Cai Yi died in the arms of his wife, and the little phoenixyears appeared.
In 1915, Cai Ye and Tang Jiyao launched the "Patriotic War" in Yunnan. Soon, Yuan Shikai ** and Cai Ye became famous and were known as "Protector Generals". However, he found that his throat disease was worsening and decided to go out of Sichuan for treatment.
Before leaving Sichuan, he went to see his former lover **, describing him as weak as a ghost. After saying goodbye to **, he went to Shanghai first, but failed, so he went to Japan to seek a better **.
Before leaving, he asked his second wife, Pan Huiying, to come from Chengdu and accompany him to Japan. In the days of waiting for the operation, he and Pan Huiying looked at each other affectionately and expressed their love for each other.
However, Cai Yi, who was only 35 years old, passed away while waiting for surgery, leaving behind regrets and wishes for a thin burial. Although he was briefly gone, his spirit and deeds will always be remembered by posterity.
Cai Ng: A lifetime of talent, buried in a foreign country Cai Ng, a talented general, died of illness in a foreign country at the age of 35. Many years later, ** lamented his death and called him "a talent that no one can compare in the southwest".
There are many questions about his passing, such as the fate of his wife Xiao Fengxian, and whether his relationship with her is real? This issue will reveal the story of Cai Ye and three women in his life: the eldest lady Liu Xiazhen, the second lady Pan Huiying, and the legendary little phoenix.
Liu Xiazhen: A beautiful woman who married her sister Cai Yi's father is a small trader who picks up goods and is good friends with the Liu family of the wang family. The Liu family decided to marry their eldest daughter Liu Changgu to Cai Yi, but Liu Changgu refused.
Liu Senying married her sister, and Cai Ye was attracted by her chivalry and loyalty, so she was renamed Liu Xiazhen. Pan Huiying: The Second Lady of a New-Style Woman When Cai Yi was the governor of Yunnan, she met Pan Huiying, a new-style woman who had studied in a private school and attended a foreign school.
The two fell in love at first sight and soon got married. It can be seen from the affectionate family letters sent home by Cai Ye that he and Pan Huiying have a deep common language. Little Phoenix: An Important Person in His Legendary Life Little Phoenix, one of the most important women in Cai's life, was once his confidant, friend, and lover.
However, many people have been in doubt about her fate. It wasn't until 1998 that Xiao Fengxian's family appeared and revealed many unknown things. In this episode, we will reveal the stories of three women in Cai's life, all of whom have a strong connection with Cai, helping us better understand the life of this generation of famous generals.
If it weren't for that unexpected accident, Cai Ye and Xiao Fengxian might never have known each other. Cai Ye did not set foot in the land of fireworks until 1915, when he was transferred to Beijing by Yuan Shikai.
He mistakenly thought that Yuan Shikai, like him, cherished the ideal of revitalizing China. However, Yuan Shikai's real intention was to spy on and control him. Soon, Cai Ye discovered Yuan Shikai's ambitions and decided to secretly flee the capital and launch the "National Defense Movement".
However, he found that his side was already covered with Yuan Shikai's eyeliner, and he couldn't move easily. In this case, Cai Ye came up with a bold plan: he began to frequent the fireworks land of the Eight Great Hutongs to create the illusion that he was a gentleman's disciple in order to paralyze Yuan Shikai's vigilance.
In this way, he met Xiao Fengxian, the singer of Yunjiban. Although Xiao Fengxian has an unfortunate background, she is smart and capable, literate and singing, and has a sense of justice. The more they talked, the more speculative they became, and Cai Ye even told Xiao Fengxian about his plan and identity.
In the end, he begged Xiao Fengxian to help him escape from Beijing City and defeat Yuan Shikai together.
Cai Yi's words touched Xiao Fengxian. The mutual understanding of the two made her convinced and full of admiration for Cai Ye. She immediately agreed to his request. In order to express her gratitude to Xiao Fengxian, Cai Ye sent her a couplet: I don't believe that beauties will have a tragic fate, because chivalrous women always rise in the wind and dust.
A few days later, they held a drinking feast in Yunjiban. Xiao Fengxian played and sang to everyone as usual, and Cai Ye also drank as usual. Soon after, Cai Ye left under the pretext of leaving and then returned to Yunnan, and finally fulfilled his promise to Xiao Fengxian: to overthrow Yuan Shikai.
It is worth mentioning that when the news of Xiao Fengxian and Cai Yi spread in the capital, his two wives reacted differently. The eldest lady Liu Xiazhen obviously listened to the rumors and cried and smashed things at home, and Mrs. Cai didn't know how to persuade her.
And the second lady Pan Huiying is obviously more sensible, she didn't believe that her husband was that kind of person at first. Therefore, someone persuaded her to go to the capital to find Cai Ye and ask her face to face, but she was reluctant to go.
It wasn't until Cai Ye returned to Yunnan and told her everything that the two ladies were relieved. Xiao Fengxian has been waiting and looking forward to Cai Ye after he left. When she learned that Yuan Shikai had really fallen, she thought that her good days were finally coming.
However, just a few months later, she received a letter from Cai from Chengdu saying that he would go to Japan for medical treatment. It was only then that Xiao Fengxian knew that the news of Cai Yi's serious illness was true.
She had no money or ability to go to Japan to find Cai Ye, so she could only wait quietly in Beijing. Soon, she waited for an obituary, which plunged her into great despair.
In order to commemorate Cai Yi, Li Yuanhong agreed to everyone's request and held a grand state funeral for him. On the same day, celebrities from all walks of life attended, and Xiao Fengxian also went.
She wore a low-key blue coat, half-covered her face with a scarf, hurriedly bowed in front of Cai Yiling, and left silently after leaving two pairs of elegiac couplets. Her low-key behavior was discovered by Su Yun, a student of Beijing Normal University.
Su Yun knew Xiao Fengxian and saw her crying bitterly holding on to the railing on the side of the road, so she immediately stepped forward to help. Due to the busy affairs of the mourning hall, the two agreed to discuss in detail in Yunjiban the next day.
Su Yun's idea at that time was to gather the strength of her friends and find a way out for Xiao Fengxian. However, when she arrived at Yunjiban the next day, she saw only a letter from Little Phoenix.
The letter wrote: "The concubine and Cai Jun are not together in life, and they may be ...... in deathSu Yun deeply felt the tenacity of Xiao Fengxian, so she made the letter public. For a while, the people thought that Xiao Fengxian had passed away and expressed deep regret for her.
However, the reality is that Xiao Fengxian did not choose to die. She took the train to Tianjin, perhaps remembering that Cai Ye also went to Tianjin after escaping the banquet.
On the train, Little Phoenix's sleeping pills were prepared, but the bumps of the train caused the pills to spill all over the ground. She thought this was a hint that Cai Ye didn't want her to die, so she dispelled the idea of seeking death and disappeared for many years.
Some people may ask, did Xiao Fengxian have no other way out at that time? In fact, her situation is indeed very difficult. She couldn't go to Cai's house to live, and when Cai Ye was alive, Cai's mother sent someone to find her, hoping that she could live at home.
But Xiao Fengxian felt that her status was low and her culture was shallow, so she refused the invitation. Now that Cai Ye has passed away, it is obviously impossible for Xiao Fengxian to enter the Cai family again. Moreover, she may really not know how to face those two ladies of the Cai family!
Her life was not all smooth sailing, and the complexity of human nature often made it impossible for her to continue to stay in Yunjiban. After Cai Yi succeeded in courting Yuan, Xiaofengxian's reputation reached its peak for a time, and he was known as a "chivalrous prostitute".
However, after Cai Yi's death, some young people began to try to get involved with her, making her situation more and more difficult. Over time, the name "Little Impatiens" gradually disappeared into the dust of history.
However, in 1998, Xiao Fengxian's family suddenly appeared, and their appearance not only revealed the fact that Xiao Fengxian did not commit suicide, but also confirmed that she had been infatuated with Cai Ye all her life.
According to Xiao Fengxian's stepdaughter Li Guilan, her father once brought home a stepmother named Zhang Xifei, who was Xiao Fengxian. However, this news is not supported by sufficient evidence, and the only evidence is an oral certificate from Mei Lanfang.
Li Guilan recalled that in 1951, when the family was in financial difficulties, her stepmother asked Mei Lanfang for help. Mei Lanfang was about to go to North Korea to give a condolence performance, passing by Shenyang. The stepmother asked Li Guilan to help her go.
Although Li Guilan was not present at the time and didn't know what they said, she remembered that her stepmother came out with a sum of money in her hand, which solved the urgent needs of the whole family. Mei Lanfang later told her secretary Xu Jichuan about this, Mei Lanfang said that Xiao Fengxian had changed her name and surname, and she didn't want others to know her whereabouts, so he could only keep his mouth shut.
After Mr. Mei's death, Xu Jichuan recorded the incident based on his account during his lifetime. The appearance of the Li family not only confirmed that Xiao Fengxian did not commit suicide that year, but also solved the mystery of Xiao Fengxian's final death.
It turned out that in 1954, 54-year-old Xiao Fengxian suffered from a condition similar to cerebral thrombosis and died soon after. Regarding the legend that "Little Phoenix doesn't love Cai Yi", the descendants of the Li family have something to say.
They have seen their stepmother take out a ** countless times, in which is a heroic-looking general with a big epaulette on his shoulder. The stepmother loves to drink, so when she was drunk, she took out the ** and looked at it again and again.
They once asked her who the person in ** was, and she just smiled faintly: "This is a friend!" "My father obviously knew the identity of my stepmother, because he had worked as a boiler worker in Zhang Xueliang's Marshal Mansion in his early years, and Xiao Fengxian often went to Miss Zhao Si to sing songs.
Therefore, the father understands the infatuation of the stepmother. After her stepmother died of illness, her father deliberately put ** into her grave and asked her to take it with her. It's a pity that it has been 44 years since Xiao Fengxian passed away, and by 1998, the cemetery had already been developed, and the bones could not be found!
Epilogue: When it comes to Xiaofengxian, some people feel sorry for her, thinking that she only met Cai Yi in a hurry during her lifetime, and she failed to enter Cai's family after her death. Even, some people think that Cai Yi's true love is only the second lady, and he only has "use" of Xiaofengxian.
But maybe for Little Phoenix, all this really doesn't matter. The important thing is that the meeting in 1915 really illuminated and warmed her, didn't it?