Folk Tales (Tohoku Past Events)

When Zhang Zuolin was young, his father was addicted to gambling, and Zhang Zuolin was fascinated by it and soaked in the casino all day. Later, his father was beaten to death by gamblers for gambling debts, and his mother was forced to remarry, leaving him and his brother behind. Soon, his brother went to someone else's house and became a son-in-law. Zhang Zuolin is a person, but no one cares, day and night in the casino fooling around.

On this day, Zhang Zuolin came out of the casino and did not close his eyes for two days and two nights. He walked aimlessly down the street, with no intention of returning to the home where the thief did not patronize. He staggered down the avenue, climbed up the hill, arched his body into a thatched tree more than a man's depth, and fell asleep. I don't know how long I slept, when I was suddenly awakened by a woman's cry for help. As soon as he got excited, he sat up and saw a man not far from him trying to rape a woman. He touched the stone and hit the back of the gangster's head. The man screamed, rolled off the woman, covered the back of his head, and fled in a hurry. The woman got up and knelt on the ground, knocked her head on the grass tree, and cried, "Benefactor, thank you for saving your life, please come out and be worshipped in person?" But the woman knelt for a long time, but Zhang Zuolin was silent in the grass. The woman was anxious and said, "Benefactor, if you don't show your face again, I will die on my knees here?" Zhang Zuolin was helpless, so he had to come out of the grass and tree and said, "Please get up, please get up?" Zhang Zuolin wanted to go forward to help the woman, but when he thought about it, his clothes and pants were exposed and he stopped again. The woman knocked her head a few more times before standing up.

Before Zhang Zuolin met, this woman turned out to be a god-like big girl, and she couldn't help but be dumbfounded. The girl blushed.

With shame. Seeing that this young man, who looked two or three years older than herself, was ragged, but solid and chivalrous, she tentatively asked: "Why doesn't Big Brother go home and sleep in the grass?" Zhang Zuolin said: "Where can I sleep alone?" The girl was happy, and secretly decided to commit: "Big brother, save people to the end, a little woman has just been frightened, her clothes are torn, can you go home with your big brother to rest?" Zhang Zuolin thought that this help really couldn't help, so he said: "Flower room-like home, how can you go?" The girl replied, "I don't think so." Zhang Zuolin was silent, turned around and carried the girl home.

The two nagged endlessly along the way. The girl said that her name was Lan'er and she lived in Gaokan'er. She was originally from a good family and a rich man, but then her father gambled, not only the house and the land lost, but also angered her mother, and finally her daughter lost to others. Lan Er heard that she fled to her aunt's house with her baggage, but she did not communicate for many years, and her aunt moved to Fengtian. She had no choice but to go back. On the way, she thought that if her father insisted on selling his daughter, she would die. Who knew that halfway through the encounter with the evil people to commit violence, thanks to Zhang Zuolin...

Zhang Zuolin listened, and his heart was not a taste. When he got home, he smiled and said, "Sister Lan, I don't tell you the truth, my family is poor, single life can't take care of itself, how to entertain you this fairy?" Lan Er said, "My family is in difficulty, as you can see from your clothes, I might as well do it." People must have ambition and be willing to work hard, and they will live a good life. Isn't Lan Er the kind of woman who hates the poor and loves the rich? "How smart is Zhang Zuolin?" She said in her heart, look at this posture. Is she going to be my daughter-in-law?

Two people entered the village. Turning over a vegetable field, Zhang Zuolin pointed with his finger: "Sister Lan, it is a shame to damage your home." Lan Er looked at the crooked adobe house, there was no wall, no obstacles, and thought, this really doesn't look like a living family, but he said, "I don't think so?" Zhang Zuolin saw her saying this, so he had to push open the door and let Lan Er enter the house. Lan Er was tired and sat on the kangtou with only half a seat. Zhang Zuolin knew that there was no food at home, and with a red face, he said to Lan Er with embarrassment: "Sister Lan, you sit down, I will come back when I go." "Just go out when you're done." Lan Er's heart was like a mirror, busy blocking: "Brother Zhang, I still have a few fires, you go to boil some water, let's make up for it first, right?" Zhang Zuolin replied with a smile: "To tell the truth, I don't often live at home, and there is nothing to boil water, so I will go to Niu's house to get some." Lan Er stopped him again and said, "Don't leave, just deal with it?" Zhang Zuolin was also hungry. Seeing lan er treating himself sincerely, he was not polite. He picked up the fire and devoured it. Five burned the fire, Lan Er did not burn one, Zhang Zuolin swallowed four. Lan Er wondered while eating, such a chivalrous teenager, why did he make the family so miserable? She asked, "Brother Zhang, what do you make a living from?" You live alone, why did you make your home like this? Zhang Zuolin thought to himself, anyway, he also saw it, so he simply told the truth: "Sister Lan, my brother is worthless in the casino?" Lan Er listened, not right, the remaining half of the fire in his hand "snapped" and fell to the ground, his face pale. Her heart is suddenly turned upside down, she hates fate, runs away from her gambling father, and meets another gambler? The more Lan Er thought about it, the more upset she became, and she covered her face and cried. Zhang Zuolin was at a loss and did not know how to convince Lan Er. For a long time, Lan Er stopped crying and pulled her hair together, and Sa said to Zhang Zuolin, "Brother Zhang, my sister is going back to Gaokan." Dad sold me to someone else, but he didn't care if he was dead or alive. You are Lan'er's great benefactor, and Lan'er will never forget it. If you don't die in the future, there will be a reward? Lan Er also has a heartfelt saying: 'Boys have no ambition, no iron and no steel?' 'Big Brother Zhang, don't go to the casino to mix, Lan Er waiting for your good news?' After saying that, he turned his head and rushed out of the house.

Zhang Zuolin was stunned for a moment, sucked his mouth fiercely, rushed out of the house to catch Lan Er, and sent Lan Er back to Gaokan. Lan Er went into the village to inquire, only to learn that the creditor forced his father to find it because Lan Er had fled. Halfway through, when passing a deep stream, Lan'er's father suddenly hugged the creditor and rolled down the deep stream, all falling to their deaths. Lan Er cried sadly. Zhang Zuolin saw that Lan Er was in danger, relaxed his heart, arranged her in the house of his adoptive mother Liu Yi, and then went back. Lan Er said: "Brother Zhang, my sister is still that sentence, 'The boy has no ambition, no iron and no steel?' 'Lan Er is waiting for you. “

Since then, Zhang Zuolin has quit gambling. He straightened out a few people in the village who occupied the mountains, robbed houses, and engaged in banditry. Soon, his power grew and he became the leader of the bandits who dominated one side. Zhang Zuolin thought, this time, since

I could go and see Lan'er. He rode a tall horse, holding the money of the rush, followed by a few slaves, and strode to see Lan Er. Who knows, Lan Er let Zhang Zuolin eat the closed door soup. Zhang Zuolin wondered in his heart: Now we must have money and power, and respond to everything we need. Why is Lan Er still not satisfied with herself? Unwilling to go back like this, Zhang Zuolin knocked the door. Lan Er saw that Zhang Zuolin was not leaving, so she opened the door and said, "Brother Z."

Hang, you used to gamble, and that hurt yourself. I had hoped that you would be a useful person to the country and the people, but unfortunately you failed to live up to expectations, became the leader of the bandits, and harmed the people on one side. Why don't you go? With that, he slammed the door shut. Zhang Zuolin reluctantly walked back, and Lan Er's words echoed in his ears from time to time: "The boy has no ambition, no steel", and since then, he has never forgotten.

Later, Zhang Zuolin became the commander of the division, and also served as the overseer of Fengtian and the inspector of the three eastern provinces, ruling the entire northeast... However, although Zhang Zuolin had been to Gaokan'er several times, Lan Er had never seen him again and had never been married.