roccoschili Chapter 197 Peng Yang Zhiyi
Chapter 197 Peng Yang Zhiyi
It is said that this is a true story passed down from ancient times!
The story takes place during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, there was a young man named Peng Zhaolin in Ye County (now Laizhou City, Shandong Province, a county-level city under Yantai City.). In the same county, there was a Zengguangsheng (that is, Zengsheng). During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the official school increased the enrollment of students on the basis of the original number of Linshan students. "History of the Ming Dynasty·Election Records [-]": "Those who are in the first class will be regarded as having a shortage of Linshan students. They are supplemented in turn, and then they are supplemented by Guangsheng." Yu Zhengxie of the Qing Dynasty, "Guisi Cunshuo·Shishe": "There are five grades of students: students are also called Linsheng, the first one; Zengguangsheng, the second one.") His name is Yang Ji'an, who is His uncle.
Peng Zhaolin was also a scholar, but his life span was short and he died of illness when he was in his twenties.
A few years later, Yang Ji'an also passed away.
Many years later, there was a man from Gaomi (now Gaomi, a county-level city under Weifang City, Shandong Province) named Hu Banghan, who was also a scholar. This person had never met Peng Zhaolin and Yang Ji'an and were strangers to each other.
Hu Banghan's second brother has been making a living there for many years in Liaodong (referring to the area south of Liaoyang City and east of Liaohe River in present-day Liaoning Province. Broadly speaking, it refers to all of present-day Liaoning Province, part of Jilin Province, and the northern part of North Korea.) He did not return home, so Hu Banghan crossed the sea to the Liaodong area to look for his second brother.
Hu Banghan searched and studied at the same time. On the way, I met a private school whose owner was named Peng Zhaolin.
When I learned that Hu Banghan came from Gaomi and was a fellow Shandong fellow, I immediately felt a lot closer.
The two talked happily, and Peng Zhaolin even persuaded Hu Banghan to stay longer.
Hu Banghan didn't know the specific location of his second brother, so he was not in a hurry to find it. So he stayed in Peng Zhaolin's academy.
This stay lasted more than two months.
On this day, Hu Banghan suddenly realized that this year's imperial examination was approaching, and he no longer wanted to look for his second brother. He quickly packed his luggage and prepared to go home.
Peng Zhaolin learned that he was going back to take the exam, so it was hard to persuade him to stay.
Hu Banghan said to Peng Zhaolin: "I am going home this time to take the exam in the county. I may pass through Ye County. I can carry letters for my husband to my family."
Peng Zhaolin said: "I don't know that my brother is planning to go home. Yesterday he just entrusted his family letter to someone else. However, if my brother arrives in Yexian, he can help send a message to my family and tell my family that everything is fine with me here."
When Hu Banghan was about to set off, Peng Zhaolin said to him again: "More than a hundred miles from here, my uncle Yang Ji'an opened a teaching school there. If it is convenient for my brother, please be prepared to send my regards."
When Hu Banghan heard this, he agreed to go along the way. So, he met with Yang Ji'an again.
When he crossed the sea and went home to take the exam in the county, Hu Banghan passed through Ye County on the way and went to Peng's house. He told them about his meeting with Peng Zhaolin and Yang Ji'an, and sent back the message on behalf of Peng and Yang.
At this time, the Peng and Yang families thought that Hu Banghan was talking nonsense because they had been dead for twenty years.
Hu Banghan said: "You and I have never met each other, why should I tell lies to deceive you? Mr. Peng once told me that there is a Guandi Temple at the entrance of your alley. The walls of the temple have marks left by him. ’s handwriting. If you don’t believe it, you can take me over and have a look.”
When everyone hears it, maybe only I can know about this kind of thing, right?
Everyone took Hu Banghan to the Guandi Temple with suspicion.
Because a long time has passed, the walls of the temple are not full of dust. Hu Banghan found a broom and swept away the dust, and the writing on the wall was revealed.
Hu Banghan stepped forward and saw that the handwriting he saw written by Peng Zhaolin in Liaodong Academy was exactly the same.
Hu Banghan once again recalled that when he was leaving, Peng Zhaolin asked him to send a message, including the name of his wife and the nicknames of his two daughters.
This year, Peng Zhaolin's wife Jia was already in her forties, and his two daughters were also married. If they are not their relatives, they should not know their names.
The family members of the Peng and Yang families confirmed what Hu Banghan said one by one, and it was absolutely consistent!
Only then did the family believe that what he said was true.
Only then did Hu Banghan realize that the two people he met in Liaodong, Peng Zhaolin and Yang Ji'an, were actually ghosts.
Hu Banghan took the imperial examination this year, although he passed the exam. But he died soon after.
A few years later, another person from Liaodong found the Peng family in Ye County.
Peng Zhaolin asked him to bring a horse and the clothes he was wearing when he died.
The Peng family was even more surprised and firmly refused, not daring to accept it.
Previously, when Peng Zhaolin was critically ill, he once said to his family: "Don't bury me after I die, I can still be resurrected."
When he actually died, his family members believed that he was insane before his death and was issuing orders casually without taking it seriously, so they restrained him.
Three days after Peng Zhaolin's body was buried, his family saw a small hole suddenly appear in his grave, as if something flew out of it.
And in that year, a certain family in Gaomi met Peng Zhaolin on the road. He didn't know that Peng Zhaolin was actually dead at this time.
When he saw Peng Zhaolin's extraordinary conversation and elegant manners, he invited him to his home to teach his children to read.
Eighty-nine years passed like this, and Peng Zhaolin never said he wanted to go home.
Later, when the children of this family grew up and were going to take the imperial examination in the county, in order to embolden themselves, they forcibly took their teacher Peng Zhaolin with them.
Peng Zhaolin couldn't refuse, so he had to agree.
When he arrived at a place outside the county town, Peng Zhaolin said to the students: "There are my relatives here (meaning distant relatives) who haven't moved around for a long time. I want to go and have a look."
The student asked, "Would you like me to come with you?"
Peng Zhaolin said: "No, I can go alone. You can wait for me outside the city first."
After saying that, he went on his own.
The student stood at the place agreed upon with Peng Zhaolin and kept waiting. After waiting for a long time, Peng Zhaolin did not come.
When it got late, the students had no choice but to go somewhere else and find an inn to stay.
The next morning, the student searched all the way and came to the teacher's home. He introduced himself as someone who was a student of Peng Zhaolin.
At first, the Peng family thought he was a student that Peng Zhaolin had taught before his death, and they received him warmly.
After some conversation, the Peng family found out that this was the student that Peng Zhaolin took in after his death.
The Peng family were all horrified and didn't know what was going on.
The student didn't even know the reason, so he could only cry and leave in disappointment.
After Hu Banghan came later, the Peng family couldn't help but think about it: Could it be that Peng Zhaolin, who later lived in Liaodong, left at this time?
This was told to Mr. Yuan Mei by Lin Mengli, the magistrate of Guichi County (now Chizhou City, Anhui Province) in the [-]th year of Qianlong's reign.
Mr. Lin's origin is from Yexian County.