Chapter 20: The Prince of the Ages

When the seventh master heard me talk about the "divorce", he also laughed: "That's right, there is such a thing." This Li Yu, although he only lived to be in his forties, but this life is extremely legendary, and almost all the things he can think of have been encountered, and this life is definitely not in vain. During the Jingyuan Mutiny, Li Yu had always been cut off, and most of the time he was at the forefront, rushing to kill with the soldiers, which boosted morale very well and also played a great role in the escape of his father Tang Dezong. ”

"Hey, Seventh Master, I've been talking for a long time, I think it's like listening to history, can you say something useful!" The old clam was still eating feverishly on the side, and he was a little reluctant to give advice.

"Okay, then pick the key points." The seventh master snorted: "As soon as Tang Dezong came out of Chang'an, he was thinking about whether to go to Chengdu to get Hanjia back, but this Jingyuan mutiny looked far less crazy than the Anshi Rebellion, so he was afraid that if he went too far, he would give the rebels a better chance, so he fled to Qianxian County, Shaanxi and stopped. During this time, the scheming prince Li Yu secretly sent people to Chengdu to find the whereabouts of Han Jia. ”

"Did you find it?" The monkey anxious old clam asked directly.

"Found it." The seventh master nodded: "But for Li Xu, this is secondary, the key is to look for Hanjia this time, and find a girl, I said a poem, I don't know if you can guess who it is." ”

"Okay!" Although I am not good at Chinese, I don't like to recite ancient poems since I was a child, and the dictation questions in the college entrance examination are also skipped without looking at them, but I have a soft spot for this kind of small game.

"Jumping deep pools for four or five autumns, often wagging the tail to make silver hooks. Swing off the hibiscus for no reason, and you can't clear the waves for a more tour. The Seventh Master casually recited a poem.

I was stunned for a moment: "This, this poem, I don't remember it at all...... Beauty, do you know that? ”

Liang Ruoyi shook his head, saying that he hadn't heard it either. The old clam is a rough man, so there is no need to ask.

Everyone's eyes looked at the Budai monk who was still eating spinach with relish, and saw the old monk take out a few spinach sticks from the clear soup pot and dip them in the sesame sauce: "Well, this poem is Xue Tao's "Fish Leaving the Pond". ”

Everyone turned their eyes to the seventh master again, and the seventh master clapped his hands: "The answer is correct." ”

"Xue Tao?" I looked suspicious: "With such a modern name, how do I think I am rich and handsome!" ”

"Poetess." The cloth bag monk added slowly.

"Oh!" I smiled bitterly and looked at the seventh master.

"That's right, this is a very talented female poetess, in fact, her poems, my favorite is still written when she was eight years old, is to make up her father's poems - the branches welcome the north and south birds, and the leaves send the wind to and fro." Wearing a black cloth jacket and a kind face, the middle-aged man Qi Ye really looks like a traditional literati at this time.

"Eight?" I shrugged my shoulders and looked at the old clam opposite: "When the old clam was eight years old, it was estimated that he would have eaten fat!" ”

The old clam glared at me, and the seventh master smiled and continued: "This Xue Tao is not an ordinary person, in addition to being a poet, she is also a famous prostitute!" ”

"Prostitute?!" I was shocked: "Such a famous poet is actually a prostitute-girl?" Oh my God, God is jealous of talent, if I had been born in that era, I would have saved her from fire and water, hand in hand, and white-headed...... Hey, forget it, listen to the seventh master. ”

Liang Ruoyi glared at me and stifled my next words.

"Fifteen-year-old Xue Tao was also in Chengdu when Li Yu sent people to Chengdu, not long after her father died, and she had not yet become a camp prostitute." The seventh master continued: "Her father used to be an official in the imperial court, and he was sent to Sichuan because of his upright temperament and provoked others. Li Yu already had a lot of children at that time, but it was love at first sight for fifteen-year-old Xue Tao and he wanted to take him as a concubine. Later, his subordinates admonished, saying that when the current army was in chaos, the emperor had fled from the capital, and it was not a joke to include a crown princess at this time! ”

"It's good to be an emperor!" Hearing this, the old clam interjected: "Whoever you like wants whomever you like!" ”

The seventh master and Liang Ruoyi glanced at the old clam together, and the old clam smiled and continued to bury his head in eating.

"Since ancient times, literati have been affectionate, and when this Xue Tao saw Li Yu, he was also in love, and felt that he fell in love with the prince of the dynasty." The seventh master drank tea and continued: "Li Yu listened to the words of his subordinates, and did not take Xue Tao as a concubine, but lived together, and later because of the war, and Xue Tao's mother was still in Sichuan, he sent Xue Tao back to Chengdu. A year later, after quelling the rebellion, Li Yu followed Tang Dezong back to Chang'an, but did not bring Xue Tao back. ”

"Why?" As soon as Liang Ruoyi encountered this kind of love story, he immediately became interested.

"In the days of living together, Li Yu made an idea." The Seventh Master explained: "The people sent by Li Yu at that time determined the location of Hanjia, but they couldn't find that specific place, but after the rebellion was quelled, if they had to send someone to find it, it would be possible to startle the snake, and when the time came, not only would the crown prince not be able to do it, but he might even lose his life." Moreover, at this time, Xue Tao didn't know why, he actually entered the music membership and became a camp prostitute! In this way, Li Yu couldn't accept it anyway, but when he was living with Xue Tao, he told Xue Tao the secret of Hanjia, so he gave Xue Tao a letter and asked her to be optimistic about Hanjia in Chengdu......"

"At the age of sixteen, he became a camp prostitute?" Liang Ruoyi's face was full of regret: "I think this is the arrangement of fate......

"Among the top ten famous prostitutes in ancient China, Xue Tao ranked second, and the first was Su Xiaoxiao." The seventh master hurriedly explained: "Of course, the famous prostitutes here not only refer to prostitutes-women, but also courtesans and dancing girls, but even so, these strange women also have affairs with many men, let's just say that this Xue Tao has countless celebrities who have interacted with him, Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Liu Yuxi, etc., but whether there is that kind of relationship is unknown." ”

"What happened to her?" After all, Liang Ruoyi is a female doll, and she quickly became fascinated when she heard this kind of story.

"Later, because Xue Tao was very talented, he worked as a 'school secretary' for a period of time, and he was a nine-grade official who wrote official documents. But it didn't take long for her to feel that it was inappropriate, so she resigned at the age of twenty and left, at this time she still remembered what Li Yu arranged, so she lived in Huanhuaxi, the western suburb of Chengdu. The seventh master said very slowly, as if he was telling a poignant story: "For Li Yu, Xue Tao has not been married for many years, but there are always guests in front of the door, so I won't say much about this." But at the age of forty-one, she fell in love with the poet Yuan Zhen, who was eleven years younger than her, but they only stayed together for three months, and then they kept writing and never saw each other again. ”

"Huh?" Liang Ruoyi frowned slightly: "Men don't have a good thing!" ”

As soon as the seventh master heard Liang Ruoyi say this, the smile on his face instantly turned into a wry smile: "Ha, no, no, after this hard and unforgettable love, Xue Tao completely abandoned the heart of Hongchen, took off the beautiful clothes on his body, put on a Taoist robe, and became a Taoist priest." ”

It's really a poignant love story.

I was thinking about it, when the cloth bag monk on one side was full, he wiped his mouth and recited a few lines of poetry: "The flowers bloom differently, and the flowers fall differently." If you want to ask about the lovesickness, when the flowers bloom and fall. The grass knot is concentric, and it will be a bosom friend. Spring sorrow is being cut off, and the spring bird is mourning again. ”

"The poem recited by the master is the famous sentence "Spring Hope Words" written by Xue Tao when he missed Yuan Zhen.

"Then what is the result between her and Li Yu?" I asked.

"As I said just now, this Li Yu and his father Tang Dezong also died one after another." The seventh master said: "Li Yu has been the prince since he was nineteen years old, and he has been doing it for twenty-six years, in 805 AD, Tang Dezong died, and Li Yu ascended the throne for Tang Shunzong, but before that, Li Yu had a stroke under the pressure of many years and lost the function of speaking!" ”