Huating (local name) there was a scholar named Yan Siguan, whose father was a well-known scholar. Yan Siguan was very talented in his youth and was very famous in the local area.
After he was a little older, Yan Siguang became even more outstanding. He was not only good at writing poems, lyrics and music, but also good at chanting. He also had an outstanding appearance, rich and handsome, with red lips and bright stars. He was very handsome. If we look at it today, Yan Siguang is a treasured boy with good looks and talent.
Because of this, when it was time to talk about marriage, many people took the initiative to go to Yan Siguang's home and expressed their willingness to marry their daughters, nieces, nieces, sisters, cousins, etc. to Yan Siguang. However, Yan Siguang had very high requirements for wives, and he did not like women from those families.
Yan Siguang's uncle (his aunt's husband is his uncle) was a minister in the capital and a high official. Hearing that Yan Siguang couldn't find a suitable girl at home, he was asked to go to the capital, maybe he could meet a suitable girl.
Yan Siguang felt that this was a good idea. After all, the capital was a big place and there were many girls, who might have talents like him.
So Yan Siguan went to the capital and temporarily stayed at his uncle's house. After arriving in the capital, he visited many places and met many girls, but he never met one that made his heart beat.
This day was the night of the Yuan Dynasty. Yan Siguang was bored at home and happened to go out to play. When he came to a pedestrian street, he saw a servant leading a horse. Behind the horse was a cart. In front of the cart, sitting a beautiful woman, who seemed to be a maid, was looking back and talking to the people in the cart.
Following the maid's gaze, Yan Siguang saw that there was a young girl in the car, about sixteen or seventeen years old. She seemed to be out for the first time, with a touch of red on her face, and she was extremely shy. Under the illumination of the moonlight, the girl at this moment looked like a fairy descending to earth. Oh no, even if the fairy descends to earth, she is not as beautiful as her.
After Yan Siguang saw the girl, he was immediately attracted. His heart felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his whole body could not help but tremble. He ignored etiquette and stared at the girl, dumbfounded.
The girl walked far away, but Yan Siguang still looked at her dreamily, as if her soul had been taken away. Fortunately, a fellow villager saw Yan Siguang. He quickly called a car, and then kept asking around along the way. After a lot of effort, he found Yan Siguang's uncle's house.
After returning home, Yan Siguang's condition worsened. He didn't say a word or eat. He had to be fed every day before he could drink a small bowl of porridge or porridge. My uncle quickly invited famous doctors, but many doctors came, and everyone was at a loss because there was nothing wrong with checking the pulse.
It turns out that Yan Siguan's soul really flew away. When he saw the girl, his soul left his body, flew into the girl's car, and sat next to the girl.
soon arrived at the girl's house. The house here was gorgeous, and at first glance, it looked like a wealthy family.
After the girl returned home and entered her boudoir, he followed her in, then hid aside and secretly observed the girl. In fact, he didn't have to hide, and the girl couldn't see him.
The girl sat in front of the dressing table and slowly took off her makeup. She still looked beautiful without makeup. She supported her chin with her delicate hand, her eyes wandering, as if she was daydreaming about something. After the maid went out, the girl continued to sit blankly. Obviously, at the age of Sichun, the girl wanted to find a husband.
At this time, Yan Suguang came out, and his soul had already taken shape. When the girl saw it, she was shocked and prepared to call someone.
At this time, Yan Siguang hurriedly saluted, expressed his lovesickness, and said that he was fascinated by the girl when he saw it, and he followed her for some reason. He realized that his soul might have been out of body, but he did not say it. . Seeing his sincerity, the girl burst into tears. She was quite moved and stopped calling anyone.
After chatting for a while, Yan Siguang found out that the girl's name was Chen Shuzhen, and she was Chen Bulang's daughter.
Chen Shuzhen asked: "Sir, why did you come to my house late at night?"
Yan Siguan said that he didn't know, he only knew that he wanted to be with her, and then he followed her.After saying that, he asked for sex. Chen Shuzhen was moved by his appearance and sincerity. She wanted to refuse but accepted him half-heartedly. Finally, with Yan Siguan's vow, she agreed. The two of them had fun for the rest of the night, very satisfied.
Just like that, Yan Siguan stayed in Chen Shuzhen's boudoir for five or six days, and no one knew about it.
Chen Shuzhen was a little anxious and urged Yan Siguang to go home and quickly ask a matchmaker to propose marriage. Yan Siguang was greedy for her body and stayed there for a few more days until he was exhausted and then went home at night.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Yan Siguan went out, he saw a man in red robe walking in the yard. When he saw Yan Siguan, he was furious and said: "Where are you, a madman, how come you broke into a woman's boudoir in the middle of the night? "
While they were making a noise, the maid in the yard went to report to the madam. Soon the madam came, accompanied by a mother-in-law in red clothes. The Dowager Lady is wearing a red dress and a green crown, and is quite imposing.
Mother-in-law came over and asked Yan Siguan who he was. Yan Siguang said that he was Huating Yanming (also known as Siguang) and a scholar.
As soon as she heard that his surname was Yan, her mother-in-law seemed to have thought of something and said, "Who are you Yan Jianzhi?"
"He is my grandfather." Yan Siguang answered honestly, and he vaguely noticed something.
"So, you are still my nephew (nephew's son, or nephew's grandson, etc., as long as the nephew's descendants can be collectively referred to as nephew), why are you here?" The mother-in-law continued to ask .
Yan Siguang was shocked when he heard this. He guessed that the mother-in-law in front of him might know his family, but he did not expect that she would say that he was her nephew. Now, he didn't dare to hide anything anymore, so he had no choice but to tell what happened when he saw Chen Shuzhen.
After the mother-in-law heard about it, she walked up to the dowager and said a few words, as if she was begging for mercy. After hearing this, the Dowager Queen immediately sent two women in green clothes to take Yan Siguan back to his uncle's house. When he was about to get home, two men in green gave him a sudden push. Yan Siguan suddenly woke up and found himself lying on the bed. What happened before seemed like a dream.
My aunt was at the bedside. She was overjoyed when her nephew woke up. She quickly asked someone to bring tea and food, and asked him what was going on these days.
Only now did Yan Siguang realize that he had left his soul, and now someone had pushed his soul back into his body. Apparently, the dowager saved herself.
Later, Yan Siguang told the whole story and asked his uncle and aunt to propose marriage. My aunt thought it was good, so she invited a matchmaker to propose marriage to Chen Shuzhen's house. Yan Siguang was excellent, and Chen Bulang knew it, so he agreed to the marriage. In this way, Yan Siguan and Chen Shuzhen became a real couple after the wedding.
During the wedding night, Yan Siguang told the story of his encounter with his mother-in-law and his wife that day, and asked them who they were.
Chen Shuzhen told him that the wife was her great-grandmother, and her mother-in-law was Xie, the sister of Yan Siguan's grandmother, so she called him Yan Siguan's nephew, but they had both been dead for decades.
Chen Shuzhen, like Yan Siguan, is smart, proficient in calligraphy and painting, and can also interpret music. He could also compose music for the lyrics written by Yan Siguang, turn them into songs, and then sing them, which were very nice. Yan Siguan regarded Chen Shuzhen as his confidante and had no intention of marrying a concubine. He wanted to grow old with Chen Shuzhen alone.
Originally, Yan Siguan had been living in Chen Shuzhen's home after marriage. Later, Chen Bulang went to guard southern Yunnan, so Yan Sigang came back with Chen Shuzhen.
When the boat passed Jinshan, it happened to be the night of the full twelfth lunar month. The water on the river was sparkling and the moonlight was extremely beautiful, so the two of them went out to admire the moon. Chen Shuzhen clapped her hands and sang, while Yan Siguang played the jade flute .
After a while, a strange wind blew up on the river, and the waves were so strong that the boat capsized, and both Yan Siguan and Chen Shuzhen fell into the water. After a while, Yan Siguan saved a piece of wood and survived, but Chen Shuzhen disappeared into the waves. After Yan Siguan came ashore, he asked people everywhere to rescue people in the water, but after a lot of effort, they could not find Chen Shuzhen's body.
There was nothing he could do. Yan Siguang could only look at the river and call upon Chen Shuzhen's spirit. He cried miserably. Thinking of his wife being buried in the belly of a fish, he even fainted several times.
In the following years, Yan Siguang often wrote mourning poems for his wife, more than a thousand of them.
At that time, his uncle had gone to Henan as a governor and needed help, so he wrote to Yan Siguang, asking him to help him with things, and hoping that he would recover from the pain of losing his wife. However, Yan Siguang was desperate. He did not agree to his uncle's request and went to look for the mountains and rivers every day to see the scenery.
Hearing that Songshan Mountain was beautiful, he climbed up the mountain with dry food and money to look for the strange rocks and admire them in the deep ravine. On the way up the mountain, he accidentally fell while pulling the wisteria . The servant kept watching from the bottom of the mountain. When he saw his master fall down, he thought he would definitely die, so he went back to report his death in tears.
Yan Siguang did not fall to death, he was hung up by the layers of intertwined rattan. After waking up, he followed the vines down to a cave. Seeing the light in the cave, he kept walking inside. After walking a few hundred steps, he suddenly realized that there was a whole other world here.
There was a stream, about a mile wide. He walked along the stream, picking fruits to eat when he was hungry, and drinking the stream water when he was thirsty. After walking a few more miles, I suddenly saw a pavilion with several girls inside, reciting poems and composing poems. They all have the same hairstyle, and all of them are stunningly beautiful.
There was a girl among them who looked exactly like Chen Shuzhen. Yan Sigang looked at it for a while, and the more she looked, the more she looked like her. He couldn't bear it any longer. He stepped forward and grabbed the girl's hand and told her the pain of missing her.
The girl is indeed Chen Shuzhen. She said: "I was originally an earth immortal. Because I made a mistake, I was demoted to the human world. Later, my punishment time came and I needed to return to the immortal position, so I came back due to the flood. I want you to stop thinking about me. I just didn’t expect that Lang Jun was so infatuated that I still won’t forget it.”
Yan Siguang cried excitedly and held her hand to go home.
Chen Shuzhen said: "Even if I want to follow you, I still have to tell the master. How can I be so careless?"
"Who is the revered master and where is he?"
"My master is Lingbao Zhenren, just in front of the Golden Light Cave. Inside."
Yan Suguang took Chen Shuzhen's hand, found the Golden Light Cave, and told the girl guarding the door. After the girl went in to report the matter, she came out quickly and said to Chen Shuzhen: "The Master's decree is that after ten years, you will end your worldly fate and come back to practice Taoism."
The girl then said to Yan Siguan: "The Master said that you have long-cherished roots, but you are just emotionally disabled. Too deep, need to wake up in time . If you continue to be infatuated, you will become an unfaithful and unfilial person, and you will never get ahead."
Yan Siguang knew that after he pulled Chen Shuzhen to kowtow, he went home, and the female fairies came to see him off. , farewell, and some people gave gifts.
By the time Yan Siguang returned home, his mother had been dead for more than twenty years, his father was in his eighties, and he had a younger brother who was also in his mid-twenties. Unexpectedly, in just three days in the mountains, thirty years have passed in the human world.
So Yan Siguang took out the treasure given by the fairy and exchanged it for several thousand taels of silver, so that he could start a family for his younger brother. After that, he took care of his father, studied hard, and later passed the Jinshi examination and became an official. After his father died, he buried his father and separated from his younger brother. Later, my younger brother also passed the Jinshi examination and became an official in other places.
A few years later, his brother's term as an official had expired and he refused to be an official again, so he took his wife back to his hometown to visit his brother. However, when he got home, his brother and sister-in-law were not at home. On the door panel of the inner room, there are four sentences written: I have been a passerby in the world of mortals for ten years, but in the end I know I am at the Taoist gate. My fairy wife and I will go back together, leaving only a trace in the world.
My brother knew that his brother and sister-in-law had become immortals, so he found some clothes and things they had worn before and built a tomb for them, right next to his father's grave, and offered sacrifices every year.
