Judgement

Chapter 1

Since Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty and more than [-] members of the clan in Kaifeng were taken away by Jin soldiers, the ninth son of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Kang Wang Zhao Gou, was exempted from this difficulty because he was appointed as the Marshal of the Hebei Army and Horses to recruit troops. Soon after ascending the throne in Yingtian, the Jin soldiers continued to hunt him down. He fled to Yangzhou, and was forced to flee to the sea. Finally, he settled in Lin'an (now Hangzhou City) and stabilized temporarily, thus establishing the Southern Song Dynasty.The Southern Song Dynasty was extremely cowardly and peaceful.Starting from Zhao Gou, the emperor had nothing to do, and treacherous officials were in power, which can be called the weakest dynasty.Gaozong Zhao Gou bowed his knees and surrendered to the Jin Dynasty.In the country, the palaces are overhauled, and the extravagance is extremely lustful, only seeking partial security.A total fool.

In the 20th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1151), three strange things happened in Chenjiazhuang at the foot of Ziyun Mountain outside Lin'an City.

The Chen family village is very small, and there are only twenty or thirty families living in the whole village, with a population of only a hundred people. Although there is land to grow, the life is very tight, and they are all farmers who plan their food on the ground.Most of the Chen family village is surnamed Chen, and there is a family in Zhuangzi called Chen Youfu who married his wife Tian. The couple usually burn incense and chant Buddha, and accumulate virtue and do good deeds.The only fly in the ointment is that the husband and wife have been married for more than [-] years, but they have no children.

In the early years, Chen Youfu was a peddler in Lin'an City, selling rouge, gouache, needles and thread.There was some savings in life, and later married Tian's wife.Tian is also a woman who knows how to live, and her embroidery is even better. Every day, she spins some yarn at home and embroiders some shirts for her husband to take out to sell.Clothing fabrics in the Song Dynasty were mainly silk fabrics, and the varieties included brocade, flower silk, gauze, silk, silk, and Kesi.The most famous brocade in the Song Dynasty was Sichuan brocade in Chengdu, and its patterns include eight-dash halo, six-dash halo, and plate blankets with combined geometric patterns.Geometrically filled sunflowers, clusters of four golden carvings, large nests of horses on blankets, snow blankets on the road, double nests of cloud geese, etc.Tianxiale with the theme of utensils (lantern brocade, created by Wen Yanbo in Chengdu to flatter Concubine Renzong Zhang Gui).Yinan Baihua, etc. with character themes.The real red phoenix piercing through branches, the real red peacock with hundreds of flowers, the blue and green auspicious grass cloud crane and so on.Ruyi peony, hibiscus, double lotus, true red cherry, true red water ringo, etc. with flower theme.Animal themes such as lions, wild geese, celestial horses, goldfish, and the skillful hands of the Tian family, the silk weaves and the brocade embroidered have all become objects of contention for women.

Chen Youfu picked up the shopkeeper to take the burden of going out, and Tian Shi took care of the housework at home. Life is getting better and better, but Tian Shi always has a lump in his heart.In the morning and evening, incense will be burned to pray to the Buddha, praying that a man and a half woman will come down from the sky, so that the Chen family will not lose the incense.Chen Youfu is already 55 years old, and his wife is 47 years old.The salesman can no longer bear the burden, and the husband and wife are guarding a few acres of land, planning to spend their old age and the rest of their lives in peace.

The generosity of the couple in Chenzhuang is well-known. No matter who is short of something, the couple will enthusiastically help after they know about it.Therefore, although Chen Youfu is not the richest in Chenjiazhuang, it is definitely the most respected family.

This night was the same as usual, the couple went to rest early after worshiping the Buddha and offering incense.In his sleep, Chen Youfu faintly felt that someone was calling his name.Chen Youfu followed the sound and found a multicolored auspicious cloud within the wall of his courtyard, on which was sitting the great Guanyin.Chen Youfu fell to his knees in shock, and Guanyin said to Chen Youfu: "Good man Chen Youfu, you have no descendants in your life. God has pity on you for being kind and charitable in the past few decades. I think of your piety and send Liner for you. "Chen Youfu's greatest wish is to have a child. Unexpectedly, he would be moved to heaven. Chen Youfu, who kowtowed like garlic, thanked him repeatedly.When he raised his head, he saw Avalokitesvara pulling out a green bamboo from the clear glass bottle and throwing it into Chen Youfu's courtyard.When I looked again, the five-color auspicious clouds in the yard had disappeared.

Chen Youfu only felt that someone was pushing him to open his eyes, and his wife Tian Cui'e stammered and said, "You are blessed, you are blessed, wake up, I just dreamed that Guanyin Bodhisattva gave us a son."

"What, you also had such a dream?" Chen Youfu was frightened by his wife's words. When the couple talked about the dream, they turned out to be exactly the same... Chen Youfu said to Tian: "This is probably not a dream, is it?" ?" Chen Youfu saw a faint green light in the yard through the window lattice at the head of the bed.The husband and wife held up the lamps and walked towards the courtyard, feeling joy and fear in their hearts.

With a soft creaking sound, Chen Youfu opened the door, and Tian Shi held the lantern behind him.The two of them entered the courtyard one after the other, and on the corner of the courtyard there really grew a stalk of green bamboo as tall as half a person.Just as in the dream, Chen Youfu and Tian Cui'e knelt down to thank God.Since then, Tian Cui'e's belly has slowly swelled, and the old clam with pearls has become a miracle in Chenjiazhuang, but compared to what happened later, this is nothing.

Chen Youfu is always in good spirits on happy occasions, and he always smiles every day. He didn't expect that he would be half buried in the loess, and he would have children.So on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, I have to go to the temple to pay the gods, and lead people to pave roads and build bridges in Chenjiazhuang.Chen Youfu was highly praised in Chen Family Village.But there was one person whose teeth were itching with hatred, and that person was Chen Yougui, Chen Youfu's cousin.Chen Yougui used to come to his cousin's house often to find out, have a meal or something.I thought in my heart that after my cousin died, wouldn't my cousin's house and land be my own?Now that Chen Youfu suddenly got married, all the wishful calculations came to nothing... Chen Youfu still greeted this cousin who was 11 years younger than him as before. After all, he was a close relative, and he didn't treat him at all wary.

The days passed day by day like this, from spring to summer, Tian Cui'e was already pregnant in October, and she was about to give birth.Chen Youfu made an agreement with the only stable woman in the village, Mrs. Bai, and paid the deposit, and she will go to Chen Youfu's home to deliver the baby tomorrow. After receiving the deposit, the stable woman will be ready to deliver the baby tomorrow, no matter how old she is You have to let everything go first, and you have to deliver the baby whenever someone calls you. This is the rule.

The Bai family is about thirty years old, and she moved to Chenjiazhuang only a few months ago. She claimed that her surname was Bai Ming and never told anyone, so people in the village always called her Bai family.Just because she would deliver babies, she became the only stable woman in the village.As for what the Bai family did in the past, no one knows.

The next day, at dawn, Chen Youfu started to get busy at home.The aunts and aunts in the neighborhood all came to help, those who boiled the water, and those who made the dough. The busyness inside and outside the house became a mess, and the aunts and aunts drove Chen Youfu to the yard, saying that women gave birth to children. I can't stand the man in the house.Chen Youfu could only be anxious in the courtyard, the green bamboos in the courtyard had grown more than ten feet high, Chen Youfu held the green bamboo heart like frying.

It was past noon, and the sky was still clear, but suddenly there were dark clouds, lightning and thunder. At this moment, Tian's family in the room yelled "Alas", and Aunt Zhu came out from the room and said, "Auntie Cui'e is going to give birth. Now, go and call Mrs. Wen.”

Chen Youfu hurriedly ran to call Mrs. Wenpo Bai. Chen Youfu, who had just left the house, found that the dark clouds in the sky seemed to be pressing down. Jiao Lei hit Chen Youfu one after another...

Just arrived at Wen Po Bai's door, it was already so dark that I couldn't see my fingers.Just as Chen Youfu was about to knock on the door, the door opened by itself. Holding a lantern in his hand, Bai said to Chen Youfu: "You are here, let's go. For a while, no matter what you hear on the road, don't open it." Eyes, remember, remember." After speaking, Bai took out a piece of white silk from his hand and handed it to Chen Youfu. Although Chen Youfu was suspicious, he couldn't say anything and had to follow Bai's wishes. Rules for delivering babies?

Chen Youfu took the white silk, and the stable woman Bai shouted: "Close your eyes, get up." Chen Youfu felt as if he was flying through the clouds, and the sudden sound of wind and thunder came from his ears.The sound of wind and thunder was mixed with many cries, and the cries were piercing. Chen Youfu silently recited in his heart: Amitabha, pray to God for protection.

Chen Youfu understood that this stable woman, Bai Shi, must not be an easy character.If Chen Youfu opened his eyes at this time, he would definitely be frightened to death, the front of his house was full of ghosts, and hundreds of monsters gathered.The hanged ghost with its tongue sticking out, the ghost with a knife holding its head in its hand, the fast-moving ghost with its feet on the ground, the Raksha ghost with black hair and blue eyes...all these ghosts were prevented from entering the house by a layer of green energy. , Bai took out a handful of silver needles from the small basket in his hand, murmured: "Disease", and suddenly the silver needles turned into silver light in the sky and pierced the ghosts.The ghosts roared in pain, but when they saw Mrs. Bai, they all ran away in despair.

Wenpo Bai smiled contemptuously at the corner of her mouth, and thought to herself: This is the idea of ​​waiting for the goods to come and get a fairy body!I really don't know how to live or die.Bai patted Chen Youfu and said, "Go in." Only then did Chen Youfu timidly open his eyes.The Bai family followed Chen Youfu into the gate, the green air outside the house opened up as Chen Youfu entered, Chen Youfu couldn't see all this.

The sky was like black ink, and strong lightning bolts hit Chenjiazhuang. People who came back to Zhuangzi from outside were all amazed. Outside Zhuangzi, the sky was clear, but inside Zhuangzi, it was as dark as night, with thunder and lightning.There was no one in the whole village, and the doors of every house were closed.

The green bamboos in the courtyard turned out to be automatic without wind, and the faint sound of chanting sutras could only be heard in the temple from the whirling bamboo leaves.When Bai Shi heard the sound of chanting sutras, she trembled tremblingly, and the bamboo leaves formed a huge net in the air, smashing towards Bai Shi...

Bai Shi stretched out his hand to grab Chen Youfu's back, but the net made of bamboo leaves covered Bai Shi even faster.The sound of the Vajra Mantra issued by the green bamboo was like a bell, and Bai Shi howled and rolled in the bamboo web.In the net, Bai Shi showed his real body, and there was a seven-tailed white fox in the net.

No matter how stupid Chen Youfu was, he knew that the Bai family in front of him must not be a good person, so he turned around and hid in the house in fright. The aunts and aunts in the house also heard the chanting in the courtyard and asked Chen Youfu strangely: "What are you doing?" If you don’t invite the stable woman, why did you recruit the monk?”