People are warm and cold, and the world is hot and cold. When people in the Chen Family Village saw Chen Youfu's body was still cold, Chen Mengsheng was plotted by his second uncle so that Chen Mengsheng no longer had a place to stay. Shopkeeper Zheng is a businessman after all, and he would never be so generous to Chen Mengsheng, a stranger.
The person who didn't accept the cash thought that the Liuzhou wood coffin had already saved its capital, so he waved his hand and forgot about it.
Chen Mengsheng came out of Chenjiazhuang without any relatives. There was no place for Chen Mengsheng to establish himself in such a big place. Chen Mengsheng walked aimlessly along the road outside the village, feeling really bad. His father entrusted himself to his second uncle, the closest person to him.
With people like this, who else in the world can be trusted?
The day was getting colder and colder, and the wind was like a knife. Chen Mengsheng walked to the Qiantang River. The sky was like black clouds rolling in, and a heavy rain was about to come. Chen Mengsheng saw a fishing house not far away, and three people
I ran into the fishing house in two steps. As soon as I entered the fishing house, it started to rain heavily outside.
This fishing house must have been abandoned for a long time. The adobe walls on three sides are mottled. There is a large fishing net next to the river, which is also tattered and drooping in the Qiantang River. The roof is dripping with water, and Chen Mengsheng hugs it.
The big vat in the house catches the rainwater, but there are too many leaks in the roof. Apart from the big vat, there are only a pair of buckets left in the fishing house. Let's make do with it for one night first.
Chen Mengsheng was really exhausted these days because he had to take care of Chen Youfu's death. He leaned on the broken bed in the fishing house and fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Chen Mengsheng woke up from the cold and couldn't hold his hands.
Yu stretched his arms into his arms to keep warm. He touched something with his tentacles. He took it out and saw that it was a splendid purse that shopkeeper Zheng had stuffed into his coat. There were four or five taels of scattered silver in it. Alas, he didn't expect it to be an unknown person.
People will provide help in times of need.
The rain outside the fishing house is still falling, and the Qiantang River is a pot of boiling water. From time to time, a few fish jump out of the river. Chen Mengsheng's stomach is gurgling. Apart from eating some sweet potatoes in the morning, he is really
The water and rice haven’t come in yet.
Chen Mengsheng searched the fishing house. It was only seven or eight steps from one end of the fishing house to the other. Chen Mengsheng saw a gourd under the broken bed. Chen Mengsheng reached out to pick up the gourd, but the gourd seemed to be alive.
Chen Mengsheng was very surprised and pulled up the gourd with all his strength. A plume of black smoke rose from under the gourd. There was a human figure faintly in the black smoke, and he jumped out with a "ouch" sound.
The house was thrown into the Qiantang River and disappeared...
Chen Mengsheng was puzzled. It wasn't that he was afraid. When Chen Mengsheng saw Judge Cui Yu earlier, he felt a sense of familiarity. Chen Mengsheng saw the word "Sun" written on the gourd. He shook the gourd and there was a sound in the gourd. He pulled out the stopper.
The aroma of wine overflowed. Chen Mengsheng happened to be cold and hungry, so he drank half a kilogram of wine. A warm current began to flow from his stomach to his head.
It was an uneventful night, and the sun was up. Chen Mengsheng opened the door and walked out. People on the Qiantang River saw Chen Mengsheng and kept away from him. Three miles away was a large market, gathering passers-by from the south and the north.
Chen Mengsheng found a breakfast stall and ordered two rice dumplings and a bowl of soy milk. There were several diners at the breakfast stall, and among them two young men dressed as Vincent were talking.
"Brother Yueshan, the emperor is recruiting craftsmen again this year. It seems that the foolish king does not want to regain the lost ground, but only wants to be comfortable and prosperous."
"Brother Meng, you can't say this, be careful. Walls have ears. Brother, I heard a strange news today."
"What anecdote?"
Everyone is curious and wants to hear any strange things. The people at the breakfast stall stopped talking and pricked up their ears. The scholar who spoke then said: "Today, in the morning
My uncle who was driving the truck was returning from delivering goods on the Qiantang River. He passed by the haunted fishing house by the river and saw a man coming out of the fishing house."
"Ah, are you talking about the haunted house that old man Sun had in the past?"
"Exactly."
The breakfast seller was an old woman in her fifties. When she heard what the two scholars were saying, she couldn't help but shake her head and sigh: "The old man Sun's name is Sun Tianci. He used to live next door to the old woman's house. He is also a miserable person.
, his parents died when he was young. Later, he married into the Su family by the Qiantang River, but they did not regard him as a person. Sun Tianci lived by fishing every day, and he loved this cup of food all his life. Three years ago, Sun Tianci
After Tianci sold the fish, he drank too much and accidentally fell into the Qiantang River. From then on, the fishing house in the Qiantang River was always full of ghosts. Many people saw the old man Sun in the middle of the night and said he was Sun.
The old man was so happy that no one dared to go to that haunted house anymore."
When Chen Mengsheng heard this, he understood that it must be the old man Sun Tianci who was in the black smoke yesterday. He also drank other people's wine. Chen Mengsheng paid the bill and bought a new fishing net and a piece of linoleum in the market. He went to the hotel to get some.
I bought a gourd of wine, bought two kilograms of cooked meat, and returned to the fishing house with incense, candles and paper foil.
Chen Mengsheng replaced the old linoleum on the roof, added more bricks and tiles, and repaired the stove in the fishing house that was about to collapse. The new net netted nine fish out of ten, only a few small fish and shrimps were caught.
At night, a light layer of cold dew appeared on the Qiantang River. Chen Mengsheng burned incense, candles and paper foils, offered two bowls of fish and shrimps, worshiped his parents and Old Man Sun, and sprinkled most of a gourd of wine into the river.
Nothing happened all night, but the fishing net set last night was full of bubbles. When I pulled up the fishing net, I saw that it was full of fish.
People selling fish at the market always use a fish basket with three or five fish in the fish basket. If a buyer comes to take a fancy to that fish, it will be over as soon as it is weighed. But that is not the case for Chen Mengsheng.
He picked two loads of live fish. The load weighed more than a hundred kilograms with the fish and water. The fish he picked from the Qiantang River were still alive and kicking, and Chen Mengsheng was so generous that he didn't even need to weigh the fish when selling them.
Unlike Chen Mengsheng who sells eggs, eggs are sold for ten cents each. Fish, big or small, cannot be sold based on how much they weigh and how much they cost. It’s not that there are no scales, it’s Chen Mengsheng who can’t understand the seven-star scale.
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Buying fish is all based on the estimate with the seller. The fish buyer looked at it and thought he was a silly boy. The fish that weighed three kilograms was estimated at one kilogram. Just like this, in one morning, there was a silly boy selling fish and the news spread all over the world.
market.
Later, people in the whole market waited for Chen Mengsheng to come to buy fish. Chen Mengsheng’s business was getting better and better, and those who were greedy for money could not get any more. It was only three kilograms of fish. If you estimate
If one catty is one pound, someone will immediately estimate it at two catties. If you estimate it at two catties, I would estimate it at three catties. There are also many people who want to save face. If you estimate it at three catties, I would estimate it at four catties... Although Chen Mengsheng has not read much, he is not stupid.
Chen Mengsheng made a living by selling fish in Qiantang Village by the Qiantang River. He sold fish for five years and made a lot of money in these five years.
On this day, Chen Mengsheng carried his burden again and came to the market. Within a moment, his fish were snatched away. It turned out that Chen Mengsheng was so stupid that he could no longer laugh in the market. The whole market
Everyone who buys fish in the market comes to Chen Mengsheng, and Chen Mengsheng's reputation represents the fish seller.
Chen Mengsheng, who only sells one load of fish every day, would always go to Taibailou Restaurant after selling the fish and eat a bowl of noodles first. Then he would give the wine gourd behind him to the shopkeeper, who would fill it up for him.
It has been like this every day for several years, and the shopkeeper will always cut up two kilograms of pig head meat, or cut up half a chicken and wrap it in lotus leaves for Chen Mengsheng.
The fishing house where Chen Mengsheng lived had already been built with three tile-roofed rooms, with people living in the back and fishing in the front. At night, Chen Mengsheng opened a lotus leaf bag by the river, threw half of the meat into the river, and then poured it into the river.
Half a bottle of wine, and then have dinner by yourself.
Today, just after Chen Mengsheng poured his wine into the river at night, a big bubble appeared in the Qiantang River. After the bubble burst, there was a ghost inside half exposed on the river water.
The man and ghost in the river said to Chen Mengsheng: "You kid, take over my house and steal my wine."
Upon hearing this, Chen Mengsheng bowed to the water ghost: "You are Uncle Sun, right? Junior Chen Mengsheng would like to thank Uncle Sun. If it weren't for Uncle Sun's fishing house, Chen Mengsheng would have froze to death in the wilderness."
The water ghost was shocked: "There are three golden lights on your head. You are the body of a fairy and I am the body of a ghost. I can't bear the salute you gave me. When you came to my fishing house that day, what was on your body
The Demon-Conquering Ruler was so frightening that I hid it all over the ground. It was because I was greedy for that gourd of wine that I almost didn't let the Demon-Conquering Ruler break it. Then I deliberately set a trap for you and told you that you would get nothing out of ten. Hahaha.
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Chen Mengsheng couldn't help but smile when he thought that there were indeed ten nets and nine empty nets that day.
"Later I saw you offering me incense, candles and paper foils, and pouring half a gourd of wine for me to drink, so I decided to help you and help you drive fish into your net every day."
"No wonder, I'm also surprised that the net is full of fish every day. How about Uncle Sun coming up and having a few drinks together?"
"Aren't you afraid of me? I'm a ghost." As he spoke, he lifted up his wet hair, revealing a livid face.
Chen Mengsheng said with a smile: "Humans are much scarier than ghosts. Alas. Uncle Sun, I give you a toast."
"Haha, you have a magic ruler hanging in your yard. I'm so scared. Let's just drink like this."
Chen Mengsheng sat on the bank of the river holding a Huludao in one hand and a lotus leaf bag in the other. He poured wine and threw a piece of meat into the river, and drank some wine himself.
"Uncle Sun, why don't you reincarnate on July 14th when the gates of hell open?"
"Oh, it's hard to put it into words. I am a dead ghost who cannot enter the six realms of reincarnation. Besides, what will happen if I reincarnate as a human being? Instead of being bullied, I might as well be comfortable drinking wine every day."
One person and one ghost chatted like this until the sky was dimming and Sun Tianci couldn't see the light, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Chen Mengsheng...