Weihai in the story (34)

The ancients once said, "Ill-gotten wealth is not desirable, and unworthy wealth cannot be obtained." "Collecting gold is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and it is also a concrete embodiment of a person's noble quality and lofty sense of social responsibility.

More than 300 years ago, on the outskirts of Weihai Acropolis, there was a man named Guo Shiyu. In the face of the huge amount of property that fell from the sky, he was not greedy and unmoved, and was highly praised by people.

Guo Shiyu lived in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, his family lived on the outskirts of Weihai Acropolis, a few barren crops and three thatched huts were his entire property, although he would not be hungry and frozen, but the family's life was also tight and tight.

There are many apricot trees in the mountains on the outskirts of Weihai City, and they are very sweet. In order to earn more money to subsidize the family, when the apricots are ripe, Guo Shiyu will wholesale some apricots at a low price and sell them in the city and some of the larger villages around him.

On this day, Guo Shiyu's apricot business was particularly smooth, with a full harvest, in exchange for grain and a bag of wheat bran. When he got home, he laid a mat in the yard and prepared to dry everything he had exchanged, so that it could be kept for a long time after drying.

When Guo Shiyu poured wheat bran out of the cloth bag, there was a "pop" sound, and a cloth package fell out from the inside. Guo Shiyu picked it up from the ground, weighed it heavily, opened it, and inside it was a pile of large and small silver nuggets, weighed it, and there were fourteen or five two! With this silver, Guo Shiyu's family did not have to worry about eating and wearing for four or five years!

But Guo Shiyu was not excited by these windfalls, and through the color of the cloth bag, he knew that the wheat bran in the bag was exchanged for apricots by a family surnamed Li in the city. Apparently, the silver was hidden in the wheat bran by someone from the Li family.

If Guo Shiyu quietly took these silver two for himself, he would never be discovered, with these silver two, his family would immediately enter the ranks of rich people, and his fate would change...

But Guo Shiyu did not see wealth and forget righteousness.

Guo Shiyu often went to the city to do business, and through inquiring from many sources, he knew that the male master in the family surnamed Li was a wandering and deceitful person who did not do his job and was often not at home. His wife died at an early age, and now he is married to a second wife, and there are not very old sons and a child bridesmaid who has been bought. The money obtained by li surnamed Li was never given to his family, and now that the silver is gone, other family members will be difficult to argue, cause accidents, and suffer bad luck.

On the same day, Guo Shiyu returned to the county seat in a hurry and sent the silver back to the Li family. The man of the Li family and his wife and children waited at the door of the house after hearing the news, and after receiving the package, the whole family knelt down to thank Guo Shiyu. The man of the Li family also assured Guo Shiyu that in the future, he would treat his family kindly, no longer wander around, and be a person who kept to himself.

The story of Guo Shiyu's collection of gold was recorded in the Qingqianlong Weizhi, which influenced generations of people. Seeing siyi and collecting gold has become the overall atmosphere of the city, and the torch has been passed down from generation to generation, and things that are still collecting gold in Weihai are everywhere.

(Xia Zhaoqiang)