"Peach Blossom Wood in Peach Blossom An, Peach Blossom Fairy under Peach Blossom An." Peach blossom immortals plant peach trees, and then pick peach blossoms in exchange for wine money. The drunk only sits in front of the flower, and the drunk comes to sleep under the flower. Half drunk and half awake day after day, flowers fall and blossom year after year. I hope that the old dead flower wine room is not willing to bow down in front of the carriage and horse. The car dust horse is full of rich people, and the wine cup flower branches are poor. If the rich are more rich than the poor, one is on the flat earth and the other is in the sky. If he compares poverty to a cart and a horse, he will drive me to idleness. People laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at others who can't see through it. There is no tomb of Wuling Haojie, no flowers and no wine hoes for the field. "Today, we talk about Tang Bohu, a famous talent of the Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of Tang Bohu, thanks to Zhou Xingchi's gift, everyone is very familiar with it, what is the head of the four great talents in Jiangnan, what is the flock of wives and concubines in the family, what is uninhibited, what is worry-free about food and clothing, what is three points of autumn fragrance, and what is a big fuss in Washington. Unfortunately, none of this is true, the fate of Brother Bohu, in a word, miserable.
Tang Bohu's ancestor was Tang Hui, a general from Lingjiang in Jinchang County, Liangliang Prefecture, and in the early Tang Dynasty, his ancestor Tang Jian followed Li Yuan and was given the title of "Duke of Juguo". In the Ming Dynasty, his ancestor Tang Tai served as the head of the military department and died in the change of Tumu Fort. Since then, the family has fallen into the middle of the road, and in the generation of his father Tang Guangde, he can only run a tavern. But he had great hopes for his son and carefully cultivated his reading skills.
And Tang Bohu did not disappoint his father, Chenghua twenty-one years, sixteen-year-old Tang Bohu in the Suzhou government to try the first entrance to study. But the weather was unpredictable, and in the seventh year of Koji, around the age of 24, the goddess of destiny put away her handsome smile and revealed a vicious face, and his father, mother, wife, son, and sister died one after another in this two years, and since then they have been alone, standing alone, hanging from each other.
In the eleventh year of Hongzhi, Tang Bohu was the first in the Tianfu Township Examination, probably because his article was written too well, and the chief examiner at the time deliberately showed the paper to another person. And the person who read the scroll is called Cheng Minzheng, and Mr. Jin Yong borrowed his famous pair in the "Biography of the Archery Hero": the eight kings of the Qinse Pipa, the general mind; the four little ghosts of the charm and the four little ghosts, all kinds of intestines. Give Huang Rong to deal with the shusheng in the "Fishing Tree Cultivation Reading" ("Annam (i.e., Vietnam) made an envoy into the dynasty and out of a pair of clouds: 'Qinse Pipa Eight Kings, General Mind.'" Cheng Minzheng said to him: "Four little ghosts, all kinds of intestines." ’”）。 And such a talented Cheng Minzheng is one of the protagonists and victims of the confusing events behind.
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, Tang Bohu, who was famous all over the world, packed up the package and went to the capital with confidence, ready to obtain his own glory. However, the goddess of fate toyed with him again, and on the way to Beijing, he met another person, and this person changed his life. This person is called Xu Jing, is Tang Bohu's fellow Keju people, the family is rich, rich second generation, worthy of the name of the "rich son", in the rush to the exam with Tang Bohu encountered, at this time Tang Bohu is already an idol-level figure, Xu Jing special worship of him, so he put forward a request, the two go together, and he is responsible for all the travel expenses of the two people, who does not do the business of eating and living in vain, come on, Tang Bohu happily agreed. The two of them are happy all the way, so comfortable!
After entering Beijing, the two separated and prepared for the exam separately, and after the exam, Tang Bohu left the exam room with confidence, and on the other side, Xu Jing also handed in the papers with pride. Soon after, the results of the exam came out, and Tang Bohu fell off the list, but this was not the most tragic, and before he could react, the shackled law enforcement officer came and involuntarily threw him into the prison. How did the title of the gold list become a prisoner of the order, it would not be a dream, right? Unfortunately, this was not a dream, and he was imprisoned with the rich second generation Xu Jing, as well as their chief examiner Cheng Minzheng, who was the benevolent brother who had seen Tang Bohu's scrolls last year. The crime of the three is fraud on the occasion!
This year, the examiner Cheng Minzheng made a super difficult question, and it is said that few candidates could find the source of the question that year. There are only two volumes that write the perfect answer, and that is the scrolls of Tang Bohu and Xu Jing. This is nothing, the answer comes out and counts you two as good as you two.
However, the disaster came out of the mouth, things were bad on Tang Bohu's mouth, after this benevolent brother finished the examination, he participated in the banquet to relax and relax, it is estimated that there was a lot of whole at once, and directly at the banquet came the sentence "I must be the yuan of the Jinke Huiyuan." It's this sentence that spoils everything. You know, at that time, the list was not released, you said that you must be the first place, and soon someone reported this situation to the government, and the chief examiners, regardless of their sluggishness, reported it layer by layer, and after the emperor listened, he immediately ordered that the poetry scrolls be verified. In fact, as Tang Bohu said, he was the best candidate for Huiyuan, and it was Cheng Minzheng who chose Tang Bohu.
The Next Household Section gave the matter zhonghua Chang Smelling the opportunity to overthrow Cheng Minzheng, he immediately wrote to say that Cheng Minzheng sold the problem to Tang Bohu and Xu Jing. So the three became fellow prisoners, and in the end, Cheng Minzheng was ordered to retire because his servant sold the title to Xu Jing, and the crime of negligence was inevitable. Xu Jing purchased the examination questions and was demoted to a minor official, not an official. Tang Yin was demoted to a minor official and could not be an official. Give things to China Chang, make indiscriminate accusations, say untruthfully, and degrade officials. Since then, the career path of the two unlucky ghosts Cheng Minzheng and Tang Bohu has been cut off. Cheng Minzheng died of depression shortly after returning home. And Xu Jing, the cheating old brother, was not charged with the army, was beheaded, fortunately went back to inherit the family business, he burned the Four Books and Five Classics to a pulp, and also warned future generations, what everything is inferior, only reading high is, it is not as good as learning something useful, his admonition received good results, and his descendants produced a geographer named Xu Xiake.
As for Tang Bohu, the road to the imperial examination was broken, and the villagers who were originally smiling and greeting each other had changed their faces, in addition to contempt or contempt, his bookboy no longer respected him, and sometimes even dared to oppose the guests and loudly reprimand him. His wife, far from being inconsiderate of him, often spoke harshly to him. Eventually his wife divorced him. Tang Bohu became a lonely man again, going in and out of the flower street Liu Lane every day, and later the money was spent, there was no way, selling paintings every day for a living. And this is only the beginning of his tragic fate, and there are even more tragic fates waiting for him later.
More than twenty years later, the goddess of fate made a joke with him, and the 45-year-old Tang Bohu was invited to the palace by King Ning to be a staff member at a large expense, but when he arrived at the palace of King Ning, he found that King Ning's true purpose was to rebel. Tang Bohu could not get out, he could only pretend to be crazy and stupid, running naked on the street every day, shouting slogans every time: "I am a distinguished guest of King Ning!" "It made the whole King of Ning lose face, and finally drove him out."
After the incident of King Ning passed, Tang Bohu returned to Suzhou, and his friends crowdfunded him to buy a dilapidated house outside the city and live in it. Tang Bohu gave the broken house a nice name called Peach Blossom Temple. At this time, Tang Bohu could only pick up peach blossoms, paint some paintings, and exchange money for wine. In a letter to a friend, he said, "Three days without smoke and hunger. "I haven't eaten in three days, and I don't feel hungry." A generation of talented people, how can it be so sloppy?
Day and night drinking and having fun, indulging in sex, and finally bringing the body down, jiajing two years of winter, 53-year-old Tang Bohu struggled to climb up in the pain of illness, looked out of the window, thinking that he could not see next year's peach blossoms, lifted the pen and wrote down the last pen of a lifetime: Born in the sun, there is a scattering field, why not return to the mansion? The Yang Dynasty is similar, only when drifting in a foreign land. This poem is the last sigh of this ill-fated talent in the world.
Heaven gave Tang Bohu a talent, but made countless jokes for him, this spirited young man, this middle-aged man who did not meet with talent, this discouraged old man. This soul is struggling in helplessness and desperate. Only the back shadow left to the world that cannot be seen: "If you compare flowers and wine to cars and horses, why should I be idle?" People laugh at me for being crazy, and I laugh at people who can't see through..."