In 1950, a very ordinary boiler worker returned home with a middle-aged woman who still had a charm and said to his young daughter, "She will be your mother in the future." The child innocently looked at the woman, and although the years had left their mark on her body, it seemed that from her still beautiful appearance and the temperament that emanated from her body, this mother was not an ordinary peasant woman.
The middle-aged woman is also unusual, not at all like other housewives, taking care of the husband and children of the family. On the contrary, she is very lazy, and she loves beauty without leaving her body in a cheongsam, and even likes to drink. In the poor life, she did not live at all, and her seemingly ordinary life was buried with many secrets.
This legendary woman is a generation of chivalrous prostitutes - Xiao Fengxian.
Xiao Fengxian's early years were miserable and he traveled everywhere
Xiao Fengxian's original name was Zhu Xiaofeng, and Xiao Fengxian was the name he later took when he entered the opera team. In fact, Xiao Fengxian has always had a very bad life when she was a child, she was born in a family of Hanjun banner people, although the family conditions are not bad, but her mother is just a concubine, and on weekdays, Xiao Fengxian's mother and daughter need to suffer from the face of the main mother, and they are punished a lot for no reason.
Later, Xiao Fengxian's mother and daughter were really humiliated, and escaped from that hell with the help of Xiao Fengxian's grandmother, but how could several women survive in that world? Soon after, Xiao Fengxian's mother was defeated by the disease, and they did not have money to go to the doctor at that time, and finally Xiao Fengxian's mother died.
Xiao Fengxian's grandmother was very distressed about the young Xiao Fengxian and regarded her as her own child, and the grandmother could not bear to let the young Fengxian run alone, so she took her with her and went to the home of the Inspector of Zhejiang as a maid. Although the life was very poor, Xiao Fengxian still cherished this hard-won stability, but the good times were not long, the Inspector of Zhejiang was affected by the artillery fire of the war, the inspector's family and servants were scattered, and Xiao Fengxian could only flee to Shanghai with her grandmother.
But fleeing to Shanghai, Xiao Fengxian's life was not a little better, the grandmother was already old and lost her only job, and even it became difficult to support herself, not to mention taking care of Xiao Fengxian.
In the end, the grandmother could only force Xiao Fengxian to sell her to an opera group to learn to sing. It was in this drama class that Xiao Fengxian had this stage name, and she herself won the love of the foreman with her studiousness, and began to sing around with the foreman.
They first moved to Nanjing, then forced to return to Shanghai because of the recurrence of war, and later Xiao Fengxian followed the opera class north to Beijing and settled in Shaanxi Lane, Bada Hutong.
However, at that time, the status of opera actors was not high, and there was not much difference between them and the prostitutes who sold art, and soon they were forced by life, and Xiao Fengxian became a prostitute who sold both art and body.
The 15-year-old Xiao Fengxian looks more and more beautiful, the singing ability is also very superb, and the bright voice is as cute as the yellow warbler, so the little Phoenix Fairy has also become one of the most valued cash cows of the old bustard, and countless prostitutes want to see the beauty of the Little Fengxian.
Although this kind of life was not what Xiao Fengxian wanted, she also understood that only in this way could she survive.
If Xiao Fengxian hadn't met the man she had loved all her life, maybe her whole life would really be like an ordinary prostitute. However, the appearance of a man completely changed Xiao Fengxian.
Xiao Fengxian met the true destiny of the Heavenly Son, and had no regrets for love
The man who changed Xiao Fengxian was Cai Yi, who was Yuan Shikai's confidant at that time. In 1915, Cai Yi, who was then the governor of Yunnan, was called to Beijing by Yuan Shikai, and in Cai E's heart there has always been a dream of rejuvenating China, but in his days in Beijing, Cai E found that Yuan Shikai, who he was following wholeheartedly, had an emperor's dream in his heart, and only superficially acted like a president of the Republic of China.
This discovery made Cai Yi's heart very tormented, he did not want the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution to be tarnished by Yuan Shikai in this way, so he wanted to escape from Beijing to form a rebel army and launch a vigorous patriotic movement to overthrow Yuan Shikai's rule.
However, Yuan Shikai's intention of calling Cai E to Beijing was not pure, and Yuan Shikai was well aware of Cai E's disposition and knew that he would be an obstacle to his claim to the title of emperor, so although he had offered Cai E's high-ranking official HouLu, he actually wanted to imprison Cai E in Beijing, so as to monitor Cai E's words and deeds at any time to ensure that his title as emperor was not affected in any way.
Cai Yi, who understood Yuan Shikai's intentions, did not intend to be tough, he planned to taoguang and cultivate obscurity, and get the right time to make plans. In order to dispel Yuan Shikai's suspicions, Cai Yi began to linger in the Eight Hutongs, listening to Xiaoqu and drinking small wine day and night, making Yuan Shikai think that he had no ambitions, so as to let go of his defenses against himself.
At this time, Yuan Shikai knew Xiao Fengxian who was begging for a living in the eight hutongs, at first for Cai Yi, Xiao Fengxian was not much different from other prostitutes, just a tool for his own appearance, but Cai Yi later gradually found that Xiao Fengxian was a very suitable chess piece, after all, compared to those experienced prostitutes, it was less likely for the young and simple Xiao Fengxian to detect that he was playing.
So Cai Yi often named Xiao Fengxian to accompany her, and at first Xiao Fengxian also thought that Cai Yi, like other guests, had only come here to enjoy herself for a while, but later she found a lot of different places in Cai Yi's body.
Cai Yi came to her, not for drinking and pleasure, but often told her some stories about the Water Margin and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when chatting, and he instilled a lot of truths about how to behave and do things through these stories, so that Xiao Fengxian's dazed heart also began to be firm, began to distinguish between good and evil in the world, and began to think about what kind of life he wanted to have.
Seeing that Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi were getting closer and closer, the old bustard also began to have some scruples, she pulled Xiao Fengxian and told her not to get too close to Cai Yi, don't see that Cai Yi is now a red person in Yuan Shikai's eyes, but in fact, it is difficult to protect herself.
However, after hearing this, Xiao Fengxian did not change his attitude towards Cai Yi at all, but was full of doubts, obviously Cai Yi could have a life without worrying about eating and wearing, why did he want to oppose Yuan Shikai?
Xiao Fengxian accompanied Cai E with such a question, and finally she could no longer resist her curiosity and decided to ask Cai E for clarification.
Cai Yi was not too surprised by Xiao Fengxian's question, in his heart Xiao Fengxian had no city government, and the questions he asked were only what he thought in his heart, and had no other meaning, so Cai Yi replied: "We shed all our blood to knock down the emperor, and now Yuan Shikai actually wants to be the emperor again, if you help me escape from this Beijing city, I will definitely be able to overthrow Yuan Shikai, and then I will take you on a sightseeing tour and see the outside world." ”
The young Fengxian actually did not understand Cai E's inner excitement and enthusiasm for the revolution, and she did not understand why she had to knock Yuan Shikai down, but she remembered Cai E's last words, he would take her to the outside world to open her eyes, would go on a sightseeing tour with her, and the young joy finally defeated all the doubts of Xiao Fengxian, and she decided to help this beloved man escape.
So under cai yi's instructions, Xiao Fengxian held a banquet, and the people who came to the banquet were full of traffic, and when all the guests were seated, they did not see Cai Yi's figure.
It turned out that Cai Yi was taking advantage of the crowded crowd at the banquet, quietly left the banquet site on the pretext of going to the toilet, and in order to let the people who monitored him let down their guard, he even left his coat and pocket watch in the same place. The kung fu paid off, and Cai Yi finally hid the eyes of the inspection team and successfully escaped from beijing.
For Xiao Fengxian, Cai E's successful escape is enough to make her happy, although Cai E finally left her with only a background of leaving, but she still believes that Cai E will one day come to pick herself up and let her start a new life.
However, after Cai Yi arrived in Yunnan, there was not a single letter to Xiao Fengxian, and it was rumored that after the Patriotic War, Cai Yi had given Xiao Fengxian a sum of money, but it is certain that Cai Yi did not regard Xiao Fengxian as the only one.
For Cai Yi, he may be grateful to Xiao Fengxian, after all, without Xiao Fengxian's help, he would not have escaped from the control of Beijing City and Yuan Shikai so easily.
However, if you want to talk about love, Xiao Fengxian does not seem to have the pleasure of Cai Yi, it can also be said that Xiao Fengxian is just a passer-by in Cai E's life, the huge gap in age and knowledge between the two is a hard condition to prevent the two from falling in love, Cai Yi is resourceful, he knows that using Xiao Fengxian Golden Cicada to shell is the best expedient, so he is willing to make friends with Xiao Fengxian.
Although such speculation is very cruel for Xiao Fengxian, it should be known that the most loved woman in Cai Yi's life should be his wife Pan Huiying.
Whether Cai Yi was imprisoned by Yuan Shikai or during the Patriotic War, he would use his free time to contact his wife, and did not hide his longing for his wife and children, and really only love could not be ignored.
But Xiao Fengxian's feelings for Cai Yi are sincere, she is very infatuated with and adored the man who said that he wanted to come to pick her up, this feeling was the most beautiful thought in Xiao Fengxian's miserable life, so that her later life also lived under Cai Yi's shadow.
When his sweetheart died, Xiao Fengxian was heartbroken
In 1917, at the age of 34, Cai Yi burned out the last shred of his life for the country and became a hero admired by everyone. Cai's coffin was parked in Beijing's Central Park, where a very grand ceremony was arranged under the direction of Li Yuanhong, president of the Republic of China.
At this time, Xiao Fengxian also heard the news of Cai Ye's death, her heart was like a knife, she did not expect that since the separation to see the first and last side of Cai Yi, he came to Beijing not to pick himself up, but to welcome everyone's mourning.
And Xiao Fengxian did not want to lose the last opportunity to see Cai E, she found the local celebrity Yi Zongxie specially wrote a pair of bang lian, in which she compared herself to the red breeze girl and Xiao Qiao, while Cai Yi was Li Jing and Zhou Yu, writing about her strong admiration and admiration for Cai Yi.
Xiao Fengxian took this tie and walked step by step to Cai Yi's spirit, Xiao Fengxian wore a plain dress but did not hide her delicate appearance in the slightest, which attracted the sideways glances of others from time to time.
However, Xiao Fengxian could not see the eyes of the people around her at all, and every time she took a step closer to Cai Yi, the pain in her heart increased by a few points, until finally she was in tears, she dedicated the flowers and ties she had prepared to Cai Yi, and she finally accepted the fact that Cai Ye had passed away.
At this time, some people next to them also recognized Xiao Fengxian, and they all knew that Cai Yi would often meet with Xiao Fengxian before leaving Beijing, so when they saw Xiao Fengxian come to worship at this time, they felt that the relationship between the two was not simple. So they surrounded Xiao Fengxian and wanted to witness the true appearance of Xiao Fengxian with their own eyes.
At the same time, Xiao Fengxian also felt the sight of others, and quickly wiped away the tear marks on his face, and pushed away the people who were blocking him and walked out of the park.
However, those people did not give up, they actually found the Eight Great Hutongs, and named Xiao Fengxian as a companion to satisfy the bad taste of sharing boots with General Cai Yi. However, when they found Xiao Fengxian's residence, they found that there was no trace of Xiao Fengxian in the room, and there was already a vacant building here.
Xiao Fengxian knew that those people would not let her go, but her own reputation did not matter, but she did not want Cai Yi's reputation to be tarnished a little, so she decided to leave the Bada Hutong to go to the outside world and no longer return to her untouchable business.
Xiao Fengxian decided to leave with her affection for Cai Yi, but she still couldn't resist the strong thoughts of Cai E, so on the train to Tianjin, Xiao Fengxian tried to take the medicine to kill herself, but she did not expect that the sleeping pills in her hand fell because of the bumps of the train, at this time Xiao Fengxian felt that it might be that Cai Yi did not want to let herself die like this, so she decided to live strongly.
Later, Xiao Fengxian ran outside for many years, but returned to the most familiar Beijing.
Xiao Fengxian had never forgotten Cai Yi, often staring at the air in a daze, and from time to time with misty tears, immersed in the grief of losing his beloved. Because Cai Yi used to tell stories to herself, Xiao Fengxian also liked to listen to commentaries and listen to plays, and would often go to the theater to listen to plays for a long time to kill time.
And just when listening to the play, Xiao Fengxian met a division commander of the Northeast Army, who not only had a slight resemblance to Cai Yi's face, but even his hobby of listening to the play was the same, which made Xiao Fengxian suddenly find comfort, so he finally unloaded his disguise, was willing to accept the other party's initiative to approach, and also began to open the conversation box to talk.
After three months together, Xiao Fengxian and the division commander were united, but just when Xiao Fengxian thought that her life had finally turned over, her new husband was killed in a battle, and she became a helpless person.
Xiao Fengxian began to immerse herself in the pain of losing her dependence again, and she decided to change her name to "Zhang Xianfei" and start a new life with a new name. So years later, there is the scene at the beginning of the story.
Married to the old man, Xiao Fengxian hid his name
After changing her name to "Zhang Xianfei", Xiao Fengxian lived a bland life, and once met a boiler worker he once knew, named Li Zhenhai. This is an old person that Xiao Fengxian knew in the Marshal's Mansion before, because he also likes to listen to commentaries, so the relationship between the two is quite familiar, and Li Zhenhai's daughter is even more familiar with Xiao Fengxian, who treats Li Zhenhai's daughter as her own daughter.
At that time, Li Zhenhai's wife had passed away, leaving four children and Li Zhenhai to rely on each other, but on weekdays, Li Zhenhai needed to go out to work to support his family, so there was no way to make time to take care of the children, so Li Zhenhai had the idea of continuing the string.
And the appearance of Xiao Fengxian just made Li Zhenhai's idea of continuing the string more intense, Xiao Fengxian also thought that he had been so lonely and bitter, it was better to find a reliance, and at the same time knew that Li Zhenhai was very generous and honest, so he agreed to marry Li Zhenhai.
When Li Zhenhai took Xiao Fengxian home, Li Zhenhai's daughter immediately recognized Xiao Fengxian and knew that she was a very elegant lady in the Marshal's Mansion.
Although she wondered why Xiao Fengxian was willing to become her stepmother, she had originally liked this lady very much in the Grand Marshal's Mansion, so now she was also very happy to accept Xiao Fengxian as her mother. In this way, Xiao Fengxian became the stepmother of Li Zhenhai's four children.
But Xiao Fengxian's stepmother was not ordinary, Li Zhenhai's daughter recalled: "The stepmother loves to be clean, but she does not like to work, nor cooks, and the most work she does is to wash her own clothes." ”
It can be seen that even after Xiao Fengxian got married, he did not change his nature in the slightest, and he was still very freewheeling. However, Li Zhenhai and his children did not have much opinion on what Xiao Fengxian had done, they all knew that Xiao Fengxian's identity was not simple, and he had lived a rich life before, so it was normal that he could not adapt to this kind of poor life at present.
Xiao Fengxian has always been very unique, even if she was crammed into a broken house of more than ten square meters with Li Zhenhai and her children, but Xiao Fengxian still behaved very elegantly, dressed up every day, wearing a beautiful cheongsam to go shopping, and especially liked to drink, every time she ate, she would pour two glasses of wine and taste it carefully, as if alcohol could bring her great happiness.
What surprised Li Zhenhai's daughter even more was that Xiao Fengxian actually took her to see Mei Lanfang, a master of Peking Opera, and after Xiao Fengxian talked to Mei Lanfang, Mei Lanfang not only found a job for Xiao Fengxian but also gave her a lot of money, which made Li Zhenhai's children know that the identity of this stepmother is not simple.
In fact, at that time, Xiao Fengxian also found Mei Lanfang because life was really difficult, because Xiao Fengxian's name in those years was still very large, so Mei Lanfang naturally knew Xiao Fengxian.
In the conversation between the two, Xiao Fengxian first confided in his life of upheaval and displacement and the helplessness of falling into fireworks and willow alleys, and he cried even more bitterly when talking about Cai Yi's death, all of which made Mei Lanfang very touched, so he decided to help this poor woman.
Later, Mei Lanfang did not have more contact with Xiao Fengxian, he knew that now Xiao Fengxian wanted only a peaceful life, and if her identity of Xiao Fengxian was exposed, it would have a very serious impact on her.
Until Mei Lanfang's death, his secretary Xu Jichuan handed over the recorded conversation materials to the historian Rong Mengyuan, including the content of mei Lanfang's conversation with Xiao Fengxian.
After the reform and opening up, Rong Mengyuan was surprised to discover the true face of Xiao Fengxian after carefully studying Mei Lanfang's information later, so people learned that the xiao Fengxian who moved Jinghua was now an ordinary woman named "Zhang Xianfei".
In 1954, Xiao Fengxian finally ended her ill-fated life and left this world forever, until she died, and the people around her did not know her true identity, if there was no Mei Lanfang's information, perhaps the name Xiao Fengxian would never appear on "Zhang Xianfei" again.
Xiao Fengxian's life can not say whether it is unfortunate or lucky, she fell into the Qinglou at a very young age, if she did not meet Cai Yi, she may waste her youth in the Qinglou, and she will not have the idea of leaving the Qinglou at all, and when she is old and fading, she will be abandoned and end her miserable life.
After meeting Cai Yi, she opened a new world, understood what it is like to love someone, and helped Cai Yi escape for love, and also provided a little help for the overthrow of Yuan Shikai, which is a bright color for a Woman in the Qinglou.
But in terms of love, Xiao Fengxian is indeed pitiful, she paid all her sincerity for Cai Yi, but did not get the realization of the promise, and since then, she has also been displaced on the road of feelings, and has not enjoyed the taste of happiness.
But perhaps for Xiao Fengxian, she will not regret everything she has done, she just wants to be able to live up to herself, Cai Yi is the white moonlight in her life, she is willing to spend her life to wait.