Yu Xuanji, a female poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the timeless famous sentence of "easy to seek priceless treasures, rare to have lovers" after her feelings were hurt, revealing the feeling that true love is difficult to find. Since ancient times, the world has hoped that lovers will eventually become dependents, but the promises of the mountains and the sea have always been so vulnerable. Today, let's talk about the great talent of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, who was engaged to Chen Yuanyuan, but turned around and married Dong Xiaowan.
Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan, both talented and beautiful women, and the same Qin Huai Bayan, the relationship between the two is quite good, in today's words is a girlfriend. Mao Xiang, because of the word "to break the frontier", so it is often called the risk of opening the frontier, in his youth he showed talent and wisdom, coupled with the family conditions are very superior, enough to provide him with a good reading environment, grow up to be literate. Although there is no need to worry about livelihood, Mao Xiang also wants to obtain a meritorious name, which is also the dream pursued by the literati. Risk xiang talent has nothing to say, but the luck is not very good, six consecutive times to participate in the imperial examination, once unsuccessful, more than thirty years old, he is still just a talent, all day by the pain of failure torment, in addition to borrowing wine to dispel sorrow, but also infatuated with the Qinhuai River lights and green life.
At this time, the Daming River and Mountains were already devastated, the two banks of the Qinhuai River seemed to be unaffected, and the bustling crowds and the endless sound of silence could not help but remind people of "businesswomen do not know the hatred of the country, and sing backyard flowers across the river." Before that, Mao Xiang had already married his wife and had children, but he could not change the habits of the ancient literati, and he could not do "a thousand flowers in the bushes, and the leaves did not stick to the body", and the red face confidant could not count the number of hands. At that time, Chen Yuanyuan was eighteen years old, Mao Xiang through the introduction of friends, and Chen Yuanyuan knew each other, was overwhelmed by her talent and appearance, Chen Yuanyuan although he knew that Mao Xiang already had a family, but did not care about these, even if he was willing to be his concubine, after all, three wives and four concubines in ancient times were very normal. The two fell in love at first sight and made a vow to each other that "non-jun will not marry, non-Ru will not marry", and Lang Cai's female appearance is very compatible.
Mao Xiang needed to leave for a while because of family affairs, and before leaving, he told Chen Yuanyuan that the day he met again was when he married her and swore an engagement. Chen Yuanyuan waited silently, looking forward to a better life in the future, as long as she could be with Mao Xiang, even if she was willing to eat rough tea and light rice, what she wanted was very simple, to stay with her beloved, so enough. Hoping for the stars and hoping for the moon, seeing that the agreed time had passed for a long time, but never looking forward to the figure of Xiang Xiang, he met Chongzhen's father-in-law Tian Hongyu, and then was forcibly taken to the capital, and then became Wu Sangui's concubine. After a while, Mao Xiang rushed to the agreed place, inquired from many parties, learned of Chen Yuanyuan's encounter, and returned to his hometown Rugao after a painful cry.
The next year, Mao Xiang heard that Dong Xiaowan left Suzhou, and at this time lived alone in Rugao, and immediately went to visit, because they had known each other before, and Dong Xiaowan lived in a foreign country, alone, it was not easy to be alone, and the two gradually came together. After Mao Xiang married Dong Xiaowan, he loved her very much and made her "Ru Lady". I don't know if Mao Xiang forgot Chen Yuanyuan, one thing is for sure, he once really wanted to marry Chen Yuanyuan.