The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

(7) Acacia outside the Water Lotus Pavilion

Chapter 44: Water Lotus Pavilion

Bai Nianlang has outstanding literary talent. When he was the county magistrate, he surpassed all the scholars with his literary talents, and he became more famous in Wuxi County. But the secret rumor that he was a"white-eyed wolf" was well-founded. When it reached Bai Nianlang's ears, he became even more furious, and his temperament became more and more violent.

Magistrate Bai was also tired of having an affair with a girl in a brothel. I can't help but miss my first wife Shui Lian. The Shui daughter is a famous beauty from Gusu. As we all know, the beautiful figure of Shui Lian in front of his old age is still as graceful and graceful as a flower and jade, surpassing that of a fairy. But little did he know that twenty years later, Shui Lian would be begging on the street and turned into a beggar. He was old-fashioned, with ragged clothes, a face like a walnut shell, dark and old, with a head full of white hair, holding a cane in one hand and holding a bag in the other Holding the bowl, he said to everyone he met:"Do good deeds, accumulate virtue, and give me a bite of food... If you have something to eat, give me some... Oops, I'm starving to death, please help me." Sometimes he shouted:"Yu'er, are you there? Where? Mom is almost starving to death... I can see you before I die. After I die,I am willing to do so."Bai Nianlang lives in a high-rise and beautiful house, eats delicacies from the mountains and seas, drinks fine wine, wears silk official robes, and uses exquisite utensils. There are maids and servants to wait on him, clothes to stretch out his hands, and food to open his mouth. How could he know A married woman: lives under the eaves or in a dog hole; eats pig and dog food; drinks rainwater; wears rags and no clothes to cover her body; uses a dog beating stick and a dirty soil bowl. There are countless The rich rolled their eyes at her and were often kicked out of the house. In

Bai Nianlang's mind, Shui Lian was still a beautiful fairy. He sent soldiers from the government office to inquire about Shui Lian's whereabouts, but there was no news. Posted The notice had long been knocked down by the wind and rain.

Bai Nianlang thought to himself:"When I left that year, there was a heavy rain... Maybe she came to me... and was flowed into the river... into Taihu Lake... and rushed into the river......went into the sea...went around in the ocean...there was no news and she didn't come to me. She must be dead. I, Bai Nianlang, have become a high-ranking official, and I am a household name. Everyone in Suzhou knows this! When asked, I asked about my dignified Bai Nianlang, who became the magistrate of Wuxi... but she never came to me... she must have gone to the West! Absolutely.! Bai

Nianlang thought to himself again:"It's better to erect a monument and build a pavilion for her to express the intention of the ceremony, right!"...Let’s call the pavilion"Water Lotus Pavilion"!"Bai Nianlang spent one hundred taels of silver and ordered his servants to handle the matter smoothly, one mile east of the"Dongye Temple" where the couple parted. It can be seen that Bai Nianlang is not a wolf-hearted person. People are people, and they must have a heart, and they are not outright bad.

This year, the snow is falling, and County Magistrate Bai has a whim to go to the Xishan Mountains for sightseeing and hunting. The reason is that people who are destined to meet are bound to meet, Bai Nian Lang met Shui Lian again, but no one knew him. It can be said that it is not that the family does not get together!

Magistrate Bai led the Yamen to go hunting in the Western Mountains, shot rabbits with arrows, and killed a few. Suddenly, Seeing that there seemed to be a savage moving in the forest ahead, and the minions had a row of arrows already strung up, and they were about to fire, Bai Nianlang stopped it with his hand and said:"Stop!""He was covered in brocade attire, riding on a tall maroon horse, and sighed:"Alas! Why did you meet a savage! It doesn't look like a wild animal...it has a face, how can the slaves mess around!"The minions gathered their arrows together, put them into their red lacquer quivers, cupped their hands and said,"I don't dare! Magistrate Bai said sternly:"Forget it!" He sighed again:"Savages are also apes... We modern humans are also descended from apes." I have always only eaten delicacies from the mountains and seas. Rabbit meat is not delicious when fed to the dogs in the Yamen! Feed these killed rabbits to the savages!"A group of minions threw the dead pigs carried by the horses to Shuilian. Magistrate Bai then led his men and galloped away.