Before marriage, he was rejected by her husband, and after marriage, she was coldly violent, forced to divorce in a foreign country, and her son died in a foreign country. What kind of woman is this, what kind of ending, can deserve the upheaval and displacement of the first half of her life.
Zhang Youyi, born in 1900 in Baoshan, Jiangsu Province, entered the "Jiangsu Provincial Second Girls' Normal School" in 1912 with the help of her second brother Zhang Junjie and her fourth brother Zhang Junxuan. Three years later, Zhang Youyi, who had not yet completed his studies, was managed by his fourth brother Zhang Junzhang and married Xu Zhimo, the only son of Xu Shenru, a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan. Therefore, 15-year-old Zhang Youyi dropped out of school to marry into the Xu family as a young grandmother, and Xu Zhimo is full of disgust, in his eyes, Zhang Youyi is a countryman, not worthy of him at all, the reason why he accepted this marriage, is only "the fate of his parents, the words of the matchmaker". After marriage, Zhang Youyi honored her in-laws and virtuous Shude, and all this was dull and boring in Xu Zhimo's eyes. In the eyes of people who don't love you, everything is wrong, and Zhang Youyi is like this. In 1918, Zhang Youyi gave birth to her eldest son, Xu Jikai, and soon After, Xu Zhimo went to Europe to study. Zhang Youyi took on the responsibility of caring for her parents and children alone.
In 1920, Zhang Youyi received a letter from Xu Zhimo, in which Xu Zhimo asked her to go to Europe to reunite with her. Zhang Youyi thought that her husband had turned back, and she packed her bags and went to Europe with joy. What she didn't expect, however, was that the trip to Europe was the darkest and most painful time of her life. Soon after arriving in Europe, Zhang Youyi became pregnant again, and when she told her husband the news with great joy, his husband ruthlessly let her beat the fetus, and his face was impatient. Zhang Youyi did not dare to refute it, but said weakly: "I heard that some people died because of beating the fetus." Xu Zhimo said coldly: There are still people who die because of taking the train, don't people take the train? And to divorce immediately, seeing that Zhang Youyi did not agree, he left and left Zhang Youyi alone in Boston.
Zhang Youyi, who was pregnant with Liujia and could not speak, was thrown by Xu Zhimo in a foreign country. Later, he also received a divorce letter from Xu Zhimoto. In desperation, Zhang Youyi left Boston and went to her second brother Zhang Junjie, who was studying in Paris. At the beginning of 1922, Zhang Youyi went to Berlin with her seventh brother who was passing through Paris to study in Germany to give birth. During this period, Xu Zhimo was well aware of Zhang Youyi's whereabouts, but he never asked. In February 1922, Zhang Youyi gave birth to her second son, Peter, and immediately signed a divorce with Xu Zhimo. After signing the divorce agreement, Xu Zhimo followed Zhang Youyi to the hospital to see Little Peter, but he never asked Zhang Youyi how to raise him and how he wanted to live. After the divorce, Zhang Youyi entered Pestaloch College to study early childhood education. Peter died of peritonitis in 1925 at the age of 3. The pain made people sober, and at this moment, Zhang Youyi suddenly understood that everything in life was to rely on herself. The pain of divorce and the loss of her son made Zhang Youyi grow up overnight. With a broken heart, Zhang Youyi traveled to Germany, studying while working, and learned fluent German.
In 1926, Zhang Youyi was taken back to Shanghai by her eighth brother Zhang Yujiu, and soon took her eldest son Xu Jikai to Beijing to study, and it was not until Zhang's mother died that she took her children back to Shanghai. After returning to Shanghai, Zhang Youyi went to soochow University to teach German. Not long after, the Shanghai Women's Commercial Bank, in order to curry favor with Zhang Junzhang, who was already a vice president of the Bank of China, found Zhang Youyi and asked her to receive a salary in the bank's name. Zhang Youyi took this opportunity to solve the bank crisis with her connections, background and credibility, and let the bank turn losses into profits under her operation, so Zhang Youyi opened all the way and achieved the position of vice president of Shanghai Women's Commercial Savings Bank. At the same time, Zhang Yujiu and Xu Zhimo opened a yunsheng clothing store, and they saw Zhang Youyi's management skills and invited her to be the general manager. Zhang Youyi boldly innovated, while using the three-dimensional tailoring method, soft Chinese and Western cultural elements, soon became popular in Shanghai, many Shanghai celebrities to wear the clothes of Yunsheng Clothing Company, Yunsheng Clothing has also become the leading clothing company in Shanghai. In 1934, Zhang Junjie presided over the establishment of the National Socialist Party, and Zhang Youyi was invited to manage the party's finances. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance, she hoarded military fuel and made a windfall.
On the eve of liberation, Zhang Youyi went to Hong Kong. In 1953, Zhang Youyi married a neighboring Chinese medicine practitioner Su Jizhi in Hong Kong. After Su Jizhi's death in 1972, Zhang Youyi moved to the United States to reunite with her family. He died in New York in 1988. In her later years, Zhang Youyi said that her life was divided into "before going to Germany" and "after going to Germany". Before going to Germany, she was afraid of everything, afraid of divorce, afraid of doing the wrong thing, afraid of not getting the love of her husband, seeking perfection, but she was hurt again and again. After going to Germany, he encountered the heaviest pain in his life, was forced to divorce, and his son died in a foreign country. The darkest time of her life was like a big net, overwhelming her, and everything fell to the bottom.
Throughout Zhang Youyi's life, although it is bumpy, it is very inspiring. Her successful counterattack perfectly explains to the world the fact that "women must be themselves at all times and rely on themselves".