The old woman went straight to the backyard and saw three bright red flowers as red as blood and flowers as bowls. She immediately collapsed on the ground, burst into tears with a "wow", holding flowers in both hands, and said sadly: "Son, my mother finally found you!"
Ming Dynasty During the Jiajing period, a mother and son lived in Qingshan Town. The mother was called Xu Yuefeng, and her mother was physically weak and sick. Her son was called Li Erzhu. The mother and son depended on each other and made a living by farming and climbing the mountain to collect herbs. The mother is hardworking and kind, and the son is sensible and filial. Although the mother and son live a hard life, they are still happy and satisfied.
It's spring, and the snow on the mountain begins to melt. The son packed his bags and told his mother that he wanted to go to the mountain to buy medicinal materials and then take them back to the town to sell. It's better to exchange some money for your doctor. Aunt Xu changed her face as soon as she heard this. She knew that the mountains were dangerous and she was afraid that her son would encounter an unexpected accident, but she also knew that her son, Dan Dan, was afraid that the nine-ox would not be able to pull him back. So he pondered for a while, nodded and said, "It's all because of my lack of strength and I've been suffering. You can go into the mountain, but you must agree to my mother with one condition!" After that, he turned around and took out a handkerchief from the depths of the cabinet. He opened it and found three seeds, black and dark, like cast iron.
Aunt Xu said panting: "You must promise your mother to bring these three seeds with you. Remember, every time you stay at a family, you must plant these three seeds in front and behind the resident's house when the owner is not paying attention. When you leave the next day, dig out the three seeds and bring them with you. Do this when you go to the next house. Promise your mother, you must do it!"
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The son nodded and agreed when he saw his mother's advice. He wrapped his handkerchief and put it in the package carefully.
Early the next morning, Aunt Xu wore a piece of jade around her son's neck, and then carefully whispered yesterday's words, which made her son go on the way.
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In a flash, my son has been out for more than ten days, without any news at all, and a month has passed again in a flash. My son neither came back nor had someone send a message. Aunt Xu gradually became depressed and began to speak without saying anything. From morning to night, she just sat on the rocking chair at the door without moving, looking towards the mountain, sitting for the whole day, without saying a word. In just a few days, Aunt Xu's hair turned completely white. On that day, people in the town saw Aunt Xu packing a package and preparing to enter the mountain. They wanted to stop her, but they heard Aunt Xu say firmly: "It was the mountain I let my son enter, I must find him back!"
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Aunt Xu knew the route of her son entering the mountain. She walked with lupus all the way. She walked for a long time, but didn't know how far she had walked. Finally, she saw the first village since entering the mountain. Aunt Xu didn't bother to rest and found a place with a lot of people. She took out a painting from the package and hung it on the tree, and then sat next to her without saying a word.
When the villagers saw such a strange aunt, they hung up a painting and looked around curiously, but they saw that the painting was a flower with the petals spreading like the size of a bowl, bright red and bloody color, and the flowers were layer by layer surrounded by a delicate stamen in the middle. There is also a line of words on the drawing: Buy "red in blood", ten taels of silver per flower.
Everyone was amazed at once. A flower was worth ten taels of silver, but no one had seen such a flower before. Everyone watched and smacked their lips. Seeing the aunt next to the painting silently, they lowered their voices and muttered, "Is this aunt a crazy person?"
Two days passed in a flash, and no one used flowers to exchange for money. Aunt Xu sighed, carefully rolled the painting, and walked towards a deeper place in the mountains.
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Along the way, Aunt Xu will hang a picture whenever she sees the village, no matter how big or small, and wait a few days to see if anyone sells flowers. When she is hungry, she eats the dry food she brings with her, when she is thirsty, she asks for a bowl of water to drink, and when she is tired, she leans on the tree to beat her.
Time passed day by day, Aunt Xu didn’t know how far she had walked, how many villages she had passed, but she felt that the mountains were getting more and more steep. She knew that the more steep the mountain there were, the more precious medicinal herbs were, the more likely her son would have been to come.
On that day, Aunt Xu came to a remote mountain village. The terrain of the small mountain village was steep, with only a dozen families scattered on the steep cliffs. Aunt Xu saw that there were no shops in the village, only a small grocery store at the beginning of the village. She thought that everyone in the village would definitely come here to buy things. If the paintings were hung here, everyone in the village could see them. So she hung paintings on the tree next to the shop and sat down as usual.
Day has passed, two days have passed, and more than a dozen families in the village have basically visited the shop and seen it, but no one said that they have the flowers on their paintings. Aunt Xu's heart sank little by little. It seemed that she had lost her heart this time and she had to continue walking into the mountains. However, her health was getting worse and worse. She often couldn't get up after sitting for a while, and she felt dizzy and dazzled for a long time when she got there. These days, she has dreamed of her son every night. She thought that the day she would be together with her son should not be far away.
On this day, Aunt Xu was eating steamed buns while thinking: If no one came to sell flowers, she had to leave for the next village. There was not much time left, so she could no longer delay her time. At this moment, a child's voice came from his ear: "Hey, isn't this the flower growing in my house?"
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Aunt Xu was shocked, and half of the steamed bun in his hand fell to the ground "puff". She looked up and saw a boy of seven or eight years old tilting his head and looking at the painting. Aunt Xu said in a trembling voice: "Baby, do you really have such flowers in your family? Don't lie to your mother-in-law!" After hearing this, the little boy put his head in front of the painting, looked carefully, and nodded vigorously and said: "That's right, the red flower in my backyard is exactly the same as this flower!"
After the little boy left, Aunt Xu hurriedly got up. Because he was very anxious when he got up, he fell heavily, rubbed his face and bleeding, but she didn't care about wiping the blood, but just stared at the little boy tightly until the little boy's figure silenced on the other side of the hillside. Aunt Xu climbed to a high place and saw that there was only a lonely family behind the hillside.
Aunt Xu had an idea at the moment. She put away the painting and immediately went down the mountain to find the local prefect. Fortunately, the prefect was a good official of honest and honest Kang Jie. After listening to Aunt Xu’s narration, he immediately sent two constables to follow her to investigate the case.
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Not long after, Aunt Xu brought the constable to this small mountain village, and the three of them went straight to the house behind the hillside. A child was playing in front of the door, and it was the boy Aunt Xu met that day. The man in the family changed his face when he saw that the constable was coming, and the woman in the family was even more frightened and trembled.
Aunt Xu didn't say anything, and went straight to the backyard like crazy. As soon as I entered the backyard, I saw three bright red flowers as blood and flowers as bowls. When the breeze suddenly rose, the flowers suddenly made a "whimper" sound, like a long-lost wanderer was about to plunge into his mother's arms and scream. Aunt Xu cried loudly, holding flowers in both hands, and said sadly: "Son, mother has finally found you!"
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Aunt Xu cried and said to the constable: "Brother of the official, please search this house, you will definitely find a green jade pendant with the engraved 'Hengshou and Hengchang'."
Before he finished speaking, the man jumped up and was about to run. The detective took a step forward and pressed him to the ground.The woman in the family actually slumped on the ground with a "thump" and pointed at the man and cried: "You killed this day. I have said that you should not do anything that hurts the world. You insist on doing it. Now you are retribution!" As soon as the detective was obedient, he immediately started searching. Sure enough, he found a jade pendant, which was exactly what Aunt Xu said. When Aunt Xu saw it, she said heartbrokenly: This is the jade my son wears with him. It is the amulet I knelt in front of the Bodhisattva Satan for a whole night before he left. I didn’t expect the jade to be still there, but the human being... I knew that they would definitely be reluctant to throw away the jade after they killed my son! "
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As he said, Aunt Xu suddenly roared, ran forward and grabbed the man's clothes, and shouted heart-wrenchingly: "Say, where is my son? "After saying that, his body softened and fainted.
Constable hurriedly supported his mother. After a long time, Aunt Xu opened his eyes. The Constable couldn't help asking, "Auntie, how did you know that your son was killed in this family? "
Aunt Xu's heart was as if she was shattered and said in a hoarse voice: "Before my son left, I gave him three flower seeds. This kind of seed is not available in a radius of hundreds of miles. I told my son that no matter which family they stayed in, they must plant these three seeds secretly and poached them the next day. The three flowers you see now grew from those three seeds. My son did not poach the seeds, so he must have been killed in this family! "
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The detective suddenly realized after hearing this, grabbed the man and scolded him sternly: "Come on, come here as it is true, why do you want to harm human life? ". The man saw that he could not hide it, so he told everything. It turned out that day, a young man came to his house to ask for a stay at home. When he saw that the man had money on him, he immediately became murderous. But he didn't know that the man had quietly planted three seeds in the backyard.
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Aunt Xu heard it and was immediately in pain as if thousands of arrows were penetrated. Suddenly, she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, raised the jade pendant high, smashed it hard to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "My son, mother is here-as she said that, she spit out a mouthful of blood and poured it on the flower.
At this time, the bright red petals suddenly fell down, and in an instant, like rain, like the blood and tears of an old mother flying...
