Chapter 20 "Heroes"

There was a scholar named Gu in Nanjing who was knowledgeable and talented, and could write and draw, but his family was very poor.Because of his mother's old age, Gu Sheng couldn't bear to leave his mother's knees, so he had to paint for others every day to earn some money to make ends meet.Gu Sheng is twenty-five years old and has not married a wife yet.Opposite his house was an empty house, in which an old lady and a young girl lived.Because there is no man in their family, they have never been asked who they are. One day, Gu Sheng came home from outside by chance, and saw a woman from the opposite door coming out of his mother's room. She was about eighteen or nineteen years old, beautiful and elegant, and unmatched in the world.When the woman met Gu Sheng head-on, she didn't avoid it too much, but her expression was solemn and majestic.After the woman left, Gu Sheng went to his mother's room and asked his mother. The mother said: "The girl from the opposite door came just now, and she came to borrow scissors and a ruler from me."She said that there was only one mother in her family, and no one else.I don't think this girl is like a poor family. When I asked her why she didn't marry, she said that her mother was old and had no one to serve her.Tomorrow I will go to see her mother, and I will give you a hint by the way.If their requirements are not high and we get married, you can take care of her mother.

The next day, Gu's mother went to visit the girl's house, and saw that her mother was a deaf old lady, and that her family was too poor to have overnight food.Ask them what they do for a living, and they reply that they rely on their daughters for needlework.Gu's mother slowly tried to talk about the idea of ​​living together. The old lady seemed to agree, but the daughter remained silent, meaning that she was not very willing.Mother Gu didn't say anything, and went home.Back home, I thought about the situation at that time carefully, and said to Gu Sheng: Could it be that the woman thinks our family is poor?This child is serious, he doesn't talk or laugh, although he looks as beautiful as peaches and plums, his temperament is as cold as ice, what a strange person!The mother and son were suspicious for a while, and that's all.

One day, Gu Sheng was sitting at the end of the house painting, a boy came to ask him to paint a picture.This young man is very handsome, but his appearance is very frivolous.Gu Sheng asked him where he came from, and he said it was from a neighboring village.Since then, it has come every three or two days.After getting acquainted with each other a little bit, they gradually joked with Gu Sheng.Gu Sheng hugged him, but he didn't quite refuse, and then the relationship became ambiguous.Since then, the relationship between the two has become more intimate.Once, the boy saw the girl walking by, stared at her as she walked away, and asked who Gu Sheng was.Gu Sheng said it was the woman from the opposite door, and the young man said: This woman is so beautiful, but her expression is very scary!After a while, Gu Sheng went to his mother's room.His mother said: Just now the woman came to borrow rice and said she had been out of cooking for a day.This girl is very filial, and her family is pitifully poor, so she should give her some money.After hearing what his mother said, Gu Sheng went to her house with a bucket of rice on his back and told his mother what he had said.The woman stayed without saying thanks.Since then, the woman has often come to Gu Sheng's house, and when she sees Gu's mother making clothes or shoes, she takes them to make for Gu's mother, going in and out, helping with housework, just like the daughter-in-law of the Gu family.Seeing this, Gu Sheng became more grateful to the woman.Later, every time the Gu family received a gift from others, they always gave half of it to the girl's mother.And the woman still doesn't say kind words like thank you.

Once, Gu's mother's genitals were sick, and she screamed day and night in pain. The woman came to visit her every day, scrubbed her and changed her dressings, three or four times a day.Gu's mother was very disturbed, but the woman never felt dirty.Mother Gu said: Oh!Where can our family marry a daughter-in-law like you, who will wait on my old body until death sooner or later!After that, he began to cry.The woman comforted her and said: Your son is very filial, hundreds of times better than our orphans and widows!Gu's mother said again: How could a filial son be able to come and go by my bedside?What's more, I'm already an old man, and sooner or later it's hard to guarantee that I won't be buried in the soil. What I don't worry about is that there will be no descendants.The two of them were talking when Gu Sheng came into the room.Mother Gu cried and said to her son: We owe the girl too much, don't forget to repay her great kindness!Gu Sheng listened and thanked the woman with a salute.The woman said: I didn't even thank you for taking care of my mother, why should you thank me?So Gu Sheng respected and loved her even more.However, the woman's demeanor has always been very serious, and Gu Sheng did not dare to approach her easily.

One day, when the woman came back from the house, Gu Sheng stared at her.She suddenly turned her head and smiled at Gu Sheng.Gu Sheng was overjoyed, and followed the woman into her house.Gu Sheng wanted to get close to her, but the woman did not refuse, and readily agreed.Afterwards, the woman warned Gu Sheng: This matter can only be done once and never again!Gu Sheng didn't agree and went home.On the next day, Gu Sheng asked the woman to meet again, but the woman ignored him very seriously and left.After that, the woman still came to Gu's house every day and saw each other every day, and she didn't speak well or look good to Gu Sheng.Sometimes Gu Sheng teased her with a joke, but she refused coldly.Once, the woman suddenly asked Gu Sheng in a place where no one was around: "Who is that young man who used to come here a few days ago?"Gu Sheng told her.The woman went on to say: That man behaved and acted rude to me several times!Because he is your friend, ignore him.Please tell him: If you want to be rude to me again, he doesn't want to live anymore!That night, Gu Sheng told the young man what the woman had said, and warned him: Be careful, she is not easy to mess with!The boy said: Since she is inviolable, why did you violate her?Gu Sheng confessed that nothing happened.The boy said again: If there is nothing wrong, why would she tell you all the things that are difficult to say between men and women?Gu Sheng couldn't answer for a moment.The boy said again: Please tell her too: Don't put on an air!Otherwise, I will spread it to you everywhere!Gu Sheng was very angry when he heard this, his face was full of anger, and the boy left.

One night, when Gu Sheng was sitting alone in the room, the woman suddenly came and said with a smile: I have never broken my relationship with you, isn't it God's will!Gu Sheng was overjoyed, and hurriedly hugged the woman in his arms.Suddenly they heard footsteps, the two got up in panic, and saw the young man push the door open.Gu Sheng asked in surprise: What are you going to do?The boy smiled and said: I come to see the chaste people!Looking at the woman again, he said: Don't blame me today?The woman's willow eyebrows were erected, her face was flushed, without saying a word, she hurriedly opened her blouse, revealing a skin, and pulled out a dagger, which was shining brightly.When the young man saw it, he ran away in fright, and the woman chased him out of the door, but she disappeared after looking around.She threw the dagger into the air, and there was a rattling sound, a bright light was like a long rainbow, and then something fell to the ground.Gu Sheng hurriedly illuminated it with a candle, and saw that it was a white fox, whose head had been decapitated, and he was shocked.The woman said: This is the good friend you are in love with!I originally wanted to spare it, but he just didn't want to live!He put away the dagger and put it in the sheath.Gu Sheng dragged the woman into the house again, and the woman said: I let the goblin come to spoil the fun just now, please wait until tomorrow night!After that, he went out and left.

The next night, the woman came again, and the two had a good time together.Gu Sheng asked her what spells she had, and the woman said: This is not something you should know, it needs to be kept secret.Leaked, I'm afraid it will be bad for you.Gu Sheng discussed marriage with the woman again, and the woman said: We are already sharing the same bed, and I help you with housework. We are now husband and wife, so why are we talking about marriage?Gu Sheng said again: Do you think my family is poor?The woman said: Your family is certainly poor, but my family is rich?Meeting tonight is just pity for you being poor!Before leaving, he said to Gu Sheng: This kind of shameful thing should not be repeated too often.When I should come, I will come naturally; when I should not come, it is useless for you to force.Later, when the two met together, every time Gu Sheng tried to get her to talk alone, the woman avoided him every time.But she came to the Gu family to sew and cook, and the housework remained the same, no less than a real daughter-in-law!

A few months later, the woman's mother passed away, and Gu Sheng tried his best to help the woman with the funeral.The woman has lived alone since then.Gu Sheng thought: The woman lives at home alone, so she can go to her wherever she wants.So he jumped over the wall into the woman's yard and called her through the window.But after shouting several times, no one answered.He looked at the door, it was closed, but no one was in the house.Gu Sheng thought to himself: The woman might be dating someone else.He went to visit again the next night, and it was still the same as last night, so he put a jade pendant on the window sill and went home.A day later, Gu Sheng and the woman met in Gu's mother's room. Gu Sheng walked out of the room, and the woman chased after him, saying to Gu Sheng: Do you doubt me?People have their own concerns, some can not just tell others.It doesn't make you suspicious today, and it's impossible.But there is one urgent matter, you have to help me find a solution quickly.Gu Sheng asked what was the matter, and the woman said: I am eight months pregnant, and I am afraid I will give birth soon.My identity is still unclear, I can only give birth to you, but I cannot help you raise it.You can tell your mother in secret, find a nurse, and assume that you have a baby in your arms, and you can't say it was born by me.After Gu Sheng agreed, he told his mother.His mother smiled and said: "This girl is really strange. I don't want to marry her, but I have a secret relationship with my son."He happily agreed to their request, and only waited until the child was born.

More than a month later, the woman did not come to the Gu family for several days.Gu's mother had doubts in her heart, so she went to visit the girl's house.Seeing that the gate was closed tightly, the courtyard was silent.After calling the door for a long time, the woman came out of the room with disheveled hair and face, invited Mother Gu to enter the room, and closed the door again.When Mother Gu entered the room, she saw that a baby was already on the bed.Gu's mother asked in surprise: How long have you been born?He replied: It has been three days.Gu's mother untied the little mattress and saw that it was a little boy with a broad forehead, very cute.Mother Gu said happily: My son, you have already given birth to a grandson for your old age.From now on you will be alone, where will you settle down?The woman said: I still have one thing on my mind that I can't tell my mother.When there is no one at night, you can take the child away.

When Gu's mother returned home and told her son all this, she secretly felt strange.At night, he took the baby back.A few days later, in the middle of the night, the woman suddenly pushed open Gu Sheng's door and came in, holding a leather bag in her hand, and said to Gu Sheng with a smile: "My important business has been done, and we will part from now on."Gu Sheng hurriedly asked what was the reason, and the woman said: I will never forget the kindness of you in helping me take care of my mother.I have told you before that you can do one but not two, which means that the repayment of your kindness does not lie in living with you, but because your family is poor and cannot marry a wife, and I want to leave you with descendants.I originally hoped to get pregnant once, but unexpectedly I had my period again, so I broke the precept and had intercourse with you again.Now that I have repaid your great kindness today, my worries have been settled, and I have no regrets!Gu Sheng asked: What is in the leather bag?He replied: The head of the enemy.When I opened it, it was bloody.Gu Sheng was very panicked and asked why.The woman said: I have not told you in the past, because the matter is confidential, and I am afraid that the wind will leak out.Today's big event has been successful, I might as well tell you.I was originally from Zhejiang, and my father was an official in Sima. I was framed by an enemy, and my family was ransacked and beheaded.I escaped behind my mother's back and kept my name incognito for three years.The reason why he didn't take revenge immediately was because his mother was still alive.Later, the old mother passed away, but there was another baby in the womb, so it was delayed for some time.I was not at home those nights. I went to explore the roads and gates of the enemy's house. I was afraid that if I was not familiar with it, I would make a mistake.After finishing speaking, he went out of Gu Sheng's room, turned around and told him: "You must take good care of the child I gave birth to."Your fortune is limited and you don't have much lifespan, this child can give you glory.It's late at night, don't disturb the old mother, I'm leaving.Gu Sheng felt very sad, and was about to ask her where she was going, when the woman's body flickered, like a flash of lightning, and she disappeared.Gu Sheng stood there blankly like a log for a long, long time.

At dawn, Gu Sheng told his mother, and the mother and son could only sigh.Three years later, Gu Sheng really died.His son became a Jinshi at the age of eighteen and took care of his grandmother until her death. Yi Shi's comment: A man must first marry a chivalrous woman before he can raise a child.Otherwise, if you love this pedophile, the pedophile will love your wife! 【original】 Gu Sheng, from Jinling.He is rich in materials and art, but his family is very poor.Also because my mother is old, I can't bear to leave my knees, but I am a calligraphy and painting day, and I am self-sufficient by being praised.There are five out of twenty years, and the husband and wife are still empty.There is a vacancy for the old household, and an old woman and a young girl live among them.Because there is no man in his family, he didn't ask who he was.One day, I came in by chance and saw a girl coming out of the mother's room. She was about eighteen or nineteen years old, beautiful and elegant, a rare horse in the world.Born to ask the mother.Mother said: "It's the girl from the opposite household, so I beg for a knife and a ruler."It is appropriate to say that there is only one mother in his family.This woman is not like a poor family.When asked what the word "bu" is, he used his mother as his speech.Tomorrow, when you go to worship your mother, you will be happy; if your expectations are not extravagant, your son can take care of his mother instead.Tomorrow his room will be built, and his mother is deaf.Depending on the room, there is no food for food.If you ask about your occupation, you should look up to the ten fingers of the female.Xu tried it with the idea of ​​eating together, and the wife seemed to accept it, so she turned to her daughter; the daughter was silent, but she was not happy.Mother is home.After detailing the situation and doubting it, he said: Does the woman think that I am poor?A person who neither speaks nor smiles, is as beautiful as peaches and plums, but as cold as frost and snow, a strange person!The mother and son guessed and sighed. One day, a young man came to ask for a painting while he was sitting in the Zhaitou.Very beautiful in appearance, quite ruthless in meaning [ㄒㄩㄢㄊㄧㄠ; clever in mind but frivolous in behavior].Ask yourself what you said, and say that you are right in the neighboring village.After three or two days, he came here once in a while, became a little familiar, and gradually laughed at him; he did not refuse to hug him when he was born, so he was private.From this, there is a lot of contact.After meeting the girl, the boy watched her off and asked who it was.To the next door daughter.The young man said: "It's so gorgeous, how can you be afraid of such a look?"In a few rooms, students enter the interior.The mother said: "It's a good time for a girl to come to beg for rice. It will be a day if the cloud does not raise the fire."This girl is extremely filial and extremely poor, so she should be sympathetic to her.Born from the mother's words, the door of the bucket of rice, to express the mother's will.The woman accepts it and does not thank her.When I tasted it at the birth house, I saw my mother making clothes and shoes, so I sewed it for me; I went in and out of the hall, and I operated like a woman.Health and virtue.Every time the bait is received, it must be distributed to its mother, and the daughter will not put her teeth on her cheeks.The mother is in the hidden place where the gangrene is born, and the Xiaodan is called [ㄊㄠ; loud cry].When I was a girl, I used to sleep on the couch and look at it, wash the wound and apply medicine for it, three or four times a day.The mother is very uncomfortable, but the woman never tires of its filth.Mother said: Oh!Get a bride like a child, and die in the old body!I was choked with sorrow.The female consolation said: "Young son is very filial, better than my widowed mother and orphan daughter by a hundred."The mother said: "How can a filial son be able to do the battle of bedside 蹀躞 [ㄉㄧㄝㄒㄧㄝ'; look like frequent contacts]?"And the body is already facing the dusk, and the mist and dew are committed day and night, and I am deeply concerned about the continuation of [ㄊㄧㄠ].Between words, born into.The mother wept and said, "You have lost a lot to your wife, and you will never forget to repay your virtue."I bow down and worship him.The woman said: "You respect my mother, I don't want to thank you, how can you thank me?"So I respect and love it.However, his behavior is blunt and there is nothing he can do. One day, when the girl went out, her eyes were fixed on her, but she suddenly turned her head and smiled sweetly.Unexpectedly, he tends to follow his family, and he will not refuse to pick him, and he is happy to have sex.Already, Jiesheng said: things can be done once and never again.Life should not return.Tomorrow they made an appointment again, but the girl left regardless.Come every day, meet from time to time, and don't pretend to use words.If you don't play games, you will speak coldly about Iceman.Suddenly asked the student in the empty space: "Who is the young man in the future?"Let me tell you.The woman said: "He behaves more disrespectfully than concubines."Because of the intimacy of the king, I set it up.Please send another message: No matter how much you come back, you don’t want to live anymore!At the end of the day, I told the young man, and said: "You must be careful, you must not offend!"The young man said: "Since it cannot be committed, why do you violate it privately?"Life is nothing.Said: as if there is nothing.Then how can Dajun listen to obscene words?students can not answer.The young man said: I am bothered to send a message: don't pretend to be hypocritical; otherwise, I will spread it all over the place.He was very angry, and his love was seen in his sex, so the boy went away.One night, Fang sat alone, and the girl suddenly came, and said with a smile: "My relationship with you is still unbroken, rather than the number of days."Sheng was ecstatic and hugged him in his arms. Hearing the sound of Lu Jiji, the two startled up, and the young man pushed the door open and entered.Surprised and asked: What is Zihu?He laughed and said, "I'm here to watch the ears of chaste people."Gu Nu said: Don't you blame people today?The girl's brows were raised and her cheeks were flushed. She kept silent, turned over her coat in a hurry, revealed a leather bag, and came out with her hand, and there was a crystal dagger in her feet.When the young man saw it, he was horrified and left.After chasing out of the outdoors, looking around Miaoran.The woman threw the dagger into the sky, there was a sudden sound, bright as a rainbow, and something fell to the ground with a sound.If you burn it urgently, the head of a white fox will be in a different place.Horrified.The woman said: This gentleman is also a child molester.I firmly forgive it, but I definitely don't want to do anything!Put the blade in the bag.Sheng dragged the order in, saying: "It's suitable for monsters to lose their minds, please wait until the night."go out the door.The next night, when the female fruit arrived, we made preparations together.Asking about his skills, the woman said: This is not known to you.It is advisable to keep secrets, and if you are afraid that you will not be blessed by the king, you will be ordered to marry, saying: "Where are you going to sleep on the mat, how can you pick up the water, what is it not like a woman?"If you are a married couple, why bother to talk about marriage?Sheng said: Do you hate my poverty?Said: The king is solidly poor, but the concubine is rich?The gathering tonight is to pity the poor ears of the king.The parting instructions said: "You can't do it repeatedly."When I come, I will come, and if I don't come, it is useless to strengthen each other.Afterwards, every time you want to seduce and whisper, women often run away.However, the clothes are scattered and the salary is known as discipline, just like a woman. After several months, his mother died, and he tried his best to bury her.The woman lives alone.Business can be chaotic if you live alone, you can enter beyond the wall, and call frequently through the window, so it should not be done.Look at the door, and the room is empty.It is suspected that the girl has an appointment with him.The same goes for the night.So he left Peiyu in the window and left.The next day, I met at my mother's place.After coming out, the female tail said afterwards: "Do you doubt your concubine?"Everyone has his own heart, so don't tell others.Now I want to make you no doubt, Wu Deke?However, it is a matter of haste.Asked, said: "The concubine has been pregnant for eight months, and I am afraid that she will give birth late."The identity of the concubine is not clear, she can give birth to the king, but cannot raise it for the king.You can tell your mother in secret, look for a nurse, and pretend to be a bollworm beggar, don't talk about concubines.Make a promise to tell your mother.The mother laughed and said, "It's different, this girl!"It's impossible to hire him, but to take care of my son.I am happy to wait for it. More than a month later, the daughter didn't come for a few days, and the mother was suspicious, so she went to visit her door, and Xiao Xiao was silent.After knocking for a long time, the woman began to come out from the inside with her unkempt hair and dirty face.If you open it and enter it, you will close it.Entering his room, the croaker will be on the bed.The mother asked in surprise: "When is the birthday?"The answer goes: three days.If you catch the stretch mat and look at it, you will be a man, with ample food and a wide forehead.Xi said: "My son is already an old man and has a grandson. I am alone. How can I trust you?"The woman said: "It's just a secret, I dare not show my mother."When there is no one at night, you can take your son with you.The mother's return and the son's words are the same and different.Return to Baozi at night. In the evening, at midnight, the woman suddenly entered the door, carrying a leather bag, and said with a smile: "I'm done, please leave."Urgently inquiring about the reason, he said: "The virtue of adopting a mother is never to be removed from the bosom."Xiang Yun can be one and never again, to repay that he is not in bed.If you are poor and cannot get married, you will continue on the line.In this issue, I got it after a search, but I didn't want to believe that the water would come back, so I broke the precept and tried it again.Now that the king's virtue is rewarded, the concubine's ambitions are fulfilled, so there is no regret.Q: What's in the bag?Said: The head and ears of the enemy.Check and peek at it, the beard will be handed over and the blood will be blurred.Absolutely appalled, return to research and question.Said: To those who do not speak to the king, keep things secret, and fear that there will be catharsis.Now that the matter has been accomplished, you might as well tell each other: my concubine is from Zhejiang.My father, Sima, fell into a feud, and he came from my family.It has been three years since the concubine went out on the shoulders of her old mother, concealed her name, and buried her head in her neck.Therefore, those who do not repay immediately have a mother; when the mother goes away, another piece of meat is tired in the belly, so it is delayed for a long time.It wasn't him who came out at night, and the road door is not familiar, so I'm afraid there will be mistakes.Enough words, go out.He also enjoined, "Take good care of your child."Your fortune is thin and you don't live long, but here you can have a bright family.Don't startle my mother late at night, I'm going!Fang sadly wanted to inquire, but the woman flashed like lightning, and she disappeared after a glance.Sighing and regretting the tree standing, if you lose your soul.It's just a matter of sighing to tell the mother.In the last three years, the fruit died.The eighteenth son was promoted to Jinshi, and he still worshiped his grandmother to die old. Yi Shi said: A person must have a chivalrous woman in his room, and then he can prostitute a child.Otherwise, Er Aiqi [ㄐㄧㄚ; male pig], Pierre Lou pig [sow]!