Wanting to eat your steamed bread can help you realize a wish.

There is a Cui Sheng in Linqing, Shandong Province, whose family is very poor. One day, a beggar came to Cui Sheng's house and begged from Cui Sheng. Cui Sheng was very kind and gave the beggar a steamed bun. After the beggar wolfed down the steamed bread, he said to Cui Sheng:

"Young man, that's very kind of you. I ate your little steamed bread, which can help you realize a wish. Tell me what you want? "

Cui Sheng thought beggars boasted and didn't care. On the contrary, he followed his words and said with a smile:

"I want a horse, can it come true?" It turns out that Cui Sheng has a good friend who is an official in Shanxi. Cui Sheng wanted to look for him long ago, but he couldn't go because there was no horse to walk on.

Hearing this, the beggar smiled and said:

"This wish is not difficult to realize. You can get up and watch it tomorrow morning. I guarantee that your wish will come true. "

The next morning, Cui Sheng got up to pee and suddenly saw a big black horse lying on the grass. That horse army is very good, with black hair and white patterns, but the hair on its tail is uneven in length, as if it had been broken by fire.

Cui Sheng began to think that a beggar was joking with him. He stole a horse from somewhere and put it in front of his house, so he drove it away. But the next day, the horse came back and drove it away.

Cui Shengna was bored and thought, does this horse really have no owner? Anyway, I will help take care of it for a while, until the master finds you.

After waiting for three days, the owner of the horse still didn't come to find it. Cui Sheng moved the idea of riding to Shanxi, but before he left, he told his family:

"Anyone looking for a horse will say that I rode to Shanxi."

Cui Sheng rode on a horse, and the horse galloped all the way and ran out of more than a hundred miles in an instant. To Cui Sheng's surprise, the horse didn't eat much forage. Cui Sheng thought it was tired at first, and deliberately tightened the drill to prevent it from running fast, but the horse was kicking and barking, unlike being sick. Cui Sheng simply abandoned the reins and let it gallop, and rushed to Shanxi overnight.

Cui Sheng was overjoyed. What is a good horse? My own horse is, walking thousands of miles without eating grass, where can I find it in the world?

Cui Sheng couldn't put it down. After coming back from Shanxi, Cui Sheng often rode his horse to the fair, and everyone he met praised him. He did this for another purpose, that is, to find the owner of the horse and return it.

King Jin heard that there were such good horses among the people and wanted to buy them at a high price. At first, Cui was afraid that the owner of the horse would come to look for it and didn't dare to sell it. But after half a year, no one came to look for this horse. Cui Sheng wavered and sold it to the King of Jin for 820 taels of silver. He bought a robust mule from the market and rode it home.

Later, the king of Jin was in a hurry, so he sent his servant to Linqing on this horse. In Linqing, the servant dismounted and intended to stay in a hotel, but the horse suddenly ran away. The servant chased Cui Sheng's neighbor Zeng Sheng's house all the way. When he came in, he couldn't find the horse, so the servant asked his master for it.

"How can there be a horse in my house?" Neighbors are at a loss.

"Nonsense, I just saw it run in. This is the horse of Jin Wangfu. The file is hidden, but it will be beheaded. "

"Heaven and earth conscience, I really didn't see a horse."

"Let me go in and search."

The servant pushed Zeng Sheng away and broke into his house. He searched carefully and found no horse.

"Where did it go?" The servant was puzzled.

Suddenly, a painting in Zeng Sheng's living room caught his attention. On the wall, he saw pictures of eight horses in Chen Ziang. One of the horses is very similar in color to the one lost by the King of Jin, especially the hair on its tail was burned a little by the incense head.

"What is this?"

"This is just a painting!"

"Nonsense, this is obviously a horse lost by Jin. The uneven length of the horse's tail is the mark."

It turned out that it was the servant who lost his horse, and it was difficult to recover the king's life, so he passed it on to Zeng Sheng, saying that he had made some tricks by the side door and hid the horse in the palace. With this, the servant took Zeng Sheng to see the official, and Zeng Sheng cried for a while.

Zeng Sheng's grievances attracted neighbors to watch, including Cui Sheng. After finding out the ins and outs of the matter, Cui Sheng found Zeng Sheng and said that he was willing to pay for the nux vomica and return the servant to me.

It turned out that Cui Sheng used the money from selling horses to do business, and his family had accumulated hundreds of millions of funds. The compensation for nux vomica is only nine Niu Yi hairs.

Zeng Sheng was very grateful to Cui Sheng for his kindness, but he didn't know that Cui Sheng was the one who betrayed the horse that year. What he didn't know was that the beggar once asked him for a meal, but he scolded him and sent him away. The beggar was none other than Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals in Du Jie. Their lives are very different because of your steamed bread.

This story is adapted from Painting a Horse in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. To thank Cui Sheng for his kindness, Lv Dongbin "activated" a painting of a horse and gave it to Cui Sheng. After Cui Sheng became rich and expensive, he still kept his original heart and rescued Zeng Sheng. It can be seen that his kind nature has not changed, and Lv Dongbin is not wrong about people. No matter how the world changes, we must believe that good things will happen eventually, but good things will bring a bright future to Mo Wen.