Chapter 104 sad love

In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu (AD 1898), Ma Yifu became famous for being the first in the Shaoxing County Examination, and he was on the same list with brothers Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren.A young talent naturally attracts everyone's attention.Tang Shouqian, a famous scholar in Zhejiang, was the first governor and chief of communications in Zhejiang Province during the period of the Republic of China. After reading Ma Yifu's article, he admired him greatly and betrothed his eldest daughter Tang Yi (style name Runsheng, private posthumous posthumous name Xiaomin) to him. At this time, Ma Yifu's father was sick and bedridden, and needed to have a happy event. With the consent of both parents, the wedding event was held in advance.So, in the 25th year of Guangxu (AD 1899), 16-year-old Ma Yifu married Tang Xiaomin and began to spend the bright but short-lived good time in his life.

After marriage, the husband and wife are very affectionate.This Miss Tang, who is one year older than Ma Yifu, is illiterate but understands boudoir training. She serves her sick father-in-law with utmost filial piety and is considerate to her husband.However, Ma Yifu, a young man with patriotic ambitions, was eager to pursue new knowledge under the influence of the "1898 Reform Movement" at that time.He patiently taught his wife how to read and read poetry, and said to his wife: "Being unable to read is like being blind; being unable to read is like walking in the dark."

Soon, Ma Yifu bid farewell to his paralyzed father and his newlywed wife, and went to Shanghai to study English and French. It was not until the end of 1900 that he hurried home to visit his father because of his increasingly serious illness.In March of the following year, my father passed away. In November 1901, after taking care of the funeral, Ma Yifu bid farewell to his wife again and went to Shanghai for a study tour.During this period, he made many friends, including Ma Junwu from Guangxi, and students from the special class of Nanyang Public School in Shanghai.Such as Li Shutong, Shao Lizi, Huang Yanpei, Hong Yunxiang, Lin Tongzhuang, etc., especially with Ma Junwu and Xie Wuliang, who are particularly good at foreign languages, founded a magazine "Twentieth Century Translation World" in Shanghai, which translated and introduced Spencer and others. The masterpieces of Western celebrities cover literature, philosophy, politics, sociology, education history, etc., trying to arouse the public with new knowledge from the West.

At this moment, Ma Yifu suddenly received a telegram from his hometown and learned that his wife was critically ill, so he set off to rush back to his hometown at night.Due to inconvenient transportation, it took two days and two nights to return to my hometown of Changtang.Who knows that the darkness will last forever, and the dead wife has already parked in the coffin. Ma Yifu was heartbroken at the time, he really couldn't believe that his wife passed away so easily.During the entire twenty-four hours before his wife's coffin was closed, he neither ate nor drank, nor cried nor made noises.He just gently took his wife's hand.The family members were afraid that Ma Yifu had become demented because of excessive grief and anger.Later, a few days after his wife was buried in the ground, Ma Yifu sat in his deserted room, and Fang burst into tears as if his soul had come back to life.

When his wife Tang passed away, Ma Yifu was saddened and felt more guilty.He once expressed his deep condolences in the "Regreement of Tang Xiaomin, the Dead Wife": "Xiaomin returned to me in thirty-one months, and there was a change of mourning in the middle, and there was no day when he was not in grief, and there was no one who spent three hours talking with Qing." However, you alone know the meaning of Fu's words that no one else can understand....Since Qing is dead, who else can see the subtleties of Ma Fu's ambition, learning, temperament, and consciousness!"

In the following decades, Ma Yifu remained unmarried, wandering alone in the troubled times.Regarding this point, Ma Yifu said: "I saw the tragic scene of the family member after his death. It was shocking and unbearable. Since then, I have no intention of remarrying." Ma Yifu has maintained good contacts with the Yue family since then.After the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Tang Zhexian, his wife’s elder brother, Mr. Tang Xiaoji, sincerely expressed his father’s last wish to Mr. Ma Yifu: the deceased daughter’s fate is not good enough, and I hope that Mr. Ma can continue to enjoy the joy of thrushing his eyebrows and stop treating himself alone. up.

At that time, some women from wealthy families in the world had a faint love for Ma Yifu, who was in full swing, and expressed it to Ma Yifu in various ways.However, Ma Yifu firmly stated that he would not remarry.He resolutely published a letter in the newspapers refusing his friends to continue the plot for him.Yun: "Fude is not a widower, and there is no place to stand in his life; he is grateful to Confucius, and he is approaching the age of decline. Dividing it into dead wood and cold rocks, from the same side; this is still discussing marriage, and I am also surprised at its incompetence." Ma Ma As soon as this letter from Mr. was published, the raucous discussion immediately disappeared.