During the Qing Dynasty period, there was a Baitang Village in Xianju County, Zhejiang Province. It was surrounded by mountains and beautiful mountains and rivers. However, the court at that time declined and the rural economy was not developed at all, resulting in the surrounding villages being barren and farmers could not bear the blame.
There is a girl named Zhang Xiuxiu in Baitang Village. As the saying goes, one place is a place of water and soil to raise people. In such beautiful mountains and rivers, most women are beautiful. Xiuxiu has good facial features, but the red mark brought from her womb grows on her right face, which is still very large. Everyone in the village calls him "ugly girl".
Xiuxiu's mother Liu left her when she was a child. It is said that her mother didn't know who believed in the village and said that there was a plant on the back mountain that was crushed and applied to her face to remove the mark, so that Xiuxiu would not be unable to marry in the future.
So the day after my mother went up the mountain, neighbors Uncle Li and Uncle Wang carried their mother's body to Xiuxiu's doorstep. The mother died before she could see Xiuxiu.
Uncle Li said that when he and Uncle Wang went up the mountain to chop wood, they saw her mother lying there halfway down the mountain. She seemed to have accidentally stepped on the empty space on the cliff and rolled down. She was still breathing at the time, so she quickly carried her back to Xiuxiu's house. But halfway through, Liu was unable to do it, leaving only one sentence: "Please help take care of my girl!" Then she left.
That year, Xiu Xiu was only 3 years old and didn't know anything. When she saw her mother's body, she lay on it with a smile and asked her father: "When will I get up to cook? I'm so hungry."
Dad said with tears in his eyes that my mother will never cook in the future. Dad cooked it for her to eat. She nodded without understanding, not sad at all.
Xiuxiu's father Zhang Daniu is a carpenter. After his wife died, he became both a father and a mother, and he worked hard to pull Xiuxiu up.
And Xiuxiu is also very sensible. She does housework at home when her father goes out to work. Every time she comes home after her father finishes his work, Xiuxiu has already cooked the meal.
Zhang Daniu originally thought that although Xiuxiu had a mark on her face, it was difficult to get married, but with her strong skills, she worked hard for a few years and saved up enough dowry, she should be able to find a good family for Xiuxiu.
But the day didn't go as expected, and the big bull suddenly fell ill. For the sake of his daughter, he dragged his seriously ill body to work in a wealthy family. Unfortunately, his eyes went dark and fell from a high place. From then on, he was half-hearted and could only lie on a crutch or lying on the bed for the rest of his life. Anyway, he could not go out to work anymore.
In order to cure the disease of the big bull, all the dowry money I saved for my daughter was spent. Even so, I have to continue to treat it next, and the daily expenses are like a bottomless pit.
Xiuxiu was afraid that her father would see her sad face, so she could only hold the rabbit she raised since she was a child, sit at the door of the house and sigh, not daring to enter the house.
Just when Xiuxiu was worried, Aunt Li at the entrance of the village happened to walk here after dinner. She comforted Xiuxiu for a few words, and then asked, "Do you want to make money? Do you want to get married?"
"Aunt Li, don't joke about me. Who doesn't want to get married? Who doesn't want to make money? Even if you don't get married, my father's illness needs money!" Xiuxiu said with a bitter face.
"That's fine. As long as you have this heart, my aunt will take this matter to heart. Wait for my news." Aunt Li said confidently while patting her chest.
"Really? Don't lie to me! My family is so poor, and I have marks on my face. Who would like me?" Although Xiuxiu was very disappointed, there was a hint of expectation on her face.
Although Aunt Li is a woman, she is very enthusiastic in the village and often helps the people in the village. Everyone says that women should take care of their husbands and children at home. She is better and never restless. In this village, she can always make some business, which is more capable than the men at home. In just a few years, her family's life has obviously improved. People in the village say that she is as good as men.
Since Aunt Li promised Xiuxiu, Xiuxiu sat on the stone bench at the door every day and was waiting for Aunt Li to come.
Half a month later, Aunt Li returned to the village with a smile and came to find Xiuxiu immediately. Aunt Li grinned: "It's done, I've found a wealthy family to be a maid for you. Their servants will go back to their hometown and stop working. There is no one in the mansion to serve you, especially their wife is sick for more than a year and is bedridden. You go to their house for three years. Three years later, if the wife dies, the mansion's master can fall in love with you, and marry you. If he doesn't like you, he will give you some money. Then you can take the money as a dowry and come back to get married. Isn't it the best of both worlds?"
"This... Then you won't lose chastity during the period of being a maid, right? How can I get married in the future?" Xiuxiu asked fearfully.
"Don't worry, I was a maid at the beginning, and even if I lost my chastity, it would be three years later. Is it still a problem if others look down on you? Look at your face, others are wealthy families. But you still have to ask your father first, with his consent." Aunt Li said seriously when she saw Xiuxiu was scared.
Xiuxiu was undecided, so she took Aunt Li into the house and asked her father Zhang Daniu's opinions.
Da Niu heard this and said angrily: "How can my daughter live on someone else's house and be someone else's maid? If you don't go, you won't go if you starve to death. I can still leave with a crutch now. I'll make money for you now." As he said that, he was about to get up from the bed and said that he wanted to go out to work.
Xiuxiu saw her father so angry and said, "Dad, I don't want to go either, but our family is not able to make ends meet now, and your body has not recovered yet. Please let me go. Aunt Li said, it's just a maid, don't do anything else."
Seeing Xiuxiu kneeling on the head of the bed, crying so hard that the pear blossoms were in the rain, Aunt Li said, "You go outside the house first, I'll talk to your father well."
After Xiuxiu left, Aunt Li said sincerely, "Big bull, you'll be cold first." Just calm down and don’t act irritably. This is a good thing. Your family needs money now. Do you really want Xiuxiu to find her next home in the future? There is a mark on her face. You can’t make money now. You have to find a way to make money. Three years later, even if the family doesn’t like her, they will give her some money, and they will send someone to give you 5 buckets of rice every month. "
Zhang Daniu also knew that he was impulsive just now. Under Aunt Li’s persuasion, he accepted it slowly, but he just couldn’t bear to part with his daughter.
That night, Xiuxiu sat at the door of her house. She put the rabbit she had raised for many years out of the cage, then stroked it, and said to herself: "Little rabbit, thank you for your company for so many years. Since my mother left, my father went out to work every day. If one day I hadn't picked you up on the road, no one would listen to me. Tomorrow I will be someone else's maid. No one will take care of you, you should go back to nature!"
After saying that, she put down the rabbit and let it run by itself. But after a while, the rabbit suddenly came back and had something in his mouth. Xiuxiu squatted down, and the rabbit held the thing in her mouth and put it on Xiuxiu's hand. It turned out to be a bracelet woven from rabbit fur.
Then the rabbit ran away. Xiuxiu touched the rabbit hair bracelet, which was soft and warm, and treated it as a mascot to protect herself.
Before dawn, Xiuxiu followed Aunt Li to the next door Chenkeng Village . This village is dozens of kilometers away from home, and it takes at least half a day to walk.
Xiuxiu learned from Aunt Li that the family they were going to have their master’s surname, Wang, and had once won a scholar. Just call him Master. The mistress was Qin Wuyan, who was ill in bed and had a bad temper. All the servants in the mansion were driven out by her. There were no servants at present, so the master was in a hurry to find one, Xiuxiu was cheap.
Aunt Li introduced the situation of the boss to Xiuxiu, but Xiuxiu was attracted by the scene beside the road. People lying on the ground, covering their stomachs and crying for pain seemed to have some disease.
"Aunt, are these people all sick? They look very painful." Xiuxiu asked in confusion.
"Don't worry about them. After arriving at the Wang family, you have to bear all the grievances and do all the work. Be diligent and don't talk back to the master. Do you know?" Aunt Li specifically instructed.
"I know, I'll wait for three years and go home. Do whatever the master asks me to do." Xiuxiu agreed, but she was a little scared.
The two accelerated their pace and finally arrived at the Wang family before noon. Standing outside the door was a handsome man with a very elegant appearance. This should be Wang Xiucai.
"Wang Xiucai, I'm really troubled you. I came to the door to greet you. I brought you this. This is my little niece. I have never traveled far away and don't understand any rules. Please turn around and teach her well." Aunt Li stood at the door and introduced Xiuxiu to Wang Xiucai.
Xiuxiu looked at Wang Xiucai blankly, her eyes fascinated because she had been in her village for so long and had never seen such a beautiful man. She was really a young man, as gentle as jade. Xiuxiu, who had never seen the world, lost her politely for a moment. It was not until Aunt Li pushed her that she realized.
Xiuxiu felt embarrassed and lowered her head awkwardly when she came to her senses.
Aunt Li quickly rescued the siege; "Look, I just said she had never seen the world, so why don't you say hello to the master quickly."
"Old... Hello, Master!" Xiuxiu said stutteringly.
"It's okay, all the servants in my mansion have left, the insiders are unable to move. I am a big man and I don't know how to do laundry and cook. I will have to help my girls in the future. Can you cook?" Wang Xiucai asked.
Xiuxiu nodded.
"Then go and cook first. I know you are coming today. I haven't cooked any food yet. This order hasn't been eaten yet because the food I cook is so bad." Wang Xiucai pointed to Xiuxiu in the direction of the kitchen and asked her to cook first, and chat with Aunt Li for a few more words.
After Xiuxiu entered, Wang Xiucai took out a few silver notes from his waist and handed them to Aunt Li: "It's really a blessing!"
Aunt Li took it and thanked him a lot, and then left.
When Wang Xiucai closed the door and returned to the hall, Xiuxiu had already prepared a table of dishes. Wang Xiucai sat down. When he was about to move his chopsticks, Xiuxiu, who was standing next to him, suddenly made a sound of her stomach roaring, and the sound resounded throughout the hall.
At this time, Wang Xiucai realized that the little girl had been on the way all morning and came over to cook for herself. She quickly asked Xiuxiu to sit down and eat with him.
Xiuxiu shook her head: "No, no, I am a servant. The master will eat first, and I will eat the rest."
Wang Xiucai stood up and pressed Xiuxiu. Xiuxiu suddenly sat on the stool. Wang Xiucai said: "There will be three people in the mansion from now on. You can leave a portion for your wife after cooking every day. The rest of us will be eaten. You don't have to stand beside me like the servant and watch me eat. Just eat together. . Also, don’t call me like a master. I’m not a few years older than you. Just call me Brother Wang in the future. After we finish eating, I will take you to see your wife. She may have a bad temper. Don’t take it to heart.”
Xiuxiu suddenly felt that this Wang Xiucai was not only a talented person, but also very kind. She was worried that she would not do well before, and she was very scared. Now she is a little at ease, but she hasn’t seen her wife yet, so she doesn’t know what the situation is.
After lunch, Xiuxiu brought the food she had left at noon to the bedroom with Wang Xiucai.
"Bang!" As soon as Xiuxiu stepped into the threshold, she heard the sound of throwing a cup, and then she shouted loudly on the street like a shrew: "You might as well marry this girl and be a young man. Don't worry about me, let me die, bring the knife, I will solve it myself, so that you won't worry about it, wuwu..."
"Madam, I don't have this intention, But there is no servant now, and you are ill in bed again. There must be someone in the mansion. How can I, a big man, cook and wash clothes? I have agreed with you before! "
"I don't care. If there is a woman at home, she is a vixen. It was before, but now, now, I am not happy now. You can wash your own clothes and cook your own food. I will eat whatever you are bad." The woman was so coquettish that she lost her temper.
"Madam, I only stay with you in my life, how could I leave you? Otherwise, when my parents were alive, I would marry me, so why should I wait until now? Besides, the maid who came here today has a mark on her face, which is not as beautiful as her wife."
Xiuxiu stood at the door. She thought Wang Xiucai was very friendly before, but when she heard their conversation, she still felt very sad in her heart by her appearance. Although others called her "ugly girl" behind her back since she was a child, she was still very sad when she was talking about her face in person. She prayed in her heart that these three years would pass quickly and she wanted to go home to accompany her father.
Just when Xiuxiu was sad, the lady put away her tears and said, "Come in!"
Qin Wuyan saw Xiuxiu and said to her in a mocking tone: "Oh, there is such a big mark on her face. She is really ugly. Please serve me and the master in the future. Don't have any inappropriate thoughts about the master. People like you are not worthy of you."
Xiuxiu put down the things in her hand and then exited the room. She held her tears while holding her tears, nervous and aggrieved. She knew that she was a maid, but as a maid, did she have no dignity at all? The more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and she accelerated her pace.
Wang Xiucai immediately chased after Xiuxiu. He caught up with Xiuxiu and said, "I'm really sorry. She is a patient now and can't argue with her. I didn't mean to say that you were ugly just now, but just to comfort your wife. Please don't care too much."
Xiuxiu finished listening, and felt that she was a maid who was living under someone else's roof. The master apologized like this. She quickly shook her hand: "No, no, no, I am a servant, I will definitely serve my wife well in the future."
Next, Wang Xiucai took Xiuxiu to familiarize herself with various parts of the house and the work she had to do every day.
After a few days, Xiuxiu listened to Wang Xiucai's introduction and basically understood some of the situation at home, but one thing surprised her very much.
It turned out that Qin Wuyan was a woman in a fireworks place before. Wang Xiucai was stolen on the road to the scientific examination. When he was at a loss, he met Qin Wuyan. When Qin Wuyan saw that he was a talented person, he lent his savings to him, who was not a scholar at the time, and thus the marriage between the two was.
In order to be with Qin Wuyan, Wang Xiucai also deceived his parents and said that Qin Wuyan was pregnant, but last month his parents learned that Qin Wuyan was not only not pregnant, but also a woman in a fireworks place.
The two old men returned to the West in anger, and Wang Xiucai had just taken charge of his family.
Madam was very well-behaved and obedient when her parents-in-law were still alive. However, since Wang Xiucai became a family, she began to make unreasonable things and even drove away the servants of the two old people. Now she is still sick and can only rest in bed, but there is no one to serve her.
Although Wang Xiucai was a family, he was a cowardly man at heart. He followed his wife everything, so this family was hard to do.
Now there are only two people in the family, and the wife is bedridden, so they discussed finding a maid. It happened that Wang Xiucai met Aunt Li who was running in various villages at this time. After hearing Wang Xiucai’s request, Aunt Li said that my family had a niece, who happened to need to make money, and she had marks on her face. She was not good-looking and could be attached to her job, but it would not arouse her wife’s jealousy.
Because of her poor family background, Zhang Xiuxiu developed a hard-working character. She is also diligent in the mansion and is quick-witted. She is so capable. She admires her very much and always treats her as her sister. Her face has a mark. The lady is very satisfied with this.
Xiuxiu has been at Wang Xiucai's house for about half a year. Xiuxiu is a little satisfied, that is, the owner is never stingy with her. She and the owner eat the same food. She has big fish and meat every day. In the past six months, Xiuxiu has also looked good, her face is chubby and rounder, and she has gained a weight of more than 20 kilograms. You must know that she can't eat meat several times a year at home, so she is very grateful and has become more diligent in doing things.
Although life is good, whenever the night is quiet, she will touch the furry bracelet on her hand. When she sees the bracelet, she seems to think that her good friend, the little rabbit, is by her side, and thinks of her dad, and then she thinks: Dad, are you okay? Have you recovered from the illness? Can you walk in the ground? You have to wait for me, and I will go home in another two and a half years.
As you think about it, you will fall asleep unconsciously.
One night, she fell asleep as usual. She woke up by urine in the middle of the night, so she got up and went to the cottage. After going to the cottage, she was confused on the way back to the room and felt that she was still at her home. It just so happened that Wang Xiucai went to the bathroom a few minutes earlier than Xiuxiu and walked in front.
Xiuxiu treated Wang Xiucai as his father and followed Wang Xiucai's direction. Because they were separated by a distance, Wang Xiucai did not find Xiuxiu following behind. After he returned to the room, he closed the door heavily. With a "bang", Xiuxiu suddenly woke up and realized that he had gone in the wrong direction.
Just as she was about to turn back and continue to sleep, a voice suddenly came out: "Madam, don't be obsessed anymore. Xiuxiu will die like this. He has been working hard for the past six months. We shouldn't harm her."
"This is our opportunity. Don't you want my illness to be cured? Don't you want the child? Otherwise, why do you think that for the past six months, you give her good food and drink every day? Any servant who is like the master every day, has a rich and graceful life every day. She has fattened so much in the past six months, and it's time to repay us. For our happiness, we can only sacrifice her." The lady said viciously.
Xiuxiu eavesdropping at the door, covering her mouth in fear. She was about to escape to the door and suddenly she slipped and fell down. Wang Xiucai and his wife in the room heard the movement. They hurried out and opened the door to investigate and saw Xiuxiu sitting on the steps at the door.
"You...have you heard it?" Wang Xiucai was still a little hesitant when he spoke, because after half a year of getting along, he was still a little conscientious.
"Husband, what are you doing while standing there? Since she already knows, hurry up and smoke her blood as my medicine guide." Mrs. Qin Wuyan was so cruel.
After Qin Wuyan's scolding, Wang Xiucai no longer hesitated. He grabbed Xiuxiu and dragged it into his room.
"Xiuxiu, your brother Wang is sorry for you, sacrifice for my wife!" The scholar's eyes were like a bronze bell.
The couple stood in front of her, with a ferocious face, and took out a knife to prepare to bleed Xiuxiu. They slowly approached step by step.
"You are not going to do it quickly, why are you so ink?" Qin Wuyan urged from the side.
Xiuxiu sheep entered the tiger's mouth, not knowing where to escape, she held the rabbit fur bracelet helplessly and silently said in her heart, Daddy saves me, Little rabbit saves me, I am the only one left.
suddenly a white light flashed, and all three of them fainted.
"Xiuxiu, wake up, wake up!" A gentle cry suddenly came from his ears.
Xiuxiu looked up and saw a woman in white holding her. She looked at the sky outside, it was already dawn. The Wang Xiucai and his wife next to them were still lying on the ground and did not wake up.
"Bang!" The door of the room was suddenly kicked open, and a group of county government officials suddenly rushed in.
"Look, are they?" At this time, the official behind him came in with a man.
"Auntie Li, are you here like this?" Xiuxiu looked surprised.
"I... I lied to you and harmed you!" Aunt Li said crying.
"What the hell is going on?" Xiuxiu asked in confusion.
"This turtle crawling woman is cheating everywhere, cheating people of money and life." An official explained.
Speaking of turtle crawling women, you may not know much. They were idle women during the Qing Dynasty, some middle-aged women lost their husbands, and they had no support, so they started to cheat.
They just started by making a living by divination, writing some symbols behind the turtle shell, and cheating people who live at the bottom of the body and those who have difficulties in some aspects by making fraud.
Later, they were not satisfied with the status quo. After gaining the trust of ignorant women and children through divination, they began to traffic in women, steal cemeteries, and hurt children. Some of them even burned the entire house of the family after they had harmed people. It's simply done everything evil.
They traveled all over the country, committing evil everywhere, and developed into an organization. Because it was too rampant, the people were suffering so much that they alarmed the government, and the government is now capturing these crawling turtle wives everywhere.
Aunt Li is one of them. Although she is a good old man in the village, she always commits crimes all over the country. In order to leave a good reputation in the village, she says she goes out to do business. Every time she takes ten days and half a month to go home, and she also earns a lot of money.
Qin Wuyan has become a biological partner and has never been able to get pregnant. The doctor has long told her that she had injured her body when she picked up customers in a fireworks place. She needs to be recuperated and time is relatively slow.
At this time, I happened to meet Aunt Li. She told Qin Wuyan that she had a folk remedy that she could get pregnant earlier, which was more expensive.
As the saying goes, he seeks medical treatment in a hurry. Qin Wuyan took out his private money to buy folk remedies. This folk remedy is to take the blood of a young girl as a medicine introduction and take it before each meal.
This is a life-threatening act. Qin Wuyan not only believed Aunt Li's words and spent a lot of money to buy them, but also killed several maids in the mansion.
Originally, several maids in the mansion lost too much blood and had poor physical condition, and soon became infected with a bad disease. This bad disease was when Xiuxiu followed Aunt Li to Wang Xiucai's house. Along the way, she saw many people lying in pain and shouting about the disease she had obtained.
The mansion has no young maids, and there is no medicine introduction. Qin Wuyan finds Aunt Li to help again. Aunt Li knows that she has come up with a bad idea, but in order to make money, Aunt Li thinks that Xiuxiu, the "ugly girl" in the village, is a suitable candidate, so she tricked her into the Wang family and asks her to use it as a medicine introduction. Unexpectedly, Xiuxiu bumps into it herself.
looked at Aunt Li, Wang Xiucai, Qin Wuyan and the other three were taken to the government, and Xiuxiu also went to be witnesses.
Later Aunt Li was sentenced to prison. Qin Wuyan realized that she had been deceived, but she finally killed human life. She was ashamed when she saw her husband. Her husband advised her, but she refused to listen and even made her husband an accomplice. So she took all the charges on her, hoping to atone for her sins.
Wang Xiucai was honest and honest, and his wife had pleaded guilty, so she was released. As soon as he got home, he found Xiuxiu and gave a lot of money to compensate him, hoping that he could be forgiven.
Kind Xiuxiu forgave him, and the woman in white pulled her away.
On the way home, Xiuxiu kept wondering who this woman in white was? Why are you helping her all the time?
"You don't recognize me, I gave you your bracelet!" said the woman in white mischievously.
"Are you a little white rabbit?" Xiuxiu was ecstatic.
"This bracelet is made of Yuan Dan that I have practiced for hundreds of years. I can sense it when you are in danger. I couldn't arrive in time when you were in danger, so I could only use the essence of the Yuan Dan to cast you out, and then transform into a human form to report to the official." The little white rabbit said vividly.
"But why did you save me?" Xiuxiu was puzzled.
"You are the daughter of your benefactor, of course you have to save it!"
It turned out that Xiuxiu's mother saved the little white rabbit when she went up the mountain to collect herbs for her decades ago. When she rolled down the cliff, she held the little white rabbit in her arms. As a result, the little white rabbit was unscathed, but she was seriously injured.
Later, when someone came over, he hurriedly avoided it. At that time, Xiuxiu's mother was still breathing and thought that she could save her from the foot of the mountain. Unexpectedly, she went down the mountain to find out the news, but her benefactor was gone.
Over the years, the little white rabbit has been by Xiuxiu's side and has been accompanying her to grow up.
Xiuxiu suddenly realized after listening. Halfway through, the little white rabbit took off the rabbit hair chain on Xiuxiu's hand, and the chain turned into a Yuandan on the little white rabbit's hand. Then the little white rabbit rolled on Xiuxiu's face with this Yuandan for a few times, and the mark on Xiuxiu's face disappeared.
[Fanfan Story Museum]
Xiuxiu has no mark and has become a great beauty. After returning home, she is a constant stream of people to propose marriage. The little white rabbit also accompanied her for the rest of her life as Xiuxiu's maid.
Xiuxiu's mother sacrificed herself to save the little white rabbit, but the little white rabbit protected Xiuxiu's lifelong conscience in order to repay her kindness.
In contrast, Aunt Li did many evil deeds, but eventually paid for her sins.
Qin Wuyan was deceived and knew that she could not do it, but she ended up hurting many lives. Although she suddenly realized, it was too late.
This story tells us that you must have good thoughts in life so that you will have good rewards. Even if you don’t have good fortune, you are still accumulating blessings for your next generation. Moreover, we must believe in science, not be ignorant, nor hurt others.
Statement: This story aims to inherit folk art, encourage people to abandon evil and promote good, and promote traditional virtues. It has nothing to do with feudal superstition. Thank you!
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