Chapter 328 Flower Basket Remembers One or Three Gold Ingots
Xushan's wife opened the dowry box and took out the gold ingot from the bottom of the box. This was a treasure given to her by her parents. It was one of the ancient customs in Xianju to put some valuable things in the dowry when getting married.
If you don't take it out for use, it will be used for emergencies when something big happens at home. It is placed at the bottom of the dowry box, so it is called the bottom of the box. Although the gold ingots are small but heavy, there are five taels in total.
One tael of gold and ten taels of silver can be converted into one hundred taels of silver in one day, which is equivalent to the income of the family for three years of hard work. The two of them calculated the income and felt happy. They had to take a bath and change clothes, and worship with the pork they just bought.
, Only piety can lead to wisdom. The couple set up the incense table and knelt down devoutly. It was not a new year or a festival, and it was not their parents’ birthday. The smell of incense naturally aroused the curiosity of the neighbors. When asked, they concealed it and said: "
If you want a son, the Bodhisattva in the temple has said that you must worship at home every day."
They only have one daughter, so the neighbor said "Oh" and left. After paying their respects, they polished the gold ingot until it was shiny, knelt down and put it in the basket, praying silently: "The God of Wealth appears and bless us."
Make a fortune."
The amount of money this time was huge, and the two of them were worried about gains and losses, and they still wanted to see it turn into gold.
They heard that a scholar named Su Qin was afraid that he would fall asleep while studying, so he hung his hair on the beam with a rope and stabbed his buttocks with an awl to refresh himself. The name of the story is called Hanging Beam Acupuncture.
After a night without sleep, the pain was bearable. After discussion, the couple decided to do it. The effect was really good. When they were about to fall asleep, they woke up again when they lowered their heads and tightened the rope. While they were staring at it, suddenly, there was a bang.
There was a loud noise and they were knocked away. Two neighbors rushed in, supported them and said: "Don't think about suicide if you don't have a son. You can ask a doctor to take care of this matter slowly."
It turned out that because of what happened during the day, the neighbors were curious and saw the lights on in their house in the middle of the night. They peeped through the crack in the door and saw them tying ropes to the beams. Thinking that they were unable to commit suicide, they broke in. The treasure basket's
They couldn't explain the matter to them clearly, so the couple could only explain that the Taoist priest in the temple had said that this was the way to go when asking for a child. Other people in the village heard the noise and came over to watch the fun. They talked and talked, and finally got everyone to disperse.
Soon, news spread in Gaoqian Village that they committed suicide because they had no son.
"rumor"
Keep an eye on the precious bamboo basket,
Outside the gate, there was a sound,
The purpose of pricking the stocks with hanging beams is to seek wealth.
But the neighbor made a mistake.
Rumors spread in Gaoqian village,
Xu Shan has no heir and Xitiangu.
Thanks to the clever neighbors,
Cut the rope that hangs the beam.
After the villagers left, they took a closer look and saw three gold ingots in the basket. Xu Shan took it out and put it on the table. Now he had made a fortune. The couple stared at the gold ingots and giggled.
But just after laughing for a while, Li San felt his right hand was itchy. He scratched it a few times with his left hand, not wanting to scratch it more and more. After a while, two fingers grew next to the index finger of his right hand, and the itch disappeared. He was frightened.
Broken. After thinking about it, when I took the gold ingot just now, my index finger hit the frame of the treasure basket. It may be for this reason. The index finger is also like the gold ingot. One becomes three, so there are two more fingers? Why is this?
What to do, I had never heard of this strange disease. My daughter-in-law was also panicked and said hurriedly: "Quick, let's go up to the White Pagoda and ask the doctor to take a look."
The famous doctor in the town, whose surname was Ying, looked at his seven fingers and said: "I have been practicing medicine all my life and have never seen this disease before. You have to think about it carefully. You have to tell me where this disease came from so that you can prescribe the right medicine for it.
The most fearful thing about illness is that patients avoid medical treatment."
In order to save his life, Xu Shan had no choice but to tell the doctor how he found the treasure basket and how the treasure basket produced copper coins. Doctor Ying checked carefully and found that the bones of the two fingers were not connected to the hand and looked like moles.
The same thing grows on his hands. If the medicine is used properly and the surgery is performed, it can fall off in half a month. Besides, he has a treasure basket and is not short of money, so he said to him in an official tone: "This is a strange disease. Fortunately, I encountered it."
The medicine for this disease is very expensive, and the consultation fee is ten taels of gold."
The gold that had just been transformed was gone all of a sudden. The couple felt very disappointed after paying the consultation fee. Later, they thought that the money was easy to come by, and they would be able to change it back in a few days, so they were relieved. Follow the doctor's advice and take it.
After taking the medicine for half a month, the hyperplastic fingers slowly separated from the palm. The doctor used a knife to cut the final connection. There was no anesthetic in ancient times, and the pain made Li Shan roll on the floor.
"Don't Force"
Gold gives birth to gold, with seven fingers long,
Best wishes to the doctor, for surgery,
There will always be something in your destiny,
Don't force anything in your life.
Luck is unknown, forcing money,
It's painful to take a knife in vain.
The pain is so painful that my teeth are cracked,
Suddenly he lowered his head and saw blood on the ground.
He suffered a lot from using gold ingots to generate gold. He thought that maybe his life was not valuable enough to bear gold ingots. During this day of treatment, he felt much calmer and only used copper plates to put in the treasure basket.
Don't dare to think too much when making copper plates.
"Yes, when you make an unexpected fortune, you will often suffer unexpected hardships. It's like a poor person who wins a big prize in the lottery. He is very prosperous for a while, but how many good endings are there in the end? People, it's better to live a simpler and more transparent life.
"Being rich, happy or sad is not necessarily a good thing." A fat resident took a sip of bayberry wine and said, "Xu Shan in the story earned two gold ingots, but he lost them in the blink of an eye.
, and was stabbed in vain, but in the end it was all in vain. Being free and happy is the life we want, just like what Tao Yuanming wrote, picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and seeing Nanshan leisurely. Is there any lighter dish? My blood pressure is a bit high.
, can’t eat big meat.”
It was difficult to get good food, and the vegetables in the more vegetarian B&Bs were all produced and sold by themselves. Jin Huabin went to the back door and picked out a lot of green onions, washed them in the pot and said: "Can I give you a piece of tofu with green onions? When I was poor, my father
I often take this with wine."
"Qingpingle, Zaojun Green Onion and Tofu"
The weather is high and cold,
It’s snowing again in the twelfth lunar month.
The young and the old do not pick up the poor old man,
I only have two dollars left.
Mix with green onions and tofu,
There are three cups of wine left in the corner of the room.
May as well be poor and happy,
Why is the north wind like a dragon?
At first glance, it seemed a little simpler, so he took another pot of soy sauce beans and said, "This is for free, try it."
"Look at the snowflakes, take a bite of refreshing tofu, count the soy sauce beans on the plate, and have a cup of wine. This is the standard for an authentic hermit." The fat guest took a sip of wine with pride and said: "Later
In which direction does the story develop?"
Jin Huabin took a chair, sat down comfortably, picked up the wine glass and said: "Early in the morning on the first day, Xu Shan and the others were having breakfast again, when Butler Wu came in with a gift box, "My young master is here to take a look at you.
Here it is." He said as he put down the gift box.
The Wu family was the largest and most prestigious family in Gaoqian. Xu Shan was flattered and welcomed him into the room, but he was uneasy in his heart. He was a poor commoner, and his only interaction with them was that he had sold general fish to their family. This
During this sudden visit, I must have heard some rumors related to the treasure basket, but the couple did a pretty good job of keeping it secret.