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Tiaoxi, Zhejiang, because there are many flowers on both sides, its white as snow, so it is called Tiaoxi, during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, there is one more monk in a temple on the side of Tiaoxi, his people are humorous and funny, talk elegantly, just don't mention a word about the past, everyone thinks he is very mysterious, but every year when the flowers bloom, there is a boatman couple will come to visit him.
When the flowers bloomed in the tenth year of Daoguang, the boatman and his wife came to visit the monk again, and the monks in the temple invited the two to drink tea and chat under the banyan tree in the temple, only to know that the story of the monk and the boatman was so bizarre and twisty.
This and Yin, originally from Suzhou, had previously been a harlequin in the troupe. In his early years, he participated in a famous opera troupe in Oujiang. The people in this troupe are very good at martial arts, and they often use real swords and guns to fight against each other when acting.
On one occasion, the troupe's boat stopped at a lake that was so remote that only one boat carrying passengers was moored nearby. In the middle of the night, the passenger ship was suddenly robbed by bandits, and the owner shouted for help.
In the troupe, he wanted to push that little student with the highest martial arts, first carrying a steel fork, jumping onto the passenger boat, and the others followed. They fought bravely with the robbers, the robbers were small in number, they could not beat the troupe, they were all wounded, one of the robbers was hit by a fork, almost to the fork killed, the robbers next to him hurriedly snatched him, and fled on his back. And the steel fork was also taken away by the robbers, and the people in the troupe didn't mind missing a steel fork.
After a long time, this troupe was performing in a township in eastern Zhejiang, when three people hired them to perform a social play, and agreed to perform for five days and five nights, the price was twice as high as usual, and they paid a hundred taels of silver in advance.
Because the place is remote and the road is far away, the class owner was a little reluctant at first; But seeing that the remuneration was very high, he still agreed in the end, after all, no one wants to get along with money.
Of the three people who came to hire, two went back first, leaving one to lead the way for the troupe. According to the agreed time, the troupe arrived at the place of the performance on time, it turned out to be a small village by the sea, with only dozens of residents, all of which were thatched houses, scattered everywhere.
There is no market in the village, only a wooden bridge, which is the only way in and out of the village.
The stage was set up in front of the village temple, which was small and dilapidated, and could not accommodate the entire troupe, so they had to live in the homes of each resident. They performed day and night until the fifth day, and when the night was over, they packed up and went back.
Before midnight, Hua Mian and Hua Dan had no more play, returned to the boarding house, prepared to sleep, and left the village tomorrow. The family was still watching the play and did not come back, only one woman stayed at home.
This woman is very attractive, and when she sees the two, she does not avoid it. One of them is Hua Dan, who looks very standard, and the other has a flower face, and they talk very funny, so they borrowed some reasons to talk to her and say some amorous things to tease her. The woman didn't seem to mind, and she didn't look angry.
The two of them became much bolder, and crept into her room, trying to tease her; Unexpectedly, the woman suddenly said solemnly: "Your death is just around the corner, do you still want to mess around with me?" ”
The two were taken aback and asked her what was the matter.
The woman said: "In a certain year and month, the boat of your troupe was moored by a lake somewhere, but there is such a thing?" ”
The two of them thought for a moment and replied, "There is indeed such a thing. ”
The beauty asked again: "That night, the neighboring ship was robbed by thieves, and all the people in your troupe went to the rescue, but is there such a thing?" ”
Both nodded and replied, "Yes." ”
You crossed a robber, didn't you? ”
Yes. The beauty then asked, "What did you lose in your class?" ”
The two couldn't answer, and later Hua Dan recalled: "It seems that a steel fork was lost and taken away by thieves." ”
The beautiful woman heard this and said, "The lives of you people have been cut off by this steel fork!" ”
The two were shocked and suspicious, not understanding what she meant.
The beautiful woman lowered her voice and told them, "All the people in the village here are robbers, and there is not a single good citizen. I was the daughter of a fisherman, and I was taken captive by them, and I was humiliated and had to live here with them. My parents didn't know I went, and I had no way to escape.
I often heard the robbers talk about the time when they robbed the lake and killed a companion by the troupe, and the steel fork had the name of the troupe engraved on it. They searched everywhere, but your troupe often acted in the city, and there was no way to take revenge, so they lured you here at a high price.
Now the sulphur smoke has been laid under the stage, and when your play is about to be finished, you will set a fire and burn the whole class to ashes. Even if someone could escape, the wooden bridge had been torn down, and there was no way out. I want to save the two of you because I hope that after you escape, I will send a letter to my father, so I will not avoid the suspicion of men and women, and come to meet you in the middle of the night. ”
After saying that, she led them to a high place, looked at the stage, and saw that each of them had already picked up a torch in his hand.
The two were so frightened that they were scattered, and the six gods had no owner, begging the beauty for help. The beautiful woman said: "The wooden bridge is being erected on the big river, and now the bridge has been broken down, and you can only swim through." When you had crossed the river, you walked thirty miles east along the bank of the river, and there was a fishing hut where lived an old man who was blind in one eye, and that was my father. I ask you to ask him to come here in a small boat, and pretend to fish by the bridge at night, so that I may take advantage of the opportunity to get on the boat and go home.
But now that I let you go, the robbers will surely question me. Yesterday, I watched the "Thousand Miles of Horses" you played, and I was stunned, and I thought I could do the same. Bound me in the room with ropes, and they will not suspect that I let you go. ”
Qianliju is the name of the opera, the content is roughly the minister Liu Tinghe, when he was young, he took an old servant to the north to catch the exam, and imprisoned the evil monk in Tai'an Mansion, fortunately a woman Zhang Jifang let their master and servant go, and asked the old servant to ** her in the house, in order to escape the suspicion of indulgence.
They followed the girl's plan, bound her up, and fled quickly.
When they reached the river, the wooden bridge had been torn down, and they consulted with each other, saying, "We are not good at swimming, but it is better to drown than to burn alive." ”
They were in a hurry, when they suddenly saw a big ship sailing towards them, and they hurriedly jumped into the water and shouted for help.
The men of the big ship dismounted the sails, rescued them, and sent them to the opposite shore before sailing away. They walked east overnight, and it dawned when they met the fisherman, who was blind in one eye, and told him all about what had happened.
The fisherman said bitterly: "These people are the henchmen of the pirate Cai Lian, there are many of them, and we can't fight them." I found a chance to save my daughter and moved somewhere else. ”
The fisherman invited them to eat some brown rice before they parted.
Because they were in a hurry, the two were penniless, and they could only beg for a living along the way, and one day, they met a servant of the government, who knew Hua Dan before, so he took him there, gave him his clothes to wear, and recommended them to his master. The master took Hua Dan and saw that he had some knowledge, so he reused him. Hua Mian also relied on the help of this master to survive.
Later, Hua Dan sent his master back to the north by boat, only to see this boatman with his family, and Hua Dan saw that this boatman was the one-eyed fisherman. Surprised, he asked him about the situation, and the fisherman said: "That group of robbers was chased by Li Changgeng's sailors and fled to the sea in a hurry. Only my daughter and a deaf old woman remained in the village. I went to look for fish under the pretense of selling fish, and sure enough, I met my daughter. So he made a secret appointment with her and escaped on the boat at night. As she was leaving, she took some of the robbers' money. So our family went down the river. Then he abandoned the boat and landed, went to western Zhejiang, bought another inland river boat, and changed his career to become a boatman. ”
They were all the rest of their lives, and they never imagined that they would meet again in a foreign land, and the father and daughter were very happy when they talked about the past. The fisherman recruited Hua Dan to be his son-in-law.
Since that crisis, Hua Mian didn't want to act anymore, so he made peace here.
The story comes from the famous Qing Dynasty scholar Lan Dingyuan's "Min Qiuxuan Narrative", in which the author describes the righteousness and courage of folk artists, the cruelty of bandits and the wit of fishermen girls very vividly.
During this period, during the Jiaqing period, Li Changgeng, the commander of the navy, and the pirates of the pirate Cai Lian had a six-year battle, and the two sides fought from the sixth year of Jiaqing to the twelfth year of Jiaqing, until Cai Xian was driven to Annam (Vietnam) to give up, but when he won a complete victory, Li Changgeng was killed by a cannonball and died in his duties.
This story can be described as bizarre twists and turns, full of suspense and thrills, the troupe rescued the boatman, but because of a steel fork with a name to expose the identity, the robbers chose a very cruel way of revenge, wanting to kill everyone in the troupe, fortunately at this time was rescued by the robbed fisherman, on the one hand, he saved the two within his ability, on the other hand, he also allowed himself to escape from the bandits' nest, the fisherman girl had no way to save the two, but because she was inspired by the story in the opera and found inspiration, the story is interlocking, ups and downs, Every desperate situation can be bright, just more than 2,000 words, reading is unfinished.
A steel fork leads to a legendary story with twists and turns, and after reading it, I can only sigh that life is like a play, and the play is like life.