In the winter of 1899, Cixi offered a reward of 100,000 taels of silver to capture Liang Qichao. Liang fled to the United States, and a young lady of 20 years old expressed her admiration for him. He wrote a letter to test the attitude of his wife Li Huixian, who did not quarrel or make trouble, and only one sentence frightened Liang Qichao into swearing that he would never dare to talk about it again.
Liang Qichao's wife, Li Huixian, is a Miss Qianjin.
Her father, Li Chaoyi, was a high-ranking official in Beijing, and her brother Li Duandi was the chief examiner of the Guangdong township examination.
In 1890, when Liang Qichao was 17 years old, he participated in the Guangdong Township Examination, ranked eighth in the list, and was heavily valued by the chief examiner Li Duandi. Li Duandi saw the potential for future development from this poor student, so he took the initiative to match liang Qichao and help Liang Qichao get engaged to his sister Li Huixian.
In March of the following year, Liang Qichao participated in the Beijing Examination and unfortunately fell behind. The reasonable Li Huixian did not dislike him, but completed his marriage with Liang Qichao as scheduled. After the marriage, Li Huixian followed Liang Qichao back to his hometown of Xinhui in Guangdong. Liang Qichao's parents worked as farmers and did not live a prosperous life. He returned home with his new wife, not even a new house, so he borrowed a room from his neighbor as a new home.
Li Huixian took on heavy housework, did her best to keep the way of women, and never complained. Liang Qichao's birth mother died of illness long ago, and her stepmother was only two years older than Li Huixian. However, Li Huixian had great respect for her stepmother, opened her mouth and closed her mouth to be commensurate with her mother, and never acted disrespectfully. Therefore, the Liang family praised its virtues.
In the early days of Liang Qichao's participation in the Penghu Reform, the Guangxu Emperor admired Liang Qichao's literary talent, but when he was summoned, his Cantonese dialect greatly disappointed Guangxu. To this end, Liang Qichao, with the help of his beloved wife, worked hard to learn mandarin. Soon it will be possible to express ideas and participate in social interactions in the official language.
In June 1898, the Penghu Reform Law failed, and Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei fled to Japan. Lee Wai Sin helped the elderly and young to live in Macau.
Liang Qichao is very busy reading and writing in Japan, but he keeps writing letters to his family, talking with his wife who is suffering from the same experience, and the words are filled with deep friendship.
In the winter of 1899, Liang Qichao, who had fled to Japan, was invited by Kang Youwei to Honolulu in the United States to publicize the establishment of the Royalist Society and organize overseas Chinese to support the Guangxu Emperor's reform and restoration.
Although Liang Qichao was very eloquent and an agitator for propagating the reform of the law, after arriving in Honolulu, he found that the propaganda of the reform of the law should not only face the overseas Chinese in the United States, but also get the support of the Americans. But he didn't know English, which made him very embarrassed for a while.
At the family banquet where the overseas Chinese merchants of the He clan picked up the wind for him, he raised this question and asked for help. As soon as his words fell silent, Mr. He asked the maid to summon his precious daughter He Huizhen and introduce her to Liang Qichao: "This is a little girl, who grew up in the United States, with excellent English, and can translate for you." Liang Qichao was very happy to see this young lady who was 20 years old, so he invited her to sit next to him.
The next day, at the speech conference, Ms. He Huizhen translated for him, fluent, accurate and accessible, and very popular with the audience. In the process of interpreting, He Huizhen learned more about Liang Qichao. She not only supported Liang Qichao's reform and reform, but also admired his eloquence and demeanor. After the speech, he expressed his innocent admiration for Liang Qichao: "I love Mr. Liang very much, but unfortunately only love. In this life, we may not meet, and we will wait until the next life. But Mr. Wang gave him a small statue, and his wish was fulfilled. ”
Afterwards, Liang Qichao gave Miss He a small photo, and Miss He gave him a small fan woven by hand as a souvenir.
Liang Qichao had a very good impression of the assistant, and in his days in the United States, he could hardly walk without Miss He as an interpreter. At that time, an English-language newspaper in the United States published a series of articles attacking Liang Qichao. Liang Qichao was almost out of reach for such an attack, and had to resign himself to it.
A few days later, he heard that a newspaper had published several articles in a row to hit back at the English newspaper's article. The articles, with sharp, sharp strokes and profound arguments, silenced the English-language newspaper. Soon, Liang Qichao learned that these articles were written by Miss He, which made him respect Miss He from his heart.
Then, he asked Miss Ho to help him learn English, and Miss Ho happily became his English teacher. The contact between them is getting more and more, and the distance between their feelings is getting closer and closer. A friend suggested that Miss He, who was waiting for a bride, be married into the family. Liang Qichao's heart is very contradictory, Miss He is young, beautiful, talented, and a rare confidant.
From the perspective of work, he also needs such an assistant. After repeated ideological struggles, on May 24, 1900, he wrote a letter to his wife, Li Huixian, expressing his state of mind. In the letter, after introducing He Huizhen as a person, he wrote: "After Yu returned to the house, the more he missed Huizhen, and from the heart of respect, he gave birth to the idea of love, and he could hardly sustain himself. The drunkards are scattered, they cannot sleep all night, and the deer in their hearts are suddenly up and down, and they have been taking care of themselves for twenty-eight years, and there has never been such a ridiculous thing. Now that it has been five more years, I have begun to write down the details of it, so as to tell the Huixian I love, I don't know if Huixian will laugh at me when he hears this, or will he annoy me? ”
Li Huixian read Liang Qichao's letter and showed great generosity, saying in his reply that he should ask his father to decide this matter. Because she expected that her father-in-law would not approve of her son marrying an American overseas Chinese as a concubine.
Liang Qichao received a letter from Li Huixian and hurriedly replied to dissuade his beloved wife from letting his father know about this matter, and said: For He Huizhen's relationship, he promised to be "affectionate and reasonable" and would never talk about this matter again in the future.
Of course, Liang Qichao's situation at that time did not allow him to indulge in the private affairs of his children. He was in exile, cixi wanted him, how could this 20-year-old lady be implicated with her! So he politely refused his friend's kindness.
However, this incident also touched Li Huixian, who considered trying to hold this restless "fawn", so in 1903, she took the initiative to make her dowry maid Wang Guiquan a concubine to Liang Qichao.
@Smoke and Rain Duo
Liang Qichao fell in love with He Huizhen, and later his daughter-in-law Lin Huiyin fell in love with Jin Yuelin, both of which belonged to extramarital love, but they could all be honest and frank, confess their hearts to their wives and husbands, and finally make the marriage boat not deviate from the course.
Can we taste a little bit of marriage from it? Please leave a comment in the comment area to discuss.
