The wedding of Mei Lanfang and Fu Zhifang became the focus for a while, but before entering the cave room, the groom Mei Lanfang sneaked to the room of the original wife Wang Minghua.
Although Wang Minghua smiled as always, he could not hide the loss and pain in his heart.
She forced a smile and urged him: "Wanhua, today's cave room is spent on a candlelight night, hurry up and enter the cave room, don't let the bride wait too long!" ”
As Mei Lanfang walked out of the door, Wang Minghua could no longer control his emotions and fell on the bed crying bitterly.
She knew that from now on, her husband would never be her alone. This night is destined to be only the laughter of the new, and the cry of the old cannot be heard.
Perhaps Mei Lanfang will feel guilty at the moment, because he has to snub his wife for marrying concubines and reproducing offspring. However, this guilt will not last long, and he will soon immerse himself in the gentle embrace of his new wife.
Since he could not change the reality, Wang Minghua could only accept all this and become more tolerant. She wanted to at least leave the image of a good wife in her husband's heart.
Recalling his stupidity in the past, Wang Minghua regretted that he took a wrong step. She can only accept her mistakes and try to look forward.
01. Hardship and sharing cannot bear the inheritance
When 19-year-old Wang Minghua married Mei Lanfang, he was still unknown, but his wife admired him very much. Although she is two years older than Mei Lanfang, her beauty and virtuousness make people feel that the two are very well matched.
Mei Lanfang and Wang Minghua's newlywed life is not so easy. At that time, the Mei family was economically difficult, and 17-year-old Mei Lanfang was catching up with the voice change period.
This is a very important period for a opera actor, and the future is unpredictable. Wang Minghua was born in a pear garden and knows this truth better than anyone, so she took care of her husband wholeheartedly and helped him get through this difficulty.
Soon after, Wang Minghua's mother died of illness, which forced her to put away her grief and take care of her husband wholeheartedly.
With her help, Mei Lanfang's career gradually got on track and began to become popular. And Wang Minghua is not only a virtuous helper, she also took the initiative to take over her husband's "agent" and "stylist" work to share her husband's worries.
Whether Mei Lanfang goes to the theater to perform or goes out to participate in activities to socialize, Wang Minghua is inseparable.
With her help, Mei Lanfang's popularity became higher and higher. When Mei Lanfang toured Japan for the first time, Wang Minghua accompanied the whole process, inside and out. Mei Lanfang has no worries as long as she devotes herself to the performance.
Foreigners learned about China's national essence because they listened to Mei Lanfang's opera. And his wife's dedication has also been unanimously recognized by the industry and has become a good story.
In addition to dedicating himself to her husband in his career, Wang Minghua also gave him many valuable suggestions in makeup, hairstyle, clothing and portraits.
She also often ponders the design and matching of costumes, and always finds ways to make Mei Lanfang's performance the icing on the cake.
In short, Mei Lanfang married Wang Minghua and made a lot of money. Wang Minghua is a very capable, restrained and quiet woman. She is not only Mei Lanfang's wife, but also his right-hand man.
When performing "Chang'e Rushing to the Moon", the costumes were old-fashioned, Mei Lanfang was very dissatisfied, and everyone had nothing to do, and Wang Minghua came up with a way to improve it.
Referring to the ancient beauty picture, she designed a white soft silk long dress, and added colorful flower circumference and jade pendant around the waist, making the whole person's temperament become fairy.
For the design of Chang'e's head face, Mei Lanfang also did not like it, but Wang Minghua put forward a fantastic idea. She draped her hair behind her back and split it into two, adding a velvet head to each and tying two wishful knots.
Moreover, Wang Minghua is also very good at combing his hair, and every time before Mei Lanfang's performance, she will braided his hair. Although the backstage is a place where women are not allowed to enter, for the sake of Mei Lanfang's career, Wang Minghua also resolutely challenged tradition and personally combed her husband's hair.
As the business has prospered, so has the income. In order to repay her grandmother's nurturing grace, Mei Lanfang and Wang Minghua discussed and purchased a garden villa with seven courtyards for her grandmother to enjoy the joy of family.
Foreign friends came to Beijing to visit, "visiting the Forbidden City", "Guanmei Mansion" and "appreciating plum opera" became the three major events. This villa has also become one of the must-see attractions when international friends visit.
Wang Minghua, as the hostess of Mei Mansion, is also the receptionist of various guests. Her demeanor, dignified and generous, make visitors remember and praise.
02. One wrong step, one wrong step
Her husband's career is in full swing, but Wang Minghua is worried that her husband will not be able to withstand the temptation. She has heard that many actors have started gambling, taking drugs or having three wives and four concubines after becoming popular.
Wang Minghua did not want her family to repeat the mistakes of the past, and despite her family's opposition, she made a decision that she thought was the most correct and had sterilization.
She didn't want to affect her husband's future by having children, let alone give some women who were greedy for her husband's money an opportunity.
Although she thought she was doing a flawless job, life caught her off guard. Soon, her two children contracted urticaria at the same time and died one after another, and Wang Minghua's heart completely collapsed.
She washed her face with tears all day and became emaciated. But she knew she had to pick herself up and stop dragging down her husband's career. She chose to fight strongly, comfort Mei Lanfang, and act as if everything was fine.
Mei Lanfang is the only son of both two rooms, and it is absolutely impossible to break off.
Wang Minghua's mother's family offered to adopt her nephew, but Mei Lanfang felt that she was not yet 30 years old and could have her own child, but refused because the adoption was too troublesome.
From his husband's point of view, he was not wrong, but he was too rational to put himself in his wife's shoes at all. In the end, people do not serve themselves, and the heavens and the earth are destroyed. Human selfishness is an instinct.
Therefore, Wang Minghua, who loved Mei Lanfang deeply, had to compromise and accept the only option - to agree to the Mei family marrying a concubine for Mei Lanfang.
It was a difficult decision, but Wang Minghua agreed hard to get her husband out of the stigma of "no queen".
The following year, Fu Zhifang gave birth to a chubby son for the Mei family. Seeing Mei Lanfang return to her previous smile, she should be happy for him.
However, when she looked at Mei Lanfang's love and care for the mother and son, she suddenly felt trance and inexplicable sadness.
All this seems to be yesterday, but overnight it disappeared without a trace, and she had to sigh, things are people!
Mei Lanfang can marry again, and he can have countless children as long as he wants. But she will never have children of her own in this life, but who can be blamed for this, regret is not worth making up.
"What if..."
Countless assumptions and countless times were overturned, and the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't sleep at night, and I couldn't get out of it when I was trapped inside. Often waking up in the middle of the night with chest pain and total loss of appetite.
The pain of losing her child and being neglected by her husband made her no longer able to gather her spirits and dress up, go out to socialize, and her spirit became worse and worse.
Fu Zhifang learned about Wang Minghua's past, and she felt a little sympathy and let down her guard. She knew that the woman in front of her, who was not as good as herself, no matter her age or appearance, would no longer threaten her.
At the suggestion of Fu Zhifang's mother, after Fu Zhifang gave birth to her first child, she asked her subordinates to send the child to Wang Minghua's room.
"Sister, thank you for everything you have done for Mei Mansion, from now on, my first child will be your child, I believe you will treat him like your own!"
Fu Zhifang's move won unanimous praise from the whole of Mei Fu. The clever Wang Minghua will not fail to understand Fu Zhifang's good intentions, but she also knows that at least Fu Zhifang will not be difficult for her.
A month later, she reluctantly returned the child to Fu Zhifang, and said sincerely: "Sister, your sister has received it." The kids were lovely and I loved it. However, the sister contracted tuberculosis and was worried that it would affect the child's health, so she returned it to her sister. ”
"My sister is young, energetic, and it is more convenient to take care of the children with the help of the mother. Therefore, I ask you to take good care of this little seedling of the Mei family to thrive. ”
These words came from the heart, before leaving, Wang Minghua also sewed the tiger head hat for the child by hand, which shows that she loves the child, but also misses her child even more.
03. Leave the Mei House and maintain the last dignity
Every day, when she watched her husband get along with Fu Zhifang and her children, she suddenly felt that she was superfluous in this family, and it was time to retire!
Her condition is getting worse and worse, and she fears that her illness will spread to her family, especially Mei Lanfang. She offered to leave Meifu and go to Tianjin Madadu Hospital for treatment.
Her sensibility makes the Mei family very grateful, but it is second only to this. In marriage, a woman who is too sensible has a hard life! They swallow their grievances silently and do not want to embarrass their partners.
Wang Minghua is alone in a foreign land for treatment, but she always pays attention to her husband's dynamics. Mei Lanfang's fame is growing, and she is sometimes happy for him and sometimes sad for herself. In her last days, she lived like a year.
At the age of 37, Wang Minghua completed her short life in illness and loneliness!
When she lost her child, her husband married a new man; When he was ill and needed to recuperate, Mei Lanfang did not have time to accompany her, but chose to continue to pursue his artistic dreams.
She was a committed wife who sacrificed herself for her husband's career. She even underwent sterilization surgery to help Mei Lanfang better develop her theater career.
But these sacrifices and sacrifices are empty!
She has been adding wedding clothes to others all her life, but in the end, Mei Lanfang is grateful: "There is no blessing, where can Mei Lanfang!" ”
All he remembered all his life was the confidante Meng Xiaodong, who couldn't be loved.
And at this point, Meng Xiaodong is obviously more sober than her. Meng Xiaodong also had a five-year cohabitation brain wind period that was carried away by love.
But after waking up, Meng Xiaodong won the reputation of "Winter Emperor" with his strength and lived out himself!
Perhaps it is such a self-reliant Meng Xiaodong, after the divorce, Mei Lanfang has never been able to let go.
In 1956, Mei Lanfang went to Hong Kong to painstakingly meet Meng Xiaodong and said, "Let's start from scratch!" He wanted to make up for his guilt towards Meng Xiaodong! ”
And Meng Xiaodong politely refused: "In the future, where Du Yuesheng is, I will be there!" ”
Meng Xiaodong will forever become a pain that Mei Lanfang cannot erase in her life!
And Wang Minghua, the original wife who shared his tribulations, without her hard work and full support, Mei Lanfang's career would not be so smooth.
But for her, Mei Lanfang didn't say a word, perhaps the memory of her original match has long become blurred.
Therefore, a woman should always remember: "Your value determines the meaning of your efforts!" "Otherwise, what you think is to take out your heart and lungs, and the sacrifice without regret is worthless in the hearts of men!"
Just like a classic quote: "Some people are in the heart, some are in the eyes, some are in the memory, and some people are indelible in the depths of the heart!" ”
Let us remember those who have given us love and care in our lives, for they will always be in our hearts.
Reference: "Mei Lanfang and his original partner Wang Minghua, from selfless love to endless pain"