During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Hanlin named Gao Baoshan who returned to his hometown in Gaojiazhuang, Henan Province, and Gao Baoshan was a noble person and was very respected by the locals. He had a son named Gao Zan, who married his wife Ponzi. Gao Zan and his wife have been married for several years, and the wife is not pregnant, and the family is very anxious about it.
One day, Gao Zan's distant cousin Yan Rulong came to visit. When Yan Rulong learned about the troubles of Gao Zan's family, he said to Gao Zan excitedly: "Cousin, your brother and sister and I have also been married for three years, and my brother and sister's stomach has not moved at all, so we are so worried that we don't think about tea and dinner." Until one day I met a barefoot Langzhong to give us a home remedy, and my brother and sister boiled and drank it twice, so why don't you give it a try? ”
After hearing this, Gao Zan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Cousin, you might as well say it quickly, and the right to be a dead horse is a live horse doctor." Yan Rulong then wrote the home remedies to Gao Zan. Coincidentally, Ponzi drank it twice and soon became pregnant. Gao Zan was as happy as a child, and soon came to thank his cousin with a generous gift.
The two cousins staggered, drank and talked happily, and after drinking, on a whim, they talked about their respective daughters-in-law and the little life in the daughter-in-law's belly. Yan Rulong's wife was pregnant a month earlier than Gao Zan's wife. They agreed that if both families had boys, they would be married as brothers with different surnames; If two girls are born, let them marry as sisters with different surnames; If a boy and a girl are born, let them marry as doles.
Conceived in October and delivered in one day. A few months later, the little lives of the two families fell to the ground one after another, the Yan family gave birth to a girl, named Yan Hongyu, and the Gao family gave birth to a boy, named Gao Xi.
A few years later, Gao Baoshan died of illness, and before his death, Gao Baoshan was afraid that his children and grandchildren would be burdened by money, so he scattered all his savings worth 1,000 taels to the poor children of the Gao family. Who would have thought that less than two years after Gao Baoshan's death, the Gao family's court became increasingly cold, and Yan Rulong rarely walked around the Gao family under the pretext that his parents were old and his wife was frail and sick.
Gao Zan felt the heat and coldness of the world, often sighed, borrowed wine to kill his sorrows, a year later, Gao Zan became depressed and became ill, and died a whimper. As a result, Gao Zan died, Gao Xi went to Yan's house to visit Yan Rulong, and when he mentioned when he and Miss Yan's marriage would be held, Yan Rulong was cheeky, and he actually relied on the marriage and no longer recognized the relationship between the two families.
Yan Hongyu and Gao Xi knew each other and loved each other, Yan Hongyu saw that her father disregarded her feelings and righteousness, hated the poor and loved the rich, and cried for a while. Yan Rulong was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he privately married his daughter Yan Hongyu to the rich and powerful family in the local town - Cao Peng, the eldest young master of the Cao family, known as Cao Dashao.
Young Master Cao didn't like to read since he was a child, but was keen on dancing guns and sticks, Cao Shuiwang's father Cao Shuiwang found a martial artist to teach his son to practice martial arts, Cao Dashao also learned seriously, a few years later, his skills were quite good, at the age of seventeen, he was admitted to Wu Xiucai, and opened a Huwei Dart Bureau with the help of his father Cao Shuiwang.
Yan Rulong admired the great cause of the Cao family, regardless of the fact that he had already made a family affair with the Gao family, so he asked a matchmaker to go to the Cao family to say that he was making peace.
Soon, the Cao family gave a dowry, and the two families chose an auspicious day for Mr. Wang, and the Cao family blew and beat to marry Yan Hongyu to the family. Although Yan Hongyu was reluctant, in the face of her father's coercion, she had to face the reality and marry Na Cao Dashao against her will.
In the early days of the marriage, Cao Dashao was not bad to Yan Hongyu, he knew her cold and hot, and obeyed Yan Hongyu in everything. Who knows, after Cao Dashao got married and protected the jeweler's dart several times, he became obsessed with the addiction of making a fortune, Cao Dashao closed the dart game and started a jewelry business. Cao Dashao is not very old, he is quite smart in business, and in a year, the business is booming, as the business grows bigger day by day, Cao Dashao's mood has gradually changed a lot, and he no longer has a soft spot for Yan Hongyu, and he married two aunts.
The two aunts are not only young and beautiful, but also charming and understanding. With a charming aunt wife, Cao Dashao still took the unsmiling Yan Hongyu to heart, and took pity on Yan Hongyu Shui Lingling with a flower, and kept the empty house alone after less than two years of marriage. Gradually, Yan Hongyu was full of resentment and sad songs, and then she was unwilling.
The long nights were long, and she couldn't sleep alone, Yan Hongyu naturally remembered Gao Xi who had not yet married and started a family. The next day, Yan Hongyu wrote a letter of affection to Gao Xi, and asked Gao Xi to come to the private meeting quietly, and after writing the letter, she asked her personal maid Lanlan to secretly send the sealed letter to Gao's house.
After Gao Xi read the letter, he suddenly had mixed feelings, he was actually still thinking about Yan Hongyu in his heart, knowing that she married that Cao Dashao involuntarily. Gao Xi is just cold-hearted, Yan Rulong dislikes the poor and loves the rich, loves to climb high branches, and falls behind in the Gao family's road, and even disregards the love of the two families and gets married.
Every time I think of this, Gao Xi is sad. Now that he learned that Yan Hongyu's marriage was not happy, Gao Xi thought about it for a long time, so he decided to take advantage of Cao Dashao and his aunt's wife often living in a jewelry store, and at night, he sneaked to Cao's house to start a tryst with Yan Hongyu.
As the saying goes: butterfly insects also have a shadow in the past. Once, Gao Xi and Yan Hongyu had a private meeting, but they were bumped into by Cao Dashao's father Cao Shuiwang.
Cao Dashao opened a shop in the past two years to do jewelry business can be described as wealth, but the family has been in trouble one after another, first Cao Dashao's mother Sun has just passed the age of confusion, suddenly suffered a stroke, bedridden, less than a year, his father Cao Shuiwang suffered from eye disease again, blind in one eye, and the other eye can only see one.
Four or five meters away, the Cao family's house slaves secretly called him the one-eyed dragon behind his back.
In the middle of the night that night, when the bright moon was shining and the rooster crowed twice, Cao Shuiwang suddenly had a stomach, he went out of the thatched house with his pants, and before he walked to the thatched house, Cao Shuiwang was hazy, and suddenly saw a person from his daughter-in-law Yan Hongyu's room, and the person probably also saw him, and hurriedly fled over the wall. Cao Shuiwang immediately understood, his head buzzed, and the fire in his heart went straight up, almost burning his head.
Cao Shuiwang couldn't take care of going to the thatched house, the wind under his feet, and went straight to his daughter-in-law's room, he slammed the door, and scolded Yan Hongyu for not abiding by women's morals, of course Yan Hongyu would not admit it. He called the house slave to scold Yan Hongyu, and when he left, he also asked the house slave to use a rope to hang Yan Hongyu to the beam of the house.
The maid Lanlan was so frightened that she cried, and kept pleading for Yan Hongyu, saying that her young lady was innocent, and no one else came in except for her and Miss Yan sleeping in the room, however, Cao Shuiwang** would believe it.
As soon as the morning dawned, the maid Lanlan secretly left the Cao family's compound and went straight to Gao's house, told Gao Xi about it, and asked him to try to rescue Miss Yan Hongyu.
Gao Xi listened, his face suddenly turned pale, and he had no idea for a while. As a weak scholar, coupled with the fact that the Gao family has no money and no power, why should he save people?Gao Xi kept beating his chest, pulling his hair, scolding himself for being useless, and he couldn't even save the woman he loved.
At this moment, an old monk came to the door of the Gao family. Although the old monk was thin, his eyes were bright, and when he saw Gao Xi, he folded his hands and said, "Donor, give me something to eat." ”
Gao Xi was in a very low mood at this time, and he looked a little embarrassed, but he still walked into the house, took a few steamed buns for the old monk, and brought a bowl of tea. The old monk may have been thirsty and hungry, and after three times and five divided by two, a few steamed buns and a bowl of tea were eaten and drunk. When Gao Xi was about to go to get the steamed buns again, he was stopped by the old monk and said, "Thank you, the poor monk has eaten and drunk enough." ”
Lan Lan looked at Gao Xi anxiously and said, "Please think of a way to save my young lady as soon as possible, I have to go back quickly." With that, Lan Lan turned around and walked away.
Gao Xi shouted at Lan Lan's departing back: "I will find a way to save Miss as soon as possible at any cost." After Lan Lan left, Gao Xi couldn't help but scratch her ears and cheeks again. Seeing this, the old monk asked, "Donor, seeing that you are so distressed, what is the matter?" ”
Gao Xi hesitated for a moment, and then they were childhood sweethearts, and they were separated after they were married, he had a tryst with Yan Hongyu late at night, and when he left, he seemed to be discovered by Cao Shuiwang, Cao Shuiwang suspected that his daughter-in-law had something wrong, and then said something about the situation of beating her.
After listening to this, the old monk smiled slightly and said: "The poor monk is a nosy person, uneven things, interesting things, bumped into the hands of the poor monk, there is no care, not to mention that the donor has the grace of giving me today, and the poor monk has a way to save the young lady in trouble." ”
The old monk then asked Gao Xi to get a flower snake, and explained it like this, Gao Xi couldn't help but turn into joy when he heard it, and couldn't help but be happy.
At dusk that day, the sunset sprinkled on a street in front of the Cao family's compound, and the old monk knocked on the wooden fish and walked slowly from east to west. When he walked outside the red lacquer gate of the Cao family's compound, the old monk stopped, only to see him bow his head and knock on the wooden fish rhythmically, "Bangbangbang......”
Soon, the door finally opened a crack, "Here you go!" With a shout, a man who looked like a house slave casually threw out a few copper coins and scattered them on the ground. The old monk did not pick up the money, but took a few steps back and shouted "Amitabha, Amitabha".
The slave didn't know what was going on, so he was stunned for a moment and said, "You monk, aren't you here to make a fortune?" Pick up the copper coin and hurry up. ”
The old monk did not answer, he folded his hands, his eyes were slightly closed, and continued to call the Buddha's name: "Amitabha, sin, sin!" After saying that, the old monk raised his head, turned around and knocked on the wooden fish, and staggered away.
Elder**, please stay! Cao Shuiwang panted and chased after him. He took out some broken silver from his arms, held it in front of the old monk with both hands, and said: "Old **, this is a little bit of the mind of the layman**, please smile." The old monk let out a long sigh and did not reach out to take it. Cao Shuiwang immediately understood, he was ruthless, and took out a piece of silver from his arms and handed it to the old monk.
The old monk smiled bitterly and said: "Old benefactor, your mind is received by the poor monk for the Buddha's heart, but the living can't receive money from the dead!."The old monk said, lowered his head, raised his feet and was about to leave. Cao Shuiwang grabbed the old monk's robe and asked with a look of surprise, "Why did the master say this?"Please be explicit. ”。
The old monk knew that if he didn't say that he was ugly now, he might not be able to get out. He sighed again: "Let's go, let's go, let's go, the poor monk won't hide it, I'll tell you the truth!"At this time, the old monk was already surrounded by a circle of people watching the excitement. He glanced at the group of people around him and whispered to Cao Shuiwang, "Donor, this is not a place to talk. ”
Cao Shuiwang suddenly woke up, he patted his head, led the way in front of his head, and led the old monk to the living room in the front yard of his home. A young man hurriedly served tea. The old monk took the teacup, took a sip, and said mysteriously: "Rong Poor Monk is blunt, the compound of your mansion is very demonic, this is a bad omen, within three days, there will be a catastrophe!."”
Cao Shuiwang seemed to have been poured cold water on the tenth winter wax moon, and suddenly got goosebumps, and he said tremblingly: "Please tell the master directly!."”
The old monk straightened up, walked out of the living room, walked from the front yard of the Cao family's compound to the backyard, and carefully examined it. The old monk suddenly pointed to Yan Hongyu's living room in the backyard and said: "The demonic qi comes from this room, to get rid of the demonic energy, you have to clean up this living room, donor, I don't know what this room is for?"”
Cao Shuiwang pondered for a moment, and said, "This room is where the son and daughter-in-law Yan live. ”
The old monk shook his head vigorously and said: "The roof is full of yin qi, and I haven't seen a trace of yang, the person who lives there must be a very good woman, and she is currently trapped by demonic energy, why should the donor lie to me?"”
Cao Shuiwang's heart couldn't help jumping a few times, and he secretly thought: "This old monk is really a god. So he told the truth. The old monk pondered for a moment and said, "Old donor, the poor monk has something to ask for ......”
Cao Shuiwang said angrily: "Master, but it doesn't hurt to say, I have everything I need." ”
The poor monk's cultivation skills are not enough, far from cultivating to the situation of knowing things next door, please ask the donor to invite his daughter-in-law Yan to the living room, let the poor monk check it, and see who is the monster who sleeps her, so the poor monk can get rid of the demonic energy. ”
Cao Shuiwang agreed, and immediately ordered two female slaves to untie Yan Hongyu from the beams of the house, mask their faces with red veils, and carry Yan Hongyu back and forth from the living room. The old monk nodded lightly and explained this to Cao Shuiwang, and Cao Shuiwang immediately ordered the house slaves to go and handle it separately.
Late that night, when the drums were beating the third watch, Yan Hongyu's apartment stood by the window outside the old monk, Cao Shuiwang and a burly Biao-shaped house slave. Yan Hongyu, who was dressed in a silk cheongsam, stared at the ceiling with her eyes, slapped her slap three times, and the ceiling cracked a crack, a puff of green smoke came out of the crack, and a snake's head the size of a fist stretched out for a moment. With a "poof", the candles in the room went out, and the room was dark.
After a while, a man's voice came from the room: "Sister Hongyu, where did you get such a big popularity?" This was followed by a few twitching noses: "Puff puff, no, there must be someone watching us, I'll go out and take a look." ”
Cao Shuiwang and the biao-shaped house slave were so frightened that their legs and stomachs kept trembling at this time, and the old monk immediately snatched the bamboo pole and a wine jar in the hands of the biao-shaped house slave, and went straight into Yan Hongyu's living room.
You, who the hell are you, this monk? ”
Hey, hey, hey, Brother Snake Fairy is so forgetful, have you even forgotten the Fuji Monk of Qifeng Temple? ”
Oh, it's you! You traveled to Yuntai Mountain three years ago, passed by Xiaoxian's territory, and was blocked by my apprentices, and fought for several rounds, how can you forget it, but I don't know why the monk came here? ”
The poor monk for the rebuilding of the Qifeng temple, the fate of the here, thanks to the benefactor's love, stay overnight and give wine, the poor monk does not dare to enjoy it alone, want to invite the flower fairy to taste a few bites, I don't know if you are willing to appreciate the face? ”
Hahaha, there is a way that life is like a dream, when the wine is a song, and the beauty is accompanied by good wine, it is no better, the monk please! ”
Brother Snake Fairy, please! ”
I didn't see anyone, I only heard the sound of clinking glasses, and I only drank until the rooster reported that it was dawning. Before leaving, the old monk gave the snake fairy a bamboo pole. The drunken snake fairy used a bamboo pole as a staff, walked out of the red lacquered gate of the Cao family in one step, and disappeared into the night.
As soon as the morning dawned, Cao Shuiwang, the old monk and the biao-shaped house slave followed the path indicated by the bamboo pole that had been opened up and filled with white ash, and found a stone bridge in the south of Gaojiazhuang, under which was stuck a fist-thick green snake. Cao Shuiwang knew that it was the snake demon who was making a mistake, and he was wrong to blame his daughter-in-law.
Cao Shuiwang had the courage to pull the flower snake out, and then with all his strength, he stomped on the snake's head, and the flower snake whimpered. They returned to the Cao family compound, and Cao Shuiwang hurriedly let his daughter-in-law Yan Hongyu go, and Yan Hongyu was saved from then on.
Cao Shuiwang took out a silver ingot to thank the old monk, and the old monk waved his hand and said, "The poor monk came to turn his fortune into a small favor, and he didn't want your silver taels." The poor monk still has something to tell you, your daughter-in-law has been defiled by the snake demon, and she is already an impure person, if she continues to stay in your house, I am afraid that it will be humiliated. ”
When Cao Shuiwang heard this, he suddenly chuckled in his heart, and asked the house slave to call back his son Cao Dashao for a consultation. Since Cao Dashao married his aunt's wife, he has lost his freshness to Yan Hongyu, and his feelings for her have long been indifferent.
Yan Rulong saw that his daughter was taken to the house by the Cao family, and he was so angry that he scolded that Cao Dashao, regretting that he had killed his daughter for life in order to climb the high branches of the Cao family.
A few days later, Gao Xi entrusted a matchmaker to the Yan family to propose marriage, Yan Rulong saw that the Gao family ignored the past suspicions, and immediately had mixed feelings, and agreed without even thinking about it. After choosing an auspicious day, Yan Rulong prepared a thick dowry for his daughter Yan Hongyu, and Gao liked to marry Yan Hongyu to his home.
On the night of the candle in the cave room, the two looked at each other and smiled, Gao Xi looked at Yan Hongyu who was flushed, and said excitedly: "We can have this happy moment tonight, I really have to thank the monk ** for his plan." ”
It turned out that the flower green snake was bought by the old monk Gao Xi for a few copper coins in the market town. There are no snake fairies or snake demons, they are all old monks acting, so that Yan Ruyu can break away from the Cao family, and Gao Xi and Yan Hongyu are lovers and finally become married.
After the newlywed, Gao Xi read a lot of books and studied poetry assiduously. Two years later, Gao Xi went to the capital to catch the exam, and in one fell swoop, he was in the gold list of high schools, and the Gao family was full of people for a while, so it was not lively.