A long time ago, there was a household surnamed Cui in Fuping County. He was from a family of three. The head of the household Cui Bing and his wife Hong. The couple had only one son and was named Cui Yuan.
The Cui family has several acres of thin fields. God is enough to eat and drink when he opens his face. Cui Bing is quite familiar with medicinal materials. He goes to the mountains to collect herbs during the slack farming period. In this way, his life is still a little rich. The couple is kind and kind. The villagers can help each other if they have big or small things, so they are very popular.
Cui Bing has a friend named Chen Xi who lives in Chenjiaao, seven miles away. Chen Xi has a daughter named Xiuyun, who is the same age as Cui Yuan. When Cui Bing discussed with Chen Xi, he ordered dolls for his two children and married children.
As the saying goes, there will be unexpected situations in heaven, and people will have good fortune and good fortune at any time. In the autumn of that year, Cui Bing entered the mountain to collect herbs, accidentally rolled into the ravine and fell seriously injured. He lay on the kang for more than a year and passed away.
My wife, Hong, was sad about her husband's death and she cried every day. After half a year, she suffered from eye disease and was blurred in her eyes and could only do housework.
Cui Yuan was only eleven years old at this time. He couldn't do the work in the farmland. Fortunately, he learned some medicinal materials with his father since childhood. He went to the mountains to collect herbs at such a young age to make a living.
The villagers are kind and can't bear to see this miserable look, and they all help them. The neighbors Hu Da and Wang Cai helped to cultivate the crops of the Cui family, and all the harvests are given to the Cui family, without leaving any grains.
Other villagers also helped to take care of them. With the help of neighbors, the mother and son were able to overcome the difficulties.
Although Cui Yuan was young, he knew very well that the neighbors were selfless in helping each other, one was kindness, and the other was the path his father took for himself when he was alive. The villagers were repaying their kindness.
After understanding this truth, Cui Yuan was as kind and righteous as his father. There was a wedding and wedding event in the village, and he went to join the house and helped him hard. He could help those who were poor from the family, and would rather be more peaceful than care about it. Everyone in the village praised Cui Yuan behind his back, saying that he was kind and polite, and was a good child.
. Chen Xi was also very heartbroken when the Cui family was in this situation and often gave some firewood and rice. His wife Huang had complaints about her husband's behavior. Not only that, she saw that the Cui family was in decline, but she also wanted to destroy this baby marriage.
On this day, Huang said to her husband: "The head of the family, when is the current situation of the Cui family? I don't want Xiuyun to suffer in the past. Anyway, I didn't establish a document at the beginning, and I didn't ask others to protect him. Why don't you just quit and give Xiuyun a good family?"
"Nonsense, I have known Cui Bing for many years and are as close as brothers. How can I do this ruthless thing? As a person, you must keep your promises and say nothing more. Don't say this again in the future. You have been with me for many years, hum! " Chen Xi was obviously angry.
"You know that you are cruel to me, you know that you keep your promises, and you have never considered your daughter's happiness. The orphan and widowed mother of the Cui family, when will the hard days be the first? Do you have the will to marry and suffer?" Huang finished speaking and started crying.
Huang said that it was for the happiness of his daughter. This was just one aspect, and on the other hand, his daughter Xiuyun was beautiful. Huang wanted her to marry into a rich family and asked for more brides, which was the ultimate goal.
Seeing his wife crying, Chen Xi felt a little soft-hearted and said softly: "Stop crying, listen to me, their whole village is helping Cui Yuan and his son. Why? It is not the blessing accumulated by Cui Bing's doing good deeds during his lifetime. The villagers are repaying kindness. Don't think that Cui Yuan is not old, but smart, and acts like his father. Such a child who is grateful for his kindness and knows how to maintain popularity will have a day to stand out in the future. When his daughter marrys, their mother and his son will be like jewelry. No matter how much money or wealthy it is, if his character is not good to his daughter, what's the use?"
The husband is the head of the family. He disagrees, and Huang has no choice but to have children, but she is reluctant. She often thinks in her heart, hoping that Cui Yuan will have a good life, or is seriously ill or dies, and her daughter will not have to marry him.
I want to say that Huang is really powerful. Thinking that others are suffering from disasters, there are really people who suffer from disasters, but it is not Cui Yuan, but her husband Chen Xi. Just over two months later, Chen Xi suddenly suffered from a serious disease and died less than two months later.
The husband is gone, and the first thing Huang did in charge of the family was to ruin the marriage with the Cui family. Three years later, he married his daughter Xiuyun to Zhao Bin, the youngest son of Zhao Ji, the landlord of the neighboring village, as his wife. The dowry didn't have to be much, so he asked for a lot of money.
The Chen family regretted their marriage. Hong was not angry. She said to her son: "It is inevitable that she will love the rich. No one wants her daughter to marry and suffer. Yuan'er doesn't have to worry about being a good person and living a life well. Are you afraid that she will not be able to marry a good woman?" Cui Yuan remembered the words of his mother in his heart. He was not angry or resentful to the Chen family, but worked harder to earn money by collecting herbs.
One day shortly after, Cui Yuan stopped a carriage while collecting herbs and took the two people who fell to the ground home to treat him. Unexpectedly, this became the starting point for him to make a fortune.
One of the two people is He Shiming, the owner of the "He Ji" medicinal materials shop in Fucheng, and the other is his follower. This time he came here to buy Astragalus. According to the follower, a fiery red fox suddenly popped out of the roadside, disturbing the horse and then ran wildly.
The two lived in the Cui family for more than ten days, and returned to the city after recovering from the injury. During his recovery period, He Shiming discovered that Cui Yuan was smart and good at herbs. In order to repay his kindness, he bought a carriage and horse to give it to Cui Yuan, asking him to supply it specifically for his shop in the future. Such good things like
made the Cui family and his son overjoyed. Cui Yuan is an honest man and the quality of the medicinal materials he purchased is very popular with He Shiming.
The Cui family's life is getting better. He Shiming also hired a famous doctor in the Fucheng and sent someone to escort him to Fucheng to treat Cui Yuan's mother's eye disease. Under the conditioning of the famous doctor, Hong's eyes recovered a year and a half later.
At this time, Cui Yuan was already twenty-one years old. He was busy with life in recent years, which delayed his marriage. His mother, Hong, was anxious and invited many matchmakers to tell her son about marriage.
At that time, it was not married until he was twenty-one years old, which was indeed rare. Many people mistakenly thought that Cui Yuan had hidden illness. Besides, women of similar age had already gotten married, so Cui Yuan's marriage has never been settled.
On this day, Cui Yuan went to deliver medicinal materials. After the goods were delivered, he bought some pastries that his mother liked and two pieces of cloth in the city. He said goodbye to the shopkeeper He returned to Fucheng.
When he was more than forty miles away from home, a fox suddenly jumped out of the grass on the roadside, jumped into the carriage, and screamed at Cui Yuan with a low voice. Cui Yuan was a little surprised, but when he looked carefully, he laughed. It turned out that he had a story with this fox.
Five years ago, Cui Yuan went into the mountain to collect herbs and found a little red fox with his hind legs and tail clipped by a hunter's animal clip. Seeing that the little thing was pitiful, Cui Yuan opened the clip and released it.
The little fox was miserable. One of his hind legs was pinched and his tail was half removed. Cui Yuan quickly picked some herbs to stop the bleeding and bandage the little fox, and gave the caught pheasant to the little fox.
This little fox had eaten, recovered his strength, rubbed Cui Yuan for a while, and limped into the forest. In the two years since then, Cui Yuan often saw it in the mountains, but it disappeared later. Just now, when he saw that the fox had only half a tail, Cui Yuan immediately recognized it.
This fox has grown much older than three years ago. It rubbed its head with Cui Yuan, suddenly bit the bag on Cui Yuan's waist, tilted its head and pulled it off, then jumped out of the carriage and ran west along the fork.
This bag was sewn by my mother. Cui Yuan regarded it as a treasure. He urged the carriage and shouted and chased.
The fox showed no sign of slowing down and ran for more than ten miles in one breath. A village appeared in front of him. The fox ran to a mansion in the west of the village, walked into the water hole under the wall, and entered. Cui Yuan tied the carriage outside the door and went forward to knock on the door.
A moment later, the door opened and a 15 or 16-year-old girl stood inside. The little girl asked, "Who are you? Why are you knocking on my door?"
At this time, an old man's voice came from the yard: "Cuihe, who is it?"
"Master, it's a young man. I don't know him, and I'm asking him." The girl named Cuihe tilted her head and replied.
Cui Yuan was waiting to report to his home, when an old man in his sixties came to the door, Cui Yuan quickly bowed and said, "Boy is abrupt. A fox took my bag away and entered the noble house. The bag was sewn by the mother's hand. The boy dared not give up and was very rude to bother him. It is a sin. Please forgive me."
The old man smiled and said, "Since the fox has entered the house, please come in and see if he can find it." "Then disturb me." Cui Yuan gave another deep salute and followed the old man into the yard.
After sitting down at the main hall, the old man ordered Cuihe to bring tea, and then said, "Cuihe, go to the backyard to call Fubao, look for it in the yard to see if there is any fox and hemp bag that this guy mentioned." Cuihe responded and turned around and left.
Cui Yuan talked with the old man and reported to each other's family. It turned out that the old man's surname was Liu, and he was a member of the village. His eldest son worked in a neighboring county, and his second son was doing business in the mansion. His family lived in the mansion.
About a cup of tea, Cui He hadn't replied yet. The house was full of female relatives of the Liu family, so Cui Yuan was not convenient to find her in person, so he had to chat with Mr. Liu.
Just now, a woman's voice came from outside the door: "Dad, it's really strange. Look, I picked up this thing." As the words fell, a young woman came in, and she was holding Cui Yuan's bag.
The woman saw a strange man and said "yo", handed the bag to Yuanwai Liu, and stood sideways.
Yuanwai Liu said, "Brother Cui, are you looking for this?"
"That's right, thank you very much, Miss." After Cui Yuan finished speaking, he bowed to the two of them again.
The woman was very free and easy, and turned to Yuanwai Liu and said, "What a coincidence. My daughter was embroidering in the room just now. Suddenly, a fiery red fox jumped in from the window, holding this in her mouth. The fox was so strange, with only half a tail. It threw the bag beside me and ran away. I didn't expect it was this guy."
"Brother Cui, do you know this fox?" Yuanwai Liu said in confusion.
Cui Yuan dared not hide it, and told him about what happened a few years ago. After saying that, he thanked him again, then said goodbye to the Liu family and returned home.
This incident has passed more than two months in a blink of an eye. In the afternoon of this day, several magpies flew around on the roof of Cui Yuan’s house. The mother Hong said, “Magpie is a good news bird. It seems that my family will have a happy event. Could it be that my son’s marriage is coming.”
“Mom, look, you are here again. You often feed these magpies, and you will come back and forth in a few days.” As soon as Cui Yuan finished speaking, a carriage was parked at the gate of the yard. It was Mr. Liu who got off the car. This time he came for his daughter’s marriage.
Liu Yuanwai's daughter is named Xiangling. She is already nineteen years old. She was originally a big family like the Liu family, and there were many people who were looking for relatives, but Xiangling looked down on those rich children, so her marriage was delayed again and again.
Liu Yuanwai only has such a precious daughter, and he regards her as a treasure. His wife has passed away, and his two daughters-in-law can't persuade her. Liu Yuanwai loves her daughter very much, so she has to rely on her daughter's temperament.
Cui Yuan is a talented person, handsome and extraordinary. When Xiangling saw him that day, she was already moved. After listening to him telling the story of the fox, she had already secretly agreed, thinking that this was a fate given to heaven and that she used the fox to lead the red line. She was free and easy-going and told her father what she was thinking. After that day, Mr. Liu also thought carefully: the fox ran ten miles with his bag in his arms and then threw it next to her daughter. This matter was too strange. How can I explain it except the word "fate"? Now that his daughter expresses her thoughts directly, he has the intention of fulfilling her.
Liu Yuanwai is not a reckless person. He spent more than a month asking about Cui Yuan’s character in private. As for the Cui family’s family background, he never considered it. As long as Cui Yuan has a good character, that’s fine.
Cui Yuan is kind, upright and kind, and his reputation is naturally unspeakable. After understanding these situations, Liu Yuanwai was very satisfied and came here.
The marriage fell from heaven, which made Hong overjoyed. He immediately discussed the marriage with Mr. Liu. Mr. Liu was also a cheerful person, and the two quickly settled the wedding date. On October 16th that year, Cui Yuan and Liu Xiangling got married, and the whole village came to congratulate him.
Although Xiangling is free and easy, she is extremely filial, which makes the Cui family and his son very happy. Not only that, Xiangling also brought seven big carts from her parents' home, asking her husband to recruit some coachmen and staff, and in the future, they expanded the scope of receiving medicines and specially supplied to major medicinal shops in the city and other state governments.
At the same time, Xiangling also suggested that nearby villagers have vacated some land to plant medicinal materials. In this way, the villagers gradually became rich under the leadership of Cui Yuan and his wife.
In the blink of an eye, Cui Yuan has become a wealthy family in the past seven years, and the villagers nearby have also lived a good life. Xiangling has given birth to two boys and one girl for the Cui family. The family has no worries about food and clothing and is happy.
Compared with the Cui family, the Chen family is gradually declining. When Huang married his daughter Xiuyun to Zhao Bin, the son of the rich man Zhao Ji, he received a lot of brides. With these brides, he lived a superior life and became rich for several years.
Who knew that Zhao Bin was a playboy. He often went to the fireworks place in the county with his friends to have fun. Xiuyun would be beaten and scolded by her husband if she interfered with it. Later, Zhao Bin suffered from a hidden illness, which caused Xiuyun to remain unpregnant. In the third year of Cui Yuan's marriage, Xiuyun was divorced by the Zhao family.
Without the wealthy relative of the Zhao family, Xiuyun's two brothers were not good at managing finances, the Chen family began to decline and returned to the situation where they could only have food and clothing. Xiuyun was relieved and knew that she had no face to see others, so she passed away soon.
Watching Cui Yuan become a wealthy businessman, the Cui family is in full swing, and Hong's family is not only jealous, but also regrets.
(The story is over)
[Written at the end]
Qing Dynasty Wu Jingzi Chapter 46 of "The Scholars". The original text reads: It is better to bully the White-bearded Duke than to bully the young man poor. There must be a day when the dragon wears the phoenix, but I don’t believe in wearing holes for the rest of my life.
means: it is better to look down on the old man who has no money than to look down on the poor young people, because the future of young people is limitless. If a young man works hard, he will make a fortune one day sooner or later, he will not believe that he will always wear ripped pants for the rest of his life.
is the most appropriate thing to use in Huang. In fact, her husband Chen Xi had already concluded that Cui Yuan was smart, knew how to repay kindness and know how to maintain popularity, and would have a future where he would make a name for himself. It’s a pity that Huang didn’t listen. For the sake of wealth in front of him, he ruined his daughter Xiuyun’s happiness and the Chen family’s happiness.
Cui Yuan’s two chances were all out of his kindness and good deeds. He was a righteous person to rescue Manager He, and had the foundation to start a family. He rescued the little fox in his early years. The little fox reciprocates his favor and leads a good marriage for him. He married Xiangling as his wife. Xiangling brought wealth and honor, which was Cui Yuan’s wealth. Aren’t these all brought by his good deeds?
For example, Liu Yuanwai asked Cui Yuan’s character privately and learned that he was a pure character, he agreed to marry his daughter to him. If Cui Yuan had a bad character and had a bad relationship with his neighbors, it might be another situation.
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