People have gone to sleep. Under a Haitang tree in the back garden, a young man with a handsome face and tears is squatting there, throwing white paper full of beautiful brush characters into the brazier in front of him.
With the rise of the flame, the paper instantly turned into a flying butterfly, reluctantly circling around the man and refusing to leave for a long time.
Seeing this, men are more and more heartbroken and can't control themselves.
This sad man is Nalan Rong Ruo, the first gifted scholar in the early Qing Dynasty and the dream lover of the daughters to be married in the upper class of the Qing Dynasty.
Tomorrow is Lushi's birthday, and the wailing soul brings Rong Ruo endless grief for Lushi.
Lushi is the first wife that Rong Ruo Ming Media is marrying, and the second woman that he falls in love with.
In the display of beauty and wisdom, the favored son of heaven
In January of the 11th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, Nalan Mingzhu, then the official of Sipin Jingguan, gladly added a son, named Nalan Chengde.
In March of this year, Michelle Ye, the third son of Shunzhi, later Kangxi, was born.
Because, like Michelle Ye's name, when Michelle Ye was made a prince, Nalan Chengde's name was changed to Xingde, and Rong Ruo was named "Lengga Mountain Man".
Rong Ruo was very clever since he was a child, and he was very successful when he was a teenager: he was not only proficient in classics and history, but also gifted in calligraphy and painting. And martial arts since childhood, good at riding and shooting.
According to historical records, Rong Ruo was "a 17-year-old student, after having obtained the provincial examination at the age of 18, and at the age of 22, he was awarded a scholarship by the court examination".
At the age of 24, Rong Ruo was incorporated into Kangxi's bodyguard team and became a third-class bodyguard.
Young success, walking with the king, the future is limitless, but this kind of luck is not what Rong Ruo wants.
He very much hopes to use these fame in exchange for a romantic day with his beloved girl, writing songs and giving love.
The girl named Nalanhuier is Rong Ruo's cousin. When Rong Ruo was five years old, she was taken to her home in Rong Ruo by her mother and lived there for ten years.
The arrival of my cousin made Rong Ruo's boring days of studying literature and practicing martial arts happy, and the two children soon became inseparable friends.
When Rong Ruo was sixteen, her little cousin grew into a girl as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade.
At this time, the triennial draft drama began as scheduled, and Rong Ruo didn't know that he was the protagonist of the tragedy in this farce.
Young Rong Ruo's first love and the ecstasy of two young people need not be guessed.
It was a sunny afternoon, and Rong Ruo, who came back from the military school, didn't see Huier in her parents' room.
He felt very strange. After paying their respects, he went straight to his cousin's room and said, "Who will call downstairs and hold the incense burner at sunset?" Looking back, I stood in front of the smiling steps, always speechless and reluctant. "
Rong Ruo, who is "standing in front of others with a smile", should use her newly added words to express her affection for her cousin, and then determine their love relationship.
Looking at her cousin standing in front of the steps, Huier's heart was full of sadness: she just got the news that she was about to be sent to the palace by Uncle Pearl to participate in the draft, but her cousin was still in the dark, smiling and didn't know how to leave!
As the pearl of parents and aunt, you can't help but notice that you have a good impression on me with two children.
However, family interests are as great as the sky. In order to consolidate her position in the imperial court, Mingzhu can only sacrifice the happiness of Rong Ruo and Huier, and send Huier to the palace while the draft is coming.
This is an extremely realistic and cruel plan, and Rong almost collapsed.
My cousin entered the palace and was chosen as a concubine by the emperor. Facing the red wall between himself and his cousin, Rong Ruo felt a sharp pain. He didn't want to lose his cousin.
To this end, young Rong Ruo even risked his life and that of his family, and decided to put on makeup and venture to see his cousin in the palace.
Rong Ruo, who is determined to enter the palace, is determined not to let her cousin die!
When he dressed up as a Lama and entered the palace with a group of lamas who were doing Buddhist work, he happened to meet a group of female monks.
Rong Ruo's heart was pounding: He saw his cousin! I haven't seen her for days. Although my cousin wears decent makeup, her face still looks sad and haggard.
My cousin also saw Rong Ruo at the same time.
The two men looked at each other with tears in their eyes, while the heavily guarded guards next to them stared at everyone who entered the palace in high spirits.
Cousin's desperate eyes are full of parting feelings: wake up! It is impossible between us! If you go your own way, not only will your life be hard to protect, but countless heads will fall to the ground in both families!
My cousin disappeared at the end of the tunnel and the whole team surrounded her.
Rong Ruo felt dejected, and when he got home, he could only vent his anger in his own words: "Two people in one generation will fight for two selflessness all his life. Acacia does not face each other, who is spring? Begging from the blue bridge is easy, but rushing into the blue shipwreck. Rong Ruo visited Oxford and relatively forgot poverty. " (Hua Tang Chun)
Some people say that the love story of Baoyu and Daiyu in Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Mansions is based on the love story of Rong Ruo and his cousin.
I am convinced.
As the son of an upper-class celebrity, Rong Ruo can have a rich life and a bright future, but he has no right to choose his lover.
This is the sorrow of Rong Ruo's generation of lovers, and also the sorrow of that historical era.
Write Luo Shen gently, wishing people a long time.
Under the personal supervision of his father, Rong Ruo married the daughter of Lu Xingzu, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi at the age of 19.
Lu's family education is rigorous, gentle and charming. More importantly, like his cousin, Lu knows Chinese characters and songs. After dinner, Rong Ruo and I talked for a long time.
Knowing Lushi quickly pulled Rong Ruo back from the emotional whirlpool of first lovelorn.
Life after marriage is soft and smooth, like a duck to water. Lushi is knowledgeable and considerate, and takes good care of her husband's daily life.
This made Rong Ruo very moved ... Lying alone in the garden can make him sick, forcing Red Bean to admire Qing. "I am very grateful to Claudia. If you love flowers, you must love yourself. Don't just worry about flowers. ..... "(selected from Linjiang Fairy).
Two people are very much in love.
Unfortunately, however, Lu's stomach is extremely dull. She has been married for more than two years, but she has never been pregnant.
In order to have grandchildren as soon as possible, the family decided to marry a little wife for Rong Ruo.
Yan lived up to his family's expectations and soon gave birth to a big fat boy for Rong Ruo. Soon, this lucky little guy welcomed a younger brother: after three years of marriage, Lu finally got pregnant and gave birth to a son in April of the following year.
When the child was born, the whole family was very happy, but Lu caught a cold after delivery, but he couldn't afford to get sick.
Nalan Rong Ruo sought medical treatment from a famous doctor, but Lu still didn't survive.
One afternoon a month later, the servant ran into Rong Ruo's study in a panic and told his wife that she was not feeling well!
Upon hearing this, Rong Ruo immediately stumbled to her room with his servant.
At this point, her face was dark gray, and she seemed to hold her last breath, waiting for the arrival of Rong Ruo.
Rong Ruo grasped Lu's cold hand with both hands and looked at his wife who had loved her for three years. She didn't know what to do to save her life.
The two men looked at each other without a white flag in their hearts. Rong Ruo let tears run down his cheeks. He didn't dare to stretch out his hand to wipe it, for fear that his life would end if he let go.
But God did not care for Rong Ruo's pains. He held Lu Shi's hand and fell feebly, finally hanging by the bed.
Lushi left, abandoned her beloved husband and son, and left alone. Rong Ruo, who suffered such a huge blow, suddenly fell into a state of slouches.
He couldn't accept the fact that Lu had passed away, so that he didn't want to go into the room where Lu lived for a long time after his death, because he was afraid of that kind of thing ... stealing wet clothes and tears several times, and he was anxious to see Cui Qiao chasing rhinoceros. ..................................................................................................................................................................................
During this period, Rong Ruo kept expressing his thoughts about his beloved wife with words of mourning.
After her death, my concubine Yanshi couldn't soothe Rong Ruo's sad mood, because she couldn't replace her position in Rong Ruo's heart.
Rong Ruo's heart, together with his dead wife, searched for it alone in nothingness.
Three years later, under the repeated urging and handling of his family, Rong Ruo resumed the role of Guan, the granddaughter of Tu, one of the eight big noble in the Qing Dynasty.
Probably because of his family background, Guan's behavior is quite different from Lu's. Rong Ruo can't accept that rigid and provocative personality. If there is no deeper emotional connection with Guan Jia, there will not be many happy stories in daily communication.
Although the family is well-off, educated in the boudoir and conscientious in her husband's family, she has never been able to integrate with her.
Poor Guan married her husband's family, but she couldn't get her husband's tenderness, so she couldn't give birth to a man and a woman for Nalan's family. So when Rong Ruo died, she had to leave her in-laws and marry someone else.
Who is there with Alice? Beauty is not in love.
Seven years after Lu's death, when Rong Ruo was thirty years old, there was another woman in his life who made him crazy.
This is a Han woman named Shen Wan.
This Jiangnan girl, born in Wucheng, Zhejiang, is a talented woman who only sells herself. At the age of eighteen, he wrote "Choose Dream Ci", and he was also a network celebrity-like figure in the early Qing Dynasty.
Rong Ruo spoke highly of Dream Selection, which naturally left a deep impression on the author and gave birth to the idea of getting to know each other.
This is a story full of passion and admiration, and Shen Wansan is brilliant. Her words: "Add new things and feel old, but strive for beauty and thinness", which makes Rong Ruo feel refreshed.
Therefore, because of their love for lyrics, the two men have an intersection in writing. Hongyan delivers books, and the lyrics of your coming and going make the soil of love more fertile.
After a period of written communication, the emotional foundation between the two sides gradually strengthened, so Shen Wansan and his friends went to Beijing to meet Rong Ruo.
This beautiful and witty Jiangnan beauty won Rong Ruo's heart at once, and he soon fixed the date for marrying Shen Wan.
But when he told his family what he thought, he was severely obstructed by his father. Pearl even threatened Rong Ruo. If he had married Shen Wan, there would be no Rong Ruo at home!
In the Qing Dynasty, Manchu and Han were not allowed to get married. As the pearl of the royal family in Beijing, I will not allow my son to break the rules of his ancestors and let a Han woman become his daughter-in-law.
Obstruction from his father made Rong Ruo, who was originally gentle and reasonable, stubborn, and thus had a contradiction with his father.
Since Shen Wansan was not allowed to live in Nalan House, he simply rented a yard outside and lived a romantic life with Shen Wansan, singing, reciting poems and writing words.
They got their wish and came together. For Shen Wan who fell in love, they felt happy and comfortable.
However, once the romantic relationship between lovers and women is imprisoned by the cage of marriage, the unhappiness that follows will be highlighted.
At this stage, Rong Ruo has been promoted to a first-class bodyguard officer.
As a senior guard of the Royal Guards, there are many daily chores. In particular, he often accompanied the emperor to travel, so that Rong Ruo and Shen Wansan gradually came together after marriage, often leaving Shen Wansan alone.
Although Shen Wan was sensible at this time, it was not easy to understand her husband as much as possible.
But after all, she is a newly married girl, so for her husband who is often away, she shows a kind of yearning and a little sadness: "After dusk, the wind and rain stop at the window." A sleepless night is a long sleep. Gradually, the cold intruded into the brocade quilt, and the golden beast was carefully sold. Add new sadness and old feelings, but fight for beauty. "(Shen Wan:" Long Life Girl ")
In this poem, Shen Wan vividly describes her lonely feeling of waiting for true love year after year and finally marrying the right person, but she is so notorious and has to live alone from time to time.
Rong Ruo didn't know what happened to Shen Wan! But after all, he is tied up in official business, and there is a Tang Huo in law. All this is not something that Rong Ruo can make up his mind to give up.
What makes Shen Wan unacceptable is that Rong Ruo has always kept a holy place for his wife, Lu.
No one can occupy this place, and Shen Wan is no exception.
Every time I see Rong Ruo sad because he misses his dead wife, Shen Wansan's grievance arises spontaneously.
She realized that she would never camp safely in Rong Ruo's heart and enjoy the love alone.
In desperation, Shen Wansan decided to leave Rong Ruo.
That was six months after they lived together.
Although the summer sunshine is hot, it can't warm Shen Wan's inner desolation, nor can it dispel Rong Ruo's endless vicissitudes after his inner passion.
Shen Wan returned to Jiangnan sadly, and Rong Ruo silently saw him off. Even endless apologies can only turn into a faint goodbye: "Go well and have a good trip".
Now I know I was wrong, but I know very well that I have no plans since then.
Watching Shen Wansan disappear in the vast sea of people, Rong Ruo's heart is uncomfortable. For this girl who once fell in love, Rong Ruo also had the idea of being together.
However, after the passion with Shen Wan, the thoughts of Lu returned to his heart, making it impossible for him to give all his heart to this girl who met by chance.
As a man with a family, he can't get rid of the fetters of morality and responsibility, and he has no scruples to join hands with Shen Wansan. Constrained by psychology and traditional etiquette, Rong Ruo can only choose to abandon Shen Wan and compromise with the world.
However, Shen Wan never dreamed that her farewell to the capital Rong Ruo turned into a farewell.
As a nobleman's son, Nalan Rong Ruo was highly valued by Kangxi. Less than six years after he was recruited into the bodyguard team, he was promoted from a third-class bodyguard to a first-class bodyguard.
For a young man in his twenties, such an honor is very lucky, so gratitude should also be a natural complex.
But Rong Ruo doesn't think so.
As a literary master with a holy heart like a virgin, he just wants to live a quiet life, learn knowledge and be with his beloved two of a kind.
"Not love light appearance hobby, cold place is better. Don't have a bud, it is not a rich flower in the world. After thanking my mother, who can cherish it and wander around the world? The cold moon is sad, and the west wind and sand are in Wan Li. "
Rong Ruo clearly knew that he was "not a flower of wealth on the earth", so he didn't want to be associated with vulgar views on fame and wealth. However, the gap between reality and ideal is too big, and Rong Ruo's heart is always in a state of extreme loss and bewilderment.
The psychological pressure day after day has finally become the last straw to crush the camel. Rong Ruo got drunk after a party with friends, which led to the onset of cold and dysentery.
Rong Ruo fell ill and died after seven days in bed, aged only 3 1 year.
This day is the anniversary of his death, and it is also the anniversary of his beloved wife Lu. Maybe, for some reason, Lu is too worried about her husband. I really didn't want him to be disturbed by the flashy and chaotic days in the world, so I took him to the day that Rong Ruo liked.
Nalan Rong Ruo's life is extremely short, but his love tragicomedy inspired him and made his lyrics beautiful, luxurious and charming.
The Nalan Ci he left to the world is like a bright pearl, which has become an immortal classic in China's ci circle for 300 years.
. End.
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