The old man of the Qing dynasty in the nineties and nines died after buying four maids

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During the Qing Dynasty, there was a strange person in Nantong Prefecture (now Tongzhou District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province). This person is called Liu Weng. He was originally from a county in another province. After retirement, he grew up in his home country and raised his mansion, recruiting servants, and a family, enjoying the joys of heaven and earth in the countryside.

The reason why Liu Weng is a strange person is not because he is wealthy and knowledgeable, but because he has been able to maintain a calm state of mind even though he has passed through the sea. At the age of thirty, he began to indulge in the art of health maintenance, while studying various Taoist classics, while practicing Taoism and vomiting the new Neiqi Qigong, and waiting for Ancient strong gymnastics.

After more than sixty years of perseverance, the old man’s health regimen has reached the level of god and spirit, so the old man is strong and healthy, and his back is straight in his 90s With a steady pace and a red face, he looks like someone in his 50s or 60s. The old man is so long-lived and still so energetic, which attracted the squires of Tongzhou to sigh. Many people are competing to visit the old man, hoping to be directed by the old man for some health-care techniques, and to live as long as the old man.

The old man is very proud to be a man. He ignores the average visitor. Only when the official position is high or the famous literati visits, will he serve a cup of tea and a plate of dried fruit. This is the highest specification. Entertained. However, other people did not feel that the old man, but instead believed that this is the kind of restraint and dignity that the Taoist masters who cultivated at home should have.

Just when people think the old man will cultivate into When the land was immortal, the old man suddenly made a request to his children and grandchildren. The old man said to his children and grandchildren: "I am old, and I feel that my eyes are a little sloppy, and I am looking at things indistinctly, so I want to buy a few maidservants and let them wear bright clothes to keep me eyeful." Dare to disobey the meaning of the old man, and also know that the old man's Taoist art is clear, buying maid is just to serve tea and pour water, waiting for the old man to meditate and burn incense, so he bought four handsome seventy-eight-year-old maid from Yangzhou.

The old man is very satisfied with the four servants Let the four maids live in their own practice room, and they also bought a lot of fine clothes such as fat powder hairpin rings, etc., so that the maids can dress up and wait for themselves to eat and live in their clothes, listening to the Tao. Who knows, just one month later, Liu Weng, the old birthday star, suddenly died of illness.

The children and grandchildren of the old man were surprised because they knew that Liu Weng’s health was always good and he would not die so hastily. When I asked the girl, I realized that the old birthday star Liu Weng did something beyond the relationship between the master and the servant to them. When Liu Weng's children and grandchildren learned of it, they were very ashamed. They believed that four maids had killed their father, and sent someone to drive the maids out with sticks. The maidservants were forcibly beaten and naturally angry. They shook the matter out in a rage, and Liu Weng, the old birthday star admired by everyone, fell into a joke that could not be guaranteed at night.

This story comes from the rare note "Singular Talk". At the end of the article, the author commented: Liu Weng Qingxiu's life, enjoy a prestigious and long life, but he is not guaranteed in the evening when he is near the hundred years old. Breathtaking. In fact, Liu Weng was not really dazzled, but his heart was "spent", so he bought four little maidservants to "seize the eyes", and finally got his life and the reputation accumulated over the years. The old saying: the good beginners are complicated, and the end ones are widowed!