In the early years, I heard that in the south of Jizhou and the north of the north bank of the Yellow River, there were two large mountains with a length and width of about 700 miles and a height of about seven or eight million zhang, which are what people usually call Taihang Mountain and Wangwu Mountain.
There, inhabited, was an old man named Yu Gong, whose family had lived for generations at the foot of the North Mountain. That year, he was already 90 years old, and he looked at the mountains every day and sighed and looked at the mountains with sorrow, because the two mountains in front of him completely blocked the north side of the village and made people have no way to go. Because of this, it brings a lot of inconvenience to people here, so that people who travel every time, the round-trip journey is always far away....
After much deliberation and weighing the pros and cons, Yu Gong made up his mind and made the following move: One day, he summoned the whole family to gather together for a meeting and asked whether they agreed and pooled the wisdom and strength of the whole family to shovel out a road between the two mountain ranges in the north and let it directly connect with the southern part of Jizhou and the southern bank of the Han River? After the discussion of the whole family, they finally expressed their position and agreed with the opinions of the elderly!
But there were also people who raised some questions, and his wife was one of the representatives, and she said: "What I am worried about is that our abilities are limited, and with the strength of a few of us, we want to bulldoze the Taihang, the king's house, and get the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse?" This kind of thinking is simply incomprehensible! "
But the fool said to them with full confidence: "You don't have to worry about this, we will pass it on from generation to generation until the task is completed and the goal is achieved, otherwise we will not give up and let go."
When all was said and done, the whole family immediately took action, wearing the stars and wearing the moon, getting up early and greedily, and putting the soil and stones that had been shoveled down by hand, pushing by hand, pulling by hand, shoulder and back... and putting them on the edge of The LingHai.
Each person is assigned a very clear task, who can chisel stones, who can dig dirt, 、..., the whole family up and down, young and old, young and old, all of them are in their own jobs, each shouldering his own responsibilities, performing his or her duties, and trying to serve the construction of roads for moving mountains.
Their actions have also led to the right and left neighbors, and many people have voluntarily joined the team; even those orphans and widows have automatically participated in it...
In this village in the nearby river district, there was an old friend of a fool who, after hearing about this, came to dissuade him out of kindness, saying, "Is there something wrong with your brain, how can you get rid of so many stones and dirt with the strength of such an old and frail body?" This is simply an impossible goal. But Yu Gong's determination did not waver, nor did he change his own thoughts, and he replied: "There is something wrong with your thinking, why can't you change it?" It depends on whether you have the determination and perseverance, heck, you are not even as good as an orphan and a widow! "
Yu Gong went on to say, "Old friend, don't underestimate my strength, I'm dead and my son, and when my son dies, there are grandchildren, and there are endless children and grandchildren." But the mountain can't grow or grow, and if it is eradicated a little, it will be a little less, and it will not become a convenient road? The old guy in the river district, thinking he was very smart, touched a nose of ash, didn't answer again, and walked away in chagrin!
Yu Gong's actions alarmed the mountain god, and his old man visited the air several times, and when he saw the fierce scene of digging the mountain in full swing, the sound of people boiling, and you coming and going, he ran back to report this matter to the Heavenly Emperor, and at first his old man did not believe it, but after several times of supervision by the mountain god, he personally went to observe this scene, and he himself was also touched by the sincerity and sincerity of these people, so he ordered his two sons of the Kwa'e clan to carry away these two blocking mountains!
One of them was placed in the east of Shuozhou and one in the south of Yongzhou;
If you have time now, you can go to the south of Jizhou, until the south bank of the Han River, to take a look, and you will never see the two tall Taihang Wangwu Mountains again!