A picture of Lenny when she was young
She is a descendant of King Miao, and one of the four daughters of the famous people of the Republic of China, as the second lady of Sun Ke, she was the focus of the Republic of China, she is Lan Ni.
Lenny can be regarded as a chaotic red face, elegant and beautiful, in the hearts of many men at that time, are unattainable red roses, originally such a highly sought after beauty should be in the emotional life of the fish, but the big surplus, some people who look perfect, but behind them are experiencing a lot of ordinary people can not understand the loss and pain.
Lan ni had two marriages before and after, neither of which were very perfect, especially the second time she married her own Sun Ke, who was initially fiercely pursued, which made her feel that she had found a happy home, but unexpectedly, in the end, it was still difficult to escape the fate of Lao Yanfei. In pain, she closed the door of her heart completely, preferring to curl up in a lonely corner to remember the past years rather than open her arms to embrace a new love.
It is precisely because of the choice to completely break with the past feelings, Lenny finally won a peaceful and beautiful life for the rest of her life.
Princess Miao Wang was married
Lenny, who is born a beautiful embryo
Lenny is a natural beauty embryo, born in Macau in 1912, she is an authentic Hmong girl, according to legend, her ancestors are miao wang, is the local more powerful "toast", so everyone likes to call her "miao wang princess".
Lan Ni's father, Lan Shixun, was a professional revolutionary who served as the tax bureau chief in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and her mother was a lady who was not only proficient in poetry, but also wrote well. It is said that reincarnation is a technical job, and if she can be born in such a family, Lenny's living conditions are naturally more superior than those of her peers. Smart and lovely, she grew up carefree in the care and pampering of her family from an early age.
The Lan family attaches great importance to education, and her father specially hired a knowledgeable teacher for Lan Ni to teach her to read the "Four Books" and "Five Classics", and the content she learned every day must be read and recited, if she cannot recite it, she will be punished to kneel, so Lan Ni has been studying very hard.
With a good family background, Lenny's life and study can be described as a smooth journey. If it were not for the great changes in her family, Lenny's life would be like other famous aristocratic girls in the Republic of China period, marrying into the rich and prosperous as a wife, leisurely and happily living a rich life of a car and a servant.
Lanni, who has suffered a family accident, can no longer be the princess of Miao Wang
In 1926, when Lenny was just 15 years old, her father once encountered robbers on the way out with colleagues on official business, and because he saw his colleagues shot and killed by robbers and was stimulated by excessive stimulation, he was schizophrenic. After the schizophrenia, Lan Shixun not only could no longer go to work in the tax office as usual, but also needed to be cared for at any time.
Losing the care of the father, the main heart of the family, the life of the Lan family seems to fall into a trap overnight, the mother is overwhelmed, as the eldest daughter, Lanni is naturally strong, but looking at the changes in the family, she does not know what to do.
Three years have passed, Lan Ni's father's condition shows no signs of improvement, but the family wealth is gradually declining, just when the Lan family is living in a mess, Lan Ni's beauty attracts Li Dingguo, the son of the Kuomintang vice minister of finance who lives on Xiangyang South Road in Shanghai.
Lan Ni didn't have much feeling for Li Dingguo, and if it weren't for the family's fall, she wouldn't have considered marrying Li Dingguo. But in order to maintain her family's life, in 1929, Lenny, who had a sense of family responsibility, dropped out of school and married Li Dingguo.
Marry into the rich for life
In order to ensure the family's financial resources, the condition for the engagement of the two families is that the Li family gives the Lan family an economic subsidy of 100 oceans per month. With such an agreement, this marriage is regarded by the Li family as a high-flying lan family, destined for no happy future.
Husband Li Dingguo is a lying flat "second generation official" who can only eat, drink and have fun, coupled with the lan family's monthly subsidy of 100 oceans in the marriage contract, the mother-in-law has never had a good face in front of Lan Ni, and even scolded Lan Ni in front of the next person.
Lenny is well educated, has her own opinions and ideas, and also wants to live a good life with Li Dingguo. She knew that only financial freedom could change her place in the family. The Li family could not let Lan Ni show her face, Lan Ni encouraged her husband to go out alone to do business, but Li Dingguo enjoyed the young master life of "clothes to reach out, food to open his mouth" since he was a child, where to put Lan Ni's advice in his heart, Lan Ni's enthusiasm was poured cold again and again by him without mercy.
Six years of marriage still did not make Lenny feel a sense of belonging. In the Li family, in addition to the three children who make her nostalgic and make her feel the joy of motherhood, the rest is the torment that goes deep into the bone marrow. Lan Ni finally made up her mind to file a divorce with Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo was very surprised, and felt that Lan Ni in front of her had a good little grandmother's life, but was it the brain "Watt"? To stop Lenny's thoughts, he made harsh demands: to get a divorce, he had to leave the house, couldn't take three children, and couldn't ask for child support. Lan Ni had already made up her mind, resolutely agreed to Li Dingguo's request, and left the house clean.
The lawyer sympathized with Lenny and asked her what her plans were after the divorce. Lanni replied happily, "I still have a few hundred yuan on me, and when I'm done spending it, I'll go jump the Huangpu River."
At first sight, Sun Ke mistakenly lived for life
Lenny was a famous courtesan at the time
In 1934, Lenny left the Lee family, where she had lived for six years.
In the greater Shanghai of the 1930s, the status of women began to rise, but the opportunities were far less than those of today. Having lived enough without economic autonomy, Lenny knows the benefits of the economy in life. At this time, many of her classmates also have mature social circles, and after thinking about it, Lani decided to rely on her classmates to make friends with heads and faces in the social circle, and then look for suitable opportunities to do business and break out of her own world in the Ten Mile Ocean Field.
Fortunately, Lani's popularity when she was studying was excellent, and a large group of female classmates were willing to play with her, often inviting her to participate in various famous social activities in Shanghai. Lan Ni is beautiful, polite and courteous, coupled with her natural ladylike demeanor, and soon became a famous social flower in Shanghai Beach.
Lenny and Sunko
In order to establish her own business network, Lani with her beauty and talent, in Shanghai Beach to know a lot of gangster-level figures, but also got the favor of many big guys, at this time Lanni is bent on establishing her own business circle, improve her quality of life, and has no intention of having an emotional relationship with one of them.
However, after all, the beautiful woman has a man to worry about, and she does not know that her love affair will come in a dance. Once, classmate Lu Ying invited Lan Ni to the dance, Lan Ni happily agreed, wearing a rolling lace cheongsam and spraying with seductive perfume, she went to Lu Ying's apartment. Lenny's appearance attracted a lot of attention, many old acquaintances greeted her, she smiled and responded, style. At this dance, she saw a man with a gentle temperament, and the man had been quietly looking at her.
Later, Lan Ni learned that this was Sun Ke, the only son of Sun Yat-sen. Sun Ke grew up in the West, and his thinking and conversation were more Westernized. It just so happened that Lenny learned English well in school, and the two of them communicated in English. As the saying goes: there is a chance to meet thousands of miles. The two people who thought about it had a great feeling of seeing each other and hating each other.
Lenny's beauty is attractive to Sun Ke
When Sun Ke learned that Lanni was single, he began to pursue Lanni in a crazy way. At this time, Sun Ke was married and was the father of four children. In the Republic of China, the law had already stipulated that polygamy was no longer allowed, and in the face of Sun Ke's pursuit, Lani hesitated. Lenny has a soft spot for Sun Ke, but how far can emotions without fame go?
Sun Ke understands Lenny's hesitation, but he has a deep affection for Lenny, so he gently offers to make Lenny his secretary. Lenny thought about it for a moment and finally agreed, after all, the once sentient marriage did not bring a sense of belonging, but only pain and confusion. If the two of you love me, your heart is sealed, and you have no name and recognize it.
Lenny's emotions triumph over reason, and Sun Ke's wisdom, wisdom, conversation and knowledge are all Lenny's fascination. In 1935, Lan Ni appeared in Nanjing as the private secretary of Sun Ke, president of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China.
In every detail, Sun Ke became the core of Lanni's life and work. She often took his arm and paid for public parties. She was next to Sun Ke, Tingting, every word and deed, falling generously, completely without any twisting posture. The elegant Lanni became the well-known Second Lady Sun Ke, and she was very helpful to her husband's career, and she no longer participated in the social meetings of the business tycoons on the beach. She and Sun Ke were together, although she could not marry the media, Sun Ke still held four tables of banquets, invited colleagues to eat and drink, and completed the wedding ceremony with Lanni.
Sun Ke was initially very attached to Lenny
In order to show his loyalty to Lan Ni, Sun Ke also specially wrote down a vow to Lan Ni, which read: "I only have the original wife Chen And the second lady Lan shi two wives, in addition, there is no third person, hereby certify and hand over to the second wife of Lan Xunyi for acceptance." Sun Ke thirty-five, six, twenty-five. ”
Looking at Sun Ke's powerful pen and ink, Lenny was full of relief, for her this was Sun Ke's best promise, this promise was like a marriage book that held the two of them together. Although the two eventually broke up due to a misunderstanding, Lenny regarded Sun Ke as her husband throughout her life, and this note with the oath was well preserved by her until her death in 1996.
The Lenny incident lost her marriage
Photo of Sun Ke and Chen Shuying
In 1940, Sun Keyuan went to Chongqing with his wife Chen Shuying. Lanni, who was educated in new ideas, was very embarrassed, and she realized that although she accepted the fact of "second wife", she still could not face the reality of "two women serving a husband". After thinking about it, Lenny did not make a fuss, but asked Sun Ke to take her daughter back to Shanghai alone.
After returning to Shanghai, Lan Ni did not reach out to Sun Ke for money, but tried to make money herself. In order to earn money, Lenny began to associate with business tycoons she had met in social situations.
Lan Ni is a woman with a strong sense of family responsibility, when she could resolutely marry the Li family for the Lan family, after leaving the Li family, she could not put her mind to three children. When she returned to Shanghai, she went to Li's house to visit her children.
The change of tense made it impossible for Li Dingguo to lie flat at home and eat the old man, and he had to go out to do business on his own. At this time, Li Dingguo had just sold a round of brown sugar, and wanted to make a lot of money, who knew that the timing was not good, because the hurricane caused the ship to sink, the economic losses were heavy, and the Li family was devastated from then on. For this reason, the three children even often need Lenny's help.
For the sake of her children's lives, Lenny, who doesn't like to complain about the world, decides to start her business. Without capital, she sold the villa sent by Sun Ke, so that she had the capital. With these costs, she began to contract projects, in order to earn more money, she was not afraid of hard work at all, doing everything herself, doing what should be a man. At that time, Shanghai was under the rule of the Wang puppet government, and it was said that Sun Ke was the nephew of Chiang Kai-shek, and if the snobbish officials could not buy Lanni's account, but Lanni had extensive interpersonal contacts, and those officials did not embarrass her, which made Lanni's business flourish in Shanghai Beach.
The depth and breadth of Lenny's social circle has enabled her to get a lot of commercial secrets, and after making a lot of money in the real estate, she is even sharpening her knife and planning to show her fists in the real estate.
Lan Ni took a picture of a piece of land on Bai SaiZhong Road (today's Fuxing West Road) in the French Concession outside Xujiahui, and she specially asked the real estate king Yang Runsheng to be a counselor, Yang Runsheng believed that this piece of land was next to Xiafei Road, and Xujiahui was very close, and it might become a downtown area, and the potential for value-added was great. With the help of Yang Runsheng, Lan Ni bought this land and invested in the construction of seven beautiful small Western-style buildings, each building is a three-story European and American style, and the exterior walls are different in color and very beautiful. After the house was built, Lenny gave it a nice name, "Villa Rose", and she took her parents and children in and lived in No. 1 and No. 5 respectively. The rest of the house, Lenny plans to rent out, herself as a rent collector.
Rose Villa
Later, in order to facilitate access, Lenny borrowed some money from her friends, plus cashed in on the aged Pu'er tea that her grandfather had originally saved, and bought two bungalows at the door. In this way, the entire lane has become a "Lane Lane".
In addition to Yang Runsheng's staff officer, the seven houses of the "Rose Villa" were also designed by four famous architects, Xi Fuquan, Huang Dayu, Zhao Di and Chen Zhi. To this day, these seven houses are still famous for their old Shanghai.
In 1948, the Kuomintang convened the "Constitutional National Congress", and Chiang Kai-shek was elected by the National Assembly as the first president of the Nationalist government, while the election of vice president became the focus of contention among various factions. With Chiang Kai-shek's encouragement, Sun Ke decided to run for vice president, and his rival was Li Zongren.
Sun Ke
Sun Ke wants to participate in the vice presidential election, and Lanni is of course unconditionally cooperative. With her excellent communication skills to help Sun Kela vote, she wandered between several factions, the first to win over was the "King of Yunnan" Yunlong, the Lan family and the Yun family belonged to the family, Yunlong patted her chest and gave Lan Ni a guarantee; then Lan Ni visited the senior Miao general Ou Baichuan and the Dai senior general Ling Guangdian, and also hosted a banquet at home to entertain the representatives of ethnic minorities. In Sun Ke's election, Lanni spared no effort to dedicate her ability and talent.
However, what Lanni did not expect was that the "Lenny Incident" that was viciously hyped by the media during the election not only made Sun Ke lose the election, but also became the direct reason for her breakup with Sun Ke.
On April 23, 1948, the front page of the "National Salvation Daily" published a report that Lenny had been confiscated for importing counterfeit property and a batch of high-grade architectural paint. And the words that make people intriguing are said in the report: Sun Ke wrote to the relevant departments saying that the paint was owned by "our relative" Lanni and asked for it to be returned.
At the crucial moment of the campaign, Lenny did not expect that she would become a target for the campaign opponent to fight back. The previous process of entanglement with rogue tenants in Villa Rose has also been reported to be "bullying the poor". In the face of the political enemies using the media to make a big slander against Lanni, Sun Ke's performance was not satisfactory, completely chilling Lanni's heart. For the sake of his own face and political future, Sun Ke denied that he had written a letter for Lanni, and at the same time tried to break off relations with Lanni.
Lenny was completely chilled by Sun Ke
Sun Ke's move infuriated Lan Ni, Lan Ni is by no means a woman of pretense, she is a woman full of true temperament, she always wants to make everyone around her better, so even if she has divorced Li Dingguo, she is willing to recommend him to Sun Ke to work in the National Government; seeing Sun Ke's original match, she silently returns to her own place.
Therefore, Sun Ke completely denied the feelings between them for the sake of his career, which Lanni could not tolerate and forgive. Especially after Sun Ke lost the election, the campaign staff group blamed the failure entirely on Lenny, and Sun Ke seemed to acquiesce in this statement in order to clear his own interference, resulting in the two finally breaking up completely.
Leave the dust behind for a new life
Lane Lane Lane
Lenny made a vow that she would never reunite with Sun Ke in this life. Sure enough, Lanni and Sun Ke are like passers-by A and passer-by B, passing by, and there is no intersection of life. Shortly after breaking up with Sun Ke, Lenny took her daughter to Hong Kong.
The depth of love is painful, and the emotional change with Sun Ke has deeply hurt Lani. After arriving in Hong Kong, she quickly put into the K gold hype. Perhaps it was the mood that affected the investment, the Dalongjin opened by Lanni was not smooth at all, and in the end, there was no return, and all of Lanni's belongings were adrift.
All the effort seems to be back to square one, and 37-year-old Lenny feels that she can no longer open this dead knot in her life, and in a dark and windy night of a month, she chooses to commit suicide. However, fate doomed her yang life to be unfinished, even if she wanted to die herself.
After the death robbery and the suicide attempt, Lenny has become more transparent, love is important, but her family and daughter, but also the foundation of her life, is equally important! She decided to start working again, to fight for a superior educational condition for her beloved daughter, with a strong idea, coupled with the original business acumen, and soon Lenny once again spelled out a family business.
For several years of living in Hong Kong, Sun Ke has been contacting her to "seek a compound". However, Lenny had no intention of looking back.
Ms. Sun Suifen
With the efforts of Lan Ni, her daughter Sun Suifen received a good education and was admitted to the University of Arizona in the United States. Later, Sun Suifen also served as the commercial consul of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, the Commercial Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, and founded Hong Kong Shunya Consulting Co., Ltd. Sun Suifen saw the hardships her mother had gone through along the way, and she was extremely filial to her mother, and she always took her with her and took good care of her. And Lan Ni and Li Dingguo's three children, son Li Zhenya, daughter Li Ying, li Hua are also deeply in love with her.
After several turnovers, Lenny finally took back one of her purchased Rose Villas. Lenny has been living here since March 18, 1990. Prominently on the east wall of Lenny's bedroom, there is always an old-fashioned photograph that was taken when she and Sun Ke were married in 1935. At that time, his eyes were shining, she had a deep affection for each other, and everything was the most beautiful.
A group photo of Lenny and her daughter in her later years
The final years of life are quiet and good, always accompanied by the wind and dust and hardships along the way, no matter how different the starting point is, everyone's four seasons and three meals, both bland and wonderful, both lonely and prosperous; all the warm sunshine or cold wind and frost encountered are just the branches that must be faced on the road of life. And Lanni, is such a bold and responsible woman, whether in the gentle township or in the freezing rain, she always knows what she should give up and what she should pursue, so that she can continue to move forward in the direction of her own hopes according to her own will!