The "History of Song" still has a very high evaluation of Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties- "The decadent wave of the Hundred Rivers and the heresy of the ages, so that Swen's righteous spirit can wing the avenue and support people's hearts, and the power of these two people (Han Yu and Ouyang Xiu) is also!" ”
As a well-known politician and writer, Ouyang Xiu also has a humorous side, idle, he likes to joke with his colleagues, but jokes are harmless, after all, he is a great literary hero.
Liu Chang, a famous scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, was very knowledgeable and especially good at ancient chinese, and wrote "Seven Classics", "Spring and Autumn Weighing", "Gongshi Ji", etc., and was called "Three Lius" together with his younger brother Liu Shu [bān] and son Liu Feng.
Liu Chang remarried in his later years and married a young and beautiful wife.
When Ouyang Xiu attended the wedding, he and his colleagues giggled and talked about old Liu eating tender grass, and he felt that he was still unfinished, so he wrote a poem "Liu Yuan's Father Faints Again with Two Plays".
The first song praises the old Liu Youcai - "Who has the first career in his life, and wrote the article Hai NeiChuan." Tomorrow's capital city should be expensive paper, but the curtain is opened with a new editor. ”
The second song has changed its taste - "The Immortal Family has a thousand years and a long time, and the floating world is busy with the sun and the moon." The peach blossoms in the cave are smiling, Liu Lang is now old Liu Lang. ”
Liu Chang was of course unhappy when he saw this poem, and secretly competed with Ouyang Xiu, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge--hum, wait and see, old Liu is not easy to mess with.
During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song, the military governor of the prefecture was named Xue Kui, and he had five daughters, the third daughter married Gongchen the Prince of Yushi, and the fourth daughter married Ouyang Xiu.
Wang Gongchen later married Xue Kui's fifth daughter, so that Wang Gongchen changed from brother-in-law to brother-in-law.
Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem to tease him: "The old son-in-law is the new son-in-law, and the eldest uncle is the younger uncle." ”
After Liu Chang heard about it, he thought that the opportunity for revenge had come.
One day, Liu Chang, Ouyang Xiu, and Wang Gongchen met, and Liu Chang told them a passage.
Liu Chang shook his head and said, "Once upon a time, there was an old scholar who taught his students to read "Mao Poems", and when he talked about the sentence 'snake and snake', one student misread the word 'snake'. The old scholar was very angry and reprimanded the students: 'The snake should be read as an aunt, and it should not be misread in the future!' ’”
Ouyang Xiu and Wang Gongchen looked at each other for a moment and felt that Old Liu had not held back his fart.
Liu Chang continued to tease them: "The next day, this student saw a beggar playing with snakes on his way to school, so that he was late for class. The teacher asked him why. The student said, 'I saw an aunt on the road, and the man got the aunt first, and then the aunt, and I saw it very hard, so I was late.' ’”
Old Liu laughed when he finished speaking, and Wang Gongchen and Ouyang Xiu were red in the face and couldn't laugh.