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The Story of Le Yangzi's Wife (in vernacular)

Le Yangzi's wife in Henan Province was the daughter of an unknown family.

Le Yangzi once walked on the road, picked up a piece of gold and went home to his wife.

The wife said: "I have heard that aspirants do not drink water from stolen springs.

A clean man does not accept food casually given by others.

Not to mention picking up the lost things of others to gain advantage.

Is this not a stain on honor?" Le Yangzi was so ashamed that he threw the gold into the wilderness and thus traveled to a distant place to learn from his master.

When he returned home a year later, his wife knelt by the loom and asked him what happened. Le Yangzi said, "I've been away for a long time and I'm homesick.

Nothing else." Le Yangzi's wife decisively took a knife and cut the cloth.

She said, "This cloth is made by the silkworms' cocoons.

Slowly, it accumulates from a thread to an inch, and then weaves it down inch by inch to become a ten-foot-long cloth.

If you interrupt this process of weaving today, you lose the chance of success and waste time.

A gentleman accumulates learning when he knows something new every day to accomplish good virtues.

If you go home in the middle of the day, how is it like interrupting this weaving?" The Goat was y moved by her words and deeds.

He went back again to continue his studies, and so did not return home for seven years.

The wife often served her mother-in-law herself diligently, and often brought food to the son of the sheep.

(The above part is basically the same as what we learn in modern secondary schools.

The following is the concluding part of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty / Volume 74 / Biography of a Lie Daughter.

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Once when some other people's chickens ran into the vegetable garden, the mother-in-law secretly killed them and cooked them for dinner.

The wife of Lok Yangzi was confronted with the chicken not to eat but to weep.

The mother-in-law wondered why.

She said, "I am sad that my family is so poor that I have to eat other people's chicken." The mother-in-law was embarrassed and had to discard the remaining meat.

Then some robbers tried to violate Le Yangzi's wife.

So they abducted her mother-in-law.

Le Yangzi's wife heard the noise and came out with a knife.

The robbers said, "Put down your knife and listen to me so that your mother-in-law may live.

If you don't listen to me, you will kill your mother-in-law." Le Yangzi's wife looked up to the sky and sighed, took the knife and killed herself.

The robbers were probably frightened by this tragic scene and did not dare to kill her mother-in-law.

When the governor of Henan heard the news, he immediately arrested and killed the robbers.

And gave Le Yangzi's family precious cloth.

He also gave Le Yangzi's wife a grand funeral, and gave her the title of "Zhenyi" (Chingyi).

It means "chaste and righteous".

The story of Le Yangzi's wife is a marvelous one. Seeing that she inspired her husband by weaving a cloth as a metaphor for learning, people were amazed at her motivation; seeing that she preferred to die rather than be defiled by thieves, people respected and admired her spirit, and sighed in regret for her.

Although this may be an overly idealized character, her story has touched generations of readers.