Folk Tales: The Story of the House

I don't know in which dynasty, there is a bachelor named Xiangshan, the family is very poor, two broken houses are exposed. But he shot a good gun and lived by going up the mountain to fight wild meat. There is a tall pine tree on the hill. Whenever he passed under the pine tree, a yellow warbler would call out to him, and the sound was really beautiful.

One morning he went up the hill, and the yellow warbler kept flying with him. He went east, and it flew east with him; he went west, and the yellow warbler flew west with him, and at noon he didn't even play a little game.

He said to the yellow warbler, "Yellow warbler, if you live on the top of the mountain, fly to the top of the mountain; if you live by the spring, fly to the spring, and always follow me?" ”

At this point, the yellow warbler flew to his shoulder, and he said joyfully, "Yellow warbler, do you want me to take you home?" The yellow warbler nodded. Don't you think my house is broken? The yellow warbler nodded again. Then you follow me. "He walked below, and the yellow warbler flew above, and he went into the broken house, and the yellow warbler also went into the broken house. Xiang Shan said, "You don't think so, just live here." ”

The next morning, Xiang Shan went to hunt wild game again, and when he came back one day, he had to go to the pot to cook, and there was a bowl of vegetables and two dumplings in the pot, and there was a lot of heat. He couldn't guess who had put it in. He ate and went up the hill. Come back in the evening to have a look, or such a meal. The next morning, he came out to cover the door of the house, and stood outside in the crack of the door to see that the yellow warbler had become a strangely good daughter-in-law. He pushed open the door and jumped in, throwing the yellow hair that had fallen to the ground into the fire.

The daughter-in-law said, "If you are still in a hurry, I have come to live with you." ”

In the evening, his daughter-in-law asked him: "Our house is exposed to the sky, and there is no better house than this?" ”

Xiang Shan said, "Where else, there is a good house where I still live in this broken house?" ”

The daughter-in-law said, "Can't we build a building?" ”

Xiang Shan said, "You can say it easily, if you have money to build a house, you won't be hungry." ”

The daughter-in-law asked, "Not even an idle field?" ”

Xiang Shan said, "There is a wasteland in zhuangxitou, and nothing is long." ”

The daughter-in-law listened without making a sound, and when Xiangshan fell asleep, she quietly went to the head of Zhuang Xitou, pulled out the gold noodle on her head, and painted it on the wasteland. Paint the front hall, paint the back floor, paint the pavilion, paint the tile house, a large wasteland is painted, and the sky will soon be bright. She quietly came back to sleep again, and Xiang Shan didn't know it.

At dawn, when he got up to collect dung, he saw that a roof tile house had been built in the wasteland, so he ran to Xiangshan and said, "How did you build a house in the wasteland?" ”

Xiang Shan said, "Don't be fooled, where do I build any house?" ”

The man who picked up the dung said, "I saw it with my own eyes!" ”

Xiang Shan still said in disbelief, "I didn't cover it!" Speaking of work, someone else said, "You built a house on that wasteland, when did you build it?" ”

Xiang Shan still didn't believe it, and several people ran up and said, "Xiang Shan! You've built a house in that wasteland overnight, so let's go check it out! ”

The daughter-in-law also urged him to say: "Everyone says so, it is a real thing to stop it, so let's go and see it." ”

When I got to the mountain, I was surprised and delighted, it was a good house. In front of the gate tower, a pair of jade lions, on both sides of the pillar coiled with large dragons, are open mouths and eyes, vivid. Go inside and have a look, it would be better, carved dragon carved phoenix, golden Huanghuang, too good to say.

Xiang Shan came home and said to his daughter-in-law happily, "This time we have a good house to live in!" ”

The daughter-in-law said: "A good house is a good house, we will live by ourselves, and we will not be able to live." ”

Xiang Shan asked, "What then?" ”

The daughter-in-law said, "It will only be possible if the whole village moves in." ”

Xiang Shan clapped his hands and said, "It's easy, and no one wants to live in a good house." ”

The daughter-in-law said, "Well, I'll give you money, and tomorrow you'll go to the market to buy some fresh fish and fresh vegetables, and invite all the old and young in the village to ask about it." ”

Xiang Shan did it. Dozens of tables of dishes were cooked, and on this day, the whole village was invited to the old and young, drinking and eating vegetables. Everyone didn't know what was going on, and when they asked Xiang Shan, he only said, "Let's talk about it after we've finished eating." ”

After drinking enough wine and finishing the meal, everyone asked again, "Xiang Shan, do you have anything to say?" Xiang Shan said: "Everyone sees my house, I can't live in it myself, I want to ask everyone to move in, I don't know if the old and the young are happy or not?" ”

Everyone said yes.

In this way, the whole village moved in, and it was happy.

After living for a short time, one day, the county official passed by here, saw this house, and his heart was angry. He gave a command, stopped the palanquin, asked whose house it was, and sent someone to arrest Xiangshan.

The county magistrate asked, "Is it your house?" ”

Xiang Shanying said, "Yes! ”

The county official shouted, "What kind of person are you, dare to live in such a house!" The emperor's golden palace, the dragon is the open mouth, who told you to live in such a house? You are all allowed to move out tomorrow and tear down the house the day after tomorrow. ”

Xiang Shan said, "I really don't want to hide from you, if I want to demolish the house, I can't be the lord myself, and I still have to go home and ask my daughter-in-law." ”

The county magistrate let Xiang Shan return home.

The daughter-in-law said: "The county magistrate will promise him everything, but he can't tear down the house!" ”

Xiang Shan went back to the county magistrate and said, "I promise you everything you want, but you can't tear down the house." ”

The county magistrate said, "What am I going to do, can you agree?" Listen to me, fifty steps before your gate building, there must be ten pine trees, and this pine tree must be as far away, as tall as ever, as thick as ever, without any difference. Every pine tree should be tied to a donkey, and the donkey should also be called a color, generally large, generally fat. When I came, a hundred paces away, they would call in unison, two sack lice, three sack fleas, and I would come here the day after tomorrow, and all these things would have to be ready. ”

Xiang Shan agreed, and the county official got up and left.

He went home, and everyone went with him. Xiang Shan complained to his daughter-in-law and said, "What do you say the county officials want, they all tell me to promise to come down, I see what you do?" ”

An old man said: "Where to go, say which step, you don't complain about her, there are blessings to share, there are difficulties to be with!" ”

The daughter-in-law asked, "What does he want?" ”

Xiang Shan asked the county official for the same thing as she said.

The daughter-in-law laughed and said, "What should I ask for, this is not easy to do." We, so many people, tomorrow to go to two sacks of sesame seeds and three sacks of millet, I have a way. ”

The next day, sesame seeds and strawberries returned. In the evening, the daughter-in-law took out green paper, cut ten pine trees with one scissor, and took out black paper, and cut ten donkeys with one scissors. Under the moon, people were fifty paces in front of the gate tower, measured well, and placed the pine trees at the same distance. The daughter-in-law blew a breath on the pine tree, and the paper pine tree became a real pine tree. Blowing the donkey again, the paper called the donkey became a real donkey. Pine trees are separated by the same distance, grow generally tall, generally thick, and the donkeys tied to the pine trees are also the same color, generally fat, generally large.

At dawn, seeing the tyrannical land in the northeast, the county official led the servants to ride horses and ride in a sedan car. At this time, two sacks of sesame seeds and three sacks of sacks of millet were also placed in front of the gate building, and five big men were holding pockets. The daughter-in-law blew a breath on her pocket and said, "Whenever I call for release, you will release it!" ”

When the county magistrate reached a hundred paces away, ten donkeys called out in unison.

The county official was stunned and urged the people and horses to come to the front to take a look, and it was no different from what he wanted. He looked at the old man with a straight eyebrow, and he couldn't really find a single mistake, so he shouted violently, "What about the five pocket lice you want?" What about fleas? ”

The daughter-in-law said without hurrying: "Release lice and fleas to the big master." "The five big men let go of their hands together, the sesame seeds had become lice, the cockroaches had become fleas, jumping jumps, climbing and climbing, the faces, bodies, ears, and eyes of the county officials and servants, in a flash, they were all crawling with lice and fleas, and no one could care about anyone.

The more you pounce, the more your eyes are full, no one can see anyone, you touch me, I hit you, people flip on their backs, shouting for their lives.

The daughter-in-law pulled the golden noodles from her head, and with just one stroke, a large river blocked the eyes of the county officials, and the county officials and servants all fell into the river and drowned.