As soon as Concubine Xian and Jade Butterfly arrived at the Bachelor's Mansion, they called Chaoyun to lay out a brand-new futon, and after lying down, Concubine Xian whispered to Jade Butterfly: "As a lady from the palace, I don't want to be poor and sour." ”

"What my sister said is very true, fortunately Concubine Wen didn't come, otherwise, she would definitely blame the two of us, without the virtues of the emperor, such as what perseverance, what frugality, what is at peace with the situation, what is happy with the people, or suffering with the people. Hey, fortunately, I'm not long lived, I want to come to the Holy One is the most pitiful person. The jade butterfly echoed, which can be described as what she likes.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Thinking of that demon girl, forcing Banzai to talk about this and that all day long, how could there ever be a moment of peace at the root of the ear? How can there ever be a moment of peace in the bottom of my heart? ”

"Makes sense. Hey, as the saying goes, turnip and cabbage, everyone has their own love. Forget it, they can talk if they want to, as long as they don't get tired and panicked, we are also sleepy, let's sleep for a while. Concubine Xian knew that she couldn't fight after all, so it was better to "obey nature".

It's time for dinner. According to the advice of Dr. Matthew, Chaoyun steamed rice with mixed grains, cold salad with kelp, lotus root slices, and served braised rooster and Dongpo fish.

Concubine Xian, who had enjoyed all the golden delicacies and jade Zhong Ming Ding food and dozens of dishes per meal, arrived at the bachelor's mansion thousands of miles away, but she didn't expect to live a civilian life all of a sudden, she was very annoyed, and muttered angrily: "It turns out that the life of a talented man is so hard, rather than this, it is better to be an ordinary person and be happy." ”

Mr. Su had nowhere to attack, so he had no choice but to turn over the river and the sea in his heart..Himself and Chaoyun worked hard to prepare a sumptuous lunch, but they were blinded, such a concubine who didn't know the general situation, but long live the bitter master! Why didn't Sister Wen, who understands righteousness this time, come? I really shouldn't come, and I shouldn't come.

"Two mothers, do you have any instructions?" Chaoyun looked at Xiang Gong unpleasantly, for fear that he would not be able to get off the stage, which would affect the smoothness of his career.

"Chaoyun, you see that there are no decorations on this table, go and pick a few peach blossoms to decorate a vase." "That's it, go, go." The two sisters sang and harmonized, and the warriors and imperial doctors sitting there looked at each other.

Mr. Su thought that these two ladies were used to being prosperous and pampered, and today they were arrogant in front of the two of us, boiling cranes and burning pianos, picking flowers and pulling weeds, and they almost climbed to the roof to uncover the tiles, it was time to teach a lesson. Didn't Concubine Wen talk about it? Don't be discouraged, the old man has talent, today, "talent", you must "make gas", how can the old man have been bullied like this, just like with colleagues or with the Buddha seal, everything is the old man bullying others. Today, the bullying is so great that it has bullied the innocent peach blossom tree. It's tolerable, it's unbearable!

"If you want to see the peach blossoms, please go to the humble house to enjoy it after dinner, you don't have to hurt it." Su Shi looked serious and said solemnly.

"Yes, Niangniang, now that Concubine Wen is so benevolent, if it reaches her ears, how can it be good?" Safety is also pleading for the innocent peach blossom.

"What's the saying? Outside the general, the military order is not affected. "Concubine Xian is unrelenting.

"Benevolence? Bachelor, you are commenting, this demon girl, long live tightly tied around her waist, how can we still have our share, still benevolent, lack of virtue is almost the same. Jade Butterfly said angrily.

"Since she is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust, let's act cheaply." Concubine Xian said.

As soon as Su Shi heard that Concubine Xian would act cheaply, he said "Pian Yi", and secretly rejoiced: "The opportunity to avenge Concubine Wen has come." ”

Su Shi raised the teapot and said, "Two mothers, since ancient times, it has been difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs. The old man is not strong enough to drink, but he loves to taste tea, and he claims to be the "Su Tea Saint", hoping that Niangniang has the same interest as the old man. ”

(Note, the sound here is the same as "change".) ﹚”

The two beauties had to drink.

"If you want the old man to climb and pick peach branches, please come up with poems first, otherwise, you will be punished for drinking tea." Su Shi unhurriedly announced the tea punishment order.

"Punishment is punishment." The sisters replied at the same time.

"May I ask what is the first sentence of my friend Huang Tingjian's poem 'Noda Arazuka is only sorrowful'?" (Note, "The peach and plum smiles during the Qingming Festival, and Noda Aratsuka is only worried.") Excerpt from Huang Tingjian's "Qingming")

Not to mention the continuation of the poem, even who Huang Tingjian is, they have never heard of it.

"Bold, dare to talk about the ominous Qingming Festival in front of the palace, what is the intention!" Concubine Xian was annoyed and angry, trying her best to hide her embarrassment.

"Niangniang forgives the sin, there is only a cold house here, how can I come to the palace, since there is no palace, there is no 'palace' or 'palace maid'." Su Shi is neither humble nor arrogant, and tries his best to maintain his self-esteem as a talented man of the dynasty.

Everyone stared at the sisters, and they had to be poured again.

"Dear Bachelor, what is the previous sentence?" Safety plays a round field.

"The festival is clear and the peach and plum smile."

An Ning thought, it's too bad, if it goes on like this, it will definitely make the girls lose their faces, and if they don't get it, they will drink it into a big teapot.

After thinking about it, An Ning said: "Respected poet, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, today, just look at the thin face of Dr. Matthew, can you spare the girls?" ”

"That is, I have seen the scenery of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River, and I must have been magnificent, and I must have competed with these beauties who stay at home. I'd like to suggest that you ask the Master to tell me an interesting story, or what you would like to say. The crowd agreed.

"Then I'll come to Wang Po to sell melons and boast about myself. I used to be in Yuqian County, west of Hangzhou, and I liked to visit the Silent Zhao Temple and became fascinated by bamboo. As soon as the phoenix blows, it bends over, and when the rain comes, it rustles. In the west of Sichuan Bazi, in Meishan's hometown, bamboo is an ordinary landscape, not rare, indispensable, but I have a broom. I once wrote a poem: 'It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.' No meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar. More coincidentally, guess what? ”

"I don't know, I'd like to hear the bachelor's opinion." Safety Road.

"The monks of the Silent Zhao Temple are all thin, and my little poem makes them happy."

"yes, who wouldn't want to be called 'Yaren' by others?" An Ning said.

After the meal, Jade Butterfly wanted to turn the war into a jade silk, she really wanted to listen to the bachelor's story, and said happily: "Just now, there was a lot of offense, as the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, please forgive me for the words of the waves just now." ”

"Niangniang, the old man has never heard of the 'Words of the Waves'" Su Shi laughed loudly like a child.

"Oh, please give me advice." Concubine Xian was ashamed.

"Fang Cainiang's Meng Lang's words are really nothing." (Note, Meng Lang, words and deeds are rash and reckless, 'The master uses Meng Lang's words, and I think it is a wonderful way.) 'From Zhuangzi? After hearing this, everyone held back their laughter, for fear of offending the two mothers.

Chaoyun continues to serve Baitang tea for everyone.

Seeing that although Chaoyun's legs and feet were inconvenient, she was still very clever and attentive to everyone, she suddenly felt compassion, but when she remembered the humiliation of the "second drama beauty" just now, she wanted to embarrass the bachelor.

"Bachelor, Su Wen knows everything, can you recite a poem containing the name of your beloved wife?"

"The words written by Bai Juyi: flowers are not flowers, and fog is not fog. In the middle of the night, the morning goes. When you don't have a lot of spring dreams? It seems that there is nowhere to find the clouds. ”

"God, this can also work, it seems that no book is vulgar, this poem is too elegant, ordinary people can't read it, today, the old man listens to it once, and he feels addicted." Dr. Matthew was impressed by the Bachelor's talent.

An Ning has also heard of this poem, it is very beautiful! But he really didn't know what it reflected, so he hurriedly asked, "May I ask you, Master, this poem is as elusive as a dream, what is the wonder?" ”

Su Shi stroked his gray beard, fell into contemplation, and then said: "Those beautiful things, especially the beautiful love comes and goes, I want to pursue and capture it again, but there is nowhere to find it, and it is even more difficult to find the old traces than to climb to the sky, leaving only a trace of melancholy in my heart." This is a poem full of Zen flavor, it can be said that every sentence is Zen, and every word is Zen. In the eyes of Zen practitioners, in Bai Juyi's view, the pure and inactive heart is the vast world of Zen. When you come, it's like that's how long has it been like a spring dream?' ', suddenly, unconscious; When you go, 'go to the clouds and nowhere to find', can't be traced, can't be elusive, no trace, all come to 'nothing', just like the old man's words, 'life is like a dream, a bottle is still a river and a moon.' ’”

"Sure enough, it's a good poem, and it also embeds the name of Sister Chaoyun." Concubine Xian was nurtured by Zen, and her heart became soft, "So, bachelor, you must like Bai Juyi very much?" ”

"I like it very much."

Jade Butterfly thought quietly for a while, and then shouted, "It's not good, this poet is really daring to curse your beloved wife!" ”

"Huh?" All of them were shocked, and many almost fell out of their chairs.

"Just like the spring dream, quietly come and go, then, what about the morning clouds, with the rise of the morning sun, it will not be long before this piece of morning clouds can be steamed away and drift away, bachelor, how can you pull it back and hang it again on the east slope to accompany you?"

After listening to this, some people are like fools talking about dreams, and some are foolish without words, if a word becomes a prophecy, then, in this life, what is the interest of the old man? Hey, the old man originally wanted to be on par with Zhang Xian, that guy lived for nearly 90 years, if God left me alone and took Chaoyun away, it would be better not to live.

After thinking about it, Su Shi sighed and said: "This lady is really imaginative, I hope your words will not be a prophecy." ”

Everyone's expressions also became solemn for no reason, and they prayed for the bachelor and Chaoyun in their hearts, wishing them a hundred years of deep love and affection.

Thinking that his status in the palace has plummeted, this is all the fault of Concubine Wen's demon girl, since ancient times, is it right or wrong, the bearded eyebrows who are soaked in these disasters, are they facing blessings or disasters?

Concubine Xian couldn't help but ask: "Bachelor, you say, is there any literati in my dynasty who is obsessed with beauty and can't extricate himself?" ”

This person, I am too familiar with, is Zhang Sanying.

Su Shi said loudly: "Zhang Xian, who has a beard, can still shuttle between official prostitutes in his eighties, and he has to take it home if he likes it very much." Most of his life's fame is related to women, and the people of the time called him 'Zhang Sanzhong', and he wrote 'things in his heart, tears in his eyes, and people in his heart.' He himself prefers to call himself 'Zhang Sanying', because he once wrote for beauties, 'The moon comes to flowers and shadows; Delicate and lazy, the curtain is pressed with the shadow of the flowers; There is no one in the willow path, and there is no shadow of the fall. ’”

"So, how long did this literati who was fascinated by beauty live?"

"89 years old." Everyone was puzzled, and they were deeply confused by this merry and talented man, and they didn't understand how incredible it was that such a cynical literati had lived so many years.

"God, I don't know if he can't bear a certain woman, or a certain woman can't give up on him?" Security said with a smile.

"This flowery brother, who is 80 years old, actually accepted an 18-year-old concubine, and wrote a poem for self-deprecation, what is the name of the poem, I actually forgot, let's name it "Mocking the Wind and the Moon", 'I am eighty years old and eighteen, Qing is red and I have white hair. It is the same as the Qing upside down, only separated by a sixtieth in the middle. 'It must be reluctant to give up on him, this delicate young lady! Su Shi came one by one in an orderly manner.

"The fate of our beauties may be much better than Zhang Sanying's concubine, thinking about that concubine, when his flowery husband kicks his legs, he will definitely have no way to cry." After touching the scene, Jade Butterfly sighed resentfully.

"Oh my God, I didn't expect the literati to be ridiculous, and they can definitely exceed the scope of our imagination. It's really inexplicable and foolish. Security condemned.

After a while, An'an asked curiously: "I have heard others say that there are 'three fans' of wine and wealth, and Concubine Wen has added 'book fans', and my dynasty has invisibly created the magnificent "four fans" of the Great Song Dynasty, may I ask, does Zhang Sanying like to drink?" ”

"When Zhang Xian was in Hangzhou, he often stopped me to drink, or sang and danced in the house, or listened to the silk and bamboo on the lake. In his life, he loves to play, enjoy the scenery, enjoy the music, drown in the sound of dogs and horses, in life, he is full of all kinds of hobbies, and he lives as he likes, almost doing whatever he wants, which can be described as the hedonistic genius of my dynasty, so God actually favors him very much, let him live so long, which is enviable! Su Shi's words were half positive and half derogatory.

"Is he only cynical, but has he left a good song for us boys and girls?" An Ning asked.

"How can a lyricist with a true temperament not have a work of true feelings? I like his poem the most, 'Count the pelicans, and report the flowers.' Cherish the spring and choose the residual red fold, the rain is light and the wind is stormy, and the plum is green. Yongfeng willow, no one ends the sun and snow. Don't pluck the strings, complaining about the strings can be said. The sky is not old, and the love is indescribable. The heart is like a double wire net, and there are thousands of knots in it. After the night, the east window was not white, and the lone light was extinguished. (Note, pelican, the same as "the question", the meaning of the cuckoo bird),

"Well, this song is so intoxicating." Concubine Xian praised.

"Yes, the word cherishes spring and cherishes people, and it is a rare masterpiece to express love and resentment." Su Shi added that the bachelor thought that if Concubine Wen was present, she would definitely praise it more authentically.

It was not early, and when he saw that Chaoyun's legs and feet were not working, he asked Dr. Matthew to diagnose and treat him. Dr. Ma Tai patiently checked his pulse, diagnosed it as febrile internal rheumatoid arthritis, and immediately wrote a prescription and handed it to Chaoyun, and Su Shi and his wife were grateful.