Nirvana Rebirth: Shanghai Beach entrepreneur and banker Zhang Youyi

Mention Zhang Youyi, I will think of Hu Lancheng's description of Zhang Ailing, "Water shines on flowers."

However, Zhang Youyi is not a flower in the water, she is a flower in the water.

In Xu Zhimo's vigorous love, Lin Huiyin is a flower, Lu Xiaoman is also a flower, and Zhang Youyi, just like a grass on the shore, near the water, the wind, but also the rain, but in the eyes of outsiders, she is not even an embellishment, she is just a grass he passed, passing by, and passing by.

What is left for her is the heroine of "China's first modern divorce case", the well-known title of "poet abandoned wife", the abandoned ,—— that represents the old world, or the "rural bun" that should be abandoned.

Her life is like being nailed to such a label.

How unfair this is, in fact, after the divorce, she broke through the cocoon and became a successful career woman, an entrepreneur and banker on the beach.

——Former Dewen teacher at Soochow University in Shanghai, vice president of "Shanghai Women's Commercial Savings Bank", or general manager of "Yunsheng" clothing store. In the days of war, she is still doing the business of investing in dyes, cotton and gold, she uses the money she earns to build a house, take care of the two elderly people of the Xu family, and even after the death of the old man of the Xu family and Xu Zhimo, she also put money into Lu Xiaoman's account on a monthly basis...

Even if she is left today, she will be a well-known and successful businessman, with affection, righteousness and responsibility.

This success is not only how much money is earned, how high the status is, but more importantly, how to get over those bumps and thorns, and through the ridicule, contempt, and sympathetic eyes of everyone, and live a wonderful and prosperous life.

She is not a grass, she is a sprout, and in time, this sprout will not only grow into a tree, but will eventually grow into a forest.

The time goes back to 1915.

That year, she was only fifteen years old and married someone else.0 She later learned that her lover, when he first saw her pictures, said in a disgusted tone, "Country buns."

After the marriage, what she thought was raising eyebrows was endless silence when the two were facing each other, and he not only did not put her in his heart, but even did not put her in his eyes.

Such two people were doomed to tragedy from the beginning.

Later, he went abroad to study, went abroad to study, and enthusiastically rushed to his new era.

And she, a person struggling to have children, accompanied by her in-laws, with the short flight of the town, trapped in her old times. At the age of fifteen, life seems to have ended before it has begun.

Finally, under the endless waiting and fighting, she can also go abroad to meet him.

But on the other side of the vast ocean, what awaited her was not joy, but indifference, and he glanced directly at her as if she did not exist.

Perhaps, in his place, she did not exist at all.

She was pregnant again, in exchange for his indifferent "beat the baby off", in exchange for which he left home and never came back.

She gave birth to her second son, Peter, alone, and what awaited her was a divorce, and it was she who, after signing the divorce agreement, was "overjoyed and overjoyed", and it was he who wrote the only poem given to her, "Laughing and Solving the Troubled Knot":

Come, now let go of your face and smile, shake hands and work together;

This goes to the breeze day, the scenery of the free road is good.

Listening to the cheers behind him, the controversy dissolved the knot and eliminated the troubles!

The year, it was 1922, and she was only 22 years old.

She herself said, "I have always seen my life as two stages: 'before Germany' and 'after Germany'. Before I went to Germany, I was afraid of everything; after going to Germany, I had nothing to fear. ”

She finally understood that there was no good person, only herself, and that she "wanted to pursue the qualities she inherited, and be a person with herself." She picked up her textbooks again, studied German, and entered the Pestalozzi Academy.

This is her awakening, and she has ushered in a new era of her own.

Unfortunately, the blow of fate is not only this, but also, she has lost her youngest son Peter forever, what kind of dark day is this?

She finally survived.

Even he admitted in the article that "she proved her wisdom, her patience, and especially her bravery and courage in her equally unfortunate circumstances."

When she returned to China in the spring of 1925, she was already a much stronger person than before, and she was not afraid of the sky.

Soon after, she joined the Shanghai Women's Commercial Savings Bank as a vice president and the general manager of the "Yunsheng" clothing store. In the "Dream of Prosperity in Modern Shanghai" edited by Mr. Tang Zhenchang, it is recorded that "Yunsheng" is "the premier women's clothing store in old Shanghai".

Her day was spent like this: every morning at nine o'clock in the morning, every second was not bad; after busy, until five o'clock in the afternoon, she studied an hour of Chinese with the teacher; then went to the "Yun xie" clothing store on Nanjing East Road to continue working; after returning home, she accompanied her son to play and do homework.

Isn't this like us nearly a hundred years later?

He had respect for her, and in his letter to Lu Xiaoman, he said, "C (Zhang Youyi) is a woman with ambition and courage, she has made a lot of progress in the past two years, her independent steps have stood firmly, and her thinking does have channels... She is really 'not afraid of anything' now, and she is ready to throw a few bombs in the future and startle the Chinese rat-guts society, you see! ”

Later, she also invested in stocks, dyes, cotton and gold, and in her later years, she still proudly said, "There is a lady who calls Mrs. Song the same way I do every business I do... She now lives in Hong Kong and always writes to tell me that her happiest day is the year she was with me. ”

She is destined to succeed because she has the necessary elements to succeed: strong will, tenacity, and, extreme responsibility.

Yes, even in old age, she is still a fashionable and energetic old lady. She died at the age of 88, and people praised her as "admiring the vitality and ability of the child", "openness and determination", "manly", "calm and wise".

She finally tore off the label of 22 years old, stood up to the sky, and created her new world, new, vast, and open. And, calmly and gently, she lit a lamp for those of us who came after us.

If Lin Huiyin is a April day on earth, light and spirited, beautiful and talented, Lu Xiaoman is the summer day of the green leaves of the Fang tree, lush, dense, dare to love and dare to hate, and the style is varied. And Zhang Youyi, it should be autumn, is the brilliant, tenacious, fearless, and has its own wind bones.

Oh, I'm wrong too, so why make this analogy?

Zhang Youyi is herself. (Text/Proud Bone Woman Mai Qian)

Reference book: "Little Feet and Suits" Zhang Bangmei