Liang Youcai was originally from Shanxi, and lived in Jinan Mansion as a small trader, without a wife and children. He followed the villagers to climb Mount Tai. At the beginning of April, the pilgrims of Mount Tai were bustling. There are also some male and female laymen, leading more than 100 men and women, kneeling under the Buddha statue one after another, with the limit of burning a stick of incense, which is called "kneeling incense".
Liang Youcai found that there was a girl among the crowd, who was seventeen or eighteen years old, handsome, and couldn't help but fall in love. He pretended to be a pilgrim, knelt down near the girl, and pretended that his knees were sore, and deliberately held the girl's feet with his hands. The girl turned around, as if in anger, and moved a few steps away from him on her knees. Liang Youcai knelt down again and moved closer to her, and after a while, he went to shake the girl's feet again. When the girl found out, she immediately stood up, stopped kneeling, and went out. Liang Youcai also stood up and followed out, but he was nowhere to be found. He was disappointed and walked unhappily.
Halfway down, Liang Youcai saw that the girl was following an old lady, as if it was a mother and daughter, so he hurriedly followed. The mother and daughter talked while walking, and the old lady said, "It's great that you can pay homage to the mother." You don't have any brothers and sisters, you just want to be blessed by your mother and bless you to marry a husband who is satisfied. As long as you can be filial to your elders, you don't have to marry your sons and grandchildren. Liang Youcai was secretly happy when he heard this, and slowly leaned in to talk, asking the old lady this and that. The old lady called herself Yun, and the girl's name was Cui Xian, and she was her daughter. Her house was on the west side of the mountain, forty miles away. Liang Youcai said: "The mountain road is bumpy and difficult to walk, the old mother is so broken, and my sister is slender and small, how can she get home quickly?"The old lady said, "It's getting late, so let's go to her uncle's house for the night." Liang Youcai said: "I heard you say that your son-in-law is not too poor, not afraid of being lowly, and I haven't started a family, isn't it very much in line with your heart?"The old lady asked her daughter, but she didn't answer.
The old lady asked a few times, and her daughter said: "He is blessed, but he has no action, his heart is light, and he is capricious." I can't be a daughter-in-law for a prodigal. Liang Youcai listened, and quickly confessed that he was simple and sincere, and swore earnestly by pointing to the sun. The old lady was very happy at first sight, and agreed to the affair. The daughter was unhappy and could only look very angry. Her mother patted her on the back, half reluctantly and half comfortingly. Liang Youcai hurriedly offered his courtesy, took out the money in his pocket, hired two mountain drivers, carried the mother and daughter to hurry, and followed behind on foot, like a servant. After passing through the dangerous road section, Liang Youcai scolded the people who carried the mountain pocket, did not allow the mountain pocket to be bumpy and swaying, and took care of it very well.
After a while, when they came to a village, the old lady invited Liang Youcai to go to her daughter's uncle's house with her. When my uncle came out, he was an old man, and my aunt was an old lady. Yun called their brother and sister-in-law, saying, "Youcai is my son-in-law." Today happens to be a good day, you don't have to choose another auspicious day, let them marry tonight. The uncle was very happy to hear this, and took out the wine and food to entertain Liang Youcai. After eating, he dressed up Yun Cuixian and sent them out, wiped the bed and urged them to go to bed early. Yun Cuixian said: "I originally knew that you were a ruthless and unrighteous person, and I was forced to follow you indiscriminately by my mother's order. If you are alone, you don't have to worry about living together. Liang Youcai was resigned, nodding in agreement. After getting up early the next morning, Yun Cuixian's mother said to Liang Youcai: "You go back first, I'll take my daughter and arrive later." ”
Liang Youcai returned home and cleaned the door. The mica really sent Yun Cui Xian. When I entered the house, I saw that the house was surrounded by walls, and I said, "How do you live like this?"I'll go back and solve your problems a little bit. With that, he left. The next day, several men and women came, each carrying clothes, food, and household utensils, and filled the room to the brim. They left without even eating, leaving only a ring. Liang Youcai has enjoyed food and clothing since then, but he only attracts the scoundrels in the township to drink and gamble every day, and gradually develops to steal Yun Cuixian's hairpins, earrings and other jewelry for gambling. Yun Cuixian dissuaded, he didn't listen, and Yun Cuixian was impatient to talk to him too much, just firmly guarding his box, like guarding against thieves.
One day, a gambler came to visit Liang Youcai and secretly saw Yun Cuixian and was very surprised. He teased Liang Youcai and said: "You have a lot of money, why are you worried about poverty?"Liang Youcai asked him why he said this, and replied: "I saw your wife before, she is really as beautiful as a fairy." It's not commensurate with your family background. If you sell her to someone else as a concubine, you will get a hundred gold, and if you sell her as a prostitute, you will get a thousand gold. The family has a daughter, are you still afraid that you will have no money for drinking and gambling?Liang Youcai didn't speak, and he agreed in his heart. When he went home, he sighed and shed tears to Yun Cuixian, and from time to time said that he was too poor to live. Yun Cuixian ignored him, and Liang Youcai frequently knocked on the table, threw spoons and chopsticks, scolded Yahuan, and made all kinds of ugly gestures.
One night, Yun Cuixian bought wine to drink with her husband, and suddenly said: "Lang Jun is anxious every day because of the poverty of his family. I can't get rid of my predicament, how can I not be ashamed in my heart?It's just that I don't have anything to spare, only this girl, and if I sell her, I can subsidize the family a little. Liang Youcai shook his head and said, "She's only worth a few dollars!."After drinking for a while, Yun Cuixian said, "For Lang Jun, what can't I bear for you?"It's just that it doesn't have the power. Thinking of being poor to this job, it is to follow you to death, but the two of them have suffered together for a lifetime, what is the future?It's better to sell me to a rich family, it will be good for you and me, and you may get more money than selling Yahuan. Liang Youcai pretended to be shocked and said, "How did you get to this point!."Yun Cuixian insisted again and again, her face was very solemn. Liang Youcai said happily: "Let us think about it again." So through the favored eunuchs, Yun Cuixian was sold to the government as a prostitute.
The eunuch went to Liang Youcai's house in person, and when he saw Yun Cuixian, he liked it very much, and he was afraid that he would not be able to buy it immediately, so he made a contract with a price of 800 yuan, and the matter was about to be completed. Yun Cuixian said: "My mother often thinks about her son-in-law's poor family every day, and now the relationship is about to be broken, and I am going to go home to visit my mother for a few days." Besides, you and I have been cut in two, how can you not tell your mother?Liang Youcai was worried about his mother-in-law stopping this, and Yun Cuixian said: "It's something I'm happy to do, and there is nothing wrong with insurance." Liang Youcai complied with her.
It was almost midnight when I arrived at my mother-in-law's house. When I knocked on the door and went in, I saw that the buildings and houses were all gorgeous, and the slaves and servants were constantly coming and going. Liang Youcai usually lives with Yun Cuixian, and whenever he wants to visit his mother-in-law, Yun Cuixian stops him, so he has been a son-in-law for more than a year and has never been on his mother-in-law's door. At this time, he was shocked, worried that Yun Cuixian's family was wealthy, and the family was afraid that he would not be willing to let Yun Cuixian be a concubine or a prostitute.
Yun Cui Xian led him upstairs. Mica was surprised and asked what the couple were doing, and Yun Cuixian complained: "I originally said that he was ruthless and unrighteous, but now it is so!."So he took out two ingots** from his clothes, put them on the table, and said, "Fortunately, it was not earned by this villain, and it is still returned to my mother." The mother was surprised to ask the reason, and Yun Cuixian said, "He wants to sell me, so it is useless to hide the gold." He pointed at Liang Youcai and scolded: "You brute!."In the past, you carried a burden and had a dusty face like a ghost. When I first approached me, I was covered in stinky sweat, the dirt on the ** was so thick that it was about to collapse, and the scabies on my hands and feet were an inch thick, which made people sick all night. Since I married you, you have eaten a full meal in all directions, and that layer of ghost skin has only shed off. Now that Mother is with me, am I slandering you?Liang Youcai lowered his head, and he didn't dare to come out.
Yun Cuixian said again: "I know that I don't have the grace to fall into the city and the country, and I can't serve the nobles, but a man like you, I dare to say that he is still worthy." I have treated you badly, and you don't miss the love of husband and wife at all?Can't I build a house and buy good land?Thinking of your light-skinned and begging appearance, you are not a white-headed partner after all. While speaking, the maids and servants held hands and surrounded Liang Youcai. Hearing Yun Cuixian's scolding, he scolded together, and said in unison: "It's better to kill him, why talk nonsense with him!."Liang Youcai was very frightened, lying on the ground and kowtowing, saying that he was wrong. Yun Cuixian said angrily again: "Selling his wife is bad enough, but it is not bad to the extreme, how can I bear to let my wife who shares the bed be a prostitute!."Before the words fell, everyone was so angry that their eyes were about to split, and they used hairpins and scissors to stab Liang Youcai's ribs. Liang Youcai wailed and begged for mercy. Yun Cuixian stopped everyone and said, "Let him go first." Even if he is ruthless and unrighteous, I can't bear to look at his trembling pitiful face. And he led them all downstairs.
Liang Youcai sat and listened for a while, and the voices around him fell silent, so he wanted to escape secretly. Suddenly I looked up, and saw the starlight twinkling, the east had turned white, and the wilderness was bleak, and then the lights in the room went out, and then the house disappeared, and I was sitting on the cliff. Looking down at the valley and seeing the bottom, Liang Youcai was frightened, for fear of falling. As soon as he moved his body, there was a "boom", and the rocks collapsed. There was a dead tree on the waist of the cliff, which happened to hang him so that he did not fall. The dead tree only supported his stomach, and his hands and feet hung in the air, and he did not land. Looking down at the vast expanse, I don't know how many zhang deep. He didn't dare to turn around, the cry for help was terrifying and hoarse, his body was all swollen, and his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and whole body had no strength.
The sun was gradually rising, and he was discovered by the wood-gatherer, who found the rope, hung the rope, and pulled him to the cliff, where he was already dying. The firewood collector carried Liang Youcai home, only to see the door of the house wide open, the house was as tattered as a broken temple, the bed, boxes, furniture, etc. were gone, only the old things of his own home, such as broken beds and broken tables, were still scattered. Liang Youcai lay listlessly in bed, and when he was hungry, he begged his neighbors for food once a day.
Soon, the swollen areas of his body festered and turned into sores. The villagers looked down on him as a person and spit on him. He had no choice but to sell his house and live in a cave, begging along the streets, and carrying a knife with him. Someone advised him to exchange a knife for some food, but he refused, saying: "If you live in the wilderness, you must guard against tigers and wolves, and you can defend yourself with a knife." Later, when he met the man who had asked him to sell his wife on the road, Liang Youcai stepped forward to talk to him sadly, and suddenly drew a knife and killed the man, so he was taken into custody by the government. The officials found out the reason for his murder, and could not bear to torture him, so they only locked him in prison, and died in prison after a short time.