Translation of Zuo's anecdotes
My father once said: When Senior Zuo was studying politics in Beijing, one day, it was snowing and the weather was extremely cold. He took a few attendants on horseback, made a modified trip and walked into an ancient temple. A scholar in the wing fell asleep at his desk, and the article (on the desk) had just been drafted. Zuo Gong took off his mink coat and closed the door for him.
Original: If you knock on a monk, you can learn from him. And try, officials call Shi Gong by his name, and the public sees it in a volume, that is, the face comes first. Called in, made his wife worship and said, "My son is mediocre, and he will follow my will every day, but not in this life."
Zuo Gong asked the monk in the temple that it was Shi Kefa. The exam came, the officer called Shi Kefa's name, and Zuo Gong stared at him in surprise. When handing in the papers, Zuo Gong personally approved him as the first, and called him into the inner room to visit his wife, saying, "My sons are all mediocre and incompetent, and only this student can inherit my ambition and career in the future.
Original: Zuo Gong went to the factory prison, and Shi Xizhi was outside the prison; The defense against castration is very strict, although domestic servants are not allowed to get close. For a long time, I heard that Zuo Gong was branded and died one day. Holding 50 gold, crying for a ban, the pawn feels embarrassed.
When Zuo Gong was put into Dongchang prison, Shi Kefa waited outside the prison all day. Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch, was very strict with the prison guards, and even the servants of Zuo's family could not get close to him. After a long time, Shi Kefa heard that Zuo Gong had been tortured by branding and would die sooner or later, so he took five hundred and twenty pieces of silver and discussed with the jailer the way to visit him in tears. The jailer was moved by him.
One day, Shi was dressed in straw, carrying a basket and a long shovel. In order to remove impurities, he was introduced and pointed to the office on the left.
One day, the jailer asked Shi Kefa to change into shabby clothes and sandals, with a bamboo basket on his back and a long shovel in his hand, pretending to be a garbage sweeper, and took him to prison. (The jailer) quietly pointed to where Zuo was.
Original: Then sit on the ground against the wall, the denomination is unclear, and all the bones and muscles below the left knee are removed.
I saw Zuo Gong sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall, his face and forehead burned badly, and he couldn't recognize it (the original appearance). From the left knee down, all his bones and muscles fell off.
Original: Prehistoric kneeling, holding his knees and sobbing. The public can't open their eyes, but they are bravely pointing to the corner of their eyes; Angry, angry: "Slave, where is this?" Before you come! The matter of the country, erosion at this point.
Shi Kefa stepped forward and knelt down, holding Zuo Gong's knee and crying in a low voice. Zuo Gong recognized Shi Kefa's voice, but he couldn't open his eyes, so he raised his arm hard and opened his eyelids with his fingers. His eyes were as bright as torches. He said angrily, "useless slave! What is this place? Come here! State affairs have deteriorated to this point.
I am old, but you are ignorant. Who can support me in the world? If you don't leave soon, I'll kill you today! "
My old man is finished, and you are intellectual fit and don't understand the truth. Who can support national affairs? Don't go, don't wait for the traitor to constitute a crime to frame you, I will kill you now! "He says, he touched the instruments of torture on the ground and shot.
Extended data:
Introduction to Zuo Yi Shi;
This paper describes several anecdotes that Zuo Guangdou is not known to the world, and praises Zuo Guangdou's outstanding insight into people and his character of attaching importance to national affairs and disregarding personal life and death.
Through concise language, the article shapes the moving image of Zuo Guangdou, and embodies the characteristics of "elegance and cleanliness" of the study. The article notes are not miscellaneous, and the pen is fine, so the characters are full. Writing a story about Zuo Guangdou and Shi Kefa meeting in prison is particularly awe-inspiring.
About the author:
Fang Bao (1668- 1749), a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, was an essayist in the Qing Dynasty and the founder of Tongcheng Literature School. His fellow friends praised some anti-Qing figures in Nanming by using the historical materials of Yungui written by uncle Fang, and adopted the titles of Nanming such as "Li Yong".
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