Meet you in the most beautiful years

Chapter 22
Jingshan Youyu first met

For two hundred silver dollars, Pan Zanhua redeemed Zhang Yuliang's body and married her as Mrs. Ru.

No matter how the outside world talked, he finally had an explanation for this relationship.From now on, they just need to stay together with each other with peace of mind, and don't care about all the gossip.

Times have changed.In response to Sun Yat-sen's plan to challenge Yuan, in 1913, Bo Wenwei served as the commander-in-chief of the Anhui Army to challenge Yuan.At the critical juncture, Hu Wanchun, the commander of the First Division of the Anhui Army, turned his back and rebelled, resulting in the defeat of the war.Bai Wenwei fled to Japan, and Chen Duxiu, Bai Wenwei's secretary-general, was arrested and imprisoned.At this time, the "Taotang Mutiny" even occurred in Wuhu, a river city.

The political cleansing spread to close friends of Bai Wenwei and Chen Duxiu, and Pan Zanhua was coerced as a result. There was a sudden panic, and Pan Zanhua was exhausted and worried, and even his life was in danger.Zhang Yuliang was worried and distressed, but unable to relieve his worries, he only got up quietly in the middle of the night when he was sleeping soundly, and held a pistol tightly to guard him all night, lest he might be in danger.

Many years later, Pan Zanhua was getting old. When the past was piled up in front of his eyes, he was deeply moved and expressed his deep memory in the lines of his poems: "The people in Changjie changed Taotang, and the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by soldiers and horses. The guards in front of Jiudaomen , holding a gun and staying in a small military uniform."

Wuhu is no longer a place to stay for a long time.So in the early autumn of this year, Pan Zanhua brought Zhang Yuliang from Jiangcheng to Shanghai.

In Yuyangli, Xiafei Road, Shanghai French Concession, a simple and narrow Shikumen house became the new house of Pan Zanhua and Zhang Yuliang.It was rented by Pan Zanhua's fellow villager Chen Duxiu for him. Chen Duxiu has been released from prison and returned to Shanghai, where he lives in No. 2 Laoyuyangli not far from here.

Although the new house is rough and narrow, in Zhang Yuliang's heart, it is comparable to a jade house.This is her real home, and in the name of her husband and wife, she ended her rootless life.Looking back on the intertwined sorrows and sorrows of the past ten years, she really had reason to lean on her lover's shoulder and cry bitterly.

She and Pan Zanhua simply hosted a banquet, which was regarded as a wedding banquet.In troubled times, everything can only be superficial, and you can follow your heart.They invited Chen Duxiu and his wife, who live next door, to be their witnesses.There is no cloud of guests, no colorful candles, and even no relatives of both parties. As long as we are together, everything in this world is no longer important at this moment.

From that moment on, Zhang Yuliang understood that incredible changes had taken place in her life.And all of this was once so unrealistic and unattainable, but because the man she loved so much cut a piece of cloud from the sky for her, woven a multicolored cloud coat and draped it over her shoulders, so all of this came true. turned into reality.

Only true love, only gratitude.People belong to him, fate belongs to him, even past and future lives belong to him.Without him, Zhang Yuliang would not have regained his freedom.He gave her a home, gave her all kinds of intertwined friendships such as pity, cherish and appreciation, and gave her a deep and firm love.

She took out a pen and solemnly signed her name on a picture she had drawn at random: Pan Yuliang.From then on, she took her husband's surname.She is a rib of Pan Zanhua, his reinvented body, life and death, will be with him.

Not long after she got married, Pan Zanhua hired a teacher specially for her and began to teach her cultural knowledge systematically.It is not difficult to imagine that it is not just a coincidence that a woman who has never entered a school and was born in a brothel will become a famous painter Pan Yuliang in the future.She is a hard-working woman who knows how to cherish. The tenacity in her bones is as rare and excellent as her talent and aura.This point is especially valued by Pan Zanhua.

Yuyangli is a place name with special significance in history.It is not only the seat of the editorial office of "New Youth", but also the place where Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao initially initiated the founding of the party.And earlier in 1914, not only Chen Duxiu and Pan Zanhua lived here, but also Hong Ye, a painter who had a profound influence on Pan Yuliang.

The fate of a person is like this, full of variables and definite numbers. The key lies in whether the person favored by fate can firmly grasp the warm arm extended by fate.

Hong Ye, a teacher at Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, became Pan Yuliang's neighbor. This may be a coincidence, or it may be Pan Yuliang's destiny.If it is said that she has a natural sensitivity to color, a more comprehensive understanding of painting comes from Mr. Hongye.

A set-up drawing board, scattered and bright paints, a slightly emaciated man sitting in front of the drawing board concentrating on painting... When Pan Yuliang saw this scene from the window of Mr. Hong Ye for the first time, she couldn't move her footsteps, she was deeply moved to attract.Everything in front of her was as bright as the sun and as beautiful as spring grass. Her heart was like a prairie in April, with a group of bright butterflies flying.

Day after day, after finishing the homework assigned by the private school teacher, she went to see Mr. Hongye's painting.Hong Ye is very gentle, but also has a distinctive personality.When Pan Zanhua approached him one day and asked him to teach his wife how to paint, he refused the request without even thinking about it.In his eyes, a woman living at home, learning painting is just to pass the lonely time.He can't stand art becoming a shallow vassal and foil, which is a blasphemy to art.

Although she was declined, she did not give up, but became more and more obsessed.Fortunately, Hong Ye did not refuse her to watch, so she often sat in Hong Ye's house for a long time, and even left when Hong Ye's wife brought the dinner to the table.

Day after day, this kind of situation made the Hongye family increasingly bored.Pan Yuliang also realized that her obsession had affected the lives of others.So, she suppressed her enthusiasm, stopped going to Hong Ye's house often, bought paper and brushes, locked herself in the house, tried to figure out Mr. Hong Ye's painting methods, painted fruits, flowers and plants, and painted herself.

In a blink of an eye, in 1915, Yuan Shikai was restored in Beijing, proclaimed himself emperor, and changed his reign name to "Hongxian".Cai E sent a telegram to discuss Yuan in Yunnan, and led the National Guard Army to march northward.Pan Zanhua had always been a supporter of the campaign against Yuan. After hearing the news, he bid farewell to Pan Yuliang, and secretly came to Yunnan with Li Liejun and others, joined Cai E's uprising army to crusade against Yuan Shikai, and declared Yunnan independence.

Pan Zanhua was in Yunnan and served as a counselor at the General Command of the Second Army of the National Defense Army.After the victory of the National Defense Army, he won a "Yunnan Uprising Medal".On the eve of returning to Shanghai, Cai E gave him a silver pocket watch made in Germany as a precious commemoration of this life and death experience.

For Pan Yuliang during this period, although it was thrilling, because it was a victorious battle with a certain chance of winning, there was not much anxiety and restlessness.She spends time in colors and lines, she can go without eating, drinking or sleeping for a day, but she can't stop painting.Her world is full of colorful colors, drawing paper and pens are everywhere in front of her eyes, and when one painting after another is presented under her pen, she is intoxicated by it.

Finally, one day, Hong Ye came to her room.She hadn't seen Hong Ye's painting for a while, and Hong Ye felt something strange.When he walked into Pan Yuliang's world - this picture world built by crazy obsession, he was completely shocked.He looked at the paintings one by one, and carefully looked at the hands in front of him that were stained and blackened by brushes and scratches. For a long time, he couldn't say a word.

A few days later, a letter signed by Hong Ye arrived in Pan Zanhua's hands.He apologized to Pan Zanhua for his refusal without hesitation; then he was unbearably pleasantly surprised for discovering Pan Yuliang's rough jade.

I am pleased to announce to you that I have officially accepted Your Excellency's wife as my student... She has shown amazing sensitivity and rare receptivity in the sense of art.

I am grateful for Mr.'s insightful eyes for finding real jade.Mrs. Zun is the raw material of Jingshan Mountain. Once carved, I dare to say that it will become a dazzling and dazzling tool.Sir can wait and see.

Pan Zanhua was very pleased.Facts have proved that the woman he liked from the first sight really has an outstanding quality.He redeemed her, married her as a concubine, and hired a teacher to teach her how to read and write. In the eyes of the world, he has a strong support; he has reasons to refute and despise the once locust-like rumors.

But for him, there was only one reason for him to pay all this, she was the woman he didn't want to miss.

Female students of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
After studying painting for several years, under the guidance of Mr. Hong Ye, Pan Yuliang's painting skills have become more and more proficient.In Hong Ye's opinion, her current level is not inferior to the group of male students from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts he taught.

Due to the feudal "female prohibition", Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts has been a boys' school since its establishment in 1912.With the rise of the New Culture Movement, the educational circles began to advocate the abolition of the "female prohibition" and admit girls to school.So in the autumn of 1920, the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, which dared to open up the trend, began to recruit the first batch of girls in the arts, and implemented co-education for the first time.

Opportunities always favor those who are prepared - this sentence seems to be specially designed for Pan Yuliang.She studied under Hong Ye, studied hard for several years, and when she finally mastered her brushwork, the most famous art school began to recruit girls.

It seems that everything is being prepared for her, but behind the opportunity, who can see the moment when she is as quiet as a green lotus, forgetting to eat and sleep?The heart is like a lotus, no dispute, no disturbance, no anger, only clinging to a beautiful world, forgetting the sun, moon, stars and the passing of time.

At that time, the principal of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts was the famous painter Liu Haisu with the spirit of dashing forward.During his tenure as the principal, he introduced modern Western painting education concepts, pioneered co-educational schools, nude female model sketches and travel sketches, and founded the first professional magazine "Art" in China.Several pioneering reforms had a great impact on Chinese education under the feudal ideology. Some people even called Liu Haisu, Zhang Jingsheng, and Li Jinhui the three "literary monsters" in Shanghai at that time. The cusp of public opinion.

It was Hong Ye who brought the news to Pan Yuliang and his wife that the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts had recruited girls.Hong Ye knew that based on her current painting foundation, she was fully qualified to be admitted to the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts as a student.

It goes without saying that Pan Yuliang was delighted. She was enjoying the joy of farming when she suddenly heard someone tell her, your wheat is ripe, and the harvest season has arrived.

Pan Zanhua looked at her with firm and expectant eyes.When the news came, he was no less encouraged than Pan Yuliang.He kept joy in his heart, and only said to her calmly that he would spare no effort to support her, and he would support her as far as she could go in painting, as long as he had the endurance.

So she prepared well for that exam, and she passed the exam very easily and smoothly.

Not long after the exam, Mr. Hong Ye told her excitedly that her grades were at least among the best, if not the first.He even said affirmatively that she could wait for the notice of admission in the fall.

But there are exceptions to everything.On the day of reading the list, she stood in the crowd and searched the list over and over from top to bottom, but she couldn't find the word "Pan Yuliang".Although she never thought of such an ending, the cold facts showed that she failed the exam.

For Pan Yuliang, such a blow was too cruel.She wandered outside the campus of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts countless times, far away from the fence, greedily looking at the white walls of the campus, the pigeons perched on the roof, the rows of green plants, and walking from one classroom to another with a drawing board on her back. Students in a classroom.She followed Hong Ye to learn painting for four years, no, it took her even longer, and even when she was young, she watched her mother draw patterns on felt hats with small stones and embroider with colorful threads, and she stored this dream—— Show life and the world with lines and colors.Now this dream was about to come true, but in the end it was an illusory bubble, which disappeared for no reason with a soft "click".

The one who couldn't believe this result the most was Hong Ye.He already knew that Pan Yuliang was among the best in the examination scores, as expected, but why didn't he make it to the list?He rushed to the Academic Affairs Office furiously. The answer given by the Academic Affairs Office was: because of Pan Yuliang's background, the school took her off the list after careful consideration for fear of causing doubts and disputes.

The so-called doubts and disputes are indeed lessons learned.Since Liu Haisu introduced body painting in 1914, the school has never been peaceful.People from all walks of life criticized the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and even called Liu Haisu "a traitor in art and a thief in the education field." Just before the exam, in 1919, a supervisor in Shanghai asked the authorities to ban Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts... so Under the turbulent situation, if the outside world is given the excuse of "recruiting prostitutes", the school will really be in jeopardy.

However, how wronged and unfair this decision is to a woman of great spirituality and talent!It is a great irony that a school that focuses on discovering and cultivating outstanding painters has to watch the residual poison of feudalism bury its talents.

Hong Ye is a painter, he only respects art, he is avant-garde and rebellious.So under his nose, he didn't allow himself to make mistakes.To him, seeing a mistake happen and not stopping it and not correcting it was an unforgivable mistake in itself.

(End of this chapter)