Li Qingzhao was surprised, "Husband, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh! Qingzhao, they have abducted you as well?" The man looked up and saw Li Qingzhao and was also surprised.
"No, didn't I tell you? I came to the Ding family troupe to find someone to sing."
Upon hearing this, the man said, "Is this the Ding Clan? No wonder they are so rude... Ouch! My waist."
"What's wrong with the Ding family?" Ding Dusai became unhappy when he heard this. He was about to step forward to argue, but was stopped by Zhang Shixun.
"How did you get him here?" Zhang Shixun asked Yao Dagangzi, first figuring out the situation.
"I carried it back."
"Carry...carry it back?"
"Yes, I told him that my master wanted to see him, but he refused to come, so I put him on my shoulders and ran all the way back."
Zhang Shixun was a little disheveled. This idiot had such an unrestrained way of inviting people. No wonder people were unhappy.
It’s all my fault for entrusting the wrong person to someone else. I shouldn’t have asked him to ask for help.
A guy who is always taking the blame probably only knows how to take the blame. It is his specialty.
Ding Dusai almost laughed out loud, and couldn't straighten his back because of the "hehehe" laughter.
Seeing her like that, Zhang Shixun didn't expect her to explain to others... She should just apologize quickly.
He walked over with his hands clasped together, saying, "Brother, the person who invited you misunderstood my intentions and was overly enthusiastic. I'm truly sorry... This is so embarrassing."
Li Qingzhao also said: "Husband, they invited you with good intentions..."
"Treating me? Oh my god, this is the first time I've seen someone treat someone like this. Without a word, he twisted my hands behind my back, picked me up, and ran off... I've heard that bandits in the Taihang Mountains rob people this way, and today I finally got to experience it. Luckily, he didn't hit me from behind first... Ouch! My waist."
Zhao Mingcheng spoke in such a sad tone that he almost recited his wife's poem "Sad, miserable and sorrowful".
Zhang Shixun tried hard to hold back his laughter, and apologized and made amends. It took a long time to calm him down.
Yao Dagangzi realized that he had made a mistake, so he stuffed the book he bought into Zhang Shixun's hand and disappeared with a "slide".
Zhang Shixun handed the book over and said, "Brother Zhao, this book is a gift for you. I will make a special trip to apologize to you two someday."
"Thank you, Master Zhang. It's just a misunderstanding. Don't take it too seriously." Li Qingzhao took the book and put it into Zhao Mingcheng's hands. "I have copied down Master Zhang's 'Linjiangxian'. It is indeed a rare and wonderful lyric. In addition, I also got a good poem from him. It was worth the trip."
"As long as the poem is acceptable to my lady, it can't be wrong." Zhao Mingcheng said, rubbing his waist and asked Zhang Shixun: "Are you the one who saved the emperor at Fanlou and was called 'the teacher of one finger' by the emperor?"
"It's me!"
"I heard that you later joined the Tianwu Army. How come you came to sing in the Lotus Pavilion?"
"This... is a long story. I'll tell you slowly when I have the chance." Zhang Shixun said this and turned to look at Ding Dusai, but he had disappeared. Perhaps because he was afraid of being rude, he went to find a place to laugh secretly.
"My wife, let's go home. This book is well written. I want to read it carefully when I get back." Zhao Mingcheng stuffed the book into his arms and pressed it gently. It seemed that he really liked this book.
Zhao Mingcheng is a man who left his name in history, not just because he was Li Qingzhao's husband.
He himself was also very talented and had in-depth research on bronze and stone inscriptions. His book "Records of Bronze and Stone" is a must-read book for later scholars studying ancient bronze and stone inscriptions.
The acquaintance between Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao was quite romantic. It is said that one time he and his friends went to Daxiangguo Temple to watch the lanterns and met a woman. He fell in love with her at first sight.
Coincidentally, the friend who accompanied him to watch the lanterns knew this woman, and from their conversation, Zhao Mingcheng learned that she was Li Qingzhao.
He had read Li Qingzhao's poems a long time ago and had always admired her talent. Now that he was seeing the talented woman in person, he was suddenly overjoyed.
This is exactly the woman he has always dreamed of.
After returning home, Zhao Mingcheng wrote a riddle directly for his father: - Yan and Si are combined, An is already taken off, Zhifu grass is pulled out.
His father took it and looked at it, but didn't understand it.
What the hell is this written about?
This is bullshit.
I wanted to ask my son but couldn't bring myself to do it, so I asked a friend for help.
His friend laughed when he saw it and told him, "The combination of 言 and 思 makes it the character for 词 (ci); the upper character of 安 (an) is removed, making it the character for 女 (nu); and the top character of 志芙 (zhifu) is removed, making it the character for 夫 (fu). 词女夫 (ci, nu, fu)!"
When the old man heard this, he understood that his son was going to marry a young woman.
The rest of the matter is easy. The most famous poet in Tokyo is none other than Li Qingzhao. So, don't say anything else and just go and propose marriage.
Speaking of the families of Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao, they were really a perfect match. Zhao Mingcheng's father was the famous Minister of Personnel Zhao Tingzhi, a man who was about to become a prime minister and had a prominent status.
Li Qingzhao's father was also not a simple person. He was known as one of the "Four Later Scholars" of Su Shi.
When Zhao Ting came to propose marriage, Li Gefei was the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Li Gefei immediately agreed to the marriage!
After the two got married, they lived in harmony and were very happy.
However, although Zhao Mingcheng admired Li Qingzhao's poetry, he was a little dissatisfied. He wanted to write a few poems to surpass hers. So he closed his door to visitors, forgot to eat and sleep for three days, and wrote fifty poems in one go... That's right! A full fifty poems.
He even had the ingenuity to mix a few lines from Li Qingzhao into his own ci, and then confidently asked his friend to review it. After reading it, his friend said, "Only three lines are excellent."
Zhao Mingcheng hurriedly asked what the three lines were, and his friend replied: "Don't say I'm not heartbroken; the curtains are rolled up by the west wind; I am thinner than a yellow flower."
After hearing this, Zhao Mingcheng was speechless.
It turns out that these lines were written by Li Qingzhao.
From then on, Zhao Mingcheng was completely impressed by his wife's talent.
The two were in love and had a deep affection for each other, but something that happened later created a rift between them.
Although Zhao Mingcheng was well-educated, he was a coward. When he was defending Jiangning, the rebels rebelled and he abandoned the city and fled without a care in the world.
Li Qingzhao was quite disgusted with her husband's behavior and wrote a quatrain: "In life, I should be a hero; in death, I should be a ghost hero. I still miss Xiang Yu, who refused to cross the Yangtze River."
Of course, this happened after the Jin soldiers captured Kaifeng, and it hasn't happened yet.
Zhang Shixun read books but did not seek to understand them deeply, so he knew very little about the later events of Li Qingzhao and her husband. He only knew that their father had been marginalized since Cai Jing became prime minister, and his official career had plummeted. Some were dismissed from office, some were demoted, and the family's fortunes declined. Li Qingzhao and her husband also left the capital and went to other places.
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