Folk Tales Passing through the cemetery, the merchant found his tombstone, and the villagers avoided him
In "Zi Bu Silent", during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a rich young master in Zhangjia Village was respected by the villagers as Zhang Jiansheng. Zhang Jiansheng's family is well-off, with a large number of real estate and fertile land. His status as a "prisoner" was obtained through repeated donations of money, so he was called a "regular prisoner". This identity made Zhang Jiansheng even more arrogant, and he put on a condescending posture to people all day long, disdainful of it.
Zhang's family hired several long-term workers who were usually aggressive towards them, but because of the higher wages they paid, these long-term workers were still willing to work in Zhang's family. One day, Jiang Shi, the wife of Hu San, a long-term worker, hurried to Hu San and told him that his mother-in-law was seriously ill and asked him to hurry home to visit. Zhang Jiansheng happened to witness this scene, and saw Jiang's sweat like rain, his face was ruddy, and his hair was scattered, which made Zhang Jiansheng fall for it.
Zhang Jiansheng adjusted his mentality, stepped forward and pretended to be concerned, persuaded Hu San to go home and take good care of his mother, and gave him five taels of silver to buy medicine. Hu San and his wife were deeply grateful and hurried home. Zhang Jiansheng kept watching Jiang's back until her figure disappeared, then he sighed lightly and returned to the house to rest with nostalgia.
Hu San's family is located in Hujizhuang, and after returning home, they invited a famous doctor to treat his mother, and soon cured her illness. Gratitude was beyond words, and Hu San and his wife gave Zhang Jiansheng some hometown specialties to show their gratitude, and Zhang Jiansheng accepted it without hesitation. A few days later, Zhang suddenly said that he wanted to visit Hu San's home in person. Hu San was flattered and immediately accompanied Zhang Jiansheng home.
With a generous gift, Zhang Jiansheng first visited Hu San's old mother, and then had dinner at Hu San's house. During the whole process, Zhang Jiansheng frequently took advantage of people to peek at Jiang's and found that she seemed to be more beautiful than before, fair-skinned, slim, and affectionate. During the meal, Zhang Jiansheng pretended to pick up chopsticks and secretly touched Jiang's feet by the way. When he got up to leave the table, he found that Jiang's cheeks were slightly red, but he was not angry, and he knew in his heart that there might be a drama to play.
Since then, Zhang Jiansheng seems to have a more cordial attitude towards Hu San. Hu San was grateful and worked harder, but he did not realize the sinister situation of "nothing to do, to be courteous, to be either a traitor or a thief". In the days that followed, Hu San's wife, Jiang, went to Zhang's house many times, sometimes bringing homemade pastries to thank him for saving his life, sometimes delivering news of his family's safety, and sometimes bringing washed clothes. Every time Jiang visited, Zhang Jiansheng always managed to interact with her intimately.
One day, the Jiang family came to deliver clothes, and at this moment Hu San was working in the fields, and Zhang Jiansheng's other wives and concubines were also out, leaving Zhang Jiansheng alone at home. When the opportunity came, Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang began a secret entanglement. This affair became a secret between the two, and Hu San was always kept in the dark, still thinking that the owner was very important to him, so he worked harder.
Zhang Jiansheng became obsessed with Jiang and longed to establish a long-term relationship with her. However, due to Hu San's existence, he could not easily fulfill this wish. In this regard, although Zhang Jiansheng was respected by the villagers as a regular supervisor, he was anxious. He pondered it for several days, and finally came up with a cunning plan and consulted it secretly with the Jiang family. Jiang also promised to actively cooperate and jointly perform this well-designed drama.
coincided with the temple fair held in the town, Zhang Jiansheng took a holiday for the long-term workers, and Hu San and Jiang also went to the temple fair. The crowd was crowded, the temple fair was very lively, and when Zhang Jiansheng was enjoying the excitement, he suddenly heard someone behind him: "Be careful of the disaster of blood and light!."Hu San looked back and found that it was a gentleman under the banner of fortune telling. He hurriedly stopped the fortune teller and asked, "What did you say?"The fortune teller explained: "Prosperity and decline, life is impermanent, and within a year, there should be changes." Hu San was a little confused, but the fortune teller's words made him nervous. The fortune teller continued, "Think about it, have you been in for a few minor disasters lately?"Hu San recalled some things that happened recently, and he did encounter some small stumbles, such as accidentally injuring his hand while working.
In fact, the art of fortune-telling involves psychological suggestion to some extent, and Hu San, as a person who has been engaged in farm work all year round, is inevitably injured and bleeding. However, the fortune teller's words gave him some negative psychological implications. Hu San told the fortune teller about his eight characters, and the latter fiddled between his fingers and said in a deep voice: "Within a year, you will encounter a bloody disaster." In three years, there will be no good luck. Unless you go southeast, you will have the fortune of great wealth and wealth.
Hu San paid gratefully, and the words of the fortune teller left a shadow in his heart. After he returned home, he told the fortune teller Jiang's words, and Jiang thought for a moment and said, "When he said the southeast direction, didn't he mean the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"Maybe you can consider going there to develop, maybe it will change your destiny, achieve great things, and then return to your hometown to be rich and prosperous, and pay off your debts. Hu San was thrilled after hearing this, but he didn't have enough principal.
Jiang Shi gave advice: "The owner Zhang Jiansheng is a good person, he has been helping us, you can borrow some silver from him." Wait until the business is prosperous, and then return the principal and interest to him. Hu San thought the idea was good, so he found Zhang Jiansheng and explained the reason for the loan. What he didn't expect was that Zhang Jiansheng readily agreed, and took out a hundred taels of silver on the spot, and Hu San typed the IOU and was grateful. Hu San prepared for a moment at home, said goodbye to his parents and entrusted him to Jiang, and then embarked on a journey of hundreds of miles to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
All this made Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang Shile blossom. On the day Hu San set off, the two went on a private date. In fact, all this was a well-designed scheme, and Zhang Jiansheng spent a lot of money to bribe the fortune teller, making him say that Hu San's life was not good, and it was better to go to other places to make a living. Hu San really believed the fortune teller's words, but unfortunately he traveled thousands of miles, but he didn't know that his wife had already changed her mind.
Three years passed in a hurry, but Hu San never returned, nor did he leave a trace of news. Hu San's parents repeatedly urged Jiang to try to get in touch with him, but Jiang always only enjoyed the pleasure with Zhang Jiansheng and ignored these urgings. Zhang Jiansheng's other wives and concubines seem to be indifferent to this matter, because in ancient times, women were required to follow the norms of "three obedience and four virtues", and they did not seem to dare to ask more about Zhang Jiansheng's private life, nor did they expect the serious consequences later.
However, the crowd is full of gold and accumulates and destroys the bones. The relationship between Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang became the topic of rumors in the village, and as time went by, these rumors became more and more confusing, and even evolved into a ** conspiracy, claiming that Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang teamed up to kill Hu San and destroy the body. Therefore, Hu San disappeared inexplicably. After the local Mazhi County learned of this, he had a plan and decided to sanction Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang. However, due to the lack of conclusive evidence, he has been unable to act.
Ma Zhixian is honest and honest in appearance, worships Bao Zheng, and often says that he wants to learn from Bao Qingtian. One day, when he was passing by Hujizhuang, suddenly a strange wind blew in the woods. Ma Zhixian hurriedly searched for the source of the wind, and found a dry well deep in the woods, in which a decomposing corpse was found. Ma Zhixian thought of Bao Gong's trial of the Wupen case, and guessed that this was Hu Sanlai's expression of seeking grievances, so he used this as an excuse to arrest and detain Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang.
In the process of investigation and interrogation, the private relationship between Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang's has been revealed, and even the collusion with the fortune teller has been revealed. However, the fortune teller has long since slipped away and become a survivor. As for whether they were involved in Hu San's **, the two refused to admit it. Ma Zhixian used torture to extract confessions, and finally forced the two to confess to their crimes, imprisoned in prison, and finally executed in the autumn.
Ma Zhi County then sent someone to bury Hu San's body and provided a pension for Hu San's parents. His subordinates flexibly figured out Ma Zhixian's mind and arranged the entire investigation process into a scene, in which Ma Zhixian was praised as "white bread and blue sky". Ma Zhixian was very pleased after watching it, and since then this play has been widely staged in various places.
As time passed, a bizarre thing happened in Hu Jizhuang - Hu San actually came back!The villagers were surprised and avoided him. Hu San felt strange that a bold young man told him to go to the cemetery to check. After hearing this, Hu San hurried to the cemetery, but found a tombstone marked with his name!Hu San was completely stunned and told the villagers about his experience.
It turned out that when Hu San first arrived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he suffered heavy losses because he was not familiar with business and lost the courage to go home. Later, he worked with a big businessman, and because of his hard work, he quickly won the appreciation of the big businessman and learned many business skills from it. After two years of experience, Hu San basically mastered the way of doing business, and finally opened his own business, and his business became more and more prosperous. However, he still has a close relationship with the big businessman, and the two often work together.
Now, Hu Sanyi has returned to his hometown, ready to pay off Zhang Jiansheng's debts, but finds that his wife has been executed. He deliberately made a play about Mazhi County called "White Bread and Blue Sky", which caused great anger. Hu San always thought that Jiang was wronged, so he went to the provincial capital to inform the county. Investigators in the provincial capital found out the truth, found that Mazhi County had wronged people, and ruled that the autumn queen would be beheadedAs for the decomposing corpses, no real ** was found, and only local burials were carried out. At the same time, investigators in the provincial capital told Hu San that the rumors about Zhang Jiansheng and Jiang were indeed true.
Hu San cried quietly behind his back, and took his parents to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, away from this sad place. Subsequently, his savior, the big businessman, married his daughter, and the two became husband and wife, and welcomed a bright future together. Eventually, these two men became archetypal of diametrically opposed destinies.