History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
"Give someone a rose, and your hand will have a lingering fragrance." Helping others is a traditional Chinese virtue, and today we are going to tell a story of helping others. At that time, a dusty servant and scholar-like person once went to the Shanghai Jinjiang Restaurant for help at the suggestion of a friend, and the female boss Dong Zhujun generously donated money without asking the reason to help this fallen young man survive the crisis, who knew that when they were reunited 20 years later, the other party was already a great big figure in China.
Dong Zhujun, born in 1900 in a slum in Shanghai, although her parents did not prefer sons to daughters, but did their best to provide her with education, but after all, the family was poor, and her parents could not afford too much tuition, so Dong Zhujun dropped out of school without reading for a few years. In 1912, Dong Zhujun's father had a serious illness, and the family was so poor that there was no rice to cook, so forced to be helpless, her parents sent her to the Qinglou and let her sell art in it.
Later, Dong Zhujun met Xia Shi here, who had gone there to collect information, but accidentally got to know Dong Zhujun, and admired her bones that fell into the wind and dust but did not give up, and the two soon fell in love. In 1914, Dong Zhujun escaped with his own skills, and then married Xia Shi.
After marriage, Dong Zhujun gave birth to 4 daughters and 1 son for Xia Shi, but Xia Shi's thinking was more feudal, thinking that there was no need for her daughter to study, anyway, a woman without talent is moral, and when she grows up, she will marry. But Dong Zhujun did not think so, so the two often quarreled, in 1929, Dong Zhujun finally could not bear it, so he left Xia Shi with 4 daughters, and at the beginning of Xia Shi was not willing to divorce, because he did not think that Dong Zhujun had the ability to support himself and his daughter.
However, after Dong Zhujun returned to Shanghai with her daughter, she opened a Jinjiang restaurant with her own ability, and the business became bigger and bigger, and she also became a well-known local female boss. In 1934, the two separated for five years, and summer had to agree to divorce. Dong Zhujun's Jinjiang restaurant was crowded with people and received countless guests, but in 1930, Dong Zhujun once sponsored a young man who was one of the founding generals of New China, Song Shilun.
In 1927, Song Shilun was arrested as a "suspect" in a coup d'état, and then he was imprisoned for three years, and when he came out, his friends had long been hidden because of the situation, and Song Guolun could not find someone with great fanfare, so he had to secretly search. But he just came out penniless, and had nowhere to go, wandering from Guangzhou all the way to Shanghai.
Later, he met his boyfriend Li Tangcai, but Li Tangcao did not have any money on him and could not give him much help, so Li Tangcao wrote a letter and asked him to take this letter to Dong Zhujun, the owner of Jinjiang Restaurant. Song Shilun was suspicious of the letter, but the situation was urgent, and he had no choice but to take the letter to the Jinjiang Restaurant.
Dong Zhujun read the letter and was relieved, but Song Shilun was a vigilant person and did not dare to easily believe Dong Zhujun, moreover, the Jin Jiang Hotel was a public place after all, mixed with fish and dragons, and not a place to talk casually. Dong Zhujun also understood his concerns, so he gave him a bag of money, and after making sure that he didn't need anything else, he watched him leave safely.
At the beginning of 1950, Dong Zhujun met Song Shilun again, but Dong Zhujun did not immediately recognize Song Shilun, until Song Shilun greeted her first, Dong Zhujun knew that the handsome and tough officer in front of him was actually a dusty servant and a yellow-skinned young man who had fallen into distress, and later Song Shilun was rated as one of the founding generals, but he never forgot Dong Zhujun's kindness, and in the following decades, the two have been close friends.