is reading "Yu Shimingyan" recently and finds it very interesting, so he came up with the idea of sharing some good stories with everyone, so that we can get some inspiration from it together.
The following story comes from a story in Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's "Yu Shiming Yan" called "Teng Dayin Ghost Brokes the Familiar Liberty", which is adapted during the narrative process.
The story is a bit long, but it is very exciting. Please read it patiently.
The old man married a girl and got a son of eighty
Ming Dynasty Yongle years, a prefect named Ni married his wife Chen's and gave birth to a son named Shanji. This name is good, and you can see that Ni Taishou’s cultural level is not average. This means that he wants his son to continue to do good.
A few years later, his wife passed away. From then on, Prefect Ni did not renew his marriage. He took charge of the family business all day long and lived a fulfilling life.
A few years later, Ni Taishou is seventy-nine years old and is still energetic, but his son Ni Shanji couldn't stand it anymore, so he said to his old father: Dad, you are so old, it's time to enjoy your happiness, and leave your family business to me to take care of.
Lao Ni looked at his son and gave him a rumor: "Live one day, care about one day, worry about you for you. Don't be anxious, don't be upset, wait until I kick my legs and die, and I don't care if I want to."
Xiao Ni was very annoyed, but she had no choice.
In October of each year, Lao Ni has to go to the house to collect land rent and live there for lasting a half months. It's time again, and Old Ni arrives as promised.
Lao Ni is a good person in normal times, and the farmers are also very enthusiastic about him. He kills chickens and prepares wine for him. Lao Ni is happy every day.
On this day, on the way to the drinks party, Old Ni suddenly saw a girl washing clothes by the river, and he was stunned. It seems that men are teenagers until death, almost eighty years old, and they still have such a love for beauty.
Lao Ni played with the girl and followed her, secretly knowing the girl's home. Then, he found the village chief and directly said that he wanted to marry a girl.
After hearing this, the village chief was very happy. He usually didn't have the chance to curry favor with Lao Ni. This is a god-given opportunity.
This girl's surname is Mei, she is only seventeen years old. Her father is a scholar, but her parents both die. She is now living with her grandmother.
The village chief turned into a matchmaker and said in a scattered manner to the girl's grandmother: "Mr. Ni is attracted to your granddaughter. Although he is taking a concubine, Mr. Ni's wife is dead and no one cares about her. She married such a wealthy man, and when you are dying, there is a good way to send her!"
Grandma was moved and agreed.
Lao Ni is very happy, and he will make a bride gift and Najibian day. I wanted to go home to do the wedding, but when I thought of Xiao Ni, I was afraid that he would stop me, so I could do it in the village. This is called taking action first and then reporting. It seems that ginger is still spicy.
The day of marriage is coming in a blink of an eye. At night, the couple is in love and has nothing to say.
The rent was collected and the wife had been married, but the family had to go back, so Lao Ni took her new wife home.
When he returned home, Lao Ni asked everyone in his family to call Xiaomei "Little Grandma".
All the family accepted Xiaomei, but Xiaoni, the son of Lao Ni, looked unhappy and said: Xiaomei doesn't look like a good woman at all, but she looks like a prostitute, seducing my old man, and I don't know what's going on. He is younger than me, so I asked me to call her mother, but I didn't even have any door. "
After hearing this, Lao Ni was very unhappy, but she had no choice but to do anything about it.
Don't look at Lao Ni's seventy-nine, but she is really a sword. Xiaomei became pregnant two months later. By the time she gave birth to a white and fat son for him, Lao Ni was already eighty years old. It was September 9th when she gave birth to this son, so she gave the son a nickname "Zhongyanger".
Lao Ni was very proud and proud. When she held a one-year banquet for Chongyanger, Xiao Ni spoke again: "The old saying is right. A man is 60 years old and is brilliant. This child must be incorrect in his origin. I will never recognize him as his younger brother. ”
In fact, Xiao Ni was afraid that Chongyang's family property would be divided together, so she didn't want to recognize Chongyang.Of course, Lao Ni understood this, but now that he is so old, the power of the housekeeper will sooner or later come to Xiao Ni. For the future of Chongyang, I should bear it first.
Time flies. In a blink of an eye, Chongyanger is five years old. Lao Ni decided to give Chongyanger a scientific name, called "Shanshu".
Xiao Ni is called "Shanji", and Chongyang's Er is called "Shanshu", which means that Chongyang's Er has entered the family tree and has been Xiao Ni's younger brother since then.
Isn’t Shanshu going to school? Another interesting thing happened. Shanji's son is about the same age as Shanshu, so there is a scene where uncle and nephew attend class together. The two children are about the same age, but one child wants to call the other child "uncle".
Shenji was very angry and decided to let his son drop out of school. He found a teacher to teach his child alone.
When Lao Ni heard about this, she was so angry that she didn't get up in one breath and fell ill.
Old Ni returned to the west and left his paintings as dumb puzzles
Old Ni knew that his deadline had come, so he called Shanji over and said, "Son, I'm going to die soon. I'll manage all my property for you, but you have to promise me one thing, that is, when Shanshu grows up, you can marry him, and then give him a house and fertile land fifty or sixty acres. Mei wants to get married, so I'll let her get married, so I'll smile. Now, this is the whole property book. If you agree, you can take it away."
Shanji is not a fool. Without saying a word, he agreed on the spot and took the property book.
After Shanji left, Xiaomei cried into tears and said to Lao Ni, "You are so partial. You gave all your property to Shanji. Shanji is your son, so Shanshu is not your son?"
Lao Ni said, "Xiaomei, you don't know. Even if I share the property to you, just rely on Shanji's kindness, can you orphans and widows protect your property? Besides, after I die, you are still young and you still have to marry someone. , Shanji will not agree to take your property away. "
Xiaomei said, "Marry chickens and follow chickens, and marry dogs and follow dogs. Since I have recognized you, I will never remarry again. When you return to heaven, I want to concentrate on bringing Shanshu up, and I will never remarry."
Lao Ni was very happy to hear that and said to Xiaomei, "Xiaomei, are you really not remarrying?"
So Xiaomei swears to the sky that she will never remarry.
At this time, Lao Ni took out a scroll and said to Xiaomei: "I am very happy to say that, but now I don't have any property left for you mother and son. This is a painting I drew. If Shanji is not good to you after I die, you can take this painting. There is a mystery inside. Find a good official who is honest and honest, and let him crack the secret of this painting. There are naturally many benefits in it."
Xiaomei collected the scroll, and that night, Lao Ni died.
After the mourning for Lao Ni, Shanji collected all the valuable things in Xiaomei's room. Fortunately, Xiaomei hid the painting close to her body and was not discovered. Then, Shanji drove the Mei family and his son to live in three miscellaneous houses behind the yard, and advised Xiaomei to remarry as soon as possible. Xiaomei refused to obey, so Shanji had to give up.
Shanshu grew up until he was 14 years old, and Xiaomei did not tell him what happened, for fear that he would be unbalanced. However, when the child grows up, problems will come sooner or later.
On this day, Shanshu said, "Why is my brother worry-free about food and clothing, but my life is so difficult? My father left so many property, why don't he distinguish me? Now I don't even have a decent piece of clothing when I go out. If not, I have to ask him for advice!"
So Shanshu went to Shanji to reason without telling her. Unexpectedly, she encountered a nail and was called a bastard by Shanji. He said that even though Lao Ni had a wealth of wealth, he was also the eldest son's management. How could he get your turn? In the end, Shanshu was beaten to the point of being bruised and swollen.
Shanshu returned to Xiaomei crying and crying. Seeing that things had come to this point, Xiaomei thought that she was going to be finished now. With Shanji's bad intentions, she would not drive us away?
Sure enough, the next day, Shanji called out more people from all his tribe, saying that when Lao Ni said that when Shanshu grew up, he would give him a room and fifty or sixty acres of land. Now he is not young, so he asked them to live in the countryside, which happened to be fifty or sixty acres of land there.
Those tribesmen all received the benefits of Shanzhi. The Mei family and his son had to accept this condition and moved to the countryside to live. The house was dilapidated and old, and the land was not good, and nothing could be planted. The mother and son were really helpless, but in order to live, they still had to endure it.
mute mystery finally revealed, the way of heaven is good for reincarnation
One day, Shanshu went home from school and said to Xiaomei: "Mother, today we met a team of officials carrying pigs and sheep to thank an official who did good things for the people. The scene was spectacular!"
Shanshu's words ignited a fire in Xiaomei's heart, so he found the painting left to them by Lao Ni, and told Shanshu the origin of the painting, and said that there was a hidden mystery in this painting. If you find a fair and wise official to crack it for us, we can live a good life.
does whatever you think of it, without further ado. The Mei family and his son immediately rushed to the government office and found the good official mentioned by the people, and told him the future.
This high-ranking official surnamed Teng. After hearing the cry of Mei and his son, he accepted the painting and let the mother and his son go home first.
Daguan Teng returned to his study, opened the painting, and took a closer look. I saw that Lao Ni was holding a baby in one hand and pointing to the ground with the other hand. Official Teng thought to himself that this baby is naturally good at speaking, so what does pointing his hand to the ground mean? Could it be that he remembered that he had knowledge underground and asked me to help his children?
Daguan Teng thought again, Lao Ni had already had a will before his death and left all his property to Shanji, so it was hard for me to help Shanshu. It seems that only by solving the mystery in this painting can we know the truth.
From then on, Taiguan Teng was fascinated by this painting, studying it every day and thinking about it every night.
On this day, Teng Daguan was so anxious that he pounded his head, thinking, "I'm still an official, I can't even crack this." In a hurry, he waved his hand and knocked over the water cup on the table.
The water wet the painting. Teng Daguan quickly took it to the sun and suddenly found words vaguely on the painting.
It turns out that there is a piece of paper mixed in the painting! Official Teng was overjoyed and took out the paper carefully. It was a suicide note from Lao Ni.
I saw that it was written as follows: I am in my 80s and have another son, but he is only one year old, and the eldest son has a bad character. If I share the property for my younger son, I am afraid that the eldest son will kill the younger son, so I leave all the property for my older son. I was afraid that after I died, my eldest son would be bad to my younger son, so I wrote this suicide note and left a side room for my younger son. Five thousand taels of silver were buried under the left wall inside, and five thousand taels of silver and one thousand taels of gold were buried under the right wall. If the Master Qingtian cuts off the money to Shanshu in the future, he will give the 300 taels of gold as a reward.
Although Teng Daguan is a good official, he was moved when he saw that there were these gold and silver. Money can make the devil push the grind, so he came up with a plan and decided how to handle the case.
So the Grand Official Teng summoned Shanji to the church and said to him, "There is unfairness of the Mei family's mother and son suing you for the unfairness of the family property. What do you mean?"
Shanji said, "This is done according to my father's will, and it is absolutely unbiased."
Grand Official Teng said, "You go back first, I will go to your house to check the relevant information tomorrow to judge the case."
Shanji returned home and quickly gave the tribesmen some benefits and let them testify for themselves tomorrow.
On the second day, Teng Daguan came to the Ni family. As soon as he got out of the sedan chair, he bowed to the air, walked to the hall, sat in the seat, and whispered to the chair next to him, as if someone was stunned.
Official Teng seemed to be tired, so he picked up the tea bowl and took a sip of tea. When he put down the tea, he said loudly: "Huh? Grandpa Ni is so missing?"
Everyone was frightened and thought to himself that this old Ni had disappeared long ago. Why are you back today?
Who asked whom Ni Taishou? Official Teng described his appearance in detail. Everyone was surprised and said together: "It's really the appearance of Mr. Ni!"
In fact, Official Teng had seen the portrait of Old Ni Liu, and of course he knew what he looked like. He pretended to be a fool like this for the next step.
Diguan Teng saw that everyone was fooled, so he struck while the iron was hot and said, "Premier Ni told me just now that he saw Shanshu's suffering underground, and decided to leave an old house to Shanshu, and everything inside was returned to Shanshu. Shanji, what do you think?" When Shanji heard this, the old house was also dilapidated, so he happily agreed.
When Mei's mother and son heard this, they complained repeatedly. This is not as good as the original garden.
I saw the Grand Official Teng said, "Everyone has heard it, so let's make a note!" After signing the Grand Official Teng said, "Then everything in this old house belongs to the Mei family and the son! Just now, Prefect Ni told me that there are 5,000 taels of silver buried under the left wall of this house, and 5,000 taels of silver and 1,000 taels of gold buried under the right wall. Come on, dig it out quickly!"
A few servants came and dug it out and said it to Grand Official Teng.
Shenji saw such gold and silver, his eyes were filled with fire, but he had just established a letter and had to break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.
Daguan Teng said again: "Previous Shou Ni just said that he had to give me the 1,000 taels of gold as a thank you gift. I postponed it in three days. Unfortunately, Previous Shou Ni was determined, so I had to accept it. You can take the remaining silver, the Mei family and the son."
Of course, the Mei family and the son thanked me very much, and they lived a good life from then on. Later, he married Shanshu a good wife and gave birth to three good sons, all of whom were successful in studying. Shan Jiqi never recovered from then on and was plagued by illness. After Shanji's death, his two sons were not good at it and squandered all their wealth.
Thank you for your patience to read, the next story is even more exciting!
