The name Zhao Yidi is well known to the world because of the young marshal Zhang Xueliang.
People's evaluations of her have been mixed: the praise is that she gave up comfort and prosperity for the sake of the people she loved, and went to accompany the other party to endure a life of harsh house arrest;
What was degraded was that she interfered in other people's marriages, causing Yu Feng, who had been alone for many years, to be divorced in her later years.
In fact, from a woman's point of view, whether it is Yu Fengzhi or Zhao Yidi, it is desperate for the man he loves, and it is difficult to tell right or wrong.
An attractive man, despite his manners and half-heartedness, always has good women who die for him.
This reminds me of Hu Shi, Jiang Dongxiu, Wei Liansi and Cao Chengying, which one did not love him until death, for his sake?
Therefore, women in the world are always affectionate, affectionate, and hurt by love.
In his later years, Zhao Yidi wrote in the book "New Life":
"Why are you willing to give up yourself? Only for love, willing to give oneself. The world is willing to give up their lives for the sake of their country and for the people they love. ”
In fact, is this not a portrayal of herself?
Beidaihe was "saved by heroes", and since then he has been a young marshal
When she was a teenager, Zhao Yidi had fair skin, beautiful features, slim figure, and temperament like an elegant orchid. She doesn't like to go to lively dances like her sisters, she just likes to read quietly at home.
Zhao Yidi naturally did not want to go, but her sister and brother-in-law had a tough attitude and said that there was a person who wanted to see her.
Zhao Yidi couldn't push it off, only to harden his scalp. Under her constant questioning, the eldest sister told her that the person who wanted to see her was Zhang Xueliang, the eldest son of the great warlord Zhang Zuolin.
Zhao Yidi was shocked, Zhang Zuolin, a warlord who had killed into Beijing from the northeast, was a person whose father had always looked down on him, and presumably his son would not be much better.
At this moment, she saw her eldest brother-in-law Feng Wufan walking into the dance hall with a group of soldiers in gray military uniforms, one of whom looked majestic and upright, presumably Zhang Xueliang.
Zhao Yidi rushed out of the hotel desperately, she did not want to see this person that her father hated. As a result, Zhang Xueliang missed this opportunity to meet Zhao Yidi.
Why did he want to see her? We should also start with the "Beiyang Pictorial" founded by Feng Wufan.
One of the covers of one issue is a jade photo of Zhao Yidi. Her fresh and unworldly temperament immediately attracted the attention of many people, including Zhang Xueliang.
In the summer of 1927, Zhang Xueliang stayed at the Zhangjialou in Beidaihe to take a short vacation, where he swam, listened to plays, read books, and lived a life of "stealing half a day of idleness".
One day, when he was playing at the beach, he suddenly saw a young girl drowning, and he was about to be swept away by the sea, and in the exclamation of her companions, Zhang Xueliang did not hesitate much, jumped into the sea, and rescued the girl on the shore.
He didn't know that she was the fourth miss of the Zhao family that he had always wanted to see. Until a few days later, Zhao Yidi personally came to the door to thank him.
It was during those days that the young couple often interacted, playing tennis, chess, swimming together...
Zhao Yidi found that Zhang Xueliang was not the kind of clumsy boy he imagined, but humorous and approachable, not to mention that he was still his own savior.
So after a short time together, Zhao Yidi was moved by Zhang Shaoshuai.
Zhao Si's swimsuit photo in Beidaihe
In the autumn of that year, Zhao Yidi entered the English Department of Yenching University in Beijing.
It was not until nearly the summer of 1928 that Zhang Xueliang returned from the front line and met zhao Yidi.
However, within a few days, the news came that the old marshal Zhang Zuolin had been bombed in Huanggutun, and the whole country was in an uproar.
On a rainy night a few days later, Zhang Xueliang arranged a military vehicle and secretly returned to Shenyang. He met with Zhao Si at the train station and welcomed her to Northeastern University.
After that, Zhao Yidi has been trapped in the thought of Zhang Xueliang.
In the winter, she returned to Tianjin, and at the end of the year, she heard the news of Northeast Yizhi, and she felt particularly excited.
Subsequently, the eldest sister and brother-in-law brought news that Zhang Xueliang had sent the deputy commander Tan Hai to Tianjin to pick her up in the northeast.
He didn't forget their agreement!
For love to go to the end of the world, he risked his life to give birth to a son for the Zhang family
For love, Zhao Yidi took a train with Tan Hai and headed for the snow-capped northeast.
However, on the day she arrived in Shenyang, her father, Zhao Qinghua, learned of her daughter's departure.
Even if he ran away, it was the Zhang family that he hated the most, not to mention that Zhang Xueliang was already a man with a wife.
Zhao Qinghua was distressed about her daughter and did not want her to go to other people's homes to be small and be bullied. To this end, he also specially booked a family affair for his daughter, but he did not expect...
In the next few days, the news of Miss Zhao Si's departure was not far away, and the pot exploded in Tianjin.
Because the object involved was Zhang Xueliang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, some tabloids and media took the opportunity to speculate, and even added oil and vinegar to render Zhao Si's departure into a peach news.
However, on January 18, 1929, Zhao Qinghua published a public notice in a newspaper in Tianjin for five consecutive days, announcing that he and his fourth daughter, Zhao Qixia, had broken off the father-daughter relationship.
Zhao Yidi (second from right) and his older brother Zhao Yansheng (first from left) on an outing in Beiping
Immediately afterward, Zhao Qinghua resigned his official post, left Tianjin, and lived alone in a private house at the foot of Beiping Xiangshan Mountain. Until his death in 1952.
Zhang Xueliang first placed Zhao Yidi in the Beiling Villa, Zangjiao, in the Beiling Villa, far from the city.
However, due to the uproar caused by her departure in the society, it naturally spread to Zhang Mansion.
Yu Fengzhi was particularly angry about this, before Gu Ruiyu's matter was not easy to suppress, and now there was a zhao Yidi!
She resolutely refused to let him enter the Shuai Mansion, and Zhang Xueliang made a big fuss with Yu Fengzhi several times, and even pulled out the pistol in his waist in anger to threaten Fengzhi to compromise, and Yu did not give in. This caused Zhang Xueliang a headache.
In order to continue to follow what he loved, Zhao Yidi actually proposed not to have any name and accompany Zhang Xueliang as a permanent secretary. Her true feelings touched Zhang Xueliang, and also touched Yu Fengzhi, who was already generous and kind.
Beiling Villa
After a period of observation, Yu Fengzhi's view of this little girl changed, so he proposed to build a small building for her (that is, today's Zhao Si XiaoLou on the east side of the Shuai Mansion).
In the summer of 1930, Zhao Yidi suddenly felt an itch in his back, and he also grew some erythema, and then he became more and more severe, and he also festered and pus, and he found many doctors who could not see it well.
Later, under Zhang Xueliang's arrangement, he returned to Tianjin to live in Union Hospital, and was diagnosed by doctors as suffering from stubborn carbuncle. After careful treatment, the disease finally eased.
But then it happened to make everyone sweat - Zhao Yidi was pregnant, and it had been many months!
At that time, the doctor's advice was to remove the child, otherwise the mother and child's life might be lost.
Zhang Xueliang also advised Zhao Yidi to take it, but Zhao refused, she couldn't bear to kill the innocent little life, she wanted to gamble.
Perhaps it was the mother's love that touched the heavens, her illness actually improved quickly, and by November 28, she gave birth to a baby boy safely, which made Zhang Xueliang happy.
They named the baby boy Lu Lin.
Zhang Xueliang must have never dreamed that this son had become the only son he had successfully survived, and he and Yu Fengzhi's three sons had all died in the middle!
After Yu Fengzhi knew that Zhao Yidi had given birth, he came to the door for the first time to meet Zhao Yidi.
Yu Fengzhi brought her eggs, millet, dates, brown sugar, etc., as well as many exquisite baby clothes and diapers. This made Zhao Yidi particularly moved.
Two women who deeply loved the same man have since eliminated all mustard and jointly assisted Zhang Xueliang and become his right and left arms. They also fell in love with each other as they learned more.
Zhang Xueliang's left and right sides are Yu Fengzhi and Zhao Si
Accompanied by the love of seclusion for half a lifetime, the same faith - from Wang Yangming to Christianity
In 1933, Zhang Xueliang went to the field, and then announced that he would go to Europe to investigate, and would take Fengzhi, Zhao Yidi and the children with them.
Until 1934, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Zhang Xueliang to return to China as the deputy commander of the "Suppression General" of Eyuwan, Yu Fengzhi stayed in Britain to take care of three children studying abroad, and let Zhao Yidi accompany Zhang Xueliang back to China.
Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner until the "Xi'an Incident" occurred. After Zhang Xueliang insisted on sending Chiang Kai-shek back to Nanjing, he never returned! He was placed under house arrest.
Zhao Yidi was very anxious, she wrote a letter to Yu Fengzhi, the "eldest sister" in Britain, while entrusting her son to the care of her mother, she packed up herself and rushed to the Xuedou Temple at the mouth of Fenghua Creek to accompany Zhang Xueliang.
After Yu Fengzhi returned to China, he ran to all sides, and after asking for help from Song Meiling and Kong Xiangxi, he also expressed his determination to accompany Zhang Xueliang. After obtaining permission, she also ran to xuedou temple.
In 1937, Yu Fengzhi accompanied Zhang Xueliang at Xuedou Mountain
Yu Fengzhi initially consulted with Zhao Si, each of whom changed one a month to accompany Zhang Xueliang, and later because Lu Lin was young and could not leave her mother, Yu took on the responsibility of accompanying Zhang Xueliang alone and let Zhao Yidi return to Shanghai.
After the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", Zhao Yidi took Lu Lin to Hong Kong, where she lived for nearly three years.
For three years, she thought about Zhang Xueliang all the time. However, due to Zhang being transferred to many places, they could not communicate at all, and the communication was interrupted.
Until March 1940, the visit of two uninvited guests broke Zhao Yidi's peaceful life.
They were military agents sent by Dai Kasa, and the two also brought Zhang Xueliang's letter.
Seeing the long-lost, familiar brush words, Zhao Yidi's eyes were filled with tears, and she learned from the letter that Yu Fengzhi had breast cancer and must go to the United States for treatment. Zhang Xueliang missed Zhao Si very much and hoped that she would accompany him.
After reading the letter, Zhao Yidi almost immediately made up his mind - to accompany Zhang Xueliang, no matter how hard and tired, there is no regret!
Zhao Yidi (first from left) decided to go from Hong Kong to Guizhou to accompany Zhang Xueliang and bid farewell to his relatives and friends in Hong Kong
She first entrusted her 10-year-old young son to Zhang Xueliang's close friend in the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Iyag, and then resolutely went to Guizhou, where Zhang Xueliang was at the time.
Fifty years!
Zhang Xueliang was placed in Yangmingdong, and Chiang Kai-shek liked Wang Yangming, so he asked Zhang Xueliang to read Wang Yangming's surviving poems and philosophical texts in the cave, cultivate himself well, and reflect on himself. At the same time, ask him to write a monthly experience material.
Zhao Yidi accompanied Zhang Xueliang and continued to act as a secretary, helping him copy and organize his notes. In addition, the two also studied the History of the Ming Dynasty together.
Who could have imagined that the young marshal who once galloped on the battlefield was now studying Yang Ming Xinxue in an isolated place? This reversal is also too strong, only blame the impermanence of fate!
Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi (first and second from right) in Guizhou pose with agents monitoring them
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhang Xueliang was still not free.
Together with Zhao Si, he was secretly transported to Taiwan, settled in Inoue Onsen in Hsinchu County, and then transferred to Qingquan and Kaohsiung.
The appearance of Dong Xianguang, a former Kuomintang "ambassador" to the United States, changed the trajectory of Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi's lives. Of course, this has a lot to do with Song Meiling's introduction.
Song Meiling had promised Zhang and Zhao that they would ask someone to help them review English and teach the Bible.
Song finally locked his eyes on Dong Xianguang, because he was an old acquaintance with Zhang and Zhao.
In 1954, Dong Xianguang and his wife both lived in Xiziwan, Kaohsiung.
Because of Song Meiling's previous explanation, when Dong Xianguang taught Zhao Yidi English, Mrs. Dong was next to her to persuade Zhao Yidi to join Christianity by chatting.
Zhao was gradually touched by the sincerity of the Dong couple and began to pray and sing hymns with them.
Later, Zhang Xueliang was also infected by everyone and began to believe in Christianity.
Zhang Xueliang, Zhao Yidi and Dong Xianguang
Fast forward half a year, and Dong Xianguang and Zhang Xueliang collaborated on the translation of a Christian lecture book, "Meet in the Skull Land", which was published in Hong Kong in 1970.
It was also at this time that the new appointment came down, and the Dong couple returned to the United States to take up their posts.
Zhang and Zhao were reluctant to these two friends, and they opened their mouths to make a request to each other - to go to the United States to help them find their son, Zhang Lulin, who had been missing for fifteen years. They provided the address of Iyarg to the Dong couple.
After many efforts, the Dong couple finally found Zhang Lulin, who has become an adult. He was well cared for by Iyag and worked at NASA.
Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Xueliang and Zhang Lulin (first from the right) family
Pear blossom begonias grow old together, and 40 years of dedication have finally gained fame!
The time soon came to the 1960s, and zhao Yidi had been with Zhang Xueliang for more than thirty years.
She lost her freedom for Zhang Xueliang, lost time with her children, and did not have any fame.
If you put it in the past when the wind and water were smooth, Zhang Xueliang may not care about Zhao Yidi's efforts.
But now that he was nothing but a prisoner, this woman was still with him as always, taking care of him and caring for him. How could he not be moved?
His affection for Zhao Yidi can be seen in Zhang's letters to Zhao Yidi in 1955, when Zhao suddenly had a fever in Qingquan, became seriously ill, and was sent to Taipei for medical treatment (by the way, tooth removal).
It was a busy time for the Messenger!
Here are a few excerpts from:
"I think you're in Taipei, you often have friends coming, you have things to do, eat appetizingly, you like to eat dim sum, maybe eat the dim sum you like, so you're fat, you don't have to 'enjoy it'." It's a joke, I know you're in a hurry to get back, don't worry! Or get your teeth right. ”
"Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, last night, the moon on this mountain is wonderful, I walked on the court with my kitten for more than half an hour before going back to the house to sleep, if you are at home, how fun it is." 」
"I've read a lot of novels, and some of them are quite interesting, and if you sit in the moonlight and tell you stories, you say, okay?"
At that time, Zhang Xueliang was more than 50 years old, and there was such a love interest, he liked women, not without reason.
Yes, Zhang Xueliang knew that he owed Zhao Si a name, but the time was not ripe. Now, by coincidence, they embraced Christianity with Song Meiling, hoping to be baptized.
But the doctrine stipulates that a husband can have only one wife.
Therefore, the thorny question of whether to choose Yu Fengzhi or Zhao Yidi was pushed in front of Zhang Xueliang's eyes. He couldn't run away any longer.
Although he owed too much to Feng Zhi, Zhang Xueliang finally chose Zhao Yidi, who had been with him for many years.
After Yu Fengzhi agreed to the divorce, on July 4, 1964, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi held a belated wedding.
At the wedding, Zhang Xueliang, whose sideburns were already white, took Zhao Yidi's hand and said affectionately to others: "This is my girl!" ”
On June 1, 1990, Zhang Xueliang's 90th birthday banquet was held in Taiwan.
Zhao Si prepared a special birthday gift for Zhang Xueliang, an article titled "What Kind of a Person Zhang Xueliang Is", which she intends to submit to the newspaper for publication:
"Zhang Xueliang is a man who loves his country and his compatriots very much. He is honest and serious, never deceives, and is responsible for what he does and never prevaricates. He originally hoped to study medicine to save people, but contrary to his wishes, he entered the martial arts hall at the age of 19. ...... Today is his birthday. Thank God for taking such care of him in the past years, for giving him a healthy body, and for giving him spiritual wisdom..."
The elderly Zhang Xueliang read his wife's heartfelt words, and his eyes were moist.
In 1993, Zhang Xueliang, who had been granted full freedom, took his old wife Zhao Yidi to settle in Hawaii, far away from the world's troubles.
A pair of elderly figures often appear on the beach, and no one knows that they are the people who have changed the entire history of modern China.
In 1993, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Xueliang were on a beach in Hawaii
On June 22, 2000, Zhao Yidi, a woman who has devoted her life to love, closed her eyes forever.
Zhang Xueliang sat motionless beside her, clutching her gradually cold hand, an hour had passed, if it were not for the hot and real tears flowing like broken beads on his wrinkled face, people would think that time had stood still...
On the day of the burial, according to the recollections of those present, Zhang Xueliang, who witnessed Zhao Yidi's coffin being moved into the tomb, sat in a wheelchair and had been very silent, suddenly murmured: "She is gone, I want to pull her back!" She cares about me the most! She cares most about me..."
More than a year later, the centenarian Zhang Xueliang also quietly closed his eyes, ending his mixed reputation.
The legendary story of the couple is fatalistic, beginning at the seaside and ending at the seaside.
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