Many people often ridicule themselves for being poor, saying that the happiness of rich people is unimaginable to us. Therefore, they are very envious of those who were born in Rome, envious of their efforts to be able to eat and live a carefree life without effort, but in fact, many people can live well through their own efforts, and some people, even if the family is rich, eventually get rid of the family and die, and their wives and children are separated.
The situation of the protagonist of today's story belongs to the latter. In the Republic of China period, there was a man named Zhang Tingzhong, who was born into a famous family, married two rich families in his lifetime, and had a very famous daughter. Mention the name Zhang Tingzhong, everyone may not be very familiar, but his origin is indeed not small.
In 1896, Zhang Tingzhong was born in Fengrun, Hebei Province, his father Zhang Peilun was a famous courtier of the late Qing Dynasty, deeply trusted by the emperor, and his mother Li Ju coupled, was a very favored daughter of Li Hongzhang, that is to say, Zhang Tingzhong was Li Hongzhang's maternal grandson. The famous Li Hongzhang was deeply trusted by Empress Dowager Cixi and was simply a power in the late Qing Dynasty.
It is reasonable to say that Zhang Tingzhong, who grew up in such a rich and powerful family environment and enjoyed generous resources, should have a bright future, but surprisingly, although this rich brother received higher education and read poetry and books since he was a child, he did not like to dance and ink from his bones, and he had no interest in being an official, but what made him feel interesting was opium smoke.
In 1915, Zhang Tingzhong was 19 years old, and when he reached the age of starting a family, Zhang Tingzhong's parents chose left and right, and they took a fancy to Huang Yifan, who was the granddaughter of Huang Yisheng, the admiral of the seven provinces of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty, and can be said to be a typical famous bridesmaid, and his talent name is also ranked high in the local area.
Such an excellent girl naturally did not look good and lazy, and Zhang Tingzhong, who was still addicted to opium, but hindered by the majesty of the elders in the family, she had to swallow her anger and marry. But unlike Zhang Tingzhong, Huang Yifan has a soul that longs for freedom in her heart, and after coming into contact with Western culture, she is very eager for the outside world.
Just from the mentality of the two people, it can be seen that they are not all the way, so the life after marriage is not happy. Although Huang Yifan grew up in a famous family in the feudal era, his thinking was not bound by the "three from four virtues", so he often quarreled with her husband, and Zhang Tingzhong was also very unhappy with Huang Yifan's behavior of showing his face every three to five, so there were more and more contradictions between the two.
In 1924, Huang Yifan finally couldn't stand it, so he divorced her husband and left her son and daughter to cross the ocean. At that time, their son was only three years old, named Zhang Zijing, and the daughter was four years old, which was Zhang Ailing, a writer who later became famous. After the divorce, Zhang Tingzhong not only did not think about repentance, but indulged himself even more because he was not bound. What makes people feel dramatic is that Zhang Tingzhong, who has achieved nothing like this, inexplicably entered Sun Yongfan's eyes.
Sun Yongfan is the daughter of Sun Baoqi, a former premier of the Republic of China government, and is also a big girl, she wants to marry Zhang Tingzhong, and she is completely a person who does not want to make money. Naturally, the Sun family did not agree to this marriage. Not to mention that Zhang Tingzhong this person has achieved nothing, chaotic life, just because he has a son and a daughter, the Sun family is not willing to marry their own girls to other people's children as a harem, but they can't help Sun Yongfan's insistence, the Sun family wants to marry it, anyway, the Sun family has a big business, if she is not happy, she will turn back to the mother's family.
But unexpected things happened again, in 1928, after the two got married, the life after marriage was very happy, and Zhang Tingzhong was even more fond of Sun Yongfan. Zhang Ailing did not like this harem, often quarreled with her, Zhang Tingzhong also punished Zhang Ailing for his wife to close the small black house, the reason is that Sun Yongfan also smoked opium, and her husband Zhang Tingzhong was "like-minded".
In their decades of conjugal life, Sun Yongfan thought about Zhang Tingzhong everywhere, and there was no money in the family, so she took subsidies from her mother's family, and this life lasted until 1953, when Zhang Tingzhong died. At that time, the Zhang family's wealth was scattered, and even zhang Zijing's marriage money could not be put together, so Zhang Ailing's sister and brother hated this father who had been wandering all his life.