"Don't believe that the king is really going!" In front of the small window, the vase of flowers is still there, and the book is as it was. The unheard of the pillow is cold, the dream breaks the opening of the heavy door; the beginning of the realization, the fruit is thousands of years. Lonely for the rest of his life, I asked from now on, who is mourning and who is speaking? There is no way out.
The new land met at the beginning of that year. A total of wandering, clear pond to enjoy the moon, Qicheng Waterfall. For forty years with bittersweet, and in the case of poetry and friends; also meet, Kuang Lu hidden feathers. I am self-destructive, of course, the sick leaves leave the tree first. Who ordered it? Upside down. ”
Late one night after the death of her husband Ren Hongjun, Chen Hengzhe was sad and sleepless, got up in his clothes, endured the discomfort of eye diseases, and wrote this "Golden Wisp Song" with a stroke of his pen.
Look at his usual brick platform and books are still quietly placed in the same place, but they are already human. The person who once said that he would be a screen for a lifetime, shielding himself from the wind and rain, has now turned into a piece of yellow earth, separated by yin and yang, and only memories are left to support the rest of his life...
Chen Hengzhe, born in a family of scholars, her father likes to read poetry, and her mother also knows Dali and Wen Wanxianshu, in such a family full of Han mo fragrance, she spent a happy childhood.
When she was thirteen years old, her father wanted to go to Sichuan as an official, and the family decided to go to Sichuan with her father, and only the eldest sister married Guangdong. Chen Hengzhe was influenced by her third uncle since she was a child and pursued freedom, so she wanted to go to Guangdong with her eldest sister, run to her third uncle, and go there to study. After some arguments, she finally got her wish. She studied in Guangdong, Shanghai and other places.
Figure | Chen Hengzhe
In the winter of her sixteenth year, she suddenly received several telegrams from her father, each of which urged her to hurry home and threatened her that if she did not return, she would be cut off from all financial support. She had no choice but to return to her home in Chengdu from Shanghai.
Chen Hengzhe, who had been wandering for four years, returned home warmly, but after a short period of joy, her father said that the main purpose of urging her to return was to marry. Her father favored her as a young man from a high-ranking family, with excellent character and excellent appearance, and thought that he was a wonderful marriage.
However, Chen Hengzhe, who had already seen the outside world, was willing to marry a stranger he had never met. The father was very angry, but he still suppressed his anger and said, "Are you never married?" I don't want my daughter, like a mean woman on the street, to choose her own husband! ”
In the eyes of the father, marriage must be the order of the parents, and the matchmaker's words, those women who pursue free love are lowly women. Chen Hengzhe also did not want to become a lowly woman in his father's eyes, but he did not want to pin his life on a stranger. Therefore, she chose not to marry, stubbornly saying to her father: "I will never get married!" ”
This sentence finally made her father's anger erupt, and that kind of thunderous anger made Chen Hengzhe feel a sense of despair and helplessness, and she fainted in her father's roar. After a serious illness, Chen Hengzhe decided to leave home again and find his way out.
In May 1914, Chen Hengzhe read from the newspaper that Tsinghua School was recruiting international students from all over the country, and was selected with the second place. In the fall of that year, she followed more than a hundred teachers and students and boarded the "China" steamer bound for the United States.
In the United States, after more than a year of language study, she successfully entered the University of Varsha, majoring in Western history and Western literature. The free learning style and strong learning atmosphere here allow her to swim in the ocean of knowledge like a fish in the water.
One day, a friend asked her to help translate an English biography about Ms. Lai Yin, the founder of Mon Ha Women's University in the United States. Chen Hengzhe admired Ms. Laiyin's pioneering spirit, so she translated it very carefully. The original plain English biography has been translated into a legendary novel with flying literature.
Afterwards, she tried to send this "Biography of Lady Laiyin" under the pseudonym "Sha Fei" to the "Quarterly Report of Students Studying in the United States" at that time. Unexpectedly, this article made Ren Hongjun, who was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper at the time, appreciate it endlessly, believing that "the words are remarkable, and they are no longer counted in China, and it is especially rare among foreign female students." ”
Because of this article, she became a long-term contractor of the "Quarterly Report of Students Studying in the United States", and because of this article, Ren Hongjun had an inexplicable good feeling for her, and invited her to join the "China Science Society" that he led and founded, becoming a full member of the Science Society.
Although they had never met, they had already become confidants who talked about each other.
Figure | Ren Hongjun
In the summer of 1916, Ren Hongjun finally found a reason to meet her. During the summer vacation, Ren Hongjun invited friends in the circle to gather in the name of the Science Society, and specially invited Chen Hengzhe. A group of young people swim in the lake and boat, talk about the past and the present, and excite the text.
And Chen Hengzhe's lively and straightforward, handsome figure is even more deeply rooted in Ren Hongjun's heart. He later wrote in the Fifty Self-Descriptions: "At first sight, the love is deepening. However, he knew that Chen Hengzhe advocated celibacy, so he did not dare to leak out this emotion, and could only hide the acacia in his heart, silently looking for an opportunity to get close to the goddess.
Writer Zhang Xiaoxian once said: "When you fall in love with a person, you are always a little afraid, afraid of getting him; afraid of losing him." Because of love, Ren Hongjun, an independent and assertive man since childhood, began to suffer from gain and loss.
When Chen Hengzhe sent him his work "The Book of Yilan" and asked him to sign it. After he drew up the inscription poem several times, he felt unconfident, so he had to ask his friend Hu Shi to check for himself, and finally sent his own inscription poem:
Xinlu did not see Lan Hui again, and every time he remembered Qingfen," he was drunk. He Lai Yusuke Empty Valley Zi, for Jun Cai shu shu. The petals are fragrant and the thin stems and leaves are slightly wide. Mo Xiangyuan looked for another puppet, as if there were many lonely fangs. ”
He carefully hid his mind in the poem, testing the goddess's heart, but Chen Hengzhe did not give him a clear response. "The mountain has wood and branches, and the heart is happy and the jun does not know", he could not guess Chen Hengzhe's heart, did not know whether she liked herself or not, so he was like a young boy, hesitating, not daring to get close, and reluctant to go away.
Perhaps, this is the magic of love.
In the summer of 1917, Ren Hongjun graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree and had to return to China, and he pushed and shoved until October, only to be able to spend a few more days with her.
In November 1919, Ren Hongjun was entrusted to the United States for an inspection due to the preparation of the Sichuan Iron and Steel Factory. As soon as he arrived in the United States, he went straight to Chicago, where Chen Hengzhe was located, and this time, he did not want to miss it again, and plucked up enough courage to say to her: "You are not easy to compromise with ordinary society." I hope to be able to make a screen, standing in the middle of you and society, to enshrine and cultivate a talented woman for China. ”
The woman who had vowed never to marry was finally impressed by him. The belief in celibacy that was once pursued also collapsed in Ren Hongjun's marriage proposal sincerity. A sentence to be your eternal screen is better than how many sweet words in the world.
No matter how strong a woman is, she also hopes that someone will shield herself from the wind and rain; no matter how independent a woman is, she also needs an arm that can be relied on. Ren Hongjun is willing to be a big tree behind her, forever protecting her soft daughter's heart.
Ren Hongjun stayed in the United States for nearly eight months, waiting until Chen Hengzhe graduated and returned to China with her.
Chen Hengzhe returned to China again, the time had come from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and his father's thinking had already changed with the times, so he smoothly accepted the husband she chose for himself.
A few months later, they had a new-style wedding. Ren Hongjun wrote a couplet for his wedding: "Fragrant and common causes, the new moon refills a hundred words." A "biography of Laiyin" is the starting point of their love, and countless poems and letterheads are the testimony of their love.
It is said that marriage is the graveyard of love, but for Chen Hengzhe, this is not the case. After marriage, Ren Hongjun was still romantic with her and loved her as before. She went to Beidaihe with Ren Hongjun to play, walked hand in hand on the seashore at night, sat on a short wall when she was tired, stared at the silver wave surging sea, and recalled the bits and pieces of the past. They waited for days for the sunrise, and finally waited for the shocking moment, allowing the rising sun to smudge their love.
Seemingly ordinary daily life, but how much into the marriage of people's extravagant expectations, and Chen Hengzhe has the privilege of getting, she is happy.
After marriage, she was employed by her husband at Peking University, where she became Peking University and the first female professor in the history of education in China. Soon, she also published the vernacular novels "Little Raindrop", "Boer", and the author of "Western History (Volume I)". It can be said that her career love double harvest.
However, women who are too happy are always easily jealous. At the age of forty-four, when her family and career were on the smooth side, an embarrassing scandal shattered her quiet life.
In the spring of that year, a magazine called "Ten Days' Talk" published an article entitled "Chen Hengzhe and Hu Shi", signed "Predecessors". The article said that Chen Hengzhe, a well-known female writer in the Chinese literary circles, is an American student who has attended the Pacific Society twice, and is no less popular than Bingxin. While she was studying in the United States, Mr. Hu Shi also studied in the United States. Hu Shi was young and handsome, and was favored by this female writer and asked to be married, but Hu Shi did not agree. In order not to live up to her love, Hu Shi introduced her to his Mr. Pengren. Although Chen Hengzhe and Mr. Ren are married, their feelings are always strong.
Figure | Chen Hengzhe and Ren Hongjun and Hu Shi
It is said that "people are fearful of words", and articles like this, any man who reads it will be vinegar and even part ways from then on. After Ren Hongjun saw it, he chose to believe in his wife unconditionally, and he absolutely did not doubt her if he loved her. He had to face the rumors with his wife and take the right channels and a positive way to deal with the matter.
Together, they found Hu Shi and told him about it, and Hu Shi published a statement in the newspaper clarifying the facts. At this point, this farce ended with a rational ending, Hu, Ren and Chen were still good friends, and Ren and Chen were still lovers. Everything is back to square one, no half a point.
Ren Hongjun fulfilled his vows, willing to be a screen and protect Chen Hengzhe for life.
In 1935, Ren Hongjun was appointed president of Sichuan University, and Chen Hengzhe accompanied him with his children. Sichuan is Ren Hongjun's hometown, Ren Hongjun came this time, is to change the face of his hometown, change the status quo of Sichuan's isolation, so he came with a passion, intending to show his grand plans here.
His wife, Chen Hengzhe, unexpectedly brought him a big problem. This trouble comes from Chen Hengzhe's article "Chuan Xing Trivia". In his article, Chen Hengzhe described the inconvenience of living in Sichuan and criticized the current situation of opium smoking in Sichuan. It is said that there are opium smokers like walking dead everywhere, and some families even use opium to entertain guests. It was also concluded that the smoke clouds of opium and the clouds in the sky have become the "two clouds" that can be seen everywhere in Sichuan. She also criticized the Sichuan female students' idea of "preferring to be a general's concubine rather than a peaceful wife."
The article provoked a fierce response from Sichuan nationals, and major newspapers accused Chen Hengzhe in a sea of waves. Saying that she forgot her ancestors and "when Mrs. Kuo made trouble with foreign shelves", some people even used Hu Shi's relationship with her again as a handle to attack her, saying that she still thought of Hu Shi and did not want to marry Ren Hongjun, so she was dissatisfied with Ren Hongjun's hometown.
At the same time, Ren Hongjun also encountered a lot of resistance due to his drastic reforms in his work. However, even in such a difficult situation, Ren Hongjun still chose to take care of his wife. He responded positively to his wife's article:
During Ms. Chen Hengzhe's trip to Sichuan, she published several open letters to her friends, the general name of which is "Trivia of Sichuan Travel". Her purpose was only to record personal experiences and observations. If it is criticized in the text, it is only out of the hope that the Sichuan people will improve, the so-called those who say it are not guilty, and those who hear it are fully disciplined...
Despite Ren Hongjun's efforts to mediate, Chen Hengzhe was disheartened by Sichuan and did not want to stay here any longer, so he decided to leave. Under the influence of Chen Hengzhe, Ren Hongjun proposed his resignation, and The Sichuan masters and students heard that they were very sorry and jointly called the Ministry of Education and Ren Hongjun himself, hoping that he could stay. His friend Hu Shi also wrote a long letter of persuasion, but in the end, Ren Hongjun chose to respect his wife's wishes and leave Sichuan.
Since ancient times, there has been a king who "does not love the country and the country and loves the beauty", and today there is Ren Hongjun, who resigned as the president of the university for his wife, and the power of true love is immeasurable. "A man who loves you, don't look at what he says, look at what he does."
And Ren Hongjun not only said that he would be her eternal screen; he also did it, shielding her from the wind and rain for a lifetime.
A pampered person will maintain a childlike heart until old age.
Chen Hengzhe is like this, she can still be naughty like a child in the year of Hua Jia. It is said that Mr. Yang Dai once again went to Chen Hengzhe's house as a guest, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that the two of them were arguing. Chen Hengzhe propped up his thin body into a "big" character, separated his feet, and stretched his arms open from side to side, blocking the bedroom door and not letting Ren Hongjun enter. Ren Hongjun made a gesture to break in, but several times did not succeed. Chen Hengzhe was victorious and smiled as cute as a naughty child.
Regardless of the disparity in strength between men and women, only on Chen Hengzhe's thin body, how could the tall Ren Hongjun not be able to enter, there was only one explanation, the spoiling of love.
"May one person win the hearts of the people, and the white head will not be separated", this is always just a luxury for everyone, and those who love each other will sooner or later face death. Chen Hengzhe, a man who had been infiltrated by love for more than forty years, finally could not bear the power of the god of death.
That year, Ren Hongjun was seventy-four years old, and on the fiftieth anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, Wu Yuzhang invited Ren Hongjun to give a speech at the commemorative meeting, and Ren Hongjun of course happily agreed. Just as Wu Yuzhang had just left the Ren family, Ren Hongjun was overly excited, suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and was admitted to the hospital.
In the hospital, Chen Hengzhe guarded day and night, praying that he would wake up. However, after more than a month of heart-wrenching anticipation, the hope is still bad news. Ren Hongjun left in a coma without leaving a word, which made Chen Hengzhe grief-stricken.
The solid screen collapsed at once, and love became a sharp thorn, and how deep the thorn was as much as it had been loved. That feeling of pain through her heart, that kind of bone-crushing thoughts made her sleepless at night, and she could only use a poem to pay tribute to the love she had once had, and to send endless mourning:
"What is the most unforgettable, the confidant is incomparable: 'Life is full of business, willing to be the protection of Ping Shan, soaring.'" The mountain feels strong in the wind, and the soft thorn is just injured; who should bear the yellow turn green? Fierce memories will be deeply protective, tears in the eyes. ”
Text | First brew