During the first year of the Tang Dynasty, there was a man with the surname Wu and the name of Bao'an, who served as a county lieutenant in Suizhou, Dongchuan, and although he was very talented, he had always succumbed to the inferior position. He often complained that he did not meet his talents, hated that there was no confidant in the world, and could not show his ambitions.
Wu Baoan had a compatriot named Guo Zhongxiang, who was the nephew of Guo Yuanzhen, the prince of the Prime Minister, who was both literate and martial, and had a life of heroic and righteous, informal. The security guards admired him the most, but never had the opportunity to get to know him.
One day, the barbarians in the south rebelled, and the imperial court sent Li Meng as the governor of Yao Prefecture, and Guo Zhongxiang as the marching judge, leading the army to go to the conquest.
When the army was about to arrive in Jiannan, the security guard wrote a letter and sent someone to send it to Guo Zhongxiang, asking him to introduce himself in order to build a meritorious career.
Guo Zhongxiang received a letter from Wu Baoan, sighed and said: "This person has never known me in his life, and he dares to entrust his future to me, which shows that he knows me very well." Isn't it too ashamed that the eldest husband has met a confidant and cannot contribute to it? ”
Guo Zhongxiang praised the security guards to the commander-in-chief and asked Li Du to recruit security guards to serve in the army. When Governor Li Du listened to Zhongxiang's words, he sent the following to Suizhou to transfer the county lieutenant Wu Baoan to come over as a camp record. The security guard received a post from Li Dudu, learned that it was recommended by Guo Zhongxiang, and was grateful, leaving his wife Zhang Shi and the child under the age of one to live in Suizhou, and he took a servant with him and rushed to Yaozhou to take up his post.
That knew that when Li Dutuo first sent his troops, he killed the barbarians and defeated them, and the large army took advantage of the situation to pursue them. Guo Zhongxiang was afraid that the army would go too deep and be ambushed by the enemy. He said to Li Dudu: "The barbarians have been defeated and gone, and the general's prestige has been established, so we should temporarily garrison the troops here, send people to first spread the virtues of our army, recruit talents and soldiers, gradually disintegrate the enemy army, and do not go deep into the barbarians' places to prevent the barbarians from taking advantage of their treacherous schemes." ”
But Li Meng refused to listen, and must exterminate the barbarians. The army walked for a few more days, but it did not meet a single barbarian soldier, who thought they had entered no man's land.
One day, the army came to a place, saw that the mountains overlapped, the grass was lush, and it was impossible to find out which direction to go. Li Dudu became suspicious and was just about to retreat, when he overheard the valley, the golden drums were sounding in unison, and the barbarian soldiers were slaughtered all over the mountains, and the Tang soldiers were indeed ambushed and fell into a heavy siege, they had been walking for many days in a row, they were already exhausted, how could they withstand it? Although Li Dudu was brave and good at war, how could he resist the attack from all sides? Seeing that his soldiers would be slaughtered, he looked up at the sky and sighed: "I regret that I didn't listen to Judge Guo's words in the first place, and today I will be insulted by stupidity!" ”
Seeing that the entire army was about to be destroyed, Li Dutuo pulled out the short knife in his boot and killed himself! The Lord will be gone, and the rest of the soldiers will have to scatter and flee for their lives. Those who could not escape were taken captive by the barbarians. Guo Zhongxiang was lucky not to die, but he was also captured by the barbarian army.
Besides, Wu Baoan just arrived in Yaozhou, he heard the news, it was really like a thunderbolt in the blue sky! I didn't know whether Guo Zhongxiang was alive or dead, so I went everywhere to inquire. After living in Yao prefecture for more than a month, an officer escorting grain and grass escaped from barbaric land and brought a letter from Guo Zhongxiang to Wu Baoan.
Wu Baoan opened the letter and read it, and learned that Guo Zhongxiang had been captured by the barbarian army, and now he was very miserable.
So why did Guo Zhongxiang write to Wu Baoan? It turned out that those barbarians did not have great ambitions, and burning and plundering were only for money, as long as the people in the Central Plains were caught, they only wanted the Central Plains people to take their belongings to ransom. In this battle, they arrested many Central Plains people, many of whom had positions, and after the barbarians were judged, they were allowed to send letters back and asked his family to redeem them with silk cloth, and according to the high and low prices of their status, two or three hundred horses more, and the less than thirty or forty horses, before they were allowed to redeem. Knowing that Guo Zhongxiang was the nephew of the current prime minister, he actually asked for a thousand silk cloths.
Zhongxiang thought to himself, "I want to bring a thousand pieces of silk cloth to redeem myself, unless my uncle can do it." It's just that this place is so far from the capital, how can you send the letter back? He suddenly thought, "Although Wu Baoan and I have not met, he can be called my confidant, I previously recommended li dudu to make him a yingji, at this time I should have already arrived in Yaozhou, if I ask him to send a letter to Chang'an, he will never fail me." ”
Guo Zhongxiang wrote a letter detailing that he had been captured by the barbarians, and the barbarian chieftain asked for silk cloth to redeem him, hoping that he could send a letter to his uncle and let his uncle send silk cloth to redeem him. The security guard read Guo Zhongxiang's letter, hurriedly straightened out his luggage, and marched to Chang'an.
It should be known that Yao Prefecture to Chang'an is more than three thousand miles, just can pass through Dongchuan, the security guard arrived at the door but did not go home, non-stop, directly rushed to Kyoto, to see the prime minister Guo Yuanzhen. Who knows, but pounced on a void, Prime Minister Guo Yuanzhen has passed away a month ago! The Guo family's whole family, young and old, helped the coffin back to their hometown.
Wu Baoan was disappointed and had to get up again and return to Suizhou. When the security guard returned home, he cried loudly to his wife Zhang Shi and said, "I'm sorry, I can't take care of my family anymore." ”
The wife asked him why? Wu Baoan said that Guo Zhongxiang was captured by the barbarians and needed a thousand silk cloths to redeem, and his family could not afford to take out so much, and he had to go out for help in order to have a chance to redeem it. His wife, Zhang Shi, strongly discouraged him, if he was not at home for many years, how could their mother and son live?
The security guard said: "Guo Jun is my confidant, how can I sit idly by, if I can't redeem Guo Jun back, I will never give up!" ”
Therefore, Wu Baoan poured out all the belongings of the family, and it was estimated that he could make up two hundred or so silk cloths. Wu Security packed up the property, did not say goodbye to his wife and children, and went out alone. He was also afraid that the barbarians would send letters from time to time, and he did not dare to go far, only to collect silk cloth near Yaozhou.
Because he ran day and night, even the clothes he wore were extremely torn and incomplete, and Wu Baoan didn't care at all. After all the hardships, even if a dollar and a drop of money did not dare to spend, all accumulated for the purchase of silk. I had to look at ten, I had to look at ten hundred, and when I had enough of a hundred horses, I put them in the Yaozhou capital treasury, and even in my sleep, I only thought of the three words "Guo Zhongxiang", and even my wife forgot. After ten years outside, only seven hundred horses were gathered, which was far from enough for a thousand horses.
However, he said that the security guard's wife, Zhang Shi, lived in Suizhou with her younger son, and at the beginning there were people who looked at the school lieutenant's face last week. However, for several years, Wu Baoan heard nothing, and gradually no one paid attention to her. Ten years later, the two women were not well clothed and fed, and there was really no way to survive, so they had to sell a few broken guys to make coils, lead their sons, and go to Yaozhou to find a husband.
As soon as the two of them reached the boundary of Rongzhou, the disk fees were all used up, and Zhang's heart was already desperate, and he couldn't help but sit under the Wumeng Mountain and cry loudly! Zhang Shi did not expect that her crying alarmed a passing official, making her desperate!
The official's surname was Yang, his name was Anju, and he was the newly appointed governor of Yao Prefecture, who took office from Chang'an to Yao Prefecture. Just passing by the bottom of Wumeng Mountain, I heard Zhang's crying and mourning, and there was only one woman and a child, so I stopped the carriage and asked her why she was crying here.
Zhang Shi cried to Yang Dudu and complained about the reason. Yang Dudu sighed deeply, and he said to Zhang Shi, "Madame don't be bothered. The subordinate official was the new Governor of Yao Prefecture, and when I arrived at the Governor's Mansion, I immediately sent someone to help you find the Governor. ”
Then he gave Zhang some silver, prepared a vehicle, and sent someone to send their mother and son to live at The Pukou Station in Yaozhou. Zhang Shi is not thankful. Sigh that you have met good people, and you are in a desperate situation.
Moreover, as soon as Yang Anju arrived at the office, he sent someone to find out the whereabouts of Wu Baoan. When he saw Wu Baoan, he saw that he was dressed in a hundred knots and had a dove-shaped face, just like a beggar. Asking about Wu Baoan's experience over the years, he respected him even more, and he said to Wu Baoan: "Your feat of forgetting your family for your friends is simply unprecedented. On the way to office, the old man met Lady Zun and Ling Lang who were displaced on the road, and had sent someone to Pukou Station, and found time to go to see him. How much silk you're missing now, I'll help you get enough of it. ”
The security guard listened, and quickly prostrated his head to thank him: "Thanks to Ming Gong and Gao Yi, there are still three hundred silk cloths left, if Ming Gong can make up for it, I will personally go to the barbarians to redeem my friend, and then go to meet my wife and children." ”
When the security guard finished speaking, tears were already falling. Yang Anju was even more impressed by the righteousness of the security guards, so he took four hundred official silks from the treasury and gave them to the security guards, and also gave them the deputy saddle horse for security. After the security guard thanked him, he bundled up eleven hundred silks and rushed to the barbarian land, found a familiar barbarian to help him talk, and spent the extra hundred silk cloths on opening the joints. The barbarian lord knew that the silk cloth brought by the security guard was a thousand horses, and with great joy, he immediately released Guo Zhongxiang.
Poor Guo Zhongxiang, at this time, was already dying, and it was difficult to move forward. The barbarian knocked the nail plate off his foot, and Zhongxiang let out a "Ah Ya" in pain and fainted!
Do you know why Guo Zhongxiang is like this? It was because after he was captured, he escaped several times and was captured. Later, the barbarians nailed his feet to the wooden board, the nails into the flesh for a long time, began to drip thick blood, pus and blood dried up, has grown in the flesh, today let him out, to take out the nail board, this pain, more than when he was nailed to the foot, so Guo Zhongxiang will faint, after a long time to wake up. The barbarians packed him in leather bags, carried him to the border, filled him in a leather bag, and carried him by two barbarians to the junction and handed him over to the security guards to collect.
These two friends didn't meet until today, and before they could talk to each other, they just looked at each other and cried with a headache! Guo Zhongxiang's gratitude to Wu Baoan is needless to say.
Wu Baoan saw that Guo Zhongxiang's face was haggard, his feet were still bleeding, and he could not move at all, so he helped him sit on a horse and walked with him, and when they arrived in Yaozhou, the two of them went to thank Yang Dudu. When Yang Dudu saw Guo Zhongxiang's tragic situation, he was very sympathetic, asked someone to help him wash up, took a few new clothes for him to change, and helped ask a doctor to treat his two feet. I rested for almost a month before I gradually recovered. Wu Baoan then went to meet his wife and children.
Yang Dudu respected the security guards and wrote letters to his colleagues in Chang'an, praising him for abandoning his family and redeeming his friends, and generously gave him a lot of money and grain, and sent him to The Capital To supplement the officials.
When the security guard arrived in Beijing, he was promoted to Pengshan County, Jiazhou, and he welcomed his family to his post. Guo Zhongxiang remained in Yao Prefecture and was made the governor of the capital. In order to commemorate the merits of Guo Yuanzhen, the Duke of Daiguo, the imperial court extensively recruited the sons and nephews of the Duke of Daiguo, and Guo Zhongxiang was therefore awarded the post of Lieutenant Governor of Weizhou and later promoted to Daizhou Hucao to join the army. Because his father died of illness, he went home to keep the rules. After the funeral, Zhongxiang sighed: "The rest of my life is given by the security guards. The old relatives are in the church, and there is no chance to repay him; now that the period of filial piety has expired, I can repay the great favor of my confidant. ”
Guo Zhongxiang chose a day and specially went to Jiazhou to visit Wu Baoan.
The security couple knew that the security couple had not arrived. Just arrived in Jiazhou and died of illness! The wife and children of the security guard had to temporarily bury him nearby. His son, Tianhu, taught several children in this county to live. When Zhongxiang heard this, he put on his staff and rushed to the grave of the security guard to pay his respects, and he fell to the ground, crying loudly, and almost went with the security guard!
At this time, Guo Zhongxiang called the security guard's son Tianhu as his brother, and discussed returning to his hometown with the security guard's body for burial. When the mound was opened, most of the coffins were rotten, and the security guards were left with only a pile of dead bones. Zhongxiang saw it, even more sad, and kept crying bitterly!
They marked the bones of the security guards section by section with ink pens, and then packed them into bags and placed them in bamboo cages, and Zhongxiang personally carried them on his back. Although Tianhu wanted to carry it, Zhongxiang refused, he said: "Ling Xianzun has been running on the frontier and working hard for me for ten years, I just carry him for a lifetime, and I can't compare with his kindness to me!" ”
Guo Zhongxiang carried the bones of the security guards from Jiazhou and walked thousands of miles. After walking to his hometown, he re-prepared the coffin and chose a piece of auspicious land for burial. Guo Zhongxiang was dressed in coarse linen and heavy filial piety, and performed the same ceremony as Tianhu.
Guo Zhongxiang later took up his clothes and went to Beijing, playing the story of Wu Baoan's forgetting the family to Lord Tang, and saying that he was willing to give up his official position to Tianhu, the son of the security guard. After the whole court learned about the affair between them, they were deeply amazed, and the emperor surrendered, Guo Zhongxiang's original position remained unchanged, and he awarded Tianhu the title of lieutenant of Langu County.
Guo Wu and Guo Wu had never even seen each other, but they relied on letters to convey each other's intentions, and they became confidants, and with a life-and-death friendship, they were all in the beginning.
When we look at people now, even if they have received the grace and wisdom of others, if they have achieved success in the future, they will leave the favor of others out of the claw country, compared with Guo and Wu, is the difference too big? Later, some people envied their stories and built a Shuangyi Temple for them, enshrined Wu and Guo, and the incense has been passed on for a long time!
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