In the 2nd year of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old man named Liu in Zunyi County. Old Man Liu's family is poor and his wife died early. He is a miserable person. His greatest wish in his life is to hope that his son Liu Xingju can be the first to enter the official career and to glorify his ancestors.
Liu Xingju is handsome and talented. Although he is talented, he is not very concerned about his studies. He is always lazy. He likes to fish and fight crickets. He usually likes to travel around the mountains, but his family is poor and has no money to travel far away. He has to stroll around the nearby mountains and enjoy the scenery in the mountains.
In the spring of this year, I heard that the flowers on Southeast Mountain in the neighboring town were blooming in a particularly gorgeous way, so Liu Xingju thought of going there to have a tour. Before leaving, Old Liu in Chinese told him earnestly: "Come back early, don't delay your studies."
Liu Xingju agreed and set off, walking along the way like an enclave. In less than an hour, he came to the Southeast Mountain. When he entered the mountains, he saw that the scenery here was indeed picturesque and all kinds of flowers were in full bloom.
When Liu Xingju was enjoying the scenery in the mountains, it suddenly rained heavily. When he saw a cave nearby, he hurried in to hide from the rain. Unexpectedly, when he went in, he saw a girl standing inside, and it seemed that she should have come to hide from the rain.
After Liu Xingju saw the girl's face clearly, he was stunned in an instant. He had never seen such a beautiful woman.
The girl was named Liu Yuniang, the youngest daughter of the wealthy family, Liu Yuanwai. Because everyone said that the flowers in the Southeast Mountain were beautiful, she secretly came to the Southeast Mountain for fun without telling her family. Unexpectedly, shortly after she arrived here, she encountered heavy rain and had to hide in this cave to shelter from the rain.
Liu Yuniang felt a little embarrassed when she saw a handsome man looking at her in a daze, and she blushed without realizing it.
At this moment, Liu Yuniang saw the servant Agui appear and was here to find her.
It turned out that my mother, Zhou, saw that Liu Yuniang was not in the boudoir and knew that her daughter must have gone to Southeast Mountain, so she hurriedly sent Agui to find her.
Agui searched around the Southeast Mountain and finally found Liu Yuniang in the cave. When he saw that the unmarried lady was actually staying with a strange man, he was worried that she would have an accident and found that she was neatly dressed. He felt relieved and hurriedly took Liu Yuniang home.
Liu Xingju saw Liu Yuniang leaving, and wanted to follow her, but he was afraid that others would say that he was a toad and wanted to eat swan meat. Because his family was too poor, he could not deserve the daughter of a daughter.
Liu Xingju hated that he didn't work hard to study. If he could go to high school, he would have the confidence to come to propose marriage. After returning home, he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to study, and he memorized the book all day long.
In the autumn of that year, Liu Xingju went to the capital to take the exam and finally passed the top scorer.
The villagers all wanted to marry their daughter to Liu Xingju, but Liu Xingju only wanted to marry that girl, but he didn't know who the girl's surname was and where her family lived. When he was anxious, he saw a familiar figure coming to propose marriage.
That man was Agui, the servant who came to find Liu Yuniang that day.
It turned out that when Liu Xingju saw that Liu Xingju passed the exam, his friends around him rushed to marry his daughter to Liu Xingju. Of course, he didn't want to show weakness. He felt that his daughter Liu Yuniang was one of the best beauty in the local area. As the saying goes, a man and a woman are beautiful, and his daughter is very compatible with marrying Liu Xingju, the top scholar, so he hurriedly asked Agui to take the matchmaker to propose marriage.
After Liu Xingju saw Agui, he quickly asked who the woman was. When he learned that it was the girl he met in the cave, he was happy and quickly agreed to the marriage.
Old Man Liu felt happy to see that his son was the top scorer and married a beautiful wife.
Later, Liu Xingju entered the official career. During his tenure as an official, he was honest and upright and deeply loved by the people.
