After Cai Yi's death: two wives lived with children, the eldest daughter married the son of a friend, and the eldest son once entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the early days of the Republic of China, a young general died in a short life, leaving behind two wives and six young children. Although he had ordered a "thin burial" on his deathbed, he was eventually buried with a state funeral. The two widows and their children live separately and embark on a gripping life journey. The eldest daughter later married the son of her husband's friend, and the eldest son went to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The general who died in middle age was the well-known "Protector General" Cai Yi. In 1916, he died of illness at the age of 34, but he had six children. In addition to his two daughters, who died young, his widow Liu Xiazhen has a daughter, Cai Zhulian; Pan Huiying, the second room, had three children - the eldest daughter Cai Shulian, the eldest son Cai Duan (alias Duansheng) and the second son Cai Yongning, the youngest Cai Yongning had just been born at that time.
Cai Yi's funeral scene was extremely tragic, and Pan Huiying, the second room, cried bitterly on the spot. She has just been married to Cai Ye for three years, and this farewell has become a permanent secret. However, what was unexpected was that Pan Huiying did not choose to fight with Liu Xiazhen, but passed Cai Duan to the Liu family, and returned to her hometown in Yunnan with her two children alone.
In the present, it is the norm for concubines to be jealous. But Pan Huiying is so generous, she understands the tacit understanding of "the same is the end of the world", and she also believes in the power of love. Cai Ye often wrote "love words" in his family letters before his death, and Pan Huiying regarded these letters as treasures and reread them again and again, which remained unchanged for the rest of her life.
With a deep love, Pan Huiying raised her two children alone and taught them to "inherit her father's legacy and work hard". Once, when her son deserted in class, she asked him to kneel in front of the statue of Cai Ye to confess his mistakes and repent. Her daughter Cai Shulian was later admitted to the Agricultural College of Zhejiang University and worked in a scientific research unit.
is different from the siblings, Cai Duan, who was raised by his mother Liu Xiazhen, did not know much about his parents' deeds at first. Fortunately, he was determined to serve the country very early, and after entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he admired Cai Yi's achievements even more. It is gratifying that Cai Duan has always had great respect and filial piety for his adoptive mother Liu Xiazhen.
Times have changed, the years have passed, Pan Huiying and her two children finally returned to Beijing, back to the cotton alley where she and Cai Yi used to be together. Until she died of old age, people could still see this gray-haired old woman wandering the alleys, as if forever reminiscing about that time of love......
The story of the Cai family seems ordinary, but it is full of sincerity for the revolutionary cause. The two widows used their own way to pass on Cai Ye's will from generation to generation. This is the epitome of that era, bumpy but righteous, ordinary but wonderful.
This is the story of the Cai family after their life and death. The joys and sorrows of a generation are so magnificent. History is originally supported by ordinary people, and their fate is like a touching serial, allowing us to feel the surge of time and the imprint of the times between the lines.
Although Cai died young, his revolutionary will was inherited and continued in the hands of future generations. Although the two widows have a bad fate, they educate the next generation in their own way, so that the blood of the Cai family will continue to flow into the great river of the motherland. In this sense, Cai's last wish seems to have been partially realized.