roccoschili Chapter 200 Female Guo 6
Chapter 200 Female Guo 6
According to legend, in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a peasant woman named Guo Liu came out of Huai Town (located in the west of Cangzhou City and southeast of Xian County in present-day Hebei Province).
In fact, people don't know whether her husband's surname is Guo or her maiden name is Guo. Anyway, everyone calls her Guo Liu.
During the Jiachen and Yisi years of Yongzheng, Huai Town encountered a famine year, and there was a famine everywhere.
Guo Liu's husband, after careful consideration, felt that he could not survive at home, so he decided to go out to beg or work to make a living.
When the husband was leaving, he knelt down and kowtowed to his wife Guo Liu and said, "My parents are old and sick, so we can no longer take them out with us, so I can only leave them to you! My wife has suffered so much!"
Guo Liu quickly helped her husband up and said solemnly: "Your parents are my parents, and it is natural to be filial to them! There is no harm between you and me as husband and wife!"
Her husband gratefully went out to make a living, leaving Guo Liu alone with his old and frail parents-in-law, living a difficult life.
Guo Liu's appearance is very beautiful. The young people in the village saw that she had not enough to eat and had to support her parents-in-law, so they often used gold and silver to seduce and tease her, hoping to have an affair with her.
But Guo Liu was unmoved and ignored them all. He just relied on working as a female worker to earn commissions to support his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Not long after, it was a famine year after all, and people in the countryside were not having a good life, so they did the work they could do by themselves.
Therefore, the female workers in Guo Liu did not have much work, such as sewing, starching, and washing. The small commissions they earned from this alone were not enough to make a living.
Seeing that she could no longer support her parents-in-law, she became distraught and invited her neighbors to kneel down and kowtow to them, saying: "My husband entrusted his parents to me, but now I can do nothing to support them. If I don't If you make other plans, everyone will starve to death. Dear neighbors, if you can help me, then please help me; if you can't help me, I won't blame you. My only way out is to sell flowers! Please don’t laugh at me!”
Guo Liu said it very cryptically, but the neighbors understood what she meant as soon as they heard it. The so-called flower selling, in fact, in rural slang means women leaning against the door to sell flowers, that is, being a prostitute.
The neighbors all hesitantly wanted to persuade her, but when they realized that they were unable to help her, they had no choice but to sigh and disperse.
Guo Liu cried bitterly and told his parents-in-law about his decision. Although her parents-in-law felt uncomfortable, they had no other choice but to cry with her.
From then on, Guo Liu openly hung out with those libertines.
Except for supporting his parents-in-law, Guo Liu's money from selling his body was not spent at all. She secretly saved up all the remaining silver and secretly bought an innocent woman.
However, Guo Liu took very strict precautions and hid the woman at home, preventing outsiders from seeing her face.
Some people say that Guo Liu wanted to use this woman to make a lot of money. She never explained.
More than three years later, Guo Liu's husband came back from other places.
The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Guo Liu immediately took his husband to see his parents-in-law and said to him: "My parents are still here, and I will return it to you intact today!"
Then Guo Liu brought the woman she bought to see her husband and said: "My body has been defiled! I can no longer face you and live with you shamelessly. . I have already married another wife for you, and I will also give it to you today."
The husband was stunned with shock. Before he could say anything, Guo Liu said again: "I went to the kitchen to cook for you!"
After a long time, Guo Liu still didn't come out of the kitchen. The husband went in and saw that Guo Liu had committed suicide by cutting his neck with a kitchen knife in the kitchen.
When the husband saw that someone had died, he quickly reported it to the government.
When the Huaizhen County Magistrate came to do the autopsy, Guo Liu's eyes were wide open and unwilling to close.
The county magistrate ordered Guo Liu to be buried in the ancestral grave, but she could not be buried with her husband in the future.
The reason for the county magistrate's verdict was: "Not allowing them to be buried together as husband and wife shows that she has severed ties with her husband; but allowing her to be buried in her ancestral grave shows that she has not severed ties with her parents-in-law."
But Guo Liu's eyes were still wide open and unwilling to close.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law cried bitterly: "She was originally a chaste woman, but because of the two of us, she got to this point! My son cannot support his parents, and his wife, who has no hesitation to support him, has to suffer like this. Do you want to sever the marital relationship with her after being treated so cruelly?! Besides, as a man, the son cannot support his parents, so he evades his responsibility and entrusts it to a woman. Even strangers passing by know what he is thinking. Damn it! Whose fault is this? Why should we sever her marital relationship? This is our own family matter, so please don’t ask the government to interfere. "
As soon as they finished speaking, Guo Liu's eyes closed. It seemed that she was dissatisfied with the county magistrate's decision and still hoped to be buried in the same cave as her husband.
At that time, the neighbors talked a lot and had very different opinions. They said anything.
Mr. Ji Xiaolan would like to ask his grandfather to express his opinion on this story.
But Chong Yugong said: "Integrity is as important as filial piety, but integrity and filial piety cannot have both. Only sages and powerful men can judge whether this story is right or wrong. I dare not express any opinions!"