During the reign of Emperor Shenzong of Song, there was an ordinary family surnamed Shou who gave birth to a beautiful daughter named Shou Lanwan, who was given to Kong Qiukui as a wife from an early age. Kong Qiukui was born in Shuxiangmendi, was a well-known scholar, and at the age of eighteen, he was a xiucai in the middle of the year. In the spring of the following year, the parents of the two sides discussed and planned to let the two get married at the end of the year.
In the town lived a rich man surnamed Tong, known as Tong Yuanwai. This person is a hungry ghost, more than forty years old, took seven concubines, and went out every day to find flowers and willows, hunting beauty.
On this day, Tongyuanwai rode a high-headed horse, with a few slaves, to the countryside to play, saw Shou Lanwan washing clothes by the stream, shocked, a pair of color squinting small eyes, dripping on Shou Lanwan's body. Shou Lanwan was so frightened that she put her clothes into the basin and took the basin and ran home.
The staff outside to find someone to inquire about Shou Lanwan's address, the next day with a dowry to the Shou family, asking Shou Lanwan to be the eighth concubine. Shou Lanwan's father said busily: "I'm really sorry, except for the tongyuan, my daughter has no luck to climb the high branch, and has already promised to give Kong Qiukui, the son of the Kong family, as a wife, and is scheduled to be married at the end of the year." ”
TongYuanwai sneered twice and asked, "If Kong Qiukui dies, I can take your daughter as a concubine, right?" Shou Lanwan's father laughed a few times and said, "Kong Qiukui is fine, how can he die?" The general staff laughed. The staff snorted coldly and left with the slave.
Back at home, the staff sent someone to ask Gong Juzi. This man is a down-and-out man, good at imitating handwriting, and is raised at home by a general staff to manage the accounts. After Gong Juzi came, tongyuanwai said, "You go to find a few articles by Kong Qiukui and imitate his handwriting, I am useful." Gong Juzi nodded and agreed to come down.
Gong Juzi came to the academy, asked for a few articles by Kong Qiukui, took them home to study carefully, and imitated his handwriting. A few days later, at the behest of the general staff, he imitated Kong Qiukui's handwriting and tone, and wrote an article on the government of the Dynasty.
Tongyuan asked to submit this article to the prefect's office. The prefect was furious, arrested Kong Qiukui, stripped him of his meritorious name, threw him into prison, convicted him of a great disrespect, and planned to sentence him to be beheaded and declared in writing.
Fortunately, the superior official was a wise man, and reading kong Qiukui was purely bookish, and changed the sentence to exile. After the approval came down, the prefect exiled Kong Qiukui to biansai to charge the army.
When they were on the road, the family came to see them off, and Shou Lanwan, accompanied by her father, also came to see them off. Kong Qiukui said with tears: "This is a thousand miles away, I don't know when I can get out, today I broke the marriage contract, Wan Sister, you still marry someone else, so as not to delay youth." ”
Shou Lanwan's father and Kong Qiukui's father were good friends, and after the two families made a marriage contract, both of them were open-minded people and did not forbid their children to come and go. When Kong Qiukui visits Yue Zhang, Shou Lanwan will come out to meet him, and she will be known as a brother and sister.
Shou Lanwan cried and said, "What did my brother say?" I am not married in this life, I am waiting for you at home, when you come home, when we will be reunited. If you don't come home, I'll be waiting for you. "Shou Lanwan is a fierce woman, no matter how Kong Qiukui persuades, she just doesn't follow." The two parted in tears.
Kong Qiukui arrived at the Biansai military camp, and the general read that he was a reader, so as not to kill the stick. The general examined his talents, saw that he was quite literate, and had the heart to cherish talents, and stayed by his side to manage the clerical work. In his spare time, the general asked him why he wanted to take the government. Kong Qiukui told the hidden feelings of injustice, and the general advised him: "You do a good job, find an opportunity, and I will help you exonerate you." ”
Since then, Kong Qiukui has stayed in the General's Mansion with peace of mind and handled the documents with all his heart. Whenever the night was quiet, he missed Shou Lanwan and hoped to go back to her as soon as possible to complete the marriage.
After a while, the staff went to the next job, and was rejected by Shou Lanwan's father, and the marriage contract was still there, so did he have any reason to regret the marriage? The staff members were unwilling to do so, so they thought about the next poisonous plan.
In the blink of an eye, it was the time of autumn and winter. Late that night, Shou Lanwan's home suddenly caught fire, and someone shouted: "It's on fire, run!" Shou Lanwan dressed haphazardly, opened the door and ran outside, when suddenly several people rushed in, stuffed a rag in her mouth, and ran away with her on her back.
Neighbors rushed to put out the fire, the scene was chaotic, and no one paid attention to these people, thinking that they had also come to fight the fire. Carrying Shou Lanwan on their backs, these people hurried to the river and jumped on a boat. The boatman began to row, and the boat headed towards the center of the river.
In the cabin, sitting outside the staff, this is his poisonous plan, taking advantage of the chaos to kidnap Shou Lanwan. The staff pulled the rag from her mouth and persuaded her to follow him and dress well. Shou Lanwan sighed and scolded, "You wolf in human skin, if you don't want to succeed, I won't agree." ”
Tong Renwai said with a calm face, "There are only two roads in front of you." One is to follow me. I will be kind to you and your family. One is to send you to the capital and sell you into the Qinglou. I ask you again now, as long as you say you don't want to, this ship will set sail overnight and head for the capital. ”
Shou Lanwan knew that she was doomed, and cried and said, "I have been from you." The staff was overjoyed, signaling the slaves to avoid, and he took Shou Lanwan's hand, wanting to do good deeds.
Shou Lanwan pretended to obey, and when he was not prepared, she violently pushed him down, pushed open the hatch, rushed to the bow of the ship, ran a few steps, and jumped into the river. The river raged and soon engulfed her. When the officers came to the bow of the ship, they did not see The figure of Shou Lanwan, so they had to admit that they were obscure and went home.
The next morning, Shou Lanwan's body was found by the fisherman and salvaged. Her parents were miserable and went to the government office to report the case. Everyone speculated that it was done by the general staff, but there was no evidence. The government's visit was ineffective and became an open case.
On this night, Kong Qiukui suddenly dreamed of Shou Lanwan and said to him, "I have become a ghost, and I have no chance to become a husband and wife in this life, which is very regrettable." Don't go over here, you have to take care of yourself. "Finished, disappeared.
Kong Qiukui woke up crying from a dream. A few days later, the old family brought letters telling the story of Shou Lanwan's strange death. Kong Qiukui cried almost fainting. When the general learned of this, he expressed deep sympathy and immediately wrote a letter to his friend in the DPRK, exonerating Kong Qiukui and restoring his meritorious name.
Kong Qiukui was in a stormy ride and rushed home. Early the next morning, he carried the sacrifice to Shou Lanwan's grave to worship, crying and spitting out blood. That night, Kong Qiukui died. Shou Lanwan's parents lamented his affection and agreed to bury him next to Shou Lanwan's grave.
After a while, the staff member died of a violent illness in the middle of the night, and his family heard him shouting: "Kong Xiucai spared his life!" "When word spread about this matter, everyone said that Kong Qiukui had avenged Shou Lanwan and hated Xue.
Later, on the night of the white wind in one month, someone visited a friend to go home, and when he passed the mountain road, he once saw Kong Qiukui and Shou Lanwan hugging each other and sitting on the grave. That kind of scene is full of warmth!
This story uses the element of a ghost, which lies in borrowing things to persuade the world, and has nothing to do with feudal superstition.
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