A large bowl of hot springs is covered with chopped green onion. Every time a woman comes, she eats it all and then sits in a warm shop in winter for a while. Time is running out, she will get up gracefully and walk to the small room.

Her small room is only 7 square meters with a hole in the roof. Every night, it will bring cold air into the room unscrupulously. The first ray of sunshine at dawn drove away the night. She looked up at the light through the hole and said simply, "How beautiful!"

This woman comes from the author Chen's "Shanghai's Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" and "The Stranger of Flowers". She is "the last aristocratic woman in Shanghai"-Wanying Guo.

Wanying Guo as a child.

Wanying Guo was born in Australia. Her father is a self-made businessman and her mother is a wealthy family. As a child, she was like a pearl held by her parents, enjoying her childhood carefree.

Later, in order to develop Shanghai's economy, my father chose to return to China with his wife and daughter, and founded Yong 'an Department Store with his savings accumulated over the years. Soon, my father became a rich man in Shanghai, and she was also called Miss Guo Jiasi by the outside world.

Life is still rich, but language suffers from poverty. She is not fluent in novel English and Chinese, which also leads to learning problems.

When Wanying Guo was full of melancholy about language, her father decided to send her to the aristocratic school where the Song sisters had attended. The bilingual teaching mode there kills two birds with one stone. She can master Chinese without delaying her study.

Before entering school, Wanying Guo's name was actually Daisy. It was not until someone reminded her that she needed a Chinese name to learn that she was named after Wanying Guo by Bing Xin's original name, Xie Wanying.

Everything was ready, and she happily began to study in the sea. All beautiful things are like blooming buds, emitting the fragrance of youth. Wanying Guo studied science and music, and read all kinds of English books and newspapers in the library. She enriched herself in time and became more charming and elegant.

02

When the hour hand turns, the seasons decorate the years. The once immature girl has grown into a slim girl. She got a diploma from an aristocratic school. Facing the long future, she is looking forward to studying abroad, but her father strongly opposes it, thinking that girls don't have to read so many books.

Wanying Guo in his youth.

More importantly, her father gave Wanying Guo an engagement from a family friend, so she suddenly had a strange fiance. Marriage is a lifetime thing. How can she succeed with her parents' advice? She needs to see if the other person is suitable for her before making a final decision.

One day, my fiance came to see Wanying Guo with a pair of glass silk stockings imported from the United States. He took the gift and said, "These socks are really strong. They won't wear out for a year. "

How can Wanying Guo marry himself to a man who only talks about inferior socks? She would never allow such a thing to happen to herself, so she decided to break up her marriage.

In order to keep her, her fiance, who suffered from broken engagement, threatened her with a gun in her face. "Life is precious, love is more expensive. If you are free, you can throw them both away. " What's more, they don't have love at all. How can they choose to spend the rest of their lives at the expense of happiness? ?

After a dramatic storm, Wanying Guo chose to fly away. She came to Beijing, got to know yenching university, started a new study trip, and got a bachelor's degree in psychology from yenching university.

The best thing is to pursue the little happiness in your heart, not be bound by any shackles, do what you like in a comfortable place, fly with your heart and live with your heart.

03

No matter how you follow your heart, you can't get rid of the unknown thing of fate. You never know what will happen in the next second or who you will meet.

Under the arrangement of fate, Wanying Guo, who was studying in Beijing, met the seduced boy-Wu Yuxiang.

Wu Yuxiang and Wanying Guo take a group photo.

Wu Yuxiang is a poor boy from a scholarly family. He studied hard since he was a child. 19-year-old admitted to the G-style public school students, and was directly sent to MIT by the government to study. At that time, he was regarded as a leader by others.

His cleverness is not limited to study. When studying abroad, Wu Yuxiang also taught himself something novel and popular. His talent is often favored by girls, including Wanying Guo.

With their contact, they decided that the other person was the one they were looking for. Wanying Guo dressed Wu Yuxiang in a wedding dress, and the wedding was held at Guo Jiahao Palace. Her father entertained hundreds of guests for her.

On that day, she held a big bouquet of delicate and charming flowers, wore her own wedding dress and wore a crown like light, and bent her eyebrows carefully, which could not hide her joy. She walked from the crowd, like a fairy stepping on a cloud, smiling gently and gracefully.

Wanying Guo thought he really married love, but he forgot the word "romance" before he became charming. Shortly after their marriage, Wu Yuxiang fell in love with a young widow.

How can she tolerate the man she found being taken away by others? After careful consideration, Wanying Guo went to the widow's house accompanied by a friend. She didn't cry, make trouble or hang herself. She just said slowly, I came to find my husband to go home.

Plain words are her atmosphere and tolerance. In the face of this marriage, the other party did something wrong, and she chose to pull him back from the wrong track in her own way.

From then on, Wanying Guo felt that she should be an independent woman and could not rely on her marriage and husband. Therefore, she chose to open a facade in Shanghai and opened a shop called Ginny Clothing Association with her friends. They combine Chinese and western styles to create unique clothes.

04

Life is calm again, and she enjoys such a full day. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The sudden war led to unemployment in Wu Yuxiang, and the business of clothing stores was also affected. The original calm turned into stormy waves. In an embarrassing situation, she had to take her family to her parents' house.

Wanying Guo Niang Jia

No matter how bad the despair is, it will hide the hope of life. Wu Yuxiang found the green light in the turmoil and started a foreign trade business. In order to support her husband, Wanying Guo started a secretarial job in fluent English.

Husband and wife are United, and their profits are broken. With their efforts, the business grew bigger and bigger, and life resumed prosperity. She is still the carefree woman.

Beauty does not mean the end of suffering. After the war was rehabilitated, Wu Yuxiang was classified as a villain because of business problems and was put in prison. At the same time, all the property under his name was deprived, and he owed a huge sum of 654.38+0.4 million.

Later, Wu Yuxiang died in prison, and the task of paying off debts naturally fell on Wanying Guo. She sold her only house and all the valuable jewelry, leaving only a shabby and shabby 7 square meter foothold and a pair of children.

Old Wanying Guo

She is determined to bear everything. She said: "I think terrible things when I haven't experienced them, and I'm not afraid of anything after I have experienced them." Really not afraid. Then you will know that a person can be strong. Much stronger than you think. "

Without a luxurious life, she can still live an exquisite life. She baked toast with briquettes and wire, and made soft cakes with aluminum pot and flour. She dresses herself, paints makeup and puts on elegant and clean clothes every day.

Even before she left at the age of 90, she would carefully put on light makeup, then put on delicate curly hair and leave this world gracefully.

Before leaving, Wanying Guo did another thing. She said, "I voluntarily and unconditionally dedicate my body to the cause of medical science and contribute my last strength to the improvement of medical education and disease prevention and control in my motherland." She donated her body to the Shanghai Red Cross Society.

1998, she gently closed her eyes and kindly lay in the quiet time. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing the flowers, and she waves away gracefully, like a blooming lotus, so beautiful.