#Goudao # # Turtle for Wine # Returning to Hometown Illustration #DufuLinkage # #historical textual research flow # Drinking in the Eight Immortals
He won the first prize at the age of thirty-six and was the most "useless" man in the Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zetian asked him if he was afraid, and he said, "If you're afraid, say you're not afraid." This was the craziest sentence in his life.
For the next fifty years, as an official in Chang'an, he had only one way to survive: pretending to be stupid, a coward, and a loach.
The cruel official invited him to a banquet, but he poured cold water on himself in the middle of the night to make himself feverish;
The emperor asked him about his national policy, and he brought the topic to the rhymes in the Book of Songs;
A colleague was beheaded, and he knelt on the street and vomited until he was unconscious - then wiped his mouth and went back to work.
Everyone says He Zhizhang is a waste, but only he knows:
In Chang'an, not fighting is the biggest fight, and staying alive is the biggest win.
When he was eighty-three years old, he met a madman named Li Bai.
That night, he took off the golden turtle given by the emperor and exchanged it for wine.
That night, he felt like his true self for the first time.
On the day he retired from old age and returned to his hometown, all the children in the village gathered around him and asked with a smile:
"Grandpa, where did you come as a guest?"
He stood there all his life, and finally at this moment——
Tears streaming down my face.
[Forbearance for fifty years × Relief in old age × Golden turtle exchanges for wine × Return to hometown book]
[It's not a cool article, it's a living method]
