Chapter 7 6. Stories of Saints

Since the literati came to the big island to toss about, a few years later, the big island city has really become as lively as a mainland city.Dadao City is on the west side of the island, and the people on the west side of the island near the city are becoming more and more civilized, while the people on the east side of the island farther away from the city are getting poorer and poorer.The people in the east are all fishermen or farmers who fled from all over the world. They have worked for the landowners of the big island for generations, and they can't tell who their ancestors are or where their hometown is.On this day, a girl was born in a fisherman's home in the east of the island. It was midnight when the girl was born, and there was a lunar eclipse. People named her "Jiaoyan".As soon as the name was named, there was a gust of sea breeze blowing out the oil lamp, and the charming woman was holding the baby

It's creepy.In the morning, a pair of roosters fought and broke each other's necks.Neighbors are uneasy, saying that the delicate and beautiful origins are extraordinary. In the same year, the Self-Government Association built a prison on the Big Island and dug eighteen floors down from the top of the mountain because a literati lost a chamber pot.But the fortune teller said that this prison has overwhelmed the beauty. The prison was designed by a literati. He wanted to build an eighteen-story hell in this world, so that there is no need to wait for people to die before entering hell.It took fourteen years to build these eighteen layers of hell, but when the construction was completed, there were no prisoners, not even those who stole the chamber pot.

The eighteenth floor of hell was completed, and Jiaoyan was fourteen years old. She was born with amazing beauty, but her face was lifeless, like a ghost.The family asked a matchmaker to marry her to Zhang Dawen, a 62-year-old man from the capital, as a concubine.The Zhang family lived in Dadao City, and when she married to Ximian, Jiaoyan changed her identity; when she entered the Zhang family, Jiaoyan wrapped herself in silk and satin.Three months after marriage, Jiaoyan came home and cried to her mother. Mother said, what's the point of crying when you eat delicious food? She doesn't speak.After crying like this many times, Mother asked many times before she said it out, saying that Mr. Zhang married her for the purpose of humiliating her, and there was no love between husband and wife; With contempt, he sat upright on the bed, and finally gnashed his teeth and rushed forward to destroy him.Jiaoyan cried and said that if she knew that she married her husband to be humiliated, she would rather be an aunt.Mother said, we poor people have no choice but to bear it if we can.

One day, Jiaoyan followed Mr. Zhang on a spring outing, and on the way she met Jihe, who was also on a spring outing. Seeing Jihe's flirtatious youth, her heart moved.When Jihe was eighteen, he relied on the property left by Mr. Ji to study and make friends. He lived a carefree life and was less cautious. When he saw a beautiful woman like Jiaoyan, he couldn't walk. Looking at her eyes, she was still thinking: This woman is really pretty, but it's a pity that she has a ghost on her face.I was lost in thought, forgetting that my husband was with me.It didn't matter if he looked at these two eyes, it aroused the tenderness and spring heart, and blurted out: "Ah, what a romantic boy." Jihe didn't hear this, but Zhang Dawen heard it, and he looked around and saw someone over there. A young man with silly eyebrows and eyes, his face turned purple immediately.

After returning home, Zhang Dawen went into Jiaoyan's room and asked her to take off her clothes and act like a lewd person that she was trained to do, so Jiaoyan had no choice but to obey.Just as he was doing this, Zhang Dawen suddenly swung out a huge axe and chopped it down.Woohoo! The beauty's clothes are scattered, flesh and blood are flying everywhere, her breasts are exposed, she is ferocious and lewd.Killing Jiaoyan, Zhang Dawen recruited all his wives and concubines, and taught everyone with her dead image, saying that prostitutes must die of ugliness, this is an example.The body was thrown into the wilderness.

She died delicately, and her soul cried while walking on Huangquan Road: "I was originally a shooting star and had nowhere to live in the sky, so I was reincarnated as an adult and born in a poor family. When I was born, the moon cursed me to have a short life, and I hid without giving me any light. One day, The two roosters fought to death, and Uranus said that it foreshadowed that I would cause enmity and war between Zhang Jier’s family for generations. I was really short-lived, and I was destined to die. It’s just that I was not convinced, and I was born a little Poor woman, who was humiliated by others, lived a life hastily, so she was not wronged. She could not be born with a lover, but she was condemned as an adulteress after death, and she refused to accept it. Thinking of Jihe, a good-looking talent, since I died for him, why should I die? Is it worth not dying? Wait for me to meet him, and simply make the good things come true." Saying that, he went to Jihemeng.Falling into a dream, he took off his clothes and took Jihe into his arms.Ji Hezheng was sleeping in a trance, when he saw that the beauty he met during the day really came, touched it, the flesh was very soft, but he became hard, and he didn't know what to do next.Jiaoyan found out that he was still a boy, and she couldn't put it down even more, so she carefully guided him step by step.After Jihe moved a few times, he was sweating profusely, and his whole body was wet. He was about to open his eyes and dream, but Jiaoyan held her hand and said, "I'm already dead." Crying to escape from the dream, Jiaoyan just didn't let go, saying: "Brother, I died because of you. Now I don't ask for anything else, I just ask you to report to the police for my justice." Jihe quickly agreed, and Jiaoyan Just let him out of the dream.

The next day Jihe found the delicate corpse in the wilderness, and reported it to Dadao Yamen.The yamen arrested Mr. Zhang Dawen for interrogation.Literati Zhang said in the lobby: "Judging me? I want to judge you! If such prostitutes as Jiaoyan were in the capital, they would have been beheaded in public long ago. Only because Da Dao has long ignored ethics will there be prostitution like Jihe Jiaoyan. I take concubines in a dignified manner, not only is it ethical, but I also want to understand the contempt of sages and sages towards women when I see them. Concubines cannot be called prostitution, but they have the elegance of Jimei. Only illegal eyebrows like Jihe Jiaoyan Only those folk songs on the big island where men and women love each other are big sluts; only those who eat flowers and plants and dance to court are big sluts. If you want me to say, all people in the big island should Hit by an axe." His words left the judge dumbfounded.He is also a native of Oshima. He doesn't read many books. In his spare time, he likes to sing folk songs, eat flowers and plants, and sleep with his neighbor's wife.Let Zhang Dawen say this, coauthoring himself is very obscene, it seems that only a few people who marry a few houses and kill a few women are considered sages.Just as he was in a daze, not knowing how to proceed with the trial, Mr. Zhang Dawen handed over a small British porcelain teapot. On the pot was a picture of a topless foreign woman looking at the judge calmly. The judge immediately understood the level of prostitution.Immediately put away the teapot, and released Mr. Zhang.The case was reported to the Oshima Governor's office. The island leader felt that Zhang Dawen should be killed, but the self-government association asked to take over the case, saying that Zhang Dawen should be established as a hero who "protects the style of saints and sages."According to the opinions of the self-government association, the yamen sentenced the deceased Jiaoyan to death and Jihe to "corrupting the city's morals", and wanted to arrest him and throw him into the "eighteen levels of hell" where there were no prisoners to be imprisoned.As soon as the charming soul heard the verdict, it immediately found Jihe, and in his dream, Jihe thought she was here to ask for sex again, and was scared to run away, but Jiaoyan grabbed her and said, "Brother, I'm here to help you." The big literati bribed the government to arrest you and put you in prison. Brother, you lured pigs and turtles ashore when you were alive. You must be a person who was ordered by the sky. Misfortune, if you don’t run away quickly, your future will be cut off. The slave family owed you love when they were born, and owe you love after death. You just go away at ease this time, and I will stay on Huangquan Road, little sister. I will go down to the underworld and settle down, and I will not be reincarnated as a human again, and I will follow you in this life." After speaking, a huge wind was caused, causing flying sand and rocks to cover the sky, and no one on the island dared to go out for a while, even the yamen stopped hunting.Just as Jihe wanted to persuade her to go to the underworld and stop making trouble in his dream, Jiaoyan pushed her out of the dream before she could open her mouth, and was pushed by the wind to run away.

After Jihe fled, Zhang Dawen asked the Oshima Governor's office for compensation for the false accusation. Under the pressure of the self-government association, the government had to confiscate most of Jihe's land property and compensate Zhang's family.The people employed by the step-family also left one after another, the fields were deserted, and the big step-family house that had been visited by pigs and tortoises was moved in by the charming soul, who regarded herself as a housewife.Overnight, the garden was full of weeds and became a haunt of snakes, insects, foxes and ghosts.

The people on the island made this into a folk song and sang: "Close your eyes when you must, When you have to turn your head, you have to turn your head, Even if the turtle can be lured ashore, Don't compete with the 'sage' for romance. "