Text/Shangguan Feihong
Du Mu When serving as the secretary of Xuanzhou Mu in Anhui, I heard that the beauty of Huzhou was like a cloud, and once went to Huzhou to play. Cui Jun, the governor of Huzhou, knew Du Mu's poem name and gave him a warm hospitality. Cui Jun summoned all the famous prostitutes in this prefecture for Du Mu to choose. But Du Mu looked and looked, but said with a little regret: "These beauties are beautiful, but they are not perfect enough." When it was over, Du Mu said: "I hope to hold a recreational event on the riverside, so that all People from Huzhou came to watch. Then I would walk slowly in the crowd, searching carefully, and maybe I could find the person I like." According to Du Mu's wishes, Huzhou governor really held such a race.
On the day of the race, there were crowds of onlookers on both sides of the strait, but Du Mu picked it up for a day, and until the evening, he did not find a satisfactory one. Seeing that the boat was about to be reclaimed and landed, among the crowd, there was an old village woman leading a girl, about a teenager. Du Mu looked at it for a long time, and said excitedly: "This girl's face is truly a national beauty, and the previous ones are really imaginary!"
Du Mu made this When the mother and daughter received a conversation from the boat, the mother and daughter were very scared when they saw the official. Du Mu comforted them and explained their intentions. At the same time, he explained: "I like your girl, but I don't want to marry her right away. I just want to set a date to marry her." The old woman said, "Then, if the adult is in the future. What should I do if I break my contract and break my promise?" Du Mu said, "I will definitely come here to be the county guard in less than ten years. If you don't fulfill the promise in ten years, then marry your daughter to someone else according to your wishes." Girl's The mother agreed to Du Mu's agreement. Du Mu gave the old woman a more expensive betrothal gift.
Since the separation, Du Mu has been missing Huzhou and this lovely girl. However, because of his relatively low official position at the time, he could not make a request for transfer to Huzhou. Later, he successively took up the official posts of Huangzhou, Chizhou and Muzhou governors.But that was not his intention. When his good friend Zhou Chi became prime minister, Du Mu seized the opportunity to write three letters to each other in succession, requesting him to serve as the governor of Huzhou. In three years of junior high school, Du Mu was 41 years old and finally got the post of Huzhou governor. At this time, fourteen years have passed since Du Mu and the mother and daughter agreed to welcome their relatives.
After Du Mu went to Huzhou as the governor, he immediately found the mother and daughter of the year. Unfortunately, the girl has been married for more than three years and has given birth to three children. Du Mu felt angry and sent someone to call the girl's mother back and forth. The old woman brought her grandson to see Du Mu. Du Mu asked her: "Old woman, you have promised to marry your daughter to me before. Why are you breaking the agreement now?" The old woman said unhurriedly, "My lord, when you agreed to marry me at the time? Ten years, but ten years later, you didn’t come to fulfill your promise. My daughter waited hard for an adult, she couldn’t wait for you, and she got married in desperation.” Du Mu took out the covenant and looked at it, thinking in his heart "She made a lot of sense. If you force her, I'm afraid it will cause trouble, let's forget about it." Du Mu gave the old woman a lot of gifts and sent her away.
Later, Du Mu was unable to let go of this sad love story for a long time, and wrote such a slightly sad seven-character quatrain:
Since the search for spring is late, I have seen it in previous years. Time.
Now the wind is in a mess, and the green leaves are full of yin.
A generation of great poets has such a romantic and regretful love story, which is also a good story.
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