Aunt Xue's family is in several shops in the capital, and there is an old shopkeeper named Zhang Dehui, who has recently gone south to purchase paper incense fans. Xue Pan has recovered from his injuries in the past few days, because he was beaten, he had no face to see people, and he wanted to hide in other places to take a break for a year and a half, so he heard about it, and he also planned to follow Zhang Dehui to the south, visit the landscape, and simply learn to do business. So I told Aunt Xue, and she agreed, so I rode a big mule and drove three big carriages with Zhang Dehui and his party to the south.

The concubine Xiangling (that is, Yinglian, the daughter of Zhen Shiyin, who was lost in the past), because her husband was gone, she was idle and bored, so she listened to Baochai's arrangement, moved to Daguan Garden, and lived with Baochai. After Na Xiangling moved here, she was overjoyed and said, "I envy this garden in my heart, it's not a day or two, but I don't have time." Usually come once, that is, in a panic, and have to leave after a while. Today, I can take advantage of the sex to stay for half a year and a year. ”

Baochai said: "I knew you thought so, so I asked my mother to let you come and live." ”

Xiangling was grateful, and said, "The girl is free, teach me to compose poetry, and I will learn too." Baochai said: "The more you are 'Longwangshu'." I'll talk about this after settling down in a few days, and I'll take you to the girls' rooms first. ”

As she was talking, Ping'er came hurriedly from outside, and Baochai and the others hurriedly let her into the house. After sitting down and saying hello to each other, Baochai said to Ping'er: "I asked Xiangling to come over as a companion today, live here, and am about to go back to your grandmother." ”

Ping'er said: "What did the girl say, but I have nothing to say." ”

Baochai said: "This is the right principle, there must be a rule." Go back and tell her, and I won't send anybody." ”

Ping'er agreed, and then said, "Girl, have you heard our news?" Baochai said, "I haven't heard anything." Ping'er smiled and said, "Our second master was beaten by the eldest master and couldn't move." Doesn't the girl know? ”

It turned out that the "eldest master" Jia Yu was also a vassal and elegant person, who saw a few old fans from the outside, and when he returned home, he felt that his old fans were not good enough (not old enough), so he asked people to search everywhere (for Tang and Song Dynasty). I heard that there was a poor ghost named "Stone Nerd", the poor didn't even have anything to eat, but there were twenty old fans at home (probably from the Shang and Zhou dynasties), but he refused to take out the door even if he died. Jia Yu sent his son Jia Lian to look for him. Jia Lian searched east and west, looking for someone who was familiar with this person, and asked that person to go in and say yes, and asked Jia Lian to come in and have a look. The man found the "stone nerd" and said that I knew a big man named Jia Lian, who admired the fan, and wanted to come in and take a look, observe, learn to learn, appreciate and appreciate, and if it was not bad, he would take a look or two, and after saying it again and again, the stone nerd finally agreed and allowed Jia Lian to come and have a look.

Jia Lian went, and when he saw it, he was really a good fan, Xiangfei, palm bamboo, elk, jade bamboo, this kind of fan bone made of precious bamboo, the fan surface is all the authentic works of the ancients, and Tang Bohu wrote "the same world, the same dream". Jia Lian then came out and told Jia Yu. Jia Yu told him to buy it, and he could say as much money as he wanted. Jia Lian went, but this "stone nerd" was really a nerd, and he screwed it very much, saying: "I starved to death and froze to death, and I won't sell one or two thousand silver!" ”

When Jia Lian went back, he was scolded by Jia Yu and scolded him for being incompetent. Jia Lian then went to say again, saying, "I'll give you five hundred taels of silver, you go to the bank first to redeem the silver, and then I'll get the fan." The stone nerd still refused, and said, "If you want a fan, you want my life first!" ”

Jia Lian had no choice but to come out again, and was scolded by Jia Yu again. Coincidentally, when Jia Yucun heard about this, he made a trick to falsely accuse this person that he was in arrears of official silver (tax evasion), took him to the yamen, and pronounced a verdict: The official silver owed, sell your family property to make up for it. So he copied all the fans, folded them into the official mansion according to the official price (it must be a low price), and then sent them to Jia Yu. The stone nerd didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

So Jia Yu took a fan and asked his son Jia Lian on this day, saying, "Why did someone get it?" It means that Jia Lian is not as capable as Jia Yucun. Jia Lian said: "It's nothing to do for this trivial matter, to make people bankrupt!" Jia Yu was angry when he heard this, saying that Jia Lian was talking to block his father. In addition, there have been a few other small things in the past few days, all of which made Jia Yu dissatisfied, so together, they beat Jia Lian according to them. didn't use a board and a stick, so she let him stand, beat him with something, and broke his face in two places, so Sister Feng heard that Aunt Xue had good pills here, so she called Ping'er to come and look for it.

Ping'er told the story, and Baochai hurriedly ordered Jin Ying to go out to find her mother, and brought a pill from "Aunt Xue" (only one pill, which can be seen to be indeed rare. The Xue family is in business, so there are rare goods), handed over to Ping'er. Ping'er took the pill and went with great gratitude. Alone. Although Jia Lian spoke to squeeze Jia Yucun, he also had a sense of justice.

Next, here, Baochai took Xiangling to the girls everywhere for a while, after dinner, Xiangling rested for a while, couldn't be idle, and went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion by himself. That Daiyu has recovered most of her illness (it is only a symptom, not the root of the disease), and she is happy to see Xiangling coming again. Xiangling said: "I live in this time, I have more time than before, so teach me to compose poetry, it is my creation." Daiyu smiled and said: "If you want to learn, then you have to worship me as a teacher." Although I didn't do very well, I can still afford to teach you. Xiangling smiled and said, "Really? Then I will worship you as a teacher, Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin. I'm your disciple. ”

Daiyu said: "Alas, just kidding, writing poetry, what is the difficulty, and it is worth learning?" It's just the beginning and the end, the upper and lower sentences are flat against the flat, and the flat is against the flat, if there is a strange sentence, even the flat is not right. ”

Xiangling said: "No wonder I read the poems of the ancients, some of them are not right, and I still wonder every day (in fact, it may be that the pronunciation of ancient and modern times has changed)." Now listening to you, it turns out that these style rules are the last thing, and the new words and sentences are the best. Daiyu said: "You have to learn sincerely, I have the complete works of Wang Wei here, you read it carefully 500 poems, figure it out thoroughly, and then read Du Fu's 1200 poems, and then read Li Bai's 1200 poems, with these as the foundation, and then look at Tao Yuanming and Jian'an Qizi and others, in less than a year, don't worry about not being a poet." ”

So Daiyu lent a collection of Wang Wei's books to Xiangling, taught her to read all the poems circled in red on it carefully, and asked Baochai if she didn't understand, or asked me. That night, Xiangling took the collection and read it one by one under the lamp in the courtyard and memorized it. Baochai urged her to sleep several times, but she didn't sleep. Baochai had no choice but to let her go.

During this period, Xiangling frequently went to Daiyu to ask for advice, talked about poetry and experience, and came to Du Shi to see it again. Finally, his skills are improving, and he begged Daiyu to say: "You come up with a topic, let me go back and read it, and correct it for me." Daiyu said: "Last night was the fullest moon, and I was about to recite a song, but it has not been completed yet, so you should also recite this." To fourteen cold rhymes. Let's go for it. ”

Xiangling happily went home to "Xu". It made the tea and rice unintentional, and I was restless. Baochai said: "What's the trouble, you are all led by Feng'er, I will settle accounts with her." You're already stupid, and adding this one makes you even more stupid. Xiangling said, "Good girl, don't talk, I'm thinking." ”

While talking, I finally made a song, and showed it to Baochai first. Baochai looked at it and smiled: "This is not good. Take it to her and see what she has to say. Xiangling heard this, and immediately ran to find Daiyu.

When Daiyu looked at it, she saw that it was written:

The moon hangs in the sky and the night is cold, and the light is bright and the shadows are bright.

The poet often thinks about playing, and the wild guest can't bear to watch.

The jade mirror is hung on the side of the jade building, and the ice tray is hung outside the pearl curtain.

What is the use of burning silver candles in a good night, and the brilliant reflection column of the sunshine.

It seems that the same meaning is repeated over and over again, like a large piece of tofu, which is full of tofu molecules, which makes people feel a little suffocated. Daiyu said: "There is an appearance, but the wording is indecent." It's all because you read few poems, and you're bound by it. Throw this one away, make another one, just be bold and do it. ”

Xiangling listened, came back silently, and did not even return home, only wandering under the trees by the pond in the garden, or sitting on the rocks to be distracted, or squatting on the ground to pick up the soil (about the moon in the ground), people who came and went were surprised. When Li Kun, Baochai and others heard about it, they all came and stood on the hillside from a distance to look at her. I saw her frown for a while, and then smile to herself.

Baochai smiled and said, "I'm afraid this person is going crazy!" Last night, I muttered to the fifth watch, and I made a song at this time, and it was not good, so now I am naturally doing it separately. ”

I saw Xiangling excitedly go to Daiyu again. Baochai said, "Let's go with her to see if it's written." So, everyone went to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion together. Seeing that Xiangling was picking up the pen and writing, after writing, he handed it to Daiyu to see, and when Daiyu looked at it, he saw that it was:

Non-silver and non-water reflect the cold of the window, and look at the clear sky to protect the jade plate.

The faint fragrance of plum blossoms is about to be dyed, and the silk willow belt is dewed and dried.

It is only suspected that the residual powder is coated with gold, like a light frost smearing the jade fence.

Wake up from a dream The west building is uninhabited, and the aftermath can still be seen through the curtain.

Daiyu said: "It's hard for you, it's just not good." This one is too chiseled, and it has to be done separately. ”

Piercing chisel is to dig ditches on the ground, which refers to artificial hard construction, the so-called piercing chisel attached, hard to lead up. Plum blossoms, willow belts, steps (masonry), railings, these things are like dry firewood, piled up under the moon.

Baochai and others were busy asking for poems to read, and after watching it, Baochai smiled and said: "It's not like the moon, it's like the moonlight, you see that every sentence is the moonlight." That's it, it turns out that the poem is nonsense, and it would be nice to delay it for a few days. ”

Daiyu criticized "piercing chisels", and Baochai criticized "off-topic". So is it okay to go off topic, Baochai said, "That's it", which means yes, "It turns out that the poem comes from nonsense". Digression is also a type of nonsense. That is to say, poetry is to be recited, to be nonsense, so that there is novelty and wonderland, but nonsense can not be chiseled and said, "chiseling" is nonsense is not natural enough, to be nonsense artificially the same as natural. That's it. These things can't be piled up under the moon, they must be made to come alive naturally, entangled with the moonlight, and "chisel" a man-made beautiful world. Therefore, Daiyu said that she was "too chiseling", that is, the artificial things were not good enough, and Baochai encouraged her to continue to "talk nonsense" and reach the realm of high-level chisel.

I think that through my explanation of the fool, Xiangling must have a more vague understanding of this issue. I don't know if Xiangling understands it, she originally thought that this poem was wonderful, but after hearing these words, she was a little disappointed, and refused to give up, so she wanted to think about it again. Others talked and laughed, but she was afraid of arguing with herself, so she walked out to the bamboo at the bottom of the steps, digging her heart and searching for her guts, not listening to her ears, and not squinting. For a while, Tanchun smiled through the window and said, "Miss Ling, you can be idle." Xiangling replied in a daze: "The word 'leisure' is deleted on fifteen, you have the wrong rhyme." (The poem has 106 rhymes, the fourteenth is cold rhyme, there are a few words alone, such as "plate, dry, column, look", and the fifteenth is a deleted rhyme, with a few words, including "leisure", in fact, the words "leisure" and cold rhyme are a.)

But the early times may be different, so the poets used it separately according to the rhyme notation. It's also a food for the ancients. When the crowd heard her say this, they burst out laughing. Baochai said: "This has really become a poetry demon." It was all Feng'er who led her. Daiyu said, "When she came to ask me, how could I not say it?" ”

For a while, everyone talked and laughed, and then they dispersed. Xiangling followed back, facing the lamp at night, still thinking about poetry, out of the gods, until after the third watch and twelve o'clock to go to bed, two eyes widow (is the name of a fish, staring at the big eyes all day) to the ground, until five or four o'clock, hazy sleep. At dawn, Baochai got up, thinking that she didn't sleep well last night, and don't alarm her, I don't want to be at this time, but Xiangling smiled in her dream: "Now that I have it, isn't this song good?" ”

When Baochai heard this, she was sighing and ridiculous, and hurriedly woke her up and asked, "What's there?" You're so sincere. If you can't learn poetry, you will get sick. After that, I went to freshen up, and then went to find my sisters to enter Jia's mansion together to greet Jia's mother.

This Xiangling also got up immediately. It turned out that she got eight sentences in a dream, and hurriedly found a note to write it down, I don't know if this time is good or not (this time it must be good, it's all nonsense in the dream), and listen to the next decomposition.