Sun Mingfen really did not expect that she would be someone else's stepmother in this life.
It has never been difficult to be a stepmother, as the saying goes, "the family has three buckets of grain, do not let the daughter be the filling of the house", and her Sun Mingfen is the sixth miss of the former president Sun Someone, the sisters in the family are either married to the president of the Republic of China or married to the general and the second eldest family as the original wife, she herself looks outstanding, but she ended up marrying to the Qing Dynasty's old home as a house filler and stepmother.
In fact, if she is not married well, she blames Sun Mingfen herself, although she was born by her aunt, but no one outside dared to look down on her, and there were many Miss Qianjin who were out of the house, and they all married well. And Sun Mingfen did not marry well because she smoked a lot of cigarettes. A smoking Miss Qianjin is something that no one dares to ask for, and she doesn't have the energy to take care of the house, and the children she gives birth to are afraid that they are not healthy.
Sun Mingfen smoked a lot of cigarettes for a reason, when she fell in love with her mother's son, when she was ready to elope, she was caught by the family, she was locked up, and the mother's son took the money given by her parents to return to the countryside and marry a village girl. She was sad and desperate for life, and she became addicted to smoking.
When she didn't exist, no one gave her a kiss, only let her eat a casual meal at home. She had wanted to live in this life, to be an old girl and let the family raise her for the rest of her life.
But when she was thirty-six years old, her half-brother worked in a bank and met Li Fenggong. Although Li Fenggong was divorced and dragged down by children, he was a son of the family, gentle and had a wide range of property. Her brother introduced her to Li Fenggong.
Li Fenggong fell in love with her at first sight, passionately pursued her, and said that he did not care about her past. She married Li Fenggong gratefully and decided to be a good wife and stepmother.
After marrying into the Li family, Sun Mingfen found that Li Fenggong was an addict, and the addiction to big cigarettes was even worse than her own. It doesn't matter, the husband and wife are like-minded, lying side by side on the hibiscus bed and swallowing the clouds and spitting mist together.
It's just that the stepdaughter Xi Ling is full of hostility towards her, Xi Ling has always hoped that her parents can break the mirror and reunite, and after Sun Mingfen married over, Let Xi Ling's wish for her birth mother to return home was disappointed.
In fact, Xi Ling's parents are incompatible, Xi Ling's birth mother already has a foreign boyfriend, even if her Sun Mingfen does not marry into the Li family, Xi Ling's parents will not break the mirror and reunite. But Xi Ling did not understand this truth.
And Xi Ling is a little girl who loves to read, read more foreign fairy tales, what "Cinderella", "Snow White" and the like, Xi Ling always thinks that the harem is not a good person, will abuse herself.
In order to show friendship, Sun Mingfen sent a box of her own old clothes as a gift for XiLing, who knew that XiLing was not sympathetic at all. Although Sun Mingfen is a thousand gold in the former president's family, there are many sisters in the family, and the clothes are generally worn by the old sister for the younger sister.
Sun Mingfen's old clothes are usually given to her sister who is growing up, and the sisters are overjoyed, but the old clothes are given to the stepdaughter XiLing, who has an angry face.
Sun Mingfen knew that Xi Ling's birth mother had been living in a foreign country, and Xi Ling was brought up by a maid, so she was particularly concerned about Xi Ling. She has to take care of everything she does, and she wants to let Xi Ling, who has not received maternal love, feel her strong maternal love.
But Xi Ling did not admit affection, took her concern as a discipline, everything collided with her, her birth mother returned to Shanghai is fine, her birth mother returned to Shanghai, Xi Ling ran to her birth mother's residence all day long, not to put her stepmother in her eyes.
Sun Mingfen was really sad, all these years, she took care of this family, took care of a pair of children, but as soon as the ex-wife who did not care about the children returned, the children did not regard her as a mother. Sun Mingfen married into the Li family, did not have children, she also knows that her old age can not have children, she hopes that her husband's children will treat her as a mother.
But the husband's children would rather please the birth mother who is far away from them than be close to her stepmother, who takes care of them every day. So she became angry, and the management of her children became more and more strict, and everything was reported to her.
The stepson is very obedient, but the stepdaughter Xiling always argues with her. She remembered that when she was in her mother's house, although there were more than a dozen brothers and sisters, no one dared to confront her mother-in-law, because her mother-in-law was the head of the family. After she married someone and became the head of the family, her stepdaughter did not take her seriously. The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and her heart that she had wanted to be a good stepmother before faded.
Xi Ling loves to drill the horns of the bull in everything, and any bad things are counted on her head. For example, her husband Fenggong disciplined her son too strictly, and when he saw that his son was not good at studying, he scolded his son. She often advised her husband not to be rude to the children, but Xi Ling attributed the incident to her, believing that she provoked dissension and let her husband abuse the son born in the former room.
Sun Mingfen really felt that the harem was difficult and particularly sad, and after that, she also drilled the horns like Xi Ling, as long as Xi Ling's mother Hui Shu returned to Shanghai, she thought that Hui Shu had come to stir up dissension and destroy the harmony of her family.
On this day, she heard that Hye Sook had returned, and Xi Ling ran to see Hye Sook again, and she had not returned for a night.
She was so angry that she didn't fall asleep all night, and when Xi Ling came home in the morning, she questioned Xi Ling: "Why didn't you come to see your mother come and talk to me?" I worried about you all night! Do you still have me in your eyes? ”
Xi Ling said unconvincedly, "I told my father." ”
Sun Mingfen said, "What about me? I'm also your mother, why don't you say it to me? ”
Xi Ling said, "I went to see my mother and told my father that it was enough, so why should I tell you?" I'm not your biological daughter, why are you so strict with me? You have to take care of everything. ”
The stepdaughter she raised did not recognize herself as a mother, sun Mingfen was so angry that she raised her arm and prepared to slap this filial daughter, but Xi Ling's size grew larger than her, and the adolescent Xi Ling grabbed her middle-aged woman's arm and told her that she could not beat anyone.
Sun Mingfen was so angry that she shouted in exasperation: "My daughter beat her mother." ”
The husband, Li Fenggong, ran out of the bedroom, punched and kicked his daughter Xiling, and locked her in the hut for the maid to watch over.
Sun Mingfen felt that she had gone too far and wanted her husband to release her stepdaughter, but her husband did not listen, in fact, her husband was also angry with her daughter, because her daughter did not love to raise her children, but she loved the ex-wife who left her children behind.
Xi Ling escaped to her birth mother on a rainy night. Sun Mingfen was mad, and she had been waiting for Xi Ling to apologize to her mistake, but Xi Ling refused to bow her proud head, preferring to run away rather than bow to her stepmother. When Xi Ling left, she severed the relationship with her mother and daughter, and she raised her daughter for others in vain.
Later, with the financial support of her birth mother, Xi Ling went to Hong Kong to study at a university and returned to Shanghai to become a female writer. Xi Ling described her as an evil stepmother in the article, and she also endured it, did not fight with Xi Ling, and did not defend herself to reporters. She only uses silence to show that she is a good stepmother, and uses the tolerance of her elders not to cause trouble for her stepdaughter.
In 1948, she and her husband sold their garden house and lived in a small pavilion, and the servants were scattered, leaving only the couple. The daughter XiLing went to Hong Kong, and the son Xi Xue went to teach at a school in Suzhou. Sister-in-law Feng Yi did not associate with them as husband and wife.
A few years later, her husband died of illness, leaving only her lonely wife, who was sixty years old. Although she is a stepmother, she married late and is about the same age as her husband's ex-wife, Hye Sook. Hye Sook has also passed away.
At that time, Sun Mingfen was ill and wanted to change houses to live with her brother. But his stepson, Xi Xue, objected, saying, "You change the house together, where will I live when I retire?" Her brother stood up and accused him of filial piety, but she stopped him.
She felt that her husband and wife were sorry for their son's education, and she had no money to marry him, so that she was still unmarried after forty years of school. Xixue is never married, alone, the unit will not assign a house to Xixue, Xixue also lives in the single dormitory of the unit in Suzhou, and lives with several young teachers, without a separate room. Only this cottage can be left for the younger students.
In her later years, she was very easy-going and did not put up a shelf, and no one could have imagined that this poor old woman had once been Miss Qianjin of the former president of the Republic of China and the granddaughter-in-law of the Prime Minister of the Qing Dynasty.
Because she was poor, and the next few major movements did not affect her, she spent her old age peacefully.
Later, Xi Xue was transferred back to Shanghai and lived with her in this small pavilion, and her later years were taken care of by her stepson Xi Xue, who gave her a pension and sent her to the end. In his later years, the relationship between Sun Mingfen and his stepson Xixue became better and better, and he really became a mother and son with a harmonious relationship.
Xi Xue felt that although Sun Mingfen was not very good to him, he was still his mother and still regarded him as a son. But his birth mother, Hye Sook, treated him like a stranger.
Sun Mingfen lived to the age of eighty-six and died.