During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Ji Guangji, the garrison of Zhenfan (now in Minqin, Gansu), had just taken office and came to Guanwai from the interior, although he was not accustomed to local life, but after all, he was promoted, and his mood was still very comfortable.
After Ji Guangji arrived at his post, he inspected everywhere in Zhenfan and properly handled the people's feelings, which won the respect of the local natives. One day, when I came to the home of a local gentry and talked about local anecdotes, there was a story that made Ji Guangji feel very much.
The thing is, there is a man named Li Taixue in Zhenfan, who has been reading for several years and can be regarded as a well-known local gentleman. Li Taixue had money in his family, and after marrying his wife, he married a beautiful concubine, and was very favored by Li Taixue.
But the original wife is a Hedong lion, not only ugly in appearance, but also in character is even more reckless and reckless, seeing that the concubine is favored, she is very angry in her heart, but she is intimidated by her husband gang and does not dare to do anything to Li Taixue, so she has to take the concubine to be angry.
Thus began the days of the concubine's sin. In any case, as long as Li Taixue was not around, the original wife would find trouble with the concubine, punishing her for hard work or taking off her dress and whipping her with a whip.
Li Taixue often handled the family business outside or visited friends, so there was no day when the concubines were not tortured at home.
For a long time, Li Taixue did not know about this, but the neighbors knew everything about it.
There is an old woman in the same street, a local "wizard" type of figure, who often helps the neighbors exorcise evil spirits and do things, and it is said that she can also enter the underworld, that is, communicate with ghosts and gods, and assist in handling affairs between some ghosts.
The old woman saw that Li Taixue's concubine was being tortured inhumanly, and she pitied her in her heart, so she said to Li Taixue's wife, Madam, you and the concubine are the wrongdoers of the previous generation, in the previous life, the concubine was the main room, you were the side room, she was also very mean to you, and the sins she did should probably be whipped two hundred times.
Therefore, your scolding of her would have been justified, but now that you have tortured her so much, the degree of flogging has exceeded ten times, so that now you owe her again.
Besides, according to the laws of the imperial court, when a good woman in the folk is punished by the official family, she will not take off her dress and whip, but you take off her dress and whip her again in public, although you are happy and comfortable, but this kind of behavior is harmful to the dove, and the ghosts and gods also complain about you.
Madame Pingsu treated me kindly, and when I knew the situation in Hades, I did not dare to hide it, and immediately came to warn you, hoping that you would take this as a warning, so as not to be punished by the ghosts and gods in the future.
Unexpectedly, Li Taixue's wife not only did not say anything, but also laughed at the old woman, saying that you, a dead old woman, have lost me so well to you, and now she is elbowing and turning outward, is it to deceive me of money? Immediately, he asked someone to throw her out of the door and never enter the gate of the Li family again.
In this way, no one dared to intercede for the concubine anymore, fortunately, the concubine was also hard-lived, and although she was tortured in every way, she survived strongly.
After several years, after the mountain thieves rebelled, Zhenfan was also the hardest hit area of harassment, Li Taixue also lost his life in a robbery of thieves, and his wife was robbed by the mountain thieves to become a lady of the village.
Only the concubine escaped from the city and was rescued by a general soldier surnamed Han. Han Zongbing lost his wife in his prime, and seeing that the concubine had a dignified appearance and knew Dali, he helped her to be the wife of the chief soldier.
A year later, the cottage was breached by officers and soldiers, the thieves scattered, Li Taixue's wife was rescued, and on the day of the reward for meritorious deeds, it was just divided between Han Zongbing and was accepted as a concubine.
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Just like this, the identities of the original wife and the concubine were just interchanged, and the original main room became a concubine, and the original concubine became a lady.
The concubine did not say anything on the surface, and arranged for the former original lady to be her own personal maid.
On this day, Lady Han ordered the maid to kneel at the front steps of the hall and warned her that if she wanted to live, she would have to obey my orders honestly.
Every morning when I get up, the first thing I do is to kneel in front of my makeup table, take off my dress and smoke five whips before I go to work. If not, you were once the lady of the mountain thief, and even if I killed you, I wouldn't have any trouble.
At this time, the original lady had no choice but to admit her fate, after all, it was better to die than to live, and immediately prostrated her head and begged for forgiveness, saying that she was willing to follow the instructions.
In this way, the concubine did not continue to embarrass her, but she could not escape by whipping herself five times a day.
A year later, the former original wife had a serious illness, and the treatment was ineffective and died, and the number of whippings she had received in the past year was exactly the same number that she had whipped a concubine.
This story also shows that people cannot be excessive, and if there are things that hurt and obscure, ghosts and gods will not tolerate it.