The house leaked rain, but it happened to rain all night. The ship was late, but it caught up with the headwind.
This sentence is often said that it never rains but it pours. It was bad enough, but adding fuel to the fire made it worse.
This sentence says, "the house leaks when it rains all night, and the wind is as late." In the story "Two County Magistrates Fight for Righteousness to Marry an Orphan", which appeared in the first volume of "The Story of Marriage to Awaken the World", it tells the story that Shibi, a Qing official, suffered a warehouse fire during his tenure and needed compensation of 1500 taels of silver, but Shibi had no money, and finally sold his family property and didn't pay it off, and finally died of depression. Leaving only his wife and children.
Therefore, the author said: "This kind of bitterness is obviously: the house leaks when it rains all night, and the wind is as late." I used to sigh that the fate of this family was really bad.
Extended data:
In the first half of the sentence, Feng Menglong used a sentence from the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "The hut was blown by the autumn wind": "There is no dry place in the bedside room, and the feet are like hemp." The original poem means that there is no dry place in the whole house, and raindrops keep leaking down like drooping hemp thread. Writing about the bitter rain in the broken house set off the poet's gloomy and miserable mood.
The autumn wind broke the hut.
Du fu in Tang dynasty
Original text:
In August and autumn, the wind roared and rolled up my three hairs. Hair flew over the river and sprinkled on the periphery of the river. The highest one hangs a long forest tip, and the lower one floats to Shentang 'ao.
The children in Nancun bully me. I can stand being a thief. I openly carried Mao into the bamboo forest, and my lips were so dry that I couldn't breathe. When I came back, I sighed on crutches.
In an instant, the wind will set the color of the clouds and ink, and the autumn will be bleak and dark. This cloth has been as cold as iron for many years, and Joule has been lying down and cracking. There is no dry place in the bedside table, and the feet are numb with rain. How can you get wet all night since you are in a mess and don't get enough sleep!
There are tens of millions of buildings in Ande, which makes all the poor people in the world very happy! The wind and rain are calm as a mountain. Oh! When I suddenly see this house in front of me, I will freeze to death alone!
Translation:
In August, it is already late autumn, and the wind is howling. The wind blew away several layers of thatch on my roof. The thatched grass flew across Huanhuaxi and scattered on the other side of the river. The high-flying thatch is wrapped around the high treetops, and the low-flying thatch floats and sinks into ponds and depressions. A group of children in Nancun bullied me, so they had the heart to be "thieves" to grab things face to face and run into the bamboo forest with thatch in their arms.
I'm thirsty and I can't stop drinking. When I came back, I sighed alone on crutches. After a while, the wind stopped and the dark clouds in the sky were as black as ink. In late autumn, the sky becomes dark and foggy. This cloth has been covered for years, cold and hard, like an iron plate. The child's sleeping posture is not good and the quilt is torn.
When it rains, the roof leaks, and there is no dry place at home. The rain on the roof keeps leaking down like hemp thread. Since the Anshi Rebellion, I haven't slept much. The nights are long, and the house leaks when it rains. How can I stay until dawn!
How can we make thousands of spacious and tall houses generally shelter the poor scholars in the world and make them smile! As safe as a mountain. Alas! When will such a towering house appear in front of me? At that time, even if my hut is blown down by the autumn wind, I will willingly freeze to death myself!