Red Mansion, Second Master Lian is too despicable

Chapter 122 Miscellaneous Talk: People who change places but remain the same

Although his family was wealthy, Ni Zan did not suffer from the bad habits of playboys, and he was very strict about his own learning and cultivation.There are many books in the home, including classics, histories, works, collections, Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures, and books and paintings by famous artists.In addition to studying classics carefully at home every day, Ni Zan also practiced calligraphy and copied ancient paintings.Sometimes when he went out to travel, he would sketch the valuable scenery and objects he saw. On the one hand, he observed nature carefully, and on the other hand, he inherited traditional techniques and learned from the strengths of various schools, which laid a solid foundation for his later innovations in painting. Base.

Ni Yunlin has severe mysophobia.He asked his servant to go to Huishan Mountain, which was more than ten miles away, to fetch spring water. When the servant returned from fetching water, he found that Ni Yunlin was waiting at home, and only used the bucket of water in front of him to make tea, and the bucket of water behind him to wash his feet.Sometimes it's cloudy and rainy, and the roads are muddy. It's not easy to carry water up the mountain and walk such a long way. It's understandable that I want to make tea. The well water at home can be used to wash my feet. The servants can't understand. Could it be that the boss is deliberately trying to mess with me?I couldn't help but ask the reason. Ni Zan's explanation was simple. He was afraid that the servant would fart on the road, so the bucket behind him could only be used to wash feet.The servant was angry and laughed after hearing this. Who can guarantee that the two buckets of water have not changed positions during such a long journey?Besides, it remains to be studied whether the fart can be smoked into the water.This is probably what people often say, "out of sight, out of mind"!

In daily life, the tableware, clothes, furniture, and floors are spotless. Ni Yunlin's four treasures of the study are also managed by two dedicated servants who can scrub them at any time.Even the plane trees in the courtyard have to be washed clean with water every morning and evening.

One day, a friend came to visit. After the banquet, it was too late, so he stayed.He was afraid that his friends would not be hygienic and would not urinate in the courtyard after leaving the house until midnight!He got up three or four times overnight. Seeing that his friend knew how to go to the toilet even though he was drunk, he could finally go to sleep with peace of mind.

As soon as Ni Zan lay down, he suddenly heard his friend cough, and he was so worried that he stayed up all night.After daybreak, his friend also left. He hurriedly asked his servant to find where his friend's spit was.The servants searched every corner but found no trace of phlegm. The servants knew what kind of temper the boss had!Afraid of being scolded, I had to find a fallen sycamore leaf and spit it out myself.I ran to the boss and reported that I found it!Ni Zan curled his lips and glanced at it, then covered his nose in disgust, ducked aside, and ordered his servants to send it three miles away before throwing it away.

Ni Yunlin is not pretending to be clean, he has his own dedicated toilet.Wooden piles are driven on the ground, and fragrant wood is used to build the floor and screen on the wooden piles, and vanilla is used to make the roof. Small holes are left on the fragrant wood floor for defecation, and earth pits are dug on the ground and filled with snow-white goose feathers.He defecated in the incense toilet, and his excrement fell into the pit and was immediately covered by light goose feathers. He could neither smell nor see it. It was more advanced than the current flush toilets that are smoked with incense. It seems that poverty really limits captured our imaginations!
Because of mysophobia, Ni Zan rarely gets close to women and pays special attention to hygiene when he is with his wife.But one time, he fell in love with a singer who was beautiful. He played music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea and chatted happily. Ni Zan thought about it and took the singer home to spend the night.The singer took a bath first, and took a long time with the help of the servants. After washing, she was not allowed to go to bed. Ni Zan touched her head to her feet and smelled while touching her. She felt that it was not clean enough and asked her to wash it again.After washing for a long time, Ni Zan was not allowed to go to bed. Ni Zan touched and smelled her again. She was worried and asked the singer to wash her well.After washing and washing, a layer of skin was soaked off. At dawn, Ni Zan fell asleep by himself.

When Ni Zan was about 30 years old, his eldest brother Ni Zhaokui died, and then his mother also died.Ni Zan was extremely sad, and the privileges he had enjoyed relying on his eldest brother's Taoist status were gone, and the Ni family became just ordinary big landowners.He is still unwilling to let go of his elegant figure to manage mundane affairs and let his subordinates run the business. He makes friends by himself and just "plays"!
Monks, Taoist priests, poets, and painters all liked to make friends with Ni Zan.As long as money is spent on eating, drinking and having fun, Mr. Ni will pay for it.It was also at this time that he met Huang Gongwang, a great painter of the same period, the master who painted "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" who was very slow.Huang Gongwang was a celebrity in the emerging Taoist Quanzhen sect at that time. He spent ten years painting "Scroll of Landscapes and Landscapes" for Ni Zan, which is one of Huang Gongwang's "Light Crimson Landscape" masterpieces.Ni Zan had invested a lot to be able to allow the famous painter Huang Gongwang, who was much older than him, to spend so much time painting for him!He himself also followed Huang Gongwang and joined the Quanzhen Sect. After joining the religion, Ni Zan's thoughts of transcending the world and escaping from reality reached its peak. This thought was also reflected in his paintings, which are characterized by desolation, simplicity, solemnity and indifference.It had a great influence on the later Dong Qichang and Bada Shanren.

Ni Zan’s eldest son died early, and his second son was at odds with him. When he was 52 years old, it was the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. The social reality was similar to the situation Zhen Shiyin encountered in "A Dream of Red Mansions". Dog thieves make the people uneasy, so officers and soldiers hunt down and arrest, making it difficult for them to settle down." Ni Zan himself had too many shortcomings, and his son couldn't bear to see such a prodigal father like him, so they separated from him.

Anyway, he was not good at management, so Ni Zan simply sold all his houses and properties, and then took his old servants and precious classics, calligraphy and paintings as his home, and roamed Taihu Lake on a boat.The land was sold, but the taxes were not paid. Perhaps Ni Zan didn't even know that he still had to pay taxes. Not long after, he was arrested by the government on the edge of Taihu Lake and put in prison.

During the meal, the jailer delivered food into the cell and shouted: "It's time to eat!" Ni Zan asked the jailer to raise the bowl to the height of his eyebrows. The jailer asked him, I am not your wife, why should I "raise the case to my eyebrows"?Ni Zan said, "I'm afraid your spit will spray into the rice." The jailer was furious and locked him in the cell next to the toilet. He suffered for a few days. With the help of his friends, he asked officials and paid back the taxes. released.

He continued to live a wandering life. Unexpectedly, one day he met Zhang Shixin by the Taihu Lake.At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were several big brothers in the Jianghu. Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng were more powerful than Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning. Zhang Shixin was Zhang Shicheng's younger brother.When Ni Zan was using the suspended bathroom at home, Zhang Shixin gave him a lot of money and sent someone to bring painting silk to ask him to paint. Ni Zan looked down on the Zhang brothers who were salt dealers, so he tore up the silk and refunded the money.Now that he has no fixed abode and is erratic, he should be unlucky to meet Zhang Shixin. Zhang Shixin is not polite and beats the old man violently.When Ni Zan was beaten, he gritted his teeth and shut up, keeping silent. Afterwards, someone asked him if he was afraid that he would be beaten more severely if he shouted.Ni Zan replied: "As soon as you say something, it becomes vulgar."

Ni Zan was aloof and aloof, did not engage in worldly affairs, and ignored the common people even when he was beaten.Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the world, he sent many people to Taihu Lake to search, found Ni Zan, and wanted to invite him to become an official.He declined many times, but Zhu Yuanzhang invited him again and again. Later, he said: "Only by the clear water, not contaminated by dust."Moreover, when he wrote poems and inscriptions on the paintings, he only used the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches to chronologically, and did not use the Hongwu chronology, which offended Zhu Yuanzhang.

There are two versions about the cause of Ni Zan's death. One is that he suffered from dysentery before his death. An old man in his 70s stunk when he died.Another theory is that he was thrown into a manure pit by Zhu Yuanzhang and drowned.

Ni Zan, like Xu You mentioned in the previous episodes, avoided becoming an official. The other celebrities discussed who were born with both good and evil talents all had official experience or worked hard to become an official, but Ni Zan was not interested at all. Jia Baoyu is very similar to him in this regard.

Ni Zan left behind many poems. In his later years, he lived in a war-torn environment. He wanted to escape from reality, but could not escape from reality.I want to no longer be lonely, but I can’t integrate into society.One of his poems is "The wind lantern illuminates the night and the person sleeps alone, the window is open and the river rains and the cranes rely on each other", which is a portrayal of his wandering life.This sentence was also used by the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" in Sister Lin's "The Burial of Flowers", "The green lantern shines on the wall when the person is sleeping for the first time, and the cold rain knocks on the window and the quilt is not warm." Tang Bohu, the best friend born from the two talents of good and evil , Zhu Zhishan
[Text: Men and women who are born with this spirit will not be able to become benevolent gentlemen above, nor will they be capable of great evil below.Among tens of thousands of people, his cleverness, handsomeness, and grace will be superior to those of tens of thousands of people, while his absurdity and inhumane attitude will be below those of tens of millions of people.If you are born into a rich and noble family, you will be of the infatuated kind. If you are born into a poor family with poetry and literature, you will be a dissolute and noble person. Even if you happen to be born into a poor family in Bo Zuo, you will never be able to serve as a foot soldier and will be driven away by mediocrity. Controlling the system will definitely be a famous and famous one.Such as Xu You, Tao Qian, Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Liu Ling, the Wang Xie clan, Gu Hutou, Chen Houzhu, Tang Minghuang, Song Huizong, Liu Tingzhi, Wen Feiqing, Minangong, Shi Manqing, Liu Qiqing, Qin Shaoyou in the previous generation, Recently, Ni Yunlin, Tang Bohu, Zhu Zhishan, and others like Li Guinian, Huang Banchuochuò, Jing Xinmo, Zhuo Wenjun, Hongfu, Xue Tao, Cui Ying, Chaoyun and others.These are all the same people who changed places. 】This "people who are the same in different places" refers to a type of people who are born when righteousness and evil are fighting each other. This kind of people have both righteousness and evil in them, although they are from different times and have different experiences. The opportunities are different, but the nature of these people is the same, that is, they have both good and evil talents.

Jia Yucun gave a lot of examples of people born with good and evil talents. We will introduce them one by one according to the order of appearance.

18. Tang Bohu
Tang Yin, courtesy name Bohu, also known as Liuru Jushi and the master of Taohua Temple, was a native of Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili Province. He was a famous painter, calligrapher and poet in the Ming Dynasty.

Feng Menglong wrote "Tang Jieyuan's Marriage with a Smile" in "Tong Jieyuan", which was later adapted into "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance". Many friends are deeply impressed by Tang Yin because of Mr. Stephen Chow. In reality, Tang Bohu did not marry eight cousins ​​and then click on it. Qiuxiang's rich son.Judging from the portrait, Tang Bohu is definitely not as good-looking as Stephen Chow.Teacher Guo Degang also said that he had seen a portrait of Tang Bohu, who was just a fat man with a beard and looked worse than Teacher Guo himself.In short, Tang Bohu is not handsome at all, let alone a rich second generation!

At best, he comes from a well-off family. His father, Tang Guangde, runs a tavern and does business and has some savings.Feudal society had a strong sense of hierarchy. "Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants", the social status of merchants was not as good as that of craftsmen. Through reading and studying, merchants could become scholars with a higher social status.Tang Guangde thought to himself that when I was young, I didn't have the opportunity to study hard. I worked hard in business. I earned money, and others collected money from door to door. Now I have saved some money to support my son's study. In the future, he will also become a civil servant. Money brings power and honor to one's ancestors.

Tang Yin was quite successful. At the age of 16, he passed No. 1 in the Suzhou Prefectural Examination and became a scholar. He was known as the "Four Talents of Wuzhong" along with Zhu Zhishan, Wen Zhengming, and Xu Zhenqing, and was called the "Four Talents of Jiangnan" in the movie.Tang Yin got married. As a scholar, he had completed "cultivating himself and managing his family", and he was just waiting to "ruminate the country and bring peace to the world."

Who would have thought that as soon as Tang Bohu turned 24, his birth year passed, he would face the first sudden change in his life.This year his father passed away, and soon his mother also passed away, but the God of Death did not leave. Then Tang Yin's sister died of illness, which became more and more miserable day by day.In the end, the wife had difficulty in giving birth and took the baby away with her.Tang Bohu has been organizing funerals for more than a year, until only he and his younger brother Tang Shen are left at home. To use a line in the movie, who dares to be more miserable than him?But the tragedy is yet to come.

Relatives died one after another, leading to a lonely life and a declining family. Under the advice of his friend Zhu Zhishan, Tang Bohu devoted himself to studying and preparing for the scientific examination during his filial piety.After the filial piety period expired, he remarried his wife. Just as the provincial examination was about to be held, something happened to Tang Bohu again.There is also a qualification examination before the rural examination, and only those who pass the examination can participate in the rural examination every three years.During the qualification examination period, Tang Yin drank with friends and visited prostitutes. He was reported and the imperial censor canceled Tang Yin's qualification for the provincial examination.

Later, because the Suzhou prefect cherished talents, famous celebrities in Suzhou, Wen Lin, the father of Tang Bohu's friend Wen Zhengming, and others interceded for Tang Yin, so that he had the opportunity to participate in the provincial examination. Tang Yin, 28, passed the Yingtianfu Township Examination No. 1, "Jie Yuan".Yingtianfu governs southern Zhili, which is equivalent to Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shanghai today. Two provinces and one city ranked first in the college entrance examination.Life's ups and downs come so fast, it's like spring breeze brings new life!

Tang Jieyuan intensified his activities and indulged in life. His wife persuaded him, but he refused to listen. She was also afraid that he would become a high official in the future and would have three wives and four concubines. After all, he could have a good material life for a lifetime, so he swallowed his anger and did not dare to do it again. advise.His friend couldn't stand it anymore and came to advise him. Zhu Zhishan told Tang Yin not to be too arrogant when he was proud of himself.Wen Zhengming also persuaded him. Not only did he not appreciate it, but he also wanted to break up with Wen Zhengming.

Tang Jieyuan was proud of his horse's hoof disease and went to Beijing to take part in the examination. He walked north from Suzhou, passed by Wuxi, and arrived in Jiangyin.Someone he met in the provincial examination hall invited him to have a meal and have fun. The man's name was Xu Jing. He praised Tang Bohu for his brilliant literary skills.

Of course Tang Bohu is happy!Xu Jing was from the same background as the Ni Zan I just mentioned. He was also from the rich generation. His family had a "Wanjuan Tower" with various classics and famous works. The Xu family was not only rich and powerful in Jiangyin, but also had many relatives and friends in the capital. In the old days, Xu Jing was with me, and Xu Gongzi paid for the food, drinks, and entertainment. Not only did I save on travel expenses, but I also made a lot of connections.

Nowadays, students who study in prestigious schools are not only good at learning skills, they may also come into contact with people who are better than themselves and get help from their classmates in their future work and life.Of course Tang Bohu understood this, but what was beneficial was harmful, and he ushered in the second sudden change in his life.

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