During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a place called Gushan Village in Wuding County, Shandong. The small village relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and there are many jujube trees on this mountain, and most of the people in the village live by picking jujubes.
There is a family surnamed Wang in this mountain village, the family was originally quite rich, the ancestor was an official in the city, and then the family fell in the middle of the road, and he couldn't live in the city, so he moved his family back to the village, relying on a few acres of thin fields and going up the mountain to pick dates to live.
The Wang family has only one son, named Wang Zhiyuan. This Wang Zhiyuan has been smart and clever since he was a child, he began to read and write at the age of four or five, he was able to write poems at the age of eight, and he could already write articles at the age of 12.
When the county lord heard about Wang Zhiyuan's reputation, he also cared for him, paid for him to go to school in the county, and pointed out a daughter from his family to Wang Zhiyuan as his wife. It's a pity that Wang Zhiyuan's luck is not good, although he was admitted to Xiucai at 16, but later participated in two township examinations, all of which fell to Sun Shan and did not win.
Moreover, in order to provide for him to study, his parents worked day and night to save food and money, and it didn't take long for his body to collapse. As a result, before they saw Wang Zhiyuan as a lifter, the two of them both left to go west. This is not the end, the prospective father-in-law county master offended his boss because of a trivial matter, and was found by his boss to make a mistake, executed, and his family property was confiscated. All the people in the family over the age of eight were sentenced to exile, and Wang Zhiyuan's little fiancée could not withstand such a blow, and committed suicide by hanging herself before being exiled.
In the past few years, Wang Zhiyuan has gone from being a county lord's prospective son-in-law who everyone envies to an orphan. I have no money and no power, and I don't even have money for food. The people in the school didn't like him and were jealous of him. bullied him, he had nothing to do, so he had to go back to live in the old house in the mountain village.
But he has only cared about studying for so many years, and he can't carry it on his shoulders or carry it in his hands, so he can't do anything. It's the same when I go back to the old house, I don't have anything to eat. Fortunately, he read well, so he cleaned up the old house and opened a private school. Recruiting children from villages near and far to study has finally solved the problem of food and clothing.
Within two years of the opening of this private school, Shandong was hit by a locust plague again, and there was no harvest in the farmland. Not only did the government not provide disaster relief, but it also did not reduce taxes, and forcibly snatched life-saving food from people's homes. Many ordinary people can't live their lives anymore, they flee in groups, and they become refugees when they leave their hometowns, and they have to live when they wander to other places! Just find a livelihood.
Wang Zhiyuan's family has long run out of food, and he thinks that he has studied hard in the past ten years, and now he has no fame, no relatives, no friends, and no support, which is really very desolate. Wang Zhiyuan felt that he was probably about to starve to death. He thought that instead of waiting for death at home and starving to death, it would be better to come directly and cut it off, so as not to suffer the crime.
So he found a hemp rope at home and walked to the hill behind the village. This mountain is full of jujube trees, but there are no jujube trees on this tree for a long time, and they are bare, and even the leaves and bark of the trees have been eaten. Wang Zhiyuan wondered where he would die? It's not appropriate to be too close to the village, what if it scares the child? I tried my best to go into the mountains and walk again.
I was hungry and couldn't climb the mountain at all, I spent a lot of effort until I walked to the edge of a cliff, I saw that there was no trace here, this was quite suitable, there were weeds all over here, I felt that this should not be easy for people to come, so I found a tall jujube tree, climbed up and hung the hemp rope, knotted a rope sleeve, and then stepped on a big stone, stretched my neck in, kicked my feet, and after leaving the stone, the person floated up.
But this fluttering, fluttering, I feel that my body is fluttering, floating around, this rope sleeve is hanging around the neck, not strangled at all, what's going on? When he opened his eyes, he saw that he was floating in mid-air.
He was scared in his heart, thinking to himself, didn't he meet a ghost? Thinking about it like this, my heart is even more sad, I can't die this death! He was floating there, and he began to shout, Xiaosheng is just looking for death, which immortal wants to play Xiaosheng, tears came out as he spoke.
As soon as he finished shouting, there was a burst of laughter from the tree, and it was still a woman laughing. Wang Zhiyuan looked up and saw that there was a girl standing on the top of the jujube tree, wearing a sauce-red coarse cloth dress, beautiful as a flower, with various wild flowers on her head, standing on a thin branch, dangling there lightly, looking very light, but Wang Zhiyuan, how could he be in the mood to look at women!
He floated in the air, and his hands and feet couldn't use his strength, so he begged the woman and said, "Girl, let me die, okay?" The girl was even more happy, giggling there, and the woman walked to Wang Zhiyuan's side in three steps and two steps, standing on the branch of Wang Zhiyuan's hemp rope. You are really stupid as a scholar, seeing that you are so handsome, why do you want to die?
Wang Zhiyuan said, I have no food, and if I don't seek death, I will starve to death, so it is better to hang myself directly. As soon as the woman listened to the cuff, she touched a red date, isn't this food? You eat it. Wang Zhiyuan took a look, how could this woman have dates? There are so many residents nearby, can you still find dates? Besides, this woman ** is here? How do you look like a fairy.
Wang Zhiyuan thought so, the dates had already been handed to him, big and red, and the fragrance went straight to his nostrils. Wang Zhiyuan's stomach was no longer angry, he was gurgling, and his saliva almost flowed out. When the woman saw it, she couldn't straighten up with a smile, and stuffed the red dates into Wang Zhiyuan's mouth while laughing.
Why don't you eat if you want to? Eat it. With a wave of his hand, Wang Zhiyuan fell from the tree, threw himself on the ground, smashed up a piece of dust, and swallowed the date in his mouth in a hurry. The girl also jumped down lightly from the tree, and when she saw Wang Zhiyuan, she laughed again, and the hairpin ring on her laughing head shook and the flowers and branches trembled. Wang Zhiyuan was embarrassed by her laughter, blushing and lowering his head, not daring to speak.
The girl took out another red date and handed it to Wang Zhiyuan, and gave you another one. Wang Zhiyuan took the dates, opened his mouth and chewed them, he had never eaten such delicious dates, his mouth was full of the fragrance of dates, he wondered if he was hungry? Thinking about it again, no, this jujube is at least one level of the jujube king.
Wang Zhiyuan felt very comfortable in his stomach, he was not hungry at all, and his whole body was much more energetic, and he had strength all over his body. He was still there in a daze, and the girl asked him next to him, are you married? Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly saluted the girl and said, Xiaosheng is single and unmarried.
The girl was amused when she heard it, why are you humans so troublesome to speak? You said that you didn't get married, and you were single and unmarried, which is really verbose. Wang Zhiyuan instantly felt that he had nothing to say. He looked at the girl in a daze, and thought, what did this woman say? What do you call human, isn't she human? The girl seemed to know what Wang Zhiyuan was thinking, and told him directly, of course I am not a human being, I am the jujube tree spirit, and this tree is my body.
Wang Zhiyuan remembered the strange ** he had seen, the more he looked at this jujube tree spirit, the more beautiful he felt, so he had the courage to ask this jujube tree spirit, I don't know when the fairy turned into a human form? The jujube tree spirit said, just two days ago, how do you see my humanoid? Like not? As he spoke, the jujube tree spirit took Wang Zhiyuan's hand, Wang Zhiyuan was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and kept saying that it was like like a special like.
The jujube tree spirit laughed again, holding Wang Zhiyuan's hand and not letting go. Said, idiot, I heard that people like us, if they marry humans, they will be able to obtain human yang energy, which will help them cultivate, so you can marry me. Wang Zhiyuan was really scared this time, retreated again and again, and said, shemales can't get married!
When the jujube tree spirit heard this, he turned his face faster than turning the book, you ate my dates, you must marry me, otherwise I will eat you, said, waved his hand at the jujube tree, and a few branches stretched out, and immediately entangled Wang Zhiyuan and lifted him into the air. Wang Zhiyuan was so frightened that he had to agree, put me down quickly, and I will marry you.
The face of the jujube tree spirit turned from anger to joy again, Wang Zhiyuan was just lying on the ground so smoothly, and the jujube tree spirit was happy to pull Wang Zhiyuan's arm and was about to go home. What can Wang Zhiyuan do? I thought, if I don't agree, next year today will be my anniversary, let her be, he was still looking for death just now, and now he has forgotten about it.
As soon as he entered the house, the jujube tree spirit touched the dates from his cuffs, and found dozens of them piled on the table, asking Wang Zhiyuan to eat them, and urging him to finish eating them quickly, so that we could enter the cave room. Wang Zhiyuan sat at the table, and slowly ate these red dates, pondering while eating, this jujube tree spirit is a goblin after all, how can he marry a goblin! I have to think of a way to get her away.
After thinking about it, Wang Zhiyuan said to the jujube tree spirit, if you want to marry me, then there must be a wedding banquet, so that everyone in the village can come to celebrate, so that it is good. Do you still have these dates? Prepare more for everyone, and the guests will have something to eat. As soon as the jujube tree spirit heard that it made sense, she immediately touched it out from the cuff again, and the dates in her cuff seemed to be unfinished.
Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly found pots and pans, barrels, and water tanks from all over the place, no matter how many he took out, he could fill them for you. Finally, there are no dates in the cuffs, so what should I do? This jujube tree spirit still has a way, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to spit red dates out of his mouth. After a while, the bed was full of dates.
Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly went out and called all the people in the village over, and gave everyone red dates to eat, and the villagers near and far all came over when they heard that there were dates to eat. People are gathering more and more, and the red dates spit out by the jujube tree essence are quickly eaten by everyone. The jujube tree spirit looked at it, then I kept throwing up, but in the end, it didn't work, the jujube tree spirit was pale and physically exhausted, so he fell on the bed, and his body gradually became transparent.
When Wang Zhiyuan saw it, he quickly picked up the jujube tree essence and ran back to the mountain, sending it back to the jujube tree on the edge of the cliff. When I arrived, I saw how this jujube tree was still vigorous two days ago, but now the branches are dry and the bark is cracked, and it looks like it is about to die.
Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly put the jujube tree spirit under the jujube tree, and the body of the jujube tree spirit immediately integrated into the trunk and was invisible. Without you, I can't imagine that you would be sincere.
Back in the village, this village is very lively, the villagers are fighting there, they are full of strength and immediately start fighting, Wang Zhiyuan looked, it's over, my house has collapsed, I'd better go back to the mountains.
When he returned to the mountain, he couldn't help but run to the jujube tree on the edge of the cliff and set up a small shack there, but he felt that guarding the jujube tree was quite down-to-earth in his heart, and the jujube tree seemed to be quite spiritual. Every time it was time to eat, a few dates fell from the tree, Wang Zhiyuan picked them up and ate them, just a few, he was not hungry for a day, and his spirit was very good.
Later, wars began to break out frequently at the foot of the mountain, and Wang Zhiyuan simply stayed here and didn't leave, just guarding this jujube tree for the rest of his life.