Chapter 36: Stabbing to death

The relationship between men and women in the Qin Dynasty is still relatively open, and ethics and morality are not strict among princes, nobles and commoners, otherwise there would be no Qin Shi Huang's mother Zhao Ji first fooled around with LΓΌ Buwei in the harem for several years, and then fornicated with Chang Yu and gave birth to two sons, it can be seen from Zhao Ji's lewd life, whether it is the pre-Qin period or the current Great Qin Empire, it is not very concerned about things between men and women, and there is no great defense of men and women after the rise of Confucian theory in later generations. Therefore, at this time, the relationship between men and women was still very free, and women did not need to abide by the women's morals of the three obediences and four virtues of later generations.

But in any case, human society has been constantly improving, men's status has been constantly improving, women have become a dominant position in production and life, so the status of women in the Qin Dynasty is not high, Xing'er has been married to Niu Dashi, so according to etiquette, respecting one's husband is a matter of course, Xing'er's scolding naturally made Chen Jiang feel embarrassed and unhappy.

"Auntie is fine, don't be angry with Sister Xing'er, I'm ...... I won't talk about it, let's talk about it! Niu Dashi hurriedly sat down with a frown and urged Chen Xu.

"One day in the sky, the world is a year, although the Weaver Girl has been in the world for three years, and gave birth to a son and a daughter, but the sky has actually only passed three days, to the fourth day, the Emperor of Heaven found that the Weaver Girl did not finish weaving on time, so he asked only to know that the Weaver Girl actually went down to earth privately, and then arranged for someone to go down to the mortal to inquire, and learned that the Weaver Girl had married a mortal, so in a fit of rage, he arranged for the heavenly soldiers to arrest her back to the heavenly court, the Weaver Girl was captured, the two children cried desperately and shouted to their mothers, the Cowherd had no choice, I had to use the burden to carry the two children to chase behind, chase and chase, and finally chased to the Milky Way, but was blocked by the turbulent river, I could only watch the Weaver Girl being caught by the heavenly soldiers and walking farther and farther, listening to the cry of the two children, the Weaver Girl was very sad, knowing that she would never see her husband and the two children again, so she threw out the weaving shuttle to leave a souvenir for her husband......"

"Woo, the Emperor of Heaven is so bad, how can he capture the Weaver Girl? The Weaver Girl was caught in the sky and must have been weaving cloth day and night, the Emperor of Heaven, the big villain, the big villain......" Xing'er was very sad when she heard this, and she wiped her tears while cursing a certain immortal in the sky.

"And then?" Niu Dashi stared at a pair of bull's eyes.

"Xu'er, what happened later?" Chen Jiang was also fascinated by what he heard and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, brother, the Weaver Girl must be able to come back, right, you say it quickly, say it quickly!" Xing'er also came back to her senses and hugged Chen Xu's arm and shook it vigorously.

"Don't shake, don't shake!" Chen Xu couldn't cry and laughed and had to continue: "After the Weaver Girl was taken away, the Cowherd waited the edge of the Milky Way every day with a son and a daughter, and the two children also cried and shouted every day, hoping that the Weaver Girl could come back, and then this matter reached the ears of the Emperor's wife, the Emperor's wife is called the Queen Mother, she is a gentle and beautiful woman, living in the Yaochi Immortal Palace in Kunlun Mountain, she heard about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and then went to the Emperor of Heaven, hoping that the Emperor of Heaven can open the net and let the Weaver Girl go down to earth and continue to live with the Cowherd, Although the Emperor did not agree to the Queen Mother's request, he still promised to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month of July, and as for the Tianhe block, they must find a way to cross it themselves! ”

"But...... But the heavenly river is so wide...... How can they meet, the Emperor of Heaven is too bad, on the surface it seems that he agreed, but in fact, he deliberately didn't want the two to meet! Xing'er couldn't help but start the curse Dafa again, but in Chen Xu's opinion, it pointed directly to the inner thoughts of the Heavenly Emperor.

"Xing'er sit down and listen to my brother!" Although Chen Jiang has been a mother for more than ten years, she is also a young woman who is only thirty-two years old after all, and the woman's gossip also forces her to want to know the end of the story.

Niu Dashi didn't dare to speak anymore this time, and looked at Chen Xu with blank eyes.

"There is definitely no way to get through the Tianhe Weaver Girl, and the Cowherd is even more helpless as a mortal, but although the Queen Mother can't help herself, she helps them think of a way, she ordered all the magpies in the mortal world to fly over the Milky Way on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month to build a bridge with their bodies, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet on the bridge, so every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, all the magpies will disappear!"

"I know, I know, the magpies have flown to the sky to build a bridge!" Hearing this, Apricot finally burst into tears and laughed, jumped up and shouted happily.

Chen Jiang and Niu Dashi also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although this ending is not perfect, it is still barely acceptable.

"Isn't it time to sing a song here?" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he looked up at the sky and couldn't help muttering softly to the stars in the sky.

"Brother, what were you talking about?" Apricot asked, shaking his arm.

"He's talking about singing a song!" Niu Dashi popped out a sentence next to him like a ghost.

"Okay, okay, my brother can not only tell stories, but he can also sing, sing quickly!" Apricot clapped her hands happily and cheered.

Chen Xu glanced at Niu Dashi faintly, and then touched the bronze dagger hanging from his waist.

This shrimp has a small brain, good ears, and a fast mouth, this kind of person is the most prone to problems in the future, for the future, whether to simply stab this brother-in-law who boiled the whole frog to death in advance.

"Ahem, okay, brother will sing a song about the Cowherd and Weaver Girl to Xing'er!"

Chen Xu cleared his throat, then stood up and walked a few steps in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, and organized in his mind the excerpt of the Tianxian match "Husband and Wife Return Home" that was circulated in later generations.

Tianxian Pei was originally a Huangmei opera, and it was not about the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but the story of the Seven Fairies descending to the earth with Dong Yong, but in fact, most Chinese people don't know the difference between these two stories, thinking that the two are the same story, but in fact, they are not.

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and there are corresponding records in the "Book of Songs", but it has not been widely spread, so the wild man in this remote mountain village who does not know a single big character does not know.

The story of the Seven Fairies going down to earth did not appear until the late Eastern Han Dynasty, which tells the story of Dong Yong's sale to bury his father and moved the Seven Fairies, so that he went down to the earth to privately match Dong Yong's male cultivator and female weaving, and then the Queen Mother inserted a rake and sent heavenly soldiers to capture the Seven Fairies back to Heaven.

But for Chen Xu, there is no obstacle at all for the two stories to become one, because when he told the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl just now, the song of the heavenly immortals sounded in his mind, just like ordinary people will unconsciously sing it when they see "two tigers and two tigers", it will definitely not be read out, it is completely a knee-jerk reaction.