It is said that Su Shi's sister Su Xiaomei has been reading poetry since she was a child and is proficient in management. She is a talented woman. When the younger sister was sixteen, many people came to ask her to marry her. Because she was still young, she did not plan to get married too early and tried to learn more when she was young. Therefore, she was very disgusted with the people who came to ask her to marry her, but she also Don't be rude. So she thought of a way to ask all suitors to answer three questions. If they answered correctly, they would marry him.

Su Xiaomei chose her husband based on her talents. There were many talented women in Shu, and in the Song Dynasty, another Su Xiaomei was born. It can be said that Sichuan's spiritual beauty in the Song Dynasty originated from the Su family. Su Xiaomei's father Su Xun, brothers Su Shi and Su Zhe were all very talented. It is said that "one family has father and son, three poets, and eight great poets throughout the ages."

Su Xiaomei is neither fat nor thin, with thin red lips, round face, big black eyes, high forehead and protruding jaws, she looks like a girl at first glance. A shrewd look. She has loved to quarrel with her two brothers since she was a child. She is very naive, especially the eldest brother Su Shi, who has a full beard, a protruding belly, and wears a long robe and long sleeves. He is unkempt and informal, and he is the target of her quarrel. So we kept fighting at home all day long.

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Story 1

One day Su Dongpo joked about his sister’s appearance and described his sister’s convex forehead and concave eyes as:

Three or five steps before leaving the hall, my forehead first came to the front of the painting hall;

The tears I wiped away several times were so deep that it was difficult to reach them, leaving two streams of water.

Su Xiaomei smiled and immediately retorted:

A clump of mourning grass came out of her lips, and her hair and hair were apricot; , suddenly heard a voice coming from Mao Li.

This poem mocks Su Shi's unkempt and unkempt beard. A girl is most afraid of being told about the weaknesses of her appearance. Su Xiaomei's forehead was protruding and her eye sockets were sunken, so Su Shi picked her out and teased her. Su Xiaomei said that Su Shi's beard didn't seem to have touched the sore spot, and she felt that she hadn't taken advantage of it. Cheap, after taking a closer look, he found that his brother's forehead was flat, not impressive, and he had a horse face, one foot long, with two eyes far apart. The whole facial features were out of proportion, so he immediately happily occupied another one. Poetry:

The sky is flat and the earth is wide and there are three thousand roads. Looking into the distance between my eyebrows and the clouds and Han;

Last year a drop of lovesickness tears still cannot flow down my cheeks.

Su Shi was so happy that he patted his sister on the head and laughed. When the Su brothers and sisters play proverbs, there are no taboos. They often use puns to leave you imaginable.

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Story 2

One winter, after the snow started to clear up, Su Shi put on a big fur robe and sat in a sunny place to bask in the sun. The sun and wind blew by, and the fur was fluttering. Su Xiaomei was walking by. When she saw this scene, she immediately said: "The wind blows the fur and the fur is fluttering." After saying this, she looked at Su Shi with a smile and a smirk, looking proud. . There happened to be some ice and snow on the wall in the corner where she was standing. Under the sunlight, the melted snow water was flowing down the wall. Su Shi didn't even think about it and said smoothly: "The water is flowing down the wall in the sun." "Although Su Xiaomei was still young, she had already learned about personnel matters. She immediately blushed, gave her brother a hard look, and ran away quickly. Another time, Su Xiaomei was squatting by the well to cut open the fish. Su Dongpo came back from outside and passed by on horseback. When he saw it, he immediately said: "Sister, squat down and cut the fish in half!" Su Xiaomei hesitated, but finally couldn't help it. , raised his head slightly, and said to his brother with half embarrassment and half anger: "Brother is riding a horse, step on it and give it a whip."

Su Dongpo had many monk friends. In addition, the status of women has been greatly reduced, and women's personality has been suppressed. In addition to strongly advocating women's foot binding, women are also required to speak softly, smile without showing their teeth, and hide in the boudoir every day to practice the female beauty. That day, I had to wear a red cloth on my head to prevent others from seeing me. The Su family was a family of scholars and had different views. In addition, the monks Su Dongpo interacted with were all in vain, so when Su Dongpo was chatting and joking with those monks, he did not interfere with his eloquent sister, whether she was elegant or rough. good.

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Story 3

One day, Su Dongpo went out to play with a group of monks. Su Xiaomei followed step by step, and suddenly saw a monk in the river. Swimming, sinking and floating, it was like a smooth ball rolling in the blue waves. Su Xiaomei saw this strange thing and watched it with great interest. She said in a low voice: "The monks are washing in the clear river, and the waves are rolling in the gourd." A person following her The presiding monk was also a joker, so he immediately said to her, "A beautiful woman is sitting in the blue gauze tent, with a smoked basket of peonies." The topic started to go on and on, and Su Xiaomei, not to be outdone, added another couplet:

"The monk sleeps on a brocade quilt, a gourd among thousands of flowers."

The host immediately said to him: "The woman is sleeping on a brocade quilt, and there are two lotuses in a half-acre pond."

Su Xiaomei was immediately attracted by it. My words were clumsy and I was helpless. I looked up and saw a monk punting a boat in the middle of the river. The topic changed:

"The monk is punting the boat and hitting the arhats in the middle of the river with his pole."

This couplet There are some difficulties. It is written from the "shadow", and it must be answered with the "shadow" to be appropriate. The host couldn't help but think about it carefully, and finally said:

"A beautiful woman draws water, and the rope leads Guanyin at the bottom of the well."

Su Xiaomei was unwilling to give in and attacked again:

"Five hundred Arhats crossed the river, and there were thousands of Buddha's hands on the bank."

This time Su Xiaomei met her opponent, the presiding monk He quickly said to him:

"A beautiful woman looks at the moon, and there are two cicadas in the world and in the sky."

Among Su Dongpo's many monk friends, Foyin is the one with the closest relationship. Su Xiaomei has no taboos when it comes to bickering. One day, Foyin jokingly said to her: "I have a couplet that I dare to ask the female donor to answer." The couplet is:

"A woman sleeps alone, with three hairy eyes vertically and horizontally."

Su Xiaomei is a woman. Foyin knows that she has always been competitive and never admits defeat when interacting with others. This time, he chose such a pornographic look to force Su Xiaomei to be unable to speak. Who would have expected that Su Xiaomei has always been naughty and bold, so he would have been with her earlier. My brother had experienced similar couplets before, and he didn’t think anything of it at all. Although he blushed a little at first, when he thought that you, a monk, dared to say it, there was nothing I didn’t dare to say, so he said:

" Two hateful people share the same bed, turning four bald heads upside down."

Foyin shook his head repeatedly, admitting failure, and repeatedly praised Su Xiaomei for her scheming and quick thinking. Once Su Dongpo and the monk Foyin were meditating in the forest. The sun moved the bamboo shadows, and there was silence. After a long time, Foyin said to Su Dongpo: "Look at your sitting posture, it looks exactly like the Buddha." Su Dongpo was happy and saw the brown cassock of the Buddha showing through. On the ground, he said to Foyin: "The master's sitting posture looks like a pile of cow dung." Monk Foyin just smiled. Su Dongpo thought that Monk Foyin had suffered a heavy loss this time, and he was secretly proud. He couldn't help but tell Su Xiaomei quietly. Unexpectedly, Su Xiaomei said: "Brother, you lost again. Just imagine that Foyin sees you as a Buddha with a Buddha's heart, and you are a Buddha." How do you feel about seeing the Buddha's seal?"

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The legendary marriage

Note: Qin Shaoyou's wife Xu Wenmei did not There is no historical record that Qin Shaoyou married Su Xiaomei. The following stories are purely fictitious and are for entertainment purposes only, or used as materials for costume dramas. Any similarity is purely coincidental.

Su Xiaomei has grown up gradually, but she is still very naughty. Her marriage problem is increasingly becoming a concern for the Su family and his son. Su Xiaomei is talented, smart, informal, naughty and even cheating, and she is not very good-looking. It is difficult to find a very satisfactory person to be her husband.

First, Huang Tingjian introduced Wang Anshi’s son Wang Yu to Su Xiaomei in Gu Dao Rechang, and happily brought Wang Yu’s proud work to Su Xiaomei for review. Su Xiaomei looked at it left and right, and finally told Huang Tingjian about Wang Yu’s work. The work is: "Too much novelty and beauty, but not enough subtlety and grace, it is unlikely to be a masterpiece." Huang Tingjian still wanted to win, saying that Wang Yu was extremely intelligent and could understand it after just one reading. At this time, Su Xun, who had been sitting silently next to him, said coldly: "What's so strange about this? Whose son has to read a book twice?" Huang Tingjian had nothing to say. In fact, in terms of family background and appearance, Huang Tingjian had nothing to say. , in terms of talent, Wang Yu can compare with Su Xiaomei, but Su Xiaomei just looks down on her.

Just when everyone was anxious about Su Xiaomei's marriage, Su Shi met Qin Guan and Qin Shaoyou by chance.

Qin Shaoyou is a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu today. He was born into a landlord family whose family has fallen into decline. The income from the farm is not enough to support himself. When he was a boy, he also met some singing girls in Yangzhou and Yuezhou, "the sachet was secretly solved, and the Luo belt was lightly divided." After failing to take the exam in Beijing twice, he went to Beijing for the third time in the fifth year of Yuanyou. This time, thanks to Su Shi, he was admitted and stayed in Beijing for five years and was promoted to a doctorate in the university and concurrently edited the Academy of National History. From then on, his relationship with Su Dongpo was between Among teachers and friends, Qin Shaoyou often went in and out of Su's house. The young Qin Shaoyou slowly attracted Su Xiaomei's attention. That day she saw Qin Shaoyou's poems at her brother's place and expressed her heartfelt admiration. This was a very rare thing, Su Xiaomei said. My father and brother knew this, so they actively tried to promote this marriage.

As long as Su Xiaomei had no objections, Qin Guan, one of the four scholars of the Su family, naturally had nothing to say, so Huang Tingjian, another of the four scholars of the Su family, became a ready-made matchmaker. Since Qin Shaoyou did not have an official position yet, and San Su was already famous, the wedding was naturally hosted by the Su family. Generally speaking, the bride will only spend her wedding night in shyness, joy and anxious waiting, but the clever and eccentric Su Xiaomei is ingenious. After taking advantage of the "good location" and "people-friendly" circumstances, she actually wants to The groom had to answer the three questions she asked before he was allowed to enter the bridal chamber.

The first poetic riddle is:

The copper and iron are cast into the furnace, and the ants climb up the wall;

Yin and Yang have no dual meaning, and the heaven and earth are at the center of me.

The first sentence "Putting copper and iron into the oven for smelting means "transformation". The second sentence "The ants climbed up the snow-white powder wall" means "along", "along" and "edge" In the third sentence, there is only one meaning in Yin and Yang, and that is "Tao".

In the fourth sentence, there is only "people" in the universe. ".

Qin Shaoyou figured this out after a little thought, and couldn't help but became speechless. It turned out that when Huang Tingjian told Qin Shaoyou that the Su family was going to marry Su Xiaomei to him, although he immediately agreed, he thought of the legend Su Xiaomei in the middle has a protruding forehead and sunken eyes. The romantic young man Qin Shaoyou is really worried about the appearance of his future wife. He has never seen Su Xiaomei. Due to the prevalence of Neo-Confucianism, which emphasizes that men and women should not be intimate, it is impossible to see each other again after the engagement, and it is difficult to talk to her. Others inquired and found out that this problem was getting deeper and deeper. That day, they finally learned that Su Xiaomei was going to the temple to offer incense and fulfill her vows. Qin Shaoyou took advantage of the idea and dressed himself up as a "begging priest". He waited in front of the temple gate first, and Su Xiaomei's sedan suddenly appeared. When he arrived, Qin Shaoyou went forward and begged: "Miss, you may be blessed and have a long life, I would like to show mercy!" "Su Xiaomei immediately refused in the sedan chair: "How virtuous and capable a Taoist is, how dare you ask for alms. "

What Qin Shaoyou wanted was Su Xiaomei's chat, and he immediately said: "May your body be like a medicinal tree, free from all diseases! "Su Xiaomei is very aggressive and will not be outdone, so she continues: "Follow the Taoist and spit out lotus flowers, leaving no money behind. "While answering, I thought, this man's accent is very pleasant to the ear. He must be young, so I don't know what he looks like. Judging from his alms language, he is also very clever. Su Xiaomei was curious and couldn't help but lift the curtain of the sedan chair. We want to see what happens.

What Qin Shaoyou wants is for Su Xiaomei to show his face. How can he let go of this golden opportunity and take a step forward quickly? Su Xiaomei suddenly feels that this person is Qin Shaoyou, and Xiang doesn’t want to come in. Signing for the maid to turn around and leave, Qin Shaoyou chased after her and said, "My little lady is happy all day long, why did you let go of Baoshan? Su Xiaomei was troubled in her heart and replied angrily: "Crazy Taoists are so greedy and foolish, so they have to carry the golden hole with them." "As he spoke, he got up in the sedan chair and returned home like a gust of wind. Qin Shaoyou finally saw Su Xiaomei. He felt that she was not ugly, especially because she had a noble temperament and was very charming. He was so unhappy. When Su Xiaomei returned home, she became more and more angry. So the first problem of the wedding night is to take a test on Qin Shaoyou and take revenge.

Qin Shaoyou spent time in the prostitutes in Yangzhou and other places when he was young. Zhong Shaoxing has long been cultivated to be thicker than cowhide. After figuring out the "poetic riddle", he wrote a poem:

Why does the chemical industry promote spring? It is because the flowers in the famous garden bloom by themselves;

Tao is the original master of the east wind, and no one dares to go to the flower bed.

The words at the beginning of each sentence in the poem add up to "alms alchemist", and the whole poem also implies an apology tone. Su Xiaomei was overjoyed when she saw it. She was happy for her husband's talent and agility, and she was happy for him. Finally admitted my mistake.

Immediately there was another riddle in the poem, and it was stated that the whole poem contains four historical figures, and the answers to the riddle must be stated one by one. The riddle of the poem is:

The strong master has done good things for his ancestors. He chiseled the wall to steal the light and read at night;

Qin Shaoyou studied a lot and guessed without even thinking: in the first line, the strong man who defeated the ancestor was Sun Quan, in the second line, it was Kong Ming who cut through the wall and stole the light, and in the third line, he thought of "loving mother" through threads of stitching. The thread in the hands, the clothes on the wanderer's body; there are dense seams before leaving, and I am afraid that I will return later."

Of course it is "Zi Si". The fourth sentence of the old man leaning against the door all day long is naturally looking at it. It’s Tai Gongwang.

Qin Shaoyou passed the test smoothly. For Qin Shaoyou, this exam was like a march. Every time he solved a question, he took a step forward. At this time, he had walked outside Su Xiaomei's boudoir. The Su family father and son and many All the guests were waiting attentively for the last problem. The window of the boudoir slowly opened a crack, revealing Su Xiaomei's delicate hands, and handed out a piece of paper. The servant immediately took it and handed it to Qin Shaoyou's hand, and saw that it read:

"Push open the window with both hands. The month before last, the moon and stars were sparse, and there was definitely no rain tonight."

Su Shi looked on, secretly laughing, and pointed at the word "rain" with his finger. Qin Shaoyou understood it and immediately answered:

"One stone breaks through the water and the sky, the sky is high and the air is crisp, and there will be frost tomorrow."

"It will definitely not rain tonight" appears to be following the moon and stars, but it actually implies that " It means "making love in the clouds and rain", and also has the homophony of "rain" and "yu", which means I won't talk to you tonight. Qin Shaoyou replied, "There will definitely be frost in the Ming Dynasty." "Frost" and "double" are homophonic. Since they are in pairs, they must be cloudy and rainy.

As soon as the note was handed in, the door opened. Su Xiaomei stood by the door with a smile and shyness. Qin Shaoyou entered happily. It was naturally like a dream in Wushan, where the clouds and rain were having sex.

There is another anecdote about Su Xiaomei making things difficult for Qin Guan on the wedding night.

Qin Guan heard that Su Xiaomei, Su Dongpo’s sister, was not only good-looking but also good at poetry, and he had long admired her. Then he went to Su's house to propose. Su Xun asked each suitor to write an article and submit it to his daughter for review. Xiaomei commented on Shaoyou's article: "If you are not the same as Sansu, you will be a gangster for the rest of your life." Su Xun then promised Su Xiaomei to Qin Shaoyou. On the day of the wedding, the younger sister deliberately made things difficult for her. The first two questions did not stump Qin Shaoyou, so the younger sister asked the third question: "Correct Pairs":

The moon was pushed out the window behind closed doors;

Shaoyou was afraid that the correct answers would be mediocre. Unable to show his talent, he sat by the pond and thought hard. It was not until midnight that Su Dongpo came out to inquire about his brother-in-law. He saw Shaoyou murmuring by the pond, "Close the door and push out the window to see the moon." Knowing that it was his younger sister who was causing trouble, he quietly picked up stones and threw them into the pond. Qin Shaoyou suddenly heard a "bang" and saw the moonlight in the pool scattered. He was inspired and hurriedly wrote the second line:

Throwing stones opened the sky under the water.

At this time, the bridal chamber door also opened with a "ah" sound.

Su Xiaomei’s Triple Dilemma and Three Difficulties for Qin Shaoyou

During the Jiayou reign of Song Dynasty, the famous poet Qin Shaoyou was attracted by the smart and lovely Su Xiaomei when he visited Su Shi. Su Xiaomei was not only proficient in poetry and poetry, but also good at couplets and needlework. However, under the brilliance of the "Three Sus", there were not many works handed down from generation to generation and few people knew about them. Qin Shaoyou fell in love with Su Xiaomei at first sight and decided to devote all his life's infatuation to her in order to become a perfect match.

When the wind and rain follow the autumn, the truth comes true, and the love of the lover and the sister is formed by itself. In a late autumn season with the wind blowing from the west and chrysanthemums blooming on the east fence, the lovers Qin Shaoyou and Su Xiaomei finally entered the bridal chamber, a marriage palace that has performed countless swan songs throughout the ages, and here they continue to perform classics that inherit history. story.

The girl, who is smart and astute as a man, decided to compete with Shaoyou in terms of intelligence when entering the bridal chamber. Firstly, I can spar with my sweetheart, and secondly, I want to see my lover in embarrassment. So as soon as the young girl entered the bridal chamber, she ordered the maid Yanhong to close the door, recited a couplet and asked Shaoyou to write the first couplet:

"East wing, west wing, the old house, the newlyweds enter the bridal chamber, and they will be the best man for life.

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Qin Shaoyou was deeply moved by his young sister’s devotion to him, and couldn’t help but blurt out:

“Study in the south, study in the north, teach the imperial examination in the primary school, and then marry the bride. . "

After hearing the first couplet recited by Shao You, the younger sister knew that her lover was not troubled, so she opened the door in person and invited Shao You to sit at the table. Yan Hong served the wine and food, closed the door and left quietly. Shaoyou picked up the wine glass and wanted to drink with the younger sister. The younger sister lightly opened her red lips and said, "If Mr. Qin wants to drink with me, he still has to say goodbye to me. Do you want to?" "

Shaoyou knew his little sister's temper very well. Since he had this intention, he would not stop complaining. Then he stood up and bowed:

"Please let me go out." ”

“After three rounds of drinking, we exchange glasses for glasses of cheers, and drink them all without saying a word. ”

Now this can stump Shaoyou. The purpose of this couplet is to talk about wine, but it is actually a metaphor for love, and the beauty lies in understanding. If this couplet is to be used, it must not only work well, but also conform to the scene and meaning. . Shaoyou pondered for a long time, but he didn't know what to say. The younger sister didn't say a word and didn't bother him. She just tapped her fingers on the table. Shaoyou came back to her senses, looked at the dishes on the table, and suddenly understood. Said:

“The dishes are full of five flavors, beautiful in shape, color and delicious, and the beauty will remain in my heart. ”

Shaoyou used vegetables as a metaphor for people, and his praise was invisible. He was so embarrassed that the little girl stretched out her arms, covered her face with her sleeves, and drank this refreshing cup of wine.

When Yan Hong left the banquet, the moon was already in the sky. Shao You held the girl's hand, looked at each other, and said shyly: "In front of the red curtain, I hold hands with you. Go to bed and make another couplet. "

Shaoyou knew that there were only three things to do, let alone two couplets to each other, and he suddenly felt heroic: "Thank you for your help, little sister, please give me the couplet."

"Although I am young, I have small hands and feet. Small mouth, small but not stingy, you have to be careful. "

The little girl spit out eight "little" words in one breath, praising herself for her alertness and revealing her arrogance. Shaoyou couldn't help but frown. He paced back and forth, unable to groan, and couldn't help but feel anxious secretly. When the younger sister saw the drums at midnight and the moon moving to the west, she also felt regretful. She just kept looking at Shaoyou with tender eyes. His heart was moved, and he said casually:

"Young travels are young, you have a young family, a small room and a young wife. It is rare and rare to find a young girl. I am willing to marry a young girl. ”

The younger sister carefully studied this couplet and felt that Shaoyou was indicating his determination to marry himself as his wife. He also said that there were few people in the world who did not fall into the ambition of a man and felt happy, so she put out the candle on the pine tree. It was said that shortly after the wedding, Su Xiaomei went to the temple to offer incense and fulfill her vow. The monk was very familiar with the brothers and sisters of the Su family. At this time, the monk deliberately asked Su Xiaomei: "How does it feel to be newlywed?" "Su Xiaomei smiled and did not answer, but asked for paper and pen to write out the numbers, and then personally pasted the note inside the big clock. She told the monk that if you want to know the truth, you can find out at a glance. The monk had no choice but to put his bald head into the clock. On the paper it was written: "This is it. Qin Shaoyou, who was happy to accompany him, laughed loudly.

Qin Shaoyou once "won the reputation of being a brothel boy" among the geishas, ??and he had various means to mobilize women's enthusiasm.

Qin Shaoyou He is good at composing lyrics, and his lyrics are good at expressing sentimental emotions through melancholy scenery and subtle intonations. His lyrics are just like his person. Qin Shaoyou's temperament is also deeply loved by Su Xiaomei. Unfortunately, God is jealous of his fate. Only a few years after their marriage, Su Xiaomei... He passed away. At that time, Qin Shaoyou was an official abroad and was politically frustrated. When he heard the news, he sadly wrote a poem "Qianqiu Sui":

"Beyond the sand by the water, the city is cold in spring. Retreat, the shadows of flowers are chaotic, and the sound of mandarin ducks is broken. The wine and helmet are scattered, and the belt of clothes is loosened in farewell. No one can be seen, the blue clouds and dusk are facing each other in the sky. Recalling the gathering at the West Pond in the past, gulls and mandarin ducks flew hand in hand, who is there now? Clear dreams fade away by the sun, but beauty changes in the mirror. Spring is gone, and there are thousands of red flowers and sorrow like the sea. ”

Later Qin Shaoyou took a woman named Xu Wenying as his wife. This is a postscript.