Nearly 50 years old, married a boiler worker. How did Fengxian Xiao, a chivalrous woman, spend the rest of her life?

As soon as the name' Fengxian Xiao' comes out, many people can't help but think of a touching love story between her and General Cai E: during the war, a general commander and a talented woman who had fallen into the dust met by chance and fell in love. Finally, they were really forced by the current situation and flew away from each other, but they didn't want to see each other again. Who wouldn't be sad about such a sad and beautiful love story? Fengxian Xiao was the heroine of this sad love story in the first half of her life.

The first half of Fengxian Xiao's life.

Born in the home of Zhu, the son of the Eight Banners. His father was originally a military attache of the Eight Banners in the imperial court, but later I don't know what happened. During Guangxu period, he was dismissed. The whole family went to Hunan and then to Hangzhou, the birthplace of Fengxian Xiao.

However, because Fengxian Xiao's mother was not her first wife, but a concubine of her father, her attitude towards Fengxian Xiao's mother and daughter was very bad, especially after her father died. Later, she kicked them out of the house directly, and Fengxian Xiao's mother died shortly after she left home. Fortunately, a wet nurse named Zhang adopted it.

19 1 1 year, Wuchang uprising broke out, and the families of two domestic helpers were also affected by the war. Mammy Zhang hurried to Shanghai with her. Because her voice is light and sweet, and she has no clothes or food in Shanghai, Mammy Zhang sent her to an artist named Hu to learn to sing, and when she learned to sing, she took a name called.

19 13, the "second revolution" against Yuan Shikai's claim to the throne broke out, and Shanghai was not a stable border. And his teacher fled to Beijing, but this teacher Hu is not an elder worthy of entrusting. After arriving in Beijing, he sold Fengxian Xiao to Zeng Mengpu, a romantic scholar, and became a servant of the Zeng family.

It wasn't long before Fengxian Xiao was sold to the famous town of smoke and willow in Beijing? Eight hutongs. At this time, Fengxian Xiao became very beautiful. She could sing opera, compose music, and write and write well. She suddenly became a famous prostitute in eight hutongs. It was also here that Fengxian Xiao met his true love-General Cai E.

I met and fell in love with General Cai E.

Cai E, a warlord in Yunnan Province, held military power and was valued by Yuan Shikai. When Yuan Shikai was planning to become emperor, he invited Cai E to Beijing. However, after Cai E entered Beijing, he not only failed to support Yuan Shikai as emperor, but also tried to persuade Yuan Shikai to give up the idea of being emperor. This angered Yuan Shikai, so he simply put Cai E under house arrest, prevented Cai E from returning to Yunnan to regain the relieving power, and then came back to stop him from proclaiming himself emperor.

At that time, Cai E was arranged to live in a cotton alley. Because there was nothing to do at home all day, Cai E pretended to be an ordinary businessman and went to visit the eight hutongs, but in fact, the original intention of Cai E's coming to the eight hutongs was just to let the people Yuan Shikai sent to watch him relax.

Cai E and Fengxian Xiao met under such circumstances. Because at that time, Cai E disguised himself as an ordinary businessman. At first, Kyle was actually not noticed by anyone. Only when Fengxian Xiao saw Cai E did he believe that this man would be extraordinary. After a period of time together, Cai E's behavior made Fengxian Xiao determine his own judgment.

After getting along with Cai E for a period of time, she was impressed by the temperament that was not used by ordinary prostitutes, and they gradually began to treat each other sincerely. During that time, Cai E came to the brothel almost every day, but every time she came, she was looking for Fengxian Xiao.

Cai E sometimes taught Fengxian Xiao some military and political knowledge, which may be the happiest period in Fengxian Xiao's life. He doesn't have to worry about all kinds of external interference at all, and he only has a romantic relationship with Cai E.

In fact, when Cai E met Fengxian Xiao, there were already two ladies at home. After Cai E ran to the eight hutongs every day, the two young ladies began to get angry with Cai E and almost fell out. The old lady at home also felt sorry for Cai E's brother, but Cai E ignored it. Yuan Shikai's vigilance against Cai E was greatly reduced after hearing that the Cai family had been in such a mess.

Seeing that Yuan Shikai is going to be emperor, it is more and more urgent for Cai E to get rid of Yuan Shikai's control. Finally, he found Fengxian Xiao, hoping that Fengxian Xiao could show the illusion of two people going out to play together, so he took the opportunity to escape Yuan Shikai's control and return to Yunnan to overthrow Yuan Shikai's ambition to be emperor.

Fengxian Xiao agreed without much hesitation, and expressed her willingness to share life and death with Cai E, but Cai E said that it was easier for Yuan Shikai to find them when they fled, so she refused Fengxian Xiao's proposal and let her stay in Beijing. When he succeeds, he will never forget Fengxian Xiao's help today.

It's just that neither of them should have thought that if they left Beiping, they would never see each other again. In January of the following year, Cai E led the troops to war, which successfully shattered Yuan Shikai's idea of restoring monarchy. However, Fengxian Xiao never saw them again. In the same year 1 1 month, Cai E had died of tuberculosis in Japan.

This is undoubtedly a huge blow to Fengxian Xiao. Fengxian Xiao's last public appearance was when she publicly offered sacrifices to Cai E in Beijing. She came to pay homage in black.

Fengxian Xiao's miserable life.

After leaving Beijing, Fengxian Xiao changed her name to Li Xifei. First, she married a brigade commander named Liang, and they lived together for many years. Unfortunately, they have no children.

When Fengxian Xiao was almost 50 years old, at the same time, at the beginning of the founding of New China, Fengxian Xiao got married again, but this time she was not a prominent man, but an old man named Li Zhenhai who burned boilers and had a daughter of 14 years old.

According to Fengxian Xiao's stepdaughter Li Guilan, Fengxian Xiao doesn't look like us at first sight, because in the countryside where everyone works in coarse clothes, only Fengxian Xiao insists on wearing cheongsam every day, dresses herself up beautifully and practices her voice in the yard every day.

Li Guilan recalled that her stepmother was actually a very gentle person, but she hated housework very much. Most of the housework is done by her stepdaughter, and Fengxian Xiao only washes her clothes at most. I heard that my stepmother knows Mr Mei Lanfang, and she helped Fengxian Xiao find a job as a kindergarten nurse.

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Unfortunately, Fengxian Xiao suffered from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 52 and died at the age of 54. A thin coffin and some clothes, this famous woman, passed away so simply.