A mafia boss, the number two person on the beach; A beautiful maid, known as the "Winter Emperor" peking opera old student, Mei Lanfang's ex-wife. Isn't this the proper story mode of "bullying and occupying the people's daughter"?
But unfortunately, history may not be as dramatic as it is— or perhaps more dramatic.
Meng Xiaodong was born in a drama family in Shanghai, began to learn art at the age of four, and later worshiped famous teachers and worked hard, and gradually became popular all over the country. Later, he settled in Beijing, met and fell in love with Mei Lanfang.
The combination of two famous Peking opera artists should be a match made in heaven, right? Unfortunately, Mei Lanfang has a family and has a wife and a concubine, and her wife Wang Minghua is a shrewd and capable woman.
After giving birth to a son and a daughter, Wang Minghua resolutely underwent sterilization surgery in order to accompany Mei Lanfang around and perform with him. This was almost shocking in that era. Unexpectedly, his children died one after another, and Wang Minghua took the initiative to give Mei Lanfang Fuzhifang as a concubine.
Think about it, with such a strong wife in the house, it is almost impossible for Mei Lanfang to marry Meng Xiaodong again. So he came up with a compromise method, using his own "concurrent qi" as an excuse to marry Meng Xiaodong as his aunt's daughter-in-law.
Here to explain, this is a common custom in ancient China: "No filial piety has three, no queen is greater", if a person does not have a son, he will often inherit a nephew as a son; If his brother has only one son, let the nephew "double-handedly" and be a son to both his uncle and father. To put it bluntly, it is "two fathers".
In fact, don't say "two fathers", that is, "three fathers" are also there. The third prince of Shi in the "Tale of the Flowers on the Sea" simply "inherits the three houses of the heir", and in the future, "each will marry a wife, and the different queens will be divided".
Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong, in fact, are already in the Republic of China, and they are still engaged in the set of "concurrently" and "marrying each other", which is a bit self-deceptive.
In addition, there are other factors that undermine the married life of these two Famous Peking Opera artists. For example, Meng Xiaodong's brain-dead fans could not accept the fact that the idol was married, and actually engaged in a farce of "stabbing". Mei Lanfang was timid and stimulated, and the couple began to have a mustard between them.
Mei Lanfang's aunt died, and Meng Xiaodong, as a "daughter-in-law", should have mourned and mourned filial piety. However, Mei Lanfang's original partner, Wang Minghua, threatened to die and did not allow Meng Xiaodong to enter the door. Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong fell out of harmony.
After being divided and merged, the two eventually divorced, and there were many twists and turns for this. In the meantime, the mediator is the tycoon of Shanghai Beach, a fan of Mei Lanfang and Meng Xiaodong, and Du Yuesheng, the husband of Meng Xiaodong's sister Yao Yulan.
Yao Yulan is also a female celebrity, married Du Yuesheng as the fourth aunt. Meng Xiaodong has contact with Du Yuesheng through Yao Yulan's relationship, but is not sure if love has occurred.
The Japanese occupied Shanghai, Du Yuesheng and Yao Yulan fled to Hong Kong, and Meng Xiaodong returned to Beijing. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Du Yuesheng returned to Shanghai, and Meng Xiaodong was invited to start or restart the cohabitation life.
Since then, Meng Xiaodong and Du Yuesheng have also coincided with each other. Until the liberation of Shanghai, Du Yuesheng came to Hong Kong with his family, including Meng Xiaodong. In the autumn of 1950, the two were married in Hong Kong.
Between Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong, there is not only the righteousness of the people in the rivers and lakes like a rainbow, but also the entanglement of polyamorous love, and it is also mixed with the great turmoil and great changes of the times. They are not simply married by men and women, but they always have feelings, and they are by no means "hegemonic" who bully people.