Legends and allusions: the legend of Cao E's injustice

Earlier, Cao E Temple was very small, and there was only one goddess Cao E in the temple.

One day, someone was hiding under the shrine of Empress Cao E, and heard the footsteps coming from outside. He was so scared that he made many wishes and told me, "Empress and Bodhisattva will help me out, and I will definitely rebuild the temple when I get out of the mountain."

After that, the man heard the sound far away outside, settled down and fell asleep in a daze. He dreamed that Cao E said, "Take off my underwear, go to the pawnshop as two hundred and twenty pieces of silver, and come to Beijing in the future, and everything will be fine ..."

When I woke up from my dream, it was already five o'clock. The man didn't dare to stay long, so he took off her underwear and left, just as the queen told him in her dream.

This young man is called Shen Hongkui, and he is a local. His parents died when he was a child, and he made a living by begging. On this day, I tried to change my clothes and wanted to eat a bowl of rice, but I was chased and caught. On that day, he went to the pawnshop to make underwear, and was startled by Chaofeng. It turned out that he also had dreams. He asked himself how much he wanted to be. Shen Hongkui said "two hundred and twenty", but Chao Feng paid as he said without saying anything.

Shen Hongkui arrived in Beijing, which happened to be the deadline for the emperor to arrest eighteen thieves. Seventeen were arrested and one is missing. The fast catcher is worried that he can't do anything. As soon as he saw Shen Hongkui, a ragged foreigner, he seized it no matter what was right or wrong.

The next day, an imperial edict: ask at the noon gate. Shen Hongkui was stripped of his coat and tied to the gate of Wumen Courtyard. He kept saying, "Empress, Empress, you asked me to go to Beijing. Now that I have been wronged, why don't you come and save me? "

There were many people watching at that time. One of the stands was hung with a bamboo curtain, and Otome sat in it. When I heard someone calling the empress, I lifted the curtain, but I couldn't help laughing. It turns out that all the prisoners are naked, but Shen Hongkui is golden and white, just the opposite of her. The fortune teller said that she was a "jade vase covered with gold". Accordingly, the prisoner is a "jade bottle covered with gold".

The judge heard Shen Hongkui asking the Queen for help, but the Queen Otome lifted the curtain to see him. I guess there must be a reason. Besides, he was the last one to be caught, so he asked Shen Hongkui to leave him and give this feeling to the emperor. Just as the queen mother got the news, she called Shen Hongkui "laughing marriage".

Shen Hongkui recruited the attached horse, thinking about the unfulfilled wish of Cao E Temple, and was in a hurry. An old minister had an idea. Early this morning, she cried to the emperor that Xu bullied her. Seeing that his hair was unkempt and his clothes were ragged, the emperor was furious and ordered Xu to be beheaded. Ministers said, "It is common for couples to scold each other in bed. Besides, if we behead Xu, the empress will be expelled from the army ... ". Where is the exile? Another minister said: "send him to the frozen and hungry!" "

When the emperor pushed the boat forward, Shen Hongkui took enough gold and silver to Cao E to build and expand the Niangniang Temple.

After a year or so, I missed Xu and went boating to see Cao E. Shen Hongkui is fishing. When he heard that Otome swam to the shore in a dragon boat, he threw down his fishing rod, rushed to the dock and jumped on the dragon boat. Seeing that he was an ordinary man, the guards on the ship let out a cry and killed him with a knife. When Queen Otome came out, it was too late.

After Shen Hongkui's death, Cao E built a "Shenjiatai Gate" for him next to the Pian Temple of Niangniang Temple to commemorate his achievements. This gate is still there today.