Cheng Shuyao
As the saying goes, a good man is deceived, and a horse is good to be ridden. Just as a person's bad character can ruin his life, a person with a good personality may not have a smooth life.
Cheng Shuyao is a typical "Good Mr." For this reason, his life was ultimately ruined by his good character.
In the eyes of the world, he is Huang Zongying's second husband and Shangguan Yunzhu's third husband. He has been married three times, two of which, and his wife is a famous star.
However, his life was bumpy, and a big reason was that his personality was too good.
Cheng Shuyao was born in 1917 to a wealthy family in Jinan, Shandong Province, and later moved to Beijing with his parents.
Because he is the eldest grandson of the family, Cheng Shuyao's family has always favored him, and his youth is very beautiful.
Perhaps it is precisely because he has experienced the good times of youth that Cheng Shuyao is very docile and kind in personality, and he also has no trust in people.
Huang Zongying
At the end of September 1945, Cheng Shuyao married his first wife, Huang Zongying, when Cheng Shuyao was 28 years old and Huang Zongying was 20 years old.
Before that, Huang Zongying had a marriage, but only 18 days after marriage, her husband, who had originally suffered from heart disease, died suddenly, and Huang Zongying was only 18 years old at that time, suddenly became a widow, and had no choice but to go to Beiping with her mother-in-law.
At that time, Huang Zongying's brother Huang Zongjiang was acting in the mainland and could not take care of his sister. Cheng Shuyao remembered his friendship with her brother Huang Zongjiang, so he wrote back letters with her to relieve her worries and difficulties.
With the help of the warm man Cheng Shuyao, Huang Zongying gradually came out of the haze and also felt good about Cheng Shuyao. Soon they were married.
The life after marriage is different from single life, which increases the burden of the family and adds a responsibility. During those days, Cheng Shuyao worked as an interpreter for the U.S. army in Beijing after the war, and the Nationalist government paid salaries.
Huang Zongying stills
At that time, Huang Zongying's family was in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and after consulting with Cheng Shuyao, he took his mother and three brothers to Beijing.
Other people would not have brought their wife's brother to the house, but Cheng Shuyao did not complain.
In addition to the family burden, the living expenses of Huang Zongying's four families need to be borne by Cheng Shuyao, so he has to find a job with a high salary and stability.
Later, Cheng Shuyao quit his job as a foreign affairs translator and was admitted to the Beijing branch of the Central Bank, known as the Golden Rice Bowl.
In the summer and autumn of 1946, Cheng Shuyao and Huang Zongying moved to the central bank's family dormitory, and because they lived with Huang Zongying's mother, brother and sister-in-law, Huang Zongying's relatives naturally came to live.
During this period, Cheng Shuyao was very kind to Huang Zongying and her family, and even after the divorce, he always helped them, and he did not feel disadvantaged or dissatisfied.
Huang Zongying recalled Cheng Shuyao in his later years, using "filial piety and kindness" to describe his family.
It can be seen that Cheng Shuyao has always been a good husband and a good son-in-law.
Cheng Shuyao has always supported his wife's acting career and worked hard and complained. He kept almost everything in order for his wife so that Huang Zongying could work outside without any worries.
Banks are well paid and busy. In their spare time, Cheng Shuyao and Huang Zongying were often invited to attend friends' family dances.
In 1948, Huang Zongjiang introduced Cheng Shuyao to Li Wei, and after a detailed conversation with Li Wei, Cheng Shuyao decided to quit his job at the central bank and join Li Wei's Changchun Film Studio as the director of general affairs.
Later, Cheng Shuyao participated in the "Reunion" written by Huang Zongjiang, playing shen Haoran, the boyfriend of the eldest sister in the film.
In the movie "Reunion", Cheng Shuyao played the eldest brother-in-law
In 2000, Cheng Shuyao's son and writer Chen Danyan interviewed Huang Zongjiang, and when he recalled "The Reunion", he mentioned: "The character of the eldest brother-in-law in the movie is written according to your father's temperament. ”
Shen Haoran in the movie is kind and kind, smiling at everyone, and the same is true of Cheng Shuyao in reality, they never show their faces to others, and always give happiness and tolerance to the people around them.
Shen Haoran's philosophy of life revolves around serving others, and so does Cheng Shuyao, who always thinks about others and rarely takes himself as centered.
In the spring of 1947, Huang Zongying was invited to Shanghai to participate in the filming of the movie "Rhapsody of Happiness", with the male protagonist Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying as the female protagonist.
Cheng Shuyao was opposed to Huang Zongying going to Shanghai, but he could not stop it. Huang Zongying pursued his own career as an excuse, and Cheng Shuyao had no choice.
Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan
With the filming process of the film, the relationship between Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying outside the play has also changed.
During the filming, Huang Zongying had surgery for an acute attack of cecalitis, and Cheng Shuyao deliberately took a leave of absence to visit Shanghai. During this period, he met some people in the film industry in Shanghai, such as Yu Ling, Lü Fu, Liu Housheng, Zhao Dan and so on.
They visited Huang Zongying in the hospital one after another, and Cheng Shuyao talked to them and expressed his willingness to think of the development of Shanghai, during which he did not find Huang Zongying's abnormality.
At the end of the year, the scene was finished, and Huang Zongying was still stranded in Shanghai and did not return.
Cheng Shuyao sensed the problem, so he asked Huang Zongjiang's lover Zhu Jiachen to come forward and make a special trip to Shanghai to take Huang Zongying back to Beijing.
At this time, everyone already knew the unspeakable secret that happened between Huang Zongying and Zhao Dan, and the Relatives of the Huang Family, who had been living in Cheng Shuyao's home, condemned Huang Zongying's cheating behavior, and Huang Zongying himself expressed his willingness to repent.
But not long after, a man named Wen Huaisha came from Shanghai and took Huang Zongying back to Shanghai again. Wen Huaisha made good friends with Zhao Dan, so he helped his friend go north, made up a reason, and left Beijing with Huang Zongying.
Huang Zongying left a note for Cheng Shuyao when he left: "I am determined to leave, don't look for me." Let's get together and disperse..."
This time Cheng Shuyao did not reluctantly do anything.
In her later years, Huang Zongying wrote in her memoirs: "... On a whim, I married Cheng Shuyao in Beijing. Shu Yao was a good man, but we didn't have anything to say. ”
In this marriage, Cheng Shuyao has been doing her best to treat Huang Zongying and also take good care of her family. But in the end, he still got the end of the betrayal of the other party.
Cheng Shuyao in the film
Later, Cheng Shuyao was transferred to Shanghai Tsinghua Film Company, but he never went to find Huang Zongying, who lived with Zhao Dan. Later, when Jin Shan intervened to mediate from it, Cheng Shuyao and Huang Zongying announced their divorce after face-to-face negotiations.
According to Huang Zongying's later recollection, when she was the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family, her mother-in-law was very kind to her, and after divorcing Cheng Shuyao, her mother-in-law also left her in Beijing to give back the dowry when Cheng Shuyao married, and managed to return it to Huang Zongying in Shanghai.
People always take for granted the usual goodness of others. The young Huang Zongying had never been grateful for Cheng Shuyao's efforts.
When Huang Zongying recalled Zhao Dan: "The first time I met him, I saw that his two socks were different colors. I don't think he has anyone to take care of and I'm going to take care of him. ”
As for Cheng Shuyao, who has been taking good care of himself, Huang Zongying has always turned a blind eye.
This may be the unfairness of feelings, one person can be willing to pay for another person for free, or they can accept the care of others with peace of mind.
Later, Cheng Shuyao served as the deputy manager of the Lyceum Theatre, and due to work reasons, he met with Huang Zongying from time to time.
The Relatives of the Huang Family went to Shanghai on a business trip, and when they could not find Huang Zongying's address for a while, they would also run to Lanxin and let Cheng Shuyao take it to Huang Zongying's house.
Even if divorced, Cheng Shuyao often helped Huang Zongying.
At the beginning of 1950, according to the Women's Committee of the Film Association, the four-act drama "Red Flag Song" was performed at the Lyceum Theatre, in which Shangguan Yunzhu played the female worker Ma Fenjie.
Because the performance time was as long as several months, during which Cheng Shuyao and Shangguan Yunzhu had frequent contact, they knew and fell in love at the Lyceum Theater, and then went to marriage.
Shangguan Yunzhu had two previous marriages, and her first husband was zhang Taiyan, an art teacher at the school.
Shangguan Yunzhu
At that time, due to the Japanese invasion of China, Shangguan Yunzhu and her husband traveled for nearly a year, and finally fled to Shanghai, where Shangguan Yunzhu wanted to be a bright and beautiful star, so she was admitted to huaguang drama school to study drama.
In 1941, Shangguan Yunzhu made his first film in his life, "Rose Drifting Zero", and from then on he entered the acting career he aspired to.
Shangguan Yunzhu's dream came true, causing Zhang Taiyan to be dissatisfied.
What Zhang Taiyan wants is not a star wife who shows her face and leaves early and returns late, but a housewife who teaches her husband and teaches her son and keeps to herself.
And this also reflects Cheng Shuyao's attitude towards the wife of a big star.
The result of the conflict was that they were not happy, and eventually divorced, and Shangguan Yunzhu insisted on eating the bowl of rice.
Soon, Shangguan Yunzhu met her second husband, Yao Ke, in Shanghai.
Mr. Yao Ke and Mr. Lu Xun
The combination of the two has provided Shangguan Yunzhu with a foothold in the acting world, and Yao Ke has provided a lot of help in the learning and progress of Shangguan Yunzhu's performing arts. In 1944, Shangguan Yunzhu gave birth to Yao Yao.
In the second year of Yao Yao's birth, in order to make a living, Shangguan Yunzhu accompanied the "Southern Art Troupe" to tour North China and Northeast China.
At that time, Cheng Shuyao, as the president of the Nanbei Drama Society, naturally did not give up the opportunity to observe and learn. He watched Shangguan Yunzhu's drama "Qing Gong Grievance", which was probably their first acquaintance through the stage.
Shangguan Yunzhu returned to Shanghai with the troupe, returned from the performance, and found that her husband Yao Ke had feelings for Wu Wen, which caused a marriage change.
In 1950, during the performance of "Red Flag Song", Shangguan Yunzhu and Cheng Shuyao had an affair, and the two married.
Cheng Shuyao and Shangguan Yunzhu marriage certificate
The first days of this marriage were sweet. They live in a suite on the third floor of 147 Fuxing West Road.
Cheng Shuyao and Shangguan Yunzhu both have low incomes, and their living conditions are also very good, and there is no white Ding.
Shangguan Yunzhu and her ex-husband's child Yao Yao lived with their mother after their divorce, and also followed their mother into the Cheng family.
Cheng Shuyao was very good to Yao Yao, and did not have a bias because he was not his own child, and he regarded Yao Yao as his own.
Yao Yao, who lost her father, faced Cheng Shuyao's love and found her father's love for the first time. She also shouted to Cheng Shuyao the first father of her life.
She said to Shangguan Yunzhu: "I decided to change my surname, my surname is Cheng, my name is Cheng Yaoyao." ”
It can be seen that Cheng Shuyao is such a kind person, giving the greatest tolerance and love to anyone.
Yao Yao
Later, Cheng Shuyao and Shangguan Yunzhu had a child, called Dengdeng, and the family also had three nannies.
Cheng Shuyao and his wife work smoothly, they also raised a German hound, Yao Yao just entered the primary school, after returning home to do homework and practice the piano, the lamp is taken care of by the nurse and nanny, the family is happy.
Shangguan Yunzhu's uncle and cousin Yan Yongjie came to Shanghai for a meeting, and seeing that the Cheng family was very dissatisfied with this life, she reminded Shangguan Yunzhu: "The new society is here, you can't do this." ”
Sure enough, the tree was a big move, because life was excessively enjoyed, and people were angry when they saw the Cheng family. There are Shiba Inu at home, the daughter plays the piano, and Zhao Dan, Bai Yang and other big directors come to eat all day long, which is somewhat out of place.
Sure enough, some people reported that Cheng Shuyao had embezzled, and the fact of cross-examination mainly refers to cheng Shuyao's unclear accounts when he was working as an accountant at the charity store of the Labor Army Garden.
Shangguan Yunzhu, Yao Yao and Grandma
Cheng Shuyao had been accustomed to the life of the great young master since he was a child, and he really couldn't explain the accounts of his hands.
Under the successive forced confessions, Cheng Shuyao was helpless, thinking that he did not have a few money anyway, lost something, and could also strive for a "confession and leniency". The so-called crime was thus confessed.
However, Cheng Shuyao's practice of admitting wrong reparations was not treated lightly, but on the contrary, his crime of embezzlement was confirmed.
The house leaked in the shade and rain, and Shangguan Yunzhu proposed to divorce him.
Cheng Shuyao's shooting and fall from the horse had a huge impact on Shangguan Yunzhu's future artistic career and even his life. For this reason, divorce is imperative.
In order not to be forced to leave the deductive career that he loved like life, Shangguan Yunzhu weighed the pros and cons, and once again abandoned his family and life and chose art.
Shangguan Yunzhu in the movie
Cheng Shuyao was worried that Lantern was still young and should not leave his mother, and did not agree to divorce, but at this time, he was a guilty body, low status, and unable to resist. At that time, Shangguan Yunzhu was in a fierce mood, and no matter what, he had to leave.
After the two divorced, the friends in the circle felt less serious, and several close friends even formed a group to persuade them to reconcile, hoping that they would break the mirror and reunite.
However, soon after the divorce, Shangguan Yunzhu's previous private affair with He Lu, the assistant director of Shangying, was revealed. It can be seen that Shangguan Yunzhu also cheated in marriage.
Whether it is the entertainment industry now or the showbiz circle at that time, there are always many unsightly things for bright and beautiful stars.
Cheng Shuyao's trust was once again torn apart, and it turned out that the man who had been living in his home for a long time was his wife's lover.
This is unacceptable to anyone, do you blame yourself for not finding out in time? But obviously it was the mistake made by the cheater, what was Cheng Shuyao's mistake?
Shangguan Yunzhu stills
The failure of this marriage hit Cheng Shuyao very hard. In his most difficult times, his wife did not hesitate to leave him.
After the one-year period of government control expired, Cheng Shuyao left the Lyceum Theater in 1953, bidding farewell to this place that was both happy and sad for him.
From beginning to end, Cheng Shuyao's love for Yao Yao has not diminished because of the birth of the lamp, nor has he ignored it because of divorce.
The days spent with Cheng Shuyao were the happiest days in Yao Yao's life.
Cheng Shuyao was later transferred to hengshan cinema as the head of the propaganda team, and the following year, he was appointed as the manager of the cinema, which was equivalent to the official reinstatement.
Yao Yao participated in "Sanmao Wandering"
Afterwards, Cheng Shuyao's old friend then said: "There are no embezzlers, there must be, but I don't believe that you Cheng Shuyao is corrupt!" What kind of person you are, I don't know much anymore! ”
Cheng Shuyao was moved to tears by these heartfelt words of his close friend. It can be seen that only an old friend who knows the roots will feel that there is something strange in it, and his wife will leave him because of it.
Less than a year after the divorce, in the Municipal Bureau of Culture, the superior management agency of the cinema, there was a warm-hearted person who helped Cheng Shuyao introduce an object, this person was Cheng Shuyao's third wife Wu Yan.
Wu Yan is a camellia woman-like figure, who began to sell laughter at an early age, famous in the flower world such as "black peony", and the guests received were official people with heads and faces.
Cheng Shuyao certainly knew about her experiences. Under the mediation of the introducer, in January 1955, Cheng Shuyao and Wu Yan still received a marriage license, although they did not receive the support of their families.
Wu Yan
Four months after the marriage, something went wrong. Wu Yan was arrested for being involved in the "Pan Yang case", but in fact she did not know anything.
At this time, family and friends persuaded Cheng Shuyao to divorce Wu Yan and move out of the example of his ex-wife Shangguan Yunzhu.
How knowledgeable Shangguan Yunzhu was when Cheng Shuyao was arrested, why couldn't Cheng Shuyao think about it now?
But the good old man Cheng Shuyao still chose to believe in his wife, and he resolutely said: "You have wronged her, I can't wrongfully accuse her, don't leave!" ”
Cheng Shuyao and Wu Yan
Since then, Cheng Shuyao has been doing ordinary service work in the theater, with administrative 20-level treatment and a monthly salary of more than 70 yuan, and has never had any opportunity to change his fate.
In the days that followed, Cheng Shuyao worked in the cinema and waited for his imprisoned wife.
Who else can do cheng Shuyao's inseparability? Perhaps he was also abandoned by Shangguan Yunzhu when he was arrested earlier, so he understood this feeling.
Cheng Shuyao also wrote to the court many times to request the court to retry his wife's arrest, and in the end, the court justified Wu Yan's name.
Cheng Shuyao finally asked Wu Yan for the property that had been confiscated earlier.
It was his trust and protection that gave Wu Yan a new life. He has always been so dedicated to the people around him.
Yao Yao and lamps
With the reform and opening up, the door of the country was opened, and Wu Yan got in touch with the former "sisters" who had gone to Hong Kong earlier and made a trip to Hong Kong.
I think that back then, Wu Yan's group of sisters all followed her and respected her as the boss. Both wealth and pomp and circumstance are far from what she wants to go.
However, when she arrived in Hong Kong, she thought that she could be superior after returning her property, and found that she was completely different from her old friends.
At that time, Shanghai and Hong Kong were not comparable at all. There is no need to say much about dressing her body, eating, living and even saying things that dwarf her.
This hit her hard, and when she returned to Shanghai, she was like a changed person, impatient, irritable, and unreasonable.
The first to bear the brunt was Cheng Shuyao, who lost her temper with Cheng Shuyao at every turn, regardless of whether there were guests present or not, scolding and scolding.
The nanny at home said to the lamp: "Take your father away, she (Wu Yan) is too fierce, a few words are not right, throw the smoke cylinder over!" ”
Cheng Shuyao's stills at the Yanjing Opera Club
In the end, Cheng Shuyao fell ill with anorexia and only drank Arctic Ocean soda and refused to eat anything else. Forcing him to eat, he just pretended to chew and finally secretly spit it out.
Later, Cheng Shuyao suffered from Alzheimer's disease, he would be elated and repeat itself, but the current things would be forgotten for a while.
This kind of disease needs the care and concern of his family the most, but what Wu Yan gave him was contempt and contempt, and vicious words. During the hospitalization, Wu Yan only went to see The Process ShuYao once.
At this time, she had forgotten that Cheng Shuyao was the husband who had always trusted her and silently guarded her when she was in the most pain.
After Cheng Shuyao's death, Wu Yan suffered from lymphoma, and Cheng Shuyao's son Denglan has been in the hospital to accompany her on the last road.
However, in the last days of Wu Yan's illness, did she miss Cheng Shuyao, and would she be grateful to Cheng Shuyao?
Cheng Shuyao and his daughter Yao Yao and son Lantern
The photos on their tombstones show Wu Yan on the left and Cheng Shuyao on the right. This was decided by the two of them before they were born at wu Yan's strong request.
How obedient Cheng Shuyao was to his wife. Probably at that time, it was difficult to find a second copy in the whole of China.
From the manager of the Lyceum Theater to the handyman of the cinema, Cheng Shuyao absolutely believed in his wife and treated her well at any time.
Whether it was his ex-wife or a child who had nothing to do with him, Cheng Shuyao had never treated the other party badly, but what did he get in the end?
It is said that good people have a peaceful life, but Cheng Shuyao did not get the kindness of his wife in the last years.
Such a person has been betrayed and abandoned by his wife one after another. But after two failed marriages, Cheng Shuyao did not lose faith in love.
Cheng Shuyao stills
If Cheng Shuyao knew the ending in advance, would he still choose to treat his former wife as before?
Cheng Shuyao's son DengLan later commented on his father: Even if he knew that they would hurt him, he would still choose to be kind and choose to be good to them.
But in this impermanent world, the debate between the inherent goodness of human nature or the inherent evil of human nature is itself a false proposition.
In any case, goodness is not guilty, but good people must learn to protect themselves. In order to survive in a complex society, everyone must learn to recognize the people around them.