The story I heard when I was a child, I fell asleep beautifully after reading it

When I was about seven or eight years old, Xie Mazi moved to Doumen Mountain and became our neighbor. He is a tinsmith who welds teapots, mends iron pots, and hammers tin for others. He carries a load all day long and travels from village to house. In the eyes of our group of children, he is a well-informed person. He is a funny man and especially likes to tell stories, which he tells vividly and eloquently.

For a while, every night, we would gather under the light pole at the intersection to listen to him. When it comes to interesting places, we often laugh so hard that we laugh; when it comes to scary places, we are also afraid, but the more afraid we are, the more we want to hear it.

Recalling these stories later, I found that they all contain the principles of nature and human hearts. The main purpose is to persuade people to do good deeds. It is a way for the Chinese to enlighten children in the old days, and it has been passed down in the form of oral and heart teaching. . I was young at the time and didn’t quite understand the deeper meaning of these stories, but I listened to them all and some of them are still vivid in my memory. Just take three of them to share with you.

Sperm and Idiot

Once upon a time, there lived a family of two brothers. The boss is a sperm (a shrewd man) and is already married. The second brother is a fool and the bachelor is a bachelor. The eldest brother and his wife treat the silly younger brother very badly. They let the fool do all the work in the house and do not give him enough food to eat. Their family has a big yellow dog who is very spiritual.

One day, the boss and his wife conspired to kill the fool to save him from dividing the family property in the future. They want to put poison in the dumplings to kill the fool. These words were heard by the big yellow dog.

After the fool came back from work, the big yellow dog quickly told the fool and told the fool: "You must not eat the dumplings. Watch them eat before you eat them." The fool kept it in mind.

Sure enough, my sister-in-law brought a large bowl of steaming dumplings for the fool to eat. The fool sat there and refused to eat the dumplings. The eldest and his wife were very surprised. Afterward, they asked the fool why he didn't eat dumplings. The fool told the truth. The boss was so angry that he beat the big yellow dog to death and buried it on his own land.

Every day when the fool was working, he would go to the big yellow dog’s grave and cry: “Big yellow dog, what will I do if you die?” I was crying that day, and two soybeans popped out of the big yellow dog's grave. I heard the big yellow dog's voice saying: "Your brother and sister-in-law still want to harm you, don't go home. Take these two soybeans If you smoke clothes for others, you can have food. You shout on the street: "Smells your butt, smells your butt, I will smoke the clothes of the great master."

So, the fool did as the big yellow dog said, and used these two soybeans to make many people's clothes fragrant and clean, and made a lot of money. The fool lived in a ruined temple every night. He would tell Douli what he wanted to eat, and all the delicious food would come to him.

One day, the elder couple met the fool on the street. Seeing that the fool was living well, they felt puzzled, so they followed the fool to the temple to watch secretly, and found: Ah, it turns out that the fool has a " baby". They cheated people out of soybeans and smoked people's clothes.

On this day, the couple came to a rich man's house to smoke clothes. The peas rolled around on the clothes, and he pooped out. Not only did he not make any money, he was scolded and kicked out by the rich man. After arriving home, the couple also imitated the fools and said to Douli: Let's have some food and wine. However, they recited one sentence and stretched their necks an inch longer. They recited another sentence and stretched their necks an inch longer, from inside the room to the outside. The couple was stretched to death.

Seven Blind Girls

It is said that there is such a family. The man's ex-wife died and left behind seven blind daughters. Later, the man married another wife, and the stepmother hated the seven blind daughters very much. She came up with a vicious plan: send them to a place where ghosts never lay eggs, so that they can never come back. The man listened to his wife.

One day, a man said to his seven blind daughters: "You hurry up and clean up. I will send you to grandma's house to stay for a few days today." When the seven daughters heard this, they were very happy because they had never been to their grandma's house.

The men used donkey carts to pull their daughters around, and they never reached their grandmother’s house. The daughters got impatient in the car and asked over and over again: "Why can't we get to grandma's house yet?" The father replied: "It's too far, it's early.

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Seeing that the sun was setting in the west, the man pulled his seven blind daughters to a deep mountain far away from people and said: "Get off the car, we're here." After the girls got off the car, he turned around and drove off. Gone. The seven blind girls woke up from a dream and cried together.

At this time, a woman's voice came to their ears: "Follow me, you seven." They came to a big river. The woman told them to wash their eyes with the river water. Their eyes were healed and they were free of resentment. They went home. p>

When the man and his wife saw that all the seven blind daughters had returned, and their eyes were all healed, they felt ashamed and shameless, so they committed suicide.

They listened to lies at night. Save the Virtuous Daughter

It is said that there was a scholar who was diligent and studious, liked peace and quiet, and yearned for a good place away from the hustle and bustle, quiet and elegant, where he could concentrate on studying.

Later he asked about outside the city. There happened to be an exquisite house at the foot of the mountain, but it was often haunted, so the owner did not dare to live in it. Several tenants moved out one after another because they saw ghosts.

The scholar's heart. Thought: "If you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night. I can't miss such a quiet place to study." So, he took the initiative to obtain the owner's consent and happily moved into this house that everyone avoided.

That night, he While he was reading with gusto under the lamp, he suddenly heard a strange sound outside the house. He remained calm as if he heard nothing. After a while, he heard a voice saying: "There is a woman in the front village, and her husband is doing business outside. He has not returned for many years, and even after asking many people, there is no news. Her parents-in-law thought that their son had no hope of returning home, so they forced her to remarry. The woman was very wise and upright, and she made up her mind and refused to do so. Later, the pressure from her parents-in-law became more and more intense. She felt that she had no way out and planned to hang herself. If she really commits suicide, I can find her as a substitute for reincarnation." The scholar knew immediately that the person who said this was a hanged ghost, because anyone who hanged or drowned could not be reincarnated without a substitute. I heard another ghost say: "You will be able to succeed in a few days. It is really gratifying."

After hearing the conversation between the two ghosts, the scholar suddenly felt compassion for the woman. He thought about it and finally came up with a good idea, so he hurried back home, sold a few acres of land, got some money, and immediately forged a letter from his husband to the woman and gave it to him. The letter was delivered to the woman's home.

The woman was overjoyed when she received the letter and the money. However, upon closer inspection, the letter did not appear to be in her husband's handwriting, so she had mixed feelings. The man's parents-in-law believed that the letter might have been written by someone else and that the money was not fake. They concluded that their son was safe and sound, and they never mentioned the idea of ??remarrying their daughter-in-law. Of course, the village woman also gave up the idea of ??hanging herself.

A month later, the woman's husband returned home from afar. The whole family was overjoyed and reunited as before. They just couldn't figure out where the letter and the money came from. I had no choice but to sincerely thank the kindhearted people for their secret help.

A few days later, the scholar heard the conversation between the two ghosts again: "I have found a substitute and can be reincarnated as a human being." Just because I accidentally revealed a secret when I talked to you last time, and the scholar who was studying in that room heard it, and it ruined my big event! I really regret it now! Another ghost then asked: "In that case, why don't you take revenge by harming him?" "The hanged ghost said: "This scholar has a compassionate heart, saved people's lives, and accumulated great virtues. I heard that he will receive great blessings in the future, and his official position will be ministerial order. How can I dare to harm such a noble person? ”

The next year, the scholar took the exam and was ranked on the gold list, and passed the Jinshi. Later, he was named the Minister of the Ministry of Justice by the emperor, and many descendants passed the exam.