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15. Broken mirror and reunion

Soon, in front of the city gate of Shanzhou, Liu De's room was in a hurry, but his complexion was very good. He was now a ward-looking ward, far from the down-and-out Imperial College student in Chang'an. He walked in with several military officials, wearing a yellow horse, wearing a red robe and a silverfish bag. The horseman was holding the bridle with his horse's bridle, and his hooves were dripping, looking at the direction of the palace.

As a result, when I arrived at the big locust tree in front of the palace, Liu Deshi had just dismounted from the horse and heard a somewhat familiar but unfamiliar voice:

"Fangzhai, is it Fangzhai..."

Liu Deshi was stunned, and the whip in his hand fell to the ground.

The voice suddenly became excited, "All it is Fangzhai..."

Liu Deshi only felt his ears become hot and his teeth were fighting in a princess. He turned around slowly and slowly under the shade of the tree with an incredible look.

He saw a woman in thick veil clothes at the corner of the sun corner of the courtyard wall, with tears on her face, holding her head in her hand, and the thin donkey. The woman saw Liu Deshi looking back at her expression. Although she had been away for more than 20 years and more than 20 years, the wind and frost filled their respective faces, he was still him, and she was still her.

"Fangzhai!" The woman could no longer hold back, covered her face and cried, and knelt down with a gurgling sound.

"It's Shuying, it's Shuying!" Liu Deshi grinned, jumped on the spot three times, and then started crying. Then the military officers and horsemen around him were stunned, watching the two holding each other and crying together.

Afterwards, the woman named Shuying took out a red rope from her arms, and then took out a square paper. The paper was very old, but it was not decayed yet. Liu Deshi unfolded the paper and tears fell on it:

"The moon is setting and the dew is white, so stay here and pay attention;

When wine reaches the point of sorrow, the poem becomes chanting with tears.

Leave songs and live in the phoenix pipes, and leave the cranes and blame the jade zither;

In the morning night, where I miss you, the autumn wind blows half of the quilt.”

This was the poem he left his hometown Longxi, Weizhou, on the second day of his wedding, and rushed to the Imperial College in the capital to take the Jinshi exam, and left his wife Wei Shuying.

At that time, Weizhou was in danger, and Liu Deshi took Hexi to Chang'an.

He could not take his wife with him because financial conditions did not allow it at all.

After arriving in Chang'an, news came that Weizhou had captured Fan.

Liu Deshi did not expect that he would stay in the Imperial College for more than ten years, but failed, and suffered all the hardships and difficulties.

He thought that over the years, in such a cruel and chaotic world, the possibility of Shuying, a weak woman, survived was very slim. After he passed the Jinshi period, he had heard about the news of his hometown, but the possibility of Tang and Tibet fighting for many years was so slim that it was found on the land of Helong.

He asked himself that he was sorry to Shuying because he was eventually taken care of by Song Shuangwen on Pingkangfang and later married Shuangwen as his concubine, but he never reunited, which was also guilty in his heart.

At this moment, Liu Deshi suddenly felt like he was in a dream when he could meet Shuying again.

"After my hometown fell into Fan, I became Wenmo and was moved to this Shanzhou to farm and weave cloth for the Western Fan. Later, I, I, had remarried." At this point, a look of embarrassment and sorrow appeared on Shuying's face.

"The Chou Fan betrayed the faith, Helong was destroyed, Han soldiers fought to death, and the people became the Wen Dynasty. This is a shame and sorrow for the entire country. How to demand the whole festival of women!" When Liu Deshi took his wife to the palace to meet Gao Yue, Gao Yue was also very sad. Then he learned that Shuying had remarried and had children, and her life was very hard now, so he said so with emotion.

After the Tang army recovered Hehuang, Shuying was also assigned to the fields. When she saw that the booklet of the painting Qiutian was actually signed with the name of Liu Deshi, she came to see her with a skeptical attitude. Before leaving, the elders in the village community wanted to be a matchmaker for her (there were not so many professional matchmakers in the Tang Dynasty, and the elders were the ones who were usually married). Shuying was very hesitant. She was afraid that his husband was actually dead. This one was of the same name, but she was even more afraid that his husband was still alive.

If this is really Liu Deshi, he would be a dignified doctor and a silver fish in a breeze. He would probably have remarried with the daughter of a noble family.

But in the end she mustered up the courage. When she heard that the judge Liu Deshi, Xingyuan, came to Shancheng, she entered the city.

Then in the palace hall, I met Gao Yue, the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, who was regarded as a "noble man" by Liu De's room.

Gao Yue's attitude is very clear. Why should the women in chaos be protected?

His concept is similar to the common view of chastity in the Tang Dynasty, which is that he does not pay much attention to chastity. The dignified prime minister Yang Guozhong was sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. His wife was at home day and night, and suddenly dreamed of having sex with his husband, and gave birth to a son named Yang Bing. Guozhong returned after his death. Not only did he recognize this son, he also said very movedly: "This is due to the feelings of husband and wife." Do you really think Yang Guozhong is a fool? Not to mention the prime minister, even the royal family. Even when Emperor Zhongzong of Tang was wandering in Fangzhou, he also clearly said to Wei that "Once one day, we will not be taboos." Simply put, one day we can return to the court to restore the title of the Tang Dynasty and be emperor and queen, so we will not be taboos each other. To put it bluntly, if you go out to find a lover, I will never restrain you.

It was not until the late Tang Dynasty that the control of women gradually became stricter with the decline of society. However, in fact, in the Northern Song Dynasty, both genders were relatively free. Until the Jingkang shame, women in the Zhao family were raped and destroyed by the Jin people. I will not repeat this too much. Even the wife and daughters of the royal family were like this, let alone the wives and daughters of ordinary people. Then the elite scholars and officials, who were determined to be unable to defeat the barbaric Jin people, could only draw their swords and turn to the weaker, and began to advocate that women should "full festivals" - I can't protect you, but I can't stand you being ruined by the barbarians. For my face, it's better for you to go (to) festivals (to die).

"Now that Brother Fangzhai can reunite with A-Sister-in-law, it should be a great joy." Gao Yue then said happily and publicly stated for Liu De's room, "The children born after A-Sister-in-law remarried should also be raised by Brother Fangzhai."

"Yes, yes, yes." Liu Deshi said hurriedly. He was able to reunite his wife who had been separated for so many years. He was too late to be happy, so he would not think of any details of whether to marry again or not.

"This is Duan Jia's story. Let's write the article "Bai Juyi" and Zhitui (Bai Xingjian) immediately, and publish it in the Xingyuan Di newspaper. My sister-in-law can be a wife and come to the court to apply for it." Gao Yue only suffered from the extensive military campaigns, otherwise he would have to write it himself, polish the deeds of Liu Deshi and Shuying, and write "The Legend of Shuying" in the 9th century Tang Dynasty.

As for Shuangwen, Gao Yue said that it was nothing to do, Shuying was a wife, and Shuangwen was still a concubine, and shared wealth.

At this time, Li Xian and Zhou Ziping both arrived and excitedly reported the news about Hemenchuan in the northwest of Shanzhou. At the junction of Gan, Shan and Liang, there seemed to be a large Han Wenmo Mountain Village. Can you go to comfort me?

"This is natural!" Gao Yue made a quick decision.
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