The moat was a trench dug by the previous dynasty, more than two meters deep, and the moat connected to the river, and undercurrents under the water surface were surging, which can be said to be very dangerous. Although Old Man Zhang grew up by the river since childhood and his water quality is pretty good, for safety reasons, he tied one end of the rope that tied firewood to the tree on the shore and the other end of it to his waist, and then went down the river to save people.
Old man Zhang swam to the nun, dragged her from behind, and then pulled the rope to swim towards the shore. After Old Man Zhang rescued the nun ashore, his face was already as cold as the face was ashen and goosebumps appeared on his body. The nun looked only in her early thirties, with a pretty face and a good look, and seemed to have drunk a lot of water. Old Man Zhang asked the nun to lie on his knees, then patted the nun on the back with force. The nun spit out a lot of water, and then gradually regained consciousness.
Old man Zhang said, "Why did the little master fall into the water?"
The nun said, "I originally wanted to wash my hands by the river, but I didn't expect that my feet slipped and fell into the river. If it weren't for the help of my father-in-law, I'm afraid that my life would be over today." Old man Zhang said, "I just happened to pass by. Now your clothes are wet. Why should I go to my house to dry them before leaving. My clumsy wife is at home, so you can put on her clothes first."
The nun was very grateful to see Old Man Zhang say this.
After the two arrived at Zhang's house, Zhang told his wife Zhou about the whole story. Zhou was also a kind-hearted person. She first found a set of her own clothes to change into the nun, then set up a stove to help the nun bake clothes, and then went to the kitchen to prepare porridge. But when Zhou finished cooking, an accident suddenly occurred. Her stove suddenly collapsed, a big hole in the iron pot was rotten, and a pot of porridge was sprinkled on the ground.
Zhou's heartbroken. They usually don't want to waste any food, but this time they actually sprinkled a pot of porridge in vain. Old Man Zhang comforted and said, "It's time to repair this stove. I'll find a few bricks tomorrow and rebuild it, and then go to the blacksmith shop to repair the pot tomorrow. Don't we have the dry cakes we made in the morning? Let the master eat something with boiling water."
The nun showed a worry on the side. When she had eaten the cake and was about to leave, the nun couldn't help but say to Old Man Zhang, "Your life is approaching, so prepare for your funeral." Old Man Zhang and his wife were shocked and asked what was going on. The nun said, "We practitioners have studied the five elements and eight trigrams. I just saw that the stove in your house was inverted and saw that it was an ominous sign, so I told you a fortune. If I was correct, tomorrow noon will be the time for your death. You should prepare for your funeral soon. Don't be in a hurry to catch blindly." After hearing this, the old man Zhang was silent for a while and said, "Thank you for your advice from the young master. Life is rare in seventy years. I can live to fifty years old." After the little nun said this, he left, and Zhou sat on the bed and cried into tears. Zhou said, "Old man, if you really are gone, I will leave me alone for a mess. , I don't want you to die."
Old man Zhang said, " Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in heaven , King of Hell let people die in the third update, who dares to keep him until dawn. If I really die tomorrow, then my life should be like this, and there is nothing to be sad. If I don't die tomorrow, it may be that the little master is not good. Life is a day or a day, and from the beginning of life, it is running towards death. Why bother to care about when to die?
Old man Zhang did not take the nun's words to heart, and he should do whatever he should do.
Wait the next day at dawn, several old men from the same village called Zhang to go up the mountain to chop firewood together. Zhang asked them to wait for a while and go to the blacksmith shop to repair the pot first, otherwise he would not even have to eat when he came back at noon. The shopkeeper of the blacksmith shop was in time and he quickly repaired the iron pot.On the way home, Old Man Zhang suddenly tripped up something under his feet. Old Man Zhang looked down and saw that it was a wooden box. When he opened the wooden box, he saw that there were more than 200 taels of silver and several letters. Because Old Man Zhang was illiterate, he didn't know what was written on it.
But what Old Man Zhang knew was that the person who lost the money must be extremely anxious now. If the person who lost the money was doing things for others, and now if the money was lost, it might even cause death. During the Song Dynasty, one tael of silver was equivalent to 1,500 yuan now, and more than 200 taels of silver was equivalent to 300,000 yuan now, which is really a considerable amount. But Old Man Zhang understands one truth: if you don’t have wealth and your life is poor, if you don’t have good fortune, sometimes it will be a disaster.
So Old Man Zhang decided to wait for the owner on the spot, and waited from early morning until almost noon, a middle-aged man came hurriedly. It turned out that the middle-aged man was a businessman from Hangzhou. His family moved to Liyang County. As a result, a carriage ran a stone on the road and rolled down the wooden box containing silver. Old Man Zhang asked the merchant to tell the amount of silver in the wooden box and other items. The merchant answered them one by one, and Old Man Zhang returned the carpenter.
The merchant insisted on taking out fifty taels of silver to repay Old Man Zhang. Old Man Zhang said, "If I am greedy for your money, I will take it away. Why wait for you here? None of the money is from the wind. These money is yours. Go home quickly. I have to go to the mountain to chop wood." The merchant asked Old Man Zhang's name and residence, and insisted on coming to thank him another day. Old Man Zhang had to tell the merchant his residence, and then hurried back home.
After returning home, Old Man Zhang asked his wife Zhou: "Didn't Lao Li, Lao Wang and others wait for me at home? Where are they?"
Zhou said: "They waited for you to come back for a long time, so they went up the mountain to chop wood first. It's already sun to noon, so they should all go down the mountain to come back." At this moment, someone on the street shouted, "The big thing is wrong. A landslide occurred on the mountain. The woodcutters who went up the mountain to chop wood today were all killed under the earth and rocks."
It turned out that there was only one earth mountain near Liyang County. Due to the years of deforestation, the mountain began to become bare. The hillside was less covered by vegetation, and the soil was relatively loose, so landslides were prone to occur. Old Man Zhang was very scared. If he hadn't been wasting time on the street waiting for the owner, he might have followed them up the mountain to chop wood. If that were the case, he would have really responded to the nun's hexagram.
All the villagers went up the mountain together, dug out the bodies of the woodcutters, and then were taken home to bury by their respective families. Old Man Zhang went to the graves of those people to worship and said, "Our brothers have the best relationship. You have taken a few steps first. I am afraid that I will not have many days to spend. Today I will burn some paper money for you first. I hope you will not live a hard life in the spring."
After Old Man Zhang returned home, the businessman came to thank him. The businessman was interested in helping Mr. Zhou Zhang, and wanted to take care of his face, so he asked Mr. Zhang to take care of the vegetable garden for him and give him two taels of silver a month. At the same time, he invited Mrs. Zhou to his home to wash and cook for their family, and also gave her two taels of silver a month.
The merchant freed up two rooms alone to let Old Man Zhang and Zhou live in, treat them like family members. Later, Old Man Zhang met the nun last time. Old Man Zhang asked, "Master, last time you said that my life was about to end the next day. Now I am not only alive, but also more nourishing than before. Did you make the mistake of your fortune?"
The nun stared at Old Man Zhang's face and said, "Yes, when I saw your face last time, the entrance of the snake pattern was black, and now your snake pattern has become a long-lived pattern, which is a long-lived face. You must have done something to accumulate good deeds, so you changed your fate against the will of heaven and increase your blessings and life."
Old Man Zhang saw that the nun said it, and told me that he had won the money and avoided the landslide.The nun said, "You were a butcher in your previous life, and you committed too much evil, so you will be defeated by the five thunders in this life. The so-called five thunders are metal, wood, water, fire and earth. If you die under the mud and sand, you will be killed by the earth thunder. You can pick up the gold, which shows that you are very kind-hearted. God has the virtue of life and pursues punishment of evil and promoting good, so you will be exempted from the earth thunder disaster and will also increase your blessings and longevity. I hope you will enjoy doing good deeds in the rest of your life and have a long life." After hearing this, the old man Zhang suddenly realized that he had done more and more good deeds from it. Later, the couple lived to be over 90 and died without success.
[Sounding Statement]
This story is a folk story and is purely literary creation. The plot and characters are all fictional, aiming to enrich readers' spare time. Please do not match feudal superstitions.
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