How happy should you be to be the sister of the beach gangster?
Pictured: Young Du Yuesheng
There is nothing that Mr. Du is uneven
In the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai's commercial atmosphere became increasingly strong. However, bustling cities are often: bandit warlords run rampant, hunger and misery are prevalent, and war sacrifices accompany them. However, no matter who it is, it is inevitable that they will encounter particularly helpless difficulties.
At this time, "find Mr. Du to go" is the most reliable sentence!
Mr. Du, that is Du Yuesheng.
In the great Shanghai, it seems that there is no help that Mr. Du cannot help, and there is no matter that Mr. Du is uneven. No matter the black road or the white road, no matter how big or small. To say that Du Yuesheng has helped countless people, there are countless problems; Mr. Du has solved countless problems!
However, this character who calls the wind and rain on the shanghai beach, helps people solve countless problems, but he cannot solve his own problems.
This problem is Du Yuesheng's mother's mother, who was given to others to raise, and who has no news.
Photo: Old Shanghai
The Earth Emperor was once so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back
When I was in high school, every time I came home, I found that my mother always had to cook a lot of rice when cooking with a rice cooker. I couldn't finish my meal every time, and I ate leftovers at the next meal.
At one point, I finally couldn't help but ask my mother, "Why do you cook so much rice?" ”
My mother hesitated for a moment and said, "Son, I was really hungry when I was a child!" ”
My mother was a small-footed woman born in old China, from a very poor family, often hungry. Later, in the Great Leap Forward era, mothers had to leave rations to a few children who were growing up.
Therefore, my mother has an unforgettable understanding of hunger.
However, hunger should be more severe than Du Yuesheng. Because, compared to my mother, who lost her mother at the age of 7, she was much luckier than Du Yuesheng in childhood.
Du Yuesheng, whose original name was "Du Yuesheng", was born in 1888 on the Zhongyuan Festival, which is also known as the legendary Ghost Festival. Although his hometown of Gaoqiao Town and bustling Shanghai are only 36 miles, there is a world of difference.
The most obvious gap is one word: poor.
So much so that Du Wenqing, his father, who was doing some small business in Yangpu, did not have the joy of being a father after hearing that he had become a father.
Du Wenqing was originally honest and not good at running a business, and at that time, after Shanghai traded, foreign businessmen followed, and a little wind and grass would blow his small business to pieces. The expenses of the family sometimes have to rely on the pregnant wife to sew and wash others to survive.
One more person is one more mouth, so what to fill this little mouth?
In the early summer of the second year of Xiao Yuesheng's birth, it rained for 45 consecutive days in Shanghai, and there was a plague epidemic in the townships near Shanghai. In the year of the plague, countless people died of illness and starvation. There is no sickness, no starvation, and there is always the threat of starvation.
Du Yuesheng's mother had to hold xiao Yuesheng, who was hungry and screaming, and walked more than 20 miles to Yangpu to find the child's father.
Children who cannot be supported
Found the child's father, life has not improved. Just as there is no joy in having a son and not being a father, Du Wenqing did not have a very happy reunion for the arrival of his wife and children.
Alas, the trappedness of survival, 3 mouths, what to eat?
In the years of disaster and plague, even the northwest wind did not drink!
Therefore, Yuesheng's mother decided to work in the yarn mill area of Yangpu. At first, Du Wenqian disagreed. Because of perennial hunger and perennial malnutrition, the wife after giving birth to Du Yuesheng was particularly weak, and moreover, at that time, Du Yuesheng's mother was pregnant again.
However, it is too difficult not to work at home...
However, after my mother went to work in the spinning mill, she realized that it was really not a human job. Because the work of the spinning mill is more than ten hours a day, the environment in the factory is extremely harsh.
However, in order to supplement the family, she insisted. It's just that my mother's body is getting thinner and thinner.
The following summer, cholera was once again prevalent in Shanghai. In this stormy season, Du Yuesheng's mother gave birth to a baby girl in the case of extreme physical weakness.
Before she could hear the cries of the babies of her life, the mother, who had run out of oil, left without a word.
Du Wenqing cried loudly, not wanting to die.
Holding two children waiting to be fed, he felt that the sky had fallen. His wife, who had suffered a bitter death, was now dead, and finally she was no longer suffering from this family's illness. He, on the other hand, struggled to survive with two young children.
Being alive is really more painful than dying!
Later, under the introduction of well-wishers, Du Wenqing gave his daughter to a businessman in Ningbo surnamed Huang, which was a way for her daughter to live.
Pictured: A corner of old Shanghai
The suffering teenager counterattacked and became the top earth emperor of Great Shanghai.
No one can succeed casually.
At that time, when Du Yuesheng left Gaoqiao Town to go to Shanghai to beg for a living, his beloved grandmother wrapped a pair of small feet, cried and cried, sent and sent, and took a journey and a journey. Finally, Du Yuesheng knelt down on one knee in front of his grandmother and cried:
"Grandmother, the people of Takahashi Town look down on me, and I must be glamorous when I come back in the future, with beautiful scenery, starting a family business, and strengthening the ancestral hall, otherwise, I swear never to return to Takahashi."
In 1931, the Du Family Ancestral Hall was established, and Du Yuesheng's wish came true.
For Du Yuesheng, the construction of the ancestral hall was the highlight of his life, his glory and wealth, his achievements, his pride, and his pride were all vividly displayed in this return to his hometown.
However, at the peak of his life, Du Yuesheng wanted to have the closest people in his bloodline and share it with himself! Where is his bitter sister?
Du Yuesheng's father also passed away two years after his sister was sent away. Before he died, he took du Yuesheng, who was only 5 years old, by the hand and murmured, "I want to find your sister..."
In fact, when Du Yuesheng made his mark, he used various methods and means to find his sister. It took a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, but there was no news. However, after some people saw the information he published in major newspapers to find his sister, he brought a girl of about the same age to recognize his relatives, and he recognized it.
My sister left him so little useful information!
Except for knowing that the adopted man's surname was Huang and was a businessman, there was basically nothing. Moreover, at that time, whether it was medical treatment, transportation, or information, it was very different from now.
Perhaps, in the chaotic world, the sister did not survive; perhaps the sister survived strongly, but she did not know her true origin, and did not know that the top man on the beach turned out to be her own brother!
In short, no matter how hard Du Yuesheng tried, no matter what method he used, he could not find his lost sister. The more he didn't find it, the more Du Yuesheng didn't give up.
Countless times from hope to disappointment, from disappointment to hope, to disappointment, until Du Yuesheng finally broke the Xiangjiang River, and he could not find his bitter sister.
Regrets, a lifetime!
Pictured: Celebrities at the inauguration ceremony of the Du Family Ancestral Hall
Many people in our lives, a parting, is a lifetime.
For example: Du Yuesheng's sister.