This article is adapted from the notebook novel "Sitting On The Flower Zhiguo".
Storytelling and singing persuade people to go to the side, three major roads to the center. Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the right way in the world is vicissitudes.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a small tailor somewhere, named Zhou De, who studied art for three years, bid farewell to his master, and opened a small tailor shop not far from the dock.
Although the dock is full of people and the location is good, the sewing line makes small money, and Zhou De is helpful, often sewing clothes and shoes for poor coolies for free, so it is only a mixture of food and clothing all year round.
This year, I saw Chinese New Year's Eve, the north wind was whistling, the sky was full of rain and snow, and in the afternoon, there were few people on the dock.
Zhou De closed the shop early and was preparing to eat dinner when he heard a noise outside the door, and someone was sitting in front of the door, sighing.
Zhou De felt strange in his heart, lit the lamp and opened the door, only to see a person leaning against the door with a bag.
"Who are you, and why don't you go home for the New Year?"
The man sighed and said that he was a guy from a certain business house in the provincial city, who had just returned from collecting accounts from the countryside, who knew that he had delayed the hour, missed the passenger ship, and now the hotel was closed, and he had nowhere to stay, trapped here.
At this time, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the guy was shivering with cold.
Zhou De was kind-hearted, and immediately felt sympathy, and quickly pulled the guy into the house, lent him the new clothes he had prepared for the New Year, and warmly invited him to sit down and eat Chinese New Year's Eve meal together.
Eating hot rice and drinking warm wine, the guy was moved to tears and thanked Zhou De one after another.
Zhou Dehaha smiled, and after the guy had eaten and drunk enough, he made a bed for him and prepared a stove before going to sleep.
By the next day, the wind and snow did not stop, the dock was still out of service, zhou de continued to retain the guys, prepared delicious meals for him, and did not receive anything.
This stay was two days, and finally when the snow stopped, the dock posted a draft of resuming transportation, and Zhou De hurriedly told the good news to the guys, and also prepared a rich meal to send him off.
The guy was grateful to Zhou De, and he had to take ten pieces of silver as a thank you.
Zhou De refused the kindness of the guy, let the guy feel too willing to go, thought about it, and told him a way to get rich.
"Sir Dade, I can't reciprocate. This time I went to the countryside and found that the rice in the countryside was very cheap, and if it was transported to the provincial city for sale, it would definitely make a lot of money. I happen to have some spare money here, so let's lend it to my husband as capital! ”
Zhou De thought about it and refused the kindness again on the grounds that he had not done business and could not complete the commission.
The guy nodded in understanding. Bow deeply in thanks.
The next day, Zhou De personally sent the guy to the boat, and when he was leaving, the guy secretly told Zhou De.
"I have left three hundred taels of silver at the head of the bed, and according to what I said, my husband will purchase grain and sell it to the provincial capital, and I am waiting for my arrival at the provincial city commercial office."
With that, the guy jumped on the boat and bowed his hand to say goodbye.
Zhou De hurried home, and sure enough, he found that the guy had put down three hundred taels of silver at the head of the bed, so he had to accept it temporarily. He ran to buy grain and transport it by boat to the provincial capital.
Zhou De found the trading house, happened to meet the guy, saw him send rice as promised, and admired Zhou De's character even more. He introduced him to his owner and told him the beginning and the end of the matter.
After listening to Zhou De's righteous deeds, the owner also solemnly respected, set up a rich feast to entertain, and enthusiastically stayed in the accommodation.
Zhou De remembered the business in the shop, and after handing over the grain, he was anxious to go home, but the owner took him to play in the provincial city all day, just wouldn't let him go.
It is not a bad thing for everyone to do more good deeds.
Zhou De resigned, reluctantly accepted, but also put forward a condition, hoping to use most of the money to help the poor people and do some good deeds of building roads and bridges.
When the owner listened, his eyes widened, he never expected that there were such benevolent people in the world, and at the moment he promised to do the same amount of silver subsidies for good deeds, and also entrusted Zhou De to help purchase goods in the future, and split it in half.
With the help of the owner, in just three years, Zhou De became a rich man and bought a house in the city.
Zhou De felt strange, looked left and right and did not find peach trees, thought it was casually said, did not pay attention to it, and continued to clean. But when he cleaned the utility room, he found a peach tree painted on the side of the wall.
Zhou De's heart moved, and he remembered the words on the stone tablet. So he picked up the hoe and knocked a few times near the wall, and found that the sound coming from under a stone slab was different.
Zhou De moved the stone slab and went down less than a foot, and then he saw a large vat full of gold and silver.
After Zhou De became rich, he did not forget ben, and worked harder to do good deeds to help others, becoming a famous local benevolent person. His son also took the examination a few years later, and finally the official worshiped three pins, and the scenery was infinite. The descendants have produced many capable people, and everyone says that this is the yin virtue accumulated by Zhou De.
Editor's Note:
The ancients believed that one life, two fortunes, three feng shui, four accumulation of yin virtue and five reading, although this statement is regarded as a feudal superstition, but think carefully, if Zhou De did not save the guys, did not do good deeds to accumulate yin virtue, would there be good luck later?
Therefore, it is a story, and it is a human principle. Remember the saying, "Man is good, but though the blessing has not yet come, the evil has been far away." ”