“The little monk all thoughts of the dust, I would like to this life converted to our Buddha, green lamp Zen scrolls together, did not think that some time ago the Japanese invasion of Jingnan, the little monk where the red temple temple abbot masters with me and other monks retreated to hide in the valley behind the temple. I never thought that the Red Temple Temple also retreated in the valley, God see pity, the little monk even met ……I met the Wang family sister who became a nun ……Wang family sister even in the near red temple nunnery, really step through the iron shoes without looking for place, suddenly look back that person but in the end of the lights. The little monk’s Zen heart has been confused, greedy for the red dust, made this kind of wrongdoing. However, a thousand mistakes, all the fault lies in the little monk, it has nothing to do with the Wang family sister, please the magistrate big master to punish me alone is.”
The monk knelt on the ground, hands together, kowtowed heavily and begged with tears in the corner of his eyes.
“No, no, what nonsense are you talking about, all mistakes are yours alone, Great Master of the Magistrate, you must not listen to his nonsense by mistake. All mistakes are the little nun’s, it’s the little nun who didn’t abide by the purity precepts and seduced the Liu family’s brother, a thousand mistakes, all mistakes are in the little nun, it’s the little nun’s fault, it’s nothing to do with the Liu family’s brother, I hope that the Great Master of the Prefecture will be clear-sighted and let the Liu family’s brother go, and only punish the little nun alone well.”
The nun heard the monk take all the responsibility onto himself, couldn’t help but get anxious, shaking her head vigorously, before she could say anything, the tears in her red and swollen eyes were already flowing down her cheeks like a river bursting its banks, crying while kowtowing to take the responsibility onto herself all the same.
Eh!
Grabbing the blame?
You guys are showing love in the public hall?
Seeing the two monks and nuns in the hall desperately trying to take the blame, Zhu Pingan could not help but tug at the corners of his mouth.
The onlookers were dumbfounded, they had seen those who shirked their responsibilities, but had not seen those who desperately tried to take the blame on themselves. This pair of wild lovebirds, seems to be a bit different ah.
Zhu Pingan slapped a shocking wood, control the situation, “This official asked you, just now the plaintiff said, they were in the woods private meeting, hugging when they were caught on the spot, but is it true?!”
The nun’s head was so low she couldn’t lift her head.
The monk nodded and shook his head, “Back to the Magistrate, we were indeed caught on the spot by them during our private meeting in the woods, but we didn’t cuddle, we just leaned in and told each other our feelings.”
Zhu Pingan asked the plaintiff, “When you caught them red-handed, were they building hugging together or leaning against each other?”
“Cuddling together, I guess.”
“Leaning together is not hugging together! She leaned into your arms, isn’t that you hugging her? What’s the difference?”
“It was when we shouted and they hastily separated, and we didn’t pay much attention to whether they were hugging or leaning together, but the two of them were together anyway.”
The plaintiff’s crowd returned, not quite sure whether the two were building hugging or leaning together.
Zhu Pingan did not delve deeper into this question and asked the plaintiffs again, “When you caught the two of them on the spot, did they engage in any other misbehaviour? Did they have sex? That is, having intercourse?”
“Not at all. When we caught them, they were just holding each other, and they did not have intercourse. As for whether the two of them had intercourse before we caught them, that we don’t know.”
Rizheng Zhang Dalong returned matter-of-factly.
“Surely not?”Zhu Pingan repeated the question again.
“Definitely not.”Zhang Dalong and the others nodded their heads.
Zhu Pingan sniffed and nodded slightly, meaning that when Zhang Dalong and the others caught the monk and nun on the spot, the two were just having a private meeting in the woods and did not have a relationship, not yet reaching the level of adultery.
“Are there any people from the Liu Family Village at the scene?”Zhu Pingan asked the crowd of bystanders outside the hall.
“Yes, Great Master Zhixian, I am from the Liu Family Village.”
“So is the little one.”
From the crowd of onlookers outside the hall, two people stood out, an older man in his forties and an older woman in her fifties.
“Do you know what happened to the two before they left the house?”Zhu Pingan pointed at the monk and nun and asked the two men.
“Little one knows. The two of them are from our Liujia Village, and there is nothing in our village that we don’t know about the two of them. The two of them are not far from each other, they are also considered childhood sweethearts, and everyone in the village jokes about them. However, the willow lock his father is a poor boy, the family has four walls. Wang Lian her father is a butcher, do not look at Liu lock their family. At the beginning of the year, we heard that Wang Lian’s father had got in touch with the town’s Wang Wenwai, and promised Wang Lian to him as a concubine. When Liu Lock heard about this, he went to Wang Tu Fu and was beaten so badly that he couldn’t get out of bed. Wang Lian vowed not to send, resistance, but strangled hair, ran away from home as a nun, as for which nunnery, we do not know. Liu lock know, also angrily out of the house. I didn’t think that the two were still destined to be together, but even the nunnery and the monk temple where they left home were so close to each other.”
The melon eaters of the Liu Family Village, came out from the crowd and said loudly.
“These two are bitter children ah …….”The oldest lady couldn’t help but wipe a tear from her eye as she spoke.
Next, the old lady a snot and a tear will two people’s things to say again, what a child to watch them both grow up ah, a good book, a good embroidery work, is a pair of heavenly match ah, what the Wang Butcher fell into the eye of the money, even gave his daughter to other people as a concubine, is really lard blinded heart ah, what the locks although the family is poor, but the will is not short ah, the village people see in the eyes ah and so on……
“Cough cough, well Auntie, I know.”
Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but cough, interrupting the damsel’s words, letting the damsel play on, I’m afraid that she wouldn’t be able to finish her speech even at night.
The facts of the case as well as the background, Zhu Pingan had already roughly understood clearly and had a judgement in his mind.
It turns out that the monk and the nun before the two are from the same village, childhood childhood sweethearts, private life, but the woman’s father dislikes the poor and loves the rich, the woman will be promised to the town’s Wang, the woman vowed not to follow, cut hair and left home, went to the Red Temple nunnery. The man was disillusioned, but also angrily left the family, to the Red Temple Temple as a monk. Who knows some time ago the Japanese invasion of Jingnan, Red Temple Village was also affected by the Red Temple Temple Temple and the Red Temple Temple nunnery coincidentally to the valley to avoid the Japanese invaders. This pair of men and women actually met again, so the two of them got hitched, and when they went to the woods for a private meeting this morning, they were unexpectedly mistaken for wild animals by the people of the Red Temple Village, and they crookedly caught them on the spot to the people.
“Alas, I did not expect to be a team of bitter lovebirds.”
“And then bitter life lovebirds, no parents’ order, matchmaker’s words, also can’t woods secluded ah, besides they one is a monk, one is a nun.”
“This is difficult to do oh.”
Outside the onlookers of the melon eating crowd, there was a lot of talk about this, and there was no consensus.
