Liang Dingfen, whose ancestral home was Panyu, Guangdong, was a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty, and successively served as a prefect, an envoy, and a political envoy. Liang Dingfen's parents died early, and when he was very young, he was fostered in his aunt's house, and under the teachings of his uncle, the intelligent and sensible Liang Dingfen was raised in Shuntianxiang at the age of 18, and Guangxu was a scholar in the sixth year of Guangxu, and was taught to be a cane Jishi in the sixth year of Guangxu, and was taught editing in the ninth year of Guangxu.
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Liang Dingfen loved books all his life, and the collection was very rich, and it is said that one-third of the precious books in the Zhongshan Library in Guangzhou were donated by Liang's descendants.
Liang has been a scholar since he was a child, known as the ambition of "the Qi family to rule the country and the world", he admired the Tang Dynasty's bearded guests, imitated him to keep a long hair, from the appearance, live out of a wandering skeleton of a chivalrous demeanor. The appearance and Liang's euphemistic and ornate poetic style form a strong contrast.
At the time when Liang Shitu was sailing smoothly, the 24-year-old married the Hunan talented woman Gong Shi under the management of his uncle Zhang Dinghua, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and after marriage, the husband and wife were very affectionate, and the Gong clan was very accomplished in literature, and was an intellectual woman, which in the atmosphere of the late Qing Dynasty women's "the door does not go out of the second door", the Gong clan appeared outstanding.
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The couple chanted poems in their leisure time, and Liang Dingfen renamed his former bookstore "Tibetan Fengge", and the happy days always passed quickly.
It is said that in 1884, during the Sino-French War, the Qing government had defeated the French invaders, but Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang, blindly advocated peace, made the French army invincible and victorious, and signed a treaty with France to lose power and humiliate the country.
Liang Dingfen was furious and impeached Li Hongzhang for the crime of "six kills". This move angered Empress Dowager Cixi, who betrayed the country and sought glory, and Liang Dingfen was demoted five ranks in a row for the crime of "impeachment", and went to the Taichang Temple to become a minor official of Si Le. Liang carved a small seal of "dismissing the official in the twenty-seventh year" and resigned in anger.
Liang Dingfen felt that he could not stay in Beijing, wanted to return to his hometown of Guangdong for development, and had not returned to his hometown for many years, he wanted to explore the way first, and then take his wife over when it was stable.
However, he was not at ease about leaving his wife alone in the capital, so he thought of entrusting his wife to his good friend Wen Tingshi.
Wen Tingshi was 3 years younger than Liang at that time, and although the two were not fellow villagers, Wen Tingshi was Liang Dingfen's disciple. When Liang was unaccompanied, he first thought of the Wenting style, which showed that the two usually had a great relationship.
Wen Tingshi was also a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty and was the core figure of the Restoration School. At that time, Wen Tingshi and Liang were both colleagues and brothers, and it was reasonable for Liang to entrust his wife to him.
However, Wen Tingshi did not abide by the ancient precept of "friends and wives should not be deceived", and after Liang Dingfen had settled everything in his hometown after 3 years, when Liang returned to the capital to try to take his wife away, he found that his wife and Wentingshi had eloped.
It turned out that in the long-term contact between Wen Tingshi and Gong, the two gradually developed feelings, Wentingshi was one year older than Gong, Gong liked Wen's talent, he did not care about the Wenting style that already had a wife at that time, resolutely cohabited with him, and the following year gave birth to a boy for Wen Tingshi.
At that time, there was a lot of discussion in the capital, and in order to avoid gossip, Wen Tingshi took Gong and his son back to his hometown of Pingxiang City, Jiangxi.
Wenting style bought a property in his hometown and arranged for Gong to live there, Wenting style had a wife and concubines, and Gong could only appear as a lover. At that time, the Gong clan did not divorce Liang Dingfen, and there was no hope of marrying Wen Tingshi, so Gong gave birth to three sons for Wen Tingshi in an embarrassing capacity.
Liang Dingfen could not find the two in the capital, heard from friends that the two went to Wen's hometown, Liang rushed to Pingxiang, Jiangxi for several days, and the three finally met.
According to historical records, Wen Tingshi and Liang Dingfen were still brothers, like old friends who had been reunited for a long time, and the Gong clan next to them waited for the two to boil tea. I don't see a bit of hate and killing.
I also served three people, and the arrogance of the two important courtiers of the DPRK and China as "co-wives" was admired. When Liang Dingfen was parting, he instructed Wen Tingshi to treat his wife kindly, and Wen Tingshi swore that "you can rest assured", and Gong told her husband to go back early, so Liang Dingfen returned to his hometown empty-handed.
After n years, Wen Tingshi fell ill and died, and Gong shi could not live with his children in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, so he left for Guangdong to find Liang Dingfen.
Gong clan with three sons, all the way to the dust servants found Liang Dingfen, Liang Dingfen knew that Gong clan had difficulties, he comforted Gong clan for a while, and finally secretly pressed 3000 silver tickets under the teacup, he did not directly give Gong Shi, mainly worried about Gong s face, Gong Clan took away the silver ticket before leaving. Since then, I have never bothered Liang Dingfen again.
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