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In the early morning of September 3, 1966, the humiliated Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu both hanged themselves in the "Swift Wind and Rain Building" at their residence at No. 5, Jiangsu Road, Shanghai.
After dawn, the maid Zhou Judi found the bodies of the couple and saw a thick quilt directly below the hanging corpse.
It turned out that the Fu Lei couple was worried that the sound of the stool being kicked down would disturb the sleeping neighbors, so they specially spread the only thick quilt in the family on the ground before committing suicide.
"What kind of realm does a person have to be able to calmly maintain his upbringing in the face of death?"
This is the nobility and decency that the Fu Lei couple will not change until their deaths.
In fact, the unchangeable upbringing of The Fu Lei couple until their deaths is not only that, they also wrote a thousand-word suicide note before they died, in which there was no resentment or indignation, but zhu Renxiu (Zhu Meifu's younger brother, Fu Lei's brother-in-law) to help 13 unfinished matters, including: leaving the couple's cremation fee fifty-three yuan and three dimes; paying the rent of fifty-five yuan and nine cents; the furniture handled by itself, the confiscation of precious calligraphy and paintings; the only inheritance is two watches and six hundred yuan deposit slips. All left to Zhou Judi, a maid who has taken care of the couple for many years...
The 13 wills are comprehensive and detailed, just so that after death, they will not involve others in the slightest.
When it comes to Fu Lei, in addition to the "Book of Fu Lei's Family", as well as his translation of the French masterpieces "The Tall Old Man", "Eugenie Grande", "John Christophe", "Colonel Shabby", "Human Comedy", etc., as well as his and Zhu Meifu's unswerving love to death.
For Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu, love is sacred, unique, eternal, there is no birth and separation, only death, so when they are cornered, they resolutely choose to die together.
In 1932, Fu Lei married Zhu Meifu, the only love of his life, and from then on, life and death followed him. Zhu Meifu is Fu Lei's cousin, the two are green plum bamboo horses, very affectionate, and have common hobbies and beliefs, after marriage have two sons, family happiness, life is happy.
Fu Lei, the word Nu'an, comes from Mencius: "King Wen was angry and peaceful the people of the world." Because of his "anger", he named it "Lei". Just as the so-called one-word proverb, Fu Lei, who grew up, was notoriously violent in the cultural circles of the Republic of China, and almost all the relatives and friends around him had seen his straight nature and violent temper, except for his wife Zhu Meifu, because she really deserved it.
Qian Zhongshu once praised Yang Dai for holding both positions, both as "the most virtuous wife" and "the most talented woman", while Yang Dai praised Zhu Meifu as a woman who held five positions: a gentle wife, a loving mother, a beautiful lady in the salon, a capable housewife, and the most competent secretary.
It is true that Zhu Meifu is a model of a perfect woman, she has received a new-style education, but also retains all the virtues of traditional Chinese women, she is beautiful and generous, gentle and considerate, knowledgeable and reasonable, and Fu Lei is complementary in personality and complementary in her career.
Moreover, she is beautiful but not self-proud, talented but not ostentatious, and all she wants is to teach her husband and children and live a plain life. Unfortunately, the sky did not go according to people's wishes, and in that turbulent era, even such a simple wish was difficult to achieve.
Therefore, when Fu Lei was humiliated, Zhu Meifu would never live, and they chose to die together—in the noblest and most dignified way.
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