During the Kangxi period, there was a man named Zhang Jingxuan in Maoming, Guangdong. Zhang Jingxuan is handsome and talented, kind and helpful.
Zhang Jingxuan's ancestors have made a living by fishing for generations. It's a pity that his parents died in an accident when he was fourteen years old, leaving him alone in this world. Maybe God gave him mercy and married the village flower from the next village when he was twenty years old.
Zhang Jingxuan's wife is named Wang Dagu, and she is from Wang Village next door. Wang's family is gentle, considerate, hardworking and virtuous, with outstanding appearance. She is recognized as the village flower in the village.
Mr. Wang's family is from an average family and has a younger brother and sister. In his early years, Old Man Wang wanted to marry Wang to Mr. Li in the town as a concubine. In name, I want to let Wang live a good life, but in fact I want to get a large bride price. But Wang refused to do so because the person Wang liked was Zhang Jingxuan. Finally, the two got married secretly in private. After learning about it, Old Man Wang never contacted his daughter again. Even after learning that Wang had been ill for more than half a year, I never asked anyone to say hello.
On weekdays, Zhang Jingxuan went out to fish, and his wife kept the house in an orderly manner. Although life is poor, the couple is very loving. Every time Zhang Jingxuan came back from fishing, Wang and her husband would untie the fish net, then clean the fish net. Occasionally, they would use needles and threads to make up.
Half a year ago, Wang may have suffered from a cold. In winter, I wash and dry slurry for a long time, and I feel weak, have a bad complexion, and I always cough. This disease has been over 100% and has not improved yet.
One day, Zhang Jingxuan came to the river to catch fish as usual. There was no hope for a net, because in recent years, the fish in the river have become more and more difficult to catch, but often surprises are always unintentional. I saw a red thing fluttering in the net. I pulled it out of the water and saw it shocked. A big carp , covered in red, shining in the sun. Zhang Jingxuan was overjoyed and hurried home in the basket, preparing to make soup to make a supplement for his sick wife.
When he got home, Zhang Jingxuan smiled and showed the fish to his wife. While saying that he would make it into carp soup for you to make it well. My wife always felt strange when she looked at the red carp, especially the two small bulges on her head and the whiskers that were twice as long as ordinary fish. Suddenly, Wang exclaimed: Husband, look, this fish seems to be crying. Husband, why don’t you put it away? When Zhang Jingxuan saw that the fish was really extraordinary, he agreed to his wife's suggestion and decided to release the fish.
Zhang Jingxuan picked up the fish frame and returned to the river, then returned to the place where the net was cast just now, and poured the fish into the river. The fish stopped in the water for a while before slowly swimming away, as if thanking Zhang Jingxuan for letting it go.
That night, Zhang Jingxuan had a dream. When I saw the carp in my dream, the carp actually spoke and talked. It told Zhang Jingxuan, thank you for letting me go. In return, I can satisfy your wish. It is a metaphor for giving you a lot of gold, silver and treasures to let you live a wealthy life in the future. Zhang Jingxuan replied: Then can you let my wife recover from illness as soon as possible? No money is as important as my wife's health. After hearing this, the carp was moved. Then she sighed: What love is in the world? It is to teach people to live and die together. There is really love that will last until death in this world...
When he woke up the next day, Wang prepared breakfast early and called her husband to come and have breakfast, which made Zhang Jingxuan stunned. Looking at my wife's face was rosy and radiant, she looked completely different from her pale and groggy look before. Zhang Jingxuan thought to himself, is it related to his dream yesterday? After pulling his wife to look at her left and then, she was sure that her wife was really well, and she couldn't help but feel very happy. After dinner, I went to the river to catch fish alone.
This time is different from before. It can’t be pulled in one net. When it is pulled up, it is full of fish. Zhang Jingxuan is not greedy. He picked some and felt that it is enough for his life, so he released the rest. This has been the case for several consecutive days, while other village names are second-hand. For a moment, the price of fish in the town doubled, but Zhang Jingxuan still only took some of them and released the rest, and was not moved by it.
That night, Zhang Jingxuan had another dream.In the dream, Carp said to him again, "I didn't expect you to be greedy at all." Every time you catch a fish, you only take a part of it and release all the fish you want to give birth and some small fish. It is really commendable. In recent years, the fish in this river are getting smaller and smaller. Some fishermen's nets are getting denser and denser, and some are so dense that they can't even wear their hair. Some fishermen even cut off the river water in shallow water and scoop the water dry, not even letting go of small fish and shrimps. A long-term plan that doesn't understand at all. Today I will tell you that under the old locust tree in your yard, I have prepared a generous gift for you.
Zhang Jingxuan got up in the morning, thought about yesterday's dream, and with a curious heart, he picked up the hoe and dug under the locust tree. The wife asked with confusion, "My husband, what are you doing?" Are you going to dig this locust tree and chop firewood?" Zhang Jingxuan replied: You will know later. After digging for a while, I heard a bang, as if I had dug something hard. An iron box was square, and it was all gold, silver and jewelry that I could not spend for dozens of generations.
Zhang Jingxuan thinks that the Jinpao said makes sense, and Wang also supports her husband in doing so. First of all, they took out most of the money to give the local poor village names and instructed the nearby village names not to overfish in the future. You are not unaware of the story of fishing when the river is exhausted. What I mean is that everyone cannot just seek immediate interests, but have a long-term perspective, so that our descendants can have fish to catch.
Unexpectedly, there is a saying that says, "The poor are in the downtown area and no one asks about it, and the rich are in the deep mountains and have distant relatives."
Wang's sister Wang Yaogu heard that her brother-in-law had become rich, so she quickly brought her husband Hu Ergou to visit her, showing that she missed her sister very much and attached importance to family affection. She told them that the two families would walk around more in the future. Finally, I also said that I haven’t come to visit my sister for so many years, not because I don’t miss my sister, but because my father doesn’t let them come.
Wang understands it, but he doesn't point it out. After all, he is his sister, so he took out a ingot of gold and gave it to her sister. When the couple saw gold ingot , their eyes turned green. I thought to myself, how much more does my brother-in-law have in my family? Both of them were thinking about how to get the gold and silver into their hands.
It is true that birds of feathers gather together. After the two returned home, they spoke in unison: Let's find a way to get more gold and silver at my brother-in-law's house. Hu Ergou even added fire and said angrily: Brother-in-law and the others are so stupid. They have taken out so much gold and silver to share with outsiders in the countryside. We were relatives and gave me a ingot. The two of them were now planning a feasible way to put together this. After a while, Hu Ergou said excitedly: Yes.
If you want to say that Hu Ergou is really shameless, he can say this. He asked his wife to pretend to invite her brother-in-law and the others to visit her home, saying that her sister and brother-in-law have never been there once in so many years. When they came, they put some medicine in the tea. After Zhang Jingxuan and Wang Aunt Drinked, they helped Zhang Jingxuan to the bed of Wang Yaogu and Hu Ergou. Then Wang Yaogu pretended to cry and called his brother-in-law bad to her. At this time, Hu Ergou rushed in with a few more people. At that time, both people and stolen goods were captured, and it was difficult for a hundred people to argue. Then, Hu Ergou was forced to blackmail Zhang Jingxuan by blackmail. I think they would agree, otherwise they would be sentenced to prison.
Just as they thought they could make a big profit tomorrow, Carp told Zhang Jingxuan that night that your wife and sister told you to go to his house tomorrow, and told Zhang Jingxuan about the plan of the couple.
But just when Wang Yaogu pretended to call Zhang Jingxuan wronged her, a group of yamen runners rushed in. It immediately scared Wang Yaogu. I don't know if I should shout again. At this moment, Zhang Jingxuan jumped off the bed and said to Wang Yaogu: I had known your plan long ago, and I called these yamen runners. Do you still want to argue, and I didn't drink your tea at all. I secretly vomited them all. Wang Yaogu was stunned on the spot and said that she knew she was wrong. She knelt down and begged her brother-in-law to let her go...
In the end, the couple were sentenced to parade in the streets and showed up. Everyone despised them, and some of them had a bigger temper and threw cabbage leaves directly for them.
Five years later, the river restored its previous ecology, and the fish were as numerous as before, and the villagers truly understood the principle of fishing in the pond.
Last: The couple is still as loving as before. He gave birth to three sons and one daughter, and the family lived happily together.
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