I hope this happy love story can bring more happiness to Gulangyu, which is applying for world heritage!
1 In August 1953, 25-year-old Yuan Dibao got married in this beautiful and spacious villa at Jishan Road1Gulangyu Island. The bride Huang Xiuxue graduated from Shu Ren Nursing School in Zhangzhou. She was a nurse in the operating room of the original rescue medical surgery, and was then the head of the medical department of Xiamen seawall site. One month after marriage, Yuan Dibao went to Hangzhou Zhejiang Medical College (now Zhejiang Medical University) to study.
Jishan Road 1 used to be a European red brick building with yellow glass. The ground floor is a huge kitchen and spacious dining room, and the upstairs terrace is spacious with several bedrooms. Steps and places, the courtyard is deep. There are camphor trees in front and ancient banyan trees on the side. When 1949 arrived in Hong Kong, the owner of the villa gave the house to Yang Jia, Yuan Dibao's brother-in-law, for safekeeping. Yuan Dibao lived here before he went to college.
Yuan Dibao, 1928, Shanghang. His father, Yuan Zuzhou, was a former handsome scholar who worked as a secretary and a Chinese teacher in the British consulate. It is said that Dr. John Abraham Otte personally moved hemorrhoids surgery for him. When Yuan Dibao was a child, he went to Gulangyu with his father, rented a house in Neicuo 'ao and studied in Fumin Primary School. Later, my father was sent to Changting by the church to preach, and my brother opened a clinic in Beth Road, now Hong Kong. Yuan Dibao helped patients get antibiotics and injections while studying. After several years of hard work, 25-year-old Yuan Dibao was finally admitted to Zhejiang Medical College.
At the age of 25, he was already an older youth at that time. Sister Yuan Dezhao introduced Huang Xiuxue, a classmate from the Nursing College, to her younger brother. Soon, they got married. "My mother-in-law must be afraid that she will be robbed before she goes to school." Yuan Dibao's third daughter-in-law, Ouyang, thinks so for a reason. Yuan Dibao in the photo is really handsome and can be called a standard handsome man.
How do they make eyes at each other? "I go to the Russian teaching and research section every week to ask Dany questions and appoint a time and place." Half a century later, Yuan Man DeBao Sr told the secret.
When she is free on sunny days, Dany will take candy and snacks and invite Yuan Dibao to visit the West Lake. Watching fish in the flower harbor, reflecting on the moon in the three pools, listening to warblers in the willow waves, and Su Causeway's spring dawn have all left the shadow of interdependence. "A long winding road leads to a hazy distance ..." They sang popular Soviet songs in Russian and Chinese. On the weekend, Dany invited Yuan Dibao to her home, introduced her painter father and French mother to Yuan Dibao, and tasted French food and curry noodles made by Dany's mother. Happy time flies, just like Danny's blonde hair.
For Yuan Dibao, happy times are accompanied by shadows. After all, he is a husband. Reason overcame emotion, and he finally got up the courage to tell Danny the truth about his marriage. Danny's pain can be imagined. This French-Chinese mixed-race girl has the romance and affection of a French woman, as well as the loyalty and infatuation of a traditional French woman. "Love is innocent!" Danny said.
Dany hopes that Yuan Dibao will go to France with her parents, but the reality is very helpless. Yuan Dibao married Huang Xiuxue first and couldn't bear to abandon his wife. The older generation of China people are all like this.
In a blink of an eye, two years passed. 1955, the national university merger. Yuan Dibao's Department of Health was merged into West China University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, Sichuan. The moment of parting has finally arrived. Dany cut off a strand of blonde hair, took off a ring and gave it to Yuan Dibao. However, Yuan Dibao, a poor scholar, got nothing in return. This difference is more than half a century.
After Yuan Dibao moved to Chengdu with the school to continue his studies, Danny also returned to France with his parents on April 1956. However, lovers have soul mates and frequent correspondence.
At first, Dany's letter was sent to West China University of Medical Sciences. After Yuan Dibao graduated, Danny's letter was sent to his work unit. Later, in order to avoid suspicion of "foreign affairs", he asked Dany to send the letter to his sister's home at 1 Jishan. These letters, together with Danny's blonde hair and ring, were collected by her sister. Unfortunately, during the "Cultural Revolution", my sister was afraid of causing trouble and burned all the letters and blonde hair.
1958, Yuan Dibao's eldest son was born, and the domestic material was poor. Dany learned that she sent milk powder and clothes from France. Yuan Dibao promised to save money every month and go to France to see her 30 years later.
Yuan Dibao felt guilty about Dany's selfless love. He once thought that if he had a daughter, he would name her Dany. If it's a son, it's called Chen Sheng. Unfortunately, he had no daughter and three sons, but the name "Chen Sheng" was finally rejected because his wife didn't know the meaning of the name. Yuan Dibao only cares about the landscape of Hangzhou. Every time he went to Hangzhou on business, he would sit still and meditate on the places they had walked, wandering around Dany's home at No.29 Wake Lane in Hangzhou (now destroyed), making his eyes moist with anxiety.
After ten years of turmoil, Yuan Dibao's family was sent to Longyan Xiaochi, and his contact with Dany was interrupted. After the Cultural Revolution, Yuan Dibao tried to write a letter to Dany, but it was returned.
The stars have changed and the past is like smoke. Yuan Dibao buried this relationship in his heart and prepared to take it into the coffin.
Unexpectedly, this year's Spring Festival, Yuan Dibao's nephew went to Yuan Dibao's home to pay a New Year call. When everyone was laughing that Yuan Dibao became casually dressed after his wife Huang Xiuxue died, he casually said, "My uncle was a handsome boy when he was young. He almost married a foreign teacher when he was studying in Hangzhou. Their letters are kept by my mother. I heard that there is a gold ring and a wisp of golden hair ... "
Others listened to these words, only the third daughter-in-law Ouyang listened attentively. In the evening, she went to her father-in-law's room and carefully asked him if he had ever had an affair with a foreign teacher. Yuan Dibao smiled faintly and fell into memories, and a foreign love that had been dusty for more than 50 years surfaced.
"Why don't you write to Danny? You used to be afraid that your mother would be sad, but now she has been dead for more than ten years ... "Ouyang encouraged Yuan Dibao to harvest at will.
In fact, I don't need the emotional relationship of the third daughter-in-law. I have been buried in my heart for half a century. Although fish sink and geese fall, the news is abrupt, but why doesn't Yuan Dibao miss it so much?
The old man began to act. Yuan Dibao spent several nights writing five letters with the same content and sending them to his familiar address. The recipient was Dany or her family.
On May 1 2065438, a letter from France caught my eye. Yuan Dibao tore off the seal with trembling hands, and a color photo was attached to three pieces of manuscript paper. Yuan Dibao looked at the people in the photo and the familiar traditional Chinese characters. He couldn't help crying and pressed the letter to his chest: "Thank God ..."
"I thought it was an illusion. I sat for a while, thinking quietly. I have never felt this way in my life, and I don't know who to look for. " Dany described her experience: 1956, after returning to Lyon with her parents, she worked as a secretary in a company, 17, while studying for a doctorate. 1973 10 Dany accepted the employment of the University of Lyon III as a Chinese teacher until 1992. Dany has been living with her parents in the house left by her grandfather. After her parents died, she lived alone in this house. According to this letter, Dany has never been married.
The letter also revealed that Dany had a student named Bino who had gone to Xiamen University to study Chinese. Dany copied Yuan Dibao's address to her and asked her to inquire about the situation at her convenience, but told her not to knock on the door. Pino went back and reported to Dany that there was a family named Yuan. Dany knows that the person she once loved is still living peacefully there, and she feels satisfied and gratified.
In fact, Pino found a family named Yuan, probably Yuan Dezhao, Yuan Dibao's sister. Because Yuan Dibao's mailing address to Danny is 1 Jishan Road.
"Finally, I solemnly tell you that my only wish is to invite you to visit Xiamen or stay for a long time. You told me Gulangyu Island was beautiful, which you saw on the boat when you and your parents returned to China. " Yuan Dibao wrote back to Dany with trembling hands, eager to spend the rest of her life with Dany in the beautiful Gulangyu!
Yuan Dibao's son and daughter-in-law were also moved by this love. They sincerely said that they would invite Dany to live in Xiamen, hoping that the old man could make the love of youth get a perfect ending in his later years.
I wish them all the best. Love, regardless of nationality or status, is really precious. I hope they will never be separated again in this life.