roccoschili Chapter 187 Zhao Wenhua intercedes for future generations
Chapter 187 Zhao Wenhua intercedes for future generations
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Zhao Jing in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, whose ancestral home was Cixi, Zhejiang.
He has a younger brother, Zhao, who is kind and upright, with an upright and strict personality.
After Zhao got married, his wife's natal family married a maid to Zhao's family.
This maid is very beautiful and quite intelligent.
However, Zhao did not show much enthusiasm towards her in terms of attitude and words, and treated her like an ordinary maid and old woman in the family.
However, Zhao Jing fell in love with this maid as soon as he saw her, and often looked for opportunities to tease her in private.
As soon as they went back and forth, the two of them hooked up and became an adulterer.
However, neither Zhao nor his sister-in-law knew about this.
The two of them crossed Chencang secretly, thinking that they were unaware of the situation. Unexpectedly, after a while, this matter was exposed.
The reason was that Zhao's wife found that her maid often vomited, and at first she thought her stomach was uncomfortable. Later, her belly got bigger day by day, and then she knew she was pregnant.
As for who made the maid's belly bigger, the first person she suspected was her husband Zhao.
I couldn't help but become jealous, so I cried and went back to my parents' home to complain.
Zhao's father-in-law also suspected that his son-in-law was responsible.
The maid thought about it, if she confessed that the adulterer was Zhao Jing, she might be imprisoned in a pig cage; but if she said it was Zhao, at worst, she would be considered a common-law girl, and she might be taken in as a concubine.
So, she followed the trend and made up lies to frame Zhao, saying that the child in her belly was Zhao's.
Poor Zhao suffered this unjust injustice out of thin air and could not prove his innocence. In addition to his upright character, he was so angry and anxious that he couldn't think about it in a moment of resentment and hanged himself to death!
As a result, her wife regretted it! Because of his jealousy, he lost his husband and became a widow.
But Zhao Jing felt extremely guilty! His ridiculous behavior cost his brother his life!
However, at this point, he could not tell the truth.
Two years passed like this.
On this day, it was Zhao Jing's father's birthday. The Zhao family held a grand birthday banquet. Guests and friends from all walks of life gathered to celebrate Zhao's father's birthday.
During the excitement, Zhao Jing and the maid suddenly fell to the ground and started talking nonsense, as if they were talking in their sleep.
The Zhao family didn't know what happened, and they couldn't wake them up, so they had to help them lie down on the bed.
Zhao Jing slept all night and didn't wake up until the next morning.
The Zhao family quickly asked him what was going on.
Zhao Jing knew that he could no longer hide it, so he told what happened in his sleep.
By the way, after Zhao Jing fell to the ground and fell asleep, he found that he had been caught in the underworld. Also arrested at the same time as him was the maid.
The two men were chained together outside the gate of Hades.
Not long after, I heard drums beating inside.
The ghost messenger came over, grabbed Zhao Jing and the maid by their heads, and threw them in the lobby.
A man wearing a hat and a python robe sat on it and ordered his younger brother Zhao to be brought over to confront Zhao Jing.
Zhao Jing and the maid both pleaded guilty and did not dare to defend themselves.
When the officials of Hades were preparing to pronounce the verdict on the two men, suddenly a ghost messenger came in and reported, "Shang Shu Zhao is here!"
With that said, he handed over a red name sticker.
Zhao Jing glanced at it secretly and saw that it read: "Zhao Wenhua, the younger brother of the Nian family, bowed his head."
He was confused and didn't know who this "Zhao Wenhua" was. (Note for drawing a tiger into a cat: Zhao Wenhua, courtesy name Yuanzhi, nicknamed Meicun, was born in Cixi, Zhejiang, and was a minister in the mid-Ming Dynasty. He was promoted to minister of the Ministry of Industry and became the crown prince's Taibao. He recognized Yan Song as his adoptive father. This man was arrogant and greedy, and was chased for stolen goods after his death. , it was discovered that embezzlement of military pay amounted to [-] shi.)
And the Hades official seemed to value this person very much.
He ordered the ghost messengers to lock Zhao Jing, his brother Zhao, and the maid back to their original places. Then he straightened his clothes and went out to meet the man.
When Zhao Jing was grabbed by the ghost and walked out, he looked up and saw a couplet on the pillars on both sides:
The first couplet is: Humans and ghosts are only separated by one level, and every joint is not missed;
The second line is: Yin and Yang have no dual principles, and there is no escape from the two words rationality and number.
There is the author's signature at the back: "Inscribed by Tao Wangling in Kuaiji".
(Note on painting a tiger into a cat: Tao Wangling, courtesy name Zhou Wang, also known as Shizhen, also known as Xie'an Jushi, was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. An official and poet of the Ming Dynasty, one of the poets and writers of the Public Security School. His official position was the Imperial College.)
After Zhao Jing read it, while he was savoring its meaning, a ghost messenger suddenly said, "Shang Shu Zhao is here."
The official of the underworld ordered the ghost messenger to call Zhao Jing, the maid and three other people to the lobby and said to them: "This case should have been sentenced according to the law of 'reduction of three levels of punishment for the crime of adultery', but now because of Zhao Shangshu's intercession, Let me spare you for the time being and let you return to the sun.
Let's talk about Zhao. As a grown man, it's just an adultery with a maid. Regardless of whether it happened or not, why can't you admit it? Is there anything that can’t be explained clearly? It is really contemptible that he would commit suicide because of this! So I will forgive you for now and let you go back to earth. "
After Zhao Jing finished telling the story of his coma, he asked everyone if they knew who Zhao Wenhua was.
It's a pity that no one in the entire Zhao family knows who Zhao Wenhua is or why he protects Zhao Jing.
One day, Zhao Jing met several elders in the family and asked them if they knew who Zhao Wenhua was.
These people really know!
It turned out that Zhao Wenhua was the ancestor of their clan seven generations ago.
Because when he was alive, he flattered Yan Song and regarded this treacherous official as his adopted father. His descendants were ashamed of this, so they all avoided talking about this person, and the descendants of the Zhao family no longer knew about him!