Judgement

Chapter [-] The Merry Talent

Chapter [-] The Merry Talent

It is said that in the eighth year of Kaibao, Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin led the Song army to break through the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu surrendered to the Song Dynasty and was captured to Bianjing.

Li Yu, the queen master of the Southern Tang Dynasty, became a prisoner. In 987 AD, Song Taizu Zhao Guangyi succeeded to the throne.Li Yu's song "Poppy Poppy", which has been passed down through the ages, has become Li Yu's death knell. A question of how much sorrow you can have, just like the emotion of a river of spring water flowing eastward, reached the ears of Emperor Taizu.Immediately sent someone to poison the Emperor Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty who was under house arrest, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was eventually destroyed by the Song Dynasty.

Liu Yong was born in the family of Liu Yi, a descendant of the Southern Tang Dynasty. His original name was Sanbian, and his style name was Jingzhuang. Later, he changed his name to Yong, and his style name was Qiqing.Because his father, Liu Yi, was a vassal, but he still missed the old lord. In the dead of night, he often prayed and sacrificed to the old lord from a distance, and feared that he would be murdered by the current emperor if he gave someone a handle, so he timidly missed the old lord...

In the first year of Chunhua, Liu Yi served as the general judge of Quanzhou. According to the official system of the Song Dynasty, he was not allowed to bring his family members there.Liu Yi had no choice but to take his wife and son Liu Yong back to his hometown in Chong'an, Fujian Province, and asked his stepmother, Liu Yong's step-grandmother Yu, to take care of him. He did not return to Bianjing until the first year of Dao (995).Therefore, when Liu Yong was four to nine years old, he spent his childhood in his hometown, Chong'an. After that, Liu Yong never had the chance to return to Chong'an. The poem "Zhongfeng Temple" written in Zhongfeng Temple in Chong'an recorded in "Jianning Fuzhi" was written by Liu Yong when he was a child, and he could be called a child prodigy at that time.

Liu Yi and Fan Zhongyan are good friends.Fan Zhongyan saw Liu Yong's golden and jade-like endowment, but to become a pure gold and uncut jade, he had to go through fine carving.He also realized that the beauty of Liu Yong's Ci is beautiful, but it is full of the rouge of too many brothels, and there are no propositions with heavier loads-those propositions that can make words engraved on the rock of time without being worn out, so Fan Zhongyan Let Liu Yong go west with him to the frontier fortress, and start the baptism of suffering and wind and frost for the first time in his life.The frontier fortress, where the cold wind is like a knife, where there is famine and poverty, where the people are in dire straits, coupled with Fan Zhongyan's criticism: "Qiqing, you grew up in a family of officials, and you have always been a palace of gold, horses and jade, surrounded by prosperity and prosperity. I have not been exposed to the bitterness and suffering of the common people, so it is no wonder that you are still the mood of the Huajian School. My nephew, since ancient times, no poems and articles that sing praises have been passed down. Only by practicing deeply and experiencing the people's sentiments will you know what to do. What kind of words to write..."

Under the advice of Mr. Fan Wenzheng, Liu Yong wrote the first heroic poem in his life in the camp of the frontier general Di Qing, praising the soldiers who fought bloody in the desolate frontier.But not long after, Liu Yong experienced the death of his father and the downfall of his family. In the end, his wife who loved him deeply—his only Qianniang who lived in poverty—also died of a miscarriage.Such a confidant is hard to find in the world, how lucky is Liu Yong?To be able to live with him day and night!Liu Yong pulled out the saber that Di Qing gave him on the spot, and stabbed towards his chest.Fortunately, he was discovered by his friends in time, and the distraught Liu Yong was rescued...The death of Qianniang was the most painful wound in Liu Yong's life, and it was also the greatest wealth bestowed on him by suffering. Even though he played in the brothel later, he always treated the group of prostitutes as Qianniang and lived the life of the prodigal Liu Qi.The young Liu Yong began to hang out in the fireworks alley. At that time, the voice of the singing girls was: "If you don't want to be summoned by the king, you want to get Liu Qiming; if you don't want a thousand gold, you want to get Liu Qixin; if you don't want to see gods, you want to know." Liu Qimian."

Liu Yong's father, uncle, elder brother Sanjie and Sanfu were all Jinshi, but Liu Yong was a talented man, but he failed repeatedly. Annoyed, Liu Yong wrote "The Crane Soaring to the Sky", which angered the people at that time. Song Renzong is gone.The complaining Liu Yong only wanted to have fun for a while, and never thought that it was the song "Crane Soaring to the Sky" that made his life bitter.Within a few days, Liu Yong's "Crane Soaring to the Sky" was in the hands of Song Renzong.Renzong watched and groaned repeatedly, the more he read, the more unpleasant he became, and the more he read, the more annoyed he became.In particular, the phrase "Be patient with false names. Pour lightly and sing in a low voice." It really hit Song Renzong's sore spot.

Three years later, Liu Yong took the exam again, finally passed a few tests, and only waited for the emperor's Zhubi circle to announce the results.Unexpectedly, when Emperor Renzong saw the word "Liu Yong" in the roster, Longyan was furious, and angrily erased Liu Yong's name, and wrote beside him: "Go and sing, why don't you sing?" Want a false name?" It means, Liu Yong, you should fill in the words of ###, don't be an official!From then on, Liu Yong said with a smile that he was "writing lyrics according to the order."

The two failures in his official career made Liu Yong resist the imperial court's scientific research. From then on, he indulged in wandering in brothels, restaurants, fireworks and Liumo.Liu Yong wrote lyrics for the musicians and singing girls in the teaching workshop, so that they could earn money by singing in restaurants and karaoke halls. Of course, Liu Yong would also be paid accordingly, so he would not have too much food and clothing.Until the first year of Jingyou (1034), with the encouragement of the singing girls in the capital, Liu Yong entered the examination room again and finally won fame.But the emperor only granted him a Jinshi background.After some hard work, Liu Yong, who was 51 years old at the time, went to Yuhang to serve as county magistrate.To Liu Yong, this little magistrate is really like a "chicken rib", whether he does it or not.Because that wage may not be as much as the money he earns from writing lyrics for prostitutes.When passing through Jiangzhou, Liu Yong stopped to rest before going on.

The arrival of Liu Yong caused a sensation in the entire Jiangzhou.Hearing that Liu Yong was coming, prostitutes from Jiangzhou came to visit one after another.Xie Yuying, a famous prostitute, can be said to have excellent sex and art, and she likes to sing Liu Yong's poems most.As long as she can find any of Liu Yongzhi's works, she must have copied them down.This time Liu Yong came, and Xie Yuying actually fell in love with Liu Yong after witnessing the true face of Liu Daci, even though he was more than 20 years older than her.Xie Yuying kindly invited Master Liu to visit her home.When Liu Yong came to Xie Yuying's residence, he saw a volume of "Liu Qixin Ci", which Xie Yuying copied in small script.Therefore, Liu Yong fell in love with this prostitute from the bottom of his heart.From then on, they lived together, like husband and wife, with lingering affection.When parting, Liu Yong wrote new words to express his unshakable love and never change his mind, while Xie Yuying made an oath to each other, saying that he would close the door to thank guests and wait for Liu Lang.For Xie Yuying, Liu Yong asked craftsmen to cast a bronze mirror engraved with the word Yuying as a proof, and he took office in Yuhang, Zhejiang.

However, Xie Yuying is a prostitute who can sing and dance after all, if she doesn't accompany her clients, her life will not be settled.Liu Yong worked in Yuhang for three years and met many famous prostitutes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but he never forgot the beautiful Xie Yuying.After returning to Beijing at the end of her tenure, Liu Yong went to Jiangzhou to meet her. Unexpectedly, Xie Yuying received new guests and accompanied them again.Liu Yong was quite unhappy.He wrote a poem on Xie Yuying's courtyard wall, describing the love three years ago, and the pain of missed appointments and lovesickness today, and asked directly: "Where does Xingyun go?" Xie Yuying came back Seeing Liu Yong's words on the wall, he knew that Liu Yong was really a man of credibility.A lot of men are looking for fun, mostly talking to themselves to deal with it, but Liu Yong was really moved...

Xie Yuying felt ashamed of not keeping the covenant, so she sold her belongings and rushed to Tokyo to look for Liu Yong.After many inquiries, Xie Yuying found Liu Yong at the home of Chen Shishi, a famous prostitute in Tokyo.Reunited after a long absence, the two embraced and wept, Xie Yuying and Liu Yong lived together in Chen Shishi's other courtyard, and the two continued their relationship.Later, Liu Yong's words were rude and offended the court officials. Renzong dismissed him as a farmer, Wailang. It was supplied by famous prostitutes, and they all asked him to give him a word to raise their value.He was also happy to roam the houses of famous prostitutes to write lyrics as a career, calling himself "Liu Sanbian who wrote lyrics by order".

Liu Yong has been wandering freely for many years, and the frustration in the officialdom and the hardships of life have hurt him both physically and mentally.On a lonely night in winter, Liu Yong, a representative poet of the Chinese generation of Grace School, died in the home of Zhao Xiangxiang, a famous prostitute in Runzhou (Zhenjiang), Jiangsu.Before his death, he had no family, and after his death, he had no property, and no official family cared about him.And Xie Yuying, Chen Shishi and other famous prostitutes, who read Liu Yongcai's advanced learning and wrote lyrics for singing prostitutes for many years, collectively pooled money for his burial.At the time of the funeral, Xie Yuying wore hemp and filial piety like his wife.The whole city is filled with prostitutes, their cries are like waves, and their wailing is shaking the sky—this is the famous "group of prostitutes buried in willow seven".

After Liu Yong died, Xie Yuying thought of Liu Lang painfully, and combed her long hair in front of the bronze mirror Liu Yong gave her all day long.Unexpectedly, due to excessive grief, he died suddenly two months later.Chen Shishi buried Xie Yuying next to Liu Yong's tomb because of his infatuation, and wandered around with the bronze mirror Xie Yuying left behind...

Hearing Shangguan Yanran's eloquent words, Chen Mengsheng couldn't help sighing hesitantly: "What a romantic talent, what an infatuated beauty. But I don't know that the souls of Chen Shishi and Xie Yuying will enter the bronze mirror later. If you want to understand this, you need to ask Xie Yuying."

Shangguan Yanran said softly: "Xie Yuying doesn't look like she is that kind of vicious ghost. How could she become a scary female ghost with her head separated?"

Chen Mengsheng said with a smile: "Yanran, I have seen those ghosts with severed heads in the netherworld. Souls are also the charm of Yin Qi. Those ghosts can still be connected without their heads, unlike people in the world. But I I don't know what happened to Chen Shishi, who played the pipa, in Jiangzhou, and why did he become a faceless skeleton female ghost?"

"Hehe, Senior Brother, why don't you wait until Master Chen comes out and ask her yourself. It's almost dawn, Mengsheng, go and rest for a while." Shangguan Yanran said softly.

There was a sudden knock on the door of the guest room, and Chen Mengsheng and Shangguan Yanran looked at each other and hurriedly opened the door.I saw that Mrs. Wen was being supported by Mrs. Lin Shu with tears streaming down her face, and Mrs. Lin Shu said tremblingly: "Master...Master...he is in the embroidery building...bewitched..."

Chen Mengsheng shouted: "Why is Master Su bewitched?"

Mrs. Wen cried and shook her head without saying a word, while Mrs. Lin Shu said with a pale face, "I... I just went to Miss's embroidered building... to clean the house, and I saw...the lights were still on in the room...Master...Master, he held The knife is cutting itself...to my face..."

"Ah... Yanran, you asked everyone to wait for me in the guest room. There must be something weird in the Su Family Embroidery Building..."