I have heard that my wife has been mourning for her husband for three years, and my son has been mourning for her father for three years, but I have never heard of that my son has to keep his father for three years.
He really did this. This happened in during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a scholar named Zhang. After his father died, he wanted to keep a soul in front of his father's grave for three years. As for what kind of regulations this is and who stipulates it, I don’t know. Anyway, this is how their Zhang family’s ancestors passed down from generation to generation.
Zhang Xiucai has just married a beautiful wife this year. Before the two of them have passed the honeymoon period, their father unfortunately passed away due to overwork.
There is no way. His father passed away. According to the clan rules of the Zhang family, Zhang Xiucai had to stay for his father for three years. He could not go home within these three years, and he could not eat meat. He had to live in front of his father's grave every day, burn incense and kneel down.
Zhang Xiucai built a small shack in front of his father's grave and lived in it. In the past few years, he also put a lot of grain, pots and pans, etc. After all, this is three years, not three days, so some necessary things must be prepared.
She didn't understand this new wife. She firmly disagreed. She had never heard of having to keep her father for three years. However, in the end, after repeated persuasion from her mother-in-law and husband, she could only accept this fact. She had to be a widow at home just after getting married, and she couldn't accept anyone else, and she could understand it.
The young daughter-in-law was so idle that she wanted to give Zhang Xiucai some delicious food and accompany him by the way. Who knew that she was stopped by her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law said that this new daughter-in-law could not enter the ancestral grave, and she could not do anything disrespectful to her ancestors there. It seems that this mother-in-law has guessed the thoughts of this daughter-in-law!
There is no way, the young wife can only stay at home and fall in love with her. In this way, after more than a year, the young wife couldn't help it. She was too lonely alone. She really missed her husband, so she secretly prepared a little meat and a few steamed buns on her back, and wanted to go to the cemetery to find her husband.
The young wife came quietly and touched her. In front of her husband's shack, she opened the curtain and saw that her husband was sleeping inside. She was excited and wanted to pounce on her.
Who knew that when Zhang Xiucai turned around, he saw the young wife who was about to pounce on him. He was shocked and hurriedly pulled her wife out. After walking for about a hundred meters, she stopped. The young wife was so squeamish that she was about to speak. Who knew that Zhang Xiucai slapped her.
Zhang Xiucai, with an angry face, scolded her, "Who asked you to come here? Don't you know that you can't come to the ancestral grave in the past few years when I was guarding you? What a rash person, you will bump into your ancestors. You are such a woman. Go back quickly."
The young wife's words were about to make a stomachache, and she swallowed them back. She looked at her husband aggrievedly, without saying a word, and all the words were replaced by aggrieved tears.
Zhang Xiucai also realized that he had done a heavy blow and hurriedly apologized like a young wife. At this time, the young wife couldn't listen to anything. She threw down the meat and steamed buns she brought, ran home crying.
After returning home, the young wife locked herself in the house. No one saw her. No matter how her mother-in-law persuaded her, she would not listen and would not even eat. She felt that it was meaningless to be alive. She went to see her husband kindly and was beaten by him. She was really wronged. At this time, she had the desire to die.
The young wife was in the house and kept crying. She didn't know how long she had cried. Maybe she was tired of crying, so she fell asleep in a daze.
When it was midnight, she suddenly heard something moving in her door. After a while, the door was opened from outside. She looked at a man in white mourning clothes and walked in.
After seeing the person who came in, the young wife became excited. It must be that her husband was back. Only her husband was wearing mourning clothes. He must know that during the day, he was wrong to beat him. He came back in person to apologize. The young wife stopped crying, so she quickly got up and helped her husband to the edge of the bed.
The young wife asked, "Husband, why are you back? Didn't you say you can't go home? Besides, I'm no longer angry about what happened today, and you don't need to run back specially."
Who knew that the husband didn't say a word, and put the young wife on the bed and signaled her to sleep. Although the young wife was confused, she could figure it out. After all, the husband came back secretly. If he spoke loudly, he might be afraid that his mother would hear it, so he didn't say anything.
But she didn't expect that her husband looked quite gentle and was so anxious at this time. But this is exactly what she wants. Although she said, don’t worry, her own body is very honest.
That's it, the two of them said nothing all night, but they did everything they should do. The next day, before dawn, my husband got up, put on his mourning clothes and left.
Although the young wife was a little disappointed, she could understand it. After all, this matter must not be known, so as not to gossip behind her back.
One day later, the young wife suddenly started to retching after getting up in the morning. My mother-in-law thought she was sick, so she hurriedly hired a doctor. Who knew that after the doctor's diagnosis, this young wife was not sick, she was pregnant.
After hearing that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, her mother-in-law's face immediately sank. She knew very well that her son was keeping his soul and had never come back. The daughter-in-law suddenly became pregnant. There must be something tricky about it. However, in front of the doctor, she was not inconvenient to say more, and family scandals should not be made public!
After sending the doctor away, the mother-in-law asked the young wife with a gloomy face: "What's going on? You have to explain it to me."
The young wife didn't hide it. She said to her mother-in-law in a hesitant way: "That's right. A while ago, your son came back once in the middle of the night."
After hearing the daughter-in-law's explanation, the mother-in-law finally let go of her heart. Although the son did this a bit of a violation of the rules of the ancestors, this was also her own son who had the rules. Moreover, the daughter-in-law's belly was still the flesh and blood of her Zhang family, and she was about to be a grandma. Other things are no longer so important at this time. After
, she not only can't let her daughter-in-law work, but also has to serve her well. She doesn't want to treat her grandson badly.
A few months later, my son suddenly came back. It turned out that he had no food on his side and wanted to come back to get some food. However, as soon as this scholar entered the door, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with his wife's belly.
He immediately pulled his wife down and pointed at her belly and asked, "What's going on?" The young wife smiled and said to him in a squint, "I'm pregnant. Your son was the last time you came back secretly. Not long after you left, I found out that I was pregnant."
When Zhang Xiucai heard this, his face immediately changed, but he didn't say anything. He ignored his young wife, turned his head and went up the mountain to continue to keep his soul guarding for his father, with no excitement on his face. The daughter-in-law and mother-in-law also realized that something was wrong with him. The daughter-in-law was about to chase after him, but was stopped by her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law said, "You are now the critical time to protect your pregnancy, so you must not run around. I'd better ask, just wait at home." After the mother-in-law said that, she went to chase Zhang Xiucai. She also wanted to know why her son was like this?
When his son saw his mother catching up with him, tears suddenly flowed down. He cried and said to his mother, "I was cuckolded. I haven't returned to the country at all. Today is the first time I have been back in the past two years." After that, he wiped his tears without waiting for his mother to react, and walked up the mountain again.
The mother-in-law is a experienced person. When she knew that the child in her daughter-in-law's belly was not her grandson, she really wanted to go back immediately and ask her what was going on here? Why do you want to lie to yourself?
But what she was more worried about at this time was that her son was worried that something might happen to her son. She didn't go home, but pursued her son all the way.
After arriving at the ancestral grave, she was still late. Zhang Xiucai had already committed suicide in front of her father's grave. When her mother saw her son die, she was very sad. She held her son's body and kept shaking her eyes, hoping that her son would wake up. Unfortunately, Zhang Xiucai had already died and could never wake up again.
The mother-in-law dragged her son's body back home and dragged her to her daughter-in-law. She pointed to her son's body and asked, "You shameless woman, seducing a man to get pregnant outside. Why do you lied to me to say it was my son? You are the murderer who killed him. I must seek justice for my son." As she said that, she was about to pull her daughter-in-law to meet the official.
At this time, the young wife had been scared to death. Through her mother-in-law's words, she also knew that the person wearing filial piety clothes that night was not her husband at all. No wonder he didn't say a word that night.
The young wife looked at her dead husband. She lay on her husband and kept crying, and said while crying: "It's all that I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry to the Zhang family. That night, I really thought you were back and wearing a mourning uniform. I really don't know."
At this time, she suddenly rushed into the room, picked up scissors, and inserted it into her chest. In this way, the young wife committed suicide.
The mother-in-law lost her son and daughter-in-law within one day. She was really desperate and she didn't want to live anymore. From what his wife said in the end, she also knew that this wife was also deceived.
However, the real murderer has not been found yet, and his son and daughter-in-law cannot die in vain. I must avenge them. Even if I fight for this old bone, I will also avenge them.
In this way, the mother-in-law sued the grievance between her son and daughter-in-law to the county government. Now she can only ask the county magistrate to help her find the murderer. She is an old woman and really has no ability to take revenge on her own.
County magistrate, but after taking on this case, he sent someone to investigate and investigate it for several months, but there was no clue at all.
A few months later, this mother-in-law still didn't hold on until the day she found the murderer. She was at home, crying all day long, and finally ended in depression.
After the county magistrate learned that the old woman had died, he swore in his heart that no matter what, as long as he was still in this position for one day, he would try his best to investigate the case and he would definitely seek justice for this family.
However, there are very few clues. The county magistrate still found nothing after more than a year of investigation.
However, this evil man will not be rewarded after all. The net of heaven is vast and unobstructed, and the real murderer will soon reveal his feet. The real murderer was finally able to catch the culprit, which was inseparable from the acumen of the county magistrate.
On this day, the county magistrate went out to do business and happened to pass by Zhang Xiucai's home. By chance, it suddenly started to rain heavily in the sky, and the county magistrate wanted to go to Zhang Xiucai's home to hide from the rain.
As soon as the county magistrate entered Zhang Xiucai's house, he discovered something was wrong because he found that Zhang Xiucai's house was hidden. Isn't this supposed to be? Could it be that someone has entered his house?
Just when the county magistrate was puzzled, a person suddenly came out of the house. The county magistrate still knew him. He was the famous prince in the town.
This prince is not simple. The eldest son of Wang Yuan’s family passed the exam last year and was very likely to embark on the official career. Maybe he would be bigger than his own official position. So the county magistrate immediately bowed and said, "So it's Wang Juren! I didn't expect that you can actually see you in this scholar's house. Wang Juren is here to shelter from the rain, right?"
Wang Gongzi quickly replied: The county magistrate is too bad, what a juren is, just a scholar, sir, you are too polite. I also saw that it was going to rain soon this day. I happened to pass by here, so I came in to shelter from the rain and came to Zhang Xiucai's house to take a look. After all, I am familiar with his family, and we were our best friends during his lifetime. "
The words of the prince Wang are true. In the past year, the county magistrate has never given up investigating Zhang Xiucai's case. He has also learned a lot about the prince Wang and Zhang Xiucai. They are indeed good friends for more than 10 years. Therefore, the county magistrate has no doubt about his statement.
After just after two people chatted, the rain stopped. The county magistrate looked at the sky and was about to leave and return to the county government. Prince Wang immediately pulled the county magistrate. Today was his best opportunity to be attentive, so he invited the county magistrate to sit at his house and have some tea or something.
The county magistrate refused, so he could only follow Prince Wang back to his mansion. Who knew that the two of them had just walked halfway, and the rain started to rain again.
When the two arrived at the Prince's Mansion, they had already been wet with rain and were wet all over. As soon as the prince entered the house, he brought the county magistrate into his bedroom.
Shouldn’t this bring people into the living room first? Why did you bring it to the bedroom? Isn’t this because it’s raining? Both of them were all wet, and Mr. Zhang took the county magistrate to his bedroom to find him some clothes to change it first.
This is a problem. When the prince of Wang opened his wardrobe, the sharp-eyed county magistrate saw a white mourning uniform inside his wardrobe at a glance.
The county magistrate is not an ordinary person. He could tell at a glance that the style of filial piety clothes was what his son wore for his father. The problem is that the father of the prince is still alive! The county magistrate immediately linked this matter with the tragedy of Zhang Xiucai's family. All the doubts seemed to have been solved suddenly after his contact.
However, the county magistrate did not expose the young master on the spot. After he changed into clean clothes, he found an excuse and hurried back to the county government.
Not long after, the county magistrate brought the yamen runners again and came to the royal palace again. This time he directly brought the prince and the filial piety clothes in his wardrobe back to the county magistrate together.
The county magistrate took Prince Wang's filial piety uniform and asked him: "What's wrong with your filial piety uniform? Don't tell me that your father Wang Yuanwai is dead? This is for him to wear, let alone you prepare in advance. This filial piety uniform has obviously been passed through."
In fact, after seeing Prince Wang's filial piety uniform, Prince Wang felt a little cold, but he didn't want to admit it, so he kept quibbling and trying to get through, but the county magistrate was not an ordinary person.
He knew as soon as he heard the explanation of this prince, that this was a fool. The county magistrate slapped the exclamation and shouted: "Your bold prince, you dare to argue. Come on, I'll punish me." Several yamen runners pressed him on the ground and beat him up. After dozens of big slabs, he took everything.
it turned out that he was greedy for the beauty of Zhang Xiucai's wife and was always looking for opportunities to start. He, he and Zhang Xiucai were friends. The quarrel between Zhang Xiucai and his wife next to the cemetery that day was just about to find Wang Xiucai, and he could see clearly that he knew that his chance had come. So that night, he pretended to be Wang Xiucai, slipped into his young wife's room, and did what he had been thinking about day and night. After the trial of the case was clear, the county magistrate pronounced the sentence in court, and Prince Wang was sentenced to death. After hearing the punishment, Mr. Wang was so scared that his legs were weak. He did not expect that this little thing would cost his life.
He hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy. The problem was that the county magistrate didn't listen at all, so he directly asked someone to take him to death, waiting for the death toll in autumn to ask for the beheading.
Just like that, Wang Xiucai, who did evil things, did not escape the punishment of fate. The county magistrate also fulfilled his promise and avenged Mr. Zhang's family.
