One night in 1976, an elderly woman stood by a moat in Beijing, her face full of despair and sadness, and the corners of her mouth were full of a bleak smile, and she jumped into the dark and cold river.
The next morning, the floating body was found by passers-by.
The old woman in this human tragedy is Cai Ruoshu, the wife of Huang Wei, a former senior Kuomintang general.
At this time, the husband, who is immersed in the study of perpetual motion machines, how can he think that because of his own momentary anger, he will send his wife to death.
That year, the talented woman and the general met
Cai Ruoshu was born in a famous family, and at that time, she was beautiful and moving, and she was talented. As her husband, Huang Wei, came from a humble background, but was only a farmer in Guixi Shengyuan, Jiangxi. After the death of his father, Huang Wei chose to apply for the Whampoa Military Academy, and after graduation, he participated in a series of battles and became a deputy division commander.
The two met at a dance party in Hangzhou's West Lake, where the 17-year-old girl and the deputy division commander of Fang Gang at that time fell in love at first sight.
In the eyes of outsiders, the combination of two people can be said to be a heavenly gift, a natural pair.
But who would have thought that the process of two people being together is not easy.
Although the two people fell in love with each other, Huang Wei already had a wife and three sons at that time.
Although Huang Wei and his wife were at odds, Huang Wei's stepmother insisted on not letting Huang Wei marry another woman, and Huang Wei knelt in front of the house with Cai Ruoshu for two days and two nights in order to intercede, but the old lady still did not agree.
Later, after the persuasion and help of relatives, the old lady agreed to divorce Huang Wei and his first wife, but also put forward a very harsh request, Cai Ruoshu could not return to his hometown, and could not enter the ancestral tomb of the ancestral hall.
Such a request, for a woman, can be said to be unacceptable. However, Cai Ruoshu chose to agree, and she comforted Huang Wei and said, "I can have you in my life, and I can't live without you." ”
Her husband was defeated and captured, and she waited for him for 27 years with her children
Since being with Huang Wei, Cai Ruoshu has been happy every day and has given birth to a child for Huang Wei.
Unfortunately, the happy days did not last long, and Huang Wei, as a general, was defeated and arrested in the Battle of Huaihai in 1948. Cai Ruoshu, who learned of this news, felt that the sky had collapsed.
In order to save his family, Cai Ruoshu could only flee to Taiwan with his family. Every day in Taiwan, Cai Ruoshu was very tormented, and he didn't know anything about her husband.
Although Taiwan held a funeral for Huang Wei, Tsai was convinced that her husband was not dead.
In order to find the news of her husband, she came to Hong Kong, and after inquiring from many sources, she learned that her husband was still alive, but he was arrested and reformed.
At that moment, Cai Ruoshu was like seeing the light in the darkness, and she had never felt that she was so happy and excited.
In order to facilitate the reunion with her husband, Cai Ruoshu managed to bring her children to Shanghai. Cai Ruoshu, who had just arrived in Shanghai, found a job in the library to support her children.
At that time, Cai Ruoshu was at the most elegant age of a woman, and it was also the most golden period for a woman. But who would have thought that in order to wait for her husband, the years would turn her into a white-haired old woman.
Although life is hard, when she thinks of being reunited with her husband, Cai Ruoshu feels that life is full of hope.
At the end of 1959, Cai Ruoshu was at home listening to the radio broadcast the amnesty list of the first batch of war criminals, and after the list was read, there was no husband's name, and Cai Ruoshu felt extremely desperate.
After many inquiries, Cai Ruoshu learned that her husband refused to cooperate during the transformation, so the list did not have her husband's name.
Huang Wei, as a general, has a tough personality. Many of Huang Wei's colleagues have said that Huang Wei is a difficult person to get along with, too serious, not smiling, too rigid, and does not know how to adapt these are his adjectives.
And the husband refused to cooperate, the bitter fruit of disobedience was also swallowed by his wife, Cai Ruoshu paid for Huang Wei's stubbornness and prejudice, at this time Cai Ruoshu, in order to wait for her husband, has been waiting for 11 years.
Cai Ruoshu did not know at first that there was a follow-up amnesty list, and when she learned that her husband had not been released, she swallowed many sleeping pills in her grief, until her colleagues found out and sent them to the hospital in time, and only saved her life.
However, swallowing a large number of sleeping pills is not without sequelae at all. Since then, Cai Ruoshu's spirit has begun to have a series of problems, which have also affected her normal work.
After the second batch of the third batch of amnesty lists came out, Cai Ruoshu had the opportunity to meet her husband, but at that time, Hou's husband had already fallen into the study of "perpetual motion machines" and did not care about his wife, children and transformation.
In order to let her husband Huang Wei come out as soon as possible, Cai Ruoshu also had no shortage of persuasion to her husband, and also asked the eldest daughter to bring the information that proved that the "perpetual motion machine" was impossible to achieve, but the husband Huang Wei continued to insist on his prejudice and tore the information brought by the eldest daughter to piece and throw it away.
Such prejudice is a deception to oneself, and the love of oneself is tantamount to the most cruel harm.
In 1970, the paranoid Huang Wei began studying the Communist Manifesto, and it was not until 1975 that he was granted an amnesty.
In order to thank his wife for waiting for many years, Huang Wei, who was free, took his wife and children to take family photos, and Cai Ruoshu in the group photo also lost his former youthful beauty, and all that was left was the old face.
Sharing the news of her son's marriage, but with the anger of her husband, she desperately embarked on a desperate road
The reunion of husband and wife did not make Cai Ruoshu's spirit improve, but it was more serious.
Because of her poor mental state, Cai Ruoshu needs to take a lot of drugs every day to maintain her condition, but the drugs also have great side effects, making it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Years of waiting, waiting for a desperate ending.
Huang Wei, who has gained a free body, still insists on his vision of a "perpetual motion machine", indulges in the experiment of "perpetual motion machine" every day, and does not notice that his wife's increasingly serious illness is.
One night, Cai Ruoshu learned in a letter from his son that his son was getting married. Cai Ruoshu, who learned of this good news, rushed into her husband's laboratory with the letter and wanted to share this good news with her husband.
However, Huang Wei, who was studying, would pay attention to his wife, thinking that her wife had begun to fantasize again.
Watching her husband continue to experiment without reaction, Cai Ruoshu once again read the contents of the letter to her husband aloud.
Huang Wei, who is studying perpetual motion machines, roars at his wife and tells her to get out because of the fragmentation of a part.
This "roll" directly caused the wife's spirit to collapse directly.
She suddenly felt that the 27-year wait was just a farce and joke, just because she had mental problems, she was rejected by her husband and became a drag on the family.
Mentally broken, she walked out of the laboratory, leaving only Huang Wei, who was full of regrets.
Huang Wei, who lost his temper, did not want to apologize to his wife. But with a tough personality, he just couldn't say that sorry, so he stubbornly continued his experiment.
And the mentally broken wife, taking advantage of the night, came to the moat, jumped alone, and ended the wreckage of the body that had been waiting for many years.
27 years of waiting, in exchange for a year of reunion; Cai Ruoshu jumped forward and bid farewell to her husband who had been waiting for many years and loved deeply.
Huang Wei, who heard the news, rushed to the moat like a madman, and jumped directly despite the obstruction of everyone, trying to save his wife who threw himself into the river. It's just a pity that his wife has been dead for a long time, and even if the divine doctor is reborn, she can't save her.
Huang Wei also paid the price for his stubbornness, losing his wife who loved him the most.
A misunderstanding caused by stubbornness has separated the two of them forever.
Fate was destined, after all, he owed her a lot.
In 1989, the 85-year-old Huang Wei also died of illness, leaving a will after his death, hoping to be buried with his wife Cai Ruoshu.
It seems to be a punishment for Huang Wei, and the will was not realized until 27 years later. It wasn't until 2016 that Huang Wei's children buried him with Cai Ruoshu.
For this result, many people also sighed:
She waited 27 years for him to be reunited with him, and he paid the price of 27 years before he was buried with her.
In this life, what he owed her, how to repay, and how to count it?