Chapter 105
She cannot be decorated, she is simple, but unfortunately she is like a woman who has been reduced to the point; because women have no class or family, their beauty, their abundance and their temptation are for them to use for their body and family background. Their natural alertness, outstanding instincts, and gentle hearts constitute their only rank, and can raise the women of the people as high as the highest noble lady.
She felt that she was born for everything exquisite and luxurious, so she kept feeling pain. She was very sad because of the coldness of her house, the roughness of the walls, the old furniture, and the vulgar fabrics...."
In Wang Defu's writing, Liu Zhiyun is a woman with an ordinary family but very beautiful family, while her husband Sun Lianliang is an ordinary clerk.
Although she has a low status, she is obsessed with the luxurious life of rich people. In order to attend a grand party, she customized a gorgeous dress with the 200 silver dollars she saved from her husband and borrowed a beautiful diamond necklace from her friend Mrs. Ling.
At the grand party, Liu Zhiyun showed off with her extraordinary charm, and her vanity was fully satisfied, but she actually lost the borrowed necklace and could not find it even if she searched for it.
In this case, she could only hide her friend from her friends, but she was lucky enough to find a string of diamond necklaces with similar appearances in a high-end jewelry store. She and her husband spent all their savings, pieced together and even borrowed usury to buy this string of diamond necklaces of 9,000 silver dollars.
From then on, the couple spent 10 years of life saving. During this difficult accumulation process, Liu Zhiyun's hands became rough and his face became aging. Of course, the reason was-
"She started to do all kinds of hard work on housework, and the daily tasks in the kitchen were boring. She washed cups, dishes, and grindled the rose-colored fingers on the grease base of the jar and pot. She washed the underwear and rags with soap and then hung them on the ropes; every morning she got up, she carried the garbage downstairs and brought the water upstairs, and whenever she walked one floor, she had to sit on the stairs to take a breath. And dressed like a
A civilian woman walked to the vegetable store with a basket, and went to bargaining prices in the grocery store and the butcher shop to get scolded, trying to protect her little bit of her pitiful change. She had to collect some loan notes every month, and set up a few new dates to go on. Her husband copied the accounts for a merchant in the evening, and often late at night, and he had to copy the books of fifty-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-same-sisted books…”
In fact, after writing this, it is quite straightforward. It tells the story of a vain woman who was very popular at a banquet, but ended up suffering from it, which led to such a drastic change in her later life.
This may be a satirizing that women are vain and are definitely not a good thing to be honest, but if that's all, this article called "Necklace" is definitely just a mediocre work.
Chapter completed!