Suzhou has a Wang Sheng, . His father, Wang Sanlang, was a merchant who traveled south and north, and his mother was Li Shi. There was also a lonely and childless aunt who lived with several children. Wang Sheng has been smart and well-behaved since childhood, and his aunt also hurt him. Who knows that misfortune is not alone, when he was seven or eight years old, his parents died one after another. Since then, the two aunts and nephews have relied on each other for their lives. Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, Wang Sheng was already eighteen years old.
One day, Yang Shi said to him: "You are now an adult, can't we sit and eat the mountain and the sky?" I still have some money around me, plus what your father has left, put together a thousand handfuls of silver, and you go outside to do some business, which is also a livelihood. Wang Sheng said happily, "This is exactly our family's business." Wang Sheng took the silver and consulted with a group of merchants, saying that Nanjing was good at business, so he first bought a few hundred taels of silver Suzhou goods. Picked a day, hired a cargo ship, packed up the luggage and cargo, said goodbye to the Yang family, went to the ship to worship, and began to set off, all the way without a word.
However, in one day, I arrived at Jingkou and took advantage of the east wind to cross the river. When I arrived at the Yellow Sky, a strange wind suddenly arose, and the white waves of the river lifted the sky, and I did not know where to blow the boat to. It was already dark, and the people on board looked around, only to see that there were many reeds around, and there was no second passenger ship before and after. Wang Sheng and his fellow boatmen were panicking, when suddenly a gong sounded in the reeds, and three or four small boats were drawn. Seven or eight people on each boat jumped over the boat in a huddle. Wang Sheng waited for a breath to make a piece, prostrating his head and begging for forgiveness. The gang did not speak or kill anyone, but snatched all the belongings from the ship, and finally shouted "noisy", and the oars were fired in unison, and quickly disappeared into the night. The ship was filled with shock and stunned eyes. Wang Sheng burst into tears unconsciously, "How can I be so unlucky!" He consulted with his peers: "Now that the luggage is gone, what is the use of going to Nanjing?" Why don't you go home and make plans again. Qingqing muttered for a while, and the sky gradually became clear. At that time, the wind and waves were calm, and I turned the bow of the boat to look at the Zhenjiang River. When he arrived in Zhenjiang, Wang Sheng went ashore, borrowed a few pieces of silver from a relative's house for disk fees, and returned home.
Yang Shi returned not long after he went out, and his clothes were disheveled, his face was sad, and his heart had already guessed eight or nine points. Only to see him walk up to him, perform the ritual, and fall to the ground crying. Yang asked him what was wrong, and he told him about the past. Yang Shi comforted him: "Son, this is also your life." It's not that you've lost business, so why bother? Rest at home for two days, and then scrape together some money to go out. Wang Sheng said, "In the future, let's only do some business in the vicinity, so that we don't have to worry about encountering previous things." Yang Clan said, "How can a man who is engaged in business for thousands of miles say such a depressing word!" "After staying at home for more than a month, I discussed with people that Yangzhou cloth is good for sale. He took a few hundred taels of silver collected by the Yang family to Songjiang to buy a hundred or so barrel cloths, bought a boat full of wind alone, and got together with a guy and chose a day to go.
When they arrived in Changzhou, they saw the boats coming back in front of them and said, "Squeezed!" Squeezed broken! Busy asking the reason, it turned out that the grain ship blocked the waterway to Danyang. Wang Sheng said, "How can I do this?" The boatman said: "Waiting here is not the way, let's cross the MengHe" Wang Sheng said: "The Menghe River is not easy to walk." The boatman said, "It's better to walk slower than to block here, I don't know when I'll be able to get through it." "I can only follow the advice of the boatman to take the Menghe River road." Sure enough, it was the azure sun and white season, out of the Menghe River. Only then did he say happily, "Okay, okay." If you are in the inland river, you don't know when you will be able to come out? "I was in the midst of happiness, only to see the sound of water behind the boat, and a three-pronged and eight-oared boat also came at a rapid speed. Looking closer, a hook was caught, and a dozen strong men with fast knives, iron rulers, and diamond circles jumped over. It turned out that the Menghe River went east, that is, the sea, and there were robbers during the day, and only empty boats could walk. Imami is a buying and selling ship, and the remorse just happened to hit, how can it be let go? The ship's belongings were removed again. Wang Sheng looked at it in a hurry, recognized that it was a group of people in the Yellow Heavenly Swing the day before, and shouted loudly: "Great King! You have robbed it once before, how did you meet it again today? Could it be that I owe you in my last life! The leader looked at it and said, "Sure enough, give him some entanglement." He threw a small package over, let go of the boat, and sped away again. Wang Sheng only cried bitterly, picked up the package, and when he opened it, there were still about a dozen pieces of silver included. With tears in his eyes, he sneered, "At least this time, you don't have to borrow a plate to wrap around." "When I got home. Yang Shi saw that it came quickly, and he was shocked. Wang Sheng walked up to him with tears in his eyes and cried about his reasons. It is rare that Yang Shi is an enlightened person, and he knows people in his eyes, and he knows that his nephew will have a date of departure, and he does not complain a little, but only comforts him.
After a while, Yang Shi gathered up the silver again, urged him to go out, and said: "Twice I was robbed, most of them were recruited by fate." If you lose your fortune, you will sit at home, and there will be robberies at your door. Don't lose your family's inheritance because of this. Wang Sheng was just afraid. Yang Shi said, "If your nephew is worried, he will go to the street to divinate for a future." "I found a fortune teller, and I went to several places to do business in succession, all of which were lower gua, and only going to Nanjing was a shang gua. Wang Sheng packed up his luggage and set off again.
After two days of walking, we went to the Yangtze River. On this day, the sails were smooth sailing, straight to the Longjiang Pass. Then it was late and it was too late to go ashore. Afraid of the previous situation, in order to be at ease, he tied the boat by the side of a patrol sentry ship. When he arrived at Sangen, he only heard a gong sound, and the torch Qi Ming woke him up. When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was another group of strongmen, and my ship was no longer in its original place. Through the light of the fire, Wang Sheng recognized that this group was still the same group as before. Wang Sheng had the audacity to grab the leader who had sent him the package before, knelt down, and said, "Great King! The villain only wants to die! The king said, "We only rob the wealth, you go, why do you still have to entangle?" Wang Sheng cried, "The great king does not know, the little man has no parents when he is young, and he has lost all the trust of his aunt and came out to be a businessman." Just came out three times, I don't know if I owed the king in my previous life, and three times I let the king take it away, so why should I see my aunt? Where is there so much money to pay back? Even if the king doesn't kill me, I will also jump into the river, and it will be difficult to go back and see My Aunt Again. "Sad to say, I can't stop crying. The king was a righteous man, and he felt pitiful. He then said, "I will not kill you, nor will I pay you back the silver. Just last night I robbed a passenger ship, all of which were bundled ramie, and a lot, I want him to be useless, I took your silver, and I went with you to do the cost, and we also cleared it. Wang Sheng was overjoyed and said that he could not thank him enough. The gang then threw the ramie over, and Wang Sheng and the boatman hurriedly put it away, and at a glance, there were about two or three hundred bundles. The robber finished throwing the ramie and quickly left again. At dawn, Wang Sheng said, "This is also a robber with a human heart, and these ramie are almost worth a thousand taels." If I go to sell it like this, and someone recognizes it, it is not beautiful, so it is better to go home and change the style, and then go to sell somewhere else. ”
When I got to the house, I saw my aunt and told me everything about the past. Yang Clan said, "Although there is no silver, it is not a big loss to change so much ramie." So he opened a bundle and looked at it, only to see layer by layer. Untied inside, a hard piece of the bundle in the heart, very tightly wrapped. Untied, there are several layers of cotton paper, wrapped in white gold. With the opening of the second bundle, the bundle is the same. A ship of ramie, a total of more than 5,000 taels. I think it may be that large merchants hide money in ramie to hide their eyes and ears in order to prevent theft. Who knew that the robbers did not ask the good and the bad to come, but today they are rich in Wang Sheng. At that time, Yang Shi and Wang Sheng shouted, "Shame! "Although I was frightened two or three times, I was able to get this windfall in plain faith, more than I could do, and I was overjoyed." Since then, I have gone out to operate and suffered a smooth experience. Within a few years, it became a rich family.