157. Biography of Wu Sheng
Is he pitying us?
Why?
Could it be that he thinks our reasons for living are too superficial?
I'm grass, this eight-year anti-Japanese war, it's okay to pretend to be anything.
"Exactly three days later, we are going to Haishi, and meet the shaman, let me tell you a story about Haishi, this story, can also explain why I have always had the idea of suicide, and why, can I continue to live." Wu Zixuan said.
Then Wu Zixuan took out a box of "Monkey King" cigarettes from his pocket and handed them to me and Nameless respectively.
"It's a very deep story, and you have to savor it carefully." Wu Zixuan said.
Then, Wu Zixuan lit a cigarette, exhaled a long puff of smoke, and began to tell.
It is said that during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a person named Wu Sheng, who was personable, a talent, liked to sing and dance, and had the reputation of "handsome man".
Wu Sheng was fourteen years old in the examination of Xiucai, very famous, but unfortunately, his study career was not long, his father was a businessman, after old age, no longer go out to do business, and let Wu Sheng give up studying and business, Wu Sheng had to obey.
Once, Wu Sheng went to do business overseas with others, was blown away by a hurricane, drifted for a few days and nights, and came to a city, where everyone was very ugly, and when they saw Wu Shenglai, they thought he was a monster, and they all screamed and fled.
When Wu Sheng first saw this scene, he was still very scared, and when he knew that those people were afraid of him, he was angry and bullied them instead.
When he met someone who was eating, he ran over, and when they were scared away, he ate the rest of the meal.
After a long time like this, Wu Sheng entered a mountain village, and the people in the mountain village also looked like people, but they were all ragged and like begging for food.
Wu Sheng was resting under the tree, and the people in the village didn't dare to come over, but just watched him from afar. After a long time, I realized that Wu Sheng was not a man-eating monster, so I began to slowly approach him.
Wu Sheng smiled and chatted with them, although their language was different, most of them could understand it.
Wu Sheng told them where he came from, and the people in the village were very happy, and told the neighbors that the visitors did not eat people.
At the banquet, Wu Sheng asked them why they were afraid, and they replied: "I heard from the elders, 26,000 miles to the west, there is a place called China, and the people there have very peculiar images. ”
Wu Sheng asked them why they were so poor, they couldn't even wear clothes neatly, they said: "What our country values is not talent and ability, but appearance, and those who are particularly beautiful are superior people, who are high-ranking officials, second-class, magistrates, and first-class people can also be favored by nobles, so as to get food to beg for wives and children, like us ugly people, our parents thought it was unlucky when they were born, and most of them were abandoned, and some of them were not thrown away immediately, just to pass on the ancestry." ”
Listening to Wu Zixuan say this, Nameless and I both laughed out loud with a pig cry.
"Judging people by their appearance, this is obviously the current trend of our society, but it is too ridiculous to divide people into different levels according to their appearance." I say.
"It's not ridiculous, maybe that's what our future looks like." Wu Zixuan said.
"That's absolutely not good, although I'm also very beautiful, but I still feel that strength comes first, if beauty is above strength, there will be problems in the world." Nameless said with a frown.
"Well, it's a bit of a stretch, let me continue." Wu Zixuan said.
Hearing what those villagers said, Wu Sheng was even more curious, so he asked them which country this was, and the mountain people replied that it was called Rakshasa Country, and the capital was in the north, only thirty miles away from this mountain village.
What does the capital city of Rakshasa really look like? Wu Sheng wanted to see it with his own eyes, so he asked the people in the mountain village to show him the way, and the villagers agreed.
So, as soon as the rooster crowed the next day, the villagers got up and took Wu Sheng with them, and after dawn, they arrived at the capital.
When Wu Sheng and the villagers arrived in the capital, they were just in time for the palace to retreat, and a large number of officials came out of the palace, and their formation was quite spectacular.
Wu Sheng heard the villagers pointing to a person sitting in a sedan chair and introduced, "He is Xiangguo." ”
Wu Sheng took a look and found that this Xiangguo's two ears were upside down, his nose had three holes, and his eyelashes covered his eyes like a curtain, in short, he was very ugly.
Wu Sheng is very strange, didn't he say that the better-looking person can be a big official? This Xiangguo is too ugly!
Then Wu Sheng figured out that it was the aesthetic difference of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the ugliness in Wu Sheng's eyes might be very pleasing to the eye in their eyes.
After a while, Wu Sheng planned to return, but the people on the street ran in fright when they saw him, apparently treating him as a monster. The villagers hurriedly explained to the citizens, and the citizens were no longer afraid to run.
The news about Wu Sheng spread ten, ten, hundreds, and soon spread throughout the entire Rakshasa country.
The officials and gentry of the Rakshasa country were very eager to see this foreign visitor, and they ordered the villagers to invite Wu Sheng, but when Wu Sheng came to their house, they did not dare to contact them directly, and only dared to peek through the crack in the door secretly.
At this time, the villagers said to him, "There is a person who will dare to see you directly." ”
Wu Sheng asked who it was, and the villagers replied: "It is the Eight Kings who defend the court, and he once went abroad with the previous kings, and he has met many kinds of people. ”
So, Wu Sheng came to the door to visit, the eight kings were really happy, he regarded Wu Sheng as a distinguished guest, the eight kings are old, it seems to be eighty or ninety years old, his appearance is not very ugly, but the eyes are prominent, and there is a birthmark on the top of the forehead.
The Eight Kings said: "When I was young, I was often sent abroad by the king's orders, I have been to many countries, but I have never been to China, and now I am one hundred and twenty years old, and I have long been idle at home, and I have not been to the early court for more than ten years. ”
Immediately, the eight kings set up a banquet to entertain Wu Sheng, and after several rounds of wine, more than ten singers came out, taking turns singing and dancing, all looking like dominatriks, all wrapped their heads with white brocade, and their red clothes were dragged on the ground, I don't know what role they played, what lyrics they sang, and the tone and rhythm were very special.
The Eight Kings looked very satisfied and asked, "Is there such a good song and dance in China?" ”
Wu Sheng said: "Yes. ”
The Eight Kings asked Wu Sheng to imitate a few words, and Wu Sheng sang a song with his hand on the table, and the Eight Kings were extremely excited after hearing it, and said repeatedly: "It's so good!" Your singing voice is like a phoenix roaring and a dragon roaring, wonderful to the extreme! ”
Early the next morning, the Eight Kings made an exception to go to the court, and he told the king about Wu Sheng's situation one by one, and recommended Wu Sheng as a minister.
The king was very happy to write the edict, but at this time, several ministers said that Wu Sheng's appearance was strange, and I was afraid that the king would not be able to stand it when he saw it, and this time, Wu Sheng's matter of becoming a minister would be over.
The old eight kings came out of the palace and told Wu Sheng, and sighed deeply about this matter.
Wu Sheng lived in the house of the old eight kings for a long time, once, he drank too much, a little drunk, thinking that in this Rakshasa country, he was useless, Wu Sheng's heart couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, so, by getting drunk, he used coal to paint his face like Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and drew his sword and danced.
Who knows, his performance was appreciated by the old eight kings, and the old eight kings thought that Wu Sheng had become much more beautiful when he dressed up like this.
He said to Wu Sheng: "If you go to see the prime minister like this, the prime minister will definitely be happy and will reuse you, so that you can become an official and make a fortune." ”
Wu Sheng thought that the Eight Kings were joking, so he smiled and said, "It's okay for me to play around in your house like this, I'm afraid I'm going to be treated as a joke when I go out, right?" ”
A few days later, the Eight Kings held a banquet at their homes and invited the officials who were in power in the court to drink.
Before the guests arrived, he asked Wu Sheng to paint his face and wait, and when the guests arrived, he called Wu Sheng to come out to meet the guests.
Those officials who had seen Wu Sheng, seeing that Wu Sheng's appearance had changed drastically, all asked strangely: "Why is he ugly before, but now he is beautiful?" ”
And Wu Sheng exhausted his dancing skills and sang a "Yiyang Song", and his wonderful performance made those officials happy.
The next day, the dignitaries played the king one after another and recommended Wu Sheng.
The king was delighted and sent an envoy to summon Wu Sheng.
After the meeting, the king asked Wu Sheng about China's methods of governing the country and securing the state, and Wu Sheng stated it as it was.
The king praised it and entertained him at the palace.
When he was drunk, the king said, "I have heard that you are good at singing, can you make the widow appreciate it?" ”
Wu Sheng got up and danced, imitating the appearance of a Yaksha dancer, wrapping his head with white brocade and singing some beautiful sounds.
The king was very happy, and on the same day he named him a doctor, and often invited Wu Sheng to participate in family banquets, especially favored him, after a long time, those bureaucrats knew that Wu Sheng's face was fake, and he had been deliberately pretending to be ugly.
Then, no matter where Wu Sheng went, he always saw people whispering and was reluctant to approach him.
Wu Sheng felt very isolated and uneasy, so he wrote to the king and asked for his resignation, but the king did not allow it.
He asked for a leave of absence, and the king gave him three months' leave.
So Wu Sheng took the official car and returned to the mountain village with Jinbao. The villagers knelt on the road to greet him, and Wu Sheng distributed the money to the friends he had made in the past, and the village was thunderous with joy.
The villager said, "We villains have been gifted by the doctor, and tomorrow we will go to the sea market to seek something precious to repay the doctor." ”
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