In June 753, Chang'an City was as lively as ever, and there was a place where everyone was dressed in luxurious clothes but had a sad face.
"Ju Qing, I don't know when we'll see each other again!"
"Maha, I really don't want to leave this Chang'an City!"
"Then stay!" Let's drink and chant together! ”
"Haha... Every time it was like this, I didn't want to leave, and I didn't want to leave when you kept me..."
"Then stay another year and go back next year!"
"I was less than 20 years old when I came, I have been 37 years in the blink of an eye, and even my name has been changed to 'Chao Heng', and I will stay in this Tang Dynasty and eventually return to my hometown in Japan..."
Wang Wei and the others saw that Chao Heng had already made up his mind, so it was not easy to force him to stay.
"Maha, gentlemen, I am afraid that there will only be 'Abe Courtier Nakamaru' when I go this time, so let me call me 'Ju qing'!"
Therefore, everyone covered their faces and shouted "Ju Qing" in unison.
"Ju Qing, let's make a connection with poetry, let's say goodbye with poetry!" Wang Wei sang a song "Send the Secretary Chao Jian back to Japan", and other friends also gave poems to say goodbye.
Chao Heng had already been moved to tears, and gave back a song "Returning the Kingdom to the Kingdom", unsheathed the sword on his body and handed it to Wang Wei, who solemnly took it, and his hands trembled.
"Hey, I'm afraid Old Brother Li Bai won't be able to come and send me off!"
Wang Wei and the crowd were silent, Li Bai had been given gold to return to his hometown for nearly a decade, and in addition to poetry, there was less and less news about him.
"Let's go, let's all go back!" Chao Heng turned and left.
At this time, Li Bai was swimming in Qiupu and releasing himself, not knowing that his old friend Chao Heng wanted to return to China.
On October 15, Chao Heng and his party set sail from Suzhou and really wanted to leave the territory of Datang.
Chao Heng looked at the full moon with infinite emotion: looking forward to the long sky, the gods chi Nara side; on the top of Mikasa Mountain, I want to see the full moon again.
Getting closer and closer to Japan, the nostalgia gradually dispelled the clouds of parting, and Abe Nakamaru gradually had a smile on his face.
Unexpectedly, a storm broke out at sea, and the ship that Abe Nakamaru was riding on touched the reef, and the vast sea was full of vitality!
When the news reached Datang, Wang Wei and other friends cried bitterly, "I knew this, and I had to leave Juqing behind!" ”
In the spring and summer of 754, Li Bai was roaming in Guangling when he met his friend Wei Hao.
"Did you hear that?"
"What?"
"You, you, have not heard from you since you left Chang'an!"
"Am I not swimming around the world?"
"Chao Juqing's east crossing back to China was more than a storm accident!"
"What! No way! ”
"Last year's incident, Ju Qing was still thinking about you when he left."
Li Bai was stunned, remembering the days when everyone drank wine and chanted poetry together in Chang'an, chao heng gave himself a Japanese coat, and he was very touched.
Hate yourself! Isn't it that he was given money to return to his hometown, so many years, he didn't get together with old friends again, full of sadness and self-blame into "Crying Chao Qingheng":
The Imperial Capital of The Lord of Japan,
Sail a piece around the pot.
The bright moon does not return to the blue sea,
The white clouds are full of sorrow.
Li Bai lost his soul and continued to wander, and "Crying Chao Qingheng" spread throughout the Tang Dynasty poetry circle, and they were all moved by it.
In June 755, a dozen people with tattered clothes and dry trees suddenly arrived at the Gate of Chang'an, which was incompatible with the Tang Emperor.
The guards questioned, "What are you doing?" Beggars are not allowed in the city! ”
The first one replied, "I am the Japanese envoy Abe Nakamaru..."
"What Abe Nakamaru, even if you dress like this, you still pretend to be an envoy?"
"I am Chao Heng, a Japanese envoy specially sent by the current emperor, and I met a thief on the road!" That's how you got into town.
It turned out that after Chao Heng's boat hit the reef, it was blown by the sea breeze to the coast of The State of Vietnam, and later robbed and slaughtered by the local indigenous people, and only a dozen people escaped back to Chang'an after hardships.
Knowing that Chao Heng not only did not die, but also returned to Chang'an City and celebrated with the whole city! Wang Wei and other friends took the wind and washed the dust.
Between the cups and cups, someone mentioned Li Bai's song "Crying Chao Qingheng", and Chao Heng cried bitterly after hearing it!
"Brother Li Bai, I know you're thinking about me, I'm back, where are you now?" So he sang a song called "Wangxiang":
Thirty years old live in peace, and can not return to the pot.
A piece of nostalgia, pay for the water and the sky.
The soul has returned, and I feel the pain of the king.
I wept even more, and I could not live in peace.
"The great Chang'an City can't accommodate a Li Bai, I have a country that is difficult to return to, and you have a home that is difficult to return!" All of you here wept silently.
In that year, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the prosperous Tang Dynasty declined, Wang Wei was forced to become a high-ranking official after being captured, Chao Heng took refuge in Sichuan with Tang Xuanzong, and Li Bai took refuge with his wife.
Until their deaths, Li Bai and Chao Heng failed to see each other.