Pan Cun Fortune _ Pan Fortune-teller

The allusions of tracing people thousands of miles in ancient times.

Looking for relatives for ten years,

Suffered from wind, rain and hardships.

Fu Yun returned to his hometown,

Both mother and brother do the same thing.

Pan Wu, whose word is related to the peak, is a noble master of this city. Father Shu Jing, in the 19th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1680), went out for business, and his eldest son Yu Xing was only seven years old. Three months after his father left home, his second son Pan was born. His wife, Ye's family, is spinning and weaving at home to maintain their family life. They have worked hard to raise their two sons, but there is no news of her husband, and his life and death are uncertain.

Pan Wunian made up his mind to find his father when he was young, but because his family was poor and lacked travel expenses, he could not travel far. In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709), Pan Wu, at the age of thirty, decided to go out to find his relatives. Before leaving, he entrusted his mother to his brother's care, asked the county government to issue an access certificate, and then left with simple luggage, embarking on a difficult and long road to find his father. He walks during the day and lives at night, without stopping his feet. Winter goes and spring comes, and the carry-on expenses are spent. On the way, people have to tell fortune to meet the needs of accommodation and food. Although life is bitter, his ambition to find his father has never wavered, and his determination has never changed. In the past ten years, Pan Wu has traveled all over Wu, Chu, Thailand and Shu provinces. He has never heard from his father, but he is not discouraged, does not look back, and keeps looking.

One day, Pan Wu met Yang Fuxian, a guest of Chu State in Yazhou, and told him that he had been in contact with his father. During the conversation, I also learned that my father changed his name and surname, married a Qin woman and started another family. He traveled in Shu and now lives in Jianchang. He was very surprised to learn the news. After bidding farewell to Yang, he immediately crossed the river and arrived in Jianchang. Knowing that my father went to Lizhou again, I was afraid of missing the opportunity and quickly caught up with Huili. After several inquiries, the father and son finally met, and the two embraced and cried. Father was a young man when he went out, but now he is an old man. Father and son decided to go home together.

On the way home, Pan Wu tried his best to take care of his father's life. After all, my father is old. When they went to Lizhou, they couldn't stand the hardships of the long journey. When they suddenly fell ill and could not move on, they had to stop at the local inn for medical treatment. However, after living in Lizhou for three years, my father died in September of the sixty-first year of Kangxi (1722). Pan Wu had no money to buy a coffin, and his heart ached because his father couldn't survive in his hometown. The sad scene touched passers-by It coincides with the Governor's trip to Tibet via Lizhou. Knowing the situation, he felt pity, summoned Pan Wu, praised his filial piety and gave him 40 taels of silver. Local officials in Yazhou and other places also generously donated money, so Pan was able to buy the coffin and help it to be transported home, and finally realized his long-cherished wish of finding his father to go home.

It never rains but it pours. When Pan Wu came home, it was a bolt from the blue. He saw the bodies of his mother and brother. Pan Wu endured tears and buried his relatives one by one.

When his father was seriously ill in Lizhou, his married wife and children came from Hanjiang. Pan Wu warmly received them, took them back to their hometown, regarded them as their first mother, and later married their siblings to let them get married and do their duty as big brothers.

Pan Wu's filial piety to find his father has always been well-known in Meili area.

Excerpt from "Zhenmen Town Records"