Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the two emperors Huizong and Qinzong of the Song Dynasty and more than 3,000 members of their clan in Kaifeng were kidnapped by the Jin soldiers. The ninth son of Song Huizong, King Kang Zhaogou, was spared from this disaster because he was appointed as the general marshal of the Hebei army to recruit troops.
Soon after he ascended the throne in Yingtian, the Jin soldiers continued to pursue him, and he fled to Yangzhou. Later, he was forced to flee by sea, and finally settled in Lin'an (today's Hangzhou City), where he temporarily stabilized and established the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty was extremely cowardly.
A corner of peace. Starting from Zhao Gou, the emperor did nothing and treacherous ministers were in power. It was called the weakest dynasty. Gaozong Zhao Gou surrendered to the Jin Dynasty. At home, he overhauled palaces and indulged in extravagance, just to achieve peace.
.A complete and utter fool.
In the 20th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1151), three strange things happened in Chenjiazhuang at the foot of Ziyun Mountain outside Lin'an City.
Chenjiazhuang is very small. There are only twenty or thirty families living in the whole village, and the population is only about a hundred people. Although there is land for farming, life is tight, and they are all farmers who work in the fields. Chenjiazhuang
Most of them were surnamed Chen, and there was a family named Chen Youfu in Zhuangzi who married his wife Tian. The couple usually burned incense, chanted Buddha's name, and did good deeds. The only flaw was that the couple had been married for more than 20 years, but they had no children.
In his early years, Chen Youfu worked as a salesman in Lin'an City, selling rouge, gouache, needles, threads, and so on. He was able to save some money in life, and later married Tian. Tian was also a woman who knew how to live a good life. She was also good at embroidery, and she would do it every day.
Spin some yarn at home and embroider some shirts for your husband to take out and sell. The clothing fabrics in the Song Dynasty were mainly silk fabrics, and the varieties include brocade, flower damask, yarn, Luo, silk, tapestry, etc. The most popular brocade in the Song Dynasty was Chengdu Shu Brocade
Famous, the patterns include combination geometric patterns of eight haloes, six haloes, plate blankets, etc. Geometrically filled sunflowers, clusters of four golden eagles, large horse riding blankets, snowflake blanket roads, double nests of cloud geese, etc. Object themes
The music of the world (lantern brocade, created by Wen Yanbo in Chengdu to flatter Concubine Zhang Guifei of Renzong). Character-themed paintings of Yinan Baihua, etc. The themes of flowers and birds include the true red phoenix with flowers, the true red peacock with hundreds of flowers, and the green and auspicious grass clouds.
Cranes, etc. Flower-themed peonies, hibiscus, double lotus, true red cherry, true red water ringworm, etc. Animal-themed lions, wild geese, pegasus, goldfish, the silk fabrics woven by the skilled hands of the Orbitian family.
, all the brocades embroidered have become something that women are fighting over.
When Chen Youfu went out to pick up the goods, Tian took care of the housework at home. Life was getting better and better, but there was always a knot in Tian's heart. In the morning and evening, she would burn incense and worship Buddha, praying to God for a man and a half woman.
, don’t let the Chen family lose their incense. Chen Youfu is already fifty-five years old, and his wife is forty-seven. The salesman can no longer carry the burden. The couple guard a few acres of land by themselves and plan to spend their old age peacefully.
This remnant is alive.
The couple in Chenzhuang are well-known for their philanthropy. No matter whose family has something in short supply and the couple knows about it, they will enthusiastically help. Therefore, although Chen Youfu is not the richest person in Chenjiazhuang, he is definitely the most popular.
A family that everyone respects.
That night was like usual. After worshiping the Buddha and offering incense, the couple went to bed early. In his sleep, Chen Youfu vaguely felt that someone was calling his name. Chen Youfu followed the sound and found something inside his courtyard wall.
There was a colorful auspicious cloud, and on top of it sat Master Guanyin. Chen Youfu was so surprised that he knelt down quickly. Master Guanyin said to Chen Youfu: "Good man Chen Youfu, you are destined to have no descendants. God has pity on you for these decades."
I am willing to do good deeds, and out of your piety, I have sent down Lin'er for you." Chen Youfu's biggest wish was to have a child, but he didn't expect that it would actually move God. Chen Youfu, who kowtowed like a pound of garlic, thanked you repeatedly. When he raised his head, only
I saw Guanyin pull out a green bamboo from a pure glass vase and throw it into Chen Youfu's courtyard. When he looked again, the five-colored auspicious clouds in the courtyard had disappeared.
Chen Youfu only felt someone pushing him to open his eyes and take a look. His wife Tian Cui'e stammered: "Blessed, blessed, please wake up. I just dreamed that Guanyin Bodhisattva gave us a son."
"What, you also had such a dream?" Chen Youfu was frightened by his wife's words. When the couple told the story of the dream, they found it was exactly the same... Chen Youfu said to Tian: "This is probably not a dream, right?
?" Chen Youfu saw through the window lattice at the head of his bed that there was indeed a faint green light in the courtyard. The couple turned on the lamp and walked into the courtyard, feeling both happy and scared.
With a soft creaking sound, Chen Youfu opened the door, and Mrs. Tian held a lantern behind him. The two entered the courtyard one after the other, and there was indeed a plant about half a man tall growing on the corner of the courtyard.
The green bamboo was just like what they had dreamed of. Chen Youfu and Tian Cui'e knelt down to express their gratitude to Tianen. From then on, Tian Cui'e's belly slowly bulged, and the old clam holding its pearls became a strange thing in Chenjiazhuang, but compared with
What happened next was nothing.
People are in high spirits during happy events. Chen Youfu smiles every day. He never thought that he would have children even though he was already buried in the loess. So he would go to the temple to honor the gods on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, and he would take care of the children in Chenjiazhuang.
He worked hard to pave roads and build bridges. Everyone in the Chen family village praised Chen Youfu greatly. But there was one person who hated him so much. This person was Chen Youfu's cousin Chen Yougui.
Dinner and dinner, etc. I was thinking that after my cousin dies, won’t his house and land become his own? Now that Chen Youfu suddenly has a wife, all his wishes have come to nothing...
Chen Youfu still treated his cousin, who was eleven years younger than him, with the same courtesy as before. After all, he was a close relative, so he was not at all wary of this cousin.
The days passed like this. From spring to summer, Tian Cui'e was already ten months pregnant and was about to give birth. Chen Youfu made an agreement early with Bai, the only stable woman in the village, paid the deposit, and went to Chen Youfu's home tomorrow.
When it comes to delivering a baby, Mrs. Wen has to make preparations for delivering the baby tomorrow after receiving a deposit. No matter how big the matter is, you have to put it aside first. You have to go to deliver the baby when they call you. This is the rule.
Bai is about thirty years old. She just moved to Chenjiazhuang a few months ago. She claims her surname is Bai and has never told anyone her name, so people in Zhuangzi always call her Bai. Just because she can deliver babies.
So she became the only stable woman in the village. As for what Bai Shi did in the past, no one knows.
The next day, just after dawn, Chen Youfu started busy at home. The neighbors and aunts came to help, boiling water, making dough... there was a lot of busyness inside and outside the house.
The aunties rushed Chen Youfu to the yard, saying that a woman who gave birth to a child was so angry that she could not bear a man in the house. Chen Youfu could only worry about it in the yard. The green bamboo in the yard had grown more than ten feet tall.
Chen Youfu held the green bamboo in his hands and his heart seemed to be fried.
It was past noon and the sky had just been clear. Suddenly there were dark clouds rolling in and thunder and lightning. At this moment, Mrs. Tian in the room shouted "Oh!" and Aunt Zhu came out and said: "Aunt Cui'e is going to give birth."
Come on, go and call Po Wen."
Chen Youfu hurriedly ran to call Wen Po Bai. Chen Youfu, who had just left the house, found that the dark clouds in the sky seemed to be pressing down. Jiao Lei hit Chen Youfu one after another...
As soon as they arrived at Wenpo Bai's door, it was already so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. Just as Chen Youfu was about to knock on the door, the door opened on its own. Bai held a lantern in his hand and said to Chen Youfu:
"You're here, let's go. No matter what you hear on the road, don't open your eyes. Remember this." After saying this, Bai took out a piece of white silk from his hand and gave it to Chen Youfu.
Although Youfu was suspicious, he couldn't say anything and had to listen to Bai's wishes. Maybe this was Bai's rule for delivering babies?
Chen Youfu took Bai Ling, and Wen Po Bai shouted: "Close your eyes and get up." Chen Youfu felt as if he was flying in the clouds and mist, and there was a sudden sound of wind and thunder in his ears. The sound of wind and thunder was mixed with it.
Amid the many cries, which were heartbreaking, Chen Youfu secretly recited in his heart: Amitabha, pray for God's blessing.
Chen Youfu understood that this stable lady Bai Shi must be a special person. If Chen Youfu opened his eyes at this time, he would be scared to death. The front of his house was full of ghosts and hundreds of demons gathered together. There was a hanged ghost with his tongue hanging out.
The ghost under the sword with his head in his hand, the ghost running fast without touching the ground, the Rakshasa ghost with dark red hair and blue eyes... These ghosts were all blocked by a layer of green energy and could not enter the house. Bai Shi picked up the small basket from his hand
He took out a silver needle and muttered something in his mouth: "Disease". Suddenly the silver needle turned into silver light in the air and pierced the ghosts. The ghosts roared in pain, but when they saw Bai, they all
He fled away in despair.
Wenpo Bai smiled contemptuously and thought to herself: How dare you even think about getting a fairy body! You really don't know how to live or die. Bai slapped Chen Youfu and said, "Go in." Chen Youfu was timid now.
She opened her eyes timidly. The Bai family followed Chen Youfu into the door. The green air outside the house opened as Chen Youfu entered, and Chen Youfu could not see all this.
The sky was like black ink, and strong lightning struck Chenjiazhuang. People who came back to Zhuangzi from outside were all amazed. The sky outside Zhuangzi was clear, but inside Zhuangzi it was as dark as late at night, with thunder and lightning. There was no one in the whole village.
Every door is closed.
The green bamboos in the courtyard actually moved automatically in the absence of wind, and the bamboo leaves whirled faintly with the sound of chanting that could only be heard in the temple. When the Bai family heard the chanting sound, she trembled, and the bamboo leaves scattered in the air.
A huge net was formed and swung towards Bai...
Bai reached out to grab Chen Youfu's back, but the net made of bamboo pages quickly covered Bai. The sound of the demon-conquering Vajra mantra emitted by the green bamboo was like a loud bell, and Bai howled in the bamboo web.
It's called tumbling. In the net, Bai revealed her true form, and there was actually a seven-tailed white fox in the net.
No matter how stupid Chen Youfu was, he knew that the Bai family in front of him was definitely not a good person. He was so frightened that he turned around and hid in the house. The aunts and uncles in the house also heard the chanting in the courtyard and asked Chen Youfu strangely: "You
If you don't invite Po Wen, how can you invite the monk?"