Late Qing literati Yu Yue recorded the following strange thing in his private notes, which is quite bizarre to say the least.
Yu Yue said, Suzhou There was an old woman, known as Grandma Qian, who had a son named Duobao, who married a peasant girl named Bai. The family of three is living happily and happily, but they don't want disaster to happen unexpectedly and turn this peaceful home into a mess.
Grandma Qian's husband died early, when Duobao was still young, and the family depended on her alone to maintain the family. What she does is stable mother 's business. The so-called "steady mother" is also what is often called "midwife" today. This profession was despised in the past years and was included in the "three aunts and six women", so that it was The literati ridiculed: "Three aunts and six wives, the matchmakers of real prostitutes and thieves."
Qing Dynasty women
Indeed, most of the money earned by Granny Qian was from sin. In order to make a living, she could not help but do things with her own conscience. People often came to her secretly to buy throat treatments. The good medicine for the disease is " Zihe Che " (commonly known as placenta), so she uses some strong medicine to deliberately cause pregnant women to have miscarriages, so as to get what they want and make huge profits. There are also some women who become pregnant out of wedlock, and they will spend high prices to buy secret pregnancy secretions from their parents to abort the unborn child.
Buddha said: "Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda." Grandma Qian harmed living beings again and again. How could she not know that her actions would have retribution over time. For this reason, she built a Buddhist niche at home and chanted sutras loudly every day, asking gods and Buddhas to forgive her sins.
joke, how can Buddha protect evil people? One day, Grandma Qian was bitten on the leg by a mad dog just as she was about to go out. At first, she didn't care, thinking that just applying some medicinal powder would be fine. Unexpectedly, a few days later, the bitten leg swelled like a purlin, making it impossible for her to get off the ground. After a few days, the swelling in her legs gradually subsided, but her stomach bulged, as if something was moving inside her stomach, causing her to retching from morning to night. She only felt better after eating some sour food. .
Hey - this is clearly a symptom of pregnancy, and she is an old woman over sixty years old, and she doesn't have a wife by her side. Even if she does, I'm afraid she has the intention but not the strength. This is strange. How could a perfectly good person be pregnant? Could it be that this is really retribution?
A woman in the Qing Dynasty
Her daughter-in-law was not very smart, but she was also a straight-headed person who could not speak in a roundabout way. She said to her mother-in-law carelessly: "Mom, you let a big dog bite your leg, and there is probably a litter of babies in your belly." Puppies. That's fine, I miss the kittens and puppies the most. Please pay more attention and give us a litter of puppies." As soon as he said this, he got a lot of slaps. Grandma Qian's son Duobao couldn't bear to see his wife beating his own wife, so he scolded her for all the bad things she had done all her life. It's great now, the world has paid off, just wait for people to laugh at you!
Grandma Qian was scolded by her son, but she calmed down a lot. She said to her son: "Raising a child is no different from raising a dog. If there is a litter of puppies in my belly, they will be your younger brothers and sisters. Besides, , Although I am old, an old woman is still a woman. The purpose of being a woman is to give birth to children. What should I be afraid of? If I really give birth to puppies, I will cook them with glutinous rice and eat them to warm my body. "Duobao was so angry that she stopped talking to her. While
was talking, more than a month had passed, and Granny Qian’s belly was as swollen as a big winter melon. Suddenly one day, she felt a splitting abdominal pain that made her roll on the floor. Unable to bear it anymore, he struggled to open the medicine cabinet, took out a porcelain bottle, tilted his neck back and swallowed all the pills in the bottle. He also called to his daughter-in-law to hurry up and give her water to drink. After struggling for a long time, I finally felt better.
A woman in the Qing Dynasty
The daughter-in-law asked her stupidly: "Mom, what kind of medicine are you taking? What are you doing with it?"
Grandma Qian wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "This is a secret recipe passed down from our family. , I was usually afraid that you two would be ignorant and use it randomly, so I never let you know. With this medicine, even a big rock can be 'knocked down', let alone a litter of puppies. ."
As soon as these words came out, my daughter-in-law immediately understood. In the past, her mother-in-law took medicine in exchange for sin money, and it turned out to be this medicine.
About the time she touched a cup of tea, Grandma Qian's stomach hurt again. Grandma Qian relied on it I knew I was about to give birth, so I wasn't very panicked. I heard a few "gurgling" sounds, and then, a big puddle of yellow and green flowed out along Grandma Qian's legs. The red and black blood soup is sticky and smells pungent. If you look closely, you can see that there are several small things in the blood soup. They have arms and legs, and they can't be said to be wriggling. After a few moments, he stiffened.
"Huh!" Grandma Qian said disdainfully, "These are all poisons. I have eliminated the poisons, and it will be fine." "After saying that, she asked her daughter-in-law to boil water for her to wash.
Qing Dynasty Women
In the next few days, Grandma Qian didn't see anything strange, but she was just a little weaker than before. Then on the fifth day, she suddenly fell down. She was unconscious. Her son and daughter-in-law rushed to rescue her and finally escaped from death. But from that day on, she became paranoid all day, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and became thinner and panting day by day. It's not that smooth anymore. I've been to several doctors and taken a lot of medicine, but there's no improvement. Seeing that the old lady is about to run out of money, the son can only prepare for his funeral in advance.
, Grandma Qian suddenly screamed, and the blood instantly stained the bedclothes. The symptoms were exactly the same as when a mother had a hemorrhage. The blood dried up, but Grandma Qian had her eyes wide open, but she had already died. Bao burned the things and all the secret recipes and medicines that his mother had used during her lifetime, and shoveled the ashes into the toilet so that they could never harm anyone.
Some people thought that it was a pity to burn them all, and at least they would not have to worry about living with them. But Bao didn't take it seriously and scolded those people for being unkind and they would not be rewarded sooner or later. His mother was gone, the medicine was gone, and Duobao didn't have any skills, so he could only survive on the money left by his mother during his lifetime. One day they ran out of money, and in the end, the couple had to sell their house and land. After a few years, they became beggars, living on scraps. It was really miserable.
Qing Dynasty Figures
Well, this is my humble article. Let's stop here. Mr. Yu Yue, like Yuan Mei, Ji Xiaolan and other Qing Dynasty literati, likes to record some anecdotes. Whether they are true or not, only he himself knows. After reading them, I laughed. That's it, there's no need to be serious about it
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