In ancient times, there was a man named Cui Shancheng. He was an orphan who grew up by eating a hundred families of food, so he developed his kind and generous character.
After growing up, Cui Shancheng followed the villagers up the mountain to chop wood, went down the river to fish, and barely survived.
Later, with the support of his neighbor, Old Man Ning, Cui Shancheng began to do small business. Old Man Ning is Cui’s best friend and often takes care of Cui Shancheng.
Cui Shancheng is doing business without any deception, and his business is getting better. Afterwards, he followed his fellow villagers to sell cloth, leaving early and returning late every day, but he never complained about being tired.
Once, Cui Shancheng seized the opportunity, made a small amount of money, and his life improved greatly. He did not forget to repay Old Man Ning's support, and not only did he pay the capital to support him at the beginning, but also bought a lot of gifts to thank Old Man Ning.
In the next days, Cui Shancheng used the money he earned to expand his business scale, opened a small cloth store, worked diligently every day, and his life became better and better.
One day later, Cui Shancheng went out to discuss business. When he passed by the river, he stopped to rest for a while. Unexpectedly, he saw a shell as big as a washbasin on the shore, with a purple color.
Cui Shancheng first saw such a big shell and stared at it for a long time. I saw a large piece of shell cracked, and I could see the meat inside directly.
Cui Shancheng didn't know if this shell was still alive, but he thought it was very pitiful, so he moved it back to the river. After a moment of rest, he continued to rush.
Because the journey was long, after the business was negotiated, Cui Shancheng couldn't hurry home and stayed in an inn. After working hard for a day, Cui Shancheng fell asleep quickly.
In a trance, he dreamed that a woman in a light purple gauze dress slowly walked towards him. The woman saluted and thanked him for saving his life.
Then, the woman gave him a piece of shell fragment and told him to keep it with him at all times. If he encounters a critical moment and silently recites "Eleven" three times in his heart, someone will come to help him turn bad luck.
Cui Shancheng was confused. He was about to reach out to stop the woman who turned around and left, but with a "thump", he rolled on the ground from the bed and woke up suddenly.
It was already dawn at this time. He looked around and found that he was still in the inn room, but there was a fragment of the shell in his dream at hand.
Cui Shancheng was skeptical. Seeing that the shell fragments were not big, he put them in his purse, then packed up his things, and set off for breakfast and headed home.
Half a month later, Cui Shancheng passed by the neighboring county and gathered in a restaurant with his familiar fellow townsmen.
During the meal, a woman who was singing came to ask if she needed to sing a song. Cui Shan prejudged that a woman was not easy to make a living, so she asked her to sing a song and gave her a silver tael.
The woman took the money, thanked her and turned to the next table of guests, but she didn't want to be blocked by a man.
A fellow villager whispered to Cui Shancheng that the man was a famous local evil young man who relied on his wealth and power in his family and was domineering.
The evil young man started to light a thin woman, pulling her arm to take her away. The woman was shocked and struggled desperately. Seeing this, Cui Shancheng stood up straight and protected the woman.
At first, the evil young master and Cui Shancheng were just verbally arguing, but they didn't know that the two soon wrestled together. The evil young man and his followers, and several people punched and kicked Cui Shancheng.
Cui Shancheng was beaten up. In desperation, he suddenly remembered the shell fragments in his pocket, and began to recite "Eleven" silently three times.
However, the situation did not change, and he was still pressed to the ground and beaten.
Suddenly, Cui Shancheng gave a try, stood up suddenly, grabbed the evil young master and fought again. The two happened to be at the entrance of the stairs and rolled down the stairs together. Unexpectedly, the evil young man hit his head and died.
Just like that, Cui Shancheng was arrested by the government.Fortunately, the county magistrate was a sensible person and only sent Cui Shancheng to Lingnan.
can save his life, Cui Shancheng was already satisfied, so he followed the yamen runners obediently on the road.
On the day of leaving the city, I saw a woman singing in the restaurant waiting outside the city gate with a bag on her back, saying that she would follow Cui Shancheng.
The woman's name is Cuilan. Her parents died early. She is now helpless and makes a living by singing. No matter how Cui Shancheng refused, she was determined to follow him to the place where she was sent.
In desperation, Cui Shancheng had to let her go. The group walked for three months before they arrived at Cui Shancheng's place of prison.
The conditions here are very difficult, and the surroundings are all local barbarians. Cui Shancheng not only can't understand what they say, but he doesn't even have a place to live. Seeing this, Cui Shancheng had to build two thatched huts to temporarily live in, and open a vegetable garden to reliably reliance. Not long after, Cui Shancheng and Cuilan got married, supported each other and lived a dull life.
Two years later, on New Year's Eve, Cui Shancheng and Cuilan prepared a decent New Year's Eve dinner.
Just then, a knock on the door sounded outside the door. Cui Shancheng went to answer the door, but saw a woman in purple standing outside the door.
When the woman saw Cui Shancheng, she bowed and shouted "benefactor". Cuilan then arrived at the door, looking puzzled. After asking, the woman told me the cause and effect.
It turns out that the woman is the giant princess in the river. At the beginning, she was naughty and went out for a trip, but unexpectedly she met a family enemy and injured her.
She fled to the shore and was about to be killed by the sun. Fortunately, Cui Shancheng discovered her by passing by and sent her back to the water, which saved her life.
After returning home, she was in severe injuries and had to go into seclusion and recuperate until three days ago when she came out of seclusion to find her benefactor's whereabouts.
Who knew that during her retreat, her benefactor encountered such a thing and was exiled to a foreign land. Then, the princess went to the South China Sea and asked the Dragon Mother for a return grass to save the benefactor.
After the princess explained the plan, Cui Shancheng thought for a moment, and after Cui Lan's persuasion, he agreed to do what the princess said.
So, the princess smashed the Yang grass and let Cui Shancheng take it. Soon, Cui Shancheng lost his breath.
Cuilan hurriedly ran to meet the official, saying that her husband Cui Shancheng could not bear the local miasma and had died.
The official came to check and found that Cui Shancheng was indeed completely out of breath, so he had to let Cuilan go through the procedures and carry the coffin back to his hometown.
Three days later, Cuilan found an inn to stay in. The princess came that night and asked Cui Lan to melt a pill with water and feed it to Cui Shancheng.
Soon, Cui Shancheng gradually woke up, and the couple knelt down to thank the princess for her rescue.
Then, the princess took out three pearls and gave them to Cui Shancheng and said goodbye and left.
Later, Cui Shancheng and Cui Lanhua returned to their hometown for more than half a year. Then, Cui Shancheng sold one of the pearls and sold them for a thousand taels of silver.
So he bought a house and re-engaged the cloth business. A year later, Cuilan gave birth to a big fat boy. From then on, the family lived a stable and happy life.
is adapted from "Folk Stories". Follow @Xinyan Xiaoyu Listen to the stories and understand life!
