The furthest distance in the world is not when two people who love each other deeply look at each other, but can only say goodbye. Wu, Jiangnan gifted scholar; Bian Yujing, gone with the wind. They should have lived happily like the legendary fairy couple. But it seems that happiness depends on people to choose, and happiness is often not chosen by people! No matter whether they are talented people in the south of the Yangtze River or gone with the wind, as long as fate puts them in the wrong position, they can only stay away from happiness, with tears, and compose tragic love into a sad and sad song. This is the helplessness and profundity of life.
"Jiao eye oblique back to the bottom of the account, crisp close to the light. Hurry back to the fifth watch, little timid. Who saw it? The arm pillow is still greasy, and the mouth fat is slightly imprinted. The sex is still there, and the flowers fall on a bed. "(Wu," Xijiang Yuechunsi ")
This beautiful poem was written in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (AD 1643). At the age of 34, Wu met Bian Yujing again on the way to send his fellow countryman friend to his post. Different from the first sex on the Huaihe River in Qin Dynasty two years ago, Bian Yujing, who was 18 years old, has become a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, completely conforming to the life interest and enjoyment taste of literati. On the one hand, it is the physical pleasure of "arm pillow lingering fragrance", on the other hand, it is the spiritual exchange of "poetry and painting". How can we not let Wu, a middle-aged man who is exhausted in the whirlpool of party struggle, linger on?
"When I met the land bridge, I wanted to make a promise. After drinking too much, I thought a few times: Is it intentional? " (Wu's Preface to the Tomb of Taoist Yujing in the Woods of Jin) How many times can a woman be eighteen? At this time, Bian Yujing saw Liu, Dong Xiaowan, Gu Mei and other fireworks sisters attached to celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River, thus jumping out of the world of mortals and having a good home. Can they not be jealous? Now another Jiangnan celebrity falls at his feet. Bian Yujing, can you catch him quickly? So, after drinking or having sex, Bian Yujing always beat about the bush to Wu Shuo intentionally or unintentionally, "Wu Lang, do you love me? Then marry me. "
But the flashy scenery of Qinhuai River and the deep back in Iraq's eyes are all illusions of love. Anyone who takes it seriously will be fooled. Although Wu has been the second-in-command for many years, for him from a "poor family", the ransom of several thousand and two hundred geisha is still a big expense, which determines that it is difficult for him to pay for his love as easily as celebrities such as Qian, Gong Dingzi and Mao Xiang, who are from official families and rich families.
Secondly, celebrities married geisha, after all, were strongly condemned by public opinion. Because he didn't resist the criticism from his family and the village, Liu, who had already entered the door, was divorced. Money, Gong Dingzi, and mammoths have not been less pointed at; When Qian and Liu Xi got married, the door was smashed by villagers' bricks. In other words, if Wu wants to marry Bian Yujing, he must be prepared to face accusations from his family and village.
Perhaps, in the eyes of Bian Yujing, Wu is different from other guests, but why is Wu different? Meicun will always be just an ordinary person. It is untrue to say that he has no true love for Bian Yujing, but this love is not enough to be desperate for it. The delicacy of Bian Yujing's "arm pillow lingering fragrance" and his talent of "playing chess, painting and calligraphy" are more just a spiritual adjustment of Wu in the tragic and crazy life of party struggle.
However, there is no inseparable couple, only a mistress who doesn't work hard. As an ordinary man, facing the innuendo of Bian Yujing, it is not surprising that Wu chose silence and playing dumb at the price of love. At this point, if Bian Yujing pushes again, the means will be a little harder. With Wu's character, Yu Jing has great hope of finally getting what he wants. Originally, it was hopeless for a fireworks woman like Bian Yujing to "be a good person" without playing tricks. Unfortunately, Bian Yujing, despite her vicissitudes, is still a girl of 18 years old, with a little pride and immaturity. "I sighed deeply, then I said something." In the face of playing dumb in Meicun, Yujing just sighed, but did not take further action. A good marriage is wasted under the attack of both sides. Only stay, in those days, after the last night of tenderness, Meicun reluctantly wrote "Xi Jiang Yue Yong Bie"
"Black magpie bridge head night talk, under the cherry blossom spring sorrow. Cheap and slender, rainy and blue, Zhou Yang, the jade man who painted the pavilion lowered his hand. Tea is full of peach tears and green hills are full of bright eyes. Whoever picks up the dream tonight will have wine left with a pillow. "
To be sure, when Wu wrote this poem "A Farewell to the Xijiang Moon", he would not have thought that he and Bian Yujing had been separated for seven years, let alone that he would experience great social changes during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Seven years later, when they met again, things changed, although Qian and Liu intended to repair the ill-fated lovers. However, having reached the edge of the bank, Yujing just didn't want to get off the sedan chair to see Wu, and Wu also consciously had no face to see Yujing again.
Yes, when the Qing soldiers went south and a weak woman in Bianyujing needed protection most, where was Wu? Wu is running for his life. Where was Wu when she was displaced and the geisha in Bianyujing lost her financial resources? Wu stayed with his wife and children. Bian Yujing has every reason not to see Wu again, and Wu has no face to see Bian Yujing again. However, after all, the two have not been completed. Although Bian Yujing left without saying a word, they complained more silently than with sound; Wu was provoked already numb heartstrings, tears into a poem, and wrote "Qin He Qing Lao Four Poems", with a small preface before the poem, which was particularly poignant and moving:
"... Yu Ben hates people and mourns the past. Jiangtouyanzi is not an old base area; The mountain is overgrown with weeds, so the old man is well? For a long time, the dream of leading China has been shattered. When should I shake it? When we meet, we can only hope for a bright future, and I can't compete; You are not married because you often see cherries. Listening to the pipa doesn't ring, but you still feel pity through the round fan. Can you have no feelings of Du Qiu and tears of Jiangzhou ... "
A few months later, Bian Yujing made a surprise visit and went boating with Wu on the river. Old friends meet again and reminisce about the past. A weak woman in Bian Yujing completely conquered Wu, who was timid, and turned Wu's appreciation of Bian Yujing's color and artistic style into respect for personality. If the love between Wu and Bian Yujing before was limited to the emotional entanglement between clients and prostitutes; Then, after that, their love transcends the body, the uneasiness and possession, and sublimates into a firm lover who can fully understand, respect, support and comfort each other spiritually.
With deep love for Bian Yujing, Wu wrote a long poem "Listening to Bian Yujing, a female Taoist, playing the piano", describing Bian Yujing's visit. In the poem, Wu, who has always been timid, pointed the finger at the emperor shunzhi, implicitly criticized Shunzhi's debauchery and fishing, made a fool of himself, took away the geisha musicians in the south of the Yangtze River, and sang the song of a coquettish woman in Bianyujing, but he was not ashamed to be an alien tool to slaughter his compatriots. She would rather live in the wind and sleep, drift from place to place, and abscond as a Taoist makeup.
Two people who love each other are not necessarily bound, but exchange a caring look and see each other find stability in an uneasy world. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Wu not only became increasingly poor economically, but also became increasingly sinister politically, which was fatal at any time. Instead of helping each other and hurting Bian Yujing all his life, it is better to watch Bian Yujing find a moment of stability in the sinister environment at that time.
What is commendable is that although Bian Yujing was attached to the rich man in Wuzhong and the famous doctor Zheng Qinyu in Jiangnan, although the Wu family was not well-off and they no longer had a physical relationship, Wu always maintained financial support for Bian Yujing until ten years later, Wu was involved in a "write-off case" and was jailed. Ask, this is not love, what is love?
In the first year of Kangxi, namely 1662, Zheng Qinyu, the last famous doctor to whom Bian Yujing attached, died of old age, and Bian Yujing once again lost his financial resources. At this time, Bian Yujing is over 30 years old. What does it mean for a geisha to be over 30? It goes without saying. What's more, at that time, the Qing government sued Luo Zhi for madness for the purpose of cracking down on the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and a wide range of major cases came to Jiangzuo one after another. In a single case,13,700 Jiangnan gentry were arrested and killed, and these people were originally the economic source of Bian Yujing. I want to ask, under the white terror, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are silent. Who is in the mood to support an old geisha?
At this moment, Wu, who has silently supported Bian Yujing for ten years, doesn't want to help her old lover? But at this time, Wu has been detained in Beijing for more than a year because of the "cancellation case", and he is really unable to help Bian Yujing. Only every day in Lacrimosa, I burst into tears and worried about my old lover; Besides, there is really nothing that Meicun can do. The biggest sorrow in life is knowing that the person you love is on the verge of despair, but there is nothing you can do.
In September of the seventh year of Kangxi, that is, in September of A.D. 1667, Wu, who had been in Beijing for seven years, was finally released. After his release, Wu (58), who was over 60 years old, rushed to Tuoan Brocade Forest in Huishan, Wuxi without even returning home. In front of a lonely grave, he cried and hid his face. He came to see Bian Yujing, the love of his life. At this time, it has been three or four years since Bian Yujing died of poverty.
At this time, Wu's rhetoric has entered the realm, and his feelings have penetrated into the bone marrow and are indelible, truly reaching the extreme of "gentle, gorgeous and skinny". Thus, he "wrote" the best work in his life, "The Tomb of the Jade Well Leader in the Woods". There is a deep sadness in the full text, "Youbi has heard of this place, but it is Xiling". This small grove used to be a place where two people painted and wrote poems when they were young, but today it has become a place where they are separated forever.
In the preface before the article, Wu mentioned that in order to repay Zheng Qinyu's kindness, after Zheng's death, Bian Yujing spent three years tattooing the bloody book "Fire Eyes and Golden Eyes" to repay his kindness. It's just that this statement is different from time and may not exist. Perhaps, Wu wanted to express Bian Yujing's national integrity in an extreme way, such as the bloody book Goblet of Fire. Even at the last moment when he lost his financial resources, he would rather die than serve the dog traitor.
Wu, a well-known talent in Jiangnan; Bian Yujing is a famous prostitute in Qinhuai. Fate is unfortunate and lucky for them. Unfortunately, Meicun and Yujing always love each other but can't be together; Fortunately, after the accident, their love has been sublimated from simple physical pleasure to spiritual harmony. A love poem is actually longer than a kiss. Wu and Bian Yujing, lovers who have known each other and loved each other for more than 20 years, although their real time together is as short as fireworks, their love has been passed down from generation to generation, such as drunkenness, Xijiang Yue and Qin Jiang's four poems, listening to Taoist Bian Yujing playing the piano and Jinlin crossing the tomb of Taoist Yu Jing. Meicun and Yujing, lucky or unlucky? !