Chen Xiangmei, whose ancestral home is Guangzhou, was born in Beijing and studied at Lingnan University in Guangzhou as an adult. She loves literature and speaks English very well.
Many girls envy the happy princess in fairy tales, and then complain that their family lineage is not good enough and their appearance is not beautiful enough. In fact, no matter how good the beauty and family lineage are, it does not necessarily achieve a woman's happiness, women always have to rely on themselves, otherwise even if fate gives you a good hand, you may still lose completely. Chen Xiangmei does not have an outstanding family lineage and beauty, her strength lies in her courage and knowledge.
There are six girls in the Chen family, and Chen Xiangmei is the second oldest.
A bowl of water is difficult to level, and in families with many children, the eldest and the eldest are always more likely to get attention, while the middle ones are often ignored. The young Chen Xiangmei was in that awkward position until she became an adult.
After the July Seven Incident, Chen Xiangmei and her family fled from Beijing to Hong Kong. At that time, Chen Xiangmei's father was working in the United States, there were no men in the family, a group of women and children, old and young, and could only send people under the fence. Soon after, her mother died of illness.
Chen Xiangmei was only sixteen years old at this time, her eldest sister was less than twenty years old, and her youngest sister was only older. Of the six sisters, she was the most insightful and capable, and naturally became the backbone of the family.
After the fall of Hong Kong, the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders trampled everywhere, and the six sisters were sent to St. Paul's Women's College, often harassed and robbed by the Japanese army, and there was no peace in the day. To make matters worse, the war left them without contact with their father.
Witnessing the ferocity of the Japanese invasion, Chen Xiangmei made a decisive decision that she would leave Hong Kong with her sisters and flee to the mainland.
Chen Xiangmei went through several twists and turns and asked someone to get a departure pass.
If this decision was made out of her courage and boldness, then the escape along the way really tested this precocious girl.
The six sisters of the Chen family first took a boat to Macao.
Before leaving, Chen Xiangmei sewed the jewelry relics left behind by her mother into cotton clothes or in books with holes dug as a source of income for the future.
When passing through customs, in the face of the body search of Japanese customs officers, although the young Chen Xiangpet was scared into a cold sweat, he still calmly coped and finally succeeded in saving the family property.
There were too many people fleeing, and the six sisters stayed on the deck with their luggage, not daring to move a bit. Because as soon as you walk away, you will immediately be robbed of your position.
The original three-hour journey took three days and three nights for the mail ship to arrive.
The road from Macau to Canton Bay was also not easy, and they did not choose the waterway because the Japanese often intercepted ships. Chen Xiangmei took her sisters and followed the fleeing people on foot, dodging bombing all the way, crossing the blockade, and entering and exiting the bandit area.
Chen Xiangmei later recalled: "As I walked, people suddenly fell from time to time, and there were hastily built new graves along the way. "
People who have not experienced war will probably never understand the feeling of the edge of life and death, which is not the scene in the movie that slowly appears with the music, nor the few blunt adjectives in the history books.
The war has made Chen Xiangmei grow from a girl with fine clothes and food to a woman with a tough heart. The six sisters walked for fifteen days and arrived at Chikan City in Guangzhou Bay.
The local area is crowded with refugees, there are too many people, and almost all the inns have "full" signs. After several twists and turns, Chen Xiangmei and her sister rented a simple bungalow near the Chikanxi Guan Building.
There was a smell of rot in the sultry air, it was the smell of garbage and people, the accommodation environment was extremely different, Chen Xiangmei couldn't care, she needed to settle the life of her sisters.
Because of the shortage of materials in the market, everyone can only buy at a high price, and they do not have so much cash around them.
Chen Xiangmei thought of selling jewelry. She and her eldest sister took a set of diamond necklaces and rings and a pair of diamond jade bracelets to sell and met an out-of-town businessman.
The other party lied that he wanted to inspect the goods, and only paid after verifying that it was true. In the end, he was young and had little experience, Chen Xiangmei and her sister agreed and handed him all the jewelry.
The next day, when Chen Xiangmei found the hotel where the other party lived, the black-hearted businessman had already slipped away.
This catastrophe from the sky undoubtedly made their sisters' lives even harder.
The story is not over, it is not finished.