One
Yunnan boy Qiao Danian has a talented liver and gallbladder, with a chivalrous heart. The good brother Gu Sheng died young, and Qiao Da Nian often helped his wife and children. The county commander who appreciated his talent died in office, and Qiao Danian put on the silver himself and escorted the coffin for "more than two thousand miles".
Good people and good deeds have done more, and their reputation has become more and more famous, but their families have become poorer and poorer. But people are poor and can not be short-sighted, 20 years old Qiao Danian, to marry a wife is not ok, quite a pursuit.
It just so happens that Shi Ju has a thousand gold, named Lian Cheng, who knows poetry and is beautiful. The name "Lian Cheng", from the "History" and the allusion of The Clan Bi, does not have the charm of the warbler and swallow, which is quite good. Naming the heroine with a priceless jade shows Pu Weng's respect and cherishing for the woman.
Shi Juren was very fond of his daughter. In order to find a good family for her daughter, she took out a pair of "tired embroidery drawings" in Liancheng and invited young talents in the city to write propositional essays, with the intention of choosing a son-in-law.
Qiao Danian, who is "less responsible for the name", wields two songs. One praises the embroiderer's charm, one praises the exquisite embroidery, and after reading it, Lian Cheng", "praises the father", and "praises everyone", and gladly agrees.
However, Shi Juren committed the confusion of the world's parents "I am all for your own good", hated Qiao Danian's family poverty, and was deeply afraid that his daughter would suffer hardships in the past, and refused to agree to this family affair.
Lian Cheng had no choice but to send his old mother to qiao's house to secretly send silver, under the guise of Shi Juren," saying that it was "to help the lights." Qiao Danian is not a nerd, and he understands the beauty of the beautiful person: "Even the city I know myself!" Then he thought about it, like hunger and thirst. A man and a woman who have never met before begin a romantic platonic love affair.
However, before long, Shi Juren took matters into his own hands and gave his daughter Xu to the local tycoon, wang Huacheng, the son of Lu Jia. Lu Jia, a salt merchant also, the family is quite rich. Shi Juren was complacent, thinking that he had found a good family for his daughter, but he did not want to dig a big pit.
Two
Qiao Danian was desperate, and even the city could not afford to be sick. When he was dying, a monk from the Western Regions said: I can cure this disease! But there is a medicine that is rare. Shi Juren asked busily: What medicine? Answer: A young man must have a piece of meat on his chest.
Shi Juren quickly sent someone to the Wang family to inform his son-in-law. Not long after, the servant returned empty-handed, with only one sentence in return: Silly old man, he actually wanted to rip off the flesh of my heart!
Shi Juren was furious and immediately let out a loud voice: "There is a wife who can cut meat!" ”
Qiao Danian was not Wang Huacheng, and Pu Weng described his actions in 12 words: "Born and heard, self-white blade, and appointed monks." No hesitation, how refreshing! Qiao Danian's love for Liancheng overflowed.
The Western Regions Touto took three pills of meat and medicine, took them all in three days, and Liancheng was cured of his illness. Shi Juren is ready to fulfill his promise and match his daughter with Qiao Sheng. But when the Wang family heard that Lian Cheng was ill and wanted to repent of his marriage, he was furious and shouted that he was going to sue the officials. Shi Juren was immediately instigated, and did not dare to provoke the local tycoons, so he had to fail the han disciples again.
Shi Juren set up a banquet to entertain Qiao Danian, and during the banquet ordered the servants to give thousands of gold and heavy thanks. What kind of integrity is Qiao Danian? I'm repaying my confidant, "What a bitch! "After saying that, I left without taking my sleeves. True heart, iron bones.
After Lian Cheng knew about it, he couldn't bear it in his heart, and entrusted the old servant to comfort Qiao Danian: With Jun's talent, he will certainly not fall for a long time. Why worry about not having a beautiful person to accompany you? I know that my fate will soon be over, so why should I fight with people for this "thing under the spring"?
Qiao Danian sighed: You have always been a confidant, but now it seems that you may not be. If you really understand me, why not be a husband and wife? When there is a chance to meet, if the young lady can smile for me, the little life and death will not regret!
Qiao Danian is certainly not a common thing, sincere and bold and uninhibited.
A few days later, Qiao Danian happened to go out and happened to meet Lian Cheng returning from his uncle's house. A couple of lovers, this is the first time to meet. Qiao Danian stared at Lian Cheng in a daze, but saw her "Qiu Bo tactful, opening her teeth and Yanran". Da Nian's heart moved: Lian Cheng truly knows me! Even if you can't look like you, it is enough to know yourself in the vast sea.
Within a few days of happiness, the life-and-death threshold that tested people's hearts came.
Three
On the auspicious day of the Wang family's marriage, Lian Cheng's pre-illness was again, and it was not long before he died. Qiao Danian mourned and hung, and even "died in pain." A pair of lovers, both rushed to Huangquan.
After Qiao Danian became a ghost, he did not feel the slightest sense of sorrow and was bent on finding a city. But see the side of the bridge, pedestrians like ants. Lian Cheng did not find it, but unexpectedly saw the good brother Gu Sheng.
Gu Sheng mixed well here, did the errand of being in charge of the clerical work, and had a heavy boss and a little resource in his hands. As soon as he saw Qiao Danian, he dragged him back and wanted to send him back to the Yang Realm. Lo and behold, people still have to do good deeds, and they have friends everywhere they go.
Qiao Danian informed Gu Sheng of Liancheng's affairs. Gu Sheng was very powerful, with the big year "rotating a lot", and finally found a sad and dismal Lian Cheng in the corner of the corridor, and there was a beautiful white-clad girl sitting next to him.
When Lian Cheng saw Da Nian, he was surprised and distressed. The two had a ghostly affair.
- Why did jun come to this place?
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- A negative person like me, you still don't spit on her, and you still martyr her, why is this bitter? Now I only want to repay the afterlife.
Lian Cheng wept bitterly, and Da Nian turned his head to Gu Sheng and said: "If you have something to do, you are busy, I am very good here, I will not go back." Just please help me check, where will Lian Cheng be born? Wherever she goes, we want to be together!
The girl in white looked fascinated and asked curiously, "Brother, what are you doing?" Qiao Da Nian 1510 said the cause and effect again. The girl in white was sad after hearing this. As a woman, why haven't I tasted this love? It was a wasted effort.
The girl in white has the same surname as Lian Cheng, and is the daughter of Changsha Taishou and the little name Binniang. Lian Cheng told Qiao Danian that she and Binniang "came all the way and loved each other" and were a pair of poor sisters. Qiao Danian carefully examined Binniang, but when he saw "pity on people", he was also a lovely person.
Reading this, I almost pinched a handful of sweat for Qiao Danian. I am afraid that he will not be able to protect the three or four in the late festival, and he has made the mistakes that men in the world love to make, and the affectionate and good boys have collapsed. Fortunately, before Da Nian had time to talk to Bin Niang in detail, Gu Sheng returned.
Gu Sheng took care of everything, and immediately let Qiao Danian and the "little lady return to the soul". The two were pleasantly surprised, but Bin Niang cried loudly on the side: My sister is gone, what can I do? Let me go with you, I am willing to serve the concubines and the sister with tea and water.
With these words, Bin Niang recognized both her sister and her husband. Lian Cheng saw that she was miserable and went to ask for the Big Year. Da Nian went to gu sheng again. Gu Sheng went out again to engage in relations. Not long after coming back, he shook his head and sighed and said: This thing really can't be done...
Bin Niang heard the words, "gentle and delicate", and hugged Lian Cheng's arm tightly. Several people looked at each other, their hearts sour and soft. Gu Sheng gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: You two go together! Blame it on top, and I'm on it!
It is really a good warrior, Gu Sheng, inserting a knife for a friend's two ribs, and also a well-known Yunnan Hanzi.
The three of them are about to return to Yangyang, but Qiao Danian deliberately does not let BinNiang go with them.
Four
Qiao Danian found two old ladies who had gone to Changsha and persuaded Bin Niang to go with them, and Bin Niang cried so much that she had to say goodbye. Da Nian helped Lian Cheng and rushed to a new life.
On the way, Lian Cheng walked very slowly, and she was worried in her heart. When he was about to go down to the city, Lian Cheng instructed Da Nian: After being reborn, I am afraid that there will be another overthrow, and I will not be able to be my own master. If so, you will bring my skeleton and live and die in the king's house, and the concubine will have no complaints or regrets.
Next, Lian Cheng revealed his meticulous thoughts. Her soul followed Da Nian back to Qiao's house first, and came to a "raw rice cooked with mature rice" in a shocking way. She smiled and said: After being born again, if good things are difficult to achieve, will they not bear the grace of the king again? Why not give a concubine a promise with her soul first.
Reading this, I have to sigh Pu Weng's magnificent and wonderful heart, and describe the love of a lover so thrillingly and transcendently.
The two stayed in the box room for three days, "extremely happy", and then returned home.
After Qiao Danian came back from the dead, he immediately sent someone to the Historian to ask for the bones of Liancheng and "said that he could live." Shi Juren was very surprised, and sure enough, the city was revived. Seeing his father, Lian Cheng bluntly told him: "The son has committed himself to Qiao Lang, and there is no reason." If there is a change, it is still dead! ”
After some great twists and turns, Shi Juren had already decided in his heart that Qiao Danian was a son-in-law, and he had no choice but to entangle the Jia Wang family. Hearing that Liancheng was resurrected, the Wang family went to the officials again. The officials were bribed to "sentence Liancheng to the king."
Qiao Danian was angry and wanted to die, but there was nothing he could do. Lian Cheng married into the Wang family, first made a hunger strike, and the water and rice did not enter. Then he took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the house and hung himself on the beam. After tossing and turning for a few days, he was dying again.
The dispute between The Fish and the Jia, the struggle for profit and face, how can there be half a piece of sincerity? Compared with Qiao Danian's birth and death for repaying his confidant, it is simply like a cloud of mud. It is really "easy to ask for priceless treasures, rare to have lovers".
The Wang family saw that Lian Cheng was so determined, and they were also afraid, and sent this woman whose life was hanging in the line to the Shi family. Shi Juren hurriedly ordered someone to carry him to Qiao's house. This pair of mandarin ducks with a bitter fate, after all the disasters, finally became a family.
At this point in the story, everyone is happy, and it is time to end it, right? No, the author has not forgotten the Spencer in Changsha.
Five
"Even from the city, every time I read the guest lady, I want to send a letter to explore it." As soon as Lian Cheng sat up, he began to chant Binniang. Here is quite intriguing, worried about the guest lady, not the big year, but the city.
In many old novels, there are bridge sections where the eldest wife takes the initiative to take concubines for her husband. Lady Xing in "Dream of the Red Chamber" even arrested Jia Yuna's concubine as a KPI.
In the "Six Records of Floating Life", Yunniang, who is called "the most adorable woman", also did this. Pearl Buck's "Woman in the Courtyard" is set in the Republic of China, but the Wu family's young grandmother is still busy taking concubines for her husband, on the grounds that she is 40 years old and her husband needs a young woman to serve.
Oh husband, three from four virtues, it was really difficult to be a woman in the past!
Was Lian Cheng's desire to find a lady also out of the "good intention" of pleasing her husband? Although the limitations of the times are inevitable, it is believed that there is still a difference here.
Throughout the story, the feelings between Lian Cheng and Qiao Sheng are not so much male and female love as it is to reward confidants.
Lian Cheng was admired by Qiao Sheng's poetry, and did not feel that his family was poor, but instead gave money "to help the lights", so he was introduced by Qiao Sheng as a confidant. Although the marriage is hopeless, Qiao Sheng still does not hesitate to cut off the flesh of his heart and make a medicine primer for Lian cheng, the purpose is not to possess, but to repay the grace of knowing. The fact that I have not come to "make meat" shows that the sincerity of his heart is pure and that there is no other way to ask for it.
Lian Cheng is the first lady of the Shuxiang Gate, and for qiao sheng's agreement, he even showed his teeth on the street. Who understands this smile? This is liancheng's spiritual "commitment to each other", ah, the emotional high and tide of the two soul mates. After that, the two lived and died together, and the Yin Cao Mansion went through it again, and before returning to Yang, they "loved it to the fullest" with their souls.
This act shocked the world and wept ghosts and gods, repaid with gold, repaid with meat, repaid with laughter, repaid with souls, and repaid with life and death, after all, it is a "retribution" word. And this word is also the core of traditional Chinese marriage.
Unlike the West, which says "you love me, I love you," our traditional marriage is about "fate and grace." Only when there is a fate can we get together, and only those who have grace can keep each other. Loving husband and wife, grace before love is after. This is the great wisdom of our ancestors, because they know that "love" is too easy to pass away and too fickle.
If life is only like the first sight, what autumn wind and sorrow paint fan. Waiting for idle changes but the old people's hearts, but the old people's hearts are changeable.
The link of "grace", on the other hand, is much more solid. Can resist the trivialities of marriage without creating gaps, and tolerate each other's shortcomings without disgust.
This is true between Qiao Danian and Lian Cheng, and the same is true between Bin Niang and the two. At the end of the story, Changsha Shi Taishou traveled thousands of miles to "send a daughter in person", indicating that "the little girl Lai Jun was reborn and swore not to be suitable for him".
With the noble status of the daughter of the Etheric Shou, why worry about not having a Ruyi Langjun? Kebin Niang is also a person who knows how to repay the favor. In order to repay the grace of regeneration, the non-Qiao family does not marry. She also fulfilled her promise to be a concubine and repay Liancheng. Lian Cheng's acceptance was also a response to the mutual care on Huangquan Road at that time. True grace reciprocates, infinitely poor also.
A mother said to her daughter that marrying rich and poor is secondary, and the key is to pick a good character. In the future, even if the love is gone, righteousness is still there, at least he will not harm you.
Speaking of going, we still have to choose the right person. Otherwise, no matter how much grace you have, it will be in vain to meet an ungrateful grace and take revenge. And such a story, do we still hear less?