In ancient times, there was a pair of twin brothers, very similar, when the younger brother pretended to be imprisoned for his brother, one night, but he saw a fox under the locust tree outside the cell, and a fox was drilled, and the fox faded a layer of fox skin and transformed into a peerless beauty.
It is said that the younger brother is at home, always called by his parents, think that he did not study, but the younger brother never thinks much, dedicated to the family, on the contrary, the brother does not pay attention to the housework all day, only cares about reading to win the meritorious name, after marrying relatives must go to office, put his wife at home.
One day, my brother went out in the cave to find a hairpin made of iron, and my brother liked it very much, and inserted the hairpin into his hair to wear.
Not long after, the younger brother received a letter from his brother, saying that the brother was imprisoned because of a case and asked the younger brother to rescue him.
The younger brother hurriedly came with a hundred taels of silver, and ran for his brother every day, and the elder brother sighed: "Brother, I left a few days after I became friends with your sister-in-law, and I miss her very much, but I am afraid that I will never see each other again in this life." ”
The younger brother heard about it and told his brother that he could pretend to be his brother.
The younger brother bribed the prison head, and the older brother was released.
Unexpectedly, after his brother returned, he told his parents that his brother's family was dead, and his parents were very sad to hear about it, but he and his wife drank and had fun all day.
But he said that after his brother was in prison, he was very diligent, and the jailers liked him when they saw him, and slowly relaxed their guard, allowing him to be a husband in the cell, and even walk freely.
One night, he saw a white fox suddenly emerge from under the locust tree outside the cell, and then shed its skin like a snake and transform into a beautiful woman in a snow-white dress, with dark and drooping sideburns and skin as clean as snow.
The woman rolled up the skin under the shed, pressed it under the stone, and the younger brother saw the situation under the root, and quietly came to hide the woman's fox skin, and after the woman did not see it, she looked everywhere and asked the brother if he had seen it.
The younger brother said, "I took your stuff." ”
The woman was furious when she heard this, but when she saw the iron hairpin on his head glowing like electricity, she panicked and knelt down and pleaded:
"I'm a nine-tailed fox. The Great Dan had already been refined, and the ascension to the heavens was not far away, but the fur had not yet been removed at once. Ask you to give it back to me, and I will be able to fulfill your wishes in return. ”
The younger brother returned her fox skin, and the woman said, "You are a benevolent and righteous man." Want to ask what you are asking? ”
The younger brother said that he wanted to be free and did not want to go to jail.
After the woman heard it, she spat out a small pill and asked her brother to swallow it.
The next morning, the younger brother's skin seemed to crack one by one, and the bones of his body shook with a loud sound, and he vomited up and down and exhausted the person.
The doctor diagnosed: "The disease is very serious, I am afraid it will not get better." ”
When the jailer reported to the magistrate, he sent his brother out of prison and sent him to serve at the station, instructing him to go on an errand when he recovered.
The younger brother thought that he was really going to die, and at night he saw the woman come and take a dan from his sleeve and give it to his brother, and sure enough, he immediately woke up.
The younger brother prostrated himself on the pillow to thank the woman and asked her when she would return home alive.
The woman said, "But if you come home alive, there will be unexpected surprises." But I have to ask you for something. ”
The younger brother asked what was going on, and the woman said, "The time has not yet arrived, and I can't tell you in advance." ”
The younger brother asked her name, and the woman said, "When you are in a hurry, just call Lady Xiangyun and I will come immediately." After saying that, he quickly walked out, and his brother's illness was cured.
The younger brother worked diligently at the station every day, and one day, there was a fire in the office, and the official seal of Taishou was lost in the fire, and he was anxious to shout who could rescue him.
The younger brother was following everyone to fetch water, when he heard Lady Yun whispering in her ear, "Erlang, you can take out the Taishou Seal first, this is a rare and good opportunity, and the hairpin on your head is not afraid of heat." ”
The younger brother quickly took out the official seal, and then Taishou shouted at the burning second floor: "Miss is still upstairs, if anyone can save my daughter, I will marry her daughter to him." ”
The younger brother went to rescue Taishou's daughter again, but after the incident, Taishou did not recognize the account, and forced her daughter to marry a large family.
His daughter, Zhengniang, was very sad to hear, but the younger brother understood that he was a farmer, and why he expected Taishou's daughter to be his wife, so he said to Taishou: "I have self-knowledge, but I just begged you to let me go home, so I thanked Dade." ”
After hearing this, he forgave his sins and gave him a thousand taels of gold as a token of thanks.
The older brother saw that the younger brother suddenly returned home, the parents saw that the younger son was not dead, they all asked the brother the reason, the younger brother told the truth, the brother listened, very jealous, so he poisoned the younger brother in one of the diets.
The younger brother was in pain, and suddenly remembered to call Xiangyun Niangzi to come, and after Xiangyun Niangzi came, she gave her brother a pill, and the younger brother came back to life and began to teach him the Immortal Law.
On the other side, Taishou's daughter Zhengniang, because she was not accustomed to her father's behavior, quietly dressed as a man at night and rode a horse to find her brother.
Lady Xiangyun had already learned that she pretended to be looking for her brother as well, so she took her to her brother's house, and her brother was very cramped and uneasy, and she did not want to have the luxury of combining with her.
Unexpectedly, when the brother saw this, he hurried to find the Taishou complaint, but he was caught by the enemy family, and he had no choice but to ask his brother to come to the rescue again, and this Taishou thought that his daughter must have lost herself, so he had to give up.
The kite lady's service to her in-laws was quite filial, and she did not have the habit of a noble lady at all. I also got along well with my sister-in-law. Every day, the servants were urged to weave and cultivate, and everything was arranged in an orderly manner.
The younger brother said to The Kite, "I don't understand whether you mean to be the spouse of a layman or a member of the immortals?" ”
ZhengNiang smiled and said, "Husband sings with women." The younger brother then began to teach her the Immortal Law, mingli was husband and wife, but secretly they were Taoist couples.
The following year, my brother had a son and a daughter. Later, his parents also died one after another, and he was still at the funeral, and his brother had to separate the family. The younger brother agreed, saying: "After the brother already has it, I have exhausted the filial piety of my parents, and there is no worries about the future." ”
The younger brother followed The Kite's mother and became a fairy, and the older brother eventually fell ill and died.
This article is adapted from "Night Rain and Autumn Lantern Record", which tells that even if people look the same, because of the different mirrors of their hearts, the younger brother is good and the other is evil, and the younger brother finally gets the Tao because of kindness and ascends to heaven with his wife.
The so-called good deeds, do not ask about the future, but not so.
