Chapter 15 15

Xu Zhimo worried that life in the United States would spoil Lin Huiyin, but it was not.After three years of living in a foreign land and experiencing various personnel disputes, Lin Huiyin is no longer the dreamy, vain lady in Beijing's courtyard.She has stepped from an idealistic stage of life to a realistic one, and Hu Shi praised her personally for "becoming older". Another important factor for Lin Huiyin to mature is that the families of Liang and Lin have had troubled times in the past two years.Sicheng's mother died of illness; Lin Huiyin's father's accident, Liang Qichao's kidney was cut off by mistake, which also indicates that the end of life is not far away.

Before the two young people went abroad, Sicheng's mother, Li Huixian, had a recurrence of breast cancer.For the sake of the child's future, the strong mother reluctantly let him go.Liang Sicheng had only been in the United States for more than a month, and his mother's condition deteriorated rapidly. Liang Qichao sent a telegram to call Sicheng back to China.Sicheng had no choice but to give up the long journey of filial piety in front of the bed, and was deeply saddened.Li Huixian was the head of the Liang family, and had a close relationship with Liang Qichao. Her death was like a broken beam of the Liang's building.Sicheng's sadness had to affect Lin Huiyin.

The fatal blow to Lin Huiyin was the bad news of Lin Changmin in the winter of 1925. Lin Changmin had always played the role of his daughter's spiritual mentor.Lin Changmin is in his prime and has extensive relationships with all walks of life. Although his career has suffered setbacks, he still has prestige after all.He was a solid backing for his daughter to move forward, and now the backing is gone.The material loss of the Lin family is also not trivial. Lin Changmin's income is the only source of income for the family.After his death, the livelihood of the two wives and a large group of underage children became a problem.Lin Changmin had a clean character during his lifetime, and only left over 300 yuan in cash after his death.Liang Qichao wrote to a friend and said: "He was penniless after death, widowed and immature, and there was nothing to give to him. He had to borrow money to help him a little bit, and he was on the verge of being starved." (Letter to Zhang Guogan) For this reason, Liang Qichao tried to raise money everywhere Funds were raised to prepare for the establishment of the "Assembly for Raising the Survivors", but the fundraising was limited, and the council was in vain.At first, Lin Huiyin received the misinformation that her father was still alive, so she had a glimmer of hope.She later learned that her father was definitely dead and his remains were burned and could not be brought back.The death of her father was the first huge blow in her life.For this reason, Lin Huiyin found it difficult to concentrate on her studies in the United States. She was eager to return to China immediately, but was dissuaded by her mother and Liang Qichao.She also considered working in the United States for a year and settling the funds for studying in the United States by herself, but Liang Qichao's consent was still not obtained.Lin Huiyin has an independent personality, so she can't help but feel frustrated by being favored by Liang's family.She had never had a sense of worry and humiliation before, but now she really feels the pressure of gaining a foothold in society.

While Liang Qichao was running around to prepare for Lin Changmin's funeral, he also had health problems, and he often urinated red.Because he had always had a strong physique, he was not vigilant, and he did not expect that this was a harbinger of kidney disease that would kill him.Lin Huiyin lost his father, and Liang Qichao naturally filled the vacancy. He asked Sicheng to tell Lin Huiyin: "Uncle Lin's daughter is my daughter, not to mention the relationship between the two of you. From now on, I will marry him (her) and Sizhuang. Treat her the same way.” Liang Qichao loves talents, and has long regarded Lin Huiyin as a daughter, and now he has added affection for her, and consciously assumes the responsibility of parent and mentor.He has always taught his sons and daughters: "'A man's life is born with sorrow, knowing that there is nothing to do, and being at peace with it' is the first key to standing up." He placed ardent expectations on Huiyin: "He (Lin) will encourage Take courage, give full play to his (her) talent, complete his knowledge, and work together with you (Sicheng) in the future to make a little contribution to the Chinese art world, so he is worthy of being Uncle Lin’s good boy." Liang Qichao also wrote a long letter directly to enlighten Lin Huiyin regrets that this long letter did not survive.It is particularly regrettable that such a kind old man was admitted to the hospital.At first in the German hospital, the doctor didn't know the cause of the disease, thinking it was just a broken blood vessel, and ignored it, which delayed the best time for treatment.Later, he was transferred to Xiehe Hospital, where he was diagnosed with necrosis of the right kidney and needed to be removed.Unexpectedly, on the operating table, the nurse drew the surgical incision line by mistake, and the right side was wrongly on the left side.The doctor did not pay close attention, and removed the good kidney and left the bad one.Liang Qichao's vitality was exhausted here, and his death will soon be a certainty. (End note: Fei Weimei said in "Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin" that due to the reputation of Xiehe Hospital, the medical accident of mistakenly cutting the kidney was kept as a "top secret" and was not allowed to spread. It was only in the 1940s that the outside world and Liang Sicheng learned the truth Liang Sicheng continued Lin Zhu's book "The Confused Master Liang Sicheng" also said, "Concerning this major medical accident, Union Medical College Hospital strictly kept it secret. When distinguishing the left and right kidneys, this case was cited as an example. Liang Qichao’s children only learned of the real cause of death from his attending physician when Liang Sicheng was hospitalized in 1970.” This theory is adopted by many biographies of Lin Huiyin , but it is not true. The accident was reported to the society that year, and it aroused discussions in important newspapers such as "Morning News", "Modern Review".) Liang Qichao's illness was another heavy blow to Lin Huiyin, and Liang's building gradually collapsed , and she has been included in this family.Compared with the unexpected death of his father that time, Lin Huiyin's serious injury this time seems to be more lingering, and the temper is more intense.Lin Changmin is full of popularity and is a father like a friend, but his love for licking the calf is not in the subtleties; Liang Qichao is a friend like a father, and he loves him very much. Once he loses Liang Qichao's meticulous care, Lin Huiyin's weak shoulders must be ready to bear A seemingly unbearable burden.

When Liang Qichao was seriously ill, in the spring and summer of 1928, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng left the United States where they had studied for four years, and went to Europe for their honeymoon.They returned to China from Europe via Russia, and Lin Huiyin never set foot on the two continents of Europe and America again. The honeymoon trip lasted five or six months, and it was more like a European architectural inspection.Regarding the itinerary, the young man considered saving money and planned to return home via Moscow and Siberia by land.Liang Qichao advocated traveling by sea, thinking that the newly established Soviet Union was barbaric and dilapidated.He personally designed the itinerary for the bride and groom:

I plan for you to go to Sweden and Norway after arriving in the UK, because Northern Europe is very distinctive, and the municipal administration is also very strict and innovative. The second is Nordic special.) Must go.From entering Germany, except for several ancient capitals, it is best to visit the famous fortress on the Rhine River once or twice, turn back to Switzerland to see some natural beauty, and then enter Italy, delay a few days, and thoroughly study and understand the beauty of the Renaissance era .In the end, I returned to France and boarded a ship in Marseilles. (It’s also good to go to Spain. Liu Zikai was an envoy there, and the reception was very convenient. The European culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern age was really centered on Spain.) It’s best to spare some time in between. Go to Turkey to see Islamic architecture and fine arts, and also to see post-revolutionary politics in Turkey.

(Letter to Liang Sicheng) Liang Qichao told his son: "I hope you have a detailed diary every day, and keep a memory of what you see (leave a photo of everything you are proud of), and you can come back for systematic research. If the diary can have a little literary When the aesthetic nature comes back, I can review it for you and publish it.” It seems that Liang Sicheng did not follow his father's entrustment to write down this diary. His follow-up Lin Zhu testified: "their impressions of traveling in Europe did not leave a written record." (Lin Zhu's "The Confused Master Liang Sicheng") The biography of Lin Huiyin described the scenes of Liang and Lin traveling around Europe, even if it is vivid, I am afraid it is not very reliable.Only Lin Huiyin recalled to her student Guan Zhaoye the scene of visiting the Alhambra Palace in Spain, which can be regarded as the slush claws of this European tour.

The Alhambra Palace on the outskirts of Granada is a Spanish scenic spot, which has been completely preserved after years of erosion.Liang Lin and his wife arrived in the hotel in the afternoon and missed the tourist bus to the suburbs.They immediately hired a carriage and drove away, but they still couldn't catch up before closing the palace.Fortunately, the enthusiasm of the young people from the East moved the gatekeeper, who not only allowed them to enter and visit, but even accompanied them along the way like a tour guide.The rectangular main pomegranate courtyard and the lion courtyard stand vertically on a low hill, overlooking the dense trees and winding red walls.The pomegranate courtyard is used for pilgrimage, and the lion courtyard is for concubines, one is solemn and the other is luxurious.After the tourists dispersed, the long pool in the pomegranate courtyard shone with ripples, undulating the stars in the sky.The surrounding moonlight is dense, giving them a dreamlike feeling of wandering immortals.There are twelve stone lions in the lion courtyard, all of which are full of vitality and seem restless.When the palace was built, the small country of Granada was suffering the humiliation imposed by the Spanish monarchy. Lin Huiyin admired the palace in front of him.When the bright moon ascended, he returned to the city in a carriage. Looking back at the ancient palace shrouded in the misty moonlight, Lin Huiyin felt a burst of emotion, and remembered the well-known sentence mourning the late Emperor Li of China: "for forty years, the country, the mountains and rivers of three thousand miles; The dragon pavilion and the phoenix tower are connected to the Han Dynasty, and the qiongzhi of Yushu is used as tobacco. How many times have you ever known fighting? Once you are a subject, you sink your waist and wear your temples. The most hasty resignation from the temple day, the church still plays a farewell song. Tears to the maid. "

They did not make any written records about the trip to Europe, but brought back a batch of photos.Through the photos, people can imagine the scenes of Liang and Lin Ou when they were traveling.It’s just that Lin Huiyin was very dissatisfied with the photos she took. She said angrily: “I didn’t take a good photo in Europe. If you look at all the photos, people are so small. Sicheng is really annoying, he is Use me as a scale." Their European tour failed to end as scheduled. Liang Qichao sent a telegram urging his son to prepare for teaching at Northeastern University as soon as possible, and they had to rush back early.Perhaps for this reason, the two did not follow the route suggested by their father. They still took the land route, took the train across Siberia, bumped through Omsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Baikal... and transferred to the border. The Chinese train passed through Harbin and Shenyang and arrived in Dalian, where it was changed to a ship to Dagu to disembark, and boarded the train bound for Beijing in the pouring rain.

Thousands of miles of travel, the vast desert of permafrost, such a trip is bound to be tedious.It was another pair of young people who swept away the loneliness of Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng's journey.The pair of young people are from the United States, and their names are Charles and Ferdi (some people translate it as Furuilika or Mondrika).When the train stopped on the platform, Charles and his wife immediately noticed the distinctive Liang and Lin couples among the disheveled and rude passengers. They were gentle and elegant, and Lin Huiyin's beauty was particularly eye-catching.One side wants to know about strange and novel ancient civilizations, and the other side still cares about the past in a foreign land that has just left. The topics of interest to each other are enough for them to talk together.The two young couples chatted enthusiastically, and they were both happy to meet Ruyi's traveling companion.They got off the car together in Shenyang and visited the Great Library. Charles saw that many people there bowed to Liang Sicheng, because he was the son of Liang Rengong.When they arrived in Beijing, Liang Lin and his wife enthusiastically accompanied Charles and Fei Di to visit the places of interest and the streets and alleys of the old capital, and also went to restaurants, theaters, shops, including Liang Qichao's private garden.

The short time together has already made Charles deeply appreciate that this young Chinese couple has lofty ideals in their hearts and a strong sense of responsibility.However, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin felt that the motherland had become extremely strange and chaotic, and were shocked by this. They even worried whether they would be out of tune with the environment like Owen's character Winkel, and expressed doubts about whether they could do much in the future.Even so, they are determined to find their place, to dedicate to the country the skills they have learned abroad, and even with idyllic dreams, they are determined to integrate themselves into this land. Charles and Ferdy went to Kyoto, Japan after visiting China. The two couples met in a hurry, like duckweed, like clouds, and they never met again.But good memories have been cherished in the hearts of American friends for a lifetime, and Charles wrote thousands of words of memories in his later years.This encounter may be destined, and Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng will form a lifelong friendship with another American couple, Fei Zhengqing and Fei Weimei.