Ancient people said: I don’t love sex in the middle of the night, and don’t eat gluttonously at the third day.
Episode 0 In the early years of the Republic of China, a strange thing happened in a small county town in western Fujian. It is still circulated today. Chen Tianding, in the 29th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1903), participated in the Academy examination and successfully passed the examination for scholars. He was only 16 years old that year. He thought that his life of cheating would begin. As long as he took the provincial examination three years later and passed the imperial examination again, he could truly glorify his ancestors and make a fortune like his own name. I guess Chen Tianding was laughing in his dreams.
It’s a pity. In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), of the Qing Dynasty abolished the imperial examination system. He did not wait until the day he passed the imperial examination. However, he was only 18 years old this year. His father was a well-known local person. Seeing his son’s loss, he immediately married him a wife. After all, he was a scholar and a cultural person in a small county town. He found a literary job in the yamen and lived a good life. He was 5 years and 4 children, and he was indeed as his name.
I thought my life would be like this, but unfortunately things didn't go as they wished. In 1910, my father died unexpectedly and my mother was sad and unable to afford it. All the burdens in the family were borne by one. Relying on the salary in the county was not enough. After all, six people were counting on him to support him, and he was very brave. He didn't dare to go to the yamen to find him. Without other income, he could only sell his property slowly, and life was harder every day.
But the most difficult moment was 1912, Puyi abdicated, the Qing Dynasty withdrew from the stage of history, and the iron rice bowl of the child was over, and the family property was almost sold. Life was very difficult, especially for scholars who were full of words, who could not do anything and were not good at being a coolie. Wherever they went, they were shouted with a sour taste: Chen Xiucai, have you been a child again?
It's true that this Tiandian is indeed capable. He and his wife are poor, but he is not idle either. By the summer of 1913, he gave birth to two more. However, in the winter of that year, the old mother left. At this time, Tiandian had a wife and six children and needed to support him, but he had no ability to do business, and he had no choice but to sell his current house in the county town and went back to the countryside to murder. Maybe there was still a turnaround, especially no need to hear people call him "poor scholar".
After this poor scholar returned to the countryside to settle down, he worked as a teacher in a primary school in the village. Although he had to walk a mountain road, he knew literacy in the countryside and was very respected by everyone in the village. People who met would smile and call him a teacher, which made him feel relieved.
One day, he walked home on the mountain road as usual and saw a woman in white, wearing two small braids and carrying two loads of water passing by him. The poor scholar felt very strange, but the villagers would smile when they saw him, or greet him politely, so the scholar nodded and smiled at the woman, and the woman politely replied.
Every day afterwards, the scholar would meet the woman on the way home from get out of class. He gradually became familiar with her and began to interact and communicate. One day, the scholar asked the woman, why do you have to dive by yourself every day, what about your family? The woman said that her parents were not around, and she was only an 8-year-old brother who knew how to do things, so she could only carry it alone. Seeing that she was pitiful, the poor scholar became lewd and gave her two silver dollars . However, the woman refused, so the scholar put the silver dollars in two ducts of water. The woman cried and continued to go home without saying anything.
That year, when the emperor heard the knock on the door, the scholar saw that his family was asleep, and he didn't think much, so he went to open the door. When he opened the door, he saw that it was the woman. The woman didn't say anything, and threw herself into the Xiucai's arms. The Xiucai didn't think much, and directly carried the woman to the folk remedy. After the indescribable thing happened, the woman in white said to the Xiucai, "I will come to you every night in the future. Just wait for me with the folk remedy open. The Xiucai didn't think much about it. Why do I have the nerve to refuse such a good thing?
From that day on, the scholar still walked on the mountain roads as before, but he never saw the woman carrying water again. Instead, every midnight, the woman in white would come to the side room to look for him. Every night, something indescribable happened. The scholar felt that his life was really good.
Time is very fast, and two years have passed in a blink of an eye. Although the scholar is only in his early 30s, he is in poor health. After falling down on the way home one day, he can't stand up and lying in bed and being taken care of by his family. He seems to feel that he is not having much time, so he calls his whole family and is about to say his last words. He is very sad and blamed himself, especially to his spouse: "I'm sorry, my wife, for the past two years, I have been playing poker with a woman every midnight, and I have been hiding it from you."
Her wife said in horror: "You will get better from the illness, but don't talk nonsense. You sleep with me every day."
The scholar said: "Yes, I hide it very well, so you just didn't see it." Her wife panicked: "Ask what the woman looks like?" The scholar said, "When the woman met her, she wore two small braids and wore white clothes. She carried two loads of water every day, saying that she wanted to go home to take care of her younger brother."
Her wife said, "I died when I was a child. The family was burned to death by the fire." The scholar realized at this time that the woman carried water to go home to put out the fire. Unfortunately, everything was too late, the scholar's yang energy had been sucked dry, and life ended here.
Don’t fall in love with sex in the middle of the night, and don’t be greedy at the third day. As a scholar, scholars understand this principle, but people are always so greedy, which harms themselves and their families.
(The picture in this article is from ETA)
