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A few days ago, the Taifu Qian Qianyi and his wife Liu Ru, who returned to Suzhou from the southern capital, were strolling in the garden. The layout of this Humble Administrator's Garden is very beautiful, with water as the soul, there are holes and gullies in the garden, there are halls and pavilions, there are bridges and pavilions, bamboo, acacia, peach blossoms, camellias, scattered four cloths. In the garden, you can not only enjoy the underforest, but also be able to listen to the pine, so that people are very comfortable in it.

Qian Qianyi was old after all, and after walking for a while, he sat down in a pavilion and asked Liu Ruis with a smile: "Does Hedongjun know the origin of this garden?" ”

Liu Ru was puzzled: "Isn't it the return to the field of Wang Xinyi in the early years of Chongzhen's imperial history?" ”

"No, no," Qian Qianyi shook his head, "It was built even earlier, it was built by a royal historian in Zhengde, and there were more than 30 scenes such as halls, buildings, pavilions, and pavilions at that time. ”

Hearing her husband say this, Liu Ru suddenly remembered and said: "Wen Zhengming has two poems, there are no cars and horses in the human realm, and there are mountains and forests in the city, which is to say this humble administrator's garden." ”

"Hedong-kun has a good memory." Qian Qianyi praised and said: "After Wang Xianchen died, his son lost the garden overnight, and by the time Wang Xinyi took over, the garden had actually been abandoned in many places. ”

Liu Ru nodded: "In the first year of Yongli, I lived here to save you, and there were Tartars everywhere who did not understand literature and ink, and they also thought that the water in the garden was narrow and narrow, and it was inconvenient to walk." ”

"It's really hard for you!"

Thinking of what happened back then, Qian Qianyi couldn't help but sigh, held Liu Ruye's hand, and said gently: "If you hadn't shown up and asked for help from many places, where would we be able to revisit the old place today." ”

"Alas, Huang Yuqi has been helping me rescue you at that time, but he is really unlucky, Yongli originally wanted to capture Jiangyin and Wuxi in one fell swoop, but he never expected to encounter a strong wind."

"Huang Yuqi is my old friend, Chongzhen fifteen years, Miyun Zen Master passed away, he asked me to make an inscription for Zen Master.... It's been almost 20 years, but the inscription has not been made, and I don't know when I can write this article to comfort him in Jiuquan. Qian Qianyi's expression darkened.

Liu Ru was also a little sad, and sighed: "I later learned that Huang Yuqi's three sons were picked up in Wujin and were caught by the Tartars together, and none of them were spared. His eldest daughter-in-law, Zhou, was first extinct and immortal; then he threw himself into the water and was rescued; and swallowed the dust of gold, and did not die; Then in the hall of the palace, he cut his throat in front of everyone, and the blood flowed all over the ground, and the next day someone had come to worship with incense and candles, and he woke up in the middle of the night; In the end, he finally threw himself into the ring and died. Fortitude is so far, it is really rare in the world! ”

Huang Yuqi in the mouth of the couple is from Jiangyin. After Emperor Hongguang fled, he first participated in the Jiangyin anti-Qing campaign presided over by Chen Mingyu, and escaped from the siege before the city was broken and hid in the countryside. After the Qing army retreated, he recruited the rebels again, and in the spring of the first year of Yongli, he raised troops in Zhoushan, with the goal of capturing Changzhou. Unexpectedly, a hurricane hit shortly after sailing, and most of the ships were swallowed up by the waves, and Huang Yuqi was lucky not to die. Later, he was secretly accused and executed in Nanjing in the third year of Yongli. Qian Qianyi was involved in this case at that time, because Huang Yuqi had raised 5,000 taels of silver from him, so Qian Qianyi was taken away by the Qing soldiers while chanting at home. At that time, the situation was critical, and it was very likely that his life would not be guaranteed, thanks to Liu Ru's many requests, he opened the joint, and was released after spending more than 40 days in prison.

Qian Qianyi said: "When I turn around, I will ask for the seal for the Zhou family, there are several such resolute women in ancient times." ”

Hearing this, Liu Ru was a little surprised: "Aren't you going back to Nandu?" ”

"What are you going to do in Nandu? Are you angry there? ”

Qian Qianyi got up as he spoke, and Liu Ru hurriedly stepped forward to support him. The couple went down on a stroll through the garden.

"The emperor is not even a court meeting now, and officials from foreign dynasties are rare, and the southern capital is very deserted now, and it is not interesting for me to stay there.... People think I'm old and in the way, so it's better to retire myself. ”

Qian Qianyi smiled bitterly, some things can't be said to others, but he doesn't avoid his wife He Dongjun. After speaking, he shook his head, looking at Qingzhu not far away, he was very sad.

"The matter of the holy sigh, you haven't been able to let go?" has followed Qian Qianyi for so many years, how Liu Ru doesn't know what her husband thinks.

Qian Qianyi didn't hide it from her, and said frankly: "As an uncle, I can't even keep my nephew, how does the world look at me Qian Qianyi and my wife?" Besides, if you go to him and ask him personally, but he doesn't see you, this is a bigger fight than a tartar. With these words, Qian Qianyi was angry.

"If you don't pay food or taxes, you don't have a country, and that's right. The holy sigh was confused by others, and the crowd gathered to cry the temple for the purpose of resisting taxes, which violated the foundation of the country, and the king of Qi put the country first, so why should the husband be angry. Could it be that the husband could not bear the soldiers to starve and freeze and fight with the Tartars? Liu Ru can see better than her husband, and she persuaded a few words.

Qian Qianyi said: "That's what I said, but the holy sigh will die even if he dies!" ... Moreover, it is okay to pay off the debt, but it is excessive. You don't know in Suzhou, when I was in Nandu, the threshold was about to be broken, and they all came to beg me to come forward to protect his family, but where can I intervene in this matter. I'm a master, that is, a face-saving person, and now they all say that I am in vain as the leader of the literary world and the head of the gentry in Jiangnan. You say, I still have the face to stay in Nandu? ”

Liu Ru was relieved: "The King of Qi has gone to Songjiang, and I heard that the debt settlement divisions in various places are correcting, and it is not too late to make amends." ”

"Two or three out of ten of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have fled north, and many of these people, many of whom have helped us, have now had to leave their homes and flee to the north, I really can't stand them." Qian Qianyi couldn't let go of this matter.

"If they refuse to pay their taxes and go to tartars, they do not need to be left behind. In my opinion, they didn't have good intentions when they supported us at the beginning. Liu Ruyi's opinion and her husband are two extremes.

Qian Qianyi didn't want to argue with his wife about anything, so he walked forward silently. Seeing this, Liu Ru was busy diverting the matter and asked him: "By the way, is the matter of King Yongxing true?" ”

Qian Qianyi stopped, nodded and said: "Your Majesty has seen King Yongxing, and has recognized this nephew, I heard that Your Majesty's condition has improved a lot, and now there are rumors that Your Majesty is preparing to make King Yongxing a prince." ”

Liu Ru was stunned: "So, Your Majesty intends to set up King Yongxing as the East Palace?" ”

"Perhaps."

Emperor Dingwu is a nephew of King Yongxing, no accident, King Yongxing will definitely inherit the treasure in the future, otherwise who will this throne pass onto? Do you want to return it to the Emperor Zhu Youlang? It's just that I don't know if Zhou Shixiang is willing to support this Yongxing King who came out halfway as the emperor in the future?

Qian Qianyi thought about it and laughed at himself, he had left Nandu, and he still cared about what he was doing. He was concerned about another thing now.

"I heard that Zhou Shixiang summoned Gu Yanwu to Songshan, but I didn't know that Gu Yanwu passed through Suzhou, and he was willing to meet me, an old man."

"When did Gu Yanwu come back? Why did the King of Qi summon him? Liu Ru was a little surprised, and then frowned slightly: "Could it be that King Qi wants to be a hypocritical monarch?" ”