The following story is from the Qing Dynasty Niu Xiao only blame note novel "Yao Leftovers", which was slightly changed when translated.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Yuan Ying'er under li zicheng, the king of the chuang dynasty, and there were many soldiers under his command. Yuan Ying'er later garrisoned troops in Hebei (north of the Yellow River), but he often allowed his men to go down to the south of the Yellow River to loot supplies, and sometimes he even personally led his troops to rob the villagers, for which many people were killed.
Twenty miles away from Chen Zhou, there was a young man named Huang Mingwu, whose father had been killed by Yuan Ying'er's men. Huang Mingwu remembered his father's vendetta and was bent on revenge, but he was young and had no soldiers, and he wanted to enter an army of more than 10,000 people and kill a soldier, maybe even a general.
After thinking about it for a long time, Huang Mingwu finally thought of a way, he went to Yuan Ying'er and became a soldier in his army.
Huang Mingwu is tall and burly, can ride horses, used to follow his father to hunt, so he can also shoot arrows, and his martial arts are very high. In addition, Huang Mingwu can also play the pipa, which is rare in the military. Yuan Ying'er knew that Huang Mingwu was a native of ChenZhou, and he had led people to rob and kill many people there, so he did not want to accept it, but seeing that Huang Mingwu could fight, he could play the pipa, and finally accepted him.
After becoming a soldier, Huang Mingwu made a secret visit to inquire about the news and investigate the murderer of his father. A month later, Huang Mingwu found out that the murderer of his father was Yuan Ying'er's younger brother Yuan San. Huang Mingwu did not act rashly, he continued to wait for the opportunity.
Not long after, Yuan Ying'er sent Yuan San to Chen Prefecture to investigate and see if there were any officers and soldiers. Huang Mingwu asked to follow, and Yuan San knew that Huang Mingwu had the ability and agreed. Yuan San took more than a hundred cavalry to Chen Prefecture, stayed temporarily, and sent troops around every day to inquire about the news. Huang Mingwu took advantage of an opportunity to go out, secretly returned home, gathered eighty daredevils, said where Yuan San was stationed, the location of the tent at night, and so on, and then went back.
In the evening, eighty daredevils quietly approached Yuan San's tent, rampaged, defeated these cavalrymen, and then brought both Yuan San and Huang Mingwu back. After dawn, the cavalry wanted to rescue Yuan San, and just as the officers and soldiers came, they were frightened and returned to Hebei.
After returning to Chen Prefecture, those daredevils wanted to kill Yuan San, and Huang Mingwu pretended to recognize the leader and said to Yuan San: Isn't this my superior? How to catch you. Oh, good brother, since you let me go, you also released the general. Therefore, these people untied the rope for Yuan San, and Huang Mingwu asked the good brothers to treat Yuan San kindly, but they still refused to let Yuan San go.
After a while, it was the death day of Huang Mingwu's father, and he suddenly asked someone to tie Up Yuan San, yelled loudly, and said: Yuan San, you killed my father last year today, do you remember? I want to avenge my father today. These days of good wine and good food, spit it out for me. He asked someone to bundle Yuan San strongly, put it in a large basket, and carried it to his father's grave, first pouring wine on Yuan San, then paying tribute to his father, and finally killing Yuan San, and cutting his abdomen and heart, and another torch yuan San was frustrated and ashes.
Three miles away from Huang Mingwu's house, there was a willow tree where Yuan San killed Huang Mingwu's father last year. So Huang Mingwu lifted his head and hung it on the willow tree.
After revenge for killing his father, Huang Mingwu did not return to Yuan Ying'er and lived at home.
Half a year later, the donkey of the Huang Mingwu family gave birth to a small donkey, the small donkey was pure black, very strong, and the appearance was good. There was a local person who wanted to buy this little donkey and pay fifteen silver taels, but Huang Mingwu also felt that the black donkey was good and was unwilling to sell it. After the black donkey grew up, he helped the Huang Mingwu family to do a lot of work, and Huang Mingwu often rode the black donkey out to do things.
One day, Huang Mingwu rode out on a black donkey, went home in the afternoon, passed the willow tree, and the black donkey suddenly began to speak: I am Yuan San, I did kill your father, you avenged my father, killed me, opened my intestines and stomachs, dug out my heart and liver, and raised the ashes of the wrong bones, these can also be understood, but why do you hang my head elsewhere, so that I don't have a whole corpse? It's so cruel, I want revenge.
After saying that, the black donkey threw Huang Mingwu down at once, and then opened his mouth to bite Huang Mingwu, Huang Mingwu's left leg was broken, unable to move, bitten a lot by the black donkey, arms, shoulders, legs, back, there is no complete skin. After biting, the black donkey kicked Huang Mingwu with his hooves again, breaking Huang Mingwu's left arm. Fortunately, Huang Mingwu wore a hat, and in a critical moment, he used the hat to cover his neck, and the black donkey did not bite his neck.
The black donkey seemed to still not understand the hatred, and wanted to kick Huang Mingwu's head, Huang Mingwu was horrified, struggled to crawl away, saw a well, and rolled into the well. The black donkey was not willing, licked the blood on the side of the well clean, and also wanted to jump into the well and hunt down Huang Mingwu, but because his body was too long, he did not succeed.
At this time, a few villagers passed by, saw Huang Mingwu's donkey at the well, and there was no one nearby, felt very strange, and came over to see. Huang Mingwu heard the footsteps and hurriedly called for help, and the black donkey looked at it and immediately returned to normal. Several people used belts to make ropes, pulled Huang Mingwu out of the well, and carried Huang Mingwu home.
A few months later, Huang Mingwu recovered from his injury and his arm returned to normal, but his left leg was seriously injured and could not recover, and he still limped. After he was able to walk, the first thing he would do was to kill the black donkey. Others couldn't understand it, and asked him why he wanted to kill the donkey, Huang Mingwu said that the black donkey was the reincarnation of Yuan San, Yuan San had killed his father, and he had killed Yuan San.
When the man heard this, he sighed and said: When will it be possible to repay the wrongs? Better let him go, lest he retaliate against you in the future.
Huang Mingwu felt that it made sense, so he had the black donkey led to the market and sold it, and got sixteen taels of silver. When the author wrote this story, he also saw Huang Mingwu, and Huang Mingwu was still lame on one leg at that time.