Second Continuation of Golden Plum

Chapter 18

On the passenger ship, I met an old man who fed the leftover rice to the Wu in the Gusi. The poem said: "The poplar is blown by the wind and the wild dust is flying, and the chariots and horses are galloping. Autumn returns to spring."

The world is infinite, the body is easy to get old, and the mountains and rivers are as old as they are old.

The fruit in the rain falls to the tree, and the warbler sings outside the flower and gives it away.

Catkins did not know where to live, and floated across the river to dip a towel.

Shen Zijin's case has been cleared.Besides, Chu Yunniang was scattered by the golden soldiers, and Taiding and Brother Hui were gone, and she only led Xizhu to run around all night, just happened to meet a kumquat, and stayed overnight.Yunniang gets up tomorrow, thinking that his poor family is not where he lives, so where can he find Brother Hui?Crying and crying: "There is no man to lead, only Xizhu and me, where to live?" I really couldn't think about it.After staying for a short time, his son-in-law Wang Jincai came back and saw Yunniang sitting on the kang. After asking his wife, he found out that she was the old lady. Mother eats.Yunniang felt sorry, so she quickly took out a silver hairpin that weighed three coins, and told him to buy rice, saying: "Go to the city to buy rice, ask the soldiers for letters, find someone to post the posters, and post them everywhere." Look for it, it's in this nearby village, we don't know." Kumquat said: "Mother, I'll stay here for two days, waiting for my brother's letter. This sister Zhu didn't go out, she's a young woman, I'm afraid I'll go there by myself. This poor family has nothing to be filial to you." This Wang Jincai is very honest, poor is poor, he still has to buy a gift and go to the house to kowtow: "Ma'am, let's stay for two days to see," Yun Niang said. There is no other way.

Not long after, Wang Jincai bought some rice, wrapped it in a rag jacket, and a big pumpkin, bought some salt, put it on the kang, and said: "The soldiers in the city were in chaos. Rice? It was found by an acquaintance in the East Village. I couldn’t find anyone who wrote the tricks. Mr. Liu, who teaches in Qiancun, I invited him here today, and he said that he still needs fifty cents to buy paper.” He said. , the trained Mr. Liu came in, took a board, and wrote on the pot table.Yunniang cried and said: "The recruiter is from the Nangong Chu family of Wucheng County: On the 27th of this month, a family member Taiding led a seven-year-old child named Huige, who was separated from the army outside the city and disappeared.Taiding is [-] years old, has a long face and beardless, and wears a green jacket, blue cotton trousers, and cloth socks and blue shoes.Brother Hui was wearing a blue padded jacket, green cloth trousers, and Qingyun-toe shoes.If anyone sees it, report it and give him two taels of silver; for those who take him in, he will give him five taels of silver.Reported to Wang Jincai's family in Hexia Village.Never break your word.

The recruiter wrote more than twenty sheets, and asked Wang Jincai to post the recruiter.There is a shadow there.

Yunniang asked Jinju, "How far is it from here to Pilu Nunnery?" Jinju said, "It's not far, take the main road to the northwest, not three miles, cross the river, and look at the forest all the way. Last year, I would burn incense with the meeting. , I went there too." Because Yunniang was impatient after staying for two days, she wanted to change places so that she could ask for information, so she went out of the house with Xizhu, and wanted to go to the main road to ask the way to Piluan.Kumquat put on a sarong and said, "I'll see mother off." Yunniang, Xizhu, and Kumquat went on the main road.After walking for a while, I saw a blind man who sold hexagrams coming from the west, holding a signboard written in that cloth, which read, "Look at yin and yang, good or bad, marriage and burial, and know the eight characters and six Ren Qimen".

When Yunniang saw that it was a hexagram seller, she asked, "Sir, do you know how to take classes?" The gentleman said, "I don't know if you take classes as Dayi Huntian Jiazi." Yunniang said, "Please come here, sir." Take a lesson for me under Lin Zishu, which is the hexagram of lost population." The gentleman took out three copper coins, spread a piece of yellow cloth on the ground, and read: "Take it apart, take it apart." Shake the money, shake it twice, Put it on the cloth, and said: "It's a hexagram of 暌. The person who is 暌 is away from you, and you can't see it for a while. Shiyao belongs to Mao, so you should ask for trust in the southeast. The sun god is a snake, and there are villains. I am happy to have children and grandchildren. Gong Wangxiang, there will be a meeting in the future." Another family hexagram was changed: "This is all right, and the two virtues of the sky and the moon are happy, there is salvation everywhere, and the nobles support.

There is a letter up front. "After the lesson, Yunniang took off a ring without any money, which weighed one penny and five cents, and went with her husband.

After walking another three or four miles, crossing a small river and passing through the forest, Kumquat pointed out: "In those pine trees is Cenguzi Nunnery." Before I could say anything, I saw a man wearing a white cloth straight suit, a white cloth hat, and Carrying a small bag, she came from the forest, looked at Yunniang, and stood far away.After walking forward for a while, Xizhu said: "Isn't this the phantom sound of Master Cen's apprentice?" When he came to the front, the phantom sound came forward to greet him: "Where are you going, aunt? I haven't heard from you for a long time." Yunniang asked him why. Wearing white, the ghost voice said: "My teacher and father killed the local thieves with fire. There was a fire in the nunnery, but thanks to the main hall, it didn't burn down. They snatched everything, and the phantom was captured. It took more than three months There is a letter. Now I am in the imperial aunt's nunnery in Tokyo, asking me to pick him up. I went to the village to melt the rice and wait for the day. My aunt went in to have a look. I only asked one of my relatives to come and see the door. out and about."

While talking, I arrived at the nunnery early, and after calling for a long time, an old deaf woman in her 80s came to open the door.Yunniang and her party went in, but saw: the Buddha seat was tilted, and the bell tower toppled.The dust in front of the incense table buried the bay leaves, and the light inside the oil lamp was darkened with glass.Zhan Sandalwood Buddha has a head but no feet, why did he save the temple from fire; the God Wei Tuo held his pestle as his chest, so he couldn't save Shura from catastrophe.If the wild foxes don't come to search the earth, where will the little monk visit the heavenly demons?

Yunniang saw that the three abbots in the back had all been burnt down, leaving only two kitchens, the door to the main hall was gone, and the Zhan Sandalwood Buddha was also placed in the ground, not even the censer for the altar table.When Yun Niang came in, she was very miserable. First, she burned a burner of incense in the main hall and worshiped the Buddha.Huanyin asked to sit down on the kang in the kitchen, and was about to fetch rice for cooking, when the deaf woman said, "A man came to ask about the channel in Ye Lai. He said that it was Nangong's father's house, and he went to Tokyo." Yunniang was not there, so she came to the nunnery to ask for a letter, because Nangong Ji Tuomeng called to Tokyo to look for Yunniang, so she knew that Yunniang was still nearby.When Yunniang heard the letter, she seemed to see Brother Hui in front of her eyes. She wished that mother and child could meet again for a while, so she said, "I think Brother Hui has the letter, so I went to Tokyo." Then she asked, "When did this happen?" Zi said: "At noon the day before yesterday, he said that he couldn't walk, and he wanted to go to the boat in the mouth of Linqing River. Now it's only two days, and someone can catch up." The phantom voice said again: "If I knew he was going, I and I It's great that he picked up phantoms all the way with his companion." Yunniang said: "I'm afraid I'm still hiring a boat at the mouth of Linqing River, and I can catch up." After talking for a while, Huanyin set up a kang table and invited Yunniang Have a meal.Yunniang had something on her mind, so she only ate one bowl.After the kumquat was finished eating, she said goodbye to Yunniang and went back.

Stay overnight on the kitchen kang.Yunniang discussed with Xizhu: "Now that the child doesn't believe it, and Taiding doesn't believe it, how can he go to Tokyo? It seems that the Jin soldiers have taken him captive and gone north.

Now that I don't have a child, I'm like a crab without legs. It's better for everyone to rush to Linqing, find Taiding, and walk with him. It's better than worrying at home. "Xizhu said: "There is no man leading him. He doesn't know east, west, north, south, and the army is in chaos. He knows where to go?" "Huanyin took it over and said: "The eldest lady is going to find Brother Hui. I will accompany you for a walk, and I will also pick up the phantom. He is in Huanggu'an in Beijing. There is a place to look for him.The female monk's nunnery along the way, he has a place for us to meet people, so we don't need to go to the restaurant, and our female Taoists are also very cheap. " A few words made Yunniang feel settled, and said: "Get up early tomorrow, let's go to Hekou first and ask for Taiding's letter, it shouldn't be too late.It's just that I don't have any silver coils around me, and I have a few hairpins around my waist, so I can sell them and eat them. The ghost voice said: "My grandma, if I go out and spend money again, it's better not to shave these few hairs."A wooden fish roe, when it arrives at someone's door, it can't melt a few bowls of vegetarian food, and your old man can't eat it. "Everyone laughed.

Yunniang didn't close her eyes all night, and at dawn, she washed and washed her hands, and bowed to the Buddha, praying for blessings in secret, so that mother and child could meet again soon.Huanyin had already cooked the meal.After eating, Huanyin was afraid that the white cloth shirt would not be easy to beg for, so he still put on the soap-colored monk's robe and brought a wooden fish.Yunniang and Xizhu wrapped their heads in old handkerchiefs, and hung a string of plain beads under their necks.Fearing that the journey would be weak, Xizhu took a stick, which belonged to Aunt Cen, like a lay woman.After finishing dressing up, the three of them bowed to Wei Tuoqian and went out.Ask the deaf woman to watch carefully, and go to the mouth of Linqing River.Poor Yun Niang has not been out of the boudoir since she was a child, and has suffered from female sex.

The young women in the boudoir don't know how to worry, and the spring scenery is full of painting buildings every year.

Xiaoqi Qianlang is Fu Fan, and in the evening makeup, he calls his maidservant to comb his hair.

The chaos is like wind blowing, and the children are drifting like water.

Today, Guanshan is full of tears, and a goosefoot stick crosses the barren hills.

In a few days, we will arrive at the place where we disembark at the mouth of the Linqing River.There was a small nunnery on the bank of the river that shed tea. He recognized Huanyin as Master Pilu Nunnery, so he hurriedly invited him in for tea.There are tens of thousands of people on board, where can I find Taiding?After the chaos, there are a lot of people looking for their children.When Yunniang arrived, she asked the master of Shecha: "In the past two or three days, there has been a grown man in his thirties, wearing a green cloth jacket, looking for children, has he passed?" He responded indiscriminately: "There is this person who has passed by, just ask the way to Tokyo." With only this sentence in the foreword, Yunniang went forward with confidence.

After walking for two days, there was no host on the road, so I found a widow's house and stayed overnight.The ghost voice said: "Grandma, you can't walk dozens of miles a day. When will you arrive in Beijing? Why don't you take a personal boat and rent the rear hatch from him. The three of us will sit in Bianliang and send him to buy a few more liters of rice." It’s cheaper to eat on the stern of the boat.” Yunniang said: “Go as you like, I can’t even walk with some strength.” There happened to be a small salt boat with some people on the bow, and there were also some Those with umbrellas and packages.Huanyin had been traveling abroad for a long time, so he knew it was carrying people, so he quickly got on the boat, called the boatman, and said: "A grandma who is visiting relatives in Beijing, I will only rent you in the back cabin, and come to Beijing with you." One tael of silver." Please go in and have a look, the boatman, on the stern of the boat behind the kitchen, there are all piss and horses.Huanyin helped Yunniang into the cabin, and the boatman asked him for money to buy rice, Huanyin said: "Based on two bowls of rice per head per day, you will always get change when you go ashore."

Seeing that she is a female monk who is good at speaking, the boatman doesn't care about it.From now on, Yunniang just sits firmly on the boat.

But he said that Taiding was taken captive to the bandit camp in Sunjia Village. He met Song Ergouleg and asked him to join the gang. After questioning him carefully, he found out that his brother Song Xiaojiang was dead. , He was taken captive by the golden soldiers, so he was exiled among the thieves.Later, Taiding was asked to lead a group of thieves to rob the village, he threw away his gun and left, and went back to various places in Wucheng County to ask Yunniang.

Unexpectedly, the Jin soldiers came to attack the stockade of the local bandits, killed Jing Jing and tied Song Er to him. He was bound to be killed.Thanks to his niece Song Xiu, she became a wife in Jinyuan Shiganlibuying. She was eating wine and playing the pipa nearby. When she saw Song Er tied in, there were two or thirty people. Sister Xiu recognized him as his second uncle and his father, and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.If you don't want to leave, you will let the thieves go, take them into the camp as soldiers, and reward Song Er with a thousand generals, and follow them in the camp.

On that day, he went ashore from Linqing and wanted to go to Bianliang to meet the fourth prince Wu.There are two big ships, one is an inseparable official ship, and the other is a family ship.Countless Linqing women were captured.Because Sister Song Xiu could play the pipa and flatter her, she made General Jin faint on the pillow mat, and made him a little lady, dressed up like a fairy and witch.That Miao Liu is 45 years old, and she still combs her long hair, puts some rouge on her mouth, and looks like an old lady and mother-in-law.Na Ganli didn't know that his mother and son had been in the nest for a long time, an old whore for many years. Later, Song Ergouleg knew that Sister Xiu was favored, so he pretended to be his father-in-law, and swayed in front of the camp every day.One day, when I got on the boat, I fired a cannon and pulled up the yellow satin flag with the word "Marshal".The boat sailed back and forth, with a number on the stern, and there were about a few hundred people.

On the boat, flutes and drums are playing together, and colorful flags are fluttering lightly, as if walking by the wind.People's boats, cargo boats, and salt boats on both sides are all sailing along the two banks, keeping out of the way of the river, who dares to wander.On those two cliffs, there are chain-linked armored boats running, and the team of flags and flags goes on for hundreds of miles.

Yunniang and Xizhu peeped out from the back cabin of the salt boat, followed by his family boat, these scenes are very lively.After two days, Ju helped the big boat to stay.I saw a man coming from the big boat, from Yunniang's salt boat, and went ashore to buy shochu.Xizhu boarded the boat to fetch things, she looked very real, and said, "It looks like fellow Song in Cowhide Lane and his brothers have two dog legs, but they are a little fatter." He hurriedly told Yunniang.Yunniang didn't believe it, and said: "His family has gone to Tokyo to join Taishi Cai, why are they here?" It turns out that the windows on the official boat are covered with paper, and the women on the side of the boat are walking around, which is very real.Suddenly a middle-aged woman came out, but saw: her temples were slanting, her face was yellow and white.He is over 40 years old, with two drops of rouge on his lips; his body is more than three feet tall, and his face is covered with a lot of greasy powder.High-soled cloud-toed shoes, half an inch is not pretty; long eyebrows and staring eyes, accustomed to fighting can open dog holes in the dark nest for a long time, and even become Longyang from the false way.

Xizhu looked at it, and asked Yunniang to come out of the back cabin to look, and said, "It's not that Song Xiaojiang's wife, Miao Liuer, has skinned her mouth, so I won't recognize this whore!"

Yunniang was wondering when she saw another young woman walking out of the boat, about 21 years old.

But see:

The golden silk high bun is half of Beijing-style palace makeup; the oily hair is combed obliquely, and it looks like a prostitute in the market.The skin is neither red nor white, it is suspected that the hibiscus is coming out of water; the waist is neither long nor short, like willow thread facing the wind.Swallowing the python sleeves on the shoulders, Zhaojun will lose the pipa immediately; when the palace boots reach the knees, there will be no color at the foot of Yanzhi Mountain.

Yunniang looked at it once, but couldn't recognize it.Xizhu said: "It's like Miss Xiu from the Song family, we bought it for Uncle Gao, it's just that he grew up and got fatter, I'm afraid it's him too.

Just when did you come back? " Before I could say anything, I saw two women in buns, shouting from the bow: "Mrs. Song, Mrs. Song, come here to be stubborn." "It turned out that the boatman was fishing on the boat with his net, and he had attracted some women to come out to look. One of them was behind the crowd, and saw Yunniang and Xizhu coming out to look—it was the woman on the big boat—but he turned around and saw Yun first. mother.

Yun Niang thought that no one outside recognized him, so she just showed her body and stared blankly, but the man had already seen it clearly, and shouted: "Ma'am, why are you here?"

This cry can hardly scare Yunniang back to Lumengchou River, suspected to be in the bright moon in her hometown.

Yunniang looked back and was startled, it was none other than his second mother, Qiao Qiannv.

After Nangongji's death, he returned to the courtyard and married Zhao Erguan, less than two years later.This was taken captive into the camp, and he became his wife.Yunniang didn't dare to board the official ship, she only went to the front cabin, and the two looked at each other and wept.Yunniang said that Brother Hui was gone, and she wanted to go to Tokyo to look for him. Qiao Qiannv said that the city was broken and taken captive, and now she was going to Yanjing with her. Unexpectedly, they had to meet again here.Seeing Yunniang's ragged clothes and dusty head, she knew that the road was difficult, so she quickly pulled out a gold hairpin and a pair of gold rings from her head, and quietly handed them to Yunniang.Yunniang refused to accept it, Qiao Qiannv said: "It's also for our sisters to have a little heart, knowing where we will meet again?" Yunniang just quit.Everyone wiped away their tears and said goodbye.When Miao Liu'er saw it, she knew it was Yunniang, so she hid in the cabin.With the sound of a gong, the women entered the official cabin.Seeing that Qianli can't camp on the shore, there are tents densely packed.

At five o'clock, the horns were blown to set up camp, and the golden drums on the big ship sounded together, and the cannons were fired, and the melodious music was melodious.Qiao Qiannv didn't dare to leave the cabin, she pushed open a door, looked at Yunniang, and left with tears.

But it is said that Chu Yunniang was in the salt boat, and it took less than half a month to arrive at the gate of Bianjing city as early as possible.This is still Zhang Bangchang's position, and the golden soldiers are walking around without anyone stopping them.First let the phantom go ashore, pawn the golden hairpin for two taels of silver, and pay the boat money, then go ashore and go to the city to find Huanggu Temple.Six streets and three walks, walked to several nunneries, and did not talk to each other.After walking again, Fang found it.Entering the second gate, a group of poor people were eating porridge, and asked about the master.

I saw the elder come over and say: "Master in the past, please eat some gruel to connect with you." The phantom sound was also hungry after leaving. I looked around and saw that there were two tables for men and women. The men were sitting outside the kitchen, and the women were in the room. .An old woman sits on a Dafa kang, but she sees: white garlic hanging down, yellow gauze crepe on the face.The clothes are ragged, and the broken coat is full of flowers; the smile is calm, and the matting is full of air.Sitting high, there is no begging for a poor woman, and the behavior has the dignity of everyone.

Do you know who this wife is?It turned out to be Cai Jing's mother.It was only because Cai Jing was prime minister that he wasted everything and ruined the grain, so there was this report.It turns out that this Jigu Temple is next to the home of Grand Master Cai Jing. There is an elder in the temple who is very virtuous and obeys the precepts of Samantabhadra. Vegetable root, everyone eats together.Seeing Taishi Cai's sewer, which flows through the front of the temple every day, the leftover rice and meat oil on the water are two or three inches thick.The elder took a bamboo cage, fished out the japonica rice layer by layer, and dried them in front of the hall with a few large reeds.There are also those southern bamboo shoots, fragrant mushrooms, sesame mushrooms, and bird's nests. Only the young shoots are used, and they are all left in the gutter.The elders took them out one by one every day and dried them in the sun, and sealed them in a package for more than a year.When the Jin people were in chaos, Cai Jing and his son were all relegated to far and evil places.Halfway through the journey, he took back the rectification and copied the family records.In that temple, there are more than ten hoards of old rice and dozens of baskets of dried vegetables.The elder refused to use it for himself, so he made more than a dozen wooden signs, all of which said "Cai Mansion Surplus Grain", and every ten stones of rice was a stockpile.

When the great change occurred in Tokyo, the families of these powerful ministers were demoted, killed and confiscated, and all their populations died. Only the mother of the Taishi, Feng Yipin Taifu, Mrs. Li, who was over eighty years old, was exempted from crimes due to old age. of.These rich people beg for food for a living, let alone the poor.The old lady held a stick in her left hand and a thorn basket in her right, begging for some rice from the head of the family.There are also those who know, who would rather eat than give him a bowl of rice; those who don't know, like a poor woman, who will take care of him?
One day, walking to the front of the Jigu Temple, the elder was picking up leftover rice on the street in front of the gate.Mrs. Cai came to the front and hurriedly came to ask Huami.The elder couldn't bear it, and asked the reason carefully, only to find out that it was the old lady, who didn't feel compassion, and chanted "Namo Amitabha Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", invited the old lady into the abbot, and hurriedly waited for tea.Prepare another plate of dim sum, a large pot of corn porridge, a plate of radish, and a plate of toon sprouts.The old lady waited to go after eating, and saw the elder took out a booklet, which stated how much surplus grain was collected in Cai's house on a certain day, month and day.The old lady nodded, only to realize that good luck and disaster are not blessed by God, and Guan Suilu can't escape with his life.

The elder clasped his palms together and said, "My Madam: There is a Longevity Hall in this temple, which is used to receive the elderly and sick people from ten directions. Now the jungle is closed, and no one lives there for a long time, so I ask the old lady to live here. Block the small door and open another one." One door, recruit a poor woman to serve." Pointing to Chen Mi in the temple, he said: "This was originally Cai Taishi's oral salary, and it should be enjoyed by his wife." The old lady said: "It is useless to store ten stones with this one, and the rest The leftover rice can be used to give porridge to the poor, and it will be a success.” In a few days, I packed up a Longevity Hall, set up pots and kangs, and asked the old lady to move in. There happened to be a widow on the street. , without children, would rather come to eat ready-made meals and be with Mrs. Cai Tai.

There is a rice signboard hanging on the gate of the temple, which says "Leave the leftover rice to the public, and stop when the rice is exhausted". In front of the temple, there is a tea shed with ten benches, ten wide tables, and some thick bowls and wooden chopsticks.There are also those who eat porridge and those who beg for rice.All the philanthropists in the city of Tokyo came to send rice and firewood when they saw that there was such a good thing for Gusi.People's hearts are so kind, and it has been passed down from far and near, so a lot of firewood and rice were piled up, and a big porridge field was set up.There are more than three to five hundred people who ring the bell every day for dinner, or some old and lifeless poor women, all sent to the Yanshou Hall to celebrate this day. Mrs. Cai is watching the people eating porridge in this fasting place. She sees that the ghost sound is a nun. Please go to the kang and ask, "What's the matter here?" The phantom voice said: "There is a lay woman who came to Tokyo to find her son, but there is no place to settle down. It's not a coincidence to find a few nunneries. Now Standing outside the door." The old lady said: "Please come in quickly." The phantom sound came out, inviting Yunniang and Xizhu to come in.After seeing the ceremony, they all went to the kang and sat down.Yunniang came to look for her missing son, and said that the journey was painful, and she couldn't help crying.The old lady then said: "You don't need to go to find another nunnery. I have left all the shami for Gusi. Since I have nowhere to go, let's live in my yard for a while. Your son should also check out the letter slowly. When he arrives Is there any?"

Yunniang was also helpless, seeing that the old lady was loyal, she questioned her carefully, and found out that it was Mrs. Cai, the mother of Taishi Cai, so she came down and thanked her.A poor woman came to serve porridge long ago. After eating the porridge, all the women went to the yard over there.Yunniang temporarily sent it to Gusi, and Huanyin went to visit Huanxiang and Brother Hui's information.I don't know when Yunniang's mother and son will meet again in the future. It's just that: the heron flying in the snow hidden in the sky will only see it, and the parrot in Liu Zang will know it.

Let's listen to the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)