There was a scholar surnamed Huang who lived in a Taoist temple in Laoshan to study, and there was a red camellia in the back garden, up to two zhang; a white peony, up to one zhang. When the flowers bloom, the trees are full of dazzling and dazzling.
On this day, Huang Shusheng was reading in his room, and accidentally looked up at the window and saw a woman dressed in white flashing in the flowers.
He wondered how there could be a woman in the Taoist Temple, who went out to see it, but disappeared again. He thought it was a blind sight, but who knew how many times he saw it later.
He was not reconciled, so he hid in the bushes early this day, and after a while, sure enough, the woman in white appeared, and there was a woman in red next to him, and the two came together, beautiful and beautiful.
The two noticed that there was someone behind the tree, turned and left. Huang Shusheng did not want to miss the opportunity and rushed out to try to hold them. Frightened, the two women flew toward the short wall, their skirts fluttering, setting off a rich floral fragrance.
Huang Shusheng chased to the short wall, and when the woman was missing, he took up his pen and wrote a hymn on the wall.
In the evening, the woman in white came in with a smile and said, "When I saw you like that during the day, I thought I was a fanatic, and after reading your poems, I turned out to be a talented person, so I came to meet you."
Huang Shusheng was pleasantly surprised to welcome her into the seat, the two talked and laughed all night, the woman said, her name is Xiangyu, the woman in red is her sister-in-law, they have no relatives and no relatives, living here.
After that, Xiangyu came to accompany Huang Shusheng every night, and the feelings of the two became stronger and more intimate. Huang Shusheng also wanted to see the woman in red, but she was a person with a snubbed personality and refused to come.
On this day, Xiangyu came to him crying and said: We are going to be separated.
Huang Shusheng asked her where she was going, she refused to say, just shed tears, and left before dawn.
After dawn, a wealthy merchant surnamed Lan came to the Taoist Temple and dug up the white peony.
Huang Shusheng suddenly understood that Xiangyu was a white peony.
After the white peony was transplanted to the Lan family, it withered and died. Huang Shusheng was sad and painful, and every day he went to the pit where he had planted before and wept with pain.
On this day, he was ready to go to the hanging again, and when he saw the woman in red there, he walked over, and the woman in red did not hide.
Huang Shusheng asked: Why did you refuse to meet many times before?
The woman in red said: I used to think that the reader was frivolous, but now when I see you hanging on Xiangyu, I know that you are a person of the most affectionate nature, but if you want to associate with me, you can only be friends, and I will not be like Xiangyu to you and me.
Huang Shusheng agreed, and after that, whenever he was sad and sad, the woman in red came to accompany him and drink and discuss poetry with him. Huang Shusheng sighed: Xiangyu is my beloved wife, and you are my good friend.
And I asked, "Which flower and tree are you, and I will move you to my house, lest you also be poached by the bad guys?"
The woman in red said: It is difficult for flowers and trees to leave their homeland, it is useless to tell you, and it is difficult for people who love each other to go white, not to mention that we are just friends.
At the end of the year, Huang Shusheng returned to his hometown, and this night, he suddenly dreamed that a woman in red came to cry to him and said: I am about to be in great trouble, you come to see me for the last time.
Huang Shusheng woke up and rushed to the Taoist Temple, where it turned out that a house was to be built in the Taoist Temple, and there was a red camellia that was in the way, and the craftsmen were planing trees.
Huang Shusheng hurried forward to stop it, and at night, the woman in red came to thank him, and Huang Shusheng smiled: This time I know your bottom line.
The two of them went to Xiangyu's pit together again, and huang Shusheng returned home.
Years later, the woman in red came again and said with joy on her face: Tell you a good news, your true feelings have touched the flower god, and you want Xiangyu to be born again.
Huang Shusheng was very happy, and he lived in the Taoist Temple and waited. This night, he finally saw Xiangyu come in, and he couldn't help but burst into tears, and went forward to take her hand, but there was nothing in his hand.
Xiangyu said: You mix the pollen with water, pour a cup into my pit every day, and next year we can see each other.
The next day, Huang Shusheng went to the edge of the pit to take a look, and sure enough, a peony sprout appeared inside, so he carefully watered, cultivated the soil, and cared for it every day.
The peony seedlings grow quickly, and by the early spring of the following year, they have grown into large plants, and in April, a flower with buds is blooming on the branches.
Huang Shusheng waited next to the flowers, the flowers slowly bloomed, as large as a disc, a thumb-sized beauty sat in the flower buds, floated down in the blink of an eye, and landed on the ground to become a big beauty, plain and elegant, it is fragrant jade.
Huang Shusheng brought her into the house, the woman in red also came, the three of them drank and laughed until late at night, the woman in red left, Huang Shusheng and Xiang Yu's love was extraordinary.
Later, Huang Shusheng has been living in the Taoist Temple and does not go home, he pointed to Bai Peony and said to Xiangyu: When I die, the soul will stay next to you and accompany you.
A few years later, Huang Shu was critically ill, and he was very calm, and when he was dying, he said to the Taoist priest: Next year, a red bud will emerge from under this white peony, and there will be five young leaves, that is me.
The following spring, five red buds of leaves appeared under the white peony, and the Taoist monks were surprised and carefully watered it. Three years later, the peony grew thicker than the white peony, but it never flowered.
Many years later, the old Daoist immortal died, and the new little Daoist did not know the details, and when he saw that it did not bloom, he cut it off. Soon, the white peony died, and the red camellia withered.