Li Shiwen is a student, when he was 17 years old, he passed the Xiucai examination, and when he was 20 years old, he passed the examination again. Li Shiwen's home is in a small town, after Li Shiwen took the exam, people in the town said that he had a bright future, and he would most likely become a high school student when he went to Beijing to take the exam. Li Shiwen has two hobbies, one is reading, and the other is playing.
One morning, Li Shiwen left the town and came to play on the Phoenix Mountain, which is 15 miles away from the town. After li shiwen played in the mountain for an hour, he suddenly found an old monk, and the old monk's two hands were carrying two food boxes. Li Shiwen felt strange, the old monk carried two food boxes to whom to bring food? So, Li Shiwen quietly followed the old monk with doubts.
After about a moment of incense, the old monk entered a cave. After the old monk entered the cave for a while, Li Shiwen came to the mouth of the cave. He found that there was weeds more than a person tall at the mouth of the cave, and the entrance to the cave was not large enough to accommodate one person bending down to enter. After Li Shiwen bent down and entered the cave, he found that the inside of the cave was large, about three houses, and there were 16 beautiful women in the cave in addition to the old monk.
Unexpectedly, after Li Shiwen entered the cave, he was found by the old monk and 16 beautiful women. The old monk quickly picked up a small stone on the ground, and the beautiful women also picked up the small stone on the ground. Seeing this, Li Shiwen quickly said to the old monk and 16 beautiful women: "Don't misunderstand, I am a student in the town, I went up the mountain to play today, saw the teacher father carrying two food boxes in his hand, felt strange, so he quietly followed the teacher father, and as a result, he tracked all the way to the cave, you can rest assured, I have no malice." After the old monk and 16 beautiful women listened to Li Shiwen's words, they put down the small stones in their hands.
Next, Li Shiwen asked the old monk and 16 beautiful women: "What are you?" As soon as Li Shiwen finished speaking, the old monk said, "Lord, I don't see you as a bad person, so let's tell you the truth!" These 16 women were all the families of the bandits on the mountain, and late one night a month ago, the bandits sent them to the temple and entrusted me with taking care of them in the future, because the officers and soldiers were about to go up the mountain to suppress the bandits. As for the bandits on the mountain, I still know that they were all poor people, because they could not survive, they were forced to become bandits, but they were different from other bandits, they never robbed the poor, only the local tycoons and gentry. I promised them. After they left, I considered leaving the 16 women unsafe in the temple, because sometimes, pilgrims would come to the temple to burn incense, so the next morning, I took them to this cave, and then I went back to the temple. Towards noon, a group of officers and soldiers came to the temple, and they asked me if I had seen any women. I said I didn't see it, and then they searched the temple, and after they didn't find the woman, they left the temple. Since then, I have been in this cave every day to deliver food to 16 women. ”
After listening to the old monk's words, Li Shiwen said, "Why don't the officers and soldiers go up the mountain to suppress the bandits without asking questions?" At the very least, they should find out whether the bandits on the mountain are doing nothing wrong. The old monk said, "I am old, taking care of them is a day, I have a request, my request is, can you help me take care of them?" Li Shiwen said: "It is not enough to take care of them, we should solve their fundamental problem, that is, to let them have no sin in their bodies." The old monk said, "It's really hard to make them free of sin." Li Shiwen thought for a moment and then said, "In half a year, I will go to Beijing to take the exam, and if I can go to high school, I will definitely help them." After Li Shiwen finished speaking, 16 beautiful women said that they very much hoped that Li Shiwen would go to Beijing to take the exam to be able to go to high school.
When Li Shiwen returned to the town, he did not tell anyone about the 16 beautiful women hiding in the cave, and he studied hard every day because he wanted to save the 16 beautiful women. Time passed, unconsciously, and five months passed. One morning, Li Shiwen left the town and embarked on the road to the capital. When he arrived in the capital, he was still six days away from the exam, so he found an inn and stayed. Six days later, Li Shiwen took the exam, and as a result, he won high school. Soon after he became a high school student, he went to the imperial court and told the court about the 16 beautiful women. Three days later, the imperial court made him a minister of Chincha and went back to deal with the affairs of the 16 beautiful women.
After Li Shiwen returned to his hometown with a group of his men, he did not rest and immediately went up the mountain. However, when he entered the cave with his men, he found it empty. So he quickly led his men to the temple on the mountain, and then found the old monk. The old monk told him that three days ago, he had delivered food to 16 beautiful women in the cave, only to be discovered by the second-rate children of the Wangjia Village under the mountain. The second-rate son quickly went to the county court to report 16 beautiful women, and as a result, Zhixian personally led the servants into the cave, and then arrested 16 beautiful women, and heard that the 16 beautiful women had been sentenced to death.
After Li Shiwen listened to the old monk's words, he quickly rushed to the county with his men. He led his men to the county court and said to Zhi county: "I understand the situation of the 16 women, they are all the families of the bandits on the mountain, in fact, the bandits who were suppressed are poor people, after they became bandits, they never robbed the poor, only robbed the local tycoons and inferior gentry, when I was in the capital, I had already played the situation of the 16 women to the imperial court, and this time the imperial court sent me to deal with their affairs." After listening to Li Shiwen's words, Zhixian said: "The subordinate officials did not understand the situation and mistakenly arrested them, so the subordinate officials ordered their release." ”
After the 16 beautiful women were released, they returned to their respective homes. After Li Shiwen finished dealing with the affairs of 16 beautiful women, he returned to the capital. After he returned to the capital, he went to the imperial court about Zhixian's arrest of 16 beautiful women, and soon Zhixian was dismissed from his post and investigated. As for the second-rate boy who denounced 16 beautiful women, one day he went up the mountain to pick fruit, encountered a wolf pack, and was bitten to death by the wolf pack.