FENGSANNIANG

 Fan XI Niang, a native of the city, is the daughter of the Minister of the State Scholarship Academy, although young, but looks delicate and beautiful, elegant and worldly. As a result, her parents especially favored her, and let her choose all those who came to ask for marriage; but very few of them caught her eye.

 On the last Yuan Festival, the nuns at the Water Moon nunnery held a "Bon Festival". On that day, many girls went to the party, and Eleven Niang also went to the party. While she was traveling with the crowd, a young girl kept following her and kept looking at her, as if she had something to say to her. Eleven mother turned back to take a closer look, turned out to be a fifteen or sixteen year old beautiful girl, heart quite like her, so also can not stop looking at her. The woman smiled and said, "Isn't sister Fan Eleven Niang?" Eleven Niang said, "Yes!" The young woman said, "I have long heard of your beautiful name, and what people say is indeed true." Eleventh Mother also asked her name and place of residence. The girl smiled and said: "My surname is Feng, the third in line, live in the neighboring village not far away." Two people hand in hand, talking and laughing, gentle and gentle, so the more they talk more and more close, they can not part. Eleven Niang asked: "Why don't you have a companion?" FengSanNiang said: "parents have long been dead, home only an old mom, stay at home to watch the door did not come." When Eleven Mother was ready to go home, Feng Sanniang looked at Eleven Mother, tears welling up in her eyes; Eleven Mother also felt very disappointed, so she invited Sanniang to go home with her. Feng Sanniang said, "Your Highness is a rich and noble lady, and I have no relatives with you, so I am afraid that if I live with you, I will be a source of suspicion." Eleven Niang invited again and again. Third Niang replied, "I will come again to pay a visit at another time." So Eleven Mother plucked off a strand of gold hairpin and gave it to her, and Sanniang took off the green hairpin from her bun and gave it back.

 After Eleven Mother returned home, she always missed Sanniang. She took out the green hairpin presented by Sanniang and showed it to her family: the hairpin was neither carved in gold nor jade, and no one had ever seen such a thing, so they all thought it was very strange. Eleven Mother looked forward to Sanniang's arrival every day, but was always disappointed, and fell ill with sorrow. When her parents found out why, they sent someone to the neighboring villages to look for Sanniang, but no one knew anything about her.

 To the September 9th Chongyang Festival, eleven mother was very sick and thin, deeply bored, asked the maid to help her, reluctantly came to the garden, in the east side of the fence under the mattress, sit down to enjoy chrysanthemums. At this time there is suddenly a woman stepped on the wall to the garden to visit, eleven mother turned around to see, it was Feng San Niang. Only to hear her loudly greeted, "Hey, quickly come to pull me a hand ah!" The maidservant rushed over, and she jumped off the wall with a single bound. Shocked and delighted, Eleven Maiden hurriedly stood up, pulled Sanniang to sit on the mattress, chided her for not keeping her word, and asked her where she had come from. Sanniang said: "My home is far from here, but I often come to my uncle's house to play. Last time I said I lived in a neighboring village, but in fact, it was my uncle's house, after the separation of wanting to think about you want to be very bitter, but the poor and noble people to interact with the feet have not yet boarded the door, the first self-shame, for fear that the maidservants look at it in a different way, so it did not come to be. Just now I passed by outside the wall and heard a woman talking in the wall, so I peeled off the wall to have a look, hoping that it was the young lady, and now I got what I wished for." Eleven Niang told the reason for her illness, and Sanniang, moved to tears, said, "You must keep my visit a secret. Those people who make a fuss over nothing like to talk about long stories, I can't stand it." Seeing that Eleven Niang fully agreed to her request, Sanniang came to the boudoir with her, ate and slept together, and talked about her heart, doubly feeling the pain. Eleven Niang's illness gradually recovered, the two became sisters, clothes and shoes and socks, no distinction, each other to wear. When she saw someone coming, she hid inside the curtain. Sanniang stayed here for five or six months, and Eleven Mother's parents finally heard some wind. One day, the two were playing chess, when Mrs. Fan quietly came in, looked carefully for a while, and said in surprise: "What a good friend of my daughter!" Then she chided Eleven Niang, saying, "Your father and I are happy to have a good friend in the boudoir, why didn't you tell sooner?" And Eleven Niang conveyed the meaning of Sanniang. The lady again said to Sanniang, "I am particularly pleased to have a companion for my daughter, so why hide it from me!" Sanniang blushed with shame, and only fiddled silently with her skirt. When the lady left, Sanniang said goodbye and wanted to go, and Eleven Niang stayed bitterly before she stayed again.

 One night, Sanniang came hurrying in through the door, crying, "I always said I couldn't stay, and now I've really suffered such a great shame!" Eleven Niang was surprised and asked what was wrong. Sanniang said, "Just now when I went out to go to the toilet, a young manly man, brutally stopped me, fortunately I escaped. At this rate, what face will there be to meet people!" Eleven Niang asked minutely about the man's appearance, and said apologetically, "Please don't be offended; that was my foolish brother; later I will go and tell my mother, so that she may teach him a good lesson with a stick." Sanniang insisted on going, and Eleven Niang asked her to wait until daybreak. Sanniang said, "Uncle's house isn't far away, all I need is a ladder to get me over the wall." Eleven Niang knew that she could no longer be retained, so she let the two maidservants cross the wall to send her. After walking half a mile, Sanniang thanked her maidservants and went on her own. The maidservants came back, and Eleven Niang lay on her bed and wept sadly, as sad as if she had lost her lover.

 A few months later, the maidservant had to go to the East Village, and returned home in the evening. On the way to meet Feng Sanniang followed by an old mother walking, the servant girl saw, especially happy, went up to salute greetings. Sanniang was also saddened and asked about Eleven Mother's recent situation with concern. The maidservant tugged on Sanniang's sleeve and said, "Come to my home, Third Aunt! My girl is looking forward to you!" Feng Sanniang said, "Why wouldn't I want her, I just don't want people to know, please go back and quietly open the door to the back garden, I'll go there myself." The maidservant spoke Saniang's words to Eleven Niang. Eleven Niang was delighted, and had just told the maidservant to go and open the back garden gate when Saniang was already in the garden.

 The two were reunited, each said the feelings of longing after parting, full of words, late at night do not want to sleep. Sanniang see maidservant asleep, then get up and come and eleven lying together, quietly said: "I know the girl has not been promised a man, based on your talent and appearance of the family, still worry about not find a husband of the rich and noble family. But those prodigal gentlemen are really not worth mentioning. If you want to get a worthy son-in-law, please don't judge people by their wealth." Eleven Niang was very much in favor of this. Sanniang added, "The Water Moon Nunnery, where we met by accident last year, is going to be a dojo again tomorrow. Please come with me on another trip, and I guarantee that you will meet a man of your choice. I've been familiar with face reading since I was a child, and I won't be wrong."

 Early the next morning, Sanniang left, meeting at the nunnery to wait. Eleven Niang then came to the Water Moon Nunnery, where Sanniang was already waiting. After exploring everywhere, Eleven Niang invited Sanniang to ride with her. The two of them, hand in hand, had just left the gate when they saw a scholar, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a simple cloth robe, but his instrument was very handsome. Sanniang secretly pointed and said, "This is a talent to enter the Hanlin Academy!" Eleven Niang took a slight look. Sanniang bid farewell and said, "Niangzi go back first! I'll be right behind you."

 Toward evening, Sanniang returned and said, "I just visited in detail, and that Xiucai is the local Meng Anren." Eleven Niang knew that the Meng family was poor and thought it was not quite right. Sanniang said, "Your mother is not exempt! If this man is always so poor, I should gouge out my eyes and never again give face readings to the world." Eleven Niang said, "What shall we do then?" Sanniang said, "Please give me a token, so that I may take it and make a marriage contract with him." Eleventh Mother said, "Marriage is a big deal, how can sister be so hasty! There are parents at home, what if they don't agree?" Sanniang said, "I'm doing this precisely because I'm afraid they won't agree. If your will is strong and you put life and death at risk, how can your parents make you give in?" Eleven Mother still thought it was inappropriate. Sanniang added, "Your mother's marriage has moved on, but the trials and tribulations have not yet been removed. I have therefore done this in order to repay you for your earlier kindness to me. I am about to take my leave, so I had to give him the golden phoenix hairpin you gave me under the pretense that it was in your name." Eleven Niang wanted to discuss the matter further, but Sanniang had already gone out and left.

 Although Meng Sheng is very poor, he has outstanding talent and intends to choose a satisfactory partner, so he has not been betrothed at the age of eighteen. On this day, he suddenly saw two beautiful women and went home with some wild thoughts. As the first night was drawing to a close, Sanniang knocked on the door and came in. Meng Sheng lit a candle and recognized the woman he had seen during the day, and liked her very much, asking where she came from. Sanniang said: "I surnamed Feng, is Fan eleven lady's companion." Meng Sheng was very happy, too late to ask, suddenly went forward to embrace her. Sanniang pushed him away and said, "I am not a self-nominated Maosui, but a matchmaker. Eleventh Mother is willing to marry you, so please ask the matchmaker to propose marriage!" Meng Sheng was surprised and did not believe in such a thing. Sanniang took out a gold hairpin and showed it to Meng Sheng, who swore with great joy, "It is rare for her to be deeply in love with me, and if I do not get Eleven Niang, I would rather not marry for the rest of my life." After hearing this, Sanniang said goodbye and left.

 Early the next morning, Meng Sheng asked an old lady from the neighborhood to go to Mrs. Fan's house to make a match. Mrs. Fan, who disliked Meng Sheng's family's poverty, refused immediately without consulting her daughter. When Eleven Niang learned of this, she was greatly disappointed and blamed Sanniang for holding her back. But the hairpin was hard to get back, so she had to die without marrying.

 A few days later, a gentleman proposed marriage for his son, and fearing that the matter would not be accomplished, he asked a county official to act as a matchmaker. At that time, that gentleman was very powerful, and Fan Gong was afraid of him in his heart, so he asked Eleven Niang's opinion, and Eleven Niang was very unhappy. When her mother asked her why she was not happy, she did not say anything, but kept shedding tears. She asked her maid to tell her mother secretly that she would marry no one but Meng Sheng! When Lord Fan found out, he was so angry that he agreed to marry his daughter to a gentleman's family without regard to her wishes. He also suspected that Eleven Niang and Meng Sheng had been having an affair for a long time, and wanted to choose a good day for her to get married as soon as possible. Eleven mother was so angry that she did not eat or drink, just lying in bed every day. The night before the wedding, Eleven Maiden suddenly got up and looked in the mirror to dress up. Madam could not help but be secretly happy.

 But after a while, the servant girl suddenly came and said, "Miss has hanged herself!" The whole family was shocked at first, and then they cried. But it was too late for regrets. The body was buried after three days.

 Meng Sheng had been very angry since he had failed to ask his neighbor's old woman to matchmaking; but he still poked around, dreaming that he could save the marriage. Then he heard that Eleven Niang already had an in-laws, immediately anger burning heart, his ray of hope is also completely destroyed. Soon, he also heard that the eleven niang seeks short death, the death of jade, heart like a knife, hate can not die with her. In the evening out of the door, intended to take advantage of the darkness of the night to eleven mother's grave to cry. Suddenly, there was a person across the street, and at a closer look, it turned out to be Feng Sanniang. She said to Meng Sheng, "It seems that your good marriage can be accomplished!" Meng Sheng said with tears in his eyes, "Don't you know that 11th Mother is dead?" Sanniang said, "It is because she is dead that I say it can be done. You quickly ask your family to dig up the grave, and I have magical medicine that can make her wake up." Meng Sheng followed Saniang's words, dug up the grave, lifted out the body, and filled the grave again. Meng Sheng himself carried Eleven Niang's body home with Sanniang and placed her on a bed, where Sanniang fed her medicine. After an hour, she awoke and, seeing Sanniang, asked, "What place is this?" Sanniang pointed to Meng Sheng and said, "This is Meng Anren huh!" So she told her the cause and effect, and only then did Eleven Niang wake up as if from a dream.

 Fearing that word would get out, Sanniang led them to hide in a mountain village fifty miles away. Sanniang wanted to say goodbye to them, and Eleven Niang cried and kept her as a companion, letting her live in another courtyard. Eleven Niang sold the jewels and jades from her martyrdom and used them to make ends meet, and she lived quite well. Whenever Sanniang met Meng Sheng, she avoided him. But Eleven Mother said calmly, "The friendship between us two sisters is not comparable to that of flesh and blood. It's just that it's hard to be together for a hundred years. I think it would be better to follow the example of E Huang and Nü Ying and marry Meng Sheng together." Sanniang said, "I have been given the secret of spitting for health since I was a child and expect to live forever, so I am unwilling to marry." Eleven Niang laughed and said, "There are as many longevity techniques circulating in the world as there are hairs on the ground, but who has ever seen any of them work?" Sanniang said, "What I got is not what the world knows. What is passed down in the world is not the true technique, only Hua Tuo's Five Birds Diagram, there is still a bit of a spectrum. Anyone who cultivates is just letting the blood and qi circulate. If you get the qi reversal hiccup syndrome, you will get well if you do the Tiger Exercise, isn't it very effective?"

 Eleven Mother secretly made a plan with Meng Sheng to pretend to go out of town. At night, Eleven Mother set up a banquet and forced Sanniang to get drunk, then let Meng Sheng sneak in to share a room with Sanniang. When Sanniang woke up, she said, "Sister, you've done me a great disservice! If I hadn't broken the color precepts, I could have ascended to the first heaven when I finished my cultivation. Now that I've been trapped, it's my destiny!" After saying this, she got up to take her leave. Eleven Niang professed her sincerity and bitterly begged her forgiveness. Sanniang said, "To tell you the truth, I was originally a fox immortal. When I saw your beautiful face, I suddenly fell in love with you, and it was like a cocoon that made me fall into this kind of thing. This is also a love demon, it is not humanly controllable. If I stay in your house again, the love demon will further haunt me, and then it will be endless. Your blessings are still great, please cherish yourself." After saying this, he disappeared. The couple marveled for a long time.

 After a year, Meng Sheng in the township examination in the lift. Later, he won the examination and became a scholar and a Hanlin. Took the name card to see Fan Gong, Fan Gong and shame and regret, do not want to meet. He was so ashamed and regretful that he did not want to meet him. Meng Sheng went in, using the son-in-law to worship his father-in-law's etiquette to worship him. Duke Fan was infuriated and suspected Meng Sheng of deliberately teasing people with his light attitude. Meng Sheng invited Fan Gong alone to one side and told him in detail what happened, but Fan Gong still did not believe it; he sent his family to inquire at Meng's home, and was pleasantly surprised, and secretly warned Meng Sheng not to publicize this incident for fear of disaster. After two years, a gentleman for the crime of bribery, father and son were enlisted to the remote areas outside the Shanhai Pass. At this time, eleven mother dared to go home to visit her family.