Somewhere in Jiangnan, there is an old man, surnamed Zhu, who has passed the age of Huajia, and there is only a wife in the family, and the two have been married for many years and have no children. Mr. Zhu is very kind, never does bad things, and treats people and treats people very kindly. In life, if he encounters something that needs to be dealt with, he always takes timely action.
For example, outside, when he sees stones or branches on the road, Mr. Zhu always has to move the stones or branches away to facilitate others to walk; if he sees that the small bridge has a hole, or where it is not strong, he must also bury the soil and tie the rope chain, so as not to trap in the pit or fall down when the coffin is passed.
One day, Mr. Zhu went out to go to the grave, and after going to the grave, he went home. On the way home, he saw a grave, the head of which was gone, and he did not know whether it was blown over by the wind or dug up by the tomb robbers. The grave was gone, and the coffin inside leaked out. When Old Master Zhu saw that this was still possible, he hurried home and took a shovel, planning to bury the coffin.
When he buried the soil in the coffin, the coffin was directly broken by a large hole because of its age. At this time, a large urn was revealed in the broken coffin, and the large urn had no lid and shone with dazzling light. When Old Master Zhu looked at it, it was actually all gold. Who would bury all the gold in a coffin? Old Master Zhu didn't quite believe it, and reached out to take out the gold in the big urn, intending to see what was going on.
When he pulled it out, he found that the urn was really gold, and he took several pieces in a row, all of which were real gold. Old Master Zhu did not have the idea of taking possession of himself, and he hurriedly sent the gold to the large urn. At this moment, a farmer next to him was also going to the grave, and he saw that Old Master Zhu was delivering gold to the coffin. This person suddenly had a different heart, he knew that Old Master Zhu was an old and good person, a good bully, so he frowned and counted his heart.
He hurried over, pointed at Old Master Zhu and scolded, saying: This is his grandfather's grave, because the rain has washed away, why did you come here to dig my grandfather's grave, did you want to steal the things inside?
When Old Master Zhu heard this, he did not suspect it, and even waved his hand and said: I came to worship the ancestors, and I accidentally saw this coffin leaking out, so I planned to help bury it. Unexpectedly, the coffin rotted, revealing a large urn, which was full of gold. Since the original owner has come, I will remain unchanged, and the gold will be returned to you. When the farmer heard this, the old man was really deceitful, pretended to spare him, and then went home with gold.
When Old Master Zhu saw it, this grandson was also too unfilial, patronizing and carrying gold home, and did not bury the grave. He simply did the good work to the end, found wood, covered the coffin, and then covered the coffin. After burying it, he bowed his hand to the grave and apologized: he had no intention of breaking the coffin of the old man, and he really shouldn't have done it. If there is any offense, I hope that the old gentleman will not be blamed.
After doing all this, Old Master Zhu took the shovel and went home.
When the farmer arrived home with the urn, he gasped for breath in exhaustion, but he was happy. Before he could sit down, he called out to his wife and said he was rich. When the wife heard this, she happily came from the kitchen to see what was going on.
The farmer said: Just now I went to the grave, and when I came back, I saw that the good man took some gold from the coffin, and I lied to him that it was my grandfather's grave, and then the old man actually believed it, gave me a large urn of gold, and I directly brought it back. This big urn of gold, at least three hundred taels, we are rich.
The wife was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the farmer to quickly open the urn and count how much gold there was.
The farmer was very careful, closed the door, lit the lamp, went to the bedroom, and opened the urn. It doesn't matter, both husband and wife are scared half to death, only to see that there is no so-called gold in the urn, all are poisonous snakes, these poisonous snakes are either red, or green, or colorful, and they are extremely poisonous at a glance. The wife exclaimed, almost fainted, and then scolded the farmer fiercely.
The farmer was so frightened that he quickly covered the urn, and as soon as he patted his head, he suddenly realized: No wonder old man Zhu will give me the big urn.
It turned out to be no gold at all, and I said he wasn't so kind. This old man must have confused me in order to tease me. This vendetta is not a retribution, and I will put these poisonous snakes on his bed tonight.
The wife didn't care, she just blindly scolded the farmer for deceiving herself, and the farmer let her scold and didn't say a word.
In the evening, the farmer quietly came to Mr. Zhu's house with a large urn of poisonous snakes, and he climbed onto the roof of Mr. Zhu's house, estimated that he had reached the bedroom, and then carefully uncovered the tiles. Sure enough, Mr. and Mrs. Zhu were already asleep in bed. The farmer opened the lid of the large urn against the opening of the house, and watched as the poisonous snake fell on Old Master Zhu's bed.
When he was finished, the farmer hurried down the house and sneaked home.
Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. Zhu, who were asleep, they suddenly rushed to something that smashed on themselves, fortunately, there was a quilt, and they were not injured. When I lit the lamp, I saw that the bed was covered with gold, but there was a hole in the roof, and it seemed that the gold came from heaven. The couple was overjoyed, counted the three hundred taels of gold, and quickly put away all the gold.
A few days later, the farmer had a dream in which his grandfather angrily rebuked him: Your boy is so powerful, for a little gold, he actually ran away from the grave halfway up, and went to recognize others as grandfathers, so children and grandchildren, it is really shameless. You are not good at farming, you want to take advantage of others, you deserve to be poor, you are not without reason!
The farmer woke up and panicked, ran to his grandfather's grave to prostrate himself and confessed, and then sincerely changed his heart, worked hard, and had children, which was not bad.
And Mr. Zhu also had a dream, in which a rich businessman said: Thank you old man for burying me, I no longer have to suffer from the wind and rain. The urn of gold was the money that the old gentleman deserved. The old man will repair the bridge and the road, and you will have a large number of children and be very happy in your old age.
After Mr. Zhu woke up, he felt that the rich businessman was right in other words, but it was not right to say that his children were in groups, he was sixty years old, his wife was in his early fifties, and he had been married for more than thirty years without children, how could he have children in groups? He smiled and didn't take it seriously.
It is also strange to say that at the end of that year, the wife was actually pregnant, and it was a dragon and phoenix fetus. After a year, Old Master Zhu's wife became pregnant again, still a dragon and phoenix fetus. Two sons and two daughters, Old Master Zhu was happy to close his mouth, and the locals also said that Old Master Zhu did good deeds and touched the mother-in-law.
Later, Mr. Zhu lived to the age of 100 and died without illness. At the time of his death, he had two sons, two daughters, 7 grandchildren, 6 granddaughters, and 5 grandchildren.