For 80 years in the world, he has been singing the Peking Opera he loves for ten years, and he has played countless roles in a sad and joyful way. According to statistics, he has participated in more than 600 plays in his lifetime, and performed as many as 11,000 times.
Someone once commented that watching his plays, "I always feel my heartstrings vibrating." It seems to have a force that forces you into an artistic context, to care for and sympathize with the fate of these characters, and to force you not to be moved. ”
But if we jump out of the play and look at his own life, we will also be quite moved, and even give him a thumbs up and applaud his legendary life.
It can be said that on the stage, he can sing the "true value of the play"; off the stage, he is even more alive with the wonderful Chinese.
This person is the Chinese Peking Opera performance artist Zhou Xinfang.
One
On January 14, 1895, Zhou Xinfang was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, to an artist family. His father, Zhou Weitang, was obsessed with Peking opera in his early years, taking his own stage name jin qinxian and singing Danjiao; his mother Yu Guixian was also a theater circle person and also loved Peking opera.
Under the influence of her parents, Zhou Xinfang loved Peking Opera since she was a child. Since the age of six, he has lived with his father in Zhejiang and practiced martial arts under the martial artist Chen Changxing.
The following year, Zhou Weitang saw that Zhou Xinfang had learned several plays, so he let him perform on stage under the name of "Little Children's String". After seeing his son's performance, Zhou Weitang had to be proud, this child is definitely the material for singing, and he is talented.
Therefore, Zhou Weitang gave Zhou Xinfang the stage name of "Seven Spirit Children" and began to let him officially participate in the performance.
Zhou Xinfang's first play was "Golden Stage", and he captured the audience's love with a small doll role. It can be said that since this play, Zhou Xinfang has made his name, and the locals know that there is a seven-year-old child who is very good at acting.
However, the "Seven Spirits" were only famous for a while, and the name of "Qilin" was enduring.
Figure | "The Hate at the End of the Ming Dynasty" Zhou Xinfang took a backstage photo
In 1907, the 12-year-old Zhou Xinfang performed in Shanghai. Since the performance there has the custom of putting up posters, each corner must report the stage name to the front desk manager in advance. When this steward listened to Zhou Xinfang's stage name "Seven Spirit Boys", he misheard it as "Qilin Boy".
Just like this, Zhou Xinfang's stage name became "Qilin Boy".
Originally, the owner of the drama class had asked the front desk manager to re-make a "Seven Spirit Child" performance poster, but the people who came to see the play that night were not happy, they only recognized the "Kirin Boy", did not know the "Seven Spirit Child", how to persuade not to listen, you have to see the "Kirin Boy", no refund.
In desperation, the drama class owner had to make a mistake, and Zhou Xinfang did not care much. However, later, after Zhou Weitang learned of this, he specially took him to the home of the gentleman who wrote the poster to prostrate himself and thank him.
Zhou Xinfang was young and did not know the meaning of his father's move, nor did he understand how much the name "Qilin Boy" would affect him. But Zhou Weitang is different, he is a person who has run through the wind and waves, and knows the influence of a name on artists.
After all, although this "Seven Spirit Boy" is a good name, it is not as famous as the "Kirin Boy". However, strength is more important than the name, no matter how good the name is, if there is no strength, the audience will not pay.
Therefore, in 1908, in order to improve her skills, Zhou Xinfang went to Beijing to join the Xilian Chengke class, worshiped Tan Xinpei, the "King of the Lingjie", as a teacher, and also became a classmate with Mei Lanfang, a famous Peking Opera singer.
The two performed together, and the audience grew more and more every day, all of them came to visit. Gradually, the local people began to spread: "Children should be like Zhou Xinfang, and daughters-in-law should be like Mei Lanfang." ”
Figure | Zhou Xinfang and Mei Lanfang
With the increasing fame, Zhou Xinfang has performed more and more on stage, and the Beijing opera step has become more and more stable. However, the weather was unpredictable, and in 1909, Zhou Xinfang's voice was broken, and her voice was no longer as clear as before, but dull and hoarse.
This is undoubtedly a great blow to Zhou Xinfang, who lamented: "Heaven does not give the cost of singing!" ”
But sad to sad, this play he still has to continue to sing, "cost" is gone, then he will "earn"!
Therefore, every next morning at 5 o'clock, the people in the drama team would hear a dull crow sound, as if it were three-dimensional surrounding the ears, loud and transparent, but it was too hoarse, and people did not like to listen.
But Zhou Xinfang did not give up, even if he was said that his voice was not good, he did not hear it, and continued to practice his voice. This practice is two years, although the voice has recovered, but how can not return to the original timbre.
Over time, Zhou Xinfang began to delve into other ways to pronounce, he no longer simply relied on vocal cord vibration to make a sound, but in the throat force to pronounce, although the tone is still hoarse, but compared to before, it is always better.
The phoenix can nirvana, and the unicorn can be reborn. After accepting the fact that her voice could not change back to the original, Zhou Xinfang continued to practice her skills hard, intending to make up for the lack of voice with superb performances.
But in fact, if you exaggerate, it is precisely because of Zhou Xinfang's voice that there is a future Qi Sect.
When he wears a purple and gold crown, wears a green coat, and steps onto the stage, people will be amazed by his appearance and performance, but only when he opens his mouth and emits a desolate and thick singing voice, the audience will really immerse themselves in his performance.
Figure | Stills of Zhou Xinfang in "Chasing Han Xin Under Xiao He Yue"
The world is accustomed to listening to the soft and rounded singing voice, and then listening to Zhou Xinfang's hoarse, low, quite imposing voice, but they do not feel that there is anything wrong at all, but they are deeply shocked and more addicted to his unique performance.
As Zhou Xinfang went to Beijing and Tianjin to perform, he received more and more praise, and people called his unique singing and rhythmic performance "Qi Pai".
However, later, some people began to think that it was "people with bad voices who went to learn the Qi Sect."
This kind of thinking can be said to be a big mistake.
As Chen Shaoyun, a descendant of the Qipai, said: "The requirements of the Qipai art for actors are very high, and there must be a solid foundation for singing and playing, and it is not easy to learn the Qipai." ”
"Qilin" himself has spent more than two years to delve into the art of bitter love, how can it be a simple job?
Moreover, although Zhou Xinfang's voice was broken, he was still willing to work hard to hone himself and turn his hoarse voice into a vigorous singing voice. This kind of strength is not something that all people with a bad voice can do, and qipai art is not something that anyone wants to learn.
Of course, the sublimeness of art is never limited to the sect.
When Zhou Xinfang became a well-known celebrity, everyone called him "Qi Sect Grandmaster", but he himself was not willing to listen to this title, retorting: "I am not a Qi Sect, a Horse Sect, I am Zhou Xinfang, don't use genres to restrict me, I am Peking Opera!" ”
In his view, "the genre should not become a sect, on top of the basic skills, according to their own different characteristics to inherit and carry forward the art of Peking Opera, a hundred flowers bloom in order to promote the old and the new." ”
Therefore, he often admonished his students: "He who learns from me is born, and he who is like me dies." You don't want to learn like me, you have to be yourself, you have to live to learn. ”
Only by learning and applying them can we put innovation into practice.
Figure | Zhou Xinfang in the studio
Two
It is said that the makeup on the stage of the play is bright and can sing all the sorrows and joys of the world; offstage is that the red makeup is removed, and it is impossible to say a word of tenderness.
However, this statement is a partial generalization.
Some dramas are emotional, that is, a lifetime, such as Zhou Xinfang to Qiu Lilin.
Although as early as 1912, the 17-year-old Zhou Xinfang married Liu Fengjiao, the daughter of Liu Xiangyun of Wudan, and the two had one son and two daughters: the eldest son Zhou Picheng, the eldest daughter Zhou Caiyi, and the second daughter Zhou Caiping.
But in fact, Liu Fengjiao is not the person zhou Xinfang likes, and the only person he loves in this life is Qiu Lilin.
And the only thing Qiu Lilin has loved in this life is Zhou Xinfang, and she is still in love at first sight. At a glance, she decided that this person was the pillow person for the rest of her life.
Qiu Lilin, born in a large family, is the youngest daughter of Qiu Yangshan, the owner of The Qiu Tianbao Silver Building in Shanghai, and her family has both a tea house and a money house, and has countless money.
However, Qiu Yangshan died when Qiu Lilin was 8 years old, and she was brought up by her mother Mary Rose. Fortunately, Qiu Lilin, who grew up under the favor of her mother, was not cultivated into a pampered personality, on the contrary, she was gentle and kind, and often participated in charity activities.
As the chief celebrity in Shanghai's social circle, Qiu Lilin's suitors are also innumerable. However, Mary Rose did not expect that her precious daughter would actually give up everything and elope with a drama.
One day in 1923, 18-year-old Qiu Lilin sat under the stage of the first dangui stage in Shanghai, watching the 28-year-old Zhou Xinfang perform opera. His every move, every tone, made Qiu Lilin deeply immersed in its charm and difficult to extricate herself.
At the end of a song "Hongmen Feast", Zhou Xinfang's voice was still echoing in Qiu Lilin's mind. Until she returned home that night, as soon as she closed her eyes, she still thought of Zhou Xinfang's Peking Opera appearance.
Therefore, every day in the next day, Qiu Lilin would get up early, go to Zhou Xinfang's field, and even start to let people inquire about Zhou Xinfang and understand his things from childhood to adulthood.
After understanding, Qiu Lilin learned that Zhou Xinfang was separated from his wife. Therefore, she plans to take the initiative to "attack" and go to have a chance encounter with Zhou Xinfang.
Qiu Lilin specially planned a ZhangYuan charity bazaar and invited all the famous actors of Shanghai Peking Opera. There, she officially met Zhou Xinfang. Soon, under the attack of Qiu Lilin's love letters one after another, Zhou Xinfang also had feelings for her, and the two began an underground romance.
Figure | Jolly Lin Qianying
Zhou Xinfang was a well-known Peking Opera star at that time, and Qiu Lilin was a famous rich lady, if the news of the two people falling in love, it would inevitably cause an uproar.
Therefore, the two can only sneak together, even dating, can only go to the countryside field, and sometimes even choose to go to the uninhabited cemetery for dates.
However, no matter how low-key the two are, they cannot escape the tracking of the media. Soon, the matter of the two dating was broken up by various local tabloids, and Mary Rose, after learning about this, was furious and directly locked Qiu Lilin in her room and did not allow her to go out to meet Zhou Xinfang privately.
Although Zhou Xinfang has a career and a reputation, in the final analysis, it is still a drama. And the drama, in that era, was still a "lowly karma" that was not favored by people.
Motherhood is for the good of her daughter, so Mary Rose will never let her precious daughter suffer.
In addition to locking Qiu Lilin at home, she also bought the leader of the local underworld "Qinghong Gang" and asked them to threaten Zhou Xinfang, saying: "You are not allowed to interact with Qiu Lilin anymore, otherwise you will borrow your two legs for use!" ”
In addition, for the sake of Qiu Lilin's reputation, Mary Rose asked her son Qiu Jianfei to invite newspaper reporters from all over Shanghai to a banquet. At the banquet, Qiu Jianfei spoke: "There are some rumors about the sister who came in, all of them are made out of nothing, not enough to believe, I hope you will look at the face of the little brother, and many will take care of it." ”
Figure | Zhou Xinfang in the early 20s
Later, Mary Rose also began to entrust people to find a good in-law for Qiu Lilin, planning to marry Qiu Lilin quickly, directly cutting off all possibilities between her and Zhou Xinfang. And Qiu Jianfei also deliberately sent someone to warn Zhou Xinfang that if he did not agree to break off contact with Qiu Lilin, then he would no longer want to gain a foothold in This place in Shanghai.
It is said that Qiu Jianfei also hired someone to keep an eye on Zhou Xinfang in case he contacted Qiu Lilin.
But no matter how strictly Qiu Jianfei and Mary Rose guarded, they could not break the love between the two. After nearly half a year of not being able to see each other, the two of them still kept in touch.
One secretly wrote love letters at home and asked his relative Zhu Lingzhi to throw them into the mailbox when he went out; the other, after receiving the letter, asked people to go back and forth several times to the side of the road opposite the window of Julien's room to indicate that the love letter had been received.
However, during the period when they exchanged letters, Mary Rose had already arranged the marriage for Jollyn, accepted the man's dowry, and began to prepare Jollyn's dowry.
Seeing that her marriage was about to be arranged, Qiu Lilin could not sit still, directly ran away from home, and eloped with Zhou Xinfang to Suzhou.
Coincidentally, after Zhou Xinfang placed Qiu Lilin in Suzhou, she returned to Shanghai alone to prepare for the Next Day's Peking Opera performance. After Qiu Jianfei learned that his sister was missing, he directly led someone to hunt down Zhou Xinfang. The day after chasing him to Suzhou, he found that Zhou Xinfang was in Shanghai, so he went back again.
As a result, in fact, his sister is still in Suzhou, and Zhou Xinfang is a mistake to hit and assist himself.
However, even if Qiu Lilin was really found by her brother, her liking for Zhou Xinfang would not stop there.
Perhaps it can be said that Qiu Lilin, who grew up listening to her mother's words in a honey jar since childhood, only from the moment she met Zhou Xinfang did she really have her own life, a life controlled by herself.
Three
After staying in Suzhou for two weeks, Qiu Lilin quietly returned to Shanghai with Zhou Xinfang, and the two rented a house together.
During this time, Julielyn did not want to contact her family, she wrote a letter to Mary Rose, asking her to forgive her filial piety. But Mary Rose was still angry and didn't reply to her.
The silence of her family and the threatening letters received by Zhou Xinfang made Qiu Lilin gradually become afraid, and she feared that her family would poison Zhou Xinfang. Therefore, for the safety of herself and Zhou Xinfang, she specially hired a lawyer and asked him to publish a statement in several well-known newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai: "
Our lawyer is employed by Miss Qiu Lilin as her legal counsel, and the client of this lawyer has reached adulthood and enjoys the civil rights prescribed by law, and no one has the right to restrict his personal freedom or infringe on his legitimate rights and interests, otherwise this lawyer will file a lawsuit in accordance with the law..."
In simple terms, this statement is actually telling Mary Rose and Qiu Jianfei that her marriage, her life, and her own decisions.
In response, they quickly responded, directly announcing in the newspaper where Qiu Lilin published the notice: The Qiu family and Qiu Lilin are disassociated.
But with deep affection, where is the mother, can she really not want her own daughter?
Perhaps, parents sometimes "kidnap" their children in the name of "doing your best", but it is true that everything they do is for the sake of the child, not for themselves. Although some of their practices will push their children farther and farther away, they are also close relatives, family members whose blood is thicker than water.
If you are family, you will not really abandon each other.
In 1929, when Zhou Xinfang and Liu Fengjiao formally divorced and planned to marry Qiu Lilin, who already had three daughters, Qiu Lilin's family also relaxed and agreed to the marriage between the two, and Mary Rose quietly gave Qiu Lilin a 60,000 yuan passbook.
It is said that mother's love is like water, gentle and timeless, but in fact, Mary Rose also played the role of "father" in Jollyn's life. Her love, in addition to tenderness, is deep.
Witnessed by the family and children, Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin held a grand wedding at the Sichuan Xinya Hotel.
After marriage, the lives of the two are both sweet and busy.
Zhou Xinfang needs to perform almost every day, and after performing one, she has to start preparing for the next play, and rarely has time to be at home. Qiu Lilin took on the job of her husband's agent and assistant, in addition to taking care of Zhou Xinfang's daily life, she would also take care of his work affairs for him, so that he could shine on the stage without scruples.
For Qiu Lilin, it is her greatest joy to be able to support her lover to shine in her favorite industry.
Even when the country was in dire straits, Qiu Lilin continued to stand behind Zhou Xinfang and shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving the country with him.
She is both Zhou Xinfang's virtuous wife and Zhou Xinfang's patron saint, which was determined from the beginning.
Figure | Wedding
Before the family had agreed to their marriage, Qiu Lilin often followed Zhou Xinfang to the theater. Originally, she just wanted to follow zhou Xinfang to sing the play, but she didn't expect that when she looked at this play, she saw the hint of the drama team.
Qiu Lilin knew that Zhou Xinfang was the most popular actor in the drama team, but his salary was very small and he could not make ends meet. She had been unable to understand this, but after coming to the theater, she found that there was a problem with the financial policy of the theater.
Therefore, Qiu Lilin began to fight for her lover, took the initiative to negotiate with the theater owner, and re-drafted the rules. She demanded: Zhou Xinfang's salary must be divided into three or seven accounts with the theater. At the same time, she also said: "After the money thing, I will manage It, and everything you have to go through me." ”
She knew that Zhou Xinfang was not good at dealing with these things, so she did not intend to let Zhou Xinfang know. On stage, she can't intervene; offstage, she solves it alone.
Under her "coercion", Zhou Xinfang's salary was indeed much more than before, and she even got the dividend of the theater - gold bars. Later, the two began to establish their own theater, Zhou Xinfang continued to star, while Qiu Lilin was responsible for finances and managed all the money for Zhou Xinfang.
Slowly, people also gave Julielin a title: iron abacus.
However, this "abacus" is only "iron" for outsiders, and she only has all kinds of tenderness towards her own family.
Figure | Zhou Xinfang took a group photo with her children
Four
If Zhou Xinfang's blood in this life has been given to Peking Opera and love has been given to Qiu Lilin, then his loyalty is dedicated to the country.
He often sang the true feelings of outsiders in the name of the people in the play.
In 1913, the 18-year-old Zhou Xinfang wrote his own drama "The Murder of Song Jiaoren", criticizing Yuan Shikai's assassination of the democrat Song Jiaoren by acting in the scene "Song Jiaoren was stabbed by gangsters"; in 1915, the 20-year-old Zhou Xinfang wrote "The Great Han Traitor" and angrily rebuked Yuan Shikai for betraying the country and restoring the country; in 1919, the 24-year-old Zhou Xinfang lamented the students' feats in the May Fourth Movement, and specially staged "Learning to Box and Fight King Kong" in Dangui, accusing the traitors who were reckless and stealing their lives to the whole Chinese.
Obviously, he is just a young man who has just passed the year of the weak crown, but he embraces a warm blood and unswervingly struggles on the way to serve the country. And when he has passed the age of confusion, his loyalty is still only increasing, not decreasing.
In 1937, the Japanese army searched everywhere for famous actors in Peking Opera to sing opera, and many artists chose to go into hiding after learning about this, except for Zhou Xinfang.
Someone once asked him if he would stop singing because of the Japanese, to which he replied frankly: "Sing! Why not sing! Resisting foreign humiliation, the soldiers have guns, I Zhou Xinfang have Peking Opera, Peking Opera is my gun! ”
Therefore, holding the Peking Opera "This Gun", he successively choreographed and performed a series of anti-war dramas such as "Wen Tianxiang", "Shi Kefa", and "The Hatred at the End of the Ming Dynasty", saying: "I want to play Wen Tianxiang and Shi Kefa, even if it is banned, I will act, he is our national hero, they sacrificed their lives, but they fought for justice for our nation!" I want to call on everyone to learn from them! ”
Cloaked in the "skin" of a national hero, he sang on the stage day after day, and he wanted to use his vigorous voice to awaken people: As a son and daughter of China, a descendant of China, how can he be like a zombie, numb to life, and watch the country backward and be bullied?
At the end of a play, and then look at the outsider Zhou Xinfang alone, think carefully, such a patriotic him, is not also a national hero?
Behind the national hero, there is naturally a guardian. When Zhou Xinfang was shouting for the country, Qiu Lilin was silently protecting him.
Because Zhou Xinfang repeatedly publicly expressed his determination to resist Japan, his behavior was too high-profile, which attracted the attention of the secret service organization No. 76.
Therefore, one day, Wu Shibao, the leader of No. 76, wanted to invite Zhou Xinfang to sing, but Zhou Xinfang refused without hesitation. It wasn't long before Misfortune came to the door, and he was taken to No. 76 by two agents.
On this trip, Xu Was no. 76 wanted to give Zhou Xinfang a warning and let him go after taking him on a tour of the cell. But Qiu Lilin was not at ease, she felt that if she did not do something, Zhou Xinfang would definitely be arrested next.
Therefore, Qiu Lilin went to intercede with Wu Shibao's wife, She Aizhen, begging her to say good things and let Wu Shibao let Zhou Xinfang go. To this end, Qiu Lilin sacrificed all her jewelry, and also attached a high "reconciliation money", Zhou Xinfang's matter can be completely solved.
Unfortunately, Qiu Lilin could not save Zhou Xinfang for a while, and could not save him for the rest of his life.
Zhou Xinfang is the same, he accompanied Qiu Lilin for most of his life, but he could not grow old with her.
Figure | A group photo of the family
Five
Since November 10, 1965, Zhou Xinfang has been criticized by his superiors by name, and the plays he has written have been criticized as "not active" works.
Seeing that his superiors had repeatedly named and denied himself, Zhou Xinfang knew that disaster would soon come to him. Therefore, he had already communicated with Julien, and both of them were mentally prepared.
One day in May 1966, the leader of the Shanghai Peking Opera House and two special personnel broke into Zhou Xinfang's home and took him directly into isolation. Zhou Xinfang, who had long been prepared for this, still looked at Qiu Lilin for a long time before leaving, and after hugging her for a while, said: "I am gone, you take care of yourself!" ”
At that time, he did not know that this hug was the last time in his life, and if he knew, he would not let go.
Since Zhou Xinfang was taken away, a series of stigmatizing and wrongful convictions about him have been published in major newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai. Some called him "the southern hegemon of the Peking opera circle", while others said that he was a "reactionary veteran".
And in that stormy wave, even if some people have doubts about these articles, they dare not take the initiative to seek justice for him. They could only watch as the former celebrity was paraded in a truck for public display, dressed in dirty clothes and carrying a large white sign with the words "Reactionary Authority Zhou Xinfang."
Figure | Zhou Xinfang with her daughter
However, this scene is not the most tragic.
Later, Zhou Xinfang's home was smashed by the rebels, and the walls of the home were painted with ink, and the five words "Down with Zhou Xinfang" were written. As for his family, they were also affected.
Qiu Lilin, as Zhou Xinfang's dearest lover, was the first to be implicated. She was dragged into a truck by ill-intentioned people and taken to a middle school, where she endured repeated beatings.
But when the wooden sticks and iron pipes hit her, when she was thrown out by those evil people and hit the wall, and her body was bleeding, she was still worried about Zhou Xinfang and her children.
Although before this, she had sent her children to Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom to study, except for the second son, Zhou Shaolin, who did not escape this disaster, the other five were safe.
Moreover, when she was separated from her fourth daughter, Zhou Cetz, she also advised: "In the future, if you receive a letter from me to you, whatever I have written, do not do it." ”
At that time, she had already anticipated the disaster at this time. But since she had already anticipated it, why didn't she run away?
The answer can be imagined, of course, for Zhou Xinfang. She understood that Zhou Xinfang was deeply patriotic and would not easily leave the country, and even if he thought of today's pain, he would not betray his loyalty.
And Jollyn, too.
Figure | Julielyn with her youngest daughter
During that time, Qiu Lilin was also escorted to the streets, and even beaten in public, and some well-meaning people could not bear to see her like this, so they proposed that she occasionally avoid those evil people, but Qiu Lilin said: "I can't avoid, avoid, they will use this method to deal with Mr. Zhou." ”
In the face of great difficulties, she did not hesitate to choose to save her lover and sacrifice herself.
However, at that time, Zhou Xinfang's life was not good. Although he knew that his wife was also suffering misfortune, he did not expect that those who rebelled would be so vicious that they could ruthlessly wave the wooden stick and iron pipe in their hands at the thin woman.
The wicked are the wicked, and in the storms of the times, their conscience has long since been washed away. Not only dare to beat weak women, but even children, they can do it.
When they destroyed the Zhou family, they first knocked Zhou Xinfang's daughter-in-law, Zhou Shaolin's wife Huang Minzhen unconscious, and then attacked Zhou Xinfang's young granddaughter Meimei and cut her hair into a "cow ghost head".
In this way, Mei Mei went crazy and was admitted to the Shanghai Psychiatric Hospital.
Looking at the illness of his family, the wounds of injuries, and the madness of madness, Zhou Xinfang's heart was like ashes, he said: "Counting and counting, it is my old family that has tired the family." ”
But as Huang Minzhen comforted: "If you are tired of us, then who is tired of you?" What sin have you committed? ”
Zhou Xinfang's tragedy at this time is no wonder to himself, and he can only blame himself for living in the wrong era.
And in the end, he is just a common man loyal to the country. Unfortunately, his "loyalty" was only exchanged for tragedy.
One night, Zhou Xinfang was taken away again. When Julien, who was lying in bed, learned of this, she muttered to herself, "It's over." ”
This time, Zhou Xinfang was stripped of everything, and the organizational identity he once had was revoked, and he was forcibly put on the counter-revolutionary hat.
In this regard, Zhou Xinfang could only accept it silently and could not resist. At most, he only dared to quietly sing the lines in "Xu Ce Running City": "The blue sky cannot be deceived, and the right and wrong people know all about good and evil." Good and evil end up hating, but it comes sooner rather than later..."
However, the "justice" that Zhou Xinfang expected was still late after all.
Figure | Jollyn tutors her daughter with her homework
On March 24, 1968, Qiu Lilin was taken to be beaten again, and her kidney was directly broken. After hiding in Zhou Xinfang's study for three days, Qiu Lilin was taken to the hospital, but the hospital did not allow her to enter the ward because she was a "counter-revolutionary family member."
In desperation, Qiu Lilin could only lie in the corridor and left this painful world in the middle of the night at the age of 63.
Before leaving, she was still instructing Huang Minzhen to take care of Zhou Xinfang's affairs in the future. Unexpectedly, the matter was not explained, she just left, and she did not even have a chance to see Zhou Xinfang.
In 1969, Zhou Xinfang and Zhou Shaolin were released one after another, at that time, no one dared to tell Zhou Xinfang about Qiu Lilin's death, and they all told Zhou Xinfang that Qiu Lilin was still hospitalized and the doctor would not visit her.
Therefore, Zhou Xinfang washed her face with tears every day at home, facing the wall, and thinking of her beloved wife who had long been separated from him forever.
Until 1975, when Zhou Xinfang was hospitalized for a heart attack, he took his last breath and said to his relatives: "You don't have to lie to me anymore, I already understood, your mother has gone, she is waiting for me!" ”
Since she is no longer there, then he has nothing to linger on this world. It's just a pity that he still couldn't wait for his innocence before he died.
In August 1978, the third year of Zhou Xinfang's death, Zhou Xinfang's grievances were whitewashed. In 1995, the ashes of Zhou Xinfang and Qiu Lilin were buried together in the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai.
After 27 years, the couple finally reunited.
Some people say that if Qiu Lilin did not love Zhou Xinfang, then the second half of her life might not be so painful. But in the world, where are there so many ifs?
Moreover, Qiu Lilin had long thought that there would be a catastrophe of the times, so she sent her 5 children outside, and she herself chose to stay and accompany Zhou Xinfang.
This is enough to see how deep Qiu Lilin's love for Zhou Xinfang is. Perhaps, for her, meeting Zhou Xinfang is the greatest happiness in her life. For Zhou Xinfang, being able to meet Qiu Lilin is the greatest luck in his life.
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