Zhou Peiyuan
For love, Zhou Peiyuan's motto is "grow old with your son, know each other for a lifetime, and never give up".
In the early 1930s, Zhou Peiyuan, who had just returned to China, came to Tsinghua to teach, and such a young and promising young man inevitably became the "returnee gangster" who many girls had a crush on.
However, Zhou Peiyuan did not seem to be interested in the good feelings thrown from time to time, and his friend Liu Xiaojin also advised him to quickly find a partner, after all, he was about to enter the year of establishment.
But Zhou Peiyuan was not moved, and still went to a friend's house on the weekend to play and rub rice.
Zhou Peiyuan's family
"You just have too high a vision." Liu Xiaojin often used this sentence to taunt him.
For Zhou Peiyuan's situation, Liu Xiaojin is still very clear, this friend only took three and a half years to obtain a doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, and immediately became a professor at Tsinghua University after returning to China.
It is also normal for a person who is so successful academically and professionally to have a higher vision of love.
Zhou Peiyuan was unmoved, but his friend seemed more and more anxious.
In the words of Liu Xiaojin, "Tsinghua is originally a man's world, you are a physics student, usually want to meet women it is more difficult."
Zhou Peiyuan and his family take a group photo
"Or shall I find you from a normal school?" Liu Xiaojin once tentatively proposed to Zhou Peiyuan.
It seems that he also felt that he had indeed reached the age of starting a family, and Zhou Peiyuan agreed.
So on a Sunday, Liu Xiaojin, who was old this month, stood in front of Zhou Peiyuan with a large number of photos of female students that he had collected.
Zhou Peiyuan is a Wuxi native, tall and tall, and the contour of his face is clearly distinguished, which is a good look.
In addition, he taught at Tsinghua University, with a monthly salary of three or five hundred silver yuan, plus a house.
Zhou Peiyuan when he was young
Liu Xiaojin knew very well in his heart that such good conditions as him were really not worthy of any girl.
Zhou Peiyuan looked at the photos from the side, looked left and right, and then pointed to one of them and said, "That's her." ”
"The vision is really quite high." Liu Xiaojin was secretly surprised.
The girls in this normal university are all very good, and you Zhou Peiyuan still have to pick out the best one, which is really self-confidence.
Zhou Peiyuan did not know who the girl in the photo was, he just felt that the girl was good.
But Liu Xiaojin knew that this girl was studying in the English Department of Normal University at the time, just 20 years old, and was recognized as a school flower, combining talent and beauty.
Liu Xiaojin told Zhou Peiyuan that the girl's name was Wang Tilian. Moreover, friends also reminded Zhou Peiyuan, "Chasing school flowers, but you will encounter love enemies."
Liu Xiaojin immediately arranged a meeting for the two, but his heart was also very worried, and he didn't know if Wang Tilian could see this "returnee" who was seven or eight years older than him.
Zhou Peiyuan and Qian Xuesen in their later years
The first time they met, Liu Xiaojin arranged for the dinner, and she also deliberately lined up the seats of Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Tilan.
People came, Zhou Peiyuan saw at a glance, the other party was slender, a just right melon face, slender willow eyebrows set off the facial features very three-dimensional.
I heard a friend say that Wang is from Jilin Province, but Zhou Peiyuan feels that she is like a southerner.
At the dinner table, the two people's hearts are like fawns bumping into each other, Zhou Peiyuan feels that the girl eats too little, he thoughtfully gives her vegetables, but he does not eat much.
Zhou Peiyuan in his youth
Zhou Peiyuan also thought that she was not interested in herself. In fact, Wang Tili is really not suitable for taste because of the dishes of the day, and for him as a person, Wang Tilian is still quite optimistic.
Seeing that Zhou Peiyuan was still busy, picking vegetables for herself, she laughed unconsciously.
With this smile on her face, Zhou Peiyuan himself blushed.
Wang Tilian did not hate his crampedness, but felt that Zhou Peiyuan was like a silly big boy.
Also, like Zhou Peiyuan, a scholar who won a doctorate in three years, he must have used it to study, and communication is especially in terms of dealing with girls, he is inexperienced.
Zhou Peiyuan in 1973
And this is exactly what Wang Tilian values.
At that time in Beiping, the three sects and nine streams of the gongzi brothers went more, but they were all embroidered pillow straw bags, and Zhou Peiyuan was definitely the elite of the elite.
Although this meal was eaten modestly, Wang Tilan's first impression of Zhou Peiyuan was very good, and Zhou Peiyuan only smiled when he faced Liu Xiaojin's questioning afterwards.
Liu Xiaojin knew at a glance that these two people had a play.
He let Zhou Peiyuan hit the iron while it was hot, you know, the suitor of the school flower is far more than him Zhou Peiyuan.
Zhou Peiyuan (third from right) and other tsinghua professors
So after that, Zhou Peiyuan often went to the Normal University to find Wang Tilan, one after another, the concierge aunt knew him, and every time he saw him from afar, he hurried to tell Wang that your "boyfriend" had come to you again.
Gradually, Zhou Peiyuan knew that in addition to himself, Chen Daisun and Ye Qisun, who was also a physics major, were also fiercely pursuing Wang Tiyun at that time.
The conditions of these two people are not worse than his Zhou Peiyuan, so it is not yet known whose family the flowers fell in the end.
However, the suitor is only one aspect, and the important thing is to see who Wang Tilan's heart is towards.
At that time, every time he went to see her, Zhou Peiyuan would carry some small gifts with him, and the girls in the same dormitory would sometimes "scramble".
In 1943, Qian Xuesen gathered at Zhou Peiyuan's house
Once he wanted to give her a handkerchief, but a group of people rushed to grab it, and the handkerchief did not fall to her hand.
Fortunately, Zhou Peiyuan was careful, he had already prepared, and the handkerchief bought a whole box, which made Wang Tilian feel considerate.
These small daily details, Wang Tiyun saw in his eyes and remembered them in his heart.
After more than a year of long-distance love, Wang Tilian finally agreed to Zhou Peiyuan's pursuit. Zhou Peiyuan whispered "I love you", turning into an inner throbbing that spread around the two of them.
In 1932, Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Tilan held a wedding ceremony in the presence of Mei Yiqi, the president of Tsinghua University, which attracted much attention in Tsinghua University, and countless teachers and students witnessed this scene.
Zhou Peiyuan and his wife's wedding photo
Some lovers eventually became dependents, and Zhou Peiyuan's single-minded love for Wang Tilan will continue for many years thereafter.
Things were uncertain, and just three years after marriage, Wang Tilian fell ill with tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis, as a serious infectious disease, did not have any specific drugs at that time. In order not to infect her husband and her two newborn daughters, Wang Tilan was sent by Zhou Peiyuan to Xiangshan in the western suburbs of Beijing for convalescence.
His wife was not around, and in addition to taking care of the daily life of the two young children, Zhou Peiyuan also took time out of his spare time to visit Wang Tilan.
At that time, from Tsinghua School to Xiangshan, there was only a dirt road without cars. Every Sunday, Zhou Peiyuan's bicycle prints are left on this dirt road.
Zhou Peiyuan and his wife
Every time he visited, Zhou Peiyuan was reluctant to leave, and this scene lasted for a whole year.
In this year, Zhou Peiyuan followed dozens of miles of mountain roads, going back and forth between his home and the nursing home, I don't know how many miles he traveled, fortunately, Wang Tilan recovered after a period of recuperation.
But soon, the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression forced Zhou Peiyuan to continue to run.
As a professor at Tsinghua University, Zhou Peiyuan retreated to Kunming, with his wife and children, and continued to teach at Southwest Union University.
Southwest United University Gate
In fact, before this, Zhou Peiyuan had the opportunity to stay in the United States.
After the start of World War II, the United States needed a large number of scientific and technological talents, so the U.S. Immigration Department issued an olive branch to Zhou Peiyuan, as long as he went to the United States, their family would soon be able to obtain permanent residency.
But Zhou Peiyuan did not respond, but retreated to Kunming with the teachers and students of Tsinghua University.
Under the intensive bombardment of the Japanese army, not to mention the teaching conditions, even a hot meal was sometimes not eaten.
Among the professors of the Southwest United University period were Zhou Peiyuan, Jin Yuelin, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng
Whenever Wang Tilian looked at the increasingly emaciated Zhou Peiyuan, he would secretly shed tears behind his back.
Without teaching materials, Zhou Peiyuan and his teachers made their own, and often prepared classes from night to late at night, even in such an environment, Zhou Peiyuan and his family often made fun of themselves.
Although Zhou Peiyuan is a scientist, he also has romance in his bones.
He once led a strong horse to Wang Tilan, and proudly told his wife: "This is my new car "Hualong", and I will not be afraid of being late for class in the future." ”
Zhou Peiyuan's Hualong Horse
It turned out that At that time, Zhou Peiyuan and his wife lived in a small village outside Kunming, where there was no road, no car, and even a bicycle could not be bought.
At the beginning, in order not to be late, Zhou Peiyuan got up every day before dawn and then walked to school.
After school, I had to walk back home, and during that time, Zhou Peiyuan could be said to be wearing stars and wearing the moon, and there was no sun at both ends.
It was in order to alleviate this situation that Zhou Peiyuan bought this horse, and from then on, he no longer had to worry about being late, and sending his daughter to school was also sent by horse, and then riding the horse to school.
Suddenly, colleagues and students in the school rushed to tell each other that Professor Zhou of the Physics Department had a horse with a breeze.
Since then, Zhou Peiyuan has had the title of "General of Zhou".
Zhou Peiyuan family portrait
In that harsh environment, the feelings of Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Tilian were even more precious. We did not abandon each other and walked through the most difficult years together. And couples who can share hardships and hardships, holding hands for a lifetime, will also be careful to treasure each other in their hearts.
Since then, Zhou Peiyuan and Wang Tilian have been teaching at Tsinghua University and Peking University for a long time, and the feelings of the two people are still as clean as new with the tempering of the years.
The new feelings of the day make young people understand that love is not just a simple sentence I love you, and the people who implement these three words throughout their lives are the real love into life.