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In 1979, Zhang Ailing, who was in the United States, received a letter from her aunt Zhang Maoyuan from Shanghai, and almost burst into tears after reading it.
My aunt, who is 78 years old, is finally going to marry her sweetheart!
She wrote a letter to ask for Zhang Ailing's opinion, and Zhang Ailing** has any opinions, only indescribable relief and sincere blessings.
My aunt got married for the first time at the age of 78, Zhang Ailing was not surprised, she smiled with tears in her eyes: I know that my aunt will get married one day, even at the age of eighty.
She is the aunt of ** female writer Zhang Ailing.
She is the granddaughter of Li Hongzhang, a heavy minister in the late Qing Dynasty.
Her name is Zhang Maoyuan, but she is not widely known.
Most of what people know about her comes from Zhang Ailing's works, or in other words, in Zhang Ailing's writings, you can sometimes see her maverick figure.
She is also considered to have a prominent family, noble birth, and talent, received a good education since childhood, and also crossed the ocean to study in the United Kingdom, but due to the loss of her father at an early age, her family was in the middle, forcing her to become a self-reliant professional woman, engaged in bank clerk, radio broadcaster, translator and other jobs.
She has a cold and noble personality that is different from ordinary women, and she is light and intelligent. Zhang Ailing often feels the dullness of her life in front of her.
Zhang Ailing wrote a "Aunt's Quotations", and when the aunt said it casually, it was a witty statement. For example: It's such a sad weather, and it's so weak, and a person is like a poem!”
Her aunt was the person who had the greatest influence on Zhang Ailing, and even directly led her to the road of writing. Zhang Ailing respects and loves this aunt, and she is also a mother and friend.
Zhang Ailing also witnessed her aunt's journey from the age of 23 to 78, which spanned half a century.
In 1925, Zhang Maoyuan went to England from Shanghai to study, accompanied by his sister-in-law, Zhang Ailing's mother Huang Yifan.
The first time my sister-in-law took an ocean steamer, the sea was windy and rough, and they were very uncomfortable and vomited.
A man with glasses and a gentleman's appearance, seeing this, took the initiative to run before and after, and took good care of them.
His name is Li Kaidi, a native of Minhang, Shanghai, and the son of a large family, who has just graduated from Nanyang College, which is now Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is preparing to go to the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom to study for a master's degree.
It was the first time he was taken care of by a strange man, and he was in good condition in all aspects, Zhang Maoyuan had a feeling of heartbeat. Li Kaidi also has a good impression of this girl with a tall figure and a unique temperament.
When they arrived in the UK, the two often met and talked about everything, in a state beyond friendship and unfulfilled lovers.
That year, she was 23 and he was 26. is not young anymore, I thought that I would soon become a couple with nature, but I didn't expect that the two would eventually be inseparable.
It is said that the reason was that when Li Kaidi learned that Zhang Maoyuan's grandfather was Li Hongzhang and his father was Zhang Peilun, he was not calm.
In Li Kaidi's cognition, Li Hongzhang signed a series of treaties on behalf of the Qing Dynasty to seek glory, and he was a sinner of the nation, Zhang Peilun led the troops to fight, but escaped from the battle, which is a despicable cowardly behavior, and I heard that his brother was a prodigal who played morphine, smoked a lot, and went to the kiln, and he was even more chilled.
Zhang Maoyuan's family background discouraged Li Kaidi. There is also another version that Li Kaidi has a marriage contract for a long time, so it is inconvenient for him to think otherwise.
Whatever the reason, the result was that the two did not develop further.
In September 1932, Li Kaidi married Xia Yuzhi, the daughter of a wealthy family in Shanghai, and held a wedding banquet at the Majestic Hotel. Next, he became close friends with Li Kaidi and his wife for most of his life.
She has always been such a person who can hide her true emotions very well.
Perhaps only the closest people around her can understand the thread of love that she has hidden deeply.
Li Kaidi once gave Zhang Maoyuan a piece of Xia Wei. Zhang Ailing wrote in "Aunt's Quotations", "She has sold many jewels in her hands, and only a pale red xia veil is still ......."Every once in a while, she would take it out and look at it, Bibi here, Bibi there, always trying to put it to some use, but she still put it away, and a jewel worn by a green silk thread, the chilblains were swollen to a certain extent, and there was such a light purple-red translucent ......
She didn't like the color, sighed, and said, "Looking at this piece of veil, it makes people feel that life is meaningless." But he was reluctant to throw it away, and still stored it at the bottom of the box. This is probably like her secret complex for Li Kaidi.
She went from green silk to gray hair, and finally waited for him
In 1965, Li Kaidi's wife Xia Yuzhi died of illness, and when she was dying, she opened her heart and told Zhang Maoyuan that she had actually known her feelings for Li Kaidi for a long time, but in the past few decades, the two have always been friends, never taking a step beyond Lei Chi, and when the Li family was living in the most difficult time, she helped out, especially when she was lingering on the sickbed, thanks to her dedicated care.
She held Zhang Maoyuan's hand, and her last wish was to hope that Zhang Maoyuan and Li Kaidi could get married.
After Xia Yuzhi left, Li Kaidi and Zhang Maoyuan did not start a family immediately, and they wasted another ten years. In those difficult years, the two accompanied each other, and finally kept the clouds open and saw the sun and the moon.
Zhang Maoyuan mustered up the courage to write to Li Kaidi: "It's not that I don't want to wait any longer, I'm afraid that time will no longer wait for me. ”
Li Kaidi replied: "Although I have gone far, my heart has never left. ”
In 1979, two elderly people held a simple and exquisite wedding in the Shanghai church.
78-year-old Zhang Maoyuan, after half a century of long waiting, from green silk to white hair, she finally put on a wedding dress for her beloved man.
This kind of brave and persistent treatment of feelings rather than indiscriminate, the pursuit of true love without fear of the passage of time, and the courage and persistence of fearless worldly eyes can be described as precious in this world.
Zhang Maoyuan and Li Kaidi lived a peaceful life after marriage, and the years were quiet. In the last few years of her companionship, Zhang Maoyuan had breast cancer, and Li Kaidi secretly looked for an expert ** from her.
Before the sickbed, he cared for Zhang Maoyuan and cared for her, trying his best to minimize her pain.
In 1991, Zhang Maoyuan passed away peacefully at the age of 91. In 1998, Li Kaidi passed away with a smile at the age of 100.
This ancient strange relationship that was persisted in love has since come to an end, but it has become a love story that has been passed down all over the world.