Chapter 365 Yang Dahong

Yang Lian, courtesy name Dahong, is a famous Confucian in Hubei Province. He was talented and pretentious when he was young. After the scientific examination, someone outside the door reported victory. Yang Dahong was eating, with rice balls in his mouth, and asked, "Do you have the name of my Yang?" He replied, "No." Yang Dahong was sad. A mouthful of rice was stuck in the esophagus, which was difficult to take out and very uncomfortable. His family advised him to take the "relic talent" make-up examination, and gathered ten taels of silver for him.

This night, Yang Dahong saw a fairy in his dream and said to himself, "There was an alien on the way. He could treat you, beg him hard, and help him. I'll send you two poems. Remember 'three flutes under the willows by the river, and don't sigh at the heart of the river.'" After saying that, he disappeared.

The next day on the road, I saw a Taoist priest sitting under the willow tree and bowing. The Taoist priest laughed and said, "You made a mistake. How can I cure the disease? It's almost the same to play three songs for you. Take out the flute and play it gently. Yang Dahong remembered the poem in his dream and became more and more convinced that the Taoist priest was his savior. He sincerely begged each other and took out the silver in his arms and gave it all away.

The Taoist priest took over the silver two, but he didn't look at it, and threw himself into Jiang Xin. The silver was not easy to get, so he discarded it like this. Yang Dahong only felt very sorry and couldn't help sighing. The Taoist priest said, "You don't want to give up money? The silver is by the river. Go and get it by yourself. Yang Dahong walked to the river and found the silver. His heart became more and more strange. He shouted, "Is the Taoist priest an immortal?"

The Taoist priest pointed to a direction randomly and said, "I'm not a fairy. The fairy is over there. If you don't believe it, look." Yang Dahong opened his eyes and saw nothing. The Taoist priest laughed, slapped Yang Dahong on the neck and said, "You are too tacky." This beat immediately patted Yang Dahong's throat rice ball and fell to the ground. The rice ball was stained with blood.

Yang Dahong was comfortable all over and recovered. Looking back, the Taoist priest had disappeared.

(Yang Lian, a scholar in the thirty-five years of Wanli, was an important minister in the year of the Apocalypse. He was arrested and imprisoned for impeaching Wei Zhongxian in a written letter, and died of abuse. His deeds are recorded in detail in Those Things in the Ming Dynasty. If you are interested, you can read them by yourself.)