Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty was a genius, reading at the age of 6 and being able to write and write at the age of 9, and was known as a prodigy. Because of the influence of his original family, Xu Wei has brought a bit of melancholy temperament since he was a child.
Xu Wei's origins were not good, and his mother was a squire. After Xu Wei was born, he was raised by his mother-in-law Miao. His 60-year-old father died a few months after Xu Wei was born, and his biological mother was expelled from Xu Wei's house when xu Wei was 10 years old.
The depression of the growing environment makes Xu Wei a little depressed, he is a genius, and geniuses are often lonely. His peers were playing with mud, but he was thinking about the meaning of life.
Xu Wei is very smart, but his road to the exam is very bumpy. After Heaven gave him a lottery head, Good Luck stopped patronizing him.
At the age of 20, Xu Wei took the exam to show talent. This is not surprising, the unexpected thing is that this has become the peak of Xu Wei's examination career, and in the next 20 years, Xu Wei has taken 8 consecutive examinations and all failed the list.
Perhaps with feeling, Xu Wei wrote a couplet : "Good reading is not good reading, good reading is not good reading."
Good is polysyllabic.
The two good ones in the upper link are three and four, and the two good ones in the downlink are four and three. The meaning that Xu Wei wants to express is very simple, and can be explained by another famous sentence: "Young and strong do not work hard, and the old man is sad"
When you are young, it is the most suitable time to read, because of good memory, full of energy, but do not like to read, until you are older, after experiencing the beating of society, you know that the sky is high, at this time like to read, but because of poor memory, lack of energy and become a learning difficulty household.
The upper and lower links are exactly the same, but because of the different pronunciations, they have a completely different meaning, and Xu Wei's couplet makes people clap their hands and applaud, which is called the absolute of eternity.
Compared with the couplet, Xu Wei's life is more exciting.
Xu Wei, Xie Jin, and Yang Shen are known as the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of comprehensive strength, Xu Wei should be ranked first.
Xu Wei has many specialties, and according to himself: "My book is the first, poetry is the second, literature is the third, and painting is the fourth."
The painting was ranked last by Xu Wei, and it was he who was modest. Famous painters such as Zheng Banqiao and Qi Baishi are Xu Wei's little fans, willing to be his lackeys.
Xu Wei is not a nerd, he is also good at the art of war, is an outstanding military expert, and it is precisely because of this specialty that he met the noble man of his life, Hu Zongxian.
That year, Xu Wei was 37 years old and still a teacher, and because of his erudition, he was quite famous in the local area.
Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, recruited talents everywhere in order to resist the Wu. At hu Zongxian's warm invitation, Xu Wei became Hu Zongxian's aide, helping Hu Zongxian to give advice and taking charge of paperwork.
Xu Wei is smart and lazy, does not like to be bound by the rules and regulations of the officialdom, and has fired Hu Zongxian, the boss, several times, and went home to lie flat.
In order to recover talents, Hu Zongxian personally wrote letters and visited his home, and Xu Wei was embarrassed and could only go back to work.
No matter how careless Xu Wei was, Hu Zongxian didn't care. Hu Zongxian's temper is actually very big, very strict with his subordinates, and only full of tolerance for Xu Wei.
Hu Zongxian once held a military meeting, and Xu Wei broke into the conference room without saying hello, causing everyone to look at each other and not know what he was going to do.
Hu Zongxian thought that Xu Dacaizi had something urgent to say, so he waited quietly, but Xu Wei did not say a word, just walked around the venue, and then slowly went out.
He was like a big boss who had come to inspect the workers' work, with his head held high and his face full of dissatisfaction.
If someone else teased Hu Zongxian in this way, he would definitely be dealt with by military law, but the other party was Xu Wei, and Hu Zongxian laughed it off. He knew that geniuses had personalities, and that ordinary people could not understand them.
Although Xu Wei is still debauched, but people are not grass and trees, Hu Zongxian is good to himself, Xu Wei is very touched in his heart, and he works harder.
Hu Zongxian was a wise man, and he asked Xu Wei to make steady profits and not lose money. Xu Wei alone can do the work of two people, and the work is done very well.
He was good at strategizing, and helped Hu Zongxian capture Xu Hai, the leader of the Wokou, and appease the pirate Wang Zhi.
He would write articles, on behalf of Hu Zongxian wrote to the Jiajing Emperor's "Into the White Deer Table", "Re-enter the White Deer Table" coaxed the Jiajing Emperor's dragon heart to be pleased, and he valued Hu Zongxian more.
Hu Zongxian was satisfied with Xu Wei's 100, and was promoted and paid a salary to buy a house, all inclusive.
Xu Wei, who was at the peak of his career, also had confusion and pain, and Hu Zongxian was both a famous general in the anti-Wu Dynasty and a fellow party member of the traitor Yan Song. Xu Wei hated Yan Song, but gradually understood Hu Zongxian.
Human nature is actually very complex, not black and white.
If Hu Zongxian did not have his back to the big tree, how could he realize his ambitions if he fought alone.
The road of officialdom is not easy to walk, and today's red people may be tomorrow's prisoners.
After Yan Song lost power, Hu Zongxian was implicated by him and eventually committed suicide in prison.
Hu Zongxian spent ten years resisting the Wu dynasty and making great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, but his fate was so miserable.
When Xu Wei received the news, he was panicked.
He was both distressed by Hu Zongxian and doubtful about his future.
Does he doubt that he has a future?
Looking back on the past, Xu Wei's life was more bitter and less happy. Hu Zongxian once opened another door of life for him, but he was quickly closed by heaven.
His hopes were dashed.
Xu Wei's personality was already a little melancholy, and after Hu Zongxian's death, he was almost driven crazy by himself.
Eat badly, sleep badly, think about it, instead of waiting for jail and being humiliated, it is better to end yourself.
Xu Wei bought a coffin for himself, wrote an epitaph, and arranged the aftermath.
He inserted long spikes into his ears; he chopped his own head with an axe; he kept tapping his lower body with an awl;
To be tortured is not to die.
Family members and neighbors watched him covered in blood all day, crazy, shouting, and were frightened by him.
Who would have thought that the distance between a genius and a madman would be so close.
Xu Wei was sick, very sick. His spirit went wrong, up and down.
Xu Wei did not die, but when he was mentally mad, he accidentally killed his wife.
This year, Xu Wei was 46 years old. He should have been the age of his career, but his life was a mess.
Heaven gave him extraordinary talent, but he also experienced hardships.
Xu Wei ate in prison for seven years.
After his release from prison, Xu Wei is still willful, and although he has a son, he does not want to rely on his son.
He made his home alone, wandering everywhere.
His peers enjoyed the pleasures of the world, and he lived like an ascetic.
After Xu Wei met Qi Jiguang on the way, through Qi Jiguang's introduction, he received two apprentices to teach the art of war, one of whom was Li Rusong, a famous Ming Dynasty military general who was later famous, and many years later, Li Rusong shined in the war against The Wu and Aid Korea.
Xu Wei did not have a pension, and his life was all supported by painting. His paintings are rare today, but they did not receive the attention they deserved at the time.
The works could not be sold at a good price, and Xu Wei could only live a life of poverty, and without money, he would pawn books and pawn clothes.
Xu Wei once wrote a poem in a painting to laugh at himself:
Half a life has become a man, and the independent study is roaring in the evening wind. The pearl at the bottom of the pen has nowhere to sell, and it is idle and thrown in the wild vine. ”
When people are old, they all want to fall leaves and return to their roots, and Xu Wei returned to his hometown Shaoxing in his later years to live in seclusion.
Ill-fated but still untamed, with the aura of talent, at first there were still many people who went to find Xu Wei, but he closed the door and did not want to see people.
When Xu Wei died at the age of 73, he had only a big yellow dog by his side. Xu Wei, who had been poor for most of his life and committed suicide nine times without dying, finally waited for the end of his life.
Xu Wei's life has gone through the ups and downs of the world, he has long looked down on fame and fortune, human feelings are cold and warm, and in his later years he would rather settle for poverty and loneliness than pursue glitz and bustle.
The slave of improper desires, to some extent, can be freed by the spirit.
The "New Language of the World" once wrote: I have been with me for a long time and have been around for a long time.
In this life, Xu Wei may only want to be himself.