There was a young man named Jiang Chunsheng in Huangzhou City. His father died early, and now he depends on his mother for his life. The family had only a few acres of thin fields, and he took the time to go to the mountains to collect firewood to sell, so that he could make up for his family.

At this time, he suddenly heard a whining sound. He followed the sound, but saw a big civet cat playing against a mouse in the pavilion. The mouse had been playing with the big cat for a long time, and it was already tired and weak, but after all, it did not want to lose its life and become the big cat's food. He stood up leisurely and walked forward with difficulty. When it was about to go down the pavilion, the big cat came slowly and hit it back into the pavilion with one paw. So repeated. Jiang Chun was uncomfortable to see, so he said to the cat, "Don't torture him anymore, eat him if you want, let him go if you don't want to eat him."

The cat grinned at him and gave a fierce cry.

Jiang Chunlai said angrily: "Did you hear that? Don't toss! Eat if you want, let it go if you don't want to!"

Jiang Chunlai was so angry that he raised his leg and kicked the cat. The kick was unbiased and hit the big cat's head. The big cat flew up into the air, hit the pillar, and died after a few convulsions. Jiang Chunlai said to the mouse, "You are lucky, let's go." He picked up the big civet cat and stopped selling firewood and carried it home.

Jiang Chunlai stewed the big civet cat and beat the tooth sacrifice with the old lady.

At night, Jiang Chunlai was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard someone whispering in his ear: "Jiang Chunlai, Jiang Chunlai -" He opened his eyes in a daze, but saw a mouse standing in front of him, calling him. Unaware of his surprise, he murmured, "Are you calling me?" The mouse nodded and said, "Yes, I'm here to thank you for saving your life." Saying this, he dragged a golden hairpin from behind him with great effort, "I know you all like this, so take it." After saying this, the mouse jumped off the king and disappeared in an instant. Jiang Chun hid the golden hairpin and secretly thought, I don't know where the mouse stole the golden hairpin from, so I must not take it out, otherwise it will be caught as a thief, which is really hard to argue.

Jiang Chunlai hid the golden hairpin and soon forgot about it. He still lived the old days, first busy farming, going up the mountain to collect firewood when he had time, and then picking to sell it in the city. His life with my mother was still miserable.

On that day, he carried another load of firewood into the city to sell. When he came to the Shili Pavilion, he felt tired again, so he put down the firewood load and sat on the ground to rest. At this time, he heard a whisper from the booth again. He heard that it was not a person who was talking, but a mouse, and he felt curious. He did not know what the mice usually talked about, so he approached quietly, and sure enough he saw a few mice chatting leisurely in the pavilion. When the mice saw him, they didn't shy away. One mouse asked the other mouse: "Look at your tired appearance, are you being chased by a cat?"

The mouse said it was all because he was confused for a while and made a tendon. Last night, he went out to find something to eat and happened to pass by the wall of Sun Yuanwai's house. He thought Sun Yuanwai was a well-known rich family, and his house must have a lot of delicious food. Just dig a rat hole and get into it. Although Sun Yuanwai's house has a deep foundation in brick walls, it can't be difficult for it. As long as the hole is dug deep enough to bypass the foundation, it can get in. It held back its strength and dug an oblique hole first, enough to bypass the foundation, and then dug in. But as it dug, it was suddenly blocked by a slate. He let go of the slate and dug down. Below is a wooden box. What's in the wooden box? It was curious and started biting the wooden box. It took nine bulls and two tigers to finally bite open the wooden box, only to find that it was filled with gold ingots. It could not be eaten or drunk, but it was tired to death. Are you confused?

When the mouse finished speaking, a group of mice laughed along.

Jiang Chunlai also smiled, but he stopped laughing when he smiled. He thought about it, these gold ingots are useless to mice, but to himself, it is a windfall from heaven! If he really had such a box of gold ingots, he would be a rich man, he would be able to buy a house and land, and he would be able to marry a good daughter-in-law. Thinking of this, he suddenly got excited, picked up the firewood and ran home excitedly.

When the night was quiet, he quietly went out the door. He recognized Sun Yuanwai's house, which was really a well-known rich man. His family had a house and land, and there was also a crude medicine shop in the city, which earned a lot of money every day. This box of gold ingots should have been hidden by him, and his family was not short of money.

Jiang Chunlai went behind the wall of Sun Yuanwai's house and looked carefully at the ground. Sure enough, he found a rat hole.

He saw that there was no one around, and the place was very secluded, so he took the shovel and gently dug it up. He dug all the way down the rat hole, and soon found the slate, and there was a wooden box under the slate. He dug a hole in the side of the wooden box, reached in and touched it, and indeed found a gold ingot. He stopped digging, took out all the gold ingots in the wooden box, put them in the pocket he brought, then filled the soil back, stepped on the outside, carried the gold ingot, and quietly felt it back home.

He lit the oil lamp and poured all the gold ingots in the bag onto the kang. The gold ingots were all shining with gold, and when he picked them up and bit them, they were really soft. Looking at the bottom, there were also four words "made by Huangzhou Mansion", which seemed to be real gold. However, he took out so much gold at once, which would inevitably arouse suspicion. It was really unclear for a while, and if Sun Yuanwai got it back, it would be more than worth the loss. Let's spend it in a few days. He opened the mat, uncovered two billets from the kang, and put all the gold into the kang cave. As the saying goes, people's hearts are not worth swallowing elephants. Jiang Chunlai got so much gold, but he was still not satisfied.

He wondered to himself if there were still gold ingots hidden under the walls of Sun Yuanwai's courtyard. With this idea, he couldn't sleep and eat well. The next night, he set off again with a shovel and a cloth bag.

As he was about to reach the wall of Sun Yuanwai's house, he suddenly found two people squatting under the wall, digging a hole. Who would find out this secret? He regretted that he was too content last night to dig up more gold ingots, and now that they were dug up, he had no chance to dig again. He had a trace of luck in his heart. If these two people were like him and dug a box and left, then he could dig another box. He crept quietly behind a big tree not far behind the two and hid himself. Fortunately, the two people only cared about digging holes and did not find him.

The thin man said to the fat man, "Sir, why haven't you dug it yet? You can't remember the wrong location, right?" The fat man said, "No. I specially measured it, and it's 10 steps away from this tree." The thin man asked again, "Could it be that Sun Yuanke dug it up?" The fat man smiled strangely and said proudly, "If he dug it up, this official can just punish him for stealing the treasury. Even if he is covered in mouth, it is unclear. If he didn't dig it up, I will leave him a few ingots, and I will still punish him for his crime. As long as he is caught in the prison, I am worried that his family will not send a lot of money? The day when we get rich is just around the corner. "

Jiang Chunlai was startled and suddenly remembered something. A few days ago, the warehouse of the city government of Huangzhou was stolen, and several boxes of gold and silver disappeared. The government sent a lot of police officers to investigate and arrested a lot of people, but they didn't find any clues.

Cheng Ziyue and Wan Bingan dug for a while and finally found the slate. Wan Bingan fumbled out the slate and reached out to pull the wooden box below. As soon as she pulled it, she felt her hand light and cried out unconsciously, "The gold ingots are gone!" Cheng Ziyue was in a hurry and hurried over to take a look.

Wan Bingan had already pulled the wooden box out. When the two saw the big hole next to the wooden box, they couldn't help but look at each other. Cheng Ziyue gritted his teeth in hatred and said, "Sun Yuanke is so brave, he really dares to touch my gold!"

Wan Bingan unknowingly smiled and said, "My lord, this is right on your plan. His property is worth more than dozens of boxes of gold!" Cheng Ziyue also suppressed her anger and said, "Bury the box back. You find a good person, go to the government office early tomorrow morning to report, I will wait. After this is done, I will naturally not treat you badly." Wan Bingan hurriedly said, "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely do it properly." The two of them buried the box and the slate back under the wall, and then left secretly.

Jiang Chunlai also quickly left this land of right and wrong.

The next morning, Jiang Chunlai was working in the fields when he heard a big mess in the village, people were crying and dogs were screaming, chickens were flying and dogs were jumping. He hurriedly ran out of the crop field to take a look, and saw that more than a dozen catchers and servants had arrested Sun Yuanwai, and were dragging and dragging them towards the city. Sun Yuanwai kept shouting injustice. Jiang Chunlai sighed unconsciously, making money and attracting disaster. He retreated to the crop field again, feeling very uncomfortable.

When it was almost noon, Jiang Chunlai went home for dinner and passed by the small forest outside the village, but he heard a cry from the forest, which was extremely miserable and made him cry. He followed the sound, but saw Sun Yuanwai's daughter, Sanniang, crying while tying a white silk to a tree branch, and was about to stretch her head inside. Jiang Chunlai ran over in three steps and two steps, took her down, and scolded, "Sanniang, how can you be short-sighted?"

Third Aunt wiped away her tears and said inconsolably that her father had been arrested on the charge of stealing the treasury through bandits, which was the crime of implicating the nine clans. Her family was busy trying to clear the prefect. The prefect said that if she wanted to wipe away this crime, she would have to pay ten thousand taels of silver, and she would also have to be a child for the prefect. She is a young girl. How could she be a child for that bad old man? It's better to die!

Jiang Chunlai didn't expect Cheng Ziyue to be so despicable, not only taking all the family's wealth, but also destroying this girl like flowers and jade. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't seek death first, wait for me to save your father!" Third Aunt asked in a daze, "You go to save my father? You want money and no money, and you want no one, how can you save him!" Jiang Chun said, "Within 3 days, I can't save your father, so it's not too late for you to hang yourself!" Seeing that he said firmly, Third Aunt nodded in agreement.

Jiang Chunlai returned home, pulled out those gold ingots from the kang cave, carried them to the city, and surrendered to the government office.

Cheng Ziyue was originally waiting for the wealth and wealth to be collected. Sun Yuanke didn't recognize it at the moment, but at his age, how many boards could he hold back? There was more than one unjustly killed ghost under Cheng Ziyue. Unexpectedly, when the drum of grievance sounded, Wan Bingan came in in a panic and said, "My lord, someone has come to surrender and hold these gold ingots!

Cheng Ziyue was stunned: "Where did he come from?"

Wan Bingan shook his head, "He refused to say."

Cheng Ziyue said angrily, "If it's bad for me, I'll let him go!"

Cheng Ziyue immediately ascended to the hall. Jiang Chunlai held these gold ingots and stood under the hall. Cheng Ziyue patted the hall and asked, "Who is under the hall? Why?"

Jiang Chunlai said neither humbly nor overbearing, "Caomin Jiang Chunlai, I am here to report these gold ingots. Sir, these gold ingots were stolen by mice and hidden in the hole of my kang. I want to repair the kang today, and I just found out that handing it over quickly has nothing to do with Sun Yuanwai."

Cheng Ziyue smiled and said, "The mouse stole it and hid it in your house? Joke! Why didn't it hide in my house?" Jiang Chun said, "I saved a mouse once, and they were grateful and wanted to give something in return, so they stole these gold ingots for me. If you want, I can also let the mice steal some more and put them in your house. I seem to have heard the mice say that these gold ingots are only part of what they stole, and some of them are hidden somewhere." Jiang Chunlai pretended to be thoughtful. Cheng Ziyue was surprised and curious: "Can you understand what the mice are saying?" Jiang Chunlai nodded.

Cheng Ziyue was taken aback. Because he had conspired with Wan Bingan to steal a lot of gold and silver from the treasury, these were only a small part. If Jiang Chunlai could really understand what the mice said, the mice would tell him the location of the gold and silver, and the matter would be completely exposed, and he, the prefect, would lose his head. He hurriedly asked, "Can you show it to me?" Jiang Chunlai nodded and said, "Okay."

He turned and shouted outside the mansion, "Rats, come and save me!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw groups of mice pouring in from outside the mansion. The soldiers jumped and jumped in fright, and Cheng Ziyue and Wan Bingan were also shocked. Those mice surrounded Jiang Chunlai, but they were quiet. Jiang Chunlai asked, "Sir, do you need me to ask them where those gold and silver are hidden?"

Cheng Ziyue was busy saying, "There are many people here, so don't ask. I believe you, let these mice disperse quickly." As soon as Jiang Chun spoke, the mice obediently dispersed, and soon disappeared. Fortunately, Cheng Ziyue's mind turned quickly and said to Jiang Chunlai, "I don't know. After all, these mice are beasts and do not understand the laws of the world. In order to repay the favor, they stole the gold and silver in the treasury. If they can be recovered, I will not pursue them. You order these mice to send all the stolen gold and silver back to the treasury within a few days, otherwise, I will still ask you."

Jiang Chunlai was not stupid. He understood that Cheng Ziyue had found a staircase for himself, so he would naturally secretly return all the gold and silver he had stolen.

Within three days, the gold and silver stolen from the treasury went back quietly. People also believed that Jiang Chunlai drove the mice back.

Sun Yuanke survived, so he was naturally grateful to Jiang Chunlai. Third Aunt had already fallen in love with this kind young man, and secretly asked a matchmaker to make the marriage happen. Jiang Chunlai married Third Aunt, Sun Yuanwai's daughter, and it was really beautiful to marry his daughter-in-law and celebrate the New Year! However, he did not forget those mice. Every night, he always put some food outside the courtyard wall for the mice to eat. But he could no longer understand what the mice said.