Feng Sheng of Guangping Province was a man during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. In his youth he was frivolous and bohemian. One morning, he happened to go out and met a young girl, dressed in a red cloak, with a beautiful face. Behind him was a small servant, who was hurrying through the morning dew, his shoes and socks wet. Feng Sheng secretly loved her in his heart. In the evening, Feng Sheng came back drunk, and when he walked to a long-abandoned temple on the side of the road, he saw a woman coming out of it; it was the girl he had met in the morning. The girl saw him, turned and walked in again. Feng Sheng secretly thought, how can a beautiful person be in the temple? I tied the donkey to the door and wanted to go inside to see what was going on.
Entering the temple gate, I saw only the ruins of the broken wall, and the stone steps were covered with fine grass like a green carpet. Feng Sheng was hesitating when a white-haired old man with a neatly dressed hat came out and asked, "Where did the guest come from?" Feng Sheng said: "I passed by this ancient temple by chance, and I wanted to look up to it." How did the old man get here? The old man said: "The old man has been exiled here, has no place to live, and temporarily borrowed this place to settle down in a small family." Since you are here, there is camellia that can be used as wine. "After saying that, please invite Feng Sheng into the temple." Feng Sheng saw that there was a courtyard behind the temple, the stone road was very clean, and there were no more weeds and weeds. Entering the house, the drapery bed tent, all the aromas are striking. After sitting down, the old man introduced himself and said, "The old man's surname is Xin." Feng Sheng asked drunkenly, "I heard that you have a princess, but you haven't found a good son-in-law; I don't measure up to my own strength and am willing to hire a princess." Xin Laoweng smiled and said, "Allow me to discuss with my old wife." Feng Sheng wanted to write a poem: "Thousands of gold for jade pestles, diligent hands." Yun Ying, if intentional, personally pounded Xuan Frost. After the master read it, he smiled and handed the poem to the servant. After a while, a young man came out and whispered a few words to the old man, and the old man got up and asked the guests to sit patiently for a while. He lifted the curtain and went into the back room. I could faintly hear two or three words spoken inside, and the old man walked out again. Feng Sheng thought there must be good news, but after the old man sat down, he just talked and laughed, and did not mention the marriage again. Feng Sheng couldn't help it and asked, "I don't know what you mean yet, please explain to dispel your doubts." The old man said, "You are an extraordinary person, and I have admired you for a long time." But I'm a bit reserved and not very vocal. Feng Sheng repeatedly requested. The old man said, "I have nineteen daughters, and I have married twelve." The daughter's marriage is decided by the old wife, and the old husband does not participate. Feng Sheng said, "I just need to take the little servant this morning and the one who rushes through the dew." Xin Laoweng did not speak, and the two were relatively speechless. At this time, a woman's soft voice came from the back room, and Feng Sheng took advantage of the drunkenness and lifted the curtain and said: "Since you can't be a husband and wife, look at your appearance to eliminate my regrets!" The people in the room heard the curtain ringing, and they all stood up and looked at him in amazement. Feng Sheng saw that there was indeed the girl in red, dressed gorgeously, with her hands twisted around her belt, standing tall. Seeing Feng Sheng break in, everyone in the room panicked. Xin Laoweng was furious and ordered several people to take Feng Sheng out, and Feng Shengjiu rushed up and fell into the grass, and the tiles and stones rained down, fortunately, they did not fall on their bodies.
After lying down for a while, he heard the donkey grazing on the side of the road, and Feng Sheng got up and rode up, stumbling on the road. Confused at night, Feng Sheng mistakenly entered the valley, and the wolf ran and screamed, frightening him into a cold hair. He hesitated and looked around, not knowing what place it was. In the distance, he saw a faint light in a black forest, and Feng Sheng thought it must be a village, and ran over with a donkey. Looking up, it was a high door, and he knocked with a whip. Someone inside the door asked, "Where are the young people who came here in the middle of the night?" Feng Sheng replied, "Lost." The man said, "Wait until I pray to the master." Feng Sheng stretched out his neck and waited stupidly. Overhearing the sound of the bolt opening the door, a strong servant came out and led the donkey for him. Feng Sheng went in and saw that the houses were very gorgeous, and the lights on the lobby were bright. After sitting down for a while, a woman came out and asked for the name of the guest. Feng Sheng told her. After a while, a few of the servants helped an old lady out and said, "The county prince is coming!" Feng Sheng stood up and respectfully wanted to salute, and the old lady stopped him and asked him to sit down. He said, "Are you Feng Yunzi's grandson?" Feng Sheng replied, "Yes." The old lady said, "You are my nephew." I am old dragon clock, wind candles are dead, flesh and blood relatives, between flesh and blood, there has been no contact for a long time. Feng Sheng said: "My father died when I was a child, and I don't recognize a single person in ten people who interact with my grandfather." I have never met you, please indicate what to call you? The old lady said, "You'll know for yourself!" Feng Sheng did not dare to ask again, and sat there meditating. The old lady said, "How did my nephew get here late at night?" Feng Sheng often boasted of his boldness, so he recounted his encounters one by one. The old lady smiled and said, "This is a great thing. Moreover, the nephew is a celebrity, and he does not defile her family, how can the wild fox spirit be so arrogant? Nephew don't worry, I can do it for you. Feng Sheng thanked him again and again. The old lady looked at the people waiting on both sides and said, "I didn't know that the daughter of the Xin family was so dignified and beautiful." A young lady said, "His family has nineteen daughters, all of whom were born with a beautiful posture." I don't know how many of the officials want to hire? Feng Sheng said: "She is about fifteen years old. The lady said, "This is the Fourteenth Lady." In March, she had come with her mother to celebrate Junjun's birthday, how did Junjun forget? The old lady smiled and said, "Is it the one whose high-soled shoes are carved with lotus petals, filled with incense chips, and walked with a scarf masked?" The beard said, "Yes." The old lady said, This is very good at tricks and flattery. But it is also really handsome, and the nephew's vision is good. Then he said to the young lady, "Send a little girl to call her." The beard agreed to go. After a while, Ya Gui came in and reported, "The Fourteenth Lady of the Xin Family has called!" Then he saw the woman in red and looked at the old lady to give a gift. The old lady pulled her up and said, "After becoming my niece and daughter-in-law, don't do the girl's gift." The woman stood up, standing tall, with her red sleeves hanging low. The old lady trimmed her hair, twisted her earrings again, and said, "What has The Fourteenth Lady been doing in the boudoir lately?" The woman whispered, "It's okay to be idle, embroider some flowers." As soon as he looked back and saw Feng Sheng, he immediately shrank and became uneasy. The old lady said, "This is my nephew." He was bent on marrying you, so how did you let him get lost and spend the night in the valley? The woman bowed her head and was silent. The old lady said, "I told you to come, nothing else, I want to be a matchmaker for my nephew." The woman remained silent. The old lady then ordered the lady to sweep the bed and let the two of them get married. The woman blushed and said, "I have to go back and tell my parents." The old lady said, "What's wrong with me matchmaking you?" The woman said, "My parents did not dare to disobey the order of the county lord." But in such a hasty manner, I just died, and I didn't dare to obey my fate! The old lady smiled and said, "The little girl is high in ambition and does not yield to power, and is really my niece and daughter-in-law." Therefore, he plucked a golden flower from the woman's head and gave it to Feng Sheng, asking him to go back to check the almanac and set a good day; and then asked the lady to send the fourteenth lady back. At this time, the rooster sang, and the old lady sent someone to lead the donkey to send Feng Sheng out.
Feng Sheng came out and walked a few steps, and when he looked back, he saw that the houses and villages had all disappeared, only a dense pine forest and a few graves covered by fluffy grass. Feng Sheng thought for a while and realized that this was the grave of Xue Shangshu, who was the younger brother of Feng Sheng's grandmother, so the old lady called him a nephew. Feng Sheng knew in his heart that he had encountered a ghost, but he didn't know who the Fourteenth Lady was. All the way back home with a sigh, I casually checked the days and waited, and I was afraid that the ghost would not be reliable. Go to the temple again, it is desolate and deserted. Ask the local people and say that foxes are common in the temple. Feng Sheng secretly thought: As long as you get beauty, foxes are also good.
On the day of the selection, Feng Sheng sorted out the room, cleaned the road, and let the servants take turns looking out the door. Waiting until the middle of the night, there was no movement, Feng Sheng was already desperate. After a while, overhearing the noise of people outside the door, Feng Shengzhao pulled his shoes and ran out to see that the flower palanquin was already parked in the courtyard, and Li Yi was helping the fourteenth lady to sit in the palanquin. There was nothing more to the dowry, except for two long-bearded servants carrying an urn-sized piggy bank, unloaded from their shoulders and placed in a corner of the room. Feng Sheng was happy to marry a beautiful wife, and did not doubt that she was an outlier. He asked the Fourteenth Lady, "A dead ghost, how can your family obey her like that?" The Fourteenth Lady said, "Xue Shangshu has now made a five-capital patrol envoy, and the ghost foxes within hundreds of miles are all for him to serve as envoys." He doesn't come home very often. Feng Sheng did not forget that the old lady was a matchmaker, and the next day, he went to her tomb to make a sacrifice. When they went together, two of them came to give a toast with a shell pattern and put it on the table. Feng Sheng told Fourteen Niang, and Fourteen Niang looked at it and said, "This is junjun's thing!" ”
There is a son of Chu Yintai in the same county, who has been classmates with Feng Sheng since he was a child, and the two are very close to each other. He heard that Feng Sheng had married a fox lady, so on the third day of Feng Sheng's wedding, he sent gifts and personally went to the door to raise a glass to celebrate. A few days later, Chu Gongzi wrote an invitation again, inviting Feng Sheng to a banquet. When the Fourteenth Lady learned of this, she said to Feng Sheng, "The last time the prince came, I saw him from the crack in the wall with ape eyes and eagle nose, and this person should not be associated for a long time, and it is better not to go." Feng Sheng agreed. The next day, Prince Chu came to the door to ask Feng Sheng for his promise, so he offered his new poem. When Feng Sheng commented on these poems, he said some mocking words, and Chu Gongzi was ashamed, and the two of them broke up unhappily. Feng Sheng returned to the house and smiled and told The Fourteenth Lady again. Fourteen Niang said sadly, "Chu Gongzi is a jackal, you can't joke with him!" If you don't listen to me, you'll suffer!" Feng Sheng smiled and admitted his mistake. After that, Feng Sheng and Chu Gongzi often flirted with each other, and the original festival gradually disappeared. Just when Ti Xue came down and presided over the scientific examination, Chu Gongzi took the first exam and Feng Sheng took the second exam. Prince Chu was complacent and sent servants to invite Feng Sheng to drink. Feng Sheng couldn't quit, and even called several times before he went. Later, I learned that it was the birthday of Prince Chu, and the guests sat all over the room, and the wine banquet was very rich. Chu Gongzi took out his own examination paper to show Feng Sheng, and relatives and friends rushed to watch it, admiring it while watching. After several rounds of drinking, there was a band playing music below, and there was a lot of noise, and the guests and hosts were very happy. Chu Gongzi suddenly said to Feng Sheng: "As the saying goes, 'Mo thesis in the field', now I know the error of this sentence." The reason why I ranked ahead of you was only because the first few sentences of my article were slightly higher. When the prince finished speaking, everyone in the room praised him. Feng Sheng took advantage of the drunkenness and couldn't bear it any longer, laughing and saying, "Do you still think that you are the first in the examination based on the article?" Feng Sheng's voice just fell, and a person's face lost color. Chu Gongzi was ashamed and angry, and he was speechless. The guests gradually left, and Feng Sheng also quietly slipped back. After waking up drunk, Feng Sheng regretted it and told Fourteen Niang about it. Fourteen Niang said unhappily, "You are really a thin boy in the countryside!" Treating a gentleman with a light attitude will lose his moral character; if he treats a villain, he will cause the calamity of killing himself. You're in trouble! I can't bear to see you fall, let's break up! Feng Sheng was afraid and cried that he had regretted it. The Fourteenth Lady said, "If you want me to stay, I have agreed with you that from now on you will not come out behind closed doors, cut off your friendship, and stop drinking!" Feng Sheng respectfully agreed to come down.
Fourteen Niang was diligent and thrifty, spinning and weaving fabrics every day. He often went back to his mother's house by himself, but never spent the night at his mother's house. He also often took out some gold and silver cloth for sale, and whenever there was a surplus, he would throw the money into the piggy bank. Every day the door is closed and the house is closed, and when someone comes to visit, the servant refuses. One day, Chu Gongzi sent another letter to Feng Sheng, and the Fourteenth Lady burned the letter and did not let Feng Sheng know. The next day, Feng Sheng went out to the city to mourn, and met Chu Gongzi at the bereaved family. Chu Gongzi took his arm and invited him bitterly. Feng Sheng excused himself, and Prince Chu asked Ma Fu to pull the horse and hug Feng Sheng and leave. When he arrived at home, Prince Chu immediately ordered his family to set up a banquet. Feng Sheng resigned again, saying that he had something to go back to as soon as possible. Chu Gongzi repeatedly retained and ordered Jia Ji to play the koto. Feng Sheng was originally debauched, and he had been locked up at home a few days ago, and he felt very bored. Suddenly, when I encountered today's opportunity to drink bitterly, I was drunk and drunk, and I fell asleep on the table. The wife of Prince Chu, Ruan Shi, was very fierce and jealous, and the concubines did not dare to apply grease and powder. The day before yesterday, a yakuza went to the study of Chu Gongzi, was grabbed by Ruan Shi, and slammed the head of yakuza with a wooden staff, and yakuza's head was broken and immediately died. Because Feng Sheng humiliated himself in public last time, Chu Gongzi held a grudge in his heart and thought of revenge every day, so he tried to use this to drunk Feng Sheng in advance and falsely accuse him of killing people. Feng Sheng was asleep, and Chu Gongzi carried the body of The Lady to the bed, closed the door and left. Feng Sheng woke up drunk on the fifth day and found himself lying on the table. Got up to look for a pillow bed, felt that there was a slippery thing tripping on the foot, touched it with his hand, it was a person. Feng Sheng also thought that the master had sent a child servant to accompany him to sleep, so he kicked and kicked him again, and the man was motionless, like a zombie. Feng Sheng was terrified and ran out of the room and shouted loudly. The servants of the Chu family all got up, lit the lamp, found a corpse, and grabbed Feng Sheng and quarreled angrily. Prince Chu came out to inspect him, falsely accusing Feng Sheng of forcing him to commit adultery, killing him, tying him up, and sending him to Guangping Province.
A day later, the fourteenth lady learned about this matter, and could not help but burst into tears, saying: "I already knew that there would be today." So he sent money to Feng Sheng every day to spend. Feng Sheng saw Fu Yin, unreasonable, and was tortured every day, beaten to the skin. Fourteen Niang personally went to inquire about his passing, and Feng Sheng saw her, full of grief and indignation, unable to speak. Fourteen Niang knew that this time the trap was deep, so she persuaded Feng Sheng to admit it first, so as not to be beaten again, and Feng Sheng cried and agreed. When The Fourteenth Lady came and went, no one else could see her in front of her. The Fourteenth Lady came home and sighed and sighed, and suddenly, she sent her own beard away. After living alone for a few days, the fourteenth lady asked the matchmaker to buy a good family woman, named Lu'er, who was fifteen years old and had a rather gorgeous appearance. Fourteen Niang and Lu Er ate and lived together, and looked at her differently from ordinary girls. After Feng Sheng confessed to killing someone by mistake, he was sentenced to hanging by the government. When the servant heard the news, he broke down and told the Fourteenth Lady in tears. When The Fourteenth Lady heard this, her face was calm, as if she didn't mind at all. Soon, when it was almost the day of the execution of the prisoners after the autumn, the fourteenth lady was panicked, often going out during the day and returning at night, without stopping her feet. Often in no-man's land, sad and mournful, so that sleep and food are wasted.
One afternoon, the fox maiden sent by the Fourteenth Lady suddenly returned. Fourteen Niang hurriedly got up and called the lady to no one, and the two of them began to talk quietly. When the fourteenth lady came out again, she was smiling and took care of the housework as usual. The next day, when the servant went to prison, Feng Sheng asked him to bring back a message, asking the fourteenth lady to meet him so that he could never do it. Fourteen Niang casually agreed, not sad, did not take it seriously, and her family privately talked about her being too cruel. Suddenly, passers-by spread the word that Chu Yintai had been dismissed from his post, and Pingyang observed that Feng Sheng's case had been retried on the emperor's special order. The servant heard of the great joy and hurriedly told the fourteenth lady. The Fourteenth Lady was also very happy, so she sent him to the official court to listen. After going, Feng Sheng has been released from prison and met with the servants, with a mixture of sorrow and joy. After a while, Chu Gongzi was caught, and Pingyang observed the interrogation, understood the whole truth, and immediately released Feng Sheng and let him go home. Feng Sheng went home to see Fourteen Niang, and couldn't help but burst into tears; Fourteen Niang also looked at him with sadness. After the sadness, he liked it again, but Feng Sheng did not know how the emperor of his case knew. Fourteen Niang pointed at the lady and said, "This is your hero!" Feng Sheng asked in amazement as to why.
It turned out that the Fourteenth Lady had sent her to Beijing and thought of filing a complaint at the imperial palace to file a complaint for Feng Sheng. When she came to the capital and saw that there were gods guarding the palace, she wandered outside the royal ditch and hesitated, unable to enter for several months. Afraid of making a mistake, she was thinking of returning to discuss a way, when she overheard that the emperor was going to Datong, she rushed to Datong in advance and pretended to be a prostitute. The emperor wandered around the brothel and pampered her in particular; and suspected that she was not an ordinary dusty woman, and the beard began to cry. The Emperor asked, "Is there any grievance?" Ya Gui replied, "I am originally from Guangping Province, and I am the daughter of Feng Mou, a member of the family." My father was about to be executed for an unjust case, so he sold me to a brothel. "When the emperor heard this, he was miserable and gave her a hundred taels of silver. Before leaving, he asked in detail about the incident, wrote down his name on paper, and said that he would share the glory and wealth with her. She said, "I hope I can be reunited with my father and don't want to live a rich life." The emperor nodded in agreement and left. After telling the story, Feng Sheng hurriedly bowed down and burst into tears.
Soon, the Fourteenth Lady suddenly said to Feng Sheng, "If I hadn't been for love, where would I have these troubles?" When you were imprisoned, I ran among my relatives, but none of them would think of a way for me. The bitterness at that time was really impossible to say. Now the more I find this earthly world boring and distressing. I've found a woman for you, let's part ways from now on! Feng Sheng heard that he was crying and kneeling on the ground and could not get up, and the fourteenth lady gave up. At night, The Fourteenth Lady asked Lu Er to sleep with Feng Sheng, but Feng Sheng refused. The next morning, when I looked at the Fourteenth Lady, my radiance suddenly decreased. After more than a month, the fourteenth lady gradually aged. After half a year, she was black and ugly, like a village woman. But Feng Sheng still treated her respectfully and always remained unchanged. The Fourteenth Lady suddenly said goodbye again, and said, "You have a beautiful wife, what do you want my ugly wife to do?" Feng Sheng cried and pleaded like last time. After another month, the fourteenth lady became seriously ill, did not eat or drink, and lay in bed tired. Feng Sheng fed the soup like a parent. The witches and doctors were invited, but they did not work, and the fourteenth lady finally died and died. Feng Sheng was distraught, so he buried the fourteenth lady with the one hundred taels of silver that the emperor had given to her. After a few days, the fox was gone. Feng Sheng married Lu Er as his stepmother, and after a year he gave birth to a son. However, after years of poor harvests, the family's situation is getting worse and worse, and the husband and wife are at a loss and relatively sad. Feng Sheng suddenly remembered the piggy bank in the corner of the house, and it was common for the fourteen ladies to throw money into it, but he didn't know if the money bank was still there. When I looked at it in the past, I saw that the tempeh pots and salt jars were full of ground. Moving away one by one, I saw that the piggy bank was still there, and I poked the jar with chopsticks, too hard to insert. The jar was smashed and the money rushed out. Since then, Feng Sheng has suddenly become rich.
Later, Feng Sheng's servants went to Mount Taihua and met the Fourteenth Lady, riding a green mule, and the servant rode a donkey behind. The Fourteenth Lady saw the servant and asked, "Is Feng Lang safe?" He also said, "Go back and tell your master, I am already listed in the Immortal Book." After saying that, he disappeared.
"Most of the frivolous words come from the mouths of readers, which a gentleman should regret." I once risked the accusation of not saying, "Although the injustice is far away, why not work hard to encourage yourself, so as to be attached to the forest of gentlemen, so that the words of misfortune and happiness have nothing to do with oneself?" Like Feng Sheng, he almost killed himself in a word, if it wasn't for the immortals in the room, how could he get out of prison and be reborn in the current world! It's horrible!"
