Dou E was wronged
Guan Hanqing [Yuan Dynasty]
(Pretending to be a prisoner and beheading officials on the outside, it is said) It is also a case of going down to prison and beheading officials. The prisoners will be executed today. Officials will guard the entrance of the alley and let passersby walk around. (Jing pretends to be a public servant and plays three drums and three gongs. The executioner sharpens the flag, lifts the knife, and puts the yoke on Zhengdan) (Executioner clouds) Take action, take action. The executioner has been on the execution ground for a long time! (Zhengdan Singing)
Zhenggong Duan violated the king's law for no reason and did not take precautions to be punished. His screams were shocking! In an instant, the wandering soul went to Senluo Palace first, how could it not make heaven and earth complain?
Rolling the embroidered ball, there are sun and moon hanging in the morning and evening, there are ghosts and gods holding the power of life and death, the heaven and the earth can only distinguish the clear from the turbid, how can there be confusion between the thieves and Yan Yuan? Those who do good will suffer poverty and their lives will be shortened, while those who do evil will enjoy wealth and longevity. Heaven and earth are afraid of bullying, but they turn out to be just like this. Earth, you don’t distinguish between good and bad, what is the earth? God, you are wrong and foolish, and you are in vain! Alas, only two tears fell.
(Executioner Cloud) Move quickly, it will be too late. (Singing in Zhengdan)
If the scholar is twisted by the shackles, I will turn to the left or right, and I will close my head and crouch behind when surrounded by people. I, Dou E, have something to say to my brother. (Executioner Cloud) What do you have to say? (Zhengdan Singing) If you go to the front street with hatred in your heart, but if you go to the back street to die without injustice, there is no need to refuse.
(The executioner said) Now that you are at the execution ground, if you have any relatives you want to see, you can ask them to come over and see you. (Zhengdan Singing)
Taotao Ling pitied me for being alone and without any relatives, so I could only swallow my voice and complain in the air. (Executioner Cloud) Don’t you think your parents’ family also has one? (Zhengdan Yun) I have a father who went to court to receive a petition thirteen years ago, but there has been no news yet. (Singing) It has been more than ten years since I last saw my father. (Executioner Cloud) You asked me to go into the back streets just now. What was your idea? (Zhengdan Singing) If you are afraid, you are afraid of being seen by my mother-in-law in the front street. (Executioner said) You don’t care about your life, why are you afraid that he will see you? (Zhengdan cloud) If my mother-in-law sees me going to the execution ground with shackles and a knife, (singing) I will kill him with anger in vain. Brother, I will kill him with anger in vain! I tell my brother, it’s better to go with others when you are in danger. (Bu'er cried when he was admitted to the exam, he said) Oh my god, it's not my wife who is so stupid! (Executioner clouds) Mother-in-law, stay back! (Zhengdan Yun) Since my mother-in-law is here, ask her to come and wait for me to give him a few words. (Executioner said) That woman, come closer, your wife wants to tell you something. (Bu'er clouds) Boy, kill me! (Zhengdan says) Mother-in-law, that donkey put poison in the sheep tripe soup, hoping that it would kill you and take me as your wife. He didn't want his mother-in-law to let him eat it, so he was drugged to death. I was afraid of causing trouble to my mother-in-law, so I poisoned my father-in-law to death and went to the execution ground today. Mother-in-law, on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month during the winter season, there was half a bowl of water rice that could not be burned, so I ate it; the paper money that could not be burned was burned with Dou E. It’s for the sake of your child’s death! (Singing)
Happily, I think about Dou E's gourd ti as a sin, I think about Dou E's incomplete body and head, and I think about Dou E's past and family fate. Mother-in-law, you only look at Master Dou E and have no mother-in-law.
Mr. Bao remembers that Dou E has served his mother-in-law for the past few years. When the season comes, he will lay a bowl of cold syrup as a libation. If you go there and lay some paper money on the corpse of the torturer, it will only serve as a tribute to your deceased child. (Bu'er Crying Section, cloud) Don't worry, kid, this old man will remember it. Damn it, why don't you kill me! (Singing in Zhengdan) Mother-in-law, don’t cry, worry, or complain anymore. This is all due to my bad timing and bad luck as Dou E. I am not clear about it, and I have been wronged. (The executioner is doing the drinking, it goes) Mother Wu, please stay back, the time has come. (Zhengdan Kneeling Section) (Executioner Opening the Flail Section) (Zhengdan Cloud) Dou E sued the prisoner to kill the master. If Dou E is willing to obey Dou E in one matter, he will die without any regrets. (The supervisor said) What can you do? you say. (Zhengdan cloud) I want a clean mat, waiting for me, Dou E, to stand; I also want two feet in white to hang on the flag gun: If I, Dou E, are truly unjust, and the knife cuts across the place, my head falls off, and even a little bit of my blood will be stained on the ground. , all flying on Bai Lian. (The supervisor said) It's up to you. It doesn't matter what you do. (The executioner took the seat and stood for the examination, and asked Bai Lian to hang the flag to attend the examination) (Zhengdan singing)
I, Dou E, am not the one who punished me for playing with children like this. The grievances are not shallow; if There are no spiritual saints who can pass it on to the world, and there is no clear blue sky. I don’t want half a star of blood to be spilled in the mortal world, just hanging on the eight-foot flag and spear. When he looked around, he saw that this was our Chang Hong turning green, watching the Emperor crow the cuckoo.
(Executioner Cloud) What else do you have to say? If you don’t tell Lord Jianzhan now, when will you say that? (Kneel down again at Zhengdan, cloud) My lord, now is the day of heaven. If Dou E is really unjust, after her death, three feet of snow will fall from the sky and cover Dou E's body. (Jianzhan Guan said) With this kind of dogma, you will have so much resentment that you can't even summon a piece of snow, so don't talk nonsense! (Zhengdan Singing)
The second evil is the warm summer weather, not the snowy day; don’t you hear that Feishuang is caused by Zou Yan in June? If there is a cavity of resentment that spurts out like fire, I will definitely feel the iceflakes rolling out of the sky to prevent my corpse from being discovered; I want a plain chariot and a white horse to ruin my life in the ancient wilderness!
(Kneeling again in front, he said) Sir, I, Dou E, died unjustly. From now on, Chuzhou will suffer from drought for three years! (Supervisor Zhan Guan said) Hit the mouth! Then there is such talk! (Zhengdan Singing)
If you want to do something, it is because God cannot expect it, and people’s hearts are not pitiful. I don’t know that God is willing to follow people’s wishes. Why haven't you seen the rain fall for three years? It’s just that the once filial woman in Donghai was wronged, and now it’s your turn in Shanyang County.
This is because the officials have no intention of rectifying the Dharma, which makes the people speechless!
(The executioner is doing Moqike, cloud) Why is it so cloudy right now? (He is doing Feng Ke, the executioner said) It’s so cold! (Singing in Zhengdan)
The evil-tailed floating clouds are my shadow, the sad wind is swirling for me, and the three vows are made clear to me. (Crying department, cloud) My mother-in-law, she waited until the snow fell in June, and the drought lasted for three years, (singing) During that time, Dou E, the innocent soul of yours who died in agony, was revealed!
(The executioner performs an operation, Zhengdan fails) (The supervisor is shocked) Oh, it’s really snowing, there is such a strange thing! (Executioner cloud) I also said that when people kill people, the ground is covered with blood. This Dou E's blood is all flying on the two feet of white practice, and not a bit falls to the ground. It is really strange. (The prison officer said) This capital crime must be unjust. Two things have already come true. I wonder if what I said during the three years of drought is accurate? Let's see what happens next. There is no need to wait for Xue Jing, so just carry his body with me and return it to Granny Cai.
(All in attendance, carry the body)