Ming Dynasty During the Jiajing period, there was a honest and honest young man named Zhang Daxing in Huaiyang County. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he learned carpenter skills from Carpenter Liu in the county.
Zhang Daxing is flexible in mind, willing to endure hardships, stands out among the apprentices, is deeply loved by Carpenter Liu, and regards him as a closed disciple, and cultivates him with all his knowledge. He did not disappoint Carpenter Liu's expectations and learned his superb carpenter skills.
Carpenter Liu has a daughter named Liu Yan, who has a dignified appearance and a virtuous personality. Zhang Daxing loved him and the two fell in love with each other. It was just because the master's wife Wang was interfering with it, and the two could not be together.
It is because Wang disliked Zhang Daxing's family and felt that he was not worthy of his daughter. So she said harshly that unless Zhang Daxing could take out 100 taels of silver as a betrothal gift, she would not be willing to marry her daughter to him no matter what
In order to get 100 taels of silver as soon as possible, Zhang Daxing took a tool box early and went around the streets to find work. There are ten streets and twenty-three alleys in Huaiyang County, and Zhang Daxing has to walk on several times every day.
With this perseverance within half a year, the small wooden boxes for money at home are already full. After counting
, I found that there were 70 taels in total.
On the evening of that day, Carpenter Liu suddenly found Zhang Daxing, and he asked bluntly: "Daxing, how did you get the money?"
"I'm going to hide it from Master, it's still thirty taels away to be a betrothal gift."
Carpenter Liu said with a sad face, "You have to hurry up."
It turned out that a few days ago, Wang's good sister Hu brought her son Ma Kui to the Liu family as a guest, and Ma Kui fell in love with Liu Yan at first sight. Ma Kui is Hu's favorite son, so Hu said to Wang: "I will come to the matchmaker to propose marriage in a few days."
Wang saw Ma Kui's talent, and the more he looked at him, the more he was satisfied. He agreed to the marriage without her husband's consent. She murmured in her heart: The Ma family is a wealthy family, and it is considered a high-level success for her daughter to marry into the Ma family.
Even though Liu Yan was reluctant, Wang insisted on marrying her into the Ma family. The mother and daughter had a big fight over this, and Liu Yan locked the boudoir and refused to eat or drink.
Carpenter Liu is afraid of it, and everyone knows it. He did not dare to disobey his wife's wishes, and could not bear to see his daughter crying all day long, so he secretly came to Zhang Daxing to discuss countermeasures.
"Daxing, this is not a solution. Yan'er is about to marry into the Ma family. I have thirty taels here, so you can take it for now and go to the matchmaker to come to propose marriage tomorrow."
Zhang Daxing was very moved when he heard this. He was silent for a while but rejected Liu's kindness.
"Master, I can't accept your money, I spit on one bite. Since I promised my master's wife to earn 100 taels of silver as a betrothal gift, I can't go back on my word. If I accept your money, I'm cheating. If my master's wife knows about this, she will look down on me even more."
Liu Carpenter was both relieved and worried when he saw his apprentice's ambitiousness. He knew that Zhang Daxing was a stubborn temper and was unwilling to change anything he believed, so he had to sigh and leave.
sent Carpenter Liu away. Zhang Daxing changed his calmness in front of Carpenter Liu. He clenched his fists and said, "I must never let Liu Yan marry into the Ma family. I will work harder than now."
It was dark at this time, but Zhang Daxing was still carrying a tool box to go out to find work around the streets. It would be good to make a penny.
He walked all the way and shouted, "If you repair the old furniture, you won't need money if you can't repair it." After walking most of the city, he was turned away many times, but he didn't get a job.
Seeing that every household had lights turned off and rested, he had to go home, thinking about coming out to find a job earlier tomorrow.
At this time, a voice sounded behind him, "Young man, I have something to repair at home."
Zhang Daxing turned his head when he heard this and saw an old lady with a hunched back and leaning on a crutch looking at him expressionlessly.
"Grandma, don't worry, don't charge money if you can't repair it well."
Grandma nodded when she heard this and asked Zhang Daxing to follow her.
On the road, Zhang Daxing found that his grandmother was limping while walking. However, she walked very steadily, and Zhang Daxing was carrying the toolbox and following him with a little difficulty.
There was nothing to say along the way, Zhang Daxing followed his grandmother to the cold alley. He knew that this was a dead end. He had been here before. There was a yard with a yard that was closed all year round in the deepest part of the alley.
Grandma's home is this yard. When Zhang Daxing entered the yard, a musty smell came to his nose.
The grandmother took Zhang Daxing to the far left room. She pointed to the room and said, "The things are inside. Can they be repaired? You can go in and see it yourself."
Zhang Daxing put down the toolbox and pushed the door in. The wood door creaked, and he heard goosebumps. The next scene made his back feel cold.
It turned out that there was a life material painted with tree paint in the house, which was placed on two long benches. There is a square window on the wall, and the moonlight shines into the house, reflecting the silhouette of the longevity material on the ground.
"This is the longevity material that my wife made for me when she was alive. However, this room has been leaking for many years. The surface of the longevity material has become milder, and the bottom plate has also been bitten by termites. You see if you can repair it for me."
Zhang Daxing felt a little panicked. He felt a little unlucky when he saw the longevity material in the middle of the night.
However, since Zhang Daxing came, he did not plan to leave halfway. He plucked up the courage to check around the longevity tree.
Finally, he said to the grandmother, "Give me an hour, I can restore my longevity to the past." Zhang Daxing was very confident in his craftsmanship.
"How much does it cost to repair it?" asked the grandma carefully.
"I will do my job first. If you are satisfied, how about the salary?"
Grandma smiled slightly and expressed her agreement.
"Grandma, it's dark now. You go back to the house to rest first. I'll call you after repairing it."
Grandma glanced at Zhang Daxing deeply and walked into the next room with a crutch.
Zhang Daxing first took out an oil lamp from the box and let him light it, and it would go out on his own after a while.
In the end, there was no way, so he simply stopped lighting the lights and worked under the moonlight outside the window.
He first polished off the mold spots, painted the longevity material again with tree paint, and then replaced the bottom of the board that the termites gnawed.
knocked and beaten, and an hour passed in a blink of an eye. Zhang Daxing touched the sweat on his forehead and exhaled, looking at the repaired longevity material, he was very satisfied.
walked out of the house and took advantage of the moonlight to see clearly what he looked like in the yard. The three thatched huts were lined up side by side, and the window paper had fallen off.
Broken tiles were scattered under the eaves. Half of the house near the courtyard wall had collapsed, and wooden beams were placed on the ground in a row. The room in the middle of
is the room where the grandma lives, and Zhang Daxing knocked in and entered. I took a rough look at the layout of the house, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a bare-sized wall.
Except for a wooden bed placed beside the wall, there is only a paint-fall table left in the house. The grandma was lying on the side of the bed. She saw Zhang Daxing entering the room and sat up rustlingly.
"Grandma, the longevity material has been repaired."
A trace of joy flashed in her eyes when she heard this, and she stood up tremblingly.
Zhang Daxing hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and the grandmother said, "Young man is a good person. Whoever daughter will be very happy to marry you."
As they spoke, the two of them came to the house where the longevity maker was placed. The grandmother touched the longevity maker and walked around, and said, "The repair was so good that there was no trace of repair."
As soon as the words fell, the grandma showed bitterness on her face and continued, "Young man, the repair wage should be very expensive."
Zhang Daxing smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, grandma, I only accept one or two silvers for you."
"Hey, young man, I really can't bring that much money." The grandma shook her head and sighed.
Zhang Daxing said that he could ask his grandmother to take credit, and he didn't mind waiting for a few more days.
However, the grandma said that she had no children and had no children. After her wife passed away, she had no source of income. Now even food and clothing are a problem. Zhang Daxing was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he didn't expect that the grandma was so pitiful.
When he saw that his grandmother was wearing thin clothes, he felt uncomfortable. He pondered for a while and suddenly said, "Grandma, I won't charge this salary."
"This is not possible. How can I let you work for nothing?" the grandmother shook her head and said.
The grandma has white hair. Zhang Daxing remembered that her parents in her hometown were also of this age. I wonder how they were doing? He left his hometown to learn craftsmanship, but he had not been home for many years.
When he thought of this, his nose felt sour. He took some broken silver from his arms and said to the grandma: "We met because of fate. Here are some copper plates . Please accept them and keep them for some bedding and food."
He stuffed the silver to the grandma and turned around and was about to leave. The grandma quickly grabbed Zhang Daxing's sleeve and said, "Don't leave first, there are still some soybeans in my house. Take it away, I can't take your money in vain."
Suddenly, Zhang Daxing walked out of the door with a bag of soybeans, and the grandma stood at the door and watched him leave.
Before leaving, the grandma suddenly said, "Remember, don't light the lights when you go home."
Zhang Daxing did not think deeply after hearing this sentence, and waved his hand to ask the grandma to go back and rest earlier.
Grandma nodded slightly and murmured, "Heaven does not deceive kind people."
Zhang Daxing carried the toolbox and went home with the moon. He was not angry because he helped his grandma work for nothing, but was in a happy mood because he did a good thing.
When Zhang Daxing arrived home, it was already the third day of the day. The yard was pitch black and he groped into the room.
He was about to light the oil lamp when he suddenly remembered the grandmother’s advice in his mind.
"Don't light the light when you go home."
Zhang Daxing muttered in his heart: "What does the grandma mean?"
At this moment, rustling footsteps came from outside the house. A low voice sounded in the yard, "Hey, I clearly saw someone entering the house, why didn't the lights light? It seems that Zhang Daxing has not returned home yet, so let's go back and continue to ambush."
Zhang Daxing was very scared when he heard this. He walked to the window lightly and saw through the gap that there were two vicious men in the yard.
In fact, these two people came to Zhang Daxing's house at the first day of the day. Because Zhang Daxing did not return, he ended up missing. So he lies in ambush nearby and rushed in to catch people just after the lights are on in the house.
"Why do these two people catch me? I can't continue to stay at home." Zhang Daxing sneaked out of the back door.
He immediately ran to the county government to tell the captain on duty about the thief at home. The captain had asked Zhang Daxing to repair the furniture at home, so the two were familiar with each other.
The captain heard that there were thieves under his jurisdiction, so he immediately led ten yamen runners to Zhang Daxing's house.
In order to confirm that there were really thieves, Zhang Daxing returned home in a swagger and then lit the oil lamp.
After a while, the door was kicked open, and two big men in black rushed into the room. They rushed towards Zhang Daxing without saying a word, and the three of them wrestled together.
Zhang Daxing quickly shouted, "Do it!" As soon as he finished speaking, the yamen runner who was ambushing the back door broke into the door and tied up the two big men.
As the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind. When the man saw the yamen runner, he immediately confessed his crime.
It turned out that these two people were instructed by Ma Kui. He learned that Liu Yanxin belonged to him, and this person was Zhang Daxing.
Ma Kui is narrow-minded and has a vengeful personality, and he cannot tolerate Zhang Daxing's existence in his eyes. The so-called "learning" is actually to make him disappear. For the wealthy Ma family, Zhang Daxing is an ant-like existence.
After the two big men admitted it, the captain escorted them back to the yamen.The magistrate hated evil and immediately reported that Ma Kui went to the lobby for interrogation. When he saw the iron evidence, he had to plead guilty and was finally severely punished.
After Wang knew what Ma Kui did, he muttered to himself: I am glad to see through Ma Kui's true face. If such a villain becomes a son-in-law, will his daughter still be happy in the future?
Carpenter Liu took the opportunity to tell his wife about Zhang Daxing's refusal to accept thirty taels of silver. After Wang heard this, Zhang Daxing's image in her mind became taller in an instant.
She said to her husband Liu Carpenter: "I used to be a bad person, but now I know I'm wrong. Zhang Daxing is a person who knows how to be ambitious. If his daughter marrys him, his life will definitely get better and better in the future."
Liu Carpenter saw his wife's statement like this, and knew that she recognized Zhang Daxing, but she had agreed before that Zhang Daxing must take 100 taels of silver to marry his daughter, and she didn't know when he would get it together.
Just when the couple was worried, Zhang Daxing brought the matchmaker to the door. He not only brought 100 taels of silver as a betrothal gift, but also told Liu and his wife that he bought a large mansion in the city to marry Liu Yan. At that time, he will take his parents and Liu and his wife to live together.
Liu Yan heard that Zhang Daxing came to propose marriage and rushed over, and happened to hear about Zhang Daxing buying a big house.
"Brother Daxing, where did you get so much money?" Liu Yan was worried that Zhang Daxing had done bad things to raise money.
Zhang Daxing comforted Liu Yan and told her about the fact that he had won the Golden Beans.
It turned out that when Zhang Daxing came home to clean up the house, he saw a cloth bag. He suddenly remembered that this was the soybeans given to his grandmother when he repaired his birthday material yesterday.
He picked up the cloth bag and felt extremely heavy. The bag made a "ding" sound, like a collision of gold and stone, so he poured the soybeans in the cloth bag on the table. Only then did he find that the bag was not soybeans but golden beans at all.
Zhang Daxing was very scared and thought that the grandma had taken the wrong one and wanted to return it.
However, when he arrived at his grandma's house, he found that the door was locked and there were white lanterns hanging in front of the door. I learned from my neighbor that the grandma died two days ago and was buried by neighbors.
When Zhang Daxing heard this, he felt a chill on his back and muttered to himself: Grandma passed away two days ago, so isn’t the grandma I saw last night unhuman?
At this time, Zhang Daxing thought about the grandmother’s advice to him before he understood the real intention.
Grandma noticed that Zhang Daxing was in danger in advance, and then she reminded him to be careful of the dike. Thinking of this, Zhang Daxing was very grateful to his grandmother.
Now, the grandma is no longer alive, and this bag of golden beans cannot be returned. He took out some of the golden beans and exchanged them for silver. He bought a house and married Liu Yan, and all the remaining golden beans were used to do good deeds.
After hearing about Jindouzi's incident, Carpenter Liu couldn't help but sigh, "But do good things, don't ask about the future."
In this way, Zhang Daxing successfully proposed marriage, and they got married on a good day.
After marriage, the couple kept doing good deeds and accumulating virtues. From then on, the family was safe and smooth and lived a happy life.
(end of the story)
Poor boy Zhang Daxing helped others to do good deeds and received the golden beans given by his grandmother. He not only successfully proposed marriage, but also bought a big house, allowing the family to live a prosperous life.
is really a good thing, don’t ask about the future.
I always believe that there are more good people in this world than bad people, and good people will definitely be rewarded.
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