Wen 丨 Bigfoot
"Everything is fate, half a point is not up to people"
When Hong Jinmei, who was over seventy years old, lived alone in a mansion and was terminally ill, but only accompanied by a huge wedding photo with her husband Deng Yongxiang, and an old smoking gun that Deng Yongxiang used before her death, would she have the feeling of "confessing her fate"?
Speaking of Hong Jinmei, although the names of her and Hong Jinbao are only one word apart, she and Hong Jinbao have nothing to do with each other.
People know her not because she is Hong Jinmei, but because she is "Xiang Sister-in-law", the fourth wife of Hong Kong Cantonese opera celebrity Tang Wing-cheung.
Hong Jinmei's life is full of magic, because I have never seen anyone do it more thoroughly than her, and she is measuring how deep the abyss of desire for money really is.
Magical first half of life
Hong Jinmei was born in Hong Kong in 1945, because of the poverty of her family, she went to society early to earn a living. At the age of 17, with a thin waist of 19 inches, she mixed with the North Point Li Palace nightclub, and many celebrities and rich people chased after her.
But she was also one of the most sober dancers. She understands that youth is the least valuable, but how to make good use of her youth and find a long-term meal ticket is the best reward for youth.
The desire for money in poverty and the sober understanding of her youthful appearance laid the groundwork for her subsequent disguised behavior.
She was surrounded by many rich people, but she was still awake. She said: "Uncle Six (Run Run Shaw) invited me to shoot a play, I felt that I was not beautiful enough, filming was not necessarily red, the fourth brother (Xie Xian) also pursued me, but the fourth brother was too flowery." In the end, she fell in love with Deng Yongxiang, the most popular "big brother" in Hong Kong.
Deng Yongxiang, a famous Cantonese opera singer in Hong Kong, known as "New Ma Shi Zeng", is the originator of the creation of a new genre of Cantonese opera, and his representative works include "All Evil and Adultery", "Lying Down and Tasting Courage" and so on.
When Hong Jinmei met Deng Yongxiang, "Brother Xiang" was already very famous in Hong Kong.
This deliberate interaction with a strong purpose is the magical beginning of Hong Jinmei's half life.
From the age of 17 to 47, Hong Jinmei went from a small third to the real "Xiang Sister-in-law", she spent 30 years.
In these 30 years, she accompanied Xiangge every day, from life, work, and meticulous care for Xiangge's life.
Hong Jinmei, who successfully grasped XiangGe's heart, in order to completely consolidate his position as "Xiang Sister-in-law", prevent Xiang Brother from picking flowers and weeds outside, and keep the hard-won "Xiang Sister-in-law" name, which can be described as exhausting efforts.
In order to maintain her 19-inch waist, she did not hesitate to wear a body-shaping suit for thirty years. Later, in order to make herself look mature and make herself more compatible with Xiang Ge, she pulled up her hair and dressed herself up as old-fashioned.
She once said: "I don't want the second woman to serve Brother Xiang, and there is a fifth Sister-in-law, so I will definitely dominate this position." ”
At this time, Xiang Ge and his third wife, Pearl Buck, had not yet divorced. She and Xiang Ge began living together in 1965 and gave birth to four children, including Deng Zhaozun, Deng Zhaorong, Deng Cuiyu (Deng Xiaoai) and Deng Biyu.
This unconditional companionship, as well as the imbalance of deformed love, also deeply affected her children, creating conditions for future love and killing with their children.
It took her 30 years to finally win Xiangge's third wife, Pearl Buck, and finally ushered in Xiangge's identification with her "Xiang sister-in-law" identity in 1992.
That year, the 76-year-old Deng Yongxiang and the 47-year-old Hong Jinmei held a wedding in Hong Kong, which was a sensational wedding in Hong Kong, with Shaw, Tsang Chi-wai, Andy Lau, Zhang Weijian and other figures all attending the ceremony, and TVB also broadcast live.
Deng Yongxiang knelt down on one knee and said to her: "Jin Mei 'hit the order', my heart and liver!" My baby! You are so graceful, you are so exquisite, you are really the rainbow of my life..."
If this is the case, this good story is undoubtedly a comedy that Cinderella finally marries the prince, but this is not the case.
A lifetime of disguise
As mentioned earlier, Hong Jinmei's family is poor, in order to live a better life, in order to live out, she climbed the magnate through her beauty, and finally succeeded in sitting on the throne of "Xiang Concubine", however, for the absolute control of money, her greed tore off the disguise of a lifetime.
In April 1997, five years after Hong Jinmei sat on the identity of "Xiang Sister-in-law", Deng Yongxiang died of illness, leaving behind assets valued at about 420 million.
However, Deng Yongxiang's last words were jaw-dropping, mentioning: "Xiang Sister-in-law is financially independent and cannot get any inheritance, if she raises any disputes, she will be paid a dollar to settle." ”
Is Deng Yongxiang weak and widowed?
Not!
It turned out that although Hong Jinmei had obtained a rich life by attaching herself to "Xiang Brother", she was not satisfied, and in the last few years of Xiang Ge, she secretly transferred Xiang Ge's property to foreign countries, and also privately transferred Xiang Ge's property to her own name, which also led to a rupture in the relationship between the husband and wife.
She put too much energy into how to control Xiang Brother and how to control her money kingdom, so that although she gave birth to two men and two daughters, her relationship with her children has not been deep, which also led to the farce of the property competition between the biological mother and son later.
Deng Yongxiang was her bridge to heaven, and she deserved to receive material compensation for decades of youth, but her desire for money eventually reduced her to ridicule.
People say that tiger poison does not eat children, and Hong Jinmei, who has a strong desire to control, is a word at home, she believes in filial piety under the stick, but in the end, even though she is related to her children by blood, they are not close to each other.
At Deng Yongxiang's funeral, the struggle between mother and son showed a white-hot color.
The four children clung to Deng Yongxiang's statue and ashes, strictly forbidding the appearance of their mother, Hong Jinmei. Hong Jinmei was furious and threatened to rob the corpse of the Lingtang.
In the TV series "Storm of Hearts" that was a fire that year, the little mother Wang Xiuqin was said to be based on Hong Jinmei, and also changed the Lingtang incident of that year and appropriated it into the play.
It is said that with Hong Jinmei's painstaking management for so many years, she has achieved no worries about food and clothing, but for her own selfish desires, she has been blinded by greed, and staged a terrible farce of poisonous tiger food for thousands of melon-eating masses.
The past of regret, the abyss of desire is unfathomable
Several property grab lawsuits during this period were hyped up by the media, which also led to her home being stalked by paparazzi for 24 hours.
In March 2019, Hong Jinmei was photographed alone at the hospital's cancer center.
The 20-year-long farce of mother-child birth finally ended with Hong Jinmei suffering from cancer.
At this time, Hong Jinmei may also realize that without the company of her family, such a bleak old age is lonely, and she once broke down in front of the media and cried that she missed her children.
She began to repent, and the eyes that had been blinded by money finally saw that money was just a passing cloud.
In the end, she set up a family fund in the name of Deng Yongxiang and herself, and more than 1.5 billion yuan of inheritance was left to her children.
In July 2019, Hong Jinmei died of lung cancer. Her life was trapped by profit, although she successfully ascended to the throne through Brother Xiang and enjoyed a prosperous life, in the end she was desolate at night, and she also responded to the old saying: "The world is bustling, all are profitable; the world is bustling, all are profitable." ”
The Austrian psychologist Freud said: Everyone has an angel and a devil in his heart.
Hong Jinmei spent his life drilling for profit, the devil in his heart suppressed the angels, and the abyss of desire was endless in the eyes of the devil.
However, if a person lives for one lifetime, no amount of money can be worth a cup of loess, and life does not bring it, and death does not bring it.
May everyone return to an ordinary and happy life!