20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2667 Night Rain on Bahe River

The water in the Ba River is abundant in early autumn. The water in this section of the river flows slowly, and the water splashes against the boulder, making tiny splashing sounds.

All that was left was the water vapor in the campfire, the crackling sound of the heating explosion, the howling of mandrills, and the cries of night owls flapping their wings as they hunted.

It makes the night even colder and quieter.

When Zhao Changan was fishing in the afternoon, he saw that the place that had been washed by water for many years had formed a spindle-shaped groove. This was the power of millions of years of water flow.

I think that thousands of years ago, many literati and poets who entered Sichuan and Shu through the mountain road through Xianyang, Baoji, Hanzhong, and Bazhong once stayed overnight by the Ba River.

The master and the disciple enjoyed this rare moonlit night in the mountains, eating fragrant and glutinous roasted chestnuts, roasted sweet potatoes, melon seeds, and sipping hot tea. They had never felt so relaxed before.

"The water is rising."

Zheng Wenzheng suddenly said, "It should be raining upstream."

Zhao Changan looked towards the river and saw that the flow rate of the river had indeed become faster, and the water surface was slowly expanding towards the river beaches on both sides.

"You ask me when I will return, but I have no idea. The night rain in Bashan swells the autumn pond. When will we light the candle in the west window together and talk about the night rain in Bashan?"

Zhao Changan couldn't help but think of Li Shangyin's poem. He recited it slowly, feeling a little melancholy for a moment.

"You've only been out for a few days, and you're already thinking about your confidante and things in Mingzhu. It seems that this kind of outdoor trip is more suitable for an idle old man like your master."

Zheng Wen smiled straightly, "When I was young, I liked beautiful women, and indulged in wine and food. This was also a kind of wildness of youth. When you are your master's age, you can't even seduce beautiful women. Many delicacies that require the bite of teeth to taste have become memories that you can never taste again. Only this fine wine can bring back a little illusion of the past."

Zhao Changan knew that his master did not understand his words "You ask me when I will return, but I have no idea". This is the Sichuan region where Li Shangyin wrote the poem "Night Rain Sent to the North" 1,170 years ago.

Many people nowadays interpret this as Li Shangyin missing his wife, so he wrote this poem which is actually quite uninteresting in terms of aesthetics and even a bit rubbish.

But in fact, Li Shangyin's wife Wang had passed away, and given the ancient Chinese literati's nature of "brothers are like limbs, women are like clothes", it is more likely and more elegant to miss his good friends.

As majestic as Mount Tai, as vast as the rivers, this is the friendship between Boya and Zhong Ziqi.

I want to play the harp, but I hate the ignorance of the music.

This soulmate refers to a friend who shares the same ideals and goals as you and stands together against differences, not a woman.

Just like Lu Fangweng wrote a poem "The Golden Hairpin", making it seem like he was so infatuated, but in fact, after he married Tang Wan, it was said that his mother asked him to divorce his cousin and marry Wang.

A beautiful young girl who is also a lady from a noble family.

Ten years later, the 31-year-old Lu Fangweng failed in his official career and divorced Tang Wan at the suggestion of his mother. However, he did not transform himself and rise to a successful position.

In the luxurious private garden of the Cheng family, he met his cousin Tang Wan, whom he hadn't played with for ten years.

Lu Fangweng found that after his 27- or 28-year-old cousin divorced him, she did not become a resentful woman who cried all day long. This made him envious of his cousin's youth, but he was inevitably upset. If you were divorced, shouldn't you die depressed and emaciated? How come you became more beautiful than ten years ago? Instead, you married Zhao Shicheng, the son of Zhao Zhongshi, the great-great-grandson of Emperor Taizong of Song, as his successor. His husband was rich, considerate and gentle, and did not despise her for being a second marriage. She became more feminine. His own woman, Wang, was immediately compared to a yellow-faced woman and a rough maid.

So he wrote a poem about a so-called infatuated man's loyalty to love and gave it to Tang Wan.

'Red tender hands, yellow wine, the whole city is full of spring colors and the palace walls are covered with willows. The east wind is bad, the joy is thin. A heart full of sorrow, years of separation. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Spring is the same as before, but people are thin and empty, and the red tears are soaked through the silk. Peach blossoms fall, the pool pavilion is empty. Although the mountain alliance is still there, it is difficult to entrust a brocade letter. No, no, no! '

The tune of "Chai Tou Feng" was modified from the poem "Xie Fang Ci" written by an unknown author in the Five Dynasties. Because the poem originally contained the line "It's all like a dream, how could we ever be together, it's a pity that I'm lonely like Chai Tou Feng", it was named "Chai Tou Feng".

The name "Chai Tou Feng" used by Lu Fangweng has two meanings: one is that since divorcing Tang (being dumped by him), she is "pitiful and lonely like Chai Tou Feng"; the other is that the past events before the divorce "all passed away like a dream" and they were not able to grow old together.

In fact, she is living a very comfortable life now. She is less than 30 years old, has a fair and pretty face, and is as "pitiful and lonely as a phoenix with a hairpin", as if the divorce letter was not written by him, Lu Fangweng.

  Moreover, Tang Wan was described as "thin in love" and "her tears soaked the silk gauze". She already has a husband, but he still wanted to be with Tang Wan, "although the oath is still there, it is difficult to send a letter to her". What was he trying to do?

I bother!

I don’t know what Tang Wan was feeling at the time, but she replied with a poem called “The Golden Hairpin”.

'The world is cruel, people are mean, rain sends the evening flowers to fall easily. The morning breeze dries, tears are left. I want to write down my thoughts, I speak alone. It's hard, hard, hard! People have grown apart, today is not yesterday, sick souls are often like swing ropes. The horn sounds cold, the night is late. I am afraid of being questioned, so I swallow my tears and pretend to be happy. Hide, hide, hide!'

This poem cost her life.

Then these two poems were spread by Lu Fangweng. Everyone praised Lu Fangweng, who divorced Tang Wan, for his infatuation and love for Tang Huixian. Even though Tang Wan became Zhao Shicheng's woman, she was still infatuated with Lu Fangweng. She was also a remarkable woman with feelings and righteousness.

And Tang Wan is still "hiding" the truth from her husband.

You should know that Tang Wan, as Zhao Shicheng's second wife, had given birth to a son and a daughter for him.

In ancient times, women were required to follow the three obediences and four virtues, marry a chicken and follow the chicken; marry a dog and follow the dog; and there were arches for chastity.

A year later, Tang Wan died of depression.

Zhao Shicheng never remarried, nor did he have a concubine. He died thirteen years later.

Just like Su Shi giving his concubine away, the tears of these women became the romantic affairs of those intellectuals. From then on, women had no status in China's feudal era.

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At this time, Zhao Changan recited this poem, which was actually of very average level. In his heart, he was thinking about the 'uncertain date of return', and he felt sad that he could never go back to his previous life.

If he could go back, he would find Xia Wenzhuo and say, "You are only 40 years old, you have maintained yourself so well, and you can still have children. Let's do it a few hundred times and have a child. Anyway, you have to give me your first time, and you don't have another man you like. If you want a child, I will help you!"

I will tell Liu Yihui and Yue Lu, "You two don't really love each other, you're just living together in frustration, get a divorce, the child will go to Yue Lu, and you, Lao Liu, have visitation rights."

I would say to Wen Ye, "Brother, do you want to become a billionaire? I'll help you. There is a place in the Yangtze River where there is a shipwreck that belonged to your grandmother's Ye family in 37. There are rare treasures inside, and there is also a box of yeast that you may not have now."