Folk Tale The 50-year-old man screamed, and the 18-year-old bride turned out to be a beggar woman
The golden shopkeeper planned to marry a 18-year-old girl, so he entrusted a showman to go on a blind date for him. He promised to generously give Xiucai 100 taels of silver once the matter was completed, and also promised to help him find a suitable wife. When the bride was ready to go early in the morning after the wedding, the golden shopkeeper couldn't help but let out an exclamation!
1.The literati arranged a blind date for the owner of the gold shop, and put forward a series of attractive conditions.
A long time ago, there was a talented man named Liang Ren, who was exiled to Tianjin after failing in the imperial examination, and worked as a bookkeeper for the gold shopkeeper in a grain store. The golden shopkeeper collects grain in Luoyang every autumn, then transports it to Beijing and Tianjin to sell, and then returns to his hometown after selling it in winter.
In the relationship between the golden shopkeeper and Liang Ren, Liang Ren suffered a lot of grievances. As the end of the year approaches, the golden shopkeeper is about to leave, and Liang Ren will once again face the dilemma of losing his job.
One day, the shopkeeper suddenly found Liang Ren and unexpectedly invited him to have a drink with him. Shopkeeper Jin worriedly persuaded Liang Ren to start a family as soon as possible. Liang Ren knew that his family was poor and he failed the scientific examination, and he knew that it was difficult for him to find a woman willing to marry him.
The golden shopkeeper unexpectedly proposed: "The matter is man-made, I see that you are honest and knowledgeable." As long as you help me do something, I will promise to match you and find a good marriage. In addition, I will give you an additional 100 taels of silver, so that you can buy some land and lay the foundation for the future. ”
Liang Ren was silent for a moment, knowing very well the personality of the golden shopkeeper, and understood how much he needed to help him complete in order to make the other party so generous. The shopkeeper Jin saw Liang Ren's hesitation, so he explained: "You don't need to worry about it, I don't ask you to do anything illegal, I just want to ask you to go on a blind date instead of me." ”
The golden shopkeeper is over half a hundred years old, and although his family has a lot of money, he has always been subject to a strong wife and cannot take a concubine. It wasn't until the recent tragic death of his wife that he began to think about finding a new partner. Since the shopkeeper himself was short and fat, with a wrinkled face and gray hair, he knew that it would be difficult to find a young and beautiful 18-year-old girl to be his steproom. Therefore, he decided to find a handsome and dashing Liang Ren to propose marriage to him.
Liang Ren was originally reluctant to get involved in such an immoral thing, but in the face of half a year's salary and the attractive conditions offered by the gold shopkeeper, he finally had to agree to the task.
2.Liang Ren makes Miss Qiao's heart move, and the first meeting between the two makes her fall into a sweet love vortex.
In order to make Liang Ren more wealthy and son-like, the golden shopkeeper personally organized a luxurious sedan chair parade and personally sent him to Miss Qiao's door. Miss Qiao is an orphan from a difficult family, after the death of her uncle last year, she was oppressed by her aunt's greed, and her aunt was disgruntled and eager to marry Miss Qiao.
The shopkeeper had a business relationship with Miss Qiao's uncle, and after learning about this situation, he decided to ask someone to go to the matchmaker. In order to marry Miss Qiao, he was willing to pay a high dowry generously. The aunt was worried that Miss Qiao would reject the shopkeeper because of her arrogance, so she proposed that the shopkeeper find a handsome young man to pretend to be him.
The aunt described to Ms. Qiao that the man was engaged in business in the Beijing-Tianjin area, with a strong family background, abundant wealth, and vast land and real estate. She told Miss Joe that tomorrow the handsome young man would come to propose marriage in person. The aunt planned to let Miss Qiao secretly observe behind the curtain of the house, and if the other party liked her, she would cough three times, and if she was not satisfied, she would stomp three times.
Miss Qiao was grateful to her aunt, and when she noticed that Liang Ren was well-behaved, she coughed softly three times. The aunt agreed to this family affair without hesitation.
Liang Ren stayed at Qiao's house for three days, giving Miss Qiao a chance to observe up close. She was satisfied after many careful observations, but Liang Ren lived like a year during this time. He felt uneasy in his heart, feeling that he was pretending to be an old man to deceive this yellow flower girl.
Liang Ren returned to the golden shopkeeper and told him about the situation. In order to appease Liang Ren's guilt, the golden shopkeeper bought a rich gift, asked Liang Ren to carry out the dowry, and at the same time determined the wedding date. Seven days later, on their wedding night, they chose to rent a large flower boat on the canal outside the city, and used the boat as a new house to go south along the waterway.
In order to avoid long nights and dreams, the golden shopkeeper hopes to complete the ritual of entering the cave room as soon as possible, and cook raw rice into mature rice. He also told Liang Ren that as a wedding gift, he could take 100 taels of silver and the bride and return to his hometown on the boat that day.
3.When the golden shopkeeper saw the bride who was dressing up with makeup, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation.
On the wedding day, the golden shopkeeper's flower boat was decorated with lights, ready to intoxicate Miss Qiao through alcohol after boarding the boat, and quickly enter the happy moment of the flower candles in the cave room.
The weather was gloomy and gloomy on this day, with the north wind howling and the wind in the river even more violent, making it extremely difficult to light the boat. At dusk, there was a burst of drum music on the shore, and a big red sedan chair was carried onto the flower boat.
As soon as the sedan chair boarded the boat, a gust of wind blew out all the lights, so that everyone could only grope in the dark, let the bride and groom pay homage, and then help them into the cave room. After the golden shopkeeper and the bride drank and exchanged glasses of wine, he settled the bride to sleep on the boat.
Early the next morning, the golden shopkeeper saw that the bride was still asleep, and hurriedly summoned the shipwrights to set off for the south. Everything was in order, and the golden shopkeeper went back to the room to make up for sleep. However, when he woke up at noon, when he saw the bride who was dressing, the golden shopkeeper couldn't help but let out a miserable exclamation......
4.Liang Ren was surprised to find that his bride was actually her!
Liang Ren completed the task assigned by the golden shopkeeper and received 100 taels of silver as a reward. He expressed his desire to meet the bride before the wedding, but the shopkeeper looked a little impatient: "What to see?"Although the woman is not rich, she is definitely enough for you to marry!I've arranged everything for you, and when the time comes, all you have to do is pick up the bride and go home. ”
On the ship back to his hometown, the shopkeeper Jin rented a more economical single room for Liang Ren. In the evening, a crowd of people blows and blows, and someone leads the donkey and sends the bride to the boat. In the procession, a mother-in-law recognized Liang Ren, and she beckoned everyone to help send the bride to the boat.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew and the lights on the ship went out. Liang Ren casually said a few polite words, gave some reward, and then ushered the bride into the room in the dark, ready to spend the night.
Early the next morning, the passenger ship lifted anchor and began to sail. Liang Ren slept until noon, and when he woke up, he saw the bride next to him, but was surprised to find that she was Miss Qiao. "How is this possible?He asked, surprised.
Miss Qiao couldn't understand what he was saying, and asked rhetorically, "How is it impossible?"Is there a mistake?”
Liang Ren felt weak and didn't dare to explain, he just wanted to get off the boat as soon as possible and go to the golden shopkeeper to get the right bride. But when he walked out of the room, he realized that the boat had been running for two hours, and he had to wait until the next dock to stop.
While waiting for the ship to return, they disembarked only to find that there were relatively few boats at this pier, and they had to wait three days for the next ship to return. Liang Ren felt very depressed, so he had to take Miss Qiao to the town to find an inn and rent two rooms to live in. Although Miss Qiao didn't understand what was happening, Liang Ren didn't mean to explain either.
Three days later, Liang Ren came to the pier again, but the weather was cold, the wind was strong, the river was frozen, and the boat could not return. This did not surprise Liang Ren, and he would have to wait until the river ice melted next spring before continuing their journey.
5.Liang Ren has only one wish in his heart, and that is to let his daughter-in-law return to him.
Liang Ren took Miss Qiao to Luoyang to find the home of the golden shopkeeper, with the desire to return his daughter-in-law to his side.
When he arrived at the house of the shopkeeper Jin, he learned that the shopkeeper had passed away in Layue last year, leaving behind his ex-wife and a mentally disabled son. Thankfully, his new wife helped manage the family business.
As soon as the new wife appeared, Liang Ren was surprised, it turned out that she was a familiar face. The new wife, who used to be an old woman in the city who had been begging on the streets, is in her 50s this year, and everyone calls her a beggar woman. Liang Ren once saw her pitiful on the street, and often gave some help. Now for some reason, she has become the new wife of the golden shopkeeper.
The beggar woman enthusiastically asked Liang Ren and Miss Qiao to stay overnight, and Liang Ren recounted his marriage experience with the golden shopkeeper in detail. The beggar woman was also puzzled, could it be that all this was deliberately planned by the golden shopkeeper?Could it be that he has already arranged a daughter-in-law with equal talent for Liang Ren, who is outstanding?
The shopkeeper is old, lonely, and longs to find a woman of the same age to spend his old age with. Faced with his loneliness, he was compassionate and decided to marry a woman back home. It can be seen that he is really a kind person!
6.Liang Ren's bride turned out to be chosen for him by the golden treasurer.
She didn't know that the shopkeeper Jin actually liked the beautiful Miss Qiao, and he tried his best to successfully promote this marriage. Once the marriage with Miss Qiao was finalized, he gave Liang Ren a family fee and 100 taels of silver, but he was reluctant to spend more for Liang Ren to marry a wife.
One day, the shopkeeper happened to meet the beggar woman begging on the street, he had always hated the beggar woman, and wanted to kick her away, but suddenly came up with an ingenious idea.
He threw a copper plate to the beggar and said, "Old beggar, I see that you are old, and I have a friend who has just lost his wife and wants to find a woman to be his wife, and I think you are quite suitable." ”
The beggar woman was suspicious, thinking that she was old, which man would want her?
Two days later, the shopkeeper went to the beggar and told her that his friend had agreed. He agreed to wait for her the next evening on a passenger ship on the docks. When she arrives on the boat, she will see the groom in the wedding dress. Later, the golden shopkeeper gave her some money to buy a new set of clothes for the beggar to dress up and act as a bride.
The beggar woman has been begging all her life, but she didn't expect that someone would be willing to marry her when she was old. She told the leader of the beggar gang the good news. Although the beggar's status in the gang is not low, the helper is not bad for money, so he holds a banquet at home to celebrate the beggar's wedding, dresses up in a new look, makes the beggars also wear new clothes, invites the drummers, and sends the beggar out of the cave in a lively manner.
At a joyous wedding, the beggar woman was in a good mood and drank several glasses, and everyone asked about the whereabouts of the groom. She replied vaguely that the groom was on a large boat at the docks. So everyone helped her to the dock, and found that the flower boat of the golden shopkeeper had been lit up brightly. After the beggar woman was put on the boat, the send-off procession left, leaving her and the golden shopkeeper to enter the cave house alone.
At the same time, Miss Qiao's aunt was very stingy, and at the wedding of her daughter, she was reluctant to spend too much, so she simply set up two tables of banquets, hurriedly dressed up Miss Qiao, and found two musicians who played suona. A group of people led the donkey to see off the bride, and on the way, someone drank a little wine, and when they arrived at the dock, they saw the word "Xi" on another boat, and mistook it for someone else's festive occasion, so they put down the donkey and looked for other boats.
Coincidentally, an alert mother-in-law recognized Liang Ren, and she quickly put Miss Qiao on Liang Ren's ship.
The beggar and the golden shopkeeper woke up leisurely at noon, and the beggar woman was surprised to find that the groom was actually the golden shopkeeper, and she mistakenly thought that the golden shopkeeper had fallen in love with her at first sight, and pretended to be a friend to match. This made the beggar woman very moved.
The golden shopkeeper spent a lot of money to marry Miss Qiao. After waking up, he stared at the old beggar woman next to him with wide eyes, and was so angry that he couldn't speak, and finally vomited blood and passed out on the bed.
The golden shopkeeper is very face-conscious, although he restrains his emotions in front of his family, servants and crew when he wakes up. He originally planned to adjust the bow of the ship and return to Tianjin, but due to strong winds, it was difficult for the ship to turn around, so he had to go down the river and finally arrived in Luoyang. However, due to the cold weather, he could only wait until spring to return to Tianjin.
Faced with the situation, the golden shopkeeper had to take the beggar woman home. Although he planned to get rid of her secretly at first, he couldn't move because of his anger and anger, and the beggar's care became his dependence. As his condition deteriorated, the golden shopkeeper couldn't even speak, and finally passed away in Layue.
The Jin family is left with only the stupid son born to the golden shopkeeper and his ex-wife. Since there was no one to preside over the housework, everyone thought that the beggar woman was the newly married wife of the golden shopkeeper, and took her for granted as the new head mother of the Jin family.
Seeing that Liang Ren and Miss Qiao were homeless, the beggar woman generously let them stay. Although they first shared a room and later lived separately, after a few months, their relationship became more than just a landlord and tenant, but also a real couple.
With the unexpected death of the golden shopkeeper's son, the beggar woman had no descendants, so she regarded Liang Ren as her godson, and the three of them went to pay tribute to the golden shopkeeper on time during Qingming and the winter solstice.
The ending of the story shows that deception does not lead to true happiness. In order to get a beautiful daughter-in-law, the golden shopkeeper carefully planned, but in the end he paid the price for the happiness of others, and even died. Liang Ren's role is also complex, he deceived Miss Qiao for financial gain, but ultimately showed a determination to uphold integrity in the face of adversity.
The whole story conveys a sense of fate, showing that everything has its own arrangement, and as long as you stay kind, good fortune will come to you.