There is a scholar named Luo Sheng in Zhucheng, Shandong. He is sensitive and eager to learn, and he cannot read books. At a young age, he became famous in the Sifang countryside for his literary talent and poetry.
On this day Luo Sheng went out to visit friends, and the evening began to return. On the way, a sudden gust of wind blew, the haze was dense, and the rain poured down. In this secluded wilderness, there are no villages or families, where can I hide from the rain? Looking around in a daze, he saw a small pavilion not far away through the misty rain curtain, and he flew to the pavilion.
When he entered the pavilion, he saw a young woman hiding from the rain there. The young woman had a graceful and moving manner, and her eyes flowed like a spring under her slender eyebrows, which caught the soul. Although Luo Sheng was an upright gentleman, he usually kept his body like a jade, but he was not a stone. In the face of such a fairy-like person, his heart was pounding. In his wild thoughts, a sentence from the Forty-Two Chapters Sutra suddenly appeared in his mind: "If it is not a husband and wife, you should have a heart of respect and respect for all women, and you should not have a heart of vice and contempt. When you see an older woman, you should treat it as your own sister; when you see a younger woman, you should treat it as your own sister, and when you see a young girl, you should treat it as your own daughter." Luo Sheng's surging heart was calmed down by the warning of this sentence, and he sat upright in the pavilion, closing his eyes and watching his heart.
The woman also noticed that someone was coming from the pavilion, and when she saw that it was a young scholar with beautiful eyebrows, she was afraid that something would happen to her, and she didn't feel embarrassed. But to her surprise, this gentle Confucian student did not even look at her in this desolate garden pavilion with a long and inhumane twilight. The woman felt very strange and thought to herself, "How many men stop and look back when they walk down the street like me on weekdays, but this young student in front of them turns a blind eye to me. Is there really that Yanagami Hui who can sit still?" Looking at the Confucian scholar sitting there with a heart like a still water and a clay sculpture, he looked stupid and stunned, and couldn't help but laugh softly.
When Luo Sheng was sitting cross-legged in meditation, he suddenly heard the woman smile like a beautiful warbler, but she was also affectionate, mistakenly thinking that the young woman was interested in him, and the original calm heart lake appeared in circles and ripples, and some of them could not hold themselves back. Between the righteous and immoral, Luo Sheng suddenly remembered the teachings of the sages: "From the beginning of this lustful heart, things that are unscrupulous, immoral, and greatly immoral will follow! And if this lustful heart is turned, things that preserve the reputation, benefit the morals, and move people will also follow suit! The key to being a man or a beast is all here, so how dare you not wake up seriously?" In this way, the fire of lust was once again extinguished by the cold water of reason.
Night had fully fallen, the torrential rain was still crackling non-stop, the cold wind was blowing into the pavilion from all directions, and both of them felt the cold air invading their bones, and they couldn't stop shivering. Both of them thought in their hearts: "If two people can cuddle with each other on such a miserable and rainy night, wouldn't it be able to dispel the chill and increase some warmth?" When Luo Sheng thought this way, he felt that such an idea was too dangerous. The idea of hot pot hell should not be eradicated immediately! He thought: "Jiayan Shanshu's warning can only be suppressed for a while, and the night is long. How can we not stop lustful thoughts for a long time? Is there a better magic weapon that does not stop lust? Yes, yes. "Luo Sheng suddenly remembered the four senses method that an old monk had taught him, so he closed his eyes and sat quietly, temporarily practicing the four senses meditation method.
Luo Sheng gradually entered the cool and comfortable, beautiful and ethereal Zen state in the practice of the four senses, and was no longer interested in the young woman around him.
The two sat until dawn, never saying a word. At this time, the shower stopped, the storm gradually subsided, and a bright dawn shone on the earth through the clouds. After the rain, the earth was silent and peaceful, just like Luo Sheng's clear heart, Luo Sheng and the young woman left the pavilion and returned home in a quiet atmosphere.
The husband of the young woman, Li Yong, saw that his wife had not returned to visit his aunt all night, and was waiting anxiously, thinking that his wife did not know whether she had stayed at her aunt's house or encountered something unexpected. As soon as he saw his wife enter the house, he asked eagerly, "Why did my wife not return for one night?" Did you stay at my aunt's house?
The woman said, "Yesterday at dusk, I wanted to go home. I didn't want to encounter this rainstorm, and I didn't rest all night. Fortunately, I met a pavilion in that desolate suburb, so I stayed in that pavilion all night."
"My wife has suffered. Seeing that you are shivering from the cold, I will go get a jacket and put it on with you."
"The concubine met a young scholar in the pavilion. At first, I was afraid of trouble and had a precaution against it. I did not want this scholar to be such a rare gentleman, sitting upright all night and turning a blind eye to me. It's really admirable!The woman took a breath and continued.
Unexpectedly, Li Yong suddenly changed color after hearing this, his blue veins jumped violently on his forehead, and he said in an extremely depraved manner: "Bitch, in such a turbid world, how can there be such a pure and self-disciplined gentleman? You spent the night alone in that desolate garden pavilion, and no third person saw it. If you say you didn't do that shady thing, who would believe it?"
The woman didn't expect her husband to say such a thing, and argued with tears: "Not only did the concubine not do anything against the woman's way, but she didn't say a word all night. How could my husband be so suspicious, wronged me not to say it, and humiliated the scholar's innocence!"
"Bitch, stop quibbling, no matter how heavy the rain is, you should go home in the rain! What kind of decency is it for a woman to spend the night with a man in that pavilion?Li Yong insisted that his wife and Luo Sheng had done the unclear thing, and wrote a letter of divorce in anger, sending his wife back to her mother's house. The woman was indefensible, so she tolerated humiliation and returned to her mother's house with tears.
In the autumn of this year, Luo Sheng participated in the township examination. Although he was well-read and quick in his poetry, he was too weak due to excessive use of his brain, so when he was writing for the exam, he was actually exhausted due to mental weakness, and the exam was very unsatisfactory. When the examiner was marking the paper, he felt that his article was mediocre and decided not to accept it, so he placed his article in the waste paper.
Unexpectedly, the next day, when the examiner was sorting out the test papers to be admitted, he found that Luo Sheng's article was still in it. The examiner was very surprised, and after reading the text, he still felt that it was not standard enough, and then placed it in the discarded paper. When he wanted to present the acceptable test papers to the examiner later, he found that Luo Sheng's test papers were in it again. The examiner was a careful person, and thought that there must be some reason for it, so he put the test papers aside for the time being.
When the night was quiet, the examiner was thinking about the strange things of the day, and he couldn't sleep for a long time. Suddenly, he smelled a strange fragrance all over the room, and the room was as bright as day. I saw a white-clothed man arrive and said kindly: "This Luo Sheng is a well-learned man, but because he was too tired, he couldn't be as good as he wanted for a while. His conduct is noble and frank, and he can be a model for the world, so God can't bear to give it up, so I recommend it to you!The examiner suddenly realized, kowtowing and saluting, "Thank you Bodhisattva for your guidance!" When he looked up, the white-clothed man was gone.
The examiner thought that Luo Sheng must have accumulated some sinister virtues to be blessed by the heavens, so he recommended his exam papers to the examiner, and he was ranked among the seventy and entered the gold list.
After Luo Sheng passed the exam, one day he visited the examiner with all the middle-ranking candidates. It happened that the husband of the young woman also took the exam in the same year and was also sitting at the same time. The examiner hosted a banquet for them, and the conversation was very speculative. During the dinner, the examiner asked Luo Sheng: "Sir, I don't know what kind of virtue has accumulated. I wanted to put your exam paper in the invalid paper several times, and I was blessed by the Bodhisattva several times and automatically put it in the admission paper again?Luo Sheng thought about it and said: "I did not accumulate any good deeds the next day, only once when I hid in the rain in the night pavilion, I saw that my color was not messy, and I felt a little relieved in my conscience!" Then he recounted the situation from beginning to end in detail. The examiner listened and couldn't help but respect Luo Sheng. Li Yong, who was sitting there, suddenly changed his face, feeling both ashamed and remorseful. He was ashamed that he should not treat a gentleman as a villain; he was remorseful that he should not divorce his wife rashly. He quickly stood up and made a deep bow to Luo Sheng: "Brother Luo, I was wrong, I am deeply ashamed! The woman Luo met that rainy night was Zhuonei. When Zhuonei returned home and told me about the situation that night, I did not believe that there was such a noble person in the world. After a moment of misunderstanding and anger, he suspected his wife's infidelity and sent her back to her mother's house. After listening to Brother Luo's account just now, I knew that Brother Luo and my wife were indeed innocent. Now, I can only deeply repent for the recklessness of the past and apologize to you!" After saying that, he fell to the ground and bowed to Luo Sheng three times.
The examiner was surprised to see the two parties meet in their own home, and said to Li Yong: "Now that your wife's innocence has been proved, the misunderstanding has been cleared, why don't you quickly take your wife home and reunite!" Li Yong nodded and said yes.
After returning home, Li Yong bit the bullet and came to the Yue family with a face of shame, begging for the forgiveness of the Yue family and his wife, and took his wife back home. Li Yong not only took the exam this time, but also accidentally met Luo Sheng, which proved his wife's innocence and was reunited. Therefore, the whole family was beaming with joy and lights, and the table was full of precious dishes and jade dishes to celebrate the two sides. Because they admired Luo Jun's high wind, they decided to invite Luo Jun to a banquet to show their respect.
Luo Jun was invited to the Li mansion for a banquet. Li Jun's younger sister, with a graceful appearance and elegant bearing, was as moving as a jade tree in the wind. She was twenty-nine years old and still waiting for words. She admired Luo Jun's character, and peeked at Luo Jun's handsome, elegant and extraordinary style behind the bead curtain. She suddenly fell in love and expressed her willingness to marry Luo Jun to her brother.
From then on, Luo Li and his family were forever close to Qin Jin.