roccoschili Chapter 236 Zhang Yiniang
Chapter 236 Zhang Yiniang
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous prostitute named Zhang Yiniang in Suzhou, Jiangnan. She was very beautiful, and she was good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She was truly the best in both sex and art.
There is a family named Jiang in Louguan, Suzhou, which is a famous local clan.
Rich families always have one or two playboys, and this Jiang family is no exception.
There is a child in their family, and his favorite thing in life is visiting brothels and entering brothels.
Not surprisingly, this Jiang fell in love with Zhang Yiniang. At the first sight, I was astonished.
From then on, it was out of control. Jiang and Zhang Yiniang were in love and stayed together day and night.
Jiang's family was very wealthy. He not only drank and had fun in the brothel, but also often took Zhang Yiniang with him to visit scenic spots such as Guanyin Mountain and Lingyan Mountain outside Suzhou.
When the two of them travel, they often ride horses and ride side by side like a couple.
Although Zhang Yiniang was born in a brothel, she did not want to remain a prostitute and someone else's plaything.
She is not a vase-like woman, but is born with extraordinary intelligence and a certain eye.
Over and over again, she thought that Jiang could no longer live without her, so she wanted Jiang to redeem her body and marry her back as his concubine.
But I didn't expect that there were many wives and concubines in Jiang's family. The ones outside were just for fun and did not take Zhang Yiniang's request to heart.
Over time, Zhang Yiniang lost confidence in Jiang and no longer had expectations for him.
Soon after, Chen Tongpan from Huizhou (now Huangshan City, Anhui Province) went to Suzhou on business. When a friend invited her to a brothel to drink wine, she fell in love with Zhang Yiniang at first sight.
Zhang Yi Niang took the opportunity to ask Chen Tong to redeem her life.
Chen Tongpuan agreed immediately and soon married Zhang Yiniang.
Some things cannot be cherished until they are lost.
And Jiang is a person who is determined to retaliate.
After Zhang Yiniang married to Huizhou, Jiang could no longer associate with Zhang Yiniang. He felt that his beloved had been taken away by Chen Tongpan, and he couldn't help but be very angry and resentful of Chen Tongpan.
Therefore, he tried every possible means to alienate the relationship between the two, falsely accused Chen Tongpan in the government, and used conspiracies to abduct Zhang Yiniang and run away.
Under pressure, Chen Tongpuan had no choice but to drive Zhang Yiniang out of the house.
Zhang Yiniang didn't want to go back to her old career, but she had nowhere to go. He had no choice but to become a nun.
Chen Tongpuan was not a heartless person. He felt that by redeeming Zhang Yiniang's life, he not only failed to give her a life of fine clothing and food, but also made her become a nun, and he couldn't help but feel guilty.
Therefore, Chen Tongpan took the initiative to bear all the expenses for Zhang Yiniang's food, clothing, housing and transportation after she became a monk, so she did not have to worry about it herself.
After Jiang found out, he immediately sent people to Huizhou to secretly collect Chen Tongpan's misdeeds. After catching him, he threatened Chen Tongpuan and refused to allow him to help Zhang Yiniang again.
Chen Tongpan didn't want to get angry and let a brothel girl ruin his future, so he had to cut off all contact with Zhang Yiniang.
From then on, Zhang Yiniang had no source of livelihood, became impoverished and had no food to eat. She was originally a weak woman who had no fingers in the spring water. How could she live a life of not having enough meals and being hungry and cold?
In the end, I couldn't hold on any longer and had no choice but to hang myself.
Not long after that, one morning. After Jiang got up, while eating breakfast and drinking porridge, he suddenly felt dizzy and fainted.
In a daze, Jiang came to a government office, and two officers escorted him forward.
At this time, he heard someone next to him say: "Jiang! Your case will not be tried until six years later. Why are you here now?"
Jiang looked at the appearance of the speaker, but he was someone who usually ran errands for him. When there was a rift between Chen Tongpan and Zhang Yiniang, he was the one who was sent there to do it.
Jiang couldn't help but feel a little strange: "I remember this person has been dead for three years, how can he still talk to me? Have I also come to the underworld?"
Thinking of this, Jiang was suddenly horrified and woke up with a start.
However, from then on, Jiang became in a trance, did not want to eat or drink, and became increasingly thinner.
The Jiang family saw it and were anxious in their hearts, wondering whether he had a strange disease or was being troubled by ghosts and gods.
In the Xuanmiao Temple in Suzhou City, there is a Taoist named Zhang who is proficient in magic. The Jiang family sent someone to invite him to their home, set up a Dharma altar for Jiang, and chanted mantras and prayed in an attempt to resolve the problem.
After practicing this method for three consecutive days, Taoist Zhang said: "The evil spirit who has resentment against Jiang has arrived. However, I cannot figure out her origin or name."
The Jiang family hurriedly asked: "Does the Taoist priest have a way to know her appearance? If we know who she is and what grudges she has with Jiang, we can find a way to resolve it!"
Taoist Zhang said, "Let me give it a try! Bring a large mirror over, and then pour a basin of clean water on it. A woman's face should appear on the mirror."
The Jiang family quickly did as he asked.
Sure enough, a moment later, a stunningly beautiful woman appeared on the mirror.
Taoist Zhang didn't recognize him, so he called the Jiang family to identify him.
When the Jiang family took a look, they looked like she was Zhang Yiniang.
Suddenly, she realized: Jiang forced Zhang Yiniang to death. Her heart was full of resentment and her ghost was still lingering. She came to ask for an explanation from Jiang.
The Jiang family hurriedly asked Taoist Zhang to resolve the grudges between them.
Taoist Zhang said: "What my magic power can suppress are those ghosts, monsters, vixens and the like. But this one is caused by the injustice between men and women, and it cannot be driven away by my power!"
After saying that, he brushed off his clothes and left without looking back.
The Jiang family had no choice but to invite many monks to perform ashram for Zhang Yiniang for seven consecutive days and nights, hoping to save her.
But there was no success, and Jiang's health showed no improvement.
The Jiang family also wondered whether Taoist Zhang had made a mistake in his judgment. Jiang just had a strange illness and it was not because of Zhang Yiniang.
So, he invited Ye Tianshi, a famous doctor from Suzhou, to come to his home to treat Jiang with a gift of thousands of gold.
After Ye Tianshi looked at it, he couldn't tell what the disease was, so he could only give him a prescription for conditioning and take it first to see if it would improve.
The Jiang family took the medicine according to the prescription, boiled it and brought it to Jiang's bedside.
Who knew that before Jiang could drink the medicine in his mouth, a slender hand appeared out of thin air in front of the bed and covered the medicine bowl to prevent him from drinking.
The Jiang family had no choice but to put the medicine bowl on the table next to them.
The medicine that night was poured on the ground automatically for no reason.
All in all, Jiang just couldn't get the medicine.
In this way, Jiang's illness became more and more serious, but he would not die immediately. He had been suffering from the pain in the hospital bed. Six years later, he died in excruciating pain.
It is said that later on, Jiang Yiyuan, Jiang's great-nephew (a descendant of the Jiang family in Louguan, Suzhou, no other evidence has been verified), still hid Zhang Yiniang's portrait. In the painting, she wears a black bun on her head and a sky-green skirt. She has beautiful features and charming eyes, holding flowers with her left hand and smiling.
That painting was painted by Yang Zihe (that is, Yang Jin, a Qing Dynasty painter, courtesy name Zihe, Zihe, also known as Xiting. He was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province) at that time.