During the Ming Dynasty, Taiyuan was located in the border area and banditry prevailed. A beautiful woman who was well-known far and wide married to a family named Zou. On that day, when Zou returned home to visit her relatives, she suddenly heard that her husband was killed by bandits and hurriedly took her son home.
Seeing the tragic situation in the different parts of her husband's body and head, Zou was heartbroken and fainted from crying several times. When he woke up, he was about to touch the pillar and died, and left with his husband. At this time, the youngest son was still in his infancy. Zou saw his son and stopped his thoughts of death. He thought that he would not have cut off his husband's incense by raising his son to adulthood. After burying her husband, she began to spin and weave yarn at home, run the family business, and raise her son.
However, this Zou family is a famous beauty. Before getting married, many people were competing for marriage. Now that her husband has passed away, Zou family is less than 20 years old, which is the best time. It is more charming and enchanting than before getting married, attracting young people and rich people from all over the country to come to propose marriage. Zou thought of her husband's feelings and decided not to marry again. After being turned away one after another, the applicants began to give money to Zou's husband's family and relatives, and persuade Zou to change his mind.
One day, Zou ordered his servants to buy a large jar, dig a deep pit in the yard, and invite relatives and friends to visit their homes. In front of everyone, he asked his family to place the jar in the pit, fill it with water, cover it with oil cloth, and press the wooden board, and press the big stone on the wooden board. Afterwards, he ordered his family to fill the pit and told his relatives and friends in public: "......After her husband passed away, the little woman has been determined to keep her husband's integrity and raise her young son, and will never marry again. Thank you for your kindness. I will explain my feelings today. Whether you have gained the benefits of others or sincerely help me, don't persuade me to remarry again. If I want me to change my mind, unless the water in the jar just now is dry!" Everyone was ashamed when they heard Zou's words and left one after another. Those who were thinking about Zou's beauty also put aside their thoughts and stopped entangling.
Episode 0 There was a ill-hearted disciple Jia Ren who still didn't give up. He thought that since everyone had given up, he secretly released the water from the jar and then proposed in public, wouldn't he be able to hold the beauty back? So after thinking about it, he rented a courtyard next to the Zou family's house, hired several people from other places, and made a large wage of ten taels of silver a day, secretly dug the ground in the yard to destroy the water tank near the ground where the Zou family buried the tank.
The foreigners hired secretly dig the ground every night and rest during the day. The first few days were very smooth. They soon passed the courtyard wall and approached the center of the Zou's yard. It is expected that the work will be done this night. Jia Ren prepared beautiful clothes, took a shower and changed clothes, and was preparing to go to propose marriage the next day. He also ordered people to prepare a banquet in the yard, and pretended to be gentle and drank to the moon alone, waiting for the good news. However, when I waited left, I couldn't see anyone coming to report that I had dug up a large tank, and when I waited right, no one came to report that the tank had been smashed and I was drinking alone. As a result, I became drunk and fell asleep on the stone table in the yard.
Suddenly, Jia Ren vaguely felt that someone was approaching, and it was an old man with a short figure, but he had indescribable majesty and faintly exuded his fairy-like spirit. Jia Ren only remembers that the old man scolded him for not seeking progress and greed for beauty, which insulted the reputation of scholars and asked him to give up his thoughts and not bother with Zou again, otherwise there would be disaster...
Jia Ren was confused. When he woke up, he was already white in the east, but his body was paralyzed and groggy. He thought of the dream that he had been incredible last night, and his heart was skeptical. He ordered the servant to go to the hole dug to see how it was going. The servant was frightened when he came back and said tremblingly that the person who dug the hole was lying motionless in the hole. The tunnel that he dug deep into the Zou family's courtyard a few days ago was filled in, and it was restored to the original state, so he had to rent the tunnel in the yard that had not been filled in yet.
Jia Ren was shocked at the moment and ordered people to use cold water to wake up the foreigner sleeping in the cave. After waking up, the people were so scared that they were trembling all over. They only asked Jia Ren for a few days' wages, but they refused to dig the ground again. Jia Ren did not dare to do it again. He settled the accounts with the foreigner and returned the rented courtyard, and never dared to make a bad idea of Zou again.
Look back and talk about Zou's family. After digging the ground and burying the vat, it shows its will. After no one comes to disturb it, the life becomes a scene. Every day, spinning and weaving cloth to raise the young child. When the child gets older, he invites a teacher to teach him how to read and write, learn the principles, and seek fame. The child was also very successful. He passed the scholar early and then successfully became a juren. He passed the imperial examination again this year and stayed in Beijing for a few years. He wanted to take his mother to Beijing to enjoy the happiness, but Zou just refused and wanted to guard her husband in his hometown.
Stills of Ming Dynasty officials
After learning about the past of the Zou family, my colleagues in the Beijing were very moved. After some operation, Zou's son was released from Taiyuan as the prefect. Prefect Zou knew that the local people were suffering from bandits. After taking office, he conducted open and secret investigations and found out the hiding places of several large bandits. He worked with the generals of the local garrison to eliminate the bandits. During this period, the bandits who murdered his father were also captured alive. The prefect Zou wrote a letter to the court to ask for merit for the general, and explained his parents' old revenge to the general of the ward , and pulled the bandit to his father's grave to behead him for sacrifice.
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After suppressing the bandits, Zou Gong encouraged farming to clear commercial circulation, develop local economy, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and eliminate the hidden dangers of resurgence of bandits. The local people were grateful for the merits of Zou, and sent
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