Speaking of Shanghai in the Republic of China era, it was a mixed place, where all forces sang and I appeared, and countless legendary stories were interpreted. Speaking of the legend of Shanghai Tang, it is inevitable to talk about the Qingbang and Du Yuesheng. Du Yuesheng is also regarded as a generation of heroes in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng is dominant, and his personal life is also full of joy, Du Yuesheng married five wives and gave birth to eleven children in his life.
With Du Yuesheng's death in 1951, the huge family of the Du family also fell apart, and the children of the Du family went to different paths in life.
People walk tea cool
Before Du Yuesheng died, he called several children and wives who were still by his side, at that time Du Yuesheng was no longer the leader of the Green Gang in the past, and there was not much left of the family wealth he had accumulated before, in front of everyone, he took out the key, opened the cabinet, and took out all his savings, leaving only about 100,000 yuan. So the wives got 10,000 each, and the children each got 8,000, Du Yuesheng has been beautiful for most of his life, but in the end, these are the only things left to his family.
After her father's death, the eldest daughter Du Meiru left Hong Kong, as the eldest daughter in the family, she assisted her father in housekeeping since she was a child, and said nothing to her younger siblings, but with her father leaving, Du Meiru didn't want to pay attention to the messy family affairs anymore, so she and her mother Yao Yulan came to Taiwan to spend their days together.
Although Du Meiru lost her father, she is still a socialite in the social arena. At a lively ball, Du Meiru meets a young officer, Kuai Songmao, and the two young people fall in love at first sight, and soon they have a wedding in Taiwan. Du Meiru lived a plain and comfortable life after marriage, but she never wanted to live in Taiwan for a long time, thinking that back then, Du Yuesheng almost returned to the mainland, but it was precisely because of Lao Jiang's obstruction that she failed to do so. Therefore, Du Meiru lived in Taiwan with trepidation and walking on thin ice.
In 1969, Kuai Songmao was transferred to Jordan as a counselor, and Du Meiru left Taiwan with her husband. After coming to Jordan, she noticed that there were no Chinese restaurants here, and she thought that Chinese cuisine has long been a popular delicacy all over the world, and since there are no Chinese restaurants in Jordan, she can be the first Chinese restaurant owner in Jordan.
Thoughts of the homeland
In 1979, Du Meiru opened her first Chinese restaurant in Jordan, when Chinese mainland and Jordan established diplomatic relations and the diplomatic situation underwent new changes, and Du Meiru was pleased with this. She always remembers that she is a Shanghainese and a Chinese, and she sincerely hopes that the motherland will become stronger and stronger. In order to celebrate the establishment of diplomatic relations between the motherland and Jordan, Du Meiru hung a five-star red flag in her restaurant.
In 2001, Du Meiru, who had lived overseas for many years, returned to Shanghai and came to the old house where she once lived.
Du Meiru has a younger brother Du Weishan, who is the youngest son of Du Yuesheng and has lived with his mother and sister since he was a child. When Du Yuesheng died, Du Weishan was only 18 years old and still in middle school. After the death of his father, the life of the mother and son was a little difficult, and Du Weishan's studies had to be terminated, and it was not until he went to Taiwan that he became slightly better. After his life stabilized, Du Weishan went to Australia to study geology. However, Du Weishan's best expertise is not geology, but antique coin collection and identification.
This is also a kind of family inheritance, Du Yuesheng was a big collector during his lifetime, with tens of thousands of collections at home, Du Weishan has liked his father's collections since he was a child, among which his favorite is those antique coins. Although this antique coin is small, there are many questions about it inside, and the antique coins circulating in the market are mixed in authenticity and fake, and they are not connoisseurs, so they can't tell the difference at all.
However, Du Weishan was very talented in ancient coin appreciation, and when he was a teenager, he was able to help his father with identification, which surprised Du Yuesheng. However, it is a pity that Du Yuesheng's priceless collections were either left in Shanghai or Hong Kong, and in the end there was not much left, and Du Weishan could only search for those treasures in his memories.
Plain is true
But he never let go of his love for cultural relics, usually Du Weishan as long as he is free, he will run to the antique market, after a long time, he has also become a celebrity in the collection world, everyone knows that this young man surnamed Du has vicious eyes, and he can see the real thing at a glance.
Du Weishan himself has a studio specializing in collecting ancient coins, and he loves ancient coins to the point of obsession, and when he hears that something good is there, he has to rush there overnight thousands of miles away.
Du Weishan has done a lifetime of collecting ancient coins, and has accumulated thousands of antique coins in his hands, but Du Weishan does not want to keep these good things as his own, he has donated his collection of ancient coins to the Shanghai Museum seven times, and Du Weishan has donated 2,128 ancient coins to the country free of charge, and experts estimate that the total value of these coins is as high as 1.8 billion.
Du Weishan is a very pure collector, although he collects things for value, but more to satisfy his inner hobbies, not to make a fortune from them. Like his sister, although Du Weishan has lived in Taiwan for many years, he has always supported the reunification of the motherland, and has been determined to be a Shanghainese all his life, so Du Weishan is also determined to hand over these collections to the country to rest assured.
Du Yuesheng is a very controversial person, on the one hand, he has patriotic behavior, on the other hand, he also makes a fortune by oppressing the toiling masses, every time he talks about Du Yuesheng, it makes people feel that it is difficult to evaluate. However, a generation has a generation's way of living, after Du Yuesheng left, none of his children became heroes, but they also lived their own wonderful lives, from the perspective of family and country, Du Meiru and Du Weishan may not lose to their fathers.
Ordinary life may not be a kind of good luck that cannot be sought, Du Meiru and Du Weishan have both personally experienced their father's turbulent era, and they were also the eldest lady and eldest young master that everyone in Shanghai envies, but in the end they chose to break away from their father's aura and fight their own world alone, which is a sober choice.
The era of Du Yuesheng has passed, and Shanghai is no longer the Shanghai of the past, Du Meiru and Du Weishan can only live better by entering a new era and leaving the old era.