In 1965, Mr. Li Zongren, who had served as the acting "president" of the Kuomintang, returned to China from the United States with his wife, and Li Zongren's return to China this time undoubtedly has cross-era significance.
However, the person who accompanied Li Zongren to return to China was Guo Dejie, the wife of the second room. He left his wife, Li Xiuwen, and his two sons in the United States.
At the root of this, there is no doubt that the love-hate feud between Li Zongren and his two wives is involved.
For a long time, the outside world has rumored that the relationship between Guo Dejie and Li Xiuwen is not harmonious, and even Li Zongren and Li Xiuwen's eldest son, Li Youlin, told reporters in his later years: "My mother has lived for 100 years, but she is a widow who has lived for 70 years."
Behind Li Youlin's words, he shows the unfairness and pity for his mother's unfortunate encounter.
Later years Li Youlin (right)
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In this life, Li Zongren married Mrs. Sanfang, and the first two of these three wives left him two sons: the eldest Li Youlin and the second eldest Li Zhisheng.
Li Zongren's first wife was named Li Xiuwen, which was also Li Zongren's original wife.
The two are from the same hometown, both from Lingui District in Guilin, Guangxi.
Li Xiuwen
In 1911, Li Xiuwen married Li Zongren at the age of 20, when Li Zongren was still studying at the Guangxi Army Academy, laying the foundation for meritorious service, leaving his wife alone at home to honor his father and mother.
At that time, people still insisted on getting married to their parents to decide, and according to the words of the media, there was no emotional basis between Li Zongren and Li Xiuwen, coupled with studying outside, the feelings of the young couple stopped at respecting each other.
In 1913, Li Zongren graduated from the Guangxi Army Academy and began a career of promotion in the army.
Men have made meritorious contributions outside, and the time spent between Li Xiuwen and Li Zongren has naturally been greatly shortened.
However, the precipitation of time and distance produce beauty, and also make the couple's feelings gradually heat up. When Li Zongren was on vacation, he would often rush back to his home eighty miles away early to visit his wife and parents.
In 1918, Li Xiuwen conceived a child for the old Li family.
The following year, the eldest son Li Youlin was born, and Li Zongren completed the responsibility of starting a family, coupled with the wars and chaos in various places, he began to leave home for a long time to lead the army, seeking progress in career and revolution.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Li Xiuwen stayed in his hometown to take care of his in-laws and children, suffered from war and parting for a long time, and took Li Youlin and his family to barely maintain their livelihood.
Life was already difficult, and her husband on the front line also sent a letter to Li Xiuwen in 1924, which read: "I married Dejielai, and I socialized a lot for the outside world, and I needed to have a care around me." You're here, let's be a companion, are you optimistic? ”
Li Zongren and Guo Dejie
In order to socialize with another young and beautiful girl, Li Xiuwen knew that the long-term separation of two places had changed Li Zongren's heart, although his heart was full of dissatisfaction, but the conservative and docile Li Xiuwen still replied: "Good."
Later, in his memoirs, Li Xiuwen recalled: "I listened to my husband speak easily, as if this matter had not caused me any harm, and I was not good at saying anything, not to mention that I had never made a sexual attitude toward him."
At that time, although it was generally recognized in society that women should marry, they should have freedom of love and freedom of marriage.
But Li Xiuwen, who originally followed the marriage system of the old society to marry Li Zongren, was still full of the old society's concept of marrying chickens with chickens and dogs with dogs, and she could only endure her husband's remarriage and indifference in silence.
The in-laws who have been deeply respected by Li Xiuwen for many years are naturally unaccustomed to their daughter-in-law being bullied.
Therefore, under the arrangement of her in-laws, Li Xiuwen took her eldest son Li Youlin to Guiping to reunite with Li Zongren. But Li Zongren, the second-room wife, is not a docile woman.
Li Zongren's second room wife is named Guo Dejie, compared with the original match, the relationship between Li Zongren and this second room wife is obviously deeper, and even Guo Dejie's name is li Zongren's help.
In 1922, Li Zongren stationed his troops in Guiping, and through the introduction of the director of the Xunzhou Water Police Department, he became acquainted with Guo Dejie.
Although the original match has been established, Li Zongren, who is obviously outside the army, cannot bear the loneliness.
After several dinner dates with Guo Dejie, Li Zongren quickly left Li Xiuwen behind and fell in love with Guo Dejie.
Guo Dejie was a typical new-style woman at that time, she was one of the first batch of students in girls' schools, and her studies during the school period contributed to her progressive ideas.
Therefore, for Li Zongren, a soldier who fought in the army and tried to save the country, Guo Dejie added some good feelings.
Eventually, the two married in 1924.
Not long after Guo Dejie got married, Li Xiuwen came to Li Zongren with a child from his hometown.
Guo Dejie believes that this is a demonstration to himself as an original match, plus he was originally in front of Li Zongren's subordinates, he was "Lady Li", but after Li Xiuwen came, he became the "Second Lady".
This made the two ladies superficially harmonious, but behind the scenes, they were cold and distant.
After spending a long time together, Guo Dejie took li Zongren's favor and often competed for the wind and jealousy.
At home, he ignored Li Xiuwen's love and cold eyes, and when he interviewed the media outside, he also hinted at writing himself as Mrs. Zhengfang.
In 1927, Li Xiuwen accompanied his eldest son Li Youlin to Taiwan to study, and since then Guo Dejie has officially ascended to the throne, and this absurd drama can be regarded as a temporary end.
After Li Xiuwen left, Li Zongren and Guo Dejie were even more glue-like paint, sticking together all day, but Guo Dejie's stomach has not responded, which makes Guo Dejie very sad.
Although he did not give birth to a son, Li Zongren's second son Li Zhisheng entered the Li family as "Guo Dejie's adopted son", and Li Zongren's eldest son Li Youlin has repeatedly publicly stated that his younger brother Li Zhisheng is related to him.
The outside world generally speculates that Li Zongren has an illegitimate son Li Zhisheng outside, in order to let his son recognize his ancestors and return to the sect, which makes him recognize Guo Dejie as his adoptive mother, but from this can also be seen Li Zongren's favoritism, it is reasonable to say that Li Zhisheng should recognize Li Xiuwen, the legitimate wife, as his mother, but Li Zongren chose the second wife Guo Dejie.
It can be seen that although he never gave birth to a son, Guo Dejie was deeply favored by Li Zongren.
Li Xiuwen once said in a later autobiography: "I didn't have the joy of marriage in my thirties, but I was fortunate to have my son company."
Guo Dejie, on the other hand, has always accompanied Li Zongren, including when Li Zongren was acting "president", and it was also Guo Dejie who accompanied him.
In 1965, Li Zongren returned to China with his wife Guo Dejie, and the following year, Guo Dejie died.
Although he was seventy-five years old, Li Zongren still hoped that someone could accompany him, and he remarried hu Yousong, a flower girl who was only 27 years old, married to Li Zongren, but three years later, Li Zongren died, and the two never had the opportunity to leave children.
Hu Yousong
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Although before his death, Li Zongren thought of his wife and left a will for Li Xiuwen to return to China to settle down, Li Zongren's two sons remained in the United States.
In 1973, Li Xiuwen chose to follow Li Zongren's will and return to China to settle down, and his son Li Youlin accompanied his mother to return from Hong Kong through Guangzhou.
Although the mother and son have a deep affection, at this time Li Youlin and a few friends are doing business on Wall Street, and Li Youlin, who is busy with his career, can only leave his mother alone in China, and he himself stays in the United States, and travels to and from China and the United States every year to visit his mother.
Li Youlin married two wives in his lifetime.
The first was at a friend party in his youth, where he met the beautiful half-race Jenny.
Li Youlin was thrilled at first sight, so he launched a fierce attack on her, and the two young people married in their early 20s.
Li Youlin's family
Compared with his father, the relationship between Li Youlin and his first wife, Jenny, is excellent, the two are far away in the United States, and every day is spent before and after the month, you and me.
Li Youlin had four daughters in her life, all of whom were born to Jenny.
The eldest daughter, Marcie, was born in the year after the marriage of Li Youlin Jenny, Marcie grew up and married to Hong Kong, married to the son of Chen Jitang, the military leader of Guangdong, the husband and wife had a very good relationship, and gave birth to twins.
Marcie and her husband opened a real estate company in Hong Kong, and through the connections and financial resources of her husband's family, the couple lived a rather solid life after marriage.
Li Youlin and his mother
The second daughter, Lei Shi, as a professional freelance writer, has a strong affection for half of her hometown in China, and she once returned to her grandfather's hometown of Guilin to play, and lamented Zhong Lingjuanxiu here.
During her time in Guilin, based on her grandmother's life and the combination of modern Chinese history, she wrote the book "Bitter and Sweet", which was popularized and reported by newspapers and periodicals such as the New York Times as soon as it was published, and was greatly praised in the United States.
As for Lei Shi's marriage, little is known to outsiders, and the outside world only knows that she and her husband left a child.
Li Youlin and Li Leishi
Li Youlin's last two daughters, Wendy and Jian Wei, were born in Hong Kong when their grandfather Li Zongren served as vice "president" of the Nationalist government. The two lives are very low-key, and the outside world is unknown.
Although Jenny gave birth to four children for Li Youlin, the feelings of the husband and wife were gradually consumed by chai rice oil and salt, and the thinness of their feelings made them finally choose to live in two places.
Li Youlin stayed in New York, and Jenny went to San Francisco to live.
Despite being divorced, more than two decades of married life have determined that the two have become family, and they will talk on the phone from time to time to exchange recent situations.
In 1973, at the age of 54, Li Youlin met Liang Shangying, who was in her forties, at a friendly event between China and the United States.
The brave woman cut off her education funds from her family because of her son preference, but Leung Shangying was admitted to the University of Hong Kong with her perseverance and supported her studies with scholarships.
Later, with the money of teaching at a secondary school in Hong Kong, he went to the United States to study for a master's degree, and later obtained a doctorate from the University of California.
Li Youlin was attracted to her personality, and eventually the two became partners and supported each other, and Li Youlin also had great respect for her.
Li Youlin once said: "Professor Liang and I spend only 10,000 US dollars a year, which is enough for them to live." ”
Regardless of money, spiritual closeness makes the souls between them rely on each other, compared to the first mixed-race wife, Liang Shangying, who is also Chinese, is obviously more in line with Li Youlin in spirit, and the life of the two is quiet and warm.
In 1992, Li Xiuwen, who was far away in China, died at the age of 102.
Li Youlin, who was far away in the United States, did not learn the news at the first time.
His friend saw the news of Li Xiuwen's death in a Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, and then hurried to contact Li Youlin by phone.
After learning this news, Li Youlin did not even dare to believe it, he quickly asked his eldest daughter to call Hong Kong to ask for clarification, and finally determined that her mother had passed away.
On July 13, Li Youlin flew directly from New York to Hong Kong and then rushed to Guilin to attend his mother's funeral.
Because Li Youlin was also 73 years old at the time, after returning to the United States after the funeral, his own body was also crushed by the disease.
In the last period of his life, Li Youlin was tormented by illness, but he still thought that his mother's tomb had not yet landed, and whenever he thought of this, he was always sad and unbearable.
Before his death, he entrusted a ghostwriter to a friend, sent $1500, and instructed his relatives and friends in Chinese mainland to build a cemetery for his mother, and he quickly followed his mother.
In 1993, after Li Youlin's death, his first wife used American customs to hold a funeral for her husband, while the second wife sent her soul to death.
As for Li Zongren's second son, Li Zhisheng, the Kuomintang Chinese mainland when he was adopted was already bound to lose. In 1949, when Li Zhisheng was 12 years old, Guo Dejie and Li Zongren took Li Zhisheng to the United States together.
During Li Zongren's expatriate in the United States, the relationship between Li Zhisheng and his brother gradually became stronger.
In 1965, when Li Zongren returned to China, he had planned to take his last son Li Zhisheng with him, but due to Chiang Kai-shek's siege and interception, Li Zongren had to entrust his friend Wu Shangying to help bring Li Zhisheng back to China.
But in the end, something happened to Wu Shangying's side, and Li Zhisheng was still a teenager, so naturally he couldn't return to China alone. Since then, Li Zhisheng has been left in the United States and taken care of by his elder brother Li Youlin.
Although the brothers are not the same mother, Li Youlin still takes good care of Li Zhisheng, and When he was young, Li Zhisheng was very stubborn due to the good family conditions since childhood.
After his father returned to China, Li Youlin, the eldest brother, became a father, and he took on the responsibility of taking care of and teaching his younger brother.
Under the painstaking teaching of Li Youlin again and again, Li Zhishengcai finally worked hard, no longer did nothing, and was admitted to the university with perseverance after two years of struggle.
In addition to caring for his younger brother in life and education, Li Youlin is also very concerned about correcting his brother's name and confirming the name of his descendants of the Li family.
Li Youlin has repeatedly said to the outside world that Li Zhisheng is his father's flesh and blood.
In 1991, when Li Youlin returned to China to visit his mother, he learned that an old man surnamed Zhao in Guilin knew the mystery of his brother's birth, so he made a special visit.
After the old man surnamed Zhao learned of Li Youlin's intentions, he smiled and shook his head unwilling to answer.
The reason is that for the sake of Li Zongren's reputation and image, this matter cannot be said, and he is not willing to say it.
Li Zhisheng's life has become a mystery so far, and no one still knows who his birth mother really is.
After graduating from college, Li Zhisheng chose the field of advertising design, working in an advertising company in New York, USA, starting from the grassroots level, first doing miscellaneous work, and then gradually relying on his ability to sit in general affairs.
Later, Li Zhisheng married Gong Huailei, a Sichuan sister who was also a Chinese, and the two gave birth to a son and a daughter, the son was called Guoqin, and the daughter was called Zhenzhen, and the situation of the children was unknown to the outside world.
Li Zhisheng retired in 1992 and served as honorary president of the Taierzhuang Campaign Research Association on April 7, 2016. Unfortunately, Li Zongren's two sons and several grandchildren eventually lived in a foreign country, which made people sigh.