Fools have fortune
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small mountain village in the northeast corner of Qingzhou Mansion, and there was a poor talent named Hu Wenyuan in the village. He lost his father since he was a child, and his mother Zhang depended on each other, Hu Wenyuan was kind and upright, and very filial, and was often praised by the villagers.
On this day, Hu Wenyuan went to a neighboring village to attend a friend's wedding, drank a few more drinks, and when he returned home, it was already the willow tops on the moon. He walked on the mountain road with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.
When he walked halfway up the mountain, a sudden gust of wind blew, Hu Wenyuan instantly sobered up a little, and when he looked up again, he found that he was lost, and somehow walked into a mass grave.
Seeing the phosphorus fire around him, the ghosts were heavy, and there were a few strange screams from time to time, although Hu Wenyuan was a scholar, he couldn't help but be a little frightened.
He hurriedly walked back along the way he came, trying to get out of this eerie place as soon as possible, but he had just taken a few steps when he suddenly stumbled under his feet, and he tripped over something and fell to the ground.
Hu Wenyuan secretly screamed "not good", thinking that he had hit something, he lay on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head, and said again and again: "Ghosts and immortals, don't blame, the boy Hu Wenyuan is just passing by here, not intentionally colliding, please raise your noble hands and let me live!"
He lay on the ground and waited for a while, but there was no movement, and then he dared to raise his head slowly, and saw that there was nothing unusual except for the wild grass and graves.
Hu Wenyuan touched the thing that tripped over him just now with his hand, it felt like a tree root, he couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly, and said secretly: "It's really scaring yourself, it seems that it is better to drink less wine in the future!"
He struggled to get up from the ground, patted the dust off his body, and continued along the mountain path. After walking for about half an hour, he finally saw a light flickering not far in front of him, Hu Wenyuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly quickened his pace and walked towards the light.
When I got closer, it turned out to be a dilapidated mountain temple, with the temple door half-open and half-hidden, and a faint light came out from it. Hu Wenyuan thought to himself: "If there is a temple, there will be a god, and if there is a god, there will be aura, so I will spend the night here tonight!"
He walked into the temple and saw an unknown statue enshrined in the temple, and in front of the statue was an oil lamp, which flickered and seemed to be extinguished at any moment.
Hu Wenyuan looked around, and saw a pile of hay in the corner of the wall, he didn't dislike it, walked over to spread the hay, and then lay on it to prepare to rest.
It may be that the strength of the wine has come up again, and Hu Wenyuan felt heavy and drowsy soon after lying down. In a daze, he suddenly heard a slight footsteps, and then a soft woman's voice sounded in his ears: "Childe, the night is heavy, be careful of catching a cold!"
Hu Wenyuan felt a burst of aroma coming to his nose, and he tried to open his eyes to see what was going on, but found a beautiful woman standing in front of him.
The woman was dressed in a pale green dress, with long hair and a shawl, and her face was extremely beautiful. She was holding a cloak in her hand, which was gently covering Hu Wenyuan's body.
Hu Wenyuan couldn't help but be stunned, he rubbed his eyes and asked, "Girl, who are you?
The woman smiled and said, "The little girl's name is Luzhu, and she lives in the nearby mountains. I saw my son spending the night in the temple alone, and I was afraid that my son would suffer from the cold, so I specially came to send a cloak to my son to keep out the cold. ”
Hu Wenyuan was moved in his heart when he heard this, and he hurriedly got up and saluted: "Thank you girl, for your kindness! It's just that you shouldn't be disturbed late at night, how dare you bother the girl to give me a cloak anymore?"
Lu Zhu smiled and said: "Childe is polite! Meeting is fate, just a cloak, why bother?"
While the two were talking and laughing, a sudden gust of wind blew, and the temple door closed with a "bang", and then the oil lamp was extinguished, and the temple was suddenly dark.
Hu Wenyuan's heart tightened, he hurriedly reached out to touch the hay beside him, trying to find a fire fold to light the oil lamp, but unexpectedly touched a fluffy thing.
He was so startled that he was about to scream, but suddenly heard Luzhu whisper: "Childe, don't be afraid!
As he spoke, Green Bead lit a candle, and the temple suddenly returned to light. Hu Wenyuan fixed his eyes and saw that what he had just touched turned out to be a big mouse, and the mouse was staring at him curiously with a pair of small eyes.
Hu Wenyuan couldn't help crying and laughing, he gently patted the head of the mouse with his hand and said, "Little guy, you really scared me!"
Seeing this, Lu Zhu smiled and said, "It seems that Childe is really a kind person! ”
Hu Wenyuan said with a smile: "Everything has spirituality, and mice are no exception. Besides, how could I, a big man, be afraid of a mouse?"
Lu Zhu seemed very happy to hear Hu Wenyuan's words, and she said with a smile: "Childe is right! Everything has spirituality, good and evil are rewarded, and heaven is reincarnated." A good person like Childe will definitely be rewarded. ”
The two chatted for a while, and Lu Zhu suddenly said: "It's late at night, son, let's rest early! ”
Hu Wenyuan was a little reluctant to hear this, he got up and sent Luzhu to the temple gate and said, "Girl, go slowly! Thank you for being with you tonight!"
Lu Zhu looked back and smiled and said, "Childe is polite! If there is a fate, we will meet again!"
After saying that, the green bead turned around and floated away, and soon disappeared into the night. Hu Wenyuan couldn't help but feel a little stunned when he looked at the back of the green bead in the distance, and he secretly said in his heart: "What a strange woman!"
Hu Wenyuan slept very soundly that night, and did not wake up until the next day. When he woke up, he found that his cloak was gone, replaced by a thick cotton coat.
Hu Wenyuan felt strange in his heart, he looked around for the trace of the cloak but never found it. Later, he found a note in the pocket of his cotton coat, on which were written a few lines of beautiful small characters: "Childe cherishes!
Hu Wenyuan was moved in his heart after reading the note, and he knew that this was left to him by the green beads. He carefully put away the note and put it close to his body, then said goodbye to the idol in the mountain temple and left the place.
Later, Hu Wenyuan studied hard and became a great official, and he benefited the people for his official honesty all his life, and became the master of the blue sky in the mouth of the people. And he has never forgotten the kindness of the green beads, and he will go to the mountain temple every year to worship.
It is said that the mountain temple later became the peak of incense, which was very effective, especially for sentient men and women who sought marriage here. Everyone said that this is because the green beads are secretly blessing their lovers! Fools have foolish blessings
After Hu Wenyuan became a senior official in Qingzhou Prefecture, although he was busy with official duties, he would take time out every year to go to that mountain temple alone to worship. Every time he worshipped, he would sit quietly by the pile of hay for a long time, recalling the encounter with the green beads that night.
In the autumn of this year, Hu Wenyuan came to the mountain temple again. The statue of the god in the temple is still solemn, but the pile of hay in the corner of the wall has long since disappeared, and has been replaced by a flat boulder. Hu Wenyuan sat on the boulder, and couldn't help but feel emotional.
Just as he was deep in thought, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside the temple, and then a young man ran in panting. As soon as the young man saw Hu Wenyuan, he immediately knelt on the ground and shouted again and again: "Help, sir!"
Hu Wenyuan hurriedly picked up the young man and asked, "What's going on?" ”
The young man froze, and then said, "The villain's name is Li Ergou, and he is a hunter in the village under the mountain. A few days ago, I went into the mountains to hunt, and I accidentally found a cave, and there was a huge rat spirit in the cave, and it took my sister, saying that I should find an official master within three days, otherwise I would eat my sister. The villain really has no choice, so he has to come to beg you!"
Hu Wenyuan's heart moved when he heard this, and he remembered the big mouse and green bead he had met in this temple many years ago. He secretly said in his heart: "Could it be that there is a connection between the two?"
He pondered for a moment, and then said to Li Ergou, "You take me to that cave to have a look." ”
Li Ergou was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly took Hu Wenyuan towards the mountain. The two walked over the mountains for more than an hour, and finally came to the cave.
I saw that the entrance of the cave was overgrown with weeds and eerie. Hu Wenyuan asked Li Ergou to wait at the entrance of the cave, and he cautiously walked into the cave with a torch in hand.
The cave is winding and winding, and from time to time there is a cold wind blowing, which is creepy. Hu Wen walked about a hundred and ten paces, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he saw a large stone room in front of him, and there was a stone platform in the center of the stone room, on which lay an unconscious young woman.
Hu Wenyuan took a closer look, and the woman was Li Ergou's sister Li Cuihua. He hurriedly stepped forward to check on Li Cuihua's condition and found that she was only unconscious and fine.
At this moment, there was a strange laugh in the stone room, and then a huge rat spirit came out of the shadows. The rat was more than a man tall and had a terrible face. It looked at Hu Wenyuan and said, "You are the official master found by Li Ergou, it seems that I can have a full meal tonight!"
Although Hu Wenyuan was frightened in his heart, he knew that he couldn't show his cowardice at this time. He straightened his back and said to the rat spirit, "Why did you want to capture Li Cuihua, and what kind of enmity does she have against you?"
Hearing this, the rat spirit sneered and said, "She has no enmity with me, it's just that I see her with thin skin and tender flesh, and I want to eat her meat." As for why I wanted to arrest her instead of eating her directly, it was because I wanted to taste what the meat of the official master was like! I heard that the official master grew up eating the flesh of the common people and drinking the blood of the common people, so I want to see if your meat is particularly delicious!"
Hu Wenyuan felt a wave of nausea in his heart when he heard this, and he secretly cursed: "This beast is really damned!" and then he said loudly: "You are wrong! Not all officials are what you say." I, Hu Wenyuan, have been honest and honest all my life, and I have never done anything that hurts nature and reason. If you don't believe me, look it up!"
The rat spirit seemed a little surprised to hear Hu Wenyuan's words, it stared at Hu Wenyuan for a long time, and then said, "You really haven't done anything bad, then why did you come here?"
Hu Wenyuan said: "I am here to worship an old man. She helped me when I was in trouble, and I have never forgotten her kindness. ”
A strange light flashed in the eyes of the rat spirit when it heard this, and it suddenly asked, "Is the old man you said called Luzhu?"
Hu Wenyuan's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "How do you know Luzhu's name? Could it be that you know her?"
The rat spirit did not answer Hu Wenyuan's question, but said to himself: "It turns out that you still remember her...... She used to be a little elf in this mountain, but later violated the ban of the mountain god because she saved a scholar in distress and was beaten into the path of reincarnation. She said she didn't ask for anything in return, she just wanted you to remember her name......"
Hu Wenyuan burst into tears when he heard this, and he choked up and said, "It turns out that she has always been by my side...... And I didn't know ......."
The rat spirit looked at Hu Wenyuan's appearance and seemed a little unbearable, it sighed and said: "That's it! For your sake, I'll let you go! But you have to remember to do more good deeds and less evil deeds in the future! Otherwise, one day you will be punished!"
After speaking, the rat spirit turned around and disappeared into a puff of green smoke in the stone room. Hu Wenyuan hurriedly picked up Li Cuihua and walked out of the cave, and Li Ergou, who was waiting at the entrance of the cave, couldn't help but be overjoyed to see his sister return safely.
Later, Hu Wenyuan wrote this experience into a book that was passed on to future generations, and the title of the book was "Foolish People Have Foolish Blessings". He hopes to tell the world through this book: good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, and it is not that the time has not yet come; to be a person, we must have good thoughts in our hearts and do more good deeds, so that we can be blessed for a long time.