In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, in the west of Chang'an Suzaku Street, the west of fifth street street, the third square from the north was called Yining Fang, and the west wall of GuoCheng was called the northwest corner.
In the streets of Yiningfang, you can often meet a crazy woman, singing songs back and forth throughout the street, sometimes crying and shouting inexplicably, and the people in the street do not know who she is, what her surname is, what her name is, only that she often sleeps under the wall roots of Yongmu, and everyone calls her Fifth Lady for a long time.
Although the fifth lady is crazy, but it is not annoying, the people of Yiningfang often pity her, the east family gives some food, the west family gives a piece of washed white old clothes, but no one is willing to take the fifth lady home, even the bare sticks in the workshop have not beaten the attention of the fifth lady.
There was a middle envoy doctor, people called him Dr. Ru, and once Dr. Ru was sent to Jinling to inspect the people's livelihood in various places. At noon, he was resting in a tavern, and Dr. Ru had just taken his seat when he heard the three people at the next table talking about something, which sounded a little divine, which immediately aroused his great interest.
Dr. Ru picked up a pot of wine that the little second brother had just sent, walked to the neighboring table and filled the glasses of the three people one by one, and inquired curiously. The three of them looked at each other, and one of them, a rough man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a full beard, said in a rough voice: "Thank you brother for the good wine, this brother is not a local." ”
"Well, it's not." Dr. Ru nodded and said, "I was seen by a few brothers." The rough man took a sip of wine and poured it down, and then wiped the wine from his mouth with his wide blue-black sleeves, and then he said, "There is a strange man named Xinfu in this Jinling City, although he is a madman, but sometimes what he does can know in advance what will happen in the future, and the most important thing is that it is quite accurate every time." He stopped and filled himself with wine.
Another thin and thin middle-aged man, a pair of narrow eyes, from time to time braved, took over the conversation and said: "Xinfu is the master of prophecy in our Jinling City, as long as he starts crying or singing in front of someone's house one day, this family has an accident, although crazy, but people still respect him." ”
The rough man approached Dr. Ru mysteriously and said, "There is something even stranger, in the middle of summer, people are very hot, eager to soak in the water all day long to cool down, but this Shinfu big summer, but the left layer of the right layer of cover with a thick quilt, even at noon on the body will not have a drop of Han; in the cold and freezing season of winter, even if the sky is drifting snow people are still bare-chested, wearing single clothes, and their bodies are still whizzing out of the heat, you say strange? ”
The square-faced man who had not spoken, dressed in a coarse cloth dress with a small beard on his chin, suddenly said with some ridicule, "So Nobuo is a true madman!" Every day, he kept a veil embroidered with acacia flowers and laughed! ”
Dr. Ru was also a little curious after listening, and said in silence, "Is there really such a god?" Is it stimulated? Does he still have family? ”
Everyone shook their heads and sighed: "I guess there is no family, I don't know where he came from, I don't know if he wants to leave, anyway, there are some days in this Jinling City, a good man, crazy into that look, alas!" He's a poor guy too. ”
Just as everyone was talking, a mournful cry came faintly from the street, and this sound penetrated the eardrums one after another and poured into people's hearts. I don't know who said, "It seems that whose family is going to pick up the bride." ”
The people in the tavern all sat still in surprise, and Dr. Ru listened to this bitter cry after another, frowned, and suppressed the disgust that was constantly emerging in his heart and asked, "Shouldn't this bride be happy, why is she crying so miserably?" The rough man shouted loudly, "This is the cry of the nobuo, and every time he cries like this, he is picking up the bride." Dr. Ru put down the raised wine glass in his hand and raised his feet to look for the cry.
The little second brother wanted to stop Dr. Ru from letting him pass, but he hesitated and shook his head or gave up. When Dr. Ru walked to a mansion with crying, he saw a man with long hair and a face of mud, who was now leaning over and sitting on the steps of the mansion with the words "Xie Mansion" written on it, crying loudly.
Two family-like people are driving the man out, and their mouths are constantly scolding: "You crazy man, get away, don't howl this blindly, if you miss the beauty of the old man, peel off your rotten skin, roll fast!" ”
Listening to people's discussion, it turned out that the man who was crying was none other than Nobuo, and the owner of this house was a local famous and prestigious family, and he didn't know what was going on, and this Nobuo actually came here today to cry. Dr. Ru wanted to go up and look at him carefully, only to see Nobuo suddenly stop crying, rub his eyes with his dirty hands, jump up and run away with a cigarette.
Within a few days, Xie Zhai was feasting on all parties in the palace, and a pair of fiery red words on the gate were permeated with a strange red light. The 70-year-old man of the Xie family actually looked at the 18-year-old girl, and today the house is setting up wine to celebrate. The people all said that this old man was an old cow eating tender grass, and he married a total of seven wives before and after, but he did not survive for three days, and the new daughter-in-law died on the marriage bed.
Time flies fast, and the day of returning to Beijing is getting closer and closer. On this day, Dr. Ru was walking down the street with his horse, planning to buy some Jinling specialties to take home, and when he gave his wife and children in Beijing a taste, he was stopped by a dirty man with half an arm out of nowhere.
The man had unkempt hair like a chicken's nest, and a pair of apricot eyes were also covered by a few strands of dusty hair. The retinue around him scolded loudly, and he only used his dirty black hands to stroke the hair that covered his eyes, and then pulled Dr. Ru's horse and said, "The adult is going back to Beijing, and I want to ask the adult to bring a letter." ”
Dr. Ru knew that the man was the believer who was different from ordinary people, so he asked, "To whom?" "I have a sister named Wuniang who lives in the capital, and now I have a small keepsake, and I hope that the adults can give it to her for me." Dr. Ru nodded in agreement and said, "I will definitely hand it over to The Fifth Lady." ”
When He received Dr. Ru's promise, he took out a clean white cloth bag embroidered with an acacia flower from his arms, stuffed it into the barrel of Dr. Ru's boots, and then took two steps back, bowed down to the adult and performed a big ceremony before he said, "As long as the adult tells the fifth lady that it is okay, it will be good to come back quickly." After saying that, without waiting for Dr. Ru to respond, he turned around and left.
Dr. Ru originally wanted to ask Nobuo how he knew that he was going back to Beijing. He didn't tell anyone the news of his return to Beijing, and this Xinfu actually happened to catch up sooner or later, although he had heard many times from the people of Jinling City and talked about the uncertain prophet of Xinfu, he had always been half-convinced and did not take it seriously.
Today, I was just planning to return to Beijing, and The letter husband knew the news, and did not explain clearly, when I arrived in the capital, where I could go to find the fifth lady. What's more, the woman named Wu niang in the capital is estimated to have thousands of them if she doesn't have hundreds, and she just agreed to it with a hot head. Dr. Ru stared down at his boot barrel, obviously he had just seen Shinfu put a cloth bag in it, but there was nothing in the boot barrel at this time;
According to common sense, the cloth bag is no matter how small, the boot barrel can also be seen, ah, this will make him unable to find the embroidered acacia cloth bag. Taking off his boots and socks without a trace, turning left and right is the shadow of no cloth bag, Dr. Ru has no way, thinking that he has just accidentally lost it on the road, so he had to send someone to the street to find The Letter Husband.
However, these people searched all over Jinling City, but they did not find the figure of Xinfu, and under the big tree where Xinfu often stayed, they only found a letter, which only had a simple sentence on it: "Adults can rest assured that they will return to Beijing, no need to look for it." After Dr. Ru read the letter, he left for Beijing the next day.
When Dr. Ru had just walked to ChanglePo, he was stopped by a woman who called herself the Fifth Lady. The retinue next to her went forward to rebuke the woman, but the woman smiled and said to Dr. Ru: "Lord, I am the fifth lady, Jinling's brother once entrusted you with a letter, now you can hand it to me, thank you!" Thanks a lot! ”
When Dr. Ru heard that it was The Fifth Niang, he turned over from his horse and said with some remorse, "There is a letter for me to bring to a woman named Fifth Niang, but now I can't find it." Fifth Niang smiled and asked, "Where did your brother put it for you, you just take it from that place." ”
Dr. Ru was a little strange, and looked at the woman in front of him, only to see that she was wearing a pale yellow washed and somewhat faded gown, a pair of peach blossom eyes with a smile, and was looking at herself with expectation at the moment.
So Dr. Ru reached into his boots, and a soft cloth bag was lying quietly in the boot barrel at the moment, and as soon as he grabbed it and put it in his hand, he saw that the acacia was opening warmly and quietly lying on the white cloth bag. Dr. Ru's eyes widened in shock, a look of incredulity, obviously he hadn't found anything in the boot barrel all the way, how could he suddenly appear now? He looked nervously at this cloth bag that came and went without a trace, and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
Wu Niang smiled, reached out and took the cloth bag from Dr. Ru's hand, and bowed to the adult Yingying. Then in front of the adults, she opened the cloth bag, and it turned out that there were three gorgeous clothes in the cloth bag, and The fifth lady's eyes immediately lit up, and in the blink of an eye, she put these three clothes on her body, danced, and walked forward laughing while dancing.
The next day, the eastern sky has just lit up, there is a mother-in-law who passed under the Yongmu wall, saw the fifth lady lying under the wall in a chinese dress, the mother-in-law was a little curious, usually the five women are wearing old clothes that are washed white, today they actually wore such a fancy dress, the mother-in-law went forward to wake up the fifth lady to ask, but as soon as the hand touched the arm of the fifth lady, the mother-in-law was shocked and retreated, and the mouth kept shouting.
At this time, the fifth lady was no longer angry, and her body was already stiff as iron. Hearing the noise, the nearby people all went out to help, and pooled their money to buy a thin wooden coffin for The Fifth Lady and buried him on a nearby hillside.
A year later, someone came from Jinling to visit Dr. Ru, and the two talked about the crazy man named Xinfu in Jinling, who said that Xinfu suddenly died on a certain day a few years ago, and the strange thing was that Wuniang also died on that day, and the two were thousands of miles apart, and they died on the same day, at the same hour.
There were so many things that seemed mysterious at the time, perhaps a kind of foreshadowing, or perhaps a relief, but for those who were in that environment at that time, they were ignorant and unknown.