Chapter 92: Bai Ju is easy to settle
However, Bai Juyi did not receive a response from Xiang Ling for a long time, and began to sit on his head for this, and the food was tasteless. So in the autumn of falling leaves, he wrote this poem "Sauvignon Blanc", which is said to be a wish, and the wish will come true. I am willing to be a distant beast, walking side by side, willing to be a deep mountain tree, and a branch of life.
Later, Bai Juyi turned his thoughts into strength, studied hard, and sought fame.
In the end, Huangtian lived up to his wishes, and Bai Juyi won the fourth place. There are nearly 3,000 candidates on this list, but only 17 of them are among them, and Bai Juyi is the youngest of them.
Bai Juyi, who returned to his hometown in fine clothes, returned to the mansion with his mother in the name of visiting relatives. He begged his mother to fulfill his marriage to Xiang Ling. But the white mother, who has a strong concept of the portal, categorically refuses to allow it. That night, Bai Juyi tossed and turned, and unconsciously, tears had wet the pillow towel, and suddenly a cold wind blew, making him feel even more desolate. He took advantage of the night to secretly run to Xiang Ling's house and looked at Xiang Ling's shadow reflected in the window. Bai Juyi had mixed feelings, but he didn't make a sound, but put down a song "Cold Boudoir Night" on the wall, "It's cold in the middle of the night, and I can't sleep alone." The incense extinguishes the fire, and the tears of the towel turn into ice. For the sake of shadows, the lights will not be extinguished all night."
When Xiang Ling saw such verses, her heart was completely melted, and she said, "Let me be your maid, I don't expect marriage."
But Bai Juyi said, "If I can't marry you, then what's the point of my life."
This time, the two got along for a year. In the seventeenth year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyi left Fuli in the autumn wind and autumn rain and transferred to Luoyang, preparing to participate in the Diocesan Quan test of the Ministry of Officials the following year.
With the longing for Xiangling and the beautiful expectations for the future, Bai Juyi embarked on the journey again.
After repeated examinations, Bai Juyi was awarded the official position of secretary and provincial school secretary. He was 31 years old.
In the winter of that year, he took leave to return to Fuli to move. saw Xiang Ling again, 27-year-old Xiang Ling is still unmarried.
Bai Juyi asked his mother to agree to their marriage, but Bai Juyi was more stubborn than ever and resolutely opposed this family business, especially after seeing Bai Juyi become a big official. They were even forbidden to meet again.
People who love each other can't be together, Bai Juyi is drunk all day long in Fu Li, and refuses to leave Fu to go to Beijing to work.
Thirty years old was supposed to be the year of establishment, but Bai Juyi was still single, because he believed that Xiangling's position in his heart was irreplaceable, so he rejected wave after wave of proposals. Including some dignitaries, he felt that the most painful thing in this world is not death, but life and separation. Therefore, this song "Life Parting" can best reflect Bai Juyi's recent situation at that time, "Life parting, life parting, sorrow comes from it. Worried about the heart and blood failure, and the gray hair grew before the Chinese New Year's Eve,"
In the twentieth year of Zhenyuan, Bai Juyiguan became the school scholar, and his family moved to Chang'an. One Chang'an and one Fuli, Bai Juyi knows that there is no more chance. On that bleak winter solstice night, Bai Juyi shrank in the quilt without love, no matter how thick the quilt was, he felt chills all over his body.
So he got up and wrote this poem "Huai Xiang Ling on the Night of the Winter Solstice", "There is no reason to see the glamorous quality, and the cold is not kissable. He can be the longest night, and he is a lone sleeper. If you want to forget, you can't go. "Sending Far Away" has no wings in its armpits, and Ermao sits with empty heads to watch the new fallen leaves, and walks up to the highest building. The darkness is boundless, and the eyes are full of sorrow."
At the age of 35, he wrote the classic long poem "Song of Long Hatred". This poem is ostensibly about Yang Guifei's love, but isn't it full of the shadows of him and Xiang Ling?
"In heaven I wish to be a winged bird, and on earth I wish to be a branch. The days are long and the days are endless, and this hatred lasts forever."
They love each other deeply, but in the end they become regrets. Time flies, Bai Juyi is 37 years old, his marriage is his mother's biggest heart disease, and his mother entrusts him with matchmakers everywhere, but he is unwilling to give up his love with Xiangling for more than 20 years, and he refuses to see the matchmaker.
His mother knew what he was thinking, so he swore that he would never have any more dealings with Xiangling, and if the two had any more contact, he would throw himself into the well and die. In that era when filial piety was greater than heaven, he had no choice but to compromise, and from then on, Bai Juyi never dared to mention his marriage with Xiangling.
was also forced by his mother to die, and he had to marry the sister of his colleague Yang Rushi.
After marriage, the two raised their eyebrows, and Yang's virtuousness slowly soothed his pain.
However, there is always a place in his heart for Xiang Ling. He never forgot her.
"Heaven is not old, love is inexorable." The Yang family gave him the warmth of home, but he was never able to replace Xiang Ling. In the years that followed, in the dead of night, he would still think of Xiang Ling.
Even on the night of the candles in the newlywed cave room, he hid in the study alone, and wrote in "Night Rain": "I miss someone, separated from a distant country. I felt something, and it was in my bowels."
Later, he wrote in "Feeling the Mirror": "The beauty said goodbye to me, and stayed in the mirror. Since the flowers are gone, there is no hibiscus in the autumn water."
And this mirror is a gift from Xiang Ling, he has always treasured it, the mirror is still there, but it is difficult for people to see each other again. Without Xiangling, there is no more waterfront hibiscus in his eyes.
In the tenth year of Yuanhe, Bai Juyi was 44 years old and was demoted to Jiangzhou as Sima. On the way to the post, they met Xiangling's father and daughter who were adrift in a foreign land, and the two were full of emotion and burst into tears.
The 40-year-old Xiang Ling is still unmarried and still waiting for him, but he is already a child.
He wrote "The Old" with a heavy heart: "I comb my gray hair to add new hatred, and you sweep away the moths to reduce the old appearance. It should be melancholy by the others, and the young people should be separated and meet with the old."
It was that parting that became the last time the two met...... When Bai Juyi was 53 years old, he went back to his hometown to look for Xiangling.
But when he arrived at Xiangling's house, he found that the door was unlocked, but the yard was full of weeds. Bai Juyi shed tears and sadly wrote "Heavy to Yucun House", "I want to enter the middle door full of tears, and the garden flowers have no owner and two rejuvenation. The curtains are still the same, but there is one person in front of the hall."
After leaving, Bai Juyi heard that after the last meeting, Xiang Ling had already been shaved and became a monk, and the green lantern scroll was remnant.
This sudden news has since become uneasy in his heart.......
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