Folk Tales: Master-Servant Love (I)

I don't know which dynasty and which generation, in a small village under the mountain, fleeing the famine to eat came a woman with a baby in her arms, the woman carried a blue cloth pocket to look at the appearance of about twenty years old, although it is very beautiful but yellow and thin, the woman said that her name is Li Cui'er because the family has been flooded, the houses have been washed away by the water, the family can not find it, she is all the way to escape the famine to eat to come here. Although the people in this village were not rich, this remote small mountain village was a rare peace in that era of wars and chaos, and most of the people in the village relied on a few acres of thin fields around the village to maintain their lives. After the mother and son settled down, the woman was diligent and earnest when the farmer was busy carrying the child and the old couple to work in the field, washing and brushing at home when there was no work in the field, and the child was also obedient and did not cry. Since the beating of this mother and son came, the small courtyard was cleaned up by this woman is clean and neat, the house is even more clean without a little floating soil, Zhang Old Man and the old man look in the eyes and like the mother and son in the eyes, although the days are more tightly tied up, but the heart is still very happy, a moment of more than half a year has passed Under the mediation of the village chief, the old two have officially accepted this woman as a righteous daughter, the little boy has also re-named Zhang Pan with the old man's surname, and the days have become more and more running, so after two years of peace and quiet, Zhang Pan can also walk, Old Man Zhang and the old two are also getting older, the family inside and out are Cui'er Zhang Luo, the old two are still young Zhang Pan is also older, thinking of entrusting someone to find a mother-in-law for Cui'er, and Cui'er did not expect Cui'er to kneel in front of the old two and cry and say: "Daddy, the daughter will not marry anyone in this life, just stay by Daddy's side and watch Pan'er grow up, please ask Daddy's permission." The old couple looked at Cui'er, who was earnest in his words, sighed and said: "The child is still young, and the days to come will still be long" But Cui'er said that she would not answer anything, and the old two always felt that Cui'er had something on her mind, so she would no longer mention this matter.

In the blink of an eye, three years later, Old Man Zhang fell ill due to the old age of winter weather and a cold wind chill, a few pairs of medicines went down to the family there was no money, but the old lady also fell down at this time, please Langzhong grabbed a few pairs of medicines to take down and did not see how good, Cui'er looked at the two old people lying on the kang at home who had no money to treat the disease, and after hesitating for a long time, she seemed to have made up her mind as if she had to call Pan'er over to explain that The heavenly mother was going to go to the city for a trip, and you were at home to take care of your grandparents.

Early the next morning, Cui'er made a meal early to serve the two old men after eating, packed up and took something from the blue cloth bag to bid farewell to the old man and went into the city. It was not until the evening when cui er returned home when she held the lamp, carrying the medicine bought for the old man in her hand and rarely bought meat that could only be eaten in the New Year, the old two were busy asking Cui Er where the money came to buy medicine, Cui Er said busily: "Daddy only takes medicine to treat the disease and raise the body, you don't have to worry about the money." "The old couple couldn't ask any questions, so they didn't ask anymore, but their hearts couldn't let go." Under the careful care of Cui'er, the old couple's illness finally got better. Time flew by, in the blink of an eye a few years passed, Pan'er also grew into a big guy, Pan'er, who had been studying in the academy for a few years, wanted to go out of the mountains to meet the market, earn money to come back to honor her grandparents and mother, but Cui'er was unwilling to live or die, Pan'er asked her mother: "Mother, why don't you agree?" Cui'er said: "Niang does not ask you to be rich and noble, but only asks you to be safe and secure, niang is worth living in this life, and she is at ease when she dies." Pan'er always felt that there was something in her mother's words, but she no longer asked questions. When Cui'er is fine, she always stares at her son, as if she wants to engrave her son in her head, and the more she grows up, the more she feels that her mother has a heart, but she always doesn't say anything. When she reached the age of eighteen, Cui'er called her son to her side and said, "Son, now that you are an adult, you should also go to pay homage to your biological father and mother for their ancestors." After saying that, Cui'er's whimpering and crying seemed to cry out all the grievances of more than ten years, and after crying, Cui'er told the secrets buried in her heart little by little.

Cui'er turned out to be a big family surnamed Li in Yong'an Province, more than a hundred miles away from this small mountain village, Cui'er's parents died early when she was five years old and almost starved to death on the street, was seen by Mrs. Li Yuanwai who went out to burn incense, and saw that she poor Mrs. Li took her back to the house, Mrs. Li also had a daughter called Yue Niang who was two years older than Cui'er, And Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li did not regard Cui'er as a maid, eating and wearing were the same as Miss Yue Niang, and Yue Niang regarded Cui Er as a sister, and when she was fine, Yue Niang taught Cui Er to recognize words and learn female red together. Cui'er grew up to sixteen years old in Li Mansion, one day there were suddenly a few foreigners riding high-headed horses with a lot of valuables in the house, Old Master Li saw the people and happily let them go to the living room, it turned out that this was the doll kiss that Old Master Li had set for The Moon Niang when he was young, the in-laws were hundreds of miles away from the home of an old General of song, the aunt this time with a dowry to prepare to marry The Lady, after exchanging gifts with each other, the marriage time was set at the ninth day of the first month of the next month. Because the mother-in-law's family is more than five hundred miles away from here, so in order not to delay the wedding flower palanquin to marry the moon lady a few days in advance, a few days before the palanquin, Li Yuanwai and his wife called Cui'er to the room to ask Cui'er whether she would like to go with Miss, Cui'er has been treating her as a sister since she was a child, of course, it is willing, Madame said that you went to Miss also have a companion for two years and then let Miss help you find a good family. So Cui'er and Miss left Li Yuanwai's house together to go to the Changle Mansion flower car five hundred miles away for seven days to Changle Mansion, this place is comparable to their Yong'an Mansion, the street is very bustling, the eyes of Cui'er and Miss are flowers, the flower car stopped in front of a very grand mansion, a bunch of bearded women in front of the door were waiting there early, the miss was welcomed in to freshen up and then worshiped the church to become a relative, after becoming a relative, because of the long way to go back to the door, there is no return door, The return door is to return to the mother's house three days after marriage. Just like this, Miss Grandpa was gracious and loving for a few months, suddenly came a holy will miss's father-in-law to go out on a campaign, the aunt was not willing to let his wife but did not trust his father to go to the border with his father to fight, more than a month after the aunt left, Miss Song was ill, Mrs. Song quickly sent someone to ask a doctor to see Miss, the doctor said congratulations to the old lady, the young lady was pregnant for two months, which made Mrs. Song very happy, and hurriedly asked someone to repair the book to tell the general who was far away at the border. Miss pregnant is about to give birth when a bad news is rumored that the old general father and son treason has been put on the spot justice, Old Lady Song was shocked to hear the bad news immediately died, the huge Song Mansion immediately lost the main heart, the old housekeeper found the miss and knelt on the ground and said I believe that Old Master Song will not treason must be the victim of adultery, the young lady took advantage of the darkness of the night to quickly escape, only in this way can we retain a bloodline for the Song family, if the boy grows up to do justice for Grandpa, I have prepared a pack for you, taking advantage of the fact that there is no holy will in the current dynasty. When the Holy Will comes down, it will not go. The housekeeper hired a small car for miss and Cui'er and the two left, after the miss left, the holy will came down the Song father and son treason zhu lian nine tribes, there was no one left in the house, Cui'er and miss escaped by chance, the two discussed preparing to return to miss's mother's house, but they were afraid that the imperial court would send someone there to hunt down and kill miss. All the way to the wind meal open sleeper Miss had a sign of imminent labor because of fear and did not dare to live in the hotel to find a cave where no one lived, Miss gave birth to a boy in the cave, I thought that I could live in peace for a while, but when Cui'er went out to buy something, she found that the imperial court sent people around to search for the hunting order posted on it and there was a portrait of the lady, but somehow there was no Cui'er. Frightened, Cui'er quickly ran back to the cave after buying something, and Cui'er told the young lady what she saw on the street, and the young lady said that it was good without you, and Cui'er did not understand the meaning of this at that time. After pondering for a while, Miss suddenly threw herself on her knees in front of Cui'er, and Cui'er even knelt down and said that Miss has something to do, although you said, Miss said that you promised me that I would get up, and Cui'er said that my life was given by the old lady no matter what I promised you. Miss said that the people who searched at dawn are going to search here, you take the child away tonight, Cui'er wants Miss to go together, Miss said that the people who can't catch my court will not give up, and all three of us can't live together, only you can keep the blood of the old Song family with your children. In this way, the lady put the gold and silver soft bag given by the housekeeper to let Cui'er carry it in her arms, the miss said that there was a jade pendant engraved on it with a Song character engraved on it, which was given to her by her aunt to keep for the child to make a thought, and other things could not go on after they could not go on, they took it out and sold it for some money, the child was entrusted to Cui'er, taking advantage of the darkness, No one Cui'er and the child left here, cui'er found a place where no one hid during the day to see if there were no officers and soldiers to sneak out to find milk for the child to eat, No one started walking at night, and I don't know how long I walked to this small village now, and I met the kind old Zhang couple.