On Fuxing West Road in Shanghai, there are 7 garden villas.
These 7 villas have a particularly nice name called "Rose Villa".
Why is it called Rose Villa, because when it was built, the word rose was built on the floor of the lane.
Among the seven villas, one villa No. 2 was assigned to the famous film actor Qin Yi after the founding of the People's Republic of China, but Qin Yi was not the owner of this villa.
Its owner was a woman named Lenny, and the house is still inherited by her descendants.
In 1996, 85-year-old Lenny walked through her last stop in this villa.
Her daughter, Ms. Sun Suifen, inherited her Rose Villa, which was inherited by her sons after Ms. Sun's death.
We turn our attention to this Ms. Lenny again, for those who know the history of the Republic of China already know who this person is.
She was the second wife of Sun Ke, the eldest son of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Republic of China, who had lived in this garden villa with Sun Ke.
Today we will talk about the story of Lan Ni, a famous lady of the Republic of China known as the "Princess of Miao".
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In 1912, Lan Ni was born in Macau to a wealthy Miao family, and her grandfather Lan Heguang was a scholar during the Guangxu dynasty, and once served as the zhi county of Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province. And Guangxi Admiral Long Jiguang is Lan Ni's cousin. Lanni's grandfather was in a chaotic world and could only abandon the official to do business, so he accumulated a lot of wealth in a short period of time, which laid a good material foundation for the Lan family.
Lan Ni's father, Lan Jianjun, was more enthusiastic about revolution in his early years, once participated in the China League, once followed Huang Xing, served as chief of staff under Huang Xing, and then went to study at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
After returning to China, Lanni's father actively turned to the direct warlord Sun Chuanfang, who was rumored to respect intellectuals in particular and attract talents, so Lanni's father was also looked for.
He also became the brother of Bai Zhangzi, and was later appointed as the director of the Jiangsu Wuxi Taxation Bureau.
Therefore, Lenny grew up in this environment of worry-free food and clothing, and a good family environment laid the foundation for her future celebrity temperament.
In 1923, Lanni went to junior high school in Nanjing, and in 1927, Lanni returned to Shanghai Zhirenyong Girls' High School to attend high school.
After two years of high school, Lenny did not continue her studies, but was forced to marry her first husband, Li Dingguo, and gave birth to a son, two daughters and three children for the family.
She was 17 years old when she got married.
Why?
It turned out that in 1926, Lenny's father and friends went out with their friends and were shot in the middle.
Her father's friend was shot and killed immediately, and Lenny's father, although he escaped a disaster, but after experiencing this incident, he was worried and mentally ill, and finally led to mental disorders, since he lost his ability to work, he could only nurse at home.
In order to treat his father,The Lan family poured out their family resources, but Lani's father's condition did not improve.
Since then, the life of the Lan family has become more and more difficult.
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In 1929, Lenny married a man named Li Dingguo.
This Li Dingguo was the second son of Li Disheng, then the executive deputy secretary of the Finance Department of the Nanjing government, who was born in 1910 and was only 20 years old at the time.
The two are similar in age, but the two do not have much common language, for a buy-and-sell marriage can have what feelings, after all, because the father is sick, the mother has no way to let her marry early, in order to get the Li family's monthly subsidy of 100 yuan, the Lan family promised their daughter to marry Li Dingguo.
After marriage, the relationship between the two families is not equal, it is very painful for Lanni, a lonely and declining family, one is a bureaucratic family with a head and a face, so the Li family naturally does not look at the Lan family in the eyes, so Lanni is very angry, so Lanni's married life is not happy.
In 1934, Lenny, who was already a mother of three children,
Made the amazing decision that she wanted a divorce.
She never wanted to live this life again, thinking about her husband, not doing the right thing, doing nothing, achieving nothing, staying at home all day, eating and waiting for death, reveling in happiness.
For Lenny, this is a great irony, she does not like this life, in order to divorce her lawyer wu Kaisheng at the time to mediate.
In the end, after negotiation, the two divorced amicably, and Lenny did not get any property after the divorce.
He only had a few hundred dollars on his body.
Wu Kaisheng asked: What are your plans after the divorce?
Lenny said: It's all right, I still have a few hundred dollars on me.
In 1935, Lenny left a son and two daughters and broke into the Ten Mile Ocean Field alone, which can be called a female master.
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In 1935, a chance class reunion opened a new life for Lani, and at this classmate meeting, she met her second husband in her life, Sun Ke, then president of the Legislative Yuan, one of the four princes of the Republic of China.
At that time, Sun Ke's wife, Chen Shuying, was recuperating in Macao, and Sun Ke was working alone in Nanjing, which was somewhat boring and lonely. When this Sun Ke saw Lan Ni, he stared straight at this beautiful and moving woman, Lan Ni, a Hmong girl, a natural beauty embryo, with a fascinating appearance.
She has a high nose and the color of the pupils of her glasses is still blue, so others call her "Princess Miao Wang".
It is said that this Lan Ni's original name was Lan Yezhen, it may be that this name is too ordinary, it just so happened that her classmates gave her a nickname "mud", Lan Ni was not angry, simply changed to Lan Ni.
Let's talk about Sun Ke again, since meeting Lanni, Sun Ke has never forgotten Lanni and is fascinated.
Alone, he invited Lenny to be his personal secretary and take care of his own life.
Soon after, no matter the workplace or the social occasion, Sun Ke always had a beautiful woman by his side.
Since then, their feelings have grown day by day and are inseparable.
Sun Ke also ignored the world's views and social pressure and directly married Lanni.
Since then, Lan Ni has also officially become the daughter-in-law of the Sun family, and Lan Ni can also be regarded as a strict observant of women's morality, respect for the elders, and also take good care of Sun Ke's mother in the future.
Sun Ke married Lanni, and did not make a big fuss, only set up four tables of banquets, which is also simple.
It is said that this Sun Ke married Lan Ni, did not shake Chen Shuying's position, but hurt Sun Ke's other woman Yan Xiajuan,
In fact, before the two interacted, Sun and Yan had been living together for many years, but after Sun Ke had Lan, he completely forgot about this Yan Lady, who was still pregnant at that time, which made Yan very annoyed and wanted to sue, Sun Ke could only promise to bear the living expenses of mother and child in order to calm things down, and the matter came to an end.
In 1938, Lani gave birth to her and Sun Ke's child, Sun Suifen, in Shanghai.
When she was 8 years old, Sun Suifen was kidnapped in Shanghai Beach, and her mother once ransomed her for 100,000 US dollars.
Later, Sun Suifen worked as a flight attendant in Taiwan, and later met her future husband, an American pilot who had participated in World War II, Sun Kangwei.
In 1957, Sun Suifen married Sun Kangcheng, and in 1962, Lani lived with her daughter in the United States and began their new life, until 1986, when she returned to Shanghai after decades of separation, and lived her legendary life quietly in Shanghai.
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