If time could be turned back, it would be five hundred years forward. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Ming Dynasty, in Nanjing City, there was a merchant family, and the male owner's surname was Shen Wanzhang.

Shen Wanzhang traveled south and north, running business outside. Because he is smart and diligent, honest and trustworthy, the business is getting bigger and bigger, from the initial small business, to a transaction of tens of thousands of taels, and the financial resources are getting wider and wider, from the initial footsteps not out of Nanjing City, expanded to the footprints all over the three rivers and five lakes north and south.

Within a few years, Shen Wanzhang started from scratch and gathered tens of thousands of taels of silver.

When Shen Wanzhang had a small asset, he married the daughter of the Chu people, Xi Lian. Although this woman is petite, her heart is higher than the sky, she is greedy for money and good goods, she fights for power and profit, her mouth is like a steel knife, her heart is like a snake, she is commanding the servant woman, and she is harsh to her in-laws.

Once, Shen Wanzhang's shopkeeper and thieves should cooperate with each other, and they were embarrassed, robbed the road halfway, and took away a batch of goods worth tens of thousands of taels from Shen Wanzhang. Shen Wanzhang himself was also stabbed several times in order to protect the goods, and was chased by thieves shouting, and fled all the way to the river, diving into the bottom of the river to avoid death.

He luckily dragged half of his life home, sought medical advice, and treated him in many ways, and finally saved his life. However, the knife injury made it difficult for the legs and feet to walk, so he recuperated at home for two years and did not go to business. The family economy has lost its source, and there is only some income from shop rent, and there is a feeling of sitting on a mountain empty, plus the goods worth tens of thousands of taels that were taken away by thieves, and the family property is more than half less than in the good year.

Despite this, the Shen family is still worry-free about food and clothing, lacking nothing, and is still a wealthy family.

But Xi Lian often blamed Shen Wanzhang for being imprudent, as if he had deliberately lost the tens of thousands of taels of property; When he was sick in bed, he often put on a face for him, as if his illness had dragged down the family; In the days when he was healed from his injury but did not go out to do business due to the inconvenience of his legs and feet, he was extremely sarcastic and ridiculed, scolding him for being a useless person now, as if he was relying on her to eat soft rice.

"I earned all these family properties, although I lost half of them, but there is still half of them, and it is enough to live!" Shen Wanzhang argued, but there was no momentum.

"I also have half of the family property I earned before. Your half has been lost, and you have the ability to earn your half back! The Xilian clan snorted arrogantly, and his momentum was very arrogant.

In the face of such a wild and unreasonable wife, Shen Wanzhang was speechless, so he looked up to the sky and sighed: "It seems that for men, only by constantly earning money can they join their families." ”

After his legs and feet were a little better, Shen Wanzhang decided to make a comeback, so he discussed with Xi Lian's family: "I want to buy another batch of goods and sell them, lest you say that I can't make money now."

"You're good to go!" Silian replied lightly.

"The purchase needs capital, more than 10,000 taels, less than 2,000 taels, I haven't gone out for two years, the market is a little rusty, advanced 2,000 taels of goods. Give me two thousand taels first. Shen Wanzhang said with a smile.

A thick layer of ice suddenly formed on Xi Lian's face, and he said in a cold tone: "Do you still want capital?" Don't do it if you want capital! ”

Shen Wanzhang said hurriedly: "How can there be a business in the world that does not require capital?" ”

"Aren't you very powerful, what do you say about starting from scratch and making a fortune! It's a lot of money to have it! Silian pursed his lips and sneered.

"The market is different, and now business is harder than before! The starting point is also different, now that the family is not short of money, do you still have to work from scratch as before, how much time will it take? Shen Wanzhang said angrily, his voice was obviously a little excited.

Schillen snorted in his nose, didn't answer, and left as if nothing had happened.

Shen Wanzhang was anxious, and chased forward to glared at the Xi Lian clan and said, "If the money is kept in your hands, it will grow meat, and you don't want to take it out, right?" ”

"When did you put the money with me?" Xi Lian's eyes also looked at each other angrily, and his eyes seemed to be about to eat Shen Wanzhang, and said loudly: "Tell you, the money in the past was accumulated by the old lady, not the old lady, and it was already lost by you!" This money is the cost of the mother's pension and the dowry of the daughter's marriage. You don't even want to move! ”

Shen Wanzhang was angry in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Do you want to take it? ”

"Don't take it!" Silian roared louder than he did.

Shen Wanzhang was extremely angry, shook it off with a slap, and said fiercely: "If you do this again, I will divorce you!" ”…

"You dare!" The Silian clan did not back down, and also slapped back.

The husband and wife have been in a cold war for more than a month, and no one pays attention to anyone, and they are like strangers.

On a crisp autumn day, the Xilian clan asked Shen Wanzhang to talk to the Purple Mountain.

Xi Lian said in a tone of grievance and reproach: "Xianggong, there is no overnight enmity between husband and wife. But now that you haven't spoken to me for a month and don't have a different bed, are you going too far? ”

Shen Wanzhang nodded silently and said slowly: "I'm sorry, I did something wrong. But I have a hard time, and I hope you will understand. ”

"I can understand that men put their careers first." Xi Lian seemed very generous, and calmly admitted his mistake, "

After thinking about it calmly, I realized that I might be at fault, and I shouldn't stand in the way of your career. Of course, your temper is too short-tempered. Both of us need to be corrected and live well in the future... ”

Shen Wanzhang was very moved when he heard this, thinking that the Xilian clan was wholeheartedly good and hoped for family harmony for many years, so he said with joy: "Yes, in the future, we will correct it together and live a harmonious life." I'm a lot older now, and it doesn't matter if I have a career or not. Only family harmony, good health, everything is enough. ”

"If you can do this, it will be a blessing for the concubine." Silian smiled pleasantly.

The two reconciled as before, talked and laughed, and played all the way to the top of the mountain.

When they stopped on the edge of the cliff to watch the beautiful scenery on the other side of the mountain, Shen Wanzhang was still thinking about how to live a good life in the future, and the Xi Lian clan took advantage of his inattention, and suddenly pushed him out of the cliff.

Shen Wanzhang didn't have time to react or struggle, so he was ruthlessly pushed off the cliff and fell into the bottomless abyss.

When he reacted and looked back desperately at the top of the mountain, he could still see the hideous face of the Xilian clan through the gaps in the falling rocks.

At this time, he was unable to react and struggle. I could only look up at the sky that was getting farther and farther away.

His body kept cutting through the rocks, branches, and vines on the edge of the cliff, and fell into the abyss.

It's all over, the quarrel between husband and wife, the fantasy of good days, the dream of a comeback, the lovely faces of a pair of daughters, everything, all in all its parts, as he fell into the abyss, they quickly dissipated from his side like a dream into the emptiness...

Before his body fell into the abyss, his heart had fallen into the cold hell, and his soul had been snatched away by the devil of dark purgatory...