Folk stories about Xingning

Folk story: A liar spends all his time cheating, and a blind man uses a little skill, and the liar changes his ways

Once upon a time, there was a liar and a blind man in the Yonghe area of ??Xingning. People who have been deceived by him can't do anything to him. The blind man decided to punish the liar. The liar finally became submissive and admitted that he would never lie to others again. He also told his disciples and disciples to stop cheating.

How does a blind man who relies on crutches even to walk deal with a liar with sound limbs and bright eyes? Don't ask, just read it and you'll find out.

After he came up with the idea of ??punishing the liar, as long as he knew the liar was at home, the blind man would run to his house, call him brother and brother, talk loudly, talk about the past and the present, and talk about everything about human nature and the world... The two gradually became familiar with each other. One day the blind man said to the liar: "Brother, I heard that you are very powerful and powerful. You can coax chickens from the sky." When the blind man said this, the liar was very proud. He held his head high, sniffed and had a look on his face. With a smile, the blind man changed the topic: "From my perspective, I can't compare to me."

"I can't compare to you, what a joke." The liar sneered and showed his ability: "You tell me The house I live in now is pretty, isn't it? It's either the first or the second in the village. It doesn't matter if I tell you. I got it all by cheating. And there is no other person in the place like this umbrella in my hand. Yes, right! It’s okay to tell you, this is a gift from one of my apprentices in Guangzhou.” As soon as the liar stopped talking, the blind man said, “Brother, this is all childish, believe it or not. As long as I am happy, the house you live in now and the umbrella in your hand are mine."

"Brother, you don't charge taxes, right?" The liar couldn't help but laugh. Putting his feet on the small table in front of him: "If you really have this ability, I will become your disciple."

"I don't want me to be my apprentice."

"Then you What do you want?"

"Change your career from now on, send your apprentices away, and help me farm."

"Okay." The liar doesn't believe it. He is so blind that he can't tell the direction. If a person can deceive his own house, he will say: "You have to be responsible when you boast about Haikou. You might as well say that you listen. As long as you deceive me about the house and the umbrella, and make people convinced, I will give you the other." "

"Is this what you said?"

"I said it."

"You must be at home tomorrow?"

The blind man went out, and the next day, two businessmen came to the liar's house: "Come with us." The liar wanted to do what he did without being discovered, so Ask: "What law have I broken?"

"Someone accuses you of misappropriating other people's property, and the county magistrate is waiting in the hall."

The scammer knows that it is a blind man who is responsible, so he follows with confidence I went to the county government on official business. The county magistrate picked up the gavel and smacked it: "Who is coming? Tell me your name. Someone is accusing you of occupying a house, but this matter has been brought truthfully."

The liar kept calling for injustice, and the county magistrate called. The blind man, the two of them confronted each other in the hall. The blind man said: "You said the house belongs to you. Now in front of the county magistrate, you said how many bricks are there on the first floor of the house, how many feet high, and how many feet are there at the door?" How many feet high and how wide are the door leaves made of?”

The liar really couldn’t tell, so he asked: “Then you say it’s yours, tell the county magistrate.” *How many bricks are there, how many feet is the house high, how many feet is the door high and how wide, how many wooden boards are the door leaves made of?”

The blind man told them one by one, and the county magistrate sent someone. I went to the scammer's house to check, and it turned out to be exactly what the blind man said. The county magistrate ordered the liar to be beaten fifty times, and the house belonged to the blind man. Everyone can't help but wonder, a blind man can't see and can't go into a house. He can still touch the width, height and door leaves of the door with his hands. How can he know how many bricks there are and how high the house is? It turns out that the blind man was determined to punish the liar, and he had already asked the master who built the house. The master who built the house said, "Isn't it clear?"

The liar was completely convinced, he kept his word, fulfilled his promise, and went back to farming with the blind man. He also warned his disciples and grandchildren not to cheat again. From then on, there were no liars in Yonghe for decades. .