Pu Songling: A "anti-system" person who has wanted to enter the "system" all his life

Speaking of "Liaozhai Zhiyi", the script that has been adapted into a TV movie countless times seems to be the only one.

The innocent and cheerful Baby Ning, the weak and intelligent Qingfeng, the chivalrous and kind red jade, the coral that endures humiliation and burden, the strong and strong Shang Sanguan... Even a village woman can tell one, two or three.

It seems that "Liaozhai" did talk about a lot of ordinary people's stories back then.

Today, we will talk about Mr. Pu Songling.

01 A genius who was delayed by God

Pu Songling is a genius, not exaggerated at all.

He has been studying with his father, and at the age of 19, he is very talented and unusually smooth. At that time, he wrote an essay, the chief examiner almost fell to his knees, immediately gave a large full score, and pulled out to the top. Later, in the next three exams, Pu Songling was "one key and three consecutive", all of which were the first place.

This became the first place in the hot search list at that time, and the Pu family did not know how glorious it was.

According to the normal plot, what should be the "spring breeze triumphant horseshoe disease"? However, fate likes to joke with people the most.

Since then, Pu Songling's path to the imperial examination has simply been unsmooth if it is "only unthinkable, nothing can be done".

Just a few examples:

Once, his first exam paper was a full score paper, the chief examiner was greatly appreciated, did not expect, the second he suddenly fell ill, could not go to the examination room, the previous achievements were abandoned;

Another time, Pu Songling painstakingly asked for a letter of recommendation, psychological excitement, wen si gushing, sprinkling pen and snake, careless, exceeding the format regulations, that is, writing too much. According to the regulations, such a paper is called "cross-width", and as a result, it is disqualified from the examination.

For more than 40 years, he took more than a dozen exams back and forth, without stopping, each time going with hope and sadness. Whenever this time came, Pu Songling would grit his teeth and scold the mother, and swore: Never come to the exam in the future. But in the third year, he was going to take the exam again.

This is a bit like a news I saw a few days ago, there is a boy, a total of 12 times to participate in the college entrance examination, just for the Qinghua, even if admitted to Beijing University of Political Science and Law does not go.

However, I think that Pu Songling is to give a tanhua, and he must do it. The point is, God doesn't even give him a chance.

Seeing that they were all in their sixties, he still had to insist. His wife really couldn't bear to look at it, and advised him: "Dead old man, you still have to save the province, God didn't give you the life of an official, you don't have toss it blindly." If I could be admitted, I would have done Sima Daoge now. In the future, you will have a hot kangtou for your wife and children. ”

After listening to his wife's words, Pu Songling did not go to the exam again, and he should not be able to take the exam.

Think about Pu Songling's life, and he has an attachment to entering the "system" to become an official, which ordinary people cannot understand. If we knew Pu Songling's experience, it is estimated that we would not laugh at Fan Jin.

02 Stranded wanderer

Although Pu Songling did not become an official, he spent most of his life wandering outside.

The farthest trip was at the age of 31, helping to copywriters in the former same window, Sun Hui's office in Baoyingzhi County. Originally, the two were good friends. However, after entering the official field, Sun Hui was different from Pu Songling. Sun Hui became bitter and mean and indifferent. Sun Hui has a concubine Qingxia, beautiful and gentle, versatile and good at poetry, but among the many wives and concubines who are jealous of her, she can't live for two episodes, so it didn't take long for the 20-year-old Qingxia to end up depressed.

This made the amorous Pu Songling feel very unpleasant. So, left Sun Hui.

The longest travel is in this county a family surnamed Bi sitting in the museum, guess how long? 30 years. This does not allow retirement. Dongjia Biji is a retired cadre, kind, humble, and gets along well with Pu Songling. More than ten years later, Bi Ji died, but Mrs. Bi and Bi's parents and sons struggled to retain, and Pu Songling "rehired" again. This re-employment did not matter, and it stayed for another 20 years. He worked and lived in the Bi family for 30 years.

I don't know if Pu Songling's wife and children will feel that this father is really a bit unkind, leave his wife and children alone, and discipline other people's families.

However, Pu Songling's stay in Bi Ji's home actually has many advantages.

First of all, the Bi family has money. Therefore, give Pu Songling a set of luxurious single rooms, you can also go to the Bi family's back garden activities at any time, the Bi family's house built decent, chess and cards, there is a private garden, and a library, that for Pu Songling, it is simply too good, the key is that he can also forget the spring, summer, autumn and winter and human troubles in this luxurious single room. This is an excellent environment for Pu Songling's creation.

In addition, Pu Songling has made a lot of good friends here, they are all official figures, and it is not bad that they have not been admitted to the official field and make friends with people in the official circle. The key is that these people can also send him a circle of friends to promote his "Chatting with Zai Zhiyi", and naturally his popularity is also rising.

The one who was most helpful to him was Wang Shichen. He wrote the preface to Pu Songling's book: Gu Yu Zhi It is expected that he should be tired of being a human language and love to listen to the autumn grave ghosts singing. This is equivalent to a small author of the 38 line, wrote an online article, please Mo Yan such a large level of people to comment on it, Mo Yan actually did not abandon, but also said, the afterlife is terrible, come, I will write you a preface.

Therefore, Pu Songling's stay in BiJi's family for 30 years is also understandable.

03 Can't eat grapes and say grapes are sour?

Although "Liaozhai Zhiyi" is mainly about foxes and ghosts, the prominent theme is the condemnation of the evil government of the imperial examination and the criticism of the corrupt official exploitation system. For example, "Xi Fangping", "Promoting Weaving", "Dream Wolf", etc., are all like this.

It seems that there is a little bit of grapes that can't eat grapes and say that grapes have a sour taste.

One of the evidences is that while he was tirelessly participating in the examination system, he wrote articles and cursed the examination system, and he did not know whether this was the same as our current high school students, while he was indignant and scolded the college entrance examination system, and at the same time he was desperate to "burn the anointing oil to continue the sundial".

Anyway, Pu Songling did not say before the age of 60, go to his mother, Lao Tzu did not take the exam. Even if he did not take the examination, it was still under the advice of his wife that he reluctantly launched the scientific expedition army.

However, Saion lost his horse, is it a blessing?

Although he did not enter the system, he left behind the glorious "Liaozhai Zhiyi". At that time, 99% of the candidates who took the exam with him had become a grain of dust, and the world had long forgotten them, only Pu Songling, the wind and dust through the years, was still worshiped by posterity.

So, looking back, maybe early in the morning, God had already given him the greatest cause, so he really couldn't enter the system. Perhaps, when he entered the officialdom, he would become a good official; but, decades later, history will never remember him. And the task given to him by God is to always let people remember and always let people admire.

Mr. Pu, you should be happy and relieved to have a spirit in heaven.

After all, the history of youth left a name, glorious future generations, you did it.