During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the elder Yan Song was greedy for pleasure and ate all the delicacies of the mountains and seas. Later, he had no appetite for the food cooked by the chefs. In order to find delicious food, he took two servants, dressed as business people, and wandered around the suburbs of Beijing.

At noon that day, Yan Song and his party came to a remote town, and it was time for dinner, so they went into a restaurant to eat.

They let the store serve the best food. After the food came, Yan Song couldn't eat it after two bites. The taste of this dish was too bad compared to that at home.

Seeing that the old man didn't eat it anymore, the two followers shouted and shouted to trouble the store, but the store had no choice but to pay for it. While making a fuss, a burst of aroma suddenly floated in from outside the door. It was the smell of Yan Song's favorite fragrant crispy chicken, which was more fragrant and pure than the one made by the chef at home. Yan Song's appetite was suddenly hooked up.

Since there is such a fragrant crispy chicken in the store, why not sell it to customers? The more Yan Song thought about it, the angrier he became. He temporarily suppressed his anger and planned to take down the store's sign after eating the crispy chicken. He asked unhurriedly, "Why can't I hide the best meal for you?

The store owner said with a sad face, "Master Mingjian, all the good dishes in our store have been served to you, where are they still hidden? If you don't believe me, you can ask the chef of the store."

Yan Song "snorted" and asked coldly, "Since there are no good dishes, then you can smell it, where does this fragrance come from?"

The shop owner sniffed, then frowned and said, "There is a fragrance, but this fragrance doesn't seem to be from our store. If the master doesn't believe it, you can go and have a look together."

Following the fragrance, the group of people came to the door of the store. On a stone not far away, they saw a broken black bowl with a missing horn in front of a beggar. There was half a piece of roast chicken in the bowl, and the fragrance came from here.

Where did the chicken in the beggar's bowl come from? How could it be so fragrant? Yan Song swallowed his saliva and asked, "Hey, Beggar, where did you get your chicken?"

The beggar smirked and said, "It's from the shop opposite, do you want to eat it? Here it is!" After saying that, he stretched out the chicken leg in his hand in front of Yan Song. Yan Song waved his hand in disgust, but suddenly found that the broken bowl in front of the beggar was flashing with golden light. Could this be the "golden rice bowl" recorded in ancient books? He couldn't help but be ecstatic.

Back at the restaurant, Yan Song deliberately angrily asked the shop owner why he didn't serve the roast chicken for the beggar as well. The shop owner hurriedly said that the roast chicken was served, but Yan Song did not eat it. Yan Song's face sank: "Since it's served, why didn't you serve the beggar's incense?

The shopkeeper sighed and told the truth. The beggar who was begging for food just now was called Huang En, a benefactor of the whole town. When his father was alive, he was a profiteer and made a lot of money, so the family was very rich, with only one son, Huang En. Huang En had a good heart and often used money to help the poor.

Three years ago, the small town suffered a drought, many people did not have food to eat, Huang En's father died of illness. Huang En scattered all the family's property and saved the lives of the townspeople. Huang En became penniless and crazy, and would rather beg for food than accept gifts from everyone. Everyone thanked him for his kindness, and no matter who came to the door, whoever would give him the best food. Strange to say, no matter what kind of food, as long as it reaches its broken porcelain bowl, it will become delicious. People in the small town said that Huang En's kindness touched the sky and gave him a "golden rice bowl."

These words convinced Yan Song of his speculation. It was recorded in ancient books that the so-called "golden rice bowl" was originally a porcelain bowl, but it could make ordinary meals delicious, and it was a treasure.

After the beggar had enough to eat and drink, he took the broken bowl to a broken temple, followed by Yan Song and his entourage.

In the broken temple, Huang En was about to go to bed when he saw Yan Song and his party come in. He picked up his rice bowl, hugged it tightly in his arms, and asked gruffly, "Who are you?

One of the attendants was just about to be rough, but Yan Song was afraid of damaging the "golden rice bowl", so he hurriedly stopped it, and then asked, "I see that you are pitiful and want to buy your begging bowl."

When Yan En heard that he wanted to buy a bowl, he shook his head again and again and said, "No!

Yan Song's face sank, and his eyes revealed a ferocious light: "Whether you sell it or not, your broken rice bowl must be given to this master today, otherwise..." Then he motioned his subordinates to grab it.

Huang En suddenly raised the bowl over his head and said loudly, "Whoever dares to snatch it, I will smash it!"

This scared Yan Song, if Huang En really broke the golden rice bowl, it would be pointless to grab it. He hurriedly ordered his entourage to stop, and in order to stabilize Huang En, he smiled all over his face: "Okay, okay, a broken bowl, don't sell it, let's go." After saying that, he walked out of the broken temple with his entourage.

Since he could not take it by force, he could only outwit it. In the middle of the night, Yan Song instructed his subordinates to charm Huang En with incense. After taking the bowl, he asked his entourage to burn the broken temple, and a "corpse destruction" came.

Yan Song got the "golden rice bowl", and he could eat delicious meals every day, so he lived a comfortable life. But the good times didn't last long. Yan Song offended the emperor, and the emperor was angry and wanted to raid his house.

Yan Song had eyes and ears in the palace, and when he heard that he was going to raid the house, he became anxious. After all these years, he had embezzled countless things, and there were countless gold and silver jewelry in the house. Once he was discovered, he would have nothing, so he hid the gold and silver jewels in the secret room under the study.

The "Golden Rice Bowl" is the treasure of treasures, and it is also hidden in it.

As soon as the treasure was hidden, soldiers from the house came. The soldiers searched Yan's mansion up and down, but found nothing valuable. As the soldiers were about to leave, a dirty beggar suddenly appeared and shouted, "I know where the money and treasures of the old house are hidden, please come with me!" When Yan Song saw the person who came, he couldn't help but gasp. It turned out to be Huang En.

The official who raided the house asked Huang En how he knew where the treasure was hidden. Huang En pointed to Yan Song's study with his hand and said unhurriedly, "Everyone, take a closer look, is there a golden light shining there?" Sure enough, there was a faint golden light above Yan Song's study. Under Huang En's guidance, the soldiers dug three feet into the ground and found Yan Song's treasure. Watching his years of savings being taken away, Yan Song collapsed to the ground. He regretted why he had put the "golden rice bowl" in the basement. It was the light from the bowl that made him reveal the filling.

Later, Huang En's "golden rice bowl" was broken and black because of his meritorious reporting. At Huang En's request, the official rewarded him. Yan Song watched Huang En take away the "golden rice bowl", and his teeth itched with hatred.

The next day, Yan Song was dismissed from office and had to pack his things and leave the capital. That evening, he and his entourage blocked the way of beggar Huang En on a remote street. Money can go, but the "golden rice bowl" cannot be lost. With it, even without a chef, you can still eat delicious food.

It turned out that from the moment Huang En left Yan's mansion, Yan Song secretly told the servants to follow him. No matter what, he would also grab the "golden rice bowl."

Seeing Yan Song, Huang En seemed very afraid, and offered the "golden rice bowl" with both hands, and begged Yan Song not to kill him. Yan Song got the "golden rice bowl" and let Huang En go. Now he is not a powerful old man, and he does not want to make trouble.

After leaving the capital, Yan Song and his party headed south. After the food they brought was finished, an important problem was placed in front of them, that is, no matter where they went, no one asked them to stay in the store or sold them food. Yan Song and his party went hungry and went through hardships before returning to their hometown in Jiangxi.

Yan Song returned to his hometown, thinking that the fathers and villagers there would accept him, but they did not know that because of his actions, the people had hated him to the bone. Yan Song had nothing, so he had to build a hut next to the ancestral grave to save himself.

Because there was no food to satisfy his hunger, Yan Song had to beg for food. When he took out the "golden rice bowl" to beg for food, no matter who was in front of the door, as soon as he saw him, he would yell in disgust: "Corrupt official Yan Song, get out! Even if we feed the dog, we won't give it to you!" After wandering around for two days, Yan Song didn't get a bite of rice, and finally starved to death.

Yan Song did not know until his death, because Huang En survived a great disaster in the broken temple. The story of him grabbing the beggar's rice bowl had long been made up into a story by storytellers, and it was passed down all over the world. The "golden rice bowl" he held was missing a corner, and almost everyone could recognize it.

After Yan Song's death, the "golden rice bowl" disappeared. A year later, someone saw a beggar on the suburbs of Beijing, holding a black bowl with a missing corner in his hand, begging for food. From time to time, a strong fragrance wafted out of the bowl. It was said that the beggar was Huang En.