Notes on Xiaolian

One powerful man, nicknamed Lilanzhzhun, once bought a thirteen-year-old slave girl on the occasion. It turned out that she was not inclined to either music or homework, so he decided to return it to the former mistress. The girl begged not to do this, promised to thank and over time not only learned to sing and dance, but also became an extraordinary beauty.

Soon a passionate love arose between them.

Somehow, in the middle of the night, the beauty quietly disappeared right from the bedchamber. Lee was angry, suspecting a secret love affair. When the girl appeared in the morning, he attacked her with reproaches. I had to admit that she was not from the world of people, but she was not evil. On the last day of each moon, she must appear before the messenger of the god of the earth. Lee did not believe it and the next time he detained the maiden. She slipped away anyway, but, returning, showed him the excised back - she was punished for being late. Since then, Lee was no longer angry. It soon became clear that the virgin was a skilled healer and diviner. When Lee was about to leave for one year on business, she predicted the death of his wife, contention with officials, and resignation. He persuaded her to go together, but she explained that she had no right to leave the place.

Everything happened, as the beauty predicted. Lee returned and they healed together. Since Xiaolian said that in her last birth she defiled herself with vile slander, deceit, slander, mistreated the mistress, seduced the master and was doomed to become a fox as a punishment. Today she repented and begs Leah after her imminent death to go out of the gate, meet a fox hunter and buy from him the one with long purple hair in her ears. This fox needs to be buried according to human rite.

Everything happened, as Xiaolian said. But Lee fulfilled his promise. Since then, the place where he buried his beloved is called Fox Mountain.

Wang Xie - Sailor

Once a young man named Wang Xie from a wealthy family engaged in maritime trade, equipped a ship and sailed with goods to distant lands. They had sailed for a month, when a fierce storm broke out. Soon the ship split in two. Only Wang Xie managed to escape from the whole team.

He carried it by sea for three days, until it was washed to the ground. I crawled ashore, and towards the old man with the old woman, dressed in all black. To Wang's surprise, they recognized him as master and master, asked about what had happened, fed him, warmed him up.

A month later he was introduced to the local sovereign.

Another time passed, and Wang Xie married the beauty, the daughter of an old man with an old woman. They lived together. I learned from my wife that the country here is called the kingdom of Black robes, but why my parents called Wang Xie the master, the wife did not begin to tell him - they say he will find out about everything.

Wang Xie noticed that his spouse is getting sadder every day, he’s foreseeing their separation soon. Indeed, the sovereign command came to return the guest home. In parting, the inconsolable wife gave him a magical potion that could revive the dead, and the sovereign sent a nightmare from bird fluff.

Wang Xie wrapped himself in a nightmare. They ordered him to close his eyelids and not open his eyes to the house, so as not to collapse into the deep sea. Then they sprinkled water from a local lake, and only the whistling of the wind and the roar of the water shafts reached the ears of Wang Xie.

Then everything calmed down. He was at home.

He looked, and on the eave, two swallows whistled sadly. It was then that he realized that he lived in the country of swallows. Homework approached with questions. He told them everything. I noticed that my beloved son is nowhere to be seen. It turned out, with a fortnight, how he died. Then he ordered Wang Xie to open the coffin, put a magic pill - a gift from his swallow wife. The boy came to life at once.

Autumn has arrived. Swallows gathered to fly away. He tied Wang Xie to the tail of one of them, and in the spring received an answer in the same way. But more swallows never flew.

This story has become known. Even the place where Wang Xie lived was called Swallow Lane.

Zhang Hao marries girl Li under flowers

Zhang Hao came from a wealthy and noble family, and he himself was an extraordinary scholar. An enviable groom! Only he did not think about the wedding. He arranged a wonderful garden in his estate, met with friends.

Once in the spring I saw an extraordinary beauty. It turned out to be a young lady from the estate of neighbors, the Lee family. They got into a conversation. Soon we felt a mutual inclination. But the girl did not agree to a secret meeting - only to the wedding. She asked the young man for something to remember. I got poems that I immediately drew to them, singing their meeting.

The matchmaker started negotiations, but things did not go well. A year has passed. Lovers languish without each other. It so happened that the Lee family was about to leave. The young lady said she was sick, she stayed at home, and at night the lovers secretly met in the garden.

A few months later, the girl’s father suddenly received a new job assignment to distant lands. The beauty asked her lover to wait for her return. Two years there was no news. And then Uncle Zhang Hao returned, who, as he learned that his nephew was still not married, immediately started a wedding conspiracy with a girl from a noble family Sun. Zhang Hao did not dare to contradict.

Unexpectedly, the Lee family returned. The young lady learned about the betrothal of the betrothed and reproached the father and mother for their past intractability in their hearts. And soon disappeared. Searched everywhere, but found at the bottom of the well. Barely left. And immediately they sent a matchmaker to Zhang Hao, but he was already connected by a word.

The young lady then went to the council and told about everything. They started to sort it out - it seems that Lee had connected himself with the girl before. And she presented his own poems. So they decided to terminate the engagement with Sun, and to marry the young lady Li.

They happily lived up to a hundred years and gave birth to two talented sons.