Second Continuation of Golden Plum

Chapter 19

Gao Qiuyue, a gentleman, sent Yun Niang with a sincere heart, Song dog-legged villain, Zhouquan Taiding's poem said: After ten years of hardships, I have been with the king, and I have moved several places and then transferred to Peng.

After Bai Prime Minister went to war, the spring has passed and the chaos is gone.

Pedestrians look away at the west moon, and return to the horse Xiaoxiao to the north wind.

Bian River and Chu Yun are thousands of miles away, so don't hate how poor the world is.

But it is said that Chu Yunniang and Xizhu went to Tokyo because of looking for Brother Hui, and they were fostered in Jigu Temple, and accompanied Mrs. Cai Tai, eating rice porridge from those temples for more than a year.Huanyin inquired that his senior brother, Huanxiang, had returned to secular life and married, and returned to Wucheng by himself.It just ended up that Yunniang searched everywhere in Beijing, but there was no trace of Brother Hui.Yunniang was going to die several times, and she was afraid that Brother Hui would still be there, so she was worried; when she wanted to go home, she would have to worry about it, and there was no phantom voice to guide her, how to navigate on the road, so she was worried. Seven out of ten died, but thanks to Xizhu holding soup and water, it took a month to be safe.

Mrs. Cai was ill again, and she was over eighty years old and had no one to wait for her. Yunniang made soup and medicine for him all day long, just like serving her parents-in-law.The poor old man's lifespan is over, it's more than half a month, it's a pity.This old lady was born in an eunuch with many honors and honors, and died of old age with few children and grandchildren.For a while, the elders in the busy temple were worried, and the novice hurriedly said, "This old lady has no children or relatives. Where did the coffin and quilt come from?" In Jiangxi, he took him back to the Fa, and Gao Qiuyue buried him for him. Because the Jin people messed up Tokyo, he was cast in Zhang Bangchang's yamen and made a book office. He still looked decent. He never knew that his wife was in the temple. Let someone tell him quickly, and he will definitely come here to take care of you." Immediately, the little monk went to the front of the mansion, asked about his home, and asked to open the door.When Qiuyue saw a monk, he only said that he was begging for alms, so he waited to ask him. He said, "Mrs. Cai Taishi's wife died in the temple." I have a few taels of silver by my side, so I will meet you in the temple.The elder went on to explain in detail, only to realize that Mrs. Tai had lived there for more than several years.In the Longevity Hall, the old lady stopped at the head of the bed, wearing a rag and patchwork soap gown, and a string of bodhi seed beads under her neck, her complexion was as alive as if she had been sitting down.I don't feel sad and weep.After burning incense and worshiping, I took out ten taels of silver and bought a pine board longevity vessel.After working for two days, I buried Mrs. Tai behind the temple, and returned to my old family's tomb after Taiping.

When he was buried in the temple, there were two women supporting the coffin and weeping bitterly. Gao Qiuyue was wearing heavy filial piety, so he didn't have time to ask carefully.After the funeral was over, I asked the elder carefully: "Cai's house has been copied here, and there are no relatives in Beijing. Who is this? Are you so anxious to cry?" I have been sentenced to Qianhu, and I came here to look for my son, but I can’t go home. I have been with the old lady here for nearly a year, so I am sad." When Gao Qiuyue heard that Wucheng County sentenced Qianhu, he thought of it. "Nangong's relatives are my good friends, do they have some background? I don't know what's the news about his family after the chaos." Because I invited Yunniang to come out, I wanted to thank her for the funeral.Yunniang didn't know it was Gao Qiuyue, but she just came out to meet her.Qiuyue saluted and thanked him, because he asked Yunniang why she came here.Yunniang's teary eyes were drooping, because she said that she belonged to the Chu family, the wife of Nangongji, a thousand households in Wucheng: "Since my husband died, there was only one son, and because of the chaos, I was separated. I heard that he was taken captive in Tokyo. I found it all the way, and I was taken in by the old lady. Companionship is like a mother and child. Now that my wife has passed away, I am a woman from a foreign country, and it is not easy to live here for a long time, so I have to find another way. There is no man, how can I go back?" As he spoke, tears fell like rain.After hearing the words, Qiuyue stepped forward and said with a deep bow: "Sister-in-law Meng doesn't know, but I am Gao Qiuyue. Back then when Nangong's relatives were alive, we were as close as brothers, Yibi Lei Chen, how did I know that my sister-in-law is living here today. Since we meet again, I will take care of everything on my younger brother, and I will have someone take him over to stay there tonight." Yunniang went forward and thanked her like sweet rain after a long drought.Qiuyue bowed and said goodbye.When I got home, I talked to my wife. It was very miserable, and said: "This is a rich family, and now his wife and children are separated, and they are eating porridge in a temple! You asked Ying'er to go see it first, and then go to welcome him to live with him for a few days. Day. To send him back, it would be good to have a companion, but this person cannot be found.” Gao Qiuyue was very reasonable, and cleaned a yard and a clean room to house Yunniang.

But she said that Yunniang was overjoyed when she saw Qiuyue, and discussed with Xizhu, "I'm afraid he is from the capital, and he should be decent, if he is willing to take care of him." Xizhu said: "There are very few people with a conscience nowadays. A Tuer Shazui, who received our family’s kindness every day, refused to lend money to buy a steamed bun for Brother Hui when he was in trouble. Don’t say that he is a person from Beijing who is not familiar with him. He was Song Xiaojiang’s family at the beginning. Daughter, you are married to a god-in-law, and now Miss Xiaoxiu has gone back to marry another one, why are you in a hurry to kiss us?" Before he could finish his sentence, he saw a girl with a disheveled head holding a plate of rice and a plate of dim sum , A plate of dried tofu came in, saw Yunniang, kowtowed her head, and said: "My grandma is waiting to see grandma. It's getting late, come tomorrow, and let the sedan chair take it." Yunniang hurriedly took it away and rewarded him Fifty money, said: "Thank you a lot." The girl went.

The next day, Qiuyue's wife took a small sedan chair and brought another empty sedan chair to pick up Yunniang.When you come to the temple, let the girl speak first.Yunniang went out to meet her, and saw that Mrs. Gao Qiuyue was over forty years old, with a fair face, thick waist and thick back, and a fat body.Wearing a sky-blue cloud satin shirt, a white cloud mopping brocade skirt, and two small shoes, she speaks Beijing dialect, with a kind face, and comes in to ask for blankets to salute.Yunniang refused, so she bowed down.Xizhu went to ask the elders for tea, and immediately invited Yunniang to go with her. The relatives and relatives seemed to have been familiar with each other for several years.Yunniang had no choice but to thank the elder, and she and Xizhu got into the sedan chair and went to Gao Qiuyue's house.

Qiuyue waited at the door to enter, bowed and said: "Family, just stay at ease, I will look for the son's letter, and at the same time find out if there is a good boat to Linqing, so that I can take you back.

As long as I have a companion to go, I don't worry, otherwise it doesn't matter if I send someone to send it. "Thank you very much, Yunniang. Qiuyue is not easy to accompany, so I bid farewell and went out.

There is a single poem praising Qiuyue's loyalty:
Mo Daochang's forest is deep in frost and snow, and one branch is still chilling.

Mr. Ping knows who is hospitable, and most of them travel leisurely.

Aunt Gao and Niang Yun had tea and put down the Eight Immortals table in front of the kang.Knowing that Yunniang eats vegetarian food, two dishes of sweets - rock sugar, sticky tea leaves, two dishes of small fruits - longan and walnuts, the eldest lady sent chopsticks over, but Yunniang didn't move; four bowls of vegetarian dishes - one dish of oil and vinegar Roasted cabbage, a dish of soy gluten, a dish of deep-fried water eggplant, a dish of fried Chinese toon; two dishes of fried rice rolls, two large bowls of steamed japonica rice, and a dish of noodle soup.When Yunniang ate, Xizhu ate on the kitchen kang.After dinner, the eldest lady let Yunniang pass through a single courtyard behind the east house, with three main rooms and a grape trellis.Yunniang looked at the situation of Gao Qiuyue's house: the house is neither big nor small, and there is a rich and noble family style; there are old and new utensils, most of which are scattered and bought.Although the iceberg has fallen, the chariots and horses in front of the door are still majestic; the strength is still there, and the human feelings in the eyes are so simple and honest.Although a servant of a powerful family, you are better than a stranger in clothes.

Yunniang chatted with Mrs. Gao every day, and then asked: "Why did the children of the Song family follow him back?" Mrs. Gao laughed and said, "Dear family, you don't know, there is no one in this girl's family who has a conscience. He Because the father had no children to find a concubine, he entrusted his in-laws to send it to the future. He praised his golden lantern building rings, four seasons clothes, and a large suitcase. Because his father came to Beijing to entrust him, my father quickly took out five hundred silver to hold him Open a silver shop. I don't want to be demoted because the master of the house has a book. He knew that something happened to my family, so he stole the money and went with his daughter overnight.

That one is not good for him! Yun Niang said, "I met him on Jin Bing's boat, with his mother." " Mrs. Gao said: "This man will not be good in the end. He is ungrateful in one place and ungrateful in a hundred places. Even Jin Bing is also a person, and he will do it in the future. "Gossip is fine here.

But Gao Qiuyue suddenly heard that Marshal Zong's documents came to Beijing, asking Zhang Bangchang to go to the south of the Yangtze River, and invited the Empress Dowager Meng, all the officials, big and small, and all the utensils in the palace to board the ship.Except for large ships, at least a hundred or ten will be on board.Gao Qiuyue thought for a while: "Talk about the hatch with the boatman, and send it to Linqing regardless of which boat is on it. Yunniang is more than a hundred miles away from home, which is his home in Wucheng County. It's an official boat again, and the women are very respectable. Then I don’t have this chance.” Busily came to discuss with Yunniang.Yunniang can't wait to get home in one step, looking for Brother Hui's letter, thank you in a hurry.Gao Qiuyue used to be respectable and had experience in affairs, so he explained to the eunuch in charge of the ship that he was given a cabin on the No. 12 palace ship, and even the rice was shipped for five taels of silver.Yunniang still had a few hairpins, which cost a lot of money. She took out two gold rings, which weighed about five renminbi, and two gold-topped hairpins, which weighed two renminbi, and asked Gao Qiuyue to send the money for the ship.Gao Qiuyue was willing to accept it, and said: "My little brother is poor, and he can still afford a cabin. If you want to make money, why don't I leave it alone." Yunniang had to take it back.On the day of departure, a table of vegetarian dishes was set up, and Yunniang changed into a silk and plain clothes, and Xizhu changed into a cloth jacket, and gave him ten taels of silver.Mrs. Gao personally sent it to Yunniang's boat.Thank you so much, and leave with tears.

After the palace people boarded the boat, they waited for the Queen Mother's boat to arrive before (following) the order. Like a file, Zhang Bangchang's big official boat followed closely behind with beating, beating and firing cannons.Yunniang went for half a month, more than three hundred miles away from Linqing, and suddenly came to report that the Jin soldiers had broken the city from Jinan, Shandong, and Linqing wanted to intercept the empress dowager and the palace people's boat.I was so frightened that the boatman didn't dare to go forward, so he changed his route from Xiaohekou - there is a lake leading to the Huaihe River - instead of going to Linqing, he went all the way to Suqian and Liyang.This Yunniang didn't dare to go ashore, fearing that she would meet Jin soldiers, so she had to go south with the boat and discuss again.It is exactly: the wind flutters and turns with the north and the south, and people are like Hongfei with little faith.

Press Yunniang to go south without question.But Taiding said that because of Nangong Jituomeng, Yunniang was in Tokyo to Gusi, and she wanted to come to Beijing to look for it.When the deaf woman heard this, she only said that Taiding had got up, but in fact Taiding hadn't got up yet after asking everywhere.

After Yunniang left, she went to the nunnery to look for it again. The deaf woman said, "Yunniang and Huanyin went all the way to Tokyo to find you." Taiding just came all the way to Tokyo.It is the vast road, densely populated, where to ask?Tai Ding is really a righteous servant, if someone else has 500 taels of silver in that house, someone who can't make it there, would come to find the mistress for what to do.

After leaving Linqing for a few days, when I was on the way, I suddenly saw Jin soldiers taking people captive on the river.When he couldn't speak, he was caught up by Fan Bing and told him to follow the horse, but he dared not not follow.He originally planned to leave at night, but unexpectedly at night he was locked with these savages and handed over to a locker: "If one goes, all ten will die!" So he couldn't get away.

At dawn, I saw a member of the General Fan sitting in the tent to roll his name, very unevenly dressed.

Taiding looked at it and said: "It's not someone else, isn't this Song Er's dog leg! He became a thief, when did he vote for the gold soldier and become a general?" Ken took me into captivity, and said that he has softened his heart and will definitely let me go." The fear is: "I was asked to join a gang and be a thief with him before, and I walked halfway, and he bumped into me again. If he got angry for a moment, he would kill me. What am I going to do?" Just thinking about it, he turned his head, but couldn't see it.

Then Song Er recognized him a long time ago, and said with a smile, "Aren't you Taijiaoyu?" Taiding was afraid, knelt down and laughed, "Today I'm here to ask you again. Because my master didn't believe me, I'm afraid of you Keep me, so I stole it. Now my master is in Tokyo, I’m going to pick him up, and I must see some old love.” Song Er deliberately said: “I will keep you in the gang, if you follow me, you will be an official now You have gone, and today it is in my hands." Yin gritted his teeth and said, "If you take it, kill me!" Taiding was so annoyed that he was dead, he just called: "Master Song, please spare me! Please look at me Song On the face of my aunt, the old man has always treated me well." Song Er couldn't help but sneered, jumped up and said, "Aren't you afraid, why is this face?" He pulled it up and said, "I I'm coaxing you." Taiding was so annoyed that he just started crying.Song Er took a jug of wine and a piece of mutton for him to eat, and he could eat there.Tai Dingcai told Song Er that he had been looking for half a year for Yunniang and Huige to find a letter, and he sent a letter to the lonely temple in Tokyo: "Now I'm going to pick him up. It's not because of the old kindness of the master. It's not there. A place to eat?" I still can't ask you to bring it in. " Song Er nodded and said: "You are still a good person, and it is not in vain that the Nangong officials support you for a long time. Let me hug you. " That is to say, he took out a piece of silver from his purse - there were four taels, and gave it to Taiding, saying: "Go to Tokyo, for fear of being surrounded tomorrow, and others will bump into you, and you will not be able to get out of your hands again. " Taiding thanked him, finished eating the sheep and wine, and left like a fish out of the net, holding his head in his arms.

Not a day later, he came to Tokyo and asked the elder of Gusi, saying that Yunniang was picked up at Gao Qiuyue's house.When he went to Qiuyue's house to ask for a letter, he recognized Taiding, and after a quick dinner and dinner, he said, "Yunniang has been away for more than a month, and she went to Linqing to go ashore. You hurry up." Taiding sighed and had to leave Tokyo again. , still go back to the old way.

It is:

The Big Dipper is sparse, and the bottom of the water is [-] o'clock in the sky; the south wind is far away, and a pair of shadows fly in the middle of the month.

I don't know where Taiding and Yunniang will meet, and I'll listen to the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)