Love is rare and some people don't get it in their lifetime. For those who are not good-looking, love is a luxury in the world. Juan was not born a beautiful embryo, she was thin, long face, forehead, cheekbones are a little prominent, eyes are not god, always look sick.
Until the age of 21, under the mediation of relatives, Zhu An was said to have been given to the eldest grandson of a former official surnamed Zhou, Zhou Shuren, who later became famous mr. Lu Xun. Juan was three years older than Lu Xun, when Lu Xun's family had already fallen, and at the age of 18 he was still studying at a new school in Nanjing.
Matchmakers say kiss, generally men and women will be brought out to weigh and weigh. Although Juan is not beautiful, but the family is good, and she is kind, virtuous, obedient, and has no choice in character; lu Xun, even if he is talented and educated, has no money in the family, but he is still decent. In short, the two are considered to be the door-to-door, right!
At the same time, Juan is also very lucky, and she is very popular with her mother-in-law before she has crossed the door. Therefore, in the spring of 1901, the mother-in-law did not seek Lu Xun's opinion, and went directly to Juan's house to "please Geng", that is, the male and female families informed each other of the birthdays of the two parties, and asked someone to calculate whether the eight characters of the two sides were "compatible" or "compatible", such as the eight characters were combined, even if they passed the first level of the marriage procedure.
Of course, Juan and Lu Xun's eight characters should match, otherwise they would not be engaged. Originally engaged at the end of the year, it was perfect for getting married. Because at that time, Lu Xun just graduated, if he was married, he could be happy at the door. However, Lu Xun got a scholarship to study in Japan, and immediately went to Japan to study at public expense after graduation.
Although she did not marry, Juan was a little disappointed, but her fiancé went abroad to study, which was not an honor for her. And she was willing to wait. In this way, Juan waited for 5 years, during which her fiancé Lu Xun returned to China to visit her relatives once, but he refused to marry her.
At that time, Lu Xun also sent a message to the Zhu family through his mother, hoping that Zhu An would let go and go to school, and these two demands frightened the conservative Zhu family. Of course, the Zhu family ultimately refused Lu Xun's request. While Lu Xun, who was far away in Japan, was reading the Heavenly Speech, Juan was at home reciting the three-from-four virtue dogma in the Daughter's Sutra.
From that time on, the gap between the two was doomed. I often wondered if Zhu An had listened to Lu Xun's advice and gone to the academy to study, and had been able to keep up with Lu Xun ideologically, would they have been able to follow Lu Xun in thinking, and would they have been able to grow old in the future? It's just that there is no possibility, and reality is reality after all.
In 1906, Juan was already 28 years old, she and Lu Xun had been engaged for 5 years, Lu Xun still had no intention of marrying her, and the elders of the family were very anxious. As a last resort, the mother-in-law used a trick "bitter meat meter". Sure enough, this trick worked very well, and soon, Lu Xun quickly returned and became a relative of her.
At that time, Lu Xun was engaged in literary activities, and suddenly received several letters from his family urging him to return to China quickly, saying that his mother was seriously ill. Upon hearing this news, Lu Xun was very heavy and anxious, but who knew that after returning, he found out that it was a scam.
Although he was very angry and wanted to resist, in the end, the filial Piety Lu Xun obeyed his mother. On the day of his wedding, he obediently married Juan. However, the next day, he did not go to the ancestral hall according to the old rules. At night, he went to sleep alone in the study. On the third day, he ran away from home and returned to Japan. Poor Juan, who was alone in the empty house all her life, and her husband never touched her in his life.