Yu Shimingyan

Chapter 48
The lotus and osmanthus are so sad, Jiang Jie recalls the past.When Tianmu Mountain comes, the lonely phoenix rests, and when the Haimen tide goes, the six dragons move.Jia Chong misunderstood the world and ended up with nothing to do, Yu Xin mourned fashion and had words.Don't boast about the superb scenery to the Central Plains, the regret of the West Lake is Xi Shi.This poem was written by Zhang Zhiyuan.It is only because after the Southern Crossing of the Song Dynasty, during the years of Shaoxing and Chunxi that the troops ceased to strike, the princes claimed peace and indulged in joy, and the scholar-bureaucrats enjoyed the lakes and mountains, but there was no hope of restoring the Central Plains. Therefore, the last couplet of poems said: "Don't boast to the Central Plains At that time, the West Lake had osmanthus seeds in three autumns, lotus fragrance for ten miles, surrounded by green mountains, green water in the middle, and golden and green towers alternated with each other. There are countless scenery.Su Dongpo's scholar has a poem: "If you want to compare the West Lake to the West Lake, light makeup and heavy makeup are suitable for both." Therefore, the officials indulge in the joy of the mountains and rivers and forget the worries of the country, just like Wu Gong is bewitched by Xishi.

At the beginning, Fu Chai, the king of Wu, favored a concubine named Xishi, who wandered around Baihuazhou, Jinfanjing and Gusutai every day to enjoy it.At that time, there was a sycophant, Bo Pi, who met the evil of the king and persuaded him to be extravagant and desperate, and killed his loyal ministers, so that the Vietnamese soldiers attacked and the country was destroyed.Today, after the Song Dynasty went south, even though the barbarians were rampant, people in the Central Plains did not forget the Zhao family, and they could still take the opportunity to recover. It was only because of listening to a few treacherous officials, they were lazy and lazy, so that they died.Those traitors?Qin Hui, Han Yuzhou, Shi Miyuan, Jia Sidao.Qin Hui stayed in Xiangyi for 19 years, advocated peace talks, killed Yue Fei, and dismissed Zhang, Han, and Liu generals.Han Tuozhou stayed in the prime minister for 14 years, framed the prime minister Zhao Ruyu, dismissed all the ministers of Taoism, opened border quarrels lightly, and humiliated the country and the people.In the 26th year of Xiangxiang, Shi Miyuan murdered Ji Wanghong, and served as a full-time official to live in Taiwan to admonish him.At that time, Mongolia was prosperous and strong, and the sky changed frequently, and the Song Dynasty had already passed away seven or eight times.It was also the end of the days, and another Jia Sidao was born. He was in Xiangyi for 15 years, and he dedicated himself to deceiving the court and stealing peace and joy. Although he was demoted from office and rank, he died in a mumian nunnery, which did not save the country from the disaster of subjugation.There are poems as evidence: Treacherous evil has misled many people since ancient times, but why do kings believe so credulously?If the court theory divides the characters of loyalty and sycophancy, the Taiping Yuzhu will always reconcile them.

It is said that during the Jiading period of Emperor Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an official in Taizhou, Zhejiang, whose surname was Jia and first name She.Because I went to Lin'an Mansion to listen to the election, one master and one servant went to Qiantang, which was called Fengkouli.Hungry and thirsty on the road, I occasionally came to a village house to rest and get caught in the fire.That family's thatched hut with bamboo fence is very desolate.Jia She called out, "Is anyone there?" The reed curtain opened and a woman came out.How is that woman doing?The face is like a full moon, the hair is like a dark cloud, with a thin layer of makeup, it is full of beauty, not voluptuous, but naturally rich.Fresh eyes and jade wrists, born with good fortune and strict appearance; skirts and hairpins are rare in village makeup.It is clear that the beautiful jade hides the stubborn stone, just like a pearl falling into the abyss.Idiots can lose their souls as well, but the situation is easy to move around the guest.When the woman saw Jia She, she calmly said her best wishes.Seeing that the woman was a good fortune, Jia She hesitated and said, "I am in my prime and have no children. If I get this woman as my concubine, I will be satisfied!" Then he said to the woman, "I am going to Beijing to be a candidate, so I will pass by here; After a meal, will the young lady who has not been judged be willing to cook for you? I will thank you." The woman said with a smile: "The slave's family work is in the middle, and the cooking is of course; what's more, the honor is honored by the officials. How dare you disobey orders? But if the husband is not here, don't give up I don't think it's negligent." Seeing that he responded quickly, Jia She was even more pleased.

Not long after the woman went in, she came out with two bowls of cooked bean soup, and said: "The village is short of tea, so I will quench my thirst." Stop short, and set out meals for two masters and servants.Jia She brought preserved beef and dried vegetables with him, and took out some rice.The woman put the big porcelain pot with boiling soup on the table again, and said, "Your honor is clean." Seeing his hospitality, Jia She asked, "What's your surname, young lady? Why do you live here alone?" The woman said: "My slave's family is Hu, and her husband is called Wang Xiaosi. Because of years of farming and losing money, the family is poor and helpless, so I want to go with my slave's family to live with a rich man. The slave's family vowed not to obey, and the husband couldn't resist the slave, so he had to take advantage of his work in a nearby family. One day, my servant guarded the house alone." Jia She said: "I don't know if I can say something that I don't know how to advance and retreat." The woman said: "But it doesn't matter." Jia She said: "The lower official is quite good at physiognomy, like a little lady. With such talent and appearance, she is by no means a lowly woman. Now you are bowing down to follow a village farmer, wouldn't it be a waste of your life?

What's more, your husband's family is in a difficult situation, and he doesn't care about the face of the little lady.A senior official has no children and is looking for a side room. If the young lady is willing to accompany her, she is willing to give more gold and silk to a virtuous husband. Don't try to get married. Wouldn't it be convenient? "The woman said: "The husband also wanted to sell his concubine several times, but the concubine refused.Since the honorable official had some sympathy, when the husband returned, the honorable official told him that the concubine would not dare to agree. " Before I finished speaking, I saw the woman pointing to the door and saying, "Husband, come back." "

I saw Wang Xiaosi wearing a torn turban and an old white shirt, half drunk, barging in the door.Jia She then stood up and said, "I'm going to Beijing to listen to the election, and I'm going to get caught in the fire here, and it's very disturbing." Wang Xiaosi replied, "It's okay!" Then he said to Mrs. Hu, "Master's family is short of needles and threads." Mother, I saw that you are good at needlework, so I told him. He wants you to teach his daughter how to live, and give me two full money first. This time, I want you to do it." Mrs. Hu half leaned inside and outside the reed curtain , Replied: "The younger generation is shameless and shy, how can I go to someone else's house to take advantage of the meal? No, no."

Wang Xiaosi felt anxious, and said, "When you don't go, I have no place to find food for you." Jia She saw that his words were coincidental, so he pretended to excuse him, but the Fu family child hooked him up with his words and said, "Uncle How can you let him go to someone else's house, you flowery girl?" Wang Xiaosi said: "Brother, you don't know my poor man's family affairs. I don't know shame for a day, and I can't bear hunger for three days, but I can't compare with a rich family. Eat leisurely tea and rice. It looks like this, and I can't live in it." The child said: "If there is a rich family, willing to pay money to ask you, a little lady, would you be willing?" Wang Xiaosi Said: "I'm so reluctant!" The family boy said: "My husband-in-law wants to ask for a side room. If you want, I will give you a few more money." Wang Xiaosi agreed.The family boy replied to Jia She with his words.Jia She asked the family boy to talk to Wang Xiaosi about 40 taels of silver.Wang Xiaosi met a professor in the middle of the village, wrote the deed of selling his wife, and put a cross on it.While exchanging the money, Wang Xiaosi took the money, and Jia She took the deed.Wang Xiaosi was afraid that his mother-in-law would not agree, so he sweetly persuaded her.Who would have thought that the woman and Jia She had an intention first.It is also a match made in heaven, so they naturally fall in love with each other.

That night, Jia She's master and servant rested at Wang Xiaosi's house.Wang Xiaosi also made a bunk outside to accompany her.The woman sleeps alone on the bunk inside.Tomorrow morning Jia She got up, urged the woman to wash and wash, and after breakfast, Yang Wang Xiaosi hired another young man in the village to carry the woman, and went all the way to Lin'an.There are poems as evidence: Husband and wife are the frontier, and the red rope of thousands of miles is secretly leading each other.What's more, the prosperity and prosperity of the two countries, how can the village peasants be with them all the year round?

Jia She took Hu's family and lived in Lin'an residence.About half a year later, he was selected as the prime minister of Wannian County in Jiujiang.Greeted Ruren Tang and took office together.It turned out that the Tang family was jealous and aggressive, Jia She used to have a problem of internal fear; today Tang family saw that her husband married a concubine, she was so angry that she kept being mischievous at home every day.Hearing that Mrs. Hu was three months pregnant, she thought: "My husband has never had a child. If the little bitch gives birth to a child, he will definitely favor him. At that time, I can't compete with him; even if I can raise a child, I will let him do it." Brother, you will be bullied by him in the future. It’s better to get rid of the root of the trouble as soon as possible.” Then find an accident, beat Hu Shi severely, strip him of his clothes, demote him to the servant team, cook tea and cook rice, sweep the floor and clean the table, Make the bed and fold the quilt.And forbid her husband to sleep with him.Challenging and beating and scolding every day, trying to corrupt his pregnancy.Jia She was full of anger and had no choice but to do anything.

One day, the magistrate Chen Lu often invited Jia She to drink.Jia She and Chen Lu are often from the same household, they usually communicate with each other and get along very well.Chen Lu often invited Jia She to the yamen, where he was drinking, and seeing his displeasure, would ask why.Jia She couldn't resist, so he told in detail about his wife's jealousy.He said again: "The heir of the Jia family depends entirely on this woman. I don't know what the master has to do to keep this concubine? It will be a blessing if I have a son in the future, and the ancestors of the Jia family should also be grateful to the underground." Chen Lvchang thought for a while. , and then said: "It's easy to keep him safe, I'm afraid I won't let him leave you." Jia She said, "You can't be close to the left and right now, they are as close as the sky, so why not?" Chen Lu often whispered: "If you want to keep your pregnancy, That's all but that." He took a red silk flower and quietly handed it to Jia She, instructing him to keep it as a secret with the Hu family.This strategy is on this flower, and we will see it later.There are poems as proof: Jealousy and bitterness have existed since ancient times, and the heirs of the family are willing to make a fool of themselves.The safflower is destined to be respected, how can a clever woman get a man's hand?
Suddenly one day, Chen Xianzai inquired and heard that the Chengting hall asked for a doctor, and it was said that Tang Ruren was slightly ill.When he recovered from his illness, he prepared four boxes of tea and fruit, and taught his grandmother to go to the Chengting Hall to say hello.Tang Ruren left him to sit wide and prepare a small meal, while the servants Luo waited by his side.In the middle of speaking, grandma said: "There are many female envoys in your hall, and they are very clever. The poor house suffers from no one, and there is no one who will agree. It is very inconvenient. I am eager to find it. If I borrow a little lady, I will share with the humble house. How long will we help each other, and how about sending it back when we get a replacement?" Tang said: "How can the Tong family say 'borrow'?

I'm afraid rough maids are useless.Grandma sees it as she likes, but by choice, it should be presented as a gift. "Grandma thanked her. Among the maidservants, there was one who was born neatly, with this red silk flower on her sideburns. She knew it was Mrs. Hu, so she appointed him and said, "It's very kind to borrow this little lady. . " Tang is jealous, wishing to send him far away, but this sentence is exactly what he wants; adding to the power of the county magistrate, how dare the Chengting not follow? It is difficult for the husband to complain, so he repeatedly agreed: " This little servant girl is surnamed Hu, and she hasn't been in my house for long.When grandma likes it, she will teach him to follow grandma now. "At that time Xi San, grandma said goodbye. Mrs. Hu bowed four times to Mrs. Tang, packed up her clothes, followed her grandma's sedan chair, and went to the county government office. Mrs. Tang just told Jia She about it, and Jia She deliberately lamented it. Exactly: It counts. Tongshi acted fiercely and kept him in the dark. The county government went here to Fang Anwen, and it was absolutely better than saving the lonely Zhao's Palace. When Hu arrived at the county government, grandma explained the details in detail, and cleaned another room to rest in peace with him.

Time flies like an arrow, and I don't feel that October is enough.On the eighth day of the eighth month, Hu suffered from abdominal pain and gave birth to a child.Grandma only said that he was born by a maidservant, but she didn't let Chengting know.At that time, Jia She was going to check an official business in another county, and he would not return until September.I often met with the county magistrate Chen Lu, and Chen Gong quietly reported a happy news to him.Jia She was very grateful, and said to Chen Gong, "I want to see the newborn baby." Chen Gong asked the maid to ask Hu to stand behind the curtain, and the maid took out the child and handed it to Jia She.Jia She hugged the baby, although he was happy in his heart, he looked inside the curtain and burst into tears.Twice behind the curtain and said a few confidantes, Hu taught the servant girl to take the child in, and Jia She returned by himself.Since then, secretly sending some money to buy things with Hu's from time to time.The whole family was notified, but Tang was the only one.Time flies, and I didn't realize that more than two years later, the county magistrate was promoted and was going to Lin'an.Jia She had no choice but to tell Tang the situation, and wanted to take his mother and son home.The Tang family heard that there was a sudden chaos, and there was a lot of noise. Even the grandma of the county magistrate was "flattered" by him.After the chaos, the husband must marry Hu, and Fang Xu will bring the child back.Jia She heard that he married the Hu family, that's all. But he was afraid that if he brought back his son, he would be deliberately murdered by the Tang family, or he would be deprived of his milk and food, so he was suspicious.

In the middle of a dilemma, suddenly there was a report on the door: "There is a visitor from Taizhou." When Jia She rushed to meet him, it turned out that it was his brother Jia Ru.For the imperial court, he cleverly selected a woman from a good family and brought them up in the palace for the selection of concubines in the Eastern Palace. His daughter, Jia Yuhua, had already been selected into the list. Ren Suo, discuss with him.When Jia She was listening to the election in Lin'an, he rented the house of Taiwei Liu Ba, so it was old.When Jia She saw his elder brother, he thought to himself, "It's just a coincidence." He told Jia Ru in detail about marrying a concubine and having children, and Tang's jealousy. "Now that Mr. Chen is resigning for the first time, he has left this child alone. If my elder brother misses Jia's heir and takes him to raise an adult, I will be very grateful!" Branches, if I didn't lead them, who would take care of them?" Jia She was overjoyed!Privately hired a nanny, asked Zaiya to ask for a child, and delivered it to your mother.Ask my brother to take good care of him.So I wrote a letter from Liu Bataiwei, paid some travel expenses, and sent my brother Jia Ru to get up.The Hu family entrusted Chen Gong to lead them away, and let Cong remarry.Even though Jia She and Hu were inseparable from each other, there was nothing they could do.Tang Ruren heard her husband say that the mother and son are all separated, and they are very similar.It's just that the Hu family has suffered, and the child has gone, and the husband has left, and followed the county magistrate Chen on the road, what a miserable life!Just crying all the way.Grandma also persuaded him not to stop, and Chen Luchang also became bored.Go to Weiyang, and pay the sailors: "Call a matchmaker at the local place, teach him to find a master, and marry Hu. As long as the opponent is honest and loyal, he doesn't want a gift." Stake?Not long after, the matchmaker brought a man over, saying that he was a fine stonemason, and praised him for his sincerity and honesty.You said Wei Yang is so big, can't he find a good opponent?But only this mason?There is a reason.As the saying goes: Three aunts and six wives, think less and fight more.That matchmaker loves money the most, so if he thanked him a few more times, it would be done.When the mason saw the county magistrate Chen, he kowtowed four times and stood aside.Chen Lu often saw that he was well-dressed, young and strong, and had never married; he was skilled enough to support his wife, so he promised him the Hu family.The stonemason really didn't spend any money, so he took Hu's family there for nothing, and they became his husband and wife.

Besides, since Jia She's mother and son were separated, they were unhappy all day long.Suddenly one day, Tang Ruren fell ill and went to bed. He couldn't get well after taking medicine. Alas, he died.After Jia She bought the coffin and put it in the coffin, he abandoned his official position and helped the coffin back.When I arrived in my hometown, I was happy and sad: the happy one was seeing the child grow up compared to before, and the sad one was that Hu married someone else, so I couldn't see him.It is exactly: the flowers bloom and are hit by the rain, and the rain stops and the flowers die.There is no perfect beauty in the world, how much fun is it to see flowers?

But it is said that the children of Jia's family grow up to be seven years old, they are extremely intelligent, and they can read books by heart.His father was named Sidao, with the word Shi Xian.When Jia Sidao was 15 years old, he read everything and wrote a book.Unfortunately, his father Jia She and his uncle Jia Ru fell ill and died one after another.The funeral has passed, and since then no one has taken care of them, they wander around wantonly, shouting at Lu Liubo, fighting cocks and horses, drinking alcohol and staying with prostitutes, and they do everything.If you don't hook up for four or five years, you will spend all your belongings.At the beginning, I heard from my family that my aunt, Hu, was married to Weiyang and was the wife of a stonemason; my sister, Jia Yuhua, was elected to the palace.Think: "Weiyang has a long road, and the stonemason's craftsmanship is not very productive. I heard that my sister was elected to Yiwang's mansion. Now Yiwang is the emperor, and I dote on a concubine named Jia. I don't know if she is my sister? Let's go to the capital to watch her movements. At this time, Li Zong was in the early years of Duanping, and Jia Sidao's fortune was approaching, and it was time to make a fortune.He sold the remaining fire at home, sold a few coins, packed his luggage, and went to Lin'an.

Lin'an is the place where the emperor built his capital, and it is crowded with people. When Kuang Jia Sidao first arrived, he didn't know anyone, so he had nowhere to ask for news, so he just wandered around the lake all day long.In my free time, I can't help but play in the gambling field, and I can't help but walk in Pingkang Lane.After a few days of inactivity, my bags are empty and my clothes are blue, I only eat at the West Lake.

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