There is an ugly girl named Dong Shi in the east end of the village.
Coincidentally, there was a beautiful girl named Xi Shi in the west end of the village. Such a comparison made Dong Shi look even more miserable.
Dong Shi has heard people in the village say that Xi Shi is beautiful since she was a child, but she has never seen what Xi Shi looks like. She only knows that everyone in the village compares the two and everyone scolds them. Looking at Dong Shi's ugliness.
She is short and fat, has dark skin, and is so ugly that even his father dislikes him. He always yells at her to do this and that, even farm work that requires carrying a hoe, Dong Shi Also take them all. But this still couldn't cover up the contempt and pain caused by her ugly appearance. Her father often beat her to vent his anger. She was strong and not afraid of being beaten, but her father often took it out on her mother, beating her until she was covered in bruises. Her mother cried, and he Just scolded:
Who made your stomach so unsatisfactory that you gave birth to such a thing for me?
Dong Shi’s hands are very skillful. She can embroider any ordinary material into a beautiful dress, but no one thinks she is very good. Women should be born with some needlework. Besides, looking like her, she didn't look like she was ingenious, so she often secretly embroidered patterns she liked at night after finishing farm work.
She also secretly took a job to support her family. She took some materials from the cloth shop and sewed clothes for others. This was a job secretly given to her by the owner of the cloth shop, and she specifically asked that it not be used by others. Know.
She agreed readily. After all, if others knew that she made the clothes, she would probably have no desire to wear them.
The boy in the cloth shop told her that many customers praised her craftsmanship.
One day the boss bought a new batch of linen fabrics, which were blue and green patterns.
After sewing clothes for her customers, she made another set of clothes for herself. Because she was fat, she naturally spent a lot of material, and her boss deducted her wages for three pieces of clothes.
However, the feeling of wearing new clothes was different. Dong Shi felt light all over, and he raised his head and raised his arms when he walked.
In the eyes of outsiders, Dong Shi was a man who walked boldly that day. The blue-green clothes made Dong Shi even darker and uglier, and her confident head raised was only visible to others. Her nostrils.
"Ugly," several children hit her with stones, laughing and shouting: "She wears the same clothes as Xi Tzu."
Several adults on the road also said: She pointed.
She never thought that the dress matching hers would be Xi Shi, or that it was made by her hands.
She returned home and threw the clothes in front of her mother.
Why did you make me so ugly? Why did you name me Dong Shi?
My mother and Xi Shi’s mother were very good sisters. They were both married from other villages.
They ran from the east end of the village to the west end of the village to see each other's embroidery, or the land cultivated by their men. There were always endless topics between the women, such as whether their chickens would lay down today. They had to chat with each other for a long time about such trivial matters as the egg, the neighbor's dog gave birth to a few more puppies, and the man ate eight steamed buns.
Seeing that they had been married for five years, they still had no children. The man was anxious, and so were they. They had tried all kinds of remedies, but there was no movement in their stomachs.
Why don’t we go to the temple to light incense sticks and pray for Guanyin to send her son?
The mother took Xi Shi’s mother and ran all the way to the Guanyin Temple in the city to offer incense to Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Perhaps Guanyin Bodhisattva sensed their sincerity, and six months later they became pregnant one after another.
Xi Shi’s mother said, this is a gift from Guanyin Bodhisattva to both of us. When we give birth to children, regardless of male or female, mine will be called Xi Shi and yours will be called Dong Shi.
Let’s let them be good sisters again.
Dong Shi was born one month prematurely, almost at the same time as Xi Shi.
Dong Shi’s father, who never drank, drank a whole jar of wine. Dong Shi’s mother comforted her father, maybe the child would look better if he was older.
Xishi Niang said that Dongshi Niang was not sincere in praying to Bodhisattva, and asked her to throw away Dongshi and pray to Bodhisattva again.
Dongshi Niang couldn’t bear to lose the child she finally got.
When the full-moon wine was served, everyone in the village went to Xishi’s full-moon wine. Everyone sighed that Xishi was a fairy descended to earth, a true gift from the Bodhisattva. Several people came to Dongshi. , all lamented that the child was ugly.
As Dong Shi and Xi Shi grew up, the gap between them became bigger and bigger, and Dong Shi’s mother and Xi Shi’s mother also gradually stopped contacting each other.
Village East and Village West are not close to each other, and Dong Shi has never seen Xi Shi. She has only heard about Xi Shi from other people's mouths.
In their mouths, Xi Shi is the beauty of heaven, and she should not be called Dong Shi without overestimating her abilities.
Dong Shi really wanted to see Xi Shi.
What does this name that she grew up with look like that is worthy of everyone’s malice?
She secretly ran to the west end of the village and ran to the door of Xishi's house.
Xi Shi was sitting at the gate embroidering. The fish she embroidered was not that delicate, but the picture of her lying there embroidering really looked like a painting.
No wonder everyone thinks I’m so disgusting, Dong Shi thought.
Xi Shi covered her chest and frowned. Her heart immediately ached. She covered her heart and walked home step by step.
The news about Dong Shi Xiaochang finally got out.
Everyone said that Xi Shi’s heartbroken frown was so beautiful. Dong Shi from the village came over to imitate her, and the way she covered her heart and frowned was really ugly.
When this happened to Xi Shi, she just smiled and said nothing.
Dong Shi was in a panic because the news of Dong Shi's imitation reached the ears of Lu Ziming, a scholar in the east of the village.
Lu Ziming is the only person in the world besides her mother who doesn’t think she is ugly. Lu Ziming often reads some poems. Although she doesn’t understand them, she likes to listen to what he says. , because she felt that it was those elegant poems that made Lu Ziming not dislike her.
In fact, Lu Ziming also disliked her very much, but he just thought that such a fool could help him with the farm work.
He was just too lazy to pay attention to him, but she regarded him as gentle.
After Lu Ziming heard that Xi Shi had angina pectoris, he climbed to the top of the mountain to collect medicine, fell to half death, and gave the medicine to Xi Shi. Xi Shi only thanked her and said nothing else.
Dong Shi blamed Lu Ziming for going to collect medicine regardless of his own safety, and muttered to him while bandaging him. Lu Ziming was already annoyed, so he kicked her and said, "It doesn't matter to you whether I live or die. You don't think you're capable enough to imitate Xi Shi, and you don't even look in the bronze mirror to see how much you weigh."
I am not imitating, I am really heartbroken.
Dong Shi was too lazy to explain in front of others, but in front of Lu Ziming, she had to explain clearly.
Stop pretending, you are as strong as a cow, how could you have angina pectoris? Your appearance is not worthy of having the same disease as Xi Tzu.
She had always known that Lu Ziming liked Xi Shi, but she was still very sad after hearing these words.
Xi Shi is going to the palace. It is said that the adults in the palace have taken a fancy to Xi Shi's appearance and want to welcome her to the palace.
The adult gave Xi Shi’s parents a large sum of money. The villagers said that we had never seen so much money in our lives.
On the day Xi Shi left, everyone in the village said goodbye to her, saying that she was a woman from heaven who was destined to be a king.
Dong Shi also went to see her off quietly. Strangely, whenever Dong Shi was close to her, both of them would have angina.
Even God thinks she is not worthy to stand with Xi Shi, Dong Shi thought.
But Dong Shi was very happy. The shadow that had been covering her body for so many years and almost suffocating her was finally gone. No one would laugh at her anymore.
But for some reason, her heart often hurts, the same kind of pain she felt when she met Xi Shi before. She even suspected that Xi Shi didn't leave at all, but stayed near her home. I heard that Xi Shi often suffered from angina pectoris, so the people in the palace searched for medicine for her. Sometimes when people in the village saw her, they would say that she was following Dong Shi's example, and she didn't bother to explain. After Xi Shi left, Lu Ziming married someone else, but Dong Shi was not sad. Everyone in the world didn't love her, and she had long been used to it.
Dong Shi heard that the adult gave Xi Shi to the King of Wu. He heard that Xi Shi was cultivated to be dignified and dignified, just like an immortal, and the King of Wu loved her even more.
For some reason, Dong Shi wanted to see Xi Shi.
The Kingdom of Wu was destroyed.
Xi Shi was at a loss in the chaos, everyone was running away, and no one could care about her.
Seeing a knife chop down, Xi Shi raised her head, only to see Dong Shi gritting his teeth and closing his eyes. Dong Shi hugged Xi Shi, and their hearts ached violently. The two hearts slowly merged, forming a golden light.
They also gradually turned into a ray of light, and the light flow merged into the appearance of connected branches.
Dong Shi said when they were ascending: You must be much happier than me in this calamity!
Xi Shi: Don’t you understand that beauty is also a burden?
Dong Shi: I don’t understand, but being ugly is indeed a sin.
Xi Shi: Your calamity is indeed too ugly.
Dong Shi:......