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Chapter 13 Such a beautiful woman

⊙When Mao Dun and Qin Dejun broke up, they had a four-year contract.In the beginning, Mao wrote letters every three days, expressing his concern, repeating their four-year agreement, and saying that after four years, he would marry Qin as promised.When the four-year period was approaching, Mao Dun learned that Qin Dejun was critically ill, so he wrote a letter saying that he had moved, but did not specify the address of his new home, and there was no news from him since.In a rage, Qin Dejun tore up the group photo of the two and burned all their letters. ⊙During the Anti-Japanese War, Ye Ting's wife, Li Xiuwen, and her sister fled to Luoding. Due to financial constraints, they had to set up a stall on the street to sell old clothes.No matter how unsatisfactory the life situation is, a Xiaojiabiyu has never complained. She still has a bunch of children and raises two elderly people. Her loyalty and perseverance are admirable.

⊙After Lu Xiaoman married Xu Zhimo, he was afraid that he would empathize with others, so he said to Xu: "Zhimo! You can't use the metaphor of Mr. Gu's teapot as an excuse. You must know that you are not my teapot, but my toothbrush , Teapots can be used in public, but toothbrushes are not!" (Note: Gu Hongming advocates polygamy, that is, one teapot can be matched with several teacups) But Lu soon cheated. ⊙ On March 20, 1928, Chen Jieru said in a letter to his friend Zhu Yimin: "Since I came to the United States, I have only written one letter to Jieshi, because I really can't bear to write a book with him, most of it is because I am afraid Their husband and wife like mandarin ducks have conflicts, so I can only swallow my breath. I can only hold my breath in my stomach, and I think that apart from you, no one will know the pain in my heart." Zhu Yimin also said in In his memoirs, he wrote: "Since Commander-in-Chief Chiang came to power, the people's resentment has increased day by day. Commander-in-Chief Chiang's behavior is unethical. Once he entered Shanghai, he married Song Meiling, making all women in the world hate to the bone. "

⊙Yuan Shikai’s first wife Yu is the daughter of a wealthy man in Henan. Her natal family is relatively rich, but she has a low level of education and doesn’t know much about etiquette. She said in the early years that she is “from a grandma’s family”, which means she is serious. natal family.As a result, Yuan Shikai was furious, because Yuan was born to a concubine and "had no grandma's family", so he no longer had sex with her from then on, and kept her as a "tablet" for a long time. ⊙In 1900, Sai Jinhua set up a grain procurement office in the Luo family compound in Liulichang to provide food and salaries for the German army.For this reason, Vadsi, commander of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, agreed to her two conditions: first, not to harm innocent people, and not to kill and set fire casually; second, to protect Beijing's scenic spots and historic sites.

⊙Chiang Kai-shek watched in the Fenghao house in Xikou, "seeing Mao and Jingguo returning to the city house without authorization, he was so angry that he fought desperately with them."Jiang fisted and kicked, Mao scratched and bit, Jingguo burst into tears.Jiang wrote in his diary that day: "Yu Yu Mao's usual footsteps and shadows are enough to irritate the nerves. It is not appropriate for me to fight with me this time. I am determined to divorce, so I will suffer." ⊙Yuan Shikai’s third concubine, Mrs. Jin, said two things to her biological son Yuan Kewen before she died: First, she was abused by her aunt Mrs. Not straight.Second, Jin's parents thought she was married to be the first wife, but they were shocked when they learned the truth. Her mother committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, and her father also died of illness due to excessive grief.Jin said that the reason why he didn't mention these things before was to protect Yuan Shikai's reputation.

⊙Lu Xiaoman has been used to spending money like water since he was a child. After marrying Xu Zhimo, the old habit is hard to change. He spends 500 to 600 yuan in foreign silver a month.Xu Zhimo, a literati, naturally couldn't bear such a huge number, so he had to take part-time lectures in various universities in Nanjing and Shanghai, and desperately wrote manuscripts to supplement his family's income.However, it is a drop in the bucket, and his income still cannot keep up with Lu Xiaoman's consumption speed. ⊙In 1908, after the death of Cixi, Lu Bicheng filled out a "Hundred-Character Order" and published it in "Ta Kung Pao": "In the depths of the clouds, I wrote a picture of a beautiful woman, with green clothes and light feathers, which can endure the eternal hatred of rise and fall, and a sword like a hero Yingmei. Shielding the frontiers, capital and gold disadvantages, lost with delicate hands, wandering underground, ashamed to meet Han pheasants and Tang geese." She scolded Cixi, saying that she ceded land and betrayed the country, and she must be ashamed to see Empress Lu and Wu Zetian after her death.become blockbuster news.

⊙During the Yan'an period, someone asked Ding Ling who she missed the most. Ding said: "I miss Hu Yepin the most, and Feng Xuefeng the most." ⊙ Zhang Taiyan's wife, Tang Guoli, in the article "A Brief Description of Mr. Taiyan's Anecdotes", once publicly stated that she could not understand Huang Kan's extremely indiscreet private life, and called him "a person who is shameless for his writing but no deeds". "Shameless beast in clothes". ⊙ Zhang Xueliang said in an interview in his later years that his mother Zhao Chungui's temperament was extremely "hard".He said that his mother quarreled with his father because of a trivial matter, and since then she has refused to talk to her father, and the children's persuasion is useless.Zhang Zuolin had already made a fortune at that time, but Zhao Chungui's life was quite poor.Zhao Yidi added: "The kang where his mother slept didn't even have a mattress, and she slept on grass-covered bricks."

⊙In 1923, Hu Shi fell in love with Cao Peisheng, a female teacher student from Zhejiang, and cooked raw rice into cooked rice.Hu Sui confessed everything to his wife Jiang Dongxiu and asked for a divorce.Ms. Jiang resolutely refused and threatened with a knife. In the end, Hu Shi had to force Cao to have an abortion and send him to study in the United States. Only then did the turmoil subside. ⊙In 1909, 17-year-old Hong Xihou married Zhang Zhizhong, who also came from a poor family, according to the local custom of marriage between Hong and Zhang, and stayed with him until his death in 1969.Zhang Yichun, Zhang Zhizhong's son, said: "There are only two high-ranking officials in the Kuomintang and the Communist Party who have only one wife in their lives: the Communist Party has Zhou Enlai, and the Kuomintang has Zhang Zhizhong."

⊙Lv Bicheng once narrated her emotional journey in this way: "There are not many men who can be satisfied in life. Liang Qichao had a family early, Wang Jingwei was too young, Wang Rongbao was a good person and married. Zhang Jian once introduced Zhu Zongyuan to me. Zhu Zongyuan wrote poems I'm doing well, but I'm old, my beard and eyebrows are white, and I'm too unsuitable. My goal is not the amount of money or family status, but the status in literature, so it's rare to find a suitable partner. Opportunity. Fortunately, I have a little savings on hand, so I don’t have to worry about food and clothing, so I can only entertain myself with literature.”

⊙ Zhang Zuolin's first wife, Zhao Chungui, was the daughter of the rich man Zhao Zhanyuan. She followed Zhang Zuolin when he was not making a fortune, and suffered a lot.Mrs. Zhao is a virtuous wife. She not only takes care of the family, but also mediates the relationship between Zhang Zuolin and his sworn brothers. The brothers respect her sister-in-law very much.Regrettably, when Zhang Zuolin developed, the friendship between the two came to an end. ⊙When Zhang Xun was stationed in Nanjing, he bought a Qinhuai prostitute named Xiaomaozi with a lot of money, and he loved her very much.Later in Tianjin, he married the famous actress Wang Keqin as his concubine, and Xiao Maozi committed suicide in anger.After the failure of the Restoration, Wang Keqin also fled with money and disappeared.Someone with good deeds took this second concubine as their name, and made a couplet saying: The past goes back to the beginning, deep into the barren, and often sleeps alone in the middle of the night;

⊙In 1936, Jiang Menglin, then president of Peking University, married Ms. Tao Zenggu, held a wedding in Beiping, and invited Hu Shi as a witness.However, Jiang Dongxiu, Hu Shi's wife, because Jiang Menglin abandoned her first wife to marry Tao Zenggu, disapproved of Hu Shi's witnessing the marriage between the two, so she closed the door to prevent Hu Shi from going out.Hu Shi had no choice but to "escape" by jumping out of the window before rushing to the wedding scene. ⊙On March 8, 1927, the national government organized more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians to hold a meeting to commemorate the "March 8" International Women's Day in Hankou, and then the soldiers and civilians held a massive parade.Suddenly, famous prostitute Jin Yayu and others rushed into the parade naked, waving colorful flags and shouting slogans such as "Long live the liberation of Chinese women".In their view, the "most revolutionary" form of women's liberation is a nude parade.

⊙In 1915, Sun Yat-sen wanted to marry Soong Ching Ling, so he wrote to his first wife Lu Muzhen to declare the divorce.Mrs. Lu wrote only one word in the reply letter: yes. ⊙Lin Yutang and his wife Liao Cuifeng visited the Acropolis on the Athens Hill.Seeing those ancient buildings, Lin Yutang was very excited.Liao Cuifeng said, "Ah! I don't want to live in this kind of place! To buy a piece of soap, I have to go down the mountain, how inconvenient!" ⊙When Zhang Zuolin married his second wife, Lu Shi, first wife Zhao Chungui was hit hard, but in the end she endured it and treated Mrs. Lu very well.After Zhang Zuolin entered Fengtian, the provincial capital, Mrs. Zhao separated from him, and she lived with a few children in her hometown.Once, she took her second son Zhang Xueming to ask her husband for money, but she was treated coldly.Since then, Mrs. Zhao would rather go hungry than speak to Zhang Zuolin again.When Zhang Xueliang was 11 years old, Zhao Chungui died.Zhang Xueliang said: "When my mother was dying, my father came to cry." ⊙ Zhang Xun once told his wife Cao Shi about his restoration plan, Cao Shi persuaded him, but Zhang Xun was unmoved.Then Cao scolded, saying: "The Republic of China treats you well, why should you risk the disgrace of the world! You just don't think about yourself, and don't you think about future generations? Although you are now named Prince Zhongyong, I see you in the future. I want to become the Pingjian King." Zhang asked what the Pingjian King meant, and she said loudly: "You will lose your head in the future, if you cut off your head with a knife, wouldn't your neck and shoulders be flat?" ⊙Xi Yuqing, who was a professor of the Chinese Department of Lingnan University during the Republic of China, called himself "the master of Bilanggan".She once made up her mind not to marry for life, and said that she "regards her career as her husband, her school as her family, and her students as her children". ⊙After Wang Jingwei became the chairman of the National Government and the Military Commission, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to get closer to Wang, so he sent a post to Wang Jingwei, wishing to become brothers.One day, Wang Jingwei wrote a letter to Chiang Kai-shek, beginning with the word "Jiedi".After Chen Bijun read it, he was furious: "You are willing to be his brother-in-law, but I don't want to be his sister-in-law." Wang Jingwei had to tear up the letter and rewrite it, and he dared not call Chiang Kai-shek "brother Jieshi" in front of Chen Bijun. ⊙Sun Chuanfang strongly opposed women wearing cheongsam.He thinks that kind of clothes "too catch men's eyeballs, and it's indecent for a woman to show her arms and shoulders, and it's easy to attract men's fantasies."Whenever Zhang sees young women wearing cheongsams or skirts on the street, he will frown and turn away to show that he "does not look at evil".Even so, his aunts and wives did not accept this trick.When I went to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, I also wore a cheongsam in a stately manner.Sun Chuanfang could only shake his head and sigh, saying: "My wife is hard to tame, so there is really no good strategy." ⊙ Mrs. Liu Xiang spent a lot of money to set up a middle school, and Liu Xiang's son also studied in the school.Some students told Mr. Liu that your child's old man (Chengdu dialect, meaning father) is a warlord.Mr. Liu was humiliated and complained to his mother.Mrs. Liu was furious. She rushed to the school the next day and called all the students to the playground to give a lecture: "I know some of you said that my baby's father is a 'military crawler' or 'military climber'. It may not be that his dad crawled on you. Which sister? I opened this school, and whoever dares to speak nonsense, I will shut this school to your mother! Dismiss the meeting!"
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