Chapter 69 marriage

Ma Yinchu has one wife and one concubine. In 1901, Ma Yinchu, who was studying in middle school at Shanghai Missionary School Yumei Library, went back to his hometown for vacation. His parents decided to marry a girl named Zhang Tuanmei.Although Zhang Tuanmei is illiterate, she is honest and kind-hearted by nature, and she knows how to cook delicious home-style dishes.She is satisfied that she can marry a husband who can read.After marriage, Zhang Tuanmei respected her parents-in-law and treated Ma's brothers and sisters kindly. Ma Yinchu felt satisfied when she saw his wife was virtuous and considerate. The young couple was very harmonious.One year after marriage, the Ma family had double happiness, Zhang Tuanmei gave birth to a fat son, and Ma Yinchu was admitted to Tianjin Beiyang University with honors.

In 1903, bad news came from his hometown: Ma Yinchu's son, who was under one year old, died of an accidental injury.He endured the grief and insisted on studying. In 1904, Ma Yinchu's wife gave birth to another daughter. He admired the Eastern Han historian Ban Chao, so he named his daughter Ma Yangban. In 1907, Ma Yinchu graduated from Beiyang University with honors, and was recommended by the Qing government to study abroad at Yale University in the United States.Before going abroad to study, Ma Yinchu deliberately rushed back to his hometown to bid farewell to his parents, wife and children.Although Zhang Tuanmei and her husband have been separated for many years, they always reunite every year.Thinking of her husband going to travel across the ocean, and not knowing when they would see each other again, she couldn't help wiping away tears.The night before parting, Zhang Tuanmei quietly told Ma Yinchu that she was pregnant again.Ma Yinchu was very happy and told his wife to take care of herself.His wife said to him: "When the child was born, you were not at home. Would you like to name the child?" Ma Yinchu thought for a moment and replied: "If you have a girl, you will call it Ma Yangcao, and if you have a boy, you will call it Ma Yangfeng." The next time we said goodbye, it was ten years since we left.In the second year, Zhang Tuanmei gave birth to a girl, so she named her Ma Yangcao.

In 1917, Ma Yinchu, who returned from studying abroad, returned to his hometown in Sheng County to marry Wang Zhongzhen, who was the same age as his daughter Ma Yangban.Wang Zhongzhen was born in 1904, 22 years younger than Ma Yinchu. He was only 13 years old at the time and had a primary school education.After that, Ma Yinchu brought Wang Zhongzhen and Zhang Tuanmei to Peiping successively.Since then, Ma Yinchu's family has had two wives. Ma Yinchu is very kind to his two wives. He always takes them with him when he goes on vacation. When he is free at home, his two wives often accompany him for a walk among the flowers in the garden path.Zhang Tuanmei and Wang Zhongzhen also got along very well, caring and caring for each other, which was rare in similar families at that time.

Hu Shi also recorded Ma Yinchu's monogamy and concubine. On August 10, 1922, Hu Shi wrote in his diary: "I went to the park with Ma Yinchu after dinner,... Yinchu is very strong, and he must take a cold bath every night. Every night he must be close to women, so a woman Not enough, now I have a wife and a concubine." Ma Yinchu had eight children in his life.Zhang Tuanmei and Ma Yinchu later gave birth to another daughter, so they had three daughters in total except for one son who died young after marriage.After Wang Zhongzhen and Ma Yin got married for the first time, they had two daughters and two sons.Ma Yinchu and his two wives have five daughters and two sons, making them a multi-child family with seven children.He had another daughter with his first wife, and two sons and two daughters with his second wife.In this way, Ma Yinchu has a total of seven children, excluding the one who died prematurely; plus two wives, this is a typical big Chinese family with wives, concubines and children.