Introduction to the novel
During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu, a talented man from Suzhou, succeeded in winning the title of Yuan Dynasty. He was so proud that he went to Beijing to take the examination. However, he was suddenly implicated in the "imperial examination fraud case" and was unjustly imprisoned. He was stripped of his fame and demoted to a minor official.
Overnight, the genius fell from the clouds into the mire. The person who framed him was his classmate Wang Min. On his thirtieth birthday, he knelt on the blue bricks of the cell to receive the order. When he raised his head, he heard only one sentence: Go home.
Back in the dilapidated courtyard of Gusu, there was only one peach tree planted by my late wife, full of buds. Without fame and money, the city bully Qian Sanye came to force him to sell his ancestral home and gave him three days to pack up and leave. Tang Bohu stood under the peach tree and touched the bag of broken silver he had just bought from selling paintings - the most valuable items in the family were only a bald pen and a knife with rough edges.
In this world, some people use swords, others use power, but he uses a pen.
A "debt collection" that had been dormant for half a lifetime began. He painted peach blossoms to exchange for silver, ladies to protect themselves, ghosts to catch traitors, and mountains and rivers to hide. When Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao's solicitation order was delivered to Peach Blossom Temple, Tang Bohu put down his wine glass and smiled at the peach blossoms in the garden: You can take my life, but can you take my paintings? You have to pay for it with your life.
Others laughed at him for being too crazy, but others laughed at him because they couldn't see through it.
This novel describes the thirty years that the most talented man in the south of the Yangtze River fell into hell and fished himself out with his pen. There are injustices, love and hatred, peach blossoms, strong wine - there is the whole process of how a person stands up from the mud.
Concept: A genius crushed by the times uses a pen to bloom flowers in the mud. Talent is the root, strength is the soul, and affection is the blood.