During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Ye, a merchant from Hunan, did business in Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan). Ye was in his twenties and looked gentle and handsome, but because he was busy with business, he had not yet married. As a businessperson, Ye was indispensable for socializing, so he often went to the place of fireworks and became a frequent visitor to the brothel.
There, Ye met a famous prostitute named Feng Dietui. Feng Dietui is beautiful as a flower, can sing and dance, and is a famous social flower. Ye fell in love with Feng Dietui at first sight. In order to win the favor of beauties, he often spent a lot of money, and eventually went bankrupt because of this, becoming a beggar who could not eat enough and wore warm clothes.
From a wealthy businessperson who leaned on Red Snuggle Cui to a beggar on the street, the gap between this and the beggar was more than a little bit, but Ye did not regret it, because he felt Feng Dietui was a national beauty and a beautiful woman. What's the harm of suffering for a beautiful woman?
In order to have enough to eat, Ye found a job grinding noodles for people and became a grinder, which lasted for several months. Feng Dietui was unaware of Ye's bankruptcy because of himself, and it was not until a chance encounter that he knew Ye had fallen into this.
On that day, Ye wore tattered clothes and was drying wheat outside the mill when suddenly a beautiful woman rode a donkey and passed in front of Ye. The beautiful woman on the donkey's back, after seeing Ye, had a hint of surprise, and then ordered the donkey to hold the reins and get off the donkey's back.
After getting off the donkey, the woman walked to a corner, and then ordered the donkey driver to call Ye to meet him. Ye followed the donkey to the woman, and when he saw the woman's appearance clearly, he was so ashamed that his face was flushed, and he wanted to find a crack in the ground. It turned out that the young beautiful woman of Ye was Muse Feng Dietui in his dream.
Seeing that her former benefactor, Ye, was dressed in ragged clothes and reduced to a helper for grinding noodles, Feng Dietui couldn't help but feel a trace of pity. She said to Ye, "Official, did you fall to this point because you love the beauty of your concubine?" Ye smiled awkwardly, rubbed her hands, and lowered her head without saying a word. Seeing this, Feng Dietui burst into tears, took out two silver taels from her arms, and said to Ye, "These two silver taels, official, take them to bathe and change your clothes, and come back to my place to find me when you clean up neatly."
With that said, Feng Diecui rode away on a donkey. Ye used the two taels of silver to eat a good meal, take a bath, and then bought a set of clothes and shoes, and his whole body looked brand new. That night, Ye went to visit Feng Diecui, who was warmly treated and planned.
Before parting, Feng Dietui took out fifty taels of silver and quietly told Ye, "Officially, take these fifty taels of silver, stay away from this land of wind and moon, go do a small business, and stop working hard for others." Ye took the silver given by Feng Dietui and was very touched.
Unfortunately, after Ye took the silver, he did not leave, but was reluctant to part with Feng Dietui, and soon after he squandered fifty taels of silver. After the money was spent, Ye became a helper again. After another year, Feng Dietui rode a donkey and met Ye again, and Ye was still drying wheat.
This time, Ye was extremely ashamed, and Feng Dietui angrily said to Ye, "Are you still human! Why do you want to let down the good intentions of this concubine?" After saying that, he took out a hundred taels of silver and gave it to Ye, and told Ye, "All my private money has been given to you. If you still miss the brothel, I will definitely hang myself and completely cut off your thoughts." Seeing that Feng Dietui was so loyal to him, but he let down the beauty's painstaking efforts, Ye decided to no longer miss the brothel, and use the hundred taels of silver as capital to try to make a comeback.
You bought some cloth with one hundred taels of silver, and then went to Shaanxi to sell it, getting double the pure profit; after that, you bought some medicinal materials and shipped them to Yangzhou to sell, getting three times the profit; in this way, after three years of trading, you made a net profit of seven or eight thousand taels of silver and became a rich man again.
After Ye made a comeback, he thought of Feng Dietui, who had supported him twice: such an affectionate and righteous woman is the most suitable for marriage as a wife. So he took out a thousand taels of silver, went to the green house to redeem Feng Dietui, and then took Feng Dietui back to their hometown. The two officially married and grew old. Embroidered Dream in History said: "The world is prosperous, all for profit; the world is bustling, all for profit. Feng Dietui was born in a green house, but she can be righteous and generous, affectionate and righteous, it can be said that she is one of the many green house chivalrous girls!"