Lin Yutang said that Su Shi, a person, was full of magic.
He was brilliant and sharp, and dared to fight with Lao Tzu, the King of Heaven. When he was exiled to the southern wilderness and displaced, he ate all over the world and brought a group of farmers to cook cheap pork into the world. In love, he has ten years of deep insanity in life and death, and also has the open-mindedness of no herbs at the end of the world...
But many people often forget that behind this radiant figure, there is a person standing - Su Rui.
▲ Left: Su Shi; Right: Su Rui.
The same is only eight buckets high, the same former official held a high position, but one is like fireworks, and the other is like a still water deep current. They are close relatives, friends, and opponents, and you sing me and me like light and shadow; but when one side falls into a trough, countless people come and go, and the other side, whether lively and cold, joy or sorrow, has never gone far.
Ancients Cloud: Close relatives to estranged couples. Not only husband and wife, but all relationships in life, it is inevitable to go through various tests, and how many stories of the same root in history are there? But in them, we see what it means not to be envious or jealous, to achieve each other, what is to know each other, to love each other.
▲ Shen Daohong's "Three Su Discourses"
<h1>[ 1 ] One is like fire, one is like water
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The personalities of the two brothers are very different from each other.
The old man was overjoyed. When I was a child, I went out to play, but whenever there were mountains to climb and water to swim, Su Shi always had to roar and roll up his sleeves and rush to the front; when he got the book he liked, he cheered and cheered, and showed off when he saw people.
The second elder is happy to be quiet. The brother "charged" in front, he was not in a hurry, first observed, and then did not hurry or slow to keep up. Back at home, Su Shi shook his head and chanted poems against him, and Su Rui read and learned words with him, day by day.
"Zhizi Moruo's father", the father Su Xun is well aware of the temperament of the two sons. He named the brothers tailor-made:
"Shi" is the front armrest on the car, which is the most conspicuous place of the car and the most prone to trouble.
"Rut" is the trace of the wheel pressing out, there is merit but no reward, there are difficulties but not burdens, in the midst of misfortune and happiness.
He felt that Dasu was intolerant of things, and whenever he encountered something unfair, it was like a fly in his mouth, not spitting out unhappiness, and it was easy to offend people. Take the name "Shi", "Shi Hu, I am afraid of Ru Zhi is not decorated", and then take the word "Zi Zhan", hoping that he can look ahead and think twice before doing things.
Xiao Su was calm and calm, taking the name "Ru" is in line with his person, "Rudder, good between misfortune and happiness", and then took the word "Ziyu", hoping that he can be appropriately free and free, and do not have to worry too much about blessings and misfortunes.
Some people say, "Name determines destiny". But how will things always go as people want? Old Su did not know that the eldest son would be straight and straight in his life in the future, and he did not "look forward and look backwards" in doing things, while the younger son would be careful for a lifetime, and he would not easily "go by nature".
That's a postscript. The brothers are like one water and one fire, but they do not have the slightest "same water and fire", but have deep feelings. They read and lived together, admired each other in their hearts, and loved to compete with each other on their faces, and they were interesting every day and rejoiced all the time.
In their 10s, the two attended the academy together. One day, heavy rain fell, the Su Shi brothers and their partners rose up to compose poems, and the classmates first came out with two couplets: Ting Song was drunk on his back, and the summer rain was desolate like autumn.
When it was Su Shi's turn, he took a bite of the steamed bun, but saw zi cover his nose with one hand, looked out the window and thought about God, and suddenly remembered an allusion: Xie An, the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, suffered from rhinitis, and there was a nasal sound when chanting poems, and the scholars admired him, imitating Xie An everywhere, and even the chanting had to cover his nose to learn his voice. Su Shi had the heart to joke with his brother, so he covered his nose and said: "There is a guest who groans and strokes his nose!" After saying that, I took another bite of the bun.
Su Rui turned back to God, saw his brother making fun of himself, and did not want to show weakness and replied: No one eats steamed bread together. The students burst into laughter.
The two brothers fought and played like this, growing up all the way until they met the first turning point in their lives, Keju.
<h1>【 2 】 Talent goes hand in hand, and the ends of the earth go hand in hand
In the second year of Jiayou, the stars of this year's imperial examination shone brightly. Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zeng Gong... All are characters destined to flaunt the annals of history in the future.
The Su brothers also won both examinations and became famous in one fell swoop. After joining the shi, Su Shi made a lot of friends with his cheerful personality, and was appreciated by his predecessor Ouyang Xiu, which can be described as a fish in the water. Su Rui's personality is low-key, his fame is not as loud as his brother,And over time some people say that Su Rui is not as good as Su Shi.
But Su Shi knew that although their writing styles were different, ZiYu's talent was not worse than his own. Once, Su Rui wrote a strange article, and some people read it and thought it was ghostwritten by Su Shi, and Su Shi was very dissatisfied when he heard it:
My brother is just a deep man and doesn't want to show off himself. His articles, sometimes wanton, sometimes quiet, singing and sighing, endless memories, some people even said that I wrote it for him, it is really funny!
Su Rui did not get angry after he knew it, but instead smiled and comforted him: Help me to be a brother, teach me to be a teacher, no need to worry!
Even in the face of the temptation of fame and the eyes of the outside world, the feelings of the brothers were not affected in the slightest. On the contrary, they do not hesitate to join hands side by side, and they are more proud and humiliated in Vanity Fair.
▲ Su Rui 《Qiujiang Yupu》
Since they stepped out of the indisputable small study and plunged headlong into the complicated sea of people's hearts, over the past few decades, the two brothers have embarked on different paths and experienced many disputes and impermanence. But throughout, their relationship was as intimate as when they were young.
Every time he was transferred, Su Shi would write a letter to his brother as soon as he arrived in the local area, and there were more than 100 poems with the title of "Ziyu" alone. For example, "Water Tune Song Head" "I hope that people will be long-lasting, thousands of miles together", ordinary people think that it is to write lover's thoughts, but they do not know that behind it is a deep brotherhood.
In the mid-autumn of the following year, Su Rui went to Xuzhou to meet his brother. The brothers have not seen each other for 7 years, and they are very happy and go upstairs to admire the moon together. Su Rui specially composed a song "Water Tune Song Head : Xuzhou Mid-Autumn Festival":
"Parting for a long time, seven spent the Mid-Autumn Festival." Last year, today's toubu, the bright moon was overwhelmed. Under the pengcheng mountain, with the panqing river gubei, the boat carries Liangzhou. Advocating to help Qing Reward, Hongyan raised Tingzhou.
Sitting guest, Cui Yu Shuai, Zi Qi Qiu. Su'e was a rogue, and went west to not be left behind. Tonight Qingzun is to the guest, tomorrow night the lone sail water station, still shine away from the worry. But fear of the same as Wang Yue, relatively Yong Denglou. ”
▲ The painting is from "Yan Ming"
He thought that as soon as today passed, the two would be separated again, the eunuch sea would rise and fall, the world was unpredictable, and he did not know when they would reunite, and his heart was full of reluctance. "But homophobic Wang Yue, relatively yong denglou", we are now "sword outside the thinking of the guest", but please do not like Wang Yue, who did not meet Huai Cai, the second half of his life wandered to the end of the world, the return date is uncertain! A moment of sadness came from it, and Zi Yu couldn't help but wet her eyes.
Su Shi saw it and comforted him: "Ziyu, words are good words, he is too bitter and too sad!" In order to dismiss his brother, when he said goodbye, Su Shi sang and sang again. Su Rui smiled and couldn't help but sweep away his sorrows and leave the dust.
▲ Su Shi Drunken Gui (painting from "Chen Zihe" 16th century)
<h1>【 3 】 The road is bumpy, and you are still there
It is a pity that the right way in the world is vicissitudes. Within a few years, the "Wutai Poetry Case" broke out, Su Shi was arrested, not only was it impossible to reconcile with his brother "When I was drunk and sang Junhe, drunk and must be helped by Jun", it was even a question of whether he could live.
To a large extent, this calamity was a political struggle between the law-changing faction and the conservative faction, and Su Shiping was straight-hearted and straight-stomached, and his sharp edge was exposed, and he naturally became the first bird to be hit.
After Su Shi was imprisoned, everyone around his friends was in danger, and many of them did not dare to speak for him. Su Rui was also implicated and had a hard time, but he not only did not complain in the slightest, but also took his brother's family to his home to settle down, and repeatedly played the emperor, willing to spare himself from an official position to atone for his brother's sins.
▲ The painting is from "Fan Zeng"
At this time, Su Shi in prison was experiencing the greatest suffering in his life. He was discouraged, and wrote a desperate poem to Zi you: "Brothers with the king, and the cause of the next life." ”
He couldn't help but think that since he joined the army, Zi You often advised himself to be cautious in his words and deeds, but he did not think so, "The upper can accompany the Jade Emperor, the lower can accompany the Beggar of the Beitianyuan, the people who love the world, the virtuous and the joyful", now what? Thinking about it, I only felt that no one in the world knew cold and heat like a son, but was amiable and respectable.
Fortunately, there is no invincible road in the sky. In the second year of YuanFeng, the "Wutai Poetry Case" was finally closed, but both brothers were belittled. On the day of his release from prison, Su Rui came to pick up his brother, the two had mixed feelings and were relatively speechless, Su Shi was trying to say something, but Su Rui immediately covered his mouth and reminded him with his eyes: "The curse of the tongue", to be taken as a warning!
▲ The painting is from "Wu Shanming"
<h1>【 4 】 Cut the shackles continuously, and be brothers in the next life
After escaping from danger, there is not much time left for the two to get together. On the day of his appointment, Su Shi took his son to leave on horseback, and looked back to see his brother pulling dozens of small people from home, standing in the suburbs and looking at himself from a distance. He was sad and wanted to stop and talk to his brother again, but the horse flew up, and Su Rui's black hat gradually faded away, and finally disappeared.
Su Shi sighed, "In this life, can you still realize the agreement of Hezi Yu to "listen to Xiao Ser on the night of the bed"?" ”
He remembered that when he was young, he read Wei Yingwu's sentence "I would rather know the wind and snowy night, and sleep in this bed again", and immediately agreed with his brother that after getting old, the two brothers would also "listen to the bed in the night rain". This agreement was later repeatedly mentioned in the letters of the two men, like Xi Ning's four years, when Su Shi was the prefect of Yingzhou, he also made "Manjiang Hong · Yusaku Kaiko sent it to Su Rui:
"Qing Ying flows in the east, the eyes are broken, and the lone sail is gone." Eunuchs, green mountains and white waves, thousands of stacks. Lonely when Lin Xiayi, listening to the night rain on the bed. Hate this life, grow up to the parting, Tim Hua hair.
A statue of wine, on the side of the Yellow River. Infinite things, from the beginning. Look like yesterday, many years. The old marks on the clothes were still bitter tears, and the joy between the eyebrows was added to the yellow. He and Jun, Chi Shang, look for spring, flowers like snow. ”
▲ The painting is from "Chen Jiaxun"
However, life is everywhere, accidentally reunited and far away, and the "night rain to bed" covenant of the Ersu brothers finally became a painting cake. In 1101, the 64-year-old Su Shi was seriously ill, his brothers were separated from each other, and before he died, he asked: Let Ziyu bury me under the Song Mountain, and make an epitaph for me...
When the bad news came, Su Ru burst into tears:
"But I and my brother, from the same origin, learned from an early age without a teacher, and the first king was obedient."
Game books, sleep in it, to the two, to the end. ”
After the death of his brother, the family's life fell into difficulties, Su Rui immediately took them all, and nearly a hundred people in two rooms lived together, and finally survived the difficulties.
The wonders are like a fantasy, and the emotions are felt. Bumpy life, can support each other, know each other, only close relatives, love.
Another 10 years passed, and Su Rui also followed his brother. "Brotherhood with the king, and the cause of the next life." Su Rui remembered the poems that his brother had written to himself in prison and instructed his descendants to bury themselves next to their brothers.
Night and night and bright moon, the brothers have since put wine on poetry and will never be separated.
▲ The painting is from "Xiao Ping"
They are brothers, good friends in poetry and harmony, partners in political honor and disgrace, and confidants who encourage and comfort each other spiritually. In and out of the place, all are the same, in the midst of suffering, friendship and love, no less resentment, rare in recent times.
Brothers alone,
It is also a virtuous friend.
The luckiest thing in the world,
There is no better confidant than having a confidant who cares for each other,
And even luckier than that,
It is this person who is his closest relative.
If you have such a true feeling in your life, why should you ask for it?
▲ The painting is from "Yan Meihua"
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