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Xiao Yin: When I was in school, one of my classmates was from a city commoner, and he was very trusted by the organization because of his good class composition in that era. When I graduated and went to the border, she was retained as a researcher. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was naturally a member of the rebels. After the "reform and opening up", she suddenly announced that she was a close relative of the last emperor's concubine. "Wow! Cinderella became a princess overnight. Since the release of the information, colleagues who have worked with it for decades are all stunned. In the end, the appropriate unit implemented welfare housing, and she sent a report to the United Front Work Department, stating the aristocratic status of the emperor's relatives in order to seek the united front. The report was forwarded to the Ministry of Culture (directly under the Chinese Academy of Arts, where I worked). As a result, the expectations of the "united front" were met, and the requirements of the division of the house were realized. (Excerpt from "The Last Aristocrat: The Impression of Kang Tongbi's Mother and Daughter")

The first target plane, the old city of Běijīng.

After discussing the general framework of the "Asian League" in the Great Hall of the People and setting down the number of military advisers, instructors, and weapons and equipment needed by overseas Chinese, as well as how to coordinate with the operational landing, the time was already around 6 p.m. Tan Kah Kee, an overseas Chinese leader in Singapore, Li Qingquan, chairman of the Philippine Chinese Entrepreneur Association, and Zhuang Xiyan, a patriotic overseas Chinese leader in Indonesia, did not go directly to the Baiyue Hotel, but went to the old town of Běijīng, the home of Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter, accompanied by Tang Wei (Wang Fan), to participate in a private small party.

Kang Tongbi, female, character Wenpei, name Hua Hu, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in February 1886. Kang Youwei is the second daughter and one of the most talented children of Kang Youwei. As a young man, she traveled around Europe with her father, was received by the Prime Minister of Denmark, and was commissioned by her father to speak to the Stars and Stripes in Europe. It can be said that she is a kind of model of the "great achievement" of the education of the Yanhuang jīng Ying class and the ruling class during the Yanhuang Republic of China and the feudal period: she is knowledgeable, well-behaved, capable, insightful, and thoughtful.

Of course, this does not mean that she is a perfect person, because there are rumors in the market that "Kang Tongbi is very reluctant to let his daughter associate with men in his later years, and wants to keep his daughter by his side forever to take care of himself." Once, Aunt Lejia of Tongrentang came to talk to Luo Yifeng. Within a few minutes, Kang Lao kicked Aunt Le out of the door." It's hard to say whether the above is true or not, but when Kang Tongbi died, because his daughter was by his side, he walked relatively safely. But after her death, her daughter has never worked (she had been living on Kang Tongbi's salary earlier), and has no other source of income, her ancestral family property was extorted by the hired men, and the property was confiscated, and finally she could only live alone in two small houses for the rest of her life, which is indeed an embarrassing fact.

According to the history of the main plane, when the Red Party had just been founded, because Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter belonged to progressives, not only was the property they inherited from their ancestors not "confiscated", but the Red Party also arranged for Kang Tongbi to be a member of the CPPCC and other positions. The higher income and the accumulation of ancestors allowed Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter to maintain a decent, jīng-style, and aristocratic life. But later, due to the New Culture Movement, their mansion was occupied by a head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter had to move to a side courtyard to live, fortunately they did not lose their temporary jobs at that time, and their income was still guaranteed, about 100 yuan per month (at that time, ordinary workers were about 15~20 yuan per month), and they could still basically maintain the original standard of living.

In the first target plane, due to Wang Fan's existence, he not only followed the principle of protecting legitimate private property in the main plane, but also fine-tuned some policies. For example, Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter have very high knowledge and artistic accomplishments, so in terms of job arrangement, in addition to the position of CPPCC member, Yanhuang Xin zhèngfǔ also specially hired them, together with Zhang Boju, Pan Su and others, to serve in the Yanhuang traditional culture inheritance and development group, and jointly formulate how to promote the jīng marrow education and inheritance of ancient Yanhuang culture in the vast area of Yanhuang in a planned and timetable manner.

East 40 Hejiakou mansion, the home of Kang Tongbi's mother and daughter. At this time, a private party was being held in a large house in the courtyard. The whole house is so big that it seems that it can't be seen at a glance, and the house is very particular about placing a real eight-screen carved floor partition door in the upper and lower air, the wood is of high quality, and the carving is first-class, creating a gorgeous atmosphere for the hall. The movable glass sliding doors on both sides of the room are all opened, so that the entire living room can accommodate the maximum number of guests.

"Mr. Tan Kah Kee, Mr. Li Qingquan, Mr. Zhuang Xiyan, welcome to the Humble House." As the owner, Kang Tongbi was dressed in a cheongsam with black satin and dark flowers, and the neckline and cuffs were inlaid with two extremely beautiful ribbons. The silk is embroidered with flowers, birds, bees and butterflies. The butterfly dance flowers depicted by Jīng fine embroiderers seem to want to flow out of the cuffs and collar of the exuberance of life and the liveliness of chūn days. And in order to look more formal and solemn, she also painted a little light dress on her face and sprayed some perfume on her body.

"Ms. Kang, I've been hearing your name for a long time, and now I finally see you. The high style and brightness of Lord Lingzun are admirable. Tan Kah Kee, the leader of overseas Chinese in Singapore, shook hands with Kang Tongbi and thanked him.

"Thank you for your compliment, my father will be very happy to see that there are so many distinguished guests here today." After thanking them, following Kang Tongbi's body language gesture and guidance, the guests came to the reception area of the house, where there were Western-style sofas, Chinese-style chairs, and long case bars, which were filled with all kinds of food and utensils: coffee, Indian black tea, Fujian Da Hong Pao, and Hangzhou Longjing. In addition, dried chrysanthemums, sugar cubes, and refined rǔ are also available. Several sets of Phnom Penh rǔ white sè fine porcelain cups and saucers, which are specially used for drinking coffee; A few glasses are prepared for drinking dragon wells; Eating black tea or tasting big red robes are two sets of Yixing tea sets. There are also two blue and white bowls on the side. The biscuits, cakes, and sugar that accompany the tea are specially bought from a famous food store in the old town of Běijīng. This time, in order to entertain guests from afar, Luo Yifeng (Kang Tongbi's daughter) can be said to be fully prepared and poured out.

With the passage of time, starting from the nostalgia for Kang Youwei, everyone's chatterbox gradually opened. In addition to Kang Youwei's shortcomings as a royalist who are not very "progressive", he is versatile, erudite and benevolent, like the great modern painter Xu Beihong, if there is no Kang Youwei's care, he has a place to study abroad at official expense, so that he can live a more comfortable life in France with Jiang Biwei. I'm afraid that he will be forced by a life of one meal and three meals, and he will not be able to concentrate on painting, and whether he can finally achieve the same achievements and status in history, it remains to be said. Of course, talking about Kang Youwei is for politeness, and from here, everyone talked about domestic and overseas news, old stories of Juyuan, stories in the literary world, and all kinds of gossip, funny stories, etc.

During the banquet, Luo Yifeng carried a shiny small copper kettle and kept pouring tea and water for the guests. Today she wore a cheongsam with a black brocade texture and dark red sè soft satin trim, long black stockings on her legs, and a pair of extremely chic scarlet felt shoes on her feet. The hair was also straightened and tied into a pair of braids with red silk threads. Not only is the girl dressed up, but the red and black sè dress her up from top to bottom. Of course, in addition to her, there were several female guests, all of whom wore high heels, dressed in brocade cheongsams, and all of them had red lips and white teeth, charming and moving. All of them are relatives and descendants of deceased people or friends who have studied or lived in the West and have interacted with Nanyang overseas Chinese organizations.

Wang Fan (disguised as Tang Wei) looked at the people who were chatting happily, and the guests who popped out of their mouths from time to time, for some reason suddenly felt bored, and after saying a little sorry, he came to the courtyard alone to rest.

"What's wrong?" Yadi asked in Wang Fan's brain.

"It's nothing, I just feel that I am too different from them in terms of knowledge and conversation, there is nothing to talk about together, there is not much common language, and I feel a little depressed." Comrade Wang Fan, who was only at the bottom of the society before the adventure and had no accumulated talent himself, said with some self-deprecation.

"I feel like you're not going well." Yadi felt that Wang Fan's brain waves were a little abnormal and asked.

"Yadi, what do you mean by 'noble'?" Wang Fan didn't answer, but asked a question, but it seemed to be asking himself, and then he replied: "The word 'noble' can be seen everywhere in later generations, what hereditary nobles, oriental nobles, white-collar aristocrats, single aristocrats, Jinka nobles, jīng god nobles, etc. The pictures that go with it are nothing more than mansions and villas, beautiful cars and clothes, and delicious food and wine. They are the ideals of many men and the dreams of countless young girls. In that environment, I saw some rich people and rich second-generation people showing off luxury houses, famous cars, and beauties, and I really didn't feel anything. Because I know very well that these guys have no goods in their stomachs, and if they lose these substances, they will be the same as me. But Kang Tongbi and others, their talent and conversation make me feel a little inferior. You know, it's painful to not keep up with your mind. ”

"I know, you have been hit, you have some inferiority, haha~~" Yadi understood Wang Fan's depression and teased.

"Damn it, Yadi, you bastard!" Wang Fan was exposed, and he was a little annoyed and angry.

"Okay, I'm not going to tease you." Yadi explained: "According to the information I collected in later generations, the so-called 'nobles' are also true and false. The concept of aristocracy in later generations of the main plane basically only focused on having money, and ignored everything else. But in reality, the true aristocratic gentleman has a dual relationship with material money. On the one hand, they are in the upper class of society, and they must have money in their hands to maintain a noble and comfortable life; On the other hand, a true aristocratic gentleman looks down on money and does not attach great importance to material things. The aristocracy must have a conscience, integrity, impartiality, not afraid of difficulties, and so on. ”

"But there are very few such people."

"Yes, most people have forgotten these things because of the non-pursuit of the gods and the compulsion of life. But Wang Fan, I think you're a bit of a bull. ”

"Huh?"

"Think about it, do you get along very happily with Lao Mao, Zhu De and others, very casually?"

"That's right."

This shows that most of the leadership of Xinyanhuang are mud-legged or from humble backgrounds. Without a sufficient material foundation, it is impossible to cultivate the so-called true aristocracy. But you have to understand, for a nation, which is more important, the nobles, who account for 1% of the total population, or the ordinary people, who account for 99%? Is it important to be fascinated by the elegant life of the former, or is it important to improve the standard of living of the majority of the latter? It's not really the latter of what you've been doing and what you're pursuing! ”

"You're right, I'm a little biased. In the future, Yanhuang will be rich, civilized, rich, and progressive, so that most people can live this aristocratic life, and through the efforts of several generations, the Yanhuang nation as a whole will be gentle and elegant, polite and thoughtful, which is the greatest contribution to the nation. Thank you, Yadea. ”

"You're welcome, there are some things that you are used to seeing and not accustomed to seeing, all of which are life. Isn't it true that everyone enjoys their favorite lifestyle on the premise of abiding by the law? ”

"That's a great thing!"