During the Republic of China period, there was a girl in Lu County, Sichuan, who was born beautiful and was first cultivated. At the age of 15, she was admitted to Luxian Girls' High School, but because of her beautiful posture, she caused a huge sensation, and passers-by rushed to peek.
In the era of war and chaos, a girl from an ordinary family is very famous, and you can imagine what this means!
At that time, there was a warlord surnamed Yang in Sichuan, who was highly powerful, but he was fond of fishing. When he heard that there was such a beautiful girl under his rule, he went to see it with his own eyes, and he was immediately overwhelmed by it, so he prepared a generous gift to marry.
The girl's father died early, and she followed her mother to her uncle and aunt, powerless and powerless. Under the fence, and the aunt strongly advocated, in this way, under the threat and temptation of the matchmaker, the elderly mother tearfully sent her daughter to the Yang Mansion.
That year, the girl was only 15 years old, but the warlord was 33 years older than her, and he had married Mrs. Bafang!
Who will be the wife of someone else, who will regret the red tears in the morning?
Born beautiful, the daughter has just grown up
The girl's name is very beautiful, the surname Cai Wenna.
Father Cai was a down-and-out student in the late Qing Dynasty, full of talent, but he was poor and poor, and lived by selling words and teaching. However, although the days were hard, Father Cai was very fond of his children under his knees, and when the children were just enlightened, he taught the second daughter and the first son to read and read.
In the chaotic world, the poor are kept, and the incense of books is passed on under the cold house.
Unfortunately, such warm days are too short.
When the eldest son was about to become an adult, he suddenly fell seriously ill, and Cai's father had no money to treat his son, and could only watch him die. As a child, Wen Na did not understand the meaning of life and death, and her father died of grief because he missed his son.
Losing her brother and loving father almost at the same time, the young Cai Wenna tasted extreme pain in her ignorance.
When she was 10 years old, Cai's mother, who had a hard time with her two daughters, ran to her sister, who lived in the county seat of Lu County.
The aunt and uncle had no children, and they treated Cai Wenna and her sister very well, and they paid for the tuition for the two of them. Despite this, the life under the fence still allowed Cai Wenna to taste the warmth and coldness of human feelings in this world.
Especially when the frail and sick mother is bedridden, the taste is even more poignant.
Privately, the young Cai Wenna and her sister meet up, we must study hard, be a new era of women, and take care of her family when she grows up.
At that time, the fashion of the Republic of China had been opened, and women could go to school, work, and marry independently.
With a beautiful vision, the clever Cai Wenna took care of her mother with her sister while studying hard, just so that one day she would open her wide wings and shelter her relatives in the chaotic world.
Cai Wenna's beauty is stunning at a glance, and there is a natural flattery between her eyebrows, which is touching.
In the Han Le Fu 'Mo Shang Sang', it is recorded that a passerby saw the form of Luo Shi, "The walker sees Luo Shi, and bears the beard." The teenager saw Luo Shi and took off his hat and wore his head. The tiller forgets his plow, and the hoe forgets his hoe. Come back to each other to be angry, but sit and watch Luo Shi. ”
Luxian County is not a big county, when Cai Wenna went to girls' middle school, as long as she walked on the street, she would definitely attract countless admiring eyes. Her smile and smile have touched the eyes of countless pedestrians.
Therefore, in comparison, her charm is not inferior to that of KonoroShiki.
Forced to marry, she became the ninth aunt
At the age of 15, even in feudal society, he was still a naïve child.
But he was guilty.
Cai Wenna's beauty spread throughout the county seat of Luxian County, spread throughout the hundred miles, and gradually spread to the ears of a person with special intentions.
In that era of war and chaos, a beautiful girl from an ordinary background was rumored to be unknown to everyone, and what awaited her would be an unpredictable fate!
Just as Cai Wenna was at school, a matchmaker came to her aunt's house, accompanied by an officer holding a gift box.
The matchmaker first asked for warmth, and then kindly suggested that Cai Mu go to a hospital with advanced conditions for treatment, and patted her chest to ensure that all the costs were borne by her to ensure that the medicine was eliminated. Then, she pretended to be surprised and praised the daughter of the Cai family, such as Tianxian Xiafan, as long as she agreed to a heavenly family affair, she promised to immediately step into the clouds.
Then the officer opened the whole box of silver dollars!
My aunt had never seen the world, and when she saw the silver dollar, she had fainted for three minutes. However, when she learned that the person who proposed her relatives was the legendary sichuan province, she was already shocked and did not know the north and south, and immediately persuaded her sister to agree to the marriage.
Although Cai's mother was on the verge of illness, she was reluctant to carry her daughter behind her back to marry her to a half-centenarian who was 33 years older.
But the discolored matchmaker, the fierce-looking officer, and the threats from the people who came to her heart trembled. In that era when warlords were divided and the land was ownerless, Cai Mu had no way out except obedience!
When Cai Wenna came back from school and learned that she was about to get married, she cried a lot and the listener was moved.
If she is determined not to marry, it will be her relatives who bear the unforeseen consequences; if she really marries, how can she be willing?
But what can be done?
In the winter of 1932, Cai Wenna, who was only 15 years old, was carried to a flower palanquin and married with tears.
On the day of her new marriage, she knew nothing about marriage and love, and was at the mercy of a group of servants like a puppeteer. Worship the heavens and the earth, worship the big room, drink the wine... It wasn't until she woke up crying late at night that Cai Wenna realized that she was already the ninth aunt of Yang Mansion!
The beautiful dreams that were once carefully woven have since turned into illusions.
Because they yearn for freedom, they rebel
In 1932, at the age of 48, Yang Sen married his ninth aunt, Cai Wenna, and was very fond of her.
Because the ninth aunt was still in school, he did not want Cai Wenna to show her face, so he found a young tutor for her to teach her English.
Previously, Janssen had also sought teachers from several other aunts and wives to teach them new etiquette, new knowledge and new fashions. The reason he did this was not because of how open-minded he was, but because he wanted to train them to be virtuous and helpers to add luster to his career.
Moreover, Janssen often prides himself on being a new era in front of people, which is also a good way to help himself publicize it.
However, what Yang Sen did not expect was that this English teacher who returned from overseas not only taught Cai Wenna to learn English, but also brought western women's emancipation of the mind into Yang Mansion.
What's more, this English teacher is not only personable, but also able to speak the Tao!
For a bird that is forced into a "golden wire cage", the most desired thing is not careful care and sweet food, but the vast sky outside the cage.
Curiosity about new things, admiration for advanced ideas and the yearning for freedom in the outside world make a ripple in the heart of a 17-year-old girl.
The seemingly enlightened husband is actually full of feudal paternalism and is very strict with the discipline of the back house.
Under the secret report of the back house eyeliner, when Yang Sen learned that his favorite ninth aunt actually admired the English teacher, he was furious. He called the other aunts and wives to the front of the court, and ordered someone to drag Cai Wenna and beat her with a leather whip!
The 17-year-old girl did not cry under the stick, and her face was stoic.
The angry husband was furious, shouting that he was going to kill her, and the leather whip in his hand fell mercilessly on the delicate girl. Blood was dripping, the skirt was soaked, and the girl still didn't say a word!
The aunts and wives of the eight rooms who were affectionate saw that their husbands were so cruel and pleaded one after another, which saved Cai Wenna from the road of death.
The unforgiving husband still wants the girl to admit her mistake, but the girl has already been beaten to the point of fainting.
For the sake of freedom, but also for the unwillingness of her heart, the girl rebelled against her husband's feudal paternalism for the first time, tossing and turning under the stick, even if she was killed, she did not bow her head and beg for forgiveness!
For the sake of late love, brave pursuit
When he was young, Janssen studied in many new-style schools.
The impact of new culture and new knowledge has always made him have a great curiosity about new things. He also likes to contact Westerners and talk to young people who have returned from studying abroad, which is of great help to his image.
However, in his bones, he is still a man of the old era, and there are still some warlord vices left on him.
To him, the beautiful aunt and the leading knowledge represented his face and status to a large extent; but if he entered his house, no matter how he came in, he had to obey his will.
To this end, he sent his aunts and wives to school, while at the same time formulating complicated and strict house rules for them.
For example, he asked his aunts and wives to get up early every day and train under the leadership of their adjutants. Some people were very curious about his practice and asked him why he did so, but he said, "If I don't practice militarized management, the people in the house will be able to hold it." ”
For example, he demanded that his aunt who entered yang mansion must be loyal to him. When the seventh aunt, Zeng Guizhi, was sent to Shanghai to study, he fell in love with a classmate surnamed Chen, and when Yang Sen learned of it, he tricked the two back to Sichuan to kill, and often warned his aunts and wives about this matter.
After experiencing a severe beating, 17-year-old Cai Wenna deeply realized her husband's fierceness and became more and more distant from him.
However, it is the girl of the same age who is full of youthful charm, and her brilliant appearance makes her husband reluctant to leave Su zhen. In the following years, Cai Wenna gave birth to 4 children for her husband.
A few years passed, and her husband was very satisfied with Cai Wenna's "following the rules" for so many years, and once again agreed to let her go out to school. However, in view of the lessons left by the seventh aunt, Yang Sen quietly sent some people into the campus to spy on Cai Wenna.
In July 1939, Cai Wenna left Chongqing and came to Chengdu West China Union University to study.
Although she was already a mother of 2 children, Cai Wenna was only 22 years old at the time! Her brilliant beauty, noble and charming temperament and solitary mystery quickly attracted everyone's attention.
Among Cai Wenna's classmates, there is a boy surnamed Lu who is from a well-off family, tall and handsome, and attracts attention.
After 4 years of enrollment, under the enthusiastic pursuit of Lu Students, Cai Wenna fell into a love network.
After a date full of ambiguity, the relationship between the two has made substantial progress, and Cai Wenna decided to leave her husband and bravely pursue her love and freedom.
So she bravely wrote a letter and sent it to her husband who was far away in Chongqing.
In fact, Yang Sen's eyes and ears had already discovered the whereabouts of the Ninth Aunt and reported them frequently. But Janssen did not intend to publicize the matter with great fanfare, because it would seriously damage his image in the hearts of the world.
He readily agreed to Cai Wenna's request to leave and sent a telegram asking her to return to Chongqing.
However, Cai Wenna did not go back, but was busy writing her graduation thesis.
It was this graduation thesis, titled "A Family in Transition," that exposed the darkness hidden behind Yang Mansion to the public eye.
Unusual graduation thesis
In the early summer of 1944, Cai Wenna submitted her graduation thesis.
Jiang Yungang, a tutor at West China Union University, commented with emotion after reading it: "This article is quite valuable and is an extraordinary work. With the addition of tailoring and repair, it is by no means the same day that those who catch the wind and catch the shadow and work in vain can talk on the same day. ”
In view of Cai Wenna's denunciation of Yang Fu's marriage in her paper, the head of the department, Li Anzai, and the dean of the Faculty of Letters, Luo Zhongshu, were shocked.
However, after reading the paper entitled "A Transitional Family", they were all touched by Cai Wenna's courage and literary style, and signed their appreciation opinions in the judges' column. Moreover, in order to protect Cai Wenna, they unanimously agreed to invite Cai Wenna to stay in school and become a teaching assistant teacher.
Why do these tutors attach so much importance to Cai Wenna's graduation thesis?
That's because Cai Wenna wrote it with her own personal experience! Moreover, in the form of a pronoun in the paper, she reveals how Janssen married 9 aunts through various means and exercised mental and physical control over them, including the open struggle between the aunts and wives!
In the paper, Cai Wenna represents her husband with "A", and her own code name is "I".
Of her unhappy marriage, she stated it this way:
"At the suggestion of my aunt, I married A in the winter of the 21st year of the Republic of China, and was only fifteen and a half years old junior high school fifth student. Two years after marriage, her mother died, and since then she has invisibly cut off contact with her aunt, alone in this complicated big family, with only one sister who often interacts..."
As for why the high-ranking "A" knows her good name, Cai Wenna's disclosure is shocking:
"The marriage between I and A is personally managed by A's sister-in-law and C and E. Chinese social customs, from this can be seen in general. ”
The "C" and "E" here also refer to Janssen's third aunt and fifth aunt.
Because the third aunt has always wanted to overthrow the fifth aunt who is favored in front of her husband, she will join forces with A's sister-in-law to find helpers everywhere. In this way, an innocent girl studying in a small county town has become a "victim" of their competition for favors.
Regarding her husband's feudal paternalism, Cai Wenna said this:
"A stipulates that children must learn to be grateful, so before each meal, children must stand and hold hands and chant, 'Daddy and mother give us food to eat, we must never forget Daddy and Mommy.'"
For living in such a family, Cai Wenna, who has a broad vision, is full of anger in her heart! Coupled with the fact that she has decided to break away from her husband who has controlled herself for 12 years, she has no scruples and reveals the secrets of Yang Mansion and the dark curtain behind her unfortunate marriage and presents them to the world!
However, she also knows the personality of her husband, and the seventh aunt is the best example.
Therefore, Cai Wenna looked for the shelter of the school, planning to study abroad as a teaching assistant after graduation, and her sweetheart double-lived and flew.
Cai Wenna's graduation thesis was quickly approved by the tutors, and she officially graduated.
At the same time, her husband in Chongqing also knew the content of Cai Wenna's paper! If it is only an emotional "betrayal", Yang Sen in his later years can still be merciful to her subordinates, but Cai Wenna's behavior is undoubtedly a complete "separation" from the entire Yang Mansion, and the hidden dirt of the Yang Mansion is exposed to the public for the first time!
The extremely good-looking husband was alone in the room angry and murderous.
In the summer of 1944, Yang Sen again sent a telegram to Cai Wenna, inviting her to return to Chongqing to discuss "peace and separation".
Cai Wenna was very surprised to tell this news to the classmate surnamed Lu, and quickly left at his urging. What the two people who are immersed in the vision of a better future do not know is that Janssen's invitation hides the killing machine!
Her husband kindly welcomed Cai Wenna home, but said nothing about her proposed "peace and separation".
In the evening, Cai Wenna returned to her room to prepare for rest, but unexpectedly, her husband's lieutenant broke into her room with a gun...
Cai Wenna was only 27 years old when she was killed, and the adjutant wrapped her in a quilt and threw her into a dry well next to the tennis court. In order to deter the other aunts and wives, Yang Sen shouted them all to the dry well, so that they could witness cai Wenna's tragic fate.
A few days later, a classmate surnamed Lu, who had not seen Cai Wenna return for a long time, felt very unhappy and quietly sneaked out of the country to escape Yang Sen's pursuit.
In order to pursue freedom and love, Cai Wenna once again embarked on the path that the seventh aunt had walked before she was born, but was killed by her fierce husband. It can be said that this woman's life is full of misfortune, and her misfortune stems from the feudal ideas that remain in her husband's mind.
Peacocks fly southeast, wandering for five miles. Who can say that good media can be autonomous? There is no desolate loess pile.
In that era, an unknown number of girls were poisoned by the authoritarian feudal patriarchal style and the stubborn custom of arranged marriages, and fell helplessly in the long river of history.