During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, in Taiyuan Province, Shanxi, there was a merchant family who had earlier gone to Jiangnan to do vinegar business and made a fortune. The more famous local is vinegar, the local price is very expensive, although the quality is good and the taste is good, but it cannot be sold at a high price. This family used the waterway to use the boat to bring local vinegar to Jiangnan to sell, and did not expect to be particularly popular in the Jiangnan area. Many dishes in Jiangnan have to use vinegar, but the local vinegar quality is very general, and compared with Shanxi' is much worse, so the vinegar shipped by this family from Shanxi is very popular in Jiangnan, and people who have tasted it have said that the taste is good.
After they had money, they bought a very good piece of land in Taiyuan, and specially invited well-known craftsmen from Jiangnan to help them design and build houses, which became a local scene after they were built, and even the prefects specially visited their homes, and the pavilions and pavilions inside were built a gorgeous one.
The family's surname is Zhang, and the locals call it Mr. Zhang. After this old man Zhang had money, he soon married a wife and a concubine, and soon gave him two sons and two daughters. This old man Zhang attached great importance to his two sons, and specially invited a famous teacher from the surrounding area to come to their house as an official and know the studies of his two sons.
The eldest son is clever and quick to learn. Mr. Teaching was very optimistic about it, and thought that there would be no problem in raising a person after learning according to this situation. Mr. Zhang's second son's talent is very general, and there is a big gap between his studies and his brother, so Mr. Zhang finally decided to let his second son learn to do business with him, and then the family's property will be handed over to him to take care of. The eldest son only needs to take the exam to become an official.
The second son had a high emotional intelligence, and he only learned to have a business, and soon he soon started the family business, and it did not take long for him to marry under his father's arrangement. But he is very sinister, in order to make money can be said to be unscrupulous, the locals are also well known, Mr. Zhang also knows that often educate his second son to do things and do business to do their duty, not to play small clever, but there is no effect. Until one day he himself encountered a strange thing.
One day, this second son was too tired because he was busy late yesterday, and he played at home that day, and he told his wife and concubine not to come. Asked the maid, she said that they had followed a teenager to the south together. As soon as he heard that he was in a hurry, he hurriedly caught up with the knife and was about to kill them together, but the teenager suddenly disappeared. There was an old monk dressed in a red robe, holding a bowl in one hand and shaking a tin staff in the other, blocking his sword and saying, "Aren't you still enlightened?" You are too selfish, too jealous, too clever, and finally invisible. The ghosts and gods are afraid of hidden evil, so they sentence these two women to elope to get revenge on you, what is their crime? "After saying that, I disappeared."
The man then silently brought his wife and concubine home, and the concubine said, "At first we did not know the young man, nor did we love each other, but suddenly we were dazed like a dream, and we went with him." The neighbor also said: "These two women are not greedy and eloping people, and they have never been harmonious with each other, where can they follow the same person?" And elopement must avoid people, where are the blatant walking during the day, slowly waiting for people to catch up? It must be condemned by God, this is certain. ”.