In Ye Yonglie's study, there was a picture of a young girl hanging on the wall, with bright eyes, a moving charm, a rounded face, a little baby fat, two dark twisted braids, and a bow with a lattice on the left and right sides.
Once in his later years, Ye Yonglie's friends visited his home, saw the photos of the study, and their eyes showed some surprise, and they turned to Ye Yonglie and smiled and said, "Old Ye, your daughter's photos are really beautiful!" ”
Hearing this, Ye Yonglie squinted his eyes and smiled, pointed to the photo on the wall and said triumphantly: "This is not my daughter, this is what Huifen looked like when she was young!" ”
As soon as the words fell out, Ye Yonglie's wife, Yang Huifen, walked in with the cut fruit and greeted the guests warmly.
In his later years, Ye Yonglie
Ye Yonglie took the heavy fruit plate from his wife's hand, and his mouth did not forget to "count down": "Didn't you say, even if you go to rest, why do you have to be busy, is it difficult for me to take care of my guests?" ”
Yang Huifen greeted the guests warmly, and did not forget to turn back to retort to her husband: "You still know to take care of the guests, this has been in the house for such a long time, and I don't see you pouring a glass of water!" ”
Ye Yonglie listened to his wife's complaints, did not get angry, but looked happy and hehehe, and said embarrassedly to the guests: "Let you see the smile." ”
The friend looked at the couple's "mouth", felt interesting, and there was some envy in his eyes, saying: "Your relationship with your wife is really good!" ”
"Then of course, we have been together for so many years, how can it be bad!"
Ye Yonglie and his wife walked on the road
Ye Yonglie took his wife's hand, and there was a little tenderness in his eyes.
In the middle of the summer of 1962, when Ye Yonglie first met Yang Huifen, he fell in love with this bright-eyed and good-looking girl.
At that time, she was just like the pictures on the wall, so young and beautiful.
Ye Yonglie was 22 years old that year, and after the school summer vacation, he returned home from Peking University.
Although the family economy is very depressed, the family is crowded in a small snail house of 10 square meters. But for Ye Yonglie, there was no place that made him feel more at ease than here.
But on this day, he rushed home, and before he could catch his breath and drink his saliva, he was pulled by his cousin to meet someone.
Ye Yonglie was confused, but he saw his cousin's face mysteriously say, "Go meet a girl!" ”
Ye Yonglie
Ye Yonglie was a little stunned, and then he remembered that in the previous family letter, he said that he wanted to introduce himself to a blind date, Ye Yonglie blushed a little, he pulled his cousin, and he didn't say a word for half a day.
The cousin was in a hurry, and before he could finish speaking, she pushed him into the house.
It was in this hut that Ye Yonglie met his lifelong partner, Yang Huifen.
At that time, Yang Huifen was sitting at the table, wearing a neat floral cloth shirt, blue trousers, a pair of bright eyes, laughing like a crescent moon, especially good-looking.
Yang Huifen raised her eyes and carefully looked at the youth on the other side, with a pair of black-rimmed glasses on the wide forehead bridge of her square face, and her knowledge was very profound.
When he was young, Ye Yonglie took a photo with his wife
But when it came to communication, Yang Huifen found that the youth in front of her was shy, easy-going, and did not have the usual coldness of ordinary intellectuals.
After a simple greeting, they chatted about the sky, and after communication, Yang Huifen knew that Ye Yonglie was still a very famous writer.
At that time, the well-known book "100,000 Whys" was created by Ye Yonglie.
Yang Huifen smiled and said to Ye Yonglie, "When I was teaching at the school, I also recommended it to students!" I didn't expect that the great author was sitting in front of me now. ”
Ye Yonglie touched the back of his head in embarrassment and said humbly that he would only write something.
But when she heard Yang Huifen say that she was teaching at the school, she asked doubtfully, "Are you already a teacher in school at such a young age?" ”
Ye Yonglie and his wife were huddled in a small room
This question seems to make Yang Huifen a little sad, her father used to work as an official in the Republic of China government, and later was slandered and imprisoned, because of her birth, she did not have access to the university campus after graduating from high school, and could only go to a middle school as a Russian teacher.
Ye Yonglie looked at Yang Huifen, who was depressed, and opened his mouth to comfort: "In fact, we can also be regarded as the same disease." ”
The Ye family was originally rich and wealthy, but later because Ye Yonglie's father and brother were successively beaten as rightists, the family fell into the middle of the road. However, it is more fortunate that Ye Yonglie was admitted to the university before the "change of day".
After this meeting, the two began to exchange frequent letters.
Once Ye Yonglie also sent Yang Huifen a copy of his own book "100,000 Whys", which made Yang Huifen very happy.
Later, under the joint efforts of the two families, in 1963, after Ye Yonglie graduated from university, he and Yang Huifen married on August 25.
The wedding of the two was extremely simple, the wedding room was less than 6 square meters, and only a mosquito net and two quilts were added.
Even so, Yang Huifen also felt sweet in her heart, married to the person she loved, and felt sweet as a mouthful of soup and water.
But the only thing that made Yang Huifen feel sad was that within a few days of the new marriage, Ye Yonglie would report to the Shanghai Institute of Electricity and Instrumentation.
Suddenly parted, and it was a newlywed Yan'er, and it was inevitable that he would not give up.
But Yang Huifen thought that when the school was winter vacation, she could go to Shanghai to reunite with her husband, and she could also write more letters to send to her to talk about lovesickness.
It's just that such a few days of gathering less and leaving more are not a long-term solution after all.
Even Yang Huifen's mother advised: "Husband and wife can only live together, which is called husband and wife." ”
A year later, Yang Huifen resolutely resigned from the "iron rice bowl" and ran to Shanghai to live a "Lu Drift" life with her husband.
But this decision also made the couple pay a big price.
Because Yang Huifen first arrived in Shanghai, she could not find a job and had no economic income. Therefore, Ye Yonglie, who was already living a tight life, had to save money and diet to cover his wife's expenses.
During that time, Yang Huifen, who had nothing to do, wholeheartedly took care of her husband's living life, and assisted him in creating articles and earning some writing fees to maintain his life.
Finally, half a year later, the two saved some money and bought a small house of 12 square meters in Shanghai, with only a table and chairs and a quilt.
Buying a house costs both of their savings, leaving them with no extra money to buy a bed.
In the evening, the two laid a thin layer of mats on the floor and spent the night together.
Ye Yonglie taught children chemistry experiments
Although it was uncomfortable to fall asleep on the cold, damp floor, the two were finally able to get together.
Ye Yonglie looked at his wife's quiet sleeping face, and secretly decided in his heart that he wanted to earn some more money, so that she would not suffer like this.
Finally, after all the hardships, Yang Huifen's household registration and work problems have been solved one after another, and after the husband and wife have a stable economic income, their lives are naturally not as tight as before.
However, the good times did not last long, and they were once again hit mercilessly, and they could not avoid difficulties in that turbulent decade.
"100,000 Whys" was beaten into a big poisonous weed, and their snail house in Shanghai was turned upside down, and the manuscripts, photos, letters were scattered all over the room, and many of them were taken away.
Ye Yonglie won the award
Later, Ye Yonglie was sent to the "May Seventh Cadre School" in Shanghai to work. Working day and night gave him no time to touch the writing he loved.
It was hard to improve my life slightly, and I was beaten back to the starting point.
During that time, the burden of life was all on Yang Huifen, not only to take care of children and the elderly, wash and cook, but also to work and earn money to support the family.
Ye Yonglie felt very guilty, but Yang Huifen shook her husband's hand and comforted: "It doesn't matter, if you insist on it, everything will be fine." ”
In 1970, Ye Yonglie ended his labor reform at the "May Seventh Cadre School" and returned to the urban area. At this time, their second son was also born.
Although life is difficult, the two are at ease and can always find a lot of happy things.
Unable to afford snacks, yang Huifen stirred the remaining flour and sugar together, cut into thin slices, and fried them in a frying pan.
Then when it is cold, you can eat it directly, and the two children like this novel snack very much, and often pestering Yang Huifen to make more.
Every New Year's Festival, Ye Yonglie returned home from work early and wrapped rice dumplings with his wife, making mooncakes and steamed rice cakes. Although it is not as delicate as the one bought outside, the taste is not bad.
Ye Yonglie and his wife
Once, Yang Huifen wore a beautiful dress to work, colleagues saw that they were amazed, and they all went up to ask Yang Huifen where to buy clothes of such a style and color?
Yang Huifen explained with a smile: "This is my old clothes, and when I wear them for a long time, I am a little gray, because Yonglie University is majoring in chemistry, so I wanted to play my specialty, bought paint to re-dye my clothes, and looked like new." ”
A colleague quipped, "Huifen, you go back and ask Yong Lie if you can help us, the color of this dress is really beautiful." ”
After Ye Yonglie learned of this matter, he gladly agreed.
Anyone who comes to him for help dyeing clothes will design styles and styles according to each other's preferences.
In addition, in order to save money, Ye Yonglie also re-enlarged the clothes that the children could not wear, into a new dress, and when his craftsmanship gradually became exquisite, Ye Yonglie thought of making a new dress for his wife.
Every time he came home from work, Ye Yonglie would stop by the window of the clothing store to learn and imitate the aesthetic design of those beautiful clothes.
Back at home, he tried to cut and cut himself, and finally, a month later, he managed to make a pleated skirt.
In his later years, Ye Yonglie and his wife traveled
Yang Huifen wore a pleated skirt made by her husband to work, which attracted the envy and admiration of many colleagues, and Yang Huifen was naturally very happy in her heart.
In addition to being able to make clothes, Ye Yonglie also plays the role of a "universal repairman" at home.
Once something in the family is broken, it is rarely taken out to ask someone to repair it, as long as Ye Yonglie is out of the horse, he will definitely be able to handle it.
The most interesting one was the story about repairing the flush toilet, that morning, Yang Huifen found that the toilet in the bathroom was inexplicably blocked, and quickly ran to the study to call Ye Yonglie, who was working.
Ye Yonglie used the rubber lei to beat for half a day, and it was not repaired, so he called the repairman.
After the repairman inspected, he said somewhat helplessly: "This problem is a bit difficult to deal with, you need to break this porcelain toilet, and then replace it with a new one." ”
Yang Huifen complained with a sad face: "If this is the case, we must wait until the cement of the new toilet is dry before it can be used normally." And it's not a small expense. ”
After sending the repairman away, Ye Yonglie stood next to the flush toilet and pondered the problem, and after a while, he found that the plastic soap box lid that had been placed on the flush toilet tank was missing.
After searching every corner of the bathroom without success, Ye Yonglie guessed that his wife had accidentally left the lid of the soap box in the toilet, which caused the blockage.
Ye Yonglie and Yang Huifen in their youth
Soon, Ye Yonglie thought of a way, he let his wife burn a large pot of hot water, pot by pot into the toilet, and then pressed a few times with the rubber lei, and before long, the sewer was unblocked.
Seeing that this method really worked, Yang Huifen was very surprised, so she was busy asking her husband why.
Ye Yonglie did not sell Guanzi, and directly told his wife that it was because the soap box was made of polyethylene plastic, which would become soft in case of heat, and when the hot water was hot, and then the rubber lei was used to apply pressure, it would drain the sewer.
From then on, once the things in the home failed, they would be handed over to Ye Yonglie to deal with, and the vacuum cleaner's suction tube cracked for a long time, install a recording device for the phone, repair the remote control, etc., all of which were covered by Ye Yonglie.
Ye Yonglie's book "PHS Travels Around the Future"
Finally, under the management of the two, the living conditions of the family slowly became more favorable, and in 1977, Ye Yonglie's book "Chemistry and Agriculture" was successfully published, and he received a 320 yuan manuscript fee from the People's Publishing House.
At that time, this was a huge amount of money, and when Ye Yonglie went to the bank to withdraw money, it also caused quite a stir.
The first thing Ye Yonglie did when he got the manuscript fee was to buy a new school bag for his two sons, and a new set of clothes for his wife, and the rest of the money was all kept by his wife.
Then, Ye Yonglie's "PHS Traveling Around the Future" was a great success, and was unanimously praised by readers, and three million copies were printed at once, becoming a super bestseller, and also won the first prize of the National Children's Literary and Artistic Creation.
In June 1979, the Shanghai Municipal Government specially allocated them a new house with more than 40 square meters and two bedrooms and one living room. This greatly improved their living conditions and also provided a better environment for Ye Yonglie's literary creation.
On their twentieth anniversary, Ye Yonglie wrote a poem to his wife, Yang Huifen, "Long Look And Know.".
"Looks good, don't doubt each other. You believe in me, I believe in you. Looks good, don't doubt. Hand in hand, seek the truth. Looks good, don't doubt. Common whitehead, always the same. ”
After many poor couples have gone through the wind and rain and finally survived, it is inevitable that some men will slowly change their minds and be attracted by the glitz of the outside world.
But this kind of thing did not appear in Ye Yonglie from beginning to end, he had only loved Yang Huifen in his life, and he was very grateful to Yang Huifen for his support and care for him for so many years.
Ye Yonglie also often showed off to his friends that a large part of the reason why he was able to achieve such an achievement today was due to his marriage to a virtuous wife.
She was always able to handle the affairs of the family in an orderly manner, so that he could safely devote his energy to literary creation.
In his later years, Ye Yonglie and his wife
However, the long-term case still caused a lot of damage to Ye Yonglie's body.
One day in 1991, when Ye Yonglie was working at home, he suddenly felt that his eyes were dark and he couldn't see anything.
Ye Yonglie stood up from the chair in a panic, and one accidentally knocked the teacup on the table down and smashed it on the ground, and the sound of the porcelain piece breaking was very clear, alarming Yang Huifen, who was busy outside the house.
Immediately, she heard Ye Yonglie's panicked cries coming from the room, so she hurried inside to check on the situation.
After knowing that her husband's eyes could not see clearly, Yang Huifen immediately took him to the hospital to see a doctor, and finally learned that it was due to long-term excessive use of the eyes, resulting in retinal detachment and the need for an operation.
But the most unbearable thing for Ye Yonglie was that the doctor required him not to read books, newspapers, and write for a month.
It was hard to endure for a month, but the effect of the operation was not ideal, after removing the gauze of the eye, Ye Yonglie's left eye was still dark.
The doctor persuaded Ye Yonglie that for the sake of these eyes, it was best to change jobs.
But after Ye Yonglie listened, he was extremely excited and said firmly to the doctor: "Can't change!" ”
Ye Yonglie and his wife work on one computer
Later, for his own literary creation, Ye Yonglie began to learn to type, using typing instead of handwriting, and the computer can put the words very large, this writing method reduces the burden on the eyes, and typing will no longer be as tiring as handwriting.
Therefore, in the following decade, Ye Yonglie created more "fiercely", publishing several bestsellers in succession, writing a total of 35 million words.
In this process, Yang Huifen has always accompanied Ye Yonglie and consistently supported him.
It's just that Yang Huifen looks at her husband so tired, and she also has reluctance in her heart, but she can't be persuaded, she can only take care of Ye Yonglie's dietary life, and often proofread and sort out his manuscripts to reduce his work pressure.
In 2008, Ye Yonglie's physical condition became somewhat worse, and even a kidney tumor was found, and before he could do surgery, his condition suddenly deteriorated into kidney cancer.
Yang Huifen was sad in her heart and often stole tears.
Ye Yonglie sighed, patted his wife's shoulder, and said comfortingly: "It's okay, man, one day it will go, it's nothing more than sooner or later, I just can't trust you..."
Ye Yonglie's voice was also a little choked up, and he lowered his head, not wanting his wife to see his sadness.
Even if he knew that his body was going downhill, Ye Yonglie still insisted on working hard, lest he be afraid that he would not be able to create his own literary inspiration before his life would end.
On May 15, 2020, Ye Yonglie's condition worsened and he was sent to Shanghai Changhai Hospital, in the last moments of his life, Yang Huifen was always by his side, Ye Yonglie looked at his wife with red eyes at the head of the bed, and smiled with some difficulty.
He hoped that after he was gone, his wife could live a good life, not immersed in sadness, and not too sad.
This life and her ups and downs, he has never regretted, if there is an afterlife in life, he hopes to meet her.
He could feel the passage of life in his body, and even the scene in front of him gradually dimmed, and at the last glance, he looked at the white wall of the hospital behind his wife and his wife, which was empty.
When his consciousness finally dissipated, his heart was a little empty, and he thought of the study at home, the picture hanging.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to take another look.