Lin's past with Bing Xin and Xu Zhimo when he was recuperating at Shuangqing Mountain Villa in Xiangshan.

Many people think that the origin of the contradiction between Lin and Bing Xin is Bing Xin's article Our Wife's Living Room published in Ta Kung Pao.

Anyone who has read this novel and understood this case-solving will definitely think that Bing Xin and Lin are old enemies.

Actually, it's not. From the analysis of available data, the friendship between Lin and Bing Xin has been maintained since they broke up in America. Their contact time is generally from the period of studying in the United States to the period when Lin died of illness in Xishan, Beijing.

After graduating from Penn University, Lin and Liang Sicheng got married in Ottawa, Canada, and then went to Europe for their honeymoon according to Liang Qichao's arrangement.

After returning home, Lin and Liang were arranged by Liang Qichao to teach at Northeastern University managed by Zhang Xueliang. The extremely cold weather in the northeast makes Lin, who was born in the south, very uncomfortable. Shortly after going to teach at Northeastern University, Lin got lung disease.

Xu zhimo visited the northeast in person. At the suggestion of Xu Zhimo, Lin left Northeastern University and returned to Beijing for treatment alone. Xu Zhimo entrusted a friend to help Lin live in Shuangqing Villa in Xiangshan, Beijing.

During Lin's illness in Xiangshan, there was an endless stream of friends who came to visit her.

Among them, Luo Longji, Shen Congwen, Jin, and two talented women of the Republic of China who later turned against Lin: Ling Shuhua and Bing Xin.

Xu Zhimo is the person who visited the forest most frequently in Xiangshan. At this time, Xu Zhimo had married Lu Xiaoman, Lu Xiaoman was in Shanghai, and Xu Zhimo shuttled between Beijing and Shanghai because of his part-time job in Beijing.

Lin Yisheng's literary creation also began in this period. The main reason for Lin's literary creation comes from Xu Zhimo's encouragement.

At this time, Xu Zhimo, in addition to teaching at the university, also opened the Crescent Bookstore and edited and published literary publications such as Crescent Moon and Poetry.

With the encouragement of Xu Zhimo, Lin's literary talent has been brought into play and exposed. During her illness, she published many works in New Moon magazine, among which there are many excellent works, such as Wish and Still.

Lin's poems show another side of her: tenderness, affection, sentimentality, and even a hint of sadness and bitterness. In these poems, Lin is like a girl who falls in love, both intellectually and emotionally confused.

When Xu Zhimo visits Lin in Xiangshan, he will arrive in the evening the day before and stay at the Ganlu Hotel near Shuangqing Mountain Villa. So Xu Zhimo and Lin will have more time together.

Lin published his first poem "Who loves this constant change" in the Poetry Journal edited by Xu Zhimo under the pseudonym "ruler pestle".

Xu Zhimo thought that the name "foot pestle" did not conform to the temperament and image of Lin, so he changed the real name of Lin to "Lin".

This is to distinguish another scholar, Lin Weiyin, from the newspapers at that time. In the preface of Poetry Magazine, Xu Zhimo specifically mentioned that Lin was a woman and praised Lin's poems for their "fresh charm". "

Lin's lyric poems published in New Moon and Poetry Magazine, combined with Xu Zhimo's previous sensational experience with Lin and Xu Zhimo's frequent visits to Lin in Xiangshan, are regarded by some as the continuation or even resurgence of the relationship between Lin and Xu Zhimo.

At that time, some voices began to doubt the relationship between them, and some speculations flowed out, the so-called "floating words."

Bing Xin, who is four years older than Lin, also went to Xiangshan to visit Lin. Lin's husband Liang Sicheng and Bing Xin's husband Wu Wenzao are classmates and roommates of Tsinghua University, and Lin and Bing Xin are fellow villagers in Fuzhou (the former residence of Lin's uncle Lin Juemin is also Bing Xin's former residence). These four celebrities later went down in history and studied in the United States.

1925, Lin and Bing Xin got together in Ithaca, USA, and went out for a picnic, leaving the only photo.

After Lin and Bing Xin returned from studying in the United States, one went to teach at Northeastern University and the other to teach in yenching university. Lin returned to Beijing from Northeastern University for illness, and Bing Xin also went to visit her.

Bing Xin entered the literary world before studying in the United States, and became famous much earlier. He was an old man in the literary world at that time. With the encouragement and support of Xu Zhimo, Lin seems to have lost the growth period of literary creation, but he has also stepped into the literary world. Bing Xin and Lin are both in the Beijing cultural circle, so there are many overlapping celebrities in their social circle, and so is Xu Zhimo.

After hearing the so-called rumors about Xu Zhimo and Lin, Bing Xin was a little fidgety. She went to Xiangshan to visit Lin. What Bing Xin said when he visited Lin was impossible. Bing Xin, who has a conservative view of marriage, will definitely urge Lin to reject Xu Zhimo's enthusiasm and cut off Xu's ideas.

Probably face-to-face persuasion has no effect. After visiting Lin, Bing Xin wrote a poem "I advise you", which was published in the inaugural issue of Beidou edited by Ding Ling. Beidou invited not only Bing Xin, but also Lin, both of whom were invited by Shen Congwen. The poems of two talented women appeared in the inaugural issue of Beidou at the same time.

This result is very interesting. What is more interesting is this poem written by Bing Xin.

In the poem "I advise you", Bing Xin's tone is like inculcating an inexperienced little girl and a big sister. At first, she said, "Only women know a woman's heart, although I know you don't like it if it's only women."

Then a n experienced person exhorted spoony girl to write:

Bing Xin's poem "I advise you" is very long, which reveals the male poet who cheated women with rhetoric:

Obviously, "I advise you" is to persuade another woman not to believe the sweet words of male poets from the perspective of women. These poets try to make women happy. Believe the poet's words, the final result will be that the poet will look for "another pair of eyes" after his success.

Bing Xin's song "I advise you" conveys a woman's reason and insight. In fact, Bing Xin is good at managing marriage, and her happiness and stability with Wu Wenzao are rare among celebrities in the Republic of China.

Xu Zhimo died young, and Bing Xin's influence on the poet and the women he dabbled in for the rest of his life are not verified. But in the first half of Xu's life, almost everyone loved someone. In addition to Zhang Youyi and Lu Xiaoman, who are known to have become wives, and Lin, who has not become a wife, Xu Zhimo is also having an affair with countless women.

This poem by Bing Xin later verified the "love" between another poet Julian and a talented woman. Julian is a poet from England. Bing Xin expressed her views and speculations in this poem and made a complete explanation in her entanglement with Ling Shuhua, a talented woman and a beautiful woman in Luojiashan.

Bing Xin's poem, involving poets and goddesses, happened to appear in the same publication as Lin's poem, so it was regarded as Bing Xin's exhortation poem to Lin.

Seeing Bing Xin's song "I advise you", Shen Congwen, who had made good friends with Lin and Xu Zhimo, disagreed. In a letter to Xu Zhimo, he called Bing Xin "godmother".

Judging from this name, Shen Congwen's poisonous tongue is also cruel enough. Bing Xin's song I advise you was written in July, 193 1. Bing Xin was only 3 1 year old, and even before she reached middle age, she was sent by a group of intellectuals in Beijing and secretly became a "godmother"!

After reading this song "I advise you", Lin was noncommittal and ignored it.

Xu Zhimo didn't make friends with Bing Xin because of this poem. He and Bing Xin have always had a good relationship.

193 1 year1month. On the eve of flying back to Shanghai, Xu Zhimo went to Bing Xin's home in Yannanyuan, yenching university to say goodbye to Bing Xin. This is the last time that Xu Zhimo and Bing Xin met. What did Xu Zhimo and Bing Xin say at this meeting? Bing Xin's later words can't be found.

But what is certain is that Xu Zhimo, who was tired, frustrated and even desperate at this meeting, touched some softness in Bing Xin's heart. She changed from her hatred of Hua Xin, a poet, to some kind of understanding, sympathy and even understanding.

At this meeting, Bing Xin stabbed Xu Zhimo as usual. What Bing Xin didn't expect was that Xu Zhimo's visit this time turned into a farewell.

Eight days later, Xu Zhimo was killed when his plane crashed into a mountain on his way back to Beiping.

After the air crash, several women who had been involved with Xu Zhimo: Lu Xiaoman, Zhang Youyi, and Lin were all in pain.

Xu Zhimo was killed to get back to Beijing to attend Lin's lecture, so there were some accusations against Lin at that time, and Bing Xin was one of them.

Bing Xin expressed his views on Xu Zhimo's death. She said, "It's hard for a woman to say whether she is wrong about him or him. Zhimo is a butterfly, not a bee. The benefits of women are not available, and the disadvantages of women make him sacrifice. "

Butterflies are giving and bees are picking. Bing Xin compares a butterfly to Xu Zhimo, which shows that her attitude towards Xu Zhimo is not the kind of sarcasm in the poem I advise you.

This sentence of Bing Xin also shows that when she published the article "I advise you", she was no longer standing in the perspective of Lin to protect and advise Lin. This time, Bing Xin made some accusations against Lin from the perspective of Xu Zhimo.

Bing Xin, who has a gentle personality, seldom attacks others actively. Bing Xin turned a deaf ear to Zhang Ailing and Su Qing's malicious personal attacks. But after Xu Zhimo's death, Bing Xin began to be dissatisfied with Lin in public and in public articles.

One day shortly after Xu Zhimo died, Bing Xin wrote a letter to Liang Shiqiu. In this letter, Bing Xin expressed her affection and pity for the deceased Xu Zhimo: "Those who used their intelligence and wisdom in an inhuman dark behavior and were still welcomed by a group of people in society got a home! I still say so. It is really difficult to be born a genius in the world, but it hurts me to see the wise man's own waste. "

Bing Xin wrote at the end of the letter: "I didn't say a good word to him before he died." ..... I didn't say anything. I have never made friends with him, but now I feel sorry for him. "

Bing Xin's seemingly ordinary words, beyond words, can obviously feel some regrets in Xu Zhimo's blame.

From Bing Xin's writing "I advise you" to exhorting Lin to Xu Zhimo's murder, Bing Xin published a public document, which means that Xu Zhimo's death was related to Lin. During this period, Bing Xin has completed the transformation.

To be sure, Xu Zhimo has a high emotional intelligence, and many women like him and help him. He went to Bing Xin's residence in Yannan Garden, which probably touched Bing Xin in some way and changed his attitude towards him. This change made Bing Xin alienate and turn against Lin, his former friend, her husband and classmate's wife, without hesitation after Xu Zhimo died.

Decades later, Xiao Gan's wife Wen Jiere recalled Bing Xin in her later years. When they mentioned Xu Zhimo, they took out a pen and paper and carefully wrote two lines:

Bing Xin said that this was the last time she saw Xu Zhimo, and Xu left her two poems. Bing Xin was over eighty years old when he wrote these two poems, and he wrote them with a wave of his hand without hesitation. It can be seen that these two poems have been sung countless times in Bing Xin's heart, so at the age of 80, I can still remember the past and poems decades ago.

From these two poems left by Xu Zhimo, we can also vaguely see Xu Zhimo's fatigue, helplessness and hopelessness when sitting in front of Bing Xin in No.60 Yard of Yannanyuan.

Xu Zhimo, who likes to flirt with women, said the last sentence to Bing Xin: "My heart, liver and five internal organs are all broken. I want to go to your holy land to repent!"

Will Bing Xin be angry or warm when he hears this ridicule?

Undeniably, the death of Xu Zhimo made the relationship between Bing Xin and Lin subtle. The two almost no longer contact.

Two years after Xu Zhimo's death, 1933, Bing Xin published the famous "Our Wife's Living Room" to satirize Lin, and Lin countered by giving Bing Xin an altar of Shanxi mature vinegar.

Lin and Bing Xin, two talented women from the same town, used to study abroad together, went out for a picnic together, and finally turned against each other completely and never spoke again for life.