Chapter 249 Blue-topped Demon
Chapter 249 Blue-topped Demon
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a businessman named Wang Chunshan in Yangzhou who was extremely wealthy.
This person has a hobby, that is, he likes to go to the theater and listen to plays. Later, he felt that it was inconvenient to go to the theater frequently, so he simply raised a theater troupe at home. When he wanted to listen to a play, he could listen to it at any time.
There was an actor named Zhu Erguan in the troupe, who was from Suzhou. Not only was he handsome, he was also good at singing, reading, and fighting.
Wang Chunshan admired him very much and found a house alone in the garden outside Xu Ningmen for him to live.
One day, a fire broke out in a neighbor's house in the garden. The fire spread to the garden, and Zhu Erguan had to escape from the alley.
Zhu Erguan, who was running for his life in a panic, saw two beauties standing against the door on the west side of the alley, and he didn't know if they were looking at them strangely.
Seeing Zhu Erguan running away in a hurry, they waved to him and asked him to sit in their house.
Seeing that he could not return to his residence for a while, Zhu Erguan entered their home.
During the conversation, I learned that the two beauties also had the surname Wang, and were cousins of the same clan as Wang Chunshan.
Three people, a man and two women, were chatting with each other when suddenly a man wearing a leopard fur and a blue hat walked in.
This man looked to be in his fifties. When he came in, he announced that he was the father of the two beauties. He was also very powerful and wanted to accept Zhu Erguan as his son-in-law.
Although Zhu Erguan was greedy for the beauty of his daughter, he also knew that he was just an actor, and his family was also very poor, so he had no ability to pay a betrothal gift, so he politely declined his kindness.
But the blue-top man said: "As long as you agree to be my son-in-law, you don't have to worry about anything else. I don't want your betrothal gift, and I will bear all the expenses required for the wedding."
Zhu Erguan also said that he did not dare to make the decision on the matter of marriage without authorization. He had to go back to Suzhou and tell his parents.
The blue-top man said: "You can go back to Suzhou, but my daughter is just confused by your handsome appearance and wants to marry you. I also know that you are not a suitable spouse for my daughter. If I tell you, my face will be dull. And please don’t tell my nephew Wang Chunshan.”
Zhu Erguan agreed. Then he rented a boat with the blue-top man and went to his home in Changmen, Suzhou, where he told his father what had happened.
Zhu Erguan's father was a carpenter and an old-fashioned man. He was very resistant to the idea of a woman of unknown origin marrying his son, so he said that his family was poor and had no money to find a wife for his son. I want to use this as a reason to refuse the marriage.
The man with the blue top generously sponsored [-] yuan as the cost of the wedding without saying anything. These money are all brand new Kangxi Tongbao, and they are also strung together with red thread.
Zhu Erguan could no longer shirk and had no choice but to agree to the marriage. He took the money and went to Yangzhou to prepare to marry his bride.
While passing a market on the road, Zhu Erguan suddenly encountered several officers who chased him from behind. They stopped him and said: "The home of a gentleman nearby has been stolen and has been reported to the official. Look at these red coins in your hand. The money on the string is exactly the money from his home, and we suspect that you are the thief."
The officers captured Zhu Erguan and prepared to escort him to the government.
Of course Zhu Erguan refused to surrender, so he told the truth and said that the money was a gift from the blue-top man.
There were many people in the market at that time, and they soon gathered to watch. Everyone thought this was a very strange thing. How could there be such a beautiful thing in the world? Not only did he marry his daughter to him without a bride price, but he also spent money to hold a wedding for them.
The police officers also said: "What you say is unfounded. We will not release you until we see the Blue Top man you mentioned."
Zhu Erguan said: "My father-in-law gave me money, and we originally agreed to get married today. In a while, the bride's sedan chair will arrive. If you don't believe it, you can wait here."
Everyone agreed.
After a while, I heard drumming in the distance. Four bearers, dressed in red, came carrying the sedan.
Everyone rushed forward and opened the sedan curtain.
There was no newcomer in the sedan, only a man with a green face and fangs sitting inside.
Everyone was immediately shocked, including the guards, and they all ran away together.
Zhu Erguan was able to escape because of this.
He did not dare to go to Yangzhou anymore and hurried back to his home in Suzhou.
Unexpectedly, the blue-topped man was already sitting in the hall. When he saw him, he cursed: "I warned you again and again not to leak the news. You turned a deaf ear to it, told so many people, and even asked the guards to Gather a crowd and arrest me! I kindly gave you money to marry my daughter, but I didn’t expect you to be such a heartless person!"
After saying that, he asked people to beat Zhu Erguan with a stick.
The two daughters begged quickly, and Zhu Erguan was spared the pain of his flesh and blood.
One month after the marriage, Zhu Erguan took the two women back to Yangzhou.
More than a year later, one day, the two women prepared a banquet and said to Zhu Erguan: "Our fate has ended. Please go back to your hometown."
Zhu Erguan was very reluctant, thinking about the kindness of the two women to him, and couldn't help crying.
When the two women saw each other, they cried reluctantly.
After a few more days of trying to separate each other, the blue-topped man suddenly came and forced his daughters to leave.
Erguan Zhu grabbed the two women's clothes tightly and refused to let them go.
The man in Landing got angry, grabbed Zhu Erguan's collar with his hands, and threw it into the air.
Zhu Erguan had already fainted when he fell to the ground. When he woke up, he found that he was already in the back mountain of Huqiu, Suzhou.
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