In the hazy night, Yang Chunlong stumbled down Qingfeng Mountain while looking at the lights of the house in the distance. Walk a short distance, approach a house door, and knock on the door. Because he was naked, he quietly retreated into the darkness. An old man came out of the room and asked, who is he? Yang Chunlong replied, Sir, I was staying at the Dragon King Temple just now, and two strongmen robbed me of my silver and stripped me of my clothes. I beg you to give me a set of clothing to cover my body.
After hearing the reason, the old man took pity on him and immediately gave him clothes and pants to wear. After entering the room and sitting down, the old man asked him again that he was going to Beijing to take the exam. He admired him even more and treated him with good food.
On the road the next day, the old man gave him money again. Chunlong was so grateful that he said goodbye. After traveling for several days, we rushed to the capital. Due to obstacles along the way, we missed the exam date. Chunlong was deeply saddened. Seeing that all his money was gone, how could he return to his hometown with empty hands?
Thousands of miles away, instead of going through all the torture and begging for help, it is better to find a short-term opportunity and die. He walked out of a hotel, thinking of his relatives, looking southward, and couldn't help but burst into tears. It took a long time to walk to the lakeside in the countryside, stepping on the luxuriant grass, facing the quiet wild lake, murmuring, mother, madam, I'm sorry for you, I left a bunch of lowly bones in a foreign land out of helplessness.
He held his head in both hands and fell into the lake with a "bang-dong" sound. Water splashed about ten feet high on the lake surface. It's a pity that the ambition is hanging high, and the soul of leaving home is in danger.
It was also true that Chunlong's life should not be cut off. That day, a group of people came from the countryside. The leading member, Wang Rong, was taking a ride to enjoy the scenery. When he approached the lakeside, he saw something moving in the lake, which was sinking and sinking. When he looked closely, it was a people. He immediately asked his family to hold a long pole, and there happened to be an iron hook on the tip of the pole. He stretched it into the lake, hooked the skirt of the drowning man's clothes, pulled him to the edge of the lake, helped him up, put his abdomen on his knees, and held him down. His neck curved downwards, and suddenly a drop of turbid water poured out of his throat.
I touched his nose with my hand and felt the breath of his dying breath. The rescuer laid him on his back on the lawn, slurped him violently from mouth to mouth, and spit out some turbid water. After a while, the drowned person opened his eyes, but said nothing.
Yuanwai ordered his family to carry him home, change into clean clothes, and comfort him with good food. He refused to eat anything and said, I am at the end of my rope and don't want to live. Let me go. I just want to die quickly. The outside members saw that he had starry eyes, plump cheeks, and an unusual appearance. They expected that he would make great achievements in the future, but they did not understand how he committed suicide. Bian Dao, how many injustices and narrow thoughts do you have? Tell me about it. If you are seeking death like this, it would be unkind and unjust for me to do nothing to save you.
As soon as this was said, he told the truth about his place of origin, surname, the difficult journey from Sha Xian to the capital, and his frustration at missing the exam.
After listening to this, the member was really sympathetic and said, "Why don't your husband, my eldest son, come to my house to study eight-legged essays every day to prepare for the imperial examination next year?" When he saw how benevolent the members were, he knelt down and said gratefully, "Sir, please bow to me."
The officer stretched out his hand to support him and said, "Get up, get up." You don't need to be polite. He was not willing to get up. He only said, if Xiaosheng had not been saved by you, his bones would have been frozen. Being able to survive today, I am actually the father of Xiaosheng's rebirth, Shan Enhaide. I am so ashamed that I cannot repay him. I am willing to be accompanied by dogs and horses in the next life. Yuanwai said, "Why is your husband doing this?" Eat something quickly, I will take you to the study at the back.
Chunlong then met with Mrs. Wang before he was willing to have a meal. Then the official took him to the study at the back to meet Yuhe and worship him as his brother.
Miss Yuhuan, a member of the Yuan family, is doing needlework in the embroidery building. That day, my sister-in-law Mrs. Zhang went upstairs to chat. Occasionally, a breeze carried the fragrance of flowers and blew through the curtains. The curtains then rolled up, opening a gap, and a corner of the garden outside came into view.
Mrs. Zhang said, my little sister is sitting in the embroidery building doing nothing, why not go to the garden to look at the flowers and plants and relax. Yuhuan put away the embroidery needle with a "hmm" and asked, is it hot outside? When Ms. Zhang went to the window and raised the curtains to look, she saw a layer of faint clouds in the sky, trying to cover up the scorching sun. She said, "little sister, it's okay. There are wind and clouds in the sky, even on a hot day." Feeling hot.
So the two of them went down the embroidery building, passed the middle hall, and saw that they passed through the corridor, and behind them was the garden. The jade-ringed lotus steps were fragrant. When they walked to the corridor, they stopped quietly. They looked sideways and saw the study room. There was a pink face with spring lips. The young man painted Dan was sitting at the table next to his brother Yuhe, concentrating on reciting the article silently.
Mrs. Zhang looked at Yuhuan's face and asked in a low voice, "Little sister, which one are you looking at?" Seeing that she was shy, Yuhuan raised the cuffs of her brocade sleeves to cover the blush on her cheeks. She remained silent and started the lotus steps. Mrs. Zhang chuckled behind her and went to the garden and said, "I know you have taken a fancy to that young man. When he becomes a Jinshi, my sister promises to be your matchmaker." How should you thank me then? The jade ring can no longer be concealed, and the faint blush on her face has become intense again. Sister, don’t make fun of me. Do you know that young master likes me?
Little sister, please don’t feel inferior. There is no cloud in the sky and no rain. There is no one on earth who is not married. As long as I, the elder sister, want to be a matchmaker, am I still afraid? Zhang used words to tease out Yuhuan's worries. She got excited and said, "If it works, how can you thank me?"
Sister, please don’t press me. When Yuhuan said this, she seemed to smell some noise in the garden. It was probably someone. She was afraid of being eavesdropped, so she wanted to stop answering. But she was also afraid of offending her sister-in-law and missing this beautiful event, so she had to lower her voice and speak in her ear. , when the time comes, my little sister will be rewarded generously. Mrs. Zhang smiled sweetly and took Yuhuan's hand to the pond to look at the lotus flowers.
There is indeed a person hiding in this garden. He is Zhang Dahong, a hired worker outside the Communist Party of China. He has just returned from looking at the water in the rice fields. Because it was too early and he was afraid that Wang Rong would accuse him of being lazy when he returned to the house, he had to go around to the back without going through the front door. Walking into the garden, I tiptoed up a pear tree with lush green leaves, climbed the branches with both hands, and lay down in the shade against a main pole.
Suddenly hearing those soft words, he looked through the gaps in the leaves and saw Yuhuan and Mrs. Zhang entering the garden. He didn't say anything, just listened carefully. The two sisters thought that the garden was cautious and there was no harm in talking, but they didn't know that they were caught by the tree. Zhang Dahong heard it clearly. From the words, he realized that Yuhuan had fallen in love with the young master she rescued from the lake. Usually he secretly liked Yuhuan's fair and tender face, and he took advantage of her going downstairs to play and other things many times, just peeking from the side.
Every time I read it, I would stay up all night thinking about her, and later I would complain: Why torture myself with such unfair thoughts, isn't it because the toad wants to eat the swan meat?
At this moment, in addition to being burning with desire, he was also burning with jealousy. What I desire is the beauty of Miss Yuhuan, but what I am jealous of is the handsomeness of Master Chunlong. You see his triangular eyebrows raised, a treacherous plot lurking under his eyes. He said privately, hum, I have to intervene.
Suddenly, an unknown bird flew towards the perching branch. When it saw the person, it fluttered its wings and flew away, making a sound on the leaves. Yuhuan was alerted by the sound, and he could no longer hear Yuhuan's whisper in Zhang's ear clearly.
