【林州茶店民间文艺·第547期】

逯懿小时候的故事

林州市五龙镇（原林县泽下）西蒋村逯姓是村里唯一上千年的家族。逯姓因战乱辗转迁居河北广平郡。至汉魏、晋代，逯姓成为广平望族，后世逯姓皆源于此，其中清朝年间的逯懿就是其中一位。

清廷的科举制度，每三年全国统考一次，即殿试。考上者为进士，录取360名，其中朝廷钦点40名为皇榜进士，状元、榜元、探花包括于40名之内。历史上的进士多如牛毛，五品知州亦是不计其数，那为何逯懿如此出名呢？这要从逯懿的身世和传说谈起。

出林州市区向东南行90里便到五龙镇（原泽下乡）西蒋村，此地即为逯懿出生地。这个孩子生来特别聪明，智力远超同龄人。但有些事让父母担忧，就是在懿身上经常发生许多匪夷所思的事，至今还在五龙一带流传。如在村边有座小庙，每月初五各户必去烧香焚纸、上供鸡鸭鹅禽，如若不去，其家鸡鸭鹅禽就会遭殃，突然暴死。懿刚会走路时，有一次娘去小庙烧香，懿闹着也要跟去，娘便带他同去。娘把供品摆上，虔诚地下跪磕头。懿觉得好玩儿，便也学着娘的样子下跪磕头。这一下跪可不得了，只听“砰”的一声，供奉的神像冒出一股黑烟，庙上的五色旗、神像前的围帐全都散落在地，从供桌后窜出一只黄鼠狼逃命去了。原来这是一只成了精的黄鼠狼，在此兴妖作怪祸害百姓。懿是天上紫微星，何等人物，黄鼠狼哪敢受他一拜。他一来，把妖精吓跑了，从此村上的鸡鸭鹅禽得以平安。

懿当年读书的学堂边有一座牛王庙，牛王爷保佑着西蒋村人畜兴旺。懿放学后，常同小伙伴到牛王庙的供桌上写作业。有天夜里，牛王爷给懿母托梦，说懿在庙里写作业，占着他的供桌，他就得靠边站，无法办公理事，恳请懿挪个地方。懿母便吩咐儿子放学后回家做作业，不要再去打扰牛王爷。

懿刚懂事后，还经常说一些不着边际的话，让父母不可思议。如说自己前世是淇县王庄人，父王福，己王禄，子王寿，门前有一大水池，夏天常下去凫水。池边有棵大皂角树，常上树摘皂角洗衣服用……每当懿说此类话时，父母便呵斥他别胡说八道，而懿却一本正经地说这都是真的：我叫王禄，前世姓王，今世姓逯，是王家祖上及自己积德，做的善事多了，归阴后阎王未让他喝迷魂汤，所以记得上辈子的事。他说的多了，父母便习以为常，只当儿子聪明，会瞎编故事逗二老开心儿罢了。直到有一天，懿把一个六十来岁的白胡子老头领回家，说是他的儿子，让母亲给他做饭吃，父母真是惊诧极了。老人自述是淇县王庄人，爷王福，父王禄，己王寿。父亲王禄临死时在昏迷中断断续续给他说：“我下辈子要去林县西蒋村投胎转生逯懿，有事可去找我……”没等王寿再问，父亲已经断气。六七年后，村上远门本家一地痞无赖“王刺头”找事，硬说王寿的八亩好地是祖上留给他的。王寿明知王刺头是讹他，但打官司又拿不出证据来。走投无路时王寿想起父亲临终嘱托，不管爹昏迷时说的是不是糊涂话，因想不出其他办法，只好前去林县探访碰碰运气。于是王寿便翻山越岭来林县到处寻找西蒋村。西蒋村无重名，终于找到了，进村后又逢人便问谁叫逯懿。逯懿才六七岁，尚未起名号，只有乳名，故村里人告诉他西蒋是逯姓根基，但不知道谁叫逯懿。王寿正在发愁，学堂放学了，几个六七岁的孩子从王寿跟前走过，其中一个小孩停下来说：“瘦猴孩儿来了，跟我回家吧！”王寿一听有人唤自己乳名，还说孩儿，想必此小孩就是父亲王禄转世，便随逯懿到家。懿母试探性地问王寿：“你家门前……”答：“我家门前有一五亩大水池。”又问：“池边……”答：“池边有一棵两人合抱的大皂角树。”父母惊得面面相觑，急忙做饭款待这个白胡子“孙子”。饭后，王寿给父亲王禄说明来历，懿告诉王寿：“咱有地契，在棚蓆的东北角放着，你拿上地契去县找到王县令，与他认个老本家，他定会秉公而办。”王寿遵父所嘱，回家后在自家东北角真的找到地契，又给王县令说明找到地契的经过，王县令很惊诧有这等异事，不敢怠慢，依据地契而断，严惩了王刺头。

逯懿九岁时生了一场大病，不吃不喝在床上昏迷了三天三夜，父母请来良医也诊不出什么病，急得手足无措。三天后逯懿醒过来，说他做了一个噩梦，梦见小鬼把他带到阴间。阎王爷责怪他把前世之事说得太多，泄露了天机，要折他二十年阳寿，并让他喝了一碗很苦的汤（迷魂汤），便昏睡过去什么都不知道了。懿病愈后，再也不记得前世的事，和普通的孩子一样了。

（根据当地民间传说，由五龙镇史志办收集整理）

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Lu Yi's childhood story

The Lu surname in Xijiang Village, Wulong Town, Linzhou City (formerly Zexia, Linxian County) is the only family in the village for thousands of years. The Lu surname moved to Guangping County, Hebei Province due to war. To the Han Wei and Jin dynasties, the Lu surname became a prominent family in Guangping, and the Lu surname in later generations originated from this, among which Lu Yi during the Qing Dynasty was one of them.

In the imperial examination system of the Qing court, the national unified examination was held every three years, that is, the palace examination. Those who were admitted were jinshi, and 360 were admitted. Among them, the imperial court hand-picked 40 jinshi on the imperial list, and the top one, the top one, and the top one were included in the 40. There are so many jinshi in history, and there are countless five grades to know the state. Why is Lu Yi so famous? This should be talked about from Lu Yi's life experience and legend.

Out of the city of Linzhou, travel 90 miles southeast to the village of Xijiang, Wulong Town, which is where Lu Yi was born. This child was born very smart, and his intelligence far exceeded that of his peers. But there are some things that worry the parents, that is, many incredible things often happen to Yi, which are still circulating in the Wulong area. For example, there is a small temple next to the village. On the fifth day of each month, every household must burn incense and paper to offer chickens, ducks, geese and birds. If they don't go, their chickens, ducks and geese will suffer and die suddenly. When Yi was just walking, once his mother went to the small temple to burn incense. Yi wanted to follow him, so she took him with her. The mother put the offerings on the table and knelt and kowtowed devoutly. Yi felt that it was fun, so she also followed her mother's example and knelt and kowtowed. This kneeling was incredible, only to hear a "bang" sound, a black smoke came out of the statue of the gods, the five-color flags on the temple and the enclosure in front of the statue were all scattered on the ground, and a weasel escaped from behind the table. It turned out that this was a weasel who had become a spirit, making monsters and harming the people. Yi is the purple star in the sky, what kind of person, how could the weasel dare to be worshipped by him. When he came, he scared the goblin away, and the chickens, ducks, geese and birds in the village were safe.

There is a Niu Wang Temple next to the school where Yi studied in the past. Niu Wang protected the people of Xijiang Village to prosper. After school, Yi often went to the offering table of Niu Wang Temple with his friends to do homework. One night, Niu Wang told Yi's mother in a dream that Yi was doing homework in the temple and was occupying his offering table. He had to stand aside and could not work as a director, so he begged Yi to move to a place. Yi's mother instructed her son to go home after school to do homework and not disturb Niu Wang anymore.

After Yi just became sensible, he often said some irrelevant things, which made his parents incredible. For example, he said that he was a native of Wangzhuang, Qixian County in his previous life, his father, Wang Fu, his own Wang Lu, and his son, Wang Shou. There was a large pool in front of the door, and he often went to the pool in summer. There was a big saponin tree by the pool, and he often went up to the tree to pick saponin for laundry and take it... Whenever Yi said such things, his parents scolded him for not talking nonsense, but Yi said it was all true: My name is Wang Lu, my surname was Wang in my previous life, and my surname is Lu in this life. It was the ancestors of the Wang family and myself who accumulated virtue. I did a lot of good deeds. After returning to Yin, the King of Hell did not let him drink the ecstasy soup, so He talked too much, and his parents got used to it, just thinking that his son was smart and would make up stories to make the second old man happy. Until one day, Yi took an old white-bearded man in his sixties home and said it was his son, and asked his mother to cook for him. Parents were really surprised. The old man described himself as a Wangzhuang from Qixian County, Ye Wangfu, his father Wanglu, and his father Wangshou. When his father Wang Lu was about to die, he said to him intermittently in a coma: "In my next life, I will go to Xijiang Village, Lin County to be reincarnated. If you have anything, you can come to me..." Before Wang Shou asked again, his father was out of breath. Six or seven years later, the gangster "Wang Zhantou" in the distant family of the village was looking for trouble, insisting that Wang Shou's eight acres of good land was left to him by his ancestors. Wang Shou knew that Wang Zhantou was deceiving him, but he couldn't get any evidence in the lawsuit. When he was cornered, Wang Shou remembered his father's deathbed instructions. Regardless of whether his father said something stupid when he was in a coma, he couldn't think of any other way, so he had to go to Lin County to visit and try his luck. So Wang Shou went over the mountains and came to Lin County to look for Xijiang Village everywhere. Xijiang Village had no duplicate name, so he finally found it. After entering the village, he asked everyone who was called Lu Yi. Lu Yi was only six or seven years old, and he had not yet named himself, only his baby name, so the villagers told him that Xijiang was the foundation of Lu's surname, but he didn't know who was called Lu Yi. Wang Shou was worried, school was over, and several six or seven-year-old children walked past Wang Shou. One of them stopped and said, "The skinny monkey is here, come home with me!" As soon as Wang Shou heard someone call him by his nickname, he also said that the child must be the reincarnation of his father Wang Lu, so he followed Lu Yi to his home. Yi's mother tentatively asked Wang Shou, "In front of your house..." Answer: "There is a large pool of five acres in front of my house." He asked again, "By the pool..." Answer: "There is a big saponin tree that two people hug by the pool." The parents looked at each other in shock and hurriedly cooked for the white-bearded "grandson". After the meal, Wang Shou explained the origin to his father Wang Lu, and Yi told Wang Shou: "We have a land deed, which is placed in the northeast corner of the shed. Take the land deed and go to the county to find the county magistrate Wang, and recognize his old family with him. He will do it impartially." Wang Shou followed his father's instructions and found the land deed in the northeast corner of his shed after returning home, and explained to the county magistrate Wang how he found the land deed. The county magistrate was very surprised by such a strange thing and did not dare to neglect it. He broke it according to the land deed and severely punished Wang Zhantou.

Lu Yi had a serious illness when he was nine years old. He was unconscious in bed for three days and three nights without food or drink. His parents invited a good doctor to diagnose any illness, and he was so anxious that he was at a loss. Three days later, Lu Yi woke up and said that he had a nightmare and dreamed that the little devil took him to the underworld. Yama blamed him for talking too much about his past life, revealing the secret, and wanted to cut him 20 years of life, and made him drink a bowl of very bitter soup (ecstasy soup), so he fell asleep and didn't know anything. After Yi recovered from his illness, he no longer remembered the events of his past life, just like an ordinary child.

(According to local folklore, collected by the Wulong Town History Office)

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