Tip: If Lenny's experience today can still give people some enlightenment, then these two points are the most affordable and simple: one is to be an "official wife" and not to do business, even if you can do business in a serious way, it is somewhat unclear; second, if you can be better to others, society may be better for yourself. The former is a kind of self-discipline that is close to helplessness, and the latter is the beautiful cycle of human nature, which are all necessary laws or rules for people to live in the world.
Lan Ni, a Miao ethnic group, formerly known as Lan Yezhen, is from Jianshui, Yunnan. Since childhood, she has appeared beautiful and handsome, smart and clever, and her beauty has a strong Miao color, unlike ordinary Han girls, she has a high nose and deep eyes, and the color of her eyes and pupils is still a little blue, just like a doll, known as "Princess Miao Wang". Today, people say that she has experienced two failed marriages; she has encountered the right and wrong of her husband Sun Ke's candidacy for vice president... But all this did not break the strong heart of this rare woman, in her career, she made several comebacks, and constantly created her own legend.
Her good personality gave her the name "Lenny"
Lan Yezhen was born in Macau in 1912 and has a very good background.
Lan Yezhen's grandfather, Lan Heguang (蘭和光), was a former Qing Dynasty Scholar in the last years of Guangxu and served as the governor of Xiangshan County, Guangdong. In 1900, the family moved to Macao, and went to Hunan, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Macao to do business, set up factories and engaged in industry, creating a foundation for the Lan family and becoming a successful industrialist and businessman. Soon, the Lan family moved to Guangzhou, and later to Shanghai.
Lan Yezhen's father, Lan Jianjun, was the eldest son of his grandfather Lan Heguang. Zi Minyu, a follower of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's republican thought, joined the Chinese League in his early years, followed Huang Xing in the anti-Qing revolution, served as chief of staff under Huang Xing, and later went to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom to study. However, after Returning to China, Lan Jianjun did not join the revolutionary camp led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, but instead became close to the Beiyang warlords, exchanged posts with Sun Chuanfang, and served as the tax bureau chief in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province.
Lan Yezhen's mother, Fang Shuzhen, is also a famous bridesmaid and can write a good hand. Personally teaching Xiao Lanni Chinese classical literature made her accept the influence of Chinese culture very early and was extremely strict with her. Her father specially invited a very learned teacher for her daughter to read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the content she taught every day had to be read and recited. Lan Yezhen went to Shanghai with her family at the age of 7, entered Nanjing Huiwen Middle School at the age of 11, entered Nanjing Jinan Girls' High School at the age of 13, and returned to Shanghai at the age of 15 to enter the Girls' High School for high school.
Lan Ni said that Long Jiguang, who was born in Tusi and served as the admiral of Guangxi, the commander of the 25th town of the Guangdong Army, and the governor of Guangdong, was her grandfather's cousin-in-law, and he recommended her grandfather to become an official. A year before she returned to Shanghai at the age of 15, her grandfather went back to her hometown in Yunnan alone because of her nostalgia, and soon after she returned to Shanghai, her father was recommended to serve as the director of Changshu Shatian, accumulating a fortune for the Lan family.
Because of the continuous "wandering" of the family, Lan Yezhen has had the experience of getting along with strangers since she was a child, and because she has received a good family education, coupled with her beautiful appearance, smart and clever, sweet mouth, affinity, in school, there are contradictions between classmates, they like to come to her to reconcile, she, just pull everyone together to talk and laugh, it doesn't take long, there are contradictions, classmates are also smiling.
Over time, everyone called Lan Yezhen "rotten mud", and this "rotten mud" had about a taste of "and thin mud", the reason was that no one could be guilty when she reconciled contradictions, and even no matter what happened, she just made everyone happy. In this way, she had the nickname of "mud", not only was she not angry, but simply took "mud" as its harmonic pronunciation "Lanni" as her name.
The fall of the family path led her into the tragedy of her first marriage
The beautiful young man with bright sunshine soon experienced the bitterness of life's ups and downs. Around 1926, Lan Jianjun and his friends went out to be robbed, not only was the money on his body looted, but the robbers also shot and killed their former friends. Lan Jianjun was stimulated and returned home insane. This left him unable to work and confined to recuperation at home. Seeing that the family foundations he had accumulated before were quickly spent, Lan Jianjun was anxious, and suddenly thought that a friend in Hong Kong still owed him 200,000 taels of silver, so he thought of recovering this silver and going to Hong Kong to see the disease.
Fang Shuzhen was very supportive of her husband's idea, but because the children were small and needed to be taken care of, she herself could not go. So she took out all the silver in the house, invited the two servants to go with her husband, and repeatedly told them that they must serve their masters with all their hearts on the way. From Shanghai to Hong Kong by boat, on the way there, the two servants can still do their best, to Hong Kong can also help Lan Jianjun to find the debtors, but when they see that the debtors do not recognize the account, Lan Jianjun not only did not ask for money, but also was sent back from Hong Kong by the debtors, and he became unjust - on the way back, he rolled up the cost of the master to Hong Kong to see a doctor and all the entanglements, and fled.
The situation of the Lan family can be imagined next, Lan Jianjun's condition is getting worse day by day, and the family's life is in trouble. At this time, Lan Ni, who was going to school, was 17 years old, and her beauty like flowers quickly attracted the attention of the teenager next door - Li Tunsheng, who lived with her family on Xiangyang South Road in Shanghai and was then the executive deputy director of the Finance Department of the Nanjing government, offered to marry Lan Ni as a daughter-in-law for her second son Li Dingguo, and if the Lan family promised to marry this marriage, they could give the Lan family a monthly allowance of 100 yuan. In the face of such conditions, Lan ni and her mother did not say much, in the beautiful vision of being able to get rid of the lan family's predicament, in 1929, 18-year-old Lan Ni married Li Dingguo.
It should be said that it is a very happy thing for the two families of the neighbor to come together because of the child's happy marriage. However, the Lan family is very despised by the Li family because of the family road, and the Li family gives the Lan family a monthly allowance of 100 yuan, so that this family affair has some "selling marriage" meaning, and then the Whole Li family does not take Lan Ni seriously. Lan Ni's husband, Li Dingguo, was born on September 13, 1910, from the Law Department of Soochow University in Suzhou, and graduated from Shanghai Fazheng University. Handsome in appearance, and like Peking Opera, and can sing a few paragraphs of self-amusement, on the age is only two years older than Lanni, the two seem to be a good match, but because of the existence of "selling marriage" meaning, the two are also difficult to harmonize.
At first, Lenny thought that the situation might change when she had a baby, but the truth is that this didn't change until she gave birth to her third child. On the one hand, the reason is that whenever Lenny, who is full of poetry books, thinks of talking about something with her husband, her husband has no interest in this aspect; on the other hand, although her husband has a high degree, but because of the good conditions at home, he has no ambition, eats and drinks every day, does not want to go out to become an official, does not think about making money in business, and revels in comfort all day long. As a result, although the two have lived together for 5 years, they do not have much common language.
The divorce was brought up by Lenny after this, and she felt that she could not go on like this, and the result of this could only be that people in the "fertility machine" were old and yellow, or even had nothing. So she found a lawyer to agree to divorce Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo agreed to divorce, but did not pay any alimony to Lenny, and in our words today, Lenny was basically expelled from the house. At this time, Lan Ni's body only had a few hundred yuan, and Li Dingguo's son and daughter were left behind by her "fiercely". A friend asked her what she planned to do in the future. She said that if she ran out of money, she would jump the Huangpu River. It was 1934 and she was under 23 years old.
When the "secretary" made her the second wife of Sun Ke
Sun Ke (1891-1973), zi lian sheng, number Zhe sheng. A native of Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province (present-day Cuiheng Village, Nanlang Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province), he was the eldest son of Sun Yat-sen. He served as president of the Three Chambers of Examination, The Executive Yuan and the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China. In 1932, he became the Legislature, and advocated the implementation of a constitutional system, but was treated coldly. Later, in 1935, he met Lenny.
In Sun Ke's experience, in addition to his love of reading, he has not escaped the same problem as many men. Sun Ke's original wife was named Chen Shuying, and the Sun family was a cousin. In 1912, he married Sun Ke and had two sons and two daughters, namely Sun Zhiping, Sun Zhiqiang, Sun Suiying, and Sun Suihua. Chen Shuying has always belonged to the model women of the old Style in China, thrifty and thrifty, industrious and prepared, spending all her time and energy on the family, and is a standard good wife and mother. This created certain conditions for Sun Ke to mess with flowers and grass outside, and Yan Aijuan was one of them.
In 1932, Yan Aijuan was introduced to Sun Ke by Sun Ke's men, and the two began to live together, and life was extremely sweet and pleasant. Sun Ke gave Yan Qijuan the identity of "private secretary". In the late spring of 1935, Yan Qijuan became pregnant, and Sun Ke's original wife, Chen Shuying, could not adapt to life here because of the humid heat in Nanjing, and returned to Macao to recuperate, and Sun Ke became a person who "lived alone" in Nanjing. At a family dinner hosted by Lani's classmate Lu Ying, Sun Ke and Lan Ni were invited guests, and Lan Ni found that Sun Ke, who wore glasses and was personable, had been looking at herself tenderly and smiling slightly at herself. The fate of the two began after this.
In 1934, after leaving the Li family, In order to survive, Lanni began to get involved in high society, because when she studied on campus in the past, she met many female classmates, and now most of these female classmates have mixed into the upper class circle and become Lanni's network resources. It is precisely because of the existence of this "resource" that Lenny was often invited to attend various social communication activities and became a famous social flower at that time. In the spring of 1935, after receiving a call from her classmate Lu Ying, Lan Ni specially dressed herself up, which was more dignified and elegant, and naturally attracted Sun Ke.
"Who is that man?" How did he keep looking at me? Lenny asked herself in her heart. Subsequently, her classmate Lu Ying introduced her: "This is Mr. Sun Ke, president of the Legislative Yuan. What Lanni did not expect was that Sun Ke immediately stood up from the sofa and raised a toast to Lanni, and it was obvious that he had been overwhelmed by the beauty that was different from that of the Han women. The subsequent exchanges were frequent, and Lan Ni was fascinated by sun ke because she knew the book and was familiar with English. Soon, Lan Ni appeared in Nanjing as the private secretary of Sun Ke, president of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China.
At that time, Yan Qianjuan was already pregnant with Liujia, and she had no choice but to face Sun Ke's ruthless abandonment. Whether it is work or general communication, Lani always accompanies Sun Ke's side, and the feelings of the two are increasing day by day, like inseparable partners, and finally Make Sun Ke decide to marry Lanni as the second wife despite the pressure of family and society. When the news came out, it naturally attracted public opinion, saying that Sun Ke did not love Jiangshan and loved beauty. However, Sun Ke's will to marry Lan Ni as the second lady was still the same, in order not to deal with it quietly and quietly, he and Lan Ni did not go through formal formalities or hold a formal wedding, but only invited colleagues in the Legislative Yuan, and set up a total of 4 tables of banquets. In the congratulations of Sun Ke's colleagues, Lanni's life was quietly changed.
In order to avoid the original match, she returned to Shanghai to do real estate business
After marriage, Sun Kelani went in and out of pairs, very affectionate. It is said that in order to show his loyalty to Lanni, Sun Ke also wrote a note to Lanni in his own handwriting:
I only have two wives, Mrs. Chen and Second Lady Lan, and there is no third person, so I hereby certify and hand over to Mrs. Lan Xunyi for acceptance. Sun Ke Twenty-five, six, twenty-six
"Twenty-five" refers to the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936), and Sun Ke called Lan Ni "Lan Xunyi". Sun Ke wrote a note for Lanni and honored her as "Second Lady" and "Second Lady", which fully demonstrated his recognition of Lanni's status. However, Lan ni did not know that a story similar to this may only have such an ending, which is a term in ancient China: new people come, old people go, welcome the new and send the old front door. Yan Aijuan is a living example that exists in front of her.
In August 1938, Lani gave birth to a daughter in the French Concession in Shanghai, and Sun Ke named sun Suifen. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nationalist government moved to Chongqing, entrusted his daughter to the care of his mother's family, and followed Sun Ke to Chongqing. But in the spring of 1940, Sun Ke's original wife, Chen Shuying, came to Chongqing, and Lanni chose to avoid embarrassment and decided to leave Chongqing to take care of her daughter and family in Shanghai. After that, Lenny began to contract projects in partnership with others, and began to get involved in real estate by circumventing the upper class.
Lan Ni took a fancy to a piece of land on Fuxing West Road in the French Concession, so she asked for help from Yang Runshen, one of the real estate kings in Shanghai at that time, Yang Runshen visited the field and felt that there was indeed investment value, and at the same time, out of appreciation for Lan ni, decided to fund and help Lan Ni complete her wish. Subsequently, Yang Run's body was active in many ways, and soon got the piece of land in his hands, and asked four famous architects in Shanghai, Xi Fuquan, Huang Dayu, Zhao Di and Chen Zhi, to design it. Based on the topography and environment, the architects designed and built seven houses. Each house has its own variations and styles. The houses are all independent three-storey garden-style structures, using 7 different colors, and the appearance is very eye-catching and chic.
Lenny personally supervised the work and built it according to the map. At that time, the two bungalows at Malukou belonged to someone else's house, but later she paid for it, so that the entire lane belonged to hers. She gave them a very elegant name: Villa Rose. According to the real estate market at that time, the market value of Rose Villa reached 350,000 yuan, which was first-class. But it was these beautiful houses that caused her endless troubles in the days to come.
Invited back to China, she finally got her own house
The first is in the summer of 1946, because of the "beautiful house" Lanni, daughter Sun Suifen was kidnapped. The kidnappers opened their mouths for $300,000, and after some bargaining, finally agreed on a ransom of $100,000. Lenny mortgaged the deed to the bank of the Rose Villa on Fuxing West Road and collected $100,000 to save her daughter.
Secondly, in early 1947, many tabloids on The Beach competed to report on the so-called "Sunke Rose Villa Dispute Case". This was originally an ordinary housing dispute lawsuit, but after some speculation by the media, Sun Ke and Lan Ni were eventually involved, and then the city was full of storms. The reason is: Lan Ni local rose villa No. 4, rented to a person named Zhi Fuyuan, a year later, Lan Ni wanted to take back the house, but Zhi Fuyuan refused to relocate, but also found a lot of friends who worked in the government department to intervene, wanting to make Lan Ni's plan to become a failure. Zhi Fuyuan said that the original rental contract was two years, Lan Ni said it was one year, and as a result, the two fought a lawsuit over the matter of renting or not renting.
Lan Ni thought that if she could ask her husband Sun Ke to come forward, the matter of the lawsuit would be very simple, and the tabloids would be moved by the wind, and in their opinion, it would be disgraceful for the president of the Tangtang Legislative Yuan to be involved in the housing dispute lawsuit. Sun Ke felt very embarrassed and had to publish a notice in the newspaper saying that President Sun had no real estate in Shanghai except for his own residence, and the rumored housing dispute had nothing to do with him. And such a result is what Zhi Fuyuan hopes to see, forced by the pressure of public opinion, Lanni's efforts to reclaim her house have failed.
The house could not be returned, only for people to live. But what Lan Ni did not expect was that this matter was far from over, and in the eyes of the people, the relationship between her and Sun Ke was definitely not as simple as husband and wife. In 1948, the Kuomintang declared the year a "constitutional year", and Sun Ke participated in the vice presidential campaign. In order to help Sun Ke run, Lan Ni gave full play to her outstanding communication skills and actively canvassed for votes for him, but her status as a businessman eventually helped Sun Ke to become a help. In the middle of this, the so-called "Lenny Incident" appeared, and the media revived the old matters, questioning the source of funds for her construction of villas and construction work and high-grade architectural paints, believing that she was able to succeed because of Sun Ke's "care" and "family", and there was a power behavior of capital operation through power to obtain huge benefits.
In this regard, Sun Ke not only did not publicly defend Lenny, but on the contrary, he also dissociated himself from Lenny for his own face and political future, which angered Lanni, who was stubborn by nature. On April 29, after four rounds of elections, Sun Ke lost the election, and the campaign staff group completely blamed Lan ni for the defeat, and Sun Ke acquiesced to this statement in order to clear himself, resulting in the two of them flying apart from each other, ending the nearly 13-year relationship between husband and wife.
Having 3 children with her ex-husband became something she was proud of
Later, Lenny's life was about this: at the end of 1948, when the political situation was turbulent, she saw that Shanghai was no longer safe, and considered sending her daughter and brother Lan Yeshen to Hong Kong again and again, and she left Shanghai in April 1949. The reason for leaving late was that her father was ill and hospitalized, and her mother was unwilling to leave her husband and go away with her daughter, so she had to find a way to settle her parents to be relieved. She believes that this trip will not last long, and she will soon return to Shanghai, so when she leaves, the real estate that she has devoted more than ten years of hard work to has not been sold, but then the sharp turn of the situation is something she never expected.
In Hong Kong, Lenny could not sit on the mountain and started a new business, but the results were not very satisfactory, so she put more energy into cultivating her daughter Sun Suifen. In 1957, Sun Suifen, who became a flight attendant, married a pilot named Sun Conway. Later, Sun Suifen went to Bangkok, Thailand, where her husband's airline was located, and Lenny also bid farewell to Hong Kong, where she had lived for more than ten years, and lived in Thailand with her daughter's family for four years. In 1962, Lenny moved to the United States with her daughter's family, and at this time, she was 50 years old, no longer wanted to work hard, and lived a lonely life. In 1973, Sun Ke died of illness in Taipei, and she instructed her daughter Sun Suifen to go to Taiwan to mourn for Sun Ke.
After most of her life, Lanni gradually became an old man with a peaceful mind. In 1986, the 120th anniversary of dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth, she and her daughter Sun Suifen were invited to return to China to participate in the 120th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth, and then decided to return to their roots and return to China to settle down. In the early nineties, after coordination, the government gave her one of the Rose Villas and let her live in her house again. Since then, she has lived in seclusion, hardly leaving home, and only occasionally going to the garden for a walk, raising flowers and plants in the garden, in order to express her love of life.
In this kind of solitary life, in addition to her daughter Sun Suifen often came to see her, there was another thing that made her deeply proud, that is, as a mother, after leaving the Li family, she never forgot her three children in the Li family, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, she often received the Li family, and also recommended her ex-husband Li Dingguo to Sun Ke to make him the deputy manager of the Chengdu branch of the central bank. The three children born to her and Li Dingguo later settled overseas and each had achievements: daughter Li Xuan was born in Shanghai on September 24, 1931, and went to the United States from Hong Kong in 1950 to study in the United States and became a national of the United States; daughter Li Hua, who went to the United States from Hong Kong in 1950 to study, and later became an Australian citizen; son Li Zhenya was born on October 5, 1932, received a master's degree in pathology from the University of California, and founded the American Securities Investment Company in 1966, and served as the chairman and president of the American Shuhua Foundation.
On September 28, 1996, Lenny quietly completed the last stop of her life in Shanghai at the age of 85. Her daughter Sun Suifen handled the aftermath for her. At the time, people did not see any news of her death. A generation of beautiful people, just quietly left. If her experience can still give people some enlightenment, then these two points are the most affordable and simple: one is to be a "wife of an official" and not to do business, even if you can do business in a serious way, it is somewhat unclear; second, if you can be nice to others, society may be better to yourself. The former is a kind of self-discipline that is close to helplessness, and the latter is the beautiful cycle of human nature, which are all necessary laws or rules for people to live in the world.
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