Chapter 828: Concubine Taiping
Mrs. Hu loved Sun Xinxin, and she had to consider this possibility, and her words became mysterious. Song Siyuan comforted: "Old Mrs. Hu, they all say to respect ghosts and gods and stay away, if there are really ghosts and gods in this world, then shouldn't these ghosts be revenge on the government?" How is it possible to take revenge on these innocent people? Think about it, the people in the government are fine, why do these girls have a nightmare, is it true that ghosts also like to bully the soft and fear the hard? After speaking, her face became mysterious: "Do all these girls have this symptom?" Mrs. Hu hesitated for a moment and explained, "That...... That's not necessarily, I remember that it has been getting less and less over the years, and the first girl of the same age, I haven't heard anyone get sick? Jin Daochang pondered Mrs. Hu's words, and said slowly: "Then this is strange, since the girl of the same age as her is fine, but she is sick, which means that she must be different from other female babies, then she usually has any incurable diseases, or has different behaviors from ordinary people." ”
"If you talk about the behavior of ordinary people, this lady is very arrogant, and she is indeed more noisy than ordinary women, but that's all, and everything else is nothing, they are all native children of the town, nothing different." While they were talking, Hu Jindou walked in: "Grandma, before my little aunt became ill, it seems that she had been to Concubine God. These words stirred up a thousand waves, and Jin Daochang's eyes lit up and asked, "What is she going to do with the old concubine?" ”
"Go and read the Nüshu, there are many Nüshu at home, and she can't read it a little, so she asked the old concubine to recognize the Nüshu." After Hu Jindou finished speaking, Mrs. Hu's eyes immediately became vigilant: "Then why don't you say it for half a month?" The half-grown child scratched his brain: "It's not a big deal, many girls in the town have gone to the old concubine to learn nüshu, and the little aunt's generation is still late, she wants to pinch her head in everything, and her peers have not yet learned nüshu, and she still expects to be the first." After hearing this, Jin Daochang had already realized what was wrong, and asked Mrs. Xianghu: "Is it that every generation has a woman who has gone to the old concubine to learn women's books?" Mrs. Hu nodded and said: "Then I don't dare to lie to you, I also said just now, the old society of Yongming County does not allow women to read and write, from my generation to my granddaughter's generation, there are girls to learn women's books." ”
"When I got to Jindou's sisters, I basically entered the Republic of China, and the world no longer taboo women to read, and no one went to learn, although my granddaughter said that she was the previous generation, but because she was born late, it was almost a few years different from Jindou's generation, and basically she didn't learn any women's books."
"If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have said that Nüshu would be broken in my granddaughter's generation." Mrs. Hu's words, Jin Daochang heard them clearly, so as not to guess wrong, he asked again: "After entering the Republic of China, can any female babies get sick?" Mrs. Hu also seemed to realize the meaning of Jin Daochang's words, and she became cautious in her words: "If you want to ask like this, it is true, but it seems that you have been taught Nüshu by the old concubine, and as for those who have not studied Nüshu, I don't seem to have heard much about it." ”
"Are you sure?" Mrs. Hu nodded and said: "Over the years, there have been female students in the clan, and I can probably know who the female children are who go to female school, and these people are indeed not studying women's books." ”
"That problem is likely to lie with the old concubine." Between Jin Daochang's words, he became curious about the matter of the old concubine, just now, he also heard the old lady mention it, and now he is even more convinced that the old concubine has a secret.
"What does the old fairy mean that these things were done by the old concubine?" Mrs. Hu obviously didn't believe this, shook her head and retorted: "It's unlikely, this old concubine has a really weird personality, but she is indeed a good person, relying on the medical skills she learned in the Taiping Army over the years, she has seen a lot of incurable diseases for the people of ten miles and eight villages, and she can suppress these children who have nightmares, although she can't cure the root cause, but her method does work...... "The matter of the old concubine, Mrs. Hu can't understand it anymore."
Back then, after most of the concubines sank into the pond, about ten years later, the civil rebellion finally ended, and the government's embarrassment of Yongming County became more and more relaxed.
After Tianjing City was breached, in order to clean up the civil unrest as soon as possible, the government cut off the heads of the so-called pseudo-officials and puppet soldiers, and the women and children involved were also often sent to the distant frontier, and even, directly in the siege of the city, were starved to death in Jinling City, even if they were lucky not to die, as the widows and orphans of the Taiping Rebellion, the end would definitely not be good.
As soon as this old concubine came back, the people of Huangtian Town were still afraid that she would commit a capital crime by taking her in, and the matter spread ten times and hundreds of times, and finally attracted the attention of the Yongming County official.
For them, the return of an old concubine means that there are still remnants of the Taiping Army behind them?
If this is the case, then they will report to the court to suppress the bandits, and they are even afraid that their human skin will be stripped of by the peaceful people.
Worried and scared, they could only send officials to catch the concubine and send her to the county office, above the three halls, the county officials dared to ask her, why did she come to Yongming County?
But there are also rebels and rebels accompanying him. This concubine is now in her thirties, her beauty is no longer there, and she lifted her forehead covered by her hair, and a soldering iron burned it
The word "anti" is clearly visible. This mark is a tattoo used by the government to clarify the identity of the prisoner, and the reverse word represents that the woman has rebelled against the court, with this mark, it is basically caught by the government and sentenced to punishment, knowing this, the county officials are a little more relieved.
Subsequently, the concubine took out her prison documents and handed them to the officials present, they knew that the concubine's surname was Tian Liumei, who was born in Huangtian Village, Yongming, and followed from Yongming to Jinling City when the Taiping army was in turmoil.
Now, there is a famine in Dingwu in the north, and the government has released all the anti-thieves and their families in the northern camp in order to show mercy to the people.
These county officials are all human spirits, and the content on it basically understands that the drought in the north is serious, and there is nothing to eat in the northern camp, so I am afraid that there will be chaos in the camp and simply let all the people out, and then if you can find something to eat, then continue to live, if the person dies, then don't blame the government, anyway, the government has released people.
In this way, a large part of the food ration can be saved. After these officials understood the situation, they understood why Tian Liumei came back, and knew that there was no power behind her, so they immediately became arrogant, and bluntly said that although she was released by the government, all the origins of the anti-thieves had been cleaned up, and it was impossible to return to the ancestral home, and if you wanted to continue to live in Huangtian Town, you could only buy a field to cultivate and buy a house to live in.
The meaning of this is actually to ask Tian Liumei to give money, she was imprisoned by the government for ten years, where is the money to give out, and she escaped and came back by luck along the way, which is already an eye-opener, and she doesn't even have a copper plate in her pocket.
Since she has no money, and the government is too lazy to take care of it, a few sticks have been beaten, if she wants to live, she will beg for food as a beggar woman, but behind her back, she informed the people of the county that if anyone dares to give Tian Liumei silver money and rice grain, he will be imprisoned for fornication and anti-thief, and it is clear that he will starve Tian Liumei to death.
Tian Liumei had no choice, she couldn't get anything, and anyone who saw her had to dodge, so she could only fish in the lake to eat, and in the end, the government didn't even let her stay in the town, she was weak, so she had to go to the nest of Du Pangling Mountain.
Fortunately, there is no endless road, there is a temple of the imperial concubine on the White Bear Ridge, where the incense is in its heyday, people often come, and there are often villagers who bring tribute, Tian Liumei relies on cleaning the imperial concubine temple, and it can be regarded as barely having a living.
After that, the villagers knew that she was in the imperial concubine temple, but they pity her for being lonely, and when they come to the incense again, they will bring some meat buns, vegetable dumplings, steamed rice and other hungry things to offer, nominally to ask the imperial concubine to bless, but in fact it is to open a small stove for Tian Liumei, so that she can also eat something good.
From Ding Wuqi Huang she came back, until a few years later, Tian Liumei, with the help of the villagers, built several shacks behind the Niangniang Temple, and there was no need to curl up in the temple anymore.
Since then, Tian Liumei has been living in the shack behind the Niangniang Temple as a temple woman, and will clean the temple every day, and at the same time, if there is no tribute, it will be cleaned up in time to avoid insects rotting, with her arrival, the Niangniang Temple is indeed better.
When the villagers are sick, have a headache, brain fever or are poisoned and congested, the people will go to the temple to meet the imperial concubine, in fact, it is all Tian Liumei who is curing the disease, and those notes are all written by Tian Liumei, asking them to take them to prescribe medicine or cure the disease.
Come and heal those who are sick, seek help for those who are not sick, solve problems for those who have disasters, and everything will be solved.
The temples between the countryside all depend on whether they work or not, since this temple of the imperial concubine is so effective, the reputation will inevitably spread ten, ten to hundred, attracting the people of ten miles and eight villages to come to offer.
Even, if the stomach does not move and the cub cannot be conceived, there are women who go to the temple of the imperial concubine to pray, Tian Liumei will put the red cloth tiger head shoes worn by the child on the altar, and the begging child picks up a tiger head shoe and goes back, and then sends it back after giving birth to a child who is exactly the same, which can be regarded as a thank you to the imperial concubine.
She is best at what she is best at, in fact, is to write Nüshu, back then, during the Taiping Kingdom, Nüshu played a big role, and she also learned Nüshu ten out of ten.
Now, the Taiping Rebellion is gone, but Nüshu has not declined, if a woman has not learned Nüshu before getting married, and she will not be a female celebrity, it will be ridiculed, and teaching these girls to learn Nüshu has become her main messenger.
She will copy all the eighteen volumes of the nüshu in the temple, mark the shape and meaning of the Chinese characters and pronunciation next to it, and also explain that all these nüshu scrolls are put on the altar, and if the girl needs it, she will come to the shrine to take a copy back, copy it and then send it back.
In the past few decades, how many women's nüshu have been taught by her, and she has inadvertently recorded the marriage entanglements, social feelings, private secret words, rural anecdotes, and songs and riddles of women in Yongming County, forming a new nüshu volume!