There is a saying in the "Broken Kiln Endowment": "When the sky is not good, the sun and the moon have no light; when the earth is not good, the grass and trees are not born; when the water is not good, the wind and waves are uneven; when people are not allowed, good luck is not clear." "Under the creation of various coincidences, a person's fate may change greatly, and even affect the course of history, just as a butterfly gently flaps its wings and a tornado has laid the groundwork.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a woman experienced many hardships by chance, and finally accidentally married a rich merchant and gave birth to a son, when the son became a famous figure, she was also remembered by history. And before she remarried, her identity was actually a nun, what kind of fate did she have?
She is Wang Caiyu, and everything That Wang Caiyu experienced in the first half of her life is like Qiong Yao's bitter love plot. In 1863, during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor, Wang Caiyu was born in Gezhu Village, Shengxian County, Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province, his father Wang Youze once lost his wife, and after continuing the string, he got Wang Caiyu's daughter, he had a way of business, reclaimed the wilderness to get rich, earned a lot of family business, for 7 children to study and eat more than enough.
Because there are not many daughters, Wang Youze loves Wang Caiyu in every way, Wang Caiyu is smart and clever, knows how to make his father happy, has a peaceful and happy childhood, and even got the opportunity to read and write. However, the Wang family did not have the intention of cultivating female champions, and Wang Caiyu's main energy was still focused on cultivating needlework women, and eventually grew into a traditional virtuous type of woman.
At the age of 19, the first change in Wang Caiyu's life occurred, and his father died. At the same time, the Wang family's family situation is not as good as before, several brothers are either not a tool, or sick, the family relies on Wang Caiyu to do some needlework to sell money to support. But in that era, when a woman reached a certain age, she had to marry, and Wang Caiyu's mother promised her to a family surnamed Zhu, hoping that her son-in-law would help her.
Unexpectedly, after Wang Caiyu married, her husband was still good to her at first, and after a long time, his machismo and impatient temper were revealed, but whenever he was a little unsatisfactory, he scolded Wang Caiyu. Wang Caiyu endured silently, and soon, she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, and the in-laws were overjoyed, and Wang Caiyu's situation also improved somewhat.
But "the sky has unpredictable storms, people have bad luck", Wang Caiyu's son died before he reached the age of one, and her husband soon died of illness due to the local plague epidemic. This is the second major change that Wang Caiyu suffered, young and widowed, she almost lost hope in life, and the villagers not only did not sympathize with her, but also whispered behind her back, saying that she was an "ominous woman" who killed her father, son and husband.
Therefore, Wang Caiyu decided to live in a nunnery for the rest of his life. But the mother resolutely disagreed with her daughter's hair loss, and Wang Caiyu, who did not want her mother to be sad, chose to bring her hair to practice and eat vegetarian small dishes, she was originally ready to live like this, but she did not expect that one day, a jianghu warlock looked at her face and predicted that she would have a blessed face and would definitely give birth to a noble son in the future.
Wang Caiyu was suspicious, and it just so happened that her cousin Wang Xiandong came to visit and told her that her owner Jiang Zhaocong had lost his wife, and that it was a destiny with Wang Caiyu, although he was 22 years older than Wang Caiyu, but this was not a problem! The fortune teller has seen it earlier, you and Mr. Jiang are in harmony with the eight characters, missed this good fate, and it will be difficult to wait in the future.
Under the persuasion of her mother and cousin, Wang Caiyu was indeed vulgar and married Jiang Zhaocong, who was 23 years old. After getting married, Wang Caiyu gave birth to 2 sons and 2 daughters in succession, of which the name of the eldest son was taken from the Zhou Yi allusion: "(Yu Gua) 62, between the stone, not all the day, Zhen ji." "Elephant" said: "Not all day long Zhenji", to Zhongzheng also ..."
9 years later, Wang Caiyu's life was suddenly hit by a series of changes again, her husband died of illness, a son and a daughter also died one after another, Wang Caiyu was almost desperate, but she still wiped away her tears, cheered up her spirits, and went all out to cultivate her eldest son to become a material. Wang Caiyu believed the fortune teller's words that "this son will be a great nobleman in the future", and despite the opposition of his relatives, he supported him to go abroad to study for further study.
Later, Wang Caiyu's son went to the anti-Qing road and even became the "president". But Wang Caiyu died as early as 1921, and she suffered many hardships in her life, struggling with the oppression of traditional ideas like many women of that era, and if it were not for the fact that her son was too famous, perhaps no one would remember her at all.
It is life that has tempered Wang Caiyu's heart, making her change from a traditional virtuous woman to a brave mother, all of which happened with coincidences, no matter how history evaluates her son, her perseverance and courage not to bow her head easily in the face of suffering are all worthy of admiration.