When he woke up from the hangover, Zhou Zekai realized that he had come to a new world again. He squinted his eyes and looked at this somewhat scattered room, only to realize that he was actually in the study, throwing Yes, everything is written by the original owner.
Get up from the chair, then slowly lower your head and squat down, pick up the paper on the ground, just by looking at the arrangement from right to left and the feel of the paper, Zhou Zekai can be sure that he has come to the period of the Republic of China .
"You are like the spring breeze that lifts my heart, and your eyes are as tender as water, making me dream..."
Just after reading one sentence, Zhou Zekai was sure that this thing was definitely a love poem for some little girl, although there was quite a lot of narcissism in this love poem.
With a smirk, he didn't look at it anymore. After sorting out all the papers on the floor, he put them on the table and put them away. Thinking of the name he just saw, he thought it was a bit funny.
He is still Zhou Zekai, only this time, he has become an advanced poet who abandoned his wretched wife, and is famous in history as the first divorced person in China.
Well, it's very unfortunate that the person he needs to be responsible for this time is his childhood sweetheart who grew up together and is well-matched wife.
Zhou Zekai's wife's name is Meng Qiongyu. The Meng family and the Zhou family are considered to be in the same family. The two have met each other since they were young. .
If this happened in ancient times, divorce or divorce would never have happened, but it happened in the Republic of China, where the people were in turmoil! ! ! Zhou Zekai is a studious person. He has been very intelligent since he was a child. His father also paid special attention to his teaching. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Zekai was able to get the Meng family's respect.
Sixteen-year-old Zhou Zekai married a noble girl like Meng Qiongyu, and he still liked it very much. After all, she was a childhood sweetheart from childhood, and this childhood was also very beautiful, well-educated, and spoke a common language. It's a wonderful thing, these alone can prove that the Meng family has trained Meng Qiongyu well.
It's just that after two years of marriage, eighteen-year-old Zhou Zekai finally expressed that he wanted to learn more knowledge in the popular trend of going abroad. With the support of his parents and parents-in-law, he went abroad with his brother-in-law.
Both of them are extremely smart people. They had already finished university studies in Kyoto at the age of 18. It was only 1914 at that time. Then they went to England to study for further study. They first stayed in England for two years, and then went to the United States to study political economy. Later, under the influence of those romantic poets abroad, Zhou Zekai became a romantic poet who could only describe emotions with a pen, while his brother-in-law Meng Chi, who came to the United States with him, was obsessed with studying and did not know Extricate yourself, study everything abroad hard, and want to return to China to serve the country after finishing your studies! She had no idea that her brother-in-law had cheated on her!
That's right! After coming to the United States for a while, Zhou Zekai met Xu Liming's family, a Chinese American. Xu Liming admired his poetry collection very much. Because of this, he also met Xu Liming's only daughter, Xu Miaoyun. At that time, Zhou Zekai was only 21 years old. They are only eighteen years old, and the two of them get along day and night, and there is love in it. Xu Liming knew that Zhou Zekai had a wife in his family, so he was not optimistic about his daughter's relationship with Zhou Zekai, but he did not overly stop it, which made Zhou Zekai even more Obsessed with it.
After Zhou Zekai was twenty-two years old, Zhou Zekai confessed to Xu Miaoyun, but what he got for such a confession was not a reply, but insults from Xu Liming and his wife, and the news that Xu's family returned to China.
After learning that Xu Miaoyun had returned to China, Zhou Zekai immediately told his brother-in-law that he wanted to return to China, but his brother-in-law hadn't finished his studies, so he told Zhou Zekai to go back. It's becoming more and more distasteful, especially since he has met too many people in the past four years abroad. He has long since looked down on someone as old-fashioned as his wife.
Ever since, this advanced romantic poet secretly published some verses about his crush on Xu Miaoyun in the newspaper. Unexpectedly, it aroused a huge reaction, and everyone was moved by their love, which made Zhou Zekai I am more sure that I want to draw a successful conclusion with the chaff-style marriage.
Everything after that seemed like a farce. Zhou Zekai first expressed to his parents that he wanted to pursue freedom, and hoped that Meng Qiongyu could also get his own happiness. If the two divorced, they would not divorce their wives, but be free. The two free souls were freed from the shackles, but such an idea was rejected by everyone in the Zhou family, even Zhou's father beat and scolded Zhou Zekai and locked him in the room for several months.
Probably there is a kind of arrogance in the literati's bones. The more Zhou Zekai is treated like this, the more he wants to divorce his wife, as if divorce is his own mission. Every time Meng Qiongyu goes to deliver meals to him, he persuades her to divorce her , and it shows that the divorce of two people is not a shameful thing, but a new step into a new era.
Meng Qiongyu couldn't bear this kind of result. They had a daughter. Even if they didn't care about her, they still had to take care of their daughter. If the two of them divorced, what would their daughter do
It’s just that no matter how nice Meng Qiongyu was to Zhou Zekai, the result was still a divorce. Zhou Zekai was not the kind of arrogant person. He always gently told Meng Qiongyu what they should pursue in the new society instead of being rejected by the old society. He is bound by the rules, even, he is willing to take charge of Meng Qiongyu's life after the divorce, he just needs to set himself free.
This matter dragged on for half a year, and finally Zhou Zekai divorced Meng Qiongyu in the newspaper. The first divorced couple in the history of the Republic of China made everyone curious and thoughtful.
Not everyone supports divorcing their wives. Divorcing their wives under the guise of serving the country is very shameful. Many literati will write poems in private to insult Zhou Zekai's behavior, and Meng Qiongyu has also become the heart of many women. The object of sympathy, as the first woman to be divorced in the newspaper, not only Meng Qiongyu lost her family, but also the Meng family lost an adult. Such a daughter who was divorced in the newspaper is a very blow to the reputation of the Meng family. big!
Even so, the Meng family still took Meng Qiongyu home to raise them. The Zhou family felt very sorry for the Meng family, and even divided two-thirds of the property planned for their son to Meng Qiongyu to take away. As for the free Zhou Zekai, It was because he gave full play to his unique romanticism, wrote verses all day long, and didn't manage the Zhou family's property. In the end, Zhou Zekai was killed by those rioting farmers in a riot, and the remaining Meng Qiongyu, on the other hand, shouldered the obligation to support the Zhou family, and did not remarry, and supported the Zhou family's parents for the rest of her life. Although her daughter was not very good, she did not have any hardships in the second half of her life.
Perhaps in Meng Qiongyu's thinking, her husband changed his mind after going abroad, and he wanted to divorce. After the divorce, he did not expect to find true love, but ended up like that, which is very satisfying, but Meng Qiongyu still misses her childhood sweetheart husband , Dreaming back at midnight, it was the two years after the two were newly married. In those two years, the two of them made love to each other, and she also gave birth to children for her husband. This kind of life was peaceful and beautiful...
She didn't feel pain in those days when she was hurt by gossip. She didn't feel sad when her husband was locked up at home and she delivered meals to him day by day. When she was divorced in the newspaper, she hated Why couldn't she win back her husband's heart, and she didn't feel wronged. It was only when she heard that her husband died in the riots that she broke down and cried.
No matter what reasons she uses to cover it up, she can't hide her feelings. Even if her husband who has returned to China has changed his mind, she is still the same as she was back then. She has never changed. She was looking forward to marrying Zhou Zekai since she was a child. She had already regarded Zhou Zekai as her all, only Zhou Zekai could be her husband.
Perhaps a little greedy, Meng Qiongyu used all her afterlife to make a wish, hoping that her husband would never change his mind after going abroad, would not divorce her, and could grow old together with her.
When he knew this wish, Zhou Zekai really lamented the feelings of women. Sometimes, women are so persistent, even if the person they love no longer loves her, they still cling to their previous feelings.
The woman whose smile was as gentle as water appeared in the memory, and Zhou Zekai also had a smile on his face. When he came to this body, he naturally accepted everything in this body. Zhou Zekai can also understand all the previous lives. It was precisely because of this that he smiled for Meng Qiongyu.
Judging from the performance of this body, it's not that Zhou Zekai never loved Meng Qiongyu. During the time of marriage, he also loved Meng Qiongyu very much. Even in those two years, the two of them were considered extremely affectionate, perhaps because of this, That's why Meng Qiongyu can't let go of it
She didn't pursue the rumors and gossips brought about by the divorce, she was only willing to guard the best two years her husband gave her. These two years were like a cage, making Meng Qiongyu a prison.
This year is 1917, the end of Zhou Zekai's first year in the United States, and in two months' time, the Chinese New Year will be here, and Zhou Zekai is very lucky at this moment, the timing of his visit is just right.
At the beginning of 1918, Zhou Zekai would confess his love to Xu Miaoyun, but he was rejected, and now he has not expressed his feelings. Perhaps if he did not confess this time, Xu Miaoyun's family would not return to China, right? In this way, there is no need to encounter it in China, which is also excellent.
"Brother-in-law! Brother-in-law, are you in there?"
Just when I was thinking about how I should develop in this world, I heard a knock on the door, it was my brother-in-law Meng Chi.
"I am here."
He replied first, and then went to open the door. After opening the door, he saw snowflakes on Meng Chi's head. It turned out that it was snowing now.
"Brother-in-law! This is a letter from my sister, and from my uncle and aunt. I have read all the letters from my parents. They want to ask us if we want to go back to China this year for the New Year. I don't know what to do now... "
Meng Chi was only one year younger than Zhou Zekai, but he was a person with a detached personality, and he looked embarrassed at the moment.
"Okay, you come in first, it's so cold outside, come in and talk."