Talking about Zai Zhiyi| Xue Weiniang

Feng Yugui was a Confucian student in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, whose family was very poor and had no occupation to live on. During the Wanli Dynasty, there was a great famine, and Feng Yugui fled to the south alone, and when he returned, he fell ill when he went to Yizhou. He tried his best to walk a few more miles, and when he reached a mass grave in the south of the city, he felt even more tired, and he could not walk, so he lay down against a grave. Suddenly, as if in a dream, he came to a village, and an old man came out of the door and invited him in. When I looked inside, I saw that there were two rooms, which looked very simple. There was a woman in the house, sixteen or seventeen years old, handsome and elegant. The old man asked the woman to cook cypress soup and serve it with pottery to entertain the guests. Then he asked Feng Yugui's place of origin and age, and when he was done, he said to him, "My name is Li Hongdu, and I am from Pingyang." It has been thirty-two years since he has lived here. Please remember my door, and if my children and grandchildren want to visit, I will ask you to point them out. The old man does not dare to forget your love. She is my righteous daughter, called Comfort Lady, not ugly in appearance, and can be promised to you as a wife. When my third son comes, let him officiate on your behalf. Feng Yugui was very happy to hear this, and saluted the old man: "I am twenty-two years old this year, and I have not yet married a relative." It's good that you married your daughter to me, but where can you find your family to tell them? The old man said, "You just have to live in the village and wait for more than a month, and naturally someone will come, but I hope you don't wait impatiently." Feng Yugui was afraid that his words did not count, so he threatened him to say: "Tell you the truth, I am very poor, my family is surrounded by walls, I am afraid that in the future I will not be able to do as you wish, and when the time comes, your daughter will abandon me halfway, which is really embarrassing." Even without this level of marriage, I would not have broken my promise. Why don't you tell it bluntly? The old man smiled and said, "Do you want the old man to swear?" I already knew your family was poor. This engagement with you is not all for you, the comfort lady is lonely and lonely and has no dependence, we have been relying on each other for a long time, I can't bear to let her wander with me, so I promised him to you, why do you have to doubt it? After saying that, the old man sent Feng Yugui's arm out of the door, arched his hand to him, and closed the door and went back.

Feng Yugui woke up and found himself lying by the grave, it was almost noon, he slowly got up and hesitantly entered the village. The villagers were surprised to see him, saying they thought he had died on the side of the road for a day. Feng Yugui suddenly understood that the old man was a dead man in the grave, and he hid it from him, only begging the villagers to let him spend the night. But the villagers, fearing that he would die again, did not dare to take him in. There was a Xiucai in the village, who had the same surname as Feng Yugui, and after hearing that he had come, he rushed to inquire about his family lineage, and it turned out that Fengxiu was Feng Yugui's distant uncle. He happily took Feng Yugui home and treated him, and within a few days, Feng Yugui's illness was cured. He recounted his experience to his uncle, who was amazed and sat at home and waited to see what would happen.

Soon after, sure enough, a guest came to the village to find the tomb of his father, who claimed to be a jinshi from Pingyang and named Li Shuxiang. It turned out that Uncle Li's father, Li Hongdu, was doing business with his fellow villagers, and when he died in Yizhou, A buried him in a mass grave. After returning home, A also died. At this time, Li Hongdu's three sons were still young. The eldest son, Li Boren, became a jinshi and served as the commander of Huainan County, and sent people several times to search for his father's grave, but no one knew. The second son, Zhongdao, was lifted. Shu Xiang was the youngest and also passed the exam. So he personally searched for his father's skeleton and came to Yizhou to inquire around. On this day, Shu Xiang came to the village, and the villagers did not know. Feng Yugui led him to the cemetery and pointed out his father's grave. Shu Xiang couldn't believe it, and Feng Yugui recounted his experience to him, and Shu Xiang was surprised. They looked closely and found that the two tombs were connected together, and someone said that three years ago there was an official who buried his concubine here. Shu Xiang was afraid that he had mistakenly dug someone else's grave, and Feng Yugui showed him where he was lying. Uncle Xiang ordered the man to carry the coffin to the side, and then began to dig the grave. As soon as the tomb was opened, I saw that inside was a female corpse, her clothes and makeup had been dimmed and worn, but her face was still like a living person. Shu Xiang knew that he had dug the wrong grave, and he was horrified and did not know what to do. And the woman had already sat up at once, looked around, and said, "Is it the third brother who is coming?" Shu Xiang was horrified and asked her nearby, and it turned out that she was the comforting lady. So he took off his clothes and put them on the comforter and asked her to carry her back to the inn. He hurriedly opened the grave next to him, hoping that his father would also be resurrected. When I opened the tomb, my father's skin was still there, but it was already stiff and dry to the touch, and he cried in grief. Shu Xiang put his father in a coffin, invited the monk Taoist priest to chant the sutra for seven days, surpassed the undead, and the comforting mother also wore filial piety like her own daughter. One day, The Comfort Lady suddenly said to Shu Xiang, "Once upon a time, My father had two ingots of gold, and he once gave me one as a dowry. Because I was lonely and weak, I had nowhere to collect, so I only tied it to its waist with silk thread, and did not take it, can my brother find it? Shu Xiang didn't know about this, so he asked Feng Yugui to go back to the tomb to look for it, and sure enough, he found it, just as Lady Comfort said. Shu Xiang still gave the silk thread to the comforting mother. In his free time, Shu Xiang inquired about the life of The Comfort Mother.

It turned out that Xue Yinhou, The Father of Consolation Niang, had no sons, but only gave birth to a daughter of Consolation Niang, and loved her very much. One day, Lady Wei returned from her uncle's house in Jinling and took an old mother to hire a boat. Rowing the boat was a matchmaker from Jinling. There happened to be an official, who entered Beijing after renmancy, and sent this matchmaker to pick a beautiful concubine for him. The matchmaker looked for several, none of them agreed, he was planning to row a boat to Yangzhou to choose, suddenly met the comfort lady. He had a secret trick in his heart and hurriedly beckoned them to board the ship. The old mother had always known this matchmaker, so she boarded the boat with the comfort lady. Halfway through, the matchmaker poisoned the food, and the comforting mother and the old mother were all fascinated. The matchmaker pushed the old mother into the river, returned to Jinling with the comfort lady, and sold her to the official at a high price. After the comfort lady entered the door, the eldest wife of the official learned about the purchase of concubines and was very angry. At this time, the comfort lady was still a little confused, and did not know how to salute the eldest wife, and the eldest wife beat her up and then locked her up. It wasn't until they crossed the river and walked north for three days that Lady Comforter woke up. Yahuan told her what had happened, and The comforter cried loudly when she heard it. One night, they stayed in Yizhou, and the consolation lady hanged herself, and the officials buried her on the mass grave. In the grave, she was bullied by a group of ghosts, and Li Hongdu always cared for her, and she recognized Li Hongdu as her father. Li Hongdu said: "You should not die, you should find a son-in-law for you." After feng yugui came to meet last time, Li Hongdu came back to the comforting lady and said, "The character and friendship of this scholar is worthy of lifelong trust." When your third brother comes, let him marry you. One day he said, "You can go back to the tomb and wait, your third brother is coming." "That day was the day when Shu Xiang excavated the grave.

During the funeral, The Comfort Lady recounted this past in detail to Shu Xiang. Shu Xiang sighed for a long time, and then he recognized Consolation Niang as his sister and let her take his surname Li. He also bought some dowries slightly, let her marry Feng Yugui, and said: "I don't have much entanglement on my body, and I can't buy a rich dowry for my sister." I'm going to take you back with me and make my mother happy, what do you think? "The comforter is also very happy. So the consolation couple followed Shu Xiang, loaded the coffin in a car, and set off together. After returning home, the mother asked about the comforting mother, loved her more than her own daughter, and let her and her husband live in another courtyard. During the mourning of Li Hongdu, the mourning of The Lady of Comfort was even more painful than that of his own children and grandchildren. The mother loved her even more, did not let them return to Liaocheng, and asked her son to buy them a house. There happened to be a house seller surnamed Feng, asking for six hundred taels of silver. The silver could not be put together between the warehouses, so he temporarily received the deed of the house and made an appointment for the date of redemption. On the day, Feng arrived early, just as the comfort lady also came from another courtyard to greet her mother, and suddenly saw Feng, very similar to the matchmaker who rowed the boat, Feng Was also surprised when she saw the comforting lady. Comfort Lady hurried past him. The two brothers also came to their mother's house because their mother was a little unwell. The comforter asked, "Who is wandering in front of the hall?" Zhongdao said, "I almost forgot, it was the man who sold the house the day before." "After saying get up, I'm going to go out." Lady Wei stopped him, told her the doubts in her heart, and asked Zhongdao to interrogate him. Zhongdao agreed and went out, while Feng was already gone, and only Mr. Xue, the private school teacher in Xiangnan, was sitting there. Zhongdao asked, "How did you get here?" Mr. Xue said: "Last night Feng asked me to come to your house in the morning to help sign the documents and be the guarantor." I just met him on the road, and he said that he forgot something once in a while, went home first and came back, and let me sit here and wait for him. After a while, Feng Yugui and Shu Xiang both came, so they talked to each other. Because of Feng Mou's sake, Wei Niang quietly came to the back of the screen to spy on the guests. She took a closer look, and it turned out that this Mr. Xue was her father. She suddenly ran out, hugged her father and cried loudly. Mr. Xue also shed tears in surprise and said, "How did my son come here!" "Only then did everyone know that Mr. Xue was Xue Yinhou." Although Zhongdao often met him on the street, he did not know his name at first. At this point, everyone was very happy, told xue Yinhou the previous story, and set up a banquet to celebrate. In the evening, Xue Yinhou stayed at Li's house again and recounted his whereabouts. It turned out that since the disappearance of the comforting mother, his wife died of grief, and he lived alone and had no one to rely on, so he taught people everywhere and wandered here. Feng Yugui and Xue Yinhou made an appointment, and when they bought a house, they took him to live with them as a couple. Xue Yinhou went to the Feng family the next day to listen to the news, and the Feng family had already fled with the whole family, and only then did he know that it was this Feng who killed the old mother and sold the comfort mother. When Feng Mou first arrived in Pingyang, he made a fortune by doing business, and then he gambled for many years, and the family property gradually decreased, so he had to sell the house; the money from the sale of the comforting mother was almost spent.

The comfort lady got the house, and she did not hate Feng very much, but chose a good day to move in, let alone investigate where Feng fled. Mother Li constantly gave things to The Comfort Mother, and all the living expenses were supplied by the Li family. Feng Yugui settled in Pingyang, but he wanted to return to Liaocheng to take the exam, and the exchange was very hard, fortunately, Feng Yugui won the subject. After the comforting mother became rich, she often thought that the old mother died for herself, and she wanted to repay her son. The old mother's husband's family name is Yin, a son named Fu, likes to gamble, and the family is too poor to stand. One day, when Yin Fu was gambling, he scrambled to bet, killed people, fled back to Pingyang, and fled far away to the comfort lady. Feng Yugui left him under the door. Asking the name of the person Yin Fu killed was the rower Feng Mou. Feng Yugui sighed in horror for a long time, and then told Yin Fu the truth, and Yin Fu knew that Feng Mou was originally his mother-killing enemy. He was even happier to hear this, and became a servant in Feng Yugui's house. Xue Yinhou also moved to his son-in-law's house, and Feng Yugui bought a daughter-in-law for him and gave birth to one child each.