In ancient times, a loving couple who had been childless for many years often went to a nearby temple to pray to God and Buddha for a son. Unexpectedly, the wife's beauty was noticed by the monk. Soon after, the wife received a letter of divorce from her husband and was driven back to her parents' home. Two years later, the wife remarried, and the person she married turned out to be a monk from the temple at that time...
(1) The monk plotted to break up the loving couple.
It is said that there is a monk in Shuining Temple in the east of Jiangzhou Prefecture. Before he got married, he was called Wu Yuancheng.
Although Wu Yuancheng is a monk, his six roots are impure and he is especially fond of women.
There is a couple in Jiangzhou Prefecture, the husband is Zhang Dehua and the wife is Han Lanying. Zhang Dehua was born into the Zhang family, a wealthy family. He looks average, is not good at words, but is honest and honest. Han Lanying is the youngest daughter of Han Yingshu, a local wealthy family, who is beautiful and well-educated.
Han Lanying married Zhang Dehua. Many people thought it was flowers stuck in cow dung. Little did they know that what the Han family valued was Zhang Dehua's honesty and honesty.
The two have been married for many years and are loving and harmonious. Unfortunately, after four or five years of marriage, Lan Ying is still not pregnant with their child.
The couple sought medical treatment and tried their best to solve the problem. Of course, praying to God and worshiping Buddha is also included.
So the couple often went to Yongning Temple in the east of the city to pray for a son. He often invites monks to his home to recite sutras, and Wu Yuancheng is one of them.
didn't know that the couple was inviting a wolf into the house.
Wu Yuancheng only met Lan Ying once. As a womanizer by nature, he only felt that the so-called beauties he had seen in the past were just ordinary, but this woman was the most beautiful. Then he became greedy and lustful.
After the chanting was completed, Wu Yuancheng returned to the temple from Zhang's house and could no longer calm down to meditate. There is no Bodhisattva in my mind, only Lan Ying.
thought about it, and finally he came up with an idea to win the beauty back.
On the second day, the monk heard that Zhang Dehua had something to go out. There were only Lan Ying and a maid at home, so he pretended to go to the Zhang family to beg for alms, but secretly bribed Lan Ying's maid Xiaomei and asked her to steal a pair of Lan Ying's embroidered shoes to give. he.
Xiaomei was greedy for money, so she actually stole a pair of Lanying's shoes and gave them to monk Wu Yuancheng.
Wu Yuancheng got the shoes and returned to the temple. He was so happy that he held the shoes and thought about Lan Ying every day. It seems that that pair of shoes is Lanying. He was even thinking about his next plan in his mind.
One day, Zhang Dehua went to the temple to discuss the next chanting of sutras. After the discussion, he was about to go home.
Wu Yuancheng saw the opportunity and deliberately dropped a shoe where Zhang Dehua must pass. The shoes looked familiar to Zhang Dehua. When he picked them up and took a look, his expression suddenly changed and he thought: "Aren't these my wife's shoes? Why are they here?"
By chance, Wu Yuancheng was walking towards him, so he asked Did Wu Yuancheng see Lan Ying come to the temple? Did he meet anyone?
But he didn’t know that Wu Yuancheng had evil intentions. When Zhang Dehua asked this question, he was evasive and said, "Monks don't lie without proof." This made Zhang Dehua suspicious of Lan Ying.
After returning home, Zhang Dehua threw his shoes on the ground angrily and asked Lan Ying what was going on.
Lanying didn't know why her husband suddenly took the shoes she had kept at home. Lan Ying was speechless.
Zhang Dehua looked at his wife's unclear explanation and imagined that his wife was beautiful and had many suitors, many of whom were handsomer and richer than him. What was only doubt in my heart turned into certainty. So he divorced Lan Ying back to her parents' home on the grounds that she was not a woman.
Lan Ying was originally the youngest daughter of the Han family. Her father Han Yingsu and her mother had always loved her. But now, my good daughter, who has taught me carefully and is well-educated and knowledgeable in etiquette, is divorced because she doesn't follow the rules of a woman.
Han Yingsu felt incredible, thinking that his son-in-law could not catch the adulterer just because of a pair of embroidered shoes. Maybe there was something fishy about this. And he believed that his daughter would not be that kind of person.
Lanying settled in her parents' home again.However, there is no airtight wall in this world. When Lanying stayed at her natal home for a long time, the neighbors began to gossip.
When I found out that Lan Ying was divorced because she was not a woman, I started to say more and more unpleasant things. Everyone blamed Han Yingsu and his wife for not being able to educate their daughter, which is why they allowed their daughter to do such scandalous things.
Lan Ying also has brothers, and they all get married. Although my family knew about my family affairs and believed in my little sister's character, she was still under the pressure of my tongue.
As more and more people arranged the arrangement, the family members felt that their faces were disgraced, and everyone began to blame Lan Ying, wishing that the Han family had never had a daughter like this. Even her parents blamed Lan Yingduo.
Lanying couldn't argue, so she could only lock herself in her room every day.
(2) Lan Ying remarries
Let’s talk about monk Wu Yuancheng. After hearing that Lan Ying was divorced, he knew that his initial plan had been successful.
So he tried to escape from the temple and arrived at Taipingyuan, Xixiang. And he changed his name to Wu Ren. And always concerned about Lan Ying's situation.
Wu Ren spent two years growing his hair.
Lan Ying has been in her natal family for two years. She had hoped that Zhang Dehua would take her back, and that the stigma on her body would one day be wiped out.
However, in two years, she waited for the news that Zhang Dehua had remarried, waited for the contempt and contempt of her neighbors, and waited for the disappointment of her parents and brothers.
Lan Ying sometimes wished she could die, but she was unwilling to do so. Besides, the parents are there.
Lanying, who was once bright, beautiful, confident and dignified, has become a woman who can only cry in her room.
Father Han Yingsu felt distressed and helpless.
One day, Han Yingsu felt that it was not a problem for his daughter to live at home all the time. So I thought about marrying Lan Ying again.
When Wu Ren heard the news, he knew that although Lan Ying had a bad reputation now, Lan Ying was so beautiful that many people still wanted to keep such a beauty in their house.
So, Wu Ren spent money to bribe Han Yingsu's friend and neighbor Wang Qin, and asked him to help propose marriage for him.
Wang Qin found the right opportunity to mention it to Han Yingsu, and Han Yingsu readily agreed to the marriage.
The two families chose a day and passed the betrothal gift. Lan Ying married Wu Ren.
(3) The monk's affair was exposed, and Lan Ying hanged herself to save her life.
Although Lan Ying did not want to remarry, her parents' orders to be a matchmaker could not be violated in that era.
After Wu Ren married Lan Ying, Wu Ren was very kind to Lan Ying. However, although Lan Ying was clear about herself, her reputation outside was really bad, and she always lacked confidence when facing her husband.
faced her husband's kindness to her and felt even more guilty and dared not accept it.
But Lan Ying is a virtuous woman. Now that she has become a woman, she must do her best to do her part.
So the couple can be considered harmonious.
In a blink of an eye, half a year has passed. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wu Ren and Lan Ying drank in the moonlight, looking at their beautiful wives in front of them. Wu Ren felt crazy and drank some wine.
Wu Ren hugged Lan Ying with a proud smile and said, "If it weren't for Xiaomei's contribution, how could I have married a wife as beautiful as you?"
Lan Ying felt strange in her heart, so she asked Wu Ren: "Where do you start talking about this, Mr. Xianggong?"
Wu Ren, who was drunk, had no idea what he was talking about. He bribed Xiaomei to let him steal the shoes, and deliberately left the shoes in the place where Zhang Dehua must pass... and later he bribed a close neighbor of the Han family to act as a matchmaker for him.
Only then did Lan Ying realize that the stigma she had suffered for more than two years was actually due to the corruption of the person in front of her.
She thought of the ridicule from her neighbors, the humiliation her family had put on her, the miserable days she had suffered in the past two years, and her humble reputation...
Lan Ying hated Wu Ren.
After drinking the wine and waiting for Wu Ren to fall asleep, Lan Ying wrote a letter and asked the maid at home to deliver it to her father the next day, and then hanged herself.
On the second day, when Han Yingsu saw his daughter’s letter, he understood the whole story. He rushed to Wu Ren's house, but only saw his daughter's cold body.
The furious Han Yingsu filed a complaint and took Wu Ren to court. And submitted his daughter's handwritten letter as evidence.
Wu Ren did not admit it at first, but later the county magistrate called the former maid Xiaomei to the court to testify. Zhang Dehua was asked about the whole process of embroidering shoes, and a monk from Anning Temple testified about Wu Ren's behavior during his stay in the temple. .
Wu Ren knew that he could not deny it, so he confessed one by one.
The county magistrate sentenced Wu Ren's family property to confiscation, and Wu Renqiu was later beheaded. And issued Wenbang to clear Lanying's stigma.