Chen Yun: I don't regret that my belt has widened.

If Shen Fu hadn't left the manuscript of Six Chapters of a Floating Life, our impression of him might only be the refreshing child in the Chinese textbook who made mosquitoes fly like cranes. There is no way to know that there is a woman like Chen Yun who is infinitely pitied. She has crossed the world.

Chen Yun, whose name is Shu Zhen, is the daughter of Mr Xin Yu, a relative of Uncle Shen Fu's family. They were childhood friends. She described in the book is so clever that when she learns to speak, she can recite it by listening to the pipa once.

When she was four years old, her father died and her family was in a difficult situation. When she is older and proficient in needlework, she will do some needlework for her family.

Later, my mother got a copy of Pipa. Because she could recite it, she recognized it word by word, and then she began to read it. Gradually I became familiar with the chanting after embroidery.

When Shen Fu was thirteen years old, she went to my uncle's house with her mother and saw a poem written by a young girl. She read the sentence "Autumn invades thin shadows, and frost dyes chrysanthemum fat". She couldn't help admiring her talent, but she never forgot it in her heart.

He said to his mother, "If you choose a daughter-in-law for your child, don't marry a sister who is not Shu." (Because Chen Yun is several months older than Shen Fu, they have been brother and sister since childhood. ) Shen's mother loves her mother too, so she took off her ring as a gift, discussed marriage with her mother and made an engagement.

Mother was born with fine features and bright eyes, but slightly thin. On the eve of the wedding, I saw that she was as thin as before. When Shen Fu asked, she said that she had fasted for many years. Secretly calculated her fasting time, it was the day when she got chicken pox, and Shen realized that she was praying for herself.

So I comforted her and said, I'm all right now, and Sister Shu can serve meat. She smiled and nodded with her eyes. At present, the two of them are talking and laughing side by side, gossiping about the past, like a reunion of close friends.

At the full-term wedding, Shen Fu's husband urged him to go back to the school auditorium, and his mother gently encouraged him to set out and helped to pack his luggage. Until he left, he didn't give up: "Nobody cares about this, you should pay attention." Later, Mr. Wang looked at Shen's unhappy father, made allowance for his mood, arranged a title and sent him home.

Shen Fu returned to the hot house and took his mother to Canglang Pavilion for the summer. There is a small pavilion surrounded by water, and an old tree by the window is born, with lush foliage, reflecting the cool green in the room.

Because of the hot weather, my mother abandoned the embroidery work of female workers and read and wrote poems with her husband, enjoying the moon and flowers and gambling on wine for fun. Shen Fu lamented that "the happiness on earth is nothing more than this" and praised Yunniang as the only confidant in this life.

Natural brides don't like beaded flowers, but they are addicted to calligraphy and painting. After doing housework, Nvhong devotes herself to collecting ancient books and supplementing the classification, and enjoys it.

But when it comes to mother's blue heart, it is not only reflected in poetry. She makes full use of ordinary things around her to make her life interesting:

When the lotus is in full bloom, mother puts the tea in the flower heart, wraps it with gauze, takes it the next day, and cooks spring water to make tea, so that the tea will be more fragrant. So elegant and profound, it is similar to Wei Zi picking lotus leaf dew to make tea in Princess Zhu Huan.

There is a temple dedicated to the king of Dongting Lake near their home. On the birthday of the king of Dongting Lake, the light and shadow are dim and the fragrance floats, just like a banquet in the Dragon Palace. Mother was very moved when she heard that, but at that time, education was strict, and men and women always let people gossip when they went out.

She felt sorry for herself. Shen Fu came up with an idea to dress her up as a man, and then she walked like a man. So, my mother was afraid that her in-laws would know the blame, but she chickened out and said no. Finally, Shen Fu dragged her out of the door. Tourists are like clouds all the way, so lively.

One day, Shen Fu sighed, "It's a pity that you are a woman. If you can be a man, we can visit famous mountains and rivers together, and it would be great! " The nun said, "When my body turns white, let's take a good walk together." Shen Fu said, I'm afraid I was too old to walk at that time, but Chen Yun said, it's impossible in this life, and it will never be possible.

On Tanabata that year, Shen Fu carved two seals of "May you be husband and wife forever". Shen Fu kept them in Yang and Chen Yun kept them in Yin, and they exchanged letters.

They are infatuated with each other, and they also have portraits of the old moon painted and hung indoors, and often burn incense to pray for the afterlife. Unfortunately, due to various changes, the couple were displaced and the picture scroll disappeared.

Later, they lived in an old servant's house and in a remote and humble place. Hui Xin's mother-in-law covered the wall with white paper, and the room immediately took on a new look. She also planted chrysanthemums at the fence. When the flowers bloom, she enjoys the flowers and sings poems, which is also a happy way.

Neighbors are an old couple who grow vegetables. When they saw the lovely fruits and vegetables in the garden, mother sighed: If you can settle here and plant fruits and vegetables everywhere in the future, you won't have to visit famous mountains everywhere.

However, things are always unsatisfactory. After giving birth to a pair of children, the mother's health is not as good as before. Worried that she could not serve Shen Fu well, she secretly planned to marry him a concubine. Unexpectedly, this became the beginning of a bigger disaster.

This woman named Hanyuan is a beautiful and talented geisha. She fell in love with her, but Hanyuan finally married someone else, so her mother was worried and her condition became worse.

At that time, the couple were independent and the family was poor. They can't bear to drag their families down. Mother never went to see a doctor, but just when she was able to get up, she embroidered scriptures urgently to subsidize her family. Later, he was expelled from the house and separated from his closest relatives, and he was heartbroken.

At that time, thanks to the help of the boudoir sisters, Shen Fu took his seriously ill mother to defect. With the careful care of my sisters, my mother gradually recovered and didn't want to bother her any more, so she went to his place of work with Shen Fu.

The couple wanted to work hard and reunite with their children as soon as possible, but Shen was laid off. While comforting her husband, the mother tried to help him, but eventually she lost her livelihood and her life was once again embarrassed. In the second year, my mother's blood disease recurred.

Speaking of Shen Fu's aboveboard personality, he is bold and unconstrained, good at arranging flowers and making ink, playing epigraphy and enjoying visiting famous mountains. I used to be a rich boy, so it is understandable to be so leisurely; After being down and out, it remains the same. Even when his mother was seriously ill, he didn't stop playing, which was really helpless.

Selfishly speaking, if Shen Fu could put aside her romantic life for a while and take up the responsibility of maintaining daily necessities, the mother sheep might not break down from constant overwork, so that she became seriously ill several times and had to insist on seeing a doctor.

For an improper example, when watching Doraemon, people around me were moved by the friendship between Daxiong and Doraemon, but I was distressed to be rewritten and married Jingxiang of Daxiong ... Only the parties were happy, and others didn't comment much.

Their husband and wife have gone through a lot of hardships, and their feelings are still deep. Mother's blood disease is getting worse and worse. Knowing that her time was running out, she took Shen Fu's hand and said:

"Husband, now can't in-laws, lest wandering down and out, it's all my sin, you hurry home after me. Parents are old, I hope you can continue to be a moral and tolerant woman, so that you can take good care of your parents and children and die with your eyes closed. " When Shen Fu heard this, it was painful and he said that he would never have a second wife.

When she was dying, her mother was still lamenting "It's a pity to die like this" and shouting "The afterlife …" She died of disappointment. After his mother's death, Shen Fu borrowed twelve taels of silver, and then sold all his family belongings, just to force him to death.

Shen Fu lives by selling paintings, waiting for news from his hometown. He often goes to the cemetery to mourn his dead wife. Later, Shen Fu wrote Six Chapters of a Floating Life, which described in detail the past with his beloved wife and this dreamlike life.