Bing Xin never imagined that 13 years after his death, he would be consumed by his beloved grandson.
In May 2012, an angry middle-aged man came to the Sculpture Memorial Garden of Chinese Cultural Celebrities in Beijing. He went straight to the tombstones of Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao and wrote 8 big characters in red paint, "Godson has no way to be a table".
The incident caused an uproar in public opinion. Destroying a cemetery since ancient times is a great sin, not to mention the person who threw paint on the tombstone, or Bingxin's only grandson, Wu Shan.
Wu Shan is the child of Bingxin's only son, Wu Ping (formerly known as Wu Zongsheng), and unlike the children born to two aunts, Wu Shan is the most inattentive of the third generation of the Bingxin family.
Wu Shan's academic performance is unstable, his temper is also quite violent, he often clashes with the people around him, and often participates in fights. For him, the grandparents a lot.
For a while, in order to understand Wu Shan's study and life, Bing Xin urged him to keep a diary every day and bring it to himself on the weekend. After reading it, the old man ignored the difficulties of old age and weak eyesight, and carefully wrote words of encouragement in the blank space of the diary, hoping that his grandson could be inspired by truth, goodness and beauty.
Ice Heart Family Portrait
It is this beloved grandson who has spent countless painstaking efforts to cultivate, but he scribbles on his grandmother's tombstone in spite of etiquette and shame. Of course, he also had his own reasons for doing so, that is, to fight for his mother's breath.
Wu Shan's father, Wu Ping, and his mother, Chen Lingxia, formally divorced in 2001, but the lawsuit was fought for many years. Chen Lingxia was depressed after the divorce, suffering from cancer and high blood pressure, the mother and son were squeezed into the 50-square-meter old mansion built in the last century, and the life was very poor, even Wu Shan was more than 40 years old, or a single stick, he naturally held an evil fire in his heart.
Wu Ping's emotional experience is quite rich, he had a marriage before marrying Chen Lingxia, but unfortunately caught up with the special period of the 1950s. When Wu Ping fell into the dust from a lofty intellectual, his marriage also ended.
After the divorce, Wu Ping's emotions were severely hit, and his emotional career was blank for 10 years before he and Chen Lingxia formed a new family, and soon gave birth to a son and a daughter.
Wu Ping Chen Lingxia
In fact, before Chen Lingxia, Bing Xin had found a girl from Shuxiang Mendi for her son. This girl is smart and clever, very thoughtful in dealing with people and things, and is a daughter-in-law candidate that Bingxin is very satisfied with.
However, just when the marriage was put on the agenda, Wu Ping and his fiancée played a drama that disappeared at every turn. The girl was meticulous and soon found that Wu Ping had transferred her affection.
The object of Wu Ping's love is Chen Lingxia, who is 10 years younger than him. Chen Lingxia has a beautiful appearance, and the hospital reporter has also done a very good job, and has been rated as an "advanced worker" many times. By chance, Wu Ping met Chen Lingxia, and the flood of feelings broke through the floodgates, and he did not hesitate to destroy the previous marriage contract for her.
Bing Xin really took a lot of effort to clean up the mess left by Wu Ping and accept the reality of his son's flash marriage. Due to the lack of understanding of each other before marriage, wu ping and his second wife Chen Lingxia have a weak emotional foundation. Although Chen Lingxia tried to restrain her temper, the active volcano in Wu Ping's heart always erupted uncontrollably.
In 1982, Wu Ping went to Shaanxi to work. Chen Lingxia, who lives separately from her husband, accidentally found some love letters sent to him, and only then did she know that her husband had cheated on her, and for the sake of her children, she chose to forgive.
Chen Lingxia was interviewed
Around 1997, after retiring, Chen Lingxia went to Australia to take care of her daughter who had just given birth, and when she returned, she unexpectedly found Wu Ping dating a married woman at home.
When the two were blocked at home by Chen Lingxia, the woman hurriedly hid on the balcony, and she did not even have time to wear clothes. Wu Ping, who was already more than 66 years old, pressed Chen Lingxia to the bed and told the woman who was 40 years younger than him to run fast. The woman wore Wu Ping's cotton nightgown and escaped from the building, and what was even more infuriating was that the nightgown was bought by the daughter for her father from abroad.
Things get to this point, divorce is the undoubted choice. However, Chen Lingxia took into account the face of her mother-in-law Bingxin cultural celebrity and asked Wu Ping to write a letter of guarantee that she would not cheat again, and then shelved the divorce agenda.
In 1999, Bingxin died at the age of 99. Without his mother's restraint, Wu Ping became even more unscrupulous. He filed for divorce and took the hundreds of thousands of dollars of deposits used to buy a house in his family, and did not give Chen Lingxia any real estate.
After Chen Lingxia fell ill with cancer, his son Wu Shan called Wu Ping, hoping that he would see the family affection and compensate his mother spiritually and materially. Wu Ping rejected his son's offer and later simply did not answer his phone.
Wu Ping
Wu Shan was furious and took his father to court, demanding that he be given two houses and millions of yuan in cash, but unfortunately, after two trials, the court ruled that Wu Shan lost the case.
In the case of being desperate and holding a stomach fire, Wu Shan's violent temper flared up again, and he ran to his grandmother's cemetery to doodle and destroy it, hoping to arouse the sympathy of public opinion.
Unfortunately, he ignored that Bingxin's cemetery was not private property, but public property. The tombstones and figure sculptures of Bing Xin and Wu Wenzao were completed in 2002 and are the works of the famous sculptor Zhang Deti, which are of great value. To remove the red paint, the budget cost is as high as 90,000 yuan, and Wu Shan was sued by the park for this.
Later, in an interview with reporters, Wu Shan secretly mentioned the inheritance of her grandmother Bingxin, saying that she left 11.5 properties when she died. The implication is that the father inherited a lot of real estate from his grandmother, but did not give them a set of them.
Wu Shan
This number is quite wonderful, how can it still come out with a half set? Is Bingxin's family really so rich?
If a person can save a lot of money, there can only be two situations. One is that the father has money, and the other is that he can earn it.
Bing xin was born in a rich family, and his grandfather Xie Zixiu bought a large mansion from the revolutionary martyr Lin Juemin (Lin Huiyin's uncle, the author of "The Book with His Wife"), located in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, which is now both the former residence of Bing Xin and the former residence of Lin Juemin.
But that house belonged to the entire Xie family, and it was absolutely impossible to be assigned to bingxin's name.
Bingxin's father, Xie Baozhang, was the director of the Military Science Department of the Admiralty, and later promoted to the vice minister of the Admiralty, which can be described as a high-ranking official, but he regarded fame and fortune as a floating cloud, and he never bought a private house in his life, and the possibility of Bingxin inheriting the property from his father was zero.
Bing Xin became famous very early, and he is a high-achieving student who returned from studying in the United States, and he and her husband Wu Wenzao taught at Yenching University, with a salary that is not low, and he can often get a manuscript fee. If the couple saves some money, it is not a problem to buy a marriage house in Beijing.
However, the two chose to rent a house at the Xishan Dajue Temple, listen to the morning bell and the twilight drum, and see the autumn leaves on the mountain, and the mood is naturally much more comfortable. After marriage, they lived in a small two-story building at Yenching University, which is now the No. 66 building in the Yannan Park of Peking University. He lived here for 10 years and 3 children were born.
The family took a group photo in front of the building
This small building is of a dormitory nature, with only the right to use and no ownership.
According to records, the only time Bingxin and his wife bought a property was in 1940, when they went to Chongqing to work, Bingxin used royalties to buy a 6-room bungalow in the suburb of Gele Mountain. Because of its remote location and inconvenient transportation, it only cost 6,000 yuan to buy a house, which is simply ridiculously cheap.
But this house has long been razed to the ground, otherwise Bingxin's former residence would not be only in Fujian.
Anyway, after many years of going around, Bingxin's long-term residence is still public housing. Since Wu Wenzao came to teach at the Central Institute for Nationalities in 1953, they have been living in a unit of less than 100 square meters in the Peace Building.
It was not until Wu Wenzao's death in 1985 that the two moved into the "Kochi Building" of high-ranking intellectuals, a total of 7 rooms, and 3 rooms for their daughter Wu Qing, who mainly assumed the responsibility of taking care of her parents.
Bing Xin is very satisfied with his housing conditions with balconies and heating: "On the housing issue, I feel superior to many of my friends. "But even if it is not his own property, he will have to pay some rent symbolically every month."
Before his death, Bing Xin said to people: "I really have nothing, no power to take, no official to quit, no rank to be demoted, no money to punish, authentic and carefree, no care, no concern." So I really don't know where the "11.5 houses" in WushanKou came from.
As for his father Wu Ping, who was hated by Wu Shan, he should not have much actual assets. When he was seriously hospitalized with ice heart disease, he took a bus every time he visited his mother, and his ex-wife Chen Lingxia also knew that "he actually did not have much income."
Wu Ping is likely to be unable to come up with two houses and millions of dollars of property to distribute to his ex-wife, which may also be the reason why Wu Shan has failed to sue his father twice.
In fact, it is a bit difficult to understand, Wu Ping was born in a family with a strong democratic atmosphere, his parents are well-known upright gentlemen, why would he seriously deviate? Is there really something wrong with education?
Wu Ping, born in 1931, faced a turbulent situation from the moment he fell to the ground. Born in Beijing, he spent his early years in Kunming, primary school through middle school in Chongqing, southwest China.
Because of the turmoil of the War of Resistance and his parents' busy work, Wu Ping actually spent more than 10 years with his parents before the age of 65, that is, 3 years before and after the age of 7 in Japan, and the rest of the time, he was more of a social free-range, and was taken care of by the nanny Rich Grandma.
Wu Ping once sighed: "I am the son of Bingxin, but I am also the son of society." “
Right one Wu Ping
But Wu Ping had nothing to complain about, and most of the people in that era were displaced. Thanks to the favorable environment created by his parents, Wu Ping was able to complete his education career smoothly.
The Bingxin couple gave their 3 children a fairly high degree of freedom, and never grossly interfered with important choices in life. Therefore, Wu Ping did not embark on the path of literature and education, but chose to study architecture at Tsinghua University, and developed a strong interest in music and photography.
He claimed to be a different kind of family member, because his parents and two sisters were teachers, but he was not.
Bingxin gave the children plenty of space, but not completely laissez-faire. She teaches children in 6 words: honesty, selflessness, tolerance. If the children tell lies or lies, she washes their mouths with soapy water and makes them drink bitter and wet quinine water. Drinking quinine water has also become a common experience of the three siblings as children.
Wu Ping has cultivated an independent personality since childhood, although he has suffered nearly 20 years of setbacks due to the times, and has never risen again after witnessing countless people fall, he can stand strong in the wind and rain again and again.
Wu Ping did not have the reason for self-abandonment, in addition to the reason that he had been groping in society for many years and deeply understood human nature, he was also inseparable from family affection. When he and his father fell, his mother and two younger sisters repeatedly wrote to him to encourage him.
Bing Xin looked down on the suffering she had experienced, and she told Wu Ping that nothing was unbearable and no one was willing to make mistakes. No matter how bitter the water is, you can swallow it in one mouth, people must have a broad mind, they should look forward, and don't be tripped by pain.
In 1985, Wu Ping had the audacity to "go to the sea" and established the first decorative architectural design institute in Beijing. He has a wide range of knowledge, from civil buildings, industrial buildings to interior design, and his design style is at the forefront of interior decoration in China.
Nine years later, he handed over all his hard-earned money to a superior company, which also reflected the noble feeling of not being moved by money.
Bing Xin saw what his son had done in his eyes, and despite the advanced age of more than 90 years old, he gave Wu Ping as a motto, Lin Zexu's famous words "Hai Na Bai Chuan Has Tolerance is Great, Bi Li Qian Zhi Zhi
But Bing Xin would not have thought that the moon had two sides. She saw the smooth and sunny side of Wu Ping, but what her daughter-in-law Chen Lingxia saw was a dark and ugly crater that could not be illuminated by sunlight.
Just when his son Wu Shan promised the cemetery management to clean the tombstone, Wu Ping, the initiator of the conflict and who had been unwilling to show his face, suddenly jumped out and sued his ex-wife Chen Lingxia, demanding that she return the house no. 601, unit 4, Building 6, No. 68 Jindingshan Road, Shijingshan District.
The lawsuit mentions that after the termination of the marriage relationship between the two in 2012, the house should be owned by Wu Ping, but Chen Lingxia still refused to move out, and also replaced the security door of the room, causing Wu Ping to live in a large number of years.
According to Wu Shan's lawyer, Wu Ping's move was too sudden. Chen Lingxia did not have any conflict with him beforehand, but inexplicably received a notice from the court.
Chen Lingxia and her son Wu Shan
According to Chen Lingxia, the house was awarded to Wu Ping in the divorce, and he never went to live there, and he didn't even know where the house was located, so he didn't know why Wu Ping sued himself.
Perhaps, they needed the last rule of law channel to clear up so many years of divorce wars.
The descendants of celebrities are attracted attention because they have the aura of their parents on their heads, so they must regulate their words and deeds. Wu Ping may not be confused in the face of great right and wrong, but his behavior of abandoning his ex-wife and falling into a well when she was critically ill is far from the character of his parents.