Li Miaohui is a beautiful talented woman in Yangzhou. When I was a girl, I could write a very elegant and mature poem, which was often copied and recited by local people. She didn't sign the poem. Most people only know her poems, but they don't know her character. Li Miaohui doesn't admire the powerful and loves to learn, and refuses the courtship of many noble children. At the age of sixteen, she married Lu Yuncheng, a fellow villager from a poor family.
What is broken laurel lang? At that time, folding laurel lang refers to juren. Because the rural examination in Ming Dynasty was held in autumn, the candidates who took the examination were promoted from scholar to juren, and classmates or relatives liked to make cassia twigs and give them to juren in New China to celebrate. Therefore, people call it "winning the laurel". Lu Yuncheng is young and promising. Before he was twenty years old, he became Gui Lang, and he was quite famous in the local area.
A pair of talented men and women became lovers and lived a sweet life in poverty. They often sit under the same lamp, chanting poems, talking and laughing, and keeping up with the joneses. Their favorite game is to write poems in competition, and to limit rhyme first; Then think separately and find sentences to see who can do it quickly and well. It is often Miao Hui who wins, but it is hard for a good man to judge. In fact, Miao Hui's poems are slightly better than the fresh and natural ones. But Cheng, who won the laurel, refused to admit defeat, saying only that he had his own advantages. Li Miaohui once said with emotion: "If a woman can be admitted, I'm afraid she would have become Gui Lang!" Lu Yuncheng was deeply impressed and said yes again and again.
Lu Yuncheng has an old friend, Wang Yizhen, whom his classmates admire and have deep contacts with. Wang Yizhen often goes to Lujia to learn poetry from Yuncheng. They are familiar with each other's poems without ceremony, and they can express their opinions on each other's poems, regardless of their merits and demerits.
On one occasion, Yuncheng and Miao Hui argued endlessly about whose poem was better. On the second day, when Wang Yizhen visited, Lu Yuncheng specially took out a poem by his wife Miao Hui to comment on his friend. Of course, he is in his own name. This is a five-character poem called Xiaozhuang:
Birds wake up and the room opens at dawn;
Feng chai is a gold ornament, and Luan is a platform.
Makeup seems to come out of the pool, and people are suspicious of coming to the moon;
Self-pity is not over yet, and it has to go back and forth.
After reading it, Wang Yizhen couldn't help clapping his hands and saying, "Brother Lu described the makeup of a boudoir so vividly, with fine observation and wonderful poetry, which is really admirable!"
Lu Yuncheng revealed an imperceptible shame after hearing this, but soon covered it up. At this time, it was inconvenient for him to point out that the poem was not written by himself, and then he took out some poems written by himself and handed them to his friends. Wang Yizhen-After reading it, I commented: "These poems are far worse than' Xiaozhuang'!" Lu Yuncheng was unhappy, but he didn't make any noise.
Going to Qiu Lai in summer, the weather became cool and pleasant after several oblique winds and drizzles. This evening, the rain dispersed and an intoxicating sunset appeared in the west. Both Yuncheng and Miaohui looked at the railing and enjoyed the magnificent and fresh scenery. Touching scene, Miao Hui sang a poem "Far Mountain":
Autumn water is a bright blue, and the sunset glow is a few rays of red;
The water is poor and the clouds are full, and there are two or three faintly.
Concise, good poetry, real kung fu, Yuncheng can't help but admire. He remembered his friend Wang Yi's original poem again, and his heart was a little sour, so he sang a seven-character quatrain:
It's hard to draw a sentence from a distant mountain, but there is always sadness;
He is old and ignorant, leaning against the stove and listening to the partridge.
His poems are just like his wife's, mocking her for being beautiful today. Very proud, it is inevitable that people will be old and sigh. Beauty is the most taboo thing to mention aging in old age, which makes people feel sad. It is really wrong for Lu Yuncheng to criticize his wife like this. Because of Miao Hui's generosity and kindness, she knew that her husband was just jealous of himself and didn't mean anything, so she just laughed it off. Although the young couple often fight for poetry, they are only superficial contradictions. Yuncheng really admires his wife, and Miaohui understands her husband very well, so the more they fight for love, the closer they become.
In the spring of the eighteenth year of Chenghua, the Ministry of Rites will try the world. For the sake of fame and career, Lu Yuncheng had to bid farewell to his inseparable family life for a while and go to Beijing with Wang Yizhen to catch the exam.
Two talented people from the south of the Yangtze River took the exam. They thought winning the list was a shoo-in, but when the teacher turned against them, they both fell into Sun Shan. When other families came to Beijing, both Lu Yuncheng and Wang Yizhen left great hopes for their families. Now they are the last to return to China, and they are really ashamed to meet their elders in Jiangdong. Feeling depressed, they simply went to stay at the Lingguang Temple in Xishan for fun. The two originally planned to stay for a while, and then set off for their hometown when their mood improved. Who knows that this Lingguang Temple is located in the depths of bamboo and wood in Cuiwei Mountain, with beautiful scenery and quiet dust removal. It is the easiest place to enter when studying. As a result, both of them were reluctant to leave, and it happened that the host in the temple saw their neat handwriting and wanted to ask them to copy the scriptures. #e# The reward is free accommodation. Both of them noticed. In this case, they simply stayed, copied the scriptures for the temple for a long time, and studied hard for a long time to prepare for the next class to make a comeback.
The exam is held every three years, which means that Lu Yuncheng and Wang Yizhen will study in the temple for three years. Afraid of losing face, and in order to concentrate, both of them delayed sending a letter to contact their families.
It is said that Lu Yuncheng's family has been waiting for news of him nearby, and I don't know what happened to him. It happened that a southern scholar with the same surname as Lu Yuncheng died in Beijing, and the news reached Lujia, and his family was extremely sad. Lu's parents were convinced that their son had an accident, and they also prepared a coffin for him to express their grief. Although Li Miaohui is also very sad, she vaguely feels that her husband is not dead and will meet again one day.
This year, the area south of the Yangtze River suffered a drought that has never happened in a hundred years. Lujia has no ability to support himself, and often has a full meal and a hungry meal. Kind-hearted parents of Lu, seeing that their daughter-in-law is young, widowed and has no interest in children, are really pitiful to starve to death with their own family, so they advised her to find a good family to remarry. Li Miaohui resolutely opposed it and only said, "Born as a Lujia, died as a Lujia ghost." At the beginning, she swore to Yuncheng that he was the only one. Even if he is really dead, she will keep the festival for him all her life, and there is still a glimmer of hope in her heart!
Lujia parents thought that their daughter-in-law was worried about her reputation and was entangled, so they still paid attention to finding a remarriage object for her. There is a salt merchant named Xie in Linchuan, Jiangxi. His family is rich and kind. At this time, he lived in Yangzhou and his wife died unfortunately. Hearing the news that Lu Jia wanted to persuade his daughter-in-law Li Miaohui to remarry, he asked the matchmaker to propose marriage. Lu's parents thought this marriage was good, so they agreed behind their backs. When Xie's family greeted her with sedan chairs and gongs and drums, Li Miaohui did not know the details. She wanted to go to the loyal opposition, but Grandma Weng tried to persuade her. In desperation, she had to come to Xie Jia in a sedan chair.
Although he arrived, Li Miaohui resolutely refused to greet the bride and thank her and enter the bridal chamber. She knelt at Xie's mother's feet and tearfully begged to be Mrs. Xie's maid. She wouldn't get up until she promised. Mrs. Xie was soft-hearted. Seeing that her mind was made up, she had to agree to her request. Fortunately, Xie Jia is rich, so it is not difficult to marry another wife.
In this way, Li Miaohui stayed with Mrs. Xie as a personal maid. Because she is clever and considerate, she has won the favor of the old lady. Soon, Xie Jia moved back to Linchuan, Jiangxi, and Li Miaohui went with the old lady. On the way to Jingkou by boat, Mrs. Xie believed in Buddhism, took her maid ashore and went to the nearby Jinshan Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha. In the Buddhist temple, Li Miaohui saw the pen and ink on the table, and all her efforts were puzzling, so she wrote a poem on the temple wall:
Since the demolition of Phoenix in that year, there have been two pieces of news so far.
Don't be a horizontal gold girl when you cover a coffin, and don't be a laurel lang when you are buried.
Peng smoke dream, Pohang night rain breaks sorrow;
The new poem was written in Jinshan Temple, and Yun Fan held high for yu zhang.
In this poem, she not only wants to express her feelings and ambitions, but more importantly seems to want to leave her whereabouts. I vaguely hope that my husband or an insider can see the poem and find someone, and then I can't continue with Yuncheng. Therefore, she wrote an inscription "Li Miaohui, the wife of Yangzhou Luyuncheng" after the poem.
In the spring of the 21st year of Chenghua in Ming Xianzong, Cheng, who had studied hard for three years, took the Libu exam again and succeeded in one fell swoop. When the news reached Yangzhou, Lujia's parents were very happy. How did they expect that their son was still alive, and that he had won the Jinshi? After the surprise, it is inevitable that there will be some worries. The son went back to his hometown to visit his mother, but his daughter-in-law had been married by his parents. Now I don't know where I am. What should I tell my son?
Soon after, land transportation came true and returned to the village happily. As soon as he entered the door, he was shocked to hear the change of his beloved wife. I feel sad, but I can't help but cope with a set of procedures on the surface. I am busy worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, entertaining relatives and friends, and visiting local officials. After a short pause, infinite sadness came to my mind again, in order to avoid thinking about things and people, and also to alleviate parents' self-blame. He ended his holiday early and returned to work in Beijing.
Two years later, Xian Zong died, and Prince Zhu Min succeeded him as Xiao Zong, and ordered the revision of A Record of Xian Zong. Lu Yuncheng was ordered to assist Jinshi Du Zikai in interviewing Xianzong's legacy in Jiangnan. On the way to the south, I pass through Jingkou, and occasionally go to Jinshan Temple for a stroll.
It doesn't matter whether I go or not, but I was surprised by Li See's wonderful poems inscribed on the temple wall. A poem tells both Miao Hui's whereabouts and her loyal and affectionate mind. In this case, he is determined to find his missing wife. Asking the monk in the temple about the situation, the monk recalled it for a long time before saying, "A few years ago, an old woman named Xie came here for alms, and later she went to Linchuan with the fleet. This poem seems to have been inscribed by her maid. "
Lu Yuncheng copied this poem. First, he invited people to visit Linchuan. He learned that a salt merchant named Xie had many salt boats and often traveled around the Yangtze River. His mother likes Buddhism, and I heard that there is a maid who is good at poetry. Xie Jia's fleet was nowhere to be found, so Lu Yuncheng had to turn to local official Xu Gong for help. Xu Gong said, "There are more than a thousand salt boats on the river. How can we find them? We must find a clever way. " The two men discussed it and finally came up with a wonderful method. So I chose a clever chief to pretend to be a peddler and recite Li Miaohui's Poems on the Wall.
#e# Then driving a boat, rowing along the place where the salt boat is moored every day, chanting loudly. In order to attract the attention of insiders. In this way, I rowed and sang. A few days later, when I passed a big salt ship, a window in the cabin creaked. A beautiful woman asked softly, "Where did this poem come from?"
As soon as the first mate saw someone talking, he quickly rowed the boat near, saying that it was taught by Lu Jinshi in Yangzhou. The beauty was surprised and said with a grain of salt: "The number of Lu Ju in Yangzhou died in Beijing years ago. Where is Lu Jinshi from? Are you kidding? "
When the section chief saw that she was quite familiar with the situation, she said in detail what Lu Yuncheng had asked, and there were no mistakes in the details. Beauty finally convinced that Lu Yuncheng was still alive and hid her face from tears. "I'm Li Miaohui. Please tell Lu Lang to come and pick me up. "
The leader immediately turned the bow and reported back to Lu Jinshi and Xu's adult. As a court official, Lu Yuncheng took a wife from a salt merchant named Xie, which was somewhat humiliating. Xu Gong gave him advice and said, "It's better to take her off the boat without anyone knowing."
That night, it was dark and windy. I found that Li Miaohui's chief rowed into Gu Jie's boat, found the window, and whispered a poem on the wall. As expected, the window of the cabin was opened again, and the chief quietly explained his purpose to Li Miaohui, and then quietly took her out of the harbor.
A couple who have been in love for many years are finally reunited.
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