Once upon a time, two brothers lived in a small mountain village. The younger brother is a bit humble, loyal and honest, and the older brother is a personal spirit and is never willing to suffer losses.
One day, after a heavy rain had stopped, my brother went up the hill to cut firewood and passed by a graveyard, and saw several urns (pronounced beng, a kind of altar, used to hold bones) exposed to the ground, and two more were broken.
The younger brother took a look at the grave and thought that this rain was too big, and it was better to wash these ancestors out, or to do a good thing and bury them all again. So, he picked up some rubble and piled it next to the crater, re-cultivated some soil compaction, and made it look like a small drum bag.
When the younger brother came to a broken piece of the company, only to see a golden light emanating from it, he was very curious, so he opened a broken fragment, and the golden light flashed and was very dazzling.
The younger brother took a closer look, "Wow" only to see that the inside of the pot was full of golden gold bars, he was surprised, thinking: These gold bars must be hidden here by others, can not be taken away, so they re-covered the fragments, and found a few pieces of broken tiles to cover, plus some new soil compaction.
When all the exposed ground had been reburied, he went up the hill to cut firewood.
In the evening, the younger brother returned home and told his wife that he had seen a whole bunch of gold bars in the grave, so many that he could be blinded. The wife was very excited to see him, but she did not believe that her husband had seen the gold, so she laughed and quipped: Why didn't she move into the house when she saw the gold.
The younger brother said that he couldn't do this, that is, other people's things could not be taken. The wife asked again, what is not good to take, not to steal, not to rob, the things in the field, whoever sees it is whoever sees it.
The younger brother paused and said seriously, even if it is something in the field, it is buried by someone else, how can you take it with a conscience!
When his wife saw his serious appearance, she asked him, "You don't dare to ask for anything on the earth, so if you drop gold from heaven, don't you want it?"
"Cough cough cough" The younger brother cleared his throat and said, if he really fell gold from the sky, he would definitely want it, why not? After saying that, he also ticked his wife's nose with his hand and said affectionately that you are a little money fan.
The couple got into a fight and didn't take the matter to heart, and then they cooked and went to bed to rest.
Who knows, there is a person outside the house who listens foolishly with his ear against the wall, this person is the brother, he is going home just passing by his brother's house, heard the brother excitedly say that he saw gold in the grave, he couldn't help but glow with his eyes, thinking: This brother is really stupid and cute, he doesn't even want gold. He didn't want it, the gold was his own.
Thinking about it, the brother went home, and when he waited until the middle of the night, he got a hoe and went up the mountain, hurried to the grave, saw the new grave bag digging, dug several in succession and did not dig gold, and could not help but scold, scolding his brother for daring to tease him.
His mouth kept cursing, but his hands did not want to stop, and he dug through the remaining two grave bags, and when he dug until the last one, he really revealed a golden light from inside the urn, which made his brother happy.
He hurriedly stretched his neck and looked into the air, "Ahhh", his brother was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but retreat, cold sweat. Why? It turned out that the golden light was not emitted by gold, and there was no gold in it, but there were dozens of red snakes coiled inside, spitting out snake letters, which looked particularly maddening under the moonlight.
The elder brother was so angry that he was going to die, and he couldn't help but scold him, scolding his brother for being a bad thing, and even daring to deceive him, obviously a red snake but saying that it was a gold bar, causing him to work in vain for most of the night. Since he dared to harm him, he would let his brother suffer a little.
After scolding, he took off the robe on his body, wrapped it tightly on the mouth, and ran home with him. When he got home, he moved a ladder to stand outside his brother's bedroom, climbed up lightly, gently lifted a few tiles, aimed the mouth at the gap, quickly undid his robe, and wanted to pour the dozens of red snakes onto his brother's bed.
At this time, the younger brother was sleeping sweetly, suddenly heard the sound of "ding-ding", struggled to open his eyes to take a look, immediately woke up, hurriedly shook the wife next to him, while shaking and shouting: Wife wake up soon, the sky really fell gold, get up and pick it up!
Who knows, the wife turned over and said, what dream words do not hurry to sleep, after saying it and continue to sleep. The younger brother had to pick up a gold bar and shake it in front of his wife a few times, and the wife opened her confused eyes to look at it, laughed, and immediately jumped up.
Only to see, on the bed, the ground is full of golden gold bars, the wife took the gold bars on the bed in her arms, picked up a piece and bit it in her mouth, it is really gold. The wife smiled even happier and hurriedly got up to pick up all the gold on the ground.
The brother who was still standing on the ladder was confused by the sound of gold colliding and the laughter of his sister-in-law, he could clearly see that he was a red snake, how did it turn into gold this time, what was the matter?
He quietly leaned out and looked into the room, the ground was really full of golden gold bars, so angry that his hand was trembling, he quickly lifted the mouth of the gourd, wanted to leave a little gold for himself, was about to reach into the inside of the gold, but the next moment he fell off the ladder, and the red snake fell from the air and fell on his brother.
The brother looked at a red snake with wide eyes and was spitting out letters to him, which frightened him into screaming, and his head was tilted and fainted, and when he woke up, his whole body was in pain, his face was wrapped in a white cloth, his head was swollen like a pig's head, and he couldn't say anything, and he lay on the bed for more than three months before he got better.
Disclaimer: This story is a fictional folk story, mostly from anecdotes, legends, strange novels, operas, legends, etc., the author's original intention is to inherit the ancient Chinese folk culture, do not believe in authenticity, and do not feudal superstition!
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