01
At the Bhikshuni Monastery on the western outskirts of Luoyang, a skinny little woman dressed as a nun coaxed her three children to sleep. In the past few months, the mother and son four people have crossed the battlefield of Deng County, where corpses are strewn across the wilderness, escaped the looting of bandits and thieves, pretended to be nuns, and smuggled across the tightly sealed border between the two countries.
From Jiankang to Luoyang, a total of more than 700 kilometers, this is simply a miracle for Xie Shi, a Jiangnan woman who went out for the first time.
Half a year ago, the envoys of the Northern Dynasty sent envoys to Jiangnan.
Bringing the news that Xie's husband Wang Su was still alive, he heard that after Wang Su went into exile in Northern Wei six years ago, he fled from the Southern Dynasty with nothing, and with the appreciation of Emperor Xiaowen of the former emperor, he became a chancellor who held the center and had unlimited scenery, and in just a few years he was made a marquis.
Upon learning the good news, Xie Shi quickly took the children on the road of finding a husband.
02
When he was fourteen years old, Qianjin of the official Shangshu Xie Zhuang bumped into the teenager with the wide clogs robe and the long nose and thick lips, and crashed all the way into his heart, which could no longer be erased.
The two pick tea together in the late spring, enjoy the lotus in the middle of summer, brew fine wine in autumn, and embrace the crane and the trance like a pair of immortals under the winter snow, like the budding and Tilian, the double flying bird with wings, inseparable all day long, and is joked as a "shoulder-to-shoulder person", Xie Shi has given birth to three children in a row.
At that time, Wang Su was the secretary of the crown prince, his father and brother were important military and political posts, the future was frank and bright, but no one could predict the darkness and ruthlessness of fate, the nightmare suddenly came, as the father of Yongzhou Assassin Shi, because of concealing military information, the crime of killing Chang Shi, together with Wang Su's five brothers were killed overnight, only Wang Su disguised himself as a monk and escaped from Jiankang.
"The ice has not gone to the ice for many years, and the geese have not returned in the spring."
This walk is six years.
Whoever has ever seen Miss Xie's family wear a torn skirt that is torn by thorns to reveal gray cotton wool, and go from house to house to beg for rough wheat rice to eat, who ever thought that a pair of white clean hands that played and composed words would take a knife and stab into the chest of the soldier who was robbing money and killing people.
On the way to find a husband, the late night when the younger son had a high fever and convulsed, and the outskirts of Deng County, where there were many soldiers, what suffering could temper this weak woman's mind even more, and the noble lady who had ten fingers and did not touch the spring water of the yang was now tasted all kinds of bitterness.
Seeing that after passing the Tong pass, getting closer and closer to the husband, the child's complete home, the couple's white head to the old promise, the appearance of the face to keep all this is close at hand, the mother and son four sweet imagining the new life in the strange north land, imagining the appearance of the father husband Jun who has been separated for six years, the closer to Luoyang, the stronger the sense of happiness, the more anxious the mood.
03
Through the wooden window of the temple, watching the southeast jump out of a large dusk moon, tears in her eyes into a big bubble, a face of cheering.
Just after settling down in Luoyang, he learned the news that Wang Su had married Princess Chen Liu, and in Wang Su's capacity, he remarried after six years, which was expected.
Xie Shi gracefully wrote a letter describing the intention of rebuilding the old good, since the palace had a hostess, the mother and son four were uninvited guests who broke in without permission.
They only hoped that Wang Su could not wait to come together after seeing the letter and make up for the six years of lost and defective time, so they looked forward to it day by day, waiting in the small temple where they settled.
Finally, there was a cold reply written by the princess, the princess was unwilling to accept Wang Su's ex-wife, and the children could enter the house, but the old love could not.
The enthusiasm of the original husband-seeking, all the way to support the courage to survive thousands of mountains and rivers, was violently shattered by the strange reality at this moment.
I thought it was close to the paradise of family reunion, but it was closer to hell than the past parting, and I could never go back.
04
After emperor Xiaowen's death, Wang Su lost his protection in the dynasty, and not long ago, King Rencheng impeached Wang Su, saying that he was plotting rebellion, and it was later clarified that Wang Su at this time needed the protection of political strength to avoid various counter-offensives.
When he did not see his wife, he was showing the imperial court that he had broken with his past life and with the Southern Dynasty. To his wife, Wang Su felt deeper and deeper guilt, and he settled Xie Shi in zhengjue Temple to practice, Xie shi disguised himself as a nun, originally reunited as a husband and wife, but when he saw her husband, he became a real nun, and since then, he has been practicing in the Long House according to the Buddhist Gate.
Until his death a year later, the couple never saw each other again, and at a glance, this open and loyal love that followed thousands of miles ended with such a funny face.
After Wang Su's death, the princess had no children, and the youngest son of the Xie clan inherited the title, the daughter married the emperor, and the mother and son finally survived in the strange northern land, and fate gave the Xie clan a good ending.
When Wang Su's friend borrowed the funeral, he secretly stuffed several relics, including a piece of yellow paper, and a few strokes of God outlined a small portrait of Wang Su.
It was made in Jiangnan when the couple joked on a summer night, the nose of the Mountain root on the painting was exaggerated by Xie's long hook, there is a sense of vision that towers into the clouds, the two look at each other and smile, the affection flows between the eyes, the note is signed Shen Ru, is Xie's nickname.
From the southern dynasty fleeing to the north, from the southern part of the River in the clear wind of the Jiyue To the rich luoyi, Wang Su has always been close to him, never turned his back, and has never been far away.
It's just that love can't help but a powerful fate, and the long-term struggle has lost to the impermanence of the world, and the dead can no longer go back.
Note: Wang Su (464–501), courtesy name Gongyi, was a native of Linyi (present-day Linyi, Shandong). He was a famous minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a descendant of Wang Dao of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the son of Wang Yi ( 王奂 ) , a left servant of the Southern Qi Shangshu.