Chapter 122: Miscellaneous: The same people in different places

Although his family is wealthy, Ni Zan has not been infected with the bad spirit of the gentlemen's habits, and he has a very tight grasp of his own learning and cultivation. There are many books in the house, such as scriptures, histories, children, collections, Buddhism, Taoist scriptures, books and paintings of famous artists. In addition to carefully studying classics at home every day, Ni Zan also practiced calligraphy and copied ancient paintings. On the one hand, he observed nature in detail, and on the other hand, he inherited traditional techniques and absorbed the strengths of each family, which laid a solid foundation for his later innovation in painting.

Ni Yunlin has a serious cleanliness habit. He asked the servant to go to Huishan Mountain, more than ten miles away, to fetch spring water, and when the servant came back, he found that Ni Yunlin was waiting at home, and he only used the bucket of water in front of him to make tea, and the bucket of water behind him was used to wash his feet. Sometimes the weather is cloudy and rainy, the road is muddy, it is not easy to go up the mountain to carry water and walk so far, in order to make tea can be understood, the well water at home can wash the feet, the servant can not understand, is it the boss deliberately corrected me? couldn't help but ask the reason, Ni Zhan's explanation was very simple, he was afraid that the servant would fart on the road, and the bucket behind him could only be used to wash his feet. The servant was angry and laughed when he heard this, who can guarantee that the two buckets of water in front and back have not been reversed for such a long journey? Besides, whether or not that fart can be smoked into the water remains to be studied. This is probably what people often say, "out of sight is pure"!

In ordinary life, the tableware, clothes, furniture, and floors are spotless, and Ni Yunlin's four treasures of the study are also managed by two special servants who can scrub them at any time. Even the sycamore trees in the yard should be washed with water every morning and evening.

One day, a friend came to visit, and it was too late after the banquet, so I stayed. He is afraid that his friends will not pay attention to hygiene, so don't sleep until midnight and pee in the yard when he goes out! In one night, he got up three or four times, and when he saw that his friend was drunk and knew how to go to the toilet, he could finally sleep with peace of mind.

As soon as Ni Zan lay down, he suddenly heard a cough from his friend, and he was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night. After daybreak, his friend also left, and he hurried to ask the servant to find out where his friend's phlegm was. The servant searched every corner and found no trace of phlegm, what kind of temper does the boss know the servant! Afraid of being scolded, I had to find a sycamore leaf that fell on the ground and spit it out by myself. Run to the boss and report it, find it! Ni Zan pursed his lips and glanced at it, then covered his nose in disgust, dodged to the side, and ordered the servant to send it three miles away and throw it away.

Ni Yunlin is not fake clean, he has his own special toilet. Wooden stakes are driven in the ground, the floor and screen are built with fragrant wood on the wooden stakes, and then the roof is made with herbs, and there are small holes in the fragrant wood floor for defecation, and a pit is dug in the ground, and the pit is filled with snow-white goose feathers. He is convenient in the incense toilet, and the excrement falls in the pit, and is immediately covered by light goose feathers, which cannot be smelled or seen, and is more advanced than the current water flushing toilet with incense smoke, it seems that poverty really limits our imagination!

Because of his cleanliness, Ni Zan rarely gets close to women, and pays special attention to hygiene when he is with his wife. But once, he took a fancy to a singer, who was beautiful, and chatted happily about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, hops, tea, Ni Zhan thought about it and took the singer home for the night. Ge Ji took a bath first, and washed for a long time with the help of the servants, and was not allowed to go to bed after washing, Ni Zan touched her head and feet, smelled while touching, and felt that it was not clean enough, so she asked her to wash it again. After washing for a long time, he was not allowed to go to bed, Ni Zan touched and smelled again, and he was not at ease, so he asked the singer to wash it well. Washed and washed, the skin was soaked off, and when it was dawn, Ni Zan slept by himself.

When Ni Zan was about thirty years old, his eldest brother Ni Zhaokui died, and then his mother also died. Ni Zan was sad, and the privileges he enjoyed by relying on his eldest brother's Taoist status were gone, and the Ni family became an ordinary big landlord. He is still unwilling to let go of his elegant figure to manage mundane affairs, let his subordinates operate, make friends by himself, and "play" with one word!

Monks, Taoist priests, poets, and painters all like to make friends with Ni Zhan. As long as you spend money on eating, drinking, and having fun, Ni Gongzi will pay for it. It was also at this time that he met the great painter Huang Gongwang of the same period, who was the master who painted "Fuchun Mountain Residence" and painted very slowly. Huang Gongwang was a celebrity in the emerging Taoist Quanzhen Sect at that time, and spent ten years painting "The Picture Scroll of Rivers and Mountains" for Ni Zhan, which is one of Huang Gongwang's masterpieces of "Shallow Landscapes". To make the famous painter Huang Gongwang, who is much older than him, spend so long painting for him, Ni Zan has invested a lot! He himself followed Huang Gongwang to join the Quanzhen Sect, and after joining the Church, Ni Zhan's idea of escaping from the world and escaping reality developed to a peak, and this thought was also reflected in his paintings, and his works showed the characteristics of desolate and simple, solemn and indifferent. It had a great influence on the later Dong Qichang and Bada Shanren.

When Ni Zhan's eldest son died early, the second son was at odds with him, when he was fifty-two years old, it was the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and the social reality was similar to the situation encountered by Zhen Shiyin in "A Dream of Red Mansions". Ni Zan has too many problems himself, and his son can't get used to being a loser like him, so he separates from him.

Anyway, he is not good at management, Ni Zan simply sold all his share of the house and land, and then took the old servant and precious classics, calligraphy and paintings to roam the Taihu Lake with the boat as his home. The land was sold, the tax was not paid, maybe Ni Zan didn't know that he had to pay taxes, and he was arrested by the government and imprisoned on the edge of Taihu Lake not long after.

While eating, the jailer shouted as he delivered food to the cell: "It's time to eat!" Ni Zan asked the jailer to raise the bowl to the height of his eyebrows, and the jailer asked him, I'm not your wife, why should I "raise my eyebrows"? Ni Zan said, "I'm afraid that your spit will spray into the rice." The jailer was furious, locked him next to the toilet in his cell, suffered for a few days, and with the help of his friends, asked the officials to pay back taxes, Ni Zan was released.

He continued to live a roaming life, but one day by the Taihu Lake, he met Zhang Shixin. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were several big brothers in the rivers and lakes, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng were more powerful than Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning, and Zhang Shixin was Zhang Shicheng's younger brother. When Ni Zan used the suspended bathroom at home, Zhang Shixin sent him a lot of money and sent someone to take a painting silk to ask him to paint. Now that he has no fixed place and is uncertain, he should be unlucky when he meets Zhang Shixin, Zhang Shixin is not polite and beats the old man violently. Ni Zan gritted his teeth and shut up when he was beaten, and he didn't say a word, and someone asked him afterwards if he was afraid that he would be beaten harder after shouting? Ni Zan replied: "As soon as you make a noise, it will be vulgar."

Ni Zan is arrogant and arrogant, does not do mundane affairs, and ignores the laity even if he is beaten. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang won the world, sent many people to Taihu Lake to visit, found Ni Zhan, and wanted to invite him to come out to be an official. He excused himself many times, Zhu Yuanzhang asked again and again, and later he said: "Only the clear water is not stained with dust", and resolutely did not become an official, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that you are clear water, you are clean, I am dust, I am dirty? Moreover, he only used the year of the sexagenary branch to write the poem on the painting, not the year of Hongwu, which offended Zhu Yuanzhang.

There are two versions of the cause of Ni Zhan's death, one says that he suffered from dysentery before his death, and that the old man in his seventies was stinking when he died. Another theory says that he was thrown into a dung pit by Zhu Yuanzhang and drowned.

Ni Zan is the same as Xu You mentioned in the previous episodes, he avoids being an official, and the other celebrities who have been discussed who are born from both good and evil have officialdom experience, or have worked hard to be an official, but Ni Zan is completely disdainful of the career economy, and in this regard, Jia Baoyu is very similar to him.

Ni Zan also left a lot of poems, he lived in a war-torn environment in his later years, wanted to escape from reality, but couldn't get out of reality. I want to stop being lonely and can't integrate into society. He has a poem "Lighting the night wind lantern people sleep alone, and the river rain and cranes depend on each other when they open the window", which is a portrayal of his wandering life. This sentence is also used by the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" in Sister Lin's "Funeral Flower Yin", "The green light shines on the wall and the people fall asleep for the first time, and the cold rain knocks on the window and is not warm." ”

The best friends born of good and evil are Tang Bohu and Zhu Zhishan

[Text: Those who make male and female couples live with this spirit cannot become benevolent gentlemen at the top, and cannot be evil at the bottom. Placed among tens of thousands of people, its smart and handsome spirit is above tens of thousands of people, and its evil and inhumane state is below tens of thousands of people. If you are born in a rich and noble family, you are infatuated, if you are born in a poor family of poetry and books, you are a master of Yishi, even if you are occasionally born in the cold door of Bo Zuo, you can never be a pawn and a servant, and you are willing to be driven and controlled by mediocrity. Such as the previous generations of Xu You, Tao Qian, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Liu Ling, Wang Xie Er, Gu Hutou, Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, Liu Tingzhi, Wen Feiqing, Minan Gong, Shi Manqing, Liu Qiqing, Qin Shaoyou, Ni Yunlin, Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, and then Li Guinian, Huang Wan Chuò, Jing Xinmo, Zhuo Wenjun, Hongfu, Xue Tao, Cui Ying, Chaoyun and others. This is the same place, and so are the people. This "change of place is the same person", that is, in the case of righteousness and evil fighting each other, a type of person born, this kind of person has both righteousness and evil, although their times are different, their experiences are different, and their opportunities are different, but these people's temperament is the same, that is, the two endowments of good and evil.

Jia Yucun also gave a lot of examples of people born of good and evil, and we introduced them one by one according to the order of appearance.

18, Tang Bohu

Tang Yin, the word Bohu, the number six such as the layman, the owner of the peach blossom hermitage, a native of Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Nanzhili, a famous painter, calligrapher and poet in the Ming Dynasty.

Feng Menglong wrote "Tang Jieyuan's Smile and Marriage" in "Warning to the World", which was later adapted into "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance", many friends were deeply impressed by Tang Yin because of Mr. Stephen Chow, Tang Bohu in reality is not a rich son who married eight cousins and ordered Qiu Xiang. Judging from the portrait, Tang Bohu is definitely not as good-looking as Stephen Chow. Teacher Guo Degang also said that he had seen the portrait of Tang Bohu, and he was a fat man with a full beard, and he was not as good as Mr. Guo himself. In short, Tang Bohu is not handsome at all, let alone a rich second generation!

At most, he was born in a well-off family, and his father Tang Guangde ran a tavern, which was in business and had some savings. The feudal society has a strong concept of hierarchy, "Shi Nong Industry and Commerce", the social status of merchants is not as good as that of handicraftsmen, through reading and studying, merchants can become scholars with relatively high social status. Tang Guangde thought to himself that when I was young, I didn't have the opportunity to study hard, I worked hard in business, I was making money, people came to collect money, and now I have saved some money, so I have to provide for my son to study, and I will also be a civil servant in the future.

Tang Yin is still competitive, at the age of sixteen, he took the first place in the Suzhou government examination, and has the identity of a showman, and Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhengming, and Xu Zhenqing are called "Wuzhong Four Talents", and in the movie, they are called "Jiangnan Four Talents". Tang Yin got married at the age of eighteen, and as a scholar, "self-cultivation and family" have been completed, and he is waiting for "governing the country and leveling the world".

Who knew that as soon as Tang Bohu was twenty-four years old, he ushered in the first mutation in his life. This year, his father died, and soon his mother also left, but the Grim Reaper did not leave, and then Tang Yin's sister died of illness, which was really worse day by day. In the end, his wife had a difficult birth and took the child in her womb with her. Tang Bohu has been holding funerals for more than a year, until only he and his younger brother Tang Shen are left at home, in a line in the movie, who dares to be worse than him! But the tragedy is yet to come.

Relatives died one after another, life was lonely, family declined, under the persuasion of his friend Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu devoted himself to studying and preparing for scientific examinations during his filial piety. After the expiration of the filial piety period, he remarried his wife, and seeing that the township test was about to be held, Tang Bohu had an accident again. There is also a qualification examination before the township examination, and only those who pass can take the township examination once every three years. Tang Yin drank and prostituted with his friends during the qualification examination and was denounced, and Tang Yin's qualification for the township examination was cancelled.

Later, because the prefect of Suzhou cherished talents, Wen Lin, the father of Wen Zhengming, a famous man in Suzhou and Tang Bohu's friend Wen Zhengming, interceded for Tang Yin, and he had the opportunity to participate in the township examination. Twenty-eight-year-old Tang Yin took the first place in the Tianfu Township Examination, "Xie Yuan". Ying Tianfu governs Nanzhili, which is equivalent to the first place in the college entrance examination in Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai, two provinces and one city. The ups and downs of life come too fast, it's really a spring breeze blowing and giving birth!

Tang Xie Yuan intensified his lingering and indulging in life, his wife persuaded him, but he didn't listen, and his wife was afraid that he would become a big official in the future, and the three wives and four concubines didn't want themselves, after all, it would take a lifetime to have a good material life, so he swallowed his anger and didn't dare to persuade again. His friend really couldn't stand it, and he also came to persuade him, Zhu Zhishan said to Tang Yin, don't be too arrogant for a while. Wen Zhengming also persuaded him, not only did he not appreciate it, but also broke off his friendship with Wen Zhengming.

Tang Xie Yuan was proud of the horseshoe disease, entered Beijing to participate in the examination, walked north from Suzhou, passed through Wuxi, and arrived in Jiangyin. There is a person I know in the township examination room who invited him to eat, drink and have fun, that person is called Xu Jing, he praised Tang Bohu Wen**hua, he understood the yuan in the township examination, and he must be in the middle of the examination, and he must go with Tang Bohu.

Of course Tang Bohu is happy! Xu Jing is almost from the same background as Ni Zan just said, and he is also a rich N generation, and there is a "Wanjuan Building" at home, all kinds of classics and famous masterpieces, the Xu family is not only rich and powerful in Jiangyin, but also has many relatives and friends in the capital.

Nowadays, students who study in prestigious schools are not only conducive to learning skills, but also may come into contact with people with better conditions than themselves, and get help from classmates in the process of work and life in the future. Of course, Tang Bohu understands this, but good is harmful, and he ushered in the second mutation of his life.

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