Poor ghost love deep

There was a man named Li Ping in the Hangzhou government, who opened a casino and had a great family fortune and reputation. They had a very good relationship with the original scriptures in charge of the criminal law, and the original scriptures always took care of him. Later, the original scriptures was transferred to Jiangxi. The new sentence is particularly strict, destroyed Li Ping several casinos, but also sent to arrest him. Li Ping knew the news in advance, quickly escaped from the city, ready to go to Haining to help.

At that time, Haining was a famous family, and many people named Zhang were officials in the court. Li Ping's daughter also married a scholar in the Zha family. He wanted to deal with the trouble with this relationship. Li Ping rode her horse, not yet to Haining, suddenly under a heavy rain. He temporarily took his shelter in a grass pavilion. After a while, a young man in ragged clothes, carrying fodder, also ran over. He humbly greeted Li Ping. Li Ping talked to him for a while, but then he was relatively speechless. It was getting dark, and the heavy rain had not yet stopped. At that moment, the young man said to him, " Guest, where are you going? The rain is raining hard, it is better to go to my house for a rest and leave again tomorrow. What do you think? Li Ping, she took the horse and left with him.

About a mile away, to the door of a stone yard. There were two or three thatched cottages, very shabby and shabby. The young man tied up Li Ping's horse and sincerely invited him into the door. After entering the door, Li Ping was shocked to see the house, very shocked, did not expect there are such poor people. Then the young man lit the hay on the ground and baked his clothes for him. Li Ping asked him, "What's your name?"Who else is there in the family?"The young man replied," My name is Zhang Sheng, and there is an old mother who is not in good health. She has been sleeping in the backyard room."

With that, Zhang Sheng went into the back room and brought a bowl of porridge to Li Ping, saying, " There is nothing in my family to entertain guests, but only this bowl of porridge. I hope you don't abandon it. Li Ping had been hungry for a long time. When she came over to see that it, it was no porridge or water. There were few grains of rice in it. She was very disappointed. When the clothes were dry, Zhang Sheng asked Li Ping to sleep on her own bed. Li Ping looked, the bed is covered with some dry straw, above only added a bed of broken cotton wool. He slept on it for a long time.

After a short rest, Li Ping woke up before dawn. When he went out, he saw Zhang Sheng sleeping on the door board, not yet awake. Li Ping quickly woke him up and asked why he didn't go to bed. Zhang Sheng replied that there were only two beds at home, so he slept here. After hearing this, Li Ping felt sorry, and asked him what he usually did for a living. Zhang Sheng said that the land rent was too expensive, without farming, so he usually cut firewood and grass and sold it to the city for some medicine and rice. When Li Ping saw her horse in the yard eating fresh forage, she asked Zhang Sheng, Isn't that the forage you went to sell in the city? Aren't you hungry anymore? Zhang Sheng said with a smile, "The guest has an emergency, how can you let him go hungry?"We're used to being hungry for a day or two, and nothing else does that.

Li Ping was very shocked, but the in the mind still some doubt that the other side is not seeking sympathy, so as to silver. After packing up his luggage, he grabbed a handful of broken silver and gave it to Zhang Sheng. When Zhang Sheng saw this, he was frightened and said, " No, no, no, this should be entertaining the guests, but there is no rice at home. I am ashamed of it. How can I accept your money?"After hearing this, Li Ping said," You can go hungry. Do you let your sick mother suffer with you?"Zhang Sheng was very embarrassed and said," In this case, I will ask what my mother means and wait a moment."

He went in and ran out and said to Li Ping, " My mother said that it is rude not to have no good food to entertain guests. How dare you receive a reward from guests? Although we are poor, but the etiquette always can not abandon. After listening to this, Li Ping completely believed in his character and was very moved. When he left, he secretly pressed some silver under the door, then left to Haining affairs. After Li Ping found Zha Xiucai, she soon asked the local official to write to the governor of Hangzhou to plead for him. Li Ping lived in Haining for half a year. After the matter subsided, she told Zha Xiucai and returned to Hangzhou Prefecture. On the way, Li Ping suddenly remembered Zhang Sheng and went by to see him. However, at Zhang Sheng's residence, it was empty and seemed to be abandoned for a long time. Li Ping was very confused. After going in, she saw Zhang Sheng's door board was still on the ground. Open a look, half a year ago he put the silver actually still in the pressure below.

Li Ping hurried to ask the people nearby, where the family had moved to go. The villagers replied that the family was kind and had been dead for a long time. The former owner, Zhang Sheng, lived here with his mother, who had always been sick. His family was very poor, to cut wood and forage in exchange for food and work. Soon after his mother died, Zhang Sheng also died because of poverty and grief. When he died, no one was buried, not even a coffin, so the neighbors buried him behind the house and somewhere with his mother. Look at the mound, the big one is his mother, and the little one is Zhang Sheng. Five or six years have passed in a flash, and the villagers still sigh after talking about it. Li Ping heard more shocked, can not believe that there is such a thing in the world. He appreciated the noble character of Zhang Sheng mother and his son, spent a lot of money to buy a coffin, buried the mother and son two people, built a tomb, set up inscriptions, let posterity admire. Li Ping after this is not want to do harm, returned to Hangzhou to close all the casinos.