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During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Yunxi village at the foot of Wulong Mountain in Xiuning County, Huizhou Prefecture, and there was a carpenter named Wang Gensheng in the village.
At the age of eight, Wang Gensheng followed his father Wang Dazhui up the mountain to cut down trees and down the mountain to cut wood, because he usually paid attention to the work for his father and fellow villagers, so he found his employer to work, and often lined up from the east end of the village to the west end of the village.
On this day, Wang Gensheng sat at the door of the house and planed wood, while his father Wang Dazhui watched from the side, muttering something in his mouth.
Wang Gensheng dug two pieces of wood, threw away the planer in his hand with some impatience, and shouted to his father: "I won't marry the girl of the Liu family, I won't marry a bachelor for the rest of my life." ”
It turned out that the father and son were talking about Wang Gensheng's marriage, and Wang Dazhui said that Liu Yuanwai in the town had sent someone to urge him to kiss, but his son Wang Gensheng disliked Liu Yuanwai's daughter Liu Cui'e, who had a fat head and big ears, was wide and fat, and refused to agree to this family affair.
It all started 20 years ago, when Wang Dazhui went to work in the town and met a group of robbers who stopped a carriage in the middle of the road. Originally, Wang Dazhui didn't want to meddle in his affairs, but when he saw that the woman in the carriage was pregnant with Liujia, and the robbers robbed the money, they actually dealt a cruel blow to a pregnant woman.
So Wang Da Hammer immediately didn't think much about it, took out an axe from the toolbox and rushed up. The gang of robbers couldn't help laughing when they saw that Wang Da Hammer dared to rush over and send him to death. But the next second he was stunned, only to see Wang Da Hammer holding an axe, and cut down several robbers to the ground with three strikes and five divisions. When the robber leader saw that he had encountered a hard stubble, he shook a cruel word and fled.
Wang Dazhui was worried that the robbers would kill the horses, so he escorted the woman's carriage all the way back to the town. Later, he learned that the woman's surname was Wang, and she was the concubine of Liu Yuanwai in the town, and she was taken to the house by Liu Yuanwai to be nursed because she was pregnant.
Liu Yuanwai knew that it was Wang Da Hammer who saved his wife, so he pulled the other party to become brothers with different surnames, and when he learned that Wang Da Hammer's wife Chen was also pregnant, the two hit it off, and they decided to marry a baby kiss.
Originally, this was also a godsend, but the Liu family finally gave birth to a daughter, so they didn't mention it, Wang Dazhui only thought that the other party made a joke. didn't think about it, after the young lady of the Liu family grew up, she completely avoided the beauty of the Wang family, but inherited Liu Yuanwai's fat head and big ears, wide body and fat appearance, resulting in not marrying at the age of twenty-six this year.
Liu Yuanwai saw that his daughter was getting older and older, and after thinking about it, he hit Wang Gensheng, the son of Wang Dazhui, with the idea. Liu Yuan sent the housekeeper Zhao to come to the house, and Wang Dazhui was not easy to refuse, so he came to discuss with his son Wang Gensheng.
At this moment, Wang Dazhui saw that his son did not agree to this family business, and he angrily reprimanded: "You can't make the decision on the marriage matter, so this family matter is decided." ”
Wang Gensheng thought of marrying such a daughter-in-law, how would he live in the future, so he depressedly picked up a saw and an axe and went to the back mountain to cut down trees alone. He knows his father Wang Dazhu's temper, and he has always been consistent in what he decides, and he never considers his feelings.
Wang Gensheng is very familiar with the Wulong Mountain behind his home, and he followed his father to scurry around in the mountain when he was a child, and later when he encountered troubles, he would go to the mountains to cut down trees alone, as long as he vented his grievances, his mood would be much better.
The Wulong Mountain Range is the northern section of the Jihuaiyu Mountain Range, separating the Qiantang River and the Yangtze River basin, and is called Wulong Mountain by the local people because the direction of the mountain range resembles five circling dragons.
After Wang Gensheng came to Wulong Mountain, he began to look for trees that could be used for furniture, and it was winter, which happened to be the season of logging.
In fact, there is also a point of logging, because in winter when the leaves are gone, the trees on the mountain will "harvest the veins," which is what we often call the wood hardens, and if you wait until winter to cut it, it may not be so easy.
Wang Gensheng went around in the mountains and forests, and finally chose a tall and straight pine tree, he looked at the terrain and the tendency of the tree, and it was easy to judge the direction of the tree. ”
I saw Wang Gensheng squatting in a good posture, and after finding the texture of the big tree, he began to pull up the saw. He remembers that his father used to say that when using a horizontal saw to cut wood, the force of both hands should be equalized, so as to prevent the side with a lot of force from running the saw, and when correcting the deviation, it needs to be pulled slowly to prevent the saw blade from getting stuck and breaking.
When the tree was sawn halfway, Wang Dazhui took out the axe, because it was more labor-saving to use the axe next. There's a saying, "A quick saw is better than a blunt axe." "As long as the axe is aimed at the grain of the wood, and with a skillful split, the axe is much faster than the saw.
As soon as he raised his axe above his head, he heard a cry of pain in his ears, and he hurriedly got up and ran to look, only to see a pack of wolves surrounding a wounded fox, slowly approaching, and the fox's eyes were full of despair.
At this time, Wang Gensheng noticed that the fox looked at the approaching wolves, it looked down at its belly, and two tears dripped from the corners of its eyes. Wang Gensheng grew up in the mountains, and after a glance, he concluded that the fox was pregnant.
Wang Gensheng looked at this scene a little unbearable, he sighed: "How can there be a mother in the world who doesn't love her children, no matter what, these new lives that are about to be born are innocent." With that, he took a saw in his left hand and an axe in his right, and rushed into the crowd with a loud shout.
At first, the wolves were frightened by Wang Gensheng's loud shout, but when it became clear that it was just a human, they quickly pounced again. One of the wolves was in good shape, and as soon as his front legs bent, he leaped up and opened his fangs to bite Wang Gensheng.
Wang Gensheng seized the opportunity and chopped down with an axe, only to see a flash of golden light, and one of the ears on the wolf's head was cut off. In fact, this is already Wang Gensheng's deliberate hand, after all, he just wants to scare these wolves, not to fight them to the death.
After seeing that his companion was injured, the huge wolf in the middle of the head stared at Wang Gensheng viciously, and then howled towards the sky, only to see the wolves around him slowly retreat and quickly disappear into the woods.
Wang Gensheng knew in his heart that it was the wolf king who gave the order just now. Although wolves are solitary animals, when food is scarce, this group of wolves will live together for a short time, and at this time, the strongest will be elected wolf king, they will unite and fight, obeying the wolf king's orders.
After driving away the hungry wolves, Wang Gensheng looked at the fox behind him, and the other party looked at Wang Gensheng gratefully for a long time, then turned around and ran into the woods.
Wang Gensheng returned home after cutting down the tree, his father Wang Dazhui and Steward Zhao had already finalized the marriage, and Steward Zhao said before leaving: "My family has already picked a good festival, and I also ask my uncle to prepare early and don't go wrong." ”
Wang Dazhui agreed: "I'm tired of Steward Zhao's trip, don't worry about this matter, and when Gensheng comes back, I'll let him start to prepare." ”
Although Wang Gensheng was unwilling, this family business was still decided. Ten days later, he married Liu Cui'e, and the two completed their wedding. After marriage, Wang Gensheng's attitude towards his wife was very cold, except for having sex at night, he went to work during the day.
A few days after the marriage, Wang Dazhui went out to work, and then a strange thing happened to the Wang family, every night the captive chicken would lose one.
On this day, Wang Gensheng went out to work and walked halfway down, when he suddenly turned around and returned home, only to find that his wife was holding a live chicken.
Liu Cui'e saw her husband come back suddenly, she hurriedly threw away the hen in her hand, and then explained: "Xianggong, I asked Lang Zhong to come and see, and he said that I was happy, and I was just hungry, so I wanted to kill a chicken to eat." ”
Wang Gensheng heard that his wife was happy, and a smile appeared on his face for the first time in a long time, and he immediately put down the tools in his hand, rushed to the courtyard and grabbed the chicken just now. Liu Cui'e looked at her busy husband, and an intriguing smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
It didn't take long for the chickens at home to run out, Liu Cui'e's belly bulged day by day, and her already obese body gained a lot of weight. Wang Gensheng wanted to cry a little when he saw this scene, but for the sake of the child in his wife's womb, he could only find a way to make the other party eat and sleep well every day.
On this day, because there were no chickens at home, Wang Gensheng brought the leftover chicken soup from yesterday and handed it to his wife. As a result, Liu Cui'e broke the bowl angrily, pointed at her husband's nose and scolded: "I married you so unproductively, I can't even eat a chicken when I'm pregnant, I think it's better to go back to my parents' house." ”
Of course, Wang Gensheng wished that the other party could go back to his parents' house, with the wealth of the Liu family, not to mention a chicken a day, even a pig a day was enough for her to eat. But before his father Wang Dazhui went out, he told him, "You have to treat your wife well, if you get angry with her and go back to your parents' house, wait for me to come back and pick your skin." "Father's words, Wang Gensheng never dared to disobey.
Liu Cui'e saw Wang Gensheng's embarrassed face, so she gave him an idea and said: "Xianggong, there are many beasts and animals on Wulong Mountain, you go and catch some to make up for me." ”
Wang Gensheng was a little helpless, so he had to take his tools and go to the mountains to start hunting. When he reached the mountain, he used an ink fountain to pop some strange lines on the ground, and finally formed a pattern. Then, with a saw and an axe, some hands and feet were made on the trees around the pattern.
Within half an hour, the birds and beasts passing by the land were all struck by the branches that flew out, and in the evening, Wang Gensheng returned with a full load.
Liu Cui'e saw her husband carrying these birds and beasts home, and she couldn't close her mouth happily, so she asked him to go to the mountains to fight more in the future. Wang Gensheng was a little puzzled, no matter how much prey he brought back in the past few days, he was eaten by his wife the next day, and there were not even bones left.
About a month later, Wang Dazhui returned home from outside, he walked to the door of the house, and saw his son walking out of the house with a dejected face, and when he was about to speak, his brows were furrowed. When Wang Gensheng saw his father, he hurriedly shouted: "Dad, you are back." ”
Wang Dazhui looked at his son who came over, and he said coldly: "How can there be demonic spirit at home, what happened recently?"
When Wang Gensheng saw his father say this, he hurriedly told the situation at home, only to see Wang Dazhui thoughtful, he took out an ink fountain from the toolbox, poured some green ink, and shouted: "Come with me." ”
Wang Gensheng didn't know why, so he rushed into the room with his father. At this moment, in that room, Liu Cui'e was eating meat, and when she saw her father-in-law coming back, she shouted: "It turns out that my father-in-law is back, do you want to eat a little together." ”
Wang Dazhui looked at Liu Cui'e, who was gobbling up, and scolded angrily: "What a demon, he actually came to make trouble in the world." ”
Seeing that she was recognized, Liu Cui'e was suddenly stunned and stayed in place, and then a gray wolf shadow escaped from Liu Cui'e's body.
Wang Da Hammer shouted angrily: "Demon, where to escape?" Then the ink line in his hand was pulled, and with a flick of his fingers, a blue light flashed out and struck at the wolf shadow.
When the wolf shadow in the air saw that the escape path was blocked, he turned around and opened his fangs to bite Wang Gensheng. At this time, Wang Dazhui sneered, took out the axe from his waist and threw it into the air. In the next second, a painful wolf howl sounded in the room, and the wolf shadow was struck by an axe and instantly turned into powder.
Seeing this situation, Wang Dazhui turned his head and shouted to his son: "Silly boy, why are you still stunned, go and see if anyone is okay." ”
Wang Gensheng only remembered his wife Liu Cui'e at this time, and hurriedly ran over to see that the other party was already unconscious. Seeing this, Wang Dazhui walked over and took a look, put his finger in the ink chamber, flicked a few drops of green ink on Liu Cui'e's eyebrows, and called softly: "Liu Cui'e, come back!"
In less than half a pillar of incense, Liu Cui'e slowly came to her senses, and when she saw her husband Wang Gensheng holding her, she threw herself into the other party's arms and cried: "It's all your fault, my son and I almost can't see you." ”
It turned out that after Liu Cui'e married into the Wang family, she was coldly looked at by her husband everywhere, and that day she was unwell, so she went to the town to find Lang Zhong to check the pulse, and Lang Zhong said that she was happy.
She happily wanted to share this incident with her husband, but in order to avoid her, her husband cut down trees in Wulong Mountain every day, so she went up Wulong Mountain alone, but met a vicious wolf in the forest. And that wolf is the wolf king who suffered a loss under Wang Gensheng a few days ago, it has already cultivated in Wulong Mountain, and it has a grudge against Wang Gensheng in his heart, so he turned into a wolf soul and possessed Liu Cui'e.
The wolf king wanted to take advantage of Wang Gensheng's defenselessness to do harm, but after seeing the hen in the house, he wanted to stay with the other party for a few more days when he was greedy. Later, the wolf king found out that Wang Gensheng was very good at hunting, and he could come up with that way to hunt, so that he could sit and wait for the food to be delivered to his mouth every day.
However, the wolf king still miscalculated, it turned out that the ancestral craftsman of the Wang family studied under Lu Ban, not only with exquisite carpentry skills, but also knew Zhou Yi's unique skills. Wang Gensheng's method of hunting used Zhou Yi's technique, but he was still shallow, and he couldn't see that his wife was possessed by the wolf king.
But Wang Dazhui was different, that day when he came home, he smelled the demonic aura in the house, and after learning about some strange things that had happened recently from Wang Gensheng's mouth, he concluded that his daughter-in-law Liu Cui'e must have been possessed by a demon, and when he entered the room, he saw that it was true.
The wolf king had just cultivated to perfection, and even Wang Gensheng was more than enough to deal with it at the beginning, but now that it encountered the profound Wang Sledgehammer, how could it have a chance to escape?
Although the wolf king was solved, a strange thing happened to the Wang family, Liu Cui'e was obviously pregnant for ten months, but when the time came, she did not give birth, and the father and son of the Wang family were anxious like ants on a hot pot every day.
On this day, Wang Gensheng went to the mountain to cut down trees, and as soon as he walked into a forest, he heard a roaring cry from the forest. He walked over to see that the fox he had rescued was giving birth, and when he saw this scene, he closed his eyes and turned around to walk away.
At this time, the fox suddenly spoke: "Take your child away!" After speaking, the fox snorted, and saw a baby with a transparent body, wrapped in a ball of seven-colored brilliance, floating in front of Wang Gensheng.
When Wang Gensheng saw this scene, he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, but the child looked at him and giggled. Just when Wang Gensheng was puzzled, the fox said: "You saved our mother and son at the beginning, and I am here to repay the favor today." ”
It turned out that a few days ago, Wang Gensheng helped the wolf king kill countless creatures on Wulong Mountain, so those creatures and souls came together to take revenge on the Wang family. However, they knew that the father and son of the Wang family were not easy to mess with, so they hit the idea on the child that Liu Cui'e was about to give birth. These souls surrounded the Wang family, and as long as there were souls reincarnated into the Wang family, they would intercept and swallow them.
The father and son of the Wang family were kept in the dark about this matter, but they were known by the fox that Wang Gensheng rescued at the beginning. The fox couldn't bear to have no children in his benefactor's family, so he didn't care about his own life and saved a soul that came to be reincarnated and hid it in his belly.
After Wang Gensheng learned the truth of all this, he quickly thanked the fox, and then went down the mountain with the baby wrapped in colorful light, and when he got home, the light in his hand automatically flew into Liu Cui'e's body.
At this time, I only heard my wife shouting: "Xianggong, I seem to be about to give birth." When the father and son of the Wang family heard this, they hurriedly invited the stable woman in the village.
After Wen Po came, she was busy in the room for a long time, and with a child crying, Wen Po walked to the door with the child in her arms and shouted: "Congratulations, congratulations, it's a big fat boy!"
Since this incident, Wang Gensheng no longer dislikes his wife for being fat and ugly, and their family understands and helps each other together, and finally lives a harmonious and happy life.
Write at the end
"Husband and wife are affectionate, begging for food and fighting snakes are also paired, and husband and wife are not in harmony, and they are also scattered when they are officials and sit in the house. It means that as long as the husband and wife are in love, no matter what difficulties they encounter, they will never give up, and if the relationship between the husband and wife is not harmonious, even if the life is good, they will eventually separate.
In this story, Wang Gensheng deliberately avoided the relationship between the two people coldly after the other party got married because he disliked Liu Cui'e for being fat and ugly. It is precisely because there is a gap in the relationship between the two people that the wolf king has an opportunity. Wang Gensheng made a lot of mistakes, but because of his kindness, he saved the fox at the beginning, so that he had the opportunity to make up for all this, and finally lived a happy life.
In real life, each of us may have made mistakes, sometimes because of our unintentional actions to hurt others, then what we should do is to make amends, not make mistakes again and again. The relationship between husband and wife is even more so, since they are destined to come together, then they should tolerate each other and cherish each other.
Finally, I hope this story can make us remember the phrase: "Husband and wife, family fun; Husbands and wives quarrel, young and old run. ”