70-year-old Huang Huilan, wearing a coarse printed cheongsam, stepped onto the podium step by step, looking at the audience below, telling her life story and feelings with eloquence, when she mentioned herself and her ex-husband Gu Weijun During 's marriage, tears shed from the corners of his eyes.
"There is no lasting feast" is an autobiography written by Huang Huilan in his later years, and it seems to be a summary of his 39-year marriage with Gu Weijun.
Cymbidium
Encountered but hard to know
In 1920, the 27-year-old Cymbidium was traveling with his mother in Italy.
Huang Huilan, tired from shopping, returned to her private apartment early. As soon as she walked in, she spread out on the sofa. At this time, the phone rang.
She turned over, picked up the phone, and her sister Huang Conglan’s harsh voice rang in her ears: "Sister, I recently met a young diplomat who is very interested in you. Would you like to get to know you? ?."
She put the phone aside impatiently, turned upstairs and entered her bedroom, letting the phone ring Ullah.
At this time, Huang Huilan’s mother, who just came out of the room, heard the voice from her elder daughter’s phone: “This man is different from the ones I introduced to you before. He was in Shandong at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The question publicly requested the restoration of China's jurisdiction over Shandong, the young Chinese diplomat Gu Weijun. No one in the country does not know his name. This time, I have a banquet for the Chinese diplomatic delegation to come to our house. Unexpectedly, he saw your photo on the piano and asked to meet you. If you are interested, come back quickly."
Gu Weijun
Huang Huilan’s mother thoughtfully,Picking up the phone: "We will go back tomorrow."
hung up the phone, Huang Huilan's mother went into her daughter's room and took out the suitcase: "My child, pack it up, I've booked a ticket to return to Java tomorrow."
Huang Huilan turned her head and said, "I went to see the new person introduced by my sister? Since I was 20 years old, my sister has introduced more than ten so-called'quality young men' to me. Which one is really good? It’s either a bad appearance or bad dressing taste. Apart from having a company and an industry at home, there is nothing else to do. Our family is not short of money."
Huang Huilan's mother looked at her and said categorically; "He is an excellent man." The young diplomat of China.”
’s mother knows that although the Huang family is rich in the enemy’s country, she is not her own. She only has two daughters, Huang Conglan and Huang Huilan. Although Huang Zhonghan loved the daughter of Cymbidium most, she failed to give birth to a son. The husband took another 18 concubine rooms one after another, and there were more than forty children under his knees. He didn't know how long Huang Zhonghan's love for his daughter would last, and what he should do. Finding a powerful husband-in-law for your daughter is undoubtedly the best choice.
Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun
Under the persuasion and arrangement of mother and sister, Huang Huilan and Gu Weijun met at home.
That day, after she was freshening up, he caught a glimpse of a young man sitting downstairs. In his early thirties, he looks handsome, but there is nothing special about it.
At the urging of his mother, he went downstairs and greeted Gu Weijun
"Hello, I am Cymbidium cymbidium."
"Hello Miss Huang,This is Gu Weijun, and it would be presumptuous to come here suddenly. "He bent down to apologize.
Then he said: "I happened to see the photo that day, and I thought Ms. Huang was beautiful and good-looking. When I saw it today, it was even more amazing for Gu.
Although Gu Weijun behaved gracefully, it did not change her mind. He can neither sing nor dance. It would be boring to marry him.
Huang Huilan briefly talked with him After a few sentences, he said: "It's not early today. Tomorrow I have an appointment with a friend to go for an outing in Fontainebleau. I have to rest early today and I also look forward to Mr. Gu Haihan.
After hearing this, Gu Weijun felt that the opportunity had come, so he tentatively said, "I wonder if I have the honor to accompany the beautiful lady." "
Seeing her mother's face, Huang Huilan reluctantly agreed.
Gu Weijun then said in fluent French: "Tomorrow, I will drive to pick you up."
The next day, Gu Weijun had been waiting at Huang's house for a long time. When he saw Huang Huilan walking to the door in an exquisite dress, he bent down and made a gesture of asking: "Please, Miss Huang.
Huang Huilan, who didn't care about it, suddenly showed a surprised expression on her face the moment she saw the license plate, but she quickly calmed herself down. Her noble status did not allow her to react like this.
subconsciously lifted the top hat on her head and sat in the car very elegantly.
It was a car with a license plate specially provided by the French government for diplomatic privileges.It means that he can enjoy a completely different special treatment from ordinary people.
Gu Weijun and Victor Buulvo Litton
For Huang Huilan, such a privilege cannot be bought no matter how much wealth his father has.
The change in expression at this moment was caught by the careful Gu Weijun. He thought to himself that she liked this.
Since then, Gu Weijun has chosen what he likes and launched a more fierce pursuit.
He talked about how he publicly demanded the restoration of China's legal rights at the Paris Peace Conference, how he talked with the prime ministers and royal families of various countries, and brought her into many places where privileges can be demonstrated.
Huang Huilan never thought that there is such a rich world besides her rich and luxurious life. Gu Weijun seemed to open the door to her new world.
Huang Huilan was deeply attracted by the man in front of her.
Cymbidium
After a long time together, the two gradually got acquainted and the relationship became closer.
One day, Gu Weijun invited Huang Huilan to listen to the opera. He enjoyed the state box and special treatment. He suddenly said, "My two children need mothers."
Huang Huilan twisted Turning his head to look at him: "You mean you want to marry me?"
Gu Weijun nodded solemnly.
back home,She told her family exactly what had happened, and her mother and sister agreed. But the father strongly objected: "He has married two wives and has two children. I will never allow my daughter to be someone else's concubine."
Huang Huilan patiently explained to her father: "His first wife was appointed by his parents, and he had no affection with that woman. He did not want to be bound by an arranged feudal marriage, and soon ended the marriage. The second wife died of flu, leaving two people behind. A child, he also feels guilty and painful for this."
However, Huang Zhonghan of his daughter had to agree to the marriage.
Take the marriage you need
On the wedding day, at the Brussels Embassy, many political officials were invited to participate. When Huang Huilan walked out of the car in a hand-made high-end dress, the surrounding guests cast envy on her Huang Huilan's gaze greatly satisfied Huang Huilan's vanity for power.
Due to the busy schedule of their husbands, they had to embark on the train to Geneva on the wedding day.
On the train, she changed into a dress, specially matched with jewelry, walked out of the box, and asked Gu Weijun: "What do you think of my outfit?" His official document.
Huang Huilan Fashion Magazine
Although he often ignored Huang Huilan's dressing and matching, he praised his wife's diplomatic skills.
Gradually, Gu Weijun began to take his wife to participate in some diplomatic activities.
After marriage, Cymbidium is never stingy in spending money on her husband.She bought jewellery accessories on a large scale, and prepared high-end customized suits and leather shoes for her husband, which made Gu Weijun stand out.
Once, when he and her husband were on a mission to England, they saw that the Chinese Embassy was dilapidated, so they paid for the renovation and reconstruction of the Chinese Embassy in Portland Square.
She often said: "The Chinese embassy represents the image of the country. We participate in diplomatic activities to represent the country. Our image and talks directly affect the impression of the diplomatic ambassador of China."
Huang Huilan Participating in additional activities with Gu Weijun
When Gu Weijun was talking with the diplomatic ambassador, she listened silently. When appropriate, she would express her opinions in a fluent foreign language, which won unanimous praise.
Gradually, Huang Huilan was familiar with such diplomatic occasions, and later participated in Buckingham Palace for the first post-war palace ball, shaking hands with the British ambassador and king, and attending the inauguration of Truman_pspan
sp Foreigners praised it as " Far East's most beautiful pearl".Gu Weijun, who originally enjoyed a certain reputation in the world, was quickly promoted because of the blessing of his wife like Huang Huilan.
Huang Huilan has also been immersed in the title of the diplomat's wife, enjoying the aura of overseas diplomatic privileges and treatment privileges all day long and enjoys it.
Even the "first lady of the Republic of China" Soong Ching Ling praised the two for being talented and beautiful, a match made in heaven.
My daughter is gone,A paper farewell
Gu Weijun was appointed to work in China due to the war of resistance, and Huang Huilan returned to China with her four children.
She saw the humble Gu's house in front of her, and she was very dissatisfied. How could the ambassador's wife live in such a dilapidated place.
pretended to spend a lot of money to buy a mansion in Beijing Hutong .
Soon the news spread in Beijing.
Gu Weijun, who was working at the unit at this time, overheard the surrounding colleagues whispering: “I heard that Mr. Gu’s wife spent a lot of money to buy the former residence of Chen Yuanyuan as a mansion. It’s really rich. Your wife wears it every day. Gold and silver are expensive at first glance. It’s good to marry the daughter of a nouveau riche. Whatever you want."
Middle-aged Cymbidium
Gu Weijun felt that these words were harsh, so he put it down. Work, returned home in despair.
Huang Huilan saw her husband come home early, and was overjoyed: "I just bought a mansion with pavilions and pavilions. Even the rockery is vivid. You can move in in two days. By the way, you. This second-hand car is too old and the cushion is not comfortable. I just bought you a new version of Rolls-Royce . Would you like to try it?"
Gu Weijun said coldly: "Return the car, I don't need it. Also, I can only wear the jewelry I bought you when I go out."
Huang Huilan is very confused about her husband's words: "Why,Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to sit in a different car? The wives of diplomats from other countries tried their best to dress themselves in the grand banquet. Why should I put my jewelry aside? If I really did it, wouldn't it make them think that China is an economically backward country that can be exploited and occupied arbitrarily. "
Gu Weijun was speechless when she heard this.
In the days to come, Huang Huilan still dressed herself as she pleased every day, and she would not hesitate to buy the jewelry she likes. What's wrong with holding your own money to dress yourself up and make your husband decent?
Seeing his wife still does not change the old style of spending money, Gu Weijun gradually began to talk to his wife.
spanHuang Huilan accompanied Gu Weijun to the diplomatic banquet. At the end of the banquet everyone invited Mrs. Gu to say a few words.
Huang Huilan's speech won the house full of applause, but when she stepped down to ask her husband about her performance, Gu Weijun said coldly: "You should go to Hyde Park on Sunday, then bring yourself a soap box and stand on it. "After that, he turned and walked away.
Huang Huilan was even more angry that Gu Weijun ignored her.
At the one-day banquet, a foreign gentleman had a very happy conversation with her. After the banquet, he offered hope Gu Weijun readily agreed. In the car, the foreign gentleman was sitting between the two of them, and from time to time he moved with Huang Huilan, but Gu Weijun turned a deaf ear and bowed his head to organize his files.
after returning home,Huang Huilan couldn't bear it, and rushed into the room in a rage, picked up a cup of hot tea and splashed it on Gu Weijun's head. The friend on the side was dumbfounded, but Gu Weijun continued to play cards without changing his face.
After 1956, the two began to live apart for two years.
She has never understood how her husband’s attitude has changed so much.
Gradually, she can always hear from the crowd about how she is at odds with her husband, Gu Weijun and Yan Youyun scandal.
It turns out that there is only one reason behind all boredom-empathy.
Gu Weijun in his later years
She remembered that one of Gu Weijun's subordinates, Yang Guangyun, died in the line of duty, leaving a widow with Yan Youyun.
She has always believed that her husband frequently enters and exits Yan Youyun's apartment, just as a leader to care for and condolences to the family members, but she does not know that the two have long been secretly in love.
Huang Huilan doesn't even believe that this forty-year-old woman with simple clothes and three children will be the object of her husband's empathy.
Yan Youyun
Soon, she thought of a way to deal with it. She asked the Song sisters to transfer Yan Youyun to Nanjing, so that the two of them would not see each other for a long time, and they gradually broke up.
What she didn't expect was that Gu Weijun took Yan Youyun's family to New York, and often used to visit old friends as an excuse to meet with them.
In despair,She took the initiative to file a divorce with Gu Weijun.
39 years of evenly matched marriages only ended up with a farewell.
Huang Huilan, Gu Weijun and her son
In her bleak old age, with a dog as a companion
After breaking with her husband, Huang Huilan continued to live alone in Manhattan.
Compared to Gu Weijun, who was accompanied by Yan Youyun to spend his old age, Huang Huilan's later years seemed a bit lonely.
She often met neighbors who walked their dogs out, so she also learned to raise one. She often touched it and said to herself: "From now on, only you will be with me."
Every time she sees news about her ex-husband and Yan Youyun in the newspaper, she often throws the newspaper angrily next to. She is the genuine Mrs. Gu, and Yan Youyun is just a fake.
The good times didn't last long. In just half a year, Huang's real estate and company were constantly forcibly occupied by the Japanese because of the war.
received a call from home one day: "Father passed away, and the property of Huang's family was robbed by his aunt." All looted.
In desperation, the Cymbidium cymbidium, who is nearly 70 years old, began a arduous and plain old life. She quit all her servants, sold her apartment, cherished cheongsam and diamond jewelry, leaving only the dog that had been with her for many years.
relying on the money left from selling jewelry,Huang's life can be maintained, but it is not a long-term solution after all, but proudly she is reluctant to turn to her children and ex-husband for help anyway.
She tried various ways to make money, but in her seventies, she couldn't lift her hands and bend her waist, so she had to give up on the methods of making money by physical strength and thinking about the methods of making money by brain.
Finally, she thought of speaking.
Huang Huilan is proficient in six languages and travels all over the world in her life. All she sees and hears can be written into a book, and she can share her life story with everyone to earn a living.
"There is no lasting banquet"
Since then, she has embarked on the life of running around and speaking. When she wore a simple dress and walked onto the podium, the audience burst into applause, the beauty of the past The face had already left, but her eyes were full of confidence and determination.
After the speech, a British reporter interviewed her: "Ms. Huang, what do you think is the coldest Chinese idiom?"
"There is no unending banquet."
This is also the title of Huang Huilan's autobiography in her later years, in which she tells her life, including her marriage with Gu Weijun.
The year 1993 was the 100th birthday of Cymbidium spp.
On her birthday, she seemed to have a foreboding and sorted out her own things.
posted on the wall photos of visiting countries with Gu Weijun,Looking at the wall full of photos, it disappeared for a long time.
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