There is a shabby hut in the south of fish scale bridge in Beikan town, where there are two people, mother and son. Mother Liu, blind, is in her sixties; My son, Chen Deliang, is 25 years old. He looks like a man, full of power. I am still single.
Chen Deliang is a dutiful son. He has great respect and filial piety for his mother. He gave his mother rice, delicious food, green tea and drinks first.
Above all, Chen Deliang is honest, kind and helpful. Therefore, everyone in the neighborhood flies.
Chen Deliang is poor and has no farmland at home. Their lives depend entirely on Chen Deliang's long-term work in Zhu Hongchou's foreign family.
Zhu Yuan's husband lives in the south of Chen Deliang's house, which is very close. Therefore, Chen Deliang has time to go home and cook for his mother every day when he is resting in middle age. This is their life, month after month, year after year, killing in difficulties.
One day, Chen Deliang hurried home to cook for his mother. I don't know. He opened the lid and saw that the rice in the pot was cooked. Chen Deliang felt very strange. What happened? Mom can cook by herself?
"Mom, did you cook by yourself?" Chen Deliang asked.
"No." Mother replied.
"Why is there rice in the pot?"
"I don't know."
Chen Deliang filled a bowl with a spatula and tasted it first. Delicious. Delicious. He asked again:
"Mom, which one has come to my house?"
"No," my mother replied.
This is very strange. No one has been to his house. Who cooked the rice in that pot? Maybe my mother went to bed and didn't notice; Maybe my mother didn't see it. Someone else cooked it ... Anyway, the meal is ready. Let my mother eat it.
Chen Deliang served a big bowl of rice to his mother.
Mother ate a mouthful of rice and said happily:
"Good son, today's meal is really delicious!"
On the third day, Chen Deliang went home to cook and found that the rice in the pot was ripe. I asked my mother, but she still said she didn't know who did it. In this way, three or four times, he came back to see that the rice was cooked. That's strange, Chen Deliang thought. He doesn't have any brothers or sisters, but he has a few relatives, and he has little contact. So, who often cooks?
Mother also feels strange. She said:
"Good son, do you have a daughter-in-law outside, keeping it from your mother?"
Chen Deliang immediately denied it and said:
"Which have this thing! If your son has a daughter-in-law and doesn't tell your mother, how can he deceive you! "
Mom is thinking about it, too. My son has a daughter-in-law, how can he hide it from his mother? Won't he tell his mother early to make her happy? To tell the truth, Chen Deliang is so old and not married, and her mother is often worried.
"Have you ever heard of anyone coming in to cook? Mom? " Chen Deliang asked.
"No," said mother. "Someone came in. Didn't I hear footsteps?" How many more dishes to cook? At least I can hear the sound of scooping water. "
Chen Deliang told her mother to listen carefully in the future. If anyone comes in, just ask. Mother agreed.
Since then, my mother has never dozed off, listening to people's footsteps every day.
"poof!" A subtle voice came.
"Which one?" Mother asked loudly.
"Meow!" It turned out to be a big cat. It is looking for food in the kitchen.
Ta！ Ta！ Ta！ The footsteps of a man walking.
"Which one?" Mother asked loudly.
"It's me, Aunt!" It turned out to be Li Bangfu from the South Hospital. "Aunt, what's wrong with you shouting like this?"
"Ah, it's Bangfu," mother smiled easily. "It's nothing, but something strange happened at home recently, and Deliang asked me to see it."
Li Bangfu was surprised to hear what his mother said.
"Don't be a fox," said Li Bangfu.
Everyone here believes in foxes.
"How could I!" Mother said, "My house has been destroyed. How can the fox value it?"
This is also a fact. Chen Deliang's family has only three huts, and they are all short. Where is the fox hiding?
"If your name is not Detective Deliang, who are you?" Li Bangfu told his mother about it.
This is also an idea. who is it? You didn't know until the detective came.
Chen Deliang came back in the evening. Mother told Li Bangfu what she said. He also thinks that only in this way can we find out who is helping him cook.
The next day, Chen Deliang didn't go to Zhu Yuan's in-laws to work. He secretly hid in the locked shell of the room, looking out, waiting to see who came in.
Chen Deliang waited for three days in a row, and no one waited.
On the fourth day, Chen Deliang went to Zhu Yuan's in-laws to work.
When the sun went down, Chen Deliang stopped standing in the field and looked up at his home. Well, a strange phenomenon appeared: there was smoke in his chimney, the kind of smoke from the kitchen.
Chen Deliang put down his hoe and ran home without hesitation.
Chen Deliang walked into the gate and saw a girl, wearing green frills, green trousers and red embroidered shoes, standing in front of the stove, dragging a big braid behind her, cooking quickly.
The girl saw Chen Deliang come in and started running.
Chen Deliang hands stretched out, blocked, and said:
"Sister, don't be afraid, I won't mess with you."
The girl stopped when she heard this.
Chen Deliang said:
"Elder sister, please tell me, who are you? Why do you cook for my family? I am guilty of sorrow. "
"I said, girl, you have a good heart." Mother heard Chen Deliang talking, touched her and said, "My family is poor! In this field, many people look down on my family. "
"Mom, how can you say that!" Chen Deliang stopped her mother from saying these depressing things to the girl she had never met.
"Why don't I say something?" Mother still said, "this girl, I didn't invite her, she came to help me cook for this blind old woman." Good conscience! " Why don't I say something? In this world, lanterns can't be found! "
"Auntie!" The girl said, "I just cooked two meals by the way, which is not worthy of your praise."
"no! I said girl. " Mother said, "My family is poor and no one can afford it." Only you, I said girl, you don't dislike my family's poverty and are willing to come and help me cook! "
"What does it matter if you are poor?" The girl said, "As long as I am not afraid of hardship and work hard, I will be rich."
"You're right! I said girl! If I have a pair of hands, I can grow crops and have food. " Or the mother said, "But, you know, I said girl, my family has no land." Where do I work without fields? Are all the crops I grow? (hāng, for) others, I just want to get paid. "
"Mom, what are you talking about?" Chen Deliang said.
"Well, I won't talk about it." Mother said, "I thought so, too, so I said it."
"What mom said is true, too." The girl said so.
"I don't want to talk about it." Chen Deliang said, "I want to ask, where are you from, why do you come to help me cook? I am thinking about this in my heart, and I can't solve it. "
The girl smiled.
"Don't laugh," Chen Deliang said. "Is that what I want to know?"
The girl wanted to think and asked:
"Do you remember a snail you let go that day?"
"Yes," said Chen Deliang, "it was the morning of 15 last month."
"That's right." The girl smiled and said, "I said, don't be afraid!" " "
"There is nothing to be afraid of." Chen Deliang said.
"good! I tell you. " The girl smiled and said, "That snail is me."
On the morning of March 15, Chen Deliang went to Zhu Yuan's husband's house and prepared to work in the fields. At this time, the old housekeeper bought a basket of snails from Beikan Town and said it was ripe. Pick out the meat. The snail is broken. The host likes to eat. Chen Deliang saw a snail the size of a small handleless wine cup in the basket, as if in tears. He reached out and caught the snail. The old housekeeper said that he bought this snail specially. It was big and full, so he asked Chen Deliang not to take it away. Chen Deliang said that it would take many years for such a big snail. How to eat? He didn't listen to the old housekeeper, took the snail, walked to the Linghe River and set it free.
"My brothers and sisters and I went to the edge of the Linghe River, but we were entangled in the fisherman's net and couldn't get rid of it." The girl said, "If you hadn't saved me, my little daughter would have almost died!" " "
Mother listened to, hurriedly say:
"This is a good thing. This is a good thing and should be done. "
The girl said:
"I'll help your family cook in return for saving your life."
"There is no need to repay, this is what it should be." The mother said at once, "My good son is kind-hearted. What should I do? "
"If you don't mind, I will often come over to help my mother cook." The girl said.
"How could you not like it?" Mother smiled and said, "Girl, I can't return it."
Since then, this girl has been called snail girl by her mother. She comes to help her mother cook every day.
As time went by, Chen Deliang fell in love with the girl. After the mother got married, they consummated the marriage without any wedding.
After consummating the house, the snail girl said that she would buy some fields to live a good life.
Chen Deliang naturally agreed. However, where is the money?
Snail girl said, this might as well, she can think of some way.
A few days later, a piece of land grew on the east beach of Linghe River. The snail girl's name is Chen Deliang Di Wei. She has made a field, about three or four acres. They planted corn, sorghum, soybeans and chaff in this field. Since then, Chen Deliang stopped working in Zhu Yuanjia and began to grow his own fields.
Chen Deliang married a beautiful woman, and everyone in the village knew that she was like a fairy.
Zhu Yuanwai also knows. He sent an old housekeeper? . The old housekeeper said she was really beautiful.
A few days later, Chen Deliang and Snail Girl helped Li Bangfu to harvest cotton and grass. The snail girl is wearing a white sun hat, green ruffles and green trousers. When Zhu Yuanwei passed by that field, he saw the snail girl's slim figure from a distance, which was different from others. He couldn't help but say:
"Looking like a flower from a distance, it looks more like a flower from a close look. It is really a flower! "
From then on, Zhu Yuanwei began to use the snail girl's brain to get the snail girl into his own hands. He discussed with the old housekeeper what to do.
"This matter is easy to handle." The old housekeeper said, "Who doesn't curry favor with you outside Zhu Yuanzhang?" Those rural women's homes are not enough for you to see. "
Zhu Yuanzhang gnome male-"smiled. Say:
"Then ask the housekeeper to help me run."
In the evening, the old housekeeper came to Chen Deliang's house with great interest and said to the snail girl:
"Girl, my Zhu Yuanwei has a crush on you. Go."
Hearing this, the snail girl's face immediately sank down and said:
"The spilled water, the married woman, can be changed at will."
"This is the Zhu Yuanwei girl I respect you." The old housekeeper said, "If it were any other woman, she wouldn't want to come and give my family Zhu Yuanwei!" "
"Good horses don't eat grass, and good women don't marry mistresses. Don't you understand this truth, Zhu Yuanwai? If you let your wife Zhu Yuanwei spend the night here, will your wife Zhu Yuanwei be willing? " The snail girl said loudly, "If anyone wants to leave, just call." I'm not going. "
The old housekeeper touched a rebuff and went back.
Who knows, this all of a sudden, will get into trouble.
Zhu Yuanwai listened to the old housekeeper's reply, furious, loudly shouted at:
"This unappreciative thing! , see how I tidy up you. "
The old housekeeper followed:
"She doesn't dare to listen to what you mean by Zhu Yuan. Isn't that the opposite?"
"You help me find out which woman this is." Zhu Yuanwai disgruntled said to the old housekeeper.
The next day, the old housekeeper inquired from all directions. However, no one in the village knows Snail Girl's hometown.
"That's strange," Zhu Yuanwei said.
"It must be an unknown woman." The old housekeeper said.
"Ask the local police to check," said Zhu Yuanwei. "If it is a woman from an improper source, she should be arrested and dealt with according to law."
The old housekeeper told Di Bao what Zhu Yuanwai meant.
Keep good dare not neglect, immediately came to Chen Deliang's home, ask snail girl's hometown, which is the father, which is the mother, and eight generations of ancestors.
River snail girl said slowly:
"I live in an underwater village, Tianjiazhuang, ranking third, and outsiders call me Tianjiasan."
The local official inquired clearly and reported it to Zhu Yuanwei.
However, where is this underwater village, Tianjiazhuang? The local security guard searched for several days, but there was no whereabouts. Maybe very far away? In that case, we have to give up.
A few days later, Zhu Yuanzhang was very jealous when he saw that the crops in Chen Deliang were growing well. He said to the old housekeeper:
"How did the crops in Chen Deliang's home grow so luxuriantly?"
The old housekeeper said:
"In my opinion, his field must have sucked the fat from my field, otherwise how could it be so prosperous?"
Zhu Yuanwai thoughtfully:
"I have to find a way to clean up his field."
"It's easy," said the old housekeeper. "I went to the county government to tell him that the soil in his field was moved from my home. That land should also belong to you outside Zhu Yuan. "
"coup!" Zhu Yuanwai listened and smiled happily.
A few days later, the county government issued an arrest warrant.
Chen Deliang saw it and was very scared.
"Don't be afraid." Snail girl said, "I have my own explanation."
The county government held a court session.
Zhu Yuanwai presented a complaint and said:
"unruly Chen Deliang, this is a long-term job of Zhujiajian. Because he was familiar with Zhujiatu, he moved Zhujiatu to the east of Linghe and made his own fields. So this field should belong to the Zhu family. "
Magistrate of a county gavel cypress, loudly ask Chen Deliang:
"Is that so?"
"Report back master, I dare not hide. This is really not the case. " Chen Deliang replied in shock: "The villain's field was made by the villain's wife."
Magistrate of a county said with a loud voice, Chen Deliang's wife.
Snail girl went to court and knelt on the ground.
Magistrate of a county asked:
"How did Chen Deliang's field come from?"
"Report, master," said Miss Luo Tian slowly. "Wang's field was really acquired by a little girl."
"How did you get it?"
"The little girl invited many brothers and sisters at home to build this field together."
"Yes," Zhu Yuanwai said loudly. "They secretly moved the soil in my field to the other side of the river and made this field. Please tell the magistrate who owns this field? "
"Report back, Sir! Please let my little girl know that the soil in Zhuyuan field is grayish brown, and the soil in mine is pale white, which is the difference in soil color; The soil in Zhuyuan field is clay, and the soil in mine is sand, which is the difference of soil quality. It can be seen that these are two different soils. How can you say that my husband secretly transports soil in his field? " Snail girl said slowly, "Please make it clear to the princess."
The magistrate of a county heard what the snail girl said was reasonable, so he sentenced the plaintiff Zhu Hongchou to lose the case.
Zhu Yuanwai returned home, gnashing his teeth with anger, and vowed to get rid of this wild girl.
The old housekeeper said:
"I think there is another way."
"What way?"
"I'll call some thugs from the camp," said the old housekeeper. "In the middle of the night, I broke into the Chen family and beat the wild girl. I would rather kill than die, and it is good to have her half-life. "
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang thought there was only one way.
Sure enough, someone knocked at the door at midnight.
Chen Deliang got up, ready to open the door.
River snail girl gesticulating with the hand, said:
"Let me do it."
River snail girl opened the door, I saw five thugs, fierce stood at the door, loudly say:
"You give this field to Zhu Yuanwai, that's all. If not, please go and see Yan Luowang. "
River snail girl didn't say a word, a lu with the hand, five people fell four, said:
"Are you still fierce?"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the thugs got up and ran away desperately.
River snail girl returned to the room and said to Chen Deliang:
"The world is like this, and it is hard to reverse at the moment. I'd better avoid it. "
That night, Snail Girl took Chen Deliang and her mother to live in Huanghai Village, outside Changsha Town, and lived a quiet life. Later, a boy and a girl were born. (Selected from Master Zun, edited by Xu Tianxiang, Party History Office)
Famous doctor Yanwu
There was a famous doctor named Yan in the ninth case. His family's medical skills have been handed down in the family for five generations.
Among several generations of doctors in the Yan family, our medical skills are the highest, and we can do both internal medicine and surgery, especially surgery. He once removed a tumor weighing 15 kg for an old lady in her seventies. He once saved a fisherman who stopped breathing for an hour; Once, he woke up a pregnant woman in a coma, who had been put in a coffin; He once cured a critically ill patient in a big hospital ... and he created many medical miracles. His medical skills are well known, and Fiona Fang is thirty or fifty miles away. As long as someone is seriously ill, no one will not come to him for treatment. When people saw him, no one called him "Dr. Yan!"
Yanwu has no other hobbies. He only pursues one thing, and that is money. He said that as long as you have Kong Fangxiong and no rice, you can buy rice with money; If there is no oil, you can take money to buy oil; If there is no meat, you can take money to buy meat; If there is no fish, you can buy fish with money; Even if there are no women, you can buy women's money. Money can dominate everything and control everything. Therefore, when patients seek medical treatment from him, they should first give him gifts, money and red envelopes. The more he sends, the happier he is, and the sooner he can cure the disease, the better. If you are stingy and don't want to give money or red envelopes, as a doctor, he can't refuse to treat you, but he still has a way to take out your stingy money. For example, you obviously only need to check one project, but he asks you to check it comprehensively and spend hundreds of dollars to squeeze out your money; Or, he will give you some painkillers first, so that your illness is neither bad nor bad, and drag your money out; Or, he gave you some expensive medicine, a pair of money, drained your money, and so on. In a word, you are a patient and he is a doctor. You must beg him. When you see him, you have to give him gifts, red envelopes, even a few pounds of fish and an old hen.
Yanwu's love of money is nothing to the rich, but they don't care if they spend more money. However, it is difficult for the poor and those who are financially strapped. Because they have no extra money. Some people even strangle themselves to see a doctor and squeeze their fingers dry. How can they have money to buy gifts? Because of this, Yanwu is also hated by many poor people. However, he is a doctor. What's the use of being jealous of him
One drizzly night, Yanwu had gone to bed. At about midnight, someone suddenly knocked at the door and said that his mother was ill and asked Dr. Yan to see a doctor.
Yanwu stood up and saw a teenager calling the door.
Yanwu looked at the drizzle all over the sky and wanted to say, let's talk about it at dawn. Before he could speak, the young Ya er took out two pieces of silver and handed it to him. The teenager also said that if Dr. Yan takes good care of his mother's illness, there will be a gold ingot to send! Yanwu looked at the white ingot and was very moved. She promised to go at once.
Yanwu got dressed, took a medical bag, held an umbrella, sat in the little girl's cart and made house calls.
This teenager is really good at pushing unicycle! He is wearing hemp fiber. Although the path was muddy and drizzling, he pushed the unicycle and ran at high speed. It wasn't long before he arrived at Bazong Temple.
They turned north from the west of Bazong Temple and walked for a while. Yanwu saw rows of very neat houses ahead. At this time, every household is still burning oil lamps. People here are really diligent, he thought, and they are still working at midnight.
The teenager pushed Yanwu to the door of a family and said he was at home.
As soon as Yanwu got off the bus, he saw this family's thatched cottage with sharp and low eaves. When he walked into the gate, he saw that the room was very gorgeous. The wall is painted red, clean and bright, and the room faces outward with a big blessing on it. It is really a big house.
When Yanwu entered the room, she saw a white-haired old woman lying in bed, in a very bad mood. He went over and felt her pulse, which was mysterious. Then I looked at my face and tongue and asked about my appetite. Then I said that the old lady was weak. Although her illness is very serious, the problem is not very serious. She just needs to take a few doses of Angelica sinensis and ginseng soup, and make up for it.
The old woman was very happy when she heard Dr. Yan's words, and asked her son to bring four gold ingots to Dr. Yan.
Yanwu did not refuse, and accepted all this happily.
The old lady asked her daughter-in-law to take good care of Jiaozi and the following, and treat Doctor Yan well.
Yanwu ate a bowl of jiaozi and a bowl of noodles, which were very delicious.
Yanwu went to bed after returning home, and suddenly remembered that the place where Cai Er went seemed to be the Eighth General Cemetery, which was a big surprise. He immediately got up, lit the oil lamp and looked at the gold ingot that the old woman gave him. It turns out that these four gold ingots are all made of gold paper and platinum. He also took out the silver ingot sent by young Yale, which was also made of silver paper and platinum. At this time, he felt something stirring in his stomach, and he felt sick. He spit out many toads and green earthworms.
The next day, Yanwu didn't get up in bed. He felt delirious and weak. In the afternoon, he asked someone to push the cart and follow the road he took at night to the place. That's right. This is indeed the eighth general cemetery. He sighed and said to himself, I met a ghost and I'm going to die.
From then on, Yanwu didn't think about diet, and it was useless to take any medicine. His body became thinner and thinner day by day. Found himself dying, he took out a principal passbook from the drawer, called his son Qing Yan to the bed, and said with infinite regrets:
"This is my hard-earned money for decades. To tell the truth, a lot of it is money! I'm leaving now, but how much can I take with me? People are not as good as days! Ghosts and gods don't allow it. "
A few days later, Yanwu died. According to his last wish, the tomb was also built in the Eighth General Cemetery. He settled down there and became the neighbor of the old woman. (Selected from Master Zun, edited by Xu Tianxiang, Party History Office)