Probably many only children have fantasized about having an older brother, because the older brother will take care of and protect himself. Of course, the brother in reality is not necessarily a "warm man", or it may be a "Fan Shengmei her brother" who asks for it excessively. Today I want to tell the story of a pair of brothers and sisters, the brother in the story may not be heard by many people, but the sister is absolutely known to everyone.
She is Zhang Youyi. For a long time, Zhang Youyi has been a poor young woman in our minds, married to the famous Xu Zhimo at the age of 15, and went to Europe to find a husband 5 years later, but her husband insisted on divorcing her in order to pursue true love Lin Hui, when she was pregnant. Later, Zhang Youyi gave birth to a child and became a professional woman by self-learning.
In the whole process, Zhang Youyi's changes are almost like a rebirth. But most people only notice the love-hate entanglement between Zhang, Xu, and Lin, but ignore Zhang Youyi's brother. The Xu family is a rich merchant's family, the Zhang family is a famous door, Zhang Youyi's parents raised 8 sons and 4 daughters, and Zhang Junji (mài) is Zhang Youyi's second brother.
The older brother was born in 1887 and is 3 years older than Zhang Youyi. At the age of 19, he was admitted to Waseda University in Japan, and later went to Germany to study, and became an influential philosopher and politician after returning to Japan. Zhang Youyi admired the second brother very much and felt that he was quite capable.
Of course, there are also reasons why the brothers and sisters have a good relationship. On Vesta Day in 1903, Zhang Youyi's mother gave her a bowl of tangyuan (at that time, people thought that after eating soft and sticky tangyuan feet, they could also become soft), and then asked the grandmother of the family to use a damp cloth to wrap Zhang Youyi's feet for preliminary foot binding. Zhang Youyi's feet were strangled and curled up, and she was in pain.
She couldn't help but cry, but Grandma and her mother still insisted. In the end, Zhang Junjie stood up to stop this behavior, and when his mother asked him what to do if his sister could not marry out in the future, Zhang Junjie patted his chest and said that he could take care of his sister. It is difficult to imagine a child of a few years old having such a sense of responsibility, but Zhang Junjie really did what he said.
In 1915, Zhang Youyi stopped her studies halfway through the arrangement of her family and married into the Xu family. Three years later, Zhang Youyi gave birth to her eldest son, when Xu Zhimo transferred to the United Kingdom to study, he received a letter from Zhang Junjie, saying that he hoped that he could take his sister over and not let her stay alone in her hometown.
Unexpectedly, although Xu Zhimo took Zhang Youyi over and Zhang Youyi became pregnant, Xu Zhimo still insisted on divorce. Zhang Youyi tearfully agreed, but she was alone in a foreign country and abandoned by her husband, and she really did not know where to go. In desperation, Zhang Youyi wrote to her brother and asked him what he should do.
Unlike Xu Zhimo, Zhang Junjie did not strongly ask Zhang Youyi to have a fetus, but wrote back: "Don't beat the fetus, brother is willing to adopt, abandon everything, and come to Paris." Zhang Youyi was also deeply moved after seeing these 16 words, and only blood relatives were left to save herself at the critical moment.
Later, Zhang Junji took his sister to Germany, and he encouraged her to continue her studies, and Zhang Youyi made up her mind to learn Western early childhood education. Although the youngest son born to her second child died prematurely, with the comfort of her brother, Zhang Youyi still stubbornly carried the blow. To emphasize one more point: Zhang Jiazhang, the chairman of the Bank of China at that time, was the fourth brother of Zhang Youyi.
Therefore, later Zhang Youyi served as the vice president of Shanghai Women's Commercial Bank, which was also inseparable from the support of her brother. As we all know, there are many women who were abandoned by their husbands because of arranged marriages during the Republic of China period, and Zhang Youyi can achieve such outstanding achievements after being abandoned, which is inseparable from her brother who cares for her and loves her. To some extent, Zhang Junjie can be called a model brother of the Republic of China.