When the onlookers saw the village king coming, they hurriedly moved aside to make way for the village king. The village king clasped his hands behind his back, with a gloomy face, walked through the crowd, walked towards the steps, and came to Wang Cai. He
He bent down, picked up Wang Cai, and asked: "Uncle Wang, what happened, please tell me. Don't worry, speak boldly, speak loudly, I want to know what's going on!"
Wang Dacai wiped his tears and began to talk.
It turned out that Ergou had agreed with his brother to take turns supplying food to his parents, but when it was Ergou's turn, he refused to give him food. Wang Cai asked for it, but Ergou refused on the grounds that their division of the family was unfair.
Wang Cai was so angry that he scolded his son for having no conscience. The two scolded him for a while, and Ergou pushed him to the ground. He kept scolding him. Wang Wen came to persuade him, but Ergou also said that it was useless for me, the King of Heaven, to give him anything.
If you don’t give it, let’s see who can do it to him!
Wang Wen was also Wang Cai's family member. He ran to find the village king. Xueer told him that the village king had something to do at Sanjun's house and might be drinking at Sanjun's house. So Wang Wen hurried to Sanjun's house to invite the village king.
Come.
The village king asked Wang Cai to explain the situation, and looked at everyone and then at Ergou. Everyone was waiting for the village king to scold Ergou, and then asked Ergou to apologize to his father and hand over the grain. Who knew, not only did the village king not first
He scolded Ergou, but instead asked Wang Cai loudly: "I think you are at fault in this matter! You are very wrong! Do you know where you went wrong?"
Wang Cai opened his mouth in surprise: "I, I, I don't have any property, and the division of the family is fair. Where did I go wrong? I was right!"
The village king said loudly: "You are so stupid! Don't you still know your fault?"
Where is Wang Cai confused? The audience doesn't know. The audience just feels that they are confused by the king of the village.
"Why am I confused?" Wang Cai was dissatisfied.
"Of course you are confused! You made the mistake of giving birth to an unfilial son but you still didn't know that you were wrong! After giving birth to this unfilial son, you didn't drown him in the urine tank again. It's just making more mistakes! You make mistakes again and again.
, but you don’t know what’s wrong, are you confused?”
As soon as the village king finished speaking, the confused audience suddenly woke up and burst into laughter.
The village king still didn't look at Ergou, nor did he scold Ergou. He asked the spectators: "You all, tell me, who do you rely on when your parents who gave birth to you get old?"
"Rely on the children!" everyone said loudly.
The village king took over the words: "Yes! It depends on the children! How about raising children to provide for old age? Isn't it?"
"Yes!" everyone agreed.
The village king waved his hand: "Raise children to protect yourself from old age! Children do not fulfill their obligation to provide for themselves in old age, but they also attack their parents. This is unreasonable! As the saying goes, there is water on the roof. Let me tell you, if you don't honor your parents today, you will be old in the future.
Now, who will honor you? Even if you don’t have children, you still have to rely on your nephews and nieces when you get old! How can you not honor your parents if you don’t have children? Tell me!”
"No!" Everyone was as enthusiastic as students answering the teacher's question.
The village king waved his hand again: "Fellows and fellow villagers! As the saying goes, the two elders in the hall are living Buddhas, so there is no need to go to the mountain to worship the World Honored One. Some of us are not filial to our parents. In order to seek peace of mind, we worship gods and Buddhas. Think about it, everyone. Worship gods.
Is it useful to pray to the Buddha? Will God bless me? If I don’t even respect the two old living Buddhas in the hall, it’s useless! Can the gods be as high as the living Buddhas? Besides, crows have the filial piety to feed back, and sheep know the kindness of kneeling to breastfeed. Animals can repay their parents’ kindness. Parents.
If you don't fulfill your filial duty when you are old, wouldn't you be worse than an animal? Everyone thinks, is Ergou right to do this?"
The village king named and scolded Ergou!
"That's not right!" Everyone was very excited and began to accuse Ergou one after another.
Seeing that he had offended the public, Ergou said: "King of the village, I didn't say that I would not support my parents! It's my father who is prejudiced against me. He still has some food, but when he has no rice to cook, he insists on forcing me to
Give me food. He came to make trouble because he wanted to embarrass me."
The village king knew that Ergou wanted to find a step, so he followed his words and said: "That's right. I was also wrong. I opened a denouncement meeting for you without a thorough understanding. This is my fault. However, I also know that you Ergou
, you are the one who failed to live up to your expectations! You said, now that all the responsibilities have been assigned to others, who else can you blame? It turns out that as a collective worker, you blame me for not assigning you a good job, saying that I stepped on you and asked you to find a wife
No. But now, the land is yours, you can do whatever you want with it. If you can’t make a name for yourself or get a wife, how can you blame me? You’re good at life, so how can you blame your parents for giving birth to you at the wrong time? Okay! Get over it.
I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Ergou, I tell you, I have no prejudice against you at any time. It’s your business if you have any opinions about me. I don’t care how you treat me, but your parents raised you
People, you should feed them! In front of everyone today, do you express your opinion, do you want to feed them? Or not? If you want to feed them, give the food to your parents today. Is that okay?"
Ergou nodded: "I will raise them. I will give them food today."
The village king laughed: "I know that Ergou is not a bad person. Please be more enthusiastic in the future and introduce him to a partner, okay?"
Everyone said in unison: "Okay!"
"Let's disperse! Go back and do what you have to do! It belongs to the gentlemen. If you have nothing to do, just go home and hug your wife to sleep!" When the village king said this, everyone dispersed with laughter.