Pan Huiying
One night in 1917, a large area of land at the entrance of Qingyun Street was illuminated.
The light source comes from a simple stage that has been temporarily erected in recent days, and local residents sit on small stools they have moved, brushing their eyes to the "civilization drama" staged on the stage.
"How about sending you a few words in the next one?" The well-dressed, broad-skinned, handsome-looking actor said affectionately to the actress.
The actress on the stage who wore pink makeup and jade quickly polished her ink and pencil after listening, and the male actor waved it and said, "Since she is a beautiful person, she has never been a heroine and a woman out of the wind and dust", and the upper paragraph is titled "Lady Fengxian Is Correct".
Seeing this, the audience applauded one after another, lamenting that the male and female protagonists interpreted the story very well.
In the corner, however, a female spectator stood up, picked up a stool and walked away lonely.
No one knows that the protagonist played by the male actor on the stage, from beginning to end, is her husband. Unfortunately, the heroine of the story is not her.
It's a dusty woman.
Back at home, she pulled out a dozen letters from a drawer, all of which began with "Hye Young-hyun Sister"...
Looking at it, her tears couldn't help but get wet.
Cai Yi
The play was titled "Cai Yi, the Great Man who Recreated the Republic", and was staged in 1916.
The story tells the life experience of the defending general Cai Yi, and also intersperses a relationship between Cai Yi and the wind and dust woman "Xiao Fengxian", which has many fabrications.
However, such an "arrangement" may seem superfluous, who said that in General Cai Yi, those stories that people like to hear, there is no "ready-made", it can be used when it is taken.
No one knows this better than the woman who walks away halfway through the scene.
Her name is Pan Huiying, Cai Yi's second wife, and he is truly a "confidant with a red face".
Tsai Yi family portrait
Pan Huiying and Cai Yi may not have imagined that a good play that was originally used to "deceive" Yuan Shikai was passed down by later generations.
That's it, out of sight and out of mind.
If it weren't for the special nature of the film, Pan Hui Yingduo would not have deliberately come to watch it. 1916 was the last year of Cai Yi's life.
That year, Cai Yi gave Xiao Fengxian "unlimited scenery", but gave all his true feelings to Pan Huiying.
Even if he dragged his withered body to the battlefield, Cai Yi had to pick up a pen and write family letters non-stop.
"The flames last for three months, and the family letter arrives at ten thousand gold", yu Du Fu is like this, and so is Cai Yi.
Time back to October 1913.
With a "whoosh" sound, the water-soaked vegetables entered the oil pot, splashing oil from time to time, and the young woman who was only in her early 20s did not pause in the movement of her hands, quickly stir-frying, adding ingredients, and serving plates.
The other hand picked up the previously fried mycelium meat and summoned the whole family to come to dinner.
This life is the same as the life of ordinary people's families, that is, Cai Yi's family, and the person who cooks it is Pan Huiying, who calls her Huiying.
"Hui Ying, are all the luggage ready for tomorrow's trip to Beijing?" "Well, we've both packed up, and my mother and sister Xia Zhen have all explained the affairs of the family, don't worry."
The next day, Cai Yi and Pan Huiying embarked on a journey north. In June of the following year, Cai's mother and eldest wife Liu Xiazhen also came to Beijing.
The family from the south felt that the cold in the north was a little unaccustomed, especially Pan Huiying, a native of Yunnan.
If there is no such trip, after a few years, when you set foot on the land of Yunnan, you do not have to be separated from Cai Yi.
Yuan Shikai
In this line, Cai Yi was to go to Yuan Shikai's appointment and serve as the superintendent of the National Economic and Boundary Bureau.
In his eyes, Yuan Shikai was "a great talent and a great strategy, and the expectations of the people" and a revolutionary leader who achieved great things.
Having seen the Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, Cai Yi's body has flowed with revolutionary blood since childhood.
"Shed blood to save the people of my generations, and the liver and gallbladder of a thousand autumns are self-rotating."
Yuan Shikai was a "hero" who overthrew the corrupt Qing government, and how could he not be trusted by Cai Yi.
What Cai Yi did not expect was that the wheel of history that pushed forward was what everyone expected, and Yuan Shikai actually thought of acting backwards.
Yuan Shikai ascended the throne to sacrifice heaven
Cai Yi wrote to Yuan Shikai on good policies for national defense construction and army building, and his sincere heart can be learned from the world. Yuan Shikai, however, went against the will of the people and preferred to be emperor.
After months of contact with two people with different political aims, they realized each other's intransigence.
Especially after Yuan Shikai did not hesitate to sell his national sovereignty in order to become emperor and accepted the "Twenty-one Articles" that almost destroyed China, Cai Yi was greatly stimulated.
The ironclad facts made Cai Yi have the idea of overthrowing Yuan Shikai's power in his heart, but this matter is obstructive and long-term, and it still needs to be considered in the long run.
Yuan Shikai saw that he could not win over, so he ordered his subordinates to control Cai Yi, and the controlled Cai Yi was unable to defeat the four hands with both fists, and it was impossible to implement it by hard touch.
It was also his carelessness, credulously believing that Yuan Shikai was a benevolent and righteous man, and his wife and children and old mother were all taken to his side.
Afraid that he had escaped, Yuan Shikai had more ways to get himself back.
Facing his two wives, Cai Yi had mixed feelings.
The original wife, Liu Xiazhen, came from a large family and was rich and powerful.
Cai Yi came from a poor background, but fortunately, Liu Xiazhen's uncle took a fancy to him when he was 4 years old, and not only funded him to study thereafter, but also intended to recruit him as a dragon-riding son-in-law.
After Cai Yi returned from studying in Japan, he went to the door to propose to him, but unexpectedly, liu Changgu, the eldest daughter who was originally promised to Cai Yi, swore not to marry because she felt that the door was not equal.
In the end, it was Liu Senying (Liu Xiazhen) who "married her sister for her sister" and got on the flower palanquin.
This kind of courage and integrity was admired by Cai Yi in his heart, and Cai Yi changed her name to "Chivalrous", believing that she was "both chivalrous and virtuous".
Cai Yi's old house
After the two got married, the family was happy and harmonious.
Later, because Liu Xiazhen "suffered from infertility for more than ten years, and the old mother Lady Huang hugged her grandson and repeatedly advised him to put his wife (concubine)", Cai Yi married Pan Huiying.
On the day of the wedding, Cai Yi entertained the close staff and friends of the Governor's Mansion and several staff, and everything else was simplified, but she did not expect that she not only did not blame herself, but also took on the big and small affairs of the family.
Not long after entering the door, Pan Huiying showed her "good skills", fried a good dish, and almost compared Cai Yi's mother.
Nian Fang Erjiu was married into the door by himself, although he was young and born into a famous family, Pan Huiying did not have the slightest heart of a big lady.
More importantly, when he met Pan Huiying, Cai Yi seemed to have found Zhiyin.
Cai Yi studied in Japan, and Pan Huiying also received a Western-style education, and both of them were well-educated.
Cai Yi grew up in poverty, received help from others, and had to turn over. Pan Huiying also experienced the pain of losing her mother because of the fall of the family road, and could only send people under the fence and suffer from wandering and displacement.
Although this is not exactly the same as what happened to Cai Yi, his state of mind is similar, and his insight is similar.
Cai Yi Monument
If a wife and concubine are like this, why should the husband ask for it?
Liu Xiazhen has a chivalrous liver and courage, and after marriage, she will take good care of Cai Yi's mother. After Pan Huiying married him, she let him express his heart, coming from south to north, the road was bumpy, and he was often with him.
But he never thought that due to the compulsion of the situation, Cai Yi, a good husband with iron and tender feelings, would play a vulgar man who was blinded by lust, looking for flowers and asking willows, ignoring military affairs.
This "blindfold method" was what Cai Yi came up with to deal with Yuan Shikai.
Not only can he get rid of Yuan Shikai's control, wait for the times, and launch a revolution, but he can also save the lives of his whole family.
Only Xiao Fengxian, the dusty woman who was used as a pawn, did not have any paving for the road ahead.
Rather than saying that Cai Yi was attached to Xiao Fengxian, it was better to say that Xiao Fengxian was a pawn that Cai Yi had to use at that time and had to "abandon".
Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian
When the two first met, it was not as beautiful and romantic as many drama texts said.
On that day, the brothel set up a feast. Yun Jiban's young prostitute Xiao Fengxian put on makeup backstage and prepared for the play.
As far as her eyes could see, a man with the appearance of an officer caught her eye, very angry, but there seemed to be a hint of softness and kindness between her eyebrows, which made her feel good.
That person was Cai Yi, and the other was Li Hongzhang.
Xiao Fengxian opened his mouth, and his singing voice was melodious and melodious, instantly capturing the ears of everyone, including Cai Yi.
Cai Yi saw that this woman was less like the fat powder of the dusty woman, and there was a slight hint of wisdom between her eyebrows, as if she was a usable person.
Little Phoenix Fairy
Originally, Xiao Fengxian was the singer named by Li Hongzhang, and Cai Yi knew this and opened his mouth to ask Li Hongzhang to take it.
Such "being transferred" is just a common thing for Xiao Fengxian, and the ill-fated Xiao Fengxian has already been resold many times before.
Now it has been "transferred" to Cai Yi, and for Xiao Fengxian, it is like opening the door to a new world.
For Cai Yi, it was just the beginning of the plan.
Since then, Cai Yi has been mixed in the Eight Hutongs, and Xiao Fengxian has sung at night with Xiao Fengxian, and from the outsider's point of view, Xiao Fengxian has become Cai Yi, the great hero, "the beauty pass that cannot be passed".
Cai Yi taught Xiao Fengxian to read and learn to write, and often explained to her the stories of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin", so that outsiders could see that the two people were qinser and ming, and their talents and wisdom were connected.
Unexpectedly, all this is what Cai Yi wants everyone to feel, especially Yuan Shikai.
Everything is ready, and a good play directed by Cai Yi is about to appear.
One day, the gathering building outside the Donghua Gate in Beiping was very lively, with large lanterns hanging in the air, full of joy everywhere, I don't know, I thought who was holding a wedding banquet.
Well-informed, I knew that the whole restaurant was wrapped up by Cai Yi, who was known for his frugal style on weekdays.
Sixi balls, dragon and phoenix soup, shrimp fishing in the saltwater sea, Peking duck... The menu at each table is complete.
The guests seated are not simple, Mei Lanfang, Yuan Keding, Yang Du and other famous characters, giving enough face to the "heroine" at this banquet.
Xiao Fengxian dressed in Chinese clothes and Cai Yi stepped out from behind the stage and toasted from table to table to welcome them.
It was just a love banquet, which was well known to the world, and it was also something that this woman who had lived a poor life for half a lifetime had not thought about.
"I don't believe that beauty will eventually die, and never a chivalrous woman will come out of the wind and dust." Ms. Fengyun Yacun Shaoyang Songpo". In the midst of everyone's attention, Cai Yi pulled out the hand that was holding Xiao Fengxian and waved it.
Cai Yi old things
After that day, it was rumored that Cai E's eldest wife felt that Cai E's such practices were out of order, so she sought them out to make trouble, but seeing that the dissuasion was fruitless, she took Cai E and Pan Huiying back to her hometown of Hunan.
As everyone knows, Liu Xiazhen and Cai Mu did not get angry when they left, and Pan Huiying did not go to Hunan, but took a step forward to reach Tianjin and wait for Cai Yi to meet.
All this is a good play arranged by Cai Yi for everyone to perform.
Everyone knows whether it is true or false, but Xiao Fengxian does not know it, she only knows what the lover in her heart has done for her alone.
Previously, Cai Yi had secretly conspired with Huang Xing to formulate a good combat countermeasure against Yuan, and now that his family was sent away, it was also a good time for Cai Yi to "get rid of the golden cicada".
On November 10, 1915, Cai Yi played the Long Night card with Liu Chengyu, Zhang Shaozeng and Ding Huai.
At 7 o'clock the next day, the weather was just dawn, Cai Yi came out of the side door of the horse number in a carriage and went straight into the Xinhua Gate, and the doorman was very surprised, thinking that he had been summoned by Yuan Shikai and did not stop him. The detectives who followed reached the Xinhua Gate and dispersed.
Cai Yi arrived at the president's office, and the staff said, "General, you came early. ”
Cai Yi said, "My watch is fast for two hours," so she called Xiao Fengxian and asked her to eat nearby at 12:30 in the afternoon.
With this excuse, Cai Yi got back on the carriage, waved his whip, and went straight to Tianjin, never to return.
Poor Xiao Fengxian arrived at the agreed place, and did not wait for Cai Yi, but waited for Yuan Shikai's interrogation.
What is even more pitiful is that the "love story" of Cai Yi and Xiao Fengxian in the "civilization drama" is just the imagination of everyone, but it makes ruthlessness sentimental.
Cai Yi and friends
After arriving in Tianjin, Cai Yi and Pan Huiying traveled to Japan and then returned to Yunnan from Vietnam to escape Yuan Shikai's pursuit.
However, when arriving in Yunnan, he accidentally found that Pan Huiying was pregnant, and it was inconvenient to follow Cai Yi on the road.
Since the two got married, it is not a last resort, the two have never been in and out together, and pan Huiying can only be left alone in her hometown in Yunnan to wait for childbirth and rest.
On December 25, 1915, Cai Yi led the crowd to set off a patriotic movement of "defending the country and seeking Yuan, defending the republic", and traveled all the way to Guizhou, Sichuan and other places.
During this period, Cai Yi's thoughts of Pan Huiying never stopped day and night.
In his spare time, Cai Yi took a pen to write a family letter and sent it to Pan Huiying, several in a row, but due to the wartime turmoil, he finally retained nine letters.
On the eve of the Expedition of the National Patriotic Army in 1915, some of the generals of the Patriotic Army took a group photo
At the beginning of each letter, there is a kind "Hui Yingxian sister".
At the end of each letter, there is a "waiting for a good sound" full of anticipation.
"Don't reminisce bitterly, think the same way." This is the first family letter, the first sentence written by Cai Yi.
From this letter onwards, Cai Yi wrote down his heart-to-heart love affair with Pan Huiying, and his rebellion against Yuan Shikai's perverse restoration of the imperial system and the tango bright sword.
and his responsibility for thinking about the fate of the country, defending and exploring the nascent republican system, and many other contents.
In a letter from the family, there is also the joy of the birth of the son of the two, Yongning.
"My sister gave birth to a male, mother and son. and other causes. Yu Sheng celebrates. ”
"Knowing that Yongning Er has been able to laugh and nourish the joy of the family, it is very prosperous, very prosperous."
"In the midst of the horsemen, they bitterly remembered the mother and son, and hoped to take a photo and send it to them as a blessing."
However, it also records the development process of Cai Yi's "throat disease".
"The larynx has been greatly cured" "The first laryngeal disease has not yet been cured".
"Within two weeks, the larynx worsened to the point of being unable to pronounce it, and every night, the throat itched and ached, followed by a heavy cough."
Cai Yi and the eldest son
Facing a great victory in the war, Cai Yi and Pan Huiying imagined the future in their home letters.
"Once the situation is slightly settled, it is better to withdraw from the forest springs, or to avoid the forest springs, or to travel overseas; for the purpose of curing the disease, it is better to be suitable for foreign countries." Does the virtuous sister also have the intention of accompanying her? ”
After receiving the family letter, Pan Huiying packed her bags and took her son Yongning to ride in a carriage rushing to the front of the Sichuan Army, bumping all the way, silently saying in her heart that "the family will never be separated again."
But what she did not expect was that Cai Yi had been tortured to the point of not being human due to throat cancer.
When he said goodbye, his figure was withered like a piece of firewood, and with a "wow" sound, Pan Huiying cried out and grabbed Cai Yi's hand, unwilling to let go for a long time.
Even if she finally fell into a dream because of the boat and car fatigue, she still grabbed Cai E's hand, and Cai E looked at her with affection for a long time.
In order to treat her illness, Pan Huiying accompanied Cai Yidong to Japan for medical treatment, during which she woven a strand of her husband's hair with herself, implying that they would spend their white heads together and never be separated.
I am afraid that at that time, Pan Huiying knew that this trip was the last battle between the husband and wife and their fate, but this hero who fought heroically on the battlefield was ultimately unable to withstand the invasion of disease.
On November 8, 1916, Cai Yi died. Unfortunately, he died young at the age of 34 and died in Fukuoka, Japan.
At the age of 21, Pan Huiying, who never lost her love, was widowed for 41 years in her life and never married again.
After the death of her husband, Pan Huiying returned to her hometown of Kunming with her daughter Cai Shulian and second son Cai Yongning.
Over and over again, I couldn't help but watch the "civilization drama" that was mixed, and Pan Huiying cried and laughed.
Laughing so much that every time I watch a play, it's like those days are repeated.
Her husband is still at her side, she is still looking forward to "escaping" from the capital, and after the revolution, the two have lived a life like a fairy.
Crying is those memories of the old events in the capital, which have never been too cruel.
It did not make the ending turn around because of any "drama repeat".
It was the early summer of 1951 when he re-entered Beijing, and at the invitation of Mr. Zhu, Pan Huiying's family returned to Beijing to settle down.
She came alone to the cotton alley where she once lived, faltering, but often visiting.
Just because I can't forget that person, that memory.