During the Song Dynasty, one morning, five ferrymen came from the Yellow River. The five men were a woman, a scholar, a Taoist, and a merchant. In the past, there were many boats of ferrymen along the Yellow River, most of them lived by the Yellow River, usually fishing for a living, but when they were not busy, they also did the business of ferrymen.
The previous ferries were all very small wooden boats that could not sit so many people. The boatman told everyone to leave one person behind, or the boat would not sit. As soon as the crowd heard the crowd, the woman carrying the rice bag walked the slowest, and was left behind and could not get on the boat. The woman wept anxiously by the river and said how she had been so difficult.
Seeing the woman crying sadly, the boatman could not help but sigh, "You see that you big men have rushed to board the boat with a woman from someone's house, and they are not ashamed at all, it is really a shame." ”
The yellow river is particularly wide, the water is very fast, the woman accidentally slipped and fell on her foot by the river, and lost one of her shoes. Shusheng's eyes were fast, and when he saw something floating on the surface of the river, he reached out and picked it up, and exclaimed: "Whoever's broken shoes are rotten like this and wear them out to shame people." The scholar looked at the words spoken by the culture but they were so harsh and mean, and the people on the boat seemed to understand something and laughed.
At this time, only the butcher did not laugh, he stood up and pointed at the scholar and scolded: "Do you use this person to ridicule people when you read books?" I don't know one of the characters, but I still understand morality. Look what you can be patient with, bullying someone a woman counts as something. I think I'm very powerful, right, I have the ability to fight a fight and try? ”
When the student saw that the butcher still had the guy in his hand, he turned his head to the side in fright, unwilling to pay attention to the butcher. Finally the butcher said to the crowd, "How can a weak woman in the family stay here, this is the last boat, if he does not take her, he will not be able to get on the boat until the afternoon!" If this woman does not go on the boat today, the boat will not leave. ”
In the end, the boatman saw that it was not a way to continue this stalemate, after all, he still had to do business, and finally had to give up his position to the woman.
It took half an hour for the boat to cross to the other side, so the crowd had nothing to do and chatted about the day. Suddenly a black object appeared in front of him, looming, afraid that it was not a monster at work, and the student was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look. The boatman tried to paddle hard to avoid it, but the thing drifted directly to the side of the boat with the current. The butcher picked it up and said, "The water in the river is deep, swimming is forbidden!" ”
The crowd looked at the butcher in confusion, didn't they say that they didn't know the words?
After a moment of silence, the student couldn't help but speak. He said that he was going to rush to the capital of Beijing to prepare for the election of officials, at least a county commander, but he would be a high-class person in the future. He pointed to the people around him and said triumphantly,
"So, if you guys can take a boat with me, you're lucky, and if something happens to you in the future, don't come and have anything to do with me."
The people on the boat turned their backs when they heard this, and didn't bother to look at the students. The Daoist said that he had just done a rain prayer and wanted to look back, and his face was full of happiness, and it seemed that he had received a lot of money on this trip. The butcher said that he had come home from his relatives from his grandmother, and he saw that his grandmother had somehow obtained a few yuan treasures from nowhere, and that she had a good life, her body was very tough, and the stones hanging in her heart could be put down. At this time, my mother must have been very happy to hear this news, and he did not let my mother come at first, for fear that she would be uncomfortable.
The farmer had just returned from selling vegetables in the county town, dozens of large sums of money, and it was clanging in his pocket. I was so happy that I was almost going to heaven, and I guess today was also a full harvest. Only the woman had a sad face and was holding a bag of rice in her hand and did not know what to do. Shusheng asked in a nonchalant manner, "Now that we have all finished introducing, only you have not said what you are doing, why are you carrying bags of rice for a long time?" ”
The woman sighed and said, "Her husband went up the mountain to hunt and stepped on the air and fell, fortunately blocked by a skeleton and did not fall off the cliff." But the skull's teeth were embedded deep in her husband's arm, and it took him a lot of effort to pull the skull's teeth out of his body. The husband felt that there was nothing unusual about his body at that time, so he did not take it seriously. When he came home, he just said that he had a skin injury, and everyone didn't take it seriously. But one day, my husband suddenly shouted in pain, and when I looked, I found that my arm was black. At that time, I thought that I had been poisoned, and I simply applied some herbs, but after another day, my husband was already stiff and unable to move, and a knowledgeable person in the county town said that this was corpse poison!
The skeleton must have been resentful before he died, probably trapped in the wild mountains. After the wind and rain, ate a lot of wild game small animals, or no one to save, and finally died of hatred, with toxins on the teeth. If you bite a person, within five days the living person will undoubtedly die. The only way is to buy a bag of sticky rice to put on your arm and suck out the wet poison. So she came all the way across the river to buy glutinous rice, there is no glutinous rice around the house, and this glutinous rice is also the only remaining one that she bought. ”
The crowd listened to God, and there was something magical about it. They breathed a slight sigh of relief and comforted the woman.
While talking, the boat was already in the middle of the water. Suddenly, a fierce wind blew up on the surface of the river, and the water in the river was stirred up to be muddy, and the water of the Yellow River was originally turbid, which was even more frightening. The crowd looked at each other in fear, not knowing what was going on. Even the boatman was a little confused, he had never seen such a scene after living so long. Suddenly the boat shook from side to side, and after a while, I faintly saw a giant snake swimming slowly in the water.
The Daoist shouted loudly, "The time has come for the dragon in this water to cross the river, and our boat is in the way!" "Everyone was so frightened that they wet their pants, and they had never heard of a giant snake in this river before they got on the boat." The Daoist went on to say,
"The river seems to be calm, but at the end it connects to the sea, and the giant snake enters the sea and turns into a dragon, so it is normal to have a giant snake."
This giant snake enters the sea with a strange and violent temperament, and if it encounters a ship that is in its way, it will often overturn the boat and eat people. The wind disappeared, and it rained again later, which was a precursor to its cannibalism, and the boat people could not run. As soon as I said this, it suddenly began to rain. The people on the boat were frightened and did not know what to do, and asked the Daoist what to do to resolve this disaster?
The Taoist priest looked at the bag of glutinous rice in the woman's hand and patted her thigh and said that she had it. It is said that someone once tried to sprinkle glutinous rice into the river and scare away the giant snake. Because this giant snake is the protective body of giant insects, these giant insects have been escorting the safety of giant snakes. And glutinous rice can repel insects to protect themselves, but it can scare off the giant insects that are guarding, and the giant snake will be afraid to leave. At this time, the people on the boat were staring at the woman's rice bag deadly, but the woman was so frightened that she quickly grabbed the rice bag, shook her head, and said,
"No, no, I want to save my husband's rice, and now there is no glutinous rice everywhere, if you use it, then my husband will undoubtedly die."
By this time the rain was getting heavier and heavier, said the reader,
"There are 6 of us, your husband is only one, no matter what, you should first save the people on our ship, how can this life be worth six lives!"
The woman cried and said, "If my husband dies, what does it mean for me to be alive?" ”
The farmer couldn't help but say at this time: "You see who we are, and who is your husband?" A hunter is just a hunter, and it is not good to say that it is not good, even if we cultivate the fields. If this scholar survived today, he would not know how many people he would be able to benefit from now on. The Dao Chief was half-human and half-immortal, helping the people to solve their problems. The boatman is also swinging the ferry again, and ann is no more important than your husband! ”
The boatman also loudly responded to the right way, and what the old brother said was really very reasonable. But the woman shook her head desperately and said no, no. The Dao Commander looked at this situation and did not say anything. But the butcher suddenly couldn't help but say,
"Your life is your destiny, but the life of a husband is not?" We only know one thing, we can't force people in everything, don't you rob people's sticky rice and become murderers and kill their husbands? ”
At this moment the ship shook violently, and the people on board were shaking. At this time, Shu was so angry that he wanted to grab the woman's sticky rice, but the butcher stopped him, and the two people wrestled together. Except for the Daoists, the others went to grab the butcher, and although the butcher had great strength, he could not hold back the crowd, and was quickly pressed to death on the platform of the ship. Shusheng took the opportunity to seize the rice bag and sprinkled it into the river, and the glutinous rice sank into the water, and after a while the wind and rain stopped, the boat did not spin, and everything returned to normal.
Everyone was relieved, the woman was already crying into tears, and the look of loss and despair was very pitiful. After the back came ashore, the big guys parted ways, and the butcher looked back and saw that the woman seemed to be trying to plunge into the river, and he rushed to the rescue. Although he couldn't swim, he was fortunately not far from the river to save people. The Taoist priest said that he would take the woman home and let the butcher go home with confidence.
After the separation, the butcher returned home very unhappy. Although he rescued the woman, her husband could not survive. On this day, as usual, he came to the street to sell meat, and happened to meet the Taoist priest and the woman. The Taoist priest said that the butcher was very kind, and he was a decent person who came to show him a way to get rich.
The Daoist asked the butcher to buy ten acres of fertile land to plant mulberry trees, and after 5 years, they made a mulberry wooden knife, each of which could be sold for ten silver. The Taoist also said that on the boat he wanted to test this group of customers, and the butcher performed best. After speaking, the woman suddenly turned into a black tiger, and the Daoist rode the tiger and disappeared.
The butcher Looked thoughtful there, but he still chose to listen to the man's words, bought ten acres of good land, and planted mulberry seedlings. Time flies, five years have passed, and if the mulberry seedlings have divine help, they will grow strong and thick, and the butcher will make the mulberry wood into a mulberry wood knife according to the instructions of the Taoists. At this time, there was a beast plague in the village, and the people in the village tried many ways to solve it. But only the butcher's family was all right, and finally the villagers found out that the beast was afraid of the mulberry knife. So everyone in the village rushed to buy the butcher's mulberry knife, and the butcher made a fortune!