10 years of marriage, half a century of love

It's really time to go. Huang Boping's eyes are a little fuzzy, and his hand wiped his eyes. Ten years ago, he welcomed Himiko here with flowers; Ten years later, see off Hi Meiko to the same airport, only their two lines of old tears. The past 50 years ago came back to me.

Love at first sight

In the summer of 1936, Huang Boping, 19, came to Qingdao from his hometown of Haimen after graduating from high school and took what was then a respectable job as a clerk in a haute couture shop. One day, two young girls in cheongsam came to the shop. Huang Boping quickly greeted the guests with a smile and warmly introduced the new goods to them.

Huang Boping saw one of the girls grow fair skin, petite and lovely, not much like the local people, then recommended to her a silk: "Miss, do you like this roll of yellow silk?" "Then, he" wow "a sound to the eyes of the" provincial girl "unfolded a piece of yellow thin silk.

Unexpectedly, the girl looked at him blankly, unable to understand what he was saying. It turned out that she was not a Chinese, but a Japanese visiting Qingdao. This, Huang Boping some embarrassed. How do you communicate? Suddenly, Huang Boping thought that there are many Chinese characters in Japanese, why not write it out to try? So he began to talk to the girl using handwritten Chinese characters and simple English conversation.

Huang Boping's this move, let the atmosphere at a draught cheerful rise. Through the writing, Huang Boping know the girl called Kita Meizi, to the store is to make a cheongsam. And Hi Meizi noticed that the eyes of Huang Boping long tall stature, dressed in a fit dark suit jacket and rice white suit pants, appears gentle and handsome, the heart of goodwill arises spontaneously. At Huang Boping's recommendation, that piece of yellow thin silk was cut into Qipao. For 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 by writing. Huang Boping gradually learned that 18 years old Saitian hi Meizi is Japan Fukuoka famous family Saitian's youngest and most beautiful daughter, his father is "West Japan news agency" deputy editor-in-chief.

This summer, the first love of the heart in two people unconsciously gradually stretch. The first outing, the first time to the beach, the first hand......

But it was a fight that sealed their relationship. That day, a greasy face of the small open shop to see hi Meizi. Pure and pleasant pleasant son immediately attracted the attention of small open, small open put down the hands of things to chat up. See Hi Meizi ignored, small open then smiled happily to reach out to want to touch Hi Meizi's face. Huang Boping sees this with anger, rushes forward to small open when chest is a fist. The side of the happy Meizi see the usual humble Chinese unexpectedly for their desperate fight with people, moved. In her heart, the young Japanese woman felt that only deep love could make such an action. She told herself, "Marry Huang Boping." This fight, not only for happy beautiful son solved encircled, it is the feeling that lets two people rise rapidly.

The trip is over, and Kimiko is going back to Japan. On the day of the parting, Huang gave Himiko a photo of himself. "Huang Boping! She called his name in stiff Chinese and then revealed her secret to Huang on the page, telling him to wait for her. Huang Boping looked at this and pulled Himiko's hand tightly. His palm was cold and sweaty, while her hand was hot. This strange feeling, many years later, Huang Boping can still remember clearly.

In this way, the exotic lovers who fell in love at first sight made the engagement, and they parted with longing and hope for the future.

War broke out and the men were separated

When they returned to Japan, they wrote to each other to enhance their mutual affection. Every week, Kimiko receives love letters from China, fervent love sent across the sea to the Saida family's ancient courtyard.

The Saitian family has a fondness for Chinese culture, and Kimiko's grandfather once founded a Chinese Academy. His father was silent and acquiesced to his daughter's "love for China". In May 1937, her father said to her, "During the summer vacation, please invite Huang Jun to Fukuoka." Both Kimiko and Huang were overjoyed to get their father's permission. "During this period, I quit my job and went back to my hometown to review my lessons and prepare to go to Shanghai for college," Huang said in his letter. "I will definitely visit you in the summer vacation." The letter, dated May 14, 1937, turned out to be Huang's last love letter to Himiko.

July 7, the Lugou Bridge incident. The war of Resistance against Japan broke out in the round, so that the lovers who love each other suddenly lost contact. The blank space and time that cannot meet each other, aggravated the yearning of happy beautiful son to Huang Boping more. Driven by love, Hi Meiko travels to China to find out what happened to her fiance.

Hi Meizi tried all methods to find him in the hometown of Huang Boping Haimen, but nothing, at this time of Huang Boping has said in the letter went to Shanghai to make a living. At that time the war situation chaos, but the next happy Meizi can only disconsolately set foot on the way home.

In 1942, five years after they lost contact, the war was raging. After much persuasion from her parents, 24-year-old Kimiko finally agreed to marry a Singaporean Japanese. Around this time, in early 1943, Huang Boping married a rural girl in his hometown.

After marriage, Hi Meizi is very unfortunate, actually from her husband there infected with venereal disease, the husband is merciless does not explain for her, let conservative father-in-law drove her back to the Japanese family. From then on, Hi Meizi can only live with her only daughter. Mr. Huang, who lives in Shanghai, has a son and a daughter. During the Cultural Revolution, his life was rather bleak. In 1981, his wife died of illness.

The pain of the war of resistance against Japan, let Huang Boping and Qi Tian hi Meizi between all vows of eternal love have become a dream.

And then 50 years later

After the end of World War II, Saitian's mountain forests and land were distributed to farmers without compensation. His father died of depression, and as a married daughter, Himiko received almost no inheritance.

In the hard years after the defeat, Kimiko worked as a vendor, a nursemaid, and even traded her ancestral kimono for cans from 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, she had a kind of missing in her heart. She spelled "Huang" in English letters on the sign of the bar. No one knew what it meant, only she knew it was "Huang" in her heart. Hi Meizi in harsh reality, with the warmth of the past warm their tired body and mind.

As time went by, Sino-Japanese relations improved day by day. After the treaty of peace and friendship between Japan and China is signed, the flame of love buried in the heart of hi Meizi burns again, she looks forward to the appearance of the miracle, began to inquire the whereabouts of Huang Boping in all directions.

The city of Fukuoka, where she lives, holds an annual China Products Exhibition. In the spring of 1985, as she did every year, Yoshiko dressed up for the opening ceremony of the China Exhibition. This seal was carved by Kimiko after the war.

At the trade fair, she met a Japanese overseas Chinese by accident. During the conversation, Kimiko told the other party about her distress. The feeling that is still collecting so a piece of youth incredibly in the heart that learns happy beautiful child old age, this overseas Chinese is moved extremely, make a phone call to let the younger brother that is in Shanghai to help search Huang Boping immediately.

Half a month later, Himiko received a letter from Shanghai: "Huang Boping has been contacted. His wife died of illness four years ago, leaving him with a son and a daughter, both of whom are away from home." The letter also attached Huang's address.

The miracle really came. Over the years, disappointment has stung Himiko's heart again and again, and now there is finally news of her former lover. That night, Kimiko could not sleep. I really can with the "Chinese youth" union, the realization of the summer of 18 years old agreement? Do you really have to adjust to a strange country in your old age? Really want to and that call Huang Boping, but perhaps already very strange person day and night?

When determine whether your answer is yes, xi she got up to in Shanghai Huang Boping overnight wrote a long letter, stated the respectively after the experience of the past eventful and hopeful expectations of Huang Boping wrote his long-cherished wish at the end of letter: "to learn that your wife has died, given you are single, I can again after almost three score and ten years wedding, with practice before about?"

After putting down her pen, she seemed to feel that a letter was not enough to express her love for Huang. So she took out a recorder and recorded a song she wrote and composed. The song sang: "The dream of youth/the silver beach of summer/will light up love forever..." The next morning, Kimiko sent the song to Shanghai, along with a long letter and a photo of Huang that she had carefully kept for 50 years.

When Huang Boping received the letter from Hi Meizi, the excitement in his heart could not calm down for a long time. In fact, when he got the news about Kimiko, he thought about it for a long time and told the messenger, "Forget it, it's not so interesting after all these years." But after reading the letter, he never expected this Japanese woman so spoony. Listening to Himiko's affectionate singing, Huang Boping was moved to tears and immediately wrote back, hoping that Himiko could come to his side as soon as possible.

Half a year later, on Christmas Eve, Kimiko boarded a flight from Japan to China. At Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, Huang Boping held flowers and waited for him early. Although separated for nearly half a century, but after all, they were once lovers, Huang Boping quickly recognized Himiko in the crowd. He hurried forward and presented his beautiful and fragrant bouquet of flowers to his fiancee, who had come from afar. At this moment, both of them could not help shedding tears of joy as they hugged each other gently after a 50-year gap.

Three days later, Huang Boping and Himiko went to the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage. After half a century of marriage, the couple finally got married, and their children sent their blessings. That year, Huang was 68 and Kimiko was 67.

A 10-year engagement

50 years of acacia, finally can get together again, that time is as sweet as honey. Every morning, Huang Boping and Kimiko begin to tell each other their hearts. Like many years ago, they still use simple Chinese characters plus English to communicate.

"I lived in a cowshed for eight years because I was' hunted by the Japanese '," Huang told Himiko. "Then I got a job as a janitorial in a party school with the help of my friends. Now I'm retired." Although Yoshiko does not understand why people live in a cowshed, she generally knows that her actions brought great trouble to her lover, and her heart is full of tenderness for her lover.

The past that Hi Meizi tells, also let Huang Boping SOB unceasingly. He held her hand and said regretfully, "If there had not been a war, we would not have been separated and everything would not have been so bad!"

Every night before going to bed, Yoshiko would say sadly, "Ping, I'm going to bed. We'll see each other again for many hours." At this time, Huang Boping will gently hug her in his arms, until they fall asleep.

50 years ago romance, 50 years later together, old age should be accompanied by each other, so happy to go on. However, life is not as perfect as a fairy tale after all. The cultural differences between the two men have led to frequent skirmishes in their lives. According to Kimiko's standard of living, things must be perfect, and Huang Boping has developed a habit over the years of living a bad life and making do with a not too bad life.

On the first night of their reunion, Kimiko sat him down beside the bed and washed his feet with soap. "No, I'll wash it myself." Huang Boping felt that his feet should be washed by himself, and it seemed that he did not need soap, but he could not refuse too much. Every day since then, washing her husband's feet has been a habit for the Japanese woman.

Gradually, the perfection of happy beautiful son makes this home look brand-new while, also let Huang Boping feel the life is more and more laboured. Hi Meizi is used to everything in the house is orderly, even Huang Boping washed handkerchiefs and socks, also must be ironed sharp.

One day, while she was washing dishes, Himeiko said to Huang: "The cement pool is so unsanitary that it can't be seen if it is stained with dirt. Make sure you stick white tiles on it." Huang Boping in the heart straight false: the Japanese "love committee" inspector came again. "No, the sink is very clean." In Shanghai in the 1980s, when few people had tiled homes, Mr. Huang tried to maintain his old lifestyle. "Do it!" Hi Meizi a little anxious, and I do not know how to express their own insistence, towards Huang Boping for a long time, see him or not agree, simply put him out of the door, the door a close, meaning to let him go to buy. Pushed out of the door, Huang Boping, a wry smile, helplessly shook his head.

As far as Huang was concerned, Kimiko had done nothing wrong and everything had been constructive, but the atmosphere at home was still getting more and more tense. Even Kimiko realizes that, explaining that she is just trying to make their life more comfortable and hygienic.

With the passage of time, two people can talk about less and less topics, often look at each other, but can not see each other's soul, Huang Boping began to choose to escape. He went to the revival park once a day in the afternoon, on the surface to Hi Meiko said he was going to exercise, but he knew in his heart, in fact, to avoid her, he was afraid of Hi Meiko's perfection, afraid of nothing to say to her.

It is conceivable that they have lived the same sad life for 50 years, but they have two distinct experiences. When the memories of the year when they were 18 years old have been chewed repeatedly and tasteless, how can they help each other when they are in their twilight years?

This kind of both gentle and contradictory life, if there is no change may continue so. Unfortunately, in early 1995, Kimiko suffered a serious illness. Because she was a foreigner, she could not enjoy the public insurance in Shanghai, and all the insurance in Japan could not be used in China. Frequent visits to the hospital made the two poor old people almost spend all their savings, and they felt heavy economic pressure.

One afternoon, Huang Boping accompanied Himiko back home after a follow-up medical visit. Kimiko pulled him up to her and bowed to him. The bow was so deep that it made the strangeness swell between them. "What should I do if I get sick again?" said Himiko in Chinese. This word, although a layer of paper did not Pierce, but both knew what it meant.

In June of that year, Huang Boping, a 78-year-old man from Shanghai, and his 77-year-old Japanese wife, Yoshiko Saida, filed for divorce, citing language differences, personality differences and poor health as the reason for the breakdown of their relationship, making it the oldest divorce case in China.

After returning to Japan, Kimiko checked herself into a well-equipped welfare hospital because she had health insurance. When Huang Boping heard that, he said with emotion: "Hi Meizi, how much she is