On July 26, 1966, Li Zongren and Hu Yousong officially registered for marriage in Beijing . Their wedding was held in Li Zongren's residence. It was not large in scale, quite low-key, but full of thoughts. Li Zongren specially invited the famous chef from Beijing Xinqiao Hotel and invited several tables of close friends. The wedding was held "simple and enthusiastic".
However, Li Zongren's remarriage this time is only four months after his second wife, Guo Dejie, passed away. The festive wedding ceremony made Guo Dejie’s death more and more sad. She was pitiful that she pursued fame all her life, and even made a big fuss in the mourning hall. She didn’t dare to treat cancer. She used her life to win her husband’s love for her, but she only received a tragic ending that was worse than the original wife and the lower one was worse than the new love.
How did Guo Dejie fall into such a dilemma step by step? Perhaps her ending was already destined from the beginning when she broke into the marriage between Li Zongren and his original wife Li Xiuwen as a "third person".
The love between Li Zongren and the school beauty
1923, Guangxi was in a situation of warlord separatism. In order to break this situation, Sun Yat-sen appointed Huang Shao-hung as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Guangxi Anti-Bandit Army."
From then on, Huang Shaohong's troops held high the banner of "anti-thieves army". On the other hand, Li Zongren also had the ambition to unify Guangxi, under the banner of "Dinggui Army". The two goals were the same, and they hit it off and were ready to join forces to compete with veteran warlords such as Shen Hongying and Lu Rongting and , who had been entrenched in Guangxi for many years.
At that time, Li Zongren occupied the five genera of Yulin , while Huang Shaohong occupied the Wuzhou . There was a distance between the two, and it was inconvenient to cooperate with each other. In order to improve this situation, Li Zongren took a fancy to the county town of Guiping, which has extremely developed water and land transportation, and moved his Dinggui Army headquarters to Guiping.
After Li Zongren arrived in Guiping County, arranged Guo Fenggang to be the director of Xunzhou Water Police Department to help him manage related affairs in Guiping County. Why does Li Zongren value Guo Fenggang? Because the two of them have a good relationship, they once studied at Guilin Army Primary School together and had a friendship with classmates.
After graduating from Guilin Lujun Primary School, although they studied separately, after going around, they both worked under Lu Rongting, so they continued their friendship back then. When Lu Rongting was defeated for the first time, Guo Fenggang chose to run away with Lu Rongting, while Li Zongren chose to be independent and autonomous, and the two separated again.
When Lu Rongting made a comeback and planned to make a comeback, he had the idea of letting Li Zongren return to the team and lead his troops to join him. Lu Rongting then sent Guo Fenggang, who had been acquainted with Li Zongren, as a lobbyist, which helped the two meet.
As a result, Li Zongren had great ambitions and did not intend to surrender to Lu Rongting. Guo Fenggang also intends to do something big with Li Zongren, so took the opportunity to stay in Li Zongren's and worked under his command from then on. After Li Zongren moved to Guiping, Guo Fenggang also followed him here and was reused.
Guo Fenggang is Li Zongren's old friend and has a relatively good understanding of Li Zongren's personal situation. When Li Zongren moved to Guiping, he had already gotten married and had children. His original wife was Li Xiuwen and his son was Li Youlin , both of whom lived in Shanghai. Li Xiuwen originally had the idea of taking her son to Guiping with her, but in the end she gave up because she was worried about affecting Li Youlin's education.
Guo Fenggang and Li Zongren are old friends. Seeing that Li Zongren came to Guiping alone, there was not even a person to take care of him, he planned to help find a woman for Li Zongren.
Firstly, under the historical context at that time, it was common for marrying three wives and four concubines as Li Zongren. It was normal to marry another wife in different places according to the normal wife system; secondly, Guo Fenggang was originally from Guiping, so it was natural to be an official in his hometown this time, so it was not difficult to help find a woman.
So, when Guo Fenggang expressed this intention to Li Zongren, Li Zongren readily agreed. Soon, with Guo Fenggang's intentional arrangement, Guo Yuexian, a school beauty in Guiping County who was still studying, appeared in front of Li Zongren without any chance.
The first time Li Zongren met Guo Yuexian was when he "telled" at Guiping Women's Normal School. When Li Zongren met Guo Yuexian for the first time, he was deeply attracted by her beautiful appearance and the youthful vitality emitted from her body.
Guo Yuexian's father is Guo Liu. He relies on running a civil engineering business and has a wealth of wealth. Guo Yuexian was born to the second wife of Guo Liu. Although he had no worries about food and drink, his status was always inferior to that of Guo Liu's two sons born to his original wife. At this time, if Guo Yuexian could get Li Zongren's compassion, he would have climbed a high branch and flew up the branch and turned into a phoenix.
However, Guo Yuexian is not a fox-sty woman, but a girl with a bright heart, and is quite knowledgeable. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1923, Guo Fenggang planned a symposium and invited representatives from all walks of life in Guiping. Guo Yuexian attended the symposium in school uniform as a student representative.
During the meeting, Guo Yuexian got the opportunity to speak. The graceful 18-year-old girl stood up and talked about the military forces in Guangxi. Her praise was made. Guilin Shen Hongying, Nanning Lu Rongting, and even Li Zongren and Huang Shaohong were all in her high-profile discussions.
Li Zongren had originally had an intention to Guo Yuexian. At this moment, she saw that she had unique insights and was quite heroic, and she was even more obsessed with her. Seeing that the time was ripe, Guo Fenggang proposed to Li Zongren to marry Guo Yuexian. Li Zongren considered that such a strange woman could help him in his career, so he agreed to the marriage.
However, although Guo Yuexian got his wish and became Li Zongren's wife as he wished, the process was not smooth. It turned out that before Guo Yuexian agreed to marry Li Zongren, the Guo family had already promised Guo Yuexian a marriage, and even received the betrothal gift from the man Jingle Yang family.
Guo Fenggang is not aware of this, which caused some twists and turns after Guo Yuexian and Li Zongren got engaged. Fortunately, Li Zongren personally came forward and sent someone to send double the amount of betrothal gifts to Jingle Yang's family, which was fine.
But the Jingle Yang family was a prominent family in the past. The family was rich and didn't care about the betrothal gifts at all. This time, the Guo family broke off the engagement and felt that they were all face-lost, but due to Li Zongren's power, they had to swallow the bitter fruit. But can the Yang family not afford to offend Li Zongren, and can’t touch the Guo family?
On the day of Li Zongren and Guo Yuexian’s wedding, Guo Yuexian’s father Guo Liu was actually kidnapped in broad daylight. Fortunately, Li Zongren reacted quickly and sent troops to chase him in time, so he rescued Guo Liu back.
But the person who did this matter was not found out, and Li Zongren did not hold on to the matter. Everyone had speculations in their hearts, but no one wanted to mention it again, so the matter became a "unan unsolved case" and was left unresolved.
On the wedding night of Li Zongren and Guo Yuexian, the couple talked in the bridal chamber. Li Zongren thought that Guo Yuexian would be the commander's wife from then on. The name "Guo Yuexian" seemed a bit vulgar , so he wanted to change her name. Li Zongren said to Guo Yuexian:
"My name is 'Delin', so you call it 'Dejie', which means 'moral noble'."
Guo Yuexian is an 18-year-old girl after all, she is in love and admires Li Zongren very much. He immediately blushed and said:
"Everyone has the word 'de', and when we hear it, we are loving couples."
From then on, Guo Yuexian has a new name, called Guo Dejie .
Guo Dejie and Li Zongren's marriage is indeed a happy one, but Guo Dejie's marriage to Li Zongren is not entirely because of admiration. Even if Guo Fenggang really doesn’t know that Guo Dejie had already engaged with the Yang family before, is it not true that Guo Dejie himself, as the party involved, doesn’t he know?
Obviously, Guo Dejie intends to use Li Zongren's power to push down the original marriage, and the Guo family also supports Guo Dejie's choice because of their greed for wealth and honor. In addition, Guo Fenggang mediated it, which led to this marriage. This can be seen from the requests of Li Zongren when he proposed marriage, the Guo family clearly proposed to "300 yuan acres" and "build a small building".
and even Guo Dejie is very clear about Li Zongren's already family. Guo Dejie thought of marrying Li Zongren as a flat wife, and from then on, she could compete with his original wife and live a decent life in the Li family.But is this really the case?
Although she and Li Xiuwen are nominally a fair wife, she is a "third person" after all, and when Li Xiuwen is not by Li Zongren, she breaks into the marriage between Li Zongren and Li Xiuwen. Even Li Xiuwen was unaware of this. Could it be that Guo Dejie, who appeared in such a "appearance method", really wins the title of equality with his original wife as he wishes?
The original wife came
The news that Li Zongren married Guo Dejie as his wife in Guiping . Although he had concealed the news, it still came to Li Xiuwen's ears. Li Xiuwen was Li Zongren's original wife, but she was the last person to know about Li Zongren's marriage, which was sad.
Li Xiuwen is a relatively traditional woman. After hearing the news that her husband married another , although she felt unhappy, she did not express her dissatisfaction, nor did she make a fuss, and was filial to her mother-in-law as always. Li Xiuwen's quietness made her mother-in-law unable to see it. In order to avoid Li Xiuwen being neglected in the future, she persuaded Li Xiuwen for many days. Only then did Li Xiuwen muster up the courage to take her son Li Youlin to the Guiping Military Camp.
Although Li Xiuwen came with her son, she was a peaceable woman after all. After seeing Guo Dejie, she did not attack her. Instead, she acted very generously, which made Li Zongren quite relieved. Li Xiuwen and Guo Dejie are nominally a fair wife, and Li Zongren tries his best to maintain the balance between the two, making them harmonious when they get along.
However, it is true that the relationship between the two is " flat wife ", but Li Xiuwen is Li Zongren's original wife after all, and she gave birth to a son Li Youlin for Li Zongren. In the eyes of many people, Li Xiuwen is still older than Guo Dejie's qualifications. Therefore, when Li Xiuwen and Guo Dejie meet an acquaintance, they will inevitably be treated differently.
For example, everyone calls Li Xiuwen and Guo Dejie differently. Most of them would call Li Xiuwen "The Big Lady" and Guo Dejie " Little Lady ".
Originally, Guo Dejie was younger than Li Xiuwen and married Li Zongren many years later than Li Xiuwen. It is not inappropriate to call the two wives like this, but Guo Dejie's mother is the Guo family's second wife. She has witnessed her mother's name as a second wife since she was a child and has witnessed various runs in the Guo family that her mother was carrying the title of second wife, which has led to Guo Dejie being particularly sensitive to her status.
Guo Dejie believes that she and Li Xiuwen are "equal wives" and should be on par at home. Now they are distinguished by "the eldest lady" and "the young lady", which is a derogation of her status as an equal wives. This incident made Guo Dejie feel uneasy, but she could still tolerate it, but after another incident happened, it made her feel a little restless.
After Li Xiuwen came to Li Zongren, Li Youlin also followed him. Guo Dejie liked Li Youlin very much. When she met her in the yard, she would take the initiative to go forward and get closer to Li Youlin. Unexpectedly, Li Youlin didn't take this trick at all. Every time Guo Dejie just leaned over, Li Youlin would run away quickly, and made Guo Dejie very embarrassed .
Not only that, Li Youlin seems to know the relationship between his mother Li Xiuwen and Guo Dejie. Apart from ignoring Guo Dejie, he is very kind to everyone else. Especially when he was playing with his father Li Zongren, he acted particularly well-behaved, which made Guo Dejie very dissatisfied with Li Youlin.
Once, when Li Zongren and Li Youlin played hide-and-seek, the father and son had a very happy time, and laughter came from time to time. However, the laughter of the father and son fell into Guo Dejie's ears, which made her feel harsh. Finally, she couldn't bear it and said: "As the commander-in-chief, he plays like a child like this, what do you think?"
Li Zongren was not angry when he heard this, but he was not particularly happy. He replied to Guo Dejie with neither soft nor hard: "The father should accompany his children."
Guo Dejie and Li Zongren had a simple conversation, and they knew the meaning inside and outside. Even Li Xiuwen, who was watching on the side, couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly after listening to the conversation between the two. But, what can she do? He simply said nothing and turned around and left. Li Youlin is not as generous as his mother, and when he hears his father's words, his laughter is even louder.
Guo Dejie, who was completely angry, then began a "counterattack" against Li Xiuwen. Every time Li Zongren was with his family, Guo Dejie would deliberately approach Li Zongren and act very close, which made Li Xiuwen on the side seem a little redundant. However, Li Xiuwen is very powerful and does not care about Guo Dejie, so the two of them will be at peace.
But women’s love for their husbands is selfish. No matter how generous it is, it is impossible for them to ignore their husbands’ closeness to other women and neglect themselves. In addition, Guo Dejie and Li Zongren's intimacy have been like this for a long time, which finally angered Li Xiuwen once.
During a family meal, Li Zongren and Guo Dejie, the couple sang with each other, praising the delicious rice delivered from the countryside and showing great affection, while Li Xiuwen was left aside, which was very embarrassing. Li Xiuwen, who has always had a good temper, got angry this time. The outbreak that had endured for a long time was like a storm, shocking Guo Dejie.
Guo Dejie was a little embarrassed at the time, but after thinking about it, I felt happy and felt that Li Xiuwen was angry. This was her victory! After a while, Li Xiuwen took her children back to Shanghai . Guo Dejie once again became the only wife around Li Zongren, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But after this period of time fighting with Li Xiuwen, Guo Dejie cared more about her status and status. She realized that if she wanted to truly become Li Zongren's genuine wife, she had to suppress Li Zongren's original wife, Li Xiuwen, and if she wanted to beat Li Xiuwen and consolidate her status in the Li family, she could not be without children, and she had to be a boy.
Guo Dejie is strong all her life and strives for the first place in everything, but because of her innate defects, she is destined to be unable to give birth to children in her life. Fortunately, Li Zongren married Guo Dejie not to extend his offspring, and he would not despise Guo Dejie for this. However, Guo Dejie's fighting for status has not been eliminated. Guo Dejie, who lost his sense of security, became even more uneasy.
Guo Dejie, who was in a stubborn position, actually took the risk and prepared to implement the fake pregnancy strategy to consolidate his position. In order to achieve the purpose of fake pregnancy, Guo Dejie deliberately made friends with the wife of military officers, while eating and drinking to raise herself to gain weight. Every time I go out to socialize with the officers' wives, I do not hide my body at all, especially my growing belly.
When someone speculates about whether she is pregnant, she also cautiously answers indirectly, just giving a look or expression that "you can experience it yourself" to imply that she is pregnant. Under Guo Dejie's deliberate performance, many people were deceived by her and mistakenly thought that she was really pregnant.
But it is not realistic to act like this kind of thing in a realistic way without any loopholes. When Guo Dejie played cards with his wife, she showed flaws, and the wife who played cards together saw her sanitary pad. But the ladies are also smart. They understand what Guo Dejie wants to do. Naturally, is unwilling to cause trouble and pretend not to know.
Guo Dejie felt that the time was about the same, so he took out the baby he had agreed to adopt with others in advance and pretended that he had "born". Guo Dejie named the child Li Zhisheng, and since then he became the legitimate son of Li Zongren. At the beginning, he still had some discussions about the child's identity, but no one mentioned it again after a long time.
Li Zhisheng's existence made Guo Dejie feel much more at ease, but as long as Li Xiuwen is there, the title of "the eldest lady" seems to never belong to her. In order to compete for status, Guo Dejie actively advised Li Zongren to exchange posts with Chiang Kai-shek , because in the signature of the post, in addition to the name " Chiang Kai-shek ", the words "wife Chen Jieru " also were written with .
Guo Dejie was considering that if Li Zongren and Chiang Kai-shek exchanged the post, they might also be able to write the words "wife Guo Dejie". Wouldn't this confirm her status? Guo Dejie actually ignored the political influence of this matter and tried his best to persuade him for this small matter. When he finally got his wish, Guo Dejie was very happy to look at the "wife Guo Dejie" on it.
Just as she was focusing on competing for title with Li Xiuwen, she suddenly heard that her husband Li Zongren had frequent contact with a female reporter named Xue , and seemed to have an ambiguous relationship. How could Guo Dejie tolerate such a thing happening? She married Li Zongren when she took advantage of the separation of Li Zongren and Li Xiuwen. After receiving the news, Guo Dejie immediately rushed to the military camp, intending to find out.
This female reporter named Xue is indeed beautiful and talented. She was the female reporter sent by the Central News Agency to interview Li Zongren after the Taierzhuang victory. During this period, Li Zongren did have close contacts with reporter Xue and often met on the grounds of interviews. It was already 11 o'clock on the same day that Guo Dejie arrived at Li Zongren's residence, and Li Zongren was still being interviewed by reporter Xue.
This made Guo Dejie furious and broke into the room where reporter Xue interviewed Li Zongren. Seeing that Guo Dejie suddenly arrived, Li Zongren realized that Guo Dejie was angry and quickly introduced them to each other to smooth things over. Guo Dejie did not attack in front of reporter Xue. After reporter Xue left, he started crying and making a fuss.
At this time, Guo Dejie had been married to Li Zongren for 14 years, but Guo Dejie still miscalculated her status in Li Zongren's heart. Her crying quickly made Li Zongren impatient. In anger, Li Zongren actually cursed Guo Dejie and warned Guo Dejie: "If you dare to make trouble, I don't recognize anyone!"
Guo Dejie was scared. This was the first time Li Zongren scolded her since her marriage in . She was sad, but also scared because she knew that Li Zongren might not be a joke this time. Through this conflict, Guo Dejie began to seek independence. Guo Dejie, who had already achieved some success in his career, devoted more energy to his career and thus achieved certain success.
But Guo Dejie's insecurity in her bones made her almost crazy paranoid about the title of "Big Lady". Guo Dejie, who is rational and mature in daily life, is easy to deal with some career matters, but still loses her mind when facing Li Xiuwen.
942, Li Zongren's mother passed away . Although Guo Dejie had never met this mother-in-law after marrying into the Li family, Guo Dejie still had to attend Mrs. Li's funeral. Guo Dejie returned to his hometown in Guangxi to attend the funeral, and the purpose of mourning his mother-in-law is not simple. It is fake to mourn his mother-in-law. He wants to take the opportunity to let the relatives and friends of the Li family see who is the real wife of the Li family.
So, Guo Dejie planned to "step" Li Xiuwen from the beginning. But things are not so easy. For people from the Li family’s hometown, Guo Dejie is the “third person” in the marriage between Li Xiuwen and Li Zongren. Moreover, most of the people in the Li family’s hometown have never met Guo Dejie and will not have any good feelings for her.
In contrast, Li Xiuwen has been taking care of her mother-in-law for many years and has been deeply loved by her mother-in-law and has won the favor and admiration of her relatives and friends of the Li family. Guo Dejie wants to suppress Li Xiuwen at the funeral to show her majesty, which is obviously not a wise move.
Sure enough, after Guo Dejie arrived at the funeral, she immediately discovered that in the eyes of all the relatives of the Li family, Li Xiuwen was the legitimate "big lady", and she could only be the "little lady". Such a situation failed to make Guo Dejie "sooth" but instead aroused his jealousy towards Li Xiuwen.
On the last day of the funeral, Li Xiuwen, who had a deep relationship with her mother-in-law, burst into tears, and other relatives wiped their tears. At this sad moment, Guo Dejie was still thinking about her own status. She quietly squeezed behind Li Xiuwen while everyone was crying and did not pay attention to her.
Guo Dejie planned to squeeze in front of Li Xiuwen to show her status, so she squeezed forward a little whenever Li Xiuwen knelt down and kowtow. Because her hand pressed Li Xiuwen's hair in panic, Li Xiuwen felt pain when she got up several times. Finally, he got angry when he was pressed to his hair by Guo Dejie again. He turned his head and angrily scolded Guo Dejie who was squeezed to his side: "Put your hands properly."
Li Xiuwen was unintentionally making things worse, and said in a low voice. Unexpectedly, Guo Dejie stood up and made a tantrum: "I'm going to come to you, do you still dare to hit someone? "Li Xiuwen was slandered and quickly explained: " It was you who teased my hair first and made me feel pain. "
Seeing that Guo Dejie was inauspicious about the funeral hall, everyone persuaded her. Guo Dejie refused to give in until someone advised her to go to the man to worship. Guo Dejie felt that the man had a higher standard, so she followed her.
Guo Dejie was obviously a "balanced wife", but she had almost paranoid persistence towards the "big lady" celebrities. In 1948, Li Zongren and Sun Ke When running for Vice President of the National Government of the Republic of China, Guo Dejie won votes as Mrs. Li in order to show her status.
shows that Guo Dejie has been working hard for this almost all her life in order to win a recognized status. But what is the result? She followed Li Zongren to the United States for many years, and she was unwilling to undergo surgery due to cancer. Because she was afraid of affecting her image, she lost Li Zongren's love.
1965, Guo Dejie returned to China with Li Zongren, and died of illness in a hospital in Beijing the following year. He was only 60 years old. Just 4 months after Guo Dejie's death, Li Zongren married the young and beautiful Hu Yousong , but Guo Dejie no longer knew all this.
As for Li Xiuwen , because she was lenient and filial, she never fought for her whole life, but she won. After a stable life, lived until she was 102 years old and died peacefully in her sleep.
learned about Guo Dejie's life and suddenly remembered the saying "The mechanism is too smart to plot, but it has lost Qingqing's life." She pursued fame throughout her life, and she put in a lot of effort for it. She even made a big fuss in the mourning hall and did not treat her illness, but was still in vain after all, which is a pity.
