A long time ago, in a village in a county in Zhejiang, there lived a cooper named Zheng. He lost his wife early in his life, and it was not easy for his daughter to grow up relying on craft work. This daughter weighed exactly seven pounds when she was born, so the neighbors called her Qimei.
Qimei is 18 years old this year. is tall and graceful, and she is also very smart. knows how to do everything. No one from all over the country does not praise her.
On this day, Zheng Houtong went out to work as usual, while Qimei was doing needlework at home alone.
Near noon, I saw an old man in his seventies shouting outside the door: "Qimei, is your father at home? I have some important work at home and I want him to do it."
When Qimei heard this, she quickly opened the door. Chat politely with my husband.
This father-in-law was a little weird. He shook his head and read out four numbers in a row, asking the girl to guess by herself. Unexpectedly, Qimei guessed his name without even thinking about it.
The old man asked Qimei to guess where he lived again, so he shook his head and composed a few poems.
After hearing this, Qimei rolled her eyes and quickly guessed it. Third Eunuch Lu nodded repeatedly, and went back while stroking his beard with a smile.
After a while, Zheng Houtong came back dejectedly carrying the burden. He told Qimei that business was very deserted today.
Zheng Houtong sighed and put down his burden. Qimei brought a bowl of tea and said with a smile: "Dad, I was sitting at home and took an order. Mr. Lu San came here just now, and he said that he has an important job for you to do."
Zheng Houtongzheng Be happy. As soon as he heard that Lu San wanted him to do the work, he immediately frowned, waved his hands and said, "You don't know, he has read a few sentences in the book, and his words are like chanting a curse. People can't understand it. "Don't go, don't go!"
Qimei remembered that her father was always worried about having no work to do at home, so she persuaded him: "Dad! We are running out of rice at home, and there is little work to do outside. You better go!"
Zheng Houtong refused to go no matter what. Qimei thought for a while, took out a long push plane from the bucket, and said to him: "Dad, you leave this plane at home. When you get to Lu's house, if you don't understand, just say that you can go home and get it." Plane, my daughter will give you an idea. ”
Zheng Houtong thought about it and thought it was not bad, so he picked up the burden and left happily.
When he arrived at Lu's house, Lu San politely invited him in for snacks.
It turned out that Lu San had three sons. The eldest and second son were married, and only the youngest son was still single. He heard that Qimei was very talented, so he wanted to arrange a marriage for his younger son.
After eating the snacks, Lu San said: "Master Zheng, I invite you to come today. I want to ask you to buy some new household items." Zheng Houtong agreed repeatedly.
Lu San opened his mouth and recited a few lines of poetry. Zheng Hootong was stunned when he heard it, but when he thought of Qimei's words, he quickly said: "I know how to hoop, I know how to hoop!"
Lu San continued: "I still need to hoop one more. One bucket for the morning, one bucket for the afternoon, one bucket with a lid but no bottom, and one bucket with a bottom but no lid." Zheng Hootong's heart skipped a beat when he said it.
Zheng Hootong pretended to be calm and muttered: "Oh, there are so many barrels to hoop." He pretended to turn over the barrels for a while, touched his scalp and said he wanted to go home and get a long push planer.
Lu San knew that he was going home to ask his daughter, so he agreed.
Zheng Houtong returned home angrily and complained to Qimei: "I said the Lu family's work was difficult, but you insisted on asking me to go..." Then he repeated Lu San's words exactly.
Qimei said as soon as she heard this: "Dad, I understand! Remember: the morning bucket is a noodle bucket, the lunch bucket is a rice bucket, the bottomed but not covered bucket is a foot bucket, and the covered and bottomless bucket is a pot lid."
Then she thought again and named the other two buckets.
Zheng Houtong was enlightened by what he heard. He quickly picked up the pusher and rushed back to Lu's house, shouting in a high-spirited manner.
When Lu San saw this, he was secretly amused, knowing that Qimei had taught him this.
Zheng Houtong became even more happy when he heard Lu San praise him. Unexpectedly, Lu San suddenly changed his mind and said that he no longer wanted the domestic barrel and asked him to get another foreign gold barrel.
Zheng Houtong was stunned and asked about Tong's appearance.
Lu San shook his head again: "There is no cover on the top, no bottom on the bottom, and there is no ventilation on the four walls...Master Zheng, can you hoop it?"
Zheng Hootong was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, so he let it go again. Just a lie, pick up your feet and run out.
As soon as he got home, Zheng Houtong angrily blamed Lu San for changing his mind midway. Qimei felt very strange after hearing this. Lu San had never traveled far, so how could he know about foreign gold barrels?
Zheng Hootong recited Lu San's words again as if he were reading a book. Qimei lowered her head and thought about it, and immediately understood that the gold wire bucket was a beekeeping bucket.
Zheng Houtong suddenly realized it and arrived at Lu's house in three steps and two steps at a time. When he saw Lü San, he asked him what he was doing with the bee bucket since he didn't keep bees.
Lu San was stunned, secretly admiring Qimei's intelligence, so he returned to the topic and explained the reason. It turned out that it was a lie that he wanted to betroth Qimei to his youngest son, but it was true that he wanted Zheng Goutong to betroth Qimei to his youngest son.
Zheng Houtong muttered in his heart: "It's not a bad thing to get into this family, but a daughter is a treasure. She has to be willing to do anything important in her life." So, he told Lu San that he would reply the next day and provoked The drum and drum went home.
Zheng Houtong asked several neighbors in the village about the situation of the Lu family. I was told that Lu San was a kind person and his youngest son was also a good character.
When Zheng Huantong returned home, he talked about the marriage with Qimei. Qimei blushed and pretended to shirk it. Zheng Huantong understood it and grinned happily.
Within a few days, the Lu family carried a sedan chair, played a lot of tricks, and married the seventh sister, and they got married to Lu Laosan.
Lu Laosan was very happy when he saw such a beautiful wife. Qimei was also very happy to see that Lu Laosan was hardworking and upright. That night, the newlyweds chatted and talked very lovingly.
The next day, Lu San saw Qimei cooking in the kitchen, so he wanted to take the opportunity to try her talent again, so he said: "Third daughter-in-law, it is the rule of the Lu family that a new daughter-in-law must cook a pot of mandarin duck when she goes to the kitchen for the first time. "
"This mandarin duck rice is: half pot of rice, half pot of water, half rotten, half burnt."
Qimei knew as soon as she heard it, no matter how good she was, she couldn't cook this half rotten and half burnt rice. But she still agreed.
Qimei was thinking as she walked. When she walked into the kitchen, the idea came to her. She picked up the kitchen knife and cut off the pot lid with a "click".
Then, she picked up the pot lid and told Lu San that the lid hoop had burst and needed to be replaced with a new one, and that early bamboo , moso bamboo , purple bamboo were not needed and had to be beaten with mandarin duck bamboo. hoop. Lu San was stunned. He had never heard of it even at such an old age.
Qimei described the shape and origin of the mandarin duck bamboo, and asked Lu San to find the bamboo so that she could cook the mandarin duck rice.
When Lu San heard this, he knew that it would not be a problem for his daughter-in-law, so he smiled and asked her to cook a simple meal.
Lu San was very happy to see that Qimei's talents were not inferior to his own, and he wanted to call her the head of the family. However, he was afraid that his eldest daughter-in-law and his second daughter-in-law would not accept it, so he stroked his beard and paced back and forth to think of ideas.
After a while, Lu San called his three daughters-in-law to him and said: "I have four feet of green cloth here. I want to make four things. Which of you can do it, let him do it. Whoever can do it, let him do it." Head of the family." When the eldest daughter-in-law heard this, she smiled happily, thinking that this was not easy, so she rushed to do it first.
Lu San said unhurriedly:
"These four things are a sweat towel, a money bag, a gown, and a quilt, all of which are indispensable."
The eldest daughter-in-law stared blankly on the spot.
Lu San turned to his second daughter-in-law, who said, "Father-in-law, these cloths are not enough to make four things. But as long as you have good property, it is cost-effective for me to put up a few feet of cloth."
Lu San waved his hand and said: "You can't stick a cloth on it, you must use my piece of cloth." After hearing this, the second daughter-in-law twisted her neck, pursed her lips, and snorted: "If you don't stick a cloth on it, even the gods won't do it!" She pushed the matter aside. To Qimei. Unexpectedly, Qimei actually agreed with a smile.
She returned to the room with the green cloth, cut it, and soon made it into a long gown.
She took the gown and went to see Lu San.As soon as Lu San was dressed properly, he said with a smile: "The gown is very well made, and where is the sweat towel?"
"We in the countryside all wipe sweat with our lapels, I don't know if that's right?"
Lu Sanjian Qimei guessed what he was thinking, nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right! Where's the money bag?" Qimei said the money bag was in her sleeve.
Lu San asked where the quilt head was again, and Qimei said calmly: "Father, the ancients said: 'It is a gown during the day and a quilt at night.' This gown becomes the quilt head at night. Is that right?"
Lu San smiled from ear to ear. Qimei took out another shoe upper cloth from the bag and said it was extra after making four items.
The eldest daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law stamped their feet again and again, regretting that they couldn't figure it out.
Lu San took the opportunity to decide in public that Qimei would be the head of the family.
After that, only the eldest daughter-in-law was jealous and always stubborn in doing things.
One day, the eldest daughter-in-law was chopping vegetables on the stove. Suddenly a big black cat sneaked in, picked up a piece of fish and ran away.
The eldest daughter-in-law failed to catch the cat. She was so angry that she chased after him and slashed the cat's back in half. It died on the spot.
I never imagined that a cat would cause a dispute. It turns out that this black cat belongs to a landowner whose nickname is "Yang Laoxie". When she learned that her cat had been hacked to death by the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lu family, she picked up a chopping board and kitchen knife, ran to the door of the Lu family and started yelling curses.
Lu San heard someone yelling and cursing outside. When he opened the door and saw Yang Laoxie, he thought to himself: This widow has a collusion with the county magistrate. She seizes land and blackmails people everywhere. I have to be careful. With a smile on his face, he stepped forward to ask why.
Yang Laoxie cried and made a fuss, asking Lu San to give her an original cat. Lu San came into the house and asked, and it turned out that it was the eldest daughter-in-law who was causing the trouble. He was angry and frightened, so he gave the eldest daughter-in-law a severe punishment.
Lu San had no choice but to apologize to Yang Laoxie. Yang Laoxie deliberately blackmailed her, saying that this was just a golden cat and a treasure, and asked Lu San to pay three thousand taels of silver.
Lu San got angry after hearing this. He flicked his sleeves, walked into the house, and closed the door with a bang. He was pacing back and forth anxiously, not knowing what to do.
Yang Laoxie was still cursing outside the door. At this time, Qimei ran out of the kitchen.
Qimei felt that she must find a way to cure Yang Laoxie, so she asked Lu San if Yang Laoxie had borrowed anything from home that he had not returned.
Lu San thought for a while and really remembered that Yang Laoxie borrowed a spatula on the eve of the New Year's Eve of the previous year.
Before Lu San finished speaking, Qimei walked towards the door with a smile. Seeing her confident look, Lu San also became happy.
Yang Laoxie saw Qimei coming out and was about to scold her. Unexpectedly, Qimei politely pulled her into the house and promised to compensate her according to the price.
While entertaining the landlord's mother-in-law, Qimei talked to her about the past years and asked for the spatula. Yang Laoxie said that she had burned the handle of the spatula a long time ago. She thought to herself that it would be no big deal to buy them a new spatula with three thousand taels of silver.
The seventh sister sneered after hearing this and said: "I'm afraid my third uncle can't afford to pay for this spatula. This is a mother-in-law stick given to my father-in-law by the moon mother-in-law. Back then, the Huizhou court came to collect the treasure. It's only six thousand taels. "My father-in-law doesn't sell it yet!"
"If you shake the spatula, the water will turn into rice; if you chisel it, the radish will turn into meat; if you throw it away, the water will turn into wine." It works!"
Yang Laoxie was shocked and stammered: "I have never heard of such a spatula handle in the world!"
Qimei said: "There are golden cats in the world, and there is such a pot. Shovel handle. If you can't find it, you have to pay." After that, he asked Yang Laoxie to pay back the three thousand taels of silver and asked her if she wanted to pay in cash or make a contract.
Yang Laoxie was so anxious that she almost cried, and quickly said that her cat was not a golden cat, but Qimei said that her spatula handle was a treasure and could not be counterfeited.
Yang Laoxie was speechless and could only kneel down and beg for mercy with a frown on his face. Qimei deliberately refused to agree.
At this time, Lu San, who was eavesdropping in the back room, also walked out. When Yang Laoxie saw that the situation was not good, he quickly dropped the chopping board and kitchen knife and ran away without looking back.
From then on, Yang Laoxie did not dare to be as presumptuous as before.When the people in the village found out about this, they all praised Qimei. The eldest daughter-in-law also changed from being jealous of Qimei to being convinced.
With her intelligence and intelligence, Seventh Sister not only married into a good family, but also helped resolve a crisis, won praise and admiration from everyone, and lived a happy life.
Note: This article is adapted from Chinese folk stories. It is intended to inherit folk culture and art, punish evil and promote good, and promote traditional virtues. It should not be linked to feudal superstition. Likes and comments are welcome.
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