In today's society, with the development of the economy and the improvement of people's living standards, children who "can't afford to go to school" are becoming increasingly rare.
However, in the 1950s and 1960s, the economy was far from being as developed as it is today. In an era when food and clothing are difficult to satisfy, if children lack education, it seems to have become a kind of "common".
As for ordinary schooling, studying abroad is even more difficult for the poor to reach. Even children from "prominent families" have to "retreat".
and Yang Zhenning brother-in-law Du Zhiren is also a "young master" from a wealthy family. But he had no money to study because he passed the Harvard , and he was disappointed. He had no choice but to take sleeping pills in his rental house...
Maybe many friends don't understand. His brother-in-law is the famous physicist Yang Zhenning, looking for his own Isn’t it okay to have a sponsorship from my brother-in-law? And is Yang Zhenning, who seems gentle and well-educated, really so cold-blooded?
What unknown stories are there in this...
Yang Zhenning's "Only Love"
Yang Zhenning once described his encounter with his wife Du Zhili : If I arrive early or late, I will I missed the opportunity to meet with the gift, but fortunately I was lucky!
This sentence makes people sigh that the combination of Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili is so just right and so enviable. And a pure science and engineering physicist can be so romantic and literary when expressing that he meets his beloved wife.
Du Zhili is a "beautiful princess" from a famous family. He has a dignified appearance and versatile talent, and has been well studied in literature, art, sculpture, music and other fields.
or even Soong Mei-ling and her husband love her very much. Later, Du Zhili went to study at Wesleyan College, which was arranged by Soong Mei-ling.
As the process of growing up, it was not without the opposite sex who expressed their likes and pursuits to Du Zhili, but Du Zhili, who has a good identity, will not be bothered by those emotional matters, but instead focuses on academic and literary research.
From acquaintance to acquaintance, the two seem to have always implied a wonderful fate.
First, after Yang Zhenning obtained the qualification to study in the United States for public expenses, while waiting for the procedures to go abroad to go abroad, he came to Du Zhili to substitute classes at Southwest Associated University Affiliated University Affiliated University to earn extra money. He met Du Zhili, who was still in middle school, who was still in the middle school.
Then when the two were studying in the United States again, Princeton's only Chinese restaurant met again. The meeting of talented men and beautiful women in foreign lands can always cause an unparalleled surge of friendship.
The two left contact information with each other. After many exchanges, they finally started this beautiful love.
However, Du Zhili was no longer a wealthy family and her family was in decline, which was very meaningful at this time as "Princess in trouble" . The already fragile heart gradually opened under the careful care of Yang Zhenning, and the relationship between the two also heated up rapidly.
In August 1950, Yang Zhenning and Du Zhili completed their wedding in Princeton. In this way, a literary professional woman with a literary life started with a rational and rigid physicist.
The two mentioned their relationship and marriage, and they were full of sweetness and warmth.
At this time, it was a critical stage of Yang Zhenning's physics research. However, Du Zhili did not complain. Instead, he managed his family in an orderly manner and devoted himself to Yang Zhenning's "the woman behind" .
Du Zhili's literary and romance adds charm and interest to Yang Zhenning's life, and Yang Zhenning's rigor and meticulousness also make Du Zhili feel down-to-earth and secure.
Such a fairy couple has received blessings from many relatives and friends, and the two of them also enjoyed it, which is very happy.
Why didn’t Yang Zhenning fund his brother-in-law?
As mentioned above, Du Zhili was no longer a wealthy family, but a "income princess" whose family was in trouble. And the reason behind this is naturally related to Du Zhili's father Du Yuming .
Du Zhili's father is the famous General Du Yuming. However, in Huaihai Battle , Du Yuming was captured due to defeat and rumored to have been executed.
As his father was captured, the Du family also declined from then on. From the crowded Du family, which has become deserted, old friends no longer interact and gradually no longer exist.
At the beginning, the tuition subsidy will be given to the children of the "martyrs" and will barely support the children of the Du family to go to school. Later, completely letting go, the tuition fees for the Du family's children to study abroad naturally became a big problem.
Du Zhili's brother Du Zhiren received an offer from Harvard University at this moment, but he was helplessly facing the danger of not having money to study.
Harvard study costs at least tens of thousands of yuan, which was a total astronomical figure in the 1950s and 1960s. Du Zhiren thought of giving up, but his family encouraged him to continue studying, so Du Zhiren chose to borrow money from the bank.
Although the days of working part-time study are hard, they are also rewarding. However, when he was in his junior year, Du Zhiren's bank loan was suddenly interrupted. At this time, Du Zhiren was not only carrying huge loans, but also facing the risk of not being able to continue his studies.
The desperate Du Zhiren wrote a letter to his brother-in-law Yang Zhenning for help, but , but his brother-in-law did not choose to lend a helping hand. My brother-in-law said that he could help him pay back the money in the future and asked him to find a way to borrow it from another place.
In the end, Du Zhiren, who was completely disappointed, was unable to resist such a blow and took a lot of sleeping pills in the rental house, ending his young life. It was not until my sister Du Zhililai had dinner at my younger brother's house that I found my younger brother's body...
The lifelong regret of Yang Zhenning and his wife
Many years later, this matter was still talked about by people with "ulterior motives". It seemed that Yang Zhenning was a very cold-blooded person who refused to save him. Seeing his brother-in-law being desperate but indifferent.
But in fact, Yang Zhenning did not achieve considerable achievements in research at that time, and had just settled in the United States, and was still under pressure from financially such as a large amount of mortgage loans, and he could not afford to pay extra money to support his brother-in-law. .
Yang Zhenning has never been a cold-blooded person. Later, he mentioned this matter many times in public, and both of them showed great regret and heartache.
Recalling that time, Yang Zhenning once publicly stated: All this is really a pity. At that time, he also had his own difficulties and was forced to help...
. Ironically, in the second year after his brother-in-law committed suicide, Yang Zhenning made a major breakthrough in his research and won the Nobel Prize in in one fell swoop.
Many people sighed from the perspective of "God" that if Du Zhiren could hold on for another year, would his life be as limitless as his brother-in-law... Outsiders would even sigh so much, let alone what Yang Zhenning and his wife would think.
Poor Du Zhiren chose to end his life at the age of 22. This is not only a great regret in his life, but also an eternal pain in the hearts of Yang Zhenning and his wife!
