’t know how the news about “Student Union President Xie Fangfang paid homage to former President Wu Di at the pier” spread. Many students felt that Wu Di’s status in the Foreign Languages High School was like that of the Supreme Emperor. This once again made Wu Di’s image
Became unfathomable.
Wu Di found that she received many fewer love letters every day, so she once again laughed off such insignificant things.
Her mentality became more and more carefree, and now almost nothing could restrain her. When writing "Money and Love", which was inspired by the novel "Eugénie Grandet", she wrote it freely and in one go.
In her writing, Ye Zhaochen became the richest and most prestigious businessman in a certain city. He was very good at colluding with officials, and through many power-for-money transactions, his own property grew mythically.
Ye Zhaochen was very stingy and had a set of financial management skills. In order to describe Ye Zhaochen's stinginess, Wu Di made some realistic details, vividly portraying the image of a "stingy man". In the process, today's Chinese society has
Some of the cruel realities were nakedly exposed by her "chiluo".
Ye Xiaowan is the only daughter of Ye Zhaochen and the protagonist of this novel. At a birthday party, the city’s second-generation officials and second-generation rich people all came to attend the party. They also came to pay homage to Ye Xiaowan, a beautiful and kind white lady.
Rich, beautiful and attentive.
When they were celebrating their birthday, suddenly, Ye Xiaowan's cousin Ye Wudao came here. But Ye Zhaochen looked down on Ye Wudao and neglected this relative. It turned out that Ye Wudao's father committed suicide due to bankruptcy and left Ye Zhaochen to take care of him.
His son's future. Ye Zhaochen remained calm after seeing his brother's suicide note, and thought up a trick that night. He used the excuse of family
If you have something to do, please ask these second-generation officials with good hands and eyes to help. In order to please Ye Zhaochen, a second-generation official volunteered himself to help deal with the estate of the deceased. He paid back part of the debt to the creditors, and the rest was delayed for a long time as planned. In this case
In fact, not only did Ye Zhaochen spend no money, he also used his connections to engage in public bond trading and made a lot of money.
It can be said that Ye Zhaochen's extreme pursuit of money is most vividly reflected in this plot of "making money", especially for money, he does not care about family ties at all, and he always puts money first.
And such a plot deeply describes how the government and businessmen are closely colluded in today's China...
Ye Wudao's pitiful situation gained Ye Xiaowan's sympathy, and he even used his playboy methods to deceive Ye Xiaowan's heart. Before Ye Wudao left, Ye Xiaowan spent more than ten thousand dollars that he had saved.
Ten thousand yuan was given to him, and Ye Wudao also left the jade pendant his mother gave him to Ye Xiaowan, and the two vowed to be a lifelong alliance.
Not long after Ye Wudao left, Ye Zhaochen found out that his daughter had given Ye Wudao more than 100,000 yuan, so he became furious and imprisoned his daughter. This disturbed his wife and made her sick. A private lawyer warned Ye Zhaochen,
Once his wife dies, his property must be re-registered, and Ye Xiaowan has the right to inherit the inheritance.
Ye Zhaochen, a miser, became frightened and temporarily made peace with his daughter. However, as soon as his wife died, Ye Zhaochen used a lawyer to trick his kind daughter into signing a document giving up her mother's inheritance rights, and took all the family property into his own hands.
Before Ye Zhaochen died, he asked his daughter to put all the gold he had converted into money in the room. He kept staring at it with his eyes, like a child who just knew how to watch. He said: "This will make me happy."
Finally, he called Ye Xiaowan to come and said to her: "When you die, you must bring me the money you have at home, no less!" The mage came to perform the last ritual for him, holding a gold-plated in his hand.
When Ye Zhaochen saw the gold, he made a terrifying gesture and tried to grab it. This effort cost him his life. He died.
After the miser Ye Zhaochen died, he left a large fortune. Ye Xiaowan inherited his father's business and became the richest man in the area. Everyone proposed to her, but she was waiting for Ye Wudao. But Ye Wudao was doing business overseas, and gradually
Carrying forward the blood of the Ye family, he became stingy, greedy, calculating, selfish, and understood that only interests are the most important.
He put Ye Xiaowan behind him and wrote a letter to disassociate himself from him. He wanted to marry the daughter of a political lord in China, but was hindered because he refused to repay his father's debt. Finally, Ye Xiaowan agreed to marry a local man.
The second generation official (the one who initially curried favor with Ye Zhaochen), but he only did formal work.
They became the couple in the official form, and asked him to help her pay off her uncle's debt with four million yuan, so that her cousin Ye Wudao could live a happy and honorable life. She herself lived in seclusion and lived a pious and loving life.
And "accompanied by countless good deeds and righteous deeds, go to heaven."
Ye Zhaochen's sentence "Life is a transaction" reflects the "chiluo" naked money relationship between people in capitalist society.
After Wu Di finished writing this article "Money and Love", she felt quite satisfied. In her current capacity, because she had helped Wu Dingbang handle some affairs, she was naturally exposed to a lot of real and cruel social realities, such as the collusion between government and businessmen.
Through various means, she regarded all of them as the material of her novel. After writing it into this novel, it can be said that it truly became an excellent picture depicting the current situation of China today.
There is not only collusion between officials and businessmen, but also mutual calculations between officials and businessmen. For example, the fight between the second-generation official who pursues Ye Xiaowan and the second-generation rich man can be said to be very realistic and realistic. It is not for people at this level.
, I really can’t describe such a real feeling.
As for the image of Ye Zhaochen as a "stingy man", Wu Di also felt that he portrayed himself very well, especially his attitude of completely disregarding family affection and money in pursuit of money. His daughter Ye Xiaowan's attitude towards family affection and money is quite different.
In sharp contrast to him...
This "Money and Love" will become the most outstanding piece of criticism among the "Human Comedy" that Wu Di will write, a classic work that satirizes realism.
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Chapter completed!