In the main hall of Yuefei's old house in Tangyin, Henan Province, there is a statue of a young woman, plain clothes, with her plain face, sitting on the altar with the hero Yuefei. This is a statue, which is the protagonist of this article-Li Wa.

It is said that Li Wa is Yue Fei's second wife. Li Wa is enshrined here because of her contributions to the Yue family.

According to historical experts, Yue Fei had four older brothers, all of whom died. Yue Fei's birth name was Goro. Yue's family was a yeoman with several hundred acres of barren land. Later, the floods were disastrous, and the people were struggling. Yue's family made a living by selling farmland and borrowing money.

Yue Fei married Liu at the age of 16, and was born in Yue Yun the next year and Yue Lei seven years later. During this period, Yue Fei was recruited to join the army twice. By the age of 24, Yue Fei had grown into a conscious patriotic fighter. He went to Xiangzhou (now Anyang, Henan Province), joined the army for the third time, and resolutely went north to the front line against gold.

According to historical records, "Liu remarried twice, and Yue Yun and Yue Lei had to be raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Yao." The New Biography of Yue Fei wrote: "After the fall of Yue Fei's hometown, a fellow villager came to look for Yue Fei, told his mother Yao and his ex-wife Liu, and conveyed Yao's repeated exhortations:" Speak for me, encourage the son of heaven, and don't miss the old man. "

Yue Fei resented Liu's treachery, and the miserable situation of Yao, Yue Yun and Yue Lei made him restless and unwilling to eat. He sent people to sneak into tangyin county, 18 times before and after, and then took his mother and two sons to his barracks.

Wang Zengyu, an expert in Song history, said: "Yue Fei's original wife was Liu, and Liu remarried after Yue Fei joined the army. Marry another Li.

According to Qian Ruwen's Chronicle of Yue Fei, which quoted Jin Tuo Genealogy, "There is no Liu family, which should be taboo for future generations. In the Song Dynasty, it was common for women to remarry. It is mainly in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that women, especially widows, are forbidden to remarry.

why do future generations "avoid it"? Among them, for the sake of young heroes Yue Yun and Yue Lei, Liu, after all, is their biological mother, but also needs mercy; However, the main reason is probably that I can't bear to touch Yue Fei's emotional scars. Yue Fei's wounds are enough!

In the historical materials, the plot of Yue Fei marrying Li Wa is vague, which is probably inferred from the year of Jianyan in Song Gaozong (1128 -1129). Li Wa is said to be two years older than Yue Fei, and she was in her late twenties when she got married. At that time, the overall situation was in chaos, and after Jin Jun took away Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qin Zong, Song Ting begged for mercy and peace, moved the capital from Kaifeng in the Central Plains to Jiankang in the south of the Yangtze River (now Nanjing), established a small court in the Southern Song Dynasty, and settled in the southeast corner.

During this period, Yue Fei fought in Taihang Mountain, Luoyang, Xishui, Sliding State, Kaifeng, Taikang and other places, and was forced to retreat to the south, and finally retreated from Daming House in Beijing to Yingtianfu in Nanjing step by step. During the war, where Yue Fei and Li Wa met, when they got married, whether Li Wa was a northerner or a southerner, and whether she had been married before, it was impossible to verify.

However, all the details show that Li Wa is a good woman. She respects her mother-in-law and is gentle and filial. Old lady Yao was ill all the year round, and she waited on her until her mother-in-law died. She caressed Yue Yun and Yue Lei as if they were her own. Yue Yun married Gong and Yue Lei married Wen, all arranged by Li Wa.

After ten years of marriage, Li Wa has given birth to three sons, Yue Lin, Yue Zhen and Yue Ai, and a daughter, Yue Anniang. Yue Fei went to the land of fish and rice in the south, and his daily meal was still wheat flour and vegetables. On weekdays, he was dressed in linen clothes and was called a general in cloth. One day, Li Wa put on a silk dress. Although it was not luxurious material, Yue Fei was unhappy. "I heard that the harem concubines are in the north, and there are still many shortages. Since you share my worries and joys, you shouldn't dress like this. " Li Wa, who must have been a double bad girl and a red girl, bowed her head in shame and smiled, rolled up her clothes and hurried back to the house. Since then, this woman has never enjoyed silk again.

In the last autumn of his life, Yue Fei, who had been dismissed from the military power, asked for leave from the imperial court and returned to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province) from Lin 'an (now Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Along the way, full of sorrow and indignation, the comprehensive plan of Qin Gui and others to frame Yuegujun has been approved by Emperor Gaozong, and he has heard that the court is sharpening its sword.

When Yue Fei entered Jiangzhou City, he just saw a whitewashed wall of his private residence when a group of children ran out of the gate to meet him. Yue Fei dismounted, and the children cheered and wrapped around his legs. Some called Dad, others called Grandpa, and blood shed was dispersed in a warm current of affection. This year, Yue Yun was 23 years old, Yue Lei was 16 years old, Yue Lin was 12 years old, Yue Zhen was 7 years old, Yue Ai was 3 years old, and she had a daughter, Yue Anniang.

At this time, Yue Yun's daughter-in-law Gong has given birth to three children, the eldest grandson Yuefu is 4 years old, the eldest granddaughter Yueauntie is 3 years old, and the second grandson Yueshen is 1 year old. Yue Lei's daughter-in-law, Wen Shisheng's second granddaughter Yue Erniang, is also 2 years old, and her grandson Yue Jing is about to be born. In this well-organized family, an atmosphere of kindness and filial piety, harmony and serenity gave Yue Fei the comfort he longed for all his life.

Yue Fei and Li Wa have been husband and wife for 13 years. On December 29th, 11th year of Shaoxing (1142), Yue Fei was "threatened to death" in Dali Temple prison in Lin 'an at the age of 39.

At the same time, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were tied to downtown Lin 'an and executed. On that day, the city of Lin 'an was flooded with bitter rain, and "all the people in the world are crying." Down to three feet of children, Qin Gui is reviled.

The only jade ring Yue Fei wore when he died was a keepsake from Li Wa. The jailer of Dali Temple obeyed, risked his life to carry Yue Fei's body, dived out of Qiantang Gate and quietly buried the foothills of Beishan Yu. The marker in front of the grave is two citrus reticulata strains, and the marker in the grave is this blood-stained Yuhuan. Put it under the waist of the body and accompany Yue Fei to sleep underground.

After Yue Fei and Yue Yun suffered, their families were exiled to Lingnan and Fujian. Li Wa took the remaining children and grandchildren of the whole family to bid farewell to the dead and embarked on a road of exile. In the distant land of poisonous insects, Li Wa's orphans and widows endured humiliation and hardships, continuing the life of Yue's family.

exactly 2 years later, Song Xiaozong succeeded to the throne, vindicating Yue Fei's unjust case, and the court solemnly reburied Yue Fei's father and son's body under Qixia Mountain in Hangzhou. The white-haired Li Wa finally received an Amnesty.

By this time, Yue Lei had died with a grudge, leaving four sons and two daughters in the care of Yue Yun's wife Gong. Most of the Yue family's children and grandchildren survived, and their sons Yue Lin, Yue Zhen, Yue Ai (renamed Yue Ting by Xiaozong) and grandchildren Yue Fu and Yue Shen, as well as An Niang's husband, were later granted official positions.

Li Wa, who contributed a lot, lived in silence for more than ten years, and died in the second year of Xiaozong Chunxi (1175) at the age of 75. At this time, Yue Fei has been waiting for her underground for 33 years.