This legend has been around for a long, long time. Someone said: "Minzhou people hold golden bowls and beg for food!" "It means that this area is rich in mineral deposits and cannot be rationally developed and utilized by people." In fact, the earth has gold, and it is destined to be an adult. "Lord Fate is a wise man, who stresses civilization and science and technology, and must not dig up indiscriminately. Digging and digging will bring about a disaster.
Believe it or not, you have heard such a story: according to legend, there was an old man surnamed Zhang in The Great Western River of ancient Minzhou who led his son to the back mountain to cut firewood. Standing on the high mountain, I could see the golden light shining in Ma Yecang in the distance, and there were two sets of ninety-nine apertures faintly, like the mouth of the cylinder, which were faintly recognizable. He had long heard that there were ninety-nine cylinders of gold and ninety cylinders of silver. Dig it out and you can get rich. So he led his son and dug desperately.
Father and son dig mountains every day. Lao Tzu dug tired of his son digging, and his son dug tired of Lao Tzu digging, and continued to work without darkness or clarity. Strange, this place is magical! There were many soldiers dug up, but there was no gold. Digging a layer today, growing a layer tomorrow, will always be an inexhaustible pit, and the soil and people are high and low. They dug and dug, dug exhausted, and still did not stop.
One day, his father and son were fighting with bare arms, digging desperately. Suddenly, an auspicious cloud flew up in the sky, and an immortal shouted in the cloud: "Don't dig, don't dig!" These gold and silver are not yours. I see that you father and son are tired and hard, so let's tell you the truth, there is a jar of gold on the cliff beam of the dwarf ditch, and you can take it for a lifetime. Remember, when you take it, you must not drink water while walking on the road! As soon as you drink water, great calamity will come! When the immortal finished speaking, he drifted away.
Zhang Laohan's father and son listened to the immortals' words, stopped digging the mountain, and ran to the cliff of the hairpin ditch and returned a jar of gold. Gold, Huang Chengcheng, the two of them smiled happily. The heart is bouncing, the hands are trembling, and the whole body is trembling! Great! They thought: With so much gold, they can build buildings, buy fields, and compare themselves with others... Thinking about it, I crossed the mountain and crossed the ditch, and I forgot the words that the immortals said, "Never drink water!" Father and son felt feverish and thirsty, and in the spring by the roadside, they each drank a sip of water and went home laughing! When I got home, I saw, oh my God, it's amazing. Behind the door, there were snakes, insects, and toads, and they pounced on them viciously, trying to kill the father and son. They followed wherever they went, and they followed closely. There was no way out, so I had to invite the monks and monks to chant the scriptures.
Prostrating his head like pounding garlic, he asked the gods and Buddhas to appear. Incense is burned in the East Temple, and a wish is made in the West Temple, and the bigger the wish, the better, and all the local gods have asked for it. It has been tossed for a long time, until the jar of gold is spent, there is no half a text left, the snake worm and the toad retreat, invisible, the father and son will be at ease...
The bamboo basket hit the water empty, and finally fell a hard and fruitless, empty hands, who is to blame?
Source: Min County Folk Tales Min County Ben Min Tong collation