In the winter of 1995, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. Kimiko Saida, a 77-year-old Japanese woman, bowed deeply to Huang Boping, a 78-year-old Shanghainese man, and said in stiff Chinese: "Don't give it away. Old people cry and cry, which makes people laugh."
It's really time to go. Huang Boping's vision was a little blurry and he stretched out his hand to wipe his eyes. 10 years ago, he welcomed Kimiko here with flowers; 10 years later, he sent Kimiko off to the same airport with only two lines of his own tears. Scenes of the past more than 50 years ago came to mind...
Foreign lovers fell in love at first sight
In the summer of 1936, 19-year-old Huang Boping graduated from high school and left home to live in a big city and a good life. Noble and elegant nurtured by his family background, he is quiet and restrained. He wears gray or white skirts and does not show his emotions or anger. Du Xiaobei is enthusiastic and likes the flowers of vigorous love to bloom. His vagina needs to be captured by a bright-colored woman. Li Li, and Xia Zhi is obviously not such a woman. Of course, Xia Zhi put down her body, washed her hands and made soup, and studied recipes in the kitchen every day. Xianghaimen came to Qingdao and worked as a clerk in a high-end women's clothing store, which was considered a decent job at the time. One day, two young girls wearing cheongsam came to the store. Huang Boping quickly greeted the customers with a smile and enthusiastically introduced them to the new products.
Huang Boping saw that one of the girls had fair skin, was petite and cute, and did not look like a local, so he recommended a piece of silk to her: "Miss, do you like this roll of yellow silk?" After that, he made a "wow" sound and unfolded a piece of yellow thin silk towards the "provincial girl" in front of him.
Unexpectedly, the girl looked at him blankly, not understanding what he said. It turns out that she is not Chinese, but a Japanese who came to Qingdao. Now, Huang Boping felt a little embarrassed. How to communicate? Suddenly, Huang Boping thought that there are many Chinese characters in Japanese, why not try writing them out? So he started talking to the girl using handwritten Chinese characters and simple English conversation.
Huang Boping's move suddenly made the atmosphere cheerful. Through written conversations, Huang Boping learned that the girl's name was Kimiko Saida and that she came to the store to make a cheongsam. Kimiko noticed that Huang Boping in front of her was tall and tall, wearing a well-fitting black suit top and off-white suit pants. He looked elegant and handsome, and she felt good about him. On Huang Boping's recommendation, the piece of yellow thin silk was cut into a cheongsam. In the next 50 years, Kimiko would wear this beloved yellow cheongsam on every important occasion.
After that day, Huang Boping and Kimiko continued to deepen their feelings for each other through written conversations. Huang Boping gradually learned that 18-year-old Kimiko Saida was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of the Saida family, a prominent family in Fukuoka, Japan. Her father was the deputy editor-in-chief of the "West Japan News Agency".
In the summer of this year, the thoughts of first love gradually unfolded in the hearts of the two of them unconsciously. The first outing, the first time going to the beach, the first time holding hands...
However, the two confirmed their relationship because of a fight. That day, a young man with oily hair and noodles saw Kimiko in the store. The innocent and lovely Kimiko immediately caught Xiao Kai's attention, and Xiao Kai put down the things in his hands and approached her to strike up a conversation. Seeing that Kimiko ignored her, Xiaokai smiled and reached out to touch Kimiko's face. Huang Boping was furious when he saw this. He rushed to Guo Hao and apologized continuously, but his face still had an incredulous expression: "How could you believe it? You can come up with a pretty good design plan, your IQ is obviously not low!" Go ahead A punch to Xiaokai's chest. Kimiko on the side was deeply moved when she saw that this usually modest Chinese was fighting with others at all costs for her. In the heart of this young Japanese woman, she felt that only deep love would lead to such a move. She said to herself: "Marry Huang Boping." This fight not only solved the problem for Kimiko, but also quickly heated up the relationship between the two. .
The trip is over and Kimiko is returning to Japan. On the day of separation, Huang Boping gave Kimiko a photo of himself. "Huang Boping!" Xi returned from the hospital and found that Da Pa Pa Pa had moved away. Dad said that he left the day you left, saying that the project was over.
But you should live downstairs from now on. It’s inconvenient to crawl around upstairs. I said, I still want to live upstairs, but my father couldn't resist me, so I stayed in the room where my dad lived. I saw the paint on the rows of wooden roses in the closet, all of which had been scratched off. I thought it was best this way. , without color, it will never fade. Meiko called his name in blunt Chinese, and then revealed her innermost secret to Huang Boping on the paper, telling him that she must wait for her to come back. After Huang Boping looked at it, he pulled Kimiko's hand tightly. His palm was sweaty and cold, while Kimiko's hand was hot. Huang Boping can still clearly remember this strange feeling many years later.
In this way, the foreign lovers who fell in love at first sight entered into an engagement and said goodbye full of longing and hope for the future.
The war broke out, and Lao Yan separated
After returning to Japan, the two deepened their affection for each other through letters. Kimiko receives emails from China every week. In January 2000, Wang Jin discovered many wonderful "love dialogues" between him and other girlfriends from the computer data of "Lanfeng". Wang Jin was so ashamed and angry that he proposed to break up, but she I can't stand the sweet words of "Lan Feng". In June 2000, Wang Jin was surprised to find that "Lanfeng" not only had many online lovers, but also a laid-off wife. After Wang Jin and "Lan Feng" had a big quarrel, they broke up again. In January 2001, in order to completely get rid of "Lan Feng", Wang Jin returned to his hometown of Pingdingshan and quickly contacted another company in Shenzhen with an annual salary of 120,000 yuan through connections, intending to restart his career. But what Wang Jin didn't expect was that "Lan Feng" also came to Pingdingshan to continue his entanglement. Wang Jin, who had already given up, was determined to spend money to find someone to teach him a lesson and end this bad relationship. However, he didn't expect that the "thug" would be too harsh. The soul of "Lan Feng" returns to the west. On January 28, 2001, Wang Jin walked into the Xinhua Police Station of the Pingdingshan Public Security Bureau and surrendered. His bright future was ruined in vain. Love letters and passionate love are sent across the sea to the ancient courtyard of Qitian's family.
The Saitian family has a family tradition of loving Chinese culture. Kimiko’s grandfather once founded a Chinese academy. Regarding his daughter's "love with China", the father first remained silent and then acquiesced. In May 1937, her father said to Kimiko: "During the summer vacation, please invite Huang Jun to Fukuoka." With their father's permission, Kimiko and Huang Boping were very happy. Huang Boping said in his reply: "During this period, I resigned and went back to my hometown to review my homework and prepare to go to Shanghai to study at university. I will definitely come to see you during the summer vacation." The signature date of this letter was May 14, 1937. Unexpectedly, it was Huang Boping's last love letter sent to Kimiko.
July 7, Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The Anti-Japanese War broke out in an all-round way, and the lovers who loved each other suddenly lost contact. The blank time and space where we cannot meet makes Kimiko miss Huang Boping even more. Driven by love, Kimiko came to China to find the whereabouts of her long-awaited fiancé.
Kimiko tried every means to find Huang Boping in Haimen, his hometown, but found nothing. At this time, Uncle Huang is my business! Junyi raised his fist, if I see you approaching her again, You're dead! Ping has gone to Shanghai to make a living as the letter said. At that time, the war situation was chaotic, and Kimiko had no choice but to embark on the journey home melancholy.
In 1942, after the two men and their deeds were widely circulated in the shelter, when reporters heard about this touching story, they came to interview them one after another. The reporter asked: "Uncle, how did you manage to survive in such a short time?" Who was it that accurately found Auntie's position in just ten seconds, and then grabbed her hand?" Hashimoto said calmly: "This is my telepathy. When the tsunami knocked Qianzi down, I felt far away in an instant. The world is far away, but my heart tells me that she is definitely by my side. "Five years after losing contact, the war intensified. After repeated persuasion from her parents, 24-year-old Kimiko finally agreed to marry a Japanese overseas Chinese in Singapore. Around this time, in early 1943, Huang Boping married a rural girl in his hometown.
After getting married, Kimiko unfortunately contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her husband. Her husband ruthlessly refused to defend her at all and allowed her conservative father-in-law to drive her back to her parents' home in Japan.
From then on, Kimiko could only depend on her only daughter. Huang Boping, who lives in Shanghai, has a relatively dull married life and has a son and a daughter after marriage. During the Cultural Revolution, his life was relatively miserable. In 1981, his wife died of illness.
The tragedy of this anti-Japanese war turned all the oaths of love between Huang Boping and Saitian Kimiko into a dream.
Renewing the relationship 50 years later
After the end of World War II, the Qitian family’s forests and land were distributed to farmers free of charge. Her father died of depression, and as a married woman, Kimiko received almost no inheritance.
In the difficult years after the defeat, Kimiko worked as a hawker, a childcare worker, and even traded her ancestral kimono wedding dress for cans in the hands of American soldiers to make ends meet. It wasn't until the 1970s that her life improved and she ran a bar in Fukuoka. Although she never knew where Huang Boping was, there was always a longing in her heart. She spelled "Huang" with English letters on the bar sign. No one knew what it meant. Only she knew it was "Huang" in her heart. In the harsh reality, Kimiko warmed her tired body and mind with the warmth of the past time and time again.
As time goes by, Sino-Japanese relations are improving day by day. After the Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty was signed, the fire of love buried in Kimiko's heart rekindled. She looked forward to a miracle and began to inquire about Huang Boping's whereabouts from all directions.
In Fukuoka City, where she lives, the "Chinese Products Exhibition" is held every year. In the spring of 1985, as in previous years, Kimiko dressed up to visit the opening ceremony of the "China Exhibition". Kimiko has been practicing beauty skills for many years and has always maintained a slim figure weighing 80 pounds. Today she put on the light yellow Chinese cheongsam and dyed her eyes with Japanese red mud according to the makeup method of the noble gentry family before the war. lips, and then solemnly put on a necklace. Suddenly, a sharp siren sounded. The two people suddenly stopped and looked around in horror. Qin Min took the opportunity to throw them away and ran away. Seeing that there was no police car, the two men calmed down for a moment and realized that the siren was coming from the grass. They ran over and saw that it was Qin Min's cell phone! A man stepped down, and the siren suddenly stopped. Qin Min had already run away. The two men chased after her. Qin Min was panting and her strength became weaker and weaker. Finally, she was caught by the two men. A man cursed: "Damn it, the mobile phone *** is using the siren sound, you are sick." Then he grabbed her hair. At the critical moment, the siren sounded loudly again, and a man cursed: "It's so annoying, I didn't trample the phone, but here it comes again..." Before he could finish his words, dazzling lights came on from the corner, and the police car rushed over like a whirlwind. The police descended from the sky and took him back to his hometown. Although his parents were unhappy, they eventually acquiesced in their relationship. In that golden autumn when the branches were covered with red persimmons, she became his beautiful bride. The two robbers were caught. The pendant is an ivory seal engraved with a Chinese name - "Huang Boping". This seal was specially carved by Kimiko after the war.
At the trade fair, Kimiko accidentally met a Japanese overseas Chinese. During the conversation, Kimiko told the other party her troubles. Knowing that Kimiko still treasured such a youthful emotion in her old age, the overseas Chinese was so moved that he immediately called his brother in Shanghai to help find Huang Boping.
Half a month later, Kimiko received a letter from Shanghai: "We have contacted Huang Boping. His wife died of illness 4 years ago, leaving him with a son and a daughter. The children are still alive." Out of town." The letter also included Huang Boping's address.
The miracle really happened. Over the years, disappointment has stung Kimiko's heart again and again, and now there is finally news about her former lover. That night, Kimiko couldn't sleep.
Can I really combine with that "Chinese youth" and realize the promise made in the summer of 18? Do we really have to spend our twilight years adapting to a strange country? Do you really want to get along with that person named Huang Boping, who may be a stranger? When she was sure that her answer was yes, Kimiko got up and wrote a long letter to Huang Boping in Shanghai all night, describing her ups and downs after the breakup and her high expectations for Huang Boping. At the end of the letter, she wrote: His long-cherished wish: "I learned that my wife has passed away. Since you and I are both single at present, can we hold a wedding in our late seventies to fulfill our promise?"
After putting down the pen, Kimiko seemed to feel A letter is not enough to express my attachment to Huang Boping. So, she... At that time, Li Bing was really afraid that she and Deng Chengde would break up, but Deng Cheng did not compromise. Deng's father was so angry that he didn't even eat and got on the train home again, which made Li Bing feel guilty. Later, Li Bing took the initiative to visit Deng Cheng's hometown several times. As soon as he entered the house, he helped his mother cook, diagnosed his grandmother's pulse and measured her blood pressure... Seeing these sincere actions of hers, Deng Cheng's father slowly accepted it. Thanks to her father's careful care, Yang Jia developed the courses she taught in graduate school in full swing. All of Yang Jia's students are doctoral students. Because she is very flexible in her classes and never follows a script, her class is overflowing with students. In a classroom with a capacity of 40 people, more than 170 people are vying to sign up. Once, in the evaluation of the teaching quality of the Department of Foreign Languages ??of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, doctoral students gave her a high score of 98. The students wrote affectionately: "Teacher Yang, we cannot use appropriate words to describe your style. Your connotation is so Rich, your lectures are so vivid, in addition to acquiring knowledge, we also gained fun and principles of life..." She took out the tape recorder and recorded a song she wrote and composed. The song sang: "The dream of youth/The silver beach in summer/Light up love forever..." The next morning, Kimiko recorded the song. Together with the long letter and the photos of Huang Boping that he had carefully preserved for 50 years, he sent them to Shanghai.
When Huang Boping received Kimiko's letter, he was so excited that he couldn't calm down for a long time. In fact, before that, when he learned about Kimiko, he thought for a long time and told the messenger: "Forget it, what happened so many years ago is not very interesting anymore." But after reading the letter, he never expected that This Japanese woman is so infatuated. Listening to Kimiko's soulful singing, Huang Boping was moved to tears and immediately replied to the letter, hoping that Kimiko could come to him soon.
On Christmas Eve half a year later, Kimiko took a flight from Japan to China. At Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Huang Boping was waiting early with flowers in hand. Although they were separated for nearly half a century, they were lovers after all. Huang Boping quickly recognized Kimiko in the crowd. He quickly stepped forward and presented the beautiful and fragrant bouquet of flowers to his fiancée who had come from afar. At this moment, the two people crossed the 50-year gap and hugged each other gently, and both could not help but shed tears of joy.
Three days later, Huang Boping and Kimiko came to the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage. The Sino-Japanese lovers, who had been in love for half a century, finally got married. The children of both parties expressed their blessings to them. This year, Huang Boping was 68 years old and Kimiko was 67 years old.
A 10-year engagement
After 50 years of loving each other, we were finally reunited. That time was as sweet as honey. Every morning when they wake up, Huang Boping and Kimiko begin to talk to each other. Like many years ago, they still use simple Chinese characters plus English to communicate.
Huang Boping told Kimiko about his experience in the rest of his life: "Because he was 'searched by the Japanese', he lived in a cowshed for 8 years. Later, he found a janitor job in a party school with the help of fellow refugees. Now he is retired. "Although Kimiko didn't understand why people wanted to live in a cowshed, she generally knew that her actions back then had brought a lot of trouble to her lover, and her heart was full of tenderness for her lover.
The past events that Kimiko told also made Huang Boping sigh.
He took Kimiko's hand and said with regret: "If there had been no war, we wouldn't have been separated, and everything wouldn't have been so bad!"
Before going to bed every night, Kimiko always said Huang Boping would reluctantly say: "Ping, I'm going to sleep, we have to meet again after many hours." At this time, Huang Boping would gently hold her in his arms until they fell asleep.
The romance 50 years ago, the reunion 50 years later, we should be together in our old age, so it will continue happily. However, life is not as perfect as a fairy tale after all. The cultural differences between the two made them often have conflicts in their lives. Gradually, Big S's eyes became moist. Yes, falling in love is beautiful, but to reach the end of a happy marriage, it requires understanding and tolerance from both parties. Fortunately, they are working in this direction! sudden. According to Kimiko's living standards, everything must be perfect. Liu Yu stretched out his hand and hugged his wife tightly in his arms. It's beautiful, and Huang Boping has developed the habit of living a not-so-bad life even if he doesn't live well over the years.
On the first night of their reunion, Kimiko asked Huang Boping to sit on the edge of the bed and squat down to wash his feet with soap. "No, I'll wash it myself." Huang Boping felt that he should wash his feet by himself, and there seemed to be no need for soap, but he couldn't refuse too much. Fortunately, Kimiko didn't accept his "resistance" at all. She silently brought a basin of hot water with small steps, placed it at Huang Boping's feet, put a piece of soap on it, and then half-crouched and half-knelt down to take off his socks... After that Kimiko is a Japanese woman who washes her husband's feet every day.
Gradually, while Kimiko’s perfection gave the home a new look, Huang Boping also felt that life was becoming more and more difficult. Kimiko was used to everything at home being in order. Even Huang Boping's washed handkerchiefs and socks had to be ironed to have sharp edges.
One day, Kimiko was washing dishes and said to Huang Boping: "The cement pool is so unhygienic that you can't even see the dirt on it. It must be covered with white ceramic tiles." Huang Boping felt guilty: Japan "loves" The inspector from the "Committee" came again. "No need, the pool is very clean." In Shanghai in the 1980s, few people had tiles in their homes, and Huang Boping tried to maintain his original lifestyle. "It must be posted!" Kimiko was a little anxious and didn't know how to express her persistence. She gestured to Huang Boping for a long time. Seeing that he still didn't agree, she simply pushed him out of the door and closed the door, meaning to let him buy it. . Huang Boping, who was pushed out of the door, had a wry smile on his face and shook his head helplessly.
In Huang Boping's view, Kimiko did nothing wrong. Her first love was frustrated and she pursued fame and fortune. Everything was constructive, but the atmosphere at home was still getting more and more tense. Even Kimiko herself realized it and kept explaining that she just wanted to make the two of them live more comfortably and hygienicly.
As time went by, there were fewer and fewer topics to talk about between the two people. They often looked at each other, but could not see each other's hearts. Huang Boping began to choose to escape. He went to Fuxing Park every morning and afternoon, ostensibly telling Kimiko that he was going to exercise, but he knew in his heart that he was actually trying to avoid her. He was afraid that Kimiko would be perfect and that he would have nothing to say to her.
It is conceivable that the two people have lived the same troubled life for 50 years, but they are two distinct experiences. When the memories of the 18-year-old are chewed over and over again, these two old people in their twilight years are confused. , how should we help each other?
This gentle yet contradictory life might have continued like this if nothing had happened. However, in early 1995, Kimiko unfortunately suffered from a serious illness. Because she is a foreigner, she cannot enjoy public labor insurance medical care in Shanghai, and all Japanese insurances are not available in China. She frequently goes in and out of the hospital, causing the two elderly people who are not well-off to spend almost all their savings. They feel that Heavy economic pressure.
One afternoon, Huang Boping accompanied Kimiko back home after a follow-up consultation. Kimiko pulled him forward and bowed to him. This bow was so deep that just this bow made the two people feel a sense of strangeness growing between them. Kimiko said in Chinese: "What should I do if I get sick again?" As soon as the words came out, although a layer of paper was not broken, both of them knew what they meant.
In June of that year, 78-year-old Shanghainese Huang Boping and his 77-year-old Japanese wife Kimiko Saida filed for divorce with the court on the grounds that language barrier, personality incompatibility, and poor health led to the breakdown of their relationship. , was the oldest person involved in the divorce in China at that time because of the beautiful and peaceful smile on this face. case.
After returning to Japan, Kimiko was admitted to a well-equipped welfare hospital because she had medical insurance. After Huang Boping learned about it, he said with emotion: "Kimiko, what a passionate woman she is!" After 50 years of longing, the old couple had been husband and wife for 10 years. In any case, the two of them finally got together in this life, and they had no regrets in each other's hearts.
Marriage and Lovesickness of the Century