During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Yu Ge elder near Liangshan, who did not do good things for the croppers when he was an official, and the locals missed him. Why can he be such a big official, it is said that this has something to do with his kindness to save a tanuki spirit.
When Yu Ge was a child, his family was very poor, and he lived in a village on the edge of Dongping Lake, often reading in the middle of the night. In the middle of the summer of one year, Elder Yu Ge had not yet slept, and he lit a candle to read. I heard a strange wind outside, and the wind blew bigger and bigger, and in a moment it was thunder and lightning, and the thunderbolt clicked for a while, and the pouring rain began to fall. Elder Yu Ge felt that this rain was really strange, and it rained under the refreshing sky. But his heart was in the book, and he didn't think much about it, but still buried his head in his book. Just reading, "click" another thunder, followed by a bright lightning, the closed window "rushed" suddenly opened, a black thing suddenly sneaked in, frightening Yu Gelao, a closer look, it turned out to be a big tanuki cat.
Only to see it shivering, with tears in its eyes, came in and prostrated itself on the ground to Elder Yu Ge, raised its face, and suddenly began to speak: "Ask the prince to send mercy, and the thunder god is chasing me behind, save me." Elder Yu Ge was very scared in his heart, he had never seen a cat that could talk. But he has had the courage since he was a child, and he boldly asked, "Why did Thor chase you?" The flower cat burst into tears and said, "I am a tanuki cat spirit that has been practicing for a thousand years under the Anshan Bridge, and the gray rat essence that stole the nephew of the Jade Emperor of the Nether Realm the year before, gave birth to mice in the mortal world, and caused a rat plague and plagued the people." I was angry, so I ate the gray rat essence in one bite. Who wanted the Jade Emperor to get angry and let the God of Thunder hunt me down. I hope that the prince will allow me to hide in your pen tube, right? ”
Elder Yu Ge listened to this, and secretly wondered in his heart, no wonder the rats that filled the ground for some time suddenly disappeared, it turned out that the tanuki cat had made a great contribution. I couldn't help but feel admiration in my heart. At this time, the thunder rumbled, it had reached the courtyard door, Yu Ge did not think much, busy took the brush, the tanuki cat essence turned into a needle-like thin thing in the blink of an eye, and went in as soon as it flew in. Only to hear it shout inside again: "Son, you must be imprisoned, don't leave your body, you are a sinless person, Thor can't split you; as long as you don't let go, I will live." Before the words were finished, the "click" was another thunderclap, and the door was also slammed open with a "bang". The fierce wind blew in, blew the candles, blew the tables and stools in the room all over the ground, and Elder Yu Ge was also destroyed by the wind, so he watched as Na Lei rolled in front of the door of the courtyard one by one, and Yu Ge quietly opened his eyes, as if there was a monster with green fangs standing in mid-air, glaring at him, frightening him to hurry up and idle. In a trance, I felt as if someone in my hand was trying to grab it. Seeing that it was about to be taken away, Elder Yu Ge opened his mouth, swallowed the pen in one mouth, bit it firmly with his teeth, and grabbed the exposed section with his hand. It's hard to take away. But the god of thunder and the god of electricity still did not go, and they were entangled until it was almost dawn, and then they collected the troops and returned to the palace and returned to their lives.
Elder Yu Ge took the brush out of his mouth and said to the pen tube, "Come out." The tanuki spirit came out and changed into its original form in a moment. Seeing that it had tears in its eyes, it fell to the ground and prayed, and said in its mouth: "The great grace of the prince, never forget, the knot of grass and the ring, will be repaid." After saying that, he prostrated his head three times in a row, turned around and disappeared.
More than a month had passed since this incident, and one day, Elder Yu Ge came to be interested and invited several alumni to play and write poems on Dongping Lake together. It was very hot, and after a while, people were thirsty, but the readers loved to be clean and no one went to drink the lake water, so they rowed a boat to find a fishing village by the water, and finally found a fishing village on the south shore of the lake, and there were only a few families in the village. They moored the boat and got on board to find water to drink. Walking to a firewood door, there happened to be a girl at home, and a few strong-skinned people walked in the head and went forward to beg for water.
Elder Yu Ge bowed his head and followed behind. When it was his turn, he didn't look at people, and when he took the scoop and "grunted" for a while, drank the water, wiped his mouth and left. Just listen to the girl giggling next to it, laughing so much that the waist is bent down, Yu Ge lao can't help but glance at the girl curiously, this glance does not matter, just with the girl's affectionate eyes touched a square, Yu Ge lao stunned, I can't imagine that there is such a beautiful woman in the world, the figure is like a thin willow, the face is like a peach blossom in March, that eye is not to mention how black and bright, just like the water of Dongping Lake.
Yu Ge's old soul seemed to have been hooked, but he just stayed and watched, only until Xueyou smiled and pushed him, and then reluctantly walked back step by step.
After returning home, Elder Yu Ge felt confused, did not think about tea and dinner, and had no intention of studying. The parents repeatedly interrogated him, so they inquired about his classmates, and only then did they know that they were obsessed with a girl. You can't always watch your child get lovesickness and lose weight day by day. There was no way but to ask the matchmaker to go to that village to propose. I didn't expect that the marriage was so happy, and when I agreed to it, Elder Yu was really crazy with joy. Choose the auspicious day of the zodiac, beat the gong and drum, and blow the whistle, and go to marry the bride. The bride came up to the palanquin, and less than a mile away, she saw a red fire emerge from the bride's village, and the red fire soared into the sky, up into the air, and turned into a beautiful cloud, which was really beautiful. It turned out that this bride was a tanuki cat spirit, who had been cultivating in the mortal world for more than a thousand years, and saw that people were very kind in their hearts, not much worse than the immortals, and in order to repay Elder Yu Ge's life-saving grace, they did not cultivate and married Elder Yu Ge. That red light is the essence of the tanuki cat that has been cultivated for a thousand years to celebrate the joy of the new marriage.
After the new marriage, the two are kind and loving, very harmonious, the wife does not forget to remind the husband to study and strive, and later contribute to the country, sometimes she also accompanies her husband to study until midnight. The next year, when the period of the big competition arrived, Elder Yu Ge bid farewell to his wife and went to catch the exam. When she was about to go on the road, the wife took out a delicate brush from the box, handed it to her husband, and said, "This is a pen that I brought with me when I got married, you can take it with you, use it for the exam, maybe you can answer it well." Elder Yu Ge nodded, carefully put the pen away, turned around, and left.
Yu Ge rushed day and night, came to the capital, on the day of the exam, he used the pen sent by his wife to write an article, not to mention how smooth it was to write, he felt as if something was supporting, brushing the drama brush, and writing a Jinxiu article without a meeting. On the day of the list, Elder Yu Ge ranked among the best and won the petitioner. Less than a month later, he was named chancellor by the emperor. At that time, the rich and powerful people in the capital came to him one after another, and they all wanted to recruit him as a dragon-riding son-in-law. But Elder Yu Ge just didn't agree. Later, he took his wife to the capital to live together, and usually encountered some difficult military affairs, And Elder Yu Ge also consulted with his wife, and each time he pointed it out very correctly, and Elder Yu Ge loved his wife even more.
It is said that after he was named the elder of the cabinet in his old age, he bid farewell to the capital, took his wife, and returned to his hometown dongping Lake to live, and every day the old couple rowed a boat down the lake to catch fish and catch shrimp, and they were very happy.