Liu Yanniang was so distraught that she had to collect her husband's body and bury it. Soon after, a scholar named Lu Qian moved next door to Liu Yanniang's family. Lu Qian fell in love with Liu Yanniang at first sight and often wrote love poems to Liu Yanniang. Liu Yanniang failed to withstand Lu Qian's fierce offensive, and finally remarried Lu Qian. As a result, Lu Qian also did not escape the fate of sudden death. Less than ten days after the marriage, Lu Qian was struck to death by lightning while taking shelter under a tree.
In the following years, Liu Yanniang lost a total of seven husbands, and her seven husbands all died tragically. At this time, people began to spread rumors that Liu Yanniang was the reincarnation of a bad actor, and no man who was with her would end well. Some people also say that Liu Yanniang offended someone and cast a widowhood curse on her, so she was destined to be a widow all her life.
People were afraid of being infected with bad luck, so they stayed away when they saw Liu Yanniang. Liu Yanniang simply built a hut by the river in the suburbs, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. She spun and weaved in the house all day, and spent her free time scrubbing and washing by the river. She lived a peaceful life.
One winter, Liu Yanniang was going to the river to get water for cooking, but she found that the river was completely frozen. Liu Yanniang had no choice but to use a steel drill to break out a hole in the ice, then scooped some water with a ladle and went home to cook. As a result, when Liu Yanniang got up, she saw a wooden stick frozen under the ice in the distance. Liu Yanniang thought that she could pick it up and take it home to dry and use it as firewood.
But when she took a closer look, she couldn't help but be shocked. She saw that it was not a wooden stick, but a large eel. The eel was more than two feet long and thicker than an adult's arm. It was frozen under the ice and looked like a wooden stick from a distance.
Yangwu County is close to the Yellow River. Liu Yanniang grew up by the river, but she had never seen such a big eel. Liu Yanniang is kind-hearted, and she often hears old people say that when animals reach a certain age, they will become spiritual. She saw that the eel was more than two feet long and must have a lifespan of at least hundreds of years. If it was caught by a fisherman, it would probably die.
So Liu Yanniang carefully broke open the ice and rescued the eel back home. The eel was frozen and unconscious. In order to keep the eel warm, Liu Yanniang untied her clothes and hugged the eel and lay on the bed, hoping to use her body temperature to help the eel keep out the cold.
I don’t know how long it took, but Liu Yanniang fell asleep while lying on the bed. Suddenly she felt someone touching her. When Liu Yanniang opened her eyes, she found that she was sleeping in the arms of a beautiful young man. Liu Yanniang asked in surprise: "Who are you and why do you appear on my bed?"
The young man said: "I am the eel that my wife saved. In fact, I am the thirteenth wife of Dragon King of the East China Sea My name is Ao Zhuocai, who is in charge of the Yellow River waterway. Last night, I was drunk and accidentally froze on the ice. I was rescued by my wife, and I was saved from being slaughtered by the fishermen. "
Liu Yanniang did not expect that the big eel she saved turned out to be Longzi, and she was very happy. Liu Yanniang said: "Since you are an immortal, please return to Hehai as soon as possible. If someone catches you and me like this, I'm afraid there will be something wrong."
The young man said: "Xiaoxian is a person who knows how to repay his kindness. My wife saved my life. I see that my wife is lonely and helpless. "I think it's better to stay and be your husband."
Liu Yanniang's eyes flashed with joy, but then dimmed, and she murmured: "People say that I have a widowhood curse, and no man who is with me has a good ending. How can you do that?" Aren't you afraid of death?
The young man said with a smile: "To be honest, you did have a curse on you before, but now the curse has been lifted." You were originally the lotus fairy in heaven, but because you broke the glass cup at the peach banquet held by the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother demoted you to the lower world in anger and cast the Seven Stars Curse on you. But then you lost seven husbands, and all seven of them were people who deserved to die. The hostility in you was exhausted by them, and now you are no different from a normal woman."
Liu Yanniang opened her mouth in shock. She didn't expect that she had such a history. She asked: "Is the Immortal saying that my seven husbands should have died? Wasn't it me who killed them?
The young man said: "Your first husband, Zhou Shixiong, made his fortune by selling rice and flour. However, he should not have made a fortune for the country. During the famine years, he stockpiled grain and sold the moldy grain at high prices. Many people died as a result. In the end, the Zhou family was involved in a lawsuit and the whole family was destroyed. It was his own retribution." Your second husband, Liu Dakui, was a bodyguard leader on the surface but a bandit secretly. He was found dead on the street because the spoils were unevenly distributed and he was killed by his accomplices. Your third husband, Lu Qian, was extravagant. He sold his mother to a landlord as a slave and his first wife to a brothel as a prostitute. It would be an advantage for such a beast to be struck to death by lightning. "
The young man went through the crimes of Liu Yanniang's other husbands, and then realized that they all deserved their death.
Liu Yanniang then put aside her doubts and lived happily with the young man. At the end of the next year, Liu Yanniang gave birth to two sons for Ao Huocai, named Ao Bing and Ao Bing. Aowanzi. Later, her two sons became very successful, and since then the Ao family has become a prominent local family.
[Solemn statement]
This story is a folk tale, purely a literary creation. The plot and characters are fictitious. It is intended to enrich readers’ spare time life. Please do not contradict feudal superstition.
