How did a long-term worker cut a bloody human hand out of the stomach of a bought fish and become rich because of it?
That's how it turned out.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small town in Taizhou, Zhejiang, and the residents of the town had the habit of eating fish every New Year, regardless of the poor and rich, they had to go to the fish market to buy some fish to go home, one was a number of meat dishes on the New Year's table, and the other was to figure out an auspicious, meaning "every year there is more than (fish)".
There is a person in the town with the surname of the rich, the name reads loud and auspicious, to be rich, but in his thirties is still poor jingling, Ping is living by drying sea salt for the owner of a salt farm, because the family has two daughters, the wife is sick all year round, and often the family eats a meal without eating. But he was very kind as a man, and when he met a beggar who came to the door, he would give a mouthful to the beggar if he did not eat.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month of this year, the neighbors all bought New Year goods, and his family had not yet bought anything, and her wife said: "Don't buy anything else, you still go to the street to buy a fish and come back!" I also ask for more than one color head every year. ”
He came to the fish market and saw the fish on the street, but there was not a single fish he could afford to buy, and even the big-bellied fish that no one wanted was five copper coins. Why is this big belly fish cheap, because this fish only has a big mouth and a big belly, and without the internal organs and mouth, there is no meat. This kind of fish eats all kinds of fish and shrimp in the sea with a big mouth, and even the dead people eat it, so the rich people don't eat it at all.
Lai Fugui thought to himself, if he could buy this fish for three copper coins, he would buy it back, but the fishmonger could not be less than four copper coins. But lai fugui really only had three copper coins, and he sighed and prepared to turn away, when a dirty hand reached out, and in his palm lay an equally dirty copper coin. Come to see the rich, it turned out to be a small beggar in his teens. When he came to see the poor look of the child, how could he bear to ask for his money, and said, "How can I ask for your money?" It's New Year's Day, so you can keep buying something to eat! ”
The child looked at the rich man and said, "I have eaten your family's meal many times!" ”
Lai Fugui also felt familiar, but he couldn't remember it, because he gave charity to many children. He thought for a moment and said to the little beggar, "Well, I'll buy this fish with you, and you'll go to my house for the New Year." ”
When the little beggar listened, he was naturally full of likes, and it was the New Year, and there was nowhere to go. So the two of them bought the big belly fish that they didn't want, and they returned home with joy.
When he returned home, his wife saw him carrying a big belly fish and brought back a small beggar, unhappy in his heart, and muttered: "People say you are poor, I didn't expect you to be so stupid, three copper money to buy a fish that a dog doesn't eat, and bring a mouth back, how can this year go on?" ”
When the rich man came to buy fish, his wife did not say anything. She sighed and took the big belly fish to the room to cut it, who knew that she had just used a knife to cut open the belly of the big belly fish, and suddenly exclaimed: "Rich and rich, come and see!" ”
Lai Fugui did not know what had happened, and rushed to the gang room to take a look, he was also stunned, and there were five or six pounds of fresh prawns hidden in the belly of the fish! Lai Fugui turned the shrimp out and found a mussel weighing half a pound. He cut the mussel open again, and was even more surprised, it turned out that there was a pearl hidden in the mussel.
In this way, the family and the little beggar only spent four copper coins, ate a few meals of prawns beautifully, and after a happy year, at the end of the year, he took the pearls to the jewelry store and exchanged them for 50 copper coins, he gave the little beggar 10 copper coins, and left 40 for his wife to see a doctor and take medicine.
In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival again, and Lai Fugui had five copper coins in his pocket this time and came to the fish shop early.
The fishmonger said, "Rich, do you want to buy that kind of belly fish that even dogs don't eat?" ”
Lai Fugui smiled and said, "Our family loves to eat this fish!" ”
The fishmonger sneered, "It's good that people like you can afford to eat this fish." Because no one wants it, this year the store only has one, but I can't get cheaper than you, if you want to buy, get fifteen copper coins! ”
"Fifteen copper coins?" Aren't you robbing? When Lai Fugui heard about this price, his eyes fell out in shock, and he touched the five copper coins in his pocket and said a little angrily.
"Pull it up when you can't afford it!" Don't stand in my way of money! The fishmonger said.
Lai Fugui was preparing to leave when he found the little beggar standing in front of him again, handing him ten years of copper coins. This time, Lai Fugui did not hesitate, took the ten copper coins, along with the five in his hand, and slapped them on the fishmonger's counter.
Came to the rich to buy this big belly fish, with the little beggar home for the New Year, as soon as he arrived home, the wife saw the little beggar, understood what was going on, and moved a large wooden basin, went to the room to cut the fish, only ready to take the prawn. This time, Lai Fugui personally operated the knife, went down with a knife, turned the belly of the fish open, and "clanged", Lai Fugui was so frightened that he dropped the knife to the ground. His wife was even more frightened to take three steps backwards and sat down on the ground. What shrimp is in the belly of the fish, it is a bloody hand! The wife got up from the ground, screamed and ran outside. Lai Fugui stood there with a pale face, overwhelmed: the shrimp was not eaten, it was hard to accumulate 5 copper coins to catch up and not tighten, but also put the little beggar's ten copper coins into it, to buy back such an obscure thing, how to live this year!
At this time, the little beggar saw such a big movement in the room, rushed in, looked at it, and was startled, he approached the stove, carefully looked at the bloody hand on the cutting board, and suddenly said loudly: "Ah, you see, what is this hand?" ”
After listening to the rich man, he eased his mind, and then looked closely at the hand, only to see that there was a large ring on the middle finger, and a sparkling thing was set on the ring. He was busy taking the ring off with his trembling hand and washing it with his hand, the thing was even more dazzling, he couldn't eat the former jewelry store, the boss slapped his eyes and exclaimed: "Never seen such a big diamond, you have made a fortune!" ”
Later, the owner of the jewelry store did it, and the rich man sold this diamond ring for a good price, which can be described as an overnight rich. Later, Lai Fugui put down his boss's salt farm, became the boss himself, adopted the little beggar as a righteous son, and gave him his eldest daughter Xu.
