Chapter 39 Thirty-six fifes

This chapter writes about Genji's forty-ninth year from February to autumn of the same year. Kashiwagi Danayan passed away in his prime, and many people mourned him.Genji has always heard of people's death, even casual acquaintances, as long as the person has a slight reputation in the world, he will always feel sorry for him, not to mention that Kashiwamon is a frequent visitor, he has a blind date day and night, and compares himself to others' confidant.Dying now makes him feel very incomprehensible, and there are many things to love, so he often feels emotional and misses it endlessly.On the anniversary of Kashiwagi's death, Genji did great deeds for him.He looked at Mr. Xun who was laughing and playing ignorantly, and felt that he was very pitiful after all, so he thought in his heart that he would give another hundred taels of gold for Mr. Xun as a gift to the monks.Baimu's father and minister didn't know the inside story, but felt very grateful and comforted.General Xiwu also made many meritorious deeds for Kashiwagi, and personally handled all religious affairs solemnly.On this anniversary of his death, he went to a hospital to express his condolences.Unexpectedly, the father, the minister and the mother's wife did not expect Xiwu to have a deeper affection for Kashiwagi than the younger brothers, and they were very grateful.When they saw that the world respected Kashiwagi after his death, they felt even more regretful, and their condolences would never end.

Zhuqueyuan in the mountains is a widow because of the youth of the second princess, being ridiculed by others, and feeling depressed.And the third princess became a nun and left the world, which made him feel that everything was unsatisfactory.However, as a monk, he should put aside all worldly concerns and accept them.When he was doing his homework, he presumed that the third princess was practicing Buddhism as hard as he was, so since the third princess became a monk, he often wrote to her, talking about little things. One day, Zhuqueyuan dug bamboo shoots in the bamboo grove next to the temple, and also dug some wild taro in the nearby mountains. He liked it to have a mountain and rural flavor, so he sent someone to send it to the third princess with a detailed letter.The beginning of the letter reads: "In the mountains and fields in spring, I lost my way in the haze, because I miss you so much, I went to dig it specially, but I just wanted to express my heart.

Although it is late to see through the world of mortals, The path to rebirth in the Pure Land is the same. But this is a very difficult business. "The third princess was reading the letter with tears when Genji came in. He saw that the room was different from usual, and there were some fruit plates beside the princess. He felt very strange. When he saw it, it turned out to be a letter from Zhuqueyuan. He took the letter and read it, and felt that I was very moved. The letter was very detailed, and there was a sentence in it: "I seem to feel that the end of my life is now.I often want to meet with you, and I am afraid that I will not be able to do so. "In the poem, the three princesses are induced to go to the Pure Land together. This is often talked about by monks, and it is not very interesting, but he thought: "Of course Suzaku Court thinks so.Seeing that even I, the person who has depended on me for life, have a very cold attitude, he became more and more worried about the third princess, how pitiful! "The third princess carefully wrote back the letter, and asked someone to reward the messenger with a set of dark royal blue silk clothes. Genji saw the damaged letter paper of the third princess exposed from the screen, so he picked it up to read, but saw that the handwriting was very immature. Answer poem cloud:

"Longing for a place far from the world, I want to leave the vulgar world and go deep into the mountains. " Genji said to her: "You are here, Suzaku Court is still worried about you, now you say that you are going to go to the mountains, it makes me so sad!" Now the third princess does not even look at Genji.Her forehead hair is extremely beautiful, and her face is very cute, like a child.Genji was overwhelmed with pity when he saw it, and thought: "Why did you make it look like this?" Fearing that it would arouse lustful thoughts and be punished by the Buddha, he tried his best to hold on to himself.The two are separated by a layer of curtains, but they are not very alienated, and they respond to each other appropriately.

The little son, Xun Jun, was sleeping with the wet nurse, woke up at this moment, crawled out of the room, and came to grab Genji's sleeve, that was very cute.He was wearing a white blouse and a small red-faced purple shirt with a creeper pattern. The long skirt was dragging casually, and the chest was almost completely exposed, and the clothes were squeezed behind.This is the normal state of a child, but the appearance here is very cute, with fair complexion and a slender figure, like a portrait made of willow wood.His hair seemed to be specially dyed with commelina juice to make it shiny, the corners of his mouth were ruddy, and his eyebrows were delicate, making people think of cypress wood at a glance.Kashiwagi's appearance is not so gorgeous yet, I don't know how he can be so beautiful.He was not like his mother either.At such a young age, his expression is so dignified and extraordinary, Genji feels that it is not inferior to his own reflection in the mirror.

Xun Jun just learned to walk recently.He ignorantly approached the plate containing the bamboo shoots, picked up the bamboo shoots and threw them around, or threw them away after biting.Genji smiled and said, "Ah, there are no rules! It's too much nonsense! Hide this plate quickly. The bad-mouthing maid will spread the word that this child is a glutton!" and hugged the child.He also said: "This child is really beautiful! Maybe it's because I don't see many children. I thought that children at this age are ignorant, but this child is different now. It's a shame." I'm worried. Such a person grows up among the princesses and others, which will cause trouble for them and himself. But, poor! When these people grow up, I can't always see them! There is a saying that "every year spring To the group of flowers, can you see the fate of the flowers!" He said, looking at the face of the young master.All the maids said: "Ah! Don't say such ominous words!" Mr. Xun has teeth and often wants to bite. He holds a bamboo shoot tightly and bites desperately with his mouth drooling.Genji laughed and said, "Oh, what an unusual erotic!" He took the bamboo shoots away and chanted:

"Although the sad past is unforgettable, Bamboo shoots are too green to bear to throw away. " The little boy just smiled innocently.He hurriedly climbed off Genji's lap, and went to play elsewhere. Indicates the daughter born to the Shinu Imperial Palace. As time passed by, the younger the young man was, the more beautiful his appearance became, which surprised everyone who saw it.That "sad past event" has indeed been completely forgotten.Genji thought: "I think this person was destined to be born in the previous life, so that accident happened. Fate is really inescapable!" His thoughts have changed a little.He thought about his own fate, and felt that there were many unsatisfactory things: Among the many wives and concubines, only the third princess had no flaws in her status, and her appearance was satisfactory, but she never expected to become a nun.From this point of view, her and Kashiwagi's crimes are still unforgivable, which is really a pity.

Let's say that General Xiwu recalled Kashiwagi's last words alone, not knowing what happened, and wanted to tell his father to see what he would say.But because he had vaguely guessed how much, he found it difficult to speak.He always wanted to find an opportunity to find out the details of the matter and tell his father about Kashiwagi's distress. One bleak evening in autumn, Xiwu missed Princess Fallen Leaf of Yiyiyuan, so she went to visit.Princess Fallen Leaf is playing various pianos casually and leisurely.Before it could be tidied up properly, the maids had already led Xi Wu to the south chamber where she lived.Xiwu clearly noticed the situation where the maids in the room were kneeling into the curtain, heard the rustling of the clothes, smelled the fragrance of the clothes left behind, and thought it was elegant and cute.As usual, the old lady came out to talk about all kinds of past events.In Xiwu's own Sanjo courtyard, there are many people coming in and out all day long, it is very noisy, and there are many children running around and making noise.He was used to living there, and felt that the place was quiet and gratifying.Although it can't help feeling desolate these days, it is a noble and elegant residence after all.The flowers and trees in the courtyard are in disorder, and the sound of insects is dense.Looking at the evening scenery in the evening mist, I think of the autumn fields.So I pulled the harp to have a look, but I saw that the strings were in harmony with the rhythm, which was obviously played often, and the qin was stained with the fragrance of the player's clothes, which made people feel amiable.Xiwu thought: "Under this situation, if he is an unscrupulous pornographic man, he will show an ugly appearance; he will spread a shameful notoriety!" As he imagined this, he tried playing the piano.This is the piano that Kashiwagi often played during his lifetime.After Xiwu played an interesting piece of music for a short time, he said: "Oh! When Da Nayan played this qin, the sound is so beautiful! These wonderful sounds must be contained in this qin. Xiaosheng intends to ask the princess to play this kind of music. Wonderful sound, just to please your ears." The old lady replied: "Since the string was broken, the princess has even forgotten all the music she learned in childhood. In the past, the Zhuqueyuan ordered the princesses to try playing various zithers in front of the emperor. , and once praised the princess for not playing badly. But now it seems that she has changed a different person, but she is at a loss, living in sorrow, and regards this piano as an object of old hatred." Xiwu said: " This is certainly reasonable, but 'sorrow is also impermanent'!" He sighed for a while, and pushed Qin towards the old lady.The old lady said: "Then please try to play a song, so that I can also distinguish whether it contains wonderful sounds, and it can also give my ears that have been stunned by depression to enjoy the blessing." Xi Wu replied: "No. Dare, Xiaosheng has tasted the way of playing the piano, and the inheritance between the husband and wife is very true. I hope the princess will play a piece." He pushed the piano to the edge of the curtain, knowing that the princess would not agree immediately, and he did not force it.

An ancient song: "Sorrow is also an impermanent thing, but you don't think about it after years." See "Ancient and Modern Waka Collection". At this time, the moon came out, the sky was clear, and there were no slender clouds.Groups of geese lined up, fluttering their wings and singing, staying together for a moment.The princess must have been envious when she saw it.The autumn wind brings coolness, and the slight cold invades the skin.The princess was moved by this serenity, took the zither, and played a piece lightly.Hearing this elegant voice, Xiwu became more and more in love with the princess, and felt distraught.So he took the pipa and played a song "Love for My Husband" in a very cordial voice.Said: "Xiaosheng plays this song in the mood of the princess, and it is unavoidable to be guilty of blasphemy. But the princess should be paid for this song." Then he earnestly persuaded the curtain.The princess became more and more shy and had no words to answer, but was full of emotion and fell into deep thought.Xiwu presents a poem cloud:

"Keeping you silent and shy, Words speak louder than words. " The princess only played a few words on the harp at the end of the song, and then answered Shiyun. "Though knowing that the sound of the piano is bitter in the middle of the night, Only listen to the sound and not explain the speech. " Although the tone of the Japanese qin is not so delicate, but because it is carefully taught by someone who is deeply versed in this way, even though it is the same tune, it has a particularly sad and moving feeling.It's a pity that he only played a few sentences and stopped there, which made Xi Wu hate it.Said to the old lady: "Tonight, Xiaosheng played all kinds of thoughts on several musical instruments, and the princess has been watching. The autumn night is deeper, disturbing people's sleep, and I am afraid that I will be reprimanded by the old man, so I will leave. A few days later, when I go again Come and wait, I hope the tune of this qin remains the same. There are often things in the world where the tune is changed, which inevitably makes people worry." He didn't say it clearly, but only hinted at his own thoughts in a tactful way, and then he wanted to leave.The old lady replied: "Tonight's romantic affair, I think it will not be condemned by others. But you and I talk about it, it is full of trivial old things, and I am not able to listen to the wonderful hand performance, so that I can prolong my life. I am very sorry." She added a gift to the gift. Holding a flute, he said to him: "This flute does have a long history. It is really worth borrowing to hear it buried in this shabby hut. Please try playing it in the returning car. It will compete with the sound of the pioneers, and passers-by will also listen to it." Everyone loves to listen." Xi Wuxun thanked: "It's such a beautiful flute, I'm afraid I won't have the good fortune to enjoy it." Pick up the flute and have a look, it was also something that Baimu loved to play with him when he was alive.I remember that Kashiwagi often said to him: "I can't play all the wonderful sounds of this flute. In the future, I must pass them on to people I trust." Looking back on the past, I added a lot of sadness.So he picked up the flute to try playing, and stopped after playing half of the Nanlu tune, saying: "In order to miss the old man, I play the qin to comfort myself. If I am clumsy, I will be forgiven. But it is really embarrassing to play the famous flute... ..." After finishing speaking, he stood up and wanted to come out.The old lady gave a poem saying:

"In the dewy mansion with heavy grass and long grass, The sound of autumn insects is as beautiful as it was back then. " Yugi replied: "Blowing the remnants of the fife sound as before, When the crying friend mourns endlessly! " After singing, I can't bear to linger and go, the night is already very dark. The sound of insects is compared to the sound of flutes. Xiwu returned to Santiaoyuan's mansion, and saw that the latticed doors of the room had been closed, and everyone was asleep.It seems that someone told Yun Juyan that Xiwu fell in love with Princess Luoye and was very close to her, so Yunjuyan was angry when he saw Xiwu not returning late at night.Xiwu sang the horse music with a beautiful voice alone, "Little sister and I entered the mountains..." After singing, he said bitterly: "Why are they all closed? How boring! There are people who don't want to look at such a beautiful moon tonight." !" Then he opened the lattice door, rolled up the curtain, lay down in front of the window, and said to Yun Juyan: "On such a beautiful moonlit night, there are people who are willing to sleep peacefully? Oh, it's so boring!" Yun Juyan thought in his heart Unhappy, ignore it.Many ignorant and ignorant children fell asleep one by one, and many maids were also lying crowded together.Xi Wu looked at the lively state of the population, recalled the scene of a courtyard just now, and compared the two, he felt that they were quite different.He picked up the flute and played it for a while, lying down and thinking: "After I left, it was so deserted over there! The piano probably hasn't changed its key, so I can still play it there. The old lady is also a famous piano player.  … ..." He thought again: "Why does Kashiwagi only respect the princess superficially, but has no deep love for her? This is really incomprehensible. If the imagination is beautiful, it is a unfortunate thing to be disappointed at first sight. In the world As a rule, those who are famous are often disappointing. Thinking about it this way, our husband and wife have loved each other since we were young, and we have never had any disagreements for many years. It is really rare. No wonder she is so proud." The full text of Ma Le's "Little Sister and Me": "Little sister and I enter the mountains, don't touch magnolia bushes with your hands! I'm afraid that the fragrance of clothes will be removed, making the fragrance of magnolia stronger." Xi Wu fell asleep dimly, dreaming that the late Wei Mendu was wearing civilian clothes, sitting beside him, and picked up the flute to have a look.Xiwu thought in his dream: "His dead soul is reluctant to part with this flute, so he came here looking for the sound!" But Wen Baimu said, "May I teach the flute to play profound songs, Forever passed on to future generations. It is not you that I hope to pass on. "Xiwu wanted to ask who he was counting on, but suddenly a child cried in his sleep, which woke him up. The child cried so hard that he spit out all the milk. Therefore, the wet nurse also got up, and the voices became noisy. Yun Juyan She also came with a lamp. She put her hair over her ears, teased him courteously, and sat down with him in her arms. She had been fat lately, and now she opened her plump breasts to nurse the child. This The child is also very beautiful. Although the mother's breasts are white and lovely, but she can't suck milk, she just sucks them for comfort. Xi Wu also came over to look and asked, "What's the matter? "So he asked someone to sprinkle some rice on the ground to drive away the dream demon. After a moment of commotion in the room, the sadness in Xi Wu's dream disappeared. Yun Juyan said to him: "This child seems to be sick.You are obsessed with the new tricks over there, and you still want to enjoy the moon when you come back late at night. When you open the lattice door, those ghosts will sneak in to make trouble. "She said bitterly, that delicate and angry face is really cute. Xiwu smiled and said: "I never thought that I would bring ghosts in!"That's right, if I don't open the lattice door, there will be no passage, and the ghosts will not be able to come in.After all, you are the mother of many children, so you are thoughtful and reasonable in what you say. When she said that, she stared at Yun Juyan, which made Yun Juyan feel embarrassed. She said: "Forget it, let's go inside."I look so ugly..." Under the bright light, her shy appearance was really cute. The little prince was indeed not in good health, and kept crying until dawn. General Xiwu recalled that dream and thought: "This flute is really difficult to dispose of! This is something that Kashiwagi loved before he was alive. I am not the one who should accept it, but the old lady gave it to me. It's really meaningless! I don't know Kashiwagi. What do the souls of the dead think about this? Things that they didn’t care much about during their lifetime, when they are dying, they think about them for a while, regret it, or die sadly and reluctantly, and the soul will always be confused in the world of ignorance. From this point of view, In this world, don’t be attached to anything.” He thought for a while, and then decided to ask the monks of Atago Mountain Temple to hold religious ceremonies, and to do great merit in the monastery that Kashiwagi believed in before his death.Regarding the flute, he thought: "The old lady gave it to me because of the deep friendship between Baimu and me. I will donate it to the Buddhist temple immediately. It is a good deed, but it will disappoint the old lady." So he will not dispose of it for now. , I went to Liutiaoyuan to see my father and minister. Genji was in Akashi's imperial room at this time.The third prince born to Mingshi's female imperial palace was only three years old, and he was particularly beautiful among the princes. Mrs. Zi loved this grandson very much and raised her by her side.The third prince came out of the room and shouted to Xiwu: "General! Take the prince in your arms and go over there!" He is still not good at speaking, so he also uses honorifics to himself.Xiwu smiled and said, "Come here. How can I walk past the curtain? Don't you know how to behave?" When he approached, she hugged him.The third prince said to him: "If others can't see it, I will cover your face. Go! Go!" He used his sleeve to cover Xi Wu's face.Xiwu felt that the child was very cute, so she carried him to Nvyu Akashi.The second prince and Xun-kun were playing together at Akashi Nuyu's place, and Genji was admiring them.Xiwu put the third prince down by the house.Seeing the second prince, he shouted: "I want to be hugged by the general!" The third prince said: "The general is mine!" and held Xi Wu.Seeing him, Genji reprimanded him: "Both of you have no rules! The general is the court's bodyguard, yet you fight over him as a personal servant? The third prince is really bad, he often refuses to let his brother go." Persuade.Xiwu also laughed and said: "After all, the second prince is like an older brother. He is willing to let his younger brother be very good. At his age, he is really smart!" Genji also laughed, thinking that the two grandsons are very cute.So he said to Xi Wu: "It's too ugly here, you shouldn't let Gongqing sit, go over there." He wanted to go to the main hall with him, but the two little princes kept pestering them and refused to let them leave. Mount Atago was the burial place at that time.About cypress was buried here. In Japanese, you should use honorifics when talking to elders or superiors to show respect for each other.You cannot use honorifics for yourself. Genji thought in his heart: Jun Xun, who was born to the three princesses, would be a generation older, so he shouldn't be listed with the princes.But I was afraid that the third princess would suspect that he had a preference, and would feel sorry for her instead.Genji has always been considerate, so he always caresses Kaoru-kun like the princes.Xiwu had never seen this half-brother clearly.At this time, Mr. Xun poked his head out from the gap in the curtain, and Xi Wu picked up a withered flower branch from the ground to greet him, and he walked out.He was only wearing a purple casual dress, his complexion was fair and radiant, and he was more beautiful than the princes.Muscular and plump, delicate and lovely.Maybe it's because of Xiwu's preconceptions and special attention, but I feel that although his eyes are slightly sharper and more sensitive than that of Cypress, the beauty at the tip of his eyes is very similar to that of Cypress.Especially the smacking smiles were completely consistent, maybe it was the reason why he immediately thought of Kashiwagi when he saw it.He guessed that his father must have seen it earlier, so he wanted to test his tone even more.Although the princes reminded people that they were the sons of the emperor, they looked noble, but in fact they were nothing more than ordinary beautiful children in the world.But this Mr. Xun is actually very superior, with a strange beauty.Xiwu compared them and thought: "Ah, what a pity! If what I suspect is true, then Kashiwagi's father and minister are so sad, often crying and lamenting that no one came to report that Kashiwagi had a son, hoping to raise him It would be good to be an orphan, but now that I have found it, if I don’t report it, I will be punished by the gods and Buddhas!” However, he immediately dismissed the idea: “Oh, how could such a thing happen!” But he was still not sure, and couldn’t think of it. untie.Mr. Xun has a docile temperament and is very intimate with Xi Wu, which Xi Wu thinks is really cute. Genji brought Yugiri to Mrs. Zi's side, and the two talked calmly, unaware that it was already dusk.Yugiri narrated the visit to Yiyiyuan last night, Genji smiled and listened to him.When talking about Kashiwagi’s pitiful feelings during his lifetime, Genji echoed, and later said: “There are indeed examples in ancient novels of the mood she played in “Longing for a Husband”. No, I know a lot of examples. You don’t forget your old love for Kashiwagi, and you want to express your eternal concern to his wife, which is very kind. But in this case, your heart must be clean, and you must not do anything wrong to cause accidents. In this way, there will be face on both sides, and outsiders will praise it when they see it." Xiwu thought: "What you say is true. But he only has a strong heart when he teaches others, and he can't get rid of evil thoughts when he is in the situation What?" But on the surface, he replied: "Where would he do anything wrong! Just because he sympathizes with the sorrow of the impermanence of the world, he went to condolences. If it suddenly disappeared, anti-religious outsiders mistakenly believed that he had committed a common suspicion in the world. As for the song "Looking for a Husband "Love", if the princess wanted to play it herself, it would indeed be frivolous, but the zither is at hand, and she played a few words by the way, which was very suitable for the situation at the time, and it was quite romantic. Everything in the world varies with people and things The princess is past youth, and I am not used to flirting with my son. I am afraid it is because she is at ease, her attitude is always amiable and polite." Speaking of this, Xiwu felt that a good opportunity had come, Then he moved closer to his father and told him about the cypress ghost's dream.Genji didn't answer right away. After listening to it, he thought about it, and then said: "This flute should be delivered to me. It was originally the flute used by Yang Chengyuan, and it was later passed on to the late Prince Shikibu. He cherished it very much. Later, he saw that Bomu Wei Mendu played the flute very beautifully when he was a child, and he gave it to him at the Dihua banquet one day. The old lady didn’t know the reason, so I gave it to you.” But he He thought in his heart: "If this flute is to be passed on to future generations, who else can accept it except Mr. Xun? This Xiwu is a person who thinks deeply, and must have seen the truth." Xiwu observed his father's complexion , even more scruples, did not dare to bring up the matter of Kashiwagi immediately.But he always wanted to find out the truth, so he pretended not to know it all the time but thought of it by chance at this moment, and asked: "When Baimu was dying, his son went to condolences and told him about various things behind him. Among them, how did he offend his father? I have repeated it several times. What is going on, I don’t know the reason so far, and I have doubts in my heart." When he said it, he seemed completely ignorant.Genji thought: "As expected!" But how can this be clearly stated?He pretended to be puzzled, and said, "When did I express displeasure to him, which caused him to hold a grudge forever? I can't remember it myself. As for your dream, let me take a closer look at it and tell you." You. Women used to say, 'Don't talk about dreams at night', let's not talk about it tonight." Xiwu didn't know what he said just now, and was very worried about how his father felt. Yosei-in was the emperor of the Heian period (877-884). He is the father of Zi Ji.I have never mentioned his death before, and this is the first time I see him here.