Some time ago, the hit drama "Know It or Not" was popular all over the country, and some of the words of the heroine Sheng Minglan were regarded as classics. Once, when faced with the need to talk about marriage, Minglan said: "To get along with people, we still have to look at the lowest point of character." This sentence was also regarded as a "famous saying" and was widely circulated for a while.
The lowest point of character can be a person's shortcomings, a person's limitations, or all aspects of the person's manifestations in the face of the worst desperate situation. In general, this is the "worst aspect" of a person. "Whether you can tolerate and accept the worst side of the other party determines whether this friendship can last, whether it is friendship or love."
Seeing these words, I couldn't help but think of Su Shi, the poet who chanted "When is the bright moon, ask the wine to the blue sky", the old master who sang "will draw a bow like a full moon, look northwest, and shoot the wolf", the lovely person whose career has been repeatedly degraded but still guards the pure land in his heart.
When it comes to Su Shi's official career, we have to mention the famous "Wutai Poetry Case".
When Su Shi was degraded because of the "Wutai Poetry Case", many friends around him were afraid of getting involved with themselves and scattered. As the saying goes, people go to tea cold, this person has not left, tea has long been cold. Although people are cold and thin, but open-minded and transparent like Su Shi, he said that he can fully understand, so he sympathetically took the initiative to cut off all contacts with them.
During that time, Su Shi completely fell into a state of "autism". To what extent? According to historical data, Su Shi was almost like this at that time - "although he was close to his flesh and blood, he did not allow a word to come and go."
It is conceivable that at that time, when the "Wutai Poetry Case" east window incident occurred, those friends who were originally called brothers and brothers with Su Shi hid far away and coldly watched this former colleague who "had a bad reputation"; some people were sympathetic and sympathetic to Su Shi, but in order to protect themselves, they also had to remain silent.
However, what Su Shi did not expect was that there was a friend who still "did not leave and did not abandon", and did not alienate himself because of this matter, but gave himself comfort. He is Zhang Wei.
In the fear of harming themselves and hiding away, only Zhang Huan still kept in touch with Su Shi, everything was as usual, when Su Shi was "snubbed and lonely before court", he wrote to Su Shi many times to comfort him, and tried to help Su Shi emergency, which made Su Shi feel unusually warm in his loneliness.
In addition to giving Su Shi comfort in private, In the courtroom, Zhang Huan could not hear other ministers say "bad things" about Su Shi. For example, when the chancellor Wang Jue often provoked Su Shi's poems, the word "dragon" was mentioned repeatedly, believing that this was particularly disrespectful and disrespectful to the emperor, and let Song Shenzong punish Su Shi's sins. At this time, no one in the court dared to speak for Su Shi, only Zhang Huan dared to stand up, argue according to reason, and help Su Shi argue for some innocence.
When such deeds were passed out, Su Shi was very moved.
If the story ends here, then such a friendship that can be sung and wept may really touch countless people.
However, no one expected that such a pair of friends would gradually become treacherous in the subsequent party-government disputes, looking like strangers and treating them as enemies.
Even later, when Zhang Huanguan paid homage to the prime minister, he obviously had the opportunity to repair relations with Su Shi and reconcile, but he did not choose this path. On the contrary, he used his own power to intensify his efforts against Su Shi and repeatedly demean him.
Time is like a pig-killing knife, red cherries, green plantains, and also changes people. Perhaps, after many years of ups and downs in the eunuch sea, Zhang Huan was wrapped up in the situation of party and government disputes, and also changed his position and forgot his original intention.
Or perhaps, some people are suitable for walking side by side for a while, and when the fate is exhausted, they will be separated; while others are suitable for working together to support and walk through a long life together.
Another of Su Shi's best friends, Wang Gong, was the latter.
Wang Gong actually had very prominent family conditions, not only was he from a famous family, but he was also the dragon-riding son-in-law of Su Shi's mentor Zhang Fangping. If you rely on your background and your own conditions, it is estimated that you can also have a good reputation in the official arena. But in fact, Wang Gong in the official arena always had a bad life.
Why? In fact, it is closely related to Su Shi's "Wutai Poetry Case".
After the "Wutai Poetry Case" incident mentioned earlier, many people around Su Shi were afraid of affecting themselves, but in fact they did not. According to historical records, there were 24 people punished for the "Wutai poetry case", and the most tragic of them was Wang Gong.
Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, while Wang Gong was relegated to Pennsylvania (present-day Binyang, Guangxi) in one fell swoop.
Perhaps out of guilt for Wang Gong, at first, Su Shi was still a little afraid to write a letter to Wang Gong. After Wang Gong arrived in Pennsylvania, he settled down, and the first thing he thought of was to write a letter to Su Shi, never mentioning the derogatory matter, but saying that he was all right at present. Even if he suffered great changes on the way to exile, experienced the pain of losing his son twice, and became seriously ill, he still had no half resentment towards Su Shi.
Because in his heart, Su Shi is an eternal friend.
In the following years, no matter where they were and where they were degraded, they always maintained correspondence with letters, Wang Gong was a good woman, and Su Shi was nagging and advising him; Su Shi liked to make good food, and Wang Gong did not tire of listening to him share. In literature, they cherished each other and admired each other; in life, they supported each other with verbal speculation.
For Su Shi, if he has a good friend like Wang Gong, why should he ask for it?
Author: Our team has a falling moon