Xu Juyuan, a native of Nanchang, was a jinshi during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, famous for his calligraphy, and his relative Zou invited him to open a museum to teach.
On the way, Xu Juyuan encountered a strange wind that blew him into the clouds, only to see an official wearing a robe and holding a wat in his hand come out to greet him, saying: "The underworld built a palace, please write a plaque on the plaque." ”
Xu Juyuan followed this man to a place, like the residence of the emperor, and the sentences of the plaque couplets had been drawn up, but they were not written.
The plaque reads: "Everything is made by heart." The synonym is: "If you have not done something to die, you can still hope to survive." ”
After writing, the king of Yan considered what to use as a reward, And Xu Juyuan asked to give his mother an additional twelve years of life, and the king of Yan agreed without a word.
At this time, Xu Juyuan saw that the judge was holding the book of life and death, and asked to check it for himself.
The judge said, "This is the book of the normal deceased, and you will die, not in this book." ”
He also took out a fire book, which read: "On a certain day in a certain month, Xu Juyuan was burned." ”
Xu Juyuan was very frightened and asked King Yan to revise it.
Yama said, "This is Providence, not something I can change." However, you remember the date, and by then, don't go near the fire. ”
Xu Juyuan thanked the King of Yan, walked back, and hurried to the Zou family.
The relative was taken aback and asked, "Where has my husband been this year?" Because they lost their husband, they were sued to the government office, and because they were suspicious, they were detained in the prison of the county town for a long time. ”
Xu Juyuan specifically explained the reasons for this, and went to the official palace to explain the matter clearly.
Xiong Wenji of the same county, No. Yukido, retired as a servant of the bureaucracy and lived idly at home.
One day, he asked Xu Juyuan to drink, and before he could finish drinking, Xiong Wenji suddenly stopped drinking and said, "My stomach hurts and I can't breathe, so I can't accompany him." ”
In ancient times, the official Shilang was also known as "Shaozai", and Xu Juyuan joked: "In ancient times, there was a Dazai Yao, and today there is a Shaozai? ”
Xiong Wenji was very unhappy to hear this.
Later, when Xu Juyuan was leaving, he wrote a Tang Dynasty poem on the wall, Liu Zongyuan's "Thousand Mountains and Birds Flying", but he wrote four poems backwards (Xiong Wenji was a courtier, so Xu couldn't see it).
In this way, the last word of each poem is connected to the word "Extinction of the Snow Ong".
Xiong Wenji read these four words and held a grudge against Xu Juyuan.
Xu Juyuan calculated that the time of death was approaching, and remembered the words in the underworld, so he was particularly afraid of fire.
Not daring to approach the wooden objects, he built a stone chamber on the West Mountain, brought food, and lived in the stone chamber to avoid disasters.
At that time, bandits were rampant, and Xiong Wenji sent people to spread rumors that Xu Juyuan had hidden a lot of gold in the cave in xishan.
When the robbers heard about it, they went to Xishan to rob him, but when they didn't get the gold, they burned Xu Juyuan with a soldering iron and burned him alive.
Excerpt from "Zi Bu Shu" Xu Juyuan
Xu Juyuan was a poet of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, quite famous, but he died at the hands of robbers very strangely, which was also a big unsolved case at that time. Therefore, there is also a lot of speculation about his case.
Li Mingrui was Xu Juyuan's uncle, and xu Juyuan had already disdained it by surrendering to Dashun and then to Daqing, and after returning to Nanchang, Li rehearsed operas and feasted on guests with great fanfare, which made him even more disdainful.
Once Xu went to see Li Mingrui, he was sick with Li Mingrui, and he lamented to Xu in bed that it looked like he would not live for a few days.
Xu Juyuan saw that he was a bit pretentious, and said: No, old senior, you are fine in the year that Jia Shen Guo broke, you are fine when the City of Nanjing is broken, I see that you can still live for many years!
Xu's sarcastic remarks deeply stung Li Mingrui's self-esteem.
Later, Xu Juyuan did not do two things endlessly, and wrote a folding play with several good deed literati.
The content is roughly satirizing Li and his good friend Gong Dingzi (芝麓), a minister who also surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, stumbling south in the chaos, fabricating that they encountered rebels at the West Lake and fled into the Temple of The King of Yue in a hurry.
The rebels came looking for them, and the two of them burrowed into the iron statue of Qin Juniper's wife Wang Clan in front of Yue's tomb, relying on Wang's skirt to cover it tightly to avoid the search of the rebels.
Who knew that on that day, the Wang clan came to the menstrual holiday, and the two of them were drenched in their heads, and they were embarrassed.
As soon as this drama was performed, it became a sensation, and people clapped their hands and applauded.
Just when Gong Dingzi was on a mission to the south, gathering with Li Mingrui in Nanchang, he was very angry when he heard that this drama had been staged and was successful, so he secretly went to watch the drama together, and when he saw it, he was ashamed and angry, and he cried and returned, determined to get rid of Xu Juyuan.
Xu had a residence on the east lake in Nanchang City called Yudun Beishu, but often returned to his hometown she mu on the other side of the Ganjiang River. The two arranged for the assassins to pose as robbers, and after discovering that Xu Juyuan had returned to his hometown one time, the strongmen broke through the door in the middle of the night and demanded money.
Xu Juyuan insisted that he had no money, so the robbers tied Xu up and roasted him on fire until he was half-crippled.
When his brother-in-law Xiong Renlin heard the news and rushed to the scene of the crime, the robbers ran away early, only to see the dying Xu Juyuan repenting of what he had done in his life, and was burning his own manuscripts one by one.
The point is that the thieves didn't take the property either.
This incident occurred on the fourth night of the first month of March in the fifteenth year of Shunzhi (1658), when the soldiers and horses were in chaos in the early Qing Dynasty, and no one pursued it, and a generation of talents died in this way.