Dou E’s injustice in vernacular version

(Wai Mo walked onto the stage playing the supervisor and beheading officer and said) I am the supervisor and beheading officer. The prisoners will be executed today, and the public servants are asked to guard the alley and not let people come and go as they please. (The painted face plays the role of tolerance, playing the drum three times and beating the gong three times. The executioner waves the flag, holds the knife, and escorts the shackled Zhengdan onto the stage. The executioner said) Walk faster, walk faster, the executioner arrives at the execution ground It's been a long time. (Zhengdan Singing)

Zhenggong Duan happened to have violated the king's law for no reason. He did not expect to be punished, and his screams of injustice shocked the heavens. My wandering soul will go to the Hall of Yama first in a moment, how can I not complain deeply to heaven and earth.

When rolling a hydrangea ball, the sun and moon hang high in the sky day and night, and there are ghosts and gods who control people's life and death. Heaven and earth! We should only carefully distinguish between innocence and filth, but why do we confuse good people with bad people? Those who do good deeds suffer poverty and have a short life, while those who do evil deeds enjoy wealth and longevity. Heaven and earth! I am so afraid of being forced to accept the weak when doing things, but it turns out that I am also just going with the flow! Earth! Why do you do this regardless of whether you are good or bad? Oh my God! You made a mistake in judging good and evil and it was in vain! Alas, only two tears fell from my eyes.

(The executioner said) Hurry up, you will be late. (Zhengdan Singing)

If the scholar is only twisted by these shackles, I will sway left and right, and people will squeeze me to the point where I fall forward and backward. I, Dou E, have something to say to my brother. (said the executioner) What do you have to say? (Zhengdan singing) If you go from the front street to the execution ground, I will have resentment in my heart after my death. If I go from the back street, I will have no grievance in my heart after my death. Please don’t refuse the long journey.

(The executioner said) You are now at the execution ground. If you have any relatives who need to meet, you can ask them to come over and meet you. (Zhengdan Singing)

Taotao Ling pitied me for being alone without any relatives or family members, so I could only sigh and complain. (The executioner said) Don’t you even have parents? (Zhengdan said) There is only one father. Thirteen years ago he went to the capital to take the exam, and there has been no news from him until now. (Singing) It has been more than ten years since I last saw my father. (The executioner said) What did you mean when you asked me to walk through the back street? (Zhengdan singing) I’m afraid my mother-in-law will see me in the front street. (The executioner said) You don’t care about your life, so why are you afraid of her seeing it? (Zhengdan said) If my mother-in-law saw me wearing shackles and going to the execution ground to be stabbed, (singing) she would be angry to death in vain, she would be angry to death in vain. Please help me, brother, before I die.

(Buer walked onto the stage crying and said) Oh my God, this is not my daughter-in-law! (said the executioner) Old lady, stay back. (Zhengdan said) Since it is my mother-in-law who is here, ask her to come over and let me give her a few words.

(The executioner said) When the old woman comes here, your daughter-in-law will give you some instructions. (Bu'er said) My child, my heart aches to death! (Zhengdan said) Mother-in-law, that donkey put the poison in the sheep tripe soup, actually he wanted to poison you to death and seize me to be his wife. Unexpectedly, the mother-in-law gave it to his father to eat, but instead poisoned his father to death. I was afraid of causing my mother-in-law to suffer, so I surrendered and poisoned Eunuch Zhang in court. I went to the execution ground today to receive the death penalty. Mother-in-law, on the winter solstice, Chinese New Year, the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, if there is rice that cannot be poured out, pour half a bowl for me to eat, and if there is paper money that cannot be burned, burn a stack of it for me, just to see if you die. on the face of his son. (Singing)

Happy Three, poor me, Dou E, was sentenced to death in a stupid manner by the government. Poor, my Dou E's body and head were not completely separated. Poor, my Dou E, I used to do housework. Mother-in-law, you just For the sake of me, Dou E, who has no father or mother.

For the sake of the years that I, Dou E, have served my mother-in-law, Mr. Bao offers me a bowl of cold soup during festivals and festivals. You go and burn some paper money on the bones of those who have been punished, just as a gift. Bring your dead son as a memorial. (Bu'er cried and said) Don't worry, kid, I remember all of this. God, this really hurts me! (Singing in Zhengdan) Mother-in-law, don’t cry, worry, or be filled with resentment anymore. This is all due to my bad luck, confusion, and injustice.

(The executioner yelled and said) That old woman, step back, the execution time has come. (Zhengdan kneels down) (The executioner opens Dou E's shackles) (Zhengdan says) I, Dou E, beg the prisoner to be executed. If you can obey me in one matter, you will have no resentment after your death. (The supervisor said) If you have anything to do, just tell me. (Zhengdan said) I want a clean mat for me, Dou E, to stand on, and a foot or two of silk cloth to hang on the head of the flagpole. If I, Dou E, are really unjust, my head will fall to the ground after the knife is passed, full of blood. Not a bit of it stuck to the ground, it all splashed onto the white silk cloth. (The supervisor said) I will obey you, no matter what. (The executioner took a mat and asked Dou E to stand on it. He also took white silk and hung it on the head of the flagpole.) (Singing in Zhengdan)

I, Dou E, did not deliberately make these unreasonable vows to play with children. It is true. My grievances are not shallow; if there are no miraculous effects to spread to the world, it will not be clear. I don't want any of my blood to be spilled on the ground. It will only be splashed on the white silk hanging from the eight-foot flagpole. Let everyone around him see that this is me, Dou E, who turned into jasper with my blood like Chang Hong, and turned into a mournful cuckoo after death like Emperor Wang.

(The executioner said) What else do you have to say? If you don’t say it to the supervisor now, then when will you say it? (Zhengdan knelt down again and said) My lord, it is the hottest weather now. If I, Dou E, are indeed unjust, after my death, heavy snow will fall three feet deep from the sky and cover my body, Dou E.

(The supervisor said) In such hot weather, even if you have so much resentment, you still can't summon a piece of snow, so don't talk nonsense! (Zhengdan singing)

Ersha, you said it was because of the hot weather in summer, not the snowy days. Haven’t you heard that it snows in June because of Zou Yan? If there is really a cavity of resentment spraying like fire, it must be moved to the point where snowflakes are rolling like cotton, so as not to expose my bones to the outside. What else would I need, a white carriage and a white horse, to take me to that remote wilderness?

(Zhengdan knelt down again and said) Sir, I, Dou E, died unjustly. From now on, there will be a drought in Chuzhou for three years. (The supervisor said) Hit the mouth! How can anyone talk like this! (Singing in Zhengdan)

You think that God can’t hope for anything, and that people’s hearts are not worthy of pity. You don’t know that God is willing to obey people’s wishes. Why hasn't it rained in three years? That's just because there was once a filial woman in the East China Sea who was wronged. Now it's your turn in Shanyang County. This is all because the officials have no intention of enforcing the law impartially, leaving the people speechless.

(The executioner waved the flag and said) Why has the sky turned cloudy now? (There is a sound of wind blowing in the background, the executioner said) The wind is so cold! (Zhengdan Singing)

The evil-tailed floating clouds covered me with the sun and turned into overcast, the sad wind whirled and roared for me, and I have finished my three vows clearly. (Zhengdan is crying and saying) Mother-in-law, I have been waiting for the snowfall in June and the drought for three years. (Singing) Only then will the ghost of Dou E, who tortured you to death, appear.

(The executioner beheaded, Zhengdan fell to the ground) (The supervisor said in surprise) Oh, it’s really snowing, there is such a strange thing! (Executioner said) I also said that when we usually kill people, the ground is covered with blood, but Dou E's blood is all splashed on the two feet of white silk and does not fall to the ground at all. It is really strange. (The supervisor said) This capital crime must be unjust. The first two things have come true. I don’t know if what happened during the three years of severe drought is accurate. Let’s wait and see what happens in the future. Tolerants, there is no need to wait until the snow stops and the sky clears up. Just carry her body to me now and return it to Granny Cai.

(The public servants agreed and carried the body off)