She was born in 1900 in Baoshan County, Jiangsu Province, into a famous family, with the big name Xi Yue and the nickname Youyi. Yu Yu, Miyuya, the beautiful expectations of his parents, he did it, and his life was warm as jade. His father, Zhang Zuze, gave birth to eight sons and four daughters. She was eighth, the second daughter. Her second brother Zhang Junjie became friends with Liang Qichao when he was studying in Japan, and after returning to China, he held an important position and was a famous philosopher in modern Chinese history, and the fourth brother Zhang Jia'ao was a powerful faction in Shanghai's financial circles, but the famous and prestigious family only gave her a climbing branch, but did not bring him happiness and shade about love.
In 1912, with the help of the second brother and the fourth brother, she went to the Second Women's Normal College in Jiangsu Province, and three years later, at the age of 15, she obeyed the choice and arrangement of the fourth brother and married Xu Zhimo, the son of a talented jiangnan wealthy businessman. So she married to Zhejiang as a young grandmother. Her marriage is a rich marriage that many people dream of in modern times. However, his husband did not like her. In order to marry decently, the mother's family sent people to Europe to purchase a dowry, and the dowry was amazingly rich. There is so much furniture alone that it needs to be packed in a train box. Later, it was her sixth brother who arranged for the ship to be sent from Shanghai to Haining Jiaoshi.
And Xu Zhimo is just the son of Xu Shenru, the richest man in Zhejiang Jiaoshi, who wants to worship Liang Qichao as a teacher, and also has to match through the noble brother-in-law. But the great poet Xu Zhimo, who was a gentleman, saw Zhang Youyi's photo and ridiculed him as a rural native. This marriage is not so much "the good of Yucheng Qin and Jin" as it is an alliance of interests." After marriage, Xu Zhimo was cold to Zhang Youyi, even if he fulfilled his marital obligations, he only obeyed his parents' wishes to hold their grandchildren. In Xu Zhimo's eyes, she is neither "Lan Xin Hui, nor a variety of styles", but she can go down to the kitchen and cannot go to the hall, far from being the ideal partner in his heart.
In 1918, Zhang Youyi gave birth to her eldest son, Ah Huan (Xu Jikai), and Xide Guizi did not change Xu Zhimo's attitude towards her. Zhang Youyi has the obedience of traditional women, endless pay and sacrifice, bottomless tolerance and tolerance, filial piety and in-laws to serve her husband at home, hard work and resentment, even if this can not be exchanged for Xu Zhimo's positive treatment of her. After all, the exchange of benefits cannot be exchanged for true love. In this way, Xu Zhimo studied abroad.
In 1920, Xu Zhimo received a letter from his second uncle Zhang Junjie, and at the request of his second uncle, he reluctantly took Zhang Youyi to his side. However, even if Zhang Youyi arrived, he was the one who did not want to pick up the boat the most in the group. The two stayed in Shaston, about ten kilometers from Cambridge. But this place has become a place that Zhang Youyi will never forget in her life. She thought that Xu Zhimo was lusting after three wives and four concubines, but Xu Zhimo wanted a divorce. Growing old with another woman with a white head is not the feudal remnant that Zhang Youyi thought in her heart. Soon Zhang Youyi became pregnant again, and Xu Zhimo said with a black face that he wanted to beat up the child. She was extremely aggrieved. After that, Xu Zhimo asked for a divorce immediately, and in the face of his severed righteousness and expressionless face, her heart was like an ice cellar. I can bear to cut love and leave him. But the coming child is innocent, why his arrival is not greeted by a warm embrace, but by the abandonment of the biological father.
Xu Zhimo, who could not divorce him, walked away in a huff. Leaving Zhang Youyi alone, helpless, she could only write a letter to her second brother for help. With the help of the second brother, there was no fetal beating, and went to Paris, Zhang Youyi gave birth to the child in pain. Knowing Zhang Youyi's whereabouts, he still ignored it. It was only when she went through the divorce procedures that she found Berlin and forced her to sign the divorce agreement, and seeing that he was impatient, Zhang Youyi proposed to consult her parents. Xu Zhimo blurted out, no, no. Because Lin Hui was about to return to China, he had to leave now.
In 1922, he signed a divorce with Xu Zhimo in Berlin. There is nothing more cold in the world than this, and even if a person is talented, that is not a reason to hurt the innocent. Female poets of the Tang Dynasty said: From the highest to the brightest to the sun and the moon, the closest relatives to the estranged are husband and wife. When she signed the divorce agreement, she finally understood that the wronged marriage could not give her the happiness she wanted, except humiliation and ruthlessness.
After the divorce, Zhang Youyi traveled to Germany with a broken heart, she worked and studied while taking her children, learned fluent German, and entered the Pestaloch Institute of Education in Germany. At this time, Xu Zhimo was at the peak of his life, the publication of "Shima's Poems" moved the world, and Lin Huiyin accompanied Tagore who visited China and called the three friends of the cold, but unfortunately for Zhang Youyi, it came one after another. The youngest son, three years old, died of illness. At this time, Xu Zhimo was already fighting with Lu Xiaoman, the wife of a husband. Divorce and the loss of a son have become a lingering shadow of Zhang Youyi's life. In the darkest days of her life, she suddenly understood that everything in life was to rely on herself
In 1926, Zhang Youyi, who experienced the pain of losing her son, returned to China, and since then, her life has turned a new page. She began teaching German and became a professor of German at Hovon University. Soon her eighth brother and Xu Zhimo opened a clothing company, and Zhang Youyi was invited to become the general manager of the company. Originally just a pseudonym, she actually had an excellent businessman's thinking. This has greatly improved her business ability. The "dirt baozi" that was once in Xu Zhimo's eyes is now leading the fashion trend of Shanghai Beach. Then he became the president of the Shanghai Women's Commercial Bank, where she took up a low-key position, doing rigorous work, calm and composed, and constantly learning with an open mind. In a few years, she relied on her excellent financial risk management ability, coupled with the connections of the fourth brother, she made the women's bank profitable, and created a miracle of savings capital of more than two million yuan, a legend in the financial industry of the adult generation for a time.
At this time, after Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman got married, he was still worried about how to earn more money to satisfy the luxurious life of his wife Lu Xiaoman. Although Zhang Youyi divorced Xu Zhimo, she was still taking care of Xu Zhimo's parents. Even after Xu Zhimo's death, Zhang Youyi had to send money every month to help Lu Xiaoman, who was poor and sick. She did what she thought she should do for Xu Zhimo, his family, and his son. When Xu Zhimo was still alive, the old man helped him every month and provided him with three hundred yuan for living expenses. After Xu Zhimo's death, the old man still gave Lu Xiaoman three hundred yuan a month, because he felt that it was his responsibility to take care of her. He deposited the three hundred dollars directly into her bank account so that he would not have to see her. The old man lived for another thirteen years after Xu Zhimo's death, and in those years he lived with his former daughter-in-law Zhang Youyi, and helped Lu Xiaoman every month, even after Lu Xiaoman openly lived with his lover Weng Ruiwu.
Once Xu Zhimo came to Zhang Youyi to see his parents, Zhang Youyi looked at the skinny Xu Zhimo wearing worn-out clothes in front of him, and personally made him two sets of high-end clothes. This time, Xu Zhimo was full of emotions, and the Zhang Youyi in front of him was no longer what he used to be. In a letter to a friend, he wrote that Zhang Youyi was really a woman with ambition and courage. Over the years, a lot of progress has been made, and the pace of independence has become more and more stable.
A few years later, when Zhang Youyi recalled the unforgettable divorce, she was finally relieved. She said lightly that he wanted to thank Xu Zhimo for the divorce. If it weren't for divorce, I probably would never have been able to grow.
She divided her life into two parts, one before going to Germany and the other after going to Germany. She was afraid of everything before going to Germany, and she was not afraid of anything after going to Germany.
Some people say that they admire Zhang Youyi more than Lin Huiyin, who charms sentient beings. Playing a good hand in adversity can also maintain the original filial piety to Xu Zhimo's parents and take care of Lu Xiaoman for them.
At the age of 47, she went to Beijing to see her love enemy Lin Huiyin, who died of tuberculosis and wanted to meet Zhang Youyi. As for what reasons we want to see Zhang Youyi, we don't know. But for the sake of Lin Huiyin at that time, Xu Zhimo left her in a foreign country with a language barrier, and gave birth to a child and lived a very bleak life. But I did not expect that Zhang Youyi bottomed out after the divorce and became a strong woman in the business world at that time, a banker, and a female educator. What is even more surprising is that he is the longest living of Xu Zhimo's three women.
It may also be because of Xu Zhimo's ruthlessness that Zhang Youyi has achieved a sunny day in her career. Even Liang Shiqiu, who has always been mean, said that people who have seen Zhang Youyi are not disrespectful. So Lin Huiyin also wanted to see this amazing woman.