Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Li Bai wrote in a poem:

"The lingering singing fan,

Seen like the moon in the clouds.

See each other or not,

It's better not to meet. "

This poem describes those people who like to look for flowers and flowers and indulge in pleasure all day long.

What this is about is an ordinary couple who are separated from each other by some strange combination of circumstances, but yet they can see each other every day without recognizing each other. Then you don’t know what the cycle of cause and effect is!

It is said that there was a student named Li in Zhongzhou (now Henan). His mother fell ill less than half a month after marrying him.

The couple were very filial, and they took turns guarding and serving them. They worked hard for seven or eight months, but Li Sheng's mother still passed away.

After Li Sheng buried his mother, the couple strictly followed the etiquette and observed mourning for his mother for three years.

During this period, the couple slept in separate beds and never slept in the same room.

Later, their family situation became worse and worse, and finally they reached the point where they could not afford to eat anymore, and their life was so poor that they could no longer survive.

In desperation, Li Sheng had no choice but to join his wife and seek refuge with her natal family.

It's just that the wife's natal family is not rich either and can only maintain food and clothing. And there are not many houses, so we can only clean out one room for the couple to live in.

Less than a month later, Li Sheng's mother-in-law's brother, who was also his wife's uncle, was going to a place far away to work as a private tutor in a wealthy family.

After he left, the elderly mother in the family had no one to support her, so she had to be sent to her sister's home.

But there are no spare rooms in Li Sheng's mother-in-law's house. After much deliberation, I had no choice but to arrange for the old lady and Li Sheng's wife to live in the same room.

In this case, Li Sheng cannot sleep in the same room with his wife.

He had no choice but to set up a bunk in his father-in-law's study to sleep.

From then on, the couple only saw each other in the morning and evening, when they were eating at the same table, and they could no longer live as a couple.

After two years of this, Li Sheng felt that living under someone else's roof was not a long-term solution, so he agreed with his wife that he would go to the capital alone first, and if he found a way out and settled down, he would take her over.

Not long after, his father-in-law was invited to work as a staff member in the Jiangxi government. In order to take care of his family more conveniently, he brought the whole family with him.

A few days later, Li Sheng, who was in the capital, received a letter from his father-in-law, telling him that his wife was dead.

Although Li Sheng felt very sad, he suffered from the fact that he had not found a job and his life was in embarrassment, so he could not go back to attend the funeral.

From then on, Li Sheng became disheartened and lost his fighting spirit. His life became more and more miserable and he could no longer survive.

In the end, he had no choice but to take someone else's boat and go south, hoping to join his father-in-law in Jiangxi.

Unexpectedly, by the time he arrived in Jiangxi after all the troubles, his father-in-law had already changed his owner and had gone to work elsewhere with the new owner.

When Li Sheng first arrived in Jiangxi, he had no relatives and nowhere to stay, so he had to make a living by selling calligraphy for the time being.

One day, Li Sheng, who was setting up a stall on the street, met a burly man with a majestic face.

The man came to the stall, picked up the calligraphy written by Li Sheng, looked at it, and said, "Mr.'s handwriting is very good. I have a job here, and my annual salary is about thirty or forty taels of silver. It's very simple. In other words, you can help me manage case files, write letters, etc. I wonder if you would be willing to do that, sir?"

When Li Sheng heard this, he was so happy that he stopped selling the stall and immediately followed the big man.

The big man took Li Sheng on board the boat.

Along the way, I saw only vast mist, and I didn’t know where I was.

After a long time, we came to an island.

When I arrived at the big man's home on the island, I saw that it was indeed a wealthy family. Li Sheng's hospitality was very considerate and the daily supplies were abundant.

Li Sheng saw the case files that needed to be managed by him and the letters that needed to be drafted, and then he realized that the big man turned out to be a green forest thief.

Although Li Sheng was scared, there was nothing he could do. He is well aware of the principle that "it is easy to get on a pirate ship, but it is difficult to get off a pirate ship".

He was worried that if he left rashly, the big man would be detrimental to him. Then I thought, I am a person who has nowhere to live, so I'll settle down now that I've come.

However, in order to relieve his worries, he left himself a trick. He did not tell the big man his real name and also lied about his place of origin.

The big man was generous by nature and lived an extremely luxurious life. There were many singing prostitutes and dancers at home, and he did not pay much attention to avoiding male guests.

Every time he asked these singing girls and dancers to perform, he would invite Li Sheng to watch them together.

Once, Li Sheng accidentally met a singing girl who looked very much like his wife.

But thinking that his wife has passed away, I wonder if she is a ghost.

The singing girl always looked at Li Sheng, as if she had met an acquaintance. But the two people dared not say a word to each other.

In fact, Li Sheng did not know that his father-in-law had lied to him!

It turned out that his father-in-law and his family were robbed by this bandit on their way to Jiangxi by boat.

The big man saw that Li Sheng's wife was very beautiful, so he snatched her away together.

His father-in-law thought this was a great shame and a great disgrace, which would ruin the family tradition and disgrace the ancestors if word spread.

So, he hurriedly bought a thin coffin and claimed that his daughter had been injured by a robber and had died after treatment failed.

He also pretended to be extremely sad, cried bitterly, and buried the body, then loaded it on the ship and took it back.

After this woman was taken home by the man, she lost her virginity because of fear of death and became one of the man's many concubines.

Coincidentally, Li Sheng was also invited to his home by the big man, so the couple reunited.

But at this time, Li Sheng firmly believed that his wife was dead; and his wife did not know that Li Sheng used a false name.

So both of them felt that they just looked similar to their significant other. Therefore, although the two met each other often, they never recognized each other.

Every three or five days, the big man would invite Li Sheng to watch the singing and dancing, and the couple would definitely meet.

Over time, the two got used to seeing each other and no longer looked at each other.

Time passed like this for six or seven years.

One day, the big man called Li Sheng over and said to him: "My story has been exposed, and the army will attack soon. You are just a scholar and have done nothing evil, so you don't have to suffer with me."

After saying that, he handed him a package and continued: "Here are fifty taels of gold, which is the reward I promised you, so just take it with you.

You go outside among the reeds and find a place to hide. After the champions who are chasing us retreat, you quickly find a fishing boat and get on it to go home. Everyone in this place knows you, and you don’t have to worry about them not seeing you off. "

After saying that, the big man waved his hand and told Li Sheng to find a place to hide quickly without waiting for him to speak.

As soon as Li Sheng hid, he heard the sounds of killing and fighting coming from outside.

After a while, he heard some people loudly reporting to each other: "The robbers have been defeated and all ran away in boats. Now the robbers' gold and silver treasures and their women are left here. We all have them." Confiscated!"

It was getting dark at this time, and Li Sheng secretly looked outside by the light of the fire. He saw the singing prostitutes and dancers, all with their hair disheveled, stripped naked, with their hands tied behind their backs and hoods around their necks. The ropes were connected into a string, and several champions drove them away with whips.

Li Sheng saw that the geisha who looked like his wife was also tied up inside. Her face was full of panic and fear, and her whole body was trembling with fear, which made people feel pitiful.

On the second day, the entire island became quiet. The officers and soldiers all retreated with their loot, and there was no one left.

Li Sheng stood alone by the water.

After a long time, suddenly there was a man driving a small boat from far to near.

After seeing Li Sheng, he shouted: "Are you Mr. So-and-so? Our Mr. Wang is fine. He asked me to come and take you back."

Li Sheng boarded the boat and traveled in the river for a day and a night before reaching the shore.

He was worried that there were still officers and soldiers investigating, so he hurriedly took the gold and headed north.

After a day of running around, Li Sheng finally returned to his hometown. At this time, his father-in-law had also returned to his hometown before him.

Li Sheng was homeless and had to live in his father-in-law's home.

In order to improve the lives of himself and his father-in-law's family, he sold the gold he brought back with him to make their lives richer.

As the days calmed down, Li Sheng missed his wife more and more deeply. He remembered that it had been more than ten years since he and his wife fell in love with each other and got married, but the total time they had slept together was less than a month. I felt even more sorry for my wife.

Now that his family is richer, he can't bear to bury his wife in a thin-skinned coffin.

He planned to replace his wife with a coffin made of high-quality wood, and at the same time he also wanted to take a look at his wife's remains, which could be regarded as the end of the relationship between the couple.

But his father-in-law knew that his daughter was not buried inside, so he tried his best to dissuade Li Sheng from doing so.

However, Li Sheng had made up his mind. No matter how hard his father-in-law tried to dissuade him, he just refused to listen.

The father-in-law had no choice but to tell the truth.

When Li Sheng heard this, he suddenly realized! The geisha the Han family met was really his wife!

He hurriedly traveled day and night to Yuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi Province), hoping to find his wife and reunite with her.

When he went to the government and asked, he found that the karaoke dancers captured by the government troops last time had already been distributed to the soldiers, and his wife did not know where she was living.

Li Sheng was extremely sad and disappointed!

Every time he recalled that the two of them had met each other often during those six or seven years, and although they were close at hand, they seemed thousands of miles apart, Li Sheng felt disappointed.

When he thought about how his wife was stripped naked, tied up, and beaten with whips when she was captured, and he didn't know what kind of humiliation and torture she would be subjected to from then on, Li Sheng couldn't help but feel as if his heart was cut by a knife, and his heart was torn apart!

Li Sheng never married again for the rest of his life!

Some people say that he later escaped into Buddhism and became a monk.

After hearing about Li Sheng's experience, Mr. Ge Jiezhou (namely Ge Tao. A censor and poet during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty) commented: "This story is really a legendary script, but it is a pity that it has no ending. It is different from "The Peach Blossom Fan" Same!

Although it is said that "the end of the song is gone, the peaks on the river are green, the mist is lingering and the waves are endless", which is very consistent with the charm of literary works, but the imperfect ending is still melancholy after all! "