The whole story of the mysterious story, the four valleys of Donghai Road.

Under the ruling of the fifth generation general Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the civil administration was called "Lu Yuan era" in history, with great economic and cultural development and the gradual rise of the townspeople.

It is said that during this period, there lived an archer named Tamiya Mata Saemon, who was United with his rifle and infantry regiment (the lower official royal family). Because of her poor eyesight, she is inconvenient to work. She intends to let her only daughter, Yan, have a daughter-in-law, give up her position to her son-in-law and retire in seclusion. Unexpectedly, Yan got smallpox. After she recovered, her face was covered with acne scars and there was a big piece on her right eye. Her hair curled up and turned into an ugly girl. Yan was twenty-one years old.

Soon, Matazaemon died of illness. Colleagues want Ayan to adopt a son-in-law in order to succeed Mata Saemon, but for the above reasons, no one wants to adopt a son-in-law. There was a man named You Shi in Gu Xia. He was always eloquent and eloquent, so his colleagues asked him to discuss this issue. And the city said that as long as he gave more gifts, he would definitely find a son-in-law for Yan.

And the city didn't break its word, and really found a son-in-law, a ronin from Zhou She (Osaka and Hyogo), named iemon. Armon was a handsome man at the age of 3/kloc-0. And the city people tricked iemon into taking him to Ayan's house for a blind date. But only Yan's mother came out to deal with it, but Yan was not seen. Ayan's mother said that Ayan was lying in his room because of an acute illness and could not come out to see the guests.

At that time, the samurai class, the concept of marriage was different from that of modern people, just seeking the right family and carrying on the family line. And iemon was a ronin at that time, and he really needed the salary supported by three people at 30 tables of Ayan's family. Thirty meters is twelve stones and one hundred and twenty meters. One person supports 50 meters a day, eight fights with one stone during the year, and three people support five stones and four fights. There are seventeen stones and four buckets. Therefore, although the A Yan family is the royal family of the junior samurai, at least they have the salary and residence provided by the shogunate. The land worshipped by the royal family is about 100 ping.

The two sides negotiated the marriage and decided to hold the wedding in August of that year. The adoption condition was fifteen taels. It wasn't the Ayan family who paid Meng Fifteen Liang, but Meng paid the Ayan family fifteen Liang. To put it simply, iemon bought shares in the "concentric position" of Ayan's family. At that time, family status was a kind of stock, and at the end of the curtain, many ordinary people used money to buy shares of samurai status, so the meaning of "son-in-law" in the samurai world was different from that of businessmen.

Although iemon has heard and told in advance that the bride is not a beautiful girl, anyway, his purpose is not his wife's appearance, but his family status, so he is psychologically prepared. I didn't expect to see Yan's true face on the wedding day and almost fainted. How can there be such an ugly woman in the world? But there is nothing I can do, so I have to bite the bullet and drink the wedding banquet.

After marriage, my mother-in-law and Yan are very good to iemon. The mother-in-law is fine, and the infatuation of the ugly daughter-in-law makes the beautiful man on pins and needles. The following year, my mother-in-law died. After losing lubricating oil at home, iemon can't stand the attention and admiration of ugly women more and more.

At this time, a team leader appeared in the bow and arrow gun group, that is, the boss of iemon, named Ito Kixi. This person has bad rumors, frames colleagues, loves money and bribes, and is very annoying in the group. He has no formal wife, but he has two young concubines. One of them, jen, got pregnant one day. Keesh is in her early fifties. Now he doesn't want to raise children, and the burden is too heavy. He is going to give away the baby in Ahua's belly to others. But giving it to others costs a lot of money.

Thinking about him, he thought of iemon, because he remembered that iemon said he hated the ugly wife at home. So he called Eamon and said to him:

"If you are willing to and peanut children, I promise to take care of you for a lifetime. 」

The two hit it off. Iemon asked Kihee, "How can I break up with my monster? 」

"That's easy. I'll teach you a way." Ji Xi said casually.

From that day on, iemon often spent the night outside, squandered money and pawned clothes or furniture at home without authorization. Not long after, Ayan's family life was in trouble, and Ayan had to leave her only daughter.

One day, Jill sent someone to Yan's house and told Yan to come to Wei's house in the evening. Because Keesh is her husband's boss, Ayan certainly can't refuse to listen. After she went to see Ji, Ji said to her:

"Do you know what your husband is doing outside? Not only did he indulge in gambling, but he also redeemed a prostitute and stayed at her house all day. I have defended him several times so far. In this way, if the practitioners (the top executives of the group) know about this matter, not only the Tamiya family will lose their family salary, but you will also live on the streets. Will you persuade your husband? 」

Yan was ashamed and angry after hearing this. Although she is a little soldier, she has been educated by the Wu family since she was born, and she can't afford this shame. After returning home, the door is still locked. It seems that my husband is going to spend the night at his little wife's house again tonight.

In the next dynasty, iemon came back. He blamed Yan for not being at home last night and wouldn't let him in. In fact, last night, iemon hid in Kihee's house and peeped at Yan's reaction through the paper door. A Yan said that he was summoned by the team leader last night and went to Xixi's home. Iemon didn't believe it, and even punched and kicked Ayan.

Ayan went to Keesh's house and cried, saying that he would complain directly to the spiritual practice. JiXi quickly stop, coaxed to say:

"As Booker's daughter-in-law, you should know that it is not good for you. How does a daughter-in-law sue her husband? Guess what? Why don't you just divorce and work outside for two or three years, and then I'll help you find a good husband. Iemon bought shares in Tamiya, of course, he can't leave Tamiya, but you have to live such a miserable life. what do you think? 」

Keesh managed to convince Ayan that the condition of divorce was to return the clothes that iemon had pawned in the past to Ayan. Those clothes, which were not pawned by iemon and Ben, were secretly hidden in a friend's house. Of course, the divorce conditions can be implemented immediately. In this way, iemon successfully ushered in ahua.

A Yan was introduced by Ji Xi to stay with a royal family and sew clothes for her daughter. Although she still wants to stay in iemon, it's easier said than done, so don't suffer indignities. One day, a man came to see Yan. When his father was still alive, Yan often came to sell tobacco. He said to Yan:

"Miss Yan, you know, married Jixi's aunt Jane at home? Everything that happened when he went to Hudi was a scam made up to get rid of you. 」

After hearing this, Yan suddenly realized that the ugly appearance had now turned into a female ghost hag, and the cigarette seller fled back in a hurry. Ayan also ran out of the gate, and her whereabouts are unknown.

The following year, Ahua gave birth to her daughter, named Aran. Of course, this is Keesh's own flesh and blood. After that, I had three children with Yi Youwei. The Tamiya family lead a stable life. When the eldest daughter was fourteen years old, during Bonner's Day, the family was enjoying the cool in the yard when a woman suddenly appeared at the end of the narrow corridor, calling frequently:

"Armon, Armon, Armon ..."

Called three times and then disappeared. Iemon put three empty bullets in the room to eliminate the disaster. As a result, Yao, who was only three years old at that time, was alarmed by gunshots, and it was useless to call a doctor, so he died. Since then, Tamiya's houses have become strange one after another. Iemon often sees the shadow of a man beside Jen, or wakes up in the middle of the night to find a strange man sleeping beside Jen. Otherwise, when the third son saw his dead sister in the yard, he frequently asked his brother to carry her. My son also had a high fever because he saw his sister's ghost and died a month later.

Next came Ahua, who died suddenly and inexplicably. The second oldest man also died of cholera. In other words, all the flesh and blood of iemon passed away. Eamon had to let her eldest daughter Aran be her son-in-law.

One day there was a storm, lightning and thunder, and the wind blew away the roof of Tamiya's house. Iemon went to the roof to repair it, accidentally slipped and fell to the ground, hitting his waist bone and couldn't move. He lay down for a few days and then died. The heavenly palace family was inherited by aran's husband. But when Aran was twenty-five years old, he suddenly died of illness and her husband was crazy, because strange things always happened in the house. In this way, the shogunate recovered the salary of the Tamiya family, and the Tamiya family broke down.

And somehow, all the people involved, including the Keesh family, died one after another because of the strangeness at home.

Although no one has witnessed the ghost of Ayan, at most, it is the figure of the woman who appeared at the end of the narrow alley of iemon and the Three Calls, but the whole world is talking about it one after another, thinking that this must be the end of Ayan's suicide. Later, people built a "Jade Yan Road and Temple" on the ruins of the Tiangong Courtyard to pay homage to Ah Yan.

About a hundred years later, Tsuruya Nanbei, the fourth generation of 7 1 year-old, wrote The Strange Case of Four Gulls in Donghai Road, which included the legend of A Yan in The Collection of Officials, set iemon as Fan Lang in Chishui, and set A Yan as a girl who became ugly because of drinking poison. Coupled with many social events at that time,/kloc-0 premiered in 825. Later, because this episode was so popular, it became an independent drama.

Up to now, Lost in Four Valley is still one of the representative works of Kabuki drama, one of the representative works of Japanese lost track and the most cinematic story.