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Chapter 24 The 23rd round of posting a secretive poet was lamented that Lao Jing's widow was looking for a husband

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It is said that when Niu Yupu saw Niupu fell into the water, he was in a bad shape, so he asked the boy to call the sedan chair to take him back first.When Niu Pu got to the lower place, he was so angry that he sat there with his mouth full.After sitting for a while, I found a pair of dry shoes and socks to change.The Taoist came to ask if he had eaten, but he couldn't tell if he hadn't, so he had to say that he had eaten, and he was hungry for a long time.Niu Yupu ate wine at Wan's house, until Genggen came back, and went upstairs to tell Niupu the number, but Niupu didn't dare to reply, and stayed with each other.Nothing happened the next day.

On the third day, someone from the Wan family came to invite him again, and Niu Yupu told Niu Pu to look down, and went by himself by the bridge.Niu Pu had breakfast with the Taoist, and the Taoist said: "I want to go to a brother's house in the Mulan Courtyard in the old city. Mr. Niu, you can sit at home." Let's go stubborn with you." After locking the door, the Taoist priest went straight into the old city and sat down in a teahouse.A pot of dry roasted tea, a plate of sugar, and a plate of plum beans are served in the teahouse.While eating, the Taoist asked: "Mr. Niu, is your uncle Ling's relative? He has always been here as an old man, but I don't see your husband coming." Niu Pu said: "I also met on the road, and we talked about the family. I I have always been in the yamen of Mr. Dong in Andong County. How hospitable Mr. Dong is! I remember that when I first arrived at his place, I sent a post to him, and he quickly asked two messengers to come out to ask for my sedan chair. I have never taken a sedan chair. But I was riding a donkey. I wanted to get off the donkey, but the messenger refused. Two people led me by the head of the donkey and walked all the way up. When I got to the Nuan Pavilion, there was a rattling sound on the floor. Mr. Dong had already opened the door of the house. , came out by himself, held hands with me, walked in, and stayed with me for more than 20 days. I want to resign him and come back. He gave me seventeen taels, four and five cents of silver, and sent me out to the lobby He saw me riding on the donkey, and said in his mouth: "If you are satisfied with this trip, then go for it; if you are not satisfied, come and find me again." Such a person is really rare, and I still want to go to him now." Dao Tu Said: "This master is really rare."

Niu Pu said: "My master Wan Xuezhai, what is his future? When will he be an official in the future?" The Taoist smiled in his nose and said, "Wan Jia, you have to make your uncle respect him! If you are an official I'm afraid that the gauze caps are flying all over the sky and flying on his head, and someone else will take him!" Niu Pu said: "This is strange, he is not an advocating servant, why is the gauze cap flying on his head and there are still people Where are you going?" The Taoist said: "Don't you know his origin? I tell you, but you must not tell. Wan Jia was the school boy of Cheng's family in our Hexia Wanyou Banner since he was a child, and he followed him since he was a child. Study companion. His master Cheng Mingqing saw that he was smart, and when he was eighteen or nineteen years old, he called him Xiao Si Ke." Niu Pu said: "How do you call him Xiao Si Ke?" The Taoist said: "Our salt merchant's family here, for example Entrusting a friend to walk on the board of directors, meeting officials and visiting guests for him, earning a salary of several hundred silver per year, this is called "big secretary"; He's a guest. When he was a small clerk, he was extremely calm. He gathered a few taels of silver every year, and brought small goods first. Later, he made a nest. I didn't want his luck to be good, and the price of the nest increased sharply in those years, so he found it. Forty to fifty thousand silver, so he redeemed himself and came out, bought this house, sold salt by himself, and the business was good, so he raised more than a hundred thousand. Wanyouqi Cheng's family had already lost their capital and went back to Huichuan, so there was no People said about him. Last year Wan's family married a daughter-in-law, who was also Hanxiu's daughter. Wan's family spent thousands of taels of silver to marry in. That day, there was a lot of bragging, and the deacon's lanterns were placed for half the street. It was very lively! On the third day, when the in-laws were going to come to pay homage, they would sing operas and set up wine at home. Not thinking of his master Cheng Mingqing, he would be carried here in a sedan chair early in the morning and sit in his hall. When the Wan family came out, they couldn't help but I knelt down and made a few bows, and at that time I exchanged 10,000 taels of silver, and then I went away without losing my appearance." Just as he was speaking, two Taoists came out of Mulan Courtyard, and invited the Taoist priest to have a vegetarian meal. , Taoist bid farewell to go.

Niu Pu drank a few cups of tea by himself, then walked back downstairs.After entering the Meridian Palace, I saw that Niu Yupu had come back and was sitting downstairs.There are several large silver letters on the table, and the door of the building is still locked.When Niu Wangpu saw Niu Pu coming in, he told him to open the door of the building quickly, and moved the silver upstairs, complaining to Niu Pu: "Just now I told you to look at the next place, why are you bumping into the street!" Wu Pu said: "Just now I was standing at the door, and I met the Ergong from our county passing by the door, he got off the sedan chair when he saw me, and said, 'Long time no see', he wanted to take me to the boat to talk, so he went for a while." Niu Yupu saw him meeting the officials, and Don't say he isn't anymore.Yin asked, "What's your second surname?" Niu Pu said, "His surname is Li, from Beizhi. Even this Li Ergong knows his uncle." Niu Yupu said, "They naturally heard about me in the officialdom. His name." Niu Pu said: "He said he also recognized Mr. Wan Xuezhai." Niu Yupu said: "Xuezhai is also paid all over the world." Pointing to the silver, he said: "This is what Xuezhai's family brought. Because his seventh Mrs. Ru was ill, the doctor said it was a cold syndrome, and a snow toad was used in the medicine, which cost a few hundred silver in Yangzhou and there was nowhere to buy it. He heard that it could be found in Suzhou, so he took three hundred taels. Entrust me to buy the money. I don't have the time, I have already recommended you to him, you can go for a walk now, and you can still earn a few taels of silver." Niu Pu dared not disobey.

That night Niu Yupu bought a chicken and some wine for his farewell, and ate upstairs.Niu Pu said: "I was about to say something to my uncle just now, and it was said by Li Ergong of our county." Niu Yupu said, "What are you talking about?" It’s just that the pen and ink are in harmony, and his family still refuses to entrust important matters of money. Li Ergong said that he had a confidant friend in his life. Now as long as the uncle said that he was good with this person, he would be at ease in everything, and everything was entrusted to the uncle. Not only did the uncle get rich, but Even my nephew will have a good time in the future." Niu Wangpu said: "Which one is his confidant?" Niu Pu said: "Mr. Cheng Mingqing from Huizhou." Niu Yupu smiled, "This is my friend who has been in alliance for twenty years , Why didn’t I recognize it? I know.” After finishing their drinks, they each fell asleep.The next day, Wu Pu took the silver, said goodbye to his uncle, and boarded a boat for Suzhou.

The next day, Wan's family came to invite wine again, and Niu Yupu took the bridge to go.When we arrived at Wanjia, there were two salt merchants sitting there: one surnamed Gu and the other surnamed Wang.After meeting and bowing, the two salt merchants said they were relatives, and they refused to assume Niu Wangpu's seat, and let Niu Yupu sit at the head.After having tea, I first said some things about Wozi Changsui, and brought them to the table, two of them at a table.After serving the wine, Wan Xuezhai invited everyone to eat the first bowl of Cordyceps sinensis, and said: "Things like this are also from foreign countries. We have a lot of them in Yangchuan City. You can't find a single snow toad. " Gu Yanshang said: "Have you not looked for it yet?" Wan Xuezhai said: "Exactly. There is no one in Yangzhou. I asked Wang Wengling's nephew and grandson to go to Suzhou to look for it yesterday." Wang Yanshang said: "Such a rare thing, Su Chuan also Not necessarily, I'm afraid we have to go to our Huizhou old family's house to find it, or find it out." Wan Xuezhai said: "That's true, everything is from our Huizhou." Gu Yanshang said: "Not only things come from Well, the characters are also from our Huizhou." Niu Yupu suddenly remembered, and asked: "Xue Weng, is there a Mr. Cheng Mingqing in Huizhou who is a good friend?" Wan Xuezhai blushed when she heard this, and couldn't answer a word. Niu Yupu said: "This is a good brother I worshiped. The day before yesterday, I still had Shuzi with me. I said that I will go to Yangzhou in a few days. I must have a story with Xue Weng." I can't say a word.Gu Yanshang said: "Yu Weng, since ancient times, 'you can meet all over the world, and how many people you can know'! Let's have a drink today, so we don't need to talk about him in those old stories."

Niu Yupu went back to the next place, but he didn't see Wan's family coming to invite him for a few days.I slept upstairs every day, and when I woke up, the long follower took a book and said, "This is from Master Wan's house in Hexia, and I don't wait to return the book." Niu Yupu opened it and looked: On the occasion of Yizheng Wang Hanceshe's mother's 70th birthday in Qinlingtang, I want my husband to write a birthday essay and write in a large brush. I hope that I will drive to Yi.To tell!To tell! After seeing this, Niu Yupu asked Chang Sui to fly on a grass and go to Yizheng.That night, the boat went ashore at Chouba early the next day, and asked Mr. Wang Hance's house in the rice shop.The people from Midian said: "Wang Han's family who is a pier?" He also lived in a new gate building facing east on Fayun Street.Niu Yupu went to Wang's house and went straight in. He saw three open halls, and there were golden inscriptions on longevity on the chairs in the middle of the hall.There is a long table by the window on the left, and a scholar was writing there with his head down. Seeing Niu Yupu enter the hall, he put down his pen and walked over.Niu Yupu was surprised when he saw that he was wearing a cocoon silk gown with oil on his chest.The scholar recognized Niu Yupu and said, "You are the one who ate at the same table as the turtle in Daguanlou. What are you doing here today?" This has nothing to do with you." The scholar sat down there.

Wang Hance and Niu Yupu arched their hands together, without bowing to each other, they sat down and asked, "Is your honor the name of Yupu?" Yesterday, a scholar came and said that Zunjia is not very polite and easy to make friends with bandits. From now on, I dare not show respect." Because he weighed out a tael of silver in the tent and handed it to him, he said: " I won't keep it anymore, so please respect it!" Niu Yupu was furious, and said, "I'm so rare for this tael of silver! I'll go and tell Wan Xuezhai myself!" He threw the silver on the chair.Wang Hance said: "You don't want it, and I'm not strong. I advise you not to go to Xuezhai's house, and Xuezhai can't!" Niu Yupu walked out angrily.Wang Hance said: "Forgive me." He put his hands together and walked in.

Niu Yupu had no choice but to take his long entourage and find a hotel in Chouba to stay, and kept saying: "Wan Xuezhai, this dog head, so hateful!" , unless you say something about his Cheng family, it won't be embarrassing." After finishing speaking, he walked over.Niu Yupu heard it in his ears, and hurriedly asked the long attendant to ask the attendant.Fang who walked out said this: "He is the housekeeper of Cheng Mingqing's family, and he is most afraid of being exposed. You must tell him, and he will be annoyed." Chang Sui replied this to Niu Yupu, and Niu Yupu realized it: "That's all! I've been fooled by this little bastard!" Immediately stayed overnight.

The next day, I called a boat to Suzhou to find Niupu.After boarding the boat, the money was not enough, so the long follower resigned two more, leaving only two rough men to follow, and went all the way to Suchuan, looking for it in the Huqiu medicinal material store.Niu Pu was sitting there, saw Niu Yupu coming, greeted him, and said, "Uncle is here." Niu Wangpu said, "Has there ever been a snow toad?" Niupu said, "Not yet." Niu Yupu said, "Recently, There is a family in Zhenjiang who has it, so hurry up and buy it with the silver. My boat is just outside the gate of Chang.” He was escorted to take the silver and board the boat together, without saying anything.After walking for a few days, I arrived at Longpao Island, which is a deserted place.That day, after breakfast, Niu Yupu opened his eyes wide and said angrily, "You know I'm going to beat you?" Niu Pu panicked and said, "As a grandson, you never offended your uncle, why did you beat me?" What about it?" Niu Yupu said, "Fuck your shit! You've done a great job!" Immediately, he couldn't help but ask two rams to strip Niupu's clothes, hats, shoes and socks, tie them up with rope, and beat them badly. After a pause, he carried it to the shore and flung it, and his boat pulled up its tent and went away.

Niu Pu was knocked dizzy by him, and was used to falling in front of a dung cellar, and was about to roll into the dung cellar, so he swallowed his anger and dared not move.After half a day, I saw another boat coming from the river, and the boat stopped when it reached the shore. A guest came up and came out of the dung cellar, and Niu Pu called him for help.The guest said: "What kind of person are you, you were stripped of your clothes and tied up here?" Niu Pu said: "Father, I am a scholar in Wuhu County. Because Mr. Dong in Andong County invited me to be an embassy , I met a robber on the road, who robbed me of my clothes and luggage, and only spared my life. I am a man in distress, please save me!" The guest said in surprise: "You really are from Andong County. Did Mr. Dong go to the yamen? I am from Andong County, and now I have untied the rope for you." Seeing that he was naked and not looking good, Yin said: "Sir, stand still, I will go to the boat to get a coat and shoes The socks are here to wear with you, so that you can go on board." Sure enough, he went to the boat and took a cloth dress, a pair of shoes, and a corrugated hat, and put them on with him.Said: "Your husband didn't wear this hat. Let's wear it now. Go to the lively place and buy a square scarf." Niu Pu put on his clothes and knelt down to thank the guest.He got up and got into the boat together. The guests on the boat were all surprised when they heard this, and asked, "What is your name?" Niu Pu said: "My surname is Niu." Yinbai asked: "This benefactor Your surname?" The guest said: "My surname is Huang. I am from Andong County. My family has a small business and is an actor's costume broker. The day before yesterday, I went to Nanjing to buy some extra costumes for their class. I passed here. I don't want to accidentally save this gentleman. Since you are going to Mr. Dong's yamen, come with me to Anton, live in the house, tidy up some clothes, and then go to the yamen." Niu Pu thanked him deeply, From this day on, eat this guest's meal. At this time the weather was very hot, and Niupu was stripped of his clothes, tied up in the sun for half a day, and also suffered from the heat of fumigation in the dung cellar. As soon as he got on the boat, he fell ill with dysentery.The dysentery was restricted mouth, tenesmus, dysentery all day long, so he had to sit on the stern of the boat, hold the plank with both hands and let him pull him.It lasted for three or four days, like a living ghost.His body hurt from the beating again, and his thighs formed two grooves on the side of the boat.Only the guests in the cabin discussed quietly: "This man is supposed to be bad, now we should send him up while he has some breath. If he dies, it will take a lot of effort." The yellow guest refused.On the fifth day, he suddenly smelled the fragrance of mung beans in his nose.Said to the boatman: "I want to eat mung bean soup." The boat was full of people who refused.He said: "I want to eat it myself, and I will have no complaints when I die." The crowd had no choice but to come to the shore, buy some mung beans, cook a bowl of soup, and eat with him.There was a sound in my stomach, and I pulled out a big shit, and it was fine immediately, I went into the cabin to thank everyone, and went to sleep in peace.After two days of raising it, it gradually recovered. When we arrived in Anton, we first stayed at Huang Hakka's house.Huang Ke bought a square scarf for him, added a coat and a pair of boots, and wore it to pay homage to Dongzhi County.Dongzhi County was really happy, and now he left wine and food, and wanted to stay in the yamen.Niu Pu said: "Wan Sheng has a relative in Guizhi, so it's better to live with him." Dong Zhixian said: "That's all. Mr. Ling lives in Ling's family, and he often comes in and out in the morning and evening, so I can ask for advice." Niu Pu After resigning, Huang's guest saw that he was really with the master, and he was very loose.Niupu went to the yamen every three or two days, and in the name of telling poems, knocked on two wooden clocks by the way to make some money.The Huang family recruited their fourth daughter to be their son-in-law, and lived happily in Anton.I didn't want Dong Zhixian to be promoted, and the magistrate who took over was a county magistrate surnamed Xiang, who was also from Zhejiang.When explaining, I asked the county magistrate if Dong Zhixian could entrust him with anything. Dong Zhixian said: "It's nothing. There is only a friend who is a poet who lives in Guizhi. He is called Niu Shiyi. Your kindness." Xiang magistrate promised.Dongzhi County went to Beijing, Wupu sent him a hundred miles away, and did not return home until the third day.His wife told him: "Yesterday, a man came and said it was your Wuhu long-term uncle. He passed by here to see you. I left him for a meal. He said he will come back in the second half of the year and come to see you again." Niu Pu was puzzled. : "There is no such uncle, I don't know which one it is? Let's wait for him in the second half of the year." Dong Zhixian went all the way to the capital, voted in the Ministry of Officials, and drew lots in court the next day.At this time, Feng Zhuo'an had already won the Jinshi, dispersed his subordinates, and lived not far from the entrance of the official department.Dong Zhixian first came to pay homage to his apartment. Mr. Feng sat down in front of him and talked about the temperature and temperature. Dong Zhixian only said, "Your friend Niu Shiyi is in Wuhu Ganlu Nunnery". When we met in Andong County, I saw the long class come in and knelt down and said: "The master of the Ministry has been promoted." Dong Zhixian hurriedly said goodbye, and when he arrived at the Ministry, he drew a lottery from Guizhou Zhizhou, and hurriedly put on his clothes. I went to work and never saw Mr. Feng again.After a while, Mr. Feng sent a family member to send a letter home, and took out ten taels of silver, and asked the family member, "Do you know the family of Niu Xianggong, who is a cowboy?" "This is ten taels of silver. Take it back and give it to Niu Xianggong's wife, Grandma Niu. She said that his husband is now in Ganlu Temple in Qiang Lake. There should be no mistake in sending him a letter. It is said that I brought this silver with Niu. Grandma is entangled." The housekeeper took the order, went home to see the mistress, and after finishing the housework, he walked into a back alley, where a fence gate was closed.When the butler walked to the door, he saw a little boy coming out with a skimmer in his hand to buy rice. The butler told him that Mr. Feng from Jingli had sent him, so the little boy led him in and stood in the guest seat, and the little boy walked in. .He came out again and asked, "What do you have to say?" The steward asked the boy, "Who is Grandma Niu?" , Said: "This silver is brought by my master and grandma Niu. He said that Mr. Niu is now in Ganlu nunnery in Wuhu. He will send you a letter so as not to be in suspense." The child asked him to sit down and took the silver in.The butler saw a dilapidated old painting hanging in the middle, with many squares pasted on both sides, six dilapidated bamboo chairs, an earthen platform in the courtyard, and a wisteria flower on the platform, next to the wisteria is the fence gate.After sitting for a while, I saw the child holding out a cup of tea, took another bun in his hand, wrapped two qian silver, and handed it to him, saying: "My aunt said: "Thank you, this is for you to buy tea." Eat. I pay my respects to my wife when I go home, and my master when I go to Beijing. Thank you, I understand what you said.'" The housekeeper thanked him and went. Grandma Niu took the silver, and felt distressed, and said: "He is so old, he just lives outside and has no children, what should I do? I might as well take advantage of these few taels of silver and go to Wuhu to find him. It’s also a matter.” The decision was made, and the two dilapidated houses were locked up and handed over to the neighbors to guard them. He brought his nephew and took a boat all the way to Wuhu.When we found the Manlu Nunnery at the mouth of the floating bridge, the two doors were closed, and when we opened it, there were no incense burners and candlesticks in front of Bodhisattva Wei Tuo.Going in again, the main hall is full of clutter, and an old Taoist man is sitting in the courtyard sewing clothes, asking him, only gesticulating, he turned out to be dumb and deaf.Ask him if there is a cow cloth in it, and he points to the same room ahead.Grandma Niu came out with her nephew, saw a room next to Bodhisattva Wei Tuo, and there was no door, and went in. There was a big coffin in the room, and a table with three legs was placed in front of it, tilted halfway. .The soul flag on the top of the coffin village is gone, only a stick is left, and there is a word on the top of the coffin, and because there are no tiles on the roof, the rain has peeled off the handwriting, and only the word "Da Ming" is left. The characters have only one horizontal line.When Grandma Niu came here, she couldn't feel her heart trembling, her cold hairs stood on end.He went in again and asked the Taoist, "Isn't Niu Buyi dead?" The Taoist shook his hand twice and pointed out the door.His nephew said: "He said my uncle hadn't died, and went to another place." Grandma Niu went outside the nunnery again, and asked along the street, but no one said they heard him die. "Him? Now he's taken over by Mr. Dong in Anton." Grandma Niu got the trust this time, and decided to look for it in Anton.Because of this, there are different teachings:
I don't know if Grandma Niu has ever been to Anton, let's listen to the next chapter to explain.
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