In the second month of the third year of Qianlong, one morning, a sudden loud noise woke up everyone stationed in the barracks, only to see a lightning bolt pierce the sky and hit a room in the barracks, in which a soldier who had been gentle and kind and had never done evil to others was killed. This incident really caught everyone off guard, and everyone was amazed.
Finally, a comrade-in-arms who had worked with the soldier for many years revealed: "Actually, this soldier had made mistakes in his early years, but now he has turned back and become a new man." Twenty years ago, I happened to belong to the same unit as him, and I still remember that time. ”
At that time, we followed the general to the Gaoting Mountain for hunting activities, and built a temporary barracks on the way. At dusk, a young nun passed by our camp, and as it was deserted at the time, the soldiers took the opportunity to hold her and try to do something wrong. ”
Seeing the nun fleeing, the soldiers hurriedly chased after her. He ran for miles, following the nun until he found her hiding in a farmer's house. In desperation, the soldier had no choice but to return home. ”
The family was home to only one peasant woman and one child, and the husband was away to earn a living. When the nun explained her situation to the peasant woman and asked to stay for the night, the peasant woman was so moved that she agreed to let her stay and lent her her her own clothes. The nun also promised to return the borrowed items within three days. ”
However, in the early hours of the next morning, the nun left suddenly. When her husband returned and wanted to change her dirty clothes, he found that the peasant woman's pants had been missing from her suitcase, and then it dawned on her that she had mistakenly given them to the nun last night. ”
Just as they blamed themselves for this, the child said on the side:'It was a monk who came to spend the night that night. '”
The husband who heard the news became suspicious of this and asked why. So the child told the story of what happened last night. Although the peasant woman repeatedly explained that the man was not a monk but a nun, the husband was suspicious and immediately became so angry that he even picked up a leather whip and beat his wife. ”
Seeing that the mother had been wronged in this way, the child was filled with grief and anger and reported the matter to his neighbors. However, the neighbors did nothing to do so, which made the peasant woman desperate and finally chose to commit suicide by hanging herself. ”
A day later, a young nun came to thank her with borrowed pants and a basket of delicious pastries. When the nun appeared, the child immediately told her husband, "That is the monk who came to our house last night to spend the night." ”
When the husband learned the truth, he felt guilty and hit the child so hard that he died. Since then, the husband has a nervous breakdown, and even does not hesitate to hit his head against the peasant woman's coffin, and finally dies. ”
Fearing that the spread of the news would affect their own interests, neighbors pooled funds to hold a funeral for the family. Since then, the matter has quietly disappeared. ”
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the winter of the following year, and the general returns here to hunt. At this time, I informed the soldier of the incident, and he was deeply ashamed to hear this, and resolved to change his mind and become a new man, hoping to alleviate the guilt in his heart. ”
However, fate made people, when the twenty years passed in a hurry, it was never possible to avoid the recurrence of the tragedy.
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