Chapter 25 Chapter 24: Niu Pulang Involved in Many Lawsuits

It was said that Niupu was married to a family surnamed Huang in Andong, and the Huang family lived with him in three or four houses near the front door, so he posted a post on the door saying: "Niubuyi will do poetry for you." That morning , was sitting at home, only to hear someone knock on the door, let in the door, it turned out to be an old neighbor in Wuhu County.This man is called Stone Mouse, a well-known scoundrel, but now he is also old.Seeing that it was him who came, Niu Pu was startled, so he bowed to him and sat down, and went in to get tea by himself.My wife met him behind the screen, and told him, "This is your long-term uncle who came last year, and he is here again today." Niu Pu said, "What kind of uncle is he?" He took the tea and handed it to him. Stone mice eat.

The stone mouse said: "My husband, I heard your congratulations, and I'm very proud to invite you here again." Niu Pu said: "I haven't seen my father for several years, where are you making a fortune now?" The stone mouse said: "I just want to Walking around Huaibei and Shandong. But Lingda passed by you, and he ran out of money on the road, so he came to visit you and borrow a few taels of silver. Use it. You must help me!" Niu Pu said: "Although I I'm an old neighbor with my father, but I've never passed money; besides, I'm a guest, living with my in-laws, where did I get a few taels of silver from my father?" Stone Mouse sneered, "You have no heart, kid. Now, thinking about the time when I was spending money like water, you used me so much, but now I see you recruiting a relative in someone else's house, to save your face, if it's not good, just say it, and you will say such a thing!" Niu Pu said anxiously. : "This is the word from there! You spend money like dirt, when I see your gold, when I see your dirt! You are an old man, you don't want to do something good, you just want to 'drill holes in the bare water - lie'!" The stone mouse said: "Niu Pulang, don't talk about it! Thinking about the ugly things you did when you were young, you can hide it from others, but you can hide it from me? Besides, you stopped marrying wives and cheated the daughter of the Bu family there. What should I do for defrauding the daughter of the Huang family? If you don’t obediently hand over a few taels of silver, I’ll go to Andong County with you!” Niu Pu jumped up and said, “That’s afraid of you! I’ll go to Andong with you Go to the county!"

Immediately, the two wrestled out of Huang's house, and went all the way to the county gate, forcing two county chiefs, who knew Niupu, to rush forward to persuade them, asking what was the matter.Shishuo said to Ting, who was immature when he was young, that he lied to the daughter of the Bu family, and then lied to the daughter of the Huang family, and then impersonated him.Niu Pu said: "He is a famous bachelor in our area, called Stone Mouse. Now he is getting old and shameless! He came to my house last year, and I was not at home. He pretended to be my uncle and cheated me to eat. This year, he came to ask me out of nowhere. If you want money, there is such a ruthless and unreasonable thing!" The chief guards said: "Forget it, Mr. Niu, he is old. Although he is not a relative, he is an old neighbor of yours after all. I think there is really no money. There is an old saying: 'Family poverty is not poverty, and road poverty kills people'. If you have money at this time and you are not convinced, give it to him. All of us will deposit a few hundred cash for you and send him away." The stone mouse still wants to fight.The chiefs said: "This is not a place for you to run wild! Mr. Niu is the best with my master. You are an old man. Don't lose face and suffer!" The stone mouse didn't dare to hear this. Too much talk, then a few hundred dollars, thank you all and go.

Niupu also thanked everyone for going home.After walking a few steps, a neighbor came to meet him at the door and said, "Mr. Niu, come here to talk." Then he pulled into a secluded alley and told him, "Your wife is arguing with others at home!" Niu Pu said: "Who are you arguing with?" The neighbor said: "You just went out, and then you took two sedan chairs and a load of luggage, and a guest came, and your wife took him in. The guest said that he was your ex-wife and wanted you We met, and there was a fierce quarrel with your lady Huang's family. The lady asked me to bring a letter, telling you to go home quickly." Hearing this, Niupu understood in his heart as if he was carried in a cold water basin: "Of course. It's Shi Mouse, the old servant, who made trouble with the former lady of the Bu family, Jia Shi!" There was no other way, so he had to bravely walk home.At the door of the house, stand still and listen. The noise inside is not the voice of Mrs. Jia, but a Zhejiang native.He knocked on the door and went in.I met the woman face to face, but I didn't know each other.Huang said: "This belongs to my family. Look, is it your husband?" Grandma Niu asked, "Why is you called Niu Buyi?" Niu Pu said, "Why am I not Niu Buyi? But I think Don’t want you grandma.” Grandma Niu said: “I am Niu Buyi’s wife. You have put up a sign here in my husband’s name, and it is clear that you murdered my husband. How can I have a relationship with you? Niu Pu said: "There are the most people with the same name and surname in the world, so how could it be that I murdered your husband? This is amazing!" Grandma Niu said: "Why not! I asked all the way from Wuhu County to Ganluan, and said In Anton. Since you are impersonating my husband’s name, you must return my husband!” He cried out and told his nephew to twist Niupu.Grandma Niu got into the sedan chair and yelled all the way to the county. When she was going out to the county magistrate, she yelled for injustice.The magistrate called the complement.Immediately made up the words, arrested all the people on business trip, listed, and heard in the afternoon hall on the third day.

On this day, the magistrate sat in court and tried three cases.The first one, "to kill my father's order", was sued by a monk.As the monk was collecting firewood in the mountains, he saw a lot of cows that were herding. One of the cows saw the monk and just looked at him with wide open eyes.The monk felt moved, and walked up to the cow, and the cow shed tears from his eyes.The monk panicked and knelt down in front of the ox. The ox stretched out its tongue and licked his head. As he licked, the tears grew more and more.The monk just realized that it was his father who was reincarnated. Because he cried and prayed to the family, he gave alms to the nunnery to support him.I didn't want to be led to be killed by the neighbors in the nunnery, so I came to sue, and brought Shi Niu as a witness.He took the monk's confession from the county magistrate, and called the neighbor to question him.The neighbor said: "Three or four days ago, the young one, this monk brought this cow to sell to the young one. When the young one bought it, he killed it. The monk came to tell the young one yesterday that the cow was transformed by his father. He sold a few liang of silver more, but the silver was sold for less the day before yesterday, so he came to ask for a price, but the younger one refused, so he quarreled with the younger one. The younger one heard someone say, "This cow was not changed by his father. This monk has lived for many years. He shaved his head, rubbed salt on his head, went to the place where the cow was grazing, and saw the fat cow, he knelt down in front of the cow, and coaxed out the cow's tongue to touch his head. Every cow licks the salt; When his eyes watered, he said it was his father, and went to the house to cry and beg for alms. When the alms came, he would sell it for money. It’s not the same thing.’ This time, I’m going to sue this matter again, and I beg the master to make the decision!” The person who called Shi Niu from the county magistrate asked, "You really gave this cow to his family. You didn't ask for money?" "The matter of reincarnation is vague, so there is a reason for this? Kuang said that my father was reincarnated, so I shouldn't sell it for money. This bald slave is extremely abominable!" Then he threw down the sign, was severely punished, and kicked out.

The second one was "death to kill my brother for poisoning", the person who sued was called Hu Lai, and the person who sued was Chen An, the doctor.The county magistrate called the plaintiff and asked, "How did he poison your brother?" Hu Lai said, "Young brother fell ill, so I invited the doctor Chen An to see him. He took a dose of medicine, and the young brother fell ill the next day. He ran away and jumped into the water and drowned. It was obviously poisoned to death by him!" Xiang magistrate said: "Is there any enmity or not?" Hu Lai said: "No enmity." Xiang magistrate called Chen Anlai and asked: " What kind of soup did you use to treat Hu Lai's elder brother?" Chen An said: "He was originally suffering from a cold, but the younger one used Jingfang Divergent medicine, which contained eight-point asarum. At that time, his family There is a relative who is a round-faced dwarf. He talks too much by his side, saying that Asarum is about to eat him to death. Is there such a sentence in "Materia Medica"? It took three or four days behind his brother to jump in Dead in the water, what does it have to do with the little one? Master Qingtian, even after searching for the properties of four hundred medicines, he didn't find that medicine should jump into the river after taking it. Where did you start? The doctor will do it Dao, how can he be framed like this! I beg the master to decide!" Xiang Zhixian said: "This is really nonsense. The doctor has the heart to cut off the stock; besides, there is a patient in your family, who should have been guarded, why let him go out? Jumping into the river? What have you got to do with the doctor? You have to complain about such a thing!" They all rushed out.

The third is the complaint filed by the cow grandmother, "for the murder of her husband".The magistrate called the grandma Niu to ask.Grandma Niu found all this and so on, from Zhejiang to Wuhu, and from Wuhu to Anton: "He has my husband's signboard now. If my husband doesn't ask him for it, who will I ask for it?" Xiang Zhixian said: "What's the matter?" See?" Xiang Zhixian asked Niu Pu, "Niu Shengyuan, have you always recognized this person?" Niu Pu said, "The student not only didn't recognize the woman, but also didn't know her husband. He suddenly went to the student's house. Wanting to have a husband is really a great injustice flying down from the sky!" Xiang Zhixian said to the grandmother: "I saw that this cow birth is called Niu Buyi, and your husband is also called Niu Buyi. There are many people with the same name and surname in the world, so naturally he doesn't like it. I know your husband's whereabouts. Go look for your husband elsewhere." Grandma Niu cried and cried in the hall, determined to ask the county magistrate to avenge him.The entangled Xiangzhi county was anxious, and said: "Forget it, I have two yamen servants here to send this woman back to Shaoxing. You go to the local area to file a complaint, and I will take care of such headless officials! Niu Shengyuan, please go back too." .” After saying that, he withdrew from the hall.The two rescuers sent Grandma Niu to Shaoxing.

Because of this incident, the boss who passed it on knew that the magistrate and the poets did not ask about life and important matters, and wanted to visit the magistrate.According to the prosecutor's office, it was revealed to the court.According to the surname of Chasi, Cui, he is the nephew of the eunuch.This day, I asked the screener to narrate the manuscript, and took it under the lamp to read it carefully: "For special participation in the official affairs of the incompetent and incompetent county magistrate", there were many accidents in Xiangding, the county magistrate of Andong County.I read and read, read and read, and in the shadow of the lamp and candle, I saw a person kneeling on his knees.Cui Yincha raised his eyes and saw that it was an actor named Bao Wenqing who was one of his disciples.According to Chasi's way: "What do you have to say, get up and say it." Bao Wenqing said: "Just now I saw that the old man was going to visit. This is Mr. Xiang from Andong County. I have never recognized this master, but since seven or eight I was studying opera at the age of 19, and I read the songs made by him in the hands of my master. This master is a great talent and a famous scholar. It has been more than 20 years now, and he has only become a county magistrate. How pitiful! Now I have to participate in this matter again. What's more, he still respects gentleness in this matter. I don't know if I can ask the old man to spare him from being a member?" An Chasi said: "I don't think you are a person who has the idea of ​​​​cherishing talents. You have this Meaning, don’t I want to? It’s just that he’s dismissed now, but he doesn’t know that you saved him. Now I’ll write a book about these reasons and send you to his yamen, asking him to thank you One hundred taels of silver, go home and make a capital." Bao Wenqing kowtowed and thanked.According to the order of the inspector, the boy in the study went to the staff and said, "Don't participate in this Andong County."

A few days later, a yamen servant was sent to send Bao Wenqing to Andong County with a book. He opened the book to the county magistrate and was shocked.Xiang Zhixian greeted him.Bao Wenqing walked into the gate of the house in Tsing Yi and a small cap, knelt down on both knees, kowtowed on the master's head, and knelt on the ground to greet the master.Xiang Zhixian came to help him with both hands, and wanted to talk to him about the ceremony.He said: "What kind of a young man dares to salute the master!" Xiang Zhixian said: "You are from the superior's yamen. Besides, you have a kindness with me. How can you hold on to this gift? Please get up quickly so that I can thank you!" He said Again and again.Xiang Zhixian asked him to sit down, but he dared not sit down.The county magistrate was in a hurry and said: "Master Cui sent you here. If I treat you like this, Mr. Cui knows it will be inconvenient." Bao Wenqing said: "Although the master wants to give special favor to the younger one, it has something to do with the court's dignity. I definitely don’t dare.” Standing with hands down, he replied a few words, and retreated to the corridor.Xiang Zhixian asked his relatives to come out to accompany him, but he would never dare to do so.After asking the butler to come out to accompany him, he was happy, sitting in the butler's room, talking and laughing.

The next day, Xiang Zhixian prepared a banquet and put it in the study. He came out to accompany him and poured wine to serve.He knelt on the ground, never daring to take the wine; asked him to sit down, but he would not sit down in the end.Xiang Zhixian had no choice but to send out the banquet and asked the housekeeper to eat with him.He also came up to thank him.Xiang Zhixian wrote a letter of thanks to the inspector, and sealed five hundred taels of silver to thank him.He didn't dare to accept a cent, and said: "This is the salary awarded to the gentlemen by the imperial court. The little one is a bitch, how dare you use the silver from the imperial court? If the young one takes this silver to support his family, he will definitely break it." Die the little one. My lord is kind, I will leave the life of the little dog." When the magistrate saw that he talked about this field, he couldn't force him, so he wrote another letter of his words, reported to the inspector, and let him live again. A few days later, someone sent him back to Beijing.When Chasi heard these words, he said he was an idiot, so that's all.A few hours later, according to the inspector, he was promoted to the capital and brought him into the capital.I don't want to die of illness as soon as I entered the Jingxiang Press.Bao Wenqing had no backer in Beijing. He was originally from Nanjing, so he had to pack his luggage and come back to Nanjing.

This Nanjing is where Emperor Taizu built his capital. There are thirteen inner city gates and eighteen outer city gates, forty miles through the city, and more than one hundred and twenty miles around the city.There are dozens of streets and hundreds of alleys in the city, all of which are crowded with people and buildings with golden powder.There is a river in the city, ten miles from Dongshuiguan to Xishuiguan, which is the Qinhuai River.When the water is full, the painting boats are humming and drumming, day and night.Outside the city of Huali, there are Lingong Fanyu, Biwa and Zhuxi. In the Six Dynasties, there were 480 temples. Up to now, there are more than 4,800 temples!In all the streets and alleys, there are six to seven hundred restaurants, and more than a thousand teahouses.No matter where you go in a back alley, there is always a place where lanterns are hung to sell tea, seasonal flowers are planted, and the best rainwater is cooked. The tea house is full of tea drinkers.In the evening, there are bright corner lanterns on the restaurants on both sides. There are thousands of lanterns on each street, shining like daylight, and people walking don't bring lanterns.When the Qinhuai River is under the moonlight, the darker the night is, the more the boats singing softly come, desolate, euphemistic, and soul-stirring.The girls living in the houses on both sides of the river, wearing light gauze clothes and jasmine flowers on their hair, all rolled up the Xiang curtains and leaned on the railing to listen.So when the drum of the lantern boat sounded, the curtains and windows on both sides opened, and the ambergris, Shen, and speed burned in the river room were sprayed out together, blending with the moonlight and smoke in the river, looking like a fairy in Langyuan, a fairy in Yaoguan .There are also the official prostitutes on the sixteenth floor, with new makeup and clothes, to attract tourists from all over the world.It's really cold food from day to day, and Lantern Festival every night! This Bao Wenqing lives in Shuiximen.Shuixi Gate is close to Jubao Gate. It was said that hundreds of cattle, thousands of pigs and tens of thousands of loads of food came in this Jubao Gate every day. By this time, there were no more than a thousand cows, ten thousand pigs, and countless grains.Bao Wenqing entered Shuiximen and met his wife at home.His family used to be a theater company for several generations, and they are still in business today.In his opera company, Huaiqing Bridge has three main apartments, one Laolang's nunnery; Shuiximen has one main apartment, one Laolang's nunnery.There are troupe-by-tuplet boards hanging in the main apartment. Whenever you want to order a play, you have to write a date on the board a few days ago.Bao Wenqing was listed on Shuiximen Main Apartment.He has the most strict rules in his acting, but if there is any injustice or lawlessness in his profession, he went to the nunnery together, burned incense, sat in the main apartment and tasted it, beat him if he wanted to be beaten, punished him if he wanted to be punished, and did not dare to say a word stubborn.There is also the team that started in the Hongwu period, a group of more than a dozen people, each group erected a stone tablet in Lao Lang's nunnery, and a dozen people were engraved on a tablet.For example, if there are ancestors whose names are on this stele, their descendants come out to learn opera, they are called "children of aristocratic families", and when they are a few years old, they are called "old Taoists".Whenever I encounter official business in my bank, I have told the old Taoist leader before I dare to do it.The name of Bao Wenqing's grandfather is on the first stele. When he got home, he cooked some firewood and rice, and checked out all the shengxiao pipe flutes and the three-stringed pipa at home, some with broken strings and some with broken skins.He found it out and put it there, and went to meet with him in the teahouse next to the main apartment.When I entered the teahouse, I saw a man sitting there, wearing a high hat, a sapphire satin gown, and powder-soled soap boots, drinking tea alone.Bao Wenqing took a closer look, and it turned out to be Qian Mazi, the old singer of his classmate.Seeing him coming, Qian Mazi said, "Wenqing, when did you come back? Please sit down and have tea." Bao Wenqing said, "I saw you from a distance just now, and I just wondered if it was the Hanlin, Ke, and Taoist masters who were wrong." Come to my place to have tea, so it is you old fart!" He sat down and drank tea.Qian Mazi said: "Wenqing, you walked around the capital once and met a few officials. When you got home, you used Hanlin, Ke, and Dao to scare me!" Bao Wenqing said, "Brother, that's not what you said. Like These clothes and boots are not for us people who work in business. You wear such clothes, what do you ask people who study to wear?" Qian Mazi said: "But today's things were so particular about twenty years ago! These gentry families in Nanjing For birthdays or weddings, we only take a pair of candles, and he will leave us to sit at the same table for dinner. No matter what kind of official he is, he will only sit at the bottom. I haven't seen him before!" Bao Wenqing said: "Brother, if you say that you are so restless, you will not only be an actor in the next life, but you should even change from a donkey to a horse!" Qian Mazi smiled and hit him.Bring snacks to eat in the teahouse. While eating, I saw another person coming in from outside, wearing a Haoran scarf on his head, a brown silk gown, powder-soled soap boots on his feet, and a walking stick in his hand.Qian Mazi said: "Father Huang, come here for tea." Father Huang said: "I don't know who it is, so it's the two of you! I didn't recognize it until I was near. No wonder, I'm eighty-two years old this year, my eyes It's time to spend. Wenqing, when did you come?" Bao Wenqing said: "It's been a few days since I got home, and I haven't come to see my father. The days are getting better, and we have been separated for fourteen years. I remember the day I went out, and I was still there. Inside Master Xu of the Duke’s Mansion, he watched his father put on a 'Tea Doctor' make-up before leaving. Is my father in class now?" Huang Lao waved his hand and said, "I haven't been an actor for a long time." Sit down Bring some snacks to eat, and said to Qian Mazi: "The Zhang Ju people outside the south gate invited me to play chess with you the day before yesterday, why didn't you come?" Qian Mazi said: "I had business in my class that day. Tomorrow is Xue outside the Drum Tower." The squire's little birthday, it's my apprentice's play, and you and I will go to celebrate birthday tomorrow." Bao Wenqing said, "The squire Xue?" Father Huang said, "He used to be the magistrate of Tingzhou, Fujian, and he was the same year as me, eight this year. At the age of twelve, the imperial court invited him to be the guest of honor in the country." Bao Wenqing said, "It looks like my father is leaning on a cane, walking slowly and carefully. According to me, this 'multi-time guest' should be my father." Said: "Brother Qian, look at my father's style. Not only is it like the magistrate telling his old man to go home, even the minister and the servant come back, it's just like the old man's pomp!" The old animal owner didn't know that he was laughing at him, but instead Xin Xin proud.After finishing the tea, they all parted ways. Although Bao Wenqing didn't like it because of these things, he still had to find a few children to form a small team, because he was looking for people to talk to everywhere in the city.That day, when I was walking on the slope of the Drum Tower, I met a man with different teachings: