In 1943, when 34-year-old Guo Wanying was hospitalized with a difficult birth for her second child, her husband went on a date with his lover. However, after learning the news, she didn't cry or make trouble. Unexpectedly, after being discharged from the hospital, for the first time, she put on makeup, put on cheongsam and high heels, knocked on the door of her lover's room, and said a word with a smile, her husband was embarrassed!
In 1915, her father returned to China to invest, and 6-year-old Guo Wanying followed her parents from Sydney to Shanghai Tang. They lived in a flower garden house, and their father had a soft spot for gardening.
One day, my father pointed to a blooming rose and said, "Be like a rose, beautiful and sharp." ”
Guo Wanying nodded thoughtfully, taking her father's words to heart.
When she was 11 years old, her father sent her to study at the Chinese and Western Girls' School in Shanghai, where her education was eye-opening.
However, her father's words made her life fall into a twist and turn.
The father smiled and said, "Wanying, you are not too young, you should think about lifelong events, and I will help you take care of the candidates." ”
Guo Wanying refused, but her father insisted on persuading her to understand first, and in order to escape from her father's arrangement, Guo Wanying came to Yenching University to study psychology, hoping to find her own direction.
Here, she met the handsome and talented Wu Yuxiang. Wu Yuxiang is a descendant of Lin Zexu, and the two fell in love at first sight and soon fell in love.
In this way, the two entered into marriage hand in hand. Guo Wanying, who did not touch the spring water with her fingers after marriage, took the initiative to wash her hands and make soup after marriage, and the house was cleaned up in an orderly manner. Soon, she gave birth to a daughter, and the family of three was happy.
However, fate is always so tricky, just when Guo Wanying was pregnant with her second child and immersed in joy, a sudden change broke her happy life.
In 1943, Guo Wanying was hospitalized in childbirth, and when she needed someone to accompany her, her husband could not be by her side.
When her best friend comes to visit her, she inadvertently reveals that her husband has cheated on her. At first, she didn't believe it, until she saw the lipstick mark on her husband's shirt, and she woke up like a dream.
Guo Wanying's heart was dripping blood, but she didn't cry, she didn't cry, she didn't have hysteria every day, she only had an infant child in her eyes.
However, after being discharged from the hospital, she dressed herself up for the first time, pulled her best friend, and ran to her lover's residence. She knocked on her door and smiled at her husband and said, "Come home with me!" The husband was suddenly embarrassed.
After returning home, in the face of her husband's plea, Guo Wanying had mixed feelings in her heart, and finally chose to forgive. Because she knows that the child needs the warmth of the family, she doesn't want the child to be hurt.
At this time, she realized that her father's teachings, roses also have a edge. She had the answer in her heart, and she wanted to be strong.
For the sake of the child and herself, Guo Wanying decided to give it a shot. Together with her best friend, she opened a dress customization company, which quickly rose to prominence with her unique taste and business acumen.
However, the good times did not last long, the war broke out, her company went out of business, and Guo Wanying was in trouble again.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Guo Wanying's husband became addicted to gambling, which undoubtedly made matters worse.
At this time, Guo Wanying was trying to make ends meet. She works as a secretary for a company during the day and teaches English at night school at night.
With Guo Wanying's efforts, life has gradually improved. However, life was just on the right track, but fate once again played a joke with her, her husband died of illness, and what is even more hateful was that he left her with a debt of up to 140,000 yuan.
Faced with huge debts and the pressure of life, Guo Wanying looked at the two sensible children, gritted her teeth, did not escape, and did not complain.
Soon she opened a small fruit shop, and every morning, she would go to the market to pick fresh fruit; During the day, he stays in the store to entertain customers; In the evening, it is necessary to sort out the accounts and restock.
Even if life is difficult, Guo Wanying still cleans up exquisitely every day; In my spare time, I will make myself a cup of coffee and make afternoon tea to treat myself.
Someone asked her: "You are so tired every day, isn't it good to use time to rest?" What's the use of dressing up with all the effort? ”
She replied with a smile: "Work is for a better life, and dressing up for yourself." ”
Finally, under Guo Wanying's careful management, the business of the fruit shop is getting better and better, and most of the debts left by her husband have been repaid.
Due to her status, she was sent to work on the farm.
On the farm, Guo Wanying has to do heavy and dirty work with the men every day, eat coarse tea and light rice, and live in a simple thatched hut, but even in this environment, she has not changed at all.
She baked biscuits with wire, steamed pastries in a lunch box, and decorated the walls with her own hair, and the people around her were puzzled and asked her why, but this time, she laughed and said nothing.
A few years later, after Guo Wanying resumed her identity, she was soon transferred to the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics to teach English, and her life began to improve.
After retiring, Guo Wanying not only paid off all her debts, but also raised a pair of children.
In her later years, her children wanted to take her to live together in a foreign country, but Guo Wanying refused, she loved this hot land that nourished her even more, and lived a comfortable and comfortable life. She has never mentioned the grievances and sufferings she has suffered in the past to anyone.
In September 1998, Guo Wanying passed away peacefully at home at the age of 90, and her last wish was to donate her body to the medical school to make her last contribution to the motherland.
In the face of adversity in life, Guo Wanying used her tenacity and wisdom to write a legendary story.
In the face of her husband's betrayal, she chooses forgiveness and self-reliance; Faced with setbacks in her career, she chose to start over; In the face of life's difficulties, she chose optimism and refinement; In the face of death, she did not fear, but dedicated herself to the medical cause of her motherland.
Guo Wanying has spent her life interpreting what it means to be elegant and calm, and what it means to be a true nobleman.