Du Yuesheng's name was once a symbol of wealth in the old society.
At that time, in shanghai, the hands and eyes were in the sky, and the rich could be the enemy of the country, who dared not give Hengshe Du Yuesheng a face. However, even this rich and invincible big man also fell down in his later years, so that as soon as he died, the family actually made a big fuss because of too little inheritance.
Later, some people speculated that Du Yuesheng's extremely shrinking property in his later years seemed to be related to his late marriage to the famous character Meng Xiaodong. But Meng Xiaodong is just a famous character, can he defeat Du Yuesheng's family? It's never that simple. Du Yuesheng's family wealth could not be spent even if he provided a hundred Meng Xiaodong. So what's the real reason?
The matter also began with Du Yuesheng's escape from Shanghai and his escape from Hong Kong.
1. Avoidance in Hong Kong
In March 1949, the news of the three wild armies gathering in the north of the river and crossing the river to attack Nanjing was tightly closed.
Although Chiang Kai-shek kept talking, claiming that Shanghai would be able to hold on, everyone knew that this was all.
One day in March, a slightly thin old man hurried into a luxuriously decorated mansion.
Say old, in fact, not old, this person is 61 years old, in addition to a little cough, the body is still quite healthy.
This man was one of the three tycoons who had been in Shanghai for more than twenty years: Du Yuesheng. The mansion he entered was owned by another of the three tycoons: Jin Rong.
When Du and Huang met, the plot was not trivial. Du Yuesheng said to Jin Rong: "The communist army will cross the river in a few days, and President Jiang asked someone to ask me what I meant, once the city is destroyed, where will I go to hide." ”
Jin Rong smiled bitterly, shook his fat head and said, "So Chiang Kai-shek asked you to come and probe my tone?" I'm 81 years old this year, and I'm a man who's about to get into the ground. My daughter-in-law broke her conscience, swept away all the gold and silver treasures in the house, and ran to Hong Kong with my grandson. When I go to Hong Kong, she won't take care of me, what should I do, instead of dying at sea, it is better to die in Shanghai. ”
Du Yuesheng looked at the old man who was dead in the wind and candles, and he didn't know what to say. He was going to ask Jin Rong's opinion, and he wanted to advance and retreat together, either to Taiwan or to Hong Kong, but he chose to stay.
After this meeting, Du Yuesheng became mentally depressed, and did not talk to his family all day, but only discussed with his disciples and confidants day and night after the communist army attacked Shanghai.
On April 27, 1949, the People's Liberation Army army approached Shanghai, and the sound of artillery rumbled.
Du Yuesheng finally decided that he could not stay, nor could he go to Taiwan, or go to Hong Kong to take refuge for the time being. He actually had a plan, and when the Japanese army captured Shanghai in 1937, he had hidden in Hong Kong for a while. This time, I made preparations early, bought a house at No. 18 Kennedy Terrace in Hong Kong, and bought a house for several sons, which was bought just after the Spring Festival in 1949. The three caves of the cunning rabbit are ready.
At this time, the PLA soldiers came to Shanghai, and the Du family no longer hesitated, and the whole family fled to Hong Kong.
As for the family business in Shanghai, it cannot be said, and can only be resigned to fate. Du Yuesheng left a few henchmen behind, instructing them to act opportunistically, not to play hard with the Communists, to save a little bit, and to wait for the Nationalist army to return to Shanghai after three or two years and then reorganize Heshan.
Among Du Yuesheng's several remaining henchmen, the leader is Huang Guodong, the general ledger manager. Huang Guodong realized that this time the communist army crossed the river in a big way and forced shanghai, which was by no means comparable to the japanese invasion of the Japanese and the Koso, and it was rumored that the communist army did not disturb the people, did not rob, and did not kill indiscriminately, was deeply supported by the poor people, and acted in the opposite way with the nationalist army everywhere.
He repeatedly asked Du Yuesheng what to do if there was really danger. The implication is that we must not be shot by the communists in order to defend our family business.
Du Yuesheng mysteriously handed huang Guodong three letters, saying that once there was danger, he would send one to Pan Hannian, one to Liao Chengzhi, and one to Sheng Pihua. They will save you.
We will not explain the identities of Pan Hannian and Liao Chengzhi much, but Du Yuesheng had contacts with Pan and Liao when he fled in Hong Kong. As a tycoon in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng has always prepared a lot of hands and left a few more back roads for himself everywhere, so he did not hesitate to risk being sanctioned by Chiang Kai-shek and secretly contacted CCP figures. I didn't expect to use it at this time.
As for Sheng Pihua, this person is also a famous businessman in Shanghai, a patriot in the industrial and commercial circles, and has a friendship with Du Yuesheng. Du Yuesheng knew that he had face in the CCP, so he also regarded him as one of the saviors.
After liberation, Huang Guodong delivered three letters to the three people, and sure enough, they were safe. Later, Huang Guodong joined the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and lived to the end of his life in the 90s of the last century, which is the end of Huang Guodong, and we will not say more.
Second, Du Yuesheng had no money to spend
After Du Yuesheng arrived in Hong Kong, he suddenly found that there was no money to spend.
At that time, a large number of merchants in Shanghai fled to Hong Kong, and not enough money to spend was a common problem.
In Shanghai, there is a foundation, no matter how to splurge, there is no problem, there is an endless layer of wool to be squashed. Moreover, no one can do anything about it, Chiang Ching-kuo fought the tiger in Shanghai, and he did not return home like a feather.
So when I first arrived in Hong Kong, I was still squandering. When the squandering is almost over, he began to return to his old business and wanted to save the wool of Hong Kong.
There are two commonly used routines, one is to manipulate stocks. One is hoarding supplies.
Manipulating stocks, to put it bluntly, is to buy inside information, engage in speculation, and market makers operate. But speculators in Shanghai have a shallow understanding of Hong Kong's economic heritage, leading to a fiasco.
For example, there was a group of Shanghai speculators who used the old means of Shanghai to buy and sell in Hong Kong, and at first made a lot of money. The Hong Kong local chamber of commerce discovered the riotous operation of this gang, and could not help but be indignant, annoyed that they had broken the local rules, so they jointly intervened and set a trap to induce this group of speculators to buy heavily, and then shorted with great money, and the money of this group of speculators almost evaporated from the world. The success of the First World War forced several speculators to jump off buildings and commit suicide.
Manipulating stocks is unsuccessful, and hoarding supplies doesn't work.
At the end of 1949, someone suddenly came from Sichuan, saying that sichuan's bristles were suddenly backlogged, and the price was 90% lower than in previous years. Hong Kong needs a large number of bristles as an industrial raw material. If you buy from Sichuan, ship to Hong Kong, and hoard for a period of time, you can earn four or five times the money.
It was only transported from Sichuan to Hong Kong, when the People's Liberation Army had already entered the southwestern provinces, and there was no land access, so it could only be transported by air. A business of this scale can be done by extraordinary people, not only to have money, but also to have all aspects of the relationship, to be able to get an airplane.
A backbone member of the Hengshe Society named Gu Jiatang, who was very rich and knew how to manage money, was known as one of the four king kongs under Du Yuesheng, and when he heard about this business, he couldn't help but be moved. So he took out his own Laodice and threw it in, and the aircraft of AVIC was transported to Hong Kong. outcome
Who knew that the left waited and the right waited and did not come, and then saw the local newspaper in Hong Kong reported that the original airline surrendered to the People's Liberation Army, the route to Hong Kong was temporarily controlled, and the backlog of pig bristles purchased by Gu Jiatang could no longer be shipped out in Chengdu. $300,000 was lost. Gu Jiatang appealed in many ways, wanting to reduce losses. Unexpectedly, his men heard from the Hongmen disciples in Hong Kong that Mr. Gu should not try to fish it back, and the local gang in Hong Kong will do tricks in Chengdu and will not let you hoard materials.
Gu Jiatang was desperate and was so angry that he was bedridden for months, and later weighed his weight and lost 16 pounds.
In fact, this single business, before someone also found Du Yuesheng, asked him to come forward to do this single business. Du Yuesheng asked how much money was needed, and the other party said 300,000 US dollars. Du Yuesheng immediately refused.
After all, Du Yuesheng has seen the world in Shanghai Beach, although the environment in Hong Kong is different, but human nature is the same, Shanghai businessmen are strong, there is a strong dragon that does not suppress the head snake, you make too fierce, sooner or later will be picked up by the local business community. Moreover, on the matter of the heart and the black hand, the local gangs in Hong Kong are not weaker than in Shanghai.
Therefore, Du Yuesheng did not dare to speculate, did not dare to take risks, and did not dare to invest. After arriving in Hong Kong, it has almost always been a state of not being able to make ends meet, sitting on the mountain and eating the air, and gradually showing a look of embarrassment.
However, some people must not understand, with Du Yuesheng's strength in Shanghai, Mo said that losing 300,000 US dollars is 3 million yuan, and he will not frown. How to get to Hong Kong, this risk can not afford to take.
Where did Du Yuesheng's money go, was it really squandered by Meng Xiaodong? Next, we will talk about Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong.
Third, how much did Meng Xiaodong spend?
Meng Xiaodong, born in 1908, is a famous Peking Opera actor and disciple of Peking Opera master Yu Shuyan, who gave the nickname "Winter Emperor". When it comes to celebrities, many people may think that Meng Xiaodong is a beautiful and beautiful character. In fact, Meng Xiaodong mainly attacked Lao Sheng, and the roles played were middle-aged uncles such as Liu Bei, Chen Gong, and Emperor Xiandi of Han.
Meng Xiaodong is very beautiful, should have been engaged in Danjiao, who knows but to play these unlikable old characters. It is said that his father was afraid that she would be hunted, so he did not let her enter the Danxing.
Meng Xiaodong is not famous by appearance, but by talent. Therefore, du Yuesheng's appreciation was not because of good looks at first, but because of his pure singing skills. This is also the reason why Du and Meng can still appreciate each other in their old age.
Meng Xiaodong experienced a very bumpy life, and in September 1947, at Du Yuesheng's 60th birthday party, he performed his last performance, and from then on, he was classified as Dumen, never appeared on stage, and became Du Yuesheng's aunt.
Du Yuesheng likes to sing Beijing opera, leaving a famous Winter Emperor at home, often asking her how to sing, and the two have a good relationship.
At that time, Du Yuesheng was still the earth emperor on the beach, spending money like soil, never stingy, and there was a golden phoenix at home, which was naturally carefully provided, and what to buy. Otherwise, with Meng Xiaodong's stature, how could he safely serve an old man who was twenty years older than himself?
Therefore, whether it is at home or outside, there is a misunderstanding, it seems that Du Yuesheng spent a lot of money on Meng Xiaodong.
This impression, superimposed on the deterioration of Du Yuesheng's economic situation at that time, caused the Du family to have a deeper misunderstanding of the fifth aunt Meng Xiaodong.
At that time, Mr. Huang Guodong, the general ledger manager of Du Yuesheng, often complained bitterly, saying that the economic situation of Hengshe was not optimistic. So much so that when Du Yuesheng fled to Hong Kong, he did not have much cash in his hand, and his life after arriving in Hong Kong was very tense.
Du Yuesheng's wives and children heard about it, and more or less felt that Meng Xiaodong was really an ominous person and had defeated the Du family's fortunes.
Is this really the case? A woman in Meng Xiaodong District, who did not even have children (only a righteous daughter Du Meijuan, who her biological parents were, no one knew at the time), how much could it cost to spend desperately?
Where did Du Yuesheng's money go? In fact, before 1949, it had already begun to lose money. At that time, the pressure of the war was repeatedly increasing, and Chiang Kai-shek's treasury was empty and could not come up with money, so he reached out to the shanghai consortium tycoons for money. Du Yuesheng is a leading figure in Shanghai Beach, repeatedly under pressure to donate money and materials, often millions of pounds of grain, millions of pounds of cotton yarn. Although Du Yuesheng's family is big, he can't stand long-term bloodletting, and slowly he will be left and right, and he can't make ends meet. Partial birth Du Yuesheng did not fall on the donkey, still spent money like earth, never knew what to save and manage money.
By the time he was preparing to flee to Hong Kong in early 1949, Du Yuesheng had just over $400,000.
Tangtang beach tycoon, only so much money? Who dares to believe it? Even Du Yuesheng himself did not dare to believe it.
After arriving in Hong Kong, because Mr. Huang Guodong, the general ledger manager, was in Shanghai, there was nothing else to trust, he could only personally go out and take charge of the family's financial expenditure, all the accounts were recorded in a mysterious ledger, he never left his body, and when he slept, he was pressed under the pillow. This was unmistakable, because later Du Yuesheng's confidant Lu Jingshi rushed to take care of Du Yuesheng's affairs, and when he made a will, he did not know how much property Du Yuesheng really had. This fact is recorded in Zhang Jungu's "Biography of Du Yuesheng". "Du Yuesheng Biography" is based on the memories of Du Yuesheng's family, relatives, friends, and disciples, and is the most authentic and recognized as the most authoritative biography of Du Yuesheng.
It is rumored that the Du family's finances are in charge of the hands of the third aunt, Sun Peihao, which is also wrong. According to the "Biography of Du Yuesheng" and du Shun'an, the grandson of Du Yuesheng's long house, the Du family's household affairs were managed by the fourth aunt, Yao Yulan. Not the third aunt Sun Peihao, this is true.
But after arriving in Hong Kong, whether it was the so-called housekeeper or the fourth aunt Yao Yulan, they no longer cared about the family's finances. Why does Du Yuesheng want to look so tight?
To prevent leakage of the bottom, five wives, eight sons, two daughters are noisy and wary of each other, if you know that he only has such a little money, I am afraid that if I do not immediately accuse each other, the kung fu of a big family will fall apart in the blink of an eye.
Second, after he arrived in Hong Kong, he was in a bad mood and was sick, and the lung disease in his early years suddenly broke out, and when he was serious, he had to take oxygen to maintain it, afraid that he would not be able to grasp the situation, so he held on to the last bit of power.
Fourth, they did not dare to go to Chiang Kai-shek
Since there was only such a little money, why did Du Yuesheng not go to Treasure Island? Chiang Kai-shek will at least give him a fixed income for the sake of that year, and will not sit in Hong Kong so much.
Du Yuesheng never said to the outside world why he did not go, and posterity has also made a lot of speculations. The author quoted them one by one, only selecting a memory of Du Shun'an, the grandson of Du Yuesheng, after all, people are their own families, parties, and witnesses, which is more credible.
According to Du Shun'an, Du Yuesheng was reluctant to go to Lao Jiang for several reasons:
The first one is the failure to elect mayor and speaker.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Du Yuesheng once believed that with his economic strength, which was second to none in Shanghai at the time, he would definitely be able to become the mayor of Shanghai, or the speaker of the Parliament. But Chiang Kai-shek directly made his confidant Qian Dajun the mayor of Shanghai, and Du Yuesheng found nothing. Du Shun'an recalled that Mr. Jiang not only did not let Du Yuesheng be a fool, but also did not even show any politeness or invitation on the surface. This is equivalent to announcing to all walks of life that Du Yuesheng is useless! The government does not need Du Yuesheng. Think of how he avoided Hong Kong at Chiang Kai-shek's request before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and lost all his great family property in Shanghai to the Japanese Kou, such a big loss was actually exchanged for Chiang Kai-shek's cold face. Du Yuesheng was cold and fearful of Chiang Kai-shek, and this person's heart was really cruel! Such things are done.
The second is the theft of "red posts". The so-called red post is the prayer post handed to the teacher by the disciple when the Green Gang receives the disciple, which has the disciple's birthday eight characters written on it, and the words XX worship XX as the teacher. Du Shun'an recalled that his father, Du Weifan, the eldest son of Du Yuesheng, had personally seen a red prayer post, and the payment was Jiang Zhiqing. Jiang Zhiqing is Chiang Kai-shek's former name.
Regarding Chiang Kai-shek's involvement in the Qing Gang, there are many rumors from the outside world, some saying that he worships under the Golden RongMen, and some say that he worships Du Yuesheng, but there is no conclusive conclusion. It is not surprising that Du Shun'an has such a statement. According to his recollection, Chiang Kai-shek's prayers have been kept in a locker at Du Yuesheng's house. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Du family withdrew from Shanghai, and when they returned from the victory of the War of Resistance, they found that they had disappeared, but nothing else in the safe had moved. Du Shun'an said that Chiang Kai-shek must have sent spies to steal it, and Chiang Kai-shek must have done this to cover up the ugliness and not want the world to know about this disgraceful history.
In fact, regardless of whether he invested in the Qing Gang or not, Chiang Kai-shek used the Qing Gang to do a lot of dirty things in the early days, either threatening the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums or assassinating political enemies. The Du family knew very well in their hearts that Chiang Kai-shek would never let others grab his pigtails, and his attitude towards Du Yuesheng in his heart would definitely not be better.
The third is Chiang Ching-kuo's arrest of Du Weiping. In 1948, Chiang Ching-kuo fought a tiger in Shanghai and arrested Du Yuesheng's third son, Du Weiping, in the name of hoarding war supplies. Chiang Ching-kuo's fight against the tiger was instructed by Chiang Kai-shek, and Du Yuesheng understood that Chiang Ching-kuo was coming at him. Therefore, when his son was arrested and the disciples asked to try to rescue him, Du Yuesheng was unusually unusual, unusually low-key, and asked all Hengshe personnel not to say a word and not to intercede.
Later, after three days of detention, Chiang Ching-kuo found that it was useless, and there were big businessmen who were much more powerful than Du Weiping, so they had to let Du Weiping go.
As soon as he grabbed and released, Du Yuesheng felt humiliated and said to his family indignantly: "We are night pots, Chiang Kai-shek has used us up, and seeing that there is no use value, he will throw them to the side, and he will no longer need your night pots." ”
Therefore, when he fled Shanghai again in 1949 and took refuge in Hong Kong, although Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly sent people to summon him to Treasure Island, he preferred to sit on the mountain and eat the sky, and categorically refused to go to Treasure Island. Don't dare to go! When he was in Shanghai, he still had some influence, money, and power, and although Chiang Kai-shek was jealous, he did not dare to easily move Du Yuesheng. Now Du Yuesheng is already a chicken in the soup, as soon as he arrives at Treasure Island, Chiang Kai-shek will kill him if he wants to, so how can he go and cast a net?
Fifth, the soul breaks the Xiangjiang River
Although he didn't have much money in his hands, Du Yuesheng wanted to maintain the dignity of the tycoon, and he should eat and drink, drink, and flower.
In addition to his own family, the family also employs old mothers, drivers, and special cooks, just to eat
The purse is not drummed, so only in and out, Du Yuesheng's heart is like frying fire, very uncomfortable.
He originally had lung disease, but after arriving in Hong Kong, he suddenly deteriorated, and his health was not as good as before. By 1951, he was inseparable from a wheelchair and crutches, and the already unscrambled room in the 18th Kennedy Terrace Du Mansion was filled with oxygen tanks throughout the corridor to prevent him from having asthma attacks at some point.
On July 27, 1951, Du Yuesheng entertained several guests from Treasure Island at his home and invited a famous Hong Kong lawyer named Qin Liankui to have lunch together.
Du Yuesheng has been sick, this day in order to meet the guests, specially cut his hair, it seems very spiritual. Qin Liankui arrived a little late, and as soon as he entered the table, he saw that Du Yuesheng was very energetic and had a lot of energy to talk about major state affairs, so he casually said: "Brother Yuesheng, you have recently gained some weight." ”
Du Yuesheng was shocked, touched his face and said, "Fat? I'm afraid it's not fat, but my face is puffy. Saying that, he also stopped eating in a daze, and thoughtfully asked his eldest son, Du Weifan, to look in the mirror. As he took the picture, the expression on his face became heavy, and he judged the two of them with the same way they had talked about the world before.
Then, he said that he was tired, and asked his son to accompany the guests and take a nap himself.
Du Yuesheng slept until the next morning, when he suddenly woke up, he called his confidant Zhu Wende in, and said to him very mysteriously: "I have a dollar deposited in Mr. Song Ziliang (Song Ziwen's brother) in the United States, and he has been using this money to run stocks all these years. ”
Zhu Wende was very nervous, how to explain the aftermath.
Unexpectedly, Du Yuesheng just said these words, and he became ill. He half-lifted himself to get out of bed, but suddenly found that his waist and legs were weak and weak, and he forced himself to get off the ground and almost fell. Zhu Wende was horrified and hurriedly asked the Du family to come in and help them together.
Looking at this, it seems to have suffered a stroke.
The Du family hurriedly called two doctors who usually treated Du Yuesheng, a Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and a Western doctor. After a busy meal, no exact diagnosis was given, so he had to prescribe a bunch of drugs for treatment.
Du Yuesheng knew that he was seriously ill, and the matter of giving Zhu Wende about the US dollars was to make a pre-planning and hurry to gather his own property together. Within a few days, the condition was even worse, and Du Yuesheng could not even get out of bed, so he quickly ordered his family to send a telegram to Baodao, asking Lu Jingshi to hurry to Hong Kong and arrange for the aftermath.
Lu Jingshi was one of Du Yuesheng's most proud disciples, and fled to Baodao in April 1949 to unify the Qinggang forces that fled there, and became the leader of the Qinggang there according to Du Yuesheng's instructions. Lu Jingshi heard that Du Yuesheng was critically ill, and rushed to Hong Kong to treat Du Yuesheng with the Du family.
Lu Jingshi
In fact, Du Yuesheng's several sons are in Hong Kong, arranging the aftermath, how can an outsider come? Even if Lu Jingshi is the actual helmsman of the Green Gang, in fact, the Green Gang can live for a few days on treasure island, everyone has a number in mind, but it is just a matter of surviving. Why is Du Yuesheng still so persistent?
To think that way is wrong.
Du Yuesheng asked Lu Jingshi to come, and the focus was not at all on arranging the Qinggang' affairs, but on asking Lu Jingshi to preside over the affairs behind him.
The central issue is still legacy.
Although the Du family could not make ends meet, because Du Yuesheng had been playing with his heart, the ledger was hidden around him, never revealing how much money was left, and even his wife and son did not say anything. Everyone can't help but have a little expectation of this former big man, thinking that he always hides a lot of property.
Only Du Yuesheng himself knew that he brought only 400,000 US dollars from Shanghai, plus 100,000 yuan deposited with Song Ziliang, equivalent to about 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars at that time, and he really could not afford to raise such a large family, let alone maintain the dignity of the Du family.
If his family arranges the aftermath, as long as the figures are announced, the wives, sons, and daughters are waiting for him with their eyes, and they are suffering from poverty in Hong Kong, but they can only get these two walnuts and two dates, and the contradictions they usually accumulate with each other will inevitably arise together. He was a hero, but he did not want to make a chicken feather when he died, and laughed at the world.
Therefore, calling Lu Jingshi to come is the town yard, so that the family can take care of a little face.
Lu Jingshi understood Du Yuesheng's true thoughts, half sighing and half sad, and he couldn't imagine that a generation of tyrants had actually fallen to this point. Lu Jingshi gathered several members of the Heng Society, who were usually trusted by Du Yuesheng, and jointly drafted a plan for the distribution of the estate.
Since Lu Jingshi did not know how much money Du Yuesheng had, there was only one general principle in the plan:
Du Yuesheng's three wives divided half of the property, and several children divided half of the property. Among them, half of the children are still minors than adults.
Lu Jingshi announced the will in front of all the personnel of the Du family, and everyone had no objections, and Du Yuesheng personally took a pen and signed it. Du Yuesheng was illiterate and was said to only write his own name.
Who expected that even writing names at this time was very difficult, his will was written in three copies, only one name was signed, his hands were shaking so much that he could not continue to write, and the other two copies were only stamped.
After setting the distribution plan, Du Yuesheng said the inheritance figure with trembling.
According to Du Shun'an's recollection, at that time, Du Yuesheng had more than 400,000 US dollars in hand, and had spent 150,000 US dollars, leaving only a little more than 25. There is also 100,000 US dollars managed by Song Ziliang. All estate cash, adding up to 350,000. All that's left is the mansion at 18 Kennedy Terrace.
At 4:50 p.m. on August 16, 1951, Du Yuesheng, who had completed his will and testament, swallowed his last breath under the eyes of his family, and died at the age of 63.
Sixth, Meng Xiaodong was wronged
Rao is in the town of Lu Jingshi and others, but the Du family still has an unpleasant situation.
Who can believe that Du Yuesheng Haojie I, the leading figure in Shanghai, has only this pitiful legacy left? It must have been smuggled away by someone.
Du Yuesheng's eldest son, Du Weifan, from under Du Yuesheng's pillow, turned over the ledger that Du Yuesheng had been hiding, opened it, but found nothing unusual. At the beginning of coming to Hong Kong, it was indeed such a little money. Du Weifan saw Meng Xiaodong, who was crying, glared at her, and seemed to ask her where the money had gone.
Not only Du Weifan, but other Du family members were suspicious, especially suspected that Meng Xiaodong was squandering. But when he landed on The King's face did not say it. Later facts proved everything, Meng Xiaodong lived alone after arriving in Taiwan, living only with his adopted daughter Du Meijuan, and did not have contact with Du Yuesheng's other children. Isn't this a silent protest to express dissatisfaction with the Du family?
Why did the Du family have such a big prejudice against Meng Xiaodong?
Mainly in the wedding of Du Yuesheng and Meng Xiaodong.
It turned out that when Meng Xiaodong first entered the Du family, Du Yuesheng did not give her a formal title, and even the degree of concubines did not go. Meng Xiaodong didn't care at first, as long as Du Yuesheng was good to himself, he would live with him, at least better than continuing to drift in the acting world.
Who expected Du Yuesheng to be so nameless and unworthy to her, although the feelings are good, but Meng Xiaodong finally wants a positive and bright identity.
Because of his lack of fame, Meng Xiaodong was not welcomed by Du Yuesheng's other wives and children. After arriving in Hong Kong, due to the small place at home, meals must be squeezed on a table, Meng Xiaodong likes to eat Western food, and the fourth wife Yao Yulan likes to eat Chinese food, Meng Xiaodong simply returned to his room, ordered milk bread and other meals. The family is somewhat unaccustomed.
At the beginning of 1950, when the Hong Kong People's Liberation Army was about to fight, Du Yuesheng and his family discussed that Hong Kong was also dangerous, so it was better to run to France. So we discussed applying for passports, a total of 27.
At this time, Meng Xiaodong, who was sitting in the corner, said coldly, "Will I follow along?" What a name,, or girlfriend. ”
The children of the Du family listened very harshly, feeling that this woman's demands were excessive, in the chaotic world, it was enough to save your life, what a bicycle. Unexpectedly, Du Yuesheng suddenly became enlightened and felt that he could not stand Meng Xiaodong for all these years. Immediately said, I decided to have a wedding with Meng Xiaodong. Immediately, regardless of the family's side eyes, a wedding was held.
That year Du Yuesheng was 62 years old, Meng Xiaodong was also 42 years old, before and after the village did not have a shop suddenly came out, although the outside world was rumored to be a beautiful talk, but Du's children felt humiliated, Du Yuesheng's grandchildren are old, old and blind toss.
After Du Weifan arrived in Hong Kong, he did not live with Du Yuesheng, and when he came and went, he couldn't help but feel that things at home were catty. Therefore, once the old father died, as the eldest son, he did not inherit much inheritance, and in addition to being angry, he was angry with Meng Xiaodong, and indeed there was a reason for it.
But later everyone was relieved, Du Yuesheng in Hong Kong had to come out and not to make progress, everyone looked in the eyes. Shanghai's industries have all fallen, and there is no property left.
After Du Yuesheng's death, several children went their separate ways, and the tycoon's family became an ordinary person. Meng Xiaodong also moved to Baodao and died in Taipei in 1977.