February** Dynamic Incentive Program
In Chuzhou, a remote town in the Northern Song Dynasty, there lived a young ** named Yang Jingyun. Her family was once one of the city's most prominent families, but as the times changed, the family's glory gradually dimmed, until after her father's death, the Yang family fell apart and the family property was swept away by relatives.
Since she was eight years old, Yang Jingyun has relied on her uncle for life. Although this uncle inherited most of the Yang family's fortune, he was an irresponsible drunkard, only indulging in alcohol every day, and he did not care about his family, especially his wife. Eventually, his uncle's wife could not bear the abuse and fled the family, and the uncle turned his anger on Yang Jingyun and placed her in a simple firewood house, living only on leftovers.
When Yang Jingyun was seventeen years old, she met Keyun, a scholar who was also an orphan. The two quickly became best friends due to similar experiences, and fell in love with each other day after day. Once, on the way to buy wine for her uncle, Yang Jingyun stumbled upon a forgotten land temple, and she remembered that her father had taught her to respect the land, so she decided to clean up the debris in front of the temple. However, when she finished all this, it was getting late, and she hurried home, only to be severely beaten by her uncle.
As time passed, Keyun encouraged Yang Jingyun to join him in confessing their relationship and getting rid of his uncle's control. But just before they could speak, the uncle brought a shocking news: Cui Yuanwai, a wealthy family in the town, took a fancy to Yang Jingyun and asked her to marry his son Cui Xiaoke, and gave the uncle a huge sum of money. After Yang Jingyun heard the news, she felt like the end of the world, she sat on the ground weakly, and she couldn't bear her uncle's follow-up words.
Early in the morning, Keyun came to look for Yang Jingyun as promised, but found that the door of her house was closed, which made him very worried, thinking that Yang Jingyun was in some trouble, so he kept calling her name at the door.
At this moment, Yang Jingyun's uncle returned from buying wine, saw Keyun calling in front of his house, and immediately kicked him to the ground violently, and warned him not to look for Yang Jingyun again. Keyun was puzzled, and his uncle told him that Yang Jingyun was about to marry Cui Xiaoke.
Keyun was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't believe that the woman who had sworn an alliance with him suddenly decided to marry someone else. He frantically wanted to rush into Yang Jingyun's house, but was knocked down by his uncle again and again until he couldn't stand.
After his uncle entered the house, he tried to wipe his bloody fist while warning Yang Jingyun to stay away from Keyun, otherwise he would not look good. Yang Jingyun was used to being bullied, so she naturally didn't dare to disobey.
Two months later, the wedding date is approaching, but my uncle is not nervous, he still goes out to drink and have fun every day, and even the wedding clothes are sent by Cui Yuan.
In the afternoon of this day, her uncle was not at home, and Yang Jingyun sat in the courtyard with her wedding dress in her arms, full of confusion. Just then, she heard a faint cry for help at the door. When I opened the door, I saw an old beggar lying on the verge of death.
Yang Jingyun was kind by nature, and immediately helped the old beggar up, and rushed into the kitchen to get some dry cakes and water, and slowly fed him to eat, saving his life.
After a while, the old beggar regained consciousness, he got up tremblingly, bowed and thanked Yang Jingyun. Yang Jingyun shook her head and handed him the rest of the dry cakes: "You go quickly, I don't have any money on me, I can only give you these things to eat, if my uncle comes back and sees me giving you something, he will beat me again!" ”
After speaking, Yang Jingyun closed the door. The old beggar did not stop either, and left with a dry cake in his mouth.
The night was dark, and Yang Jingyun fell asleep early after a hard day's work. In the dream, she saw her beloved Keyun, who looked very bad, pale and coughed incessantly. Yang Jingyun was about to take a closer look, but was suddenly grabbed by a hand, and when she looked back, it was the old beggar she had saved during the day, and he was still holding the dry cake she gave him.
The old beggar looked a little flustered: "Yang Jingyun, listen, on the night of the cave room, don't blow out the candles no matter what......."”
Before he could finish speaking, Yang Jingyun was woken up by a rooster crowing and found that it was already dawn. She quickly got up and put on her wedding dress and sat in the room waiting for the wedding procession. However, after waiting for a day, the greeting team was delayed. Yang Jingyun was both happy and puzzled in her heart, until night fell, she heard the sound of gongs and drums, and the welcoming team finally came.
An old woman helped Yang Jingyun and explained that the welcoming team encountered a group of vicious dogs on the way, and several people were bitten, so they were late. Yang Jingyun didn't care too much, just nodded silently.
After sitting in the sedan chair, Yang Jingyun smelled a faint fragrance, and soon lost consciousness. When she woke up, she found herself lying in the cave room, had she already worshipped heaven and earth?
Just when Yang Jingyun was puzzled, Cui Xiaoke came in, and as soon as he entered the door, he blew out the two candles at the door, and the room immediately darkened, leaving only the fire of the last candle at the head of the bed. Cui Xiaoke walked to the window and lifted Yang Jingyun's red hijab, Yang Jingyun felt a chill and couldn't help but shiver. Looking at Cui Xiaoke's expressionless face, she felt a little scared.
Cui Xiaoke said lightly: "It's almost time to go!" As he spoke, he reached out to blow out the candle at the bedside.
At this moment, Yang Jingyun noticed that the flame of the candle turned blue-purple as Cui Xiaoke approached, and she suddenly remembered the words of the old beggar in her dream: "Don't blow out the candle!" ”
At the critical moment, Yang Jingyun got up suddenly, blocked the candle, and asked lightly: "Husband, what do you mean by 'time'?" You're going to take me there?
Cui Xiaoke's face changed greatly after hearing this, and he roared angrily: "Get out of the way for me!" Then he violently pushed Yang Jingyun to the ground. At this moment, the door of the cave room was kicked open, and the two of them looked at the door at the same time, only to see Keyun standing there.
After Keyun rushed into the cave room, he rushed to Cui Xiaoke without hesitation and kicked him to the ground, and then the two fell into a fierce fight. Although Yang Jingyun was confused, she still decided to help Keyun and picked up the bench on the side and smashed Cui Xiaoke unconscious.
When Yang Jingyun asked why Keyun appeared here, a familiar voice sounded: "I asked him to come!" ”
The old beggar appeared at the door of the cave room, and Ke Yun pointed at him and explained: "It is him, I have been seriously ill for the past few days, and it is this old man who came to my house to cure my illness, and asked me to come to your rescue on the night of your wedding, and protect the candles in the room!" ”
Yang Jingyun was confused after hearing this, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the old beggar: "This place is not suitable for a long time, after you wake up, go to the land temple outside the village to meet, I have prepared for you to leave, wake up quickly!" ”
Yang Jingyun suddenly woke up, it turned out that everything just now was a dream. When she looked around, she almost fainted. She found herself lying in one coffin, while another coffin lay next to her, in which lay the body of Cui Xiaoke, who had already stinked.
It turned out that Cui Xiaoke had already died of illness, and Cui Yuanwai didn't want his son to be lonely over there, so he wanted to marry him. Yang Jingyun's uncle sold her to the Cui family for money.
Yang Jingyun didn't think much about it, and immediately fled from Cui's mansion, and according to the old beggar's words, he came to the land temple outside the village, and Keyun was already waiting there. After the two converged, they found that there were some dry cakes in front of the statue of the land lord, which were given to the old beggar by Yang Jingyun that day. There were many silver taels next to the dry cakes.
The two suddenly realized that it was no one else who saved them, it was this land lord. They kowtowed three times in front of the Land Temple, and then left with the coil, and no one knew that they had gone. As for Yang Jingyun's uncle, on the third day after Yang Jingyun left, he fell into the lake and drowned after a drunken trip.