Lead
On a dark and windy night in the middle of the month, three domestic servants carrying a woman who had been tied up with five flowers quietly came out of the corner gate of the Zhou Mansion and walked toward the river.
Although the bound woman had something stuffed in her mouth, she still did not give up the struggle and shouting, which made it very difficult for several male servants carrying her to walk.
After about a quarter of an hour of walking, the maid was already tired and sweaty and had to stop and rest. There was a sharp-billed monkey cheeked male servant wiping sweat while glancing at the woman lying on the ground with bad intentions, he quietly said to the other two male servants, in front of the small forest by the river, anyway, she is also a person who is about to die, or should we take the opportunity to be happy?
The shorter servant listened with some excitement, and he looked at the dark grove in front of him and swallowed a mouthful. The other chubby male servant shook his head and said, No, no, Miss Willow is a good person! You forgot, the last time we were reprimanded by the old lady, it was The willow girl who helped us to ask for affection! We can't be kind and hateful...
The sharp-billed monkey-cheeked servant interrupted him impatiently: "If you want to, you don't want to, just go to the side to show us the wind."
Just as the two male servants were humming and dragging people into the woods, a white shadow suddenly appeared in front of them, and a "female ghost" dressed in white floated towards them, frightening the two male servants to turn around and scurry!
Seeing the two male servants running away, the "female ghost" quickly took off her dress, first helped the woman to untie, then pulled out the veil in the woman's mouth, took the woman's hand and said, Liu Girl, I am the red jade beside the old lady, and the old lady sent me to save you!
01
This Liu girl was one of Qin Huai's Eight Yans, Liu Ruyi. Liu Ru is, formerly known as Yang Ai, due to the poverty of the family, was sold to the Qinglou from childhood, changed his name to Liu Yin, the word is so. Due to her young age, she became a small follower of the famous prostitute Xu Fo. Xu Fo is a good posture, can play the piano and sing, likes to paint orchids, and is a famous flower queen in Zhangtai.
Influenced by Xu Fo's ears, Liu Ru was familiar with all kinds of paintings and calligraphy.
Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the chancellor Zhou Daodeng's government wanted to buy a maid, and Xu Fo sold Liu Ru to the Zhou mansion in order to get Liu Ru out of the sea of suffering, and became a small maid by the side of Zhou Daodeng's mother.
Liu Ru is not only beautiful and cute but also smart and clever, and is very pleasing to Mrs. Zhou. Soon after, when Zhou Daodeng asked the old lady for peace, he took a fancy to Liu Ruyi at a glance and immediately accepted her as a concubine.
According to historical records, Zhou Daodeng was very fond of Liu Ru, and often held her on his lap to teach him to read and write, which caused Zhou Daodeng's other wives and concubines to be jealous but unable to do anything.
On this day, Zhou Daodeng went out on business. Several of Zhou Daodeng's wives and concubines finally waited for the opportunity, and they conspired to calculate Liu Ruyi, saying that she had an affair with the servants and had people tie her up and throw her into the river, and the opening scene appeared.
02
Old Lady Zhou is a bodhisattva heart, and she sees that Liu Ru is framed in this way, so she lets the maid next to her dress up as a "female ghost" to rescue Liu Ru.
In this way, Liu Ru was pulled back by Old Lady Zhou from the ghost gate. Zhou Fu could not stay, and she had to return to the Qinglou again.
Liu Ru returned to the Qinglou, she played a little careful, she only claimed to be the concubine of the prime minister, because she was jealous of the wife, she was sold to the Qinglou.
In this way, her experience has won the sympathy of many people, and her background is more legendary than that of ordinary dust women.
Relying on these two gimmicks, Liu Ru made a name for herself.
There are two kinds of people in the world, the first of which lives carefully like grass, and although it absorbs rain and dew and sunlight, it does not grow much. The other kind of person is like the seed of a tree, even if she is trampled into the dirt, she will still try to absorb the nutrients around her and try to grow herself into a big tree, and Willow is such a person.
03
Liu Ru is in good external condition, but she knows that selling out her hue is not a wise move, and she must rely on "real materials" to make herself different.
As a result, Liu Ruyi's words "Jin Mingchi Yong Han Liu" began to circulate: there is a cold tide, ruthless and cruel, it is Xiao Xiao Nanpu ... ... The words are clear and unconventional; her calligraphy, delicate and quiet through the steel and iron bones; her "Moon Causeway Smoke Willow Diagram", gentle and simple, fresh and elegant with a little freeness.
Since then, there is a talented woman named Liu Rulai on the painting board on the banks of the Qinhuai River, who has become a magical woman often talked about by the literati and inkers.
More and more people came to visit, and Liu Ru began to set a threshold, so that the men were even more proud to be received by Liu Girl, including young and handsome talents such as Chen Zilong and Song Zhengyu.
Song Zhengyu is sincere about Liu Ru, but is obstructed by his family and has to give up this relationship.
There is also Chen Zilong, Liu Ru is in love with him. Chen Zilong is also true love for Liu Ru, even if the original partner is crying and pulling Chen Zilong away, he still has a long mind for Liu Ru.
Originally thought that the two had a chance to grow old with their heads in vain, they did not expect that Chen Zilong would later abandon his pen and surrender, and died in defeat on the battlefield.
Liu Ru was not depressed about this, but quickly walked out of the haze of feelings.
It seems to be very thin, but in fact, it is different from thin feelings.
When you love deeply, when you don't love, you leave, don't entangle, don't drill the tip of the horn, it is also a kind of freedom and open-mindedness.
Yesterday is over, and the future is still in sight.
04
When Liu Ru was in her 20s, she finally met her true son, Qian Qianyi.
Qian Qianyi is more than 30 years older than Liu Ru and is no longer young, but he is indeed talented, and Gu Yanwu and Zheng Chenggong were both former students of Qian Qianyi. More importantly, Qian Qianyi can ignore the gossip outside and give Liu Ru a home.
At this time, Liu Ruyi especially wanted a home, a place that could shelter the wind and rain, and never had to drift all day.
In the end, Qian Qianyi married Liu Ruyi with the gift of a concubine. In order to let Liu Ru not be bullied by the main room, he deliberately spent a lot of money to build the "I Smell Room" to give her a place to live.
Liu Ru spent the most relaxed and comfortable years of her life here.
Although Liu Ru has been hurt by love, she is still full of longing and yearning for love. Therefore, what she finally gains is still a beautiful love.
05
If it were not for the Qing soldiers entering the customs, Liu Ru might have ended up happy.
When the Qing soldiers besieged Nanjing, she did not want to surrender, she said to Qian Qianyi, we threw ourselves into the lake together, you martyred the country, I martyred.
But in the end, Qian Qianyi flinched, saying that the water was too cold today. And Liu Ruyu did not hesitate to jump into the water!
Qian Qianyi quickly rescued her, and soon after he surrendered to the Qing army.
After this incident, Liu Ru wanted to understand that Qian Qianyi was not the kind of big man with family and country feelings, and instead of being martyred, it was better to do something useful himself.
Liu Ru could have been like those dusty women, without worrying about political knowledge, "singing backyard flowers across the river", but she is not such a person, she has integrity and a position.
Instead of expecting others to change, it is better to change yourself.
Therefore, she did not follow Qian Qianyi to Beijing, but stayed in Nanjing, joined the anti-Qing and Restoration Organization, and became a "female righteous soldier" with faith!
epilogue
This is Liu Ruyi, a woman who was once in the gutter, but still has Fangfei in her heart and can always look up to the stars.
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