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Story 35: A Drunken Song in the Middle of the Night

A Drunken Song in the Middle of the Night

Author: Anonymous

After Su Shi was demoted to Huangzhou, Hubei Province, although County Sheriff Xu of Huangzhou had the responsibility to supervise Su Shi, he believed that Su Shi was a talent, so he treated him very well and allowed him to travel freely to nearby places.

One day, Su Shi got drunk in the snow hall on Dongpo and returned to his residence Lingao alone in a daze. When he returned to Lingao drunkenly, it was already midnight and the night was quiet. At this time, the hat he was wearing was lost.

I saw him walking to the door with disheveled hair and knocking for a long time, but the door didn’t open. He listened carefully and heard the boy snoring like thunder, sleeping soundly.

So Su Shi stood in front of the door, facing the night sky, and sang loudly: “Drinking in Dongpo at night, I wake up drunk, and when I come back, it’s like the third watch. The boy’s breath is thundering, and he doesn’t answer the door.

He listens to the sound of the river. Everlasting regret. This body does not belong to me, when will I forget to camp? The wind is calm at night. The boat will pass away from now on, and the rest of my life will be left in the river and sea.”

The next morning, there was a rumor on the streets of Huangzhou that after Su Shi finished singing “Linjiang Immortal” last night, he hung his hat on a tree by the river and took a boat away.

County Sheriff Xu was shocked when he heard the news. He believed that it was a serious dereliction of duty that the “sinner” Su Shi was lost in Huangzhou under his jurisdiction, and he would be held accountable. In order to confirm whether the news was true or not, County Sheriff Xu hurried to Lingao to investigate. It turned out that Su Shi was still drunk.