In the Republic of China, there is the love of famous scholars and talented women, there is Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, and there is also such a miserable and sad feeling as Shi Liangcai and Shen Qiushui. In the Republic of China period, Shi Liangcai was not just a newspaper giant, he seemed to have become a spiritual symbol, he dared to fight with Chiang Kai-shek, dared to expose the darkness and corruption, and dared to write out the readers' doubts and criticisms... Chiang Kai-shek once negotiated with him and threatened him with hundreds of thousands of troops, but he said: "I have hundreds of thousands of readers of the "Declaration", and you dare not provoke it! ”
Shi Liangcai not only made the "Declaration" prosperous, but the three wives in the family were also very harmonious. Shi Liangcai's eldest wife gave birth to a son for him, the third wife gave birth to a daughter for him, and the second wife, Shen Qiushui, although she had nothing to do, was Shi Liangcai's favorite woman.
Shen Qiushui's original name was Shen Huizhi. There are 2 versions of the love story about Shen Qiushui and Shi Liangcai. Shen Huizhi's family was poor, and she was sold into the Qinglou at a young age, because of her excellent piano skills and sweet voice, Shen Huizhi soon became a famous prostitute on the Fourth Road. No matter how many high-ranking officials and rich people sought after her, Shen Huizhi never sold herself until a Baylor grandfather of the Qing royal family took her away from the Fourth Road and brought her into the capital. A few years later, the Belle grandpa died of illness, and Shen Huizhi returned to the fourth road, but at this time, Shen Huizhi had already received a fortune from the belle grandfather's family, and she no longer had to be forced to pick up customers in order to survive. After she returned to Shanghai, she temporarily lived in a friend's house, and this day Shi Liang came to a friend's house as a guest, and the friend called Shen Huizhi to dinner, and Shen Huizhi was not at ease with the huge amount of property left at home. At this time, Shi Liang said carefully, "If you don't want to eat it, I'll come and see the gold and silver." ”
Shen Huizhi came out of the Qinglou and entered the high-gate household as a concubine, she had seen many lustful people, many greedy people, but this time, when she saw the young man's sincere eyes, she chose to believe him. When Shen Huizhi and her friends returned from dinner, Shi Liangcai was still sitting quietly in the courtyard waiting. This little-known reporter walked into Shen Qiushui's heart.
Another theory is that Shen Huizhi was favored by the Zhenjiang warlord Tao Junbao, who wanted to force her to be small, and took out 100,000 yuan to redeem Shen Huizhi. And just when he was busy adding an aunt and wife to the family, he was assassinated. Shen Huizhi did not fall into his hands, and received 100,000 yuan to follow the long-admired talent Shi Liangcai, and funded him to succeed.
Shen Huizhi used the jewelry gold and silver saved over the years to fund Shi Liangcai to start a business. Shi Liangcai began by opening a rice village, to opening a money bank, acquiring the "Declaration", annexing the "News Daily", and finally becoming a weather vane of public opinion that Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of. Shen Huizhi's encounter with such a confidant as Shi Liangcai is the luck of a lifetime, and Shi Liangcai's encounter with Shen Huizhi is also like divine help.
After the two interacted, Shen Huizhi would occasionally talk to Shi Liangcai about the past, always sad. Shi Liangcai said to her one day, "Let me change your name so that you can say goodbye to the past once and for all." Shi Liangcai gave Shen Huizhi a new name as "Autumn Water", taken from "Autumn Water When the Water Arrives, Hundred Rivers Irrigate the River." ”
Shi Liangcai was a fierce fighter to the outside world, and when he was with Shen Qiushui, he would become a gentle and elegant literati. After Shi Liangcai and Shen Qiushui married and married a concubine, and gave birth to a daughter, Shen Qiushui would be sad. In order to appease her, Shi Liangcai built an Autumn Water Villa for Shen Qiushui on the shore of the West Lake, Shen Qiushui played the piano for Shi Liangcai, and Shi Liangcai wrote poems and painted. Qiushui Mountain Villa is Shi Liangcai's spiritual homecoming, and it is the testimony of his love with Shen Qiushui. This pair of men and women who have escaped from the world are like fairy companions in this isolated lake and mountain.
In 1934, Shi Liangcai and Shen Qiushui came out of qiushui mountain villa, they lived here for more than a month, the situation was too chaotic, Shi Liangcai had to take Shen Qiushui to Shanghai to deal with the newspaper work, and there was Shi Liangcai's son and niece on the car. In the middle of the road, several people saw several men dressed in black, with suspicious shapes, and Shi Liangcai felt bad. The car was forced to stop in the wilderness, the driver was shot, and Shen Qiushui was also injured. Shi Liangcai escaped with his son, and at the edge of the pond half a mile away, the killer shot him several times in a row. Shen Qiushui cried but never recalled Shi Liangcai.
After Shi Liangcai's death, the whole of Shanghai, and even the whole of China, was outraged by it, and all walks of life in Shanghai jointly condemned the murderer and put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to urge him to find the murderer. However, who the murderer really is, Chiang Kai-shek is very clear in his heart, and he also pretends to have a bounty of 10,000 yuan to reward the murderer in order to make the civilians angry.
And the whole process, Shen Qiushui did not participate, she witnessed the death of her husband, returned to the Qiushui Mountain Villa alone, washed her face with tears all day, and even coughed up blood. Chiang Kai-shek's reward did not catch the murderer, and Shi Liang was not buried for half a year. In the end, his family decided to send Shi Liangcai's coffin to Hangzhou and bury it on a later date.
It wasn't until the day shi liang came out of the funeral that she appeared in mourning clothes, and half a year's tea and dinner did not want to make Shen Qiu's yellow muscles thin. In front of Shi Liangcai's body, she wept: "Jia Xiu, let me send you off..." She took out the guqin and played a "Guangling San", and then threw the whole qin into the fire and let it burn to ashes.
After Shi Liangcai left, qiushui mountain villa was no longer the habitat of Shen Qiushui, Shen Qiushui saw things and thought of people, and every flower and tree here would make her cry. A few days before the accident, Shi Liangcai seemed to have a premonition of something, and said to Shen Qiushui, "If I die, you must not live alone in Qiushui Mountain Villa. The best way is to donate the Qiushui Mountain Villa. ”
When Shen Qiushui had gradually recovered from the pain of losing Shi Liangcai, the first thing she did was to donate the Qiushui Villa to the hospital, and later, Shi Liangcai's mansion in Shanghai was also donated and became a "nursery".
After that, everyone rarely saw the news of Shen Qiushui. She refused all visitors and spent her old age eating and praying to the Buddha. In 1951, the original site of Qiushui Mountain Villa was planned to be built as a "Shanghai Federation of Trade Union Workers' Recuperation Center", and Shen Qiushui came to a special trip. People saw her with a teenage child, and the old cook Who opened the door for him, Qian Zhangsheng, called her "Miss Shen". Shen Qiushui did not stay long, and after looking around, he left. Before leaving, he said to the staff: "Qian Zhangsheng is old, if you can, continue to keep him." ”
In 1956, Shen Qiushui passed away quietly. Shen Qiushui was so affectionate and righteous to Shi Liangcai, but the last words he left behind before his death were unwilling to be buried with Shi Liangcai. As Shi Liangcai's concubine, if Shen Qiushui was buried, she had to be buried on the left side of Shi Liangcai, according to superstition, even if she went to the underworld, she still wanted to be Shi Liangcai's concubine. She still can't let go of this name for so many years, and she is not willing to choose a small cemetery in the Nanshan Cemetery to bury.