Once upon a time, there lived a family in the east end of Tianjin City, and the family took in a "reunion daughter-in-law."
The so-called "reunion daughter-in-law" is a child bride.
This family treats the child bride very harshly.
Not only does she not have enough to eat or wear, she also forces her to do a lot of hard work every day.
There are several large water tanks in the yard.
When there is no water, the child bride is left alone.
Go and pick, and if you are dissatisfied, you will be beaten severely.
One winter morning, it was freezing cold in the twelfth lunar month, and the child bride went to the river to fetch water as usual, wearing thin clothes.
However, she never thought that the water on the river was frozen, and the child bride spent a long time trying.
But she couldn't get through the ice hole.
When she saw that she couldn't get out the water, she couldn't help crying anxiously by the river.
At this time, a man on horseback passed by the river and saw a girl in a thin peasant shirt crying by the river, and came over to ask why.
The child bride told the whole story with tears in her eyes.
The horseman nodded after hearing this, took out a small riding whip about a foot long from his arms and gave it to the child bride, and said to her: "I will give this to you.
When you need to fetch water, you can do it."
Shake the riding crop in the bucket, and the water in the bucket will naturally be full, but you must be careful, this is a The treasure cannot be seen by others.
If it is leaked, there will be trouble."
The child bride took the riding whip and shook it in the bucket.
The water was really full.
She immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the horseman, but she picked up her head to say thank you.
When he arrived, the man had long disappeared, and then he realized that he had met the Xian family.
From then on, the child bride went out with a bucket every morning.
After walking a short distance, she shook the bucket with a riding crop, and then carried the full water home.
This made it much easier.
But after a while, her mother-in-law noticed that she was carrying water much faster, and she couldn't help but become suspicious.
One morning, when the child bride went out carrying a bucket, her mother-in-law followed her.
When they got to a place not far from home, the child bride just took out her riding crop and swung it in the bucket, when her mother-in-law suddenly came out from behind her and shouted: " What are you doing?"
The child bride was unprepared.
When her mother-in-law called her, she immediately panicked.
As soon as she let go of her hand, she dropped the riding crop into the bucket, and suddenly the bucket kept pouring.
When the water came out, it looked like the eye of the sea.
Soon the whole street was covered with water.
The water kept rising.
The mother-in-law was so frightened that she screamed and ran away, but the child bride did not run away.
She knew that she was in big trouble, so she went to the bucket Li leaned forward to look for the riding whip, but found nothing.
She had to turn around and sit on the bucket.
Strangely enough, the water stopped flowing out immediately, and the child bride died immediately.
After the story of the child bride was recited many times, people regarded her as the empress who saved Tianjin.
They made a statue of her and built a palace for the empress.
Legend has it that the person sitting under her is the "eye of the sea" and she can never leave, otherwise the flood will flood her.
Tianjin Wei, of course, this story is only one of the many versions of the Queen’s attainment of enlightenment
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