bayedsolid Chapter 440 Escape
Chapter 440 Escape
The black cover creates a gloomy effect, with the word "escape" in white and a peach tree in full bloom in the upper right corner, which looks full of vitality.
Yu Jiang opened the book and flipped it sideways, asking suspiciously, "Sister, you are not just writing this to entertain me, are you?"
Mai Nanxi said with a stiff upper lip: "I have bought the film and television rights of this novel. If you have time, please help me take a look at it."
No need to ask, the only thing missing is a female lead.
Yu Jiang would definitely not easily promise something if he didn't know what the subject was, so he changed the subject and joked, "My brother-in-law is really capable. Yang Xiaohan's movie just came out, and he has to go back to work?"
"Where?" Gu Dongquan was upset when he mentioned the movie. "This time it's not me, it's your sister who wants to be the director again. She doesn't want to work with me anymore and wants to go it alone."
He looked quite aggrieved, as his wife disliked his poor taste in choosing actors, and it was a thankless task for him to expose Da Lei.
Yu Jiang was surprised and asked, "Sister, are you going to make a movie?"
Mai Nanxi nodded a little embarrassedly. She had never been an independent director since graduation, and she made her debut as a new director at such an old age.
"That's a good thing! If you need my help in anything, just let me know. I'll take no further action!" Yu Jiang was very happy. She had always felt that Mai Nanxi would be an excellent director.
"If it were any other time, I would definitely not be polite to you, but it's mainly because you just gave birth to a child, and I feel embarrassed to bother you..."
Yu Jiang interrupted, "Sister, my daughter is already a hundred days old!"
As she spoke, she stood up and turned around, "Look, my figure has recovered and is even better than before. It won't affect the beauty of your picture at all!"
Mai Nanxi has never given birth, so she doesn't know exactly how long it takes to recover from childbirth, but she has seen pigs run.
There was an assistant director who had given birth to a child more than two years ago, and her physical strength has not yet recovered to its previous level.
"It's okay, sister. Can we talk about it later? First, help me see if this story is worth filming. I haven't prepared a script or anything. Just give me some advice."
Yu Jiang looked at her resentfully, "Well, you still don't believe in my body's ability to recover."
After the Hundred Days Banquet, Yu Jiang began to read the novel "Escape", which is also a very divisive type of book.
After reading the first half, I thought it was a romance novel, but after reading the latter part, I realized how vicious the author was and how full of glass he was.
The story begins in China in 1911. The first half is the love story between the landlord's daughter and the farmhand.
The Zhao family was a well-known landlord in the local area. They were considered kind-hearted among the landlords and would give alms to the people on the old man’s birthday every year.
Zhao Yaqin is the youngest daughter of the Zhao family. She was diagnosed as born mute when she was three years old.
The girl was mute. If she had been born in an ordinary family, she would have been thrown away. However, the Zhao family was quite famous in the local area and they were embarrassed to do such a thing.
How to make a dumb girl valuable? Bind her feet.
The Zhao family lives in the north, surrounded by many nomadic tribes. Having a concubine with bound feet would be envied, but binding a daughter's feet would be a shameful thing.
Usually, those who have the heart to bind their daughters' feet are poor people. They cannot afford to raise a girl but are reluctant to drown her. If her feet are bound, they can sell her to rich families as child brides so that she can survive.
None of the healthy girls in the Zhao family bound their feet, except Zhao Yaqin, the mute one.
Because of the shame of this incident, Zhao Yaqin has been living in her boudoir and has never gone out.
With standard three-inch golden lotus feet and a boudoir that strictly enforces the old feudal laws, Zhao Yaqin spends her time writing and embroidering.
She was allowed to learn to write because she was mute; her sisters did not have this opportunity. Even so, the one who taught her to write was an old nanny from a once wealthy family.
She had never seen anyone other than the old nanny until she was seven years old.
The family's cowherd, Lu Qingshan, stole food into the backyard, and the little yellow dog that accompanied him to herd cattle accidentally ran under Zhao Yaqin's boudoir window.
The subsequent story is about the seemingly clichéd love between the eldest daughter and the farmhand that transcends class. Their relationship is so beautiful that it seems like it will develop into a romance novel.
But the more I looked back, the more something seemed wrong.
At the age of twelve, Zhao Yaqin was called to the front yard and stood behind a screen, revealing only a pair of perfect three-inch golden lotus feet.
She was engaged, but no one informed her until she was married at the age of thirteen.
Her husband's family is a wealthy family in another place, and the maid said that she wanted to be a maid.
The young lovers agreed to elope, but they could not run away together, one before getting married, and the other on the way to get married.
"Keep running north. I'll wait for you there."
Zhao Yaqin remembered Lu Qingshan's instructions and fled northward.
It is easy to imagine what China experienced during that era: hunger in famine years, helplessness in cold winters, fear in plague areas...
She tried hard to survive while on the run, and he was captured by the government and sent into exile.
No one was willing to die for the court, and Lu Qingshan was even more unwilling to do so since he had an appointment. It took him a long time to escape.
They fled northward one after another and finally met in the most inaccessible place in the north.
They built a house in the woods, he hunted and farmed, she sewed and bartered, and they thought the story would continue like this.
The invasion of Guizi Kingdom broke their peace, because they were the only family in the dense forest that escaped the disaster.
In just one night, the nearest village was completely deserted.
They could only continue to hide in the woods. Later they heard that the land had changed hands, and soon after they heard that they were under the emperor's control again.
But none of this matters to them, as long as they are alive.
Later, someone discovered that they lived here, and Lu Qingshan was captured and taken to the town to serve as a soldier. Fortunately, he knew how to escape.
Later he was captured again and worked as a miner, but he escaped again.
When they escaped this time, they found that Zhao Yaqin had also been captured and taken to a factory run by a sly man to weave gloves.
Both of them ran away, and Zhao Yaqin also ran back.
The last time, none of them escaped.
Lu Qingshan died in the hospital and Zhao Yaqin died in the Guizi Military Region.
The frostbite on Lu Qingshan's arms before his death turned his strong arms into white bones, and the skin on his body also rotted due to "treatment", and finally he became a mummy in the high-temperature drying room.
Zhao Yaqin lived without dignity for three years in the military region, unable to live or die, and finally died of syphilis. Her perfect and beautiful three-inch golden lotus feet were cut off and kept by the people who violated her.
This is a very vicious novel, which uses a lot of space in the early stage to describe the beauty of their love.
Just when you think this is a plain and beautiful literary work, the plot takes a sudden turn.
The two protagonists are the most ordinary people. They don’t know anything and just want to live together.
The most cruel thing is to describe war from the perspective of civilians. They are ignorant, powerless and helpless. They are just a group of lambs to be slaughtered.