A story in "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" is very similar to the story my grandmother told me when I was a child, which made me miss her old man even more.
In Maluopo Village, Cangzhou, there is a widow whose family is very poor and uses flour to support her mother-in-law.
I don't have money to buy a donkey, so I treat myself as a donkey and pull a millstone to grind the surface. Every night I pulled the mill all night, and I didn't know why, and I didn't feel very heavy when I pulled it up, so I worked night and night until midnight.
In this way, he served his mother-in-law for more than twenty years, and her mother-in-law died. When she returned from a grave sweep, she met two young girls waiting by the side of the road and said to her, "I've lived with you for more than twenty years, do you know us?" ”
The widows were strange and didn't know them at all.
The two young girls said, "Sister-in-law, don't be surprised, we are foxes, touched by your filial piety, and quietly help you grind every night." We don't want to be rewarded by God, but because of this good deed, we can bear fruit. Now that you have been blessed with your mother-in-law, we are also going to the Immortal Realm, and we have come to say goodbye to you and thank you. ”
After saying that, like the wind, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The widow went home and went to pull the mill again, and found that with her own strength, she could not pull at all.
