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It is said that the story happened in the Zhihe period of
Northern Song Dynasty. There was a thief in Jizhou City, Hejian Prefecture, named Zheng Laoer. He was about thirty years old, and he had a four or five-year-old daughter at home.
Zheng Laoer has a very serious bad habit, that is, he likes petty theft, but his stealing skills are not superb, and he will be caught every time. Of course, those who were stolen from will stop doing it, and often He would come home and beat Zheng Laoer half to death.
My wife has had enough of this frightening life, and she always advises Zheng Laoer to get rid of this bad habit. But as the saying goes, a country is easy to change, but a nature is hard to change. Although Zheng Laoer agreed verbally, he still often went out to steal. .
So, the wife left Zheng Laoer and her daughter, left home, and never came back.
After his wife left, Zheng Laoer not only did not repent, but intensified his behavior. He felt sorry for his daughter and had to worry about it every day for fear that someone would come and smash her.
Just like that, after two years, my daughter accepted this reality and slowly learned to cook. When her father was away, she took care of herself.
One night in the middle of the night, while my daughter was still sleeping, she heard a sound outside the door. She didn’t dare to be careless, so she quickly put on her clothes and climbed out of bed. As soon as she got out of bed, she found that it was Zheng Laoer who had come back. .
I saw Zheng Laoer sneaking around, holding a large package in his arms. As soon as he entered the door, he looked around, locked the door tightly, then turned around and put the package in his arms on the table and opened it.
Surprisingly, there was a large bag full of gold in the package. Zheng Laoer's daughter was also shocked. He never imagined that his father had stolen so much gold.
Before his daughter could speak, Zheng Laoer said to his daughter: "Hurry up and pack your things. Let's leave this place now."
His daughter did not dare to delay and quickly followed Zheng Laoer's words, so, The father and daughter still took advantage of the night and hurriedly left the place.
They arrived in a completely unfamiliar town and settled down. Zheng Laoer used the gold to buy a big house, some fields, and hired two servants. In an instant, he became a rich man. appearance.
However, the good times did not last long. Within half a year, his daughter's body slowly began to lose weight. Zheng Laoer thought at first that it was because he had just arrived in this city and was not accustomed to the acclimatization, so he did not pay much attention to it. However, later, his daughter's body became thinner. As his body became thinner and thinner, Zheng Laoer became anxious.
He invited all the doctors in the city but they were helpless. When he was extremely anxious, one of the servants said to him: "Master, you said that these doctors can't see the young lady's illness. Could it be that the young lady is not sick at all?" ?"
When Zheng Laoer heard this, he immediately became angry. He yelled at the servant: "How can he not be sick? Why is he getting thinner and thinner?"
The servant said cautiously: "Master, what are we doing? A similar thing happened in my hometown. What is it specifically? I can't say. Why don't you ask a Taoist to take a look? "
" This sentence woke up Zheng Laoer and he looked at his daughter. He nodded helplessly and murmured: "Oh, I can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."
Early the next morning, Zheng Laoer asked his servants to hitch the carriage, and he took his daughter with him himself. I went to a nearby Taoist temple and found a Taoist priest who was nearly eighty years old. As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Taoist temple, a Taoist boy came out and said, "May I ask if it's Mr. Zheng from down the mountain?"
Mr. Zheng nodded in agreement, then The Taoist boy smiled slightly and said, "Come with me!"
So Zheng Laoer followed the Taoist boy to a room where there was an old Taoist priest with white beard and hair. Sitting cross-legged, when he saw Zheng Laoer and his daughter coming, he ordered the Taoist boy to close the door and go out.
Before Zheng Laoer could say anything, the old Taoist priest spoke up: "Since ancient times, there are always wrongs and debts. Are you here because of your daughter?"
Zheng Laoer was very surprised. This old Taoist priest actually understood that he He immediately bowed and said, "The Taoist priest really has a clever plan. That's why I came here and asked the Taoist priest to save my daughter."
The Taoist priest smiled slightly and said, "I can't save her. Your daughter, the only one who can save her is you."
After hearing what the Taoist said, Zheng Laoer felt very strange. After repeated questioning, the Taoist revealed the reason. It turned out that Zheng Laoer had obtained ill-gotten gains. This resulted in her daughter being frail and emaciated. It was Zheng Laoer who took advantage of his daughter's blessings in advance.
Now that the matter has come to this, we can only dissipate all the ill-gotten gains so that our daughter can have a good chance. Zheng Laoer hesitated for a moment and then said, "Don't worry, Taoist Priest, I know what to do." After
finished speaking, He took his daughter and walked out of the Taoist temple without looking back. After returning home, he set up a porridge shed in front of his house and gave out porridge every day. The harvest was bad that year, and Zheng Laoer's porridge saved many people. He saved them from hunger, and the people praised him highly.
Oddly enough, since Zheng Laoer opened the porridge shed, her daughter's health gradually began to improve. Zheng Laoer was very happy when he saw this. From then on, he became even more keen on doing good deeds. He likes and helps people who are in need. Over time, the local people called him Zheng Dashan.
