Judgement

Chapter 45 Duan Yang Jokes

Chen Mengsheng asked about it but failed, so he found a temple of earth in a secluded place.A puff of green smoke rose from the ground while chanting the blessing of the land, and the green smoke ### revealed a land lord.

"The Landlord of Huzhou Prefecture pays homage to the Immortal."

"Excuse me, Lord Land, let me ask you what happened to the Lu family in Qianyuan?"

The Lord of the Earth sighed and said, "Ah, ah, ah, ah, a mortal matter, a joke can lead to endless disasters..."

That Qianyuan was originally the ancestral home of Lu Yunxiao, the capital of Huzhou, and the Lu family has been a scholarly family for generations.That Lu Yunxiao is even more talented and knowledgeable.He was able to recite poems and write lyrics at the age of seven, and was admitted as a scholar at the age of ten.Later, when Lu Yunxiao was out in the green, he occasionally saw Ye Shuang'er, a lotus picker.After going back, people don't think about tea and food, and people suffer from lovesickness.

Lu Yunxiao only had one mother, and his father died early.His mother saw that her precious son was sick after going out for an outing, and when she asked, it turned out that her son was suffering from lovesickness, so she asked a matchmaker to go to Ye's house to talk about marriage.

The Lu family is a well-known person in Huzhou Mansion, and the dowry is 200 taels of silver, which is embarrassing for Ye Shuang'er.

Ye Shuang'er already has a sweetheart, Zheng Weimin, because Zheng Weimin is a farmer.All parents in the world want their children to marry a good family, so the old couple of the Ye family agreed to the proposal of the Lu family.Although Ye Shuang'er said she was reluctant, her parents had already made their own decisions.In desperation, he cut a brocade handkerchief into two halves, expressing that Zheng Weimin and Zheng Weimin had no destiny in this life, and from now on they would live separately.

After Lu Yunxiao married Ye Shuang'er, she cared for her in every possible way, and she was afraid that she would melt away if she held it in her mouth.After a year of sweet love, the two gave birth to a big white boy named Lu Wuji, whose nickname was Peng'er.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yunxiao had a cousin with a high position and authority, who committed corruption and perverted the law.That year, Lu Yunxiao happened to go to Beijing to rush for the exam, and his honor was dismissed because his cousin and his family were also confiscated.

Lu Yunxiao's mother also got seriously ill because of this incident, and passed away half a year later.As the saying goes, accumulating wealth is like picking soil with a needle, and distributing wealth is like washing sand with water.The two years' worth of family wealth has been almost spent. One day's life requires food, and two days' life requires clothing.Lu Yunxiao is worried, fortunately a classmate from Shaoxing Prefecture introduced Lu Yunxiao to a teacher from the private school of a rich man in Shaoxing Prefecture, who also earns ten taels of silver a year.

Lu Yunxiao looked at his lovely wife and children, and agreed to go to Shaoxing Mansion as a private school teacher, and the couple lived in two places for a long time.Then Lu Yunxiao sent money home every month, and Ye Shuang'er took Peng'er at home.

Besides, since Ye Shuang'er married to the Lu family in Huzhou Prefecture, Zheng Weimin didn't care about the fields anymore, so he brought Ye Shuang'er's half brocade handkerchief to Huzhou Prefecture.Every day outside Qianyuan just to see Ye Shuang'er.

Ye Shuang'er has lived for a long time and also knows that Zheng Weimin stands outside Qianyuan every day, and he will invite people to gossip, so he doesn't go out at all.It's fine not to go out by himself, but the young Peng'er insisted on crying and shouting to play in the street.Ye Shuang'er was also helpless, and went out with her son in her arms.

Standing outside the door was Zheng Weimin, with four eyes facing each other, looking at each other speechlessly, only crying a thousand lines.

Ye Shuang'er said: "Are you okay?"

"No, are you okay?"

"Brother Weimin, find a daughter-in-law and live a good life, forget about me, don't come here again..." After speaking, Ye Shuang'er hugged Peng'er and returned to Qianyuan.

From that day on, Zheng Weimin missed Ye Shuang'er even more, and he also knew that Ye Shuang'er had a family and a son.He set up a maltose and candied haws stand outside Qianyuan just to see Ye Shuang'er once a day.

The private school also has three festivals in a year, and when the season comes, the private school will have a holiday for a period of time.Every time Lu Yunxiao bought a lot of food and play from Shaoxing Mansion and brought them back to Qianyuan.

If it is said that the most powerful thing in the world is people's words, Lu Yunxiao just arrived in Huzhou Mansion and before he got home, he was held back by relatives and friends he met on the road. After the greetings, he would frown and tell Lu Yunxiao, Ye Shuanger The relationship with the sugar seller is unusual.Lu Yunxiao didn't take it to heart either, as a scholar, after all, he knows that most of those who talk about people behind their backs are just looking at the excitement for fun...

When Lu Yunxiao returned to Qianyuan, he did see a sugar seller outside his house looking at Qianyuan from time to time.Lu Yunxiao suddenly felt pimples in his heart, and he didn't say anything after returning home.After spending a few days with Ye Shuang'er like glue, I always found that my wife Ye Shuang'er had something to hide from me...

Until this year's Duanyang Festival, Lu Yunxiao went back to Huzhou to celebrate the festival.Ye Shuang'er in Qianyuan got up early in the morning to buy chicken and wine, and made a good reunion dinner to reward her husband.At this time, the son Peng'er was already five years old, and it was time for him to be playful and mischievous.Ye Shuang'er was busy in the kitchen, when Peng'er saw her mother was busy, she slipped to the door alone.

Over the years, Peng'er has often sneaked out to eat Zheng Weimin's table bud candy, candied haws.Zheng Weimin also liked this kid very much, and would hug and kiss him from time to time.This time Peng'er took advantage of his mother's inattention and slipped to Zheng Weimin's candy stall again, opened his little hands and said in a childish voice, "Candy, I want candy."

Seeing that there was no one else at the stall, Zheng Weimin picked up Peng'er and said, "Scream dad, I'll give you candy." Zheng Weimin really liked this kid so much.

"father…"

"Hehe, I'll give you candy." Zheng Weimin grabbed a handful of maltose and put it in the child's hand. The child ate the candy one by one, eating all the candy in a while.

"Father, sugar, more sugar."

This sentence just happened to be heard by Lu Yunxiao who came in a hurry, and the blood rushed to his head.I didn't expect that I had raised a son for others for so many years...

He raised his hand and gave Peng'er a slap, Peng'er burst into tears.Zheng Weimin also knew about Lu Yunxiao after setting up a stall outside Qianyuan, but Lu Yunxiao didn't know about Zheng Weimin.

Lu Yunxiao took Peng'er in angrily and closed the door, looking for Ye Shuang'er.Ye Shuang'er heard her son crying from a long distance away, so she ran out to have a look.My husband dragged Peng'er and looked at Ye Shuang'er angrily.Pointing at Ye Shuang'er and cursing: "Bitch." After saying this, he shook Peng'er and went back to the study.Only Ye Shuang'er was left coaxing Peng'er.

In the study room, Lu Yunxiao angrily wrote a divorce letter due to years of grievances.Throw the letter of divorce in front of Ye Shuang'er, go out and walk away...

Holding this paper of divorce, Ye Shuang'er felt dizzy and almost fainted like a bolt from the blue.In the Southern Song Dynasty, a woman was sentenced to death if she received a divorce certificate, and her natal family would not be able to hold her head up in front of others for the rest of her life because of her daughter's divorce certificate.

Ye Shuang'er pushed Peng'er away, and with tears in her eyes, she found a pack of rat arsenic from the box and filled it with a bowl of chicken soup.Gritting his teeth, he poured the whole pack of arsenic into the chicken soup, only to hear the sound of "sizzling" and the arsenic was melting into the chicken soup.Ye Shuang'er picked up the bowl, but it was too hot to hold it in her hands.Thinking that he did not do anything against women, but in exchange for a divorce letter.The more I think about it, the more sad it becomes. In the future, how will my parents and my children deal with other people's white eyes and gossip...

Ye Shuang'er went to the study when the chicken soup was still too hot to drink, and took a pen and wrote on a piece of paper, "The clear will be clear, and the turbid will be turbid. If the injustice is not white, it will be clear with death." Six big characters, after writing it, I fell to my desk and cried...Ye Shuang'er left Peng'er in the courtyard to play alone, and his mother did not come to play with him.The child pouted and went back to the room. When he entered the room, he saw a table full of dishes, and the little guy climbed up the chair.

The bowl of chicken soup on the table was not very hot, so Peng'er picked it up and drank it.After taking two sips, he felt bitter, so he put the bowl on the table, and the child felt thirsty and had a stomachache after a short time.Want to drink water but can't reach the teapot.What's urgent is that he cried loudly, and the blood in his mouth, ears, eyes, nose and seven orifices came down.The child knew that he was suffering from thirst and struggled to the patio well two or three steps away.Throwing down the bucket like Ye Shuang'er in the middle of the week, the child fell into the well if the bucket wasn't picked up...

Ye Shuang'er woke up suddenly when she heard her son's cry in the study, wiped away her tears and rushed downstairs but couldn't find Peng'er.It is expected that he must have been taken away by Lu Yunxiao. The letter of divorce said that he was not a woman, and his shame and incorruptibility were like a needle piercing his heart.Ye Shuang'er picked up the chicken soup and burst into tears. If she died like this, she would be charged as a slut forever...

"No, this is absolutely not possible." Ye Shuang'er cleaned up the table full of food and wine, took out a three-foot-long hemp rope from the side room, and hurriedly closed the door. She was going to visit Zheng Weimin's house. hanging.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, this hanging on the door generally had two meanings, one was Mingzhi and the other was revenge.Mingzhi was mostly a woman who suffered an injustice of having an affair with someone else, and hanged herself on the door of that man's house to show her innocence.Resentment refers to the grievances in this life. I can't explain it clearly, and I can only die outside your house and turn into a ghost to claim my life.

The land lord stopped at this point, and said awkwardly to Chen Mengsheng: "Shangxian, what happened after this, I, the little land god, don't know."

Chen Mengsheng also knew that the priesthood of the land god was low, and he only managed one area of ​​water and soil, and many places didn't even have an earth temple.Now I asked Zheng Weimin about where he was, and bid farewell to the Lord of Land and went to look for Zheng Weimin, the sugar seller.

Twenty miles away from the eastern suburbs of Huzhou Prefecture, there is a village named Houzhuang.The paddy fields and lotus ponds are densely covered with stars, and it is now the beginning of autumn in the lotus ponds where the lotus fragrance and leaves are luxuriant, and there are many lotus pods.Quite a few girls and daughters-in-law are paddling boats in the lotus pond, which is really a picture of picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River.

There is a paddy field in front of Zheng Weimin's house and a lotus pond in the back, but the paddy field seems to have been neglected for a long time and weeds have grown. It took Chen Mengsheng a long time to knock on the door before he heard someone answer from the house.The person who opened the door was a dark, thin man in his thirties with dull eyes.

"Who are you looking for?"

"May I ask if this is Zheng Weimin's home?"

"I am Zheng Weimin, why are you me?"

"I only came to you to ask about Ye Shuang'er. Qianyuan Lu's haunted house is haunted. Zheng Weimin, you don't know about it?" Chen Mengsheng's voice was not high, but the black and thin man's face turned pale in shock...

"I...I... I really haven't seen Shuang'er again, and I don't know how she is doing now?" Zheng Weimin said helplessly.

Chen Mengsheng knew that Zheng Weimin did not seem to be faking but showing his true feelings, but the land lord said that Ye Shuang'er came to Zheng Weimin's house to hang himself, so it must not be fake, there must be something strange about this matter.

"Ye Shuang'er was hanged in front of your house, how could you not know about it?"

"What? Shuang'er is dead?..." When Zheng Weimin heard the sad news of Ye Shuang'er's death, he rolled his eyes and passed out...