"I want to watch the rain in the hut, watch the ants on the side of the rockery, watch the butterflies fall in love, watch the spiders knotted, watch the water, watch the boat, look at the clouds, watch the waterfall, watch Song Qing sleep sweetly." ——Zhu Shenghao
In the turbulent Shanghai of 1942, Zhu Shenghao, a 30-year-old translator, married 31-year-old Song Qingru in the presence of relatives and friends. At that time, Xia Chengtao, a member of the word sect, proposed eight words for this "elderly" couple - a talented and beautiful person, ChaiMi and his wife. The first four words are the identity of the couple, and the last four words are their lives.
Nowadays, Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru know these two names, and fewer and fewer people know them, but in the former Republic of China Shanghai, this pair of Bi people have lived out the most beautiful appearance of love.
Now more and more young people are beginning to doubt love, but if you have carefully read the lives of Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru, you may have a different view of love.
True love is the right encounter, regardless of wealth or poverty, regardless of distance, regardless of identity; true love is to let all the standards disappear, so that all talents and beautiful people will eventually return to Chaimi and his wife.
I'm actually very cold, it's just that you're different
At Zhijiang University in 1932, Zhu Shenghao, who was already a senior, met Song Qingru, a freshman, for the first time.
At that time, Zhu Shenghao, with the clever pen in his hand, used his talent to crown the entire Zhijiang University, and was highly praised by Xia Chengtao, the president of the Zhijiang Poetry Society at that time.
"Reading Zhu Shenghao's Tang Dynasty poets' short treatises on seven, many of the previous people's unsentified theories, refreshing and profitable. Ingenuity, among Yu's teachers and friends, should not be regarded as a student. His man was only twenty years old this year, and he was as silent as a virgin, and he did not say a word easily. I have heard English very deeply, and Zhijiang has been running schools for decades, and I am afraid that there is no such hard talent. ”
The five words of Yuan Moruo as a virgin outline Zhu Shenghao's character. Zhu Shenghao, who was born in the Shangjia family, was young and well-off, but when he was 10 years old, his mother died, and when he was 12 years old, his father also died in a hurry, and the sudden changes in the family made Zhu Shenghao become silent and taciturn, and for a long time, no one had ever entered his heart.
I have heard such a saying: There has never been a person in this world who is cold, but he is not warm to you. Before Song Qingru appeared, Zhu Shenghao was the loner pen on the Zhijiang campus, writing only Old Tang Rhymes and only translating Shakespeare plays.
And the appearance of Song Qingru made Zhu Shenghao suddenly become more talkative, and this person who said that he did not speak for more than a hundred days a year told all the sweet nonsense to the people he liked.
I am Song Qingru as a supremeist
No matter how hard the heart, the woman who meets the beloved will fall apart; the poet who has been nourished by love will bloom with dazzling poetry.
Zhu Shenghao, who does not like to talk, seems to have spent more than twenty years of his life to accumulate love words, he has been waiting in silence for the appearance of Song Qingru, and when Song Qingru appeared, those love letters that had been lingering in the abdomen for a long time gushed out and sprinkled.
In 1933, Zhu Shenghao graduated, and under the introduction of his teacher, he got a job as an English editor in the World Book Company. The couple has just fallen in love, they have to fall into the dilemma of long-distance love, in that era of no WeChat, no video, they use the average speed of a letter in two or three days to convey each other's hearts.
More than 540 love letters have allowed everyone in future generations to witness Zhu Shenghao's writing, and also let the world remember this little man who is always scratching his heart in front of his beloved.
If you turn over every love letter from Zhu Shenghao, you will be flushed with love like a fountain between the lines. The taciturn Zhu Shenghao gave Song Qingru all his affection.
"Don't worry about getting old, you must be very old." And if you're ten years old, of course I'm ten years old, ten years old, ten years old, everything. "If the two of us were dreaming together in the rain, how would the mood be different?" Or insomnia in the rain together, that's how delicious. "If there were only two of us in the world, I would have bullied you so hard that I couldn't cry." "I'm willing to give up everything to miss you for the rest of my life." "We are all superfluous people in the world, but at least we are the most important people in the world for each other."
There are more than 540 love letters that make people laugh so far, and behind each love letter is a stupid man who is anxiously waiting for his lover to respond.
Some people say that to love a person is to make the whole world recognize him; Zhu Shenghao told everyone that loving a person is that he will become my whole world, and has nothing to do with idle people and so on.
You are not allowed to call me Mr. Zhu, and hereby warn me
Someone once asked: How to judge whether you have found a good match for life? A: See if you are in front of him, always be true yourself.
Song Qingru was like Zhu Shenghao in front of him, not silent, on the contrary, he was very noisy, very wordy, and even a little naïve.
Zhu Shenghao's Song Qingru has many titles, such as: Song, Qingru, Good Man, Baby, Song Er, Friend, Cheng, Little Sister, Little Relative, Silly Girl, Our Qingru, Angel, Empress Majesty, Lover and so on. In each nickname, there is a unique warmth and tenderness of Zhu Shenghao.
And Zhu Shenghao's self also has a kaleidoscopic synonym, such as: ants under your feet, ugly ducklings, rats, bull devil kings, sad Paul and so on. In each nickname, there is Zhu Shenghao's ambition to meet Song Qingru into the clouds.
Psychologically speaking: a man is essentially a child and often wants to play the role of a child. A man who truly loves you, in addition to using all his strength to protect you, will also show you all his childishness.
Zhu Shenghao in front of Song Qingru is a meaty ghost who longs for his wife to say love every day, a childish ghost who throws himself into a hug if he does not obey, and a child who wants to be accompanied all the time and does not hesitate to seduce with chocolate.
Beautiful love is to make people mature instantly, but at the same time retain childish rights, you can have such a person, let you in front of him without scruples, become a fool.
All the talents and beauties eventually became a chaimi couple
Writer Liang Shiqiu said: Love is not marriage, but those who use love to live in marriage have no failure. But Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru used their lives to tell Liang Shiqiu: A real husband and wife is to make love the norm of marriage.
On May 1, 1942, Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru finally ended a ten-year long love run, during which they experienced many disasters such as war and chaos, displacement, and loss of translations.
It was a simple wedding to the extreme, Zhu Shenghao, who focused on translating Shakespeare's manuscripts, had always been poor, and Song Qingru, who was born in a large family, was already ready to fall in love in distress.
Talented and beautiful, Chaimi couple. Xia Chengtao's eight-character gift has also become the daily routine of Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru after marriage.
Until many years after Zhu Shenghao's death, when someone asked about the details of his life with Zhu Shenghao, the dying Song Qingru only said six words lightly: "He translates sha, I cook rice." ”
The fireworks in the world are the warmest, and the person who is still by his side when he is poor, who does not abandon him, and who loves each other as before, is the most right person in this life.
For Zhu Shenghao, there are only two major events in life: translating Shakespeare's plays, and loving Song Qingru. Song Qingru, who was well aware of Zhu Shenghao's wishes, also sacrificed herself for the sake of the two people's small family and became a housewife.
Zhu Shenghao is responsible for "closing the house and abandoning foreign affairs" and devoting himself to his beloved Shakespeare classics, while Song Qingru is responsible for "fireworks in the world and handling housework", fully supporting her husband's translation career.
The best love in this world may not be evenly matched, but for each other's sake and fulfillment.
There is a kind of marriage that calls one person out of the life of two people
On December 26, 1944, Zhu Shenghao, who had been ill for a long time, said goodbye to Song Qingru and his son, who had just turned one year old, and died at the age of 32.
The grief-stricken Song Qingru looked at his son, who was not yet an adult, and the unfinished manuscript left by Zhu Shenghao, finally decided to dispel the idea of going to Huangquan together, and changed from a housewife to a corrector of Zhu Shenghao's manuscript.
It is precisely because of Song Qingru's persistence that Zhu Shenghao's 31 1.8 million-word manuscripts have the opportunity to be published, and it is precisely because of Song Qingru's persistence that Zhu Shenghao has left such a strong mark in the history of literature.
In the following decades, time flies and the situation is turbulent, and Song Qingru alone guards his memories with Zhu Shenghao, quietly growing old with time.
In 1977, the 67-year-old Song Qingru returned to his hometown in Jiaxing, where things were still there, yellowed photos, old furniture, mottled old walls, and all the memories of himself and Zhu Shenghao, all of which were like falling leaves. All those things related to Zhu Shenghao are like a stove in the cold winter, warming this woman who is obsessed with loneliness.
With Song Qingru's talent and appearance, it is not difficult to find another good match, but I think that Song Qingru is the only one in the world for Zhu Shenghao; Zhu Shenghao is also unparalleled in the world for Song Qingru. No matter how good the rest of the people are, they are not Zhu Shenghao.
On June 27, 1997, the 86-year-old Song Qingru died of a heart attack, and his son Zhu Shanggang obeyed Song Qingru's will and scattered her ashes in the South Lake (Mandarin Duck Lake), because Zhu Shenghao had a dream that year.
In the dream, Song Qingru has been married to himself for many years, and the two are talking about cool nights.
Zhu Shenghao said: I hope that we will become a pair of ghosts, wandering by the edge of the forest and the water every night, because the night is always much quieter and more lovely than the day.
I wish everything was a dream, and then I woke up and felt that I loved you very much.