[Statement: Most stories are folk legends or adaptations of stories, and have nothing to do with feudal superstitions. Thank you for reading, welcome to like and comment. 】
Ming Dynasty There was a very strange story about finding relatives during the Chongzhen period.
During the Chongzhen period, there was a wealthy family in the north. The Li family was a famous cloth merchant in the local area and had a wealthy family.
Mr. Li has a son. He thought that he would inherit this wealth in the future, but his son seemed not interested in these things in the family. He was just addicted to seeking immortals and practicing Taoism. He locked himself in a room every day to study such things.
When his son was eighteen years old, he married the daughter of another rich family in the local area under the arrangement of his family. He gave birth to a son not long after. This should have been a happy event, but he was still addicted to practicing Taoism and ignored his wife and children. After a few days, he left a note saying that he was going to the south to find a way to become an immortal, so he left home.
When Mr. Li saw the note left by his son, he was so angry that he immediately said that he would no longer recognize his son. His wife cried loudly after seeing the note.
Mr. Li originally thought that his son was just curious and would go home if he encountered difficulties in a few days. But a month later, before his son returned, Mr. Li was a little panicked and asked his relationship about his son's whereabouts, but there was still no news. His son was like evaporating from the world. Mr. Li was seriously ill because of this, and he probably figured it out after he recovered. It would be better to raise your grandson well and just think that his son is gone.
Sixteen years passed in a flash, and the baby also grew into a handsome young man. Under the guidance of his grandfather, the young man managed the family business in an orderly manner.
Although the young man is both talented and beautiful, he always has a heartache that he has never seen his father before, and he also asked his mother and grandfather when he was a child. My mother and grandfather always used the reason his father was going out, because he didn't ask much at that time, but when he grew up, his obsession with his father became more and more serious.
When I was having dinner in the evening, I talked about this at the dinner table again. My grandfather and mother knew that the child had grown up and might not be able to hide some things, so they told my son the truth. After hearing this, the son was also surprised and suggested that he wanted to go out to find his father, but the grandfather refuted it, "Do you know where he is?"
At night, the young man was lying on the bed, thinking about what his grandfather said in his heart, and kept thinking about why his father cruelly left him and left home, and then fell asleep unknowingly. In his sleep, he dreamed that he came to a cave and saw some people in the cave meditating on the spot and muttering something. He became curious and walked over to find out, but after walking over, the group of people turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.
In the following days, the young man could dream of this group of people every day. The difference was that the voice and appearance of these people began to become clearer. He found that one of them was different from the others. The others were all wearing cloth robes, but the man's clothes were a little luxurious, and he looked like a big family or a wealthy person.
When eating the next day, the young man told his grandfather and mother what he had recently dreamed about. When he talked about the slightly luxurious person, the grandfather and mother put down their chopsticks and looked at the young man in surprise.
The young man was a little confused about what was going on, and then his grandfather asked him to tell what he had just said again. The young man said the whole story again. When his grandfather heard this, he asked the young man to put down his chopsticks and go to a place with him.
The grandfather and grandson came to a room west of the town. There was almost no decoration in the room, only one bed, a table, two stools, and an elderly man.
When the old man saw Mr. Li coming, he said, "What wind blows you today?"
Mr. Li dreamed of his grandson and told the old man what he dreamed of, and hoped that the old man could help him with a divination. After hearing this, the old man said it was for that person, right? Mr. Li nodded after hearing this.
The old man then made a divination and whispered in Master Li's ear. Then he saw Master Li put down a ingot of silver and thanked the old man, so he pulled his grandson back home.
When he returned home, Mr. Li crawled into the study and started writing quickly. Then he called his grandson and two servants. Mr. Li first said to the servant: "You two will accompany the young master to a certain place tomorrow. We must protect the young master along the way. If something happens, I will ask you. I will give you a great reward when I return." Then he sent the two out.
At this time, Mr. Li said to the young man again: "I have a letter here. You send this letter to a certain place. After the people there read the letter, they will help you." After that, he handed the letter to his grandson and told him to keep it.
On the second day, the young man said goodbye to his grandfather and mother and embarked on the itinerary. After walking for about half a month, he finally arrived at a certain place. Then he found the person according to the address given by his grandfather. After reading the letter, the man said that Mr. Li was kind to him and that this time he would do his best to help the young master. Then the group found an inn and stayed temporarily.
A few days later, the man came to the inn and told the young man that they could set off tomorrow and let them all rest today because there was a big mountain road to go. When I was sleeping at night, the young man dreamed that he came to the cave again, but this time he didn't see the group of people he had in the cave.
On the second day, a group of people entered the mountain. The mountain road was winding and difficult to walk. After walking for a while, the group of people rested on the spot. At this time, the young man asked the man where we were going?
That person just said to go to the place in your dream.
The young man became interested when he heard this, and said that the group of people he dreamed of in his dream, and asked if he knew?
After hearing this, the man said that he had heard of it before, but it was impossible to find out whether it was true. The young man became interested and asked the man to talk about it.
The man continued, "Fifteen years ago, cultivation of immortals and seeking the Tao became a wind. At that time, someone said that the mountains here are the holy places for practice. As a result, a large group of people came here to find immortals and practice Taoism. There are all kinds of people who seek immortals and practice Taoism, including wealthy, poor, men, women, old, and young."
The young man asked again, "In the end, someone practiced. Someone finally practiced. "In the end, someone practiced. Is it a good result? "
The man smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know whether it will be a good result or not, but a large group of people gave up even if they can't bear the hardship, but some people didn't come out after entering the mountain. It is said that they have become immortals."
After a while, they took a few rest and embarked on the itinerary again. After walking for about an hour, they came to the door of a cave. When the young man saw that this was the cave he dreamed of in his dream? Then he quickly pulled the man into the hole. After entering the hole, he did find a group of people sitting on the ground, including the man in luxurious clothes, but these people had already turned into bones.
The young man looked at it and said, "This is exactly the same as the scene I dreamed of in my dreams. Why do I dream of these things?"
The man ignored what the young man said, walked to the luxuriously dressed remains and looked at it. It seemed that he was confirming something. After confirming, he asked someone to bring a large piece of white cloth, then put the remains on the white cloth, stacked the left and right sides of the cloth together, and tied the upper and lower parts tightly with a rope, tied it in the middle, and then carried it on his back to the young man and said that he could go down the mountain.
After returning to the town, the man went to the coffin shop to buy a coffin, then put the remains in the coffin, and then said to the young man: "Young Master, all the things Mr. Li has asked me to be done. Mr. Li said in his letter that if the matter is done, let Master, set off overnight and return home."
After hearing this, the young man thanked the man, and then rushed home overnight with a coffin in a carriage.
The young man returned home and found that there was a mourning banner hanging inside and outside the door of the house. The young man thought something had happened to his grandfather or his mother, so he ran in immediately. After entering, he found that his grandfather and mother were safe and sound, so he breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the young man found that his mother was wearing a mourning uniform, and there was a spiritual seat in the lobby, and there was a certain person written on the spiritual seat.
Then Mr. Li asked someone to carry the coffin in, then opened the coffin and burst into tears when he saw the remains in the coffin. He cried and said, "Son, I finally found you! You have been away for decades!"
The young man's mother also lay on the coffin and howled and cried. Then he said to the young man, "Son, this is your father! Come and worship!"
The young man was shocked after hearing this. For a moment, he couldn't believe that the person lying in the coffin was the father of Ye Si Meng, and then asked them to prove it to him, why is it said that this person is his father?
When my mother heard this, she was furious. She slapped the young man in the face and scolded him for being a rebellious son. The young man was a little confused by the slap. He suddenly had a father, and he really couldn't accept it!
No matter how my mother beat and scolded the young man, she just refused to worship him. At this time, Mr. Li said to the young man: "I know you may not accept it for the time being. I also invited the local famous coroner today." Then he invited the coroner. After the
coroner was made, he said that he wanted to use the bone drip method to test his relatives. After hearing this, the people present asked what the bone drip method was?
Coroner said: "The bone drop method can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period. It refers to dropping the blood of a living person on the bones of a dead person to observe whether it seeps in. If it seeps in, it proves the blood relationship between the two."
then asked the young man to come to the coffin and asked him to stretch out a finger. Coroner took a silver needle in his hand and stabbed the young man's finger. In an instant, the blood flowed out, and then the coroner dripped the young man's blood on the remains.
A group of people looked at whether the blood would seep into the remains. As expected, the young man's blood soon penetrated into the body. The coroner then said that the person in the coffin was the young man's biological father.
When the young man heard this, he collapsed on the ground and started crying in a short while. While crying, he was still saying something, as if he wanted to vent all the thoughts of the sixteen years. That night, the young man wore mourning clothes and stayed in his father's mourning hall for a night. After a few days, Mr. Li buried his son in his ancestral grave.
The young man asked Mr. Li at this time why grandpa knew that the one was his son when he saw it. After hearing this, Mr. Li only smiled and said to his grandson, "You will know when you have your own child in the future."
