Maoxiang (A.D.161-1693), whose real name was Bijiang, was a writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He was born in Rugao, a family that has been an official for generations. He studied in his grandfather's office when he was young. At the age of 65,438+04, he published a collection of poems, The Fragrant Garden Happened. Dong Qichang, a giant in Wen Yuan, compared him with Wang Bo in the early Tang Dynasty, expecting him to "embellish the scenery of poetry in the prosperous Ming Dynasty".
He is the author of 8 volumes of Poems of Nest People, 6 volumes of Collected Works, Memories of Mei Ying 'an 1 volume, and Fan Ji 12 volume.
During the period of Maoxiang 1627- 1642, he went to Nanjing after six provincial examinations, and he won the second place in six examinations. He only won the vice list twice, but he didn't even win a jury. He is very incompetent.
Since the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the river has gone from bad to worse, especially the eunuch's playing power and demoting the outline, which has reached its peak. Faced with this situation of peril, how can intellectuals with a sense of justice not be worried? 1636, the mammoth formed an alliance with Zhang Mingbi, joined the Fu Society, and became close friends with Fang Yizhi and Hou Chaozong, known as the "four sons" in history. They are similar in age, congenial, or walk together, or sing together, or attack eunuchs, or talk about state affairs, hoping to reform and strengthen the country and save the nation. 1639, drafted by Wu, and signed by more than 40 people/kloc-0, has a great influence, making Ruan Dacheng and others like rats crossing the street.
1644, Li Zicheng peasant army invaded Beijing, and the Ming Dynasty perished. Subsequently, the Qing soldiers entered the customs and established the Great Qing Dynasty. The old minister of the Ming Dynasty established the Hong Guang regime in Nanking. Ruan Dacheng, the eunuch remnant, took refuge in Ma Shiying and became the Minister of War and Deputy Minister of Nanming. He wants to get back at the gentlemen in society. As it happens, Mao Xiang got wind that Alex Gao would be stationed in Rugao, so the whole family fled to Nanjing. In Nanjing, after Ruan Dacheng failed to lobby Mao Xiang, he was arrested by the Royal Guards. It was not until the following year that Ma and Ruan fled Nanjing that they were released from prison. There is another saying: He fled to Yangzhou overnight and escaped the disaster by Shi Kefa's shadow. 1645 In June, Chen Junyue, an anti-Qing hero in Rucheng, organized volunteers to resist Qing court officials. Mao Xiang once again fled to Yanguan, Zhejiang with his family. From summer solstice to winter, I traveled everywhere. In Ma 'anshan, "when I met a soldier, I was killed and plundered extremely miserably", and "there were dozens of servants and maids killed and plundered, and my toys and clothes were destroyed as soon as I survived." All this has brought about drastic changes in his thoughts. The next year, he returned to his hometown to live in seclusion.
After the Qing soldiers pacified the whole country, Chen Mingxia, a member of the Qing Society, wrote him a letter from Beijing, in which he was praised by the authorities as "a crane in the sky" and wanted to "recommend" him. However, I still took the initiative to "stick to" my illness. During the reign of Kangxi, the Qing court set up "learned and versatile subjects" and levied "secluded forests". Mao Xiang is also among the candidates, but he regards it as our shoes and can't stick to it. All these fully show his mentality and integrity of posing as a adherent of the Ming Dynasty, being indifferent to his ambition and never being an official. At the same time, he missed his old friends, adopted, rehabilitated and orphaned by anti-Qing people in Jiangnan. For example, in the Shuihui Garden, a blue house was built to commemorate Dai Jian, a friend who died of hunger strike in the Ming Dynasty.
Over time, Mao Xiang was dying, living in poverty, and could only make a living by selling words. He said to himself, "I am 80 years old. Ten years is like a day, and the fire burns us, which is terrible! The graveyard is full of houses, making it impossible for a family of four generations to reunite. The two sons are exhausted and have no dogs and horses; Naizhai moved, lived alone in a mean alley, and still kept smiling and amused himself. Writing a few words under the lamp every night is easy. " It expresses his adherents' mentality of not taking the second surname, which is the most shining place in the life of the mammoth.
Mao Xiang created a large number of works in his life, such as Pre-Historical Records, Poems of Park Chao, Poems of Shuihui Garden, Memories of Mei Ying 'an, Lonely Poems of Han Bi, Poems Friends of Sixty Years, etc. Among them, The Memory of Ann, with a total of 4,000 words, recalls the touching love life between him and Dong, and is the originator of China's style writing.
Dong Xiaowan (A.D. 1624- 165 1), a native of Nanjing, became a prostitute because of her divorced parents and poor family. /kloc-when she was 0/6 years old, she was already famous, and she was called "Qinhuai Eight Musts" with Liu and Li. 1639, the first-place mammoth and Xiaowan met in Suzhou Bantang. She fell in love with Mao Xiang at first sight and even said, "Different people! Alien! " Although she expressed her love for Mao Xiang many times, she didn't get his approval. Because Mao Xiang has long taken a fancy to Chen Yuanyuan, a famous prostitute in Wumen, and got engaged at 164 1. The following year, Mao Xiang passed the Suzhou Provincial Examination for the sixth time. When I revisited Chen Yuanyuan, I was empty, frustrated and depressed to the extreme. This winter, under the mediation of Liu, Qian came forward to redeem Xiaowan, and then rented a boat from Bantang to Rugao. The following spring, Mao Dong became a couple. Xiaowan is talented, good at poetry and painting, especially at playing the piano. Now the guqin in Shuiming Building is what she pays attention to.
The story of mammoth and Dong Xiaowan
Mao Xiang, a native of Rugao County, Taizhou, Yangzhou Prefecture, South Zhili, was born on March 15th in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 16 1 1). During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mao Shi's family in Rugao came forth in large numbers, which was a local noble family and a cultural family. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in a state of collapse. In the northeast, under the iron hoof of the Qing army, Sichuan-Shaanxi-Huguang is the battlefield where "rogue bandits" gallop, while the literati in Jiangsu and Zhejiang still live a life of feasting, poisoning, arrogance and extravagance. On the Qinhuai River, the river house where prostitutes live holds banquets along the guests, and the wine is not empty. The singer's jade mandarin duck and the scholar's purple scarf are intertwined, and the literary talent is romantic and prosperous. The frontier has also been contaminated with the habits of ordinary expensive children. On the one hand, he is young and energetic, looking forward to being proud of himself, presiding over discussions, resisting vulgarity, enjoying talking about world affairs and holding the ambition of serving the country; On the other hand, I missed the victory of Qingxi Baishi, the famous trip, and lived a rich life.
Mao Bijiang heard Fang Yizhi say for the first time that there is a talented Dong Xiaowan among Qinhuai beauties. Wu He also praised Bijiang Xiaowan. Xiaowan is always in the celebrity banquet hall, listening to people say that he has crossed the line and knows that there is such a high-ranking talent, and his integrity is negative and complacent.
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, after winning the first prize in the township examination of Jiangshu, I heard that Xiaowan lived in Bantang, so I visited him many times, but Xiaowan stayed in Dongting Mountain in Taihu Lake. Suzhou singers Sha Jiuyi and Yang Yiying are as famous as Xiaowan, so they associate with Sha and Yang every day. Before leaving Suzhou, Bijiang went to Dong's house. Xiaowan was drunk at home and met Bijiang under the flowers in the music bar. Seeing Xiaowan's eyes flowing on the border, she is natural and charming, but she is still drunk and lazy.
In the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Xiaowan returned from Huangshan, her mother died, and she was frightened by Tian Hong's taking away the beauty. She is very ill and stays at home. When the border was established, Xiaowan was dying. Xiaowan stood up, held his hand and said, "I have been in a daze for eighteen days." As soon as I saw you today, I felt refreshed. " She ordered her family to prepare food and drinks in front of the bed with Bijiang. After bidding farewell to the border several times, Xiaowan stayed at the border. In the love and marriage with Mao Bijiang, Dong Xiaowan took the initiative everywhere, glowing with the personality glory of yearning for freedom and seeking truth; However, the risk of crossing the line is hesitant, exposing a self-centered personality weakness of everyone's son.
After Xiaowan entered the Maojia Gate, he got along well with the Maojia. People (frontier fortress's mother) and Sue (frontier fortress's wife) especially like Xiaowan, and Xiaowan is also very filial. In their spare time, Xiaowan and Bijiang often sit in the study of the painting garden, splashing ink, enjoying flowers, tasting tea, evaluating landscapes and learning from stones.
When Xiaowanchu arrived home, he saw Dong Qichang's Yue Fu written by imitating Zhong You's brushwork, and he loved it very much, so he tried to copy it. Then I looked everywhere for Zhong You's copybook. Later, I felt that Zhong You's handwriting was a little thin, and I saw that Guan Yu, whom she admired, was called a thief general in his "Record of Honor", so I abandoned the clock post and made it a Cao E tablet, with thousands of words every day and never missed it.
Xiaowan once wrote small letters to relatives and friends for Bijiang, and also registered the use of daily necessities and money for Sue. Xiaowan drew a small clump of cold trees, and the pen and ink were touching. 15 years old, the painting "Butterfly Map" is now collected in Wuxi Museum, with her inscription on it. After arriving in Rugao, she maintained a special interest in painting and exhibited new scrolls and scrolls or old collections at home. Later, on the way to escape, I still tied up my calligraphy and painting collection and took it with me.
The most heartbreaking thing about Xiaowan is that she leads a romantic and beautiful daily life. Xiaowan is indifferent by nature and doesn't like fat meat and sweets. Warm rice with a small pot of mustard tea, with one or two dishes of watercress and fragrant black beans, is her meal. Bijiang likes sweets, seafood and smoked food. Xiaowan cooked delicious food for him, fresh and clean, with a wide variety. She not only seasoned with salt and sour plum, but also picked the newly dyed flower buds and infiltrated the flower juice into the fragrant dew. The toilet water made in this way is rare in the world. One of the most delicious is Haitang dew. Begonia was originally odorless, but the begonia dew made by Xiaowan has a unique fragrance. After drinking, dozens of kinds of flower dew are packed in white porcelain cups, not to mention tasting them with your mouth. Just floating five colors and overflowing strange fragrance are enough to quench your thirst.
Small bowls of pickles can make yellow people like wax and green people like jade. Once all kinds of wild vegetables reach her, they all have a special fragrance and taste. The fire meat she cooked smells like pine and cypress, wind fish smells like muntjac, drunk mussels are like peach blossoms, pine shrimps are like dragon beard meat, oily pomfret is like sturgeon, and roasted rabbit crisp chicken is like cake bait, which is wonderful.
Xiaowan often studies recipes. When she sees a strange taste, she will visit its making method. Now people often eat tiger skin meat, which is her invention. So it also has a little-known name called "Dongpo Meat", which is homophonic with "Dongpo Meat". Xiaowan is also good at making candy. When she was in Qinhuai, she used sesame seeds, fried noodles, caramel, pine nuts, peach kernels and sesame oil as raw materials to make crisp candy and cut it into cubes with a length of five points, a width of three points and a thickness of one point. This crisp candy is yellow outside and crisp inside, sweet but not greasy. People call it "winter candy", and now Yangzhou's famous points are all stuffed winter candy (also called "inch golden winter candy").
Geisha can drink a lot of wine. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Hanshui Wang hosted a banquet in Meihua Pavilion at Jiangkou to entertain Bijiang and Xiaowan. Perhaps the surging white waves of the Yangtze River inspired Xiaowan's lofty sentiments. She "drank a huge sum of money, and it was clear, and all the prostitutes present were desperate." I've only seen this scene once. Because Xiaowan watched Bijiang and drank very little, there were countless banana leaves, so he didn't drink much. In terms of drinking tea, Xiaowan and Bijiang both like mustard slices. This mustard slice smells like baby meat when cooked. Making tea is of course Xiaowan's specialty. They are often one person and one pot, silently facing each other before and after the flowers, savoring the color, fragrance and temperament of tea.
Moonlight is like water, and the youngest falls in love with it. On a cool summer night, Xiaowan likes to recite poems about the moon, fireflies and wanzhuan in the Tang Dynasty with two children standing on the edge. In order to appreciate the beauty of the moonlight, she often moves several couches with the rise and fall of the moon. Back indoors in the middle of the night, she still pushed open the window and let the moonlight wander between the pillows. When the moon went west, she rolled up the curtains again, leaned against the window, and was reluctant to go, reciting Li He's poem "The moonlight is lingering, and the waves are like smoke and jade" repeatedly. Xiaowan once said to Bijiang, "When I wrote Xie Zhuang's Yuefu, I found that the ancients were tired of morning fun and liked night banquets. This is because the night is still, the moon is still, the sky is blue, and the frost is still. Compared with the red sun and the red dust, there is a difference between the two. Life is bustling and you don't go home at night. Some people fell asleep before the moon came out and were not lucky enough to get rid of the shadow of osmanthus. You and I love to enjoy this bright moonlight all year round, and the Lu Xian Zen Pass will open in silence. " In this way, Xiaowan appreciates the subtle and elegant cultural interest in his natural and plain daily life, and yearns for a detached and clear poetic life in his humble life.
Xiaowan and Bijiang both like to sit quietly in the fragrant pavilion and savor the fragrance. Xiaowan treasures Daughter Xiang, which Dongguan people regard as a masterpiece. The way of small universal agarwood is different from that of laity. The laity burned agarwood on the fire, and the smoke was greasy, which soon went out. Not only can't you observe the fragrance, but also the smoke pollutes the burnt upper sleeve. Small and versatile is the method of burning incense through gauze, and paying attention to mood when tasting incense. In the hut on a cold night, jade hangs down, two or three red candles are lit, and agarwood is burning in several Xuande furnaces. The nose is quiet, as if entering the depths of Jolie's fragrance.
Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the Qing army marched south, and the Jiangnan area was raging. The Qing army ran amok, risking the destruction of the family and the ruin of the family. Xiaowan fled to the south with her husband. In Chinese Valentine's Day in the fifth year of Shunzhi, Xiaowan saw floating clouds in the sky and suddenly became interested in imitating them to make a pair of gold cymbals. She asked Bijiang to write down the words "Kiki" and "Fu Xiang" and carve them on the golden pheasant. This pair of exquisite yellow jumping shoes suddenly broke away from it in July of the following year. They made a new pair. They wrote the words "Bi Yi" and "Lian Li" on the border. It serves to show that Dong Xiaowan took this pair of Jin Chuaner as a token of love.
Xiaowan loves late chrysanthemums best. A friend gave Mao Bijiang several pots of chrysanthemums named "Cut Peach". Flowers are many and thick, leaves are dyed and graceful. Xiaowan watched "Cutting Powder" and liked it very much. She put the flowers by the bed on purpose. Every night, I light a green candle and have a high fever, surrounded by a white screen on three sides, put a small chair in the greenhouse, adjust the chrysanthemums, and then enter the greenhouse, so that people are in the chrysanthemum, and chrysanthemums and people are in the shadow. This situation is picturesque. At the last moment of Dong Xiaowan's life, she also asked Mao Bijiang to move "cutting powder" to the bed to show her whether the branches and leaves were lush and whether there were any pests.
Xiaowanhe Bijiang once lived in Jiaxing Seawater Painting Gallery. She faced the bleak scenery of late spring on Jilong Mountain on the north and south lakesides, sighing that the river burst its banks, the family was ruined and the flowers were buried in tears. It is said that Lin Daiyu's burial flowers in A Dream of Red Mansions were adapted from Xiaowan's burial flowers.
Soon after the weather stabilized, I ventured across the border and fell ill twice. Once, it was bleeding from stomach trouble, and water and rice didn't enter. Dong Xiaowan boiled medicine and soup in the heat, and cared for her pillow for sixty days and nights. The second time was gangrene on her back, and the pain was unbearable. She can't lie on her back. Xiaowan holds her husband and lets him rest on her every night, while she sits and sleeps for a whole hundred days. Bijiang said that during the nine years with Xiaowan, he enjoyed the whole of his life.
In the hard life, the diet is even more difficult. Xiaowan's body is very weak. He took care of several serious illnesses in Bijiang continuously, which made Xiaowan's body collapse instantly and he could not drink a mouthful of water for more than 20 days. Because the physique is extremely scarce, it is difficult to ask a famous doctor for treatment. In the eighth year of Shunzhi (AD 165 1), on the second day of the first month, Xiaowan died at the age of 28, amid heartfelt cries. Before she died, she held the gold medals engraved with the words "Bi Yi" and "Lian Li" tightly in her hand. I was buried in Meiying 'an, Rugao, in a trance at home. Scholars of all ages have paid tribute to it.
After Qing Daoguang, someone lied that Xiaowan was not dead in those days and was taken to the palace by Hong Chengchou. He was loved by Bo Di and Shunzhi, and he was terrified. He lied that Xiaowan was dead, but in fact Dong Fei was Dong Xiaowan. It was all empty talk. Dong Xiaowan was 28 when he died, and Shunzhi was only 14 years old. Xiaowan and Bijiang advocated integrity and refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Xiaowan hates the luxurious life of the court, not to mention that Manchu and Han are not married, and Xiaowan has no reason to invite pets into the palace. Shunzhi is loyal to Dong E Fei, not Dong E Fei. Princess Dong 'e, daughter of Chen Wu Ashuo. /kloc-entered the palace at the age of 0/8 (Xiaowan/kloc-married Bijiang at the age of 0/9). Princess Dong 'e is extremely beautiful, quiet and gentle, and loves the harem. In August of the 13th year of Shunzhi, she became a virtuous princess, and in June+February of 65438, she became an imperial concubine. Shunzhi was inseparable from her, painting poems and learning Buddhism. In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, the son of Dong E Fei died within one hundred days. She was very sad and soon fell ill and died. The emperor shunzhi made her a tribute queen, and went on strike for five days. The funeral ceremony was extremely grand. As for the legend that Shunzhi saw through the world of mortals because of Dong Xiaowan's death and became a monk in Wutai Mountain, it is even more absurd.
Dong Xiaowan, from a famous prostitute to a virtuous princess, is one of the four mysteries in Qing Dynasty. The first one is Shunzhi becoming a monk. It is said that Shunzhi was a Han woman-Dong Xiaowan became a monk. Dong Xiaowan, who was originally a celebrity's concubine, is said to be heartbroken because Shunzhi took Dong Xiaowan away from him. Said:
"Dream dust, melancholy, ying ying, looking forward to empty. The beautiful girl left her soul, and she passed by Mo Wen. Raise the hook at the seaside, who will prove the former alliance; Embrace the forest with open arms and never forget the past. After the golden lotus dance, Yushu is full of songs, peaches and plums are gone, where is the willow tip? Hey, flat with water, water with the wind, flat dry; Disillusionment is emptiness, emptiness is color, and disillusionment is the whole soul. Forgotten, the color is empty; Long song sent a message, it is difficult to round the moon. " And wrote a poem "Jin Ren Jie Cai" to express his grief.
But the mystery is the mystery after all, but the real situation is quite different from it.
There is a strip of Tanghe River outside Suzhou, which is clear and slow. The scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is beautiful and pleasant. There is an unknown hill by the river not far from the city. The bamboo forest on the mountain is faint and quiet as a paradise. There are no families on the hillside, only three or two simple pavilions for tourists who come here to rest. Later, a small building was built here. Although the building is small, it is chic and elegant. A mother and daughter and several maids live in this building. The mother and daughter seem to live a very leisurely life. They indulge in mountains and rivers every day, watching a stone and lonely clouds, and the water falls out. When I am tired, I play the piano and recite poems, drink tea and play chess in the flower pavilion in the courtyard. It seems that I am not tired of my livelihood. Whose harem has this leisure? They used to be the hostess and lovely girls of Dongjiaxiuzhuang in the city. Dongjia Embroidery Villa is a famous Suzhou Embroidery Villa. Thanks to its excellent work, its business is booming. Dong family is a Suzhou embroidery family with a history of more than 200 years. Although embroidery belongs to the craft manufacturing industry, it is very close to painting art, so Dong Jia is still more scholarly. The hostess Bai is the only daughter of an old scholar. The old scholar was frustrated all his life and had to pass on his knowledge to his daughter. Gave birth to a daughter to Dong Jia for nothing. In order to show the harmony between husband and wife, she was named Bai,No. Qinglian. The little girl is not only handsome in appearance, but also very clever in brain. Her parents regard her as a treasure, and teach her poetry, calligraphy and painting, needlework and sewing with all their heart to cultivate a girl with both ability and political integrity.
This is a happy family. Unexpectedly, when Dong Bai was thirteen years old, his father got dysentery in the summer, and the medicine didn't work, so he died soon. This sudden change made Dong Bai's mother and daughter haggard, and Bai didn't want to continue living in the old house in the city after taking care of her husband's affairs, and she was sad because of seeing things and thinking about people. So I spent a sum of money, built a secluded room by the Bantang River, took my daughter to live in seclusion and lived a quiet and isolated life. Xiuzhuang's affairs were entrusted to the staff.
Two years passed unconsciously, and it was the last year of the Ming Dynasty. The imperial court was corrupt and cruel, and the world was at war. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, chaos approached Suzhou, and people could not help but feel uneasy. Bai also intends to close Xiuzhuang's business and recover the fleeing funds at any time. Who knows that Xiuzhuang's buddy not only has no money left, but also owes thousands of money outside. Obviously, that man played a trick on me. I couldn't catch it, I was angry and anxious, and finally I was ill in bed. Mother fell, Xiuzhuang went bankrupt and was heavily in debt. The burden of life suddenly fell on fifteen-year-old Dong Bai. She seemed to fall from the clouds into the ice room and couldn't open her eyes for a moment.
The huge debt can be eased, but the mother's medical expenses are imminent. Dong Bai, who lived in seclusion with his mother since childhood, has developed a aloof and arrogant character, and is unwilling to borrow money from others. In desperation, he tried his best, agreed to the recommendation of others, and went to the painting boat on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing to perform art, and changed its name to Xiaowan.
Dong Xiaowan's beautiful appearance and refined temperament soon made her famous in Qinhuai River. Life forced her to smile, but her lofty temper was sometimes revealed, which offended some vulgar guests and won the appreciation of some nobles. Dong Xiaowan is narcissistic, self-pitying and self-loving, and will never be at the mercy of his guests. As a result, my wife's income was affected, and she naturally sneered at her. Dong Xiaowan left Nanking and returned to Suzhou with a stamp. But the mother at home is still lying in the hospital bed, and she can't do it without seeking medical attention. Some creditors heard that Dong Xiaowan had gone home, and they also came to collect debts. Dong Xiaowan couldn't cope with it, so he had to return to his old job and simply sold himself to a brothel with half soup, laughing and drinking, and accompanying guests.
In Bantang, Dong Xiaowan still holds the original intention of not selling herself, but in order to survive, she has to suppress her lofty share and sell a flattering smile with no actual content to the guests. There is a kind of guest who has leisure and sufficient financial resources, and can take a favorite brothel girl to travel and enjoy the natural customs. Dong Xiaowan is most interested in traveling with guests. Although most people who can make this elegant gesture are elderly people, Dong Xiaowan was obsessed with mountains and rivers at that time and didn't find this white-haired gentleman disgusting. Against the backdrop of charming scenery, she is also prone to surge of tenderness and sincerely gives her guests a charming smile. As a result, she was invited by guests to visit Taihu Lake, climb Huangshan Mountain and go boating in the West Lake for ten days and a half. Shortly after Dong Xiaowan left Qinhuai River, a son went to Qinhuai River to find her. The son will venture across the border. This man comes from an official family. Although he has no fame, he is ambitious and full of sense of justice. During the Apocalypse period, eunuch Wei Zhongxian plotted to play politics, confuse the platform, and ventured across the border to unite a group of people with lofty ideals to form Jinling to uphold justice, among which the famous one was the "four sons". The "four sons" are Chen Zhenhui, Fang Mizhi, Hou Fangyu and Mao Pijiang. They are all very young and talented. But in the end, due to the weakness of the situation, it was not only a climate, but also ruined by eunuchs. Although it is difficult to cross the border, its future is deeply affected and it needs to express its feelings temporarily in the scenery.
This autumn, 29-year-old Mao Bijiang came to Nanjing to take the provincial examination. Speaking of the provincial examination, Mao Bijiang has participated in it for three times. With his talent, he should have won the exam. But in the exam-oriented composition, he should have followed the rules and interpreted the classics. However, he wanted to contact the current situation and criticize it, which naturally violated the examiner's requirements, so he failed again and again. He is not going to change his style in this exam, only to see if he can meet an examiner with vision, otherwise he will take the second place. With the same mood as pioneering, his good friend Fang Mizhi also came to take the exam. They don't care about the exam at all. Seeing that they were a little leisure before the exam, they agreed to go to Qinhuai River to play. Mi Fang heard that Dong Xiaowan, a beautiful "cold beauty", came to Qinhuai River very early. She is unique among prostitutes, just to the taste of Mi Fang and others, so she went to visit with Mao Bijiang, only to find that Dong Xiaowan had left Qinhuai River.
Later, after obtaining the provincial examination, he made a list and ventured across the border, losing his reputation in Sun Shan as always. He was not disappointed. I just sighed that I was born at a bad time, packed my luggage, and then went to Suzhou to wander around. In Suzhou, I ventured across the border to visit Sheng and explore secluded places, and at the same time inquired about the whereabouts of Dong Xiaowan. Knowing that she had been entertaining guests at Bantang, I came here with great interest. Unfortunately, Dong Xiaowan has been invited to visit Taihu Lake. After that, I went to the soup several times and didn't see Dong Xiaowan. It was not until the eve of leaving Suzhou that I came to Bantang without much hope, but I was finally able to see her. It was a cold night in late autumn, and Dong Xiaowan had just returned from a banquet, leaning on the bed slightly drunk. Seeing the guests, she tried to stand up, but she was still drunk and sat up a little wobbly. When he saw it, he advised her not to disturb, and asked the maid to put a stool beside Xiaowan's bed and sit down beside her. After venturing across the border to introduce himself, Dong Xiaowan praised: "I have heard the name of' four children' for a long time!" He has a happy expression on his face. I didn't expect a dusty woman to be interested in their courageous behavior, and I can't help but admire it. I looked at Dong Xiaowan and plain clothes with light makeup and clear eyes.
Sure enough, it is very different from ordinary women who are often in love. At this time, although she is slightly drunk and delicate, she is still clear-headed and speaks appropriately. She spoke insightful about the present situation. Poor Iraqi people were tired after drinking. He left in a hurry after sitting at the border for less than half an hour. It was this half-hour conversation that left him a deep impression on Dong Xiaowan.