Liu Xiyi is sitting in the study in the east of Luoyang. He embraced the pipa and played a lute, or "Mountain Flowing Water" or "Guangling San". His fingering is superb, and his melody can break clouds and crack stones, reaching the professional level of ten. Someone told Liu Xiyi, "Brother Yi Xi, why don't you have a special concert? You are handsome, you must have many fans! " Liu Xiyi shook his head: "My talent doesn't need anyone's affirmation."
Liu Xiyi was a scholar at the age of twenty-five. In the Tang dynasty, it was extremely difficult to get into Jinshi. At that time, there was a saying that "fifty men are less". It means 50 years old, and he was still young when he was admitted. Liu Xiyi was lucky enough to become a scholar at the age of 25.
After being admitted to Jinshi, you have to pass the examination of the official department before you can become an official. At that time, people in the Tang Dynasty should not only be excellent in body, speech, writing and judgment, but also be judged by their private lives. Liu Xiyi has beautiful skin and beautiful articles. Being a scholar at a young age is naturally an indulgence. So the official department sentenced him to "disorderly private life", and his career path was destroyed.
Song, his uncle, is a scholar with him, but his official career is much smoother than him. When Song worked as a bachelor in Chongwen Pavilion, Wu Zetian became a queen. Song was also burly and handsome, so he had confidence in himself, so he recommended himself as the head of Wu Zetian. Unexpectedly, Wu Zetian despises him, so he goes to curry favor with Wu Zetian's male concubine Zhang Yizhi, carries the urinal for him, and flatters Princess Taiping. This behavior is despised by many people, and his wife is very depressed. He lost his father when he was a child, and he has been living in his uncle Song's home. He comforted his uncle and mother a few words, much more comforting. My uncle and mother have a good impression on each other, which was noticed by Song. Song said: I knew what they were doing as soon as I saw their eyes! So he hates Liu Xiyi.
On this day, Liu Xiyi played his beloved pipa in the study. Oh, this pipa is not made of pottery. When he was playing the tune of Shang Dynasty, some petals suddenly floated out of the window, so he became poetic. He put down the pipa, spread out the paper, picked up a pen and copied it down:
Li Huafeng, a peach blossom in Luoyang Oriental, flies around, and I don't know whose home it is.
Thought for a moment, and then began to write:
Luoyang woman looks beautiful, sitting alone in the courtyard, looking at the scattered plum blossoms, sighing long.
At this time, his mind is full of ideas, and he began to write:
The peach blossom and plum blossom I saw this year have rotted in color. I wonder who can see the beautiful flowers in the flowering season next year?
When he wrote this sentence, his face suddenly changed. This sentence is ominous, similar to prophecy, just like Shi Chong's "grow old together".
At that time, Pan An wrote a poem to Shi Chong, saying, "Give Shiyou a ticket, and the bald head will return to its original place." Later, Pan An turned white overnight and mutually assured destruction with Shi Chong, which is a prophecy.
No, Liu Xiyi wanted to replace these two poems, but he thought about it and wrote again:
Flowers still bloom every year, but they are different from year to year.
Liu Xiyi sighed, alas! I can't get around it, it's still poetry! If you want to live and die, how can you decide life and death just by a few words?
At this time, Song Gang came back from the urinal and was rebuffed by him. Zhang Yizhi said he didn't empty the urinal, but he didn't do it well. Song returned home, feeling uncomfortable. When he came to Liu Xiyi, Liu Xiyi had just written a poem called "Stupid Cup of Pulsatilla". Song Wenzhi looked at it and said, "Flowers are similar every year, but people who are old are different." I like it very much, so I said, "Yi Xi, you have been living at my uncle's house since your father died. For so long, my uncle has kept good wine and good meat, and I have never wronged you. Look at these two poems. Flowers are similar every year, but people of different ages are different. Why don't you give them to me? "
I glanced at Song and thought, You are my uncle, and I am five years older than you. How do you take care of me? It suddenly occurred to me that this poem was a prophecy, so I might as well give it to him. Just then, he snatched Song's manuscript and said, "Well, it's mine! Don't you rob me! " Although Liu Xiyi didn't like the prophecy in the poem, it was his own work after all, and he was reluctantly taken away by Song.
Soon, Liu Xiyi could not bear to be separated from this poem, and named Pulsatilla Daibei after himself. When Song Faxian died, he flew into a rage. He molested his aunt. He won't argue with you. He also robbed my poem, which is tolerable!
So, Song had the heart to kill. How did Liu Xiyi die?
That kind of situation is like the terrible means that Song Wu heard in Mengzhou prison in the Water Margin: "I tied you up, but I put a cloth bag and a bag of yellow sand on you in the future, and I won't die again."
Liu Xiyi was 29 when he was killed. He only saw the fallen flowers this year, and he will never see the flowers next year.
Really, I'm in the poem.