During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a young man named Xu Xuan in Lin'an Province, Hangzhou, who was twenty-two years old, and his parents died since childhood, living with his sister and brother-in-law.
One day, Xu Xuan went to the West Lake to play, and it suddenly rained in the sky. Without an umbrella, he called for a boat to go back to town. The boat had just traveled more than a dozen miles away, and someone on the shore was shouting to take the boat. Xu Xuan saw that a young woman dressed in white was standing in the rain with a green-clothed beard, so he asked Zhang Agong to shake the boat back and carry them.
The woman in white got on the boat, and after sitting down, she stared directly at Xu Xuan, and then took the initiative to ask for his name and address. Xu Xuan saw that this woman was born like a flower and jade, and he was a little moved, so he did not hide anything and told her all. The woman said that her surname was Bai, her family lived in jianqiao shuangchafang alley, her husband had passed away, and she went to the grave today.
After entering the city and disembarking from the ship, the rain was still raining, and Xu Xuan borrowed an umbrella from an acquaintance. He had just taken a few steps when he heard someone behind him call him. When he looked, it was the white lady who had just taken the boat, standing under one of the eaves to avoid the rain. Xu Xuan lent her the umbrella and said that he would go and get it tomorrow.
The next day, Xu Xuan came to the entrance of the Double Tea House Lane in Jianqiao and asked for half a day, no one knew the White Lady. Xu Xuan was hesitating, when he suddenly saw the White Lady's servant Qingqing coming from the east, so he greeted him. Qingqing took him to a very grand building, and when the White Lady saw him coming, she busied herself with wine and dishes, and after drinking three glasses of wine, the White Lady said, "The little official is on the top, and the real people do not tell lies." I don't have a husband, presumably I married an official in a past life, so as soon as I meet you, you have a heart, and I have intentions. Annoying officials ask a matchmaker to propose to you, and you have been good for hundreds of years. Xu Xuan was very happy in his heart, but he was worried that he would not be able to come up with money to marry his relatives, so he did not answer. The White Lady understood his thoughts, and asked Qingqing to take out a piece of fifty-two snowflake silver and hand it to Xu Xuan. Xu Xuan took over and stood up to bid farewell.
The next day, Xu Xuan gave the silver ingot to his sister and asked her brother-in-law to be the master to marry his wife, and the sister was very happy to hear it, and said it to her husband in the evening. But the husband took the silver and looked at the marks on it, but he was frightened. It turned out that a few days ago, fifty ingots of silver had disappeared from the imperial court's silver treasury, and lin'an province issued a notice that whoever caught the silver thief would be rewarded with fifty taels of silver; the whole family who knew about it and did not report and harbored the thief was charged with the army. The marks on the silver that Xu Xuan had brought now were the same as those stated in the circular. In order to avoid the suffering of the whole family, Xu Xuan's brother-in-law took the silver to Lin'an Mansion overnight to make his head.
After Xu Xuan was arrested and taken to Lin'an Province, he cried out that he had been wronged, saying that the silver had been given to him by the White Lady. However, when the messengers escorted Xu Xuan to the building at the entrance of the Shuangchafang Lane in Jianqiao, they had long disappeared, and only a pile of silver was piled on the bed, counting exactly forty-nine ingots. In this way, Xu Xuan was sent from light hair to Zhenjiang Prison City Camp to work.
When he arrived in Zhenjiang, his brother-in-law went around and found a guarantor for Xu Xuan, and led him out of the prison camp to live in a relative's house.
Within a few days, Bai Niangzi and Qingqing also came looking for them. As soon as Xu Xuan saw them, he became angry and wanted to drive them away. However, unable to withstand the rhetoric of the White Lady, Xu Xuan turned his anger into joy and left them behind. Soon Xu Xuan and the White Lady Baitang married. The two of them loved each other, and the day was very happy, and a monk took the book of the transformation and said: "The little monk is a monk of the Golden Mountain Temple, and the seventh day of the first month of July is the birthday of the Dragon King, please ask the donor to burn incense in the temple and give some incense money." Xu Xuan promised that on the seventh day of the first month of July, Xu Xuan would go to burn incense. The White Lady said, "Since you are going, I cannot stop you, but I must do three things." Xu Xuan asked, "Which three?" The White Lady said, "One, don't go to the abbot; two, don't talk to the monk; and three, go back." It's too late to come back, and I'll come to you. Xu Xuanquan agreed, changed into new clothes and shoes and went out the door.
Xu Xuan arrived at the Golden Mountain Temple, first burned incense in the Dragon King Hall, and then walked around the temple again. When I got to the abbot's door, I suddenly remembered my wife's command and couldn't stand in. The people in the company said, "It's okay, just go back and don't say it." Xu Xuan went in to look at it for a while, and then came out. When the Monk Fahai inside the abbot saw Xu Xuan coming, he immediately ordered someone to call him in. But the man looked around and came back and said, "I wonder where he went?" Fahai quickly took the Zen staff and ran out of the temple to look for it.
At this time, Xu Xuanzheng was waiting with everyone on the river for the boat to cross the river and go home. I saw the waves rolling in the center of the river, and a boat was coming fast. Xu Xuan took a closer look, there were two people standing on the boat, Bai Niangzi and Qingqing, the boat reached the shore, the White Lady told Xu Xuan to hurry up and get on the boat, just at this moment, only to hear someone behind him shouting: "Demon, where to run, the old monk is coming for you!" ”
When the White Lady saw that Fahai was coming after her, she and Qingqing flipped the boat over and jumped to the bottom of the water, Xu Xuan turned back to Fahai and said, "Master, save your disciple's life!" Fahai asked, "How did you meet this woman?" Xu Xuan told the matter from the beginning, and Fahai said, "She is a monster, you should go back to Hangzhou." If she comes to haunt you again, she can come to me at the Jingci Temple. ”
Xu Xuan thanked Fahai for going home and found that the White Lady and Qingqing were gone, which made him realize that they were indeed goblins.
After two months, the imperial court granted amnesty to the world. Xu Xuan returned to Hangzhou and met his brother-in-law's sister, who complained: "You are too bullying, you have married a wife outside, why don't you send a letter to let us know, how can it be so unkind and unjust!" Xu Xuan said, "I didn't marry a relative." The brother-in-law said, "Two days ago, a woman came with a beard and said it was your wife. "Say it, and call the two out."
When Xu Xuan saw it, it was Bai Niangzi and Qingqing, who were stunned and stunned, and they didn't have much to say, so they had to leave them behind. At night, Xu Xuan did not dare to stay with the White Lady, and his heart panicked, and he knelt on the ground and begged: "I don't know if you are a god or a ghost?" Spare my life!" The white lady narrowed her eyes and said, "I am in love with your husband and wife, but you listen to other people's gossip." Now to tell you the truth, if you are happy to hear me, you will be fine. If I had two hearts, I would turn the whole city into blood and turn everyone to death! Xu Xuan listened, frightened and frightened, and did not dare to make a sound. The next day, he remembered the words of the monk Fahai of Jinshan Temple, so he went to Jingci Temple to find Fahai. However, the monk in the temple, Fa Hai, had never come, and Xu Xuan was cornered and came to the lake, so anxious to jump into the water to commit suicide. At this moment, someone behind him shouted, "Why should a man take his life?" ”
Xu Xuan looked back and saw that it was the Fahai monk who had come, and he immediately knelt down and begged, "Master, save your disciple's life!" Fahai asked, "Where is this demon now?" Xu Xuan told him what had happened after returning to Hangzhou.
Fahai took out a bowl from his sleeve and handed it to Xu Xuan, saying, "When you get home, don't let the woman know, quietly take this thing over her head, hold it tightly, and don't let go!" ”
When Xu Xuan returned home, the White Lady was sitting there whispering, "I don't know who provoked my husband to be a wrongdoer to me, find out, and then find him to settle the account." Xu Xuan took advantage of her lack of attention, quietly stepped forward from behind, put Bowl Meng on the head of the White Lady, and held it down hard. The White Lady immediately disappeared, but Xu Xuan still did not dare to let go. Only to hear a voice under Bao Mengxia say: "I have been married to you for several years, how come you don't have a little human affection!" Loosen your hands. ”
Xu Xuanzheng didn't know how to be good, just as Fahai arrived. After reading it, I gently unveiled the bowl and saw that the white lady had shrunk into a small person seven or eight inches long and was lying on the ground.
Fahai shouted, "What kind of demon dares to pestering people?" The White Lady replied, "I am a big python, settling down in the West Lake, and because I met Xu Xuan and fell in love with him, I offended Tian tiao." Fahai asked again, "What kind of monster is Qingqing?" The white lady said: "Qingqing is a green fish in the West Lake, and once I touched it, I dragged her as a companion."
Fahai said, "Remembering your thousand years of cultivation, lest you die and quickly reveal your true appearance." "The White Lady refuses. Fahai was furious and recited the incantation in his mouth: "Where is the revelation?" Come with me to catch the blue fish monster and the white snake appear, listen to me fall! Immediately a fierce wind blew outside the house, only to hear the noise of the clatter, and a green fish fell in mid-air, more than a foot long, snapping and jumping on the ground several times, shrinking into a small green fish that was long. Looking at the White Lady again, she also appeared in its original form, turning into a three-foot-long white snake, still looking at Xu Xuan with her head held high.
Fahai put them into the bowl, ripped off a piece of robes, sealed their mouths, took them to the Leifeng Temple, put the bowl on the ground, ordered someone to bring bricks and stones, and built a tower on it. Later, Xu Xuanhua built a seven-story pagoda, which is the famous Leifeng Pagoda.