Chapter Twenty-Six: A Poignant Past

'Then did they go to pay their vows?' Li Hongsleeve interjected. The woman nodded, 'After Jing Niang told her father, the father and daughter went on the road the next day.

It was smooth and smooth until the 'Puji Temple' in Quyang was repaid, but on the way back, something happened to her.

'What happened?' asked Li Hongsleeve. The woman sighed softly, and then said, 'Soon after Jing Niang's father and daughter left Quyang, they were intercepted by a gang of robbers and tied up the father and daughter, but because it was getting late, Jing Niang was not escorted back to the cottage, but was temporarily imprisoned in a nearby Taoist temple.

''What happened to Jing Niang being locked up in the Taoist temple?'' Li Hongsleeve couldn't help but ask. Hearing this, the woman's expression began to become complicated.

In the midst of fear, there seemed to be a little joy and said, "It's also Jing Niang's life that shouldn't be ended, and in that Taoist temple, she was rescued by a heroic figure who came here."

''And what happened later?' Seeing the woman's fascination on her face, Li Hongsleeve asked. Upon asking, the woman immediately fell into deep thought.

The complexion is sometimes yearning, sometimes shy, and constantly changing. Knowing that she was trying her best to recall something, Li Hongsleeve had to bow her head silently and wait patiently.

After a long time, the woman seemed to wake up from her contemplation, and continued to preach: 'After Jingniang was rescued, after the eldest brother had asked the reason, he thought that the world was very unpeaceful at that time, and that the road was far away, so he offered to send her back to Puzhou himself.

At that time, in order to avoid suspicion, the eldest brother also agreed that the two should only be called brother and sister. ''On the way back to Puzhou, what happened to the two?''

Li Hongsleeve listened with relish and interjected. The woman nodded, but her expression became relaxed.

"At that time, it was the troubled times of the five generations, and bandits were prevalent; although there were several robberies along the way, but fortunately, the eldest brother was strong in martial arts, and everyone who came was beaten away by him."

The more Li Hongsleeve listened, the more energetic he became. After a pause, the woman said, 'Speaking of danger, there was one time, when the two of them missed the night because they were in a hurry, they quietly went into the house of a farmer who was doing a funeral and spent the night.

In the end, because Jing Niang was frightened, even the 'evil god' was killed by the big brother, "That big brother is so brave and martial, hasn't Jing Niang ever moved?"

Along the way, have the two of them ever had some interesting things pulling and pulling?' Li Hongsleeve, who thought of what happened to him, asked coldly.

The woman's expression became complicated again, "Yes, what woman can not be tempted by such a man?"

In addition, after many days of lonely men and widows in the same room, it is inevitable that there will be some enthusiastic heartbeats, but they have been rejected by the eldest brother several times.

He said, 'It is righteous to escort my brother for a thousand miles, but if I have done that refractory thing with you, what difference is it with that robber!'

Seeing that he was right, Jing Niang had to silently bury her love in her heart. ''Then Jing Niang never told the eldest brother that she liked him?''

Li Hongsleeve asked again. The woman nodded, sighed lightly and said, "By the time Jing Niang revealed her heart to that eldest brother, it was already after arriving in Puzhou."

But at that time, the eldest brother told her: He went out this time to win fame in this troubled world with his own skills, and only let Jingniang wait patiently at home, and when he became famous, he would turn around and pick her up.

Li Hongsleeve said in his heart. By this time, the light in the cave had dimmed. The woman brought food again and shared it with Li Hongsleeve.

Anxious to know the result of Jing Niang, after hastily eating the meal, Li Hongsleeve pestered the woman and continued.

The woman didn't expect Li Hongsleeve to be so interested in Jing Niang, looked at Li Hongsleeve, and then said, "After Jing Niang heard the ambition of the eldest brother, she didn't keep it anymore, and she waited at home for him to come to her when he became famous;

At this time, the gossip around her also began to increase, and in order to block the mouths of the people, the mother's family began to open up the Luo Po family for Jing Niang, but Jing Niang didn't take a fancy to any of them.

Because in her heart, only that big brother is a real man, even if the benefits of all the men in the whole world combined are less than half of that big brother.

He was determined to be his woman, and he kept waiting. But three years have passed, five years have passed, and the eldest brother still hasn't heard from him.

"Sure enough, it's a person with a bad heart!" Li Hongsleeve blurted out. 'You have wronged him,' the woman retorted.

When Li Hongsleeve was about to argue with her, he suddenly remembered something and asked, 'Who is that eldest brother's name, and has he achieved anything later?'

The woman nodded, shook her head, and said, "That eldest brother was extremely successful later, and he also became the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty!"

''Emperor?'' Li Hongsleeve was shocked when he heard this, and stood up in surprise. That eldest brother is Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor of this dynasty!

The woman said word by word. Then they are really lovers who will eventually become married, and live a life like a fairy couple.

''But it didn't!'' the woman said coldly. 'Zhao Kuangyin must have changed his mind and forgot about Jing Niang, right?

Li Hongsleeve couldn't help but ask. Zhao Kuangyin has not forgotten Jing Niang, and after becoming the emperor, he did come back to find Jing Niang twice, but they could no longer be together at this time.

Therefore, every time I was rejected by Jing Niang. ''Why is that?'' Li Hongsleeve said curiously. At this time, it was late at night, and the woman saw that Li Hongsleeve was still very interested, and there was no trace of sleepiness, so she continued to talk about it, "This matter has to start from the second year of Zhao Kuangyin's departure: On that day, Jing Niang went to the street to buy things.

Unexpectedly, he actually collided with the honor guard of Puzhou Mansion Yin at that time, whose name was Li Jinbiao, who was a lewd and lascivious person.

When he saw that Jing Niang was extremely beautiful, he became lustful, and after Jing Niang refused, he actually arrested Jing Niang's family and put her in a prison cell, so as to force Jing Niang to be his concubine.

The next year, Jing Niang gave birth to a baby boy for him, but Jing Niang's deep love for Zhao Kuangyin has never changed, so she named her son Li Shiyin, which means 'Si Zhao Kuangyin'.

In the meantime, before this Jing Niang in order to block the tongue of boring people, once in the Mirror Flower Nunnery outside Puzhou City' monk as a nun, after marriage, in order to avoid Li Jinbiao's endless courtship, Jing Niang returned to the vulgar and became a monk for the second time, and later renamed the 'Water Moon Nunnery' of the 'Mirror Flower Nunnery' for the nun.

And Zhao Kuangyin is precisely the Jing Niang who was found in the 'Water Moon Nunnery' when Jing Niang became a monk for the second time, but at this time, it has been more than ten years since he left!

Speaking of this, the woman saw that Li Hongsleeve had fallen asleep on the side of the bed, so she gently carried Li Hongsleeve to the couch and brought a futon to cover her gently.