Chapter six hundred and ninety-fifth: a story of unrequited love
Zhu Qiniang is a female prostitute in Pingkangfang, Chang'an. She is very beautiful, especially her eyes, which are charming and endearing. Because of this, although she is not good at singing and dancing, she has also gained a lot of awards.
Benefactors are sought after.
Among her benefactors was a general named Wang who spent a lot of money. Every time he came to see her, he could always spend more than ten or twenty guan. Zhu Qiniang was naturally very interested in such wealthy customers.
After going back and forth like this, although the relationship between the two people is still a business relationship, it can be regarded as a relationship of love and concubine.
But just half a year ago, when the two of them were inseparable, General Wang suddenly stopped hearing from her and didn't come to see her for half a year. This made Zhu Qiniang very puzzled, and she couldn't help but curse Bo Xingrou a few times behind her back.
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Fortunately, Qiniang had many regular customers. Although General Wang was missing, new benefactors soon came to replace him. So soon, Zhu Qiniang put aside the matter of General Wang.
The back of the head.
As a result, at dusk tonight, Zhu Qiniang, who was dressing up in her room, heard a message from her fake mother, saying that General Wang had come to Pingkangfang again and asked her to accompany her...
Thinking of the other party's generous move, Zhu Qiniang deliberately dressed up again, and then she came to the lobby in style.
After not seeing each other for half a year, General Wang seemed to have not changed at all. Even the Hu uniform he was wearing was exactly the same as when Zhu Qiniang last saw him half a year ago.
"General!"
Zhu Qiniang rolled her eyes with clear black and white eyes and saluted General Wang with her hands folded.
"Have you not visited my house for a long time?"
"There is nothing I can do..."
General Wang's voice seemed a little lower than half a year ago, as if he was ill.
"Since you have to eat food and serve as a soldier, you have to be more independent!"
"The slave family heard that the Turks are going south again recently..."
After hearing what General Wang said, Zhu Qiniang stood up, sat next to him, and asked with concern.
"General, are you going north like the Habayashi Army?"
"Going north? No..."
General Wang waved his hand and said casually.
"The current battlefield is not in the north!"
Although Zhu Qiniang and General Wang hadn't seen each other for half a year, one man was affectionate and the other concubine was interested. After a few words, the conversation became lively again. When the mood was high, General Wang even drew his sword and performed a sword dance.
When the night became quieter and it was time to go to bed to rest, Zhu Qiniang was about to take General Wang back to her room as before, when she suddenly saw General Wang speaking to her sincerely.
"Qiniang, you and I have known each other for such a long time, but you still don't know where so-and-so's home is. Why don't we sleep here tonight? You can follow so-and-so back to so-and-so's house to sleep. You also need to recognize the door and find so-and-so in the future.
You also know where to look, how about it?"
"this……"
After hearing what General Wang said, Zhu Qiniang immediately hesitated.
"Qiniang, don't worry, someone's home is not far from here in Kaihuafang, just a few steps away."
After General Wang saw Zhu Qiniang's hesitation, he immediately spoke to her in a comprehensive manner.
"Besides, with the friendship between you and me, would someone still harm you?"
After hearing his words, Zhu Qiniang could only nod helplessly.
"Since this is your wish, general, then the slave family has no choice but to obey!"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Qiniang, who left Hualou, was pulled onto his horse by General Wang, left Pingkangfang along the street, and galloped away in the direction of Kaihuafang.
Zhu Qiniang was originally worried about the curfew, but soon he discovered that the soldiers patrolling the streets completely ignored General Wang's horse after seeing it, as if they had not seen him at all.
'It seems that General Wang's official position is quite high...'
After entering Kaihuafang, General Wang and Zhu Qiniang soon stopped in front of a very grand-looking house.
"Qiniang, this is someone's home,"
With that said, General Wang, who had dismounted, stretched out his hand to take Zhu Qiniang off the horse. Then he opened the side door with familiarity and led her to a monastery in the back garden, sharing flowers and willows.
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"From now on, Qiniang, if you miss me, you can send someone to leave a mark on the outer wall for me, and I will know."
Seeing this situation, Zhu Qiniang couldn't help but let go of her worries, followed General Wang into the monastery, and went to bed to rest.
As a result, just when the two of them finished their activities and Zhu Qiniang was a little tired and was about to take a nap, she suddenly heard a knock on the door from outside.
"Who is this? Why are you knocking on the door in the middle of the night..."
Zhu Qiniang murmured in dissatisfaction, and then she heard General Wang next to her say in a deep voice.
"It's probably a servant who has something urgent. Qiniang, please go to bed first while I go take care of it."
With that said, General Wang put on his clothes and lay down, while Zhu Qiniang, who was very tired, turned over on her own and closed her eyes.
In the misty lake, Zhu Qiniang listened to the footsteps of General Wang and walked all the way to the door. Then with a creak, the door was opened, and then a voice came from outside the door.
"Xiang Wang Wen, Master Qingwei has an order! From now on, all ghosts are not allowed to stay in the Yang world, and we are no exception. We must move to the divine domain of the Capital Emperor..."
When she heard this, the exhausted Zhu Qiniang had already fallen asleep.
General Wang, who was standing at the door, glanced worriedly at the bed behind him. When he saw Zhu Qiniang breathing evenly, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to the burly man in front of him.
"General Mai, why did Master Qingwei suddenly issue such an order? This... subordinate was caught off guard!"
"Why……"
City Emperor Wu Judge Mai Tiezhang glanced at Zhu Qiniang sleeping in the room and laughed strangely.
"Of course it's because there are so many guys like you who want to be prostitutes even after they die, so the real person can't stand it anymore, so the world of underworld and world in Chang'an is cut off. Okay! Come on, are you still waiting for someone to invite you in person?"
"yes!"
General Wang agreed with a helpless expression, carefully closed the door behind him, and left with Mai Tiezhang dejectedly.
Early the next morning, Zhu Qiniang, who was still sleeping, heard a scream coming from her ears...
"Ah! There is a thief..."
She opened her eyes in confusion and saw a little maid running out of the door with a basin of water with a frightened look on her face, shouting as she ran.
"Oops, come here quickly! There is a thief sleeping in the old general's house!"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Qiniang was wrapped in a quilt, sitting on the bed and looking at the room full of people rushing in, with a look of horror on her face.
"What are you going to do? It's indecent!"
"..."
"What……"
After another quarter of an hour, Zhu Qiniang, who had put on her own clothes, was taken to the main hall by the servants and maids in the mansion, and met a young man in his twenties.
"You said you are Zhu Qiniang from Pingkangfang, and you were brought back here on horseback by General Wang Wenxiang himself last night?"
Seeing the surprised expression on this young man's face, Zhu Qiniang smoothed her hair with her hands without any guilt and said casually.
"That's right! If you don't believe it, call General Wang out and ask, won't you know?"
"I'm afraid this won't be easy..."
After hearing Zhu Qiniang's words, the expression on the man's face instantly became complicated.
"To be honest, General Wang...that is, my father, he passed away due to illness half a year ago!"
"What?"
After hearing these words, Zhu Qiniang's charming eyes suddenly turned into bull's eyes.
"General Wang has been dead for half a year..."
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In fact, there were quite a few people who had a similar experience to Zhu Qiniang last night!
Some of them were wives who were talking to their husbands at night, and someone knocked on the door and came in and took the husband away; some saw their neighbors being knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and then directly put on chains and taken away;
The most exaggerated thing is that a scholar had just gone to bed, but a group of beauties rushed in from outside the door and took away his mother, wife, and daughter...
For a time, the entire city of Chang'an burst into mourning!
It only took less than two hours to get rid of all the idiot ghost kings in the entire Jingzhao land who dared to challenge Zhang Daoyuan. Kong Qing stood in the air and watched the search foxes with the ghost maids below broke down the door.
When he entered the scene and arrested only one person in a certain scholar's house, he silently turned his head and looked at Zhang Daoyuan who was standing next to him.
"Capital Emperor, are there many cases like this scholar's in Chang'an?"
"There are not many people like him who not only annihilate his whole family, but also leave behind ghosts!"
Zhang Daoyuan shook his head and said to Kong Qing.
"Most of the time, someone has a spirit after death. Because he can't worry about his family, he continues to help..."
"..."
Kong Qing looked at the scene below where his men broke into the door and took away these ghosts who would not forget to take care of their family even to death. He couldn't help but be speechless.
These ghosts who want to take care of their family even after death have really carved the fine qualities of the Chinese nation into their souls...
But if you do this, you will make such a great thing as the poor man separating yin and yang look like the villain in "Shi Hao Li".
"Forget it, Pindao is too old to bear witness to these matters of life and death."
Kong Qing waved his hand and said to Zhang Daoyuan.
"I'm going back to Yunzhong City first. I'm tired of you, the Capital Emperor, supervising me here. Remember! You can't let a ghost linger in the world..."
With that said, Kong Qing jumped up, and with a flash of sword light, he shot into the sky and flew towards the sea of clouds above. Only Zhang Daoyuan was left at the scene, who was stroking his beard with his hand in astonishment and with a speechless expression on his face.
'Master, you are too old to see these things about life and death... Could it be that I am very young and can't get used to this kind of things about life and death?'
"..."
Just when Kong Qing's sword light cut through the sky and landed on the square of Yunzhong City, Beidou Star Lord Pei Ju was already waiting for him here with a smile on his face.
"Real person..."
Pei Ju raised his hand, showed a dark divine seal in his palm, and said to Kong Qing with a smile.
"Fortunately, I have fulfilled my destiny and have retrieved the seal of the Haoli Mountain God for the real person!"
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
Zhu Qiniang in this chapter comes from a story in "Guang Yi Ji" written by Dai Fu in the Tang Dynasty. It tells the love story between a prostitute Zhu Qiniang and General Wang who has an unresolved love story.
The content of the story is basically the same as what Meng Xin wrote. A certain prostitute, General Wang, took his former sweetheart Zhu Qiniang back to his home to spend the night. However, when Zhu Qiniang woke up the next day, she found out that the general had been dead for half a year!
...What a soul-stirring relationship!
PS: In addition, the following three stories are also from Tang Dynasty Legends. The first one is about a husband who died because he was worried about his wife, so he kept taking care of her in the human world. What is outrageous is that the wife slept with a ghost.
She was still pregnant, but nothing was born; the second one is about a person who died, but his soul still lived in his home for more than ten years; the third one is about a scholar who returned from abroad and stayed in his home for more than ten years.
After living at home for a long time, he discovered that all his family members were actually dead.
But Mengxin feels that these three stories are not as legendary as the story of General Wang above, so I will briefly mention them. If you are interested, Mengxin will tell you in detail.