The most precious friendship in the world begins with like-mindedness, loyalty to the same boat, and long-term life and death.
In the fourteenth year of Tang Yuanhe (819), Liu Yuxi supported his mother's coffin on the way to Hengyang.
My heart was dark, like the dark clouds piled up in the sky.
At this moment, he only hoped that Liu Zongyuan could come to the appointment, and now only he could save himself from the sad Pacific.
However, when he arrived in Hengyang for four days, he still did not see Liu Zongyuan's shadow. Did he encounter any difficulties on the road? Or... No, he will come. Liu Yuxi comforted himself, raised his teacup, and drank it all.
With a thud, an accidental teacup landed on the ground. He was in a trance, only to feel that the cloud of sorrow in his heart was inexplicably more dense.
Suddenly, someone came to report that it was a waiter from Liu Fu.
Liu Yuxi's heart flashed a trace of comfort, and he hurried out to meet him.
However, seeing that the person who came was full of mushrooms, there were tear marks in the corners of his eyes, and Liu Yuxi's heart sank violently.
The messenger cried on the ground: "Our adults have gone to the west of the crane due to a sudden illness..."
Liu Yuxi heard that it was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, jumped up, and scolded: "Liar, liar!" Boom out! Boom out! ”
"My lord, please mourn. On the occasion of our family's death, I have a will that I must come to see you and entrust you with the manuscript of his poems. ”
Liu Yuxi was stabilized by his family, his hands trembled as he took over the manuscript, and he couldn't help but cry in the face of everything that could sail through.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > tears flowed, and a heart-wrenching poem "Heavy to Hengyang Hurt Liu Yicao" also came out:</h1>
Remembering yesterday and the deceased, the xiangjiang river is parted.
I Ma Yinglin hissed, and Jun Fan turned to the mountain to extinguish.
The horse hissed along the ancient path, and the sails extinguished like electricity.
Thousands of miles of rivers and spring, the old man is not seen today.
It starts with like-mindedness
If only life were just like the first time we met.
"Liu Gongzi, what year did you have?"
"I was in 73 years (773 AD)."
"Hahaha, it just so happens that I'm a year older than you."
In 794 AD, the two scholars met, and in the same year, they passed the jinshi examination, and both successfully won the title of erudite macrocier.
These two people, one born in a declining family of officials and eunuchs, bent on regaining the glory of their ancestors through hard study, his name is Liu Zongyuan.
A self-proclaimed descendant of King Jing of Zhongshan, who grew up with a strict tutor, studied well, and grew up to serve the motherland was his lifelong dream, his name was Liu Yuxi.
Later, the "examination friends" who were quite lucky were quickly upgraded to "colleagues", and they were all valued by the reformist Wang Shuwen and became a red person under the prince Li Shuwen.
One day, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi were walking and talking. Liu Zongyuan saw a statue in the courtyard (欹qī, a timer similar to an hourglass).
"How do you feel when you see this thing every day?" Liu Zongyuan wanted to explore the heart of this person who had not looked up all day and did not look down.
"The Qin state has achieved success in thinking about taxation, and the Jin dynasty has lamented the crisis.
There is no reason for The Yellow Dog to lead the Cai, and is willing to be a cloth cloth for Dantu. ”
Liu Yuxi immediately wrote a poem to express his position: This thing is full of water and turned over is to remind us to know how to reflect and have a sense of distress. Even if one day you have to face the "bird's bow hiding", there is nothing to be afraid of. "Death by word, death by force" This is our duty as human subjects.
After listening to Liu Yuxi's statement, Liu Zongyuan patted his shoulder happily. "It's late to see each other!" Man! Since then, the two have recognized each other as confidants.
The "Liu Liu Group" is officially and publicly bound, not only cooperating with tacit understanding in official affairs, but also often meeting together in private to talk about life, drinking wine and tea than poetry.
The reform detachment with "Liu Liu, the Second King" as the core, opened fire with the full support of Emperor Shunzong, and at the same time, the eunuchs and the fanzhen colluded forces to hate the teeth itch and brewed to dismantle the stage together.
This reform involves a struggle for imperial power, offends too many interests of the elite, and has divided the reformists, which is doomed to be bumpy.
When Emperor Shunzong, who could not speak of the stroke, was forced to abdicate, and the new emperor Xianzong ascended the throne, the original power of the people scattered like birds and beasts.
On August 6, 805, Wang Ling, Wang Shuwen, Liu Yuxi, Liu Zongyuan and a total of ten other people were demoted, known in history as the "Two Kings and Eight Sima Incident".
The conversation between the two in the courtroom turned out to be a slur.
In just eight months, the reform went bankrupt. Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan went from "good friends" to "difficult brothers and difficult brothers".
Liu Yuxi was first demoted to the history of Lianzhou Assassination, and on the way to office, he was demoted to "Sima of Langzhou" (equivalent to the leader of the county-level armed police force in Changde, Hunan, although close but the official position is even lower)
Liu Zongyuan was demoted to the title of Assassin of Shaozhou, and on his way to office, he was demoted to Sima of Yongzhou (equivalent to the leader of the county-level armed police force in Yongzhou, Hunan).
Be loyal to the wind and rain
From the most popular political rising star to the minister of sin in the barbaric land, the mood of the two people is not happy. However, their personalities are very different. One is a hypermassive with strong adaptability, and the other is a calm and sensitive depressive substance.
In the face of falling leaves, Liu Yuxi would laugh and shout, "Since ancient times, autumn has been sad and lonely, and I say that autumn is better than spring dynasty." A crane in the clear sky lined up on the clouds, and it led the poetry to the blue sky. ”
Liu Zongyuan, however, silently experienced that "a thousand mountain birds fly away, and ten thousand paths disappear." Lonely boat, fishing alone in the snow of the cold river" of the long world.
The ex-wife passed away, and he wanted to continue the string but could not marry his wife. Yongzhou is sparsely populated, and there are many insects and snakes. The original friends were "ashamed to contact him", but fortunately, Liu Yuxi wrote to him and kept comforting him, so that Liu Zongyuan also learned to have some fun in the desolation.
It is precisely because of such a "sun" that he often shines on Liu Zongyuan that he also began to relax his mood to travel through the landscape and wrote famous articles such as "Eight Records of Yongzhou".
Of course, good friends are not always the little lucky stars who send charcoal in the snow. Maybe one careless one will also drag you into the water, even though he didn't mean it.
Around 815, the imperial court summoned Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan back to the capital to stand by.
After waiting for 10 years, the hope of building a successful career was finally rekindled, and both of them were excited.
Liu Yuxi asked him to go to the Internet celebrity Xuandu Temple to punch the clock. In the face of the scorching peach blossoms, Liu Yuxi, who has the spirit of the trumpet, created a poem intoxicatedly: "Purple and red dust blowing on the face, no one can look at the flowers back." The peach trees in the Xuandu Temple were all planted after Liu Lang went there. ”
"Dude, your poem is really a good poem, but it seems to be a little ironic!" Liu Zongyuan laughed.
A few days later, the two received appointments from the imperial court.
"Ren Liu Yuxi is the assassin of Bozhou." "Ren Liu Zongyuan is the assassin of Liuzhou."
This is the rise of light and the fall of darkness! Thousands of miles to rush back to this?!
The two looked confused, clearly realizing that they had once again been kicked by the emperor and flew to the end of the earth.
The reason is that the above also believes that this poem is intended to satirize the government and has no remorse.
In the face of Yushi Zhongpeidu, Liu Zongyuan couldn't help but burst into tears. However, he was not for himself.
"Liu Yuxi has an eighty-year-old mother to support, and he will die!" I asked to change myself to a more remote and barbaric Bozhou, and let Liu Yuxi go to Liuzhou. Even if you are guilty of this, you will never regret it. ”
As soon as these words came out, Pei Du was shocked and deeply moved. "You showed me what true friendship is, and I'll do my best to get a little better place for him."
Jingcheng went to Jinshi for kai, and Liu Yuxi was reappointed as the Assassin of Lianzhou.
After waiting for ten years, I stayed in Chang'an for two months, the chair was not hot, and I had to go to the end of the world. From Liu Zongyuan's point of view, being pit by pig teammates is so miserable, it is likely to be "friends" in exchange for ordinary people.
But he did not have the slightest resentment that he had been dragged into the water, but was willing to bear more pain for his "pig teammates". This tolerance and selflessness are touching.
The deepest friendship is never a lantern together, but a storm in the same boat.
Long to death
Liu Zongyuan once sighed on the boat where the two parted:
All things have been in the 20 years, this morning at a crossroads.
If the Emperor is allowed to return to the field, he will be a neighbor in his later years.
When life enters its twilight years, it is a blessing to be a neighbor with your best friend.
It's just a pity that this pair of hardcore friends whose fate of "entering the same rank, promoting and falling together" has not been able to realize this wish after all. This parting turned out to be a farewell.
Liu Yuxi knew that Liu Zongyuan had two great wishes in this life: one was Guangzong Yaozu, and the other was a successor.
After Liu Zongyuan died, he left two men and two women. The eldest son is called Saturday, nearly 5 years old, and the younger son is a widow. The two daughters are also very young.
In the fifteenth year of Yuan He (820), Liu Zongyuan's coffin was sent back to Wannian County (near Chang'an) for burial. Liu Yuxi took Liu Zongyuan's orphan to make a memorial. Moreover, he decided to take on the responsibility of father for Liu Zongyuan and help him raise his young son.
Liu Yuxi also spent the rest of his life sorting out the posthumous works for Liu Zongyuan, compiling the "Liuhe East Collection" and raising funds for printing.
We can learn classic chapters such as "The Tale of Little Stone Pond", "Qianzhi Donkey", and "The Snake Catcher Says" in the textbook, which is inseparable from Liu Yuxi's efforts.
Liu Zongyuan's eldest son, under the careful upbringing of Liu Yuxi, was admitted to the Jinshi during the Xiantong period.
Their friendship transcends life and death, but also travels through time.
As modern communication becomes more convenient, we seem to have more opportunities to make friends.
But think about it, how many friends are just a phone number in your phone, an avatar in WeChat.
Late at night when you are lonely and sleepless, you want to find someone to talk to, but you find so many avatars, so many numbers, none of which make you want to click.
If we live for a lifetime, we may have all kinds of friends:
There are slanderous friends, there are harmful friends, there are strategic friends, there are drinking friends, or nod friends, or life and death together.
But the best friends must be like Liu Yuxi and Liu Zongyuan: starting from like-mindedness, loyalty to the same boat, long than life and death.
To gain one person is to overcome a hundred; to get one day is to be metaphorical to the ages; to get one fate is to benefit one lifetime.
Life, gathering and dispersing sometimes, each life rejoices.
May you be with true friends and true confidants.