eloped with a rich girl and a manservant, what was the ending?
In old China, warlords fought and foreign powers plundered, since the 20th century, China's industry has not moved forward, but has regressed compared with the last years of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, China was almost reduced to a playground for the great powers and the comprador class they fostered.
* The warlord division of the period caused the national industry to suffer, but the tobacco industry developed during this period. This industry has a low threshold and low investment, which attracts many competitors.
In order to stand out in the market, tobacco companies are doing everything they can, and one of the most common and effective means is to play the beauty card. At that time, many tobacco companies launched cigarettes with the theme of beautiful women, such as the "Mengjiang Female Brand" of Fuchang Tobacco Company, the "Tiannu Brand" and the "Jade Female Brand" of Huada Tobacco Company.
These cigarettes are not only widely popular in the market, but also have left a deep impression in many ** classic movies.
In the era of increasingly fierce competition in the tobacco and alcohol market, Huacheng Tobacco Company led a new trend in the tobacco industry with a bold decision. Instead of using historical stories and mythological images of women, they directly printed the head of the famous Shanghai Tang actress Lu Meiyu on the carton of cigarettes and launched the "Beauty Brand" cigarettes.
This decision made the beautiful brand cigarettes warmly sought after by everyone as soon as they were listed, and also made Huacheng Tobacco Company make a lot of money. However, at this time, China Commercial Tobacco Company launched a "Huang Huiru cigarette", although she is not a celebrity or a famous character, her avatar is also printed on the cigarette box, but it is more popular in the market than Lu Meiyu's beautiful brand cigarettes.
Whether it is a high-ranking official with fine clothes and food, or a peddler and pawn who is barely fed, they all compete to buy Huang Huiru brand cigarettes, and even many people who have never smoked have also bought them.
This marks that the tobacco industry has entered a new era, no longer only focusing on the appearance design of products, but also focusing on brand image and consumer demand satisfaction.
The story behind Wong's cigarettes is a tragedy about an arranged marriage and the pursuit of free love. In the ** period, although there was no emperor, but"The life of the parents, the words of the matchmaker"Tradition is still deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Huang Huiru, who was born in a famous family, although her family is superior, her marriage was arranged by her parents. She was a student at Shanghai Qiming Girls' High School, but she suffered a tragedy because of her pursuit of love.
Her story sparked public attention, and even overshadowed the celebrities of the drama industry at the time. This story teaches us that despite the progress of society, traditional ideas still exist, and we need to be more respectful of everyone's choices and rights.
Huang Huiru's father died of illness, which caused the originally wealthy family to fall down, but Huang Huiru's life was not greatly affected, and she still lived a worry-free life with maids to take care of her.
In 1927, the Northern Expedition of the Nationalists achieved a phased victory, and Chiang Kai-shek became the most powerful warlord force in the land of China and the person who nominally unified China. At this time, Huang Huiru was 21 years old, and her family hoped that she could get married as soon as possible.
Because she was born in a large family, with a delicate face and a gentle personality, she was a good match, so she married the cousin son of Shanghai pigment giant Bei Runsheng. However, soon after, Huang Huiru's brother raised objections, believing that she was three years older than the man, and the woman was younger than the man, and she might be bullied, so he tried to get the Pei family to withdraw from the marriage.
Despite this, Huang Huiru still maintains her privileged life and waits for a new marriage.
Huang Huiru suffered an unacceptable blow to Shanghai during the ** period. Her fiancé is divorced, and whatever the reason, it's a huge blow to her reputation.
The reputation of unmarried women in that era was almost equal to everything about them, so after Huang Huiru suffered such a blow, she washed her face with tears all day long, and even committed suicide by hunger strike at one point.
This situation was completely unexpected by Huang Huiru's brother, who opposed the lawsuit and was simply worried that his sister would be angry in the Pei family. After learning about his sister's situation, he sent Lu Genrong, the male servant of his own family, to comfort her.
Although the Huang family still had servants, these servants were different from those of the feudal dynasty in that they did not sign a deed of sale, nor were they the sons of a family that had been servants for generations. Lu Genrong is a native of Wu County, and Huang Hui is the same age, both 21 years old.
However, he and Huang Huiru have very different fates. Unlike Huang Huiru, who was born in a wealthy family, due to the poverty of his family, Lu Genrong had to leave his hometown at the age of 20 to work in Shanghai, and was introduced to Huang Huiru's house to make a tea house.
Huang Huiru's brother trusted Lu Genrong very much, so he asked the manservant to comfort his sister. However, Lu Genrong's persuasion made Huang Huiru feel moved by him. She told Lu Genrong that she had been discredited and had no other way out but to follow him.
In this way, two young people with very different identities and family conditions fell in love, and they had a tryst in the pavilion and made a private decision for life. However, in 1928, they secretly tasted the forbidden fruit when the Huang family was away from their relatives and there was no one at home.
Soon after, Huang Huiru found out that she was pregnant, which made her very frightened and did not know what to do.
Although Huang Huiru from Shanghai is passionately in love with Lu Genrong, she is well aware of her family's thoughts and family reputation. She can't marry a valet who has nothing, and the matter can't be leaked.
In desperation, she decided to elope with Lu Genrong, but Lu Genrong told her that he already had a wife in the countryside and had no money to support her. At this time, Huang Huiru found out that she was pregnant and could not continue to hide it.
So, she secretly took some gold and silver jewelry from her home and eloped with Lu Genrong to Suzhou. In Suzhou, she exchanged her family's gold and silver jewelry for 421 silver dollars and used the money to rent a house.
However, her disappearance was soon discovered, and the Huang family published a missing person notice in the newspaper. In the end, she was found in Suzhou and brought back to the Huang family with Lu Genrong.
After the Huang family called the police, the Suzhou Police Department quickly arrested the two who eloped and handed them over to the prosecutor's office of the Wu County District Court for processing. The Huang family firmly believed that their daughter was deceived by the manservant and **, and the daughter stole valuable gold and silver jewelry when she left home, so the Huang family also accused the manservant of stealing gold and silver property in the complaint.
The Wu County Court** heard the case, but when her daughter was brought to court, she took all the responsibility alone, and firmly said that she eloped with him because she loved the manservant, and the gold and silver jewelry was also given by her voluntarily and had nothing to do with the manservant.
After the trial, the judge adjourned the trial and the formal verdict was pronounced three days later. After the incident was reported by the newspapers, it quickly attracted national attention.
The story of Huang Huiru and Lu Genrong has attracted widespread attention across the country. Their identities are very different and their social backgrounds are very different, but they still bravely pursue their love and dare to break old ideas and rules.
Although this story has aroused doubts and criticism from some people, it is undeniable that the love story of Huang Huiru and Lu Genrong has become a symbol of an era, and their bravery and tenacity are admirable.
Although the end result is not perfect, the story still brings inspiration and food for thought.
On August 28, 1928, the Wu County Court convicted Lu Genrong of abduction and aiding in theft and sentenced him to two years in prison. Lu Genrong expressed dissatisfaction and appealed, Huang Huiru was exhausted at this time, but she still went to the prison to visit Lu Genrong with her pregnancy, and said that she would help him appeal.
Huang Huiru quickly asked a lawyer to write an appeal, which was accepted and tried by the Jiangsu High Court. In this trial, Huang Huiru explained to the court the reason why she and Lu Genrong made a private decision for life.
However, Huang Huiru's mother, Huang Zhu, denied this, and insisted that Lu Genrong was a scoundrel, **daughter, and stole family property. In the end, the Jiangsu High Court pronounced a verdict on October 27, holding that it was a fact that Lu Genrong helped Huang Huiru take away the Huang family's jewelry and participated in the sale and use, and changed the crime of abduction in the first instance to adultery and abduction.
The cases of Huang Huiru and Lu Genrong have aroused widespread concern in society. The court sentenced Lu Genrong to four years in prison and three years of deprivation of public rights for the crime of attempting rape and abduction, which had a huge impact on both Huang Huiru and Lu Genrong.
Huang Huiru insisted on not returning to her parents' home, and came to Lu Genrong's house alone, waiting to give birth to a child. During this period, the general manager of China Commercial Tobacco Company saw a business opportunity and launched Huang Huiru cigarettes under the registered trademark, which many people bought to express their sympathy and support for Huang Huiru.
At the same time, the incident also affected Shanghai's stage drama and film industry, and Shanghai Star Film Company planned to make a movie about the case, and approached Huang Huiru to ask her to make a film. Although Huang Hui was in financial difficulties at this time, for the sake of her children, she decided to sign a contract with the film company and accepted the funds offered by her boss to give birth.
The news that Huang Huiru signed a contract to be an actor to make a movie quickly aroused the anger of the Huang family. They believe that making movies in front of the public as the daughter of the Huang family will ruin the family's reputation and be an extremely humiliating thing.
Although a statement has already been made"Huang Hui's whereabouts now have nothing to do with the Huang family"But when she heard the news that she was going to make a movie, Huang Huiru's mother quickly rushed to Suzhou to try to persuade her to change her mind and not to make a movie.
However, the film company's response was quicker than the Huang family expected, and they quickly launched the film "Blood and Tears and Yellow Flowers" set in the Huang Lu case, and also invited Hu Die, the film queen of Shanghai Tang at the time, to play the role of Huang Huiru.
The film caused a great sensation as soon as it was released, and even surpassed the popularity of the report on the wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling for a time.
On March 8, 1929, the wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling coincided with the successful birth of a baby boy named Yongnian by Huang Huiru in the hospital. Soon after, Huang Zhu insisted on taking Huang Huiru and the child back to Shanghai** despite Huang Huiru's illness and the doctor's dissuasion.
However, on the way, the ship encountered strong winds and waves, and Huang Huiru was weak and had a high fever, and finally died in the wind and waves. Although the Jiangsu Supreme Court's decision to remand the case for a new trial gave Lu Genrong hope, Huang Huiru could no longer see the future for him and his children.