Chapter 103 Chapter 20 Couplet Bridal Chamber

"I'm going to die. Death has come to my door." The monk stretched out his hand to pinch his nose, and the flies buzzed away. "I'll leave you to catch ghosts and whores." After the monk finished speaking, the flies circled around for a long time. circle, landed on his nose again. "But, I'm afraid I don't have the ability. I haven't learned the art of catching ghost prostitutes from my father. I encountered another ghost prostitute more than 30 years ago, and I know how powerful she is." Grandpa replied hesitantly. "Hehe, you are also one of the witnesses to what happened more than 30 years ago. Your father and I met at that time, and your father and I followed your wishes to let go of this ghost prostitute. She, as you said, she has never appeared again." The monk began to struggle with his words, "But, this ghost prostitute is different from the previous one, and her resentment is too heavy. You can only subdue her. Just like the two-faced Buddha , We can guide good ghosts to be good, and we can't soften our hearts if we don't change the evil."

Grandpa said softly: "But my father didn't give me all he learned. I can't deal with ghost prostitutes." The monk thought for a while and said, "Didn't your father have an ancient book? Didn't he pass it on to you?" Grandpa said: "It was passed on, but only the first half of the ancient book was given to me. I don't know where the second half is hidden. There are only seven characters left, and the second half can only be found by guessing the answer. I haven't read it yet." Guess it." The monk asked, "Which seven characters?"

Grandpa said: "Those seven characters are to move the chair and lean on the tree to enjoy the moon together." The monk smiled and said, "This is the upper couplet in the case of Mr. Bao cleverly breaking the couplet. There is such a joke in Huagu Opera, haven't you heard of it?" "Grandpa Bao solved the couplet case by chance?" Although Grandpa often listened to Huagu Opera, he obviously hadn't heard this part. Later, when my grandfather told me about "Bao Gong cleverly broke the couplet case", I was also at a loss.I seldom listen to opera, I think it’s something old people listen to when they’re bored, it’s annoying.Therefore, I have no way of knowing the allusion of "moving the chair and leaning on the tree to enjoy the moon".So, I asked my grandpa about the specific content of the case of Mr. Bao's ingenious breaking of couplets.I believe readers are as curious as I am.

At that time, the monk was close to passing away, and he didn't have so much time to tell his grandpa the story of Bao Gong's ingenious solution to the couplet case. These were all learned by his grandfather after asking many fans after the monk's death.This provides a good idea for us to find the second half of "Bai Shu Drive". It is said that when Bao Gong was the supervisory censor, such a strange case happened. A couple surnamed Xu, both over fifty years old, married for their eighteen-year-old son.Before the groom enters the bridal chamber on the wedding night, in order to test her talented husband, the talented bride came up with an upper couplet of couplets: "Light up the lamp and go to the pavilion to attack the book".

This is the form of serial pairs, not only "deng" (composed of "fire" and "deng" in ancient traditional Chinese characters) is the same as "deng", "Ge" and "Ge" are homonyms, and the former characters are respectively the latter characters plus radicals ( or strokes), and the word "lighting lamp" is double-sounded (the initial consonants of the two characters are the same), it will take a lot of brains to come up with the next sentence. After the bride said the couplet, she said to the groom through the door: "If you can't answer the next sentence, you are not allowed to enter the bridal chamber tonight."

The groom thought hard for a long time, but couldn't answer the next sentence, so he left home and went to school in a fit of anger. After getting up the next morning, the bride saw the groom sitting at the table frowning, and asked why. The bridegroom said: "I am still worrying about not being able to answer your couplets!" The bride smiled and said: "Last night when the night was quiet and the moon was shining, you were alone under the plane tree in the courtyard. Didn't you already meet? Or, can I let you enter the bridal chamber?" When the bridegroom heard this, he was surprised and said: "Because I couldn't match the couplets, I was in the school all night, and I didn't come back until dawn!"

After hearing this, the bride realized that she had led the wolf into the house and let the bad guys take advantage of it.After a while, the bride who had lost her virginity saw that the groom left the new house to meet his parents and did not return for a long time, so he hanged himself with regret. Because of a homicide case, the county government arrested the bridegroom without asking any questions.The groom, who was tortured to extract a confession, was sentenced to be executed after being tortured.After hearing the news that her son was about to be executed, Xu's mother threw herself into the river in despair.

After Bao Gong "visited" this matter, he felt that the case was strange, so he decided to use the couplet as a "breakthrough" to clarify the truth of the case.So, he borrowed at Xu's house that night.In the dead of night, when the moon was in the sky, Baogong came to the sycamore tree in the courtyard, facing the sycamore tree, thinking about it, but he couldn't come up with a good plan for a while. Under such circumstances, Bao Gong put aside his thinking about the case, asked his followers to bring a chair, leaned against the plane tree, and chatted with them.While chatting, Bao Gong suddenly realized that the key to solving the case was obtained by accident.

The next morning, Bao Gong left Xu's house and came to the county government office. He immediately asked people to post a notice on the street, to the effect that Kaifeng government would recruit a talented scholar from the local area to take up a post in Kaifeng government office. .More than a dozen test takers came to the county government office, and the test questions given by Bao Gong were the couplets of "Lighting the lamp and ascending the pavilion, each attacking the book".After the examinees turned in the next sentence and handed in the answer sheet, Bao Gong selected the examinee who "moved the chair and leaned on the tung tree to enjoy the moon".

Seeing that he was selected, the candidate asked Bao Gong very happily: "Master Bao, when will you bring Wansheng back to Kaifeng Mansion?" Bao Gong sneered, slapped the gavel, and ordered the government officials to tie up the candidate stand up.Then Bao Gong asked someone to bring the groom who was killed after the fall. When the groom secretly confirmed that the candidate was his classmate and friend, Bao Gong decided that the candidate was the criminal who entered the bridal chamber at night and ruined the bride. The reason why Bao Gong identified the examinee who answered "Move the chair and lean on the tree to enjoy the moon together" is a "criminal suspect" is because he suddenly came up with the idea of ​​"move the chair" while chatting with his entourage under the plane tree in Xu's courtyard. The couplet of the chair leaning on the tung and enjoying the moon", because this sentence is also a serial sentence, "Yi" and "Yi", "Tong" and "Tong" are homophonic words, and the former characters are respectively the latter characters plus radicals (or strokes) Cheng Cheng, "moving the chair" is also a double voice, and at the same time, he thought of the sentence "you are alone under the sycamore tree in the courtyard, haven't you already met?", so I answered the question. Candidates who "moved the chair, leaned on the tree and admired the moon" were "buttoned".

Then Bao Gong tried the examinee in the first instance, and the examinee confessed truthfully. It turned out that that night, after the groom arrived at the school, the classmate friend who was reading at the school at night saw the groom came to the school instead of entering the bridal chamber on the wedding night, and asked why.The groom truthfully told the examinee about the couplet, and the examinee immediately had a bad idea.In the dead of night, he sneaked into Xu's house under the pretext of going home.After the examinee came up with a couplet under the plane tree in Xu's courtyard, he pretended to be a groom and answered the bride in the bridal chamber. The bride, who had already turned off the lights but did not fall asleep, heard the perfect answer of "moving the chair, leaning on the tung tree and enjoying the moon" perfectly. She didn't even think that there would be a second person besides her husband who knew that she and her husband had answered correctly, so she opened the door. Let him go and put him to bed.After the examinee ruined the bride, he slipped away before dawn when the bride was asleep.