In the Song Dynasty, there was a king in Bianliang who came to Lin'an with his wife to select official positions and rented a private house to live in. After staying for a few days, I felt that the private house was small and inconvenient. So Wang Cheng found a house on the stree

Song Dynasty There was a king in Bianliang who came to Lin'an with his wife to select official positions and rented a private house to live. After staying for a few days, I felt that the private house was small and inconvenient. So Wang Cheng found a house on the street. It was spacious, clean and very satisfied. Rented it immediately.

Mr. Wang returned home and said to his wife: "I rented a big house. I will pack my luggage and go there tomorrow, and then hire a sedan to pick you up."

The next day, the two of them packed their luggage, and Mr. Wang took the luggage with him. Go first. Before leaving, he said to his wife: "I'll go first. You wait here until the sedan comes to pick you up, and then you leave."

When Mr. Wang arrived at his new residence, he sent a sedan to pick up his wife after settling in.

However, when the sedan arrived, no one was picked up. Wang Zhizhang waited for a long time but did not find his wife, so he went to his former residence to inquire.

As a result, no one was seen after arriving at the former residence. At this time, a neighbor said: "Not long after the official left, a sedan came to pick up the wife. The wife left in the sedan, and then another sedan came. I told him After he got there, he carried the empty sedan back." Wang Zhan was shocked and ran back to his new home and found the two sedan bearers waiting in front of the door. When the two bearers saw Wang Zongzhang, they said: "When we went there, my wife had already left in the sedan, but we have already walked back and forth, and you still have to give us money."

Wang Zhanzhang was surprised and said: "I just called How could anyone else pick up my wife in your sedan chair?" The bearer said, "We don't know either." Wang Chang was upset and gave them money and sent them away. But his wife disappeared, and Wang Cheng became furious.

The next day, Wang Chengwen went to Lin'an Prefecture to file a complaint. He asked the landlord and neighbors of his previous residence, and they all said that they saw Wang Chengcheng's wife leaving in a sedan, and the two bearers carrying the empty sedan did not know about it either. . But no one knew the bearer who carried his wife before. There was no way to find anyone. Such a good wife, I don’t know where she was carried away. The king was in great distress and was in great pain. Since losing his wife, he has never remarried.

Five years later, Wang Zhengzheng became a professor in Quzhou. The magistrate of a neighboring county in Quzhou was a good friend of Wang Zhengzheng. One day, the county magistrate invited Mr. Wang to have a drink. In the middle of the meal, a dish made of turtles was served. After eating two chopsticks, Mr. Wang suddenly choked up and burst into tears. He said, "This taste is very familiar. It tastes exactly like the taste of my late wife." The county magistrate asked: "When did your wife die?" Wang Zheng said: "If she died directly, it was destiny. When I changed my residence in Lin'an, I made an appointment with my wife to send a sedan to pick her up. She. Unexpectedly, someone sent a sedan to pick her up, and her whereabouts are still unknown." When the county magistrate heard this, his expression changed and he said, "My brother's concubine spent 300,000 yuan in Lin'an. Bought by a foreigner." After that, the magistrate hurriedly went indoors and asked his younger brother's concubine: "How did you get married here from Lin'an?" The concubine said with tears, "I have a husband. But he was deceived and sold. He was afraid that his husband would make a fool of himself, so he didn't dare to tell anyone." The county magistrate asked, "Who is your husband's name?" The concubine said, "My surname is Wang. He is serving as an official in Lin'an." Wang is engaged."

The county magistrate was shocked when he heard this, and walked out and said to Professor Wang: "Please go to the inner room to see someone." After Professor Wang entered, the county magistrate called out a woman. When the professor saw it, it was his lost wife, and the two immediately held their heads and cried.

The woman said: "What you said that night was overheard by others because the residential house was not soundproofed. Just after you left for a while, a sedan bearer came to pick me up. I thought it was you who sent me, so I got on the sedan." I don’t know where they took me. There were two or three women in an empty room. We were locked together and sold me on the ship the next day. I knew I was being sold, but I was afraid that you were the one who selected the official position. , It will bring shame on you. I have to be shy and endure it until today. Unexpectedly, we met here." The county magistrate felt sorry for her and asked a bearer to take her to Professor Wang's residence. Professor Wang has to pay 300,000 yuan for his purchase.The county magistrate refused to accept anything he said, and said: "I took a colleague's wife as a concubine without checking it carefully. I asked Professor Wang to forgive me. How can I have the nerve to ask for money?" Professor Wang and his wife reunited and were very grateful to the county magistrate. All.

It turned out that the gangster from Lin'an County bullied Wang Zheng, a foreigner. He heard their husband and wife talking at night, and he got the idea, and abducted the person and sold him to an official ship. I also thought that he would soon be transferred to work as an official and would never meet him again in this life. Unexpectedly, it happened to be in Quzhou, so the couple reunited after being separated for five years, and their fate was still intact.

It is a good thing to reunite after separation, but the only flaw is that although Mrs. Wang has suffered misfortune, she once became a concubine and lost her virginity, and she has never found out who the concubine is, and how to get her reward. enmity. So this is indeed a pity.

This story is from San Yan Li Pai's "Surprise at the First Moment", with slight changes in translation. The illustrations in this article are from the Internet. If there is any infringement, please inform us and delete them.