The King of Kaifeng engaged in the Lantern Curse

In the early years of shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the thieves in the four sides had not yet been pacified. Wang Ren of Bieliang (汴梁; in present-day Kaifeng, Henan) took his wife to Lin'an and stayed in the guest house of the Sword Holding Camp.

There are green buildings on the left and right, which is very inconvenient, so Wang Engaged went out to find a house to live in. He came back and said to his wife, "I have found a house, it is a certain house in a certain alley, it is very spacious and clean, tomorrow I will escort the box to go first, and when I come back, I will use a palanquin to pick you up." ”

The next day, after Wang Jie left, he brought a palanquin to pick up his wife, but her wife was gone. After some time, Wang Engaged came to look for it again, but he did not find it. Later, I searched for many things, but there was still no trace.

For another five years, Wang was engaged in teaching in Quzhou (衢州, in present-day Qu County, Zhejiang) and went to attend a banquet for officials in Xi'an. The banquet was served with a turtle meat dish, which tasted beautiful and the guests chewed heavily. Wang Engaged ate a piece, and then stopped chopsticks and wept bitterly. When the official asked him why he was crying, he said, "I remember when my wife was there, she was the best at making this dish." Every time you cut the turtle meat, you must go to the black skin, and the meat must be cut squarely. Today's dish was too much like what she made, so I burst into tears. So I told the truth of the matter.

The official, stunned, pretended to go into the room to change clothes, and when he came out, he said: "When a person cries in a corner, everyone will not be happy." The professor is so sad, how can we have the heart to drink? So the guests left.

Then the official entered the house and called out a woman, whom Wang saw, his wife. The two of them hugged their heads and cried.

It turned out that on the night they were going to move that year, the news was known to the bad guys, who falsely claimed that Wang Had sent a car to pick them up, and pulled the Wang clan away and sold them to the officials, getting 300,000 yuan. The officials did not usually let the Wang family cook this dish, but only let the Wang family make it by accident on this day. Officials sent a car to return the Wang family. Wang Ren repeatedly thanked him and was willing to compensate the officials for their losses that year. The official said: "I took the wives of my colleagues as concubines, but I failed to examine them in detail, and the crime was too great." Fortunately, no one else is here, so where else would you dare to talk about any money?" Wang Engaged finally found Wang.