Zhang Ailing fell in love with Hu Lancheng, who was mercurial, and once described herself sadly: "Humble to the dust, blossoming." ”
If you love a person deeply, you will humbly not consider the gains and losses, and such love is deep, selfless, and great.
There was a woman, too, but few people knew her name. Among the people close to her, Liang Qichao counted as one.
Historically, who does not know that Liang Qichao, who has been in the limelight in modern China?
He was one of the leaders of the mighty Penghu Reform Law, a well-known literary scholar, and a revolutionary of extraordinary origins, full of economy and advanced thinking.
His descendants, "three academicians in one discipline, and nine sons are all talented", have made great achievements in scientific research, literature, archaeology and economics, and made great contributions to the development and construction of new China.
The world praises Liang Qichao's godson, believing that behind the Liang family's full door and handsomeness, it benefits from the tutoring style he painstakingly created.
As everyone knows, the Liang family's tutoring style is importantly related to this nameless and indistinguishable woman on Liang Qichao's side, who loves him to the point of being humble.
She is Wang Guiquan.
Wang Guiquan, formerly known as Wang Laixi, is a country woman with a hard life.
Her mother died in a hurry when she was young, her father soon married another woman, originally there was a father, Wang Laixi would not be hungry and cold, but did not think that when she was 5 years old, her father who loved her also died of illness.
I didn't want to see her stepmother, so I sold her to a trafficker, at that time, Wang Laixi was just over 4 years old and just had a vague memory.
In the next 6 years, she was sold by human traffickers more than ten times, until she was sold to the home of the prefect Li Chaoyi, and she lived a stable life.
That year, she was 10 years old, and when she first arrived at the Li family, she felt the love of Miss Li Huixian, which made her, who had experienced the suffering of the world, moved unceasingly, and since then she has become the most intimate lady around miss.
Li Huixian was well read of poetry and books, and she was a talented woman who was famous at that time, and there was an endless stream of people who admired her.
Among the many suitors, Li Huixian's heart was promised to Liang Qichao, who was famous for his township test at that time.
In 1891, Li Huixian married Liang Qichao as he wished, and it was also in this year that Wang Laixi, as a dowry maid, also followed the young lady into the gate of the Liang family.
Although Wang Laixi does not know a few big characters, she is sensible, has a good personality, and always thinks about others.
Her experience as a maid from childhood made her very good at dealing with people and doing things in a measured manner, so she quickly became deeply liked by the Liang family.
The Liang couple trusted her very much, let her take care of the affairs of the inner house, and handed over the financial power to her.
It was at that time that Liang Qichao felt that her real name was a bit rustic, so he renamed her "Guiquan".
No one expected that a random change of name would tie the fate of the two people's lives together.
Although Li Huixian and Liang Qichao have been pampered and habitual Miss Qianjin since childhood, in the Liang family she honors her in-laws, supports her husband, and is a good wife of virtuousness and virtue.
The fly in the ointment is that Li Huixian's body is weak, and her stomach has not moved until six years of marriage, when she gave birth to her first child, Liang Sicheng.
Originally, such a life was smooth, until the wheel of history ruthlessly ran over them.
In 1898, after the failure of the Pengshu Reform Law, Liang Qichao and his family fled to Japan, and Wang Guiquan naturally went with him.
In foreign countries, many places need to use his Chinese words.
In order to share Liang Qichao's affairs and protect a large family, the clever Wang Guiquan worked very hard to learn Japanese, and soon learned to speak fluent Tokyo dialect.
This made Liang Qichao have to look at her differently, not only as an important person in the family's external contact, but also often taught her to read and write in her spare time, Wang Guiquan cherished this opportunity very much, and would study seriously every time, and often looked for books to read in private.
At the age of 17, it was the age when the love Dou first opened, and between the two times, Wang Guiquan had a strange affection for Liang Qichao in his heart. It's just that the young lady is kind to her, and she can't live up to it, so she has to silently put the girlish feelings in her heart.
It is said that the literati are affectionate, and Liang Qichao is no exception, but at that time, he gave love to another woman.
During the day, Liang Qichao met the beautiful and generous overseas Chinese Lady He Huizhen, and the two fell in love with each other.
He Huizhen admired his talent and did not mind that he had a family at all, and Liang Qichao was deeply moved, so he wanted to take her as a concubine.
But when he told his wife about this idea, he was coldly rejected:
"Do you remember who proposed that Chinese should also observe monogamy?" Now that you are inconsistent in appearance, you are not afraid to pass it out and become the laughing stock of others? ”
His wife's words made Liang Qichao blush, and after a struggle of ideas, he finally cruelly gave up this love.
Although this marriage crisis was successfully resolved, Li Huixian still had ripples in her heart.
Li Huixian was from a family of eunuchs and was very concerned about the issue of heirs, considering that her sick body could no longer open up branches and leaves for the Liang family, she still decided to find a trustworthy side room for her husband.
She thought about the people around her again and again, and finally turned her eyes to Wang Guiquan.
Three years later, under the persuasion of her equal emphasis on Grace and Wei, 18-year-old Wang Guiquan married Liang Qichao.
Although Liang Qichao married Wang Guiquan, in order to stick to the "monogamy" he advocated, he made a request that he not give her a name.
Wang Guiquan bowed his head and promised that as long as he liked a person, as long as he could stay by his side, how could he care about those false names?
Ice and snow are smart, well aware of the intentions of the young lady to take a concubine, but she does not feel that there is anything wrong with this, for her, this may not be a good home.
In the years that followed, Wang Guiquan gave birth to four men and one daughter for the Liang family, but at Liang Qichao's request, her daughters could not call her mother, but could only be called "Aunt Wang".
In this regard, although Wang Guiquan had a sour feeling in his heart, he did not have any complaints, and regarded Li Huixian's 3 children Liang Sicheng, Liang Sizhuang, and Liang Sishun as his own, and devoted himself to educating them.
Liang Sicheng loved to play when he was young, and once his test scores were not as good as his brother's, Li Huixian took the wire tied chicken feathers and dusted them.
Wang Guiquan looked at Xiao Sicheng, who was terrified and trembling, and was very distressed, and in a hurry, he rushed out to block in front of him, beat him for him, and begged for forgiveness for him.
Wang Guishuo's sincere love for his children rippled in Liang Sicheng's young soul, and recalling this past in his later years, Liang Sicheng was still tearful and quite moved.
Liang Sizhuang's favorite person when he was a child was also Wang Guiquan, and he had to be "Aunt Wang" to bathe and sleep before he would be willing.
When Liang Sizhuang was 10 years old, he and Wang Guiquan's 9-year-old daughter were infected with "diphtheria" at the same time, and in order to avoid cross-infection, Wang Guiquan took on the heavy responsibility of taking care of the two children alone.
Wang Guiquan devoted most of her energy to Liang Sizhuang, and in the end Liang Sizhuang survived smoothly, while her 9-year-old daughter unfortunately died, so that her name was not left.
In those years, the Liang family was in turmoil, and it was Wang Guiquan who single-handedly supported the family and led her children to escape one difficulty after another.
Although she has no culture, with what she has seen and heard over the years, she has gradually explored many ways to behave in the world.
She is not as vocal as Li Huixian, but does not rush to guide the children to solve problems, which has a deep impact on the children.
Under her tun tun teaching, the 9 children learned the principles of being human one by one, which laid a solid foundation for them to make a career as adults.
And the children's feelings for Wang Guiquan are also very deep, and when Liang Qichao is not at home, they quietly call her "mother".
After the establishment of the National Government, Liang Qichao returned to China with his wife and children, thinking that his career and life would usher in a new turnaround, but he met Yuan Shikai, who intended to claim the title of emperor.
Liang Qichao opposed Yuan Shikai's claim to be emperor, wrote "Yi Zhao, the So-Called Theorist of The State System" and scolded him, and threw out the door of the people sent by Yuan Shikai and the 200,000 oceans he brought.
Yuan Shikai was very angry and sent many spies to assassinate him.
However, Liang Qichao was not threatened by him, and also went to Yunnan to cooperate with General Cai Yi to "overthrow Yuan".
It was also under such circumstances that Wang Guiquan followed her two children (Liang Sida and Liang Siyi) to preside over household chores and assist her husband under 24-hour surveillance by secret agents.
In 1924, Li Huixian died of illness, and Liang Qichao was so sad that he wrote the "Tribute to Lady Liang". Seeing that Mr. Wang was so sad, Wang Guiquan gently advised and quietly took care of him by his side.
Five years later, Liang Qichao suffered from severe kidney disease. On his deathbed, he felt guilty for not being able to give Wang Guiquan a decent name, and was even more worried about how she would raise 9 children alone in the future.
The 43-year-old Wang Guiquan squeezed his hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Rest assured, everything has me." ”
This heavy promise, she has kept for decades.
After Liang Qichao's death, the family often had financial failures. In order to make a living, Wang Guiquan sold the old building and went out to work to earn money to subsidize the family.
Although she has never read a book, she knows the importance of reading, no matter how difficult the conditions, but also to send all 9 children out of the country to study.
For this reason, many people laughed at her, she couldn't eat enough, and she did some useless things. But Wang Guiquan turned a deaf ear, and under the influence of her husband, she firmly believed that knowledge could change fate.
Under her careful education, the children were very competitive, and three of her sons, Liang Sicheng, Liang Siyong and Liang Sili, also became academicians of the Academia Sinica.
During the special period, due to the special origin, the descendants of the Liang family were scattered everywhere, and Wang Guiquan, who was crowned as the "wife of the royalist Liang Qichao", was forced to live in a cowshed.
This time, I never came out again.
In 1968, 85-year-old Wang Guiquan swallowed his last breath in the cowshed. Three days after her death, well-meaning villagers found her, wrapped her in straw mats, and buried her on a hill.
After the storm passed, the children came to look for her, but the place where she was buried had long been razed to the ground, and the bones had long disappeared.
The children were so grief-stricken that they went around collecting their mother's clothes, erecting a crown tomb for Liang Qichao and Li Huixian next to her grave, planting a mother tree, and paying homage to her every year.
In wang Guiquan's life, from losing her mother and leaving her father at an early age, to selling her to the Liang family many times, and then to cultivating 9 children to become talents alone, it can be said that she has experienced hardships and made magnificent waves.
She did not understand the wind and snow, did not understand the doorway of famous and prestigious families, and did not understand those major reform events, but she understood a truth, to love a person is to be wholehearted, from beginning to end.
Even if the de facto husband did not give her a name until her death, or even called her "wife", she still humbly went to the dust to do housework, husband and son, and exhausted her life's years.
This heavy love does not have to be known, does not have to be responded to, does not even have to be cherished!
As long as she has been shallowly remembered, she is very satisfied.
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Author: Luo Xiaoxi
EDIT: Drizzle
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