Chapter 31 The Room with Snowflakes (Part 1)

Mrs. Wang is the daughter of a Jinshi and was born in an official family. At this moment, the skirt she wore was wearing did not have any accessories. Because she had to go to the field to work, the corners of her skirt were raised so high that she showed barefoot while walking.

She was barefoot - this woman who was famous for Su Shi for generations, actually barefoot.

After walking a few steps, Zhao Xing finally couldn't help it. He ignored Mrs. Wang's surprise and rushed to the hillside where Su Dongpo worked, and squatted in the "Dongpo Field" and secretly felt sad.

Why she was barefoot? It was because she had to go to the fields to work. The grass stems were hard and would wear out her shoes. In order to save her shoes, she had to work barefoot and would rather hurt her feet. Today, if it weren't for Zhao Xing's sudden visit, but for that kind of formal visit, Mrs. Wang might have put on her shoes to greet him.

But now she didn't have time to change her clothes, which was why she just stood in the yard and refused to come out and urged Zhao Xing to leave.

What else is more tragic than this?

The super unlucky Chinese officialdom, the super idol of Asia for thousands of years, the great writer who has been told through the ages, Su Dongpo's wife, and the characters in poetry and paintings, can't afford to buy extra shoes...

However,..., Su Dongpo can afford wine.

What a tenderness this is!

Mrs. Wang quietly walked into her house and called out her eldest son Su Mai, the man from the mountain on the slope just now, to entertain Zhao Xing.

Su Mai seemed very silent. He stood on the hillside waiting for Zhao Xing. During this period, there was no persuasion. It was not until Cheng Xia's arrival that the deadlock broke.

In front of his students, Zhao Xing had to maintain a teacher-teacher form. He directed the students to move the gifts he brought into the room. Mrs. Wang led the other two children out to thank him. During this period, a pregnant woman with a big belly also came out to salute Zhao Xing.

This pregnant woman who was about to give birth is Chaoyun, the concubine who was "There is no fragrant grass everywhere in the world". The meaning of Su Shi's poem is that no matter where you go, no matter how difficult it is, there are "香花" like Chaoyun who is with him day and night.

Chaoyun was twelve years old and became a living by singing. Su Shi and Wang Runzhi traveled to West Lake and heard her wonderful singing voice, so he praised without any concealment: "I want to compare West Lake with West Lake, and it is suitable for light makeup and heavy makeup."

The careful Wang Runzhi saw her husband's thoughts, secretly bought her, and sent someone to Su Shi as a maid. Su Shi accepted it with a smile. Later, Chaoyun became Su Shi's third wife.

Su Shi once jealous of Liu Yong's fate, but Liu Yong was jealous of Su Shi's fate from the bottom of his heart. Liu Yong's affectionateness lies in loving multiple women at the same time, while Su Shi's affectionateness lies in loving a certain woman at different times.

The students had already given their "gambling debt", and Zhao Xing didn't want to leave yet. He emphasized that he was "not worried about Mr. Dongpo". Su Mai had no choice but to lead him to Su Dongpo's bedroom... Well, although Su Dongpo's snoring was much lower at this time, feeling the thunder that looked like a shelling up close still shocked Zhao Xing.

This is a room full of snowflakes, and Su Dongpo's romantic temperament is revealed in his bedroom.

At that time, most people had no concept of house decoration, but Su Dongpo drew snowflakes in the room and named his bedroom "Snow House".

In this way, a small earthen house became simple and elegant because of the flying snowflakes.

It is said that when Xu Junyou was visiting Su Dongpo, he saw Su Dongpo decorating his bedroom like this and said sympathetically: "You must feel very deserted and desolate when you live in this house."

Su Dongpo pointed to the pine, bamboo and plum swaying outside the window, and smiled heartily: "The two musics of wind and spring, and the three good friends of pine and bamboo." This means that the sound of the breeze blowing and the gurgling spring water is two beautiful music. The evergreen pine and cypress, the bamboo that has not yet shined in the cold winter and the plum blossoms blooming proudly in the snow are the best friends who accompany each other in the severe winter.

As a result, the saying "Three Friends in the Cold Year" has emerged in the world, and it gradually evolved into auspicious patterns that are appreciated by both the elite and the masses, and have been passed down to this day.

Zhao Xing didn't know that this was the holy place of "Three Friends of the Cold Years". He only felt that people like Su Dongpo should live in such a simple and elegant room - an ordinary small mud house. Because of Su Dongpo's romance, it became a temple, which was commensurate...

Wait, what kind of paint was used to draw the snowflakes on the wall - Zhao Xing approached the snowflakes, looked at the snowflakes in disbelief, and then looked at Su Dongpo, who was still sleeping soundly.

It turned out to be lime.

How did he know that he could use lime to paint the wall? Could it be that there was already lime in the Song Dynasty?

Zhao Xing pointed to the snowflakes on the wall, turned his eyes to Su Mai, and asked with his eyes. But Su Mai seemed to have no expression on his face, but he just crossed his hands with respect.

Su Mai's calm personality is due to the tragic change in his situation. When Su Shi was exiled to Huangzhou and had nowhere to live, he had to live in Dinghui Courtyard in Huangzhou. He wrote "Bu Suanzi? Huangzhou Dinghui Courtyard in Huangzhou": "The moon hangs in the sparse tung tree,

The first tranquility of the person is lost,

I saw a lonely man coming and going,

The misty lonely shadow of the wild golf.

Shocked but turned back,

No one can save you from hatred.

I picked up all the cold branches and refused to live,

The lonely sandbank is cold.”

It is said that there is also a gossip story in this poem: A Song man loved this poem so much that he went to Huangzhou to visit his old man to feel the charm of the poem. Unexpectedly, he asked about a gossip behind this small poem - this poem was written for a woman named Wang.

It is said (why is it said again), when Su Shi was exiled to Huangzhou, there was a girl next door listening to Su Shi studying through the wall every day. At that time, women rarely read, and men who were good at reading had a magical charm in their eyes. This little girl listened to Su Shi reading every day and gradually became addicted to it.

She was in love at the age of the beginning, and her family was about to marry her, but she boldly proposed her concept of choosing a son-in-law: if you want to marry, marry someone who is at the same level as Su Shi! This sentence actually means: If you don’t marry Su Shi!

This ideal is obviously not realistic, so "If you don't marry Su Shi, you can only become single and end up in old age or even depressed. A young girl died tragically under Su Shi's charm, and gave a sad footnote to the old saying "There is a beauty in the book". Su Shi wrote this song "Bu Suanzi" for this infatuated woman, which made a song of love elegy for the eternal elegy...

It is difficult to distinguish whether this gossip is true or false, but the poem "picking up all the cold branches and unwilling to live in the lonely sand bank" is the best portrayal of Su Shi's mood at that time. There are two words "cold" and "cold" in the poem, which means that the house he lived in was cold and cold at that time - from then on, Su Mai became disliked to talk.
Chapter completed!