On March 5, 1939, in Singapore, a beautiful young woman sat in a chair and casually flipped through a publication.
Suddenly, the young woman straightened her back, her eyes widened, and she nodded at the words with her fingers, reading word by word:
After all, Xu Jun was my friend, and he raped my wife, which was naturally much stronger than the enemy who raped him.
"Shameless!" The young woman's eyebrows rose upside down, and two words burst out from between her teeth, and she stood up, and the chair behind her fell to the ground unexpectedly.
She was once the first beautiful woman in Hangzhou, married the famous poet Yu Dafu when her love dou first opened, and imagined a hymn-like married life.
10 years have passed, and instead of getting farther and farther away from the fairy lovers he promised to himself, he has become what her husband calls an "adulterer and adulteress."
The young woman Wang Yingxia thought hatefully, she paced around the room, and the scenes of the past years came to mind.
When I first met the poet, I was blinded by the burning light
On December 22, 1907, a wealthy family surnamed Jin in Yuguan Lane, Hangzhou, was born with a beautiful girl.
The girl is the first child born after the marriage of the husband and wife for 6 years, the family is extremely delicate, named Jin Baoqin, the nickname "lock lock", because the word "lock" is composed of gold, small and bei, which means that it is the little treasure of the Jin family.
Jin Suo's maternal grandfather was Wang Ernan, a member of the Hangzhou Southern Society and a scholar. The clever and lively golden lock is deeply loved by Grandpa Wang Ernan.
After the death of Wang Ernan's son, he took Jin Suo over as his granddaughter and changed his name to Wang Xu (王旭) and his name was Yingxia.
Wang Ernan insisted that Wang Yingxia study, and in the family style that other girls in the family followed the family style of "a woman without talent is moral", Wang Yingxia had the unique opportunity to read until she was 18 years old and graduated from zhejiang provincial girls' normal school.
18-year-old Wang Yingxia came out beautiful and charming, her skin was better than snow, bright eyes and teeth, her temperament was outstanding, more beautiful than many stars on the propaganda posters at that time, and she was known as the first beautiful woman in Hangzhou.
After graduating from normal school, Wang Yingxia went to Wenzhou to work as a music teacher.
Wang Ernan was worried that his granddaughter was young and beautiful and being bullied, so he entrusted his friend's son Sun Baigang to take care of him, and at the end of 1926, Sun Baigang and his wife went to Shanghai to develop, and Wang Yingxia accompanied them.
On January 14, 1927, the poet Yu Dafu visited Sun Baigang and saw Wang Yingxia, who could not help but be amazed.
At that time, Wang Yingxia was 19 years old, a fledgling girl, a young girl with a fledgling heart, and her eyes were full of dreamy brightness.
Yu Dafu is a 32-year-old poet with four children in the family, and his wife Sun Quan is pregnant with her fifth child, waiting to give birth in Beijing.
Yu Dafu was impressed by Wang Yingxia's beauty, and his soul was not guarded, frequently entering and leaving Sun Baigang's home, and his words were full of envy and teasing.
Sun Baigang saw the clue, in order to fulfill his guardianship responsibility, he persuaded Yu Dafu not to have a different thought, and colluded with Wang Yingxia to deceive Yu Dafu Wang Yingxia that she was already engaged.
No amount of clever tactics can withstand the burning of the fire of lust.
Wang Yingxia was attracted by the aura of Yu Dafu's famous poet, was touched by his burning love words, and was enchanted by his romantic courtship.
When Yu Dafu vowed to divorce his wife and let Wang Yingxia be the goddess of liberty instead of the housekeeper after marriage, Wang Yingxia broke through the shackles and threw herself into the arms of the poet.
In March 1928, Wang Yingxia and Yu Dafu were married at the East Asia Hotel in Shanghai.
Although the two's wedding was accused of bigamy by Yu Dafu's eldest brother, the guests who came to congratulate them were all well-known people, and the poet Liu Yazi called them "fairy lovers on the Fuchun River".
Yu Dafu's circle and connections are something That Wang Yingxia has never seen before, which greatly satisfies her vanity, thinking that from then on, gorgeousness and romance have become the main theme of life.
Entering the marriage, romantic feelings are encroached upon by chai rice oil and salt
When the passion and romance fade, the marriage presents a normal chai rice oil smoke, and the chicken feathers and garlic skin surface one by one.
Before getting married, in Yu Dafu's crazy confession, the new era woman Wang Yingxia most valued: to be a free woman, not to be entangled in the mundane affairs of family children.
After marriage, not only are children born one by one a year, but even the family's diet and living need Wang Yingxia to do everything.
Yu Dafu was just a literati, living by selling words, and his income was barely enough for family expenses, and Wang Yingxia had to be a housekeeper, meticulous and budgetary.
In order to save money and take care of Yu Dafu's body with hepatitis and lung disease, Wang Yingxia personally learned to cook and stir-fry, and learned to wash and sew.
In addition to making reasonable plans for household expenses, Wang Yingxia also showed up, urging for manuscript fees and royalties on behalf of Yu Dafu.
In 1929, Yu Dafu was hired to teach at Anhui University, and was later included in the Chihua group. Yu Dafu fled back to Shanghai in a hurry, not only did he not settle his salary for half a year, but even his luggage was thrown locally.
Afterwards, Wang Yingxia hoped that Yu Dafu would go to Anhui to settle his wages and retrieve his luggage, but Yu Dafu just kept sending telegrams and writing letters urging.
Wang Yingxia thought that Yu Dafu was not pragmatic, so she went to Anhui alone, settled yu Dafu's remaining salary, and took back his luggage and books by the way.
Enter the room of Zhilan and not smell its fragrance for a long time.
In life, there are many such things, and after a long time, Wang Yingxia looks at Yu Dafu, and the aura of a poet is gradually replaced by the layman's unbearable.
If it is said that the chicken and garlic skin are not hurting the bones, there is one thing that is a thorn in Wang Yingxia's heart, which cannot be pulled out and absorbed.
This is the divorce that Yu Dafu promised before marriage to divorce Sun Tsuen.
Wang Yingxia kept urging Yu Dafu to seize the time to divorce Sun Quan.
Yu Dafu is contradictory, on the one hand, he is obsessed with Wang Yingxia's young beauty, on the other hand, he is condemned by the heart, and he can't help but abandon Sun Quan, who has given birth to 5 children for himself and has no fault.
Uddhav adopted a roundabout strategy, and he found various reasons to delay.
Wang Yingxia is a woman in the new era, the most disdainful thing is that women are concubines, and Yu Dafu likes to compare her to Su Shi's concubine Wang Chaoyun to show off.
"Concubine" became a hidden pain in Wang Yingxia's heart, and from time to time she came out to have a seizure.
After giving birth to her first child, Yu Fei, the wise Wang Yingxia no longer mentioned the matter of rectification, she knew that she had lost the best time, and it was not only boring but also stupid to mention this matter again.
Not mentioning it doesn't mean you don't want to.
This thorn jumped out from time to time and stirred Wang Yingxia's nerves, but it was unbearable.
After 12 years, she broke up with Uddhav. When remarrying, only one condition is proposed: true monogamy.
One is drunk and one is full of resentment
Yudaf is a man who must drink every drink, and who must get drunk whenever he drinks.
Once I went to take a bath with a friend, drank alcohol after the bath, and slept drunk in the snow and ice.
Wang Yingxia was worried about her husband's health, and after dating him for three chapters, she not only demanded that Yu Dafu abstain from drinking, but also required that anyone who invited Yu Dafu to eat and drink must be responsible for sending him home.
For Wang Yingxia's request, at first Yu Dafu obeyed, but later he felt that he had no face, so he quarreled many times and his feelings rifted.
The second brother of Yu Dafu came to visit them from his hometown, and it was inevitable to drink during the meal, and Wang Yingxia saw that the two people were almost drunk, so she came forward to persuade them to stop.
Yu Dafu thought he had lost face and threw his hands out of the house. The next day, Uddhav's second brother returned to his hometown, but Uddhav had not yet returned, which was the first time that Uddhav had run away from home.
The next night, Wang Yingxia received a telegram from Yu Dafu from Ningbo, asking Wang Yingxia to bring two hundred yuan to the emergency.
It turned out that Yudaf was drunk and sleeping on the dock at night, and his money and watch were lost.
Wang Yingxia was anxious and angry, because she did not have so much money on hand, she sold the gold bracelet that her mother had given her when she got married, scraped together a hundred yuan, and hurried to Ningbo.
After this incident, both men had a long memory.
Wang Yingxia learned to save money in case of emergency; Uddhav learned to take enough money to run away in case it was convenient to be outside.
Running away from home is also addictive, and with the first time, there will often be a second and third time.
Yu Dafu is like this, after running away once, he encounters unhappy things again, frowns, shakes his head, raises his legs and leaves.
Seeing more, Wang Yingxia did not pay attention to her heart, but once she violated her bottom line.
In 1931, when Yu Dafu ran away, he took a deposit slip of 500 yuan.
While Wang Yingxia was worried about her livelihood, she heard that Yu Dafu returned to Fuyang's hometown with a deposit slip to ask Sun Quan to reunite.
A week later, Uddhav returned from his hometown and confessed to what he had done.
Annoyed, Wang Yingxia invited her mother to negotiate with Yu Dafu.
Although she made two preparations, Wang Yingxia still did not want to divorce, and through her mother, she asked Yu Dafu to write a letter of guarantee that she would not look for Sun Quan to compound and give it to herself to keep.
Clouds of doubt piled up, true and false hypotheses said that the affair was over
Despite holding Yu Dafu's letter of guarantee in his hand, Yu Dafu's return to his hometown to find Sun Quan still made Wang Yingxia feel a crisis.
She decided to go out and find her lost self.
Wang Yingxia followed Yu Dafu to various social activities, held cocktail parties at home, and hosted banquets for guests and friends.
She met many of Yu Dafu's friends, Lu Xun and his wife, Guo Moruo, lawyer Cao Juren, and Xu Shaodi, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, as well as literary giants and political celebrities.
At this time, wang Yingxia, who has faded the youth of a young girl, is already a mother of two children, and is more mature and charming, and even the Japanese have praised her for being more stylish than a star.
The praise of women and the envy of men made Wang Yingxia intoxicated, which reduced the disappointment and pain brought to her by marriage, so she expanded her social circle more and more, and even Dai Kasa, the head of the military command secret service, became a regular visitor in her family.
Yu Dafu knew that his compatriot Dai Kasa not only killed people without blinking, but also lustful as fate, in order to get rid of Dai Kasa, in February 1936, Yu Dafu left Hangzhou and went to Fujian to take up a job.
During his time in Fujian, Yu Dafu heard that Wang Yingxia and Xu Shaodi were getting along, so he returned to Zhejiang to seek verification.
At home, Yu Dafu found three letters written by Xu Shaodi to Wang Yingxia. Wang Yingxia explained: These letters are the correspondence she introduced to Xu Shaodi.
Yu Dafu did not believe it, and he angrily showed it to his literary friend Guo Moruo, and finally wrote a letter to Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Lifu, saying that Xu Shaodi had seduced his wife and hoped that Chiang Kai-shek would intervene.
Yu Dafu's actions annoyed Wang Yingxia, and this time, without waiting for Yu Dafu to run away from home, Wang Yingxia slammed the door first.
Yu Dafu ran to the Ta Kung Pao in a rage and published a search notice:
The search notice annoyed Wang Yingxia, and she had the idea of divorce for the first time.
After being persuaded by his friends, Yu Dafu and Wang Yingxia reached a reconciliation.
Yu Dafu publicly issued an "apology notice", admitting that he had made false statements out of misunderstanding and mental disorder.
Wang Yingxia privately wrote a letter of repentance to Yu Dafu, promising that the red apricot would not come out of the wall.
The following year, because of the war, the two avoided the disaster in Wuhan and became neighbors with Wang Jingzhi, a poet friend of Yu Dafu.
In 1993, Wang Jingzhi published an article titled "A Secret of Wang Yingxia".
In the text, Wang Jingzhi said that during his stay in Wuhan, Yu Dafu went to Taierzhuang to comfort the army, Wang Yingxia was pregnant and wanted to have a miscarriage, because the clinic stipulated that the abortion operation must be accompanied by her husband, so she asked Wang Jingzhi to pretend to be Yu Dafu to accompany her.
Later, Wang Jingzhi discovered that Wang Yingxia stayed at the Dai Kasa Mansion at night, suspecting that the fetus that Wang Yingxia had killed was Dai Kasa's.
A magazine of "Gale" spread to the world, and a good story went with the wind
In September 1938, Yu Dafu returned to Fuzhou, and Wang Yingxia stayed in Wuhan.
On the one hand, Yu Dafu frequently wrote letters to his family, and on the other hand, he entrusted his friends in Zhejiang to help him inquire whether Wang Yingxia had run to find Xu Shaodi to live with him.
When Wang Yingxia heard about this, she felt that her personality had been greatly insulted. In view of the frequent wars, we can only swallow our anger and hug each other for warmth.
In October 1938, as the war spread and people took refuge, Wang Yingxia rushed to Fuzhou with her family to join Yu Dafu.
At this time, Yu Dafu had already obtained the passports of Wang Yingxia and his eldest son, and went to Singapore with him, and the two younger sons stayed in China and were taken care of by Wang Yingxia's mother.
In December 1938, Wang Yingxia arrived in Singapore with Yu Dafu.
In Singapore, the two attended various banquets and entertained friends together, but they did not communicate with each other in private, and their homes were dead silent.
On March 5, 1939, the Hong Kong magazine Gale published nineteen poems by Yu Dafu, "The Chronicles of the Destruction of the Family", in its first anniversary.
In the poem, Yu Dafu exposes himself to his ugliness in the form of old style poems and annotations.
The most unbearable is the commentary on the last poem, which reads:
Seeing "The Chronicle of Destroying the Family Poems", Wang Yingxia responded domineeringly after being ashamed and angry, and she followed up with two articles in Gale magazine, "The Beginning of a Long Letter" and "Please See the Facts".
In the text, Wang Yingxia complained bitterly that she was deceived and seduced by Yu Dafu, and scolded Yu Dafu as a "rogue literati", a perverted villain, and a "beast who deceives women".
Things had gotten to the point where even a gorgeous robe covered with lice had been torn to pieces by both parties, and the two divorced by agreement in March 1940.
The talented couple who were called "gods and immortals on the Fuchun River" by Liu Yazi have gone through 12 years of marriage, and they have started vigorously and dispersed lively.
After the divorce, Wang Yingxia returned to Chongqing through Hong Kong alone, and two years later, after being agreed, she married Zhong Daoxian and lived a full and happy life for ordinary people.
Zhang Ailing said:
Some people can only leave; Some things can only be given up, and some memories can only be buried in the bottom of the heart.
Wang Yingxia and Yu Dafu's love-hate relationship has been lively for half a century, true and false, and it is difficult for outsiders to distinguish between false and false; Who is right and who is wrong, I am afraid that the parties concerned cannot say clearly.
After Wang Yingxia married the ordinary person Zhong Xiandao, she had a son and a daughter together, and the two Qinser and Mingxin were imprinted on each other, and Wang Yingxia seemed to live as a virtuous wife and mother in xiuwaihui.
After liberation, Wang Yingxia worked at the Hangzhou Museum of Culture and History, and her cheerful personality and decent interactions were very popular with people.
After the age of 90, Wang Yingxia could no longer walk freely, and her children pushed her to tour by the West Lake, and passers-by praised: a beautiful old lady.
In 2000, Wang Yingxia died, and before that, Yu Dafu and her true and false lovers died one after another.
In the 2008 book "The Autobiography of Wang Yingxia", she wrote about her evaluation of Yu Dafu and her relief of the past: Without him, perhaps no one would know my name.
Everything has flown with the passage of history, smoothing out the love and very much in my heart, leaving only deep nostalgia.
All kinds of past events, it is difficult to hide the traces of time, the fog cover of cloud mountains, all of which have become clouds of smoke.
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Author: Ai Xizi
Editor: Daniel Lee
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