Winter Begonia, Chapter 2: The Shan Xirui drama

Winter Begonia 《鬓边不是海棠红》Bin Bian Bu Shi Hai Tang Hong
Winter Begonia, Chapter 2: The Shan Xirui drama

In fact, about Shan Xirui, the older Second Mistress Cheng was something of her own acquaintance. While the couple was chatting, the Second Mistress told this realization to Cheng Fengtai two or three times. Each time there is a slight discrepancy from the original version, but that's as far as it goes.


Rumor has it that when Shan Xirui was still in Pingyang, there was a senior student sister in a famous opera group called Jiang Mengping. Jiang Mengping was also a famous local actor in that year, singing exclusively in a female role in the opera, and with Shan Xirui, he was in the Shuiyun Pavilion class, occupying the Pear Garden market in Pingyang. Later, Jiang Mengping had someone else working behind Shan Xirui's back, Chang Zhixin, the Third son of the Pingyang area Chang Family, and a cousin of the Second Mistress' mother.

The Chang Family was a big family with big rules, and the brothers secretly used tactics to fight over the family's assets, causing a bloodbath. Although Chang Zhixin is not the son of his wife, he still can more or less get a big share of the family fortune, he was just waiting for the old man in the hospital bed to close his eyes, then he can take the money and Jiang Mengping far away. But just as Master Chang was about to be buried, their love affair is discovered by someone in the troupe who has an ulterior motive, and the news reaches Shan Xirui's ears.

When Shan Xirui found out, he became furious and blocked Chang Zhixin at the entrance of the theatre, shouting and shouting, which made everyone know the secret. This time, the Chang Family brothers can be counted on to find an excuse, flinging several elders and aunts in the clan, all day long and whisper short things in the old man's ear. He was also told that the Third Son was in love with the actress and was willing to play the piano for her, as well as some vulgarities which just pissed the old man off. When the old man died, they expelled Chang Zhixin from the family for corrupting the family's reputation by falling in love with an opera singer, and did not give him any other money. In fact, Chang Zhixin could have abandoned Jiang Mengping and denied the whole thing, but he didn't hesitate to admit their love and left the Chang Family with only some of his own clothes. On the other hand, Shan Xirui saw that Jiang Mengping was determined to be with Chang Zhixin, and in his anger, he used all means to squeeze her out of the Shuiyun Pavilion, so that she had no place in Pingyang. Not long after that, Chang Zhixin married Jiang Mengping and left Beiping. Shan Xirui gambled and lost and ended up following the local warlord Zhang Dashuai, and became the equivalent of the male noble consort in Pingyang. In less than a year, Zhang Dashuai and Cheng Meixin's husband, Cao Siling, fought and died in a battle.

This version is much more condensed and refined, and the Second Mistress is a thick-skinned woman who tells her story without adding personal feelings to it. No matter how true or false the facts are, the wording is more objective. Only after the story was told commented: "The man married the woman each other prefer, he is a senior student brother, the other one wanted to go to the head of the senior sister should have been beaten, and still have the face to come out and stop. It's a mess.............

When Cheng Fengtai was still studying in Shanghai, he read too many stories of elopement and had many romantic fantasies in his bones. So he exclaimed to Chang - Jiang's love. In this story, Shan Xirui is the opposite of the one who beat the girl to create a dramatic conflict. But due to the plot's need for a happy ending for the Chang - Jiang duo, the opposite characters are less odious.




Cheng Fengtai said, "Chang Zhixin is a man who can give and take, who is determined and has a strong backbone, I must meet him sometime. ... that Jiang Mengping, is a beauty, right?"

The Second Mistress looked at him hatefully, "No? She is beautiful. Awe-inspiring. It's a pity, she has a man.”

Cheng Fengtai fell down to pillow his hand and deliberately smacked his lips: "Yeah. It's a pity, it's a pity." The smoke pot next to the Second Mistress was about to split up, and Cheng Fengtai, who had prepared it long ago, laughed and clutched the stick, pressing his wife on her back on the bed. Cheng Fengtai's body also smelled of smoke, which mixes with the French perfume into a cold, complex fragrance. The Second Mistress was cradled by his lean arms, and when he smelled the scent again, his body went limp.

Cheng Fengtai's lips brushed against her cheek as she laughed, "It's a pity, the Second Mistress has a master too." I don't believe that Jiang Mengping is even more charming than my wife, who is covered in white meat. Gotta keep it hidden, there's a lot of bad guys out there."

The Second Mistress was also close to Cheng Fengtai. The skinny, long face with milk-white complexion and long, thick eyelashes appear a bit powdery. The eyes look at people faintly smiling, but also the plucky and cunning, simply bad, every woman, to see a woman, blush and heartbeat. The Second Mistress still couldn't resist being looked at by him for half a moment, and her body burned.

This was her little man, handsome, neo-modern, accustomed to sweet talk, a standard playboy. Fortunately, the good guys are not bad in this era, he will earn money and socialize, love their families and are good husbands. But the Second Mistress always felt inadequate, because she can't subdue him - Cheng Fengtai's nature, is too troublesome, and his spontaneity. Going with the flow, and when he's in a good mood, he's willing to reach for the child's pee. Once he's masturbated, he's so bad-tempered, he'd kill a mother and a father without thinking - but she felt that afraid that's where his charm comes in.

The Second Mistress Cheng also remembers the events of that year. When she was young, she knew she was engaged to the young master of the Cheng family in Shanghai, but when he was seventeen and she was twenty-two and she was ready to marry with great expectations, he refused to marry her. The Cheng family has withdrawn their marriage! The modern ideas from the sea side hadn't come to the north, so to Miss Fan, it was a matter of death. No matter what world has become outside, she is still a woman of the previous dynasty, she will not marry a second husband, not following the second master. The family wants to transfer her to another man, but she has made a woman's bun and vowed never to marry another man.

After a year of this, a letter came from a the Cheng Family, in which they asked her to come. But at that time, Miss Fan was so disheartened that she no longer wanted to be with Master Cheng, she went to Shanghai just to see what her fate was like.

On that snowy day, she arrived at the Cheng residence surrounded by her servants. The Cheng Family is a Western-style garden house with a fountain in front of it, and the servants are all dressed as foreigners. It was indeed another world, a world she didn't fit into. Miss Fan was standing in the garden looking at a naked statue of a young boy when the door of the townhouse suddenly opened and out ran a handsome, fair-skinned teenager. The teenager, wearing a very thin fleece shirt, ran up to her barefoot, eyes full of warm thirst and anticipation.

Cheng Fengtai stared at her for a long time in the snow, snowflakes accumulating on her eyelashes, as if she had just cried a teardrop too late to wipe it off, and the snow-white skin of her snow-white eyelashes also resembled a statue.




He suddenly revealed a fleetingly hasty smile and opened his mouth to call her, ''Maiden......

Because of this, Miss Fan left all her grievances behind and became the Second Mistress Cheng, bringing half of Fan's fortunes to Cheng Fengtai, giving birth to children and running the family business for Cheng Fengtai.

Cheng Fengtai is the debt of the Second Mistress Cheng, and he has to pay it back for the rest of his life.

Cheng Fengtai unbuttoned his shirt while fidgeting with the Second Mistress: "Good sister, let's make a daughter who is the most beautiful in the country?"

The Second Mistress blushed drunkenly and cursed softly, "What a tease."




                                        ~ Winter Begonia ~




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