Folk Tale The husband went out to fake his death, the wife and concubine were greedy and greedy, and the girl I was the watchdog
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a talent in Jiangsu named Pan Xiangru. He was gifted, learned, and, more importantly, handsome, so handsome that some people who knew how to face him were worried that he was too coquettish and might affect his lifespan. Pan Xiangru himself is also familiar with some numerology, and often says that he will encounter a catastrophe at the age of 28, and as long as he survives this catastrophe, he will be safe in the future.
Therefore, Pan Xiangru does not pursue fame too much, but is very concerned about the succession. Pan Xiangru married a wife and a concubine, both of whom were beautiful, and there was also a girl named Yulian, who was adopted by Pan Xiangru as a roommate.
Although Pan Xiangru is very concerned about giving birth to offspring, his wife Liu and the girl Yulian have not been able to have children, and only the concubine Luo gave birth to a son.
1) The story takes place in the year when Luo gave birth to a son, Pan Xiangru is just 28 years old. Sure enough, as he expected, he fell ill with a strange disease. Although Pan Xiangru himself is proficient in medicine, no matter how he is, his condition is getting worse day by day. It seems that the situation is very bad.
One day, Pan Xiangru summoned his wife and concubine to the bed, ready to arrange the funeral. He asked, "I have lived so many years, leaving only one son, and when I die, who among you will raise him for me?"I don't think you're like people who can keep the feast, let's be honest. If you don't want to, I can find a friend to take care of the orphan, lest you take your child to someone else's house and let him become someone else's oil bottle, and delay my child in vain!”
After hearing this, Liu said with tears in his eyes: "What you say is **?If a martyr does not marry a second husband, even if she has no son, she must keep the festival and pass on the ancestry. What's more, we still have your blood and bones, how can we have two hearts?I am married to you, and our relationship is different from that of a concubine. If they choose to leave and let me protect the child here, I will never let the child suffer the slightest grievance, and I am sure that he will thrive. There is no need to find a friend to take care of the orphan, we have our own way. ”
Luo also said: "Yes, Xianggong, you are right to listen to what the eldest mother said, we will protect the children." ”
Pan Xiangru nodded with difficulty: "This is like the appearance of a married couple." ”
Yulian lowered her head and was silent. Liu said: "It doesn't matter, if you want to leave, no one will force you to be widowed." ”
Yulian felt that she had no choice but to speak: "Just now, the eldest mother and the second mother said that there are only widowed wives and concubines, and I haven't heard of widowed girls." Now the eldest mother also has to keep the festival, and the second mother also has to keep the festival, and there are three women who keep the festival in the Pan family at once, is it too much?Moreover, I'm a girl, and whether I keep the festival or not has no effect on the family. ”
Pan Xiangru felt uncomfortable when he heard it, although this was the truth, it still sounded heart-wrenching. I thought to myself: "Among these three people, Yulian must be the first to leave, and Luo may be the second." As for Liu, as a wife, she will definitely not leave. Roche gave birth to a son and will not leave anytime soon. And Yulian, it's really sad to say such shameless words!”
Subsequently, Pan Xiangru explained some affairs, and could only lie in bed and wait for death. However, his condition miraculously did not deteriorate. Since then, Pan Xiangru has doted on Liu and Luo even more, almost ignoring Yulian and rarely going to her room.
2) Pan Xiangru has shown extraordinary intelligence since he was a child, and he was originally a future champion, but he didn't care about fame and fortune. He is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he is also proficient in astrology, especially in medical skills. When the villagers encounter some tricky diseases, they are helpless to find other doctors, but if they find Pan Xiangru, they may only need one or two pairs of drugs to be effective.
His medical skills were rejuvenated, but due to the fact that his relatives and friends were mainly patients, Pan Xiangru not only spent a lot of time and effort, but also lost money in writing prescriptions and seeing doctors. This made him have no time to care about his own fame, and even lost his name in an exam because he mixed some herbal scents into the Four Books and Five Classics.
Pan Xiangru felt that it was difficult to face his relatives and friends because of the frustration of the exam, so he came up with the idea of leaving his hometown to make a living. He knew that "if you have a good will, you will be a good doctor, and if you are frustrated, you will be a good doctor", and he thought: I have this craft, why can't I get rich?
After resolutely deciding, Pan Xiangru informed his wife and concubine, saying: I have decided to leave my hometown and practice medicine in a foreign country.
Subsequently, Pan Xiangru and a friend Zhang Hong, who was a young man and studied medicine, said goodbye to their families and embarked on the road of practicing medicine. In Yangzhou, they rented a house and hung a sign that read "Confucian Doctor Pan Xiangru".
It didn't take long for the Yangzhou prefect to find Pan Xiangru when he was sick. Other doctors thought it was an external sensation, and it was ineffective many times, but Pan Xiangru only used a few pairs of medicines, and the prefect's illness was quickly cured. The prefect praised Pan Xiangru for saving his life, claiming that there was only one doctor in Yangzhou City, and the rest were executioners. As a result, Pan Xiangru's reputation spread all over Yangzhou at once.
Within a few months, the prefect was promoted to deputy envoy of Shaanxi, and Pan Xiangru was invited to accompany him. As if he was grateful for the prefect's kindness, he couldn't shirk it, but he hesitated in the face of the kindness of Yangzhou's business. In the end, he discussed with Zhang Hong: I will go with him, you stay here to guard, and reserve a way back for me. The two of us look similar, we haven't been in Yangzhou for a long time, many people don't know each other, as long as someone is looking for a doctor, you will pretend to be my identity, deal with it, it is estimated that others will not be able to distinguish it. After I went to Shaanxi, it was farther away from home, and it was difficult to keep in touch, so if you have time, you can help me write a letter home so that my family will not worry about it.
Pan Xiangru wrote a letter to his family, explaining that Zhang Hong would send home the money he earned in Yangzhou, and then went to Shaanxi with the prefect.
Zhang Hong learned that he had been recommended to go to Shaanxi and began to practice medicine in a pharmacy. People who came to see the doctor called him Mr. Pan and Pan Xianggong, plus he had studied medicine with Pan Xiangru, and his medical skills were similar, and ordinary illnesses could be cured, and no one doubted it for a while.
After a few months, Zhang Hong was infected because of contact with a patient, and every effort was ineffective, and he finally died. He had no relatives by his side, and all the money he earned was divided among the hired workers. The body was disposed of by the government and buried outside the city gate, and the coffin read "The coffin of Jiangsu physician Pan Xiangru". He can only wait for his relatives to come and claim it.
3) It is said that Zhang Hongtuo sent silver and letters home to his fellow countryman, who was greedy for small profits and saw that the time was urgent, so he used the silver to buy a batch of goods, trying to make a little profit through trading. However, when he was about to sell his goods and return to his hometown, he was unfortunate enough to encounter a gang of robbers who robbed him of all his silver. Faced with this sudden predicament, he was anxious because he could not explain this defeat to Zhang Hong. However, the coincidence of what happened was that at this time, Zhang Hong had already passed away. The fellow had no choice but to put the matter on hold and leave Yangzhou to make a living elsewhere.
Liu and Luo waited for their husbands for a long time, but they did not receive the letter. After learning that her husband was practicing medicine in Yangzhou, they sent the old servants of the family to Yangzhou to inquire about the news. When the old servant inquired, he learned that his master had passed away.
The old servant asked the neighbor: "My father-in-law and Zhang Hong were in the same hospital, since the father-in-law died, why didn't Zhang Hong notify the family?"Where is he now?”
The neighbor replied: "The one surnamed Zhang has already gone to Shaanxi with the prefect." Zhang Hong walked in front, Pan Xiangru lagged behind, far away, how could he know about Pan Xiangru's death, let alone go back to report the news. ”
When the old servant heard this, he was convinced. He found his master's coffin, but was unable to take it home because there was no extra coil around him. I had to go home first to report the funeral.
When Luo, Liu, and Yulian learned the news of Xianggong's death, they were overwhelmed with grief and wept for three days in a row. The neighbors were touched by their grief. However, on the fourth day, Luo and Liu were still immersed in grief, while Yulian stopped crying, although she was also sad. She said to Roche and Liu: "The dead cannot be resurrected, and it is useless to cry more." The most important thing at the moment is to arrange the funeral and not cry to break your body. ”
Luo and Liu said: "You can still get married, you can not cry." The two of us have ended this life, so what's the use of not crying?”
After hearing this, Yulian was angry, and wanted to lecture them well, but she was worried that they would work together to kick her out of the house, so she swallowed her anger. After two days, the mood of the two of them gradually improved.
In fact, Yulian mentioned that there are two main things to take care of the aftermath: one is to raise money to bring Pan Xiangru's coffin back, and the other is to persuade them to make a living in the future and prepare for the festival. Yulian was lucky, but Luo and Liu still didn't mention these things after more than a month.
Yulian finally couldn't hold it anymore and asked, "Xianggong's body is still in the countryside, when will the eldest mother and second mother send someone to pick it up?"”
Liu Shi was a little displeased when he heard this, and said, "How can we not consider this kind of thing?"Do you still need a reminder from your maid?It's just that we need a lot of silver this time, and we are empty-handed, **to make up this money?If someone passes by, ask him to handle it by the way, bring it back after incineration, find a place to bury it, and leave a memorial. ”
Roche was more decisive and said: "I don't think there is any need to pull or cremate, put it over there first, and then talk about it when the child grows up." ”
Yulian usually saw the two of them hiding some silver privately, and thought that they would each give a part to meet their needs, but she didn't expect that they would not break the bank. They actually said such unseemly words, which made Yulian very angry. She wanted to teach them a good lesson, but she was afraid that they would join forces to kick her out of the house and leave her unattended. Yulian had no choice but to speak first: "I have asked the old slave, it costs a lot of silver to hire a boat alone, but if you take a free boat back, the cost will not be too high." I saved some money from needlework, and I should be able to cover half of the cost. The remaining half, can the eldest mother and the second mother make it up?If it's really not enough, I still have a few clothes, and I can't wear them for three years of mourning, so I might as well sell them for some silver. ”
After hearing this, Liu and Luo were so embarrassed that their faces were flushed, and they originally planned to keep it for the entanglement after remarriage, but now that Yulian said so, it was not easy to refuse in person, so they had to say in unison: Although there is not much silver, there are finally a few taels. Since you can afford half of it, we can also make up the rest, which should be enough.
A month later, the old servant pulled the coffin back from Yangzhou, found an open space, and buried Pan Xiangxia.
4) At this time, Liu had already carefully planned the future. She planned to marry Yulian first, and then transfer it to Luo, and gather the property of the two as her dowry, or recruit a son-in-law, or leave with the property.
Yulian's actions were completely contrary to what she said before her husband's hospital bed, which made Liu feel some fear of her. Therefore, the plan to persuade Yulian to marry was held back several times and failed to say.
Liu observed Roche's attitude and affirmed that she also wanted to marry. She sent Roche out first, but Liu felt embarrassed for Roche's children. If you let the child follow Roche, some people will say why the wife is at home and sends her son to the stepfatherAnd if you stay at home, you are afraid that your children will entangle you and it will be difficult to marry in the future, which makes Liu feel embarrassed.
Roche was also in a heavy mood at the moment, on the one hand, because she saw that people younger than her were getting married, but it was not easy for her to marry herself;On the other hand, she regretted giving birth to this son, who was neither too big nor too small to be a help in the family, but annoyed people every day, which made her feel very depressed.
Like Liu, Luo also suffers from a similar disease, but the symptoms of both of them are manifested in the fact that when they are horny, they can only use the crying husband as an excuse to vent.
In contrast, Yulian doesn't have much to worry about, just keeps her mind on being a widow.
Liu and Luo saw that Yulian was resolute, and at first they were afraid of her attitude, and then they resented her. So, the two began to conspire to bully her, fabricating various reasons, such as bad food, unclean clothes, etc., in order to force her to marry. But Yulian endured it and ignored their provocations.
Roche is even more excessive, because she has a grudge against her son, and often abuses the child, either beating or scolding, not giving food, not letting her dress warm, and treating what was originally her palm pearl as a thorn in her eye.
Liu was also resentful of this little child in his heart, and was originally worried that the child's biological mother, Luo Che, would protect him, but after seeing Roche's attitude towards the child, she was relieved. Liu did not have a good face for the child, and the child fell into an extremely difficult situation.
In this process, Yulian saw that they were so vicious, and began to take the initiative to move forward, as long as the child cried, she would hold it in her arms and buy him food and drink. Later, he simply took the child to his room to sleep, at first the child was reluctant, but when he wanted to give it to Roche, the child was reluctant to go back. Roche was happy about this and felt that he was finally out of this trouble.
After a while, Liu said to Luo: "You are still young, you must not be able to keep to the end, the child used to be inseparable from you, I can't persuade you to marry, now the child is taken care of by Yulian, you had better go out early, so as not to live up to your youth." ”
When Luo heard this, he responded hypocritically: "It stands to reason that I should keep festivals for my husband, but the family lacks food and drink, and I can't support so many people." Since the eldest lady is interested, then I will go. ”
Although Roche said this, she still felt inappropriate in her heart, and added: "It's just that I have this evil obstacle, how can I affect others?"Although Yulian is taking care of him now, I'm afraid that she is not willing. If she sends the child back after getting married, it will definitely cause disgust from others. Ask the eldest mother and Yulian to make it clear, if she really wants to raise the child, I will give the child to her, and I don't blame my mother when she grows up;If you only care about the present, you don't care about the future, you take it with you when you like it, and send it back when you are bored, then it's not good. ”
Hearing these words, Yulian stood beside her, and before Liu could speak, she said, "Erniang, don't worry too much, although Yulian is a girl, she won't let you take away the flesh and blood of the Pan family." If you don't say that I will give it to you, even if you ask for it, I will not give it to you. You just have to remarry, and I will raise you for one day. If I die, there's still a big mother, isn't there?”
Liu Shi was in a good mood to listen to it, but when he heard the last sentence, he suddenly felt that it was involved in him, and thought: "Only this idiot would do this kind of thing, I won't fall into this kind of stupid situation." It's better to coax her now and explain my affairs to the truth, so that she won't regret it in the future. ”
Liu said to Yulian: "Yulian, you still have to think about this matter carefully. It's not easy to raise a child, and life is still long. Whether you are willing or not, it is better to make it clear now, so that you can be a good person today, and regret it later. Maybe you're used to rough work and aren't afraid, I've always liked to be idle, and I'd rather have no children for the rest of my life than ask for this hardship. If you think about it, you will accept it if you are willing, and it doesn't matter if you are not willing, you will regret it when you save it. ”
Yulian listened, knowing that Liu was uncomfortable, and responded: "Don't worry, Auntie, I'm just talking." Although I am a lonely person for the head of the family, but heaven and earth have knowledge, and the dead have spirits, and I will definitely not die early. In order not to let the Pan family break off, I am willing to be a fool and bear this drudgery. It will never drag down the eldest lady in the future. When he said this, he was iron-hearted. ”
Liu was still unwilling in his heart, and said cheekily: "Then you are really a righteous woman among women!."But today's words, I simply make it clear, after Erniang remarries, I will definitely find an opportunity to send you away. When the time comes, you have to leave with your children, and you can't stay at home for a day and raise them for a day. In the end, it may have to affect me. ”
Yulian said, "Why do you have to send me away?"Don't you need a calling girl at home?”
Seeing her ask this, Liu wanted to take the opportunity to coax her, and simply explain his plans to avoid trouble in the future. So he said, "I tell you the truth, if I remarry, I have no intention of staying here." ”
Yulian was dumbfounded when she heard this, but she didn't expect that even the Liu family had plans to remarry, and asked, "Is the eldest lady determined to leave?"If that's the case, please make it clear, and I'll be able to make plans. ”
Liu said: "What is there to say about this, what is there to be nostalgic for the Pan family?."With this child, let me drink the northwest wind and keep him on the festival?”
Yulian said: "The eldest lady is right, there has always been a rich family to have a woman, how can a poor family keep a widow?"Let's go to the eldest mother and the second mother, I'll stay by myself, and be a watchdog for the Pan family!”
Liu and Luo said together: "We have a new family, everything in this house has to be taken away, you are alone, what do you rely on to support yourself?".”
Yulian said: "You won't bother about this, the old slave will stay and watch the door." If you are young, you are afraid of being criticized, and when you are old, you are not afraid of gossip. When the child grows up, it may be fine. ”
Liu and Luo glanced at each other and said, "If you are telling the truth, then you are really our benefactor." Please bow down to us. ”
Yulian said: "The hostess kowtows to the girl, this is not right. ”
Liu said: "If you are willing to worship, you are sincere." If you don't, you're being sarcastic, and you can't take your words seriously. ”
Yulian was helpless, and stood up with the child in her arms, facing the door. Liu and Luo really bowed deeply four times, and Yulian held the child like a clay sculpture, without even looking at them.
After that, Liu and Luo were relieved, and asked the matchmaker to find a new home overnight, pack their bags, and prepare for a new life.
5) Pan Xiangru studied in Shaanxi to gain fame, and returned to his hometown after being admitted to high school. Passing through Yangzhou, I remembered my former friend Zhang Hong, but learned that he had gone to Shaanxi. Suspecting that something was wrong, Pan Xiangru sent someone to investigate, but was told that he had already died, and even the bones had been transported back to his hometown. Shocked, Pan Xiangru hurried back to his hometown.
arrived at the house, but was indifferent to his wife Yulian. Yulian mistakenly thought that Pan Xiangru was dead, but unexpectedly, he suddenly appeared, which shocked her and her family. Pan Xiangru asked about the news about his ex-wife Liu and Luo, and learned that they listened to the rumors and remarried someone else. He reproaches them for believing the rumors, which eventually led to the misunderstanding.
After listening to the old servant's statement, Pan Xiangru was angry at Liu and Luo's behavior, believing them to be "two adulteresses". He is determined to re-establish a relationship with Yulian and vows never to remarry. Yulian explained that her words were only because of anger, and there was no change in her feelings. Pan Xiangru was quite remorseful and realized that he had misunderstood Yulian's original intention.
Later, Pan Xiangru became the first in the limelight, Liu and Luo saw that their ex-husbands were so beautiful, they regretted it and asked Pan Xiangru to redeem them. However, Pan Xiangru has long decided not to dwell on these two snobbish ex-wives.
Liu's husband scolded her in every way, causing her to bear it and finally hanged herself. Roche lived a difficult life, and his son hated her to the core, refusing to recognize her as a mother. Roche died of resentment.
Yulian never had children, but after forty, she miraculously gave birth to two sons. Pan Xiangru died young, and his sons were still young, so they had to take care of their eldest brother. Although the eldest brother is not Yulian's biological son, he repays the favor because of Yulian's nurturing grace, which is really "God is pitiful, and the emperor lives up to the painstaking people".
6) Youyun: A wife and concubine are like flowers, and they become entangled after death.
It may be too drastic, but Pan Xiangru's experience truly confirms this proverb. The various actions of Liu and Luo, as well as Yulian's perseverance, this experience is really thought-provoking. Everyone may have heard of similar stories, and perhaps they will have a different opinion on it.
Here, with the help of a ** legend, this warns the world: "If you do good deeds and accumulate virtue, you will have good results;."
Turn away from evil deeds and you will be damned!”