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preface
"One family and three academicians, nine sons are elite" refers to all the children of Liang Qichao's family, they were all ministers of the country at that time, and in the turbulent social years at that time, they all made indelible contributions to the construction of the country.
And the achievements of these children are inseparable from a woman, she is Mrs. Liang Qichao's dowry maid, married Liang Qichao as a concubine at the age of 17, but can not recognize her identity to the outside world, she is Wang Guiquan.
Half a life floats, and finally comes to a destination
The protagonist of our story today is Wang Guiquan, formerly known as Wang Laixi, born in Guangyuan, Sichuan. When she was a child, Wang Laixi still had a happy childhood, until her mother died and her tragic life began.
After the death of his mother, his father married his stepmother, and it can be imagined that his stepmother was not good to Wang Laixi, and asked her to do various housework at home every day, although Wang Laixi was still tolerable, after all, although his father was not a rich family, there was still a bit of thin land in the family, and his life was still passing.
Until his father died, his stepmother blamed all the faults on Wang Laixi alone, knowing Wang Laixi would kill his parents, and his attitude towards Wang Laixi was even worse, basically using her as a maid.
But Wang Laixi can only endure, after all, he will have to live on his stepmother after that.
But what I didn't expect was that one day her stepmother would sell her to others as a maid, which was equivalent to sweeping Wang Laixi out, and she would never have a home from now on.
In this way, Wang Laixi was sold many times, floating around when he was a child, living in no fixed place, and for several years he went back and forth between various mansions, selling and selling as a maid.
It was not until she came to Li Huixian's mother's house that she settled down. Li's mother saw that Wang Laixi was light and quick, and the people were also clever, so she sent Wang Laixi to the eldest miss Li Huixian as a maid, although the two are nominally master-servant relationships, but after a long time of getting along, they are actually sisters, and Li Huixian also trusts Wang Laixian very much.
Until Li Huixian wanted to marry Liang Qichao, Wang Laixi followed Li Huixian to Liang's house as a dowry maid.
After entering the Liang family, Liang Qichao changed the name of Wang Laixi to Wang Guiquan, and the name Wang Guiquan has accompanied her throughout her life.
Although Wang Guiquan is a maid, but she is smart, light hands and feet, and flexible mind, Li Huixian's body has not been very good after marriage, so Wang Guiquan took care of the Liang family for Li Huixian, and it was orderly, so Wang Guiquan's life in the Liang family is also good.
Because Li Huixian's health has not been good, she has not been able to give birth to Liang Qichao for many years after marriage, and only after 10 years of marriage did she have her eldest son Liang Sicheng, so Li Huixian wanted to take a concubine for Liang Qichao.
According to legend, Liang Qichao actually met a woman when he was abroad and wanted to marry this woman into the door, but Li Huixian did not agree, so he wanted to marry Wang Guiquan to Liang Qichao as a concubine, after all, Wang Guiquan is a person close to him, even if he becomes a concubine room later, it will not pose a threat to himself, even if Wang Guiquan is valued by Liang Qichao later, Li Huixian can also handle the concubine room very well, and his position as a housemother can also be secured.
But Liang Qichao supported monogamy at that time, and Li Huixian also advocated male equality, but now he wants to take the lead in marrying concubines for the sake of family incense, which makes outsiders think of it, everyone will question Liang Qichao's ideas, which is not conducive to the spread of new ideas.
But for the inheritance of the Liang family's incense, perhaps subconsciously educated since childhood, Liang Qichao also knew that his family valued his children, so he finally decided to marry Wang Guiquan secretly, and declared to Wang Guiquan in advance that her identity could not be an aunt, even if she gave birth to a child, she could not be called a mother, she could only be called an aunt, and her external identity was still a maid.
Wang Guiquan also agreed when he heard this. In this way, Wang Guiquan became Liang Qichao's concubine, and after marriage, Wang Guiquan also lived up to expectations, giving birth to three boys and two daughters for Liang Qichao in his life.
Be a right-hand man with hard work
After the failure of the Pentogram Reform in 1898, Liang Qichao fled to Japan with his family, and Li Huixian had been raising his body at home due to physical reasons and could not work.
And Wang Guiquan is to deal with family affairs, but also to assist Liang Qichao in some communication with the outside world, during this period Wang Guiquan even learned Japanese, Liang Qichao wherever he goes to take Wang Guiquan to take care of daily life, and Wang Guiquan can also help Liang Qichao at work.
During this time in Japan, Wang Guiquan also received a lot of new ideas, and slowly became a woman in the new era, laying a solid foundation for her subsequent educational ideas.
At home, Wang Guiquan treats all children equally, treats them as her own, and takes special care of them.
Once, Liang Sicheng came home late because he was greedy for fun and did not write homework, Li Huixian was very angry and wanted to punish Liang Sicheng for chasing him and beating, but Wang Guiquan desperately prevented and even helped Liang Sicheng bear the punishment, which is enough to show her love for the children.
Another time, when Li Huixian's daughter Liang Sizhuang and Wang Guiquan's daughter suffered from diphtheria together, at that time, diphtheria would lose her life if she did not raise it well, so Wang Guiquan took care of Liang Sizhuang uncontrollably, so that she neglected her own daughter, and as a result, Liang Sizhuang's illness improved, and her daughter was killed by the disease.
Although Wang Guiquan did not show it in everyone's face, he was very sad in his heart.
These things are seen by Liang Qichao, Li Huixian and the children, so at home everyone does not regard Wang Guiquan as a concubine, they all treat her as a relative, Li Huixian trusts her even more, Liang Qichao is very dependent on her, even the children respect Wang Guiquan very much, and have long regarded her as their own mother.
As the matter slowly passed, the children began to grow up one after another, and no matter what Liang Qichao did during this period, Wang Guiquan did his best to help and support him, even if he was fleeing.
In 1924, Li Huixian was bedridden due to illness, and when she died, she entrusted the children to Wang Guiquan to take care of, and 5 years later, Liang Qichao also died one after another, and also entrusted the family to Wang Guiquan, and the burden on her became heavier and heavier.
Life is difficult and become the pillar of the family
After Liang Qichao died, due to the turbulent years at that time, the Liang family's family business was not much left, there were a total of 9 children in the family, and all of them reached an important stage that needed to receive education, perhaps they followed Liang Qichao around all year round, increased their knowledge and accepted a lot of new ideas, so Wang Guiquan's educational thinking was very advanced, and he also looked forward to raising his own children into adults.
In order to live and educate, Wang Guiquan rented out the better houses in the remaining family business, collected some rent to subsidize the family, and lived in the worse house with his children.
Usually Wang Guiquan also needs to work everywhere to earn money, the life at home can also be saved, the younger children wear the clothes left by the older children, and the diet is also as vegetarian as possible, even in such a hard life Wang Guiquan has not wronged the children, but also sent the children to study abroad, as far as possible to create a good learning environment for the children.
During the Anti-Japanese War period, the situation in the whole of China was turbulent, everywhere was shrouded in gunsmoke, ordinary people were sitting in precarious life, living in fear every day, you can imagine how difficult Wang Guiquan's life was.
As the children slowly succeed in their studies, they each have their own ideals and jobs, and Wang Guiquan said to all children that no matter where they study, after completing their studies, they hope that they can return to the motherland to serve the country.
So her children are serving the country in their own way everywhere, and for a long time, only Wang Guiquan lived alone in the old house in Tianjin.
After Liang Sili and Liang Siyi completed their studies abroad, they also followed Wang Guiquan's teachings, gave up their good life abroad, and resolutely returned to the motherland.
At this point, Wang Guiquan's most difficult task has been completed, and she has raised all her children to become pillars of the country.
Liang Sicheng, Liang Siyong and Liang Sili are famous three academicians; Liang Sishun served in the Central Museum of Culture and History; Liang Sizhuang served as the director of Peking University Library; Liang Sizhong was an officer who participated in the Battle of Songhu; Liang Siyi is a social activist; Liang Sida is an economist; Liang Sining was a high-achieving student at Nankai University and later participated in the revolution; All the children of the Liang family were cultivated into elites, and there were even three academicians, and Wang Guiquan fulfilled the instructions of Liang Qichao and Li Huixian.
The children become talented, and the task is completed
In the war-torn years, because most of his children were in Beijing, Wang Guiquan sold his house in Tianjin, and then came to Beijing to reunite with his children, where Wang Guiquan spent most of his life in the only happy time, and the children who worked here would visit Wang Guiquan when they had free time.
But it was such a legendary woman who was evicted from her house because of a movement in her later years, lost contact with all her children, and died in a cowshed when discovered.
The burial place of the last legendary woman turned out to be just a barren mountain simply wrapped in straw wheat, and later because of the barren mountain repair, Wang Guiquan's bones could not be found.
Later, the children wanted to plant a tree for Wang Guiquan next to the tombs of Liang Qichao and Li Huixian in the Liang family cemetery. But at that time, because the Liang family's cemetery had been handed over to the state and protected, the children's wishes were not so easy to satisfy, and they needed to go through many approvals, and finally Liang Sili came forward to find a relationship, and finally the wish to plant trees was fulfilled.
Finally, in 1995, the children of the Liang family gathered in the cemetery of the Liang family, planted a "whitebark pine" tree for Wang Guiquan next to Liang Qichao and Li Huixian, named the mother tree, and erected a monument to pay tribute to Wang Guiquan's mother, who had worked hard for her children all her life.
brief summary
After Wang Guiquan married Liang Qichao, even if he was nameless and scoreless, he had been doing his best to take care of the Liang family, taking care of Liang Qichao and Li Huixian, and treating all the children as his own. In Liang Qichao's several evasions due to disasters, Wang Guiquan did not give up and followed the whole process, and tried his best to assist Liang Qichao in all sports.
Even after the death of Liang Qichao and Li Huixian, no matter how difficult Wang Gui lived, he gritted his teeth and persevered, and looked for opportunities to give children a good educational environment, and asked them to return to China to serve the country after completing their studies, cultivating outstanding talents for our country. Wang Guiquan has grown step by step from a maid from a famous family to a great mother who has cultivated 9 elites, and the difficulties can be imagined.
Wang Guiquan influenced future generations with his tenacious will, telling us that even as a woman, in such an era of extremely unequal status between men and women, Wang Guiquan can still become the respected existence today, and in life we should learn from Wang Guiquan's tenacious will, courage in desperate life, and strong patriotism. Although Wang Guiquan has passed away, her spirit lives on and is worth learning from future generations.
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