Once upon a time, there were eighteen beards, and they robbed houses, blocked roads, and did all the bad things. But sometimes when they see the robbed people's homes crying in fear, they are often blamed by their conscience.
One day, eighteen brothers were sitting together drinking, and one said, "Let's stop doing this hurtful thing in the future." With the strength of our two arms, we still have no food. Let's go together! ”
Suddenly I heard someone say, "Don't scatter: it is good that you can change evil and turn to good, if it is sincere, I will make you gods!" Do more good deeds for the people in the future, and you can also make up for your sins. ”
They were startled by the voice, and when they looked up, they only saw an old man with a white beard and white eyebrows standing in front of them, looking at them with a grin! They asked in amazement, "What are you?" Can we really become gods? ”
The old man said, "I am Taishang Laojun, if you are really kind, there is an iron eggplant tree in the south ravine, and the tree is full of iron eggplant, and each of you picks one and cooks it, and you can become a god." However, if the heart is not sincere, the eggplant will never be cooked. After speaking, the old man disappeared.
Eighteen bearded men kowtowed to the air, thanked the kindness of the dot, and then followed the guidance of the Taishang Laojun to the south ravine to pick iron eggplants, held one for each person, and happily came to a shack at the bottom of the mountain. There are two old people living in the shack, who have no children and no daughters, who are not right-hearted and love to take advantage of small advantages. Eighteen people wanted to borrow a pot to cook iron eggplant here, and they were willing to follow it, but when they heard that they could become gods by eating iron eggplant, they opened a small abacus in their hearts.
A bearded head pleaded: "Old lady, please boil us eggplant, we will collect our own firewood and carry our own water." ”
The old woman thought in her heart, usually they either snatched or scolded, but today they became peaceful, so she tentatively asked: "What do you cook iron eggplant for?" Can it be cooked? ”
"It can be cooked, we eat it well and make immortals!"
The old woman asked, "Where did you get it?" ”
"It is knotted by an iron tree on the South Mountain, it can only bear eggplant once in a thousand years, and if people eat it, they can become immortals."
The old woman asked, "Can you pick two for us?" ”
The head man said, "Okay! You brush the pot first, and we'll go and dry it separately. After saying that, they all went separately.
The old woman said in her heart, if we go to heaven together, they will be physically strong, and it will be our turn for good errands? Or take advantage of the fact that they are not back, first cook two of us old two to eat, and when they return, we will also be in the morning. She quickly picked two iron eggplants and cooked them first, but how they were cooked was not rotten, and she was sweating profusely. It was dark, and the eighteen beards came back with a smile, and the old woman was anxious and afraid, and hurriedly put all the remaining iron eggplants into the pot, pretending to be okay and continuing to burn the fire. Eighteen beards looked very grateful, and said in unison: "It's too troublesome for you, old lady!" ”
The bearded head carried two freshly picked iron eggplants to the old woman: "Hurry up and boil these two eggplants too!" Are those ripe? Let's take it out and eat it! ”
The old woman opened the pot and saw that the two eggplants she cooked first were black, and the ones she put back were still purple and bright. The discolored one, she thought, took a long time to cook and was almost cooked, leaving it for the two of us to eat. After putting it in the pot, fish it out to them first.
She scooped one and threw one to them, and fished eighteen iron eggplants in a row. Who knows, when she fished raw eggplant, but in the hands of these people, they all became cooked eggplant.
After eighteen people finished eating, auspicious clouds rose under their feet and fluttered into the sky. The old woman was anxious, seeing that the two iron eggplants she cooked first were still as hard as iron, and they couldn't cook rotten, and they couldn't gnaw on it, so they drank the soup that boiled the eggplant. They saw that the eighteen beards had become eighteen arhats, and they jumped straight up, but they couldn't jump high. Jumping, jumping, gradually turning into a toad with a flat mouth, a big belly, and a pimple all over the body. Until now, they still sit lazily waiting for food, jumping, jumping to the sky.
Humorous story: an altar of ingots
There is a lazy man called Blessed who does not work all day and eats well. Fortunately, his father left him a lot of property, and he was okay. His wife was very capable, so she often advised him to do some work, and he said, "Don't look at me as lazy, I'm lazy." His wife is very sad, and there is no good way to deal with him.
On this day, his wife took the child to his mother's house, he stewed a chicken at home, slept after eating, was sleeping in a daze, the sound of the neighbors talking next door reached his ears.
I only heard the old man say: "I want to plant a tree in the ground, dig a tree pit and dig out a jar, I thought, hey? What's in place here? Open it and take a look, suddenly the ingot. ”
Just listen to his wife say: "It's not our thing, we can't ask for it." Foreign wealth does not give out to the poor. ”
The old man said, "You're right, I think so too." Tell me to bury it there again. I planted the tree in a different place. ”
When I heard it, I was happy, and I didn't sleep, so I found a shovel from home and ran desperately to the old man's ground to find it, and dug it with wide eyes for a long time, and really asked him to dig it out. He couldn't close his mouth happily, and he didn't want the gong, nor did he open the jar to see, holding the jar and running home desperately!
When he ran home, his daughter-in-law also went home, and Blessed said to his daughter-in-law: "I said that I have lazy blessings, but you still don't believe me, you see, I dug out a jar of yuan treasures in the ground." Saying that, he opened the lid of the altar, put his hand in, and felt out one to see, what kind of yuan treasure, it is a toad! It's so angry that you can grit your teeth and cluck it. He wondered, and it was probably the old immortal who was deliberately teasing me. He rolled his eyes twice, then covered the altar, and waited until midnight when he groped up to the old man's roof.
The old couple had no children and lived in a very difficult life, living in a dilapidated house with a large hole in the roof. Because it was a hot day and there was no rain, the old couple was cool and did not cover it, so they slept against the hole.
Blessed climbed to the edge of the cave, took off the lid of the altar, and went down with the mouth of the altar facing the hole. Just listen to those toads "hey wow" calling, as soon as they fall to the bed, they all turn into glittering inging ingredient treasures.
The two of them were very frightened at first, and they lit the lamp to see, so many yuan treasures! The old two said: "This is God pity us two!" Sent us so many ingots. ”
Blessed looked at the roof, so angry that he almost didn't fall off the roof.