During the Wu Zetian period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a man surnamed Hong, who was famous for his exaggeration and was nicknamed Red Dafu.
Although he is nearly 30 years old, he is still alone.
The only reason he couldn't marry his wife was because of his family's poverty.
Hong Dachui's family is poor, mainly because his mother is sick.
Since the death of her father, her mother has been bedridden and needs to buy medication frequently.
For ordinary families, if they already have a bottle of medicine, how can they store their funds?
When Hongda was digging kudzu in the mountain, suddenly a yellow finch flew in and landed in front of him, flashing a red light.
After the red light disappeared, a woman appeared in front of him and asked shyly, "Hey, brother, do I look like a woman?" ”
Hongda looked at the woman carefully, and saw that she was delicate, wearing a small red flower on her head, and wearing colorful clothes.
Most strikingly, she wears a small skirt tied around her waist, all of which are made of bird feathers.
Hongda understood the meaning and knew that she was a yellow bird who came to collect debts, so she quickly nodded and praised: "She is like a beautiful woman, like a fairy in the sky, pure and moving."
The woman laughed softly, and her short skirt instantly turned into silk.
She whispered:"Unexpectedly, you are so eloquent.
In order to thank you for making me so successful, I want to help you fulfill a wish and tell me what kind of wish you most desire to fulfill? "
Hong Da Fu stared at the woman and said, "My greatest wish is that I want you to be my wife, and I will be good to you and willing to marry you." ”
The woman's face suddenly flushed, and she said, "Actually, I understand your situation, you are a very good person, strong, kind-hearted, and filial to your parents.
As a woman, I'm already very satisfied to be able to marry a man like you.
But the reason why you don't have a wife is because your family is poor.
So, the question is, if you want me to be your wife, what do you use to be good to me? Hong Da Fu immediately blushed and lowered his head.
The woman smiled and said, "What? Does one sentence hold you back? Love is not something that can be obtained by simply saying 'I'm good to you', but it needs to change the status quo and work hard.
In this case, I will let you change the status quo first, see how you perform, and then decide whether to marry you or not. ”
Hong Dachui was very happy, raised his head, and stared bravely into the woman's eyes.
The woman said, "The fifteenth day of this month is the night of the full moon, and at three o'clock in the middle of the night, you should look up at the full moon and learn three wolf howls at the moon." ”
After saying that, the woman turned into a yellow finch and flew away.
In the blink of an eye, on the night of the fifteenth full moon, at three o'clock in the middle of the night, he came to the back of the house, looked up at the moon, took a deep breath, and then bravely imitated the wolf's howl.
As soon as he had finished shouting three wolf howls, he saw a shining thing flying from the moon, stopping in front of him, flashing light.
Red recognized that it was a seed, so he reached out and caught it.
At this time, he heard a voice behind him say: "This is the osmanthus tree seed in the Moon Palace, you plant it in the courtyard, it will bring wealth."
You walk eighteen steps forward from the door of the hall, then eighteen steps to the left, and you plant an osmanthus tree in that position. ”
Red Da Fu turned his head to look and saw that it was the Yellow Sparrow girl who spoke.
Miss Yellow Bird smiled and said, "Fortune has arrived, and the key lies in your efforts."
This time next year, I hope to come to your house, and if you work hard, maybe I'll marry you. ”
Red Big Blow grabbed the Yellow Sparrow's hand tightly and said, "Why wait until next year? Come home with me now.
The Yellow Finch smiled, broke free of his hand, and flew away as a Yellow Sparrow.
Since then, Hong Dachui has worked harder, helping the landlord to work in his spare time, and when he has no work, he goes out early and returns to the mountains to pick kudzu roots and sell them for money.
After the kudzu picking season is over, he goes to the market to cut firewood and sell it.
In short, in addition to taking care of his mother and taking medicine, he has been making money, or walking on the road to making money.
Not to mention, since planting the seeds of the osmanthus tree, his fortune is particularly good, who needs short-term work, the first thing that comes to mind is him, he goes to the mountains to dig kudzu, and he can always meet the high vintage, selling at a good price.
He picks firewood to sell in the market, and usually he can't sell it for a long time, but now as soon as he arrives at the market, people will come to buy it, and the price he gives is still high.
One day, when he was digging kudzu, he also found a century-old mountain ginseng and made a small fortune.
After working hard for half a year, Hong Dachui has accumulated nearly five times of money, which in previous years, he didn't even dare to think about it.
That night, he touched the five yuan on the side of the pillow, and thought about it, and if it went on like this, by the appointed date next year, he would accumulate more than a dozen yuan, and when the time came, he would renovate the house and marry back to the yellow finch girl, and he would do a small business with the rest of the money.
If it goes on like this, don't worry that life won't get better.
At this moment, suddenly there was a mother's moan, which seemed to be in pain.
Hong Dachui hurriedly jumped up, rushed to his mother's bedroom, and asked, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" The mother looked pained, pointed to her head and said, "My head hurts, it's like someone is kicking me inside." ”
Hong Dachui hurriedly said, "You bear with me, I'll go to Uncle Thirteen now." ”
Uncle Thirteen has been practicing medicine for many years and has saved countless people.
His family lives in a neighboring village, four or five miles away, with a river in between.
He had already been asleep, and suddenly heard a rapid knock on the door, and then a red pleading voice sounded, "Uncle Thirteen, please, my mother has a terrible headache." ”
Uncle Thirteen agreed, quickly dressed and got up, carried the medicine box, and followed the red blow to his house.
After looking at it and asking about it, Uncle Thirteen said slowly: "Your mother belongs to the wind salivating into the brain, and the pain is unbearable.
I can prick the acupuncture points with silver needles first to relieve her pain, and then use the medicine slowly, and her ** disease is also serious, and she needs some precious medicinal materials, otherwise, she can't alleviate the condition. ”
Hong Da gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how much it costs, you have to treat my mother, Uncle Thirteen, you just have to prescribe medicine." ”
Uncle Thirteen nodded, and took out a silver needle to prick the acupuncture points.
After a while, the mother of the red blow stopped moaning.
Uncle Thirteen picked up a pen and paper, began to write the prescription, and then handed it to Hong Da Blow.
Hong Dachui was anxious, and he didn't wait for dawn, he took the usual money and left.
When he arrived in the town, it was just dawn, he knocked on the door of the pharmacy, bought the medicine, and when he got home, he fried it for his mother.
In order to take care of his mother, he had to stop doing things for a while.
After a few months like this, it's so weird, the money ran out, and my mother's headache was cured by itself.
Hong Dachui invited the thirteenth uncle to diagnose, and the thirteenth uncle opened his mouth wide and said, "It's strange that the saliva in your mother's head has disappeared." ”
Hong Dachui also felt strange, because he had no money in his hands, and he had to borrow money to catch medicine for his mother, and his mother's headache was cured, isn't it a little weird? Hong Dachui began to earn money again, and the strange thing was that as long as he accumulated two yuan of money in his hand, his mother's illness would worsen, and until the money was spent, his mother's illness would be alleviated.
However, he still had to marry the Yellow Sparrow girl as his wife, and he had to save money, and in this way, the money was saved and used up, and when it was used up, he accumulated again, and his mother's illness was sometimes good and bad.
Time flickered to the appointed date, and that night, the yellow finch girl came to the house of the red blow, and was shocked when she saw that the courtyard was still dilapidated.
Walking into the house and seeing the scene in the house, she immediately understood and asked, "Brother, have you not saved money in the past year?" ”
Red Dachui lowered his head and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Sister Yellow Sparrow, although my fortune has changed, I still haven't saved a single penny. ”
Miss Yellow Sparrow immediately burst into tears and said, "I misread you, it turns out that you can only brag, and I don't have me in your heart at all." ”
After saying that, she walked out briskly with a red face.
Hong Da Blowing grabbed her and said, "How could I not have you?" I'm always looking forward to marrying you. ”
The yellow finch girl sobbed and asked, "Then why are you still lazy?" Why didn't you save money? Red said angrily, "Who said I was lazy? If you look at my hands, they are calloused, and I haven't stopped working. ”
He paused and said gloomily, "I did save a lot of money, but it was all spent on my mother's illness. ”
So he told the strange thing about saving money and her mother's illness, and the girl was surprised when she heard it.
After a moment, she said thoughtfully, "This thing is a little abnormal, I'll figure it out." ”
With that, she lifted the hem of her skirt and ripped off a leg hair.
The leg hair instantly turned into bird down, and she put the fluff on the palm of her hand and fiddled with it.
After a while, the yellow finch girl raised her head and said solemnly, "Your father's grave is in the wrong direction, and the head of the coffin is a little off, which causes your family's fortune to decline, and your mother's illness is the result of the decline in your fortune, and it is through your mother's illness that your family's fortune is ruined." ”
When he heard this, he was shocked and said, "Who will frame me? When digging his father's grave, he was instructed by Feng Shui Master Gongye, and it seems likely that it was him.
But why did he harm me? At this moment, the mother's shout came from the inner room, and the two went in together, and Hongdafu introduced the yellow finch girl to her mother, and the yellow finch girl took her mother's hand and greeted her with concern.
My mother's surname is Yang, and Yang said: "I heard your conversation, saying that Mr. Gongye deliberately framed my family, I thought about it, and it made sense, because I had a conflict with Mr. Gongye."
It's a shame that I never told anyone, not even your dad. ”
It turned out that about 20 years ago, on a moonlit night, after coaxing the child to sleep, he waited for her husband to come back.
Her husband went to work in the rich man's house and did not return home until late.
At this time, looking at the bright moonlight reflected on the small pond in front of the door, Yang couldn't help but recall the scene of bathing in the pond with his sisters when he was a child.
Since she got married, she has never bathed in the pond again, and she can't help but miss it a little, so she decided to secretly take a bath in the pond and reminisce about her girlhood days.
The Hong family's residence was far from the avenue, and the pond in front of the door was very small, and the willows hung down, and few people passed by at night, so Yang took off his clothes, wore only his underwear, and went down to the pond to bathe in the water under the willow branches.
was washing, suddenly there was a cough from the shore, Yang Shi was startled, looked up, only to see Gongye holding her clothes, smiling at her, and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll take a bath with you, how about it?" Yang hurriedly said: "Brother Gongye, don't be joking, my husband is coming back soon, so as not to have a misunderstanding, you put down my clothes, I'm going home." ”
Gongye smiled and said, "It's just right that Big Brother Hong is back, so I said that you asked me to watch you take a bath, sister-in-law." ”
Yang Shi said angrily: "You are so shameless, don't talk nonsense. ”
Gongye said despicably: "It's okay if you want me to return your clothes to you, but there is one condition, you have to be good with me." ”
Yang's was so angry that he scolded for a while, Gongye was not angry, and said with a wicked smile: "You scold, when Big Brother Hong comes back, you won't be able to scold, he has a short temper and will definitely beat you." ”
Gongye is right, Yang knows her husband's temper, like a cannonball, a little fire is ignited, if he sees her showing her arms and legs in front of others, he will definitely beat her up.
There is nothing to justify such a thing.
When a woman is married, she should bathe in the house in a proper manner, and who will let her bathe in the pool? It's a shame when this kind of thing is said.
Thinking of this, Yang Shi put on a smiling face and said, "Forget it, I will promise you once, but you have to return the clothes to me first, and we will go to a hidden place." ”
Gongye was very happy, and hurriedly handed Yang's clothes, and touched Yang's arm by the way, revealing his ugly appearance.
Yang hurriedly put on his clothes and ran home, shouting as he ran: "Dahua, bite this shameless man to death." ”
She has a dog named Dahua at home, who looks docile and doesn't bark when she sees people, but she listens to Yang's words the most, as long as Yang's tells her to bite, it will bite hard.
Dahua heard the order and pounced on Gongye, Gongye was so frightened that he hurriedly turned around and ran wildly, but was bitten by Dahua in many places, and the little finger on his hand was bitten off.
Hearing this, Hong Da Fu suddenly realized, it turned out that Mr. Gongye's right little finger was missing, and he had been keeping it a secret, if someone asked how it was broken, he would be angry and say that it was none of your business.
Yang continued: "After a few days, the big flower suddenly disappeared, and I suspected that the old thief of Gongye did it, but I didn't dare to find him to theorize, so I had to give up.
I thought this was over, but I didn't expect him to still hold a grudge and make trouble behind his back. ”
Hong Da said angrily: "I knew this was the case, I shouldn't have asked him to find the grave in the first place." ”
Yang Shi sighed and said, "It's hard to talk about this matter, and I can't refuse him to find a tomb." ”
Hong Da blew his neck and said, "This kind of villain hurts the heavens and harms reason, I'll teach him a lesson now." ”
The Yellow Sparrow girl quickly stopped him and said, "It's hard to judge, and if he denies it, you won't be able to prove that he's doing evil."
Don't worry, I have a way to resolve it. ”
Hongda listened to it and hurriedly asked what the solution was? "It is important for the dead to rest in peace, and of course the tomb cannot be moved, and there is only one way, which is to bury an object on the left side of the tomb," said the Yellow Bird.
As for what it is, don't ask or care, just leave it to me. ”
After saying that, the yellow finch girl left in a hurry, and did not return until dawn, saying that it had been dealt with.
That night, the two became husband and wife, and since then they have been entangled in life.
After that, Yang's illness slowly improved, and he began to do household chores.
Hong Da Chai is hardworking and willing to work, and he also began to save money.
Miss Yellow Finch asked Hong Dachui to buy a loom, spin and weave cloth at home, and the family gradually improved.
In less than two years, they renovated their house and bought a few acres of land.
The seed of that osmanthus tree also began to grow into a small tree.
On this day, Yang was watering the vegetable garden, and Hong Dachui was weeding the field.
The Yellow Finch Girl sat in the house spinning thread.
At this moment, the courtyard door was pushed open, and a group of people walked in, among which the leader was Mr. Gongye Feng Shui and a ** Taoist priest.
Originally, this Taoist priest was a traveling Taoist priest, but after coming to this place recently, he found that the Taoist environment here was good, so he stayed.
He drove out the old Taoist chief and occupied the Taoist temple.
This ** Taoist priest does not practice, and has made friends with a group of gangsters, specializing in using spells to cheat money, and people hate him very much, but they are helpless.
Mr. Gongye is friendly with the Taoist priest of **, and often uses feng shui to extort money together.
Gongye originally saw that Hong Da Chai couldn't even marry a wife, and he was secretly proud in his heart, but he found that Hong Da Fu's fate had changed recently, not only did he live a prosperous life, but he also married a beautiful wife.
So he began to inquire about the woman's identity and origin, but found that people knew nothing about her.
He began to suspect that her origin was abnormal, so he summoned the Taoist priest of ** to investigate.
Although this ** Taoist priest has good skills, he can see at a glance that this woman is the changing figure of the yellow finch.
So, the two of them agreed to get rid of the Yellow Sparrow.
They sent people to guard the neighborhood and secretly monitor the family's movements, and it happened that Miss Yellow Bird was home alone today, so after receiving the news, they came to Hong's house with a group of people.
Several of the attendants took the blood stains they had prepared in advance and threw them at the Yellow Sparrow Girl.
Taking advantage of the confusion of the yellow finch girl, Gongye took out the rune paper and stuck it on her forehead, and the Taoist priest of ** began to recite the incantation.
The Yellow Finch screamed twice and eventually turned into a Yellow Sparrow.
The abominable Gongye happily trampled it to death.
Yang found a few strangers standing in the yard and hurried home.
Just when she saw the scene of the yellow finch being trampled to death, she cried loudly: "Someone killed our people!" People in the neighborhood heard the cries for help and rushed to watch.
Hong Da Chui also heard the shouting, and hurried home with a hoe in his hand.
Gongye picked up the leg of the yellow finch and said proudly to the onlookers: "Her daughter-in-law is not a human, but a transformation of a yellow finch fairy."
Let's get rid of this youkai so that it doesn't cause trouble for everyone in the future. ”
Yang Shi rushed forward and grabbed Gongye's sleeve and angrily scolded him for being ruthless, but was pushed away by Gongye.
At this moment, Hong Dabui arrived, picked up the hoe and prepared to fight them, but was stopped by the onlookers and took the hoe.
He rushed forward to retrieve the body of the Yellow Sparrow, and began to cry out, crying and crying, "Poor wife! Gongye took the ** Taoist priest and they left.
There was a teacher in the crowd of onlookers, and Hong Dachui knelt in front of him and asked him to write a petition to go to the county government to sue Gongye and the Taoist priest's wife.
Mr. Teaching picked up the red blow and said, "Alas, although I am willing to help you write, they just trampled a yellow finch to death, and you claim to be your wife, this matter is too weird, and the county magistrate will not accept this case." ”
Under the persuasion of everyone, Hong Dachai had no choice but to give up the idea of filing a complaint and buried Huang Que's body behind the house.
At night, he sat in the house and wept incessantly, blaming himself for not protecting his wife.
In the middle of the night, Red Blowing fell asleep in a daze, and suddenly, he saw the Yellow Finch Girl enter the room.
He stood up excitedly, trying to take the Yellow Finch into his arms, but only to hug a handful of air.
The Yellow Sparrow girl spoke, "I have turned into a soul, and as a cultivator, the soul can still practice, but it cannot be reduced to a human form. ”
Hong Da Chai hurriedly confided his thoughts to Miss Yellow Sparrow, and Miss Yellow Finch said: "Your relationship with me is over, don't be too sad, you can marry another wife."
I have come today to expose the evil deeds of Gongye and the evil Taoists, and you should immediately go to the county office to report the case. ”
It turned out that the evil Taoist priest was not a good person, and he used magic to deceive two women from good families, imprisoning them in the secret room of the Taoist temple for his own pleasure.
Now, Gongye got rid of the Yellow Sparrow girl, and several people set up a banquet, took the two women out of the company, and raised a glass to drink until dawn.
It is because of the Yellow Sparrow's transformation into a soul that she is able to travel freely, thus exposing the ugly deeds of these wicked people.
When Hong Da heard this, he was very excited and quickly woke up.
He quickly tidied up and immediately ran to the county office.
When he arrived at the county office, the sky was light, and he did not dare to slack off after hearing the news, and went to the back office to ask the county order for instructions, and the county order ordered a large number of additional subordinates to go to the Taoist temple to search.
The head catcher led the team of horses and horses to the Taoist temple.
At this time, Gongye and the evil Taoist priest and others had already fallen asleep drunk.
When they woke up, they firmly denied it, but the hunters conducted a thorough search of the temple.
At that moment, a woman's figure flashed and entered one of the rooms.
Red Dachui suddenly realized that the woman was very much like the Yellow Finch Girl, so he followed him into the room as well, but saw the woman shuttle through the wall.
The catcher had doubts, and immediately ordered the catcher to bring a hammer and knock on the wall, and finally found the place where the woman was haunted, which turned out to be empty, so he ordered to smash the wall and reveal a dark room in which two women were imprisoned.
Red Twig suddenly understood that it was the spirit of the Yellow Sparrow Girl, and she lured them in and revealed the secrets of the secret room.
These people were arrested and taken to the county office, and the county order was sent to the hall for interrogation, and the first person to come was the evil Taoist.
When questioned, the evil Taoist priest flatly denied it, and the county ordered him to be tortured.
The Catchers first doused the evil Taoist with blood, broke his spells, and then tortured him.
At this time, the evil Taoist priest had no magic to rely on and could not withstand torture, so he finally confessed to all his crimes, including the evil deeds of killing the Yellow Sparrow girl.
Then Gongye was taken to court, and he also stubbornly refused to admit it.
The county commander was furious and ordered severe torture.
Gongye couldn't stand the torture, and finally confessed everything.
Unexpectedly, he also turned himself in to an early unjust case, which made Hong Dachui grief-stricken.
It turned out that since the dog bit Gongye, he held a grudge and secretly poisoned Dahua to death.
However, he did not let go, and kept thinking about how to put the man surnamed Hong to death.
After years, he finally found his chance.
On that day, a family held a funeral and asked Gongye to find a grave.
It just so happened that the man surnamed Hong participated in the carrying of the coffin, and they sat at the same table for dinner in the evening.
Gongye deliberately chose a seat next to the man surnamed Hong and drank with him.
When the man surnamed Hong picked up the dish, Gongye took the opportunity to quietly poison his wine glass.
Since he practiced this technique specifically, his movements were extremely fast.
This poison is colorless and odorless, and is capable of damaging the internal organs of the human body.
The next day, when the man surnamed Hong was exerting his strength to carry the coffin, he drank wine again at noon, and the poison quickly entered his body.
A few days later, he fell ill and died soon after.
Hong Da Chai was shocked, like a lightning strike, never thought that his father would be killed by Gongye.
If Gongye hadn't admitted it himself, how would he have learned the truth? After listening to her son's narration, Yang felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and the secret bath many years ago actually caused her family to pay such a painful price.
Not only did the family dog die, but her husband also died, and she herself suffered from illness for more than ten years, and even her son could not get married.
There is no more vicious person in this world than Gongye.
Soon after, both Gongye and ** Taoist priests were sentenced to death, and the nightmare crime was duly punished.
In another two years, Hong Dachui got married and had children, and an osmanthus tree in the family grew bigger and bigger, and the fortune gradually improved, and the family lived a happy life ever since.
It's just that he still can't understand why he wants to learn to howl wolves on a full moon night? What's the secret? This is karma, and no one can escape it.
Those who do good will be rewarded, but those who do evil will not escape their responsibility.
Be frank and tolerant, and even if you encounter contradictions, you must turn hostility into friendship and do not retaliate.
Otherwise, it will only get narrower and narrower, and it will be difficult to turn back.