In 1909, the Xue family in Wuchang, Hubei Province, married their eldest daughter Xue Shi to a young general named Wan Dezun, and in this year, Wan Dezun was full of spirits, and had just graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School and returned to China, and was appointed by Duan Fang as the standard commander of the Tianjin Directly Subordinate Guard, which was said to have an unlimited future.
In fact, the Xue family has two daughters, Xue also has a sister named Xue Yongnan, the two of them are twin sisters, although the two sisters are generally old, but when the sister Xue Shi married Wan Dezun, the family had not yet found a suitable family for Xue Yongnan.
After becoming relatives, Xue and her husband Wan Dezun settled their families in the newly purchased house in Tianjin, the Wanjia Mansion, and the two were very affectionate and respectful. Soon after, Xue Shi became pregnant, and Wan Dezun took more considerate care of her and was also looking forward to the birth of the child.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival of the following year, Xue Gave birth to a big fat son for Wan Dezun, and Wan Dezun's mother also came from his hometown to see the newborn baby grandson, and they named him Wan Jiabao, which means very beautiful.
However, just as the family was immersed in joy, Xue's condition suddenly deteriorated, she suffered from puerperal fever, which was difficult to cure at the time, and within three days, she died with reluctance for her husband and son.
The sudden death of her sister Xue Yongnan also made Xue Yongnan very sad and worried, and after getting her father's permission, she packed up and went north to take care of her newborn nephew Wan Jiabao.
Sure enough, as she expected, the state of the Wan family was very bad, the brother-in-law Wan Dezun was even more sad, and Wan Jiabao only had one nurse to take care of, after all, it was not as intimate as the mother. After coming to the WanGongguan, Xue Yongnan stayed, and after that, taking care of Wan Jiabao was what she was doing wholeheartedly.
Wan Dezun saw her kindness to Wan Jiabao in his eyes, and his heart was slowly relieved, and in the daily day and night together, he also developed feelings for Xue Yongnan. What made them happy was that the family supported them together, and after that, Wan Dezun officially married Xue Yongnan.
Before Wan Jiabao was 6 years old, he never knew that Xue Yongnan was not his birth mother, because Xue Yongnan regarded him as his own and did not want him to know from an early age that he had lost his biological mother. However, in the end, the truth was still told by Wan Jiabao's mother, from the age of 6, Wan Jiabao knew the truth, but Xue Yongnan still loved him very much, she did not have children, and she was bent on raising Wan Jiabao.
Although Wan Jiabao misses his biological mother, he is also very attached to his adoptive mother Xue Yongnan, and his later interests and even career are inseparable from the influence of his adoptive mother on him, Xue Yongnan likes to watch plays, every time he goes out to see a play, he always has to take Wan Jiabao with him, while watching the play and telling him, so that Wan Jiabao has been influenced by art.
What made Xue Yongnan most pleased and happy was probably Wan Jiabao's achievements after that. When he was studying at Tsinghua University, he was more immersed in the study of drama, when he was studying at Tsinghua Research Institute, he had already written a later classic play - "Thunderstorm", and then more works were continuously launched, speaking of this, I think everyone already knows that Wan Jiabao's pen name is Cao Yu, he is a famous playwright in China.
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