preface
The life of Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was full of ups and downs. In the period when the Qing Dynasty was heading for its demise, watching the departure of an "ancient" and welcoming a more comfortable and peaceful "modern era", his life experience was due to riding a roller coaster, ups and downs. Because of the wonderful encounter to ascend the throne, and then because of the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the first half of this prosperous and dreamy life was completely ended, just like being poured cold water. Fortunately, he ushered in the liberation of China in the second half of his life, and he still had a relatively happy ending.
Puyi's lifelong emotional experience is relatively rich. Married four times, he married five women, and his last wife was an ordinary nurse, Li Shuxian. The two married in 1962.
It is said that for this marriage with Li Shuxian, Puyi gave up marrying a rich woman who was more suitable for her own identity, but instead married Li Shuxian, a simple 37-year-old civilian woman.
However, it is said that when Li Shuxian and Puyi fell in love, Puyi, who was born in the imperial family, wanted to inquire about his wife's past life more than once, or to be more direct, he was actually very concerned about Li Shuxian's marriage history. But I don't know for what reason, Li Shuxian has used various reasons to prevaricate, so Puyi is very puzzled, and even once got angry because of this. But thinking that he is already a bad old man in his 50s, if he always continues to ask questions about the 37-year-old Li Shuxian, it will only provoke the two people to break up. Moreover, after all, he was pursuing others, and he could not always provoke people to be angry, so he did not ask again, and for Li Shuxian, he only knew that she had been married. Until the marriage of the two, Li Shuxian was still very avoidant of her past experiences, and she was not even willing to mention a star and a half.
so
Is Li Shuxian's life experience really as plain and simple as Puyi knows?
Let's take a look at this with Guy!
01
Li Shuxian (李汝), unlike Puyi, is a true Han Chinese. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, she actually looks very delicate and good-looking, but poor she lost her mother very early. After losing the protection of his biological father at the age of 16,
Almost "sold" by her stepmother to an old man with an ugly face
This was like a nightmare for her, who was still so young and beautiful, so she "ran away" on her big wedding day.
Li Shuxian, who successfully escaped, came to Shanghai. Although she has always claimed to have graduated from high school, she actually only attended elementary school. Therefore, she did not have any "talent" and had to go to the dance hall to make a living.
It was when she was working in the dance hall that she met a man in her life, and the two chose to live together after meeting and falling in love.
After this, Li Shuxian followed the man she was in love with to come to Beijing, but the good times were not long.
For various reasons, the two broke up.
After this, Li Shuxian had little time to grieve for this man, except for Hangzhou, where he grew up and Shanghai, where he had worked for a while, in this new and strange place, Li Shuxian fell into a contradiction, leaving Beijing or returning to Shanghai? After some thought, she chose to stay in Beijing, but once again faced difficulties in survival. So Li Shuxian had to "return to his old business" and once again found a dance hall to find conditions for his own survival.
When she was working in the dance hall again, she met her second man, Liu Liansheng, a pseudo-police officer in Beiping. At that time, Li Shuxian, who was nearly 30 years old, probably considered that he had reached the time to marry, so he had his first marriage.
But Heaven made a big joke about her,
Her husband, Liu Liansheng, who was sentenced for "counter-revolutionary crimes," was shot in accordance with the law in 1955
。 Li Shuxian suddenly changed from a happy wife to a single "widow".
Shortly thereafter, two years later, in 1957, Li Shuxian married Chen Qingzhi, an ordinary accountant who was working at the People's Bank of China at the time.
However, if people don't get up smoothly, it seems that even drinking water will plug their teeth, and Li Shuxian seems to be in this period. Sure enough, after getting married, the two gradually discovered contradictions,
Finally divorced because of emotional discord.
02
Later, one day in 1962, Li Shuxian, who was already 37 years old, found a nurse job at Guanxiang Hospital and finally ushered in his own transfer opportunity.
Through the introduction of an editor named Sha Zengxi of the People's Publishing House, she met Puyi, who was over 50 years old at the time and was very interested in medicine. The two can be said to have fallen in love at first sight, and soon on the evening of April 30, 1962, the former site of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Cultural Club - European and American Returned Scholars Association, a wedding ceremony was held and a relatively solemn wedding was held.
This time Li Shuxian should really be transferred, and she married the "last emperor", she may have had the possibility of unequality between husband and wife because of Puyi's status as emperor, but Puyi clearly said to Li Shuxian: "Before I was in the palace, I didn't understand the mutual relationship between husband and wife, my wife was my plaything and decoration, I would go to play for a while when I was happy, and I ignored it for a few days when I was not happy." I never knew what love was, but when I met you, I knew that there was such a sweet thing in the world. ”
Puyi did exactly what he said, and after marriage, Puyi simply pampered Li Shuxian, who was nearly twenty years younger than himself, as a little girl. Once on a rainy day, Puyi was afraid that Li Shuxian would be drenched to give her an umbrella, but he did not wait for anyone to want to go back, but on the way home he saw a puddle, so he was afraid that Li Shuxian would step on the puddle, and he waited there for a long time.
Of course, this kind of care is not a single arrow,
The husband and wife support each other and are full of love.
Of course, not all marriages are free of a little quarrel or contradiction. The mutual tolerance of two people is the key to solving the problem. In fact, after getting married, Li Shuxian once thought about divorce due to her husband's illness, but mutual tolerance and understanding still let the marriage continue.
epilogue
Until the end, Puyi still did not know what Li Shuxian's dance girl experience and marriage history were, but what did Pei Yi think this was? As long as two people can accompany each other through life.