I. The "Chivalrous Guest" in "The History of Ru Lin"
There is a story in the "History of Ru Lin", "Chivalrous Guest False Head Meeting", "Chivalrous" Zhang Tie Arm San was "covered in blood in the middle of the night, carrying a leather bag" to visit the two sons of the Lou family of the Prime Minister's Mansion who had nothing to do all day and liked to make friends with celebrities, and poured out affectionately: "I have a benefactor and an enemy in my life." This enemy has been hated for ten years, and there is no way to start, and today I have taken his first rank here. Inside this leather sac was a bloody human head. But my benefactor is ten miles away, and he needs five hundred taels of silver to repay his great favor. From now on, my heart is gone, and I can sacrifice myself to be a confidant..."
The two princes listened to the flow of urine and thought that they had finally seen the true style of the chivalrous guest, left a leather bag, obediently sent five hundred taels of silver, and listened to the ghost words of Zhang Tie's arm, prepared a rich feast, invited a group of good friends to hold a "head meeting", and planned to let everyone witness the shocking scene of "human heads turning into water" after drinking and eating, "so that everyone can be surprised."
Who knows, from morning to noon, from noon to night, I have not seen Zhang Tie arm appear to "spray potion and turn people's heads", and I have to open the banquet when I see the guests looking at each other. I don't want to think about it at this time," the leather sac stinked out. The wife of the family smelled it, was not at ease, and sent someone out to ask the two old masters to see it. The two old masters were helpless, so they dared to open the leather sac, and when they looked, what kind of human heads were there, only six or seven pounds and a pig's head were inside! This time the mess was big, everything was understood, it turned out that it was played by someone fiercely, so I had to quietly call the pig's head to the kitchen to be rewarded with the family to eat, and the two sons secretly discussed that "this matter does not have to be known to one person."
A big pig's head, worth five hundred taels of silver, is really cost-effective, and there is no meat more valuable in the world. The faces of the two sons of the Lou family were beaten up, and since then, they have no face to wander around, honestly staying at home to "close the door and sort out the housework".
Zhang Tie Arm taught a lesson to the rich man's brother's strong and solid, which made people can't help but scream in pain. However, this story, the author Wu Jingzi is not original, in fact, it is the same as the plot of "Cui Zhang calling himself a hero" in the Tang Dynasty novel collection "Guiyuan Cong Tan".
SECOND, the "chivalrous guest" in "Guiyuan Cong Tan"
"Cui Zhang calls himself a hero" says that the poet Zhang Hu was a debauched man when he was young, because he was frustrated and like-minded Cui Ya traveled around Jianghuai, often taking advantage of the wine to make a bold statement, pretending to be a chivalrous guest, the guests who listened to him deeply thought that they were kind, and often some people set up wine and food to entertain them, in order to listen to a high-minded discussion, Cui Zhang and his name moved for a while, and could not help but flutter up.
Cui Ya also wrote a poem: "Three feet of snow on the Taihang Ridge, three feet of iron in Cui Ya's sleeve." Once you meet someone with a heart, you will go out and say goodbye to your wife and children. "The heroic spirit is expressed happily! Poet + chivalrous, wouldn't you be happy!
One day, a man dressed in Kong Wu, carrying a sword in his waist, and carrying a bloody leather bag came to visit Zhang Hu late at night, saying that after ten years of revenge, he needed to raise a lot of money to repay the benefactor, and after his lifelong wish, he could go to the soup for Zhang Gongzi, who lent silver money ("There is an enemy, ten years, and tonight I get it, I can't help it... In this three numbers, there is a righteous man, and if he wants to repay him, he will have a life of vengeance. Smell the righteousness of justice, can be false 100,000 taels. If you want to get paid, you are willing to do it. After that, he went to the soup to fight the fire, for the dog for the chicken, nothing to worry about. ”）
In the end, Zhang Hu gave away 100,000 yuan of money, and waited for a day with the leather bag left by the chivalrous guest, because he was afraid that the head in the bag would be found unclear and planned to be buried, who knew that when he opened it, it was a bloody pig's head!
The jianghu chivalrous turned out to be a charlatan! Zhang Hu made a self-reflection: the so-called chivalrous guest is just a liar who "has no name and no reality", and the deceiver is like this, and so is the deceived - "The heroic spirit has since died." ”