Xinyazhai folktale (joke): Fast horse

Fast horses

Once upon a time, there was an old rich man, the family had three daughters, married to three Xiucai, this year, the old rich man had a birthday, the daughter and son-in-law all went to wish for the birthday, the old rich man suddenly Yaxing, said to the three sons-in-law: "Today is my birthday day, each of you three wrote a poem to help everyone. The eldest son-in-law asked, "What is the title?" Old Cai pointed to the horse tethered in the courtyard and said, "Let's take it as the subject." And said to the eldest son-in-law, "You boss, you do it first." ”

This eldest son-in-law was a vulgar talent, and after thinking for a while, he groaned in passing: "The goose feathers fell into the nest of fire, running horses in Moscow, there were tens of thousands of miles back and forth, and there were no goose feathers (on fire) when they came back." The son-in-law was a stupid talent, and he thought about following the boss's thoughts: "The new needle puts on the water basin, runs on the Berlin, there are 100,000 miles back and forth, and the new needle has not yet sunk." It was the turn of the third son-in-law to write poetry, this old three was a sour showman, usually crooked ideas, but today it was his turn to compose poetry, for a while for the sake of difficulty, this is just the old fortune let a fart, casually said: "Father-in-law put a fart, running horse Italy, back and forth can have tens of thousands of miles, back and forth fart sound is still ringing." ”

Narrator: Li Dongfeng, male, 23 years old, farmer of Fengxian Temple Village in Western Xia, gao xiao culture;

Recorder: Hou Manchang, 24 years old, literary cadre of the Happy Cultural Center;

Location: The narrator's home in Fengxian Temple Village, Western Xia;

Recording time: March 1987.