Fragrant Fragrance of Aquilaria Resinatum is one of Zhang Ailing's famous works, which is not necessarily related to Fragrant Stove, nor is it a sequel.

As we all know, Ge has fallen from a pure student to a social butterfly, but little known is that Roger, a university professor, committed suicide in despair because he lost his job and had no way out because of his marriage.

Zhang Ailing's works have always been famous for revealing human nature. Her words bordered on meanness and ruthlessness. Those who love them love them very much, and those who hate them are very tired. In any case, we can't deny her discussion and interpretation of human nature.

The novella Er Lu Xiang has a simple story structure and little ups and downs, but it makes people feel suffocated after reading it.

Zhang Ailing just wants to tell everyone that sex is not dirty, but "human nature".

Mrs. Mi is a widow who lost her husband in her early years and raised three daughters alone, the eldest daughter Li Lisheng and the second daughter Kathleen. Her appearance is weak and pitiful, and anyone who meets her will sympathize with her.

However, under the weak and pitiful appearance, Mrs. Qiu Er's calculation is hidden. She wants to control her daughter and make her a tool for making a living.

From the moment she met Roger Aberdeen, she began to think.

There is such a passage in the book:

Dear, Mrs. Qiu Er's family education is so strict that the average man can't get close to her daughter at all. But forced by reality, she had to choose the most suitable and promising son-in-law to support her daughter and even their widowed mother.

Roger has been a professor in this university for fifteen years and a housemaster for four years. The school arranges dormitories. Although this profession has no future, it is still stable and beautiful.

After weighing, Mrs. Mi Qiu Er is willing to let her second daughter swim close to Roger, making her mistakenly think that she is in love with this middle-aged man.

Mrs Qiu Er not only strictly controls her daughter's social activities, but also never instills "sex education". Even the newspapers that her daughters read are all her own choices.

At the beginning of the novel, the author expresses his indifference and surprise that Clementine, a foreign classmate, didn't begin to learn about sex until he was nineteen.

It also reflects from the side that the so-called aristocratic education in Britain seldom carried out "sexual knowledge" literacy for her daughter at that time, which also reflects Zhang Ailing's contempt and disdain for this so-called aristocratic education.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand why Mrs Qiu Er never gives her daughter "sex education". Mrs Qiu Er herself gave birth to three daughters. She knew that a woman would have an intimate relationship with her husband after she got married, but she never read for her daughter, so her control began here.

Her control hurt her eldest daughter, Li Lisheng, and ruined her marriage. In this way, she will have to divorce and go back to her mother to continue to accompany her.

Li Lisheng is a poor woman. She is the first daughter whose marriage was ruined by her mother.

Before Miss Xi got married, Miss Li Sheng complained to her future brother-in-law Roger that her ex-husband was a pervert and was very rude to her, and told Roger to be kind to Miss Xi.

Roger doesn't know the inside story and comforts Li Leidison. Not all men are like your ex-husband. I will take good care of you.

However, when Millicent Radisson tried to talk to Roger further about what her husband had done to her, her mother stood up. Radisson will not be able to continue a pleasant conversation with Roger.

The story is so ups and downs, and life is so coincidental. Roger wouldn't know about it after he got married if Mrs. HoneyQiu Er hadn't run out to stop the conversation between Radisson and Roger. It turns out that his bride has not received sex education, and she doesn't know that there is bound to be intimate relationship between husband and wife, so there will be no tragedy behind it.

Xixi is a young girl less than 20 years old. She is beautiful, gentle and lovely as an angel. As a middle-aged man, Roger was always laughed at when he married a young girl much younger than him. Everyone said he was stupid.

However, he feels that stupidity is only the time of stupidity. Who let himself fall in love with this simple and lovely girl?

On the first night of marriage, as adults, everyone should know what will happen between husband and wife. As a normal man, Roger has instinctive physiological needs, which is normal.

However, it surprised Luxi and ran out overnight in panic. Unfortunately, I ran to the boys' dormitory. Let the boys think that Roger did something cruel to Xixi.

Boys have been talking about it: I didn't expect Roger, who is usually a gentleman, to be a pervert behind his back. He is really a man with a face and a heart.

They urged to complain to the headmaster, Lu.

Mr. Barker, the headmaster, was very sympathetic to her and suggested that she go back to Roger. However, such a reply obviously dissatisfied Luxi. She felt that her ideal had been ruined by Roger, so she let him go gently?

So, she went to the academic director Mao Lishi to complain. Morris and Roger are sworn enemies at ordinary times, and they have long had grievances.

This time, the complaint attracted a large number of students, school servants, gardeners, medical engineering and liberal arts office workers, and they all came to join in the fun.

At that time, all the teachers and students knew that Roger had done a shameful thing to Luxi on their wedding night. Since then, he has been labeled as a pervert and has become the talk of the upper and middle classes in Britain after dinner.

Obviously, Roger's education career was affected and he had to resign. He thought that as long as he left Hong Kong, went north to other cities in the mainland and started over, he would not be unable to live.

However, he found that things were not that simple.

Even if she went to the mainland, she wouldn't follow him. She won't leave her mother. With his salary, it is obviously difficult to support two families.

If divorced, it would be even more against the British law at that time. Unless you commit jian, go crazy, or commit a crime and go to jail, there is a possibility of canceling the contract.

Luo Jiecai realized that the problem between him and Luxi was difficult to solve. He looked at this beautiful, gentle and lovely wife and felt disgusted. She ruined his career.

Roger learned from Maurice's wife that Li Leidison's ex-husband was not a pervert. His situation was exactly the same as Roger's. After losing his job, he couldn't find anything to do and committed suicide in despair.

He finally understood that Mrs. Honey Qiu Er had never given her three daughters "pre-marital education", and she was just a tool for her to make a living. However, the user of the tool is so simple and meticulous.

Roger thought of what happened to Radisson's ex-husband, and then thought of himself. Isn't this the next Frank Dimby?

So, Roger also turned on the gas in despair and committed suicide!

It was Xiaoxi who killed him, and Mrs. Hani Qiu Er was behind it!

Many people can't believe this story. Is there anyone who really doesn't know what a couple will do after they get married, and such a ridiculous thing will really happen?

Since novels are art, art comes from life and must be created on the basis of life blueprint.

Zhang Ailing tells people through this short story that sex is never dirty. Human nature is dirty.

Calculation, greed, destruction and emotional kidnapping in human nature are the dirty factors that are invisible and intangible!

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