After the woman's death, lightning and thunder roared, and the Taoist priest quickly dug the grave and opened the coffin
The story takes place in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, a young man named Liu Zheng, whose father died when he was very young, leaving him and his mother to depend on each other. Over the years, Liu's mother has raised her young son alone, working hard for him, and her body has become weaker and weaker.
Liu Zheng is smart and diligent, and learned the carpenter craft from a master carpenter, who is sincere and has an excellent reputation. He has accumulated a certain reputation in the local area, and he is often asked to work as a carpenter.
With his diligence and duty, his family conditions gradually improved, renovated the house, and married a beautiful and virtuous daughter-in-law. At this time, Liu's mother was getting worse and worse, she needed to take medicine frequently, and her movements were very slow.
Liu Zheng was a dutiful son, except when he went out to work, he would spend time chatting with his mother, decocting medicines, and cooking delicacies. In the summer, he would shake the fan to keep his mother warm; In winter, he would add clothes to keep his mother warm.
In his heart, his mother is his life. Liu Zheng's daughter-in-law Pan is also very filial to her mother-in-law, and her filial piety even exceeds that of Liu Zheng. Their filial deeds were praised and admired by their neighbors.
Liu Zheng and Pan's virtue of filial piety to their parents is an important guarantee for the harmony and happiness of their family.
When Liu Zheng is not at home, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are like a pair of good friends, chatting and doing needlework, and they get along well, which is enviable. However, one day Liu Zheng went out to work, and only Liu's mother and Pan were left at home.
After dinner, Liu's mother felt sleepy, so Pan waited for her to sleep, and then went back to the house to rest. However, in the middle of the night, Pan suddenly felt that someone was touching her body, and at first she thought it was Liu Zheng coming back, but soon realized that something was wrong, because that person's hands were very smooth and delicate, while Liu Zheng's hands were rough.
When Pan woke up, he saw a strange beautiful man sitting on the edge of the bed, looking at her with a lewd smile. Pan was shocked and shouted why he was in her room.
The man said he had come to her to accompany him, but Pan refused, kicked him, and then stormed the door. As soon as Pan Shi walked out of the yard, he was caught by a strange man, who suddenly appeared and grabbed Liu's mother.
In the early morning, there was a scream from Liu's house, and neighbors came to check and found that Liu's mother was taken away by a strange man.
Liu Zheng was working outside when he was suddenly called back in a hurry. As soon as he entered, he saw a simple mourning shed in the courtyard, and a black coffin was placed underneath.
Liu Zheng walked over to caress the coffin and wept bitterly, and then fainted in front of him. When Liu Zheng woke up, he found himself at home. He asked his mother how his wife died, and she told him that she had died saving her mother.
Hearing the news, Liu Zheng couldn't help crying loudly, lying on the coffin and shouting hoarsely: "My wife, my wife!" Liu Zheng's mother told him the truth.
It turned out that that night, Liu's mother heard movement in her daughter-in-law's room, and it seemed that Pan was scolding someone. She felt strange and thought that her son and daughter-in-law had quarreled.
However, she didn't hear her son's voice, which made her feel that something was wrong. So, she got up and went to check on the lamp, but she bumped into a strange man.
The man took out a dagger and put it around her neck and threatened her. Liu's mother told her son that Pan had died to save her. When Liu Zheng heard the news, he was very sad.
He went to sue the official, but the only mother who had seen the man did not recognize him, and the government had no way to find out. Liu Zheng can only wait for news, hoping that one day he can find the ** who killed his wife.
Liu Zheng was so overwhelmed with grief that he had to go home to bury his wife. However, what he didn't expect was that the news of his wife sacrificing herself to save her mother-in-law spread, which touched many people to pay their respects.
Local literati began to write biographies on her, praising her filial piety and loyalty. This incident caught the attention of the magistrates, who immediately summoned the local squires to discuss and reported the matter to the imperial court.
After Emperor Zhengde saw it, he immediately criticized four big characters: "Loyalty and filial piety!" He also asked the magistrate to thoroughly investigate the case, and at the same time asked for the establishment of a loyal and filial memorial arch for the deceased Pan.
However, all of this happened later, and I will mention it here. After Liu Zheng's wife died, he had to pay attention to his mother's emotions at all times to prevent her from doing stupid things, and he had to deal with his wife's funeral, which was very busy.
Fortunately, with the help of his neighbors, he was able to persevere. The day before the funeral, a middle-aged man suddenly came to the house. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down in front of Pan's coffin and cried bitterly, Liu Mu and Liu Zheng thought they were relatives at first, but after a closer look, they couldn't recognize this person.
After the man finished crying, Liu Zheng stepped forward to greet him. The man reported himself to be Pan's cousin. They used to play together as children, but they have lost touch since the Pan family moved away.
After the man heard about this, he searched all the way to Liu's house, just to see his cousin on his last journey. After listening to the man's words, Liu Zheng was convinced that his wife Pan's family was indeed an outsider, and after they got married, their father-in-law and mother-in-law also died one after another.
He was saddened by the fact that his wife's family had been left behind, and now he felt a little comforted to see his wife's cousin coming. He prepared a table of wine and food for the man alone.
The man seemed hungry and in a short time swept away enough food for eight people. He touched his stomach and said, "I have been looking all the way here after hearing the bad news, and I haven't eaten for more than a day.
First, because I couldn't bear the grief in my heart, and secondly, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to send my cousin on the last ride. Now that I've finally caught up, that's why it's a bit rude. ”
Liu Zheng said no, and said that if his wife knew about it underground, she would feel comforted when she saw her mother's family coming. The man sighed, his face full of grief. After that, he asked Liu Zheng when he would be funeral and whether the cemetery had been chosen.
Liu Zheng answered one by one. In the evening, the man said that he wanted to talk to his cousin, and insisted on persuading Liu Zheng to go back to the house to rest. Liu Zheng sighed that their brother and sister were deeply affectionate, and he was really too tired, so he left the man alone to keep the spirit and went back to the house to sleep.
However, the next morning, this cousin of Pan disappeared, and no matter how much they searched, they could not find him. Liu Zheng had no choice but to put it aside for the time being. Soon, the time for the funeral came.
Pan's coffin was carried to the cemetery and placed in the grave that had been dug up. Liu Zheng tearfully grabbed a handful of soil and sprinkled it on the coffin, and then was helped by others to the side.
The others began to fill the grave with earth, and soon a grave bag was piled up. At this moment, there was a sudden thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shook the earth, and then countless bolts of lightning fell, crackling around the new grave.
Everyone was shocked and retreated, their faces full of fear. At this time, a Taoist priest rushed in the distance, and the person arrived before the voice arrived: "Quick, quickly dig up the grave and open the coffin!" ”
The talent has just been buried, and the Taoist priest actually asked the family to dig the grave and open the coffin, who will listen to him! At this time, the Taoist priest had already come to everyone, and seeing that everyone was unmoved, he grabbed Liu Zheng by the collar and said: "There is an evil thing in your lady's coffin, if you don't want her to be at peace after death, hurry up and do as I say!" ”
As soon as these words came out, Liu Zheng also became suspicious! At this time, the sky was still thundering and thundering, and the lightning and thunder were still circling Pan's grave. Such a vision, could it be that the Taoist priest said this?
For a while, Liu Zheng's mind was full of twists and turns, thinking of the Taoist priest's sentence "If you don't want her to be at peace after death, just do as she is told", he immediately gritted his teeth, snatched a shovel from the hands of others and rushed forward.
Strange to say, the lightning that had been circling around the grave suddenly stopped, but the sky was still thundering. At this time, the others also stepped forward to help under the urging of the Taoist priest, and soon the grave was dug up, and at the moment when the coffin was opened, a lightning bolt fell from the sky and slashed into the coffin!
Smoke rose from the tomb, and a pungent smell of burning filled the air, and the thunder and lightning also stopped at this time, and the sky suddenly cleared! When the smoke cleared, everyone looked into the coffin and was shocked!
It turned out that there was a big snake that had been scorched, and under the big snake was Pan's body, but she had been dead for many days, but now she still looked like life!
The Taoist priest pointed to the big snake and said, "This evil obstacle is dead, hurry up and get it out!" When some of the brave men heard this, they jumped into the tomb and carried the dead snake out.
Pan, who was lying quietly, suddenly opened his eyes and sat up, looked at the stunned crowd and muttered, "Am I not dead?" Is this in**huh? ”
The others were so frightened by this scene that they retreated again and again, thinking that they had cheated the corpse! Liu Zheng was surprised and delighted, stepped forward and hugged his wife, crying bitterly and shouting, "Lady, ......."The latter words were choked in my throat and could not be spoken!
The Taoist priest twisted his beard and smiled: "Amazing! Amazing! Don't be afraid, she is not a corpse, but a good person who comes back to life! After hearing this, everyone was skeptical, and the Taoist priest explained the matter to everyone!
It turned out that the man who wanted to ** Pan that night was a white-scaled snake, it practiced in the mountains for thousands of years, and after having the Tao, it transformed into a ** form and wandered in the world, if you meet someone who has a beautiful woman, she will dive in late at night to defile it.
One day he came to Yushang Town, and accidentally saw Pan Shi drying clothes in the yard, and was shocked that night, he took advantage of Liu Zheng's absence to attack her. Who knew that Pan was different from other women, neither confused by his changed beautiful man, nor frightened by him as an uninvited guest, but gave him a hard kick and escaped.
Fortunately, he caught Liu's mother, who came to check unknowingly, and then forced Pan to go back to the house. And even so, Pan still didn't give in, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to rush towards the dagger in his hand, and died of anger with a muffled snort on the spot!
This was the first time that the big snake had killed a person, and he cursed and left in a hurry! But after two days, he deduced that he had done a lot of evil, and now there was a person who died because of him, and the boss had decided to subdue the demons and eliminate the demons, and the day of the execution was today!
Knowing that the catastrophe was inevitable, the big snake thought about it, and suddenly thought of a way, he actually wanted to use the Pan clan he killed to avoid the thunder tribulation! Because although this heavenly thunder can kill all evil demons, it cannot hurt the loyal and filial people and good people in the world, even the bones of these people.