When Du Yuesheng, before his death, lay on his hospital bed and personally said that his inheritance was only 100,000 US dollars, the family members present were shocked and stunned.
No one could have imagined that Du Yuesheng, who had spent a lifetime of money, had left a huge family's legacy so thin.
This money should be divided among four wives and four sons and three daughters, how many pieces can one person get? No wonder Qing Gao, like Meng Xiaodong, couldn't help but blurt out on the spot: "How to live with such a little money?" ”
Why did the arrogant Winter Emperor care so much about money and other external things?
First, the Meng family has the beginning of the emperor's growth
On the sixteenth day of the winter month of the lunar calendar in 1907, Meng Xiaodong was born in a family of singing opera, and his grandfather Meng Qi, was an old ancestor in the pear garden industry. She began to learn art at the age of five, took the stage with her father at the age of seven, and began to sign up at the age of twelve, during which time she has been walking at the end of the world.
Master sings Lao Sheng, so Meng Xiaodong also sings Lao Sheng. Since the listing of a few plays, Meng Xiaodong has a reputation, she is a genius-style Susheng, the talent in her bones can not be hidden, the mountain is dewy, as long as she introduces a singing, the field is full, the ticket price is also soaring, and it is warmly sought after by the majority of ticket holders.
Meng Xiaodong started with a big top and cross legs, and embarked on a path of opera life that looked glorious, but was actually thorny and bumpy.
Second, the love trap Mei Lanfang
Just when Meng Xiaodong's artistic career was in full swing, he encountered the biggest disaster in his life - Mei Lanfang.
The two performed on the same stage under the impetus of the fans, and Mei Meng co-starred in a "Dragon Play Phoenix", but did not expect that the fake play was really done, because the drama was emotional.
Meng Xiaodong probably did not expect that this singing actually sang the dreams of many fans, and also sang the tragedy of his own life.
After the fans had the idea of matching the two, they went to mei dang to ask someone to ceme Mei Lanfang's third marriage.
In fact, Mei Lanfang's first two marriages were brokered by Feng Gengguang and other "Mei Dang" people. Mei Lanfang's first wife was named Wang Minghua.
After Wang Minghua got married, she took very good care of Mei Lanfang, but the control was also relatively strict, plus the two children she gave birth to died one after another, and she underwent sterilization. Therefore, the "Mei Dang" immediately planned a second marriage for Mei Lanfang, that is, Mei Lanfang's second wife Fu Zhifang.
Mei Lanfang had inherited to his great uncle as a child, and he had the responsibility to inherit two incense sticks. When the "Mei Dang" said the media, it deliberately emphasized the name of "name and name", which means that Fu Zhifang and Wang Minghua have the same status as a lady. Fu Zhifang was naturally happy to accept.
In order to match mei lanfang and Meng Xiaodong's good deeds, Mei party came to say that although Mei Lanfang was already very familiar with mei lanfang, Meng Xiaodong's family still did not like this family affair, especially Xiaodong's master Qiu Yuexiang.
He believes that Xiao Dong has just emerged in the capital, it is the time when the future is immeasurable, at this time to marry, will stop here; moreover, Mei Lanfang already has two wives, Xiao Dong over the door, is a concubine, which is too disrespectful for a celebrity who is red through Beijing and Tianjin.
The media speaker has long thought of a set of words, that is, "name and destiny". At this time, Wang Minghua was already plagued by lung disease and seemed to be dying soon. Moreover, she had already been sterilized and could not have any more children. Therefore, Meng Xiaodong can completely "name and die" with Fu Zhifang.
Is there anything in the world that can turn clouds and rain more than the mouth of a matchmaker? A "name and a certainty" can make two women who do not want to be small, and at the same time willingly enter the Mei family in an inexplicable identity.
This statement itself may be full of loopholes, but Meng Xiaodong is moved by it. The handsome little student she had "flirted" with on the stage had already penetrated deep into the atrium of this young girl's heart.
She did not even hesitate to agree to this family affair despite Master's words that he was going to break with her.
After the Spring Festival in 1927, Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong married Qin and Jin at Feng Gengguang's mansion.
Newly married Yan'er, Meng Xiaodong is really full of joy and spring breeze, but she does not know that her misfortune is already brewing.
Fu Zhifang, the first to enter the door in the name of "Fame and Fortune", strongly opposed this family affair, and Meng Xiaodong could not even enter the door of the Mei family.
But Mei Dang's statement to Xiao Dong was that she and Fu Zhifang were two rooms, and there was no need to enter one door at all. They found a new place for the newlyweds, and Xiao Dong happily accepted the new courtyard.
Meng Xiaodong was completely blind to his fate. Sweet love had covered her eyes and paralyzed her thoughts. She didn't think about Fu Zhifang, the woman who was both named and trusted by her, how she should get along with her.
1. Cause trouble to the wall
At that time, Meng Xiaodong was only a teenager, and the first lesson after the arrival of wonderful love was not the familiarity and consideration of the harem, but the abandonment of the stage.
Mei Lanfang was reluctant to let her show her face again. She was willing to step back from the gorgeous stage and choose to inhabit the nest of love, and she gave up her future so decisively that she thought she could enjoy the happiness she had justifiably enjoyed.
However, if you really retire, the feeling is different. She now understood what Master had said before leaving, and what she meant by stopping here. That meant that the praise she had previously enjoyed had stopped, and the throbbing of enjoying the challenge of the new character had also stopped.
She was heartbroken, and the things she had been busy with for more than a decade suddenly lost their meaning, and she seemed to have lost her center of gravity. Yet she thought it was worth it. He who has to die is willing to be a Mandarin duck and not envy the immortal. With Mei Lang by her side, let her give up anything, she is willing.
He wasn't around the emptiness, and she had a way to make up for it. She wanted to learn drama from Yu Shuyan, but Yu refused on the grounds that she was physically weak, but introduced her to another teacher, Bao Jixiang. In this way, even if she is reclusive, she can still enjoy the joy that drama brings her.
However, she is a generation of celebrities, which means that even if she can choose to quit the stage, the stage is not willing to choose her to quit. At that time, many theater owners and theater fans saw that Meng Xiaodong had suddenly disappeared and began to inquire everywhere.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and a shooting incident quickly broke the balance of the parties.
Meng Xiaodong did not appear on stage after marrying Mei Lanfang, which caused a retaliation from an extreme fan, and he found Mei Lanfang with a pistol and wanted to fight with Mei Lanfang. In the chaos, he killed an innocent Mei Party member, while he himself was shot dead by the military police.
Although this matter has nothing to do with Meng Xiaodong, Mei still regards her as a bane and slowly alienates her.
For the Mei Party, this is even more earth-shattering, and the day they exist, they will never be allowed to happen again. Feng Gengguang and other Mei Dang people discussed whether to abandon Meng Xiaodong and Protect Mei Lanfang.
2, the Winter Emperor plus body, invincible
Unable to wait for Mei Lanfang, Meng Xiaodong finally knew the reason. She returned to her mother's house in a huff. Without Mei Lanfang's home, is it still home?
Soon, Mei Lanfang took Fu Zhifang to Tianjin to perform. After Meng Xiaodong heard about it, he was even more angry. Her reputation and status were no lower than his, and the harm she suffered in this incident was no less than his, but he regarded her as the culprit, and regarded her abandonment as a restart for his career. How can she endure this?
She also has the capital of arrogance, and she also has the capital of resentment. The first second, the abandonment is like a foot, and the next second, you can make the respect re-added.
A person who is wildly admired by fans, her self-esteem and arrogance, are unimaginable to ordinary people, and the tolerance for shame is weak. Therefore, when he learned that Mei Lanfang and Fu Zhifang went to Tianjin, Meng Xiaodong immediately accepted the troupe's invitation to go to Tianjin.
In Tianjin, as soon as Meng Xiaodong appeared on stage, he was repeatedly praised.
Newspaper reporter Sha Dafeng praised her, directly calling Meng Xiaodong "long live my emperor."
He wrote in the Winter Emperor's Foreign Chronicles:
Fengtian carrier, unified huanyu, the current winter emperor, the name of the earthquake, the light is Kyushu island. Sound and sound, Garnd of all nations. Clever Tianrui, pass on tan yu one vein".
The wind blew up the little winter emperor, which was a fanaticism of fans, and the title of "winter emperor" was finalized from then on, becoming a title that could not be changed in her life.
The title of "Winter Emperor" was slightly heavier for her at this time. Her car discipline is too light, her experience is still small, and naturally there are still deficiencies and deficiencies. But this title of "Winter Emperor" gave her confidence that she could rise rapidly after encountering a marriage change.
3. The battle of fame and division, a defeat
Soon, Mei Lanfang wanted to go to the United States to perform, because Fu Zhifang was pregnant at the time and it was not appropriate to go abroad, and he thought of taking Meng Xiaodong with him. When Fu Zhifang learned about it, she was shocked, and she told Mei Lanfang that she would rather beat the child in her belly and go to the United States with her.
Fu Zhifang's words frightened Mei Lanfang into surrendering immediately, and finally decided to go alone.
When Mei Lanfang returned from the United States the following year, she received the bad news of her aunt's death as soon as she got off the ship.
At the funeral of her mother-in-law, she, who was usually meek as a sheep, fiercely blocked the gate of Meifu, using the child in her belly as a threat, not allowing Meng Xiaodong to enter the house to hang filial piety, and Mei Lanfang, who has always attached importance to her heirs, had no other choice but to compromise and persuade Meng Xiaodong to leave.
The arrogant Meng Xiaodong was extremely disappointed in Mei Lanfang and finally gave up this marriage, so that the love-hate affair that had been entangled for four years came to a sad end.
Meng Xiaodong's life was named after his mighty and heroic posture, but he also dared to be stubborn and self-bound. When she met her, he should have belonged happily, but she could not bear his cruelty, and decided to run away and never look back. Years later, they had a chance to reunite, and he wanted to see her, but she flatly refused, cut to the point.
Even if she can't strategize and can't see that she and he can't stand up to each other, she can definitely face life without him without fear.
Third, love has died for most of his life, and art is achieved with feelings
Meng Xiaodong took the initiative to file for divorce with Mei Lanfang. Disheartened, Meng Xiaodong went to the Nianhua Temple in Beiping to worship the abbot Liangyuan Da monk as his teacher, and held a ceremony of refuge in the Three Jewels. The three strands of troubles in the human world are all cut off, and a heart is devoted to the empty door scene of life. And so, four years of wasted time to heal the wounds.
Until Sha Gale, a fanatical fan of Xi Ri, found an opportunity to state the stakes for Meng Xiaodong, and finally let her get back on her feet:
Are you self-defeating, not right on someone else's trajectory? People would have recommended you, but you were always so decadent that people would slowly believe the gossip in the newspaper. Over time, the audience gradually forgot about you, and finally ruined their own talents, is it a pity?
These words were like a daigo empowerment, which made Meng Xiaodong suddenly realize that her obsession with drama aroused her ambition!
Although she loves to die, she still likes drama, it is more powerful than him, it, to make his life full, he, just let his life produce a little illusion.
In September 1933, Meng Xiaodong published the "Meng Xiaodong's Urgent Notice" on the first page of the "Ta Kung Pao" for three consecutive days:
Winter was naïve and unfamiliar, and everything was presided over by the introducer. The name is both well known and well known. Nai Lan Fang was vague, and on the day of her mother's death, she could not practice the preface, and her name was not guaranteed. Resolutely broke away from lanfang's family relationship. Am I the negative? Or do you blame me? There is a public opinion in the world, and it is not waiting for the repetition of winter.
Soon, she returned to the stage and recreated the glory.
After his mood calmed down slightly, Meng Xiaodong began to look for a famous teacher. The famous teacher did not worship, but met the man who supported her all her life with finance and love.
After Meng Xiaodong and Mei Lanfang broke up, they once went to Shanghai to find a lawyer. When she was married, quietly, but when it came time to divorce, she wanted a name.
And Du Yuesheng appeared at the right time to help Meng Xiaodong fight for a breath in this painful marriage, prompting Mei Lanfang to sell the property and compensate her for the breakup fee of 40,000 oceans, for which Meng Xiaodong was grateful.
In 1935, under meng Xiaodong's devout prayer, Yu Shuyan finally agreed to accept her as a disciple. In the Yu family, she finally regained her former passion.
There are many rules for the old-school pear garden, and the so-called respect for the teacher is that the Yu family must do it up and down. Therefore, when the daughter of the Yu family got married, she gave away a hall full of mahogany furniture.
In fact, Meng Xiaodong did not perform for a long time, and what he spent was Du Yuesheng's silent support.
In 1937, Meng Xiaodong was finally impressed by the most powerful man on the beach and finally committed himself to Du Yuesheng. And Du Yuesheng still insists on her artistic career as always, clears all obstacles for her, and makes her wholeheartedly learn the essence of Yu Pai!
Mei Lanfang only gave her harm, and Du Yuesheng had been protecting her from harm for the rest of her life. Only in this way, there is no economic burden, and there is no need to pay attention to the twists and turns in the chaotic world, and it is pure to learn the essence of art.
After Meng Xiaodong reappeared in the jianghu, he won a full house of applause, "Winter Emperor... The name thus grew stronger. Although her performances are not many, only more than 30 performances in 5 years, she has not made a sound, and she has become a blockbuster, and is respected by her peers as a model for Xu Sheng.
Meng Xiaodong's singing voice and body are getting better and better, but the self-abandonment in the years after the love injury has long been consumed by the body, and in the case of poorer and worse physical fitness, she began to smoke like Yu Shuyan to resist the pain, which also laid the groundwork for her to end her artistic performance career early.
In 1947, Meng Xiaodong, as a descendant of Yu Pai, starred in "Search for Orphans and Rescue Orphans" in "Du Yuesheng's Sixtieth Birthday Famous Northern and Southern Lingyi Performance", which was the most wonderful appearance, and it was a masterpiece for a while, and the grand event was unprecedented.
At this point, Meng Xiaodong has fully established the status of the chief female student of Chinese Peking Opera.
Unfortunately, the most famous KunSheng in the history of theater made the most wonderful appearance, which is only a moment of fireworks.
Later, Meng Xiaodong took refuge in Hong Kong with Du Yuesheng, lived in Hong Kong, received disciples, and studied opera rap every day.
Later, she moved to Taiwan, thinking of spring and enjoying life quietly.
The above total, there is no need for financial support, where there are so many years in the world, just someone to carry the weight for you to move forward, so Meng Xiaodong chose the purest artistic heritage, but also had to prepare for his later life, only then did Du Yuesheng have the beginning of Du Yuesheng's strong support for Meng Xiaodong in terms of financial resources.
Write at the end:
Although Mei Meng's love is only the tip of the iceberg in life, it is the weakest part of the whole iceberg, but Meng Xiaodong, with strong perseverance, did not collapse because of the tip of the iceberg, but under du Yuesheng's warm repair and economic support, on the road of Peking Opera, always adhere to the attitude of studious persistence, through his dedication and efforts to create glory!