During the Northern Song Dynasty, a high-profile prime minister emerged, exerted great political influence, and was highly admired for his modest conduct in the world. However, his private life is full of twists and turns. After the death of his wife, he married the daughter of a young and beautiful famous family. The bride is smart and flexible, and all the housework is wonderful, but the prime minister is old, entangled in ruling affairs, and family trivialities are taken care of. As a result, the bride developed a subtle relationship with the family boy.
One day, when the prime minister heard the crows chirping, he mistakenly thought that it was the time of the early dynasty and wanted to travel, but was told by the inspector that it was still early. On the way back, the prime minister heard a slight movement in the house and quietly approached the window. The whispers of the bride and the scholar were heard, and they used the crow's song as an excuse to laugh and laugh. The bride even praised the scholar as smooth as a spring silkworm, which caused the prime minister to be slightly angry. However, he endured in silence and did not say anything.
After the day, on August 15, the prime minister proposed to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with the bride and the scholar. The two of them were overjoyed, and mistakenly thought that Zai knew nothing about them, thinking that they could drink as much as they wanted. The prime minister proposed a poem to answer, and the winner could drink freely. The bride and the scholar readily agreed. The prime minister chanted a poem and said: "The moon is just the first day before the sky is clear, and the crow is not called the bamboo pole clear." The spring silkworms fell asleep in a group, and they were so angry that they returned to the court. The last sentence "I was so angry that Jiang returned to the court" had already revealed Zai's insight into the affairs of the two. When the bride heard this, she knelt down and kowtowed: "After talking about this half a year, the long slave can't sleep at night, the scholar and I have a deep personal relationship, don't blame the adults, forgive me." The scholar also knelt down and apologized.
The prime minister used this incident as a poem to express his heart and no longer concealed it. The bride hung her head and blamed herself, and in her words, she put all the responsibility on herself, and did not blame the scholar. The scholar humbly stated his sins and toasted to express repentance.
This incident is a good story, and later generations talk about the prime minister's belly to support the boat, and everyone knows its deep meaning. According to legend, this prime minister, Wang Anshi, acquiesced in the marriage of the bride and the scholar because of the deep friendship between the young couple and the deep knowledge that he was about to die of old age. To this day, this allusion of "the belly can support the boat" is praised in people's mouths.