In the 2nd years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a woman named Cuifang in Baoding. She was born beautiful and proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. For this reason, she was admired by many young men in the palace, including Li Wenchang, the second son of the Li family.
The Li family is a big family and a big business, and is one of the few rich families in Baoding Prefecture. People often say that the Li family became rich by the people in the city, but the Li family does not know how to be grateful and often exploits the people. Li Wenchang, the second son of Li, relies on his own status to do evil in the city.
However, Li Wenchang became a "paper tiger" in front of Cuifang. No matter how Cuifang is left alone, Li Wenchang would come forward with a warm face.
This day, Li Wenchang returned from outside. Seeing that Li Wenchang was frustrated, Li's parents knew that he had gone to find the woman named Cuifang again, so they said, "Son, if you really like Cuifang, instead of being entangled all day long, it would be better to bring the bride price to her house. I asked someone to inquire. Cuifang's family is poor and can't get rid of the blame. If you go there with 'sincerity', her parents will definitely agree."
Li Wenchang agreed deeply, but after a few days he carried several boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. As soon as he arrived at the door of Cuifang's broken house, he saw Cuifang walking out with a white-faced scholar talking and laughing. Seeing that the two of them were intimate, after the scholar left, Li Wenchang ran up angrily and questioned who the man was.
Cuifang said, "The scholar is my sweetheart. We will get married soon. I hope Mr. Li will not disturb you again."
Cuifang said, regardless of what Li Wenchang said, and turned around and left resolutely.
Looking at Cui Fang's departure back, thinking about the scene where Cui Fang and the white-faced scholar were together just now, Li Wenchang couldn't help but clench his fists.
Half a month later, Cuifang and the scholar got married. Because the scholar was from another place and had no house here, the marriage was simply held at Cuifang's house.
That night, Cuifang was wearing a wedding dress and sitting on the edge of the bed wearing a veil, waiting for the scholar to arrive. After a while, the door was pushed open and the veil was lifted up. Cuifang looked at the scholar's handsome face and couldn't help but blush.
The moon is on the branches, and the figures in the room overlap.
However, just as I was feeling happy, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the candlelight in the house was shaking and it went out in the blink of an eye.
At the same time, Cuifang heard the scholar's groan. In the dark night, a white shadow floated out of the window, and then the scholar fell aside.
Seeing that the scholar had no movement, Cuifang was panicked and quickly lit the candle again. However, seeing that the scholar's face was paler than before, but he was breathing evenly. Cuifang thought the scholar could not bear the pressure of drinking and fell asleep.
When Cui Fang thought of this, she couldn't help but push the scholar and said coquettishly: "You are a terrible person."
But what Cui Fang didn't expect was that the scholar had slept the next day and showed no sign of waking up.
At noon, Cui Fang's mother saw that Cui Fang was the only one who was having dinner, but she didn't see her son-in-law, so she asked her son-in-law why she didn't come.
Cuifang stammered and said that the scholar was unable to drink and was still asleep.
Cui Fang's mother couldn't help but quip, "I'm afraid I was tired last night. I'll give him some food later, so I'll just let him eat in the room."
Cui Fang responded repeatedly, but when she returned to the room, she saw that the scholar was still asleep, so she couldn't help but walk forward and shake the scholar's body. She didn't know what she touched, and was startled. What a guy, the scholar's body was actually cold and harsh, completely different from the warmth of a living person.
But the scholar breathed evenly at this time, not like...
Looking at the scholar who had not moved for a long time, Cuifang was panicked for a moment and hurriedly found her mother and told her everything about the scholar.
When Cui Fang's mother heard this, she hurried into the house to take a look. As expected, Cui Fang's mother felt the same as what Cui Fang said. Seeing this, Cui Fang's mother couldn't help but feel nervous, "My son-in-law must be sick, right?"
Thinking of this, Cui Fang's mother hurriedly called Cui Fang's father to go to the city to invite a doctor to the house to see.
But after the doctor took the pulse, he shook his head and said, "This is the first time I have encountered this disease. The pulse is stable, but my expression and physical condition are no different from those of a dead person. Don't blame me for being shallow. I really can't stop this disease."
Let me talk about Cuifang's family. I hired several doctors in a row, but I couldn't diagnose the scholar's disease. After a while, the matter of going to Cuifang's family spreads from ten to ten, and ten to hundreds, and it spread throughout the streets and alleys.
Everyone said that Cuifang's family had hired a "sleeping son-in-law". This always spreads around and says how ugly it is.
Back and back, it reached Cui Fangniang's ears again.
Cui Fangniang was so angry that she was speechless outside. Looking at the scholar who had not woken up for a long time, she became even more angry and handed a letter to the scholar's family.
After seeing the letter, the scholar's family rushed over. Hearing that his son could not get up for a long time, he immediately cried, "Don't look at my son, a scholar, who is weak, but his body is very strong. I think your Cuifang is obviously a vixen. On the night of his wedding, he sucked away the vitality of my son, which made him like this."
The words of the in-laws made Cuifang's mother even more angry, " How do you talk? My daughter married your sick son. He became like this on the first night of marriage. What do you want my daughter to do in the future? I think my daughter is so outstanding. How many nobles in the city are pursuing them, but she just doesn't listen to me and insists on marrying your poor son. Now, my daughter's second half of her life is ruined by you..."
The two of them became more and more excited as they talked, and they started a fight in a short while.
At this moment, a bull nodded old road passed by here. When he heard the situation at Cuifang's home, he couldn't help asking, "I don't know what happened at home. Maybe I have a way to help you."
After hearing this, Cuifang's mother simply treated the horse as a living horse, and then welcomed the bull nodded old road into the house.
When a few people entered the house, Cui Fang was sitting in front of the bed, wiping her tears. When she saw her mother and mother-in-law leading an old road in, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised and asked quickly, "Mom, this is..."
After hearing this, Cui Fang's mother hurriedly explained, "This old man said he had a way. After all, he couldn't treat his son-in-law's illness even after finding so many doctors..."
As he was talking, the old man had already come forward, but as soon as he saw the scholar, the old man couldn't help but change his face. He quickly turned his head to look at Cui Fang and asked, "How long has he been like this?"
Cuifang calculated carefully with her fingers, and after a while, she said, "So far... there is almost there. More than a month."
"After one month?!" The old Taoist was shocked, and then said, "If this is true, your husband would have passed away long ago. He was not an ordinary disease, but the 'soul-leaving disease'. If it was within seven days, I still have a way, but it's more than a month. I'm afraid you need to go down and go there in person."
Cuifang was puzzled and asked, "Old sir, what's the point?"
But the old Taoist didn't say anything, and looked around. After a while, he seemed to have discovered something. He hurriedly walked to the window and pulled through the gaps in the window. In between, two black and white lines were pulled out.
Looking at the silk thread in his hand, the old Taoist knew it and quickly said, "My husband, I don't know who you have offended. Take these two threads and do what I said later, so that you can find him back."
As he said, the old Taoist signaled Cuifang to lie down and hold the scholar's hand, and put white candles around the two of them. Then he heard the old Taoist recite an obscure sentence.
Cuifang's eyelids became heavier and heavier. In a daze, she heard the old Taoist say to her mother and mother-in-law: "The candles around are not extinguished. If you destroy one, you must immediately continue. If you forget to continue, neither of them will wake up."
The outside voice became more and more distant, and Cuifang felt that her body was getting heavier and heavier, and then it became lighter. When she opened her eyes again, she appeared in a void.
But seeing this place, the black air was lingering, and I couldn't see my five fingers, but there was a faint light in front of me. Cuifang walked along the light, and in a short while she saw a gloomy and terrifying place.
Cuifang walked forward carefully. Soon after, two terrifying people stopped Cuifang and said, "Who are you? How dare you break into the important place of the underworld?"
Seeing these two people, Cuifang trembled all over. Thinking of what the old Taoist said just now, she hurriedly took out the two silk threads in her hand and handed them to the two of them.
The two of them sniffed the scent of the silk thread, and their faces changed drastically. They actually grabbed Cuifang's body and walked straight towards the direction of the King of Hell Palace.
After the Hall of Hell, he saw King of Hell in the hall, and then he heard the two little ghosts say, "Sir, the murderer who hurt Lord Hei White has found. It's this woman, look."
As he spoke, the two little ghosts took two silk threads from Cui Fang's hand and handed them to the King of Hell. The King of Hell sniffed it. It was really something from the two people. I remembered that the two people were seriously injured and returned from being seriously injured. Now it has been a month long and has not recovered. The official duties have been delayed a lot. The King of Hell is a little angry and asked, "Who is the one in the audience? Do you know that you are guilty of hurting the underworld? tml3
Cuifang said without fear at all, "Go back to the King of Hell, little girl Cuifang, on the wedding night, my husband suddenly couldn't get up for a long time, and just now, a bull-nosed man came, saying that my husband suffered from the 'soul-leaving disease' and found these two silk threads at my window, and said that as long as I took these two silk threads to search, I would definitely find my husband."
The King of Hell couldn't help but change his face when he heard this: "You are a soul. Do you know where is the underworld? You can't go back quickly!"
But Cuifang refused, kowtowed, and begged the King of Hell to find his husband.
The Prince of Hell also felt that this was strange. After a long period of breathing, he asked, "Who is your husband?"
As soon as Cui Fang heard the Prince of Hell's question, she was happy and hurriedly replied, "Mr. Yang Jun, , people in Hejian Mansion, 22 people, and he is a scholar."
When the Prince of Hell heard this, he hurriedly opened the Life and Death Book. Not long after, his face changed drastically. He saw that Yang Jun's life span was still more than 60 years, but now he suffers from the Soul-Leaving Symptom...
When he thought of this, the Prince of Hell hurriedly asked someone to ask the Hei and White for a question.
After a moment, the black and white men came tremblingly, and saw that the black and white men were one tall and one short, with almost transparent figures. They were indeed seriously injured.
The two of them refused to admit it at first when facing the questioning of the King of Hell, but when they heard that they were about to put the oil pan, they couldn't help but tremble all over, and then looked at each other and it took a while to tell the truth.
It turned out that just over a month ago, Li Wenchang, the noble son in the city, became jealous when he heard Cuifang was going to marry a poor scholar. After thinking about it, he thought about it and thought of a trick.
After returning home, Li Wenchang asked someone to find a master. Under the guidance of the master, he invited the two of Hei and asked the two of Hei to catch the scholar's soul on Cuifang's wedding night.
At this point, Hei and White couldn't help but wipe away their tears and said, "My Lord Hell, forgive me. We didn't agree at first, but the master Li Wenchang found was too high. He beat us like this in just a few seconds. If we don't respond, we will be scattered."
The King of Hell was furious when he heard this, and immediately slapped the table and said, "I didn't expect Li Wenchang to be so fierce. Then I ask you two, where did you hide him after seducing Yang Jun?"
Hei and White looked at each other again and said, "We hid him in the place where we live..."
At the order of Hei, Hei and White released the scholar. Cui Fang thanked Lord Hei again and then took the scholar's hand and left.
The next morning, Cui Fang and the scholar woke up and quickly told Cui Fang Niang and her mother-in-law what they had experienced. Cui Fang Niang couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's really good that goodness will be rewarded. Fortunately, you didn't listen to your mother's words at the beginning. If you really married Li Wenchang, you might have to suffer a lot of suffering in the future."
As he was talking, the family hurriedly thanked Niang Niang. Just when he was about to hand over the money, Niang Niang Niang waved his hand and turned around and disappeared.
Later, under Cui Fang's careful care, the scholar gradually recovered, and the scholar became a juren under diligence and studied hard, leading his family to prosper.
Looking at Li Wenchang again, I thought that he had used small tricks to make Cuifang lose her husband and could come to him, but he didn't expect that he would be punished after all. He suffered from illness for two or three years, and soon passed away.
It is true that good and evil will be rewarded in the end, but it is not that the time has not arrived.
Li Wenchang is concerned about Cuifang, but he does not pursue it seriously. Seeing that Cuifang is married to others, he feels jealous.
There is a saying that goes, jealousy makes people ugly. If you go the wrong path in a thought, you will never be able to look back.
(The story is over)
Note: Folk stories teach and educate people, encourage people to be kind, and do not match feudal superstitions!
