In ancient times, there was a great drought in one year, the water level of the big pond of the rich man's house bottomed out, revealing a big catfish, the villagers who had no food to eat wanted to fish, but the rich man was not allowed, and only gave them to eat when the fish died, everyone was so angry that they spit fragrant, they never thought that not long after, the villagers praised the rich man Wang for his foresight.
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Xiaoxi Village is a typical agricultural village, most of the people in the village make a living by growing rice, and for many years, the fields in the village have been abundant, and the villagers can barely fill their stomachs despite the hardships of life.
One summer, which was unusually hot and dry, the village had not seen rain for two months, the rice seedlings in the fields had withered due to the prolonged drought, the villagers had no harvest, and even the richest families in the village had almost finished eating the grain they had stored last year.
There is a large pond on the west side of the village, in which many fatty black catfish are kept, and these fish are the property of the richest man in the village, the rich man Zhang.
In order to prevent the fish from being stolen, the rich man Zhang set up a high wooden fence around the pond, and sent his family to guard it day and night, many poor villagers stared at the catfish in the pond and salivated, but knew that the rich man Zhang forbade anyone to enter the pond, so he could only think of the delicious fish soup in his heart.
Three days later, the first case of starvation finally occurred in the village, a family of five, parents and three children, the family had already eaten all the food, they were barely filling their stomachs for the past few days, and the father finally starved to death last night.
The neighbors told the village chief the bad news, and the village chief immediately called a meeting of the villagers' representatives, at which the villagers came to the conclusion that they would send someone to ask the rich man Zhang to be kind and distribute some of the dead fish in the pond to everyone to help them tide over the difficulties.
The next morning, the village chief and several representatives came to the house of the rich man Zhang, who was silent for a moment after hearing their request: "I know that everyone is going through a difficult time, and I do have some food and fish here, but the weather is so hot that I must continue to keep the live fish in the pond, and I can only give you some dead fish." ”
That night, Zhang Caizhu sent someone to clean up a few dead catfish in the pond and distribute them to every household in the village, and the villagers were overjoyed and cooked fish soup at home to treat the old and weak.
Since then, the rich man will ask someone to clean up the dead fish every two or three days and distribute them equally to the villagers, and although the village's predicament has not been solved, it has also been temporarily alleviated.
After all, the number of dead fish in the pond was limited, and after distributing it to the whole village, each family could only get a small share, and gradually, people died of hunger in the village.
At this time, some lawbreakers spread rumors among the villagers, saying that the rich man Zhang had hoarded a large number of live fish and refused to give them to everyone, and told everyone to go to the pond to grab fish, and these people sneaked into the pond in the middle of the night to try to steal the live fish, but were soon found by the rich man's family and ran away.
When the rich man learned of this, he called a meeting of the villagers, and in front of everyone, he unbuttoned his coat, showing that he was skinny and tightened his waistband like everyone else.
He showed that he only ate dead fish in the pond at home, and did not hoard live fish at all, and explained that live fish could hide in the mud and sand to survive the heat, and if they were eaten up now, everyone would have nothing left.
A week later, the last sack of rice stored in Zhang's house was gone, and he had to open his property and take out a large vat of good rice that had been hidden for many years and distribute it to the villagers.
In the days that followed, the villagers survived on rice and catfish dug up in the pond by the rich man, but fortunately, the village finally waited for the first rain after the scorching heat, freed the fields, and rekindled the hope of an autumn harvest.
When the autumn harvest of rice was brought back to the village, the villagers gratefully left the best part to the rich man Zhang to repay him for the favor he had given during the crisis, and the rich man Zhang was noncommittal, but nodded silently in front of the villagers.
Since then, the old people in the village have often used this story to warn young people to know how to save money in everything, and to help in time as much as they can, rather than just hoarding their own wealth, which has also become a good story passed down from Xiaoxi Village.
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