Ruan Yu's son is more famous than him.

His son's name is Ruan, and if you only know one name in the Wei and Jin dynasties, it must be him: he wandered aimlessly in an ox cart, and cried at the end of the road; He rolled his eyes to the sky when he saw someone he didn't like, and he was drunk for 60 days in order to refuse an arranged marriage arranged by those in power. He represents the most bizarre style and the most proud backbone of the Wei and Jin dynasties.

But his father was a humble and easy-going man. Placing him in the eventful era of drums and horns such as the Three Kingdoms, he was like an overly light background, which was quickly covered by thick ink. But he is so indifferent, but he still can't be forgotten. Speaking of the seven sons of Jian'an today, there is no data that can explain the reason why these seven people are on the list, only based on Cao Pi's impression. In a "Book with Wu Qian", he mentioned six literati he liked, the seven sons of Jian'an, most of whom came from this. And when Cao Pi talked about Ruan Yu, he said that he was "a secretary who is beautiful and happy".

Fluttering, lifelike, is an adjective used by Zhuangzi when describing the free and light butterfly. Wise and free, without strong desires, without restraint. Ruan Yu was Cai Yong's most outstanding student, but in the early years of Jian'an, when everyone else was gearing up to make a contribution, he chose to live in seclusion. But the fame is outside, and the days of seclusion are not peaceful.

Cao Cao's cousin Cao Hong once asked him to be a clerk for him, but Ruan Yu just refused. Cao Hong was one of Cao Cao's five tiger generals, and was the first to follow Cao Cao to fight the world. He is very rich, and the local taxation bureau collects the same taxes on his family as Cao Cao's family, which makes Cao Cao feel that he has been knocked off; is also very proud, so proud that he ignores Cao Pi when he asks him to borrow money. More importantly, Cao Hong admired literati from the bottom of his heart. His most beautiful daughter later married Xun Cang. Xun Yu was one of the earliest metaphysicians, and his father Xun Yu was also a Confucian gentleman admired by the world. It's just that Ruan Yu doesn't care, he is determined to isolate himself from the chaotic world. But the good days didn't last long, Cao Cao repeatedly conquered but did not get a response, and in a fit of rage, he burned the mountain where Ruan Yu lived in seclusion, and finally burned him out.

In the face of the reality of survival, Ruan Yu, who was as firm as Ruan, had to give in. And the times have long since changed. Under the leadership of Xun Yu, it became an irresistible trend for Cao Cao to return all the talents of the world, and Cao Cao, with his personal charm and political strength, almost all the elite intellectuals in northern China at that time were all gathered to form his inexhaustible think tank group. Working for Cao Cao is not a bad choice.

It seems to be a smooth road, but in fact, the undercurrent is turbulent. Cao Cao's camp also has various parties and factions: there are pro-Han and emperor-worshippers, there are those who have surrendered from large and small warlords who have not yet digested it, and there are even gods of the Wudou Mi Sect who talk about heavenly masters, and the entanglement of interests between vertical and horizontal is quite complicated. Cao Cao's attitude towards Ruan Yu and others is also unpredictable. On the one hand, he recruited talents, and on the other hand, he carried out an iron-fisted purge of the talents' party formation and purging discussions. To work for him, the Celebrities must restrain their habit of pinpointing the evils of the times, and must hide their arrogant temperament and self-cherished edges.

Compared to his trembling colleagues, Ruan Yu watched coldly. Like Chen Lin, Ruan Yu is also a secretary and is in charge of the bookkeeper's office. Writing the essay is within his boundaries. But he is neither keen on climbing the ladder nor going against the mainstream. Even the essays he wrote for Cao Cao were faint, not as poor as his colleagues.

The article "Writing Books for Cao Gong and Sun Quan" is the only working document that Ruan Yu has handed down.

is also a professional writer of essays, Ruan Yu's style is very different from Chen Lin. Chen Lin is like Li Kui, paying attention to "vigorously producing miracles", no matter which of the first three axes is smashed out, and the eight generations of ancestors are swept down. Pressing step by step, pointing at your nose and saying one sentence at a time, if you don't scold you to death, you will die of shame. Ruan Yu is gentle and elegant, and he is affectionate and reasonable to Sun Quan. It is not so much a text as a reminiscence, and the paragraphs are affectionate, almost forgetting that this is a "call for battle" before the start of the war.

Ruan Yu said eloquently in Cao Cao's tone: "Since the separation, in the past three years, there has not been a day to forget the past, and it is still the righteousness of marriage, the kindness has been deep, and the hatred of disobedience is still shallow in the middle." With this heart alone, how can you be the same? "It just makes people feel like a spring breeze, and they get close unconsciously. He took another step up empathetically: he attributed Sun Quan's confrontation with Cao Cao to being young and vigorous, instigated by bad people. It's really on the wrong side for a while, and you can not blame the past. Next, he explained his bad reputation in Jiangdong quite aggrievedly, and what is even more interesting is that he explained the defeat of Chibi that year as a retreat trapped by miasma disease, and there was no credit to the Sun-Liu coalition army at all.

Ruan Yu used the salute first and then the soldiers, and then he used historical allusions to remind Sun Quan that although the Yangtze River is dangerous, it is not a difficult moat. Prime Minister Cao Cheng was trapped in miasma before and retreated without a fight, but if he really started a war, he would definitely be able to break Jiankang directly, and you should weigh it yourself.

Liu Xizai of the Qing Dynasty once summed up, "Words are like their people". Ruan Yu's expression in the article is filial piety and righteousness, and it stops at the point, so that you can see that the belief in the great harmony of the world is still rooted in the depths of his thoughts, and he must be a gentleman with virtue and respect people, no matter what kind of situation.

In the "Book of Songs", it is said that a gentleman is not only like cutting and learning, such as grinding, but also being sloppy and embarrassed. Ruan Yu grinded a sharp spirit into a thousand-foot pool of water in a corner that no one could see, without waves, and bottomless. He works for Cao Cao, but he is often outside the core of Cao Cao's group; He worked diligently, but he also expressed his dissatisfaction in this kind of dissociation.

Therefore, he became a special person, so much so that many people who influenced the direction of the Three Kingdoms era were willing to make friends with him. Ruan Yu died in Jian'an for 16 years at an early age, and did not have time to witness the struggle between Cao Pi and Cao Zhi, nor did he experience Sima Yi's subversion of the Cao regime. However, both Sima Yi and Cao Pi were very fond of him, and after his death, Cao Pi still remembered his kindness and elegance, and even took special care of Ruan Yu's widow and orphans, and wrote poems for them to express sympathy. And the friendship between Sima Yi and Ruan Yu actually blessed Ruan Yu's son who was against the Sima family everywhere in the later era.

But this is the story of the next generation.