Zhang Youyi, Xu Zhimo's original match, he is a strong woman, known as the "first abandoned woman of the Republic of China". In 1922, Zhang Youyi, who was pregnant, went to England to look for her husband, but in exchange for a sentence from Xu Zhimo, "Are you willing to be the daughter-in-law of the Xu family instead of Xu Zhimo's wife?" ”
Deeply disappointed, Zhang Youyi went to Berlin, Germany, to look for her brother Zhang Jiasen. Shortly after giving birth to his second son Peter in a German hospital, Xu Zhimo reappeared, carrying a divorce agreement without looking at the second son. At that moment, Zhang Youyi was desperate, and she signed the divorce agreement with tears.
The misfortune was not alone, and soon Peter died prematurely. Zhang Youyi was extremely painful, and many years later she said: "I want to thank Xu Zhimo for the divorce, if it were not for the divorce, I may never be able to find myself, nor can I grow." My life can probably be divided into two, before going to Germany and after going to Germany. After going to Germany, I encountered the heaviest trauma of my life, divorced my husband, and my beloved son died in another country, which was the darkest time of my life, and everything fell to the bottom. So, no more fear! ”
Zhang Youyi decided to change herself completely, she studied desperately, and soon the image of "dirt bun" disappeared. After returning from Germany, Zhang Youyi was the vice president of Shanghai Women's Commercial Bank, which was losing money badly at the time. Zhang Youyi used her family's connections and outstanding financial risk management capabilities to make the bank quickly turn a profit.
Zhang Youyi was abandoned by her husband and should hate Xu Zhimo, but she is the person who loves Xu Zhimo the most. Niece Zhang Bangmei asked Zhang Youyi more than once: "Have you ever loved Xu Zhimo?" At first, Zhang Youyi did not answer, and the last time she slowly replied:
"You always ask me if I love Xu Zhimo. You know, I can't answer that question. I was confused by this question, because everyone always told me that I had done so much for Xu Zhimo, and I must have loved him. However, I can't say anything about love, and I haven't said 'I love you' to anyone. If taking care of Xu Zhimo and his family can be called 'love', then I probably love him. Of the few women he's met in his life, maybe I love him the most. ”
Many people saw Zhang Youyi's words and were impressed by her pattern. Zhang Youyi finally lived to be her own form, she finally stopped being a promise, and finally became a woman at another level. When Xu Zhimo was wrecked, the Xu family did not allow Lu Xiaoman to attend the funeral. Zhang Youyi, like a loyal wife, single-handedly handled the funeral, which greatly touched the Xu family.
In fact, Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru, has always regarded Zhang Youyi as a daughter-in-law, and Zhang Youyi also sent her in-laws to her death after divorce. After divorcing Xu Zhimo in 1922, Zhang Youyi lived alone for many years until she met the doctor Su Jizhi in Hong Kong in 1953. After the two got along for a few years, Su Jizhi proposed to Zhang Youyi.
Although Zhang Youyi liked Su Jizhi, she still wrote to her son Xu Jikai who was far away in the United States. Xu Jikai replied after receiving the family letter, "My mother and widow have lived in the festival for more than thirty years, giving birth to me and nurturing me, bowing me and nurturing me." The life of the mother, the little joy, the mother's duty has been exhausted, the mother's heart should be comforted, who comforts the mother's family? Who accompanies the mother? If the mother is a man, the son asks the father to do things. ”