Toad is a toad, it looks ugly and dislikes people. However, the ancients regarded this ugly thing as auspicious thing, but at the same time they believed that this thing was an unknown thing. As for auspicious things, those who are confused and unknown things all depend on their personal likes and dislikes.
Ming Dynasty Zhu Yunming, also known as Zhu Zhishan, is the four talents of Tang Bohu. He once wrote a weird story about a toad, which is quite interesting to say.
He said that he believed that an official from Jiangnan only had a daughter under his knees. He loved her like a treasure, so he named her Aibao.
Aibao has always been healthy. Suddenly, one day, somehow, he got a strange disease, had excessive diet, was moody, and often cried, cried, and suddenly laughed. It became the norm for throwing things, smashing things, burning things, and burning things. He even ran around the street naked in broad daylight, not only did he lose all his face as a father, but he was exhausted because his beloved daughter was tortured by the disease.
The official hired all famous doctors, but he could not cure Aibao's disease. As a last resort, he had to ask for advice on witchcraft, hoping to use divine power to save his daughter from water and fire.
The wizards and witch doctors ring gongs and drums all day long, singing and dancing, and occasionally lighting bonfires for a bonfire carnival. After more than half a month of struggle, it didn't do anything at all, but it made the neighbors very quarrel.
Seeing that these charlatans were useless, the officials were furious and drove them away. In this way, Aibao's illness can only be left to fate.
coincidence, one afternoon, a boatman accidentally stopped by the river in front of the official's house. Just as he was about to get ashore, he vaguely heard the movement of "Gugu, Gugu", like a frog croaking, but it seemed that it was not a frog croaking. This is strange. What exactly makes a sound?
The boatman is a stubborn temper and will never give up until he finds clues. After searching for it, I finally found out. I saw a big toad lying in a gutter. It is as big as a small palm fan, with red spots and bumps all over the body, which is disgusting. The toad was not afraid of people, and jumped around like dancing, making "cuckoo" sounds from time to time.
This boatman is a smart man. He has heard that the official’s daughter Aibao had a strange disease. He wondered if Aibao's disease was related to this toad. Because, he had heard that toads should be gray and yellow, not red. Red must be poisonous. And this toad was red all over, and it was clearly a poisonous substance.
so he brought oar and a wine jar. Use the oar to fiddle out the red toad and use the jar to hold it. After the toad enters the jar, quickly turn the jar over and use the plug to tightly plug the mouth of the jar, so as not to let the toad escape.
Everything was ready, so he came to the high gate building of the official's house with the jar and asked to open the courtyard gate, saying that he was sending medicine to the lady.
The butler did not dare to neglect and hurriedly led him to see his master. The official was a little surprised when he saw the boatman. When the boatman said that there was a way to cure Aibao's disease, the official was very excited, but at the same time he suspected that the boatman lied to him, so he asked the boatman to tell him how to cure Aibao.
The boatman is a real person, but he did not offer any advice. He asked the officials to reward him with 5,000 yuan and then offer the jar. He said he believed that Aibao's disease was related to the poisonous gas on the toad. The gutter directly leads to the official's house. The toad comes and goes freely, and the lady is slender and weak, her body is not strong, and she is often attacked by poisonous gas, so she is confused.
Officials are skeptical, but they are unwilling to give out the money easily. But he promised the boatman that if the toad was really a fool, five thousand pennies would definitely be a reward.
In this way, the officials asked someone to set up a large pot in the courtyard, put oil in the pot, and after the oil boiled, throw the jar into the oil pan. After frying for half an hour, I took out the jar from the oil pan and opened the plug and saw that the toad was already burnt.
As expected, two days later, Miss Aibao's illness was cured, and there were no more attacks in a few days. The official cried with joy, and at the same time kept his word and gave five thousand words to the boatman as a reward.
This article was written by Zhu Zhishan. No one can know which one is true or which one is false. It is said that it is an ancient strange story, so there is no need to be serious.
In "The Legend of Southern Chu Jie", a strange story related to toads was also written.
Qu Jie is a native of Wucheng. When he was fourteen years old, his mother died of illness. The pain of losing his mother made Qiu Jie heartbroken, and he was devoted to filial piety and did not ask about other things.
In terms of diet, he was extremely harsh on himself, believing that cooked dishes have five flavors, and eating them is a disrespect to his mother, so he did not eat cooked dishes, but instead fed with lettuce.
People are not animals. They often eat lettuce, but how can they bear it? But Qiu Jie did not listen to advice, and even if his intestines were pierced, he would never eat cooked vegetables.
He is stubborn, but his stomach refuses to compromise. A year later, I didn’t even have the strength to stand. The whole person looks like a skeleton, so thin that he is only skinny and bone-skinned, but his belly is surprisingly large.
people couldn't bear to see him like this, and they all thought that if they didn't treat him, the fool would undoubtedly die, so they found a famous doctor to treat him. One of the doctors said that Qiu Jie was poisoned by toads. In other words, it is toad poison.
It’s a coincidence that Qiu Jie claimed that he had a dream recently. I dreamed that my mother came to the bed and advised him to eat well in the future. I also said that he was poisoned by toads. He also said that there is a medicine bottle under the bed, and the pills in the bottle can relieve toad poison.
In this way, Qiu Jie was saved. After swallowing the whole bottle of pills, Qiu Jie felt unbearable for abdominal pain. He helped him get into the ground and took a large wooden basin, which made him feel so painful. After getting up, everyone present was shocked. In the wooden basin, there were toad eggs, and some even had tails, forming the shape of tadpoles.
From this day on, Qiu Jie started eating normally. A year later, my body recovered. And the medicine bottle was regarded as a treasure by him. When he offered it, no one was allowed to move it without hesitation. Song Dynasty, the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, was the fourth year of Peace in the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, in 463 AD, a fire broke out in the Qiu family, and the medicine bottle was destroyed in the fire. Qiu Jie was very sad, but he could do nothing.
is OK. A bad article will stop here. The ancients often have suspicion of exaggeration. Nowadays, people just want to watch the fun, and they can’t argue about the authenticity.
