Ming Dynasty During the Jiajing period, there was a carpenter named Zhu Sansuo in Chaiwang Village, Xiangling County, Pingyang Prefecture. He was an ordinary farmer when he was young, but later, after going out once, he suddenly learned woodworking skills.
From then on, Zhu Sansuo began to make a living by creating furniture devices for people. He is skilled and uses real materials, and is very popular among the local people. He can do it whether it is the wedding bed used for marriage, the coffin used for burial, or the table, chair and bench used for daily use.
Of course, this is just for outsiders to see. In fact, what he is best at is making some clever objects.
Zhu Sansuo has a son named Zhu Zi, who has learned carpentry skills from his father since he was a child. When he was a child, he was very interested in the gadgets his father made. Once, he asked his father: "You have made so many fun things, why never sell them to others?"
Zhu Sansuo smiled and said, "These things are not worth the most in the eyes of the people, and they are not as real as a table and bench."
More than ten years later, Zhu Zi grew up. Because he learned from his father since childhood, his skills even surpassed his father. It is said that Lao Zhu's son Xiao Zhu's son is better than the blue.
Zhu Zi also likes to create clever objects, but Zhu Sansuo strictly ordered him not to sell these things. Zhu Zi was very dissatisfied at first, but later he thought that his father was right. Ordinary people couldn't use these things, so who would spend money to buy them? If you are cheap, you will definitely not want to sell it, and if you are expensive, you will not buy it.
After thinking about this, Zhu Zi planned to treat it as a hobby and save it as a unique craft of heirloom.
One day, Zhu Sansuo went out and suddenly became seriously ill after coming back. A few days later, he was lying on the hospital bed and dying. Zhu Zi hired many doctors but couldn't see them well.
When he was dying, Zhu Sansuo called Zhu Zi to the bed and took out a small bag from under the pillow. After Zhu Zi opened it, he found that it was a piece of parchment . Zhu Sansuo's eyes were dissipated, and he said with a breath of breath: "Put this thing away, don't throw it away." After
, Zhu Sansuo passed away.
Zhu Zi treated his father's funeral, using an ordinary coffin made for himself by his father's death. This was something Zhu Sansuo once specifically advised him. He did not do a big fuss, and followed his father's last wish and kept everything simple.
After burying his father, Zhu Zi returned home and looked at the empty room and cried sadly.
On that afternoon, Zhu Zi had just finished scenting for his father, and before he could come back from his grief, a scream came from the yard. "Is Little Carpenter Zhu at home?"
Zhu Zi walked to the yard and saw that the person was Uncle Mi San.
Mi San Uncle is an old man in the village and has some friendship with his father Zhu Sansuo. He had no children and lived on the harvest of that acre of three-part land. When Zhu Sansuo was still alive, he would often ask Uncle Mi San to drink and would occasionally help him. In Zhu Sansuo's words, it has been a friendship for decades, so if you can, you can help.
Zhu Zi welcomed Uncle Mi San into the house and said, "Uncle San, are you going to repair any furniture? I'll get the tools."
Mi San Uncle San pulled Zhu Zi and said, "I'm here to introduce you to the business. Liu Junwai from Liujiazhuang is going to hold a funeral banquet. Please go to a mat and create a few coffins."
Zhu Zi was shocked and said, "I haven't heard that someone from Liu Junwai's family has passed away. Why do you have to create a few coffins? Uncle San, are you teasing me?"
Mi San Uncle smiled and said, " How could I talk nonsense about this kind of thing? I would offend people. This was what I went to the market yesterday. The servants of the Liu family told me in person. There would be no mistakes."
Zhu Zi replied: "Okay, Uncle San. By the way, I almost forgot. My father left you a small jar of osmanthus brew before he died. I will give it to you now."
Mi San Uncle pulled Zhu Zi out and said, "Let's talk about it when you come back, let's go first. The Liu family said that the meal will be on the Xu hour, so we can't let someone wait for us."
The two left the village and walked east. After walking seven or eight miles, I passed by a forest, and further ahead was the Fen River. Zhu Zi said, "Uncle San, let's take a break here before leaving." Uncle San was a little dissatisfied: "Let's go quickly, otherwise you won't be able to catch up."
Zhu Zi grabbed Uncle Mi San: "You are in great health, but I have to take it off. I drank too much water before going out. You're here to wait for me and it's all right away. "After saying that, Zhu Zi ran into the forest.
Zhu Zi walked dozens of meters after entering the forest. He was about to loosen his belt and suddenly heard a sound of blowing and beating, as if someone was marrying.
Zhu Zi looked forward and left and right, but did not see anyone. While he was wondering, a breeze blew, and Zhu Zi's eyes changed a scene.
A group of weird people holding musical instruments in their hands, carrying sedan chairs, but two pairs of tentacles on their heads blocked his way. One of the old men bowed and asked, "Where are the guests coming from? "
Zhu Zi was shocked and answered honestly: "I don't know. I just felt a gust of wind blowing and I was here. "
The old man laughed: "Please look up. "
Zhu Zi looked up and saw a towering rock soaring into the sky. Next to it was a lush and grass-like giant tree. Zhu Zi became more surprised and became more familiar with him as he looked.
The old man said: "The guest doesn't know anything, we are 'antman'. Today, the king is going to marry his daughter. You are here just in time. Please come with us to have a glass of water bar. "
Zhu Zi was willing to refuse, but a group of ant people happily pushed into the tree cave palace.
After entering the palace, dense ant people were busy. The palace was in the first place, and there was a tall but beautiful woman sitting. The old man said she was the Ant King.
The Ant King invited Zhu Zi to the guest seat next to him. After a while, the table was covered with fruit and fruit wine. Zhu Zi was surprised to see that he thought that he was the Ant King married his daughter today, so he took out a "Qianji Linglong Pavilion from his sleeve ", as a gift.
This "Qianji Linglong Pavilion" is one of the most exquisite devices that Zhu Sansuo taught Zhu Zi to make. It has complex internal structure and is ingenious.
The ant king looked at the gift Zhu Zi took out and threw it into the air. The "Qianji Linglong Pavilion" actually became stronger with the wind, and then fell steadily beside a lake, as beautiful as a real attic.
After three rounds of wine, the ant king suddenly laughed and said, "It's getting late, so it's not easy for your companions to wait for more. Please come back. "Zhu Zi stood up and bowed to say goodbye. A gust of wind blew, and the scene in front of him changed, but the voice of the Ant King came from his ears: "Remember to pick up a bottle of dog urine before the meal..."
Zhu Zi opened his eyes and saw that he had come back. But looking at the sky, it seemed that it was not too late, and I don't know how long it had passed. Just as he was thinking about the Ant King's words, Uncle Mi San hurried over and said, "It's convenient, let's hurry up. "
Zhu Zi didn't say much and continued to rush with Uncle Mi San.
As the sky was just getting dark, the two rushed to the door of Liu Yuanwai's house in Liujiazhuang. However, what made Zhu Zi feel strange was that the Liu family was very quiet. Apart from the white lanterns in front of the door, there were neither guests coming and going, nor could they hear a trace of dog barking.
Zhu Zi remembered what the Ant King said, and couldn't help but think in his heart.
He said, "I suddenly remembered that there was something to do. You wait for me here, and I'll come back soon. "Uncle Mi San reached out to grab Zhu Zi, but he avoided it and ran away.
After a while, Zhu Zi came back. Uncle Mi San said angrily: "What are you doing? "
Zhu Zi smiled and said, "It's convenient to go. "
Mi San Uncle pulled Zhu Zi to the Liu family: "It's almost here, don't run around anymore. "
The two walked to the door of the Liu family, but were blocked by a young man in mourning clothes. The young man glanced at the two and snorted coldly, "Who are you? Do you know where this is? "
Mi San Uncle smiled and said with apologizing: "Young Master Liu Ya, it was Mr. Liu who invited us to come. This is Xiao Carpenter Zhu. Mr. Liu invited him to eat the mat and made a few coffins. "
After hearing this, Liu Ya looked up and down at Zhu Zi, waved his hand to let them enter the door. Zhu Zi followed Uncle Mi San, but heard Liu Ya muttering behind her back: "What's the matter crazy, you're going to hold a funeral banquet, and you're even invited everyone to your house! "
When the two arrived at the hall, they saw that white and candles had been arranged in the hall. Mr. Liu sat on the chair in the center with a solemn expression on his face.Sitting on the left was a young woman with a pale face and a blurred look, and she was whispering to a young man beside her.
Zhu Zi and Uncle Mi San saluted to Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu nodded slightly and signaled them to sit down aside. After a while, a servant came to report the banquet and prepared, and Mr. Liu took everyone to another room to sit down.
Just as soon as Zhu Zi sat down, the young man who was talking to the young woman sat next to him.
The young man said, "I'm Wang Yu, what's my name?"
Zhu Zi hurriedly replied, "I'm Zhu Zi, everyone else calls me Xiao Zhu Carpenter."
Wang Yu clapped his hands and said, "So you are Xiao Zhu Carpenter, I've been admired for a long time. Miss Qing'er, come and meet Xiao Zhu Carpenter."
The young woman named "Qing'er" said coldly, "I've met Xiao Zhu Carpenter." After that, he stopped saying a word.
Wang Yu hugged the girl Qing'er and smiled, "Don't blame Xiao Carpenter Zhu, Qing'er is a little respectful." Before he finished speaking, a sarcastic voice came: "Let go of my sister, you are not a good thing!" Liu Ya rushed in from outside the door, trying to pull Wang Yu's hand away, but was pushed and almost fell to the ground.
Zhu Zi quickly looked and held Liu Ya.
He was about to say something, but he heard Mr. Liu, who was also pale, say, "Ya'er, don't mess around, sit down!"
Liu Ya said, "Dad, why did you have to marry your sister to this guy? What's the point of having her good? Also, you are not dead, what funeral banquet is here?"
Mr. Liu slapped the chopsticks on the table with a "snap" and said in a deep voice: "It's not your turn to speak here!"
Liu Ya was angry, but Zhu Zi grabbed his hand. Zhu Zi smiled and said, "Young Master Liu, Mr. Liu must have his reason for doing this, so don't be angry. My father just passed away, and many of the reasons were understood."
Liu Ya glanced at Zhu Zi in surprise, clenched his fists and said, "You are right." After that, he turned around and left.
Everyone sat down again and the banquet began.
Wang Yu toasted Zhu Zi with a glass of wine and said, "Little Carpenter Zhu, I'm going to marry Miss Qing'er this time. I heard that you are skilled in craftsmanship and want to trouble you to make a gift."
Zhu Zi said, "What are you doing?"
Wang Yu looked at him and said with a smile, "'Qian Ji Lock' means we will always be united."
Zhu Zi put down the wine glass in his hand and said, "What is 'Qian Ji Lock'? I don't know. If you want to create a set of wedding supplies, I can still serve you, I can't do this."
Wang Yu smiled and said, "Do you really don't know?"
Zhu Zi shook his head.
Wang Yu turned the subject and said coldly: "Do you know who invited you to the banquet today? It's not Mr. Liu, but me! It seems that I need to prepare more coffins, do it, Brother Rat!" After
, Uncle Mi San next to him immediately rushed towards Zhu Zi.
Zhu Zi was prepared for a long time, so he immediately got up and avoided it, then took out a bottle of wine from his arms, opened the lid and splashed the liquid inside at Uncle Mi San. Uncle Mi San was caught off guard and was thrown all over.
He suddenly fell to the ground and rolled on his body, and wisps of black air radiated from his body. And Liu Yuanwai and Liu Qing on the side fell to the ground as if they were drained from their energy.
Wang Yu saw this and said sternly, "You were prepared for a long time, how could it be?"
Zhu Zi said, "How is it impossible, evil heretic."
Wang Yu laughed after hearing this, "I know I am an evil heretic, then do you know how your father died?"
Wang Zi heard this and his eyes were stained with blood: "It was your poisonous move, what are our grudges?"
Wang Yu sneered, "This is all the good things your father did!"
It turns out that Wang Yu was originally named Ying Yu, and this time he came to grab the treasure map left by Zhu Sansuo for Zhu Zi - Qianjitu.
When Zhu Sansuo was young, he encountered heavy rain when he went out, so he hurriedly found a cave to hide. At this time, there were already two people in the cave, one was Yuanwai Liu and the other was Yingyu's father.
At that time, Yuanwai Liu was still a small vendor, and Yingyu's father was a bandit but pretended to be a traveler.
The three of them met by chance, because they were hiding from the rain in the same place at the same time, so they started chatting with each other, waiting for the rain to stop. Just as the three of them were chatting, the sound of collapse came from the cave.
The three of them left after hearing the sound, but found a larger cave inside.
There is a statue in the middle of the cave, there is a piece of parchment paper on the table below, and a large box behind the statue. Yingyu's father took the lead and took a look at the parchment paper. He found that it was a carpenter's skill and lost interest. But the big box behind it was filled with a box of gold and silver.
The three of them were ecstatic and discussed how to divide them up.
Liu Yuanwai and Yingyu's father were fooled and tricked Zhu Sansuo and said that there must be greater secrets hidden in the parchment, but they did not have the energy to explore treasure hunting, so they just took gold and silver.
The result is that Liu Yuanwai and Yingyu's father shared the gold and silver equally, while Zhu Sansuo got parchment alone. Later, Zhu Sansuoen suddenly had such a high level of carpenter, which was learned from parchment paper, and he also felt that parchment paper was not simple.
After Liu Yuanwai and Yingyu's father shared the gold and silver equally, they had the capital to make a fortune and slowly accumulated the family business.
. They didn't know at the time that the cave was sealed with the soul of a mouse spirit, and it escaped with Ying Yu's father.
Later, the mouse spirit woke up and told Yingyu's father that there was a bigger secret hidden in the parchment (thousand machine pictures). Yingyu's father regretted it, but he could not find a suitable opportunity to seize it and passed away with hatred.
It was not until some time ago that the mouse's essence recovered and told Yingyu the news again, and Yingyu planned all this.
He first designed to seize the parchment from Zhu Sansuo. After failing, he let the mouse spirit assassinate Zhu Sansuo. He found Yuanwai Liu again, told him the half-true and half-false news, and used the mouse spirit to deceive Yuanwai Liu and his daughter Liu Qing.
Ying Yu is planning to hold a funeral banquet, but he is planning to ruin Liu Yuanwai's family and Zhu Zi, and he will take over the thousand-machine picture by himself!
Seeing that the truth was revealed, Ying Yu was not ready to hide it. He said, "Zhu Zi, hand over the Qianji Picture, I can spare your life. Let's destroy the Liu family and go hunting for treasure together."
Zhu Zi shook his head: "It's not yours, you will never get it."
Ying Yu saw that Zhu Zi was not in trouble, so he drew a short knife from behind and was about to force Zhu Zi to hand over the Qianji Picture.
However, a shout suddenly came from outside: "Don't let the thieves run away!"
said, and Liu Ya rushed in with a group of detectives.
It turned out that when Liu Ya was pulled away by Zhu Zi before, Zhu Zi stuffed a note in his hand. After Liu Ya went out, he read the content of the note and hurried to find someone to help.
Yingyu's expression changed drastically. He wanted to take Liu Yuanwai and Liu Qing as hostages, but was hugged tightly by Zhu Zi and was taken down with the joint efforts of everyone.
Yingyu was tied with his backhand, but he was not afraid at all. When Liu Ya saw that he was still like this when he died, he was so angry that he was so angry. His eyes turned and laughed, "Are you still waiting for your mouse spirit friend? I have invited the old Taoist priest in Gushe Mountain to remove the monsters. I guess it will go to hell earlier than you."
Ying Yu's expression changed drastically after hearing this, and finally gave up struggling and was taken away by the arrestees.
At this time, Uncle Mi San woke up slowly. Liu Ya smelled the unpleasant smell on his body and said, "What did you spill on your body?"
m Uncle San didn't know why, and Zhu Zi smiled and said, "Black dogs pee, rats are afraid of dogs."
A few days later, Liu Yuanwai and Liu Qing also improved in turn. After hearing Liu Ya's explanation of the incident, Mr. Liu couldn't help but sweat in a cold sweat and was very grateful to Zhu Zi.
Liu Qing also knew that it was Zhu Zi who saved him and felt good about Zhu Zi. With Liu Ya's help, Liu Yuanwai betrothed Liu Qing to Zhu Zi. After marriage, with the support of Liu Yuanwai, Zhu Zi and his wife opened a wooden utensil business, specializing in wooden utensil business.
Later, Zhu Zi made his business bigger and bigger with his good skills and reputation, and became a well-known wealthy businessman. But he hid the picture of Qianji. He never thought about exploring any treasures in the past. For him, life now is the happiest.
Hu Mu said:
As the saying goes, only by being content can one be happy.
Zhu Sansuo, Liu Yuanwai and Yingyu's father discovered the treasure together. Zhu Sansuo had no choice but to complain but diligently studied woodworking skills and became a well-known carpenter. He is happy and knows his fate.
Although Liu Yuanwai and Ying Yu's father shared the treasure, Liu Yuanwai felt guilty. In the end, marrying his daughter Liu Qing was considered to make up for his regret. Ying Yu and his son were greedy and believed in the instigation of rat spirits, and ultimately could not escape punishment.
In real life, we should also be content and happy.
In today's society, many people are full of unrealistic desires and make themselves tired. Busy and panic, but feel empty in every awake night. All unrealistic desires are burdens that drag down our lives.
I hope that friends who have read this story can know how to let go of those desires that exceed our vision like Zhu Zi. Only in this way can we manage our rare life well.
