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In 1933, Yuan Zhen, a talented woman in the history department of Tsinghua University, was also infected with tuberculosis when she returned to her hometown to visit her father who had tuberculosis. Unable to complete her studies on time, Tsinghua University had to cancel her student status.
Sickly, she lay alone in the bed of the lung hospital, losing her beautiful face and losing the strength to get up. But she did not falter on this, she also had the wisdom and foresight to study history even when she was lying in a hospital bed.
It is precisely because of her strong and indomitable that Wu Han, a talented man who is also a great talent in the Department of History, secretly has feelings for her and cannot extricate himself. Even if he could only maintain a sexless marriage, he was willing to do so.
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Seeing each other and hating each other late, day after day
Wu Han is two years old and is also Yuan Zhen's younger brother. He was Hu Shi's proud protégé, who worked and studied in Tsinghua due to his family's poverty, specializing in Ming history.
In addition, he serves on the editorial board of the school magazine. Once he received an article from the famous talented woman Yuan Zhen, and after reading it, he admired her even more.
For Yuan Zhen, he had long heard of her name:
Wu Han, who participated in the May Fourth Movement when he was young, was a student of Dong Biwu; at the age of 18, he drafted a declaration for the "Women's Participation in the CppcC National Committee", and his sharp writing surprised many people of insight.
At the age of 23, he was admitted to the Department of History of Tsinghua University and became one of the talented women of Tsinghua University. Coupled with bright eyes and bright teeth, graceful and colorful, it is charming. ”
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For this talented woman, Wu Han had long wanted to meet her. Later, under the recommendation of Yuan Zhen's friend Jiang Endian, Wu Han finally met Yuan Zhen.
The first time they met, this talented girl made Wu Han admire. Only to see that Yuan Zhen's temperament did not diminish at all, and he really had poetry and bookishness in his belly, even if he was sick in bed, he still couldn't release his hands and read various books.
Since then, Wu Han often came to visit her, and the two exchanged academic views, and Yuan Zhen's unique insights often inspired Wu Han. Wu Han's papers have also been published continuously, and he has become a new generation of outstanding historians in the field of historiography.
In 1934, Yuan Zhen's friend wanted to teach in other places, and the burden of taking care of her fell to Wu Han, who was going to stay at the school to teach. As the two spent more time together, Wu Han was deeply impressed by Yuan Zhen's charm.
Once, when the two mentioned their teacher Hu Shi, Yuan Zhen quipped to Wu Han: "In front of Hu Shi, you Wu Dacaizi will be three feet shorter?" Who knew that Wu Han blurted out, "I'm a short man in front of you Yuan Zhen!" ”
How Yuan Zhen did not know his intentions, but she was sick all day long, her future was uncertain, and she did not want to become a burden to Wu Han.
Soon after, her cousin Yuan Puzhi came to Beiping to take care of Yuan Zhen. Yuan Zhen completely refused Wu Han's help. She armed herself with indifference, refused Wu Han's approach, and prevented herself from having a delusional heart.
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Yuan Zhen was checked out for bone tuberculosis again. She was cast on the hospital bed and could not move. In the face of Yuan Zhen's indifference, Wu Han did not care at all, he came more and more diligently.
Yuan Zhen's bed was very high, Yuan Zhen let him sit, he stubbornly had to stand. He said, "You don't stand for equality between men and women, are you?" I can only stand to be equal to you. ”
Later, Wu Han simply bought a bouquet of flowers and truly confessed to Yuan Zhen. Yuan Zhen said coldly after listening: "I have no medicine to save, let alone fertility, please Mr. Wu to take care of yourself!" ”
Wu Han also did not show weakness: "My good self-help is to accompany you to the hospital." My feelings for you will not be faltered to death! ”
Yuan Zhen couldn't hold back any longer, and tears fell like rain. She fled, he chased, she stuck her wings and couldn't fly! How could she be willing to refuse again?
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If the flowers are beautiful, they will eventually become dependents
In 1935, Wu Han officially stayed on as a teacher of Ming Shi, and his classes were very popular with students. And his love affair with Yuan Zhen also spread throughout Tsinghua, and even back to Wu Han's hometown.
His friend advised him to be cautious, and he said seriously and solemnly: "What I like is her character and knowledge, although she is paralyzed, but her character and knowledge are not paralyzed." ”。 After the mother heard in her hometown that her son had found a sick beauty, she rushed to Beiping immediately, but was "tricked" back by Wu Han.
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing. Peiping became the main war zone, and local colleges and universities moved south. Wu Han was also invited by Yunnan University to teach in Kunming.
But Yuan Zhen was still paralyzed in bed, looking at Wu Han with a look of reluctance and worry, Yuan Zhen said that as long as he could go, he would immediately go to him. With Yuan Zhen's promise, Wu Han hid his sorrow and rushed to Kunming.
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Parting courtesy resends the message, and there is an oath in the word
Before leaving, Wu Han promised Yuan Zhen: "Although I have been in the mountains for thousands of miles, I will never forget you, nor will I empathize with you." ”
After arriving in Kunming, Wu Han often wrote to Yuan Zhen.
Thousands of mountains and rivers also hindered his deep thoughts; over the years, time could not weaken his affection.
With his encouragement, in 1939, Yuan Zhen, who had been bedridden for five years, actually stood up. With trepidation, with excitement and longing, she rushed to him. This time, she walked up to Wu Han's mother.
Compared with Wu Han's ecstasy, her mother was full of sorrow. Privately she said to her son, "This girl is a good girl, but she is so sick that she cannot have children, and if you are pitiful and helpless, I can find a way to raise medical expenses for her, as long as you are not with her." ”
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In the face of his mother's opposition, Wu Han was not moved, and he firmly said: "We love each other, not because I pity her, our feelings of living and dying together, and the golden two cannot be exchanged." ”
Seeing that Wu Han was so obsessed, his mother had to let Wu Han's brother and sister persuade him. The younger sister was impressed by the eldest brother Wu Han, but instead persuaded her mother.
Subsequently, Wu Han tricked his mother into going to the city to see a doctor, but in fact, he took Yuan Zhen to a small hotel behind his mother's back and married, and the two became a veritable couple. The mother also abandoned many things and accepted this sick daughter-in-law.
This unpromising marriage finally blossomed, and the couple who shared the hardships eventually became a family. That year, Yuan Zhen was 32 years old and Wu Han was 30 years old.
The whole family took care of Yuan Zhen wholeheartedly, and Wu Han was even more afraid that it would be inconvenient for her to avoid the alarm, so she moved her family to the suburbs, preferring to walk 10 kilometers to and from work by herself.
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Before he died, he could not share the yarn tent, and after his death, he could not share the tomb
Shortly after the marriage, Yuan Zhen suffered from uterine fibroids and bleeding incessantly. Wu Han, who was the same blood type as his wife, often carried her on his back and transfused her blood until he fell on the podium. Yuan Zhen was distressed and guilty after learning about it, and she hated herself for not being able to solve her husband's worries and difficulties, but also became a burden to him.
She told Wu Han that she would stop transfusing blood for her, how long her illness could live, but Wu Han was different, and he still had a lot of important things to do.
Wu Han comforted her and said, "I can't live without you in my life, as long as you recover as soon as possible, what does it matter if I live ten years or eight years less?" ”
Later, Wu Han learned from a friend that he could remove uterine fibroids in Chongqing, so he took Yuan Zhen on a journey to Chongqing.
At that time, during the war, Wu Han's salary was far from enough for his family's expenses and Yuan Zhen's medical expenses. Wu Han himself was wearing patched clothes, and in order to supplement his wife's nutrition, he went to buy beef bones for his wife to boil soup and drink after class.
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Under the careful care of Wu Han and his family, Yuan Zhen's health is getting better day by day. Wu Han also worked for the party under the influence of Yuan Zhen, and many years later, he recalled: "Yuan Zhen played a key role in my inclination toward the party and the revolution and my conversion to Marxism and Leninism. ”
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wu Han and Yuan Zhen returned to Beijing. Wu Han continued to teach at Tsinghua, while Yuan Zhen gave up the opportunity to work and stayed with Wu Han to fully assist him.
In just a few years, Wu Han has published many works such as "The Mirror of History" and "Historical Events and Figures". He said to others more than once: "Every article I write has Yuan Zhen's painstaking efforts!" ”
From Yuan Zhen standing on a high bed and talking, to praising Yuan Zhen without stinginess after becoming famous, everyone said that his achievements had a credit to his wife.
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All his life, Wu Han has been looking up at Yuan Zhen, and Yuan Zhen is his enlightenment lamp.
Because Yuan Zhen could not have children, they adopted two children from the orphanage, one son and one daughter, just in time for both children. Daughter Wu Xiaoyan, son Wu Zhang.
In 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, Wu Han's newly written historical drama "Hai Rui Dismissal" was criticized, and Wu Han was also imprisoned. He once advised Yuan Zhen to go back to his hometown to avoid the limelight, but Yuan Zhen stubbornly said: "Even if the sky falls, I will be with you!" ”
As a result, both husband and wife were imprisoned, and Yuan Zhenjiu's long-term illness and weakness of his body could not be tortured, and he died of illness shortly after. A few months later, Wu Han also followed Yuan Zhen away.
That year was their 30th wedding anniversary.
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In the years that followed, her adopted daughter Wu Xiaoyan ran around to wash away her parents' grievances, but because of the pressure, she had mental problems and committed suicide with her parents in 1976, at the age of 22. Before her death, she wrote in her diary:
"My father was revolutionary and morally noble... My parents were unable to share the yarn tent before they died, and they could not share the tomb after death. ”
There is a sentence in the wedding vows: "Whether you are healthy, sick, poor or rich, are you willing to love and respect your partner unswervingly?" ”
However, in real life, in the face of diseases, external temptations or life's troubles such as chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, the two people who once loved each other parted ways. But decades ago, the historian Wu Han did it.
In 1979, Wu Han was wronged, and he and Yuan Zhen were buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, and finally they were able to live together.
Since then, the Slovaks have passed away and have never grown old. The love for them continues.
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Text/Huai Jin
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"Smiling and Looking at the Distance, New Tsinghua"
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(Cited: 2022-04-23)
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