Chapter 24: Peach Blossom Relationship
Tang Xiaotang, who is from modern times, after listening to this poem by the scholar, flashed this song of Teresa Teng in his mind.
In the memory of being a child, her mother liked Teresa Teng's songs the most, especially this song "The Peach Blossoms on the Human Face Are Red", in a very small couple, one day, the father suddenly ran away from home, and after disappearing, there was no news at all, only the mother and daughter were left in the family to depend on each other, and the mother was depressed all day long, and the young Tang Xiaotang often saw her mother standing alone on the balcony, leaning against the window and looking at the direction of the community to the road for a long time, and humming this song "The Peach Blossoms on the Human Face Are Red" in her mouth. Until Tang Xiaotang was about to graduate from primary school, the long-term excessive sadness led to the overdraft of his mother's body.
Thinking of the past, Tang Xiaotang touched the sadness of the scene for a while, evoked the sadness of his childhood, and hummed the song that his mother used to hum when she missed her father.
Tang Xiaotang sang to the end, and the tune was euphemistic and complaining, which attracted the side eyes of the other three people around him.
The scholar who had been facing Chaimen and lamenting just now had been attracted by this mournful singing, turned around, and stared at Tang Xiaotang coldly with puzzled eyes.
"This son, may I ask if you did this song?"
The scholar's question brought Tang Xiao, who was immersed in the sad past, back to his senses, "This, this is ......" Tang Xiaotang was asked for a while, and he didn't know how to explain the origin of his song.
"Oh...... I just listened to this poem that you just made, brother, and I was moved," Tang Xiaotang politely clasped his hands into fists, leaned forward slightly, and prevaricated with a salute to the scholar.
The scholar looked at Tang Xiaotang with a complicated expression, obviously not believing this explanation, but then looked at the other two people behind her. After looking at it for a moment, he just shook his head lightly and showed a hint of sadness in his eyes, sighed softly, put one hand on his chest and the other behind his back, and was about to lift his feet and leave.
Seeing that this scholar was leaving, Tang Xiaotang hurriedly stepped forward, "May I ask this son, can you tell me where the poem just now came from?" Curious who this author is? ”
Tang Xiaotang knows that the origin of the lyrics of the song he sings is the evolution of this poem, and the source of this poem also has a poignant love story that has been handed down.
The scholar was standing outside the chai gate, and when he read this poem, Tang Xiaotang felt that this scene was too similar to the story that was circulating. She felt that the story of this son must be related to that story, so she couldn't help but inquire curiously.
This scholar looked like the kind of person who was cold and didn't like to interact with people, and he was going to leave immediately, but when Tang Xiaotang asked him about this poem, he obviously felt that his body stiffened, and he stopped taking steps forward, and he also fell into deep thought.
"This is a poem I wrote myself." After a long time, the scholar said softly.
"Excuse me, Childe's honorable name?" As soon as Tang Xiaotang heard that the scholar said that he wrote a poem by himself, his heart became clear. It turns out that the person in front of him is the hero of the legendary story. Hiding his excitement of discovering the truth, Tang Xiaotang felt that it was very abrupt to rashly ask him the truth of the story, so he changed his mind and asked the name first.
"Next, Cui Hu" scholar was asked who his surname was, and it was not easy to refute people's face out of politeness, so he perfunctorily clasped his hands into fists and politely replied to Tang Xiaotang's question.
"In Xia Tanghai, these are my two brothers, we passed by here, I thought I wanted to beg for water, but I didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet Brother Cui, what a coincidence!"
Tang Xiaotang never expected that the person in front of him was Cui Hu.
Who is Cui Go? Among the poets of the Tang Dynasty, Cui Hu is inconspicuous, but the poem he just made is well-known.
According to legend, Cui Hu is a young scholar who is pure and talented, but has a high and arrogant personality. He usually always studied hard by himself, and rarely interacted with others. Seeing a real person today, it is indeed consistent with the rumors, this Cui Hu really doesn't like to socialize with people, if Tang Xiaotang didn't take the initiative to stop him to say hello just now, he wouldn't have said so much to Tang Xiaotang.
Cui Hu's poem is titled "The Title of the Capital City Nanzhuang", and this poem and its story were recorded by the Tang Dynasty literati Meng Di in the "Poetry of Ability: Emotions". Ouyang Yuqian, a caring person in later generations, compiled this story into a Peking opera, called "Peach Blossom with Human Face", and since then, "Peach Blossom with Human Face" has become the "Peach Blossom Edge" talked about by later generations.
The story of this poem is about Cui Hu on a spring day in a certain year, Cui Hu, who had been reading hard all morning, was infected by the breath of spring, and was determined to go to the suburbs to experience the warmth of spring. So he put down his book and walked out of the city in high spirits.
Walking all the way, the endless red flowers and green grass, spring mountains and spring water, unconsciously far away from the city, Cui Hu felt thirsty at this time, wanted to find a family to beg for a bowl of water to drink, and suddenly found that there was a thatched hut not far in front. He walked briskly towards the hut.
When approaching the house, I saw the peach forest, full of peach blossoms, and the wind was full of fragrance, Cui Hu walked along the winding path of the peach forest until he walked to the front of the chai door, when he stood still, he knocked on the door and said, "Xiaosheng is looking for spring and passing by, and wants to ask for some water to quench his thirst." ”
At this time, a young girl walked out of the house, dressed in a plain bun and with bright eyes, she invited Cui Hu to sit down, and then opened tea for him. Cui Hu carefully looked at the girl in front of him, and saw that her eyes were full of autumn waves, and her face was white with a faint red, without fat powder, but like a peach blossom in the courtyard.
Cui Hu was stunned and couldn't help but lose his temper, so he had to try to stabilize his exposed emotions and gently sip tea. Then, he chatted and asked about the girl's surname and family.
The girl knew Cui Hu's intentions in her heart, and she was also fond of this young scholar who was in her prime and had a long body, but she didn't dare to open her heart in front of a strange man, so no matter what Cui Hu asked, she was shy and silent, but the affectionate eyes revealed her heart.
In fact, Cui Hu is also at a loss like the girl. On weekdays, he was alone and didn't understand the woman's heart, and reading the sages and sages made him unable to make frivolous moves, so he had to restrain himself and drink tea silently.
Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, the urging had to get up and say goodbye. After the girl sent him out of the hospital, she leaned on the firewood alone and watched him leave silently. The peach blossoms in front of the door reflect the peach-like girl, which is really a wonderful spring scene.
Back home, Cui Hu gathered his mind and continued to study hard, and his surging heart gradually calmed down with the decline of peach blossoms. However, when the peach blossoms bloomed in the second year, Cui Hu couldn't help but think of the old things in the south of the city, and he went all the way to the south of the city with an irrepressible impulse.
After several twists and turns, he finally found the thatched hut last year, the peach blossoms that bloomed just right, the courtyard, the chaimen, everything was as before. Only this time, he knocked on the door for a long time and didn't see the peach blossom-like Yiren come out, and Cui Hu suddenly felt that his fiery heart was half cold.
Cui Hu sat under the peach tree alone, and no one returned for half a day. In frustration, he made this quatrain.