During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Duan Xiu in Jiangnan Province, who had been living in an ancient temple and studying hard, hoping to get ahead in the imperial examination. His wife was also very supportive of him, and even moved to the temple to eat and live with him, hoping that he would be able to pass the examination as soon as possible.
The monks in the temple added a word after Duan Xiu's name, called Duan Xiucai. Duan Xiucai did not like others to disturb him when he was studying during the day, so his wife often went to the temple gate to play, and one day Duan Fu saw a woman coming to beg at the door, dressed in rags, very pitiful. Madame Duan saw that she was not very old, about twenty years old, and her looks were okay, so she carefully inquired about her situation.
The woman said that she had fled from the north, although the current emperor Shengming, but the family was really crowded, had to go out to beg for food, and wandered here alone, only to rely on begging for a living.
Lady Duan thought that her husband was already a talented man, and according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, he could marry a concubine, so why not take this opportunity to take her in? So I said to the woman, you are tired of begging for food and sleeping, it is better to find someone to be a concubine, and you will not waste the world.
The woman said, I don't want to ah, but the fate is bitter, begging for food and drink are rejected by others, how can there be such an opportunity.
Mrs. Duan said, Then you will come to me and make my husband a concubine.
The woman muttered happily, saying that the innocence of the heavens was the virtue of a good life, so that I had to rely on the second half of my life from then on.
So Mrs. Duan took the woman to the house, bathed and changed clothes, and after carefully combing, the woman really had some posture, and when she brought her to Duan Xiucai, she was also very pleasing to her husband.
Women are not stupid after becoming concubines, and many skills can be learned as soon as they are learned. For example, cooking and stir-frying and washing clothes, the skills in two or three days are quite exquisite, mrs. Duan also taught her to sing songs to Duan Xiucai to relieve boredom, and a month later it was comparable to singing in the theater. Duan Xiucai later taught her to recognize some, so she had some temperament in the middle of the hand.
Duan Xiucai must be the happiest, because the world fell in vain a concubine, so he enjoyed the blessings of the Qi people, and he even gave the concubine a name called Yingying, a husband and wife, and lived with Hemei in this way. During this period, Duan Xiucai carefully asked about Yingying's family lineage, and even hoped to go to her hometown, but was cleverly prevaricating by Yingying. Coupled with the fact that she served Duan Xiucai very hard, she no longer doubted her identity.
Duan Xiucai's family borrowed to live in the box room behind the temple, generally there are very few people who go, plus the concubine rarely goes out, and even fewer people know that she has married a concubine, so after five or six years, outsiders still think that Duan Xiucai has only one wife.
On a winter night during the twelfth year of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was silence around the box, but suddenly someone outside eagerly knocked on the door, waking Duan Xiucai up from his dream. Duan Xiucai was lying on the bed and could hear very clearly, and a man shouted loudly outside, saying that he was yingying's husband.
Duan Xiucai reluctantly put on his clothes and went back to talk back, saying that I don't know you, why should I open the door for you! Besides, the warbler used to have no husband. Let's talk about something tomorrow.
The man outside was very angry and said, if you don't open the door again, I will come in through the crack in the door.
Temple buildings during the Qing Dynasty were mainly made of wood, most of the door panels were made of whole wood, the planer was pushed very flat, the door cracks were extremely small, not to mention an adult, it was also difficult for a few ants to drill into. Duan Xiucai said angrily, you are drilling, drilling to show me.
When the man outside heard this, there was no more noise, and he did not continue to knock on the door, so he planned to go back to sleep. But when he turned around, he saw that the warbler had come with a lantern, and Duan Xiucai still thought that the warbler had come to greet him, and when he walked, he said that he had finally come to find me, and he had finally found me!
After saying that, the warbler wanted to open the door and go out like no one, but was blocked by Duan Xiucai. Duan Xiucai asked loudly, who is he? Didn't you say you didn't have a husband before?
The warbler said, I have no husband, but what I didn't tell you is that I didn't have a husband in the yang at that time, but the husband in the underworld has always existed. Now that he's coming to me, it's time for me to go too.
Duan Xiucai immediately reached out and grabbed the warbler, but the warbler dodged it with a gentle concession, and Duan Xiucai only grabbed the lantern and knocked it over on the ground. The lantern fell to the ground, and the fire was extinguished immediately, and then there was a loud noise in the courtyard, and then it was quiet, as if it had not happened just now.
After hearing the loud noise, Mrs. Duan hurried to pick up the lamp, and she saw a shocking scene, Duan Xiucai actually bled seven times, and his eyes were lying on the ground, looking extremely terrible. Looking at the gate again, there was no sign of it being opened, but the warbler did not know where it was.
After dawn, Lady Duan brought Duan Xiucai's relatives and friends to the funeral, and they found that the blood on Duan Xiucai's body was dried up, but the ground was clean, and only then did she understand that Duan Xiucai's blood might have been sucked dry by the ghost.
After the funeral, relatives and friends looked around for warblers, but they could not find them everywhere. In the end, when he met the high person, he realized that the warbler was the ghost wife, and everything was planned.