In the main hall of Yuefei's old mansion in Tangyin, Henan, there is a statue of a young woman with plain clothes and plain face, sitting on the altar with the hero Yue Fei. This is a statue, which is Li Wa, the protagonist of this article.
It is said that Li Wa is Yue Fei’s second wife, and Li Wa was enshrined here because of her contributions to the Yue family.
Historical experts have verified that Yue Fei had four older brothers, all of whom died one after another. Yue Fei’s name is called Goro. The Yue family was a self-cultivating farmer with hundreds of acres of thin fields. Later, the people suffered from flooding and the people were not able to survive. The Yue family made a living by selling land and borrowing money.
Yue Fei married his wife Liu at the age of 16, and gave birth to Yue Yun in the second year and Yue Lei 7 years later. During this period, Yue Fei applied for the army twice. By the age of 24, Yue Fei had grown into a self-conscious patriotic fighter. He went to Xiangzhou (now Anyang, Henan), swung his army for the third time, and resolutely headed north for the Anti-Golden Front.
Historical data records, "The Liu family remarried twice, and Yue Yun and Yue Lei had to be raised by his grandmother Mrs. Yao." "Jing loyalty to the country-Yue Fei new biography" wrote: "After the fall of Yue Fei's hometown, there was a former fellow I came to look for Yue Fei, told his mother Yao and ex-wife Liu, and relayed Yao's repeated repetitions: "Speaking to me and encouraging the holy son, I can't think of the old woman. ”
Yue Fei resented Liu’s treachery. The miserable situation of Yao family, Yue Yun and Yue Lei made him restless and unwilling to eat. He sent people to Tangyin County, before and after 18 times, did his mother and two The son received his own military camp.
Song history expert Wang Zengyu said: "Yue Fei’s original wife is Liu family, Liu family Remarried after Yue Fei joined the army. Marry Lee.
According to the "Jin Tuo Genealogy" in "Yue Fei Chronicles" compiled by Qian Ruwen: "There is no Liu family, this should be a taboo for posterity. In the Song Dynasty, it was common for women to remarry. Forbidden. The remarriage of women, especially widows, is mainly a matter of Ming and Qing Dynasties."
Why do future generations "should a taboo"? Among them, it was for the sake of the young heroes Yue Yun and Yue Lei. After all, Liu was their birth mother and had to be merciful; however, the more important reason was probably that he could not bear to touch Yue Fei's emotional scars. Yue Fei had suffered enough wounds!
In historical data, the plot of Yue Fei marrying Li Wa is vague. It is estimated that it was during the two or three years of Emperor Gaozong’s Jianyan in Song Dynasty (1128-1129); Li Wa is said to be two years older than Yue Fei, and was already 28 at the time of marriage. Nine years old. At that time, the overall situation collapsed. After the Jin army captured Huizong and Qinzong, the Song court begged for peace, moved the capital from Kaifeng in the Central Plains to Jiangnan Jiankang (now Nanjing), and established the Southern Song Dynasty small imperial court in the southeast corner.
During this period, Yue Fei was forced to retreat in Taihang Mountain and Luoyang, Baoshui, Huazhou, Kaifeng, Taikang and other places, and was forced to withdraw southward, and finally retreated step by step from Beijing Daming Mansion to Nanjing Yingtian Mansion. During the war, where Yue Fei and Li Wa met, when they got married, whether Li Wa was a northerner or a southerner, and whether she was married before, it is impossible to verify.
However, all the details show that Li Wa is a good woman. She respects her mother-in-law and is gentle and filial. Mrs. Yao was sick all year round, she waited in the morning and dusk until the death of her mother-in-law. She caressed Yue Yun and Yue Lei brothers and treated them as her own. Li Wa arranged to marry Yue Yun and Gong, and Yue Lei and Wen.
In the past ten years of marriage, Li Wa has raised Yue Fei’s life and Yue Lin, Three sons and daughter Yue Anniang. Yue Fei went to the southern land of fish and rice, and his daily meals were still wheat noodles and vegetables. He wore linen clothes on weekdays and was called a commoner general. One day, Li Wa put on silk and silk clothes. Although it was not luxurious clothes, Yue Fei was not happy. "I heard that the concubines in the harem are in the north, and they are still too exhausted. If you are with me, you should not dress here." Li Wa must have been both red and red at the time. She bowed her head and smiled in shame, pulling up her clothes and hurried back to the house. . Since then, this woman has never enjoyed the silk satin.
In the last fall of Yue Fei's life, he has been dismissed from the position of military power officer, to the courtHe took leave and returned to his home in Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province) from Gaozong "walking in" Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). Full of sorrow and anger along the way, Qin Huizhi's comprehensive plan to frame Yue Jiajun has been approved by Gaozong, and he has heard the sword sharpening in the palace.
Yue Fei entered the city of Jiangzhou, and just saw a whitewashed wall of his private residence, and saw a group of children running out of the gate to welcome him. Yue Fei turned over and got off the horse. The children cheered and wrapped around his legs. Some were called daddy and some were called grandfather. The bloody wind was dissipated in the warm current of affection. This year, Yue Yun was 23 years old, Yue Lei was 16 years old, Yue Lin was 12 years old, Yue Zhen was 7 years old, Yue Ai was 3 years old, and there was a daughter, Yue Anniang.
At this time, Yue Yun daughter-in-law Gong has given birth to 3 children, eldest grandson Yuefu is 4 years old, eldest granddaughter Yue is 3 years old, second grandson Yue Shen is 1 year old; Yue Lei daughter-in-law, Wen's second granddaughter Yue Er The mother is also 2 years old, and his grandson Yue Jing is about to be born. In this well-organized family, the atmosphere of kindness and filial piety, harmony and serenity, gave Yue Fei the comfort he yearned for all his life.
Yue Fei and Li Wa have been married for 13 years. In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (1142), on December 29th, Yue Fei was "pulled to death" in the prison of Dali Temple in Lin'an. He was 39 years old.
At the same time, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were kidnapped to Lin'an downtown and executed. On that day, there was a bitter rain in Lin'an. Down to the three-footed child, Qin Hui was cursed.
The only jade ring that Yue Fei wore when he died was a token of Li Wa to him. The jailer of Dali Temple, Wei Shun, risked his death and carried Yue Fei's body, sneaked out of the Qiantang Gate, and was buried quietly in the foothills of Beishan Mountain. The mark in front of the grave is two orange trees, and the mark inside the grave is this bloody jade ring. Put it under the waist of the body, and accompany Yue Fei to sleep in the ground.
After Yue Fei and Yue Yun were embarrassed, their family members were exiled to Lingnan and Fujian. Li Wa took the remnants of the whole family, bid farewell to the undead, and embarked on a road of exile. In the remote place of poisonous worms, the widow and orphans of Li Wa's family endured the humiliation, and continued the life pulse of the Yue family.
Exactly 20 years later, Song Xiaozong succeeded to the throne and vindicated Yue Fei's unjust case. The court ceremoniously reburied the remains of Yue Fei and his son at Qixia Mountain in Hangzhou. The grey-haired Li Wa finally received an amnesty order.
At this time, Yue Lei has passed away with hatred, leaving his four sons and two daughters under the care of Yue Yun's wife, Gong. Most of the children and grandchildren of the Yue family survived. Sons Yue Lin, Yue Zhen, Yue Ai (renamed Yue Ting from Xiaozong) and grandsons Yuefu and Yue Shen, as well as An Niang’s husband, were later given supplementary official positions.
The contributory Li Wa lived in silence for more than ten years and died of illness in the second year of Xiaozong Chunxi (1175) at the age of 75. At this time, Yue Fei had been waiting for her underground for 33 years.
