[Statement: Most stories are folk legends or adaptations of stories, and have nothing to do with feudal superstitions. Thank you for reading, welcome to like and comment. 】
An old saying goes: "The momentum cannot be used, and the blessing cannot be enjoyed." Once we use all kinds of treasures that life gives us, we will one day be in a difficult situation.
Ming Dynasty During the Chongzhen period, there was a village in the northwest. Some strange things often happened in the village. It was not until an old Taoist arrived that he returned to peace. Then the old Taoist lived in the village.
This old Taoist always wears Taoist clothes and shows off people on weekdays. He doesn't like to interact with others. In broad daylight, the door is closed, which seems quite mysterious. For a moment, everyone else is curious.
Everyone thought to themselves that this old man is so strange. He doesn’t interact with people or farm. How did he maintain his life? I had a glimpse of the truth.
Several people in the village secretly came to the vicinity of the old Taoist , then touched the window of the old treasury, looked inside through the hole in the window, and found that the old treasury was sleeping soundly on the bed. The house looked ragged, and only one bed and a table were placed. The table was missing a piece in the east and a corner in the west. The bowl on the table was also very damaged, and the only thing that could attract attention was a whip hanging on the wall. After watching for a long time, the few people didn't see anything strange, so they turned around and went back.
In a blink of an eye, it was evening. The old Taoist who was sleeping soundly got up from the bed, then moved his muscles and bones, then took off the whip from the wall and came to the yard. He walked to the yard and waved the whip in the air. The crisp sound of the whip pierced the quiet night sky. Then the old Taoist muttered in his mouth as if he was talking to someone.
Li Er in the village came back late when he passed by the old Taoist house and heard a voice in the courtyard when he was passing by. He also knew that this old Taoist was introverted and did not like to interact with others, but he just had no worries about food and drink. He was curious and hid behind the tree next to the old Taoist house and watched.
Li Er saw the old Taoist standing in the yard with a whip in his hand, and waved the whip from time to time. Whenever the old Taoist waved his whip, he could hear a sound of talking. After a while, the old Taoist entered the room and took out a cloth bag and put something into the cloth bag.
On the second day, Li Er informed several friends about this.
After hearing Li Er's exaggerated story, several people laughed. Someone immediately said whether you drank too much last night! Besides, if you are so dark at night, are you sure you have seen it clearly?
Li Er seemed a little shaken after hearing this, but after thinking about it carefully, he still insisted on what he saw last night.
When a friend heard this, he said that you are not dead until the Yellow River! Let's make a bet. Tonight we will visit the old Taoist school at night. If it is really as you said, we invite you to drink for a month. If not, then how about you invite you to drink for a month?
Li Er agreed immediately as soon as he heard this, saying that you were just waiting to invite me to have a drink. When friends heard this, they laughed.
After night fell, a group of people came to the old Taoist house and hid behind the tree. Sure enough, after a while, the old Taoist came out of the room, holding the whip in his hand, walked to the yard and waved his hand. After the whip, a vague figure appeared, and then the old man talked to the vague figure.
Some people felt it was strange. This old man never interacted with people. Who would go to his house so late? Then he quietly approached a little, and the sight did not scare the souls of these people. It turned out that the person who spoke to the old man was not a human, but a green-faced and fanged little ghost. Then the few people ran home and closed the door in one breath and did not dare to take a breath.
So the next day, the old Taoist asked for a ghost to spread in the village. The villagers didn't believe it at first, but Li Er and others said this matter very well like a storyteller, and described various details to the fullest. This time some people in the village believed it, but some villagers still didn't believe it, so they suggested that they would go and find out.
A few days later, the villagers who went to find out the truth came back and said that it was indeed exactly what Li Er and his gang said, which made the villagers panic. After this incident, the old Taoist school became a forbidden area in the village. No one dared to step in. Some parents even educated disobedient children, saying that if you are disobedient, you will send you to the old Taoist home.
As the saying goes, time can dilute everything, and gradually the people in the village forget the old Taoist. The old Taoist still repeated what he should do every day, and this situation lasted for eight years.
In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he suddenly encountered a severe drought that was unprecedented in a century. The northwest was extremely severely affected. The rivers dried up and the crops withered, which led to famine. In some places, a steamed bun was wanted to eat three or four people, and in even worse places, they even had to eat dead grass and eat bark.
encountered this severe drought, and the village chief was very anxious and gathered the villagers together to find a solution. Some villagers said that they would rather gather the grain of the whole village and allocate on every day as needed. At that time, someone denied this idea and then proposed many solutions, but they still did not get the consent of the villagers. In the end, one person said it would be better to ask the experienced Taoist for help.
When the old Taoist mentioned, someone began to object. The reason for the objection was that the old Taoist was so evil. We isolated him for so long. If we went to ask him for help now, would he stumbling to us? But the village chief finally decided to ask the old Taoist for help.
The village chief came to the vicinity of the old Taoist home. Eight years have passed, but there is still no change near the old Taoist home. Then he knocked on the door and found that no one answered. Then he looked inside from the hole in the window and found that the old Taoist was sleeping soundly. So the village chief sat on the ground in the inner courtyard of the old Taoist home, closed his eyes and waited for the old Taoist to get up.
In the evening, a sound of opening the door came into the village chief's ears. When the village chief saw that the old Taoist had come out, the old Taoist saw the village chief sitting on the ground in the courtyard. The two of them met with each other and didn't say a word for a long time. The atmosphere on the scene was very awkward.
Finally, the village chief's words "Are you up?" broke the embarrassment at the scene! Then I heard the old saying "um", and the "um" sound was also a response to the village chief.
The village chief saw that the old Taoist spoke, and he knew that this opportunity should not be missed, so he then prepared to ask the old Taoist to help. As soon as the words came to his mouth, the old Taoist stopped him with a "no" gesture. The village chief thought that the old Taoist disagreed, so he immediately wanted to kneel down.
Unexpectedly, I heard the old Taoist say, "From tomorrow, you will bring people to our yard to get food. Remember to have to come here in the morning, and you will never be able to use it at night." After hearing this, the village chief immediately knelt down on the ground, kowtowed like pounding garlic and said that he would thank the old Taoist for the villagers. Then he hurried back and told the villagers about the matter. Most of the villagers were waiting and watching after hearing this, but some villagers couldn't stand the hunger, so they went to the old Taoist's home the next morning. As expected, just like the old Taoist said, the yard was filled with various grains.
Some villagers in the village got the old Taoist's food and went home. After eating for several days, they didn't find anything unusual. Those who questioned the old Taoist could not help but protested and went to the old Taoist to collect the food.
In this way, the door of the old Taoist house is crowded in the morning, and at night, the door is deserted. In addition to helping the villagers in the village, the old Taoist will occasionally help those who escape here or the village next door.
With the selfless help of the old Taoist, the villagers in the village gradually improved. After a period of time, the food they had stored was enough for them to use for a long time, but the old Taoist became ill because of overwork recently and became ill after overwork.
The fact that the old Taoist whip can drive away ghosts and get things soon reached Niu Er's ears in the next village. This person is idle and good at doing things that are stealing. After hearing this, I had an idea.Thinking of the severe drought now, food and other items are scarce. If you can get the whip into your hands, exorcise ghosts and get things every day, and then sell them, it would be a considerable wealth!
After having an idea, he took action. Niu Erqian went to the village to check out the site several times. He discovered a pattern. In the morning, the door of the old Taoist house was crowded, but in the afternoon, there was gradually no one. In order to confirm his thoughts, Niu Er took advantage of the time when there was no one. After observing, he sneaked into the yard and looked inside, looking through the hole in the window. He found that the old Taoist was sleeping, and the legendary whip was hung on the wall.
Niu Eryi saw that the whip could not hide his excitement. He accidentally knocked down a wooden frame next to the window. When the wooden frame fell down, it made a loud noise. Niu Eryi was about to escape, but he found that there seemed to be no movement in the room. The old Taoist was still lying on the bed without moving.
Niu Er became even more bold when he saw this. He tiptoed open the door of the old Taoist. When the door was pushed open, it made a "squeaking" sound, but the old Taoist on the bed was still silent. Seeing this, Niu Er thought that the old Taoist might have gone west, so he walked up to find out the breath and found that the old Taoist still had a breath, but for some reason, he just couldn't wake up. Niu Er couldn't care about so much, so he picked up the whip and ran back home.
On the morning of the next day, the village chief came to visit the old Taoist and found that the old Taoist's door was open. He felt bad in his heart and hurried into the house. He found that the old Taoist was still lying on the bed without any movement. Originally, the old Taoist should have woken up long ago at this time, so he went forward and shouted, and then the old Taoist opened his eyes with difficulty and told a secret to the village chief.
It turned out that this old Taoist was a closed disciple under the head of a Taoist temple. Later, the Taoist temple was destroyed and his master asked him to escape with the sect's magic whip, hoping that he would one day rebuild the glory of that year. However, he had been wandering outside for decades but could not fulfill his master's last wish, so he was discouraged. Later, he found that there were ghosts here, so he prepared to stay here. First, it can ensure safety in one place, and second, it can keep him away from his previous life.
After taking a breath, the old Taoist began to say that the divine whip was a treasure in their Taoist temple. This whip can drive ghosts to help you do things. The most important thing is that this whip can also be used by people who have no Taoist practice.
But this whip has consequences when used. This whip is originally to drive ghosts to help you do things, but these things are not done in vain. These ghosts will exchange them for your life, blessings, fortune, wealth, etc. according to your requirements.
The village chief was very surprised when he heard this and said to the Taoist priest, "Are you?" After hearing this, the Taoist priest just nodded with difficulty, and then told the village chief in a slight voice that he had calculated a fortune for himself, and knew that he had not had much destiny. At present, he could help a little if he could, and he didn't care about his life span of those years. After that, he closed his eyes and drove away.
The village chief saw that the Taoist priest had gone west, and instantly burst into tears. Then he ran back to the village to beat drums and gathered the villagers. The villagers didn't know what had happened at first, until the village chief told the villagers about the Taoist priest's going west. Some of them were extremely sad and even burst into tears on the spot.
A few days later, the villagers buried the old Taoist and built a monument for him. However, when a group of people sorted out the old Taoist's relics, they did not find the whip that the old Taoist had used.
A few days later, Niu Er found that no one was coming to find the old Taoist whip, and he breathed a sigh of relief. In the evening, he closed all his house. While the night was dark, he wanted to try whether the whip was as magical as the legendary one.
Then, he waved the whip in the air, and then he saw a burst of blue smoke suddenly float in front of him, and then a little ghost with green face and fangs appeared.Niu Er was so scared that he closed his eyes. The little ghost felt very strange when he saw that the person who used the whip today was not the old Taoist, but a young man, and then asked where the old Taoist had gone?
Niu Er closed his eyes and said that he heard that the old Taoist seemed to have passed away. The little ghost was happy when he heard this, and then looked at Niu Er again. He found that this person had no Taoism, so he hypocritically asked Niu Er, what do you want me to do? I can meet your requirements!
Niu Er said that he wanted to order food. Then the little ghost created a bag of food from somewhere and handed it to Niu Er, and then said to him, "If you want something, just wave your whip, and I will meet your requirements." Then he disappeared.
In the following days, Niu Er's requirements became higher and higher, and the number of whip was swinged became more and more frequent. It was originally once every three days, but later it gradually developed to wave whip three times a day. Every time he waved the whip, he would make various requests to the little ghost. The little ghost never disappointed him and helped him do it one by one.
With the help of the little ghost, Niu Er's family gradually became richer, and then he built a big house and married a beautiful wife. However, a few years after the marriage, Niu Er's wife's belly still had no movement, and she did not diagnose the problem after finding a doctor.
The following days were even more unlucky. They either sprained their ankle while walking or fell inexplicably in . There was also a rat disease at home, and the wife even quarreled with him every day. She didn't know what went wrong with her original transaction and lost a lot of money.
One day, Niu Er just woke up and heard the wife lying beside him scream. Niu Er was puzzled and asked, "What happened?"
The wife said, "Who are you? Why are you sleeping beside me? Where is my husband?"
Niu Eryi heard that he thought he was his wife and wanted to quarrel with him again, so he replied loudly, "I am Niu Er, your husband. Don't make trouble for me every day."
The wife said, "What are you talking about? My husband is in his prime. Why do you, an old man, say, "Who are you?"
Niu Eryi immediately got out of bed and came to the bronze mirror to see that his young appearance had turned into an old man in his seventies, and his hair turned gray. Then he saw his wife put on her clothes, then got out of bed and said that she would go to report to the official and ask someone to arrest him now.
After hearing this, Niu Er immediately grabbed his wife and told the secret that only they knew. At this time, the wife came back to her senses and asked Niu Er why she was like this. After hearing this, Niu Er just shook her head and said she didn't know.
At night, Niu Er took advantage of his wife's sleep and got up and got out of bed. He came to a room in the backyard. The magic whip was hung on the wall in the room. Then Niu Er took the magic whip and waved it. After a while, a stream of green smoke appeared in front of him. He heard the little ghost asking what he wanted this time?
Niu Er said that he wanted nothing and wanted to ask why he was not lucky recently, his wealth was not good, and his health was getting worse day by day.
Xiao Gui said contemptuously after hearing this: "Do you think the wealth and luck you gave you are given for free? That's all for your future!"
Niu Er was shocked after hearing this, saying why it didn't tell him at the beginning, and Xiao Gui said you didn't ask! Niu Er said that he wanted to return these things. He just wanted to live healthily now, and the little ghost said it! Then he even drove Niu Er into the abyss with one sentence. The little devil said that you had asked for too much, and you had overdrawn your wealth in the next three lives. Your luck and luck disappeared after saying it.
As expected, not long after, just as the little ghost said, Niu Er overdrawed his wealth and luck in advance, and his originally wealthy family became lonely. His wife couldn't stand this kind of life and left without saying goodbye. Niu Er also owed a lot of money because of the failure of the transaction. In the end, he could only rely on selling the house to pay off his debts, and eventually became a beggar and starved to death on the street.
If you just pursue material enjoyment, overdraw the future and live in the present! After all, people have restrictions on their future, and unlimited overdrafts, there may be more than these debts to be paid in the future.
