Little Phoenix Fairy
"The opening is inadvertent, sudden, the scene is unavoidable, and the crowds are crowded."
There will always be people who will suddenly appear in your life, and after they have left a strong mark, they have quietly left your life. Whether you can accept it or not, they leave on their own. In a person's long life, there will always be some people who make you unforgettable, and you can't do anything about it.
In Xiao Fengxian's life, there was such a person, he was a heroic general, with a body of righteousness that made her feel warm in the chaotic brothel, but his departure was also unrequited. Xiao Fengxian likes Cai Yi, but Cai Yi does not necessarily like her, otherwise he would not let Xiao Fengxian continue to live in the brothel. Maybe he just used Xiao Fengxian as a tool, but Xiao Fengxian regarded him as his whole, and until the last moment of his life, she still clutched Cai Yi's picture.
Xiao Fengxian's fate is undoubtedly tragic, and her love with Cai Yi did not end well. After Cai Yi left, Xiao Fengxian went to marry, but no one was as good as Cai Yi was to her. When she was young, she met the spirited Cai Yi, and she couldn't let go of other people in her eyes, and finally Xiao Fengxian's later life was very bleak, she did not give birth to any children, her husband died many years ago, and she buried her love for Cai Yi deeply in her heart. The last time people heard her name, it was also because of her love affair with Cai Yi.
Cai Yi
▌ A rough life
Xiao Fengxian was born in Hangzhou in August 1900, and his original name was Zhu Xiaofeng. She was the descendant of the Eight Banners Military Attaché of Manchuria, but she was born in the years when the Qing government was in decline, and after her father was dismissed, the family's situation suddenly became embarrassing. And Xiao Fengxian is the daughter of the partial house, under the oppression and bullying of the big house, Xiao Fengxian and her mother helplessly moved away from the Zhu family.
Xiao Fengxian's mother has always been in poor health, and not long after moving away from the Zhu family, her mother died of serious illness. Later, Xiao Fengxian was kindly adopted by a nursing mother and changed her name to Zhang Fengyun. In 1911, due to political turmoil, her mother fled from Zhejiang to Shanghai with Xiao Fengxian. However, because she was not familiar with life and had no food or clothing for a while, her mother had no choice but to let Xiao Fengxian learn to sing with a singer surnamed Hu. It was when he was making a living with the singer that he gave the stage name of "Little Phoenix Fairy".
In this way, Xiao Fengxian followed Boss Hu to learn to sing and sell singing. They were originally selling songs in Nanjing, but then a warlord attacked Nanjing, and Xiao Fengxian and Boss Hu fled back to Shanghai. At that time, Xiao Fengxian was 13 years old, and it was the cardamom age with buds waiting to be released. Boss Hu brought Xiao Fengxian to Beijing again, and she sold singing and receiving customers in the Eight Hutongs to do business, because she was in her youth, her face was good, and she was versatile, and she became famous for a while. Xiao Fengxian also became a famous prostitute in Beijing in the early years of the Republic of China.
Yun Jiban's Little Phoenix Fairy (right)
Later, in order to earn money, Boss Hu sold Xiao Fengxian to Zeng Mengpu, a famous novelist at that time, but not long after Xiao Fengxian became Zeng Mengpu's slave, Zeng Mengpu sold Xiao Fengxian to the famous Bada Hutong in Beiping. Turning around, Xiao Fengxian returned to that place. Xiao Fengxian re-sold her art there, she was proficient in musical instruments and could sing, and soon she became a celebrity of "color and art".
From birth to adulthood, Xiao Fengxian has lived a life of upheaval and displacement, and after the death of her mother, she has been sold by others. Her life does not belong to herself, she has been controlled by others, and she lives a muddy life in fireworks and willow alleys. I never knew the meaning of being alive. She was lost in the bustle and could not find herself. Until she met the important person in her life, Cai Yi.
▌ The love of two people
In 1914, Cai Yi held military power and stationed on the frontier, and Yuan Shikai at that time particularly admired him and wanted Cai Yi to join his camp, so he sent someone to "invite" Cai Yi to Beijing, hoping to make him his confidant. However, Yuan Shikai did not trust Cai E very much, and he later saw that Cai E did not want to follow him, so in order to eliminate hidden dangers, he monitored and imprisoned Cai E and did not let Cai E leave the city of Beijing.
At that time, Cai Yi lived in the cotton hutong of Xicheng, and in order to dispel the depressed knots in his heart, Cai Yi often dressed up as a businessman and went to the Bada Hutong to hang out. At that time, Xiao Fengxian was selling songs in the Shaanxi Alley of bada Hutong, and Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian met in Shaanxi Lane. Cai Yi's appearance at that time was not eye-catching, but his Xuan Ang Wei'an's temperament was different from other prostitutes, and his unique temperament made Xiao Fengxian admire.
Cai Yi with the eldest son
Although Xiao Fengxian has been in the land of wind and dust for a long time, she is docile and understanding, and has her own unique views on some things. Xiao Fengxian was like a flower of interpretation, which gave Cai Yi, who was indignant at that time, a little peace of mind. After that, Cai Yi began to chat with Xiao Fengxian from time to time, even if he didn't speak, he listened to Xiao Fengxian play a song. The two are getting along, and the relationship is getting closer and closer.
Xiao Fengxian was seventeen years old when he met Cai E, and Cai E was thirty-three years old, and Cai E, who was in his prime, had cultivated a lot of courage and style in many years of conquest. Xiao Fengxian has been displaced since childhood, and all he sees are the merry people who look for flowers and ask willows in the fireworks willow alley, and the appearance of Cai Yi breaks The stereotype of Xiao Fengxian's previous men. In this way, Cai Yi became the person that Xiao Fengxian put in his heart. At that time, in order to escape Yuan Shikai's control as soon as possible, Cai Yi was dealing with those close to Yuan Shikai. In order to break into the circle of those celebrities, Cai Yi could only follow the sound and color of dogs and horses. And Xiao Fengxian's good opinion made Cai Yi feel that she was very special. Therefore, he took Xiao Fengxian with him as his confidant and dealt with those celebrities in the capital.
Beijing, Republic of China
In the process of getting along between the two, Xiao Fengxian revealed his bumpy life to Cai Yi and treated Cai Yi with sincerity. The two of them exchanged good feelings for each other, and Cai Yi could not refuse at all for a young and beautiful woman like Xiao Fengxian, who also admired herself very much. He at least had love for Xiao Fengxian, although this love may not be pure. He will publicize his nostalgia for Xiao Fengxian and create an image of himself addicted to wine, so that Yuan Shikai will relax his vigilance against him.
At that time, Cai Yi had already married two wives, and the news of Cai Yi lingering in the beautiful country reached the family, and he fought with Cai Yi, complaining that Cai Yi did not respect himself, staying in love with a dusty woman, and even making trouble to the point of divorce. However, that time was The happiest time for Xiao Fengxian, and Cai Yi was facing her day by day, living the life of Lang's love and concubine.
However, the sky was not satisfactory, Yuan Shikai always had a lingering feeling about Cai E's troubles, and on the eve of Yuan Shikai's ascension to the throne, Cai Yi sensed Yuan Shikai's desire to cut the grass and remove the roots. He knew that Xiao Fengxian loved him, so he proposed his plan to Xiao Fengxian, and in order to escape from Beijing, he needed Xiao Fengxian's help. Xiao Fengxian finally agreed to Cai Yi's request. After that, under the pretext of playing with Xiao Fengxian, Cai Yi escaped from Beijing alone and returned to Yunnan to discuss yuan matters with his colleagues.
This parting is a farewell, and the love between Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi finally ends sloppily. After Cai Yi escaped from beijing, he led his troops on a campaign, and Yuan Shikai's delusion of ascending the throne eventually collapsed in internal and external troubles. However, Cai Yi did not go to find Xiao Fengxian again. In November of the same year, Cai died of throat tuberculosis in Japan at the age of 34.
The love between Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi is too impure, mixed with various uses, Xiao Fengxian loves the man, but the man does not necessarily love her. Perhaps he loved Xiao Fengxian, but in the end, his children's private love was still invincible to the great righteousness of the family and the country, he left Xiao Fengxian, and their love also ended with a sad ending.
This gives us some reminder to abandon someone who doesn't love you, and he won't give you the future you want. If you just want a short time now, enjoy it, but don't invest too much, otherwise the sad person will only be yourself.
Little Phoenix in a Japanese newspaper
▌ The final ending of The Little Phoenix Fairy
Xiao Fengxian knew that Cai Yi would not necessarily go back to find her, but she still took a chance, until the news of Cai Yi's death reached the city of Beijing, and Xiao Fengxian knew that she and Cai Yi could not be together again. Cai Yi's death hit Xiao Fengxian very hard, and since then, Xiao Fengxian has also begun to live in anonymity.
She later married a brigade commander in the Northeast Army. After the marriage, the two lived a relatively harmonious life, but did not give birth to children, and later the brigade commander abandoned Xiao Fengxian and went to Taiwan himself. Xiao Fengxian became a handsome person again. When she was lonely, she met a boilermaker, Li Zhenhai. Li Zhenhai took good care of Xiao Fengxian, his wife died very early, and he had a young daughter. Xiao Fengxian felt that they were all poor people. So with the mentality of supporting each other, xiao Fengxian married this boilermaker in 1949.
Xiao Fengxian and Li Zhenhai also did not give birth to children, and after Li Zhenhai's death, Xiao Fengxian lived hard with her stepdaughter. In 1951, with the help of Peking Opera artist Mei Lanfang, Xiao Fengxian went to work in the provincial government kindergarten, but life did not get better. In 1952, Xiao Fengxian was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease again, and her physical condition was not optimistic. Eventually, she died in 1954. It is worth mentioning that Xiao Fengxian always carried a photo of Cai Yi in his hand during his illness in his later years and before his death.
The love story of Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi has been circulated among the people in later generations, and this poignant love is sung. Because of his patriotic deeds, he was also remade into a movie and was widely loved. However, Cai Yi's descendants were not touched by the love between their father and Xiao Fengxian, and felt that Xiao Fengxian was completely self-made and sentimental.
His father did not have any love for Xiao Fengxian at all, but the situation at that time required Xiao Fengxian to cover up, and it was Xiao Fengxian himself who fell into the love lie he had woven. From beginning to end, it was The Reverie of Xiao Fengxian alone. If it were not for Xiao Fengxian, his mother would not have quarreled with his father, and Xiao Fengxian had destroyed their family harmony.
The love between Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi began in the land of fireworks and willow lanes, and perhaps the ending was not perfect, but it is undeniable that Xiao Fengxian gained happiness in this relationship. And she helped Cai Yi escape from Yuan Shikai's control, so that Cai Yi could overthrow Yuan Shikai's rule with his troops. She was born in a chaotic world, but she has a patriotic heart, which is worthy of respect by many people.
The most colorful stroke of Xiao Fengxian's life was left by Cai Yi, a young and promising general who captured Xiao Fengxian's heart when he first saw him, so that Xiao Fengxian could no longer meet someone as good as him. In the end, she could only take this young love into the grave. Sure enough, when you are young, you can't meet people who are too amazing, otherwise you won't be able to spend the rest of your life in peace.