In ancient times, there was a rich man who had three sons-in-law. The eldest son-in-law and the second son-in-law are cunning and clever and have a lot of family wealth, and the third son-in-law is a timid and honest farmer, so the father-in-law and the two sons-in-law often bully the third son-in-law. But the honest farmer finally used a trick, so that his father-in-law and the two brothers-in-law who bullied him voluntarily jumped into the river with stones on their backs and drowned.
This year coincided with Cai's birthday, and the three sons-in-law came together to celebrate the birthday. Because the eldest and second eldest were rich and rich, they were arrogant by the rich man, and the rich man deliberately made a riddle during the banquet to help the two sons-in-law drink.
Because the third elder has no culture, he does not understand these things, and the guesser drinks wine and eats meat during the meal, and the person who does not guess only listens to eat some leftover soup, and the third elder is embarrassed. Back at home, the third elder told his wife about the insults he had received during the banquet, and the two were very dissatisfied and decided to take revenge on the rich man and the two uncles.
A year has passed, and it is noon on the birthday of his father-in-law, the third elder is still at home playing straw shoes, the boss rode a high-headed horse from the front of the room, shouted: "Old third, don't you want to go to your father-in-law to pay homage to your father-in-law?"
The third elder said, "You go first, and I'll come later!" When the eldest was far away, he cut the path to his father-in-law's house. After waiting for half an hour, the boss came. The eldest saw the third elder sitting there and was shocked: "I walked in front of you, why are you faster than me?"
The third old man smiled and said, "You don't know, some time ago I met a kind person, he gave me a pair of "flying shoes icon", put on these shoes, travel thousands of miles a day and eight hundred at night!"
The boss said, "Can you give me insight?"
The third elder pretended not to accept it, and the elder said, "Old Third, I will exchange this horse with you, can I?"
The third elder said, "I will discuss with my daughter-in-law and reply to you tomorrow."
The next morning, the boss couldn't wait to invite a few middlemen to change shoes with the third. The third elder pretended to resign again and again, and finally said, "Look at the relatives in exchange for you." He took out his straw shoes and changed horses with the boss.
The boss was very happy to put on his straw shoes and go home. But his feet blistered before he had walked a few miles, and he was so angry that he threw his straw shoes in the pond and hired a car before returning home.
One day the third elder went to the second family's house to kiss. The second brother was also very cold to him. It was a cold winter, dripping water into ice, but he was placed in a broken house next to the mill.
Because the weather was too cold to sleep, the third elder went to the mill to carry a grinder icon and ran around the house, running straight and sweating.
The next day, the second brother thought that he had been stiffened, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw that he was sweating and the heat was rising, and the second brother was puzzled.
The third elder said: "The second elder is grateful for your 'hospitality' hospitality, and I am going to say goodbye!"
"Slow! Why are you still sweating on such a cold day?" The second brother couldn't wait to ask.
"Don't hide it, I asked people to buy a 'fire dragon coat' in the capital, dressed cool in the summer and warm in the winter, so how can I be cold?" Old Three.
The second elder said, "Shall I exchange my coat with you?"
"Your leather jacket can only be warmed, and my 'Fire Dragon Coat' can be both warm and cool, don't change it!" Old Three.
The second elder said, "I can always give you a hundred taels!"
After repeated persuasion by the second elder, the third elder took off the single clothes and gave them to the second elder, put on the leather jacket and took the silver and left.
When the second elder put on the "Fire Dragon Suit", he was so cold that he knew that he had been deceived.
The eldest and the second were fooled by the third, so they colluded with their father-in-law and took a group of people with them one night, and they took the third and tied them to a tree by the river. Because of the noise in the middle of the night, everyone was very tired and went to the neighborhood to buy wine to drink.
Just when a hunchbacked thief stole a group of pigs and was about to rush to the market to sell, he saw that the third elder was tied to a tree, so he went up to see it.
The old third spirit machine moved and said, "Come and cure the hunchback!" You see I used to be more camel than you, and now I'm all healed. ”
The thief believed it to be true, so he untied the third elder, who took the opportunity to tie the thief to a tree and sell the pig.
A group of people had enough to eat and drink and came to the tree, and because the thief's heart was empty and dark, and he could not distinguish between true and false, he pushed the thief down the river and drowned.
The third elder went to the market to sell the pigs, bought a few new clothes and returned home. Thinking of my father-in-law and two uncles being so vicious, I was determined to fight them to the end. After resting for a few days, I went to my father-in-law's house. The rich man was talking to his two aunts about him, and was taken aback when he saw him coming.
The third old man pretended to be all right and said, "Hello father-in-law!" Yesterday I dreamed that I was sinking into the river, and the Dragon King told me that there was a place where I hid a lot of pearl treasures. I have come this time to find you to dig for treasure together. ”
The rich man and the other three believed it to be true and followed the old man straight to the river. When they reached the riverside, the third elder said, "The baby is in the river, ordinary people can't get there, you have to carry a stone on your back."
The rich man, the eldest and the second eldest, did not doubt that he had him, and he jumped down with a stone tied on his back and sank straight to the bottom of the river. With such a heavy thing on their backs, can three people float up? The third elder sat in the wooden basin, untied a small gong icon on his waist, and sang while knocking: "The small gong rings, the clanging, your third grandfather's cub falls on the Yangtze River, go to the Dragon King to push and grind, the glory and wealth are for you to enjoy, the gold and silver treasures are loaded with you, don't cause disasters in the world." While! While! Dang!"
This is a story from "Folk Tales", and after reading this story, I couldn't laugh at all.
Family infighting is such a thing, only a lose-lose situation, and no one gets any benefit. Several men fought back and forth, and it was their wives who were eventually injured. Even if the third elder wins in the end, but his wife has lost his father, he may not have a good attitude towards him in the future, so he may not be able to be happy.
Ancient folk are like this, women in the family often have no sense of existence, ancient stories rarely mention women's emotions, opinions and suggestions; When there are family disputes, men only care about a moment of anger and coolness, completely ignoring the feelings of their wives and mothers.
Each family member's encounter will affect other members, the result of the game is naturally different, life will add a lot of variables, the story will be more tortuous, I hope that the folk tales of the new era can take more into account the feelings of all family members.
