There is a farmer named Zhang Si in Wuyuan County, Huizhou Prefecture. He is a poor family who lives by carrying the burden and working hard for others. His wife, Zheng, is only twenty years old and has a pretty beauty.
At the beginning, Zheng saw that Zhang Si was strong and down-to-earth, so he didn't have a betrothal gift and just married Zhang Si. This made many local young men angry and said that a flower was inserted into cow dung.
At the beginning, the couple was pretty good, supporting each other and understanding each other, and their lives were good, except for being poor. But it was just that the poor made Zheng slowly change.
She began to dislike the rough clothes on her body, resented her husband to make little money, envy the lives of rich families, and even had the idea of divorce.
On this day, Zhang Si went out to work. He had to go to someone more than a hundred miles away to help them carry the load and transport goods. He was a long-term worker, working for at least half a year. So, only Zheng was left in the family.
A few days after Zhang Si left, a guest in white came to his house and said he was borrowing a sip of water to drink. Seeing that he was pretty and looked like a rich man, Zheng agreed.
doesn’t know that after the white-clad guest came in, he drank water but had no intention of leaving. He kept praising Zheng’s beauty and said frivolous words such as “If you can marry such a beautiful wife, it’s worth dying.” Zheng did not refuse, but enjoyed this feeling very much, so she didn't speak and looked at the white-clad guest shyly.
The white-clad guest saw what Zheng meant, so he took out dozens of taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it over to Zheng. Zheng stretched out his hand and immediately pulled it back. The guest in white understood, and he stuffed the silver into Zheng's arms, and then his hands began to be dishonest.
Zheng pulled him into the room, so the two of them hooked up like this.
The white-clothed guest is very rich and often gives Zheng a silver. He takes dozens of taels at one move. In half a year, he gives Zheng a silver of at least a thousand taels. Zheng asked him what he was doing and making money like this, and the white-clothed customer said that he was responsible for transporting grain, and there was almost no cost, so he earned the money he was transported.
Zheng didn't understand, so he stopped asking and was with the white-clad guest every day.
Good things don’t go out, bad things go through thousands of miles. Soon, everyone around knew about Zheng's mischievous relationship with the white-clothed guest. Except for Zhang Si, the village kept rumoring this incident.
After a while, Zhang Si came back and arrived in the village. The villagers stared at him and pointed at him. After hearing this, Zhang Si vaguely guessed something. He found a clan brother with a good relationship and asked him what was going on. The clan brother told Zhang Si about his affair with the white-clothed guest for half a year.
Zhang Si was extremely angry, but he calmed down and decided to find out the matter.
So, Zhang Si pretended to be fine and returned home, had dinner and slept, and said that he was too tired to go on the road and pretended to be asleep. As expected, my wife was restless and had no sleepiness. After a while, she looked outside, as if she was looking forward to someone.
Zhang Si is now more certain, but she is still tolerant.
On the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Si said that he still had work to do and wanted to go back early. He left two taels of silver and handed it to his wife. When my wife heard about it, she was very happy, but then she pretended to be reluctant to leave, but she didn't even look at the silver.
was put in the past, and my wife was very happy when she saw the silver, but she was very sad when she heard that Zhang Si left. Now, it was completely the opposite. Zhang Si's heart was bleeding, but he still endured it.
After Zhang Si left, he came back immediately after dark, went to his brother's house, touched a fork, and then quietly returned to his home, squatted under the corner of the wall, lurking and waiting.
At the second update, a man in white climbed up from the wall. Zhang Si quickly looked fast, picked up the fork and poked it, hitting the man in white on the back. The man in white screamed and rolled down and ran away immediately.
Wife heard the movement in the room, got up and opened the door to look, and saw her husband, and was shocked.
Zhang Si ignored her, looked at the white hair on the fork, and there were still blood stains, and said to himself: "That man in white is obviously a person, how could he have white hair? Could it be that he is not a human? Yes, he must be a monster!" After that, he put the white hair away and put it in his arms.
The wife panicked and knew that she was exposed. She immediately knelt down and kowtowed, crying and said that she could not bear the loneliness and was deceived by the white-clad guest.
Zhang Si sighed and said, "Oh, this is not your fault. I can only blame me for not making money! If you want to leave, I won't stop you. If you want to stay, I hope you can live a good life. I will try my best to make more money."
wife wiped her tears and said, "That monster gave me a lot of money, which is enough for us to live!" Zhang Si was so amused and crying, but she was already full of tears.
He did not blame his wife, he just hated that he was useless and could not let his wife live a good life. He knew his wife's feelings for him, so he could only say that life without money was difficult, and poor couples were mourning.
After dawn, Zhang Si found Dong Zhongfu, a famous Taoist priest Hunyuan wizard, told him about the process of catching the traitor, and showed the collected white hairs to Dong Zhongfu.
Dong Zhongfu looked at the white hair and confirmed that it was mouse , so he brought the talisman and sword to Zhang Si's house. He started a method, covered Zhang Sijia, and then threw a talisman into the air, allowing everyone to lean back.
Soon, a huge owl appeared in the sky, constantly hovering over the roof, obviously looking for a target. At this time, more people came to watch.
After a while, the owl flew to a nearby place, then suddenly pounced down, and then screamed. Just as everyone was about to go over to see, they found that the owl had flown back.
The owl dropped a white thing from the air. Everyone surrounded it and found that it was a huge white mouse, four or five feet long, almost as long as an adult man.
Dong Zhongfu asked Zhang Si to put the white rat in the oil pan to cook. Since then, no monsters in his family dared to come to his house.
Before leaving, Dong Zhongfu said to everyone: "Monsters are the other side of the human heart. If there are evil thoughts, monsters will take advantage of the situation. If you are greedy for money, it will use money to tempt you; if you are greedy for sex, it will use beauty to lose you; if you are greedy for power, it will say that you can promise you high officials and generous salaries... If you are wise, no evil will dare to come to the door. How can a fairy give you money, beauty and power? In the end, it will be empty!" After
finished speaking, Dong Zhongfu left.
When Zheng heard it in the room, he looked ashamed. When he looked at the 1,000 taels of silver, the 1,000 taels of silver instantly turned into a stone, and then turned into a wisp of blue smoke, disappearing.
(The story comes from the collection of novels of Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty, "Love History". The translation has been changed. The pictures are from the Internet. If there is any infringement, please let me know to delete it.)
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