During the Qing Yongzheng period.
In the village under the Qilian Mountains, a strange thing has happened in recent years, and every year boys and girls are taken away by a white wolf.
No, there was another water spirit girl in the village who was taken away by the white wolf.
No one in the village felt sorry. Don't the people in the village have compassion? No, the baby girl was an orphan whose parents died early. She also suffered from a rare strange disease, and if she could not cure it, even Lang Zhong, who came to treat her, was also infected with this strange disease and died inexplicably.
The baby girl was placed in a temple in the village, and every day an old grandmother brought her a little food. The people in the village did not say anything, but they all hoped that she would die soon, so as not to let more people get sick.
This time, the female doll was taken away by the white wolf of Qilian Mountain, and everyone immediately put their hearts at ease. There are also people who were looking forward to the early death of the baby girl, but at this time they suddenly became better-hearted, sighing and saying, "Alas, a good baby girl was taken away by the wolf, and this wolf is really hateful." "
The villagers next to them also nodded and sighed. It is said that if this female doll is not sick and has not been taken away by the hateful qilian mountain white wolf, she will still be a very good woman when she grows up. If the lame son of the Zhang rich man's family in the village married her, maybe he would give birth to a baby full of Kang, and he could continue to make the family business of the Zhang family prosperous!
Speaking of the Zhang rich man's family, the people in the village will be divided into two factions. One faction believes that the rich man's family is charitable and charitable, and whenever a beggar comes to the village to beg for food, his family will always give a little food. If he encounters a young and strong "want to eat", The rich man Zhang will leave him behind, and then steam an oval bun bun for him to eat. Beggars with small meals can only eat three or four buns of grain noodles, and their stomachs are too propped up to walk. At this time, the rich man Zhang will politely send the beggar away, because those who have a small amount of food have little strength and cannot work.
If he encounters a beggar with a large amount of food, he will eat all twelve steamed buns in the whole oval cage, and the rich man Zhang will be very happy, because the person with a large amount of food has great strength and is hard-working. At this time, the rich man Zhang would leave the beggar behind, raise cattle and donkeys for his family, go up the mountain to collect firewood, go down to the field to do crop work, and do two or three more years of heavy work and tired work before sending him away.
Generally speaking, beggars are very willing, and if someone takes them in, they will have food to eat, and if they have food to eat, they will not live a hard life of hunger and cold or even starvation and freezing to death.
Another group of villagers believes that Zhang Rich Lord is not a good person, not only greedy for money, but also lustful, and the women in the village who have a little posture are a little unclear and unclear with him. Moreover, the rich man Zhang and Zhao Mazi in the town had close contacts, and the biggest feature of this Zhao Mazi was to rob the poor people of good land.
The villagers remember that in the year before, Zhao Mazi looked at the three acres of water land of wang Hu's family next to the village entrance road, and asked Zhang Rich Man to give it to him at a low price. The rich man Zhang went to Wang Hu's house three times and did not say anything about Moving Wang Hu. Later, Zhao Mazi sent people to forcibly occupy the three acres of water land of the Wang Hu family in the name of repairing grain roads.
Wang Hu was so angry that he went to the town to fight a lawsuit, but he did not expect that a master in the town's servants, nicknamed Huang Shulang, beat Wang Hu into fifty boards in the name of Diao Min, and fined him three, two, seven dollars and four cents. After Wang Hu returned home, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and in the middle of the night he hanged himself on the old crooked neck tree in front of the gate of Zhang Rich's house.
This rich man was really a man of great knowledge, and he gave out his own silver, bought a coffin, and buried Wang Hu in a place called Bison Ping in the west of the village. But there is a feng shui mr. who says that this place is not good, burying the graves of the dead, and the descendants are lame. But the Wang Hu family had no descendants, and no one cared about this Feng Shui Mr. Feng Shui's stupid words.
The next year, the rich man Zhang was pleased with his son, but he did not expect to realize a year later that the child had a problem with his left leg and was a natural cripple. Zhang Cai was panicked, what can I do now? He did a good deed and buried the dead man Wang Hu who had hanged himself, but instead harmed the descendants of the Zhang family. So I invited the feng shui gentleman and gave him a good meal. Mr. Feng Shui pinched his fingers and said that it would be easy to do a good job, and marry the sick girl in the village as a child bride, and your family would be smooth sailing, and you would be able to meet him in the future.
After hearing this, The rich man Zhang felt a hundred unhappiness in his heart, where he was willing to marry a poor man's servant as a daughter-in-law, but he was also sick and fatherless. But I am afraid of having the next lame offspring. Lying on the kang and thinking for three days and three nights, I couldn't help but remember the second half of Mr. Feng Shui's words, marry this female doll, and the offspring will be talented.
With this thought, Zhang Cailord arranged for the female doll to go to the grasshopper temple in the west of the village, thinking that he would wait until he was well. In case of illness and death, it is also providence.
Unexpectedly, the female doll was taken away by the white wolf of Qilian Mountain.
Speaking of the white wolf of Qilian Mountain, it is another topic that cannot be exhausted.
This white wolf is also a leader, and legend has it that Qilian Mountain was earlier a sacred mountain for the Xiongnu. The patron saint of the mountain is the white wolf. The white wolf comes from the Snowy Mountains. For thousands of years, the white wolf and its wolf children and grandchildren have never gone down the mountain to harass the village, nor have they heard of the white wolf taking away the children in the village.
The white wolf was half taller than the gray wolf, and the hunter king cabinet in the village had seen the white wolf once and slept at home for half a month after returning. He said the white wolf was so tall and big. The white wolf rode an old man with a red beard and talked to him a lot. The villagers asked what they had said, but the king cabinet was fragmented, his words were not clear, and he was unwilling to elaborate. Just say "The red-bearded old man won't let me say it." The villagers talked behind their backs that this king cabinet might have made the white wolf stupid, or had been cursed by the red-bearded old man, in short, after he arrived in the village, he did not behave very wrong.
But the year after the Ark returned, the white wolf appeared in the village. What is strange is that after the white wolf took away Gui Lanzi, the daughter of the king cabinet, the king cabinet not only did not have sadness, but appeared extremely excited. He also picked a basket of pears from the old pear trees in the courtyard, took paper money and a few sticks of incense, and went to Yemu Fork, not far from the Qilian Mountains, to burn incense for his dead parents. Pray to your parents, say Father, Mother, your granddaughter Guilanzi will have a good life in the future.
When the villagers saw the performance of the king's cabinet, they all sighed and said that this poor king's cabinet must have been frightened and confused by the white wolf, and the good girl was taken away by the wolf, and also went to the ancestral grave to talk nonsense that the girl's daughter would finally have a good life after that. There are also intelligent people with too sharp and mean mouths who say that when a person is eaten by a wolf, his soul rises to heaven, and he can live a good life!
A major event also occurred this year, zhao mazi in the town wanted to build a general's palace for General Xiao in Hexi, and needed a lot of wood. Under the snowy mountains of Qilian Mountain, there are the best mahogany, greenwood, black wood, and white wood. Zhao Mazi sent master Huang Shulang to do this errand.
Master Huang Shulang is Zhao Mazi's right-hand man, and he has a brain in doing things. Zhao Mazi encountered headaches that were difficult to solve, as long as Huang Shulang came forward, he would always do it properly. Even Zhao Mazi said that he was not as good as Huang Shulang in doing things, and he had a brain and a way, in the end he was a reader, it was different, it was a lot of ghost ideas.
On this day, Huang Shulang came to the village under the Qilian Mountains, which can also be regarded as an inspection of the situation of the village. Of course, the main thing is to find a good way to cut wood, and then transport the wood to Hexi to build General Xiao's mansion.
In Huang Shulang's eyes, paying the villagers to cut wood from the snowy mountains, and then paying the horse gang to transport the wood to Hexi, this is a very normal method in the eyes of ordinary people, he Huang Shulang will not do it, Huang Shulang thinks that this is a stupid method, that is, a manifestation of inability. A wise official master can cut wood and transport it to Hexi, not only without spending one or two silver coins from Zhao Mazi, but also being able to fish some oil and water from it, this is the skill, is his master Huang Shulang's unique ability.
After Huang Shulang arrived in the village, he was naturally the leading figure in the village, Zhang Caiju. The rich man invited Huang Shulang to his home, sat on the edge of the kang, set up a pear blossom wood kang table, and boiled a pot of fine Hunan Mahesheng brick tea from the fire, and the two of them talked while drinking.
In the small talk, the words turned to the cutting of the wood of the Snowy Mountain, and the rich man Zhang said casually that the white wolf on the Snowy Mountain, in recent years, somehow, has taken away two girls in our village every year.
Huang Shulang was thinking in his heart how to cut down the wood near the Snowy Mountains without spending one or two pieces of silver. Hearing this, my heart flashed with inspiration, and a brilliant plan came to mind.
"It's a big deal." Huang Shulang said solemnly.
Zhang Cai was a little confused, he raised his hand and continued, "Why did Master Huang say this?" "
"It is very abominable that the white wolf took away the children in the village, so how can the people in the village settle down and live?" Huang Shulang stopped talking, lifted the tea cup on the Kang table, took a sip, and sighed "good tea." He also said to the rich man Zhang, "This matter is not trivial, I think so, I want to come up with a way to drive out the evil wolves." "
Zhang Rich Lord did not know, so he hugged his fist and said to Huang Shulang, "Presumably Master Huang has a method, he may as well say a word." "
"I see this, and when I go back, I ask Zhao County to order Lord Zhao to make a notice that there is a wolf plague in the Snowy Mountains that will plague the people, and in order to get rid of this harm, I will give birth to the people." The people in the village and the people in the town must work hard one by one to cut down the trees under the snowy mountains before they can get rid of this wolf infestation. In this way, each family must cut down ten large trees on the snowy mountain within three months and transport the wood to the site in the town. No excuses may be made. "
Zhang Cai was also a wise man, and when he heard this, he already understood the calculation in Master Huang's heart. With a grim expression on his face, he said, "Is it too late to cut ten pieces of wood in each household?" There are several families in my village, but they are orphans and widows, old, weak, sick and disabled. How to cut down many pieces of wood, even one is difficult. "
"This is easy to do, and those who cannot afford manpower can give five or two pieces of silver, hand it over to the county government, and the county government will hire someone to handle the cutting and transportation of trees."
When The rich man Zhang heard this, he was stunned. He couldn't help but say, "Master Huang, this is also too cruel, five or two per household, the household of the zhuang household, the annual silver income, is only twenty or two." Just pay five or two to the county, and the people will not be able to live this day. "
Master Huang listened and smiled lightly.
"Rich Lord Zhang is really a bodhisattva. In this way, after the younger brother goes back, he will be with Lord Zhao and Ji Heji, and it is best to collect the silver two less. "
After a few days, the town spread a notice that in the village of Qilian Mountain, there was a wolf plague that scratched the people, and it was necessary to cut down the trees near the Snow Mountain, so that the wolves had nowhere to hide. Each household in the town cut down ten pieces of wood and handed them to the town, and they must not be excused for this reason. If there are no strong laborers in the house or those who are unwilling to cut down, pay 12 silver. It was cut down by the town court.
After Zhang Cai lord saw the notice, his eyes were stupid. Didn't you say that you should lower five or two pieces of silver a little? How did it turn five or two into ten.
This Huang Shulang is really fierce enough, no wonder he has only been a master for a few years, and he has built a large tile house. Zhang Cai lord thought to himself.
Three months later, the forest under the snow-capped mountains was cut down by the townspeople much less. In the empty field in front of the town gate, wood as high as a mountain was piled up.
In the backyard of Yamen, Zhao Mazi and Huang Shulang were drinking tea and chatting.
Zhao Mazi was greatly satisfied with Huang Shulang's method of borrowing chickens and laying eggs this time.
"Master Huang, this time it is really a loss to you." Wait until the wood is transported to Hexi to build the Great General's Mansion. I will certainly protect you in front of General Xiao, and I will not worry about glory and wealth in the future. "
"Lord Zhao is polite, and the little students can have today, all depending on the cultivation power of the adults."
"Lord Zhao, this time I heard that the person who cut wood in the Daxue Mountain said that a cave was found deep in the forest, surrounded by the footprints of tigers and wolves."
"The villagers are really nonsense, this Qilian mountain wolf has, where is the tiger." Zhao Mazi said dismissively.
"Lord Zhao's words are reasonable, and Xiaosheng's admiration for Lord Zhao is like a gushing river, endless."
Huang Shulang hugged his hands and said solemnly.
Zhao Mazi waved his hand and said, "These nonsense, don't say it." Nowadays, it is important to find a way to transport wood to Hexi. Zhao Mazi instructed.
Huang Shulang returned home, thinking in his heart, this time cutting wood, did not cost Zhao Mazi a silver or two. The 10,000 taels of silver allocated by General Xiao's palace to Zhen Yamen were all in Zhao Mazi's pocket. He also received more than a thousand taels of silver from the villagers, which was really killing two birds with one stone. But I don't know how much silver Zhao Mazi will give me this time? Today in his house, I don't know why, but I didn't mention it. Alas, three years in the Qing prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. No wonder those of us who read books have to desperately become officials.
When Huang Shulang thought of this, he was overwhelmed with emotion. I thought that I had taken several examinations over the years, and all of them were famous for sun mountains. The family was too poor to eat, but it was good to meet a virtuous wife and help me get through it. Unexpectedly, when I was rich, she fell ill and left me. Now I met Lord Zhao again, although this person said that he was a little fierce in his work, but he was not thin in his treatment of someone, and he could only die for his confidant, and try to do more lack of virtue for him. But who knows, I Huang Shulang did such a lack of morality, but also forced to do, think about it at night, and I am ashamed.
Just when the logging of the snowy mountains was about to end, something went wrong. The fearsome white wolf actually jumped out of the hole and bit several servants who guarded the trees. The villagers who cut down the trees were so frightened that they threw down their axes and fled.
What scared the villagers the most was that on the huge white wolf, there was actually a girl dressed in red, she looked playful, with a red lingzhi in her mouth, watching the white wolf bite the servant and shout in pain, but it was as if nothing happened. Just frolicking and laughing, not stopping the white wolf from biting at all.
The matter reached Huang Shulang, who was strange in his heart and found Zhang Rich Man to ask about it. Zhang Rich Man was even more vague in his words, saying only that it was only Ya Gong who had bitten him, and had not hurt a single person in the village.
Under Huang Shulang's careful questioning, he also learned that the Hunter King Cabinet in the village had also encountered a white wolf once, but when he met, there was also a red-bearded old man. Moreover, after his daughter Guilanzi was taken away by the white wolf, she became more and more delirious, and even said that Guilanzi would have a good life in the future. Become a joke in the village.
Huang Shulang asked the rich man Zhang if this hunter king cabinet had gone to cut down the trees of the Snowy Mountains. Zhang Cai lord shook his head. It is said that the king's cabinet paid ten silver and had never been to the Snowy Mountains. He also talked nonsense in the village, saying that he should not go to the snowy mountains to cut down the trees, which annoyed the white wolves, and the people in the village would not think of collecting medicine and mushrooms near the snowy mountains to collect firewood. After being reprimanded by me, he stopped talking, stayed at home, and did not dare to come out. Just burn incense every day to worship a painting.
Huang Shulang went to the wang cabinet with the rich man Zhang. Entering the door, I saw the king cabinet in the courtyard, shaking the stone mill, grinding the surface. The king saw Huang Shulang with a look of indifference. But accompanied by a smiling face, he invited the rich man to the house to drink tea.
Huang Shulang didn't mind that Wang Qiao was cold to himself, and he entered the house with a relaxed look. Hanging on the wall is a painting of a white wolf riding on a red-bearded old man with a kind look.
The rich man coughed a few times and cleared his throat, he ate too much meat last night, and there was a little thick phlegm in his throat. The rich man Zhang said in a tone, Wang Cabinet, Master Huang has something to ask you.
Without waiting for Huang Shulang to speak, the king cabinet said, My cousin Wang Hu's three acres of water land were robbed by Yamen, and he hanged himself again.
Huang Shulang was stunned, and then he understood that the surname of Wang in the village was mostly of the same ethnic group. When Wang Hu died, Wang Ji must have remembered me in his heart. He smiled heartily and said, "Three acres of water land is easy to say, as long as you tell me about the white wolf in the king's cabinet, tomorrow I will let people take a land deed and write three acres of water land under your name."
The king cabinet did not say a word, and looked up at the painting on the wall.
Master Huang wanted to know about the White Wolf, and that was good to say. I will explain it clearly by returning all the ten taels of silver handed over by the people in the village.
Wang Cabinet stared at Huang Shulang and said.
Huang Shulang was shocked in his heart, thinking that this wang cabinet was just an uninformed villager, but it was rare to have to stand out for the whole village.
He thought for a moment and said to the king's cabinet that he would return the silver later. If you take me with you to find the white wolf and this person, Huang Shulang pointed at the red-bearded old man and said, I will return the silver to the villagers.
Huang Shulang accompanied wang cabinet to the mouth of the cave under the snowy mountain, and saw that the cave was deep, and there was a cool breeze like water, coming from the cave and blowing through the cheeks of the two people.
Huang Shulang followed the king cabinet and walked one foot deep and one foot shallow towards the deep cave. About three hours of walking, there was a sudden light in the cave, looking up, but there was a glance at the cave entrance not far away, outside the cave entrance, faintly, you can see the trees and green fields, the scenery is very beautiful.
The two of them quickened their pace, and after a while, they penetrated out of the cave and suddenly arrived at a paradise.
Huang Shulang looked up, but he saw the desert green fields around him, the sound of birds and finches, coming through the forest and the water, which made people feel uncomfortable and refreshing.
The Yellow Shulang followed the king's cabinet and walked forward again. After passing the paddy field, but seeing the green trees, there are several huts of grass, but they are exquisitely built, and they have a kind of leisurely weather, which is unforgettable to see.
When the two of them reached the grass hut, Wang Ai shouted loudly, "Gui Lanzi, where are you!" "
As the sound of the king's cabinet landed, two girls came out of the grass hut. The girl named Gui Lanzi looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old. She saw the king's cabinet in the distance and was very happy. He hurried to the eyes of the two men, took the hand of the king's cabinet, and said, Daddy, how did you come.
Wang Cabinet smiled and pointed at Huang Shulang, "This is Master Huang, I want to meet the white wolf and the red-bearded old man." "
The two female dolls led Wang Qiao and Huang Shulang to the grass hut. But I saw an old man with a red beard sitting at a square table in the room. Huang Shulang also saw that at the feet of the red-bearded old man, there lay a huge white-haired wolf, looking mighty.
The red-bearded old man looked up at Huang Shulang and said, "Here it comes." "
Huang Shulang became a little excited at this time. He took a step forward and suddenly fell to his knees. He said loudly, "Master, your old man is so good, let me miss it for a long time." "
After saying these words, Huang Shulang actually shed tears. I couldn't say a word.
Hearing Huang Shulang's words, the king cabinet on the side was shocked and did not know what was good, looked at Huang Shulang in a daze, and then looked at the red-bearded old man.
The red-bearded old man sighed.
"Huang Shulang, you have done a lot of good things in the past few years."
The red-bearded old man said the words "good-thing" in a heavy elongated tone.
"The disciple is convicted of his sins and is willing to be punished by the master."
The red-bearded old man sighed slightly again.
"I know that in order to find me, you did not hesitate to use the method of laboring and hurting the people's money, and even found someone to cut down the forest under the snowy mountain." Your method is also too damaged. "
"The disciple was convicted, but he had to do it, so he made this decision, which made the master angry."
The red-bearded old man looked at Huang Shulang and came out for a moment. And he said, "What are you going to do next?" "
"The disciple plans to transport all the trees cut down to this paradise, build a few wooden houses for Master, and ask Master to pass on the Six Divine Dice."
The red-bearded old man listened, raised his head, and laughed a few times.
"Huang Shulang, Huang Shulang, you are extremely smart, but unfortunately the pattern is too small." There is no heavenly being in my heart, so let me teach you how to teach you the six dice. "
Huang Shulang bowed his head and said nothing. Hearing Master's words, it was clear in his words that he was blaming him for having unsent thoughts.
The red-bearded old man thought about it for most of the time. He sighed and said, "No one is perfect, and I don't blame you all." Your future abilities can be changed from heaven to earth, but if you continue to think half the slightest, you will be punished by heaven and thunder, and you can remember what Master said today. "
Huang Shulang was secretly happy in his heart, knowing that Master had forgiven him. He gave the red-bearded old man three heavy nods.
Many years later, Huang Shulang learned the true skills of the red-bearded old man in the paradise of Qilian Mountain, and with the white wolf, he did many earth-shattering and big things under Qilian Mountain, and also did a lot of good things for the people under Qilian Mountain.
But what is lamentable is that Huang Shulang still did not resist the temptation of wealth and power, and finally embarked on a desperate road of crazy pursuit of fame and fortune. Sure enough, in a contest with his opponent, as his master said, he died of death and was killed by lightning, which was really lamentable. But this is an afterthought, and we'll talk about it later.
