After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he once issued a somewhat strange holy will, which was promulgated during the Hongwu period, which probably meant that all people in the world who had the surname of the same surname had to be removed from the surname.
The main reason why this holy decree is strange is that everyone inexplicably does not understand the reason, but the imperial order is difficult to violate and has to be obeyed.
In the blink of an eye, many years have passed, and a businessman named Shi Fugui came to Huainan, Anhui Province, to do business. Businessman, heavy profit and light righteousness is its nature, Bai Juyi's poem said that "businessmen weigh profit and light parting", even the young and beautiful wives in the family can put down, what else can not be done?
Shi Fugui has been doing business in Huainan many times, and although he has made a lot of money, he is still a bit bored, and he often wanders around outside.
One day, Shi Fugui walked to a remote alley and met a very beautiful woman, not only with a gorgeous and extraordinary appearance that had never been seen before, but also with a thousand styles and manners, and Shi Fugui was shocked at first sight, but he could not get close, so he visited nearby.
Seeing the woman enter a courtyard, the waiter fugui went to the next house to inquire, and after giving a little tip, the master also told him what he knew. It is said that the beautiful woman next door has been coming for almost a month, and there is only an old mother and a few maids in the family, and there are no men, but I don't know where they come from, and they don't know who the surname is.
The waiter Fugui learned that no man appeared in the beautiful woman's family, at least knowing that the other party was not yet married, so he spent a lot of money to ask the matchmaker to propose to him.
After the matchmaker met the beautiful woman's mother, she talked about her intentions, and the old lady said that she was from Hangzhou, her husband's family name was Jin, and she had a son and a daughter under her knees, and some time ago she took her children to the north to rely on relatives.
But just after arriving in Huainan, his son fell seriously ill and died, and the two male servants accompanying him actually stole the gold and silver and ran away at night. Now only mother and daughter are dependent on each other, if you continue to go north, you will have a long way to go, afraid of encountering robbers, so you have to rent a house here to live in temporarily.
Although he has written to a relative, he does not know whether he will come to greet him, and the future is very uncertain. Speaking of this, the old lady is still in tears, which makes people sigh.
The matchmaker saw that the old man said so pitifully, and also accompanied by a few drops of crocodile tears. Immediately remembering the heavy trust of the rich man, he advised the old lady not to be sad, and now that she has no one to rely on and no place to live, she always has to live. Your daughter is so beautiful, why don't you find someone in Huainan to marry, you are also old and dependent?
The old lady listened and considered for a while, and seemed to be very satisfied with the matchmaker's words, so she said that she did not want to receive much dowry, but because her daughter had been pampered since she was a child, she could not let her marriage affairs be hastily done, and hoped that she could still buy some clothes and jewelry and makeup, which probably needed a thousand taels of silver, so I agreed to this marriage.
The matchmaker went back and told the old lady's words to the waiter, and the waiter heard the great joy, although it needed to spend a lot of money, but these were all dowries, and they did not enter their own homes in the future? Immediately took out the money to the matchmaker to operate, half a month to complete.
Seeing that the auspicious day of the zodiac was coming, the night before, the waiter Fugui personally went to invite the old lady to come and check it out, and saw that the home was decorated with splendid decorations and all the utensils were complete, and the old man went back with satisfaction.
The next day, the waiter Fugui invited a large group of instrument players, and the drums sounded in unison to the old lady's rental house to greet her. But I saw that the door was closed, there was no movement, and there was no response to shouting the door.
Asking the neighbors also said that they had not heard any abnormal movement in the past few days, and finally there was no way, so they had to climb over the wall to check it out.
When I entered the courtyard, I saw that there was no one inside, and there was no trace of anyone living in it. Finally, several skeletons and bones were found on the bed in the room, and the rich man knew that the beautiful woman he encountered was not a human at all, but a ghost, and the so-called kissing could only be a joke.
Back at home, the waiter saw the newly added furniture in the room, and his heart was very unhappy, and finally he could only sell it at half price.
Just like this toss, the waiter Rich Gui not only embraced the desire of the beautiful woman into vain, but also lost hundreds of taels of silver, which made the waiter rich man ashamed and did not dare to go out for several months.
In this story, the ghost of the beautiful woman actually did not originally have the intention of seducing the rich man, but because his hunting heart was too strong, he unconsciously took the initiative to provoke the ghost, and the final ending, of course, was that the bamboo basket hit the water empty, and the lady lost the soldiers.
In fact, this is also a warning to the world that the rich businessman is miserly, and the inner calculation is very heavy, perhaps this is how he violated the taboo of the ghost god, so he used beauty to tease him. Fortunately, he was not harmful in his heart, so he only lost some money. Of course, it is also telling people that they cannot act selfishly for people, and it is very likely that stealing chickens will not become a handful of rice.