During the Kaibao period of the Song Dynasty, there was an old man surnamed Lü in Yunzhou who lived in the city by selling firewood and water, and his family had two daughters to be married.
The eldest daughter is named Lu Yuexuan, who looks like a flower and a moon, and shows her wisdom. The second daughter's name is Lu Xueyun, who is also a pavilion and a jade face.
Originally, on the condition of two daughters, he was not worried about marriage, but recently Lu Laohan was worried about his daughter's marriage, because there were too many people who came to the door to propose relatives.
Lü Laohan chose thousands of choices, and finally picked out a few candidates from inside. One is the Liang family, who opened a dyeing factory in the west of the city, and the business is very large, and the family is rich. I just heard that the son of the Liang family did not learn any techniques since he was a child, and he was stubborn.
The second was a poor scholar in the city named Zhao Huai. Although the family is not very well-off, I have heard that this person is filial and sensible, and he is knowledgeable, and may have some achievements in the future.
For Zhao Huai, Lü Laohan did not like it in his heart, thinking that he was just a pedantic student. As for why he was still considered, it was because Zhao Huai did not know when he met his eldest daughter Lu Yuexuan, and her daughter liked him very much. For this reason, Lu Laohan had to think about it first.
Seeing that the days passed day by day, Lu Laohan finally made up his mind to marry his eldest daughter out first, and the family who married the past was naturally the Liang family who opened a dyeing factory in the family. Although Lu Yuexuan was dissatisfied with this, she did not dare to disobey her father, so she had to nod her head with tears.
However, what people did not expect was that just when Lü Yuexuan was ready to marry into the Liang family, Lü Yuexuan suddenly ran to her room with a big laugh and told her not to marry the Liang family.
Lü Yuexuan was overjoyed, thinking that her father was reluctant to marry her to suffer and wanted to remarry her to Zhao Huai, but Lü Yuexuan's next words made her happy.
He only listened to Father Lü say, "Zheng Yuanwai of the neighboring county sent someone to propose to him, saying that the two sons of his family were going to marry their wives, and they just happened to meet the two of you sisters, and you can enjoy the blessings in the future." ”
Lü Yuexuan was confused, what Zheng Yuanwai, she had never heard of it before, and it was from a neighboring county, so she said to Father Lü: "You married your daughter so far, how inconvenient it is for your daughter to return to her mother's house in the future, and now that her mother is gone, who will take care of you?" ”
After hearing this, Father Lu replied: "The Zheng family is rich and powerful, after you travel, you will take a car, what is inconvenient, there is such a family man, I can still lack someone to take care of it?" The matter was decided for the time being. ”
Hearing this, Lü Yuexuan could no longer refute it, and could only watch Father Lü smile and walk out the door. But she had a bad premonition in her heart.
This old Man Lu was already planning to marry his daughter to the Liang family, so why did he suddenly change his mind and marry his daughter to the Zheng family?
It turned out that today, When Old Han Lü was about to go out to set up a stall, the matchmaker Wang Si's sister-in-law came to the door, pulled him aside, and asked him if the marriage of his two daughters had been decided.
After hearing this, The fourth sister-in-law wang said: "I heard that the son of the Liang family has been wandering in the wind and dust for many years, and the family foundation is about to be squandered by him, and you have no good life when you marry your daughter, so I might as well introduce the family for you." ”
Lu Laohan heard her say that she had an idea, and said busily: "Fourth sister-in-law Wang quickly said, as long as you can introduce a good family to my family Yuexuan, the matchmaker money will be indispensable to you." ”
Fourth sister-in-law Wang explained the affairs of the Zheng family to him, and said: "This Zheng family has two sons, the age is similar to your two daughters, it is better to kiss and kiss, and marry your second daughter Xueyun together, so that the two sisters will not have deep feelings and are unwilling to separate." ”
Lü Laohan was naturally happy when he heard this, so he asked Wang Siyi whether this was the Zheng family's idea or her own idea, and Wang Si's sister-in-law replied: "Whose ideas are not the same, the people of the Zheng family are now staying in the city inn, and I will go to him to explain." ”
After about half a day, the fourth sister-in-law of Wang came to the Lü family again and said to Lü Father: "It is done, the Zheng family is very satisfied with what he hears, saying that it is a good thing to marry your eldest daughter Yuexuan to his eldest son, and the second daughter Xueyun to his second son." ”
Lü Laohan thanked Wang Fourth Sister-in-law and said that he wanted to invite her to the house for a cup of tea, but Fourth Sister-in-law Wang did not agree, and pushed back that she still had something to do, so she left first. Only then did Lu Laohan return to the house and find his two daughters to explain the situation.
Lü Yuexuan naturally did not need to say more, she still worried about Zhao Huai, but she did not dare not follow the orders of her parents, but Lu Xueyun listened to a happy face, one is to marry a good family, and the other is not to be separated from her sister. Lü's father asked Xueyun to persuade her sister more, and in this way, Lü Yuexuan slowly turned her mind around and was ready to marry into the Zheng family with her sister. But who knew that before the marriage, they met Zhao Huai again, and as soon as the two met, they secretly wept and explained to him the matter of their father's marriage, and she actually heard a strange thing from Zhao Huai.
Speaking of this Zhao Huai, I haven't seen him for so many days, and it turned out that he went with his friends to run businesses in neighboring counties. After listening to Lü Yuexuan's words, he wondered: "I have been in Ping County for a long time, and I have not heard that there are members of the family surnamed Zheng who are anxious to marry a wife." ”
Lu Yuexuan replied: "How much can we know about the affairs of those big families, moreover, I heard my father say that this is the media for Wang Fourth Sister-in-law, and it is expected that the situation will not be much worse." ”
Zhao Huai suddenly remembered an incident encountered on the road, at that time, a group of them passed through a village, heard a woman crying, the mouth still kept calling her daughter, after inquiring, she learned that a few days ago her daughter was married, said that she would return to the door after three days, but the third day had arrived, and the daughter's family did not move at all. Later, she couldn't resist and asked someone to go to her aunt's house to check it out.
Who knew that the man came back and told her that the address was in the wilderness, and that the shadow of the people could not see one, and that there was any aunt where there was. At this time, the woman realized that she had been deceived, but it had been a few days since her daughter got married, and now even if she wanted to find someone, she could not find anyone, so she was looking for death and life on the road.
Zhao Huai told Lü Yuexuan about this matter, and Lü Yuexuan was secretly shocked when she listened. Their family really didn't know much about the Affairs of the Zheng Family, and their father had never seen the people of the Zheng Family with his own eyes, and it was really difficult to judge whether it was true or false based only on the words of The Fourth Sister-in-law of Wang.
After a while, Lu Yuexuan replied, "I will write down this matter, and when I go back, I will explain it to my father, hoping that he can change his mind." After Lü Yuexuan left, Zhao Huai slowly left.
Lü Yuexuan returned home and told Father Lü about this matter, and Father Lü asked, "Where did you hear about it?" She had to say that she had heard about it from Zhao Huai.
Originally, Father Lü had anxiety on his face, and when he heard that his daughter had gone to see Zhao Huai and heard it from his mouth, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Silly daughter, he doesn't want you to marry, and it is estimated that he made up a lie to deceive you." ”
Father Lü said this on his lips, but he was still a little worried in his heart, so the next morning, he ran to The Fourth Sister-in-law's house and said that he would let the Fourth Sister-in-law take him to Ping County to see the Zheng family's house, at which time the Fourth Sister-in-law Wang was embarrassed, saying that she did not know where the Zheng family was.
Father Lu suddenly became angry: "If you don't inquire into the good situation, you will let my daughter marry her, and if something happens, can you afford it?" ”
Fourth sister-in-law Wang replied: "Old Master Lu, don't be angry first, those people in the Zheng family are dressed in extraordinary clothes, generous in their hands, they are not people who lack money at a glance, I see that people have always been very accurate, this time there is no time to ask, wait for them to come again, I will ask." ”
Hearing this, Father Lü put away his anger, and after a day, The fourth sister-in-law of Wang came to the house again and took Father Lü with him to a neighboring county, and the two stood far away looking at a large mansion in front of them, on which the word Zheng Fu was written impressively.
Fourth sister-in-law Wang pointed to the plaque and said, "You see, this is the Zheng family's mansion, and the inside of the house is magnificent." ”
Father Lü believed it to be true, and at this time, he also fully believed the words of The Fourth Sister-in-law of Wang, and the two set off to return. This time, it took two and a half days, until the next night, When Father Lu returned home.
After this incident, Lü's father no longer doubted the identity of the Zheng family, and only hoped to marry off his two daughters as soon as possible. Another day later, the Zheng family sent someone to send a dowry, sending more than a dozen large boxes before and after, and a list on it. Father Lu picked up the list and compared them one by one, except for the contents of the box, everything else was right. But the inside of the box was the most valuable, and he was busy trying to open it to see that the outside of the box was locked.
At this time, a man suddenly stepped forward and said: "Old Master Lu, now you are not in a hurry to dismantle it, and it is not too late to wait until your girlfriend returns to the door." He meant to wait until his daughter returned to the door before giving him the key.
Lu Laohan saw that the list was written with gold and silver jewelry, as well as some valuable items, and his heart blossomed. He thought to himself, "Anyway, these are all their own, what difference does it make sooner or later?" Therefore, he was not in a hurry, and nodded his head with a smile. And the daughter's wedding date is also set for the day after tomorrow.
Zhao Huai had not been able to see Her since the last time he had seen Lü Yuexuan, during which he also wanted to inquire about the situation in the Lü family, but Lü's father would not let him enter the door, and as soon as he saw him, he would drive him away.
This time, he passed by the door of the Lü family, saw a group of people sent a dowry, knew that this was a person from the Zheng Mansion, and muttered in his heart: "I didn't expect that Father Lü finally decided to marry his daughter." ”
He quietly hid to the side, watching the Zheng family's group leave, and then secretly followed from behind, ready to see where they were going.
At first, the group of people walked in a disciplined manner, rushing towards Pingxian County, but on the way, a group of people looked around, looked around vigilantly, and after seeing no one, quickly untied the red silk on their waists, and then ran to the other side.
Zhao Huai hid in the weeds on the side, saw the scene in front of him, and felt that these people were not simple. For the sake of Lu Yuexuan, he decided to quietly follow up and see what tricks these people were doing.
He went into hiding for about an hour and saw the group enter a dilapidated house. There were still guards outside the house, so Zhao Huai expected that this was their hiding place.
Now that everyone knew that this group of people was not at ease, he rushed back to the city, rushed to enter the city before the city gate was closed, and then went straight to the Lu family.
Fearing lü yuexuan's obstruction, he was ready to convince Lü Yuexuan first, and then join her in convincing lü yuexuan. So he climbed over the courtyard wall and came to the Lu family courtyard.
At this time, the lights in the Lu family's house were bright, Zhao Huai looked through the window and found that Lü Father was lying on the box in the hall and sleeping, he lightly bypassed the front hall and came to Lu Yuexuan's door and knocked lightly.
Lu Yuexuan also thought that her father had come, and pushed open the door to see that it was Zhao Huai. She was surprised and delighted, happy that she thought she would never see Zhao Huai again, but she did not expect to see him again today, and what surprised Zhao Huai was so bold, if he was discovered by Father Lü, he would not easily spare him.
Zhao Huai entered the house, and Lu Yuexuan saw that no one outside the door hurriedly closed the door. Then she said to Zhao Huai, "I'm going to marry someone, so what happened when you came to my room in the middle of the night?" ”
Zhao Huai hurriedly said, "The gang of people from the Zheng family who came to give the dowry are a bit strange, they are not ordinary people, you must not marry them." ”
He also explained to Lu Yuexuan about the people who were tracking them today, saying that they did not return to the Zheng Mansion, but went to a broken house, which must have been a lot of strangeness.
Lü Yuexuan replied, "But my father followed Wang Sijie to PingXian a few days ago and saw the Zheng family's mansion, how did it become like this?" ”
Zhao Huai thought about it for a while, then replied, "Even if you see the Zheng family's mansion, it is not necessarily the Zheng family's people who come to mention the family, and your father did not come to the door to verify, he just coaxed you, you don't know." ”
Lu Yuexuan listened to the reasonableness of his analysis and hurriedly said, "But my father has already accepted the dowry, he doesn't believe it, what should he do?" ”
Both of them were embarrassed, and Zhao Huai really couldn't come up with evidence. He stared at Lu Yuexuan for half a moment, and suddenly thought of a brilliant plan. He said to Lu Yuexuan: "Why don't I pretend to be you, board the flower car the day after tomorrow, and then find an opportunity to escape, even if I am unfortunate enough to be caught, I am a boy, they don't dare to do anything with me." ”
"If this is a misunderstanding, then let your father pay for it." If you want to come to the Zheng family's painstaking marriage, you should not quit the marriage because of this matter. ”
This idea is good, but Lu Yuexuan said: "There is also a sister Xueyun who married me, you can pretend to be me, and who will replace the sister?" ”
Zhao Huai replied, "This is simple, wait until tomorrow night, you go to give her a medicine, let her sleep for a day, and then lie to the outside world that your sister is sick and choose a day to remarry." Lu Yuexuan nodded in agreement after listening.
After a while, Zhao Huai quietly walked out, and the next morning he ran to the medicine shop, falsely claiming that he had not slept well in recent days, and let the treasurer grab a pair of tranquilizers. He secretly added something that made people sleep in it, and when it was late in the evening, he turned into the Lü Mansion again.
According to the plan, Lu Yuexuan came to her sister's room and saw that she was trying on her wedding dress. When he saw his sister coming, he hurriedly showed her and walked around the room without stopping.
While praising her sister's beautiful clothes, Lu Yuexuan brewed a cup of tea behind her back and secretly put the medicine into it. Lu Xueyun did not find a clue, took the cup and drank it, and then fell asleep in her sister's arms.
After she helped her sister to the bed, she began to shout at her father, as soon as Father Lu entered the door, he saw his little daughter falling on the bed, frightened, asked her what was wrong, Lu Yuexuan replied: "Just came to my sister's room, she said that she was infected with wind and cold recently, her head was a little drowsy, and she passed out as she spoke." ”
Father Lü saw that Xueyun's temperament was still good, and he was not worried that she was seriously ill, and then he hurriedly asked people to invite Lang Zhong, and Lang Zhong said that it was not a big problem after some diagnosis and treatment, perhaps it was caused by overwork. After Lang Zhong left, looking at his father with a tight brow, Lu Yuexuan said: "Tomorrow you first tell the Zheng family that the little sister can't sit in a car when she feels the wind and cold, and can only remarry on another day, so she will marry me out first, so as not to help their family face." ”
After hearing this, Father Lu replied, "That's all there is to it." ”
The next day, Father Lu told the welcoming team about this, and the people looked displeased and had to go to the house to check it out in person. This old man of Lu is not dependent. How could a yellow flower girl in his family, who was not yet out of the boudoir, let outsiders look at it casually. Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel, wang sijie said a word: "It is not appropriate for you men to go in to see, or I, the matchmaker, go and have a look." ”
Fourth sister-in-law Wang entered Lu Xueyun's boudoir, saw her lying motionless on the bed, patted her face, and sure enough, there was no reaction at all. Afraid that he would also be caught in the wind and cold, he had to run out in a hurry, and then nodded to the people who greeted him.
Fourth Sister-in-law Wang then said, "Old Master Lu, your second daughter is already ill, and this eldest daughter must not make any mistakes again, otherwise we will not be able to make a difference when we go to the Zheng family." Don't you want to invite your daughter out? ”
As soon as her voice dropped, a beard with raw eyes helped the bride out and boarded the palanquin in front of everyone. After the team left, Lu Laohan felt that there seemed to be something wrong with today's eldest daughter Yuexuan, and as for what was wrong, he couldn't say it.
It turned out that last night Zhao Huai lived in Lu Yuexuan's room. He was born with a white face, and when he put on his wedding dress early this morning and combed his hair and brought flowers, he was really like a woman, Lu Yuexuan also smiled and said: "You are more suitable than me in the past." ”
After dressing up for him, Lü Yuexuan found a dress to put on, deliberately drew a few more strokes on her face, so that Lü Father could not recognize her, and then followed the team out of the door.
After Lu Yuexuan went out, she stopped following, secretly observed the movements of the team behind, and followed all the way to the outside of the city, she saw the palanquin suddenly stop, and then a man entered the palanquin. After about a few gasps, the man got out of the car and the team moved again.
When it was almost halfway through, she hurriedly hid and found that the group did not continue to set out for Ping County, but turned around and went to another place. At this point, Lu Yuexuan understood that everything Zhao Huai said was true, and she hurried back to the city.
Speaking of this Zhao Huai, he secretly lifted the hijab several times along the way, and when he saw that this direction was going to the broken house, he couldn't help but be anxious.
But there were also seven or eight big men around him, and he was afraid that before he got off the car, he was escorted back to the car. Halfway through, a bearded man lifted his hijab to look at him and see him stay quietly in the car before leaving satisfied.
He wanted to escape, but he never got a chance, until the palanquin landed, and he was led to a deep house, and then he was locked up.
Zhao Huai looked around, there were six or seven women in the room, all of them were as delicate as flowers, but they had been crying and crying, and when they saw him coming, they looked at him sympathetically.
After the others left, Zhao Huai came to one of the women and asked them why they were locked up, and the general situation was not much different from his.
The woman heard that his voice sounded like a man, so she asked him if he had eaten a bad throat, and Zhao Huai lay down in his ear and said, "I was originally a man." ”
This startled her, and she tried to shout at her, but Zhao Huai hurriedly stopped: "Sister, don't be afraid, I will explain it to you." ”
After that, Zhao Huai told him in detail about wearing women's clothes to marry someone, and the woman put her mind at ease, and then said worriedly: "This group of thieves caught us with ulterior motives, if they find out that you are not a woman, it is likely that they will do something to you." ”
Zhao Huai replied, "I was planning to find an opportunity to escape, and now I can only take one step at a time." ”
Later, Zhao Huai learned that the woman's name was Han Yu, and she had been locked up here for half a month, which was one of the earliest among them to be locked up, and Zhao Huai got a lot of useful information from Han Yu.
The two talked happily, and when they were preparing to fall asleep on the ground, two men suddenly stood outside the door, shouting Lu Yuexuan's name. Zhao Huai did not react for a moment, and when the two looked at him, he realized that he was shouting at himself.
Zhao Huaihuan stood up and followed the two of them outside, he looked back at Han Yu and found that she was looking at herself worriedly.
For Zhao Huai, being locked in the house is no chance to escape, as long as he is allowed to go out, he can find a way to escape.
After walking for a few moments, the two men stopped outside the door of a room and motioned for him to enter. Zhao Huai pushed the door in, he had realized what awaited him.
Sure enough, there was already a man waiting in the room, the man was about forty or fifty years old, dressed in luxury, and he learned from Han Yu's mouth that this man was their leader, named Zheng Laowu.
At this time, Zhao Huai did not even have time to change out of his wedding dress, still the same outfit before getting on the car, Zheng Laowu saw that his eyes were straight, and he said later: "I have long heard that the two daughters of the Lu family look very good-looking, and today I saw that it was really so, but your sister was not able to come together, and I can't help but have some regrets." Then Zheng Laowu grabbed him and sat down, and began to hold back a little.
Zhao Huai pretended to be a female voice and said, "Today is the slave family's big wedding, don't adults drink a cup of wine first?" After saying that, Zhao Huai asked him to find someone to send a pot of fine wine and consider it for himself.
Taking advantage of zheng laowu's lack of attention, his cuffs shook, and a ball of powder was poured into the wine glass, and then he raised a glass to drink.
Zheng Laowu did not expect him to have this means, nor did he take precautions, and exchanged a cup with him to drink. At first he didn't notice it, but within a few moments he was lying unconscious on the ground.
Zhao Huai saw him faint, dragged him to the bed, and then stood outside the door and called out to the two people who had just delivered the wine, saying to him: "Boss Zheng said that he was happy today, let the brothers all taste this altar of wine, and you two must divide this wine evenly so that everyone can taste it." ”
As soon as the two heard that there was still this good thing, they rushed to take the wine and respond. This is Zheng Laowu's secret wine, and usually they can't drink it if they want to.
After that, Zhao Huai calculated the time and quietly sneaked into the courtyard, and found that everyone was indeed lying on the ground. Overjoyed, he grabbed the key in the crowd of people who had fallen to the ground and walked quickly into the house.
Han Yu was worried about him, and when he saw him coming, he couldn't help but be happy, and when he saw him with the key in his hand, he asked him how he did it, and Zhao Huai told everyone about his drugging in the wine. And said, "Sisters, the thief is now on the ground, and it is a good time for us to escape, and if you remember the way home, you will go back on your own." If you don't recognize it, come with me into the city, and I'll send you back another day. ”
If it was dark today, the women found themselves in the wilderness after going out, and where they dared to walk alone, they had to follow Zhao Huai.
A group of them walked to the halfway point, saw a bunch of people in front of them holding torches to find, at first he thought it was the thief's men, and then he saw that the person walking in front seemed to be Lu Yuexuan, and he shouted at her, Lu Yuexuan listened and ran quickly, and then looked at the group of women beside him. Zhao Huai was also very curious and asked her why she was here, and Lu Yuexuan explained the reason.
It turned out that after she saw the team that received her relatives change course, she knew that she had been deceived, and she rushed home to find Father Lu and asked him to accompany her to the Yamen.
As soon as Lu Laohan saw his daughter appear in front of him, he realized that it was not his daughter who had married out earlier. Hearing his daughter say that the person who came to pick up the relatives of the Zheng family was fake, he quickly found a hammer and knocked on the box that sent the dowry, only to find that it was full of stones and wooden blocks, and he called out to be deceived, so he and his daughter sued the yamen together.
After that, Lu Yuexuan brought people to come, and everyone heard that the thieves were now unconscious, so they hurriedly asked Zhao Huai to lead them forward, and when the people arrived, the thieves had no sign of waking up, and then they were tied up together inside the gate.
In order to be a witness, after Zhao Huai got Lü Yuexuan's consent, he let all the girls live in the Lü family tonight night, and waited until the next day when the matter was handled before sending them away one by one.
After this incident, Father Lü no longer dared to think of letting his daughter marry into a rich and noble family, and it was much more pleasing to look at Zhao Huai.
If it were not for Zhao Huai, it is estimated that even the second daughter was deceived.
Zhao Huai didn't want anything from him, and didn't take the opportunity to ask Lü Laohan about his affection. However, Lü Laohan first pressed Nai and first found Zhao Huai and said that he would give his daughter to him.
After all, the wedding on that day was known all over the city, and everyone knew that he married his daughter, but they didn't know what happened next.
Zhao Huai readily agreed to this opportunity, and it was not long before the two quietly held a wedding and lived together ever since.
Disclaimer: This story is a fictional legendary short story, mostly from anecdotes, legends, zhiwei novels, operas, legends, etc., the author's original intention is to inherit Chinese folk culture, do not believe in authenticity, and do not feudal superstition!
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