Chen Mengsheng asked to no avail, so he found a Tutu Temple in a secluded place. As he chanted the Earth Blessing Mantra, a puff of green smoke rose from the ground, and a Tudigong appeared in the green smoke.
"The Landlord of Huzhou Prefecture pays homage to the Immortal."
"Without courtesy, Landlord, let me ask you what happened to the Lu family in Qianyuan?"
The Earth God sighed and said: "What an injustice, what an injustice. In mortal matters, a joke can lead to endless disasters..."
Qianyuan was originally the ancestral home of Lu Yunxiao in Huzhou Prefecture, and the Lu family has been a scholarly family for generations. Lu Yunxiao was even more talented and well-educated. He could recite poems and lyrics at the age of seven and was admitted as a scholar at the age of ten. Later, he was admitted as a scholar.
Lu Yunxiao met the lotus-picking girl Ye Shuang'er by chance when he was on an outing. After returning home, he didn't think about tea or food, and he became lovesick.
Lu Yunxiao has only one mother, and his father died a long time ago. His mother saw her precious son coming back from an outing and was very sick. When she asked about it, it turned out that her son was lovesick, so she immediately asked a matchmaker.
Go to Ye's house and say goodbye.
The Lu family was a well-known person in Huzhou Prefecture. They offered a betrothal gift of 200 taels of silver, which put Ye Shuang'er in a difficult position.
Ye Shuang'er already has a sweetheart, Zheng Weimin, because Zheng Weimin is a farmer. All parents in the world want their children to marry a good family, so the old couple of the Ye family agreed to marry the Lu family.
Although Ye Shuang'er was reluctant to propose marriage, her parents had already made the decision for her. In desperation, she cut a brocade handkerchief in half, indicating that she and Zheng Weimin were not destined to be together in this life. From now on, they would break off and live their own lives.
After Lu Yunxiao married Ye Shuang'er, he cared for her in every possible way, so much so that he was afraid it would melt away even if he held it in his mouth. The two lived happily for a year and gave birth to a big boy named Lu Wuji, whose nickname was Peng'er.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yunxiao had a cousin who had a high position in the court and was guilty of corruption and perversion of the law. That year, Lu Yunxiao happened to go to Beijing to take the exam, and his honor was dismissed. Because of his fault, his cousin and his family were also imprisoned.
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Lu Yunxiao's mother also fell seriously ill due to this incident, and passed away half a year later. As the saying goes, gathering wealth is like a needle picking up soil, and dispersing it is like water washing away sand. In two years, the family's wealth has been almost spent.
, If you want to live for one day, you need to eat, if you live for two days, you need to wear clothes. Lu Yunxiao is worried. Fortunately, a classmate from Shaoxing Prefecture introduced Lu Yunxiao to a teacher from the private school of a wealthy man in Shaoxing Prefecture, who also had an income of ten taels of silver a year.
Lu Yunxiao looked at his darling wife and young children and agreed to work as a tutor in a private school in Shaoxing Prefecture. The couple lived in two places forever. Lu Yunxiao sent money home every month, and Ye Shuang'er took care of Peng'er at home.
Besides, since Zheng Weimin married Ye Shuang'er to the Lu family in Huzhou Prefecture, he no longer had the time to take care of the fields. He brought Ye Shuang'er's half of the brocade handkerchief to Huzhou Prefecture. He lurked outside the garden every day just to take a look.
Ye Shuang'er.
Ye Shuang'er has known for a long time that Zheng Weimin stands outside the garden every day and will attract people to gossip, so he simply doesn't go out. It's okay if he doesn't go out, but the young Peng'er insists on going to the street to play in tears. Ye Shuang'er
The son was helpless, so he hugged his son and walked out the door.
Standing outside the door was Zheng Weimin, his eyes facing each other, speechless and filled with tears.
Ye Shuang'er said: "Are you okay?"
"No, are you okay?"
"Brother Weimin, find a wife and live a good life. Forget about me. Don't come here again..." Ye Shuang'er hugged Peng'er and returned to Qianyuan after saying that.
From that day on, Zheng Weimin missed Ye Shuang'er even more. He also knew that Ye Shuang'er had a family and a son. Just to see Ye Shuang'er every day, he set up a stall selling maltose and candied haws outside Qianyuan.
The private school also has three festivals in a year. When the season comes, the private school will have a period of vacation. Lu Yunxiao will buy a lot of food and fun from Shaoxing Prefecture and bring them back to Qianyuan every time.
If the most powerful thing in the world is human words, Lu Yunxiao had just arrived in Huzhou Prefecture and before he got home, he was grabbed by the relatives and friends he met on the road. After greetings, he would frown and tell Lu Yunxiao, Ye Shuang'er
The relationship between him and the candy seller was unusual. Lu Yunxiao didn't take it seriously. After all, scholars know that those who talk behind people's backs mostly do it to enjoy others' misfortunes...
When Lu Yunxiao returned to Qianyuan, he did indeed see a candy seller outside his house, his eyes looking into Qianyuan from time to time. Lu Yunxiao suddenly felt a knot in his heart, and he did not say anything after returning home. He and Ye Shuang'er were like glue.
After a few days, I always found that my wife Ye Shuang'er was hiding something from me...
Until this year's Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Yunxiao returned to Huzhou Prefecture to celebrate the festival. In Qianyuan, Ye Shuang'er got up early in the morning to buy chicken and wine, and cooked a reunion dinner to reward her husband. At this time, his son Peng'er had already
At the age of five, it was time to be playful and naughty. Ye Shuang'er was busy in the kitchen, and Peng'er saw her mother busy and sneaked to the door alone.
Over the years, Peng'er has often sneaked out to eat Zheng Weimin's sugar candies and candied haws. Zheng Weimin also liked this boy very much, and would hug and kiss the child from time to time. This time Peng'er took advantage of his mother not paying attention and sneaked out to Zheng Weimin again.
At the candy stall, he opened his little hands and said with a milky voice: "Candy, I want some candy."
Seeing that there was no one else at the stall, Zheng Weimin picked up Peng'er and said, "Call daddy, I'll give you some candy." Zheng Weimin really liked this child so much.
"father…"
"Haha, here are some candies for you." Zheng Weimin grabbed a handful of maltose and put it in the child's hand. The child ate the candies one after another, eating them all in a while.
"Dad, sugar, more sugar."
This sentence just happened to be heard by Lu Yunxiao, who rushed over in a hurry, and blood suddenly filled his brain. He didn't expect that he had raised a son for others for so many years...
He raised his hand and slapped Peng'er, who burst into tears. Zheng Weimin also knew Lu Yunxiao over the years when he set up a stall outside Qianyuan, but Lu Yunxiao didn't know Zheng Weimin.
Lu Yunxiao and Peng'er angrily went in and closed the door, looking for Ye Shuang'er. Ye Shuang'er heard his son crying far away and ran out to take a look. His husband-in-law dragged Peng'er and looked at Ye Shuang'er angrily.
Shuang'er pointed his finger at Ye Shuang'er and cursed: "Bitch." After saying that, he shook off Peng'er and returned to the study. Ye Shuang'er was left alone to persuade and coax Peng'er.
In the study, Lu Yunxiao wrote a divorce letter angrily due to years of grievances. He threw the divorce letter in front of Ye Shuang'er and walked out...
Ye Shuang'er held the divorce letter like a thunderbolt from the blue, feeling dizzy and about to faint. In the Southern Song Dynasty, a woman who received the divorce letter was equivalent to a death sentence, and her parents would be unable to hold their heads up in front of others because of their daughter's divorce letter.
Ye Shuang'er put Peng'er aside, with tears in her eyes, she found a pack of arsenic for treating mice from the box, and filled a bowl of chicken soup. She gritted her teeth and poured the entire pack of arsenic into the chicken soup, only to hear "buzz".
There was a sound, and arsenic was melting into the chicken soup. Ye Shuang'er picked up the bowl, but it was too hot to hold it. Thinking that he had not done anything unruly, he got a divorce note in exchange for it.
.The more I think about it, the sadder I feel. How will my parents and children face other people’s idle gossip in the future...
Ye Shuang'er took advantage of the fact that the chicken soup was still too hot to drink, and went to the study, picked up a pen and wrote on the paper, "Those who are pure will become pure themselves, and those who are turbid will become turbid. Those who have been wronged will be punished by death." These ten points.
After writing six big characters, he cried at his desk... The child Peng'er was left by Ye Shuang'er to play alone in the courtyard, and his mother didn't come to play with him. The child pouted and went back to the house.
When I saw the table full of dishes, the little guy climbed up along the chair.
The bowl of chicken soup on the table was not very hot anymore. Peng'er picked it up and drank it. After two sips, he felt it was bitter and put the bowl on the table. After a while, the child felt thirsty and had a stomachache. He wanted to drink water but couldn't.
He couldn't reach the teapot. He was so anxious that he cried loudly, and the blood in his mouth, ears, eyes, nose and seven orifices came down. The child knew that he was thirsty and felt uncomfortable all over. He struggled to reach the patio water well two or three steps away. He followed the usual practice of Ye Shuang.
The child dropped the bucket, but before the bucket was picked up, the child fell into the well...
Ye Shuang'er suddenly woke up when she heard her son's cry in the study. She wiped away her tears and rushed downstairs but couldn't find Peng'er. She must have been taken away by Lu Yunxiao. That Xiu Shu said that she was not a woman.
The shame and incorruptibility were like a needle pricking her heart. Ye Shuang'er picked up the chicken soup and burst into tears. If she died like this, she would forever be accused of being a slut...
"No, this is absolutely not possible." Ye Shuang'er cleared away the food and wine on the table, took out a three-foot-long hemp rope from the side room, and hurriedly closed the door. She was going to visit Zheng Weimin's house.
Hang.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, hanging at the door generally had two meanings, one was to clear one's mind and the other was to complain. Most of the women who had been wronged by having an affair were hanged on the door of the man's house to show their innocence.
Complaint means that you cannot explain the injustice you have suffered in this life, and the only option is to die and turn into a ghost outside your home to demand your life.
The Earth God stopped here and said to Chen Mengsheng in embarrassment: "Shangxian, what happened next, I, a little Earth God, don't know."
Chen Mengsheng also knew that the Earth God had a low-level position and only managed a region of water and soil. Many places did not even have a Earth Temple. He then asked Zheng Weimin about his whereabouts and said goodbye to the Earth God to go find the candy seller Zheng Weimin.
Twenty miles away from the eastern suburbs of Huzhou Prefecture, there is a village called Houzhuang. The paddy fields and lotus ponds are densely covered with stars. It is now the early autumn. The lotus ponds are fragrant and leafy, and there are many lotus pods. There are many young girls and young wives paddling.
Riding a small boat in the lotus pond, it really looks like a picture of lotus picking in the south of the Yangtze River.
Zheng Weimin's house has a paddy field in front of it and a lotus pond behind it. However, it seems that no one has taken care of the paddy field for a long time and weeds have grown out. Chen Mengsheng opened the door for a long time before he heard someone answer the door. The person who opened the door was a thin, dark man in his thirties with dull eyes.
man.
"Who are you looking for?"
"May I ask if this is Zheng Weimin's home?"
"I am Zheng Weimin, what are you doing to me?"
"I came to you just to ask about Ye Shuang'er. The Lu family's haunted house in Qianyuan is haunted. Zheng Weimin, you don't know, right?" Chen Mengsheng's voice was not loud, but it shocked the thin black man and turned his face pale...
"I...I..., I really have never seen Shuang'er again, and I don't know how she is doing now?" Zheng Weimin said helplessly.
Chen Mengsheng knew that Zheng Weimin was not just pretending, but showed his true feelings. However, when the landowner said that Ye Shuang'er came to Zheng Weimin's house to hang himself, it must not be true. There must be something fishy about this matter.
"Ye Shuang'er hanged in front of your house, how could you not know about this?"
"What? Shuang'er is dead?..." When Zheng Weimin heard the bad news that Ye Shuang'er was dead, he rolled his eyes and passed out...