Folk jokes: the story of a penny

Wen/Second brother of the Song family

Once upon a time, there were three people named Hanako begging for food on the street, and one of them called Hanako found a penny, and at that time, a penny could eat a full meal, so the other two hanako wanted it, and you robbed me, and the noise was not like a look. There was a slightly older man named Hanako who said: "The three of us, it is not a way to rob it like this, we might as well go to the county court and let the county official and the grand master judge it, who will judge the county master, who will hold it, how do you two see?" "Good", the three people pulled and pulled and went to the county court.

When they arrived at the county hall, the three Hanako rushed to speak, one said: I picked up this money, the other said that he saw it first, and the older one said that I let them come.

The county grandfather was in a very good mood these days, and he did not go to the church for several days to ask about the case, thinking: Today is just fine, why not take these three poor people to be happy. Therefore, the county official glanced at it with his eyes, knelt down at the bottom of the lobby, three tattered- and disheveled, poorly dressed, and poor people said: "Don't argue, don't argue, I see this money, it's not much, who is poor, who is in a hurry, I will judge whom, how do you see?" The three of you looked at me and I looked at you, and all said they had no opinion and agreed. The county magistrate also said, "When you are begging for food, you all like to use shunkou slip, so today the three of you want this literary money, you must also use shunkou slip to make it up for me, and whoever makes it up well, I will award this money to whom." ”

The first one, Hanako, said first: "A room with four walls is empty, seven holes of light drink the northwest wind, broken pots and broken bowls clang, rats are hungry and gnaw on bed nails." The county magistrate listened and said, "You are poor enough..."

The second one, Hanako, said, "Lord, I'm poorer than him!" "Then let's hear it." "When the day comes to the bed, the panic of not eating or drinking is hungry, the oil head sleeps on the brick, and the dew fills the hunger grass as food." When the county magistrate hears it, you are not much better than him.

The third Hanako couldn't hold her breath and said, "Lord, you listen to me," at this time the county official Grand Master was a little impatient, "Say quickly, can you still be poorer than them?" "My teeth have been idle for six months, my stomach has been empty for more than half a year, my hungry heart is close to my heart, and I have no wife."

After the county magistrate listened, he wrote a verdict: Today there is nothing to relax, three beggars come to toss, each holding a word is reasonable, and one or two sentences are contested. It is better to give Erwen money again and let all three of him roll bears.

After the county magistrate finished writing, he read the paperwork to the three beggars and then announced his resignation. After listening to the three beggars, they kowtowed to the county official Grand Master, and the story of a piece of money has been passed down to this day.