Chapter 11: A Glimpse

Alone in the west building without a word, the moon is like a hook. Lonely Wutong deep courtyard lock Qingqiu.

Cut constantly, the reason is still messy, it is parting, don't be a taste in my heart.

The street cleaning drum in Chang'an City has no deterrent power for Du Wu, even if he goes home late at night and is discovered by the patrolling Wuhou, he will be respectfully told to be careful on the road when he shows the token of the Great Sima Mansion.

has been in the house for almost half a month, every day Wang Shu is courteous to Du Wu, drinking and feasting every night, looking for joy every day, Du Wu has an illusion of not thinking about it. Since that day Du Wu overturned the case for Zhao Kuo, Wang Shu suddenly felt like a treasure, for fear that Du Wu would leave, the next day he asked the housekeeper to go to Chang'an Mansion to find Ji Xiang to change Du Wu's household registration, indicating that it was from Yanzhou to open up talents, Du Wu also jumped from a grass man to the guest of the Great Sima Mansion, three months of life ups and downs, Du Wu felt a little hard to believe his eyes. It's just that he never knew who Da Sima was, whether it was a certain figure in history he was familiar with, and asked many times, but Wang Shu was always silent, and he couldn't leave, so he had to live in Wang Shu's mansion full of suspicion.

Xu saw that Du Wu had nothing to do every day, and Wang Xu proposed that he wanted Du Wu to be his niece's master and girl's house, and it was inconvenient to go to private school. Du Wu agreed, Wang was overjoyed, ordered the housekeeper to send a bundle on the spot, and arranged a quiet small courtyard for Du Wu, from that day on, Du Wu finally had a place to settle in this strange world, and there was also a place to stay, which made him very satisfied.

The moon is bright and round tonight. Du Wu looks at the moon, and rhubarb looks at Du Wu, this has become a habit. Lao Li's death made him understand how difficult it is to survive in this era, so when Wang was given a position for him, he didn't refuse at all, without him, he just wanted to live. The night is already very cold, rhubarb rubbed beside Du Wu, these days rhubarb is having a good time, there is broth to drink, although the little girl named perilla always comes to provoke with a wooden gun, but seeing the food in the little girl's hand, rhubarb wisely played with the little girl for half a morning, of course, the return is also very rich, less than half a month, rhubarb has gained a circle.

Zisu just refused to read the Analects today, and Du Wu was reluctant to beat her, so he asked her what she wanted to learn. The little girl thought for a while, and said Master, tell me a story. Du Wu thought for a while, he didn't like these classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, so he put down the book, knelt down at the table, took a sip of fruit wine, and said to Zisu with a smile: "The girl holds the pen, the master has a poem with you: a court plays nine heavens, and the sunset degrades the Lingnan Road eight thousand." said that in the previous dynasty, there was a prime minister named Cai Qu, who offended the emperor and was demoted to Lingnan. When he packed his luggage and set out, his wife and concubines were far away from him, and none of them wanted to go with him to the barren land. ”

"And then, Master, and then?" Shisu felt pity for the prime minister and couldn't wait to ask.

Cai was really disheartened, and he had the idea of suicide at that time, but he didn't expect that when he walked out of the house, a maid named Pipa ran out with a small burden on her back, followed him step by step, and was willing to go to Lingnan with him.

That place in Lingnan is full of hardships, Cai is indeed very grateful to the pipa, regardless of the difference in the identities of the two, married the pipa as his wife, and after marriage, the husband and wife are harmonious, but they are also an enviable couple.

Cai is indeed very literate, so many literati often come to the house as guests. Cai Qu also raised a parrot, and whenever Cai Qu wanted the pipa to come and play for the guests, he would ring a small bell, and the parrot would stretch its neck and shout: Pipa! Pipa! The pipa will come in a hurry with the guqin, and then the guests will calm down and listen to the pipa play.

It's a pity that the love is not as deep as the fate, and the miasma of Lingnan takes away the pipa. At the funeral, Cai did not shed a single tear. After the funeral, Cai did drink and write poems as usual, and he didn't see anything unusual at all. One day when he was feasting guests, Cai did drink too much, and when he got up, he hit the little bell crookedly, and the crisp voice sounded again, and the parrot on the side stretched its neck and shouted: Pipa! Pipa! The crowd was silent. Cai did turn around suddenly, at this moment, all the past events were chased and killed, and the pain buried deep in his heart flooded like a broken embankment, and Cai did cry on the spot. There was no more lute in his life.

After sending everyone away, Cai did take off the bell and wrote a poem with tears:

The sound of the parrot is still there, and the pipa is no longer a thing.

It hurts the river and Han water, and it is different to go together.

Shortly thereafter, Cai did die of depression. On the day of his burial, the guests hung the bell on the tree in front of the pipa and Cai Qu's tomb. Later, I heard that the bell rang all night, and the parrot shouted all night, and when the sun rose in the morning, the parrot was gone, and only a pleasant bell was left in the wind......"

Two leaves swirled in the yard, Shiso looked up at her little face full of tears, and the late autumn afternoon sun poured in, warm.

Du Wu stood up and was about to say that when he was here today, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman Ying Ying walked in and bowed deeply to him, her eyes were also red: "Dare to ask sir, can this poem be copied by the little girl as a commemoration?" ”

Du Wu thought to himself, this poem is not his own anyway, and there is no intellectual property dispute, if it can be in the eyes of beauty, why not? Answer now.

The woman said goodbye, let the maid take the bamboo slip and pen, and the handful of Juan Xiuli's book fell on the bamboo slip. When Du Wu looked at it, he felt pleasing to the eye, and he was also envious in his heart. At this time, Zi Su had already come over and said to Du Wu, "Master, this is the student's aunt." ”

After the woman finished writing the last word, she asked the maid to put away the bamboo slips, put them in a bag, bowed again, and smiled at Du Wu: "I lost my temper just now, so that Mr. saw and smiled." It's just that Mr.'s story is really well told, as if he was in the scene, which makes people want to stop. The little woman Wang Yan is the sister of the middle brother Wang Shu, and she has seen Mr. ”

Du Wu hurriedly returned the salute, and when he looked up again, he saw that Wang Yan's face was already crimson, and the silver steps swayed back and forth as he got up, so that stars appeared in Du Wu's eyes.

Wang Yan couldn't help but blush even more when she saw Du Wu staring at her, and hurriedly covered it up: "In the story told by Mr. Shicai, the maid named Pipa is really a good woman, but coincidentally, there is also a maid named Pipa next to me, waiting for me to call and have a look with Mr. With that, he hurriedly turned around and went out, and the maid hurriedly followed with a broken bag.

Zi Su blinked, looked at Du Wu, and then looked at the figure of his aunt leaving in a hurry, and couldn't help but purse his lips and smile, Du Wu turned his head and glared at Zi Su, who was so frightened that he stuck out his tongue and ran out with a wooden gun.

Du Wu was about to pack up his books and prepare to go back to his room to rest, but he saw the maid walk in with a woman in plain clothes and Hanfu, and said to Du Wu: "Sir, this is the pipa." The young lady said that she would wait for Mr. Pipa in the future. With that, he pushed the woman forward, pursed her lips and smiled, and turned to leave.

Du Wu's face was slightly red, he hugged the bamboo slip to his chest, looked at the woman named Pipa, and saw that she was extremely handsome, with wavy eyebrows, and there seemed to be a deep starry sky in the eyes of the half-moon. Just one glance is unforgettable. The little nose was upturned, the cheeks that were not powdered were a little red, and he didn't know how to be afraid, he looked at Du Wu and asked in surprise, "Sir, do you know me?"