Xie Xiaoe is the only daughter of Xie Quan, a wealthy businessman in Zhang Yu, Tang Xianzong. Zhang Yu is now Nanchang, also known as Hongzhou at that time. It is a developed city with a relatively concentrated population. Xie Quan often trades goods between Zhang Yu and Xunyang. Xunyang, today's Jiujiang, is separated from Zhang Yu by Poyang Lake, with vast waters, rivers and lakes intersecting with germanium, and the water transportation is very convenient. Merchants' goods are all transported by water, so there are boats everywhere in the rivers and lakes, and there are also countless water thieves at work. Businessmen used to bring a lot of bodyguards, but they were still robbed and in distress.
Xie Quan was honest, well managed and prosperous, and became a famous rich man in Zhang Yu. Because the amount of goods trafficked each time is quite large, it is also the envy of Jianghu thieves. Thanks to Xie Quan's caution, he took a lot of followers with him every time he sailed, and tried to berth in a harbor with many ships, so he never got into big trouble.
Xie Quan's wife died young. Because of the unforgettable relationship between husband and wife, she no longer remarried, only her daughter Xie Xiaoe accompanied her. Xiaoe is petite, elegant and quiet, but because she lost her mother at the age of eight, she has developed an independent and brave character and is good at housework. She arranged the life of her father and daughter very properly and became the lifeblood of Xie Quan. She often took her with her when she went out by boat. When Xiao E was fourteen, she married Jia Juzhen, a chivalrous man at that time. Jia Juzhen, bold and brave, is a famous young man. His parents are friends at home. After he married Xiao E, the young couple lived in Xie Jia. Jia Juzhen is good at martial arts and often helps his father-in-law escort things. The family respects each other.
In the spring of this year, the Xie family bought a ship of valuable goods from Xunyang with a dozen followers. Unexpectedly, I was caught in a rainstorm and strong wind on the way, which delayed my trip for half a day and failed to reach the harbor as scheduled. As night fell, the moon was dark and windy, and the ship had to stop at the deserted river. In the dead of night, a group of wild water thieves flocked to the merchant ship and danced with knives and forks. Not long after, Xie Quan and Jia Ju, who fought back, were killed by the strongmen, and a dozen followers died and fell into the water. None of them survived. Xie Xiaoe, who was on the same boat, heard the fighting and hurried out of the cabin. In the confusion, she panicked and fell into the water.
Maybe this is fate. Xiao Xie E, who fell into the water, was washed into the lower shoal by the river and rescued by fishing boats. After a period of nursed back to health by the fisherman, Xiao E gradually recovered. At this time, she did not know the whereabouts of her father and husband.
With the help of good people, Xie Xiaoe sold her jewelry and returned to her home in Zhang Yu, hoping to meet her relatives. Unexpectedly, when I opened the door, I saw that there was no one in the house and all the belongings inside were looted. Xie Xiaoe suddenly felt that her body was falling, black at the moment and unconscious.
Xie Xiaoe woke up and turned around. She was alone and empty. She guessed that her father and husband must have been killed by water thieves, and she was the only weak woman left in the world! Suddenly, she felt bored and wanted to simply throw herself into the river and follow her relatives. But on second thought, if she dies, those who killed their relatives and enemies can live happily, and no one will be held accountable; It's death anyway. Might as well stay here and find a way to get revenge first. Thinking of this, she bit her silver teeth, dried her tears and stood up with the firm belief of revenge.
The law of the jungle, Xie Xiaoe embarked on a hard and endless road of revenge. To get revenge, we must first know the enemy, but Xie Xiaoe has no clue in her heart and doesn't know where to start. At first, she wandered aimlessly, begging all the way, and unconsciously came to Guo Miao Temple in Shangyuan County. Wu Jingni, a teacher in the temple, was very sympathetic to the clever beggar and took her into the temple. Xie Xiaoe has a place to live temporarily. In the temple, she burned incense and worshipped Buddha every day, prayed to the gods and pointed out the names of her enemies. One evening, she knelt in front of the Buddha, half asleep. In the twilight, she heard a subtle but clear voice: "The one who killed your father, the monkey in the car, the grass in the east;" If you kill your husband, you will walk among the grains and your husband will live in one day. " Xie Xiaoe suddenly woke up and firmly remembered these two sentences.
"Monkey in the car, grass in the east, walking in the grass, a husband in a day." Little e repeated these two words, and she was puzzled, but she firmly believed in the guidance of the gods. So I wrote these twelve words on a card, left the Guo Miao Temple and traveled around just to meet an expert to solve the mystery for her. She traveled east along the river, begging all the way, going through ups and downs, all the way to Jianye, which is now Nanjing, and still didn't get the exact answer.
In the spring of Yuanhe eight years, Jiangxi came to Jianye on business when he was engaged in Li Gongzuo. He stopped by the crock temple to visit a monk friend. When chatting, his friend told him, "The day before yesterday, a beggar woman from Jiangxi went to the temple to solve the 12-character puzzle. I have no time to think about it, but this is really a problem! " Li Gongzuo listened with relish. He is an enthusiastic and clever official. When he heard the mystery, he immediately asked his annoying friend for twelve characters and bowed his head in the monk's room to think. He thought about painting, pondered for a long time, and suddenly spoke and understood the meaning.
So, Li Gongzuo asked the servant of a friend's school to go to the city to find Xie Xiaoe holding a signboard to solve the problem, and said to her, "I have got your answer, but I can't tell you until you explain the reason." Xie Xiaoe was so excited when she heard that someone had solved the mystery that she immediately told her own experience and the origin of the twelve characters in tears. Say that finish, she kowtowed like garlic, sobbing, asking the official to give a mystery. Li Gongzuo expressed deep sympathy for the little girl in front of him, and now carefully explained the meaning of these twelve words to Xiao E: "The name of the person who killed your father is Shen Lan, and the name of the person who killed your husband is Shen Chun. Because the word' car' is a monkey, the word' car' is removed from the top and bottom to become the word' Shen', and the monkey in the zodiac is Shen, so these three words are. There is a door (door) under the grass, and there is an east (east) in the door (door), which is the word' orchid (orchid)'. Walking on the grass is crossing the field, and it is still the word "Shen"; As for "one-day husband", isn't it the word "spring" by adding a horizontal line between the word "husband" and the word "day" below? In this way, the mystery of' Shen Lan' and' Shen Chun' is obvious! "
Li Gongzuo's analysis makes sense, and moths knelt down again to thank them, and then left with tears in her eyes. So Xie Xiaoe began to return to Jiangxi to find the whereabouts of her enemies Shen Lan and Shen Chun. In order to move conveniently, she simply disguised herself as a man and a helper, wandering in the rivers and lakes to get information for a living.
Xunyang was an important trading port in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River at that time. It is connected to Lushan Mountain in the south and the Yangtze River in the north, occupying the estuaries of rivers and lakes, and is a place where merchants from East and West gather. Xie Xiaoe thought, "I should find a place to stay in Heyang first, so that I can get some clues about the enemy from vendors extending in all directions."
After making up her mind, Xie Xiaoe stopped in Xunyang and wandered around the market every day, hoping to be hired by an inn or firm in order to settle down and make the next plan.
On this day, when I was crossing the bridge, Xiao E saw a red paper poster on the trunk. When she took a closer look, she found that it was the inspiration for a company to recruit domestic helpers. Then she looked at the signature. It turns out that little E has read the word "Shen Lan" 10,000 times in his mind. Little e just felt angry and found the office along the address on the poster. The owner, Shen Lan, is a middle-aged man. He looks kind and slightly fat, but if you look closely, you can see that his eyes are alert and he hides evil light. Little e's heart has decided that what is in front of her is to kill her father's enemy. However, before taking revenge, she must hold her horses. Xie E pretended to be obedient and applied for the job, and was soon hired.
After entering the Shenyang Institute, Xiao E worked very hard, followed the boss Shen Lan closely, and gradually gained the trust of Shen Lan. Thanks to Xie Xiaoe's book knowledge, courtesy and carefulness, Shen Lan made her the treasurer, and she handled all the gold, silver and money in the whole firm. Of course, Shen Lan never knew that Xie Xiaoe was actually a daughter.
Xie Xiaoe endured the pain and hatred in her heart, diligently took care of the accounts for Shen Lan, and was especially respectful to Shen Lan, which made Shen Lan pay more and more attention to her and even regarded her as a confidant. Whenever Xiao E is alone, she can't help but gnash her teeth and say Shen Lan's name, hoping to chop him into eight pieces at once. However, if you want to destroy the enemy with a weak woman, you must find a suitable opportunity and succeed in one fell swoop; Otherwise, not only will you not get revenge, but you will lose your life. Small moths stare big eyes looking for opportunities every day, but also secretly pay attention to inquire about Shen Chun who killed her husband, and she wants to double her revenge.
Because Shen Lan felt that Xie Xiaoe was stable and reliable, and well managed, she not only let her take care of the money, but also gave her the secret library of treasures to count and keep. Among the dazzling treasures in the secret library, Xie Xiaoe was surprised to find that many jewels were old things of her family. She couldn't help crying when she saw the injury. But she still held back her feelings and kept a straight face for fear that Shen Lan would get suspicious and miss the revenge plan.
Gradually, she found that the rule of deep blue business is often to go out at the beginning of the month and come back at the end of the month without taking out the funds and goods. When she came back, she brought back a lot of gold and silver property, which was kept by Xie Xiaoe. Xiao E thought her business was robbery. Later, she accidentally discovered that Shen Lan had a cousin named Shen Chun who lived in Jiangbei Reading Shop. The two companies are business partners and have a very close relationship. They often come and go together. Xie Xiaoe estimated that the two families jointly robbed their merchant ship and killed their father and husband. However, Xiao E has never seen the trace of Shen Chun.
At the end of January, in the middle of the night, he led a group of people back to the mansion from other places. An enter a door, Shen Lan told the chef to prepare tables, as if to celebrate. A man who joined Shen Lan hand in hand is short and looks like Shen Lan. During the conversation, Xiao E recognized this person as Shen Chun. When the enemy met, Xiao E couldn't wait to swallow it in one gulp, but reason made her smile and keep a straight face.
When the table was served, the thieves drank heartily and smoke billowed. Until after the fourth watch, one by one, as drunk as a fiddler, crawled inside and outside the hall. Xie Xiaoe pretended to help clean up the mess and made a circle of detectives inside and outside the hall. I believe this is a godsend. After sending all the servants to wait on the banquet to have a rest, Xie Xiaoe hid the dagger that had already been prepared, quietly walked into a snoring hall and took Shen Lan straight. At this time, Shen Lan was as drunk as a fiddler, lying on a bench and sleeping soundly. Xie Xiaoe, who never killed a chicken on weekdays, was angry from her heart. She began to stab the enemy in the neck with a knife. With another effort, she cut Shen Lan's head to the ground without shouting. Little e is not soft at this time. She found Shen Chun who slept like a dead pig, and the bloody dagger was inserted in his chest. Shen Chun only snorted and went to die. At this time, no one was awake in the hall.
Xie Xiaoe calmly withdrew from the hall, opened the door and stood in the street shouting. The neighbors were awakened by her shouts. I don't know what happened, but they all put on their clothes to see what happened. Seeing Xie Xiaoe covered in blood, with bare feet and hair, and seeing the crowd gathered around her, she loudly reprimanded the crimes of the Shen Shi brothers, and tearfully showed that she had avenged her husband's father, which caused her neighbors to cry and sigh, denouncing the evil deeds of the Shen Shi brothers and sympathizing with Xie Xiaoe's tragic experience.
Among them, enthusiastic people hurried to report to the government, and Zhang Qian, the magistrate of Xunyang, hurried to catch the robbers. Dozens of thieves were all arrested in a drunken haze, and then the stolen goods in Shenfu were cleaned up, including gold ingots and silver ingots. As for jewelry, antiques and fine paintings, there are more. Later, he went to the reading shop in Jiangbei to check Shen Chun's property, and his wealth was similar to that of Shen Lan.
All the thieves were executed because they accumulated too much evil, and all the recorded stolen money and goods were returned to their original owners one after another. Xie Xiaoe's ambition is commendable. No matter whether she killed or not, she made meritorious service in solving the case and returned the property at home. The court also awarded a flag in recognition of her heroic behavior. This happened in the summer of the twelfth year of Yuanhe, five years after Xie Quan and Jia Juzhen were killed. In other words, the fire of revenge was buried in Xie Xiaoe's chest for five years and finally broke out.
Xie Xiaoe's heroic feat of revenging her husband's father soon spread in all directions. After Xie Xiaoe returned to Zhang Yu, countless people came to congratulate her. Little e has restored her former daughter's makeup. Despite five years of ups and downs, this little girl under 20 is still beautiful and elegant. At this time, people came to propose to Xiao E in an endless stream. It's a pity that she has struggled. She has seen through the joys and sorrows of life and has no intention of shaping a new life.
So one night, Xie Xiaoe entrusted all the housework to distant relatives, cut off her hair, put on a brown robe, and went to Niutou Mountain alone, where she fell at the door of Master Ni, hoping to accompany the ancient Buddha all her life.
The next day, Xie Xiaoe was ordained at Kaiyuan Temple in Sizhou, taking Xiaoe as the dharma name, and then transferred to Yishan Temple, where she studied under Da Deni. People who inquired about her went to the temple to make pilgrimages, hoping to get a glimpse of Xie Xiaoe, but Xiaoe closed her eyes and kept silent about the past.
Supplement:
The entry in the last paragraph beautifies the legend a little, which is different from the allusion.