Chapter 100: The Couplet Cave Room

"I'm going to die. Death has come to the door. The monk reached out and pinched his nose, and the flies buzzed away, "The matter of the ghost hunting prostitute is going to be entrusted to you." After the monk finished speaking, the fly circled around and landed on his nose again.

"However, I am afraid that I do not have this ability, and I have not learned the art of ghost hunting prostitutes, from my father. I had another ghost prostitute thirty years ago, and I knew she was amazing. Grandpa replied hesitantly.

"Hehe, you are also one of the witnesses to the incident more than thirty years ago. It was then that your father and I met, and for the sake of this, and in the end your father and I did as you wished, and she never appeared again, as you said. The monk's words began to struggle a little, "But, but this ghost prostitute is not the same as before, and her resentment is too heavy. You can only subdue her. Just like the two-faced Buddha, we can guide the good ghosts to the good, and we can't be soft-hearted if the evil ones don't change. ”

Grandpa whispered, "But my father didn't give me all he learned, and I can't deal with the ghost prostitute." ”

The monk thought for a moment and said, "Didn't your father have an ancient book?" Didn't he pass it on to you? ”

Grandpa said, "It's been passed on, but only the first half of the ancient book is given to me, and I don't know where the second half is hidden." Only seven words remained, and guessing the answer to the puzzle to find the second half. I haven't guessed yet. ”

The monk asked, "Which seven words?" ”

Grandpa said: "Those seven words are to move the chair and lean on the tong to admire the moon." ”

The monk smiled: "This is the upper couplet in Bao Gongqiao's couplet case." There is such a scene in the flower drum play, haven't you heard it? ”

"Bao Gong skillfully solved the couplet case?" Although Grandpa often listened to flower drum opera, he obviously hadn't heard of this part.

Later, when my grandfather told me that "Bao Gong skillfully broke the couplet case", I was also at a loss. I hardly listen to opera, thinking that it is something that the old man only listens to when he is bored, and the babbling is annoying. Therefore, I have no way of knowing the allusion of "moving chairs and leaning on the tong to admire the moon". So, I asked my grandfather the specific content of this Bao Gong Qiaoqiao couplet case. I'm sure readers are as curious as I am.

At that time, the monk was close to death, and he didn't have so much time to tell his grandfather the story of Bao Gongqiao's couplet, which was learned by his grandfather after the monk's death. This provides us with a good idea to find the second half of "Hundred Arts".

It is said that when Bao Gongren was supervising the imperial history, such a strange case occurred.

A couple surnamed Xu, both over 50 years old, married their 18-year-old son. On the wedding night, before the groom entered the cave room, the talented bride made a couplet in order to test her talented husband: "Light the lamp and go to the pavilion to attack the book".

This is the form of a chain pair, not only "lamp" (the ancient traditional Chinese character is composed of "fire" and "Deng") with "Deng", "Ge" and "each" are homophones, the first word is the last word plus the side (or stroke), and the word "light" is still double sound (the initials of the two words are the same), if the next sentence is made, it is quite brain-consuming.

After the bride had made the couplet, she said to the bridegroom through the door, "If you do not get the next sentence right, you will not be allowed to enter the cave tonight." ”

The groom thought hard for a long time, but did not say the next sentence, so he left home and went to the school in anger.

When she got up the next morning, the bride saw the groom sitting at the table frowning and asked why.

The bridegroom said, "I'm still worried about not being able to get your couplet!" ”

The bride smiled and said, "In the dead of night last night, when the bright moon was in the sky, you were alone under the plane tree in the courtyard, didn't you already match?" Otherwise, can I let you into the cave room? ”

When the bridegroom heard this, he was surprised and said, "I was in the school all night because I couldn't match the couplet, and I came back after dawn!" ”

When the bride heard this, she realized that she had lured the wolf into the house and let the bad guys take advantage of the loophole. After a while, the bride, who had lost her virginity, saw that the bridegroom had left the new house to see his parents and had not returned for a long time, so she committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam with remorse.

Because of a murder, the county government arrested the groom without asking. The bridegroom, who was tortured to extract a confession, was sentenced to be beheaded after being tortured. After hearing the news that her son was about to be beheaded, Xu's mother also committed suicide by throwing herself into the river in despair.

After Bao Gong "visited" the case, he felt that the case was strange, so he decided to use the couplet as a "breakthrough" to reveal the truth of the case. So, he borrowed it to stay at Xu's house that night. In the dead of night, when the moon was empty, Bao Gong came to the plane tree in the courtyard, facing the plane tree, thinking left and right, but there was no good plan for a while.

Under such circumstances, Bao Gong put aside the matter of thinking about the case, asked the entourage to bring a chair, leaned under the sycamore tree, and chatted with the entourage. Chatting and chatting, Bao Gong suddenly opened his mouth, and the key move to solve the case was unintentionally obtained.

The next morning, Bao Gong left Xu's house and came to the county government, and immediately asked people to put up a notice on the street, the content of which was to the effect that Kaifeng Mansion should recruit a talented scholar locally to serve in Kaifeng Mansion, and welcome aspirants to take the examination at the government office. More than a dozen test takers came to the county office, and the exam question given by Bao Gong was the couplet of "light the lamp and go to the pavilion to study the book". After the examinee handed in the answer sheet for the next sentence, Bao Gong selected the candidate who "moved the chair and leaned on the tong to admire the moon".

When the candidate saw that he was selected, he asked Bao Gong very happily: "Master Bao, I don't know when you will take the late student back to Kaifeng Mansion?" I saw Bao Gong sneer, slapped the shocked wood, and ordered the official to tie up the candidate. Then Bao Gong asked the groom to bring the groom who asked the queen of the autumn, and when the groom secretly confirmed that the candidate was his classmate and friend, Bao Gong decided that the candidate was the criminal who went into the cave room at night to spoil the bride.

The reason why Bao Gong decided that the candidate who answered "moving the chair and leaning on the tong and admiring the moon" was a "criminal suspect" because when he was sitting on a chair and chatting with his entourage under the plane tree in the courtyard of the Xu family, he suddenly came up with the couplet of "moving the chair and leaning on the tong and admiring the moon", because this sentence is also a serial sentence, "shift" and "lean", "tong" and "tong" are homophones, the first word is made of the last word plus the side (or stroke), and the "move the chair" is also a double voice, and at the same time I thought of what the bride said to the groom before she died, "You are alone under the plane tree in the courtyard, Isn't it already aligned", so the candidates who answered "move the chair and lean on the tong to admire the moon" were "buckled".

Then Bao Gong tried the examinee, and the examinee confessed truthfully.

It turned out that that night, after the groom arrived at the school, the classmate who was studying at night in the school

When the friend saw that the groom did not enter the cave room on the wedding night but came to the school, he asked why. The bridegroom truthfully told the candidate about the couplet, and the candidate immediately had a bad idea. In the dead of night, he sneaked into Xu's house on the pretext of going home. After this candidate came up with a couplet under the plane tree in the courtyard of the Xu family, he pretended to be a groom and answered the bride in the cave room correctly.

When the bride, who had turned off the lights and had not fallen asleep, heard that the answer was seamless, "move the chair and lean on the tong and admire the moon", she didn't think that there could be a second person besides her husband who knew that she and her husband had answered correctly, so she opened the door and let her go to bed. After the candidate ruined the bride, he slipped away before dawn while the bride was asleep.