Liu Fang and Liu Qi went from brothers to husband and wife

During the Ming Xuande period, Liu Weng and his wife in Xihe were engaged in selling wine and had a well-off family. Although they were all in their sixties, they had no children under their knees.

On a snowy day, a very handsome boy came with his father to stay. At dawn, the child's father fell seriously ill, could not get out of bed, and died a few days later. The Liu family buried him behind the house. The boy also stayed behind to make them a son, did not change the child's original surname, and named him Liu Fang. Liu Fang is very sensible and does his filial piety.

Two years later, there was another strong wind, and a teenager was rescued by a boat overturn, carrying a bamboo cage in his hand and crying. The liu family asked him, and he said that he was Liu Qi from Shandong. My father listened at home because of the three examinations, and the whole family lived in Beijing. Not wanting to be infected with the epidemic plague, his parents were all dead, he did not have the ability to transport his parents' coffins back to his hometown, and the bamboo cage contained the remains of his parents after cremation. Since the ship overturned and was flooded, the luggage was naturally all gone, and there was no way to return to the hometown. The old man of the Liu family moved his heart of compassion and prepared a plate fee for him to return to his hometown.

More than a month after Liu Qi left, he returned with a bamboo cage on his back and said: "The river embankment in his hometown has broken, and his hometown has been washed away by water." I hope to be given a small piece of land to bury the bones of my parents, and I am willing to repay the favor as a servant. The old man of the Liu family agreed. Liu Qi and Liu Fang became brothers, sleeping and eating together, and their feelings were deep. Liu Qi understood the meaning and writing method of the article very well, so he taught Liu Fang to read, and Liu Fang grew day by day.

After a long time, the Liu family and his wife were all dead, and Liu Qi and Liu Fang were like dead fathers and mothers. Liu Fangzhong returned to the capital and moved his mother's coffin here and buried it with his parents. The tombs of the three families are like three legs standing. After all these things were done, they stopped selling alcohol and opened a small shop selling cloth, and the family's fortunes got better and better. The rich family in the town came to propose to him, Liu Qi wanted to agree, but Liu Fang insisted on not agreeing, and Liu Qi was not reluctant.

One day, seeing swallows nesting on the beams of the house, Liu Qi wrote an inscription on the wall:

Camp nest swallow, double male, towards the twilight mud hard together. If you do not look for female shell eggs, the nest is empty after all.

After Liu Fang saw it, he smiled and read it several times, and also mentioned that the pen should be and a poem:

Camp nest swallow, double flying. Heaven sets the duration of the hermaphroditic affair. The female is willing to be self-sufficient, and the male is unaware of the female beard.

Liu Qi was shocked after seeing it, and said to himself, "Is my brother a Mulan?" Since sleeping with him, even Cool Has never seen him sleeping naked. Judging from the inscription of Yinghe, this is indeed the case. So he pretended not to understand and let Liu Fang reconcile with the word again. Liu Fang also wrote:

Camp nest swallow, sound sound leaf, do not make youth empty years. Poor and flawless, what chu jun finally did not know?

Liu Qi smiled and said, "My brother is really a woman." ”

Liu Fang's face turned red when he heard it, and he did not respond. Liu Qi also said: "You and I are in love with flesh and blood, so why hide it." I just don't know why you want to dress up like this?" Liu Fang locked his eyebrows and said: "My family has always lived in the capital, because my mother died, I went back to my hometown with my father, afraid that it would be inconvenient on the way, so the woman dressed as a man." Later, because his father also went and was buried here, he could not be buried with his mother, so he did not dare to modify it. I just want to find a place where I can live, so that the souls of my parents have a place to live. After the burial of my parents, I wanted to explain it to my brother. But when he thought that the family situation was not good, the brother was difficult to support alone, so he did not explain it for a long time. Liu Qi said: "You and I have been in the same bed for several years, and our feelings are better than those of our brothers, and my brother already has the intention of yielding in the words, and I have absolutely no reason to marry another." Isn't it good that we used to be brothers and now we are husband and wife, and we have both grace and righteousness?" Liu Fang said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, the graves of the three families are here, leaving them alone, I will also feel uneasy." If my brother doesn't think I'm ugly, let me serve you, and we will guard the fireworks of the three houses together, which is what I hope in my heart. That night, the two slept separately.

The next day, Liu Qi asked the old man in the town to be the mediator, chose a good day and auspicious day to come to the tomb of the three families, informed the parents of the underground, and did a happy event on the cave flower candle. This incident was rumored to be anecdote by the townspeople, and the place where they lived was also called "Sanyi Village".