Chapter 25 volume two

In the tenth month of Guiwei in Chongzhen, the national weapon of the Ming Dynasty will collapse. This month, Hou Fangyu avoided disaster and left.The incident was naturally caused by Xiang Jun's ambush when they got married in March, but the matter was not as simple as Ruan Dacheng's private revenge. General Zuo Liangyu's army has been short of food and grass for a long time, and the morale of the army is restless.Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to promise that all the troops would move to Nanjing. When the news came, people panicked, for fear of destroying the existing peace of Nanjing City and affecting their lives.Zuo Liangyu and Hou Fangyu's father Hou Xun are old friends, Yang Youlong suggested to take advantage of this relationship.So Hou Fangyu wrote a letter to Zuo Liangyu in his father's name to persuade him to withdraw from the army. The sender was Hou Fangyu's friend, the eloquent and chivalrous storyteller Liu Jingting.

Both this letter and Liu Jingting's eloquence moved Zuo Liangyu.Originally, Zuo Liangyu's promise to move troops to eat was an expedient measure, and he didn't want to risk the disapproval of the world and make people talk about it. Although the siege of Nanjing was lifted, this letter brought trouble to Hou Fangyu. Ruan Dacheng used the excuse that Hou Fangyu had an affair with Zuo Liangyu, and pointed out that he was the internal response of the Zuo soldiers and must be removed as soon as possible. Ruan Dacheng's resentment was not just that Li Xiangjun didn't give her face.Poor Ruan Dacheng hasn't had a good life since Wei Zhongxian's downfall. He has become a street rat and everyone shouts and beats him. The loudest one is the Fourth Young Master in the late Ming Dynasty.Among the four young masters, Chen Zhenhui regarded him as a gentle scum, and she was afraid that he would not die. The "Liudu Fangchao Jiepost" did not give him a foothold at all.Even when Ruan Dacheng participated in the memorial ceremony for Confucius, he was entangled with the Confucian scholars and beat him up. Ruan Dacheng fled with a black nose and a swollen face.

What's even worse is that this group of young masters even borrowed other people's housework to have fun after they finished their work.One day, these young masters were drinking and having fun at the Jiming Temple, probably because they felt that drinking without singing was not enough, so they sent someone to take a name card to the Ruan family to sing an opera on a whim.Ruan Dacheng would be mistaken, thinking that this was an opportunity to show his goodwill, so he sent the family class there, and asked his family members to mix in and listen to what they discussed. As a result, these young masters finished their drinking, watched the play, and took the opportunity to indulge their appetites, and scorned Ruan Dacheng: "Being Wei Xie's godson if you are talented! It's more contemptible than having no talent!" Everyone cheered. Drink Dadan and return with a big laugh.Ruan Dacheng's frustration can be imagined.

In Ruan Dacheng's "Spring Lantern Riddles", there is a passage called "Ten Mistakes", which has a heart of regret and sympathetic words. "However, the gentlemen of the Qingliu are too hasty to hold on to it, and too strict to cut it off, so that it will be fragrant and blocked, and the smell will be left behind." Qingliu's group of people may not be morally perfect and impeccable.They're actually pretty daft too.It's just that the situation always goes up and down, and the eunuch party is unlucky, and the opponents of the eunuch party, Qingliu, will naturally stand up again and triumphantly!

In "The Preface to the Peach Blossom Fan", Gu Tianshi explained this clearly and into three points: "Woohoo! The Eastern Han Dynasty died when the integrity was extended, and the Neo Confucianism was extinct and the Southern Song Dynasty died. " Qingliu scholars are also aggressive and exclude dissidents, but they can't really grasp the power of the country, sigh deeply, and get lost in the face of the situation.He even lacks the basic self-help ability, empty self-study spirit!Nanming's rapid demise was directly related to these people's self-contained grievances and constant fighting.

Ruan Dacheng found the opportunity to find Hou Fangyu, but fortunately Yang Youlong is a smooth person, he and Ruan Dacheng are also close friends, and secretly informed Hou Fangyu to avoid disaster. Hou Fangyu was still in love with the flowers: "It's just that Yan Er is newly married, how can I be willing." Li Xiangjun persuaded him seriously: "Officials have always regarded themselves as heroes, why should they behave like women." She told him to go away and not to hurt others.She was not afraid of being implicated, but she was afraid of giving Ruan Dacheng an excuse to wipe out all the literary friends of Fushe.

But Hou Fangyu was worried about where to go: "My parents are here, my parents are here, but the letter is not sure; the beacon smoke rises, the beacon smoke rises, and the family is half destroyed. If you want to return, it is difficult to know the way back. The end of the world is lost everywhere, how to hide yourself. The road is poor. , the sky is dark and the ground is dark." It was Yang Youlong who gave him an idea, telling him to follow Shi Kefa to be a staff officer. When Li Xiangjun packed Hou Fangyu's luggage, she showed her weakness, thinking of the imminent parting, she silently chanted his name in her heart.Tears soaked his luggage, and his longing attached to him, making him feel heavy on the road, and he couldn't stop looking back.That's another story.

They got along for such a short time, and they were forced to separate. The parting they saw in the past happened to me. Although I was mentally prepared, I couldn't be chic and relaxed.She is not as indifferent as her experienced colleagues. "Happy things, happy things, two hearts and minds; life away from suffering, life away from suffering, and bear the hatred to form an inch of eyebrows. The fragrance is stained with green quilts, tightly tied tightly. The medicine wrapped towel box is full of tears. .” He bid farewell to her, and tried to comfort her: "We part for now, and it won't be far later." She said with tears, "The ground is full of smoke and dust, and it's not possible to do it all over again."

She knew in her heart that there was no guarantee of the future meeting after the moment of separation and joy.I just admire the sobriety of this woman beyond her years. I don't want to simply attribute Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangjun to the children of troubled times, that would be too hasty.Their encounters are the result of many factors, and should never be simply attributed to the situation.With Hou Fangyu's frivolity and Li Xiangjun's arrogance, even if they are in a peaceful and prosperous age, they may not be immune to calculations. What shocked me the most was not the difference between Hou and Li, but the great harm of personal selfishness.From Ruan Dacheng's revenge on the literati of Fushe, to Ma Shiying supporting King Fu and taking control of the government, and then they fled the city in a mess, which one is not a villain full of selfish desires?

The reason why Hou Fangyu separated from Li Xiangjun and Lao Yan, Shi Kefa was alone and helpless, and the reason why Nanming collapsed within a year.It's not because the country has no good talents, but because they can't work together. The flood of selfish desires quickly and completely destroyed a country, and its power was far greater than that of the Qing army's artillery.If personal selfishness is just an inconspicuous small hole, when this small hole overflows and festers into a bottomless hole, all diseases will become incurable and the medicine will be useless.