It is said that in ancient times, in Hanoi County, HuaiQing Province, there was a mason named Er Shunzi. Ershunzi is the son inheriting his father's craft of building bricks and tiles, and is famous in the ten miles and eight townships, and is kind, loyal and honest. Nearby people who want to build a house, always like to find a second straight. Er shunzi usually only works near the ten miles and eight townships, and can support himself and his family.
This year, the weather was dry and the harvest of the people was not good. There is not enough to eat, and there are still people who build houses. Er shunzi also had no work, and he could only go to a more distant county to see if he could find a job to earn some silver in exchange for grain. When he arrived at the county seat, he happened to have a large family that needed to build a few houses in the yard.
Er shunzi went to work in a large household, worked for more than half a month, and finally finished the work and got eight or two silver wages. Er shunzi was very happy and wanted to go home early and give the silver to his daughter-in-law to collect. His home was some distance from the county seat and required a three-day walk. He went to the market to buy some dry food, which he could eat on the road.
This year's dry food is more expensive than in previous years, and he is not willing to buy more, only enough to walk home by himself, and he can eat half full on the way. Er shunzi bought dry food and went to the city gate. He had only just taken a few steps when he was stopped by a Daoist priest beside him. The Daoist priest said, "This brother, I see that your seal hall is black, and there will be a disaster of blood and light in these days." ”
Er Shunzi said angrily, "I said you charlatans, can you change your lines?" Don't see others and say that people have blackened and have blood and light disasters, and then say that there is a solution, ask others to give some silver to eliminate the disaster. Do you think I'm still a three-year-old doll, deceived by your routines. Go fool others, I'm a poor mason who has no money for you. ”
After saying this, Er Shunzi broke free of the Daoist priest's pulling hand and flew away. The Taoist priest said loudly in the back: "Brother, I really did not lie to you, I don't want your money, you better be careful these days." Er shunzi ignored the Daoist's words and went out of the city gate in the direction of home.
Er Shunzi walked for a few hours and saw a black dog on the side of the road. The black dog was very thin, like a skin and bone, lying on the side of the road, dying. Er shunzi didn't have to go up to check it out, and he knew that this black dog must be hungry. In this year of drought, people can't eat enough, so where is the extra food to feed the dogs?
He wanted to ignore the dog and walk straight over. But he saw the black dog turn his head and look at him, tears still dripping from his eyes. The kind Ershunzi saw that her heart was very unbearable, after all, this is also a life. He looked at the dry food in his package and said to himself, "I can only eat enough of this dry food on my way home, and if I give some to this black dog, I may starve." Heck, no matter how many, let's save this black dog first, and we can't watch it die. ”
After Er Shunzi finished speaking, he took out a little dry food and water to feed the black dog. After the black dog was full, he was indeed much more energetic. Er shunzi was very happy when he saw this. He got up and continued on his way home, and the black dog followed him as if he recognized him as his master. Er shunzi saw it and said, "Don't follow me, go find your own way to live, I myself am so poor that I can't afford to support you." ”
When the black dog heard this, he bowed his head and silently followed him. Er shunzi saw the poor appearance of this black dog, so he did not drive it away, and said to himself: "Love to follow, maybe this black dog has a fate with himself." In the evening, Er shunzi was hungry, so he took out dry food and water and ate it.
The black dog walked up to him and looked at him with blank eyes. Er Shunzi had no choice but to divide some dry food and water for the black dog to eat. After a man and a dog finished eating dry food, they continued to hurry. After walking for about half an hour, it was dark. When Er Shunzi passed by a thatched hut, he saw an old woman at the door waving to him and said, "This little brother will soon be dark, you may as well stay overnight for me, my family has an empty room." I don't want your money either, I'm alone, you just talk to me. ”
Er shunzi saw that there was such a good thing, so he went over and wanted to spend the night at the old woman's house, so that he would not have to sleep in the wilderness. At this time, the black dog pulled the hem of his pants with his mouth, as if to stop him from walking over, and then the black dog kept barking at the old woman. Er Shunzi was very puzzled, he looked at the black dog, did not understand what was wrong with the black dog?
A moment later, when he looked up at the old woman again. Surprised, there were still thatched huts and old women in front of me, and there was only a grave bag in front of me. Scaring Er Shunzi into a hurry to trot away, the black dog followed him all the time. Er shunzi ran for a distance before stopping. He looked at the black dog and said, "You saved my life this time, you will follow me in the future, if I have a bite to eat, I will not be hungry for you, then I will call you Little Black in the future." ”
The black dog nodded at him as if he understood Er shunzi's words and wagged his tail. At night, Ershunzi rests on a large rock. Little Black stood by his side, like a loyal guard. After a night without words, the next morning, a man and a dog ate dry food and continued on their way.
It was late afternoon again, and Ershunzi and Xiaohei were walking through a gloomy forest. Suddenly, Er shunzi heard a child in the woods shouting for help. He followed the sound and saw a small child hanging from a tree with a rope and shouting for help. Er shunzi wondered how a child in this desolate wilderness could be hung from a tree?
Er shunzi asked, "Little doll, how did you get hanged from a tree?" The child replied, "I went out with my grandfather to collect firewood, and I met a thief." They took my grandfather away, thought I was too young to waste food, and hung me from a tree. Er shunzi heard this and said, "These thieves are also too unconscionable, hanging such a small doll from a tree, don't you want him to starve to death?" ”
When Er shunzi finished speaking, he was going to go forward and put the child down. Little Black tugged at the hem of his pants again, screaming at the child again. After a while, Er Junzi looked at the child again. What other children are there? Tied to the rope was a scarecrow. Er Shunzi was horrified and quickly left the place with Xiao Hei.
After leaving the gloomy woods, Er Shunzi squatted down, touched Xiao Hei's head and said, "You saved me again, thank you so much." Little Black just wagged his tail at him. One man and one dog continued to hurry. At noon on the third day, Er Shunzi said to Xiao Hei, "Let's speed up some pace, and strive to get home in the evening, eat a good meal, and sleep beautifully." ”
Little Black nodded at him, and one man and one dog sped up their pace to hurry. After walking for about an hour, a masked man suddenly jumped out of the grass, holding a knife in his hand, and shouted: "Robber, quickly hand over the silver on your body, and I will let you go." "Er shunzi had a hard time earning these eight or two pieces of silver, and the family pointed to this silver to buy grain to live a life, and there was willing to hand it over."
He was thinking of taking advantage of the robbers' lack of attention and rushing straight over. The little black on the side rushed straight up and tangled with the robbers. Er shunzi took the opportunity to rush over and ran for a long distance. Seeing that there were farmers working in the fields, I knew that the robbers could not have chased them here. He stopped and looked anxiously at the road, hoping that Xiao Hei would come quickly with him.
However, he waited left and right, and did not see Xiao Hei's figure. After waiting for a long time, he lowered his head, and tears could not help but flow. He knew that after such a long time, Xiao Hei must be less fierce. He only gave Xiao Hei some dry food to eat, and he saved himself three times, and this time he took his life. This little black is really a loyal dog.
Er Shunzi looked up to look at the road again, how he hoped that a miracle would happen so that he could see Xiao Hei come back. Suddenly, he saw a small black shadow in the distance, limping slowly. He dried his tears and took a closer look, wasn't this exactly Little Black? He ran over and saw that Little Black was covered in blood, had several knife wounds on his body, and had injured his front legs.
Fortunately, these injuries are not fatal, and Ershunzi has been working outside for many years, with gold sores medicine on her body. He took out the medicine and applied it to The Little Black and bandaged the wound for it. Er shunzi said, "Little Black, you saved me three times, and I will definitely treat you well in the future." Even if I starve, I won't let you starve. Er Shunzi finished speaking, picked up Xiao Hei and walked home.
Seven days later, Er shunzi was sitting in front of the house feeding Xiao Hei something to eat. A Taoist priest passed by and said in surprise, "You are still alive." Er shunzi recognized that this was the Daoist monk he had met in the county town. Er shunzi said unhappily, "You Daoist priest, what are you talking about, of course I am alive." ”
The Taoist priest quickly apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I just lost my manners." Can you tell me what happened after you left the county that day? "Er shunzi told the Taoist priest what had happened after he left that day." The Daoist priest suddenly realized and said, "You are a good reward for this." ”
After that, every time Er shunzi went out to work, he had to take Xiao Hei with him. Xiao Hei is like a loyal guard, always following Er Shunzi.