Deeds related to history

Jia Xi Garden, Dongping Road 1, used to be an old-fashioned garden house covering an area of more than three acres. The building is three stories high with a red roof and yellow walls. The interior decoration is exquisite, and there are exquisite carvings wherever there are wooden decorations. There is a beautiful inner corridor in the south of the ground floor of the small building, which protrudes in the middle. Both sides converge to the north, and there are two ivory marble columns on the left and right, which are very elegant. Looking out from the inner corridor, there is a wide and flat lawn with leisure umbrellas, small bamboo chairs and stools, children's toys and a tennis court. When friends come, you can pull the net to play ball.

This place is now famous at home and abroad because of the flagship store of Jia Xi Garden Restaurant. Although the garden and grass on the south side of the small building have disappeared, only a small building is left, and the narrow back door is now the gate. The scale is far from that of that year. But because of the reputation of the Xi family and the food of this group, there are still many guests every day.

Many people think that this is the former residence of Xi Demao, general manager of Bank of China in the 1940s, because that's what the advertisement for Jia Xi Garden Hotel originally said. In fact, they made a mistake. It was not Sid Mao, but Sid Handle (also written by Sid Bing, 1892- 1968), and it was Sid Mao's younger brother.

Sid Hand is not as famous as his brother, but he is also an important figure in the financial circles of the Republic of China. He studied in America in his early years and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His homework was excellent, and he was the first among the same graduates when he graduated. But after returning to China, he has been engaged in fiscal and taxation work for a long time. He used to be the secretary of the Ministry of Finance during the Beiyang government, the deputy director of the Local Taxation Bureau of Jianghekou, the inspector general of Jianghan Customs, the director of the Central Mint Bureau, and the general manager of Fuxing Trading Company. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he also served as the general manager of Shanghai Fufeng Flour Factory (that is, the liberated Shanghai Flour Factory), among which he served as the director of the Central Mint Bureau for a long time. So he was also very influential in the financial circles of the Republic of China.

Sid handle studied engineering abroad, but after returning to China, he worked in finance, which probably has a lot to do with their financial status and business tradition. He was born in the Xishi family in Dongshan, Suzhou. This family is a famous financial family and comprador family in modern China. A large number of influential bankers and industrialists have emerged. They are called Dongting Gang in the banking industry. Xi Fu, the comprador of HSBC, the largest foreign bank in modern China, was Sid's grandfather.

Sid Hand's brother Sid Mao is even more eye-catching in the financial world. He is a trained financier (Master of Business, University of Birmingham, UK). After returning to China, he first made self-operated international remittances and later became a comprador of Huayi Bank. After the Northern Expedition, Song Ziwen, the finance minister, took the central bank as his arm and successively served as the director of the Bureau of Commerce and the general manager of the Exchange Bureau. From 65438 to 0948, he served as the general manager of China Bank, but his brother was still related to the Song family. In other words, Xi De Mao's youngest daughter, Xi Meiying, married Song Ziwen's younger brother, Song Ziliang. Therefore, the environment in which Jia Xi Garden is located is exquisite, and it is the top home location in Shanghainese's mind. In addition, it is close to Ailu (the villa of Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling) at No.9 Dongping Road, not far from Song Ziwen's mansion (Yueyang Road 145). The surrounding environment is quiet and tree-lined, and the garden is next to the garden. The White House, the director of the French Concession Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the famous foreigner Permen's mansion are all in this area. Sid Hand's wife is a young lady of the Huang family in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province (the Huang family is a big family, and the former site of the Huang ancestral hall is still there). She was born in the south of the Yangtze River and has a good figure. They have eight children, a man and seven women. The only son is Xi Yuwen, who looks like his father and has a long face. His seven daughters are all like their mothers, all as beautiful as flowers and jade. Therefore, in Xi's garden, not only the old man Sid Hand is famous, but also a group of beautiful ladies in his family are famous. she

Most children study among girls in the west of this city. Before the Anti-Japanese War, there was a car at home. Send it on Monday morning and pick it up on Saturday next week. You can only go home once every two weeks. At that time, not many families drove their children to school, and not many families jumped out of the car with a group of beautifully dressed ladies.

Miss Jia Xi was born in Jia Xi Garden. Before the Anti-Japanese War, her family lived a very quiet life. Father goes to work and they go to school. Mother does housework at home. There are five servants at home, including a driver, a gardener, a cook, a doorman and a maid. Generally housework is not very troublesome. They often go shopping by car with their mother on Sundays. In autumn and winter, they always wear a beautiful sweater which was knitted by their mother. Mom's hands are very dexterous. She can do many tricks that are not available in shops. She is the first graduate of Chinese and Western Girls' Middle School, and her English is very good. When reading a foreign newspaper, she will pay attention to the clothes of the stars in the newspaper, especially the clothes of Shirley Temple, a child star, and will slowly knit them out with a sweater needle. She used her love. When daughters go out, they are always very bright and make people shine.

And stone are the first-rate girls, which is the so-called "mixed row of men and women". If only the daughter is counted, she is single. She looks more like her mother than her sister with a round face. Fair skin. A pair of big eyes always show tenderness and sympathy. I am a new friend. I think she is very weak.

Feng, a little girl who will cry at any time. In fact, there is also a very calm, restrained and strong side in her character. She likes to think and solve problems independently, but she doesn't like to show her face. She has the characteristics of softness on the outside and rigidity on the inside. When she was in primary school, she had an ambition-she must be a teacher when she grows up, and she must be a teacher for blind children! The emergence of this ambition is closely related to an experience I had when I was a child in Shanghai. '

Miss Xi's family is like many old Shanghai. I like to eat Soviet sweet snacks in the boss's room. When the family car goes out to do business, it goes to the boss's house by car. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, their father went to Chongqing. Without a car at home, he relied more on rickshaws. However, when snacks are bought back, they often encounter disappointing situations. Just as they were happily getting on the bus, a group of little beggars suddenly appeared from the side and took their snacks! At first, I was scared and surprised. How did this happen? After several encounters, she gradually understood. Those poor children are naked. It seems that they are really hungry, so they gradually forgive them, not hate them, but sympathize with them. Especially when I see some blind children begging on the roadside, I can't help but give them some snacks. At that time, she didn't understand why these children were like this and where their parents went. Why is nobody in charge of them?

Before he was ten years old, Xi vowed to be a teacher when he grew up, not only as a teacher for blind children, but also as a school for blind children. Tell all the blind children in the street to study in her school! Let them live a happy life. This oath has almost become her life goal for a long time. As the saying goes, "Three generations are not rich". When the Xi family arrived, this generation had been rich for four generations. They used to live a comfortable, decent and carefree life, and they didn't have to think about anything but reading and entertainment. However, 1937 after the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes, bringing more and more troubles and even bad news.

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, my father went to Chongqing, my brother and Wen went to the United States to study, and my mother stayed in Shanghai with her sisters. During this period, the situation in Shanghai became more and more tense, Japanese forces had infiltrated into the concession, and social security was also very bad. At that time, the eldest daughter of the family had died of illness, only the third daughter married Zhao, and the rest were still studying. For the safety and future of her daughters, the mother tried her best to send them to study in the United States, which was on the eve of the Pacific War. The first to arrange disembarkation are the elder, Ming and Xuan.

Who knows, not long after they left, news came that an American cruise ship was bombed off the coast of Hawaii and the Japanese and Americans went to war. The information was very ill-informed at that time. It is impossible to know which ship was bombed. Xi's family is very anxious. According to the sailing date, they think that two young ladies must have been killed. The news was a fatal blow to their mother. I suddenly collapsed, I couldn't eat or sleep, and my body lost a lot. Later, although Ming

To put it bluntly, Ming and Xuan were not on the bombed ship, but their mother's body could not be recovered, and due to the shortage of drugs in wartime, they could not get timely and effective treatment. Finally, she died of typhoid fever. At that time, Heshi was only twelve years old. They are in the first grade of junior high school, and Hejing and Heyun are still primary school students.

At this time, there were only three little girls left in Xi's garden. At the age of twelve, Heshi became a big sister. They arranged their mother's funeral with their third sister and brother-in-law. They couldn't bear to walk past their mother's door every day, so they went to Third Sister's seat and Zhao's house. Zhang Changchun, the third brother-in-law, is a right and wrong person.

A warm and generous man accepted three little sisters without saying anything.

But this temporary calm is not long. A few years later, they won War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. They finally hope that their father will return to Shanghai. Although my father no longer serves as the director of the Central Mint and the general manager of Fuxing Trading Company. But in a well-known private enterprise-Shanghai Fufeng Flour Factory (the first flour mill in China, founded in 1898) as the general manager. After all, the family can get together, and they can go back to the long-lost Jia Xi Garden. But they face a new problem-they have to face a new mother (Sid married Ouyang's family after his wife died). What makes them sad is that their youngest sister and Yun suddenly died one day! This is a tragedy of five deaths and two injuries-1On March 29th, 948, Yun went to Changshu for a spring outing with his father, stepmother and other relatives and friends, and drove to Taicang County, but unfortunately there was a car accident. Five people were killed and two injured in the car.

In the face of this series of sudden changes, the naive seats and times have gradually matured. She gradually realized that society is simply a bottomless "magic world". Wealth comes and goes, and the road of life will not always be sunny. If you want to be a strong man in life, you must be strong, face the reality bravely and forge your own path.

1948, her father sent her and her sister and Jing to America, where they went to college and left their garden. My father retired soon and came to the United States to run a small farm in the suburbs of new york with Chen Lifu and other party officials. They can't get fixed assets such as houses on the mainland, so the economic backing at home is naturally not so solid. Although Fufeng Flour Mill has a lot of shares, it is useless in America-she must invest in her future life with a new attitude.